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Exclusive Interview with George Christie
I recently found out that George Christie, long time President of the Hells Angels Ventura Chapter, was out in bad so I reached out to him and asked if he would do an interview. I can tell you one thing - this guy is the real deal. There have been other fly by night flashes in the pan that I refused to endorse. This guy I do endorse. Completely. He is what they meant when they made up the term old school. These new kids on the block have no idea what old school is simply because they've never been to school. We look forward to hearing more from him.
They falsely accused him of cooperating with law enforcement after he left so he wrote a new book that comes out September 20th 2016 to set the record straight.
So when and where did you first join the Hells Angels?
I came around the Los Angels Hells Angels in the mid seventies, in 1977 I became president.
What was your involvement with the Ventura chapter?
I along with another member started the Ventura Hells Angels in 1978, and was president till 2011.
What is your new book about?
My book is about my introduction into the outlaw lifestyle, tenure as a leader in the Hells Angels and my departure from the club.
What is the history channel series about?
The History Channel show, Outlaw Chronicles was about my adventures in the outlaw motorcycle world.
LA is pretty much the centre of the world as far as gangs go. New York may well have invented gangs but LA certainly perfected them. The Mongols are huge in Southern California. What was it like being a leader of the Hells Angels with so many rivals around?
Being a leader in Southern California taught me the art of negotiation. I was at the first confrontation we had with the Mongols, that was 1977 and really the beginning of a war that still exists to this day. I watched them become one of the premier outlaw motorcycle clubs on this planet. I think all they wanted was respect and no one can say they haven’t earned it.
It has been said that you and Sonny Barger had different styles of leadership. Do you care to comment on that? Was he the one that had you put out in bad standing after so many years of faithful service?
Sonny and I had not only had different leadership styles, but different visions as leaders.
Have you ever cooperated with law enforcement?
I have never cooperated with law enforcement or had conversations with L.E. that put anyone's freedom in jeopardy. Anyone who has been in a leadership position in all likelihood has had conversations with cops, that doesn’t make them a rat.
Do you know of Ruben Cavazos aka Doc? Do you think he cooperated with law enforcement?
I know Doc, but I think that question should be addressed to the Mongols.
What is your opinion on the criminal organization status of the Hells Angels?
The Hells Angels are not a criminal organization, but have members that have been found guilty of criminal acts. But so have politicians, cops, attorneys, etc.
Have you ever heard of TBM Fresh Start? Would you be interested in starting something like that in LA?
I have heard of different fresh start programs, and would share my experiences and views with participants, but have no interest in starting a program like that at this point in my life. I am exploring a new TV show concept that would focus on the justice system, but I am not at liberty to go any deeper on that subject at the moment.
Here's a quote from George Christie's new book:
"People confuse the outlaw and the criminal. Some outlaws commit crimes, but the real outlaw isn’t a criminal by trade. He’s someone who refuses to live by society’s established norms of behavior. He has an internal code and answers only to his own sense of honor and right and wrong. The outlaw doesn’t conform; he rebels. He doesn’t accept; he questions. In the end, the outlaw might change and adapt, but he bends for no man and won’t let his life be defined by someone else. Jesse James was an outlaw but so was Albert Einstein. I’ve been many things - father, son, husband, leader, brother, and friend - but through it all, I was always an outlaw."
George Christie's new book Exile on Front Street: My life as a Hells Angel and Beyond will be released September 20th 2016. You can preorder it now online. Peace.
You endorse this guy? Whats wrong with you? George Christie spent 40 years as a HA chapter president which means he was a dedicated criminal. He was in charge of drug dealing, he ordered violence on untold numbers of people, and he protected the drug pushers, murders, thieves and rapists within the club. You'd be a hypocrite if you weren't so stupid
Dennis Watson August 26, 2016 at 6:08 PM
Yes I endorse him. Read his book. I think we're all in for a big surprise.
Zeso August 31, 2016 at 5:41 AM
Shut up Fag. You're on the wrong website. This isn't Better Homes and Gardens or the Gay Chronicles.AFFA .
Dennis Watson August 31, 2016 at 6:06 AM
lol it's not a patch liking site either. It's Gangsters out beoch.
e.a.f. August 26, 2016 at 8:27 PM
Unknown, 5:07: you don't have to be a member of the H.A. to protect drug pushers, murderers, rapists, thieves, etc. You could be a well to do socialite and do all of those things. Also a corporate executive, lawyer, police officer, judge, etc. Just have a look at Alabama politics or multi national corporations actions toward people trying to form Unions. Through it all politicians in G-7 countries did nothing and just let it all proceed.
There is really no difference between the H.A. and any number of corporate, foreign service, police agencies. Its the product, if they are criminals which vary. How many politicians in Europe have been "caught" involved with child porn, child sexual slavery? You read about the big busts and then nothing. The H.A. aren't always "nice" people, but neither are many "upright, upstanding citizens". We have to look no further than the news yesterday where the company which manufacturers ep pens raised the price from $100 to $600. Now many can't afford them and may well die. What about those corporate elite? Product is produced for $2.00.
What would you call the current provincial government in B.C. which forces the disabled to live on $908 per month? People don't live on that, they start a slow death because of a lack of nutrition, stress, and inadequate housing. In my opinion that makes them complicate in the early deaths of many. Too bad there isn't a criminal charge in Canada for that.
Not all "bad boys" are found in the H.A. or have you not read the news of the Syrian government dropping barrel bombs on children?
scot August 26, 2016 at 9:51 PM
I grew up knowing GC and many of the Ventura members. I know people from all walks of life. I have say, the HA's that I have known, are some of the most stand up men I have ever met. There is no grey area. They are men of integrity. Don't judge if you don't know. On a Harley or in a Bentley, know the person before you make a judgement.
Sandy Mason August 27, 2016 at 1:09 AM
e.a.f. Thank you for putting it so eloquently. If the labels frighten well maybe new ones would help...haha. Love the anonymous as well.Maybe we can vote for one as president. The show is great and the book will be too. People fear what they don't know.
Tony Mac August 27, 2016 at 3:35 AM
The best revenge is success. The federal penal system is designed to break a mans spirit and crush his soul. The system is self serving, self perpetuating. Recidivism is close to 100%. Mr. Christie has beaten the odds. Just that deserves respect. Congratulations to Mr Christie on his memoirs, his interviews and his open honest posts. We can all learn something from his success.
trailrunner78 August 27, 2016 at 6:24 AM
For those eager to jump on board the redemption train, remember that none of this happened until he was "out in bad standing". Up to then he was perfectly happy not to get off the ride until the music stopped. Now he's "reformed". Yeah.... :rolleyes: Never seen that in an inmate before.... :sarc: yeah prison will do that....except Christie would never find Jesus, he can see Christ(ie) in the mirror every time he looks. LOL.
If he hadn't been put out, he'd still be the Chapter President. He doesn't have that anymore, so now it's "The George Christie Show". Wonder if it pays better than pimping and slinging dope?
Ah yes but even when he was with the HAs he and Sonny Barger had completely different visions as leaders. His definition of an Outlaw is something I can endorse. Not someone who is a criminal by trade but someone who rebels against the mainstream and has his own sense of what's right and wrong.
Drugs in clubs is none of my business. What consenting adults do behind closed doors is their own business. My beef is the exploitation that went along with the Dianne Rock story and the Janice Shore story as well as the Britney Irving and Brandy Sarionder story. Many people in that life agree with my concerns.
Originally my blog set off on the Hells Angels are a criminal organization crusade. I have amended that quest because I do believe that a handful of people use the name of the club for criminal activity but I don't believe all of the members are criminals by trade. Only a few greedy bastards like David Giles who dont share those profits with the rest of the club and dont care who they hurt to make those profits.
Personally I think George Christy's work with the US judicial system will be much more interesting than Sonny Barger's very distorted Sons of Anarchy. Time will tell.
Yo trailrunner, your just the kind of whining bitch the boys (girls) in D block eat for breakfast. Associate with felons after release is a quick parole violation and a ride back to T.I. Clueless fool.
lol D block? How about H Block. Bobby Sands and the hunger strikers. Now that's what I'm talking about : )
trailrunner78 August 27, 2016 at 1:42 PM
Sorry, wouldn't know about that, I was on the side of the bars that got to go home after 8 hours.....
DarkSide August 28, 2016 at 9:12 AM
Ask George how he was up on a life sentence for ordering bombing of tattoo parlours that were cutting into his own business. And magically he never did one day in jail??? I'm not saying any facts and ill wait for the book to come out but something is fishy! As for Sonny Barger HE is the real deal the man took 30 years to life on the chin without crying ended up beating a old felony on appeal and that's why he walked after 5 years cause the 30 years sentence was due to a prior felony. Anyway not saying George is a POS he is highly intelligent but I think George is looking out for one person and that's George. But then again in this day and age who isn't???
Dennis Watson August 28, 2016 at 12:28 PM
There's a film about te FBI case against George Christie:
http://www.agingrebel.com/9200
If he cooperated with police they wouldn't be given Sonny Barger supporters private taped evidence against him. I dont support Sonny Barger at all. Ask Margo Compton and her twin seven year old daughters if Sonny Barger is the real deal. Oh yeah, you can't because they're dead.
It just really bugs me when people call someone a rat when they are not. They said the same thing about Brittney Irving and that was a bold faced lie.
DarkSide August 28, 2016 at 12:46 PM
I will definitely watch that film on the FBI case. As for Margo Compton and her daughters that was a really sad case. The POS Otis Garret who ordered the hits on them will rot in hell. But you have to remember that doesn't mean Sonny sanctioned what Otis did. Regardless I'm not sure how close they are/were regardless if Sonny knew about that hit he should have put a bullet in Otis himself first.
Turns out there is a dispute over the copyright of the DVD so I updated the link to a blog post the Aging Rebel made about it who wrote the film and appeared in it.
As for the Margo Compton murder, Otis ran a prostitution ring for the Hells Angels in San Francisco called the Love Nest. David Giles was caught on wire claiming that not all members are involved in criminal activity but anyone who uses the name of the club for criminal activity needs to approve it through the local executive first. Sonny was the founder of that charter. That implicates him in her murder.
Bill Smith August 29, 2016 at 10:30 AM
That comment is a stretch. I have no idea if Sonny Barger knew before hand, endorsed, agreed, respected this action but I would highly doubt it. Not only is it distasteful to slaughter children it brings unwanted attention from all avenues.
I have to admit George Christie is a very well spoken, intelligent person. He conveys this well in the Outlaw Chronicles. He chooses his words intelligently which typically mirrors his actions as to whether to participate in crime and which if any he would become involved with.
He, as they often say....could and would be successful in most endeavors he chose to become involved in.
I guess I'm just applying he David Giles declaration who said that if any member or associate uses the name of the club for criminal activity, they have to approve it through the local executive first. Otis was running a prostitution ring in San Francisco for the Oakland chapter. The Oakland chapter had to have known about it.
Bill Smith August 31, 2016 at 12:54 PM
Yes, Giles statement is true but that does not encompass each individual act needing approval. If a member wants to use the club name to influence their criminal network and intimate support they must have this approved.
They do not however bring each criminal act up for approval.
This was all I was trying to convey. Given this we have no idea if SB knew before hand or not.
The statement made below "v"
Robert Oglesby August 30, 2016 at 1:04 PM
I agree, The club had to know and if a member does something without a prior consensus by the leadership then the club as a whole has culpability in the offense (crime being committed). When a member gets caught some say nothing (per the club rules) or they start "ratting" out those involved and in some cases turn into an informant against the very same brotherhood they are sworn to protect at any cost. There were (3) bodies dug up at George Wethern's property that were put there and while George told the members where to bury the bodies he wasn't personally involved in the actual murders but Sonny Barger facilitated as to what to do with the bodies because George had the perfect spot and large property. Sonny Barger too wasn't involved in the murders but he knew about it. George and his wife who ended up cutting a deal with the Feds and spilled his gut on the Hells Angels and his "brother's" to include Sonny Barger. Today he is in the witness protection program because of that bust that went down when law enforcement raided his ranch.
Interesting indeed: http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/hells-angels-on-trial-tales-of-drugs-death-19721221
trailrunner78 September 1, 2016 at 6:44 AM
Listen, they can hide behind this fake "not all members are crim's" shit all they want, anyone with a lick of sense knows better. The only people who say otherwise are people who have a reason for wanting it to be something else than what it really is. Sort of like socialists who have a political career in mind where they wear a suit, have an office, and don't have to join in all the hard lifting their constituents do every day to pay bills.....Deep down everyone knows it's BS and will end badly, but until then, the band plays on.....
What moron pays $5K@ month for a patch if there are no benefits, or if that $$ comes out of the family food budget from his job as a mechanic? A criminal who wants the supposed protection of that patch, that's who.
Oh, you didn't know members pay per month for that patch? Whoops, my bad....
Dennis Watson September 1, 2016 at 4:35 PM
Locals are quite cynical about people buying their patches here in Canada. However, I really don't think every member has to pay that much every month. My position is simple. Maple Ridge is full of HAs. I dont believe they all sell drugs.
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All We Are Is Dust In The Wind: Helen “Chrissy” Riddle (1957 – 2019)
On Thursday, January 10, 2019, my sister (in my maternal biological family), Chris Riddle, was driving to work around 10 a.m. in Olathe, KS. Chris suffered a medical emergency that left her unconscious, and her SUV hit a car, then traveled forward through a fence into an icy cold pond.
By the time first responders got to the accident, the SUV was fully submerged. They pulled the SUV out, got Chris out, and, after a lengthy amount of time, were able to resuscitate her. She was taken to the hospital and put on life support.
On Friday morning, January 11, 2019, a neurological examination showed Chris had no brain activity. The family huddled for several hours to decide what step to take next.
At 4:52 p.m. CST, Chris was pronounced dead. However, Chris was an organ donor, so the hospital kept her on life support until organ transplants could be arranged.
By Sunday, January 13, 2019, the hospital had found a liver recipient in New York and two lung recipients in the Midwest. At 7 p.m. CST, a “Walk of Honor” line, composed of family members, friends, and hospital staff, formed all both sides of the hallway from where Chris was to the operating room, where her liver and lungs would be harvested to extend life to three people Chris never knew.
That’s the Chris I know. Her life was not easy, and her journey had more than its share of ups and downs. Many people, given the same circumstances, would have become bitter, hard, and resentful.
But Chris did not. Filled with not just strength, but character that included grace, compassion, gentleness, kindness, and generosity, Chris took the hits, got up and dusted herself off, and kept living life to the fullest.
Chris was a fun person to be around. She smiled and laughed a lot and she truly enjoyed her life. She loved her mom, all of us siblings (there were six of us), her four beautiful children, her grandchildren, and all of our very large extended family with a heart that was big, open, and unconditional.
Her children – Michael, Mark, Jared, and Kaela – are now left to carry on Chris’s legacy. They will not be alone. Even though we will never be able to fill the void in their lives that Chris’s absence has created, we all – Chris’s siblings and extended family – will fill in the gaps and always be there to help them, to hold them, to love them. We may even dance at Kaela’s wedding. 🙂
Today is Chris’s memorial service. There will be tears, for sure. But there will also be smiles and laughter, because that was such of part of who Chris was and what her life was about. As we say goodbye to our sister, our momma, our niece, we know that it’s a temporary goodbye.
Our hope and the joy that is set before us is that we will see Chris again. We’ll see the twinkle in her eyes, the smile on her face, and we’ll hear her laughter as it warms our hearts. The only question left is who will be fast enough to run to hug her first.
So until then, dear Chris, rest well. We love you and we miss you, but we’ll see you soon. That’s a promise.
This entry was posted on January 18, 2019, in Grief, Love and tagged Chris Riddle, death, family, Grief, love, Olathe KS, organ donor, siblings. 5 Comments
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Bronze Age Clay Drums?
Author GreywolfPublished on March 14, 2016 March 28, 2016 6 Comments on Bronze Age Clay Drums?
My four clay pots. From left to right: inverted 'bulbous vessel' with pierced lugs; 'beaker' (front); 'collared urn' (back); inverted 'bowl beaker.'
I've recently been exploring prehistoric pottery, putting what I've learned into practice by making four Bronze Age pots (left) using only Bronze Age techniques (coil-building) and tools (hands and animal bones). Once they're fired, my intention is to turn them into clay drums. What inspired me to do this was reading claims by archaeologists that there is no evidence for the existence of drums of any kind in British prehistory throughout the whole of the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, a period of more than 3,000 years. This seems extremely unlikely and would make the ancient peoples of the British Isles unique among ancient or modern cultures, percussion being fundamental to music-making and music-making being fundamental to humanity.
Bronze Age collared urn recovered from a bowl barrow excavated in the 19th century. It was found with a skeleton, probably that of a woman. The site, designated Wilsford G7, is about 16 miles from my home.
The first step was to find the missing drums. Knowing that timber and hide frame drums would be unlikely to survive long in the British climate, and knowing that clay drums were made during the Neolithic era in Europe, I started looking at clay pots in museums in Britain. It didn't take long to find numerous exapmles that looked as though they would make fine drums. Some replicate the shapes of the Neolithic European clay drums, in common with which other British examples have pinched and pierced lugs (see below) that would be ideal for threading rawhide through to attach drum skins. Then there are the hundreds of collared urns that have survived more or less intact from the Bronze Age. Though often called cremation urns, many do not contain cremations, some being buried alongside cremated remains but not containing them, others with un-cremated remains, while some are not found with burials at all. Then there's the question of what the collar is for that gives them their name? It would certainly be a convenient way to anchor a strip of rawhide cord, through which further cord could be threaded to hold a drum skin in place. I've been unable to think of another reason for it being there and would welcome any suggestions.
My completed collared urn, based on the one from Wilsford G7, just after I'd completed the decoration. Once fired, the colour of the clay will go to something similar to the original. Note the use of a mold on the base, used to make it easier to turn the pot around as you work on it. If you look at the bottom of the original urn, you can see that the Bronze Age potter did the same.
Having selected four specific Bronze Age pots, two made close to my home in Wiltshire, the others from neighbouring Berkshire, I decided to create replicas to see how they might work as drums. Making them has been an education in itself, and one that has given me an even greater respect for our ancestors. The collared urn in particular took four days to build using the coil method used by our ancestors before the introduction of the potter's wheel. Building a big coil pot requires it to be left every now and then to partially dry before the next stage can be added without causing the lower part to buckle or collapse. The process of pinching down the coils and then working them to produce a smooth surface is painstaking and time-consuming. Decorating a pot of this size (over 12 inches tall and 10 across) also takes hours, even when the decoration consists of relatively simple geometric patterns.
Drum skin photo-shopped onto a collared urn from Durrington, near Stonehenge, showing how little of the decoration would be covered by attaching a drum skin.
The presence of decoration on the upper part of many collared urns has been put forward as an argument that they can't have been used as drums because attaching a skin would obscure the carefully applied decoration. I'm not convinced that this argument stands up. A skin cut carefully to size and secured with narrow rawhide strips would cover very little of the decoration, as this rather crudely photo-shopped image shows. The rawhide cords shown are much thicker than they need be, so in practice even less of the decoration would be covered.
Incidentally, one of the things I learned during my researches is that, in all cultures of which we have any knowledge, pots are always made by women, until the introduction of the potters' wheel, at which point men take over. Hmmm...
This is my copy of a small 'urn' with four pierced lugs close to its base, ideal for attaching a drums skin and not much practical use for anything else!
My theory is that many 'collared urns,' and some other pottery types, including some identified as 'food vessels,' were made and used as drums, perhaps presented to their owners as part of a rite of passage into adulthood. These would then be used throughout their lives, not just to produce music, but also to access altered states of consciousness, as is common in cultures all over the world. Having been used for travelling between worlds while their owners were alive, what better thing to be buried with them after death, accompanying them on that journey too? Simon Wyatt has a similar theory in regard to the Neolithic clay drums of Eastern Europe.
I'm not the first person to come up with the idea that some Bronze Age pots were used as drums. That collared urns may have been drums was suggested by Ian Longworth, a former Keeper of Prehistoric and Romano-British Antiquities at the British Museum. In his 'Collared Urns of the Bronze Age in Great Britain and Ireland' (Cambridge University Press, 1984, page 6), he says “The function of the collar elements remains debatable... The basic role of the Collared Vessel in a domestic context is likely to have been as a storage vessel. The need for a cover would therefore have arisen spontaneously. The ability to secure a cloth or skin cover firmly on the top of the vessel raises the possibility that some may have enjoyed a secondary use as drums.” The difference between us is that I'm suggesting a primary use as drums and a secondary use as grave goods.
My friend, Elaine Gregory, on whose land we dug the clay, and in whose pottery I made the pots, suggested that I could either make some more to sell or run workshops on how to make them. The problem with making them to sell is that they take such a long time to make, even more once you factor in the time to treat and fit the drum skins. The collared urn was worked on over 20 hours plus. Being big and thick-walled, it then required several days to dry before firing. Firing them on a fire in the open would take a further 10-12 hours, although several can be fired at once. Treating and fitting skins takes around two weeks, though most of that is waiting for things to happen 😉
Bronze Age beaker, freshly decorated. Based on one found in Berkshire, buried with a woman in her mid-30s who was adorned with a necklace of gold foil beads, amber and jet.
Estimating that a complete 'collared urn' drum requires around 40 hours of work, even calculated at the national minimum wage of £6.70 an hour, adding on materials, one would have to cost £300 or so. That said, they'd hopefully last a lifetime and beyond - I intend to have my ashes interred in mine when the time comes 🙂 Even a beaker like the one on the left would have to sell for around £150 to be viable. Which leaves the problem of how and where would you market them to folks who would, a) be interested, and b) be able to afford the cost?
Workshops would be fairly costly too once time, materials, accommodation and food are all factored in. Again, I wonder if there's enough interest to make them viable? Also, from a practical point of view, workshops might have to be spread out, with one devoted to actually making and decorating the pots. Depending on the size and design, this could take from two to four days. Then there would need to be a break while they dried, followed by another workshop to fire them, hopefully fitting a pre-prepared skin on the same weekend once they'd cooled down. Hmm, that would require a fair level of commitment. Still, if I'm nuts enough to do it, maybe others might be interested too? And even if I only get a few clay drums out of the experience, it's still been a fascinating adventure!
Since writing the above, several people have suggested that drums need to have an open base in order to sound properly. This is not the case. Tabla drums, Moroccan clay drums, Native American water drums and others are all fully enclosed and sound great.
I've also been in touch with Andrew Appleby, a.k.a. the Harray Potter, who has been making Neolithic pots based on originals found in the Orkneys since 2007. He has made several into drums and tells me they play brilliantly. He has made a set for percussionist, Evelyn Glennie. He's also written a pre-historical novel, Skara, which features characters playing his drums in context, and which is being turned into an opera. In the book, he refers to the drums having rounds of pitch applied to the skins, as is the case with tabla drums. Interesting idea. I might try that... 🙂
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Published on March 14, 2016 March 28, 2016 Author GreywolfCategories 'Shamanism', History, Music, MusicTags Drum-making, music, Shamanism
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I'm Greywolf (aka Philip Shallcrass). My main claim to fame (such as it is) is that I'm chief of the British Druid Order (BDO). I discovered Druidry in 1974, seeing it as a native British 'shamanic' spirituality. An Alexandrian Wiccan coven I joined in 1978 transformed into the Grove of the Badger as Druidry increasingly replaced Wicca in its rites. The end result was the BDO. Emma Restall Orr was joint chief of the Order with me from 1995 to 2002. I live in rural Wiltshire, not far from my spiritual heartland, the area in and around the Avebury henge. I'm a writer, musician, artist, drum-maker, roundhouse-builder and thatcher. I have three sons who share my obsession with music, books and film. Personal obsessions include the work of Britain's greatest bard, Robin Williamson, the comic books of Jack 'King' Kirby (1907-1994) and the speed-freak rock'n'roll of The Screaming Blue Messiahs. View all posts by Greywolf
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Kathleen Rollins April 20, 2016 at 2:09 am
Good article! Thanks.
The Druid King /George Ling June 22, 2016 at 1:44 am
Wonderful and insightful article Druii Phillip. You are blessed to have had the natural resources and man made pottery site near you to take these ideas to reality.
Greywolf Post author October 17, 2016 at 2:57 pm
Thank you, George 🙂
Súle Greg Wilson September 25, 2018 at 2:40 am
Interesting! I assume any evidence of drum heads had long ago decayed away. Also, the rough top portions make for a surface that hide straps can adhere to--keeping a tone longer, once pulled.
Is there any visual evidence--carvings, etchings in bone, paintings on walls--of Neolithic European drums? Have any artifacts been found that may have been ritual beaters for these drums? Native American (U.S.) water drums have specified beaters for them. Your rimmed clay pots could also have been water drums.....
PS: saw you photo @ Avebury henge in a 2003 Folklore article by Rob't Wallis & Jenny Blain; then almost immediately came upon this article. Hmmmmm....
Greywolf Post author April 18, 2019 at 3:13 pm
The problem is, as you say, that drum heads quickly decay leaving no trace. And even where archaeologists acknowledge that skins may have been usde to cover pots, this is usually interpreted as a desire to keep mice out of food rather than make a drum. There are large skulls of herbivores from Upper Palaeolithic burials that were fairly obviously used as drums and are found accompanied by bones used as beaters. There is accepted evidence for Bronze Age and Iron Age drums from Eastern and Southern Europe. It would be staggeringly unlikely for Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age Northern Europe and the British Isles to be the only human cultures never to have made and used drums!
Is there any visual evidence--carvings, etchings in bone, paintings on walls--of Neolithic European drums? Have any artifacts been found that may have been ritual beaters for these drums? Native American (U.S.) water drums have specified beaters for them. Your rimmed clay pots could have been water drums.....
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Pop-up art – transforming an unused space into an artists’ stage
March 20, 2017 March 18, 2017 by Gillian
Standing at an open window I’m entranced for a moment by the warm rays of sun dappling through the time-worn room. I’m surrounded by the white walls of a gallery space on Basel’s ancient Riehentorstrasse – now home to the first Pop-Up Gallery for the art agency Front of Bicycle – and I’m fortunate enough to be having a preview of the art going on display.
Some time later, the opening night apero has drawn a large friendly crowd mingling and musing over the works of the three artists chosen to exhibit here for the month of March.
Marble pit lime works by Bettina Egli Sennhauser
Among the many guests of the artists and organisers, I meet two young architecture interns from Rome and Portugal who saw the event advertised on Facebook. They’re enjoying absorbing the atmosphere and tell me they feel drawn in particular to the work of artist Bettina Egli Sennhauser.
The artist herself tells me it’s the first time she’s ever exhibited. “We have a saying in Swiss” she says, “… which means like letting your pants down!” Everyone laughs but she adds “I feel like I am revealing myself … exhibiting like this takes courage”. A lawyer by training, she uses intuitive process painting which involves building up layers of marble pit lime similar to the way ancient frescos were established. The colour is then thrown on.
“The material is energetic. You can’t control the way the colour attaches itself.”
“Much like life…” says Sennhauser “…you just have to go with how it turns out and what you have in front of you … and I like that.”
Christopher Wishart explaining his work
Experimentation is also at the heart of Scottish artist Christopher Wishart’s work…or “a happy accident” as he calls it. Miserable Prick, Faithful Dog seemed a fitting title he explains for his work which has a distressed Union Jack at its heart.
He found the flag discarded from bunting which had hung outside a British pub. It was between the time of the Scottish Independence Referendum and Brexit he tells me. “I used a paper punch to manipulate the flag and left some rusting nails on top of the canvas for a while.”
“I didn’t mean to make it look like bullet holes in the Union Jack…” he says “… but it seemed all the more apt given what was happening at the time.”
It’s the first time in four years he’s exhibited.
Limitless by Gudrun Sallaberger-Plakolb
Austrian-born Artist Gudrun Sallaberger-Plakolb is also exhibiting her intricate pastel works. Her creations can be the result of an experience, an emotion or a photograph and she works continuously on each piece until it has the power to evoke an emotional response in its viewer. Depending on how the light falls on the finished canvas she explains, depends on which colours are revealed from the many layers of pastel beneath.
Just a stone’s throw from the River Rhine and a leisurely stroll for the Art Basel crowds, the space will host further artists in April and again in May and June. Front of Bicycle continues to encourage artists from Basel and the surrounding areas to take advantage of this ever-growing platform to exhibit – so that they too might open a window into a whole new world of art lovers.
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There is a 580 MPH maglev train that shuttles Illuminati Freemasons underground from Langley VA to underneath DIA where they bow to Satan and receive organs transplanted from kidnapped children. Some of them are over 300 years old. It is how the CIA was able to move to Denver in 2006 without you knowing. Or even wondering why.
The CIA's move to Denver was widely publicized in 2006.
"Some of them are over 300 years old."
The tunnels or the children's organ's?
The Iluminati you stupid ignorant American, And the CIA moving to Denver through a tunnel was not public used at all you lying ass dirtbag.
*not publicized
First, learn the difference between "tapestry" and "mural".
Leo's MURALS are still there.
Second, here is why you're wrong:
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Denver_Airport_conspiracy_theory
http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/the_denver_international_airport_conspiracy
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver_International_Airport
Third, the maglev nonsense is total BS. The longest maglev line is only 19 miles long, and isn't even located in the US. It's in China.
The thought that the US government constructed an over 1600 mile maglev, underground, is ludicrous.
And I find it vastly amusing that you deny the US landed on the moon, (because they lacked the technology, according to that theory) yet believe that they built a 1600 mile maglev underground and and that organ transplantation has been going on for 3500 years.
C'mon, now.
For whatever reasons, I cannot link the artist, Leo Tanguma's interview with Zing Magazine.
Am wondering what "Fareed's Take" would be on things I just said. (Chuckle)
Mark Drummond
Coupling the foregoing with prevailing conditions in Indian Occupied Kashmir and massacre in Gujarat personifies the centrifugal forces of terror that are permeating to the neighboring countries onto Middle East and onto EU and USA.
Pete Hammond
We have known all along that India was the terror centrale in the region. They are now spreading terror via Central Asian States and is now effecting America.
I come back after many days and same anti american hindoo from India posting same c rap and talking to self.
Ya nailed it !!
What's the difference between a Jew and a pizza?
Pizza comes out of the oven in one piece.
And this is what you desire. Concentration camps and death for US citizens you don't like. Well done, Philbob.
Philbob
The reason that the CIA moved to Denver is to have a more centralized location for their greatest assignment ever: Help cleanup Americans.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/magazine/why-rational-people-buy-into-conspiracy-theories.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
It was the CIA assisting in the FBI investigation that led to the largest drug bust in US history which saw over 100 medical doctors and staff arrested for conspiring to defraud US taxpayers and causing harm to disabled people.
If you are a crooked American the CIA knows who you are. Make amends or go behind bars. I suggest doing this before federal agents knock on your door.
Good for them. But of course, it's these sane people you accuse of a conspiracy to dumb people down in the first place. Way to be consistent.
*same people
And of course the same CIA that is importing thousands of children for organ harvesting while worshiping satan. On the taxpayer's dime. Right.
Cease and desist immediately with these stupid i diotic posts that make no sense.
Kapiche? Good.
Cheer up. Here's a joke for you:
Modi from India goes to the doctor and says, “I feel terrible.”
Doctor says, “go home, gang raipe your womenfolk, put on a suicide belt and walk around the neighborhood threatening people, sell some illegal drugs to high school students in the local convenience store, then burn some young brides by sprinkling kerosene on them and lighting them up. Do all of the above for three days.”
Week later Modi goes back and says, “Doc, I feel wonderful, what was the problem?”
Doctor, “you were homesick!”
Dont fukk with me you indian hindini POS
Silly little man.
Shut the fukk up and Sukk my dikk
OOOH. Such a feisty little comeback from a silly little man.
Wow wow wow and wow
FREEDOM FIGHTERS ARE BACK DUE POPULAR DEMAND.
PARTY IS OVER FOR ALL.
Thanks to Edward Smowden and Wikileaks we know all about the NSA/CIA Spy on Americans program. Every single email, text message and phone call made in America is stored as retrievable data by your own government that YOU voted into office and denied such a program ever exusted. And you would vote for them again even though they lied to you about the NSA spy program for many many years.
Face it folks, If you live by fraudulent means you are already busted,
And your organs will be harvested.
Yawn, Adamwadam.
Google "FEMA CAMP IMAGES" and see pictures of over 850 forced labor camps built in N, America in the past few years, don't be a NAZI and deny they exist, they exist and are where crooked Americans are going to end up.
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/spring/fear-of-fema
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/FEMA_concentration_camps
For example, if you could work but instead fraudulently claim to be disabled, both yourself and your doctors and lawyers who conspired to make your false case are going to end up in a forced labor camp until every penny stolen is worked off,
If you trade your meds and food stamps you are going to be disappeared into the DHS forced labor camp prison system. The largest prison system in world history.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/_mobile/technology/military/news/4312850
If you are an honest hard working citizen you have no reason to fear DHS forced labor camps.
According to declassified writings of Adolph Hitler, "concentration camps" were built as places for lazy "workshy" Germans to go. Fatherland Security Prisons were their real moniker. Not "concentration camps" as the official version goes.
The term "concentration camp" refers to their function, ie: concentrating a large number of people into a small, localized area.
People know that they are not the official names of the facilities themselves. Good gracious.
Germans did not call them concentration camps. They called them Fatherland Security Prisons. American propaganda called them concentration camps and tricked people into thinking they were built as places for Jews to go. A lie still believed by dummies to this very day.
I know Germans didn't call them concentration camps.
They are called that term to describe their function.
Same as using "death camps" to describe their function; surely you don't think that the sign said "Welcome To Dachau! Check Out Our Child-Friendly Facilities!", do you?
People are not nearly as stupid as you would like to portray.
Tricked, my ass. The propaganda is of your own construct.
Although I am completely unsurprised to learn you're a Holocaust denier, also.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial
Further, no credible person has ever said that the Jewish people of Europe were the only group of people targeted by Hitler's nurse toys "vision". It is common knowledge that his vision for "purity" encompassed many people deemed "undesirable".
*"nurse toys" should read "murderous".
Play we shall
Nero burned Rome and Hitler torched The Reichstag and Bush did 9/11.
Homeland Security Prisons are to crooked Americans what Fatherland Security Prisons were to lazy Germans.
You street gang bangers will either disperse or be shot.
Wow so.many lazy fat ass Americans like Adam here posting his mindless lists.
eedom
BS. Lazy fat asses are in fact all wrong, Adam. Be it armed hordes of foreign Indians or just plain old fashioned lazy Americans on meds and with guns.
Do you think that the US consti tution guarantees drug addicts the right to carry loaded weapons?
.Like fat men addicted to anti depressants shooting deer and elk in the ass from a hundred feet away and own selves in the foot from time totime.
Interesting you should bring this up...
There are almost as many gun dealers in America as gas stations. There are a total of 129,817 gun dealers in the country, which include retail stores (51,438), "collectors" (61,562), pawn shops (7,356), and importers and manufacturers. Meanwhile, there are 143,849 gas stations.
Yes and loophole in federal gun laws that allows time for guns sold at "Gun Shows" to be sold and smuggled out of the country before authorities are even aware of the sale. 85% of illegal weapons confiscated by Mexican authorities were either made in the USA or Israel. (Israeli made weapons are smuggled out of Israel through tunnels National Geographic Magazine has exposed for many years)
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regardless of who were recruited, the colonial british did propagate this race theory
... to recruit people from certain parts of India......they did not need to recruit nomads of Afghanistan or Central Asia for British-Indian army so your argument falls flat.
my argument doesnt fall flat, as i have given a credible source of this, im not making anything up, read the article below and enlighten yourself.
You have failed to establish connection of martial theory of British (which was for recruitment in British-Indian army) with "nomadic bunch of people".
here is another source, that is a pakistani military source as well. race theory gave afghans/pathans a superior status and which was carried into Pakistani military mentality as well.
Devdas
martial race theory mainly based upon based on loyalty to British instead of fighting valour of that community. Martial race theory was invented to exclude those people from getting recruited in British army who revolted against British in 1857 rebellion mainly the Purabia people.
What has Pakistani military (successor of British-Indian army) and its martial race theory (which is no longer pursued) any thing to do with "nomadic bunch of people" of Afghanistan, Central Asia and Iran?. Afghanistan is not recruiting ground for Pakistani military.
Gurkhas, much shorter and darker than Pashtuns, are at the top of the list of martial races of British. British still have Gurkhas in their army.
The fact is nowadays there are more Sindhis (who are stereotyped to be timid) in Pakistan army than Pashtuns. Sindhis number 17% while Pashtuns number 14.5 % in army according to a 2007's booklet by ISPR (official mouth piece of Army).
Give it a rest. You dont get superior or special status in Pakistan if you are in the list of martial races of British. Baloch people, who are in the list of martial races of British, are most oppressed, backward and poor people of Pakistan.
Ignore the trolls warora.
Of course british sources matters, they were the first modern historians, They even created fake Ashoka for you guy.
How strong Gurkhas were considered in Khyber Pakhtunkwa ?
That's interesting...
Anyways I agree that we originated from same source of people thousands of years ago but today's we are as different as water and ice. Even during colonization period Irani nomads were different people from Indo-Aryan and dominated them every time they had clash, our gods were different, our religion was different, our language was different etc.
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Though many people consider the term herbal remedies equivalent to herbal tea and liquids with a special aroma and taste, the truth is that in many parts of the world, these drugs are produced as pills, capsules, syrup, etc., and in places far from the kitchen, in industrial factories, as an herbal medicine.
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Much of the world’s plant medicine industry, known as herbal medicine, includes millions of dollars in circulation in huge factories with advanced technologies.
Many of the major producers of herbal remedies are actually owned by large pharmaceutical companies. If you go to one of the big herbal medicine factories, you will find that many of their products have an herbal origin.
The natural expectation is that the drugs produced in industrial herbal medicine factories are better in quality than the medications that are produced in traditional ways and by simpler technologies. But on the other hand, small producers of herbal medicines also try to produce better quality than industrial herbal remedies. Industrial production of herbal medicines with approve certificates gives the buyer the assurance that herbal remedies have a good health impact.
The Importance of Herbal Medicine
Plant medications and herbal medicine which are naturally derived from medicinal plants and are used to treat diseases locally or regionally. These products are a combination of organic chemicals that may be raw or processed from the plant.
Herbal remedies and herbal medicine have been used for thousands of years and showed its effects, they are still using in the modern and Western world.
The World Health Organization estimates that 80 % of the world’s population uses medicinal plants as a part of their medical care and the annual market. USA people tend to use herbal remedies for two reasons. One of the price increase of chemical drugs and the second is welcome to the usage of natural and organic drugs.
All herbal medicine is used to treat disease and reduce its symptoms. Traditional medicine uses to plant seeds, roots, leaves, skin, or flowers for therapeutic purposes. The biological properties of these plants have many beneficial effects. There are other factors that affect the quality of herbal medicines. Factors such as the environment that the plant has grown and how the plant is harvested and processed. The ingredients which have used as a raw material or its extracts are used through processes. The result of this work is to produce many products including fatty acids, Steroids, alkaloids, flavonoids, glycosides, and many other useful substances.
In recent years, the resistance of microbes to antibiotics, greater recognition of the side effects of chemical compounds have increased. In addition, the environmental pollution of these drugs has increased the interest of people in the use of herbal remedies. But the most important factor that has caused a lot of interest in using herbal medicine, is having no side effects alongside these kinds of products.
Today, medicinal plants that have been the only cure for various human ailments for years have found a replacement, which is chemical drugs. But the effects of some medications and the lack of treatment of some diseases by these drugs cause people to turn back to the same old tradition and use herbal remedies.
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Adult Retraining Scheme Launches in the Heart of the South West
Posted on 16th October 2019 16th October 2019 by Helena Davison
Adults across the Heart of the South West have access to the Get Help to Retrain service so they can take the first step towards a more prosperous career
The pioneering service aims to support adults whose jobs are at risk of digital transformation to retrain and secure a new and improved role
The online service – which forms part of the National Retraining Scheme – aims to future proof the country’s workforce and boost skills nationwide
Adults across the Heart of the South West are set to benefit from a pioneering new service to help future proof their careers, Education Minister Michelle Donelan has announced today (16 October).
The Get Help to Retrain service is just the one of a series of products that will make up the National Retraining Scheme, which is being developed to support eligible adults whose jobs could be at risk of changing due to new technologies, such as an AI and automation, to retrain and kick start a new career
The service helps adults to identify their existing skills, explore different types of job opportunities and find training courses to gain the skills they need to progress. Dedicated support is also on hand from qualified careers advisers to guide people through the process and provide expert information and advice.
Get Help to Retrain is now available in six major cities and regions across England after being successfully trialled in the West Midlands, North East and the Liverpool City Region. Eligible adults living in the Heart of the South West– those aged 24 and over, qualified below degree level and who are working below a certain wage threshold – can now try the service out for themselves and help to test and improve it further by visiting www.nrs-ghtr.org.uk
Education Minister, Michelle Donelan, said:
“The world of work is changing fast, which is why we are developing the National Retraining Scheme to help prepare adults whose jobs may change as a result of new technology to thrive in the roles of the future.
“The Get Help to Retrain digital service is just the first step. We are rolling the service out gradually, testing and learning as we go. The good news is that the service is now available for eligible adults across the Heart of the South West to try out for themselves and help us make sure we get it right for those who need it.”
Steve Hindley CBE DL, Chair of the Heart of the South West LEP, said:
“We welcome the opportunity to roll out this new scheme which will help our workforce keep up with the demands of an increasingly digital and automated future and the changing needs of local employers. The Get Help to Retrain service aims to support people by helping them to understand and develop their skills so that new and better jobs are within their reach. It’s particularly relevant for our area, because the Heart of the South West has a larger proportion of an ageing population than most areas of the country – so it’s important to ensure that the experience of these valuable employees is harnessed and nurtured to improve productivity and prosperity for all.”
Nigel Costley, South West Regional Secretary, TUC, said:
“All workers should have the chance to retrain and improve their skills. And this will be key as the labour market undergoes the transformation of new technology and automation in the coming years.
“The launch of this new phase of the National Retraining Scheme and its collaborative approach is good news. It will help to open up retraining to many more working people – preparing them for the jobs of the future.
“Union learning reps will play a crucial role in supporting workers to access advice and retraining opportunities available through the scheme.
“The challenge for the National Retraining Partnership is to develop a national programme that invests in the potential of all workers, delivering the skills we need for the growth sectors of the future.”
Deborah Fraser, CBI South West Director, said:
“Seeing the Get Help to Retrain digital service rolled out to the South West is promising news. Ensuring people’s skills are fit for the future is an essential part of improving productivity growth, wages and living standards up and down the country.
“As the world of work changes rapidly, the best way to help people access the high-quality training they need to succeed is by Government and employers working together. And once the National Retraining Scheme is well underway, it should kick start wider cross-government efforts to embrace technology in the workplace.”
Following extensive user testing, adults accessing the service will benefit from new and improved features such as a more advanced skills matching tool to help them identify potential new job roles, and the ability to save their progress and return to their results.
Get Help to Retrain is being rolled out in stages so that it can be fully tested and developed further, before being made available nationwide in 2020. A series of additional products that will make up the full National Retraining Scheme service are being developed and tested in parallel, before being released at different times.
The National Retraining Scheme – backed by £100 million of Government investment – is led and overseen by the National Retraining Partnership – a unique partnership between Government, the CBI and the TUC – to ensure the collective voices of businesses and employees are heard.
The National Careers Service is supporting the testing of the scheme in the six areas by providing qualified careers advisers to give expert information, advice and guidance to users of Get Help to Retrain.
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Noticias / / Call for Submissions: UN Special Rapporteur Report on cultural rights and public spaces
Call for Submissions: UN Special Rapporteur Report on cultural rights and public spaces
IFACCA - International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies,
01 Mayo 2019, Australia
The UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights invites your input for consideration as she develops her next report for the UN General Assembly, which will address how actors from across the cultural ecosystem access and use public spaces, identify the challenges they face and the strategies they develop to overcome them, and analyse the impact this has on their cultural rights. The questionnaire is available online and responses are welcome from States, United Nations agencies, academics, experts, artists, scientists, cultural workers and practitioners, as well as civil society organisations, in English, Spanish or French. The deadline for contributions is Monday 20 May 2019.
Find further information and the access the questionnaire here
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Fergie shares a rare picture of Prince Andrew for his birthday
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Sarah Ferguson has paid tribute to ex-husband Prince Andrew for his 59th birthday with some never-before-seen photos.
The Duchess of York took to her Instagram to share two photos of the royal, one believed to be taken from the grounds of their private estate, the other shot the day Andrew was made Colonel of the Grenadier Guard.
"Happy Birthday Andrew @hrhthedukeofyork," she wrote in the caption.
A post shared by Sarah Ferguson (@sarahferguson15) on Feb 19, 2019 at 3:38am PST
The former couple's youngest daughter, Princess Eugenie, also posted a series of snaps dedicated to her dad, including photos of him as a child and one taken on her wedding day.
"Happy Birthday to you Papa… we are so proud of you in everything you have achieved in your 59 years!! @hrhthedukeofyork #birthday #happybirthday #father."
A post shared by Princess Eugenie (@princesseugenie) on Feb 19, 2019 at 3:34am PST
The birthday tribute comes shortly after Fergie revealed her close relationship with Andrew, during an interview on Good Morning Britain. The Duchess opened up about her good relationship with her ex-husband, as well as her parenting style and how she has made a point to never hide anything from her daughters.
A post shared by Sarah Ferguson (@sarahferguson15) on Feb 6, 2019 at 11:52pm PST
"The way I have been a mother to my girls, is I never hide anything from them,” Fergie said on the program. “So, the fears, we address them straight on. Beatrice is 30 and Eugenie is 28 they are young women now and they have their own voice."
"I believe in example by leadership.
"The way we have always managed to be very, very solidified as a team together, of course with the Duke of York, who is a great father is family unity [and] talking about any issue."
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Ugandan government withdraws appeal in a defamation case in the East African Court of Justice, Arusha
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Arusha, 10th August 2018, The Attorney General of Uganda has withdrawn an appeal filed on 4th January 2018 at the East African Court of Justice in Arusha Tanzania challenging the decision of the court of First Instance allowing the Media Legal Defence Initiative and 19 other Organizations to be joined as amici curiae (friends of Court). The decision was passed on 20th September 2017.
In a unanimous decision, both parties (Attorney General of Uganda and MLDI & Others) agreed to have the matter withdrawn on 8th August 2018.
“By consent of both parties, we have agreed to have the appeal withdrawn,’ said Atwiine Jeffrey, Senior State Attorney.
The parties also agreed to withdraw Consolidated Applications No.1 and 2 seeking to strike out the appeal since it was filed out of time and extension of time to serve the Record of Appeal & the Memorandum of Appeal respectively. Application No. 1 was filed by Media Legal Defence Initiative and Application No.2 was filed by the Attorney General of Uganda.
During the court appearance, Nicholas Opio, counsel in the main reference raised concern arguing that in all proceedings arising from the main reference (Reference No. 16 of 2014), he has not at all times been served with pleadings arising from the main reference save for only hearing notices.
He was also concerned that the case had dragged for four years without hearing due to the numerous applications and therefore prayed for an expeditious disposal of the matter.
He was however advised by court to raise such concerns at the trial court (court of First Instance). Court was presided over by Justices, Dr. Emmanuel Ugirashebuja- President, Liboire Nkurunziza- vice president, Emmanuel M. Rutakangwa, Aaron Ringera and Geoffrey Kiryabwire.
Attorney General of Uganda was represented by Counsel Jeffrey Atwiine and Nabasa Charity, MLDI & Ors were represented by Nelson Ndeki while Nicholas Opio represented the Late Ronald Ssembuusi.
In December 2014, the late Ronald Ssembuusi filed a Reference at the East African Court of Justice challenging the continued use of criminal defamation provided for under section 179 & 180 of the Penal Code Act of Uganda. This was after he was sentenced to one year in prison or pay a fine of one million Uganda shillings by a magistrate’s court in Kalangala for defaming the former L.C V Chairman of Kalangala District, Daniel Kikoola.
On 10th June 2015, MLDI and other 19 organizations lodged application no.4 of 2015 seeking leave to be joined as friends of court to reference no. 16 of 2014.
On 28 June 2016, the first instance division delivered its ruling granting the applicants leave to be joined to reference no. 16 of 2014 as amici curiae.
The Attorney General filed appeal no. 3 of 2016 against the ruling of the first instance division dated 28th June 2016. On 26 may 2017, the Appellate division quashed and set aside the ruling of the first instance division. The matter was referred back to the First Instance Division to consider the issues raised by the Attorney General.
In a fresh ruling dated 20th September 2017, the first instance division granted MLDI & Other Organisations leave to join to Reference 16 of 2014 as amici curiae and to submit a joint amicus brief restricted to issues within the amici curiae’s mandate and of specific relevance to the Reference with no order as to costs.
Attorney General again appealed against the decision. The appeal was withdrawn on 8th August 2018.
Other organizations that applied to be joined as amici curiae are: Africa Freedom of Information Centre(AFIC), Article 19 Eastern Africa, Centre for Human Rights of the University of Pretoria, Centre for Media Studies and Peace Building, Centre for Public Interest Law, Committee to Protect Journalists, Foundation for Human Rights Initiative, Freedom of Expression Institute, Ghanaian PEN Centre, Human Rights Network-Uganda, Media Council of Tanzania, Media Rights Agenda, Media Institute of Southern Africa, Pan African Lawyers Union, PEN International, PEN Sierra Leon, PEN South Africa, PEN Uganda and World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers.
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2nd HRVCON sent-off to Resolute Support mission
The formal send-off ceremony for the 2nd Croatian Contingent to the Resolute Support mission in Afganistan was held in the “Pukovnik Marko Živković” Barracks at Pleso on 4 March 2015.The members of the departing Contingent were addressed by the President of the Republic, Mrs Kolinda […]
The formal send-off ceremony for the 2nd Croatian Contingent to the Resolute Support mission in Afganistan was held in the “Pukovnik Marko Živković” Barracks at Pleso on 4 March 2015.
The members of the departing Contingent were addressed by the President of the Republic, Mrs Kolinda Grabar Kitarović, as Supreme Commander of the Croatian Armed Forces, accompanied by the Defence Minister, Ante Kotromanović and the Chief of the General Staff of the Croatian Armed Forces, General Drago Lovrić with the respective delegations , the members of the Diplomatic Corps and other invitees.
The President emphasised being honoured and glad to have the opportunity to address the Contingent members as their supreme commander on their depart. „it is always hard to leave the homeland, particularly to take part in a hazardous and challenging mission. Therefore, I appreciate your valour and determination to work for the benefit of Republic of Croatia and the international community. Having visited Afghanistan on several occasions, and been deployed as a civilian, I witnessed to the professionalism evinced by the Croatian soldiers throughout the mission. Some 4500 members of the Croatian Armed Forces who took part have evidently contributed a lot to the mission’s success. Although the country has visibly progressed, there is still a lot of work to do, and your duties within the new mission are highly important in many fields“, said the President, who also expressed the hope to visit the Contingent during their stay in Afghanistan.
Defence Minister, Ante Kotromanović announced coming to visit the Contingent in Afghanistan in the Resolute Support as advisory mission, where our contingent has been reduced compared to the ISAF contingents, but we remain present in Afghanistan, to conclude the our work there and confirm ourselves as a reliable Allied country. Working in an international surrounding, with over 50 countries is an immense experience for our Armed Forces. I welcome also the partner forces of the A-5 countries , whom we value highly as the proof of the importance Croatia attaches to the security and stability in the region“, stated the Minister.
In his send-off address the Chief of the General Staff of the Croatian Armed Forces, General Drago Lovrić, stressed that the mission would bring new experiences and knowledge. “ Croatian forces’ contribution in the training and mentoring of the Afghan forces is growing prominent , and each new Contingent will focus increasingly on the transfer of knowledge and the support to the development of the Afghan military and police“.
The 2nd HRVCON Commander, Colonel Stanko Paradžiković stressed his pride of leading „a special, multinational Contingent, composed of members of the Armed Forces from five countries; professionals who have completed highly demanding pre-deployment training“.
The Contingent, Commaned by Colonel Stanko Paradžiković, is composed of 81 members of the CAF and 21 members of the armed forces of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Macedonia, and an additional advisory team to the Special Police Training Centre, where Croatia has been assigned the role of the Lead Nation. The new component are also advisors to the Air Advisory Team of the Afghanistan Air Force.
As the ISAF mission ended in December 2014, NATO countries and partners have remained present in Afghanistan , continuing their contribution in a peace support mission titled Resolute Support, launched on 1 January 2015.
The last HRVCON to ISAF, deployed to Afghanistan in 2014,has since the beginning of 2015 converted the mandate as 1st HRVCON to the Resolute Support Mission.
The overall Croatian troops to ISAF since the entry to ISAF and Resolute Support respectively totalled 4525, including 162 females.
SMA Petek appointed Senior NCO to ACO
As proclaimed by the President of the Republic of Croatia, Mrs Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, during the send-off ceremony for the 2nd HRVCON to Resolute Support on 4th March, the Senior NCO of the Croatian Armed Forces, Sergeant Major of the Army Davor Petek has been appointed the Senior NCO to the NATO Allied Command of Operations.
“The Croatian Armed Forces’ CSEL has been selected from respectable candidates from 19 country for the post, and I am extending my most sincere congratulations. SMA Petek is an ISAF participant himself, which speaks of his professionalism and superb exercise of duty as member of the Croatian Armed Forces“, said the President.
“We have received the formal notification of my appointment as NCO to the ACO. NCO to ACO is the chief advisor to the SACEUR regarding the issues of enlisted personnel and NCOs throughout the Alliance. It is an immense honour to me personally, and a major recognition to the Republic of Croatia as new NATO member for the achievements of the members of its Croatian Armed Forces in international operations“ said SMA Petek.
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Across the packaging sector, new technology and techniques are elevating the sensory appeal of products. Cosmetic packaging represents a particular opportunity for these techniques, from 3D designs to conductive ink. Callum Tyndall finds out more.
According to a market analysis report from MarketResearchPro, the global cosmetic packaging market was worth $24.86bn in 2017. By 2023, the report estimates that the market will have reached a value of $31.75bn, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.16% over the forecast period 2018-2023. With such value and growth, the market is in a strong position but brands must continue to innovate and look to new techniques to maintain that. For example, plastics play a major part in cosmetics packaging due to their flexibility but, as the sustainability movement continues to gain ground, it is important that manufacturers begin exploring methods to reduce their plastic usage.
Another point of focus, however, should be exploring ways to best elevate the sensory appeal of cosmetic packaging. The rising popularity of the premiumisation trend has seen this kind of elevation become more important across sectors but cosmetic packaging presents significant opportunities, particularly if manufacturers make use of new and developing techniques. The field is ripe for innovation and given that generating this kind of appeal is reliant on standing out from the competition, it will be crucial for manufacturers to fully consider the options becoming available to them.
Industry growth: North America set to claim majority market share as smart packaging booms
Million Insights’ October report on the global smart packaging market forecast that it would reach $26.7bn by 2024 and that among the chief driving factors, alongside rapid urbanisation and technological developments, would be a surge in consumption of cosmetic and beauty products. With the industry as a whole expected to grow at a CAGR of 10.6% for the forecast period, the sector seems set for a boom that will in no small part be based on the success of cosmetic product packaging.
The report suggests that the food and beverage sector will likely dominate the smart packaging industry when it comes to market share, likely due to what can be done for increased food safety as the industry continues to battle trust issues, but cosmetic packaging is not without opportunities and manufacturers should look in particular to the North American market.
Although currently tightly competing with Western Europe, a report from Future Market Insights predicts that by 2027 North America will claim just below 26% of market share while Western Europe will fall behind to 21%. Also worth noting, in that same period the APEJ region is forecast to experience massive growth in the smart packaging industry and climb close to Western Europe’s market share.
Despite these opportunities, Dean Frew, chief technology officer and senior vice president of radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions at SML Group, says that the cosmetics industry still has some catching up to do.
”The fragrance and cosmetics market is currently behind other retail segments in leveraging RFID technology,” he explains. “This is due to the fact that packaging in this segment often has metal material in or on the packaging. The metal dramatically impacts RFID technology performance.
“Another reason for the slower adoption is that very few retailers are requiring the fragrance and cosmetics brands to tag the products. This is the proverbial ‘chicken and the egg’ adoption environment.”
Smart packaging offers improved safety and an enhanced consumer journey
One of the biggest benefits smart packaging can offer is improved product safety. As consumers grow increasingly conscious about the ingredients and processes behind their products, particularly in relation to their health, they are going to look for brands to offer more transparency, especially in the wake of ongoing issues with consumer trust. Smart packaging techniques can help brands provide more information to their consumers, while also guaranteeing the trustworthiness of their product.
Smart packaging does not need to engage with gimmickry or complex technology but can instead provide simple, quality-of-life benefits to both manufacturer and consumer. A good example of a safety feature is the UWI Timer. Simple in concept, the timer tells a user if a container has been opened and how long there is left to safely use the product.
Smart packaging could enable a rich information set to be directly communicated, which could include usage advice, videos and provenance.
Gillian Ewers, vice president of marketing at PragmatIC, says: “Building reputation is critical. But, with most loyalty schemes based on the retailer not the brand, it is difficult for brands to engage directly with their consumers. Smart packaging could change this, enabling a rich information set to be directly communicated, which could include usage advice, videos and provenance.
“The downside of such a healthy market, is of course it attracts counterfeits: there have been news stories of toxic chemicals in fake products bought on-line, and of course is it’s growing, $75m of fake pharma and cosmetics where seized in the US in 2015. Smart packaging could also be used to establish the authenticity of the product, with a rapid reporting channel back to the brand owner who will be able to use big data to hone-in on where counterfeits are coming from.”
Selling a dream: using smart packaging to enhance the consumer experience
In addition to safety, smart packaging holds huge potential for enhancing the consumer experience, an area that fits neatly into the larger mega-trend of premiumisation currently impacting consumer industries.
As consumers increasingly look for products that provide more of an experience and do so with a higher sense of quality and commitment to authenticity, manufacturers must take advantage of every available tool to elevate the experiential qualities of their products. Smart packaging may allow them to do just that, providing as it does a new dimension of interaction between consumer, brand, and product.
Steve Irvine, creative director at Coley Porter Bell, explains: “Leading cosmetics brands have always embraced the more luxurious side of premium as they’re selling a dream. But premiumisation needs to go beyond just face value. Cosmetic brands must be authentic, true and really ‘live the brand’.
“Desire and differentiation should be driven through clever thinking, much less through shallow or hollow effects. The brand should engage audiences to create new and exciting ideas that surprise and delight new consumers.”
Premiumisation needs to go beyond just face value. Cosmetic brands must be authentic, true and really ‘live the brand'.
By making use of technologies, such as near-field communication, brands can add an additional layer of interaction onto their consumer’s experience with the product. Tags can link consumers to a variety of information, from standard promotional materials to tutorials on how to best use the products.
Consider the vast business of beauty products and the tutorial and review business attached to them, how these very visual products can fit into environments, such as Instagram; cosmetics are primed for a digital-driven boom. Smart packaging can help them get there.
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The New Lightweight Fluid Head MASTER 30 Series
CARTONI today announces the release of MASTER 30 Broadcast and MASTER 30 Cine, the latest additions to its innovative line of fluid heads. Designed respectively for broadcast production and digital cinematography, the two new heads include many of the features of the popular CARTONI MAXIMA fluid head in a unit that is lighter and more compact. CARTONI will demonstrate MASTER 30 Broadcast and MASTER 30 Cine for the first time at IBC 2016 (Stand 12.E30) 9-13 September in Amsterdam.
Both heads in the MASTER 30 Series feature CARTONI’s famed “wing” counterbalance system, which delivers perfect response, even for payloads with low centers of gravity (such as those with teleprompters) throughout the +/- 90 ° range. The head supports payloads up to 23kg (51lbs) at 200mm (8-inch) center of gravity, and heavier payloads up to 30kg (66lbs) and 40kg (88lbs) at 150 mm (6-inch) COG and 100mm (4-inc) COG, respectively.
“Camera operators will be thrilled with the smoothness and fluidity of MASTER 30,” says CARTONI CEO Elisabetta Cartoni.
“The head’s unique feel is the result of our patented ‘planetary’ drag mechanism. It delivers perfectly smooth movement in pan and tilt, going from virtually freewheeling to an extremely consistent, maximum drag, while also providing extraordinarily precise starts and stops.”
Other appealing features of MASTER 30 include a digital readout that allows operators to check counterbalance and pan & tilt settings at a glance, and an illuminated bubble level. For improved user friendliness, pan & tilt brakes are conveniently placed on the left side of the head. The camera latch has also been ergonomically designed. It can be activated with one hand to disengage the new safety lock and free the camera plate.
MASTER 30 Broadcast comes equipped with dual telescopic pan bars. MASTER 30 Cine features a single telescopic pan bar and a short, 90° pan bar.
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Shorewood Patch Has Hatched: Meet Joe Hosey
Meet Joe Hosey, Editor of the Shorewood Patch, a new site devoted to all the news and events in the growing town of Shorewood, IL! Joe Hosey is well known as a reporter for the Chicago Herald who was on the spot with each development in the Drew Peterson case, from covering the inquest into Kathleen Savio’s (Peterson wife #3) untimely death to the disappearance of Stacy Peterson (wife #4). Hosey is the author of the book, “Fatal Vows: The Tragic Wives of Sergeant Drew Peterson.” The Shorewood Patch Has Hatched You don’t hear a lot about Shorewood in the news, and that’s strange, considering it’s a town with quite a bit going on. For all it has to offer, Shorewood hardly gets a mention in the newspapers and media websites. It’s been that way for years, but that’s all about to change, starting today. That’s because today is the first day forShorewood Patch—an online news source devoted exclusively to Shorewood. From now on, Shorewood Patch is going to cover everything about this village. From schools,politics …
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The Institute for Relational Harm Reduction Offers Therapist Training With Sandra L. Brown, M.A.
ATTENTION: Domestic Violence Professionals and/or Mental Health Professionals: WE NEED YOU TO BE TRAINED IN OUR MODEL OF CARE APPROACH! NOW AVAILABLE ON THOSE DATES FOR WEBCAM ATTENDANCE! Don’t have the time to travel to Florida for those dates? No problem! Attend all 4 days via webcam from the comfort of your office! Same price but you get to wear your slippers! 60 million people are negatively impacted by someone else’s pathology. That means there are millions of survivors looking for appropriately trained professionals who understand more than just the Power & Control wheel. We need referral resources out there! Help us reach more survivors by becoming a trained professional in The Institute’s Model of Care Approach for Pathological Love Relationships with Cluster B Disordered Partners The Institute will be offering licensed mental health and addiction professionals the ability to become trained and certified in The Institute’s Model of Care in ‘Pathological Love Relationships.’ The absence of trained and qualified professionals in counseling is an obstacle to recovery for survivors. One of The Institute’s …
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By Special Invitation: Susan Murphy Milano will be the Guest Host on The Roth Show
Wednesday, December 29 at 6pm-9pm ET for 3 whole hours of discussion with 3 exciting guests! Hour #1 Rita Cosby Hour #2 Joe Hosey Hour #3 Burl Barer Rita Cosby Rita anchored highly-rated primetime shows on Fox News Channel and MSNBC. She is currently a special correspondent for the long-running syndicated newsmagazine, Inside Edition. Honors for the three-time Emmy Award winner include the Matrix Award and the Jack Anderson Award. Rita was also selected by Cosmopolitan Magazine as a “Fun and Fearless Female.” A recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor and the Lech Walesa Freedom Award, she hosts the National Memorial Day Parade broadcast to all US military installations around the world. Her first book, Blonde Ambition, was a New York Times bestseller. In latest book release, QUIET HERO, this veteran journalist uncovers her father’s harrowing story as a WWII Resistance Fighter and Prisoner Of War. After a daring escape, he and his comrades were saved by American forces. An emotional story of a daughter finally discovering her own father. Through her book QUIET HERO, Rita …
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January is “Mob Month” in Vegas! Dennis Griffin Presents on Panel
Please join Dennis Griffin in January for three special presentations at the Clark County Library as they present Mob Month. The presentations are in the main theater and are free and open to the public. Everything begins at 7pm The first presentation is on January 4, Clark County Library welcomes four panelists: two from the right side of the law and two from the wrong side: Retired FBI special agent Dennis Arnoldy led the team that arrested the infamous Hole In The Wall Gang; former mafia street soldier-turned-author/filmmaker Andrew DiDonato (Surviving The Mob) worked for the Gambino & Genovese crime families; ex-sheriff/ Internet talk show host Dennis Griffin is an author of 10 bestsellers including The Battle For Las Vegas– The Law vs. The Mob, Vegas Vixen, and Cullotta ; and ex-mobster/active government witness Salvatore ‘Fat Sal’ Mangiavillano whose testimony against mob instigators Peter Gotti & Huck Carbonaro resulted in their convictions. Books and DVDs by DiDonato and Griffin will be available for purchase and signing after the presentation. For more information, please call 507-3458. The second presentation is on January 18. This discussions will revolve around heavyweights from …
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Lyn Twyman Welcomes Portia Shipman to Courage Empowerment Forum!
The young life of Sherri Denese Jackson was cut short in late 2006 at the age of 27. Four years later, her memory lives on. In this week’s episode of Lyn Twyman’s Courage Empowerment Forum, her featured guest will be Portia Shipman, founder and executive director of the Sherri Denese Jackson Foundation (SDJF). SDJF is an organization that serves domestic violence victims in Greensboro, NC. This show will discuss the life of Sherri Jackson, a murder victim of domestic violence, and what SDJF is doing in their local community to help survivors not become victims. Tune in Tuesday, December 28th at 9 PM eastern for this great interview! Go to the link and listen live every Tuesday night!www.party934.com
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Pianist Jonathan Biss’s approach to music is a holistic one. In his own words: I’m trying to pursue as broad a definition as possible of what it means to be a musician. As well as being of the world’s most sought-after pianists, a regular performer with major orchestras, concert halls and festivals around the globe and co-Artistic Director of Marlboro Music, Jonathan Biss is also a renowned teacher, writer and musical thinker.
His deep musical curiosity has led him to explore music in a multi-faceted way. Through concerts, teaching, writing and commissioning, he fully immerses himself in projects close to his heart, including Late Style, an exploration of the stylistic changes typical of composers – Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Britten, Elgar, Gesualdo, Kurtág, Mozart, Schubert, and Schumann – as they approached the end of life, looked at through solo and chamber music performances, masterclasses and a Kindle Single publication Coda. And Schumann: Under the Influence a 30 concert initiative examining the work of Robert Schumann and the musical influences on him, with a related Kindle publication A Pianist Under the Influence.
This 360° approach reaches its zenith with Biss and Beethoven. In 2011, he embarked on a nine-year, nine-disc project to record the complete cycle of Beethoven’s piano sonatas. Starting in September 2019, in the lead-up to the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth in December 2020, he will perform a whole season focused around Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas, with more than 50 recitals worldwide. This includes performing the complete sonatas at the Wigmore Hall and Berkeley, multi-concert-series in Washington, Philadelphia, and Seattle, as well as recitals in Rome, Budapest, New York and Sydney.
One of the great Beethoven interpreters of our time, Biss’s fascination with Beethoven dates back to childhood and Beethoven’s music has been a constant throughout his life. In 2011 Biss released Beethoven’s Shadow, the first Kindle eBook to be written by a classical musician. He has subsequently launched Exploring Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas, Coursera’s online learning course that has reached more than 150,000 subscribers world-wide; and initiated Beethoven/5, a project to commission five piano concertos as companion works for each of Beethoven’s piano concertos from composers Timo Andres, Sally Beamish, Salvatore Sciarrino, Caroline Shaw and Brett Dean. The later will be premiered in February 2020 with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and subsequently performed by orchestras in USA, Germany, France, Poland and Australia.
As one of the first recipients of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award in 2003, Biss has a long-standing relationship with Mitsuko Uchida with whom he now enjoys the prestigious position of Co-Artistic Director of Marlboro Music. Marlboro holds a special place for Biss, who spent twelve summers there, and for whom nurturing the next generation of musicians is vitally important. Biss continues his teaching as Neubauer Family Chair in Piano Studies at Curtis Institute of Music.
Biss is no stranger to the world’s great stages. He has performed with major orchestras across the US and Europe, including New York Philharmonic, LA Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, CBSO, London Philharmonic Orchestra and Concertgebouw. He has appeared at the Salzburg and Lucerne Festivals, has made several appearances at the Wigmore Hall and Carnegie Hall, and is in demand as a chamber musician.
He was the first American to be named a BBC New Generation Artist, and has been recognised with many other awards including the Leonard Bernstein Award presented at the 2005 Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Wolf Trap’s Shouse Debut Artist Award, the Andrew Wolf Memorial Chamber Music Award, Lincoln Center’s Martin E. Segal Award, an Avery Fisher Career Grant, the 2003 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award, and the 2002 Gilmore Young Artist Award.
Surrounded by music from an early age, Jonathan Biss is the son of violist and violinist Paul Biss and violinist Miriam Fried, and grandson of cellist Raya Garbousova (for whom Samuel Barber composed his cello concerto). He studied with Leon Fleisher at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, and gave his New York recital debut aged 20.
Recordings:
Jonathan Biss Beethoven Piano Sonatas – Complete Recordings
Vol.1 https://open.spotify.com/album/7CFX3OFDGkOYWTU9t6B9r6
Vol.2 https://open.spotify.com/album/08bEKFbUsRLjYyLrociC1w
Vol.3 https://open.spotify.com/album/58y4DgMcb8hxI5m8MNYv6l
Vol.4 https://open.spotify.com/album/2yxDunnt6mghnsWHPGliSc
Vol.5 https://open.spotify.com/album/2Itq0W7DGqgycStsBg4VFO
Vol.6 https://open.spotify.com/album/2YjpVyPm769W0FIIOK0idu
Vol.7 https://open.spotify.com/album/0Cquzn7E5wAEmCHjbPO0f6
Vol.8 https://open.spotify.com/album/1eTQqqWxyxiJZspN5L5xba
Vol.9 to be released November 2019
“Jonathan Biss: one of the great Beethovenians… will surely take his place among the greats.”
BBC Music Magazine
“The soloist for the concerto was the distinguished American pianist Jonathan Biss. From the start a lightness of touch and elegance emanated from soloist and ensemble. Biss might even have been considering the sound world of the fortepiano, the instrument for which Mozart composed the work, with playing that was full of light and shade and brimming over with expressive, intelligent rhetoric in every bar. The spring-like frisson of the opening Allegro maestoso led to the sheer and dreamy Andante flowing smooth as silk, each descending scalic expression of the melody ‘sung’ with touching beauty and sincerity. The mischievous Allegro vivace assaiwas fully playful and joyous; both soloist and accompanying ensemble dance partners in perfect rapport. The performance displayed great style, flawless balance and blend, and particularly fine phrasing under Davis’s direction.”
David Barmby
Performing Arts Hub
“Beethoven’s personal life may have been short on joy, but listening to Jonathan Biss leaves one feeling grateful that he was able to discover it in composing.”
5 Stars ***** (Volume 7: Beethoven Piano Sonatas 2, 17, 20 and 30)
“His performance of The Tempest reminds us how shocking Beethoven’s innovations still are today. Biss enjoys delving deeply into the dark and enigmatic heart of this sonata, yet his sound is fresh and modern, and he achieves a splendid clarity in the slow movement as he draws each of the themes and the threatening drum rolls. The finale is taken faster than others but he never sacrifices textural clarity. It’s a highly charged, moving interpretation.”
Mairi Nicolson, Limelight Magazine July 2018
“There is… playfulness, wit – sometimes tigerish, but often surprisingly delicate – and nowhere more so than in the piano sonatas. Not only is American pianist Jonathan Biss a highly refined and intelligent musician, but he also understands this aspect of Beethoven as well as anyone performing today.”
Steven Johnson, BBC Music Magazine June 2018
“Biss and the SPCO [seemed] to really throw themselves full force into Beethoven’s “Emperor” Piano Concerto, resulting in one of the strongest interpretations of the work that I’ve encountered in concert. Full of energy, imagination and impeccable precision, it was Beethoven with just the right balance of calm and vigor, managing to be explosive one moment and contemplative the next, yet with nary a mood shift too abrupt. This was smoothness without sacrificing an ounce of oomph.”
Rob Hubbard, Pioneer Press February 2nd 2018
In the hush of the concert hall, as Saturday night in Glasgow beeps and bustles just outside the doors, Sally Beamish’s third piano concerto manages to so evocatively conjure the underlying anxiety and jittery disconnection of city living that, although followed by two much-loved works from heavyweight composers, it’s Beamish’s 23 minutes that feel most significant.
Receiving its European premiere this week as part of Beethoven/5, a five-year series of commissions, imagined by self-professed Beethoven obsessive Jonathan Biss, in which different composers are approached to write a piano concerto inspired by one of Beethoven’s five, City Stanzas reminds us, with a quiet confidence, of the excitement (and importance) of music as response to the human condition.
It helps, of course, having the exceptional and engaging Biss as soloist. In the quietly heartbreaking stand-out second movement, Requiem – a response to the recent death of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies – his poetic, beautifully phrased solo becomes one man’s solitary thoughts against a doom-laden backdrop of eerie timpani and bass glissandi, conjuring distant traffic heard from behind a lonely window as a bass clarinet chips in with dark, unwanted thoughts. In the third movement, returning to the irritable chaos of the aural cityscape, Biss’ angular, angry stabs are accompanied by his own anguished shivers and tics as he plays; it’s fascinating to watch.
Sandwiched between this and Brahms’ thickly intellectual yet expressive fourth symphony, Beethoven’s zesty concerto feels like a slice of sparkling relief, aided by Biss’ nimble, gently precise and perfectly understated execution. Even after the athletic scales of its first movement, the real treat is his extended cadenza in the last, a movement-within-a-movement which dramatically channels the spirit of the composer he so adores.
The Herald April 9th 2017
“Biss is one of the great pianists of his generation.”
Charles Donelan, Santa Barbara Independent Oct 26th 2016
“There’s a certain type of pianism that presses all the buttons for me. It is that ability to combine flawless technical and tonal mastery with innate musicality without drawing undue attention to either. Jonathan Biss does that here in the fifth volume of his ongoing survey of the complete Beethoven piano sonatas. It opens with a wonderfully clear vision of early Beethoven, the Op2 No3, sweetly nuanced, but with a solidity of touch and weighted charisma that looks forward to the later works. Biss moves on in Beethoven’s timeline with the G major Op79 and E minor Op 90 sonatas, the former a model of precision and clarity, the latter exquisitely contrasting the stormy opening with the dreamy final movement. Biss ends magnificently with the profound eloquence and drama of Op 101.”
Ken Walton, The Scotsman Mar 28th 2016
“…the tigerish attack with which he brought Mozart’s C minor sonata K457 out of 18th century decorum and into our 21st century sound-world had compelling authority… what Biss did with the later Sonata in F K533 – with its exuberantly lyrical first movement, and its operatic Andante – was very different, but no less riveting… He expertly steered his final work – Schumann’s Kreisleriana – between its polarities of breathless excitement and contemplative calm.”
Michael Church, The Independent Dec 11th 2015
“Biss’s performance is blazing, nimble, fleet of finger and dangerous. He should complete the project in 2020. We must be patient.”
The Observer Mar 1st 2015
“This is a marvellously promising beginning by one of the most thoughtful and technically accomplished pianists of the younger generation… But his playing is by no means didactic: it is forceful, fierce but not exaggerated, and sometimes scintillating.”
BBC Music Magazine April 2012
“Biss, a young American pianist with an exceptional musical pedigree, intense intelligence and a fantastic sense of humour, has all the ingredients he needs to become one of today’s great Beethovians. This disc proves he’s well on the way. He teases out the brilliant and quirky heart of the sonatas; he is affectionate in the reflective slow movements, and witty and light-fingered in the virtuoso sky-rockets. He takes nothing for granted: in his hands Beethoven is no pompous grand master but an energetic radical, bursting at the seams with Jonathan Biss/Beethoven Sonatas Press Quotes: 4 fresh ideas…An exciting and sophisticated start to what promises to be a great Beethoven cycle.”
Classic FM Magazine Feb 5th 2013
“The performances – brilliant, precisely thought, yet spontaneous-sounding – are a joy. I also like the way Biss has chosen to begin with four of the least often heard sonatas, then shows how wrong we are not to celebrate them, for in his hands they are a continuous surprise and delight.”
The Sunday Times Jan 29th 2012
“He doesn’t simply observe Beethoven’s indications; he has internalized them to the point that, for his brain and hands, they have become second nature… This account of Op. 31 No. 3 is the most detailed, vividly imaginative that I’ve heard.”
International Record Review, April 2014 Apr 15th 2014
“His playing, in a golden age of Beethoven pianism, is always masterly and spontaneous-sounding.””
BBC Music Magazine Mar 19th 2014
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Druckenmiller on 2020 Outlook, Monetary Policy, U.S. Election
Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller discusses his economic and market outlook for 2020, the direction of monetary policy, and the upcoming U.S. election. He speaks exclusively with Bloomberg’s Erik Schatzker in New York. (Source: Bloomberg)
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Why You Should Be Optimistic About the Future
Many skeptics thought the internet would never reach mass adoption, but today it’s shaping global culture, is integral to our lives—and this is just the beginning. In this conversation, Kevin Kelly (Founding Executive Editor, WIRED magazine) and Marc Andreessen (Cofounder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz) sit down to discuss the evolution of technology, the new “Space Race,” and how measuring prosperity on a global scale is the key to our collective success. Learn why they share an optimistic view on the possibilities of the future.
HIGHLIGHTS Discussion on closing the digital divide [3:00] The many possibilities of voice technology as an interface [9:59] Moore’s Law vs. Eroom’s law [14:14] Looking at 5G Technology as the next global driver [20:38] New models for VC and company models [27:05] How long-term thinking can be applied in Silicon Valley [29:53] Measuring prosperity on a global scale [34:00] The potential impact of cyber technology on global conflict [38:45] The foundation of Marc’s optimism [41:05]
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Nanfu Wang on One Child Nation, Reproductive Rights & China’s Response | HRWFF 2019
Co-director Nanfu Wang discusses One Child Nation with Yaqiu Wang, China Researcher, Human Rights Watch, and Minky Worden, Director of Global Initiatives, Human Rights Watch, at Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2019 at Film at Lincoln Center.
From Academy Award-nominated documentarian Nanfu Wang, Hooligan Sparrow (HRWFF, 2017) and Jialing Zhang, One Child Nation explores China’s One Child Policy, which made it illegal in most circumstances for couples to have more than one child. Nanfu digs fearlessly into her own life, using her experience as a new mother and first-hand accounts of her family members, along with archival propaganda material and testimony from victims and law-enforcers alike, composing a revelatory record of China’s drastic approach to population-control. The severe law that led to forced sterilizations and abortions, abandoned newborns, and government abductions may have ended in 2015, but the process of dealing with the impact of its enforcement is only just beginning. US Grand Jury Prize: Documentary, Sundance Film Festival 2019; Grand Jury Award, Full Frame 2019.
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Scott Galloway with Bradley Tusk on Airbnb, AB-5, Uber, and venture-backed firms.
We’re experimenting with new formats from Prof G. Last month, Scott sat down with Bradley Tusk, author of The Fixer, founder and CEO of Tusk Holdings and Michael Bloomberg’s former campaign manager, to discuss Airbnb, AB-5, where Uber goes from here, and venture-backed firms. Plus, Scott takes questions during #OfficeHours — hear his take on which mediums are best for building your personal brand and what it takes to serve on the board of a company.
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Economic downturn, Lyft, Uber, and WeWork - Scott Galloway with Josh Brown
Prof G. and Josh Brown, CEO of Ritholtz Wealth Management, talk investing in economic downturns and why you shouldn’t brag to your golf buddies about owning shares of Lyft, Uber, and WeWork. Plus, Scott takes questions during #OfficeHours — hear his take on getting high on your own supply, OYO, and why he still goes to work.
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2019 Wriston Lecture: The End of the Computer Age
Investor and entrepreneur Peter Thiel delivers the 2019 Wriston Lecture.
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Executive Interview: Virgin Galactic & Social Capital - The Phocuswright Conference 2019
Some have said that Chamath Palihapitiya, CEO of Social Capital, will "change your opinion on everything," often in a style that is both controversial and provocative but also brilliant. Also recently appointed chairman of Richard Branson’s space-age venture Virgin Galactic, Chamath takes the stage with Brad Gerstner, founder and CEO of Altimeter Capital, in this exclusive one-on-one session.
Chamath Palihapitiya Chairman, Virgin Galactic and Founder & CEO, Social Capital
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Michael is the Joint Leader of the Australian Government Group and trusted legal adviser to the Commonwealth for 20 years.
Michael’s broad administrative law experience includes the provision of statutory interpretation and information law advice as well as assistance with legislative development. Michael also conducts investigations on behalf of the Commonwealth.
Michael’s administrative law practice involves advising Commonwealth regulators in sectors such as aged care, therapeutic goods, agricultural and veterinary products, motor vehicles and clean energy. This involves advice on the nature and scope of the regulators’ powers, assistance with the drafting of decisions and advice and representation in compliance matters. Michael’s practice extends to information law which involves regularly conducting Privacy Impact Assessments and advising Commonwealth clients on other privacy concerns and Freedom of Information requests.
Michael also has a strong litigation practice. He is a skilled advocate having represented and appeared for a range of Commonwealth clients over many years in merits and judicial review proceedings, as well as representing the Commonwealth in commercial claims brought against it.
Michael’s litigation experience includes managing, for many years, a high volume litigation practice for the Department of Home Affairs in AAT, Federal Circuit Court and Federal Court proceedings, as well as representing the Department of Health for a period of 20 years, in merits and judicial review proceedings involving challenges to aged care decisions. Additionally, Michael represents a range of clients in large scale merits review and judicial review matters, including for the Departments of Defence, Industry, Infrastructure, Health, Environment and Agriculture.
Michael has been named in Best LawyersTM Australia for Government Practice for the last six years.
Michael’s experience includes:
Minister for Immigration and Border Protection: Advising the Minister in hundreds of judicial review proceedings in the Federal Circuit, Federal and High Courts involving visa decisions made under the Migration Act (Cth) 1958;
Department of Health: Advising Health on the regulation of various aged care providers including representation in merits and judicial review proceedings involving the imposition of sanctions;
Minister for Defence: Representing Defence in various judicial and merits review proceedings as well as commercial disputes and providing broad ranging legal and strategy advice across a number of program areas;
Various Commonwealth agencies (Comcover): Represented the Commonwealth in a series of claims based in negligence, defamation, misfeasance and breach of privacy seeking damages in the District and Supreme Courts;
Various Commonwealth agencies (Regulatory): Providing statutory interpretation, legislative development and regulatory advice to a range of Commonwealth agencies; and
Various Commonwealth agencies (Information Law): Providing privacy advice including drafting Privacy Impact Assessments and advising on applications made under the Freedom of Information Act (Cth) 1992.
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Debbie Hines, Trial Attorney, Former Prosecutor, Speaker and Legal Analyst
When Will Donald Trump Demand that Romney Show His Papers?
By debbie on July 15, 2012
Donald Trump joined the birthers and demanded that President Obama show his birth certificate to prove his U.S. citizenship. Trump repeatedly called on the president to produce his papers. Where’s Donald Trump when you need him to demand that Mitt Romney produce a sufficient number of past tax returns? So far, Romney and Trump are silent on the tax return issue. Romney has produced one tax year-2010 and estimates of his taxes for 2011. That’s hardly a sufficient amount of tax returns for someone who is running for President of the U.S. Producing tax returns is not a requirement but being transparent should be a requirement.
Republicans are good at asking persons for their papers but are bad when it comes to showing their papers. Republican lawmakers across the country have enacted voter ID laws in over half the states requiring citizens to produce some form of government issued ID in order to vote. Every citizen in a state requiring voter ID must produce one. Alabama and Arizona under Republican lawmakers passed strict immigration laws that require those suspected of being illegal immigrants to show their papers. Yet, when it comes to Mitt Romney producing his papers, his tax returns, he flat out refuses.
Even some Republicans are joining on the side that Romney should produce his papers. Former Mississippi governor Haley Barbour, former RNC chairman Michael Steele and Alabama governor Robert Bentley have called on Romney to produce his tax returns to show “total transparency.” Alabama GOP governor Bentley said “If you have things to hide, then maybe you’re doing things wrong.” “I think you ought to be willing to release everything to the American people.” Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, former Obama administration White House chief of staff, states that Romney released 23 years of returns to the John McCain campaign when he was being vetted for vice president. Now that he’s running for president, he will only release one year. Like Donald Trump said about President Obama’s birth certificate, there’s something on it, he doesn’t like. There was nothing on the President Obama’s birth certificate that he didn’t like. But there’s probably something on Romney’s tax returns that he doesn’t like.
There is no requirement that a presidential candidate release his tax returns. Ironically the first presidential candidate to release tax returns was George Romney, Mitt Romney’s father for the 1968 election. George Romney produced more than a decade of tax returns. In late March, 2008, then Democratic candidate Barack Obama released 6 years of his tax returns from 2000-2006. In December, 2011, Mitt Romney said he might release his returns in April, 2012, if he became the nominee. Well April has come and gone. During the 2008 campaign year, Romney did not publicly release his tax returns. There have been former presidential candidates who did not release any tax returns. However, they did not become president. Past presidents since 1964 have disclosed their tax returns.
Being in the 1% elitist and having off shore accounts is one reason for Romney to show his tax returns. Everyone knows that Mitt Romney is wealthy. In a sense of transparency, his release of tax returns would show that he’s not above the former presidential candidates, including his father, who released their tax returns. By not releasing the returns, it shows a sense of arrogance and privilege. It also brings back the issue of what doesn’t he want us to see. If citizens are required to produce voter ID to prevent fraud, shouldn’t Romney release his tax returns to prevent committing a fraud on the American people? Where is Donald Trump when you need him to demand that Mitt’s papers be produced?
Washington, DC based Debbie Hines is a former prosecutor and founder of LegalSpeaks, a progressive blog on women and race in law and politics. As a legal and political commentator she has appeared in national and local media including the Michael Eric Dyson Show, NBC, ABC and CBS affiliates, RT TV, CBC- Canadian TV, NPR, XM Sirius radio, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, Black Enterprise among others. She also writes for the Huffington Post.
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Internet Batman Brigade - Registration Agreement Terms
-PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING- Naming Policy: The Admin reserves the right to remove names that do not comply with site rules (racism, rude names, things that are morally unacceptable, etc). Any names that are offensive or whose nature could be considered as a gamejacker, depending on the severity, will be discussed with the user or deleted without warning. Any names referencing to or including Batman will be banned without warning or discussion with the user. Why? Not only for ARG related reasons but possible legal ramifications as well. If we have an entire website Batman themed AND almost every member is Batman related, the group could suffer at the hands of the legal name holders. It would also create difficulties for the administrators and moderators to keep track of members accurately. Batman (c) and all associated titles belong under the Copyright Laws that DC Comics and its subsidiaries' own. The Internet Batman Brigade nor any of its members claim ownership to the Batman (c) name, logo, or concept. The Internet Batman Brigade is a non-profit group using the title of Batman (c) under the United States' Fair Use Conditions.
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Registration Agreement (last revision November 14, 2019)
"We", "us" and "our" refers to Internet Domain Service BS Corp., trading as Internet.bs.
This Registration Agreement ("Agreement") sets forth the terms and conditions of use by the Applicant, Registrant, Beneficiary, Customer, User (jointly and severally referred to as "you") of our domain name registration services (the "services") and your registration of that domain name (the "Registration").
Your electronic acceptance of this Agreement acknowledges that you have read, understood, and agree to all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, any agreement referencing this Agreement, our Privacy Policy, the incorporated Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy and the Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) also available here: http://www.icann.org/udrp/udrp.htm and http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/urs or any other alternative Dispute Resolution Policy offered by the Registries, the Online Pharmacy Policy and Online Pharmacy Investigation Procedures found in this Agreement, egistry policies, ICANN policies and any other rules or policies that are or may be published by us (the "Dispute Policy") from time to time. The operative and effective version of this Agreement will be the latest version available at http://www.internetbs.net/legal/Internet.bs-RegistrationAgreement.pdf
By submitting a domain to us for Registration, you are also warranting that you have the authority and legal capacity to enter into this Agreement.
By subscribing to any third party services through our Website, you must agree to and comply with the policies and terms of use, as applicable, of any such third party.
Except when expressly stated in writing by us, this Agreement, in addition to any other specific agreement between you and us, supersedes any other written (including, without limitation, digitized/computerized) agreement, oral agreement, or agreement by conduct.
Wherever in this Agreement the masculine, feminine, or neuter gender is used, it will be construed as including all genders. Wherever the singular is used, it will be deemed to include the plural and vice versa where the context so requires.
This Agreement will become effective upon the date of your electronic acceptance. We, at our own sole discretion, may accept or reject your Registration application (the "Application"). Rejection may include, without limitation, rejection due to a request for Registration of a prohibited Domain.
1. COMPANY ABSTRACT, REGISTRATION, AND DISPUTE
a. Time Registration Effective. All Registrations that we register for the applicable TLDs are not effective until we have successfully delivered (when applicable) the required Registration information that you provide us to the registry administrator (the "Registry") for the applicable TLDs and such Registry puts your Registration into effect permanently.
b. No Responsibility for Registry's Actions. While we always take extreme care in processing your orders, you agree that we are not liable or responsible in any way for any errors, omissions, or any actions by the Registry or intermediary third parties arising out of or related to your Application and receipt of, or failure to receive, a Registration.
c. Domain Disputes. You agree that, if your use of our Services is challenged by a third party, you will be subject to the provisions specified in the Dispute Policy. Please note that a challenge under the Dispute Policy is separate and apart from a third party complaint and investigation made through our Online Pharmacy Abuse Email Address, as part of our Online Pharmacy Policy (as discussed below under section 6).
d. Judicial and Administration Proceedings. If we are notified that a proceeding has been commenced with a judicial or administrative body regarding your domain and/or your use of our Services, you agree not to make any changes to your domain record without our prior written approval. We may, at our sole discretion, not allow you to make changes to such domain record until: (i) we are directed to do so by the judicial or administrative body; or (ii) we receive notification by you and the other party contesting your domain that the dispute has been settled. Furthermore, you agree that if you are subject to litigation regarding your Registration and use of our Services, we may deposit control of your domain record into the registry of the judicial body by supplying a party with a registrar certificate from us.
e. Indemnification. You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless our company, the Registry, ICANN, their respective parent companies and subsidiaries, and all of their respective executives, directors, officers, attorneys, managers, employees, consultants, contractors, and agents from and against any and all claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including, without limitation, legal costs) arising out of or related to your Registration. This indemnification obligation will survive the termination or expiration of this Agreement for whatever reason.
f. Lawsuit. If we are sued or threatened with lawsuit in connection with Services provided to you, you agree to indemnify us and to hold us harmless from all claims and expenses (including attorney's fees and court costs) pertaining to such lawsuit. Under such circumstances, you agree that you will, upon demand, obtain a performance bond with a reputable bonding company or, if you are unable to obtain a performance bond, that you will deposit money with us to pay for our reasonably anticipated expenses in relation to the matter. Such deposit will be drawn down as expenses are incurred. We shall not be obliged to extend you any credit in relation to such expenses and we may terminate your Services for a failure to make or renew such a deposit. We will return any unused deposit upon the conclusion of the matter.
a. Your Obligation. You, or the reseller ("Reseller") on your behalf, will be responsible for paying all fees associated with the Services provided by us. When renewal fees are due, it will be your sole responsibility to ensure that such fees are paid to us on time.
b. Payment & Deadline. You must make payments by credit card or such other method as we may authorize or indicate in the Registration renewal form ("Renewal Form"). Should you fail to pay the fees by the due date specified, we have the right to terminate your Registration at our sole discretion. You agree that we will have no liability whatsoever with respect to any such termination.
c. Fees Non-Refundable. All fees, including, without limitation, Pre-Registration fees, are non-refundable, in whole or in part, even if your Registration is suspended, terminated, or transferred prior to the end of your then current Registration term. All Pre-Registration fees are non-refundable.
d. Fee Changes. We reserve the right to change fees, surcharges, and renewal fees, and to institute new fees at any time, for any reason, at our sole discretion. The fees applicable at the time of execution of the order apply.
e. Actual Payment Required. Your requested domain will not be registered, pre-registered or renewed unless we receive actual payment for the Registration, Renewal or Pre-Registration fee, or at least reasonable assurance of payment of the Registration or Pre-Registration fee from some other entity (such reasonable assurance will be determined at our sole discretion). For Pre-Registration Services, Registration will not be granted to you if payment is not received by us.
f. Credit Card Charge Back. In the event of a charge back by a credit card company (or similar action by another payment provider approved by us), in connection with the payment of your Registration fee, you agree that the Registration will be transferred to us as the paying entity for that Registration to the Registry. You also agree that we reserve all rights regarding such Domains including, without limitation, the right to make the Domains available to other parties for purchase. We may reinstate your Registration at our sole discretion and, subject to receipt of the initial Registration or renewal fee and then current reinstatement fee.
g. Outstanding Fees/Charges. You are responsible for the full and prompt payment of any outstanding fees and/or charges, notwithstanding the termination or expiry of this Agreement for any reason.
h. Payment Collections. When making payment via the WorldPay Payment Gateway option, Internet Domain Service BS Corp will use the services of either of the following Third Party Collection Providers:
CentralNic Ltd of 44 Gutter Lane, 4th Floor Saddler House, EC2V 6BR, UK
CentralNic USA Ltd of 21700 Oxnard Street, Suite 1030, Woodland Hills, CA 91367, USA (US based customers only)
When using the Worldpay Payment Gateway option you will be transacting with either of these two parties. In all other circumstances, unless otherwise specified, Internet Domain Service BS Corp will be the transacting entity.
3. DOMAIN OWNERSHIP
Ownership of Domain. You understand and acknowledge that the Registrant also referred as Registered Name Holder, whose name is on record, will have sole legal ownership of the Domain. It is your sole responsibility and not that of Internet Domain Services BS Corp. in any way, to ensure that the proper Registrant name and information is recorded, and updated if necessary.
4. CHANGES TO THE AGREEMENT
You agree that we may modify this Agreement, or any other related and/or applicable agreement, as is necessary to comply with requirements established by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (www.icann.org), such as the Registrar Accreditation Agreement, consensus policies (www.icann.org/resources/pages/consensus-policies-2012-02-25-en), Registries or any other entity or individual, as well as to adjust to changing circumstances. Your continued use of the domain registered to you will constitute your acceptance of this Agreement with any new change. If you do not agree to any such change, you may request that your Registration be cancelled or transferred to a different domain registrar. You agree that such cancellation or request for transfer will be your exclusive remedy if you do not wish to abide by any change to this Agreement, or any other related and/or applicable agreement.
5. REGISTRATION INFORMATION, USE & LIMITATIONS
a. Required Information. As part of the Registration process, you must provide certain information and promptly update the information to keep it true, correct, accurate, current, and complete. You must provide the following information when registering your Domain:
(i) The full legal name and postal address, email address, voice telephone number and fax number if available of the Registrant (the domain owner/holder), even if you use Private Whois (Domain Privacy) service; name of authorized person for contact purposes in the case of an Registered Name Holder that is an organization, association, or corporation;
(ii) The domain being registered;
(iii) (if applicable) The full legal name, postal address, email address, voice telephone number, and, when available, fax number of the administrative contact for the Domain;
(iv) (if applicable) The full legal name, postal address, email address, voice telephone number, and, when available, fax number of the technical contact for the Domain;
(v) (if applicable) The full legal name, postal address, email address, voice telephone number, and, when available, fax number of the billing contact for the Domain;
(vi) The IP addresses of the primary nameserver and any secondary nameserver for the Domain, if required;
(vii) The corresponding names of those nameservers, if required;
(viii) Any remarks concerning the domain that should appear in the Registration directory;
(ix) Any other data that any Registry may require to be submitted to it, including, specific information regarding the primary purpose for which a domain is registered.
(x) Please not that we will verify the email address of the Registered Name Holder (and the account holder, if different) at the point that a domain name is created, updated or moved into our management. This will be done within fifteen (15) days of your request. If verification fails, the domain name is suspended (for Registered Name Holder), or the account is suspended or removed from the existing DNS (for account holder). In case we already have verified this data previously it is in our sole discretion to re-verify the email address.
b. Information About Third Parties. If you provide information about a third party, you hereby represent that you will have: (i) provided prior written notice to the third party of the disclosure and use of that party's information; and (ii) obtained the third party's express prior written and informed consent to the disclosure and use of that party's information.
c. Failure to Provide Proper Information. You acknowledge that if you provide any inaccurate information, or fail to update information promptly at least within seven (7) days of any change, you will be in material breach of this Agreement, which will be sufficient cause for termination of your Registration. You further agree that your failure to respond within at least fifteen (15) days to inquiries made by us to the email address of your Registrant, administrative, billing, or technical contact supplied to us concerning the accuracy of any information related to your Registration will constitute a material breach of this Agreement, which will be sufficient cause for immediate suspension or termination of your Registration.
d. Enforcement of Accurate Registrant Data. We reserve the right to accept written complaints from third parties regarding false and/or inaccurate data of Registrants and follow any other procedures set forth in any agreement we have with a particular Registry and/or ICANN.
e. Disclosure & Use of Registration Information. You agree that we may make your Registration information available to ICANN, Registry and the Registrar and their respective designees and agents and to any other third party as ICANN and applicable laws may require or permit. You further agree and acknowledge that we may make publicly available, or directly available to third party vendors, some or all of your Registration information for the purposes of inspection (such as through our WHOIS Service) or for other purposes as required or permitted by ICANN and applicable laws. Please also refer to our Privacy Policy.
f. Registrar Privacy Services. We may implement privacy services to comply with applicable laws which protect personal identifiable data from public display in the WHOIS. Registries may also implement Registry privacy services which may limit collect and display of personal data from publication in the public WHOIS. If You wish to ensure your data is published in the public WHOIS we may have to have expressed and verified consent from you and the Registrant, if applicable and available.
g. Government Use of Information. You understand and agree that the Government of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas shall have the right to use, disclose, reproduce, prepare derivative works, distribute copies to the public, and perform publicly and display publicly, in any manner and for any purpose whatsoever and to have or permit others to do so, all Data provided by you/Registrant. "Data" means any recorded information, and includes, without limitation, technical data and computer software, regardless of the form or the medium on which it may be recorded.
h. ICANN Guidelines & Requirements. You agree that ICANN may establish guidelines, limits, and/or requirements that relate to the amount and type of information that we may or must make available to the public or to private entities, and the manner in which such information is made available. You also agree and consent to any and all such disclosures, uses, guidelines, limits, and restrictions related to your Registration information (including, without limitation, any and all updates to such information), whether during or after the term of your Registration. You hereby irrevocably waive any and all claims and causes of action you may have arising from such disclosure or use of your Registration information by us.
i. Access to your Registration Information. You may access your Registration information, which is in our possession to review, modify, or update such information. You can access your Registration information by accessing our Account Management On-Line Forms, or similar interface, made available at our website.
i. We will factilitate any updates requested by you/Registered Name Holder to the data elements listed in Subsections 5a (vi), 5a (vii) and 5a (ix). The updated data elements shall be submitted to the Registry Database operated by the relevant Registry operator.
6. ONLINE PHARMACY POLICY
a. Definitions.
An "Online Pharmacy" means a website that sells or facilitates the sale of drugs (e.g., prescription medicines).
"Applicable Laws" means the laws and regulations of a) the jurisdiction where the online pharmacy dispenses drugs from and b) the jurisdiction where the online pharmacy offers to dispense or ship drugs to.
b. Abuse policy.
Domain names registered with Internet Domain Service BS Corp. may not be used to facilitate the sale of drugs in violation of Applicable Laws. This expressly includes, but is not limited to, the sale of prescription drugs without a prescription based on a prior in-person examination, except where such is expressly permitted by Applicable Laws, or selling unapproved drugs (e.g., falsified medicines, counterfeit drugs, or drugs unapproved for sale).
These Terms and Conditions notify you that Internet Domain Service BS Corp. acts on notices from LegitScript about domain names that violate this section of our policy. If you have any questions about the basis for your website's LegitScript classification, please contact LegitScript at legitscript.com.
c. Sole Responsibility.
It is your sole responsibility to be familiar with, and ensure that your website complies with, Applicable Laws. You agree that marketing prescription drugs to a jurisdiction despite not being appropriately licensed to dispense prescription drugs there, or selling drugs online in a way that does not comply with Applicable Laws, constitutes fraud and is a violation of this agreement.
d. Domain name suspension.
Starting from the 26th of August 2012, we may suspend and PERMANENTLY lock online pharmacy domains that reasonably appear in breach of our ONLINE PHARMACY POLICY without prior notice to you. Suspended online pharmacy domain names will remain locked and CANNOT be transferred away to another Registrar until and unless LegitScript notifies us that the domain name is no longer classified as operating in violation of this section.
e. Indemnification.
You hereby agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from any and all loss occasioned by you as a result of us suspending your domain name. You also agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from any complaints made against you by third parties and any loss that occurs due to any third party complaints. Further, you hereby agree to indemnify and hold us harmless if LegitScript designates a domain name you have registered as operating in violation of this section.
7. DOMAIN REGISTRAR TRANSFERS
a. Fees. Before any registrar transfer service (incoming transfer) provided to you by us becomes effective, you or the reseller on your behalf, must pay us the then current registrar transfer fee for the registrar transfer service for your Domain.
b. Request to Transfer Registration. Only the Registrant of the Registration and Domain, may initiate a request to transfer the Registration from a particular registrar to us (incoming transfer) or from us to another registrar (outgoing transfer). Therefore, you hereby represent that you have the full and complete authority as the holder of the Registration and domain to initiate any transfer, or as a contact listed on the current Registration, that you have been given full and complete authority by the Registrant to initiate the transfer. We at our sole discretion may require you to provide documentation that proves that you are the valid Registrant and you have the authority to issue the transfer request. By making the transfer request you agree to this Agreement.
c. Right to Refuse Transfer. We reserve the right to deny any request to transfer a Registration during the first sixty (60) days after the initial Registration with the original registrar if: (i) denial is in accordance with the circumstances described in this Agreement under the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy; (ii) there is evidence of fraud; (iii) there is a reasonable dispute over the identity of the Registrant or administrative contact; (iv) no payment for previous registration period was made (including credit card charge-backs) if the domain name is past its expiration date or for previous or current registration periods if the domain name has not yet expired. In all such cases, however, the domain name must be put into "Registrar Hold" status by the Registrar of Record prior to the denial of transfer; (v) express objection to the transfer by the authorized Transfer Contact. Objection could take the form of specific request (either by paper or electronic means) by the authorized Transfer Contact to deny a particular transfer request, or a general objection to all transfer requests received by the Registrar, either temporarily or indefinitely; [In all cases, the objection must be provided with the express and informed consent of the authorized Transfer Contact on an opt-in basis and upon request by the authorized Transfer Contact, the Registrar must remove the lock or provide a reasonably accessible method for the authorized Transfer Contact to remove the lock within five (5) calendar days] (vi) The transfer was requested within sixty (60) days of the creation date as shown in the registry Whois record for the domain name, or; (vii) a domain name is within sixty (60) days (or a lesser period to be determined) after being transferred (apart from being transferred back to the original Registrar in cases where both Registrars so agree and/or where a decision in the dispute resolution process so directs). "Transferred" shall only mean that an inter-registrar transfer has occurred in accordance with the procedures of this policy. It is the sole responsibility of the Registrant to ensure that the request to transfer will not be denied for any of the above reasons prior to initiating and paying for the registrar transfer services. Fees are not refundable, however after a failed transfer funds will be made immediately available to your pre-paid account and they can be applied to subsequent transfer requests.
d. Successful Completion of Registrar Transfer Request. Upon successful completion of a registrar transfer request, we will immediately become the registrar of record.
e. You acknowledge that we will, as a default action, place a Transfer lock on all domains registered or transferred to us until such time as you unlock the domain from within your account, or request us to unlock the domain.
8. OWNERSHIP OF DATA
In addition to the Registration information you are required to provide under sections 5(a) above, we maintain records related to your Registration and will provide these records and data to the Registrar. You agree and acknowledge that we own all databases, compilations, collective and similar rights, titles, and interests worldwide in our domain database (the "Domain Database"), and all information and derivative works generated from the Domain Database.
You further agree and acknowledge that we collect and own the following information for those Registrations :
(i) the original creation date of the Registration;
(ii) the submission date and time of the Application (to us and by us to the proper Registry);
(iii) communications (electronic or paper form) constituting Registration orders, modifications, or terminations, and related correspondence between you and us;
(iv) records of account for your Registration, including, without limitation, dates and amounts of all payments and refunds;
(v) the expiration date of your Registration;
(vi) the name, postal address, email address, voice telephone number, and, when available, fax number of the administrative contact, technical contact, and billing contact, and the name holder, for the Registration;
(vii) information we obtain in regards to your Registration as an Acceptable Online Pharmacy, if applicable, including your LegitScript Classification;
(viii) any remark concerning the registered domain that appears or should appear in the WHOIS or similar database; and
(ix) any other information or data that we generate or obtains in connection with the provision of the Services.
You acknowledge and agree that during the Term of this Agreement and for a limited period thereafter to comply with applicable laws thereafter we may maintain the following records relating to our dealings with You:
(i) In electronic form, the submission date and time, and the content of all registrations data (including updates) submitted in electronic form submitted to the Registry;
(ii) In electronic, paper or microfilm form, all written communications constituting registration applications, confirmations, modifications or terminations and related correspondence with You, including registration contracts; and
(iii) In electronic form, record of the accounts of all Registrants with Registrar.
After termination of this Agreement Registrar reserves the rights to delete such personal data and only retain such data as required to comply with other lawful and statutory obligations. To comply with our Privacy Policy and applicable data protection laws, Registrar may redact, delete and or anonymise such data in its sole discretion.
We will not process the Personal Data collected from you in a way incompatible with the purposes and other limitations as provided in this document, applicable data protection laws and our Privacy Policy.
9. AGENTS AND LICENSES
a. Warranty of Authority. If you are registering a domain for someone else, you warrant and agree that you have the authority to bind that person as a principal to all the terms and conditions provided herein.
b. License to Third Party. If you license the use of the domain registered to you to a third party, you warrant and agree that you nonetheless remain the Registrant (the domain holder of record), and remain responsible for any and all obligations under this Agreement, including, without limitation, payment and providing (and updating, as necessary) your full, current, accurate, and complete contact information and administrative, technical, and billing contact information, adequate to facilitate timely resolution of any problem that may arise in connection with the domain and Registration.
You further warrant and agree that if you license the use of your domain to any third party who maintains an Online Pharmacy, you nonetheless remain the Registrant (the domain holder of record) and you are responsible that that your domain is in full compliance with our Online Pharmacy Policy (section 6).
All sales, with the exception of the below circumstances, are final and non-refundable.
If for any reason, within a period of 24 hours from the time your order was placed, we are unable to provision the product or service requested.
If you choose to cancel a Registration, Web or Email Service we provide we will not issue a refund for the remaining or unexpired duration of the Registration or Web or Email Service, i.e. a percentage of the yearly fee cannot be refunded.
Fees will not be refunded if we choose to cancel, terminate or suspend your Registration or other Service for any reason.
Refunds can be requested via our support team for all transactions. For transactions where payment was made via "Worldpay Payment Gateway" payment option you may also submit your request to the applicable Third Party Collection Providers:
CentralNic Ltd at 44 Gutter Lane, 4th Floor Saddler House, EC2V 6BR, UK, PH: +44.2033880600
CentralNic USA Ltd at 59th Floor, 350 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10118, USA, +1.3233752669 (US based customers only)
11. EXPIRATION AND RENEWAL OF DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION
After expiration of the term of domain name registration Services, you acknowledge that certain registry administrators may provide procedures or grace periods during which expired domain name registrations may be renewed. You acknowledge that you assume all risks and all consequences if you wait until close or after the end of a domain name registration term to attempt to renew the registration. You acknowledge that post-expiration renewal or redemption processes, if any, involve additional fees (e.g. Restore fees) which may be payable.
With respect to domain name registration services, we will email a renewal notification in accordance with applicable ICANN and/or Registry policies. All renewal reminders will be sent to the Registrant contact email address. Additionally we will be sending renewal reminders to the account email address as defined by you once per week starting approximately 45 days before expiration and once per day during the last 7 days, unless you disabled renewal reminders from our Control Panel. It is your sole responsibility to keep the email address accurate and check it regularly.
You agree that after expiration of the term of a domain name registration we may, for a period of forty-five (45) days (the "Expiry Period"), either: i) remove the domain name from the zone of the top-level-domain; or ii) direct the domain to name-servers and IP address(es) of website(s) designated by us, including, without limitation, to IP address(es) which host a parking page or a commercial search engine that may display advertisements. Any revenue generated through the IP address during this period will be payable only to us. You will have no claim over any earnings from this nor are you entitled to any compensation in exchange therefore over this period If we exercise our rights under this provision, and if you do not contact us to pay for and renew the domain prior to the end of the Expiry Period, you agree that you have abandoned the domain and you relinquish any and all rights that you may have had to the domain to us other than the rights that we provide to you in this Agreement.
We reserve the right to renew the registration on your behalf at our sole discretion and without further notice. In such case, you are entitled to renew or restore the registration according to the provisions below or applicable registry policies as if the registration had not been renewed, i.e. at least for the duration of a redemption grace period. If you fail to exercise this right, you herewith authorize us to take ownership, transfer or delete the registration at our own discretion and you agree that you have abandoned the domain and you relinquish any and all rights that you may have had to the domain. You agree that the termination or non-renewal of a Registration or non-payment of due renewal fees shall constitute Your consent to the actions described above as well as to a renewal of the domain name and updates to the Registration information to the extent necessary for our undertaking.
The failure by or on behalf of you/the Registered Name Holder to consent that the registration be renewed within the time specified in a second notice or reminder shall, in the absence of extenuating circumstances, result in cancellation of the registration by the end of the auto-renew grace period, (although we reserve the right to cancel the name earlier).
Extenuating circumstances are defined as: UDRP action, valid court order, failure of a Registrar's renewal process (which does not include failure of a Registrant to respond), the domain name is used by a nameserver that provides DNS service to third-parties (additional time may be required to migrate the records managed by the nameserver), the Registrant is subject to bankruptcy proceedings, payment dispute (where a Registrant claims to have paid for a renewal, or a discrepancy in the amount paid), billing dispute (where a Registrant disputes the amount on a bill), domain name subject to litigation in a court of competent jurisdiction, or other circumstance as approved specifically by ICANN.
Where we choose, under extenuating circumstances (as defined above), to renew a domain name without the explicit consent of the Registrant, we will maintain a record of the extenuating circumstances associated with renewing that specific domain name.
In the absence of extenuating circumstances (as defined above), a domain name will be deleted within 45 days of either the registrar or the Registrant terminating this registration agreement.
We will provide notice to each new Registrant describing the details of their deletion and auto-renewal policy including the expected time at which a non-renewed domain name would be deleted relative to the domain's expiration date, or a date range not to exceed ten (10) days in length. If we make any material changes to our deletion policy during the period of the registration agreement, we must make at least the same effort to inform you of the changes as we would to inform you of other material changes to the registration agreement.
In the event that a domain which is the subject of a UDRP dispute is deleted or expires during the course of the dispute, the complainant in the UDRP dispute will have the option to renew or restore the name under the same commercial terms as the Registrant. If the complainant renews or restores the name, the name will be placed in Registrar HOLD and Registrar LOCK status, the WHOIS contact information for the Registrant will be removed, and the WHOIS entry will indicate that the name is subject to dispute. If the complaint is terminated, or the UDRP dispute finds against the complainant, the name will be deleted within 45 days. The Registrant retains the right under the existing redemption grace period provisions to recover the name at any time during the Redemption Grace Period, and retains the right to renew the name before it is deleted.
Before and during the Expiry Period you may renew the domain by paying the regular renewal fees. After the domain is deleted and for a period of approximately thirty (30) days you may redeem the domain by paying the Restore fee. All fees are shown in our pricing page https://www.internetbs.net/price.html
The above strictly applies to gTLDs (generic Top Level Domain) subject to ICANN policies. For ccTLD (country code Top Level Domain) policies might be different.
The following ccTLDs have limitations on when you can renew a domain, it is not possible to renew a domain after the time limits listed.
.ai - 2 days prior to expiration date
.ch - 1 day prior to expiration date
.cz - 2 days prior to expiration date
.gr - 9 days prior to expiration date
.li - 1 day prior to expiration date
.lt - 3 days prior to expiration date
.lu - 2 days prior to expiration date
.pl, .biz.pl, .com.pl, .edu.pl, .info.pl, .net.pl & .org.pl - 2 days prior to expiration date
.si - 3 days prior to expiration date
YOU AGREE THAT WE (FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "WE" INCLUDES, WITHOUT LIMITATION, OUR COMPANY’S EXECUTIVES, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, ATTORNEYS, MANAGERS, EMPLOYEES, CONSULTANTS, CONTRACTORS, AGENTS, PARENT COMPANIES, SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, REGISTRIES, THIRD-PARTY PROVIDERS, MERCHANTS, LICENSORS, OR THE LIKE, OR ANYONE ELSE INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING, OR DISTRIBUTING OUR SERVICES) WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANYONE ELSE FOR ANY LOSS THAT MAY OCCUR DUE TO ANY: (A) LOSS OF REGISTRATION OF A DOMAIN; (B) USE OF YOUR DOMAIN; (C) ACCESS DELAY OR ACCESS INTERRUPTION TO OUR REGISTRATION SYSTEM; (D) NON-DELIVERY OR MIS-DELIVERY OF DATA BETWEEN YOU AND US AND/OR BETWEEN THE REGISTRY AND US; (E) AN EVENT BEYOND OUR REASONABLE CONTROL; (F) PROCESSING OF THE APPLICATION; (G) PROCESSING OF ANY MODIFICATION TO THE RECORD ASSOCIATED WITH YOUR DOMAIN; (H) FAILURE OF YOU OR YOUR AGENT TO PAY ANY FEE HEREUNDER; (I) PLACEMENT OF YOUR ONLINE PHARMACY ON THE NABP'S LIST OF NOT RECOMMENDED SITES BY THE NABP; (J)TERMINATION, REJECTION OR NON-APPROVAL OF YOUR ONLINE PHARMACY DUE TO NON COMLIANCE WITH SECTION 6 OF THIS AGREEMENT; (K) SUSPENSION, CANCELLATION OR TERMINATION OF YOUR REGISTRATION BY US; OR (L) APPLICATION OF ANY DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROVISION HEREIN. FURTHERMORE, WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGE OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOST PROFITS, REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION, WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR TORT, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, NEGLIGENCE, OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. IN NO EVENT WILL OUR MAXIMUM LIABILITY EXCEED THE TOTAL AMOUNT PAID BY YOU OR YOUR AGENT TO US FOR THE INITIAL REGISTRATION OF YOUR DOMAIN.
ALL THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED TO YOU "AS IS," AND WE WILL HAVE NO LIABILITY FOR FAILURE OF ANY OF THE SERVICES WE PROVIDE, WHETHER UNDER THE LAW OF STRICT LIABILITY, PRODUCTS LIABILITY, NEGLIGENCE, OR OTHERWISE. WE MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR OUR SERVICES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, WE MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER THAT THE REGISTRATION OR USE OF A DOMAIN UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL IMMUNIZE YOU FROM CHALLENGES TO YOUR REGISTRATION OR FROM SUSPENSION, CANCELLATION, TERMINATION, TRANSFER, OR ANY OTHER LOSS OF THE DOMAIN REGISTERED TO YOU. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "WE" INCLUDES, WITHOUT LIMITATION, OUR EXECUTIVES, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, ATTORNEYS, MANAGERS, EMPLOYEES, CONSULTANTS, CONTRACTORS, AGENTS, PARENT COMPANIES, SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, REGISTRIES, THIRD-PARTY PROVIDERS, MERCHANTS, LICENSORS, OR THE LIKE, OR ANYONE ELSE INVOLVED IN CREATING, REGULATING, PRODUCING, OR DISTRIBUTING OUR SERVICES.
a. Against Infringement. You represent and warrant to us that you hold the necessary rights to use, or permit to use, any item used through our Services, and that such use will not in any way:
(i) violate or potentially violate any right of any third party, including, without limitation, infringement or misappropriation of any copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, or other proprietary right;
(ii) constitute or potentially constitute violations, such as, without limitation, false advertisement, unfair competition, defamation, invasion of privacy, invasion of rights, and discrimination;
(iii) cause or potentially cause a business dispute, personal dispute, or any other dispute;
(iv) be or potentially be unlawful, harmful, fraudulent, libelous, slanderous, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, profane, hateful, or otherwise offensive;
(v) be or potentially be racially, ethnically, disputatiously, argumentatively, or ethically objectionable; or
(vi) encourage conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any applicable law, including, without limitation, local, provincial, state, national, international, or other laws.
b. Registration Information. You represent and warrant that all information provided by you in connection with your Registration, including information related to Online Pharmacy Certification, is, and will be, true, current, accurate, and complete at all times. Breach of this section will constitute material breach of this Agreement and cause for immediate cancellation of your Registration, domain and our Services.
c. Infancy: You attest that you are of legal age to enter into this Agreement.
d. Export Restrictions. You represent and warrant that you directly or indirectly are: A) not in or from any country that is subject to comprehensive U.S., EU and or UK export or sanctions restrictions (currently including, but not limited to, Iran, Sudan, Syria, and North Korea), nor are you intending to offer the services to any national of any such country present within or who intends to transmit or sell domains to such country unless specifically licensed for such export; (B) not using the services in the design, development or production of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons or in the financing of terrorism; nor (C) are you listed as or are owned or controlled by a sanctioned person or entity or prohibited party on any list published by the U.S. government, including the list of Specially Designated Nationals (SDNs) published by the US Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), or a person or entity on a sanctioned or restricted parties list published by an applicable jurisdiction.
e. Registry supplemental policies and rules: You agree to be bound by the rules, policies, and agreements of each Registry from which you purchase directly or indirectly a domain registration using our Services. Refer to the incorporated ADDITIONAL REGISTRY REQUIREMENTS section for specific details for each registry if any.
Breach of any of these sections will constitute a material breach of this Agreement and cause for immediate termination of our Service(s), your Registration(s) and your domain(s). You further agree to protect, defend, hold harmless, and indemnify our company, any third party entity related to us (including, without limitation, any Registry), and our executives, directors, officers, attorneys, managers, employees, consultants, contractors, agents, parent companies, and subsidiaries from and against any and all liabilities, losses, costs, judgments, damages, claims, or causes of actions, including, without limitation, any and all legal fees and expenses arising out of or resulting from the Registration, use of the domain, or from any breach of this Agreement. This indemnification is in addition to any indemnification required under the Dispute Policy. This indemnification obligation will survive the termination or expiration of this Agreement for whatever reason.
15. BREACH & REVOCATION
a. Revocation by us. We reserve the right to immediately suspend, cancel, terminate, transfer or modify your Registration for any reason, including, without limitation, if: (i) your material breach of this Agreement; (ii) your use of any Services, including, without limitation, the domain registered to you, that is in contradiction of applicable laws or customarily acceptable usage policies of the Internet, including, without limitation, sending unsolicited commercial advertisements (including, without limitation, spamming) or sending threats, harassments, and obscenities; (iii) your use of your domain in connection with unlawful or unethical activity; (iv) your Online Pharmacy is blacklisted by LegitScript and therefore do not comply with the Online Pharmacy Policy referred to in section 6 of this Agreement; (v) our receipt of an order from a court of competent jurisdiction or an arbitration award; (vi) to correct mistakes by us or the Registry Operator in registering the name; (vii) for the resolution of disputes concerning the Registered Name; (viii) or any other grounds for suspension, cancellation, termination, transfer or modification that is determined by our sole discretion. In any of the above mentioned cases we are entitled to suspend, cancel, terminate, transfer or modify all of your registered domain names in case you have registered more than one domain name, even if the above mentioned criteria only apply to one of your registered domain names. You understand and agree that you will not receive any refund whatsoever for any such suspension, cancellation, termination, transfer or modification of your Registration for any reason.
b. Revocation by ICANN, Registry, or Registrar. You further acknowledge and agree that your Registration is subject to suspension, cancellation, termination, transfer, or modification by any ICANN procedure, any Registry procedure approved by an ICANN-adopted policy, or our company.
c. Civil/Legal Liability for Breach. ANY BREACH OF THIS AGREEMENT MAY RESULT IN CIVIL ACTION, LEGAL ACTION, AND/OR CRIMINAL PROSECUTION AGAINST YOU.
d.If Internet Domain Service BS Corp provides you with Hosting services, i.e. any Web and Email Service from Internet Domain Service BS Corp in connection with the Domain Name, we reserve the right to immediately suspend, cancel, terminate, transfer or modify your service for any reason, including, without limitation, if: (i) your material breach of this Agreement; (ii) your use of any Services that is in contradiction of applicable laws or customarily acceptable usage policies of the Internet, including, without limitation, sending unsolicited commercial advertisements (including, without limitation, spamming) or sending threats, harassments, and obscenities; (iii) your use of any services in connection with unlawful or unethical activity; (iv) your Online Pharmacy is blacklisted by LegitScript and therefore do not comply with the Online Pharmacy Policy referred to in section 6 of this Agreement; (v) our receipt of an order from a court of competent jurisdiction or an arbitration award; (vi) or any other grounds for suspension, cancellation, termination, transfer or modification that is determined by our sole discretion. In any of the above mentioned cases we are entitled to suspend, cancel, terminate, transfer or modify all of your services in case you have registered more than one service, including domain names, even if the above mentioned criteria only apply to one of the services used. You understand and agree that you will not receive any refund whatsoever for any such suspension, cancellation, termination, transfer or modification of your Registration for any reason.
16. GOVERNING LAW & SEVERABILITY
a. Governing law. Except as otherwise set forth in the UDRP, any gTLD Registry dispute resolution policy, .eu Dispute Resolution Rules or any similar ccTLD policy with respect to any dispute over your domain name registration, this Agreement, your rights and obligations and all actions contemplated by this Agreement shall be governed by the laws of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas, as if the Agreement was a contract wholly entered into and wholly performed within The Bahamas.
THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND INTERPRETED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE BAHAMAS APPLICABLE THEREIN WITHOUT REFERENCE TO RULES GOVERNING CHOICE OF LAWS. ANY ACTION RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT MUST BE BROUGHT IN NASSAU AND YOU IRREVOCABLY CONSENT TO THE JURISDICTION OF SUCH COURTS.
b. Severability & Amendment. If any provision or portion of any agreement (including, without limitation, this Agreement) between you and our company is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unenforceable for any reason, the remainder of that agreement will continue in full force and effect. We will amend or replace such provision with one that is valid and enforceable and which achieves, to the extent possible, the original objectives and intent as reflected in the original provision. This Agreement may not be amended or modified by you except by means of a written document signed by both you and an authorized representative of our company. It is your sole responsibility to ensure that the representative subscribing such document is actually authorized to do so.
You agree that any notice required to be given under this Agreement by us to you will be deemed to have been given if delivered in accordance with the contact information you have provided.
18. DESIGNATED REGISTRANT CHANGE AND/OR TRANSFER AGENT FOR GTLDS
You agree and authorise Internet Domain Service BS Corp to act as your "Designated Agent" with respect to the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP) (https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/registrars/transfers-en) for all gTLD domains. You agree that as your "Designated Agent" we have the explicit authority to approve and accept each "Change of Registrant" (as per the IRTP) on your behalf, whether this change represents a change from your Registrant information or to your Registrant information, and will do so in all instances. You accept that authorising us to act as your Designated Agent is a condition of registering or managing your domain with Internet Domain Service BS Corp.
a. Entire Agreement. This Agreement, in addition to any other specific agreement between you and us, constitutes the full and complete understanding and agreement between you and us relating to the subject matter hereof. Except when expressly agreed to the contrary in writing by us, this Agreement supersedes any other written (including, without limitation, digitized/computerized) agreement, any oral agreement, or any actual or alleged agreement by conduct.
b. Independent Contractor Relationship. Nothing in this Agreement will be construed as creating a partnership or relationship of employer and employee, principal and agent, partnership or joint venture between you and us. You and our company will each be deemed an independent contractor at all times and will have no right or authority to assume, create, or incur any obligation on behalf of the other, except as may be expressly provided herein. You must not, in any way, misrepresent your relationship with us, attempt to pass yourself off as us, or claim that you are us.
c. No Waiver. The failure of our company to require your performance for any provision of this Agreement will not affect our full right to require such performance at any time thereafter; nor will the waiver by us of a breach of any provision of this Agreement be taken or held to be a waiver of the provision itself.
d. Survival of Termination. Sections 2, 3, 5, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17, 18 and the Dispute Policy, will survive the expiry or termination of this Agreement for any reason.
e. In some circumstances Internet Domain Service BS Corp. will register your domain name via our parent company's ICANN accreditation. This company is TLD Registrar Solutions Ltd. with an IANA ID of 1564. By accepting this agreement you acknowledge you are aware of this arrangement.
20. Web and Email Services
You agree on your own behalf, and on behalf of the Registrant if you are acting as the agent of the Registrant that the Web and Email Services are not available for Name Holders of Moderated Domain Names.
Internet Domain Service BS Corp will endeavour to provide the Web and Email Services with due care and skill, however, Internet Domain Service BS Corp does not guarantee the availability of the Web and Email Services. Internet Domain Service BS Corp will remedy any unavailability of the Web and Email Services as soon as it is able but does not guarantee that any unavailability will be resolved outside Internet Domain Service BS Corp trading hours. In addition, Internet Domain Service BS Corp does not guarantee that any Web and Email Service will be:
Interruption or fault free or that any faults or errors will be corrected;
Available at any particular time or location; available, or available without change, for any minimum period of time;
Secure or private;
Free of viruses or other harmful features.
Cancellation of Web and/or Email Service
You may cancel a Domain Name or any Web and Email Service at any time by notifying Internet Domain Service BS Corp. in writing. You agree that: on receipt of such notice, Internet Domain Service BS Corp. will cancel the relevant Domain Name and/or cancel the relevant Web and Email Service; and Internet Domain Service BS Corp. will have no liability to you whatsoever in relation to such deletion and/or cancellation.
Internet Domain Service BS Corp. may, in its sole discretion, cancel a Domain Name and any additional services such as Web and Email Services provided to you by Internet Domain Service BS Corp. in respect of that Domain Name upon 14 days' notice where you fail to pay any fees that are due to Internet Domain Service BS Corp..
Either party may terminate this agreement and cancel the Domain Name on one month's written notice to the other party.
21. .ETH Ethereum Naming Service
You agree on your own behalf, and on behalf of the Registrant if you are acting as the agent of the Registrant that your application for a .ETH will be subject to the same conditions as those contained within our general terms and conditions.
You also agree, that in the unlikely event that your .ETH name is lost or stolen, you will be refunded the full amount paid at the time of your purchase in the original purchase currency (FIAT).
You agree that we will not be held liable for the amount in ETH (Ether) held against the value of the name, nor any future loss of earnings as a result of any .ETH name held on your behalf being lost or stolen.
(As approved by the ICANN Board of Directors on 30 October 2009.)
1. Purpose. This Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Policy") has been adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN"), is incorporated by reference into your Registration Agreement, and sets forth the terms and conditions in connection with a dispute between you and any party other than us (the registrar) over the registration and use of an Internet domain name registered by you. Proceedings under Paragraph 4 of this Policy will be conducted according to the Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Rules of Procedure"), which are available at http://www.icann.org/en/help/dndr/udrp/rules, and the selected administrative-dispute-resolution service provider's supplemental rules.
2. Your Representations. By applying to register a domain name, or by asking us to maintain or renew a domain name registration, you hereby represent and warrant to us that (a) the statements that you made in your Registration Agreement are complete and accurate; (b) to your knowledge, the registration of the domain name will not infringe upon or otherwise violate the rights of any third party; (c) you are not registering the domain name for an unlawful purpose; and (d) you will not knowingly use the domain name in violation of any applicable laws or regulations. It is your responsibility to determine whether your domain name registration infringes or violates someone else's rights.
3. Cancellations, Transfers, and Changes. We will cancel, transfer or otherwise make changes to domain name registrations under the following circumstances:
a. subject to the provisions of Paragraph 8 , our receipt of written or appropriate electronic instructions from you or your authorized agent to take such action;
b. our receipt of an order from a court or arbitral tribunal, in each case of competent jurisdiction, requiring such action; and/or
4. Mandatory Administrative Proceeding.
This Paragraph sets forth the type of disputes for which you are required to submit to a mandatory administrative proceeding. These proceedings will be conducted before one of the administrative-dispute-resolution service providers listed at http://www.icann.org/udrp/approved-providers.htm (each, a "Provider").
a. Applicable Disputes. You are required to submit to a mandatory administrative proceeding in the event that a third party (a "complainant") asserts to the applicable Provider, in compliance with the Rules of Procedure, that
In the administrative proceeding, the complainant must prove that each of these three elements are present.
b. Evidence of Registration and Use in Bad Faith. For the purposes of Paragraph 4(a)(iii) , the following circumstances, in particular but without limitation, if found by the Panel to be present, shall be evidence of the registration and use of a domain name in bad faith:
c. How to Demonstrate Your Rights to and Legitimate Interests in the Domain Name in Responding to a Complaint. When you receive a complaint, you should refer to Paragraph 5 of the Rules of Procedure in determining how your response should be prepared. Any of the following circumstances, in particular but without limitation, if found by the Panel to be proved based on its evaluation of all evidence presented, shall demonstrate your rights or legitimate interests to the domain name for purposes of Paragraph 4(a)(ii) :
d. Selection of Provider. The complainant shall select the Provider from among those approved by ICANN by submitting the complaint to that Provider. The selected Provider will administer the proceeding, except in cases of consolidation as described in Paragraph 4(f) .
e. Initiation of Proceeding and Process and Appointment of Administrative Panel. The Rules of Procedure state the process for initiating and conducting a proceeding and for appointing the panel that will decide the dispute (the "Administrative Panel").
f. Consolidation. In the event of multiple disputes between you and a complainant, either you or the complainant may petition to consolidate the disputes before a single Administrative Panel. This petition shall be made to the first Administrative Panel appointed to hear a pending dispute between the parties. This Administrative Panel may consolidate before it any or all such disputes in its sole discretion, provided that the disputes being consolidated are governed by this Policy or a later version of this Policy adopted by ICANN.
g. Fees. All fees charged by a Provider in connection with any dispute before an Administrative Panel pursuant to this Policy shall be paid by the complainant, except in cases where you elect to expand the Administrative Panel from one to three panelists as provided in Paragraph 5(b)(iv) of the Rules of Procedure, in which case all fees will be split evenly by you and the complainant.
h. Our Involvement in Administrative Proceedings. We do not, and will not, participate in the administration or conduct of any proceeding before an Administrative Panel. In addition, we will not be liable as a result of any decisions rendered by the Administrative Panel.
i. Remedies. The remedies available to a complainant pursuant to any proceeding before an Administrative Panel shall be limited to requiring the cancellation of your domain name or the transfer of your domain name registration to the complainant.
j. Notification and Publication. The Provider shall notify us of any decision made by an Administrative Panel with respect to a domain name you have registered with us. All decisions under this Policy will be published in full over the Internet, except when an Administrative Panel determines in an exceptional case to redact portions of its decision.
k. Availability of Court Proceedings. The mandatory administrative proceeding requirements set forth in Paragraph 4 shall not prevent either you or the complainant from submitting the dispute to a court of competent jurisdiction for independent resolution before such mandatory administrative proceeding is commenced or after such proceeding is concluded. If an Administrative Panel decides that your domain name registration should be canceled or transferred, we will wait ten (10) business days (as observed in the location of our principal office) after we are informed by the applicable Provider of the Administrative Panel's decision before implementing that decision. We will then implement the decision unless we have received from you during that ten (10) business day period official documentation (such as a copy of a complaint, file-stamped by the clerk of the court) that you have commenced a lawsuit against the complainant in a jurisdiction to which the complainant has submitted under Paragraph 3(b)(xiii) of the Rules of Procedure. (In general, that jurisdiction is either the location of our principal office or of your address as shown in our Whois database. See Paragraphs 1 and 3(b)(xiii) of the Rules of Procedure for details.) If we receive such documentation within the ten (10) business day period, we will not implement the Administrative Panel's decision, and we will take no further action, until we receive (i) evidence satisfactory to us of a resolution between the parties; (ii) evidence satisfactory to us that your lawsuit has been dismissed or withdrawn; or (iii) a copy of an order from such court dismissing your lawsuit or ordering that you do not have the right to continue to use your domain name.
5. All Other Disputes and Litigation. All other disputes between you and any party other than us regarding your domain name registration that are not brought pursuant to the mandatory administrative proceeding provisions of Paragraph 4 shall be resolved between you and such other party through any court, arbitration or other proceeding that may be available.
6. Our Involvement in Disputes. We will not participate in any way in any dispute between you and any party other than us regarding the registration and use of your domain name. You shall not name us as a party or otherwise include us in any such proceeding. In the event that we are named as a party in any such proceeding, we reserve the right to raise any and all defenses deemed appropriate, and to take any other action necessary to defend ourselves.
7. Maintaining the Status Quo. We will not cancel, transfer, activate, deactivate, or otherwise change the status of any domain name registration under this Policy except as provided in Paragraph 3 above.
8. Transfers During a Dispute.
a. Transfers of a Domain Name to a New Holder. You may not transfer your domain name registration to another holder (i) during a pending administrative proceeding brought pursuant to Paragraph 4 or for a period of fifteen (15) business days (as observed in the location of our principal place of business) after such proceeding is concluded; or (ii) during a pending court proceeding or arbitration commenced regarding your domain name unless the party to whom the domain name registration is being transferred agrees, in writing, to be bound by the decision of the court or arbitrator. We reserve the right to cancel any transfer of a domain name registration to another holder that is made in violation of this subparagraph.
b. Changing Registrars. You may not transfer your domain name registration to another registrar during a pending administrative proceeding brought pursuant to Paragraph 4 or for a period of fifteen (15) business days (as observed in the location of our principal place of business) after such proceeding is concluded. You may transfer administration of your domain name registration to another registrar during a pending court action or arbitration, provided that the domain name you have registered with us shall continue to be subject to the proceedings commenced against you in accordance with the terms of this Policy. In the event that you transfer a domain name registration to us during the pendency of a court action or arbitration, such dispute shall remain subject to the domain name dispute policy of the registrar from which the domain name registration was transferred.
9. Policy Modifications. We reserve the right to modify this Policy at any time with the permission of ICANN. We will post our revised Policy here at least thirty (30) calendar days before it becomes effective. Unless this Policy has already been invoked by the submission of a complaint to a Provider, in which event the version of the Policy in effect at the time it was invoked will apply to you until the dispute is over, all such changes will be binding upon you with respect to any domain name registration dispute, whether the dispute arose before, on or after the effective date of our change. In the event that you object to a change in this Policy, your sole remedy is to cancel your domain name registration with us, provided that you will not be entitled to a refund of any fees you paid to us. The revised Policy will apply to you until you cancel your domain name registration
Uniform Rapid Suspension
Effective 28 June 2013
These Rules are in effect for all URS proceedings.
URS proceedings shall be governed by these Rules and the Supplemental Rules of the Provider administering the proceedings, as posted on its web site. To the extent that the Supplemental Rules of any Provider conflict with these Rules, these Rules supersede.
(1) Definitions
In these Rules:
· Business Day: means a working day as defined by the Provider in its Supplemental Rules.
· Calendar Day: means that all days, including weekends and international and national holidays, shall be counted in determining deadlines and due dates. Provider Supplemental Rules may further define this term.
· Complainant: means the party initiating a URS complaint concerning a domain name registration.
· Determination: means a written outcome of a URS proceeding. Determinations may be made at the point of default, after a response, or after an appeal and may be referred to as Default Determination, Final Determination, or Appeal Determination.
· Examiner: means an individual appointed by a Provider to make a Determination.
· ICANN: refers to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
· Mutual Jurisdiction: means a court jurisdiction at the location of either (a) the principal office of the Registrar or (b) the domain-name holder's address as shown for the registration of the domain name in Registrar's Whois database at the time the complaint is submitted to the Provider.
· New gTLD: generic top-level domains introduced in the root after 1 January 2013
· Provider: means a dispute resolution service provider approved by ICANN for handling URS cases. A list of such Providers appears at http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/urs.
· Registry Operator: means the entity responsible for operating the top level domain in which a disputed domain name is registered.
· Registrar: means the entity with which the Respondent has registered a domain name that is the subject of a URS complaint.
· Registrant: means the holder of a domain name.
· Respondent: means the holder of a domain name registration against which a URS complaint is initiated.
· Supplemental Rules means the rules adopted by the Provider administering a URS proceeding to supplement these Rules. Supplemental Rules shall not be inconsistent with the URS text or these Rules and shall cover such topics as fees, word and page limits and guidelines, file size and format modalities, the means for communicating with the Provider and the Examiner, and the form of cover sheets.
· URS Procedure refers to the Uniform Rapid Suspension System Procedure (currently found at <hyperlink>), which these Rules and the Provider's Supplemental Rules enhance and explain.
(2) Communications
(a) When forwarding a Complaint, including any annexes, electronically to the Respondent, it shall be the Provider's responsibility to employ reasonably available means calculated to achieve actual notice to Respondent. Achieving actual notice, or employing the following measures to do so, shall discharge this responsibility:
i. sending the Notice of Complaint to all email, postalmail and facsimile addresses shown in the domain name's registration data in the Whois database for the registered domain-name holder, the technical contact, and the administrative contact, as well as to any email addresses for the Respondent provided by the Complainant; and
j. providing the Complaint, including any annexes, in electronic form, either via email to the email addresses mentioned in (i) above, or via an email link to an online platform requiring users to create an account.
(b) Except as provided in Rule 2(a), any written communication to Complainant or Respondent provided for under these Rules shall be made electronically via the Internet (a record of its transmission being available).
(c) Any communication to the Provider or the Examiner shall be made by the means and in the manner (including, where applicable, the number of copies) stated in the Provider's Supplemental Rules.
(d) Communications shall be made in the language prescribed in Rule 9.
(e) Either Party may update its contact details by notifying the Provider, the Registry Operator, and the Registrar.
(f) Except as otherwise provided in these Rules, or decided by an Examiner, all communications provided for under these Rules shall be deemed to have been made:
i. if via the Internet, on the date that the communication was transmitted, provided that the date of transmission is verifiable; or, where applicable
ii. if delivered by telecopy or facsimile transmission, on the date shown on the confirmation of transmission; or:
iii. if by postal or courier service, on the date marked on the receipt.
(g) Except as otherwise provided in these Rules, all time periods calculated under these Rules to begin when a communication is made shall begin to run on the earliest date that the communication is deemed to have been made in accordance with Rule 2(f).
(h) Any communication subsequent to the Notice of Complaint as defined in Rule 2(a) by
i. an Examiner via the Provider to any Party shall be copied by the Provider to the other Party;
ii. the Provider to any Party shall be copied to the other Party; and
iii. a Party shall be copied to the other Party, to the Provider and by the Provider to the Examiner, as the case may be.
(i) It shall be the responsibility of the sender to retain records of the fact and circumstances of sending, which shall be available for inspection by affected parties and for reporting purposes. This includes the Provider in sending Notice of Complaint to the Respondent by post and/or facsimile under Rule 2(a)(i).
(j) In the event a Party sending a communication receives notification of non-delivery of the communication, the Party shall promptly notify the Provider of the circumstances. Further proceedings concerning the communication and any response shall be as directed by the Provider.
(3) The Complaint
(a) Any person or entity may initiate a URS proceeding by submitting a Complaint in accordance with the URS Procedure, these Rules and the approved Supplemental Rules of the Provider administering the proceeding.
(b) The Complaint, including any annexes, shall be submitted using an electronic form made available by the Provider and shall:
i. Request that the Complaint be submitted for determination in accordance with the URS Procedure, these Rules and the Provider's Supplemental Rules;
ii. Provide the name, contact person, postal and email addresses, and the telephone and telefax numbers of the Complainant and of any representative authorized to act for the Complainant in the URS proceeding;
iii. Provide the name of the Respondent and all other relevant contact information from the Whois record as well as all information known to Complainant regarding how to contact Respondent or any representative of Respondent, including contact information based on pre-complaint dealings, in sufficient detail to allow the Provider to notify the Respondent of the complaint as described in Rule 2(a);
iv. Specify the domain name(s) that is/are the subject of the Complaint. The Complainant shall include a copy of the currently available Whois information and a copy, if available, of the offending portion of the website content associated with each domain name that is the subject of the complaint;
v. Specify the trademark(s) or service mark(s) on which the complaint is based and the goods or services with which the mark is used including evidence of use -which can be a declaration and a specimen of current use in commerce - submitted directly or by including a relevant SMD (Signed Mark Data) from the Trademark Clearinghouse;
vi. Identify which URS Procedure elements (URS 1.2.6) the Complainant contends are being violated by Respondent's use of the domain name. This will be done by selecting the elements from URS Procedure section 1.2.6 that apply from the list provided on the Provider's Complaint form;
vii. An optional explanatory statement of no more than 500 words in a separate free form text box;
viii. Identify any other legal proceedings that have been commenced or terminated in connection with or relating to any of the domain name(s) that are the subject of the Complaint;
ix. State that Complainant will submit, with respect to any challenges to a determination in the URS proceeding, to the jurisdiction of the courts in at least one specified Mutual Jurisdiction;
x. Conclude with agreement to the following statement:
xi. "Complainant agrees that its claims and remedies concerning the registration of the domain name, the dispute, or the dispute's resolution shall be solely against the domain-name holder and waives all such claims and remedies against (a) the Provider and Examiner, except in the case of deliberate wrongdoing, (b) the Registrar, (c) the Registry Operator, and (d) the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, as well as their directors, officers, employees, and agents.
xii. Complainant certifies that the information contained in this Complaint is to the best of Complainant's knowledge complete and accurate, that this Complaint is not being presented for any improper purpose, such as to harass, and that the assertions in this Complaint are warranted under these Rules and under applicable law, as it now exists or as it may be extended by a good-faith and reasonable argument.";
(c) The Complaint may relate to more than one domain name, provided that the domain names are registered by the same domain name holder.
(d) The Complaint shall be accompanied by the filing fee, as set forth in the Provider's Supplemental Rules. If fees are not paid within one (1) Business Day of filing, as determined at the location of the Provider, the Complaint shall be automatically dismissed.
(e) The Complaint will not be accepted if the Provider's check of the Repository (see Rule 17) finds the Complainant has exceeded its quota of Abusive Complaints.
(f) URS Complaints may only be filed against domain names registered in a New gTLD.
(g) A URS Complaint may not be filed against a domain name that is part of an open and active URS or UDRP case.
(h) The Provider's Supplemental Rules will specify how the Respondent shall be identified in cases where the domain name is registered with a privacy/proxy service.
(4) Notice of Complaint and Locking of Domain
(a) The Provider shall include a copy of the Complaint in its notice to the Registry Operator.
(b) The Notice of Complaint to the Respondent shall be transmitted in English and shall be translated by the Provider into the predominant language used in the Registrant's country or territory, as determined by the country(ies) listed in the Whois record when the Complaint is filed.
(c) The electronic copy of the Notice of Complaint may be provided via email or an emailed link to an online platform requiring users to create an account.
(5) The Response
a) The Response shall:
i. Provide the name, postal and email addresses, and the telephone and telefax numbers of the Respondent and of any representative authorized to act for the Respondent in the URS proceeding;
ii. Respond specifically to each of the grounds upon which the Complaint is based and include any defense which contradicts the Complainant's claims;
iii. Respondent may request a finding that the Complaint was brought in abuse of the proceedings per URS Procedure Paragraph(s) 11.2 and/or 11.3;
iv. Identify any other legal proceedings that have been commenced or terminated in connection with or relating to any of the domain name(s) that are the subject of the Complaint;
v. Conclude with the following statement followed by the signature (in any electronic format) of the Respondent or its authorized representative:
vi. "Respondent agrees that its claims and remedies concerning the dispute, or the dispute's resolution, shall be solely against the Complainant and waives all such claims and remedies against (a) the Provider and Examiner, except in the case of deliberate wrongdoing, (b) the Registrar, (c) the Registry Operator, and (d) the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, as well as their directors, officers, employees, and agents.
vii. Respondent certifies that the information contained in this Response is, to the best of Respondent's knowledge, complete and accurate, that this Response is not being presented for any improper purpose, such as to harass, and that the assertions in this Response are warranted under these Rules and under applicable law, as it now exists or as it may be extended by a good-faith and reasonable argument."; and
viii. Annex any documentary or other evidence upon which the Respondent relies.
e) At the request of the Respondent, the Provider may, in exceptional cases, extend the period of time for the filing of the response. The period may also be extended by written stipulation between the Parties, provided the stipulation is approved by the Provider. Requests for an extension of time shall comply with the Provider's Supplemental Rules.
f) No affirmative claims for relief by the Respondent will be permitted except for an allegation that the Complainant has filed an abusive Complaint.
g) The Provider's compliance check for a Response shall at least consist of: (1) ascertaining the Response has been filed in a language acceptable under the Rules for that case; and (2) checking for payment of required fees.
h) The Response must be accompanied by payment of the Response fee or Reexamination fee, as appropriate in relevant cases. If a required fee is not paid within one (1) Business Day, the Response will not be considered and the case may proceed as a Default.
i) If the Response is determined to be non-compliant for reasons other than non-payment, the Examiner is permitted to make any reasonable inferences from the inadequacy of the Response.
j) If a Respondent does not submit a response, in the absence of exceptional circumstances, the Complaint shall proceed to a Default Determination.
k) The Provider should normally not accept a late Response submitted after the domain name registration has expired, even if submitted before the closing date of the late Response window. The provider may in its Supplemental Rules define justified exceptions from this rule.
(6) Examiner
(a) Each Provider shall maintain and publish a publicly available list of Examiners and their qualifications.
(b) An Examiner shall be impartial and independent and shall have, before accepting appointment, disclosed to the Provider any circumstances giving rise to justifiable doubt as to the Examiner's impartiality or independence. If, at any stage during the URS proceeding, new circumstances arise that could give rise to justifiable doubt as to the impartiality or independence of the Examiner, the Examiner shall promptly disclose such circumstances to the Provider. In such event, the Provider shall have the discretion to appoint a substitute Examiner.
(7) Communication Between Parties and the Examiner
No Party or anyone acting on its behalf may have any unilateral communication with the Examiner. All communications between a Party and the Examiner or the Provider shall be made to the Provider in the manner prescribed in the Provider's Supplemental Rules.
(8) General Powers of the Examiner
(a) The Examiner shall conduct the URS proceeding in a manner it considers appropriate in accordance with the URS Procedure and these Rules.
(b) In all cases, the Examiner shall ensure that the Parties are treated with equality to the extent feasible.
(c) The Examiner shall determine the admissibility, relevance, materiality and weight of the evidence.
(d) If one or more domain names are registered with a privacy or proxy service, or the nominal Registrant changes after the complaint is filed, it shall be the sole discretion of the Examiner to determine if the respondents are sufficiently related and to dismiss the Complaint with respect to any unrelated domain names. The Examiner may rely on information submitted by the Complainant and/or the Respondent(s) in making its finding.
(9) Language of Proceedings
The URS Procedure Paragraph 4.2 specifies the languages in which the Notice of Complaint shall be transmitted.
(a) The Complaint shall be submitted in English.
(b) The Response may be provided in English, or in one of the languages used for the Notice of Complaint.
(c) The Examiner appointed shall be fluent in English and in the language of the Response and will determine in which language to issue its Determination, in its sole discretion.
(d) In the absence of a Response, the language of the Determination shall be English.
(e) The Provider is not responsible for translating any documents other than the Notice of Complaint.
(10) Further Statements
In order to ensure expedience of the proceeding, the Examiner may not request further statements or documents from either of the Parties.
(11) In-Person Hearings
There shall be no in-person hearings (including hearings by teleconference, videoconference, and web conference).
(12) Default
(a) If at the expiration of the 14-day Response period (or extended period if granted), the Respondent does not submit an answer, the Complaint proceeds to Default. In case of Default, the Provider shall appoint an Examiner to review the Complaint for a prima facie case, including complete and appropriate evidence.
(b) When a case enters Default, the Provider shall notify the Registry Operator that the Registrant is prohibited from changing content found on the site and that the Registrant is prohibited from changing the Whois information. See URS Procedure Paragraph 6.2.
(c) The Examiner shall prepare a written Default Determination
(d) If the Examiner finds that the Complainant has made a prima facie case according to the URS Procedure Paragraph 1.2.6 for any of the domain names in the Complaint, the Default Determination shall so state, including any additional written reasoning the Examiner wishes to append. The Examiner shall order suspension of the domain names for which a prima facie case has been established.
(e) If the Examiner finds that the Complainant has not made a prima facie case according to the URS Procedure Paragraph 1.2.6, the Default Determination shall so state including any additional written reasoning the Examiner wishes to append. The Provider shall dismiss the Complaint as to the domain names for which a prima facie case is lacking.
(f) If a Response is filed within six (6) months after a Default Determination (or within any extension period granted under URS Procedure Paragraph 6.4), the Provider shall notify the Registry Operator. The Registry Operator shall modify the nameservers so that the domain name(s) resolve to the relevant IP address(es) for the domain name(s) as soon as practical, but remain locked as if the Response had been filed in a timely manner before Default.
(g) If a Party, in the absence of exceptional circumstances, does not comply with any provision of, or requirement under, these Rules, the URS Procedure or the Provider's Supplemental Rules, the Examiner shall draw such inferences therefrom as it considers appropriate.
(13) Examiner Determination
(a) An Examiner shall make a Determination (Default, Final or Appeal) of a Complaint in accordance with the URS Procedure, these Rules and any rules and principles of law that it deems applicable.
(b) The Examiner's Determination shall be in writing, provide the reasons on which it is based, indicate the date on which it was rendered and identify the name of the Examiner.
(c) Examiner Determinations shall normally comply with the guidelines as to length set forth in the Provider's Supplemental Rules. If the Examiner concludes that the dispute is not within the scope of the URS Provider, it shall so state.
(d) If after considering the submissions the Examiner finds that the Complaint was brought in bad faith or was brought primarily to harass the domain name holder, the Examiner shall declare in its Determination that the Complaint was brought in bad faith and constitutes an abuse of the URS proceeding.
(14) Remedies
(a) The sole remedy available to Complainant pursuant to any URS proceeding before an Examiner shall be limited to suspension of the domain name for the balance of the registration period.
(b) If the Complainant wishes to extend the remedy for an additional year per URS Procedure Paragraph 10.3, Complainant shall contact the Registry Operator directly regarding this option.
(15) Determinations and Publication
(a) The Provider shall publish the Determinations and the dates of implementation on a publicly accessible web site, subject to the considerations in Rule 15 (c) and (d) below. See URS Procedure Paragraphs 9.2 and 9.4. The portion of any Determination that a Complaint was brought in bad faith (see Rule 17) shall be published.
(b) Determinations are subject to change only to correct typographical and clerical errors and shall not be subject to substantive change at the request of any party.
(c) A Final Determination that changes a Default Determination outcome for the same case, shall replace the Default Determination on the Provider's website, unless the Examiner determines both shall be made available and so states in its Final Determination.
(d) A Final Determination that upholds a Default Determination outcome for the same case may be published together on the Provider's website, or the Final Determination may replace the Default Determination, at the Examiner's discretion.
(e) The Examiner or Panel has the sole discretion to require the Appeal Determination to be published either instead of, or together with, the Default or Final Determination it has overruled or upheld.
(f) Determinations related to the same domain names and/or parties, but not part of the same case, need not be linked in any way on the Provider's website.
(16) Settlement or Other Grounds for Termination
a) If, before the Examiner's Determination, the Parties agree on a settlement, the Examiner shall terminate the URS proceeding.
b) If, before the Examiner's Determination is made, it becomes unnecessary or impossible to continue the URS proceeding for any reason, the Examiner shall terminate the proceeding, unless a Party raises justifiable grounds for objection within a period of time to be determined by the Examiner.
(17) Effect of Court Proceedings
a) In the event of any legal proceedings initiated prior to or during a URS proceeding in respect to the domain-name that is the subject of the Complaint, the Examiner shall have the discretion to decide whether to suspend or terminate the URS proceeding, or to proceed to a Determination.
b) In the event that a Party initiates any legal proceedings during the pendency of a URS proceeding in respect to the domain-name that is the subject of the Complaint, the Party shall promptly notify the Examiner and the Provider. See Rule 7 above.
(18) Abusive Complaints
a) The Examiner may, of its own accord, find that a Complaint is abusive or contains deliberate material falsehoods.
b) A Respondent may, in its Response, allege that a Complaint was brought in an abuse of the URS process or contains deliberate material falsehoods.
c) Any findings by an Examiner as to abusive Complaints or deliberate materials falsehoods shall be so stated in the Determination, along with sufficient rationale to justify the finding to any potential Appeal Panel.
d) Any Provider registering a case of abuse as described in the URS Procedure Paragraph 11 shall, within one (1) Business Day submit information of the abuse case to an abuse case database.
e) The abuse case database shall be electronically accessible to all Providers.
f) Upon receipt of a Complaint, the Provider shall verify the admissibility of the Complaint against the abuse case database in line with applicable URS Procedure provisions and dismiss the Complaint if not admissible.
(19) Appeal
a) The Provider is responsible for providing the entire record in the underlying proceeding to the Appeal Panel.
b) Appellant shall have a limited right to introduce new admissible evidence that is material to the Determination subject to payment of an additional fee, provided the evidence clearly pre-dates the filing of the Complaint.
c) Appellee shall not be charged any additional fee and shall have the right to file a Reply to the Appellant's additional statements within the time period identified in the Provider's Supplemental Rules.
d) If the Respondent prevailed and the domain name is no longer under the Registry Operator's suspension or lock, the Provider shall notify the Registry Operator to re-lock the domain name subject to the outcome of the Appeals process, but the domain name shall continue to resolve per URS Procedure Paragraph 12.3.
e) If any domain name that is the subject of an Appeal is expired at the time of the filing of the Appeal, the Provider shall reject the Appeal for want of a remedy, unless the Appeal is only filed under URS Procedure Paragraph 11.8.
f) The remedies for an Appeal are limited to:
i. Affirmation of the Final Determination and the Remedy ordered. If the domain name is suspended, it shall remain suspended. If the domain name is with the Registrant, the Registry Operator shall promptly unlock the domain name following receipt of the Appeal Determination.
ii. Overruling of the Final Determination and the Remedy ordered. If the domain name is suspended, the Registry Operator shall unlock the name and return full control of the domain name registration to the Registrant. If the domain name is with the Registrant, the Registry Operator shall immediately follow the steps in URS Procedure Paragraph 10.2 to suspend the domain name.
iii. Overruling an Examiner's finding that a Complaint was abusive or contained a deliberate material falsehood. The Appeal Panel may replace the Final Determination with one including changes that the Appeal Panel deems appropriate.
g) The Providers' Supplemental Rules for URS Appeals, other than those stated above, shall apply.
(20) Exclusion of Liability
Except in the case of deliberate wrongdoing, neither the Provider nor an Examiner shall be liable to a Party for any act or omission in connection with any URS proceeding under these Rules.
The version of these Rules in effect at the time of the submission of the Complaint to the Provider shall apply to the URS proceeding commenced thereby. These Rules may not be amended without the express written approval of ICANN.
ADDITIONAL REGISTRY REQUIREMENTS
Should you seek to register a .BE domain name you and the Registrant must also agree to the following terms:
a) Dispute resolution. The domain name holder must submit the type of disputes set out below to alternative dispute resolution proceedings and accepts in this regard the competence of an accredited Dispute Resolution Entity. The domain name holder accepts that those proceedings must be conducted before one of the accredited Dispute Resolution Entities listed at the web site of DNS.be. The procedure will be conducted in the language chosen by the domain name holder during his application. Every dispute will be governed by the dispute resolution policy applicable when the complaint is filed.
b) Applicable disputes.
1. The domain name holder must submit a dispute to alternative dispute resolution proceedings if a third party (a "Complainant") asserts to the Dispute Resolution Entity, in compliance with the rules of procedure, and proves that :
(i) the domain name holder's domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark, a trade name, a social name or corporation name, a geographical designation, a name of origin, a designation of source, a personal name or name of a geographical entity in which the Complainant has rights; and
(ii) the domain name holder has no rights or legitimate interests in the domain name; and
(iii) the domain name holder's domain name has been registered or is being used in bad faith.
2. The evidence of such in bad faith registration or use of a domain name can inter alia be demonstrated by the following circumstances:
• circumstances indicating that the domain name was registered or acquired primarily for the purpose of selling, renting, or otherwise transferring the domain name to the Complainant who is the owner of the trademark, trade name, social name or corporation name, geographical designation, name of origin, designation of source, personal name or name of the geographical entity, or to a competitor of that Complainant, for valuable consideration in excess of the costs directly related to the domain name; or
• the domain name was registered in order to prevent the owner of a trademark, a trade name, a social name or corporation name, a geographical designation, a name of origin, a designation of source, a personal name or a name of a geographical entity from reflecting this name in a corresponding domain name, provided that the domain name holder has engaged in a pattern of such conduct; or
• the domain name was registered primarily for the purpose of disrupting the business of a competitor; or
• the domain name was intentionally used to attract, for commercial gain, Internet users to the domain name holder's web site or other on-line location, by creating a likelihood of confusion with the Complainant's trademark, trade name, social name or corporation name, geographical designation, name of origin, designation of source, personal name or name of a geographical entity as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement of the domain name holder's web site or location or of a product or service on his web site or location.
• the domain name holder registers one or more personal names without the existence of a demonstrable link between the domain name holder and the registered domain names.
3. If a complaint is filed, the domain name holder can demonstrate his rights or legitimate interests to the domain name by the following circumstances:
prior to any notice of the dispute, the domain name holder used the domain name or a name corresponding to the domain name in connection with a bona fide offering of goods or services or made demonstrable preparations for such use; or
the domain name holder (as an individual, business, or other organization) has been commonly known by the domain name, even if he has acquired no trademark; or
the domain name holder is making a legitimate and noncommercial or fair use of the domain name, without intent for commercial gain to misleadingly divert consumers or to tarnish the trademark, trade name, social name or corporation name, geographical designation, name of origin, designation of source, personal name or name of the geographical entity at issue.
c) Rules of procedure.
d) The rules of procedure of the Dispute Resolution Entity state how to initiate and conduct the proceedings, which delays apply and how to appoint the Third-party Decider that will decide the dispute.
e) The rules of procedure also determine the fees that the Complainant must pay.
f) The Dispute Resolution Entity publishes the rules of procedure on its web site.
g) Non-intervention of DNS.be. DNS.be does not, and will not, participate in the administration or conduct of any proceedings before a Third-party Decider. Neither DNS.be, the Dispute Resolution Entity or the Third-party Decider will be liable as a result of any fault made in the dispute resolution process, except for intentional faults.
h) Remedies. The remedies available to a Complainant under any proceedings before the Third-party Decider are limited to requiring the cancellation of the domain name registration or the transfer of the domain name to the Complainant.
i) Notification and publication. The Dispute Resolution Entity must publish all decisions under this dispute resolution policy on the Internet during a reasonable term. DNS.be must also be informed of these decisions. If the domain name holder is involved in other legal procedures concerning his/her domain name, he/she must inform DNS.be of the final decision(s). DNS.be may decide to publish the decisions referred to in the present article.
j) Courts of competent jurisdiction. The submission to the alternative dispute resolution procedures does not prevent either the domain name holder or the Complainant from submitting the dispute to a court of competent jurisdiction for independent resolution before, during or after those proceedings. If a Third-party Decider decides that the domain name registration should be cancelled or transferred, DNS.be will implement that decision 1 5 days after being informed of the Third-party Decider's decision except if the domain name holder has started the appeal procedure of the dispute resolution in due time If the appeal procedure was started in time, DNS.be will not take further action (whilst leaving the domain name on hold) until the appeal procedure has ended or has been cancelled.
k) Other disputes. All other disputes between the domain name holder and any party other than DNS.be over the domain name registration that are not brought under the alternative dispute resolution procedures must be resolved through any court proceedings, arbitration or other available proceedings.
l) Defences. DNS.be will not participate in any dispute between the domain name holder and any party other than DNS.be over the registration and use of the domain name, neither in the alternative dispute resolution proceedings, nor in any other proceedings. The domain name holder must not name DNS.be as a party or otherwise include it in any such proceedings. If DNS.be is named as a party in any such proceedings, it reserves the right to raise any and all defences deemed appropriate, and to take any other action necessary to defend itself.
m) Domain name on hold. As soon as a request for alternative dispute resolution is properly filed with the Dispute Resolution Entity and the appropriate fee is paid, the Dispute Resolution Entity must inform DNS.be of the identity of the Complainant and the domain name involved. DNS.be must immediately put the domain name involved "on hold", under article 3 of these terms and conditions. The domain name remains on hold until the end of the proceedings set out in paragraph
n) Costs of dispute resolution. The dispute resolution fee is payable by the Complainant. However, if the Third-party Decider concludes that the domain name registration needs to be struck out or transferred, DNS.be shall repay the total of these costs to the Complainant and reclaim the thus repaid costs from the domain name holder. Upon DNS.be's first request, the domain name holder shall reimburse the repaid amounts. The domain name holder shall not have a right of recourse against DNS.be, the Dispute Resolution Entity, the Third-party Decider or the Complainant for the thus suffered financial loss. The potential financial loss for the domain name holder is the risk that the latter took for the speculative registration of domain names on which third parties have rights.
o) The repayment provision specified in the previous paragraph does not apply to the appeal procedure of the dispute resolution. The costs of the appeal procedure are payable by the party that instituted this procedure.
p) The costs mentioned in this article only refer to the administrative costs of the dispute resolution as stipulated in article 10 and do not include any costs or fees for legal advice of the parties.
Should you seek to register a .BIZ domain name you and the Registrant, must also agree to the following terms:
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the .BIZ Registry Operator, NeuStar, Inc., and its directors, officers, employees, agents, and affiliates from and against any and all claims, damages, liabilities, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees and expenses arising out of or relating to the Registered Name Holder's domain name registration. This indemnification obligation survives the termination or expiration of the registration agreement.
I. Registration Requirements
You certify:
a) The data provided in the domain name registration application is true, correct, up to date and complete; and
b) The Registrant and you will keep the information provided above up to date.
You certify to the best of your knowledge:
a) The registered domain name will be used primarily for bona fide business or commercial purposes and not (i) exclusively for personal use; or (ii) solely for the purposes of (1) selling, trading or leasing the domain name for compensation, or (2) the unsolicited offering to sell, trade or lease the domain name for compensation.
b) The domain name Registrant has the authority to enter into the registration agreement; and
c) The registered domain name is reasonably related to the Registrant's business or intended commercial purpose at the time of registration.
For purposes of the .biz Registration Restrictions ("Restrictions"), "bona fide business or commercial use" shall mean the bona fide use or bona fide intent to use the domain name or any content, software, materials, graphics or other information thereon, to permit Internet users to access one or more host computers through the DNS:
1. To exchange goods, services, or property of any kind;
2. In the ordinary course of trade or business; or
3. To facilitate (i) the exchange of goods, services, information, or property of any kind; or, (ii)the ordinary course of trade or business.
Registering a domain name solely for the purposes of (1) selling, trading or leasing the domain name for compensation, or (2) the unsolicited offering to sell, trade or lease the domain name for compensation shall not constitute a "bona fide business or commercial use" of that domain name.
For illustration purposes, the following shall not constitute a "bona fide business or commercial use" of a domain name:
1. Using or intending to use the domain name exclusively for personal, noncommercial purposes; or
2. Using or intending to use the domain name exclusively for the expression of noncommercial ideas (i.e., registering abcsucks.biz exclusively to criticize or otherwise express an opinion on the products or services of ABC company, with no other intended business or commercial purpose);
3. Using the domain name for the submission of unsolicited bulk email, phishing, pharming or other abusive or fraudulent purposes.
II. .Biz Dispute Resolution Services
You and the Registrant acknowledge having read and understood and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of the following documents, as they may be amended from time to time, which are hereby incorporated and made an integral part of this Agreement:
(i) The Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, currently available at http://www.icann.org/udrp/udrp.htm; and
(ii) The Restrictions Dispute Resolution Criteria and Rules, currently available at
http://www.neustar-registry.biz/?q=node/51.
The UDRP sets forth the terms and conditions in connection with a dispute between a Registrant and any party other than the Registry Operator or Registrar over the registration and use of an Internet domain name registered by Registrant.
The RDRP sets forth the terms under which any allegation that a domain name is not used primarily for business or commercial purposes shall be enforced on a case-by-case, fact specific basis by an independent ICANN-accredited dispute provider. None of the violations of the Restrictions will be enforced directly by or through Registry Operator. Registry Operator will not review, monitor, or otherwise verify that any particular domain name is being used primarily for business or commercial purposes or that a domain name is being used in compliance with the UDRP processes.
III. Reservation
Registry Operator reserves the right to deny, cancel, place on registry-lock or hold, or transfer any registration that it deems necessary, in its discretion; (1) to protect the integrity and stability of the registry; (2) to comply with any applicable laws, government rules or requirements, requests of law enforcement, in compliance with any dispute resolution process; (3) to avoid any liability, civil or criminal, on the part of Registry Operator, as well as its affiliates, subsidiaries, officers, directors, employees and stockholders; (4) for violations of this Agreement and its Exhibits; or (5) to correct mistakes made by Registry Operator or any Registrar in connection with a domain name registration. Registry Operator also reserves the right to lock or place on hold a domain name during resolution of a dispute.
Should you seek to register a .UK domain name, in addition to the above terms and condition you and the Registrant must also agree to the following terms and conditions:
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the .UK Registry Operator, Nominet UK (Company No. 3203859), and its directors, officers, employees, agents, and affiliates from and against any and all claims, damages, liabilities, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees and expenses arising out of or relating to the Registered Name Holder's domain name registration. This indemnification obligation survives the termination or expiration of the registration agreement.
http://www.nominet.org.uk/nominet-terms
http://www.nic.uk/Registrants/aboutdomainnames/legal/terms/
Should you seek to register a .INFO domain name you and the Registrant, must also agree to the following terms:
The .info Registry is Afilias LTD
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the .info Registry, Afilias LTD and its subcontractors, and the directors, officers, employees, affiliates and agents of each of them, from and against any and all claims, damages, liabilities, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees and expenses, arising out of or relating to the Registered Name Holder's domain name registration. This indemnification obligation survives the termination or expiration of the registration agreement.
You agree to comply with each of the following additional requirements:
ICANN standards, policies, procedures, and practices for which Afilias has monitoring responsibility in accordance with the Registry Agreement or other arrangement with ICANN; and
consent to the use, copying, distribution, publication, modification and other processing of Registered Name Holder's Personal Data by Afilias and its designees and agents; and
submit to proceedings commenced under ICANN's Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy ("UDRP"); and
immediately correct and update the registration information for the Registered Name during the registration term for the Registered Name; and
acknowledge and agree that Afilias reserves the right to deny, cancel or transfer any registration or transaction, or place any domain name(s) on registry lock, hold or similar status, that it deems necessary, in its discretion; (1) to protect the integrity and stability of the registry; (2) to comply with any applicable laws, government rules or requirements, requests of law enforcement, or any dispute resolution process; (3) to avoid any liability, civil or criminal, on the part of Afilias, as well as its affiliates, subsidiaries, officers, directors, and employees; (4) per the terms of the registration agreement or (5) to correct mistakes made by Afilias or any Registrar in connection with a domain name registration. Afilias also reserves the right to place upon registry lock, hold or similar status a domain name during resolution of a dispute.
Additional terms and conditions: http://afilias.info/policies
Should you seek to register a .MOBI domain name you and the Registrant, must also agree to the following terms:
You agree to indemnify to the maximum extent permitted by law, defend and hold harmless the .BIZ Registry Operator, mTLD Top Level Domain, Ltd., and its directors, officers, employees, agents, and affiliates from and against any and all claims, damages, liabilities, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees and expenses arising out of or relating to the Registered Name Holder's domain name registration. This indemnification obligation survives the termination or expiration of the registration agreement.
Compliance, rules and policies:
You consent to the use, copying, distribution, publication, modification and other processing of Registered Name Holder's Personal Data by Registry Operator and its designees and agents in a manner consistent and relevant with mandatory local data protection, laws and privacy;
You hereby acknowledge and agree that the Registry and Registry Services Provider, acting in consent with the Registry, reserves the right to deny, cancel or transfer any registration that it deems necessary, in its discretion (i) to protect the integrity and stability of the registry; (ii) to comply with all applicable laws, government rules or requirements, requests of law enforcement, in compliance with any dispute resolution process; (iii) to avoid any liability, civil or criminal, on the part of the Registry as well as its affiliates, subsidiaries, officers, directors, representatives, employees, and stockholders; (iv) for violations of the terms and conditions herein; or (v) to correct mistakes made by the Registry or any registrar in connection with a domain name registration. The Registry also reserves the right to freeze a Registered Name during resolution of a dispute.
You acknowledge and agree that you must comply with the requirements, standards, policies, procedures and practices set forth in the dotmobi Style Guide (www.mtld.mobi) and consent to the monitoring of the website as described in the dotmobi Style Guide monitoring guidelines (www.mtld.mobi) for compliance with the Style Guide. Furthermore, Registrant acknowledges and agrees that this Style Guide is subject to modification by the Registry with any such changes appearing at the previously designated URL, and that Registrant must promptly comply with any such changes in the time allotted.
Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, mTLD Top Level Domain Ltd. ("dotmobi"), the Registry Operator of the .mobi TLD, is and shall be an intended third party beneficiary of this Agreement. As such, the parties to this Agreement acknowledge and agree that the third party beneficiary rights of dotmobi have vested and that dotmobi has relied on its third party beneficiary rights under this Agreement in agreeing to Internet Domain Service BS Corp. being a registrar for the .mobi top-level domain. Additionally, the third party beneficiary rights of dotmobi shall survive any termination or expiration of this Agreement.
FR, .RE, .PM, .YT, .WF and .TF
Should you seek to register a FR, .RE, .PM, .YT, .WF or a .TF domain name you and the Registrant, must also agree to the following terms:
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the FR, .RE, .PM, .YT, .WF and .TF Registry Operator, Association Française pour le Nommage Internet en Coopération (AFNIC), and its directors, officers, employees, agents, and affiliates from and against any and all claims, damages, liabilities, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees and expenses arising out of or relating to the Registered Name Holder's domain name registration. This indemnification obligation survives the termination or expiration of the registration agreement.
Additional terms and conditions found here:
(English) http://www.afnic.fr/medias/documents/Cadre_legal/naming-policy-03-2013.pdf
Should you seek to register a .EU domain name you and the Registrant, must also agree to the following terms:
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the .EU Registry Operator, European Registry for Internet Domains abbreviated to "EURID vzw/asbl.", and its directors, officers, employees, agents, and affiliates from and against any and all claims, damages, liabilities, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees and expenses arising out of or relating to the Registered Name Holder's domain name registration. This indemnification obligation survives the termination or expiration of the registration agreement.
.EU Registration Restrictions
You acknowledge and agree that you are not permitted to purchase Private Whois for .EU registrations.
You should use your personal information to register a .EU domain name which information you represent and warrant is current, accurate and complete.
Furthermore, you acknowledge and agree that you are not allowed and you should not attempt to register a .EU domain name unless you have a physical presence in one European Union member state.
Applicable Rules and Policies
You agree to obey, comply with and be bound by any and all applicable laws, regulations and administrative policies promulgated by the European Registry of Internet Domain Names ("EURID" http://www.eurid.eu).
Rules and Dispute Resolution by ADR
You agree to obey, comply with and be bound by EURID rules and regulations and any and all updates, revisions and modifications thereto, which may be made by EURID from time to time, including, but not limited to, their dispute policy (http://www.eurid.eu/en/eu-domain-names/disputes).
EURID offers an alternative procedure for resolving disputes concerning .EU domain names (http://www.eurid.eu/en/eu-domain-names/disputes). When applicable, You acknowledge such procedure and agree that you shall comply with and abide by its terms and conditions.
WHOIS Policy
You agree to obey, comply with and be bound by the EURID Domain Name WHOIS Policy and any and all updates, revisions and modifications thereto, which may be made by EURID from time to time (http://www.eurid.eu/files/docs/Terms%20and%20Conditions_EN.pdf)
For the adjudication of disputes concerning or arising from use of the registered.EU domain name, you agree to submit to the laws of the state of Luxemburg.
Should you seek to register a .ASIA domain name you and the Registrant, must also agree to the following terms:
General policies:
You represent and warrant that you meet all the eligibility requirements for .ASIA. You further agree to be bound by any .ASIA registry rules, policies and agreements.
The registration guidelines are available here:http://www.dotasia.org/draft/DotAsia-General-Policies--FINALDRAFT-v-1-0.pdf
Charter Eligibility Requirement.
You understand the Registered Name Holders are required to comply with the Charter Eligibility Requirement as set forth in the Registry Policies and you declare compliance with such requirement:
http://www.dotasia.org/draft/DotAsia-Charter-Eligibility--FINALDRAFT-v-1-5.pdf
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless to the maximum extent permitted by law the .ASIA Registry Operator, DotAsia Organisation Limited, Registry Services Provider, and their directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims, damages, liabilities, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees and expenses, arising out of or relating to the Registered Name Holder’s domain name registration and or use. This indemnification obligation survive the termination or expiration of the registration agreement.
ICANN requirements, standards, policies, procedures, and practices for which DotAsia has monitoring responsibility in accordance with the Registry Agreement or other arrangement with ICANN;
Operational standards, policies, procedures, and practices for the .ASIA Registry established from time to time by DotAsia in a non-arbitrary manner as Registry Policies, applicable to all registrars and/or Registered Name Holders, and consistent with the Registry Agreement shall be effective upon thirty (30) days’ notice by DotAsia to Registrar;
Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, DotAsia Organisation Limited ("DotAsia"), the Registry Operator of the .ASIA TLD, is and shall be an intended third party beneficiary of this Agreement. As such, the parties to this Agreement acknowledge and agree that the third party beneficiary rights of DotAsia have vested and that DotAsia has relied on its third party beneficiary rights under this Agreement in agreeing to Internet Domain Service BS Corp. being a registrar for the .ASIA TLD. Additionally, the third party beneficiary rights of DotAsia shall survive any termination or expiration of this Agreement.
You consent to the use, copying, distribution, publication, modification and other processing of Registered Name Holder’s Personal Data by DotAsia and its designees and agents in a manner consistent with relevant mandatory local data protection, laws and privacy;
You accept to submit to proceedings commenced under ICANN’s Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy ("UDRP");
You accept to submit to proceedings commenced under ICANN’s Charter Eligibility Dispute Resolution Policy ("CEDRP");
You immediately correct and update the registration information for the Registered Name during the registration term for the Registered Name;
You acknowledge and agree to comply with the .ASIA Charter Eligibility Requirement, including the following provision: "The Registrant Contact represents and warrants that it has made known to the Charter Eligibility Declaration Contact (CED Contact), and the CED Contact has agreed, that the Registrant Contact and the CED Contact will CED Contact will jointly be defined as the Registered Name Holder, and that it shall be jointly responsible for the Registered Name in the event of a dispute or a challenge over the Registered Name Holder’s legal entitlement to or the ownership of the Registered Name. The CED Contact shall be bound by the provisions in the DotAsia Organisation Limited’s .ASIA Charter Eligibility Requirement Policy published from time to time.
Registered Name Holder acting as Registrant Contact agrees that it has obtained an agreement from the CED Contact that the Registrant Contact shall remain the Operating Contact for all operations of the domain, including but not limited to domain transfer and updates."
You agree to be bound by the terms and conditions in the initial launch and general operations of the Registry TLD, including without limitation the Start-Up Policies. Where such terms and conditions include the submission to a binding arbitration for disputes arising from the Start-Up process or any allocation of domain names.
You acknowledge and agree that DotAsia and Registry Services Provider, acting in consent with DotAsia, reserves the right to deny, cancel or transfer any registration that it deems necessary, in its sole discretion (i) to protect the integrity security, and stability of the registry; (ii) to comply with all appropriate laws, government rules or requirements, requests of law enforcement, in compliance with any dispute resolution process; (iii) to avoid any liability, civil or criminal, on the part of DotAsia as well as its affiliates, subsidiaries, officers, directors, representatives, employees, and stockholders; (iv) for violations of the terms and conditions herein: or (v) to correct mistakes made by DotAsia, the Registry Services Provider or any registrar in connection with a domain name registration. DotAsia also reserves the right to freeze a Registered Name such as placing a domain name on hold, lock, or other status during the resolution of a dispute.
You accept to submit to proceedings commenced under other dispute policies as set forth by DotAsia from time to time in the Registry Policies, including but not limited to expedited processes for suspension of a domain name by claims sought by intellectual property right holders, Internet engineering and security experts or other competent claimants in the purpose of upholding the stability, security and integrity of the .ASIA Registry.
Should you seek to register a .TEL domain name you and the Registrant, must also agree to the following terms:
In case the Sponsoring Organisation (the entity that is responsible for the policies and for the deployment principles of the Registry TLD) or the Registry encounters and/or is informed of any alleged non-compliance or violation by the Registrar or the Domain Name Holder of the Registry Policies, it will investigate the alleged non compliance or violation. Unless otherwise provided for in the Registry Policies, if the Sponsoring Organisation or the Registry concludes that the Domain Name Holder has violated a Registry Policy, it may, at its sole discretion:
1. if the registration data provided by the Domain Name Holder appears to be inaccurate, request the Domain Name Holder to correct such data within thirty (3) days´ notice period; or
2. if the Domain Name is registered and/or used in violation of a Registry Policy, request the Domain name Holder to comply with the relevant Registry Policy within a thirty (30) days´ notice period or, if the violation relates to the use of Address Records in violation of Sections 4.2 (b) or 4.5, within five (5) days´ notice period.
In case an inadequate response or no response has been received within the notice period given to the Domain Name Holder, the Sponsoring Organisation or the Registry may revoke the Domain Name registration without further notice, and without the Domain Name Holder being entitled to any damages resulting from such revocation.
The Sponsoring Organisation or the Registry may in its discretion, periodically attempt to verify a Domain Name Holder´s compliance with the Registration and Acceptable Use Policy.
During the applicable notice period, the Sponsoring Organisation or the Registry may, without liability to any other party, make inactive cancel or otherwise change the state of the Domain Name in question in which case, the Domain Name cannot be updated or transferred, and may not resolve.
Should you seek to register a .ORG domain name you and the Registrant, must also agree to the following terms:
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the.ORG Registry Operator, Public Interest Registry, and its subcontractors, shareholders, directors, officers, employees, agents, and affiliates from and against any and all claims, damages, liabilities, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees and expenses arising out of or relating to the Registered Name Holder's domain name registration. This indemnification requirement shall survive the termination or expiration of this Agreement.
Should you seek to register a .IN domain name you and the Registrant, must also agree to the following terms:
1. Proxy/Privacy Services
Any kind of proxy services are not allowed, and if the data is wrong or masked out by ay proxy/privilege protection services, the Registrant shall not be recognized as the owner of the domain name.
The Registrant shall use the domain name in such a way that it does not violate third-party rights, applicable laws or regulations, including discrimination on the basis of race language, sex or religion and the Registrant further warrants that it shall not register or use the domain name in bad faith or for any unlawful purpose.
.IN Registry considers illegal or fraudulent actions spamming, using email in denial-of-service attacks, Phishing, Pharming, Botnet command and control, Distribution of pornography, illegal access to other computer networks etc. as abusive of domain name. Registry can suspend Registered name in such cases and initiate action accordingly. Further, Fast Flux hosting may be used only with prior permission of .IN Registry.
2. DOMAIN DISPUTE POLICY
Registrant is required to submit to mandatory arbitration proceedings in the event a complainant files a complaint with .IN Registry, against a registrant on basis of unlawful registration of a domain name. The arbitration proceedings shall be conducted by one of .IN Registry Empanelled Arbitrators, in accordance with Dispute Resolution Policy and Procedure and Arbitration & Conciliation Act, 1996.
Link: https://www.registry.in/.IN%20Domain%20Name%20Dispute%20Resolution%20Policy%20%28INDRP%29
All .nl domain names are registered with SIDN, the administrator of the .nl zone. Where the registration of your chosen domain name and its subsequent management are concerned, Internet Domain Service BS Corp. will act as your representative in dealings with SIDN.
Internet Domain Service BS Corp. will also submit an application to register the domain name on your behalf. By instructing Internet Domain Service BS Corp. to submit an application to register a domain name, you agree that, if your application is accepted by SIDN, you will enter into a contract with SIDN, of Arnhem, the Netherlands (Trade Register no. 41215724), covering the domain name's registration. Your rights and obligations under the registration contract, and those of SIDN, are set out in the General Terms and Conditions for .nl Registrants, which can be read here:
1.English: www.sidn.nl/fileadmin/downloads_en/Terms_and_Conditions/General_Terms_and_Conditions_for_.nl_Registrants.pdf
2.Dutch: www.sidn.nl/fileadmin/downloads/Algemene_voorwaarden__reglementen__statuten_etc/Algemene_voorwaarden_voor_.nl-domeinnaamhouders.pdf
All .de domain names are registered with DENIC, the administrator of the .de zone. Where the registration of your chosen domain name and its subsequent management are concerned, Internet Domain Service BS Corp. will act as your representative in dealings with DENIC.
Internet Domain Service BS Corp. will assume administration of the domain on behalf of the Domain Holder afterwards. Any communications which the Domain Holder, the Administrative Contact, the Technical Contact or the Zone Administrator sends to DENIC on the basis of these Terms and Conditions, including a possible notification of termination of the contract, must also always be transmitted through this same DENIC member. DENIC may also choose to send any communications destined for the above-named persons through the same DENIC member.
DENIC has the right to place a Dispute entry on the domain if a third party presents a credible case suggesting that they have a right to the domain or that their rights are being infringed by the domain, and if such third party declares that they are taking steps to enforce their resultant claims against the Domain Holder. The Dispute entry takes effect for one year, but DENIC will extend it, provided the party in whose name it has been entered requests such an extension and submits evidence that the dispute has still not been resolved. A domain that has had a Dispute entry placed on can continue to be used by its Domain Holder, but it is not possible to transfer it to anyone else.
If the Domain Holder is not domiciled in Germany, they must appoint an Administrative Contact domiciled in Germany; this Administrative Contact is also the Domain Holder’s authorized representative for receiving the service of official or court documents for the purposes of § 184 of the German Code of Civil Procedure, § 132 of the German Code of Criminal Procedure, §56 (3) of the Rules of the Administrative Courts, and § 15 of the Administrative Procedures Act and the corresponding provisions of the Administrative Procedures Acts of the respective states of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Immediately after registration, the Domain Holder must check the data published in DENIC’s whois search at http://www.denic.de/de/whois/index.jspand must inform DENIC at once of any necessary corrections to it. This duty also extends to informing DENIC of modifications required to this data at any time after that. In supplying and modifying this data, the Domain Holder must always comply with DENIC’s Domain Guidelines, which are available at http://www.denic.de/en/bedingungen.html.
You agree that all disputes, claims or controversies regarding the registration, ownership, use, transfer, assignment, loss cancellation, or suspension of any Registered Name or otherwise relating to the .CO TLD between Registrant and Administrator shall be governed exclusively by the laws of Colombia and that any such disputes, claims or controversies shall be brought and heard exclusively in the courts located in Bogotá, Colombia.
Neither the Registrar´s acceptance of the Registrant´s registration request nor the actual registration of any Registered Domain shall be deemed an indication that Administrator, Registrar or the Colombian Government has made any determination regarding the legality of the registration, the extent to which Registrant´s registration and exclusive and perpetual right of use and enjoyment of the Registered Name may violate any applicable laws, rules, regulations, policies, procedures, ordinances or decrees or infringe on the rights of any other person, and that neither Administrator, Registrar nor the Colombian Government shall have any liability or responsibility arising therefrom.
Each customer who registers a domain name beneath .AI has to accept the following terms and conditions.:
https://whois.ai/cgi-bin/main.py
Each customer who registers a domain name beneath a .BZ domain extension has to accept the following terms and conditions:
https://www.belizenic.bz/content.php?action=show_agreements&requestfor=customerdomainagreement&from=agree_page
.CH/.LI
Each customer who registers a domain name beneath a .CH / .LI domain extension has to accept the following terms and conditions:
https://www.nic.ch/terms/agb/
While the TLD has no local presence requirement as such, the registry may in certain cases require the registrant provide a Swiss correspondence address within 30 days. If you are not able to provide a Swiss correspondence address within this time the registration may be cancelled with no reimbursement for costs or damages incurred.
Each customer who registers a domain name beneath .CZ has to accept the following terms and conditions:
http://www.nic.cz/files/nic/doc/Registration_rules_CZ_20111101.pdf
Each customer who registers a domain beneath .GR accepts the policies of the .gr Registry:
https://grweb.ics.forth.gr/public/domains/regulation?lang=en
Each customer who registers a domain name beneath .LT has to accept the following terms and conditions:
http://www.domreg.lt/public?pg=&sp=&loc=en
http://www.domreg.lt/static/doc/public/procedural_regulation-en.pdf
Each customer who registers a domain name beneath .LU has to accept the following terms and conditions:
http://www.dns.lu/en/lu-domains/terms-conditions/
http://www.dns.lu/en/support/general-information/domain-name-policy-lu-charter/
General terms and conditions of the contract between the domain name registrar and registrant as part of registering, renewing, and administering domain names under the .LU domain:
http://www.dns.lu/media/content/pdf/EN_3.1.2.4_AGREEMENTS-Annexe3-Conditions-denregistrement.pdf
Each customer who registers a domain name beneath a .PL domain extension has to accept the following terms and conditions:
https://www.dns.pl/en/pl_domain_name_regulations
If the registry requests it, a domain owner must confirm that his registrar is allowed to act on his behalf towards the registry. Internet.bs is obliged to obtain approval from the registrant by presenting the document in the event that the Registry requests. If the Registrant does not complete this document on request the registration may be cancelled with no reimbursement for costs or damages incurred.
Each customer who registers a domain name beneath .SI has to accept the following terms and conditions:
https://www.register.si/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/general-terms.pdf
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Home / Mutual Funds & ETFs / ETF Investing / 7 Dividend Funds Yielding Over 5.3%
7 Dividend Funds Yielding Over 5.3%
Your retirement depends on finding high-yielding ETFs today
By Jeff Reeves Nov 13, 2017, 3:16 pm EST November 13, 2017
Investors have gotten used to weak yields in many corners of the market. The dividend yield of the S&P 500 as a group is roughly 2.0%, and the 10-year U.S. Treasury bond doesn’t offer much more at just 2.2% yield.
That’s difficult for dividend stock investors looking for income in retirement. After all, even with a $1 million portfolio, a 2.0% annual yield on your investments would deliver just $20,000 to live on. If you’re lucky that will pay for property taxes, utilities and groceries.
If you’re looking for a bigger income stream — or, if you’re just looking for a better annual return to help grow your nest egg without the risk of market volatility — then stop tinkering with conventional dividend stocks and bonds. The real income potential right now comes in high-yield ETFs that each offer yields of more than 5%.
Here are seven of my favorite funds right not to buy for big-time yield.
Dividend Funds: Global X SuperDividend
Yield: 8.8%
The Global X SuperDividend ETF (NYSEARCA:SDIV) is a unique play on dividend investing. It chases only the highest dividend payers in the world, regardless of sector and with a laser focus on yield.
The result is a global footprint where only about half of assets are allocated to domestic stocks, and a wide scattering of sectors in the portfolio that span all nature of income-producing stocks — utilities, real estate, telecommunications and other favorites just to name a few.
The result is a big-time yield of nearly 9%, and a diversified fund that isn’t beholden to the whims of a single company or sector.
Top holdings at present include Australia’s Platinum Asset Management and China’s Guangzhou Properties — two picks you can’t trade on U.S.-based exchanges, which shows the power of using an ETF to find high-yield investments in less popular markets.
Source: Anders Jildén via Unsplash
Dividend Funds: PowerShares REIT ETF
The PowerShares KBW Premium Yield Equity REIT Portfolio ETF (NYSEARCA:KBWY) is a high-yield fund that focuses on real estate investment trusts or REITs.
Real estate is one of the most reliable investments out there, because it is tied to a hard asset instead of just patented technology or financial instruments on paper. And REITs are a special kind of publicly traded real estate company that is given tax breaks on real estate holdings as long as the corporation returns 90% of its taxable income back to shareholders.
Many REITs are structured as landlords that lease office or retail space, meaning reliable payments from tenants to create reliable cash flow. That’s all but guarantees consistant dividend payouts to shareholders.
KBWY is one of the most popular real estate investment funds out there, with top holdings including retail operator Washington Prime Group (NYSE:WPG) and office space company CBL & Associates (NYSE:CBL) among others.
Source: ©iStock.com/vaeenma
Dividend Funds: YieldShares High Income ETF
The YieldShares High Income ETF (NYSEARCA:YYY) is another diversified income fund that plays the best income-generating parts of the market. This includes real estate, energy and even the bond market. But it’s interesting in that it does so by investing in closed-end funds instead of directly into these asset classes.
The result is a very diversified mix of already diversified funds and an amazing yield that is currently about 8%.
Top holdings right now include closed-end funds such as the Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Global Dividend Income Fund (NYSE:ETG) and Alpine Total Dynamic Dividend Fund (NYSE:AOD) among others.
Dividend Funds: ETRACS BDC ETN
The ETRACS Wells Fargo Business Development Company Index ETN (NYSEARCA:BDCS) is a mouthful of an ETF, but the yield that approaches 9% makes it worth learning about.
Business Development Companies, or BDCs, operate as a kind of investment fund despite being a publicly traded company. These stocks take debt and equity investments in mid-sized companies and share their success with shareholders.
The BDCS fund, then, is kind of a fund of funds — a pool of these individual business development companies.
The typical business development company offer big payouts to shareholders, based on the interest payments on debts issued and profits made from their equity investments.
And since the ETRACS ETN holds dozens of these BDCs, you can tap into the income-producing power of these investments but with much less risk. After all, even if one single BDC makes a bad loan you have dozens of others to keep paying you.
Top h0ldings right now are Ares Capital (NASDAQ:ARCC) and Main Street Capital (NYSE:MAIN)
Source: ©iStock.com/webking
Dividend Funds: SPDR High Yield Bond ETF
The SPDR Bloomberg Barclays High Yield Bond ETF (NYSEARCA:JNK) provides investors access to high-yield corporate debt, or “junk bonds.”
As the moniker suggests, junk bonds are typically loans to lower quality companies that don’t always have the brightest future. Currently, JNK holds debt from companies including tech stock Western Digital Corp (NASDAQ:WDC) and Valeant Pharmaceuticals Intl Inc (NYSE:VRX) among others.
These are not sure-thing companies, so there’s clearly some risk here in lending to them. But the good news is that a diversified portfolio of these bonds allows you to tap into the higher yields of the space but also avoid putting all your eggs in one basket.
Even if a few loans sour, on balance the fund should do just fine.
Dividend Funds: iShares Preferred Stock ETF
The iShares U.S. Preferred Stock ETF (NYSEARCA:PFF) invests exactly in what it sounds like – preferred stock of U.S. corporations. A kind of hybrid between stocks and bonds, preferred stock typically offers a bigger stream of income than conventional dividend stocks and less volatility than common stock.
For instance, right now the PFF fund owns preferred stock in banks Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) and HSBC (NYSE:HBC) that both yield significantly higher than their common shares.
The only thing to be wary of is that preferred stock is a preferred way among banks to access additional capital, so this fund actually has more than half its assets in financial institutions like WFC and others.
But the heavy weighting toward the sector may be worth it for those seeking bigger yields.
Dividend Funds: Alerian MLP ETF
The energy sector has been in a world of hurt over the last few years, and the Alerian MLP ETF (NYSEARCA:AMLP) has seen trouble, too. In fact, this year the fund is down by double digits despite the rally across the broader stock market.
But if you’re comfortable with energy exposure, you won’t find a better place to seek yield than in master limited partnerships – or MLPs. This special class of company treats shareholders as profit-sharing partners, meaning a mandate for big-time payouts.
Magellan Midstream Partners (NYSE:MMP) and Enterprise Product Partners (NYSE:EPD) are two top holdings at present.
As of this writing, Jeff Reeves did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.
Article printed from InvestorPlace Media, https://investorplace.com/2017/11/high-yield-dividend-funds/.
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Poetry in 1960, a symposium
Edited by Al Filreis
On Larry Eigner, 'On My Eyes'
I really wish that I could do what Judith Goldman was able to do. [1] I’ve always wanted to give a presentation in which I stop talking and moving my lips but my voice continues on. But whenever I do that, I just get silence … I got very nervous when Chris Funkhouser actually does the full fifteen seconds of silence in Mac Low’s poems. I would have said three or four seconds made the point. It was excruciating, fifteen seconds. We each have only five minutes and you use up that much time?!
The Mac Low really reminded me, especially in that silence, of what Danny started out with, with Cage, and I thought again of Larry Eigner, who I am going to talk about tonight. Also, with Rachel’s talk: Larry Eigner was the least cosmopolitan of people in the 1950s and Frank O’Hara the most. And yet, “Second Avenue” is a kind of point of intersection phenomenologically, where you can almost see that there’s a connection. Also, the book I am going to talk about, has a preface by Denise Levertov …
As I’m listening to this, I keep thinking somebody else is going to listen to this not in terms of what we’re saying about the poets we are talking about, but [in terms of] the nature of the event and what we’re enacting in the affectional preferences that we are showing, and the generational unconscious and, to some degree, conscious. I think, especially for those of us born immediately after the Second World War, the poets that we are talking about are our parents’ generation, and whether positive or negative you have that agonism played out. So, it’s a little bit different when I think of Barbara Guest and when I hear Erica speak about her. And that generational difference is one of the things that I kept thinking about in both respect to me and Larry Eigner: why I chose Eigner, why I have such a strong affectional connection to him, and some of the other [poets of his generation]. The other is the ongoing frame that Filreis provides especially with Counter-Revolution of the Word. I always say, and so those of you who have spent more than a couple of hours with me will know, that I’m stuck in the ’50s, so this event is the perfect thing: we’re all together, we’re all going to be stuck in the ’50s now because while the books come out in 1960, we’re really talking about work done in ’50s, that comes out of the ’50s and the deep Cold War. And very different perspectives on it. I think beginning with Stanley Kunitz was wild on Al’s part, and nobody really has picked up on that, but for me, of course, I think of maybe Larry Eigner and Stanley Kunitz are two possible uncles, one more like my father, Stanley Kunitz, in terms of his views, so I kept thinking about that, too. And then there's Stanley Kunitz in Worcester, early on dealing with Sacco and Vanzetti. There’s Charles Olson [born] one hundred years ago in Worcester. And Robert Creeley in Acton, Massachusetts, and Larry Eigner in Swampscott. So, you have a kind of New England matrix.
So, this book, I have only about a minute left actually, I’m at four minutes, and I think I just want to conclude my remarks now.
This book was published in 1960 [by Jargon Press, Highlands, NC, in an edition of 500]. It’s Eigner’s first large collection and I think that it’s notable for the way it really brings him into the world. And, again, to [add to] the tributes to people, Jonathan Williams having the foresight to publish a substantial collection of Larry Eigner in 1960 is extraordinary. And with beautiful Harry Callahan photos, so the book itself is beautiful. There was just one earlier book, very small, [from] 1953, that Creeley published, From the Sustaining Air, which echoes again something that Al said in the beginning about what kind of air, the sustaining air. So, Eigner, just to remind you … [was] born in 1927. If you compare this book, which is a great opportunity we now have, to the first volume of the [Robert Grenier / Curtis Faville] collected [four volumes from Stanford University Press, 2010], you really get a very different sense of what was going on. The work [covered in On My Eyes] goes back to ’53, so it’s really a lot of earlier stuff than one might imagine for a book [published in] ’60. When you read the whole set of what Larry was doing, it’s much different [than the sense you get from the book]. Not that these [poems in the book] are necessarily literary in any conventional sense, but in some ways there are more literary picks of the poems than when you read the whole [body of work from the period]. [In the Collected] you see work starting out from when Larry was in junior high school. You really get a sense of the impact in his own mind, first of all, very importantly, of the typewriter he got for a Bar Mitzvah present when he was thirteen, and the fact that because he suffered from palsy when he was born, because of the way in which he was delivered, he could only really type with the one finger. Once he learned to type for himself — his mother had earlier typed for him — he could express himself, and spent all of his time working on that typewriter page. I mean, it’s one of the really monumental achievements of American art in my view, what Eigner achieved that way, and actually in an entirely [familial but otherwise largely] unsocial space of the ’50s. So, you see work that seems so cosmopolitan, so cosmically vivid, done by somebody who really hadn't had that much contact with anybody else outside his family. In ’49, he hears Cid Corman on the radio. He writes him a letter saying, “Your reading of Yeats is not emphatic enough. What’s wrong with it?” And after that, he meets Creeley, very importantly, and others, and he starts to move into the opening of the field that Ron refers to, and writes these extraordinary poems. He ends the wonderful From the Sustaining Air, which could be my motto as a writer of verse, “I am finally an incompetent after all.” 1953. “I am finally an incompetent after all.” A stunning comment at the end of a very beautiful poem.
However, I’m also really interested in this poem, which I’m going to read and then quote one of the lines, “So what if mankind dies,” he writes in On My Eyes, which is the name of the book I’m talking about: on my eyes, what I’m seeing
so what if mankind dies?
the croak and whistle
has no future
the future arrives
the end of stick
in my crotch
toward the speed of light
(Collected I:160, 1955 # k ’)
So, I mean it’s an extraordinary poem about the nature of the phallus, a hard-on, being just about as far as where the future is gonna go for Eigner. Again, a 1955 comment on progress from Swampscott. And I want to end with a quote from a poem of his, the name of this piece is called
Eigner’s Fierce Calculus
… but please, in the transcription, keep the title right there because this is a talking essay.
“The Dead dog” poem that he writes in 1957 (Collected. I:266, December 57 # 2 b), I think he answers for, in a way, generationally, for me what I like so much about these poets of the 1950s, and he answers Corman, too, at the end of “The Dead dog,” he says, “but someday the grandmothers may grow wise / and speak the calculus” — and “calculus” is a term for him which really pervades, and it’s an alternative to “another time in fragments” and Benjamin’s constellation, it’s the idea that these individual, discrete, burning particulars together make a calculus that’s a three or four-dimensional calculus — and ends “making a fierce language.”
[1] Charles Bernstein presented this improvised talk following the glitchy video projection of Judith Goldman’s presentation on The Bean Eaters by Gwendolyn Brooks at the Poetry in 1960 Symposium, December 6, 2010.
listen to the audio recording of this talk
Jacket2 publisher Al Filreis’s feature on poetry in 1960 grew out of a Kelly Writers House symposium devoted to the fiftieth anniversary of a number of different texts published in 1960. Featuring texts from the symposium, links to audio and video, and work by additional respondents, “Poetry in 1960, a Symposium” offers a number of “retrospective reviews” of poetry just after midcentury.
Introduction to the poetry and poetics of 1960 Al Filreis
On John Cage, 'Cartridge Music' Danny Snelson
On Barbara Guest, 'The Location of Things' erica kaufman
On Don Allen, 'The New American Poetry' Bob Perelman
On Bill Berkson and Frank O'Hara, 'Hymns of St. Bridget' Mel Nichols
On Robert Duncan, 'The Opening of the Field' Ron Silliman
On Gwendolyn Brooks, 'The Bean Eaters' Judith Goldman
On Jackson Mac Low, 'Stanzas for Iris Lezak' Chris Funkhouser
On LeRoi Jones, 'Preface to A Twenty-Volume Suicide Note' Kristen Gallagher
On Daisy Aldan, 'A New Folder' Michael S. Hennessey
On Frank O'Hara, 'Second Avenue' Rachel Blau DuPlessis
On Larry Eigner, 'On My Eyes' Charles Bernstein
On Brion Gysin, 'Minutes to Go' Kenneth Goldsmith
Poetry in 1960, a symposium: Question and answer session Al Filreis
1960: A first remembrance Jerome Rothenberg
Rexroth to Kerouac Josephine Park
Commentary on Larry Eigner's 'On My Eyes' Curtis Faville
Breathing a fire of risk Dorothea Lasky
On Ed Dorn, 'The Newly Fallen' Fred Wah
On Gary Snyder, 'Myths & Texts' David Wyatt
On Bob Kaufman, 'Does the Secret Mind Whisper?' Maria Damon
Ordinary capaciousness Lisa Steinman
NINEs 51 to 56 (in response to a symposium on 1960 poetry) Anne Tardos
Robert Duncan's notes on Ron Silliman's 'Opening' Robert Duncan
Pierrot le Fou
Explode for small change (PoemTalk #104)
The Boy Soprano
The Value of 'Sulfur'
Introducing Barbara Guest
On Hannah Weiner
Poetry and/or the Sacred
This Poem Intentionally Left Blank
Afterward to 'The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser'
Robert Grenier and Charles Bernstein
Close listening with Keith Waldrop, 2009
The revolution in 'Tender Buttons'
Delany on Close Listening, April 2014
Writing in situ
'Writing is a body-intensive activity'
Futurism and schism
Ways of reading: Marjorie Perloff and the sublimity of pragmatic criticism
Gertrude Stein taunts Hitler in 1934 and 1945
Gertrude Stein's war years: Setting the record straight
Ear turned toward the emergent
Just begun to learn: PoemTalk on Louis Zukofsky's 'Anew'
LINEbreak: Bruce Andrews, New York City 1995
LINEbreak: Barbara Guest in conversation with Charles Bernstein
Barbara Guest: The art of poetry
Poetry in 1960, a symposium: Question and answer session
On being stubborn
Introduction to Louis Zukofsky: Selected Poems
Setting the World on Fire
Making things difficult
Composing Herself: Barbara Guest
Notes on nonsense
Omar Baig
Illustration of creatures mentioned in Lewis Carroll’s ‘Jabberwocky,’ by John Tenniel.
Adjacent to the house where I once lived, with its four residents and one other volunteer, sat a private cottage where Joe lived in a world of his own making. The idiosyncrasies of this world formed around the ceaseless churning of Joe’s brain as it reframed his memories through the lens of his particular paranoias and neuroses. Like a tangent, Joe always ran adjacent to what was around him.
On Nanni Balestrini's 'Blackout'
Peter Valente
Nanni Balestrini’s Blackout is a requiem for the generation of 1968, whose hopes and ideals were exhausted by the time of the poem’s composition in 1979. The original impetus for the poem was the blackout in New York on July 13, 1977, that lasted for twenty-five hours and drew widespread media attention due to countless episodes of violence and looting.
To understand Italy one must understand the United States. — Sylvère Lotringer / Christian Marazzi
The technological poetics of Thomas Weatherly
Lauri Scheyer (Ramey)
Emails to Lauri Scheyer (Ramey), 2005–2014
On Jenny Xie and the fate of the flâneur
Tom Kozlowski
Lineated time
Some thoughts on the line in poetry
Raymond de Borja
Janky materiality
Artifice and interface
Jeff T. Johnson
Weatherly's words
A tribute to Tom Weatherly
These poems are loaded
M. G. Stephens
On Tom Weatherly, February 2017
Tom Weatherly's memorial, November 2014
Janet Rosen
Tom Weatherly in 'Dictionary of Literary Biography'
Evelyn Hoard Roberts
On Thomas Elias Weatherly
Eugene Richie
On 'Short History of the Saxophone'
From 'This Ain't No Disco'
Aldon Lynn Nielsen
The blues, Tom Weatherly, and the American canon
Burt Kimmelman
'never muted heart'
Tom Weatherly's trespass
David Grundy
Poem and reminiscence
Akua Lezli Hope
Essay with Tom Weatherly in it
Kenneth Bluford
On Tom Weatherly, October 2014
On Tom Weatherly and Kenneth Bluford, 1972
Sam Amico
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An unlikely team is America’s only chance
The USS Hampton SSN 767 quietly floated unseen a hundred fifty-two feet below the ocean’s surface. Despite its deadly nuclear-tipped arsenal of Trident missiles, its task for the past six months has been reconnaissance and surveillance. The biggest danger the crew faced was running out of olives for their pizza. That all changed one morning, four days before the end of theHampton’s tour. Halfway through the Captain’s first morning coffee, every system on the submarine shut down. No navigation, no communication, and no defensive measures. Within minutes, the sub began a terrifying descent through the murky greys and blacks of the deep Atlantic and settled to the ocean floor five miles from Cuba and perilously close to the sub’s crush depth. When it missed its mandated contact, an emergency call went out to retired Navy intel officer, Zeke Rowe, top of his field before a botched mission left him physically crippled and psychologically shaken. Rowe quickly determined that the sub was the victim of a cybervirus secreted inside the sub’s top secret operating systems. What Rowe couldn’t figure out was who did it or how to stop it sinking every other submarine in the American fleet.
Kali Delamagente is a struggling over-the-hill grad student who entered a DARPA cybersecurity competition as a desperate last hope to fund a sophisticated artificial intelligence she called Otto. Though her presentation imploded, she caught the attention of two people: a terrorist intent on destroying America and a rapt Dr. Zeke Rowe. An anonymous blank check to finish her research is quickly followed by multiple break-ins to her lab, a hack of her computer, the disappearance of her three-legged dog, and finally the kidnapping of her only son.
By all measures, Rowe and Delamagente are an unlikely duo. Rowe believes in brawn and Delamagente brains. To save the America they both love, they find a middle ground, guided with the wisdom of a formidable female who died two million years ago.
Book information:
Title and author: To Hunt a Sub by J. Murray
Release Date: August 11, 2016 by Structured Learning
Available on Kindle US, Kindle UK, Kindle Canada
Cover by: Paper and Sage Design
Jacqui Murray is the author of the popular Building a Midshipman, the story of her daughter’s journey from high school to United States Naval Academy. She is the author/editor of over a hundred books on integrating tech into education, adjunct professor of technology in education, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, a columnist for TeachHUB, Editorial Review Board member for Journal for Computing Teachers, monthly contributor to Today’s Author and a freelance journalist on tech ed topics. Her debut novel, To Hunt a Sub, launched 2016. You can find her nonfiction books at Structured Learning.
Quote from author:
What sets this story apart from other thrillers is the edgy science used to build the drama, the creative thinking that unravels the deadly plot, and the captivating prehistoric female who unwittingly becomes the guide and mentor to Kalian Delamagente as she struggles to stop a madman from destroying her life.
What readers say:
This book grabbed my attention from the first chapter, actually the first paragraph. The intrigue is great and even though I have no idea what all the computer based information is about, it does not detract from my ability to follow and really enjoy the book, because the author is able to incorporate that information in the writing, without over loading the reader. Hope there will be a sequel to this. Finally, despite my desire not to lay the book down (or Kindle in this case), I do have things I must do but am able to easily pick back up and continue reading without have to backtrack. That is the quality of a good book!!
Lots of action, suspense, and twists
J Murray’s long anticipated thriller, To Hunt a Sub, is a satisfying read from a fresh voice in the genre, and well worth the wait. The time devoted to research paid off, providing a much appreciated authenticity to the sciency aspects of the plot. The author also departs from the formulaic pacing and heroics of contemporary commercialized thrillers. Instead, the moderately paced narrative is a seduction, rather than a sledgehammer. The author takes time rendering relatable characters with imaginatively cool names like Zeke Rowe, and Kalian Delamagente. The scenes are vividly depicted, and the plot not only contains exquisitely treacherous twists and turns, but incorporates the fascinating study of early hominids, and one ancestral female in particular who becomes an essential character. The narrative might have benefited from language with a crispier, sharper edge, but that is purely my personal taste and preference, and takes nothing away from the over-all satisfaction of this novel.
Timely. I haven’t heard of a highjacked submarine, but the blueprint in this book could work!
A nuclear sub goes missing and Zeke Rowe is called in to help with the investigation. He joins forces with Kali Delamagente, the developer of an AI named Otto whose unique ability is compiling clues and finding things – like ancient people, kidnappers, and modern subs. Rowe’s not the only one whose interested in the subs or Otto’s capabilities. Bent on destroying America, a terrorist is making Kali’s life miserable, breaking into her lab, hacking her computer, and making hostages out of those she loves. As the terrorist ring closes in, time is running out and the stakes are rising.
One thing I enjoyed about this read is the technical reality Murray created for both the scientific and military aspects of the book. I completely believed the naval and investigatory hierarchy and protocols, as well as the operation inside the sub. I was fascinated by her explanation of Otto’s capabilities, the security efforts Kali employs to protect her data, and how she used Otto’s data to help Rowe.
If that all sounds like too much science, the characters are also well-rounded human beings with colorful histories and rich emotional palettes. There’s a little romantic attraction thrown in for fun though it isn’t a main focus of the story. The plot is high energy and complex with twists that require the reader to pay attention. To Hunt a Sub is an entertaining novel for anyone who enjoys military thrillers.
Can’t wait for the sequel!
Sample chapter:
Three days before present
Ten hours and thirty-seven more minutes and the crew of the USS Hampton SSN 767 would be home. Seasoned submariners, the six-month covert intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance tour down the eastern seaboard of South America had gone flawlessly and silently. The Atlantic is a large ocean and the Los Angeles-class sub’s noise footprint small. Once the boat cleared Cuba, the crew would relax.
The Captain sipped the morning’s fourth cup of burned coffee when the hair on the back of his neck prickled. He glanced around, trying to identify what bothered him.
“Captain,” the Watchstander’s gaze bobbed from the Executive Officer to his watchstation. “Navigation is non-responsive.” Confusion tinged his words.
That was it. A change in the deck’s subtle rumble. Before the Captain could react to the impossibility that guidance controls had crashed, every monitor in the sub’s nerve center shut down.
He hadn’t seen this in twenty years of driving subs. All personnel made a hole as he rushed toward the Control Center, shadowed by the XO.
“Sonar readings?” The Captain called to Sonarman Second Class Andy Rikes in the compartment just aft of Control, barely larger than a broom closet but elbow-to-elbow with operators, fingers flying across keyboards and eyes locked onto screens that blinked a dull grey.
Rikes answered, “Negative, Sir. The hydrophones are working, but aren’t sending raw data, like someone pulled the plug and flushed everything out to sea. Trying to fix it.” His voice was hopeful.
If the screen had worked, Sonarman Rikes would have seen the ping, a final gasp before everything electrical collapsed.
The COB—Chief of Boat—interrupted, “Captain. Reactor Scram!” The sub’s nuclear power had evaporated. “Nuclear technicians isolating the problem. Battery back-up is being attempted.”
“Shift propulsion from main engines to EPM,” an auxiliary electric motor that could turn the propeller.
“Negative, Captain. Non-responsive.” Fear leaked from his voice.
The depth meter no longer worked, but the XO guessed that the sub was angled downward at 10 degrees
“Blow main ballast tanks!”
“No response, Captain.”
“How deep is the ocean floor in this sector of the Atlantic?”
The Sonarman answered, “It varies between 1,000 and 16,000”
16,000 feet was well below the sub’s crush depth.
“There are seamounts and ridges spread throughout. We could get lucky and land on one. Or not.”
“Inform US Strategic Command of our situation.”
“Sir, comms are down.”
“Release the message buoy,” though all that told the world was they were in trouble. It could quickly drift miles from their position.
The Captain continued, voice calm, face showing none of the worry that filled his thoughts, “I want all department heads and Chief Petty Officers in front of me in five minutes. I want the status on every system they own and operate. Wake up whoever you need to.” He had a bad feeling about this.
“Gentlemen, solutions.” The Captain looked first at XO, then COB and finally NAV, the Navigation Officer who turned to the senior chief of navigation.
“It’s like an electromagnetic pulse hit us, which can’t happen underwater…” then he shrugged as though to say, I have no idea, Sir.
They practiced drills for every sort of emergency, but not this one. No one considered a complete electrical shutdown possible.
“We’re checking everything, but nothing is wrong. It just won’t work.”
“Where’s CHENG?” The Chief of Engineering.
“Troubleshooting, Sir.” COB’s voice was efficient, but tense.
The Captain didn’t wait. “Condition Alpha. Full quiet—voices whispers, all silent, no movement not critical. Defcon 2,” the second-highest peacetime alert level.
No one knew who their enemy was or why they were under attack, but they had one and they were.
“XO, get lanterns up here.”
Within an hour, the massive warship had settled to the ocean floor like the carcass of a dead whale. It teetered atop an ocean ridge, listing starboard against a jagged seamount, and the gentle push of an underwater current from a cliff that plunged into a murky darkness. Every watertight door was closed. As per protocol, the oxygen level was reduced to suppress a fire hazard. Without climate controls, the interior had already reached 60 degrees. It would continue dipping as it strove to match the bone-chilling surrounding water temperature. Hypothermia would soon be a problem. For now, though, they were alive.
The hull groaned as though twisted by a giant squid.
The Captain peered into the gloomy waters that surrounded the sub. “Thoughts, XO?”
“We’re stable for the moment, barring a strong underwater current.”
Based on the creaking protests from the hull, they were at or beyond crush depth. Any deeper, the outside pressure would snap the HY-80 outer hull and sea water would roar into the living compartments. Everyone would be dead in seconds, either drowned or impaled on the ragged remains of the sub by a force in excess of a Category Five hurricane.
“We’re beyond the depth of the Steinke Hoods,” escape equipment that included full body suits, thermal protection, and a life raft. Budget cuts had eliminated funding for more advanced solutions.
XO pointed toward a darker expanse of black just yards from the sub. “No telling how deep that crevice is.”
“Gather the crew in the Forward compartment. Seal all other compartments. Ration water. Start O2 candles when levels reach 50% normal. Did the message buoy launch?”
That was a relief. The Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle (DSRV) deployed in emergencies from shore couldn’t assist if it didn’t know they needed help.
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Tag: scuba regulators
Eating Crow – Safe Water Temperatures for Scuba Regulators
Scientists and engineers love to argue, and unlike the case with politicians, compromise is not an option. Technologists speak for nature, for the truth of a universe which does not speak for itself. But when a technologist is wrong, they usually have to eat some crow, so to speak.
Stephen Hawkings, the famous cosmologist, freely admits his brilliant doctoral dissertation was wrong. Crow was eaten, and Hawkings moved on to a better, arguably more correct view of the universe.
Now, on a much less grand scale, this is my time for eating crow.
There has been quiet disagreement over the water temperature above which a scuba regulator is safe from free-flowing or icing up. Those untoward icing events either give the diver too much gas, or not enough. Neither event is good.
Based upon an apocryphal Canadian government study that I can’t seem to put my hands on anymore (government studies are rarely openly available), it has long been believed by the Canadians and Americans that in water temperatures of 38°F or above, regulator icing problems are unlikely. That temperature was selected because when testing older, low flow Canadian regulators, temperatures inside the regulator rarely dropped below 32°F when water temperature was 38°F.
U.S. Navy photo.
As shown in an earlier blog post, in 42°F water and at high scuba bottle pressures (2500 psi) in instrumented second stage regulators (Sherwood Maximus) second stage internal temperature dropped below zero Celsius (32°F) during inspiration. During exhalation the temperature rose much higher, and the average measured temperature was above freezing. Nevertheless, that regulator free flowed at 40 minutes due to ice accumulation.
Presumably, a completely “safe” water temperature would have to be warmer than 42°F. But how much warmer?
My European colleagues have stated for a while that cold water regulator problems were possible at any temperature below 10°C, or 50°F. However, as far as I can tell that assertion was not based on experimental data. So as we began to search for the dividing line between safe and unsafe water temperatures in another brand of regulator, I assumed we’d find a safe temperature cooler than 50°F. For that analysis, we used a generic Brand X regulator.
To make a long story short, I was wrong.
To understand our analysis, you must first realize that scuba regulator freeze-up is a probabilistic event. It cannot be predicted with certainty. Risk factors for an icing event are diving depth, scuba bottle pressure, ventilation (flow) rate, regulator design, and time. In engineering terms, mass and heat transfer flow rates, time and chance determine the outcome of a dive in cold water.
At NEDU, a regulator is tested at maximum anticipated depth and ventilated at a high flow rate (62.5 L/min) for a total period of 30 min. If the regulator free flows or stops flowing, an event is recorded and the time of the event is noted. Admittedly, the NEDU test is extremely rigorous, but it’s been used to select safe regulators for U.S. military use for years.
Tests were conducted at 38, 42, 45 and 50°F.
Next, an ordinal ranking of the performance for each regulator configuration and temperature combination was possible using an NEDU-defined probability-of-failure test statistic (Pf). This test statistic combines the number of tests of a specific configuration and temperature conducted and the elapsed time before freezing events occurred. Ordinal ranks were calculated using equation 1,
where n is the number of dives conducted, E is a binary event defined as 0 if there is no freezing event and 1 if a freezing event occurs, t is the elapsed time to the freezing event from the start of the test (minutes), and k is an empirically determined constant equal to 0.3 and determined to provide reasonable probabilities, i is the index of summation.
Click for a larger image.
Each data point in the graph to the left represents the average result from 5 regulators, with each test of 30-min or more duration. For conditions where no freezing events were observed at 30 min, additional dives were made for a 60-min duration.
As depicted, 40-regulator tests were completed, using 20 tests of the five primary second stages and 20 octopus or “secondary” second stages. Regression lines were computed for each data set. Interestingly, those lines proved to be parallel.
A second stage of a typical scuba regulator. The bite block is in the diver’s mouth.
The “octopus” second stage regulator (the part going in a scuba diver’s mouth) differed from the primary only by the spring tension holding the regulator’s poppet valve shut. More negative mouth pressure is required to pull the valve open to get air than in the primary regulator.
The test statistic does not provide the probability that a given test article or regulator configuration will experience a freezing event at a given temperature. However, it does provide the ability to rank the freezing event performance of regulator configurations at various temperatures.
Our testing reveals that in spite of my predictions to the contrary, for the Brand X regulator our best estimate of a “safe” water temperature, defined as Pf = 0, is roughly 53°F for the standard or “primary” second stage regulator and 49° F for the octopus or secondary regulator.
For all practical purposes, the European convention of 50°F (10°C) is close enough.
Eating crow is not so bad. Some think it tastes a little like chicken.
Equation 1 came from J.R. Clarke and M. Rainone, Evaluation of Sherwood Scuba Regulators for use in Cold Water, NEDU Technical Report 9-95, July 1995.
Author jclarke45Posted on October 14, 2015 October 14, 2015 Categories Diving, Science and TechnologyTags cold water, free flow, freeze up, probability, scuba diving, scuba regulators, test statisticLeave a comment on Eating Crow – Safe Water Temperatures for Scuba Regulators
Authorized for Cold Water Service: What Divers Should Know About Extreme Cold
The following is reprinted from my article published in ECO Magazine, March 2015. It was published in its current format as an ECO Editorial Focus by TSC Media. Thank-you Mr. Greg Leatherman for making it available for reprinting.
It is the highpoint of your career as an environmentally minded marine biologist. The National Science Foundation has provided a generous grant for your photographic mission to the waters 100 ft below the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Now you’re on an important mission, searching for biological markers of climate change.
Under Antarctic Ice, photo by Dr. Martin Sayer.
Above you lies nothing but a seemingly endless ceiling of impenetrable ice, 10 ft thick. Having spent the last several minutes concentrating on your photography, you look up and notice you’ve strayed further from safety than you’d wanted. The strobe light marking the hole drilled in the ice where you’ll exit the freezing water is a long swim away. And, unfortunately, your fellow scientist “buddy” diver has slipped off somewhere behind you, intent on her own research needs.
You’re diving SCUBA with two independent SCUBA regulators, but in the frigid cold of the literally icy waters, you know that ice could be accumulating within the regulator in your mouth. At the same time, a small tornado of sub-zero air expands chaotically within the high-pressure regulator attached to the single SCUBA bottle on your back—and that icy torrent is increasingly sucking the safety margins right out of your regulator. You are powerless to realize this danger or to do anything about it.
At any moment, your regulator could suddenly and unexpectedly free flow, tumultuously dumping the precious and highly limited supply of gas contained in the aluminum pressure cylinder on your back. You’re equipped and trained in the emergency procedure of shutting off the offending regulator and switching to your backup regulator, but this could also fail. It’s happened before.
As you try to determine your buddy’s position, you’re feeling very lonely. You realize the high point of your career could rapidly become the low point of your career—and an end to your very being.
The preceding is not merely a writer’s dramatization. It is real, and the situation could prove deadly—as it has in far less interesting and auspicious locations. Regulator free flow and limited gas supplies famously claimed three professional divers’ lives in one location within a span of one month.
There is a risk to diving in extreme environments. However, the U.S. Navy has found that the risk is poorly understood, even by themselves—the professionals. If you check the Internet SCUBA boards, you constantly come across divers asking for opinions about cold-watersafe regulators. Undoubtedly, recent fatalities have made amateur divers a little nervous—and for good reason.
Internet bulletin boards are not the place to get accurate information about life support safety in frigid water. Unfortunately, the Navy found that manufacturers are also an unreliable source. Of course, the manufacturers want to be fully informed and to protect their customers, but the fact remains that manufacturers test to a European cold-water standard, EN 250. By passing those tests, manufacturers receive a “CE” stamp that is pressed into the hard metal of the regulator. That stamp means the regulator has received European approval for coldwater service.
As a number of manufacturers have expensively learned, passing the EN 250 testing standard is not the same as passing the more rigorous U.S. Navy standard, which was recently revised, making it even more rigorous by using higher gas supply pressures and testing in fresh as well as salt water. Freshwater diving in the Navy is rare—but depending on the brand and model of regulator in use, it can prove lethal.
The unadorned truth is that the large majority of manufacturers do not know how to make a consistently good Performing cold-water regulator. Perhaps the reason is because the type of equipment required to test to the U.S. Navy standard is very expensive and has, not to date, been legislated. Simply, it is not a requirement.
Some manufacturers are their own worst enemy; they cannot resist tinkering with even their most successful and rugged products. This writer is speculating here, but the constant manufacturing changes appear to be driven by either market pressures (bringing out something “new” to the trade show floor) or due to manufacturing economy (i.e., cost savings). The situation is so bad that even regulators that once passed U.S. Navy scrutiny are in some cases being changed almost as soon as they reach the “Authorized for Military Use” list. The military is struggling to keep up with the constant flux in the market place, which puts the civilian diver in a very difficult position. How can they—or you—know what gear to take on an environmentally extreme dive?
My advice to my family, almost all of whom are divers, is to watch what the Navy is putting on their authorized for cold-water service list. The regulators that show up on that list (and they are small in number) have passed the most rigorous testing in the world.
Through hundreds of hours of testing, in the most extreme conditions possible, the Navy has learned what all SCUBA divers should know:
• Even the coldest water (28°F; -2°C) is warm compared to the temperature of expanding air coming from a first stage regulator to the diver. There is a law of physics that says when compressed air contained in a SCUBA bottle is expanded by reducing it to a lower pressure, air temperature drops considerably. It’s the thermal consequence of adiabatic (rapid) expansion.
• Gas expansion does not have to be adiabatic. Isothermal (no temperature change) expansion is a process where the expansion is slow enough and heat entry into the gas from an outside source is fast enough that the expanded gas temperature does not drop.
• The best regulators are designed to take advantage of the heat available in ice water. The most critical place for that to happen is in the first stage where the greatest pressure drop occurs (from say 3,000 psi or higher to 135 psi above ambient water pressure (i.e., depth). They do that by maximizing heat transfer into the internals of the regulator.
• First stage regulators fail in two ways. The most common is that the first stage (which controls the largest pressure drop) begins to lose control of the pressure being supplied to the second stage regulator, the part that goes into a diver’s mouth. As that pressure climbs, the second stage eventually can’t hold it back any longer and a free flow ensues.
• The second failure mode is rare, but extremely problematic. Gas flow may stop suddenly and completely, so that backup regulator had better be handy.
• Second stage regulators are the most likely SCUBA components to fail in cold water due to internal ice accumulation.
• Free flows may start with a trickle, slowly accelerating to a torrent, or the regulator may instantly and unexpectedly erupt like a geyser of air. Once the uncontrolled, and often unstoppable free flow starts, it is self-perpetuating and can dump an entire cylinder of air within a few minutes through the second stage regulator.
• A warm-water regulator free flow is typically breathable; getting the air you need to ascend or to correct the problem is not difficult. In a cold-water-induced free flow, the geyser may be so cold as to make you feel like you’re breathing liquid nitrogen and so forceful as to be a safety concern. Staying relaxed under those conditions is difficult, but necessary.
• Water in non-polar regions can easily range between and 34°F to 38°F; at those temperatures, gas entering the second stage regulator can be at sub-freezing temperatures. European standard organizations classify ~10°C (50°F) as the cold/non-cold boundary. The Navy has found in the modern, high-flow regulators tested to date that 42°F is the water temperature where second stage inlet temperature is unlikely to dip below freezing.
• The small heat exchangers most manufacturers place just upstream of the second stage is ineffective In extreme conditions. They quickly ice over, insulating that portion of the regulator from the relative warmth of the surrounding water.
• Regulator “bells and whistles” are an unknown and can be problematic. Second stage regulators with multiple adjustments can do unpredictable things to heat transfer as the diver manipulates his controls. The last thing a cold-water diver should want is to make it easier to get more gas. High gas flows mean higher temperature drops and greater risk of free flow.
• Only manufacturer-certified technicians should touch your regulator if you’re going into risky waters. The technician at your local dive shop may or may not have current and valid technician training on your particular life support system. Don’t bet your life on it— ask to see the paperwork.
• Follow Navy and Smithsonian* guidance on handling and rinsing procedures for regulators in frigid waters. A single breath taken above the surface could freeze a regulator before you get your first breath underwater.
U. S. Navy reports on tested regulators are restricted. However, the list of those regulators passing all phases of Navy testing is available online. If your regulator, in the exact model as tested, is not on that list, do yourself a favor and don’t dive in frigid waters.
The original Editorial Focus article is found in the digital version of the March ECO magazine here, on pages 20-25.
Author jclarke45Posted on June 1, 2015 June 2, 2015 Categories Diving, Science and TechnologyTags CE mark, cold water, diving, ECO Magazine, EN 250, free flow, NEDU, scuba regulators, testing, under ice, US NavyLeave a comment on Authorized for Cold Water Service: What Divers Should Know About Extreme Cold
Redundancy – a Life Saver in Diving and Aviation
Photo taken from the author’s aircraft one stormy Florida Panhandle morning. (click to enlarge)
I was recently flying a private aircraft down the Florida Peninsula to Ft. Lauderdale to give a presentation on diving safety. As I continually checked the cockpit instruments, radios and navigation devices, it occurred to me that the redundancy that I insist upon in my aircraft could benefit divers as well.
In technical and saturation diving, making a free ascent to the surface is just as dangerous as making a free descent to the ground in an airplane, at night, in the clouds. In both aviation and diving, adequate redundancy in equipment and procedures just might make life-threatening emergencies a thing of the past.
As I took inventory of the redundancy in my simple single engine, retractable gear Piper, I found the following power plant redundancies: dual ignitions systems, including dual magnetos each feeding their own set of spark plug wires and redundant spark plugs (two per cylinder). There are two sources of air for the fuel-injected 200 hp engine.
There are two ways to lower the landing gear, and both alarms and automatic systems for minimizing the odds of pilot error — landing with wheels up instead of down. (I’ve already posted about how concerning that prospect can be.)
I also counted three independent sources of weather information, including lightning detection, and two powerful communication radios and one handheld backup radio. For navigation there is a compass and four electronic navigation devices: one instrument approach (in the clouds) approved panel mount GPS with separate panel-mounted indicator, an independent panel mounted approach certified navigation radio, plus two portable GPS with moving map displays and superimposed weather. Even the portable radio has the ability to perform simple navigation.
There’s two of just about everything in this Arrow panel.
The primary aircraft control gyro, the artificial horizon or attitude indicator, also has a fully independent backup. One gyro operates off the engine-powered vacuum pump, and the second gyro horizon is electrically driven. Although by no means ideal, the portable GPS devices also provide attitude indicators based upon GPS signals. In a pinch in the clouds, it’s far better than nothing. Of course, even if all else fails, the plane can still be flown by primary instruments like rate of climb, altimeter, and compass.
There is only one sensitive altimeter, but two GPS devices also provide approximate altitude based on GPS satellite information.
But what about divers? How are we set for redundancy?
Starting with scuba (self-contained underwater breathing apparatus), gas supplies are like the fuel tanks in an aircraft. I typically dive with one gas bottle, but diving with two or more bottles is common, especially in technical diving. In a similar fashion, most small general aviation aircraft have at least two independent fuel tanks, one in each wing.
The scuba’s engine is the first stage regulator, the machine that converts high pressure air into lower pressure air. Most scuba operations depend on one of those “engines”, but in extreme diving, such as low temperature diving, redundant engines can be a life saver. While most divers carry dual second stage regulators attached to a single first stage, for better redundancy polar divers carry two independent first stages and second stages. Two first stage regulators can be placed on a single tank.
An H-valve for a single scuba bottle. Two independent regulators can be attached.
A Y-valve for Antarctic diving with two independent scuba regulators attached.
Even then, I’ve witnessed dual regulator failures under thick Antarctic ice. The only thing saving that very experienced diver was a nearby buddy diver with his own redundant system.
There is a lot to be gained by protecting the face in cold water by using a full face mask. But should the primary first or second stage regulator freeze or free flow, the diver would normally have to remove the full face mask to place the second regulator in his mouth.
Two regulators, one full face mask. Photo courtesy of Michael Lang and Scuba Pro.
Reportedly, sudden exposure of the face to cold water can cause abnormal heart rhythms, an exceedingly rare but potentially dangerous event in diving. If the backup or bail out regulator could be incorporated into the full face mask, that problem would be eliminated. The photo on the right shows one such implementation of that idea.
Nikki Smith, rebreather diver with open circuit bailout in her right hand. Photo courtesy of Rosemary E Lunn (Roz), The Underwater Marketing Company.
Rebreathers are a different matter. Most rebreather divers carry a bailout system in case their primary rebreather fails or floods. For most technical divers, that redundancy is an open circuit regulator and bailout bottle. However, there are options for the bail-out to be an independent, and perhaps small rebreather. (One option for a bail-out semiclosed rebreather is found here.) Such a bail-out plan should provide greater duration than open-circuit bailout, especially if the divers are deep when they go “off the loop”.
U.S. Navy photo by Bernie Campoli.
For some military rebreather divers, there is at least one complete closed-circuit rebreather available where a diver can reach it in case of a rebreather flood-out.
A commercial saturation diver with semi-closed rebreather backpack as emergency bail-out gas.
For deep sea helmet diving, the bail-out rebreather is on their back and a simple valve twist will remove the diver from umbilical-supplied helmet gas to fresh rebreather gas.
The most common worry for electronically controlled rebreather divers is failure of the rig’s oxygen sensors. For that reason it is common for rebreathers to carry three oxygen sensors. Unfortunately, as the Navy and others have noted, triple redundancy really isn’t. Electronic rebreathers are largely computer controlled, and computer algorithms can allow the oxygen controller to become confused, resulting in oxygen control using bad sensors, and ignoring a correctly functioning oxygen sensor.
The U.S. Navy has performed more than one diving accident investigation where that occurred. Safety in this case can be improved by adding an independent, redundant sensor, by improving sensor voting algorithms, by better maintenance, or by methods for testing all oxygen sensors throughout a dive.
In summary, safe divers and safe pilots are always asking themselves, “What would I do if something bad happens right now?” Unfortunately, private pilots and divers quickly discover that redundancy is not cheap. However, long ago I decided that if something unexpected happened during a flight or a dive, I wouldn’t want my last thoughts to be, “If only I’d spent a little more money on redundant systems, I wouldn’t be running out of time.”
Time, like fuel and breathing air, is a commodity you can only buy before you run out of it.
Disclaimer: This blog post is not an endorsement of any diving product. Diving products shown or mentioned merely serve as examples of redundancy, and are mentioned only to further diver safety. A search of the internet by interested readers will reveal a panoply of alternative and equally capable products to enhance diver safety.
Author jclarke45Posted on November 1, 2014 December 11, 2014 Categories Aviation, Diving, Science and TechnologyTags bail-out, diving helmet, diving safety, full face masks, GPS, gyros, polar diving, rebreathers, scuba, scuba regulatorsLeave a comment on Redundancy – a Life Saver in Diving and Aviation
Cold Water Scuba Regulator Testing — U.S. Navy vs. EN 250
Under thick ice in the Ross Sea, near McMurdo, Antarctica.
When scuba diving under 3-m thick polar ice with no easy access to the surface, the last thing you want to worry about is a failure of your scuba regulator, the system that provides air on demand from the aluminum or steel bottle on your back.
However, cold water regulators do fail occasionally by free-flowing, uncontrollably releasing massive amounts of the diver’s precious air supply. When they fail, the second stage regulators, the part held in a scuba diver’s mouth, is often found to be full of ice.
The U.S. Navy uses scuba in polar regions where water temperature is typically -2° C (28° F). That water temperature is beyond cold; it is frigid. Accordingly, the Navy Experimental Diving Unit developed in 1995 a machine-based regulator testing protocol that most would consider extreme. However, that protocol has reliably reflected field diving experience in both Arctic and Antarctic diving regions, for example, in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, or under the Ross Sea ice near McMurdo Station.
There are currently both philosophical and quantitative differences between European standards and the U.S. Navy standard for cold water regulator testing. Regulators submitted for a European CE mark for cold water diving must pass the testing requirements specified in European Normative Standard EN 250 January 2000 and EN 250 Annex A1 of May 2006. In EN 250 the water temperature requirement for cold water testing ranges from 2° C to 4° C. Oftentimes, regulators that pass the EN 250 standard do not even come close to passing U.S. Navy testing.
An iced up, highly modified Sherwood SRB3600 Maximus second stage regulator
The Navy’s primary interest is in avoiding regulator free-flow under polar ice. The breathing effort, which is a focal point of the EN 250 standard, is of lesser importance. For instance, the 1991 Sherwood SRB3600 Maximus regulators long used by the U.S. Antarctic program have been highly modified and “detuned” to prevent free-flows. You cannot buy them off-the-shelf. Detuning means they are not as easy to breathe as stock regulators, but they also don’t lose control of air flow to the diver; at least not very often. Here is a photo of one that did lose control.
NEDU performs a survival test on regulators, and any that pass the harshest test are then tested for ease of breathing. The so-called “freeze-up” evaluation breathes the regulator on a breathing machine with warmed (74 ±10°F; 23.3 ±5.6°C) and humidified air (simulating a diver’s exhaled breath) at 198 feet sea water (~6 bar) in 29 ± 1°F (-1.7 ± 0.6°C) water. Testing is at a moderately high ventilation rate of 62.5 L/min maintained for 30 minutes. (In my experience a typical dive duration for a dry-suit equipped diver in Antarctica is 30-40 min.)
To represent polar sea water, the test water is salted to a salinity of 35-40 parts per thousand. The possible development of a “freeze up” of the regulator 2nd stage, indicated by a sustained flow of bubbles from the exhaust port, is determined visually.
In contrast, the European standards call for slightly, but critically, warmer temperatures, and do not specify a duration for testing at an elevated respiratory flow rate. I have watched regulators performing normally under EN 250 test conditions (4° C), but free-flowing in water temperatures approaching 0° C. Those tests were run entirely by a non-U.S. Navy test facility, by non-U.S. personnel, using a U.K. produced breathing machine, with all testing being conducted in a European country. The differences in testing temperatures made a remarkable difference.
Haakon Hop of the Norwegian Polar Institute in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard.
The NEDU testing results have been validated during field testing by scientific diving professionals under Arctic and Antarctic ice. The same regulators that excel in the NEDU protocol, also excel in the field. Conversely, those that fail NEDU testing fare poorly under the polar ice. For instance, a Norwegian biologist and his team exclusively use Poseidon regulators for their studies of sea life inhabiting the bottom of Arctic ice. (The hard hat in the photo is to protect cold skulls from jagged ice under the ice-pack.) Poseidon produces some of the few U.S. Navy approved cold-water regulators.
As is usual for a science diver in the U.S. Antarctic Program, a friend of mine had fully redundant regulators for his dive deep under Antarctic ice. He was fully prepared for one to fail. As he experienced both those regulator systems failing within seconds of each other, with massive free-flow, he might have been thinking of the words of Roberto “Bob” Palozzi spoken during an Arctic Diving Workshop run by the Smithsonian Scientific Diving program. Those words were: “It’s better to finish your dive before you finish your gas…”
In both NEDU’s and the Smithsonian’s experience, any regulator can fail under polar ice. However, those which have successfully passed U.S. Navy testing are very unlikely to do so.
A previous blog posting on the subject of Antarctic diving may also be of interest.
Author jclarke45Posted on August 2, 2012 August 8, 2012 Categories Diving, Science and TechnologyTags Antarctica, Arctic, cold water diving, EN 250, Polar Diving Program, scuba regulators, Smithsonian Institution, U.S. Navy1 Comment on Cold Water Scuba Regulator Testing — U.S. Navy vs. EN 250
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Texas Connect, a Magazine for UT Faculty and Staff, Is Launched
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From bustling Guadalupe Street to grand Darrell K Royal Stadium (and everywhere in between), the University of Texas packs nearly 26,000 employees into around 431 acres.
In fact, UT can often seem like its own city in the heart of Austin, with hundreds of offices and departments scattered across campus.
To reach across that divide, employees at Texas Student Media and the Office of Internal Communications recently created Texas Connect, a magazine geared towards UT faculty and staff with the goal of uniting the university’s permanent population.
“We are so big...it's really hard for me to know what's happening across the hallway, across the street, definitely across campus,” said Gerald Johnson, co-publisher of the magazine and director of Texas Student Media. “And after spending time with some city magazines I thought, ‘We’re kind of a small city here.’”
Less than a mile away in the Office of the President, Director of Internal Communications Cindy Posey had been thinking along much the same lines for a while.
“One of the things I’d thought about for years was an internal magazine, just for faculty and staff... focused on closing the gaps between the “silos” at UT,” said Posey, co-publisher of Texas Connect. “And it just so happened that Gerald had the same idea.”
From that beginning in spring 2018, Texas Connect celebrated the launch of its first edition late last month. The magazine is chock-full of articles centered around health, wellness and renewal, in-depth profiles on an array of faculty and staff, and lists of notable events or fixtures on campus.
Johnson said the magazine, with its “Texas Monthly” vibe, has “rich, compelling stories and beautiful imagery” alongside hopefully permanent features like the Back 40, which highlights curious or notable people and items around campus that may not be known to a wide audience.
And it is produced by, among others, School of Journalism interns. One such intern is Carlynn Hickenbotham, a recently graduated Moody alum and one of the spring issue’s main contributors.
Working for a magazine like Texas Connect was unlike any other journalism-related work she’s done, with much more flexibility and creative expression, Hickenbotham said.
“We were in charge of creating this sort of whimsical, but still relatable, but still professor-level language that we could use,” Hickenbotham said. “It was the first time I’ve set the pace of something like that.”
Of 10 full articles, Hickenbotham wrote five. Her personal favorite is a piece on creative office spaces.
"I even kind of went way too out there sometimes,” Hickenbotham said. “Every meeting I had five million things I wanted to do...I had to rein myself in.”
Sahar Chmais, a journalism senior, was an editorial intern with Hickenbotham. She wrote the cover story, a profile on parking enforcement assistant and “smile enforcement officer” Michael Shaw.
She said one of her biggest challenges with this first issue was the lack of databases and references she could use for ideas on finding and structuring articles.
“We were trying to figure out what direction we want it to go in, how to make it suitable for a spectrum of audiences,” Chmais said. “And there are so many things to look at on a vast campus. You go on the New York Times website and say ‘Oh, I wonder how we can do this in Texas or in Austin,’ but there was no reference for this. It was a first-of-its-kind sort of magazine.”
But the process of seeking out those stories changed her perspective on faculty and staff, she said.
“There is a huge number of these employees, and looking at how much they do for the university–it was insane, in an awesome way,” Chmais said. “Seeing their work and the support they give each other suddenly created the idea of this huge community. Not a student community but an employee community.”
Including Chmais and Hickenbotham, five interns--with various editorial, advertising and photography experience–were paid and received school credit for nearly seven months spent producing the first issue. It was a “win-win-win,” according to Posey.
A quick flip through the magazine will reveal glossy, carefully created spreads, precise photography, and an explosion of color. It’s an irreplaceable experience, Johnson said.
He said Texas Connect could have just as easily been an electronic newsletter, targeted content without the hassle of getting a brand-new magazine into circulation. But the choice to create something tangible was a purposeful one.
“We wanted to make something people could read at their leisure, they could take with them,” Johnson said. “We didn't just want an HR newsletter.”
Advertisers seeking a corner on the University’s niche market agreed. Texas Connect paid off all production costs and generated a profit of $4,000 through advertising revenue, according to Johnson.
Though the magazine is currently set for semesterly publication, Johnson said he could see bumping up production to 4 times a year. But it’s far too early to tell, he said.
And as for now, you can expect to see Texas Connect issues in all offices and departments across campus at least once every semester.
“It’s a hard thing to do, but then nobody’s ever really attempted it,” Posey said. “I said ‘I want to try to bring us together somehow’ and I think the best way to do that is to tell stories. Our students are amazing, they do amazing work.... but all of that is supported by staff. Their stories need to be told.”
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Book Review: Helsinki Sunrise
TITLE: Helsinki Sunrise
AUTHOR: Marion Ueckermann
PUBLISHER: Pelican Book Group
STARS: ****1/2
HE NEEDED THE ISLAND TO HIMSELF. SO DID SHE.
Three weeks alone at a friend’s summer cottage on a Finnish lake to fast and pray. That was Adam Carter’s plan. But sometimes plans go awry.
On an impromptu trip to her family’s secluded summer cottage, the last thing Eveliina Mikkola expected to find was a missionary from the other side of the world—in her sauna.
Determined to stay, Eveliina will do whatever it takes—from shortcrust pastry to shorts—to send the man of God packing. This island’s too small for them both.
Adam Carter, however, is not about to leave. Will he be able to resist her temptations?
Can she withstand his prayers?
Marion Ueckermann has penned a delightful novella that transports the reader to Finland and its fascinating culture. When Adam and Eveliina meet, sparks fly, and the initial tension between the two quickly becomes something much more. As they struggle with their feelings, God intervenes in a way neither of them expects.
The author skillfully weaves a strong message of forgiveness and renewal into this story, a lesson that lingers in the heart. Helsinki Sunrise earns four and a half stars.
Book Review: Here to Stay
TITLE: Here to Stay
AUTHOR: Melissa Tagg
Blake Hunziker has played nomad for five years and landed in his fair share of trouble too. But now he's finally returning to his hometown--the Lake Michigan tourist town of Whisper Shore. Counting on a not-so-warm welcome, he's surprised at not only a positive reception but also a job offer. Determined to settle down and prove himself responsible, he agrees to the catch that comes with the job offer--coordinating the annual Christmas festival--even though he has no idea how he'll pull it off.
Autumn Kingsley, inn owner and experienced organizer of the Christmas festival, has always dreamed of traveling the world. Now she has a job opportunity in Paris and a surprise potential investor coming to town who just might take on her family's inn and finally leave her free to go. The only problem is that she has just two weeks to whip the inn into shape.
Their families have a long history of not getting along, but when Blake comes to Autumn for help with the festival, she actually agrees...in exchange for his help with the repairs to her inn. They may have struck a simple deal, but complications are quick to pile on when the guy who's had enough of running away and the woman who can't wait to leave join forces.
I absolutely love this book. The characters are three-dimensional, and the small town they both cherish feels like home. I related to the fears of the townspeople as they watched their tourism-based economy shrink. It is happening everywhere, including where I live. So when they pin their hopes on Blake (AKA Blaze) and Autumn, even though their family history is well known, I feel their desperation. And the dreams that propel the two main characters into situations they’d rather avoid. As their relationship bounces from crisis to crisis, the author brought me right into the middle of it all. And it was a wonderful journey.
The publisher offered me an e-copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion. It’s a pleasure to say that I hope to read more from Melissa Tagg, and I give Here to Stay five stars.
Book Review: Nowhere to Turn
TITLE: Nowhere to Turn
PUBLISHER: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
The day Danielle Harding takes her 11-year-old son, Simon, and flees from her abusive husband, is the same day Kurt Harding dies. A relieved Dani believes she and her son are finally safe--but in reality, the danger has just begun. When Kurt was alive, he took something important to a mysterious person. That person wants the item back and believes Dani now has it. As she and her son run for their lives, they have nowhere to turn, until she hires Adam Buchanan of Operation Refuge and goes into hiding. Unfortunately, she won't be able to hide for long . . .
From the first breathless scene, this tension-laced story will hold readers in its iron grip. Bestselling author Lynette Eason propels readers along at a breakneck pace in a race to discover the truth and a better future.
Nowhere to Turn is a fast-paced, high-tension story from beginning to end. The author draws detailed characters with realistic action and reactions. Trouble starts before the first sentence, and Lynette Easton opens the curtain with Danielle pressing an ice pack to her bruised cheek. That got my attention, and she kept it until the very end.
Adam does his best to protect his attractive client, but evil follows them wherever they go. This creates the tight suspense, but toward the end I found the unrelenting evil rather depressing. Nevertheless it proved to be an entertaining read, and I give Nowhere to Turn four stars.
I was offered an e-book by Revell in return for this honest opinion.
Book Review: Dark Biology
Book Review: The Ambassadors, Book One
TITLE: The Ambassadors, Book One
AUTHOR: Marcia Laycock
PUBLISHER: Kindle e-Book
Consciousness seeped into Eghan like the mists that slipped seductively down from the mountains -- slowly -- so slowly his mind fought to clear the haze away. Leather strips binding his ankles and wrists twisted into his skin when he moved. Memory flooded back. He had been in his own room in his father’s castle, staring at a cup in his hand. The cup’s rim blurred. His head spun. He remembered turning toward the door, seeing a man he did not recognize, just before everything went black.
What an opening! Marcia Laycock’s story gripped me from these first sentences through the entire book. The captured prince, a threat of war, a beautiful enemy, and a mysterious teacher combine in this fantasy that wove itself into my imagination and enticed me to keep reading. I love her use of the Word as the guiding light for the teacher and his people. Prince Eghan’s character arc is clear even in the first two chapters as he struggles to reconcile what he’d been taught by his father the king with the truth his supposed captors live by.
This is a wonderful story, and I hope to read more of the series. It earns five stars.
Book Review: Zac and Mia
TITLE: Zac and Mia
AUTHOR: A.J. Betts
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Brace and Company
“When I was little I believed in Jesus and Santa, spontaneous combustion, and the Loch Ness monster. Now I believe in science, statistics, and antibiotics." So says seventeen-year-old Zac Meier during a long, grueling leukemia treatment in Perth, Australia. A loud blast of Lady Gaga alerts him to the presence of Mia, the angry, not-at-all-stoic cancer patient in the room next door. Once released, the two near-strangers can't forget each other, even as they desperately try to resume normal lives. The story of their mysterious connection drives this unflinchingly tough, tender novel told in two voices.
The subject matter is tough, and so is the language, but Zac and Mia is unflinchingly real. Kids do get cancer, and there is no “right” way to deal with the physical and emotional trauma. A.J. Betts gives us an up-close and personal look at two teens as they fight this dreaded disease. Zac clings to statistics and leans on his family’s support, even when it becomes stifling. Mia, however, lashes out in her pain and terror. As these two, bound together by their common enemy, grow into an unlikely and unsteady friendship, I found myself cheering them on.
This is not a typical boy-meets-girl-and-they-fall-in-love story. The author is obviously well acquainted with cancer wards, and this book made me feel the pain, the fear, and the hesitant hope of his characters. I give Zac and Mia four stars.
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Clever Coaching for the Brave
By Roger Wilkinson
I’ve read Football for the Brave more times than I can remember. Even now I go back to it constantly to glean special insights on coaching and player development that can’t be found elsewhere. John Cartwright provides inspirational images and detail that opens the mind of the dedicated coach. His writing has a depth and knowledge you can only interpret if you are a thinking coach. It also possesses the benchmarks to assess your own coaching and to judge if you are bringing through the right type of qualities in young players.
Here I am displaying with inverted commas a small example of the “Football for the Brave” insights and images that push coaches understanding and delivery to a different level.
When developing young player`s we want them to display:
“Skill under pressure and be comfortable under pressure.”
As a coach in progressive sessions when the players are competent we can test them by reducing the practice areas.
We must bring out in the young players “Play in the future instincts” and develop individuals who can play the game “With speed of thought as a protective shield against surprise.”
Coaches can get the players to shout their intentions before receiving the ball to show that they are developing the ability to play ahead of themselves.
Let’s develop outstanding players who combine:
“Imaginative play with positive end products.”
We can use this to develop players who are clever and creative but are successfully using their individuality to link with team mates with passes, take overs or finishes at goal.
Coaching isn’t easy, so understanding and then coaching the hidden extra detail for the young player to develop their individuality is vital.
Before receiving the ball, players must:
“Manufacture correct body positions often on the half turn”
This concept isn’t easy for young grassroots players as their eyes often get transfixed on the ball with their chest facing the ball. THEY DONOT KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON BEHIND AND AROUND THEM! It`s important they get side on and learn to look around themselves.
Players must develop the understanding to:
“Receive and re-direct smoothly in to safe space with fast open and closed turns.” displaying “Space and time awareness.”
Work on player recognition of space when turning out and develop their abilities to turn in the tight by using their body to screen and protect the ball whilst turning.
For any player, young or old a:
“Smooth first touch allows for a better second touch.”
Develop the young player’s foot preparation before receiving the ball to enable smooth touch and movement under control into to space.
All these images and detail, if taken on board, will give the coach an advanced perception of the game and use of extra special detail when they are coaching.
When dealing with and coaching running with the ball John has always used unique images and detail that inspires coaches and young players.
When dribbling in the game use:
“Fleet of foot with flexibility of movement”.
Great dribblers use:
“Quick clever touches, feints and dummies.”
Work the young players to get quick touches with the outside of both feet and develop the balance to work across and behind the ball to, change feet, protect the ball and change direction.
Outstanding dribblers are always:
“Running with the ball safe side at speed during positive penetrative runs whilst plotting on the run.”
It is important for coaches to encourage:
“Dribbling bravery” encouraging “Speed and strength with balance.”
Many young kids when running with the ball look at the ball. Coach them to get their eyes up and scan, in front of and around them, to make decisions on the run like changes of direction, changes of feet, when to screen and to adapt their journey with the ball. Develop dribblers with the bravery, confidence and skill to successfully exploit space for the good of their team
I use all of these coaching points and images in my coaching. These are only a few examples of the wealth of coach education in Football for the Brave. Now here’s the challenge…….see how many examples of detail and coaching points you can discover.
Believe me it will improve your coaching no end!
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All the best coaches have simple solutions to problems which the ‘academics’ tend to complicate. A little while ago, when addressing members of the London Football Coaches Association, who were mainly involved in junior grassroots football, John Cartwright suggested that when taking their next training session, the coaches should set up a normal game in the training area. Playing a game is what youngsters like best, but this time John suggested that every 5 – 10 minutes the length and width of the pitch should be reduced by a yard. At first the players hardly notice, but as the game goes on the players realise that they must adjust to a tighter area. Over a number of weeks it is clear that the players are learning to play with reduced space , with less time on the ball. As time goes by the area can be made tighter and tighter, not too much at first but the coach must be the judge.
I have heard only positive comments from LFCA members who have tried this approach. A simple solution that anyone can try.
I’m so glad that ‘Football for the Brave’ has meant so much to so many ‘football thinkers’.
Roger Wilkinson says:
The book allied to watching John coach practically has inspired many of us.He has always challenged our thinking in a positive way. Importantly he not only “talks the talk but he walks the walk. ” Observing him coach is a privilege.
I imagine John Cartwright watching the Clasico sitting in his living thinking , ‘Yes, Yes’ because RIGHT ON CUE, Barcelona’s majestic ‘real football’ winner against Real Madrid had ALL the hallmarks of ‘Football For the Brave’ – Chapter 9 ‘ Keep possession of the ball in all areas of the field – when no attacking advantage is possible’ was clearly shown when Pique hemmed in, close to the angle of his penalty box and byline, receiving after a throw on, clipped a delicious – and OH SO NOT ENGLISH COACHED – pass to Busquets who transferred it to Sergio Roberto who from his defensive position serged forward past two lunging players – ‘Dribbling requires bravery’, then linking into Andre Gomes, waiting for the ‘overlap’ of Alba. Having looked inside, Alba ‘felt’ the ball into Messi -and the little genius, with timing and the know-how to hold his run ‘Finished Positively and Accurately.’
It started with Pique’s what we might term bravery – for me it’s that their mindset is so totally different …the foreigners (players,coaches, and fans) do NOT THINK LIKE Johnny English…or those in other English Speaking countries…Busquets knew that a simple ball was required, and ability, cleverness, football intelligence took over…
We must get away from lumoxes at the back whose only merit is that they can destroy… we must pick footballers – with the physicality to defend, but also with the nouse to play…Beckenbauer comes to one’s mind, Baresi another and Maldini; close to home the great Moore. As John says in that Chapter 9 in an attempt ‘to overcome pressure play, defenders [British and whoever it influences …for f**** sake] played the ball quickly and as directly back into their opponent’s defending area and with the rest of their team; pushed up quickly to return pressure on their opponents ( page 64). John also writes, ‘We will never achieve world-class standards until back players become better footballers and increase their attacking options from back areas’.
But also Roberto’s run displayed ‘Penetration from back positions into midfield allows better possession of the ball to be achieved throughout the team. It also provides more options to both the man on the ball as well as those off it (page 65)’.
Thank you Barca, and thank you John because at the very top of the game, the best favour ‘Football For The Brave.’
Hi Brazil 94. Thanks for the your comments. I have been a ‘fan’ of Barca. for many years —they have the ‘guts’ to play the game in a way they believe in—–started back with Rinus Michels followed on by Johann Cruyff and continued with Pep and their present manager.
I recently watched an u/23 game between two Premier League teams and heard the infamous shout from a ‘coach’ to one of his players that has been the ‘death-knell’ of so many of our young players–“DON’T DRIBBLE, PLAY IT SIMPLE”. —- here was the crux of the loss of individualism in our game and the imposition of ‘robotic’ football standards on our game. Coaches should be advising on correct decision-making and not curtail creativity for the game.
I have spent my life in the game trying to convince our coaching organisations –Regional and National, that football must not be considered as just a ‘Team Game’ but a game for skillful individuals who can perform singularly or combine with team-mates as the game/situations demand. Producing players with these game qualities is the ‘art’ of coaching/teaching —- how and when to use these two aspects when they become necessary in the game. Barca. have reached that pinnacle of individualism/combination quality in their playing style………… why can’t we?………..( answer: …..
……………. because we don’t teach the game correctly throughout the whole development and senior playing stages!
John, Great to get your concurrence…it just stood out so much following Roger’s latest blog offering…they played in a beautiful brave way… and made it pay…The ‘game’ itself is better for it! So much in the match was like reading off the pages of your book … BRAVO for spelling out the way.
Steve The Seagull says:
Regarding John’s comment above about the ‘don’t dribble’ comment from a coach – I am utterly dismayed at the general lack of dribblers in the game these days – having grown up watching and having an appreciation of the likes of Best, Morgan, Marinello, Johnstone, Coppell, Robertson, Waddle, and a hundred others and large passages of play are all pass, pass, pass. Hardly anyone goes by anyone these days and is perhaps a key as to why defences seem so secure – if you can get past a player, you create an overload; someone else has to leave their ‘station’ and all of a sudden there are openings.
no dribblers is due in part to the fewer touches mantra at rtc and npc(female game), passing robots only.
You are so right Steve thats because the “street” allowed them to do it. That is why the right coaching is so important . To quote JC ” Great coaching is a contradiction in terms ,great coaches produce natural players !!” That is why the images in the book can lead coaches to produce this type of player.
There will be more chance of encouraging young players to take on and dribble round opponents if we can coach them to combine well in order to create 1 v 1 situations. If the ball can be switched quickly from the right to left, having pulled the opponents over to our right hand side of the field, then their right back, on the opposite side, can be left isolated and our left sided attacker, having received the ball from a quick switch of play, has a great opportunity to take him on and dribble round him in a 1 v 1 and seriously threaten their goal. We should be looking to create as many 1 v 1 situations as possible in a game and then English players with the ability to beat an opponent could return to our game.
Hi Steve. The movement of the ball around the field is not seemingly a problem in our game. 1v1 situations abound but unfortunately, our players have neither dribbling ability or the inner confidence to take on the opportunity. Inevitably the ball is played backwards or returned across the field to yet another unfulfilled 1v1 situation. So often tactical systems find players who are not skllfully able to utilise 1v1 situations, they are more prepared as defenders and not skilful attackers. The early developmental mistake of positioning young players creates the later inability of them being able to produce the necessary skills necessary to take-on opposing players.
Once again, it’s all about poor development methods that have spent more time on forging ‘robotic’ team-play instead of developing individualism that is able to combine with others or ‘go it alone’ when an opportunity arose.
Perhaps, one day ‘the penny will drop’ and our ‘Academic football hierarchy’ will learn about the real game of football.
Real academics study the detail, the precision needed for quality…because in all fields of human achievement people have shown a thirst for knowledge, of improvement … in the creative arts they’ve honed their ‘individual’ skill set to act in a group, dance in a group, or on their own. Picasso the great innovator was a superb artist before embarking on cubism etc…
True football academics are like you John as you break the detail, and reform the individuals to go back into a team game .
Hi Brazil 94. You are correct to mention the importance of detail when teaching a subject and how to GRADUALLY introduce suitable practises that show how to combine with team-mates when necessary as well as introducing SUITABLE tactical aspects.
The correct TRANSFER of realistic practical work into competitive game situations should provide a follow-on assessment guide that allows coaches to form a clearer, realistic ‘picture’ of their players understanding of the work under progress. The ability to assess whether to move practical work to a next stage or to continue with present work is vital, for unles information is seen to be understood by players through realistic playing a move to more advanced work may be beyond their ability at the time and will cause confusion and have a disruptive effect on learning progression.
The reason many coaches fail to create a suitable, realistic development ‘pathway’ is due to the poor quality of coach education they receive. Detail, must be carefully introduced — the correct type for each stage of work along with a gradual increase in realistic difficulty. The teaching of the game that ignores realism in the main, is time wasted —- and time is ‘precious’.
Excellent Brazil its all in the detail and the recognition of detail.Understanding ,decision making and skill must be conjoined from day one of the development programme again to quote JC “when working with a 7 year old you are not working with a 7 year old you are working with a 23 yr old in the early part of their playing career “
Love this from Michael Beale currently coaching at Sao Paulo with Ceni:
“I’ve got a huge desire for individual development and fine-tuning players. I don’t believe in saying there’s no ‘I’ in team. There are 11 individuals in a side and I think it’s more about fuelling the individual than tactics.”
Chelsea have now won six out of the last eight FA Youth Cup competitions, at the under 18 age group, hammering Man City 5 – 1 last night, 6 – 2 on aggregate. They are turning out some excellent players and their coaches say that most of them are eligible for England. But progress into the first team at Stamford Bridge still remains slow, with no one from these Youth Cup triumphs since 2010 having established a regular place in the first team. Going out on loan, in this country and abroad, remains the most likely way for most of them to play senior football in the foreseeable future. Is it not time for a minimum number of home-produced players to be named on the squad sheet for each match? Unfortunately, as long as short term targets are set by the clubs and their managers and coaches are only assessed by the number of trophies which are put in the cabinet, then this is unlikely to happen.
I thought that Chelsea were impressive with their change of pace, pressing and the intensity of their play. Their movement with and without the ball was also very good and they looked very well coached. Their coach said in his interview that most of them have been together since the age of seven or eight so their development through the different age categories looks to have been good. I think it is vital that this development continues, and with players of this potential it is also vital for the England team.
I want to ask ‘ARE WE REALLY BRAVE?’ Do we – coaches and players – believe in this way of playing in our hearts and souls or are we half-or-superficially brave?
For me one of the most telling aspects of Cartwright’s book is his introduction.
Referring to his personal inspiration the ’58 Brazilians of Didi he says ‘this was how I knew the game should be played: skilfully and athletically. There was a rhythm in the way Brazil played the game; there was a harmony in the way they combined, and their individualism was pure music.’
While the quality of back players on the ball with their subtle passing , overloading and linking is vital if we are to be BRAVE, coaches continually turn a blind-eye when the ball is kicked long to alleviate pressure in their defensive third. In his book , this ‘to and fro football has never really been eliminated from our game. The long ball is still the preferred pass from our back players even when time and space allow for other options to be used.’ To their credit – or discredit depending on where you side on this – the very best – Barcelona especially under Cruyff and Guardiola, Brazil, Cruyff playing for Ajax and Holland, coaching Barcelona, etc … virtually always sought to build the attack even under pressure, believing that being ‘ordinary (another of John’s ‘introduction’ words – hopefully not taken out of context) was not part of their playing vocabulary.
We MUST coach our back players to play like the Beckenbauers and Maldinis, governing the ball, having the feints, dummies and screens, with excellent support around the ball to play out of trouble. WE CAN ONLY DO THIS IF WE ARE BRAVE and prepared to turn our backs on the FA constrict of ‘Safety outweighting Risk’. WE MUST BE BRAVE AND TEND TOWARDS RISK. Our back players must be able to play out of corners. To play effectively out of central positions. Crucially, the goalkeeper MUST be a footballer because the moment it goes back to the custodian, the players in close proximity need to QUICKLY make ‘safe receiving angles’, allowing for the ball to be played out.
Obviously, situations arise where the back player receives a heavy ball, or lacks immediate support, and is under real pressure… and in these cases it is EASY to give the players an ‘OUT’… pragmatically allowing or encouraging defenders to play ‘the ball as quickly and as directly back into their oppenents defending area’…However, this OUT is often constantly applied BY THE ENGLISH (and those who speak the same language) – others do sometimes but not so overtly – and is readily accepted by coaches EVEN THE BRAVE! Indeed the crowds ( English speaking ) seem to want it…one is reminded of the GREAT Neil Franklin, who went to the break away Colombian league in the ’50’s, who gave his Director’s kittens with his playing out from the back… BUT Franklin was BRAVE, just as Beckenbauer couldn’t be anything else!
If we are ordinary, if we follow the FA dictates, if we ALLOW our defenders , especially our Central players to be ordinary, to be the SAME, then in effect ARE WE BEING THE SAME? While championing BRAVERY are we in reality Wolves in sheep’s clothing??
Do we as John says ‘kill the music’ a little too regularly.
It’s all in ‘Football For the Brave.’
BUT, and this is a big But…Do we seek to ‘ keep possession of the ball in areas of the field ? Do we seek to KEEP THE BALL?
ARE WE BRAVE…?
Let’s follow John’s belief in his introduction ‘ that individual skill is the core of good performance’ and that there is ‘harmony in the way [our players – my words ] combined’.
Or shall we just let our back players get away with murder creating a game style in part that is NOT VERY BRAVE!
Hi Brazil94…..During the first few minutes of a recent Premier League match, the Liverpool keeper, Mignolet, with the ball at his feet, performed a Cruyff turn inside his penalty area to beat an opposing forward who was closing him down. He evaded the challenge by the fraction of an inch and his team were extremely close to going a goal behind in the opening minutes. This incident occurred in a period of the season when Liverpool were conceding goals through avoidable defensive mistakes which had contributed to their League title hopes evaporating. There was nothing gained territorially by what Mignolet did. He could have picked the ball up and thrown it quickly to the feet of one of his team mates to launch a counter attack. There is a difference between being brave and being stupid. In my opinion what Mignolet did was being stupid but, fortunately for him and his team, on this occasion he happened to be lucky.
In contrast, an episode which I would class as both brave and brilliant play, took place in the recent Germany-England international. In the 51st minute the ball was passed back to the feet of German keeper, Neuer. Immediately, he was pressed by Vardy and the England striker angled his approach so that he forced the keeper to play the ball to the left of his defence. There were three Germans in that area, but five England players were arriving in a high press, having shuffled across the field in the accepted manner. The Germans kept calm and positioned themselves quickly in a triangle. They passed the ball between themselves, evading the English challenge, and then released the ball forward into an area of space that England had vacated by their press. The German centre half, Rudiger, was free to spring forward onto the ball and move unhindered into England territory. Germany had drawn England players into the area where the ball had been forced by Vardy’s initial pressure, but had turned the situation to their advantage by exploiting the space which England had left. I rate this piece of play the highlight of the season and it came in the 51st minute if you recorded the match onto a disc.
I think this is the kind of bravery we need to see in football, allied to skill and game intelligence.
Hi Steve. The main thing that you are mentioning here is DECISION-MAKING; both are completed successfully and require playing confidence. i agree that Mignolet’s decision was unnecessary and safety is a priority in such situations. The second situation stems from the players’ individual skill, their confidence and the playing culture in which they have been developed. Here, safety means distance clearances because our players have been told to perform in this way throughout their development years. Confidence to play the game and to make correct decisions is unlikely to be part of British football development because learning the game from day one is about making decisions on the basis of fear and not foresight.
The first is obviously stupid!
The second is an example of ‘foreign’ bravery… which they often demonstrate… and highlights points made by John.
Agree quite brilliant…loved the screening, and the clever subtle in-ball …a clear example which reposes the question…would we be brave…or would our defenders at least at one of two or three points kick it long?
I am siting here, in quiet contemplation drinking a coffee thinking about how in the country of Shakespeare of that mellifluous verse, the absolute magnificence of his language , the English and the poor buggers who’ve copied them, can play or advocate such a debased version of Pele’s beautiful game.
How on earth was this allowed to happen and propagate… why was Charles – the Brazilians have got it wrong – Hughes NOT CHALLENGED sufficiently.
I am reminded John C of the old saying ‘ you can’t be a prophet in your own country’, but please John keep trying, encouraging us to be BRAVE.
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Half-submerged tugboat at Vizhinjam to be lifted
Bureau News Shipping April 4, 2019
By Sradha Meloot
An abandoned tugboat that sank at Seaward Wharf of Vizhinjam Port, spilling oil and fuel, will be lifted soon by experts from a Kochi-based shipping company.
As the crews prepare the daunting task of lifting the 360-tonne MV Brahmekshara, the possibility of spreading the remaining 4,000 liters of fuel and oil from the half submerged tugboat looms large over the marine life and environment.
It was in 2015 that the damaged tugboat which was returning from Maldives enroute to Tuticorin was allowed to anchor at Vizhinjam as it was short of fresh water. Later, the owner allegedly abandoned it due to financial difficulties. A huge bank loan taken by the owner had also come as a major hurdle for removing the tugboat from Vizhinjam Seaward Wharf, affecting the construction of the Coast Guard berth. Adding to the woes of the authorities, it partially submerged in November last year, spilling oil and fuel to the sea water.
Now, the bank authorities who approached Mumbai High Court for auctioning the tubboat had entrusted a Kochi-based company to lift the tugboat.
Mr Santhosh Kumar.S, Managing Director of the Excellent Shipbuilders, told Kadapuram News that their team and equipment were on the way and it was expected to take ten days to lift the 360-tonne tugboat.
”It is not an easy task. Several risk factors are involved in it. Our task is to lift the half submerged tugboat and we are not authorised to do anythingelse,” he said
”We cannot predict an oil leakage while lifting the submerged vessel, he said, adding that they would start work within two days. ”If there is any oil leakage, then we will have to look into it,” he added.
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Environmentalists expressed concern that the process of repositioning the tug might release more diesel and pollutants into the water. They urged the authorities to take effective steps to ensure steps to contain further oil spill.
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Yassine Balbzioui: Half Flying
14 November - 22 December 2018 Berlin
Private View: 13th of November
Mysterious masked figures and creatures appear from shadowy backgrounds as if walking in from another universe or time. Yassine Balbzioui invites the viewer into the world of the in-between, the point where reality and the imagination meet. In this space, anything is possible, be it birds dressed in suits or the state of Half Flying. The Moroccan-based artist’s debut exhibition at the Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin presents a new body of work that challenges all distinctions.
Balbzioui’s work is typically theatrical, humorous and multilayered. Drawing on his own experience of performance, Balbzioui imagines scenes cinematically and often photographs subjects wearing masks and costumes. These images form the catalyst for an idea, eventually emerging as the curious characters we see in the artist’s paintings. Furthermore, the deliberate obscuring of identity opens up a multitude of possible narratives and associations. We might, for example, interpret the wearing of a mask as an act of hiding or deceit, or as a declaration of freedom in which the individual transcends the boundaries of their physicality to experiment with new ways of being. Thus, Balbzioui evades explanation, encouraging us to view without preconceptions. “I don’t want to teach people. I want people to be curious, I want people to ask questions,” commented the artist. “Each painting, contains three or four stories, not just one.”
The striking portrait of “Yellow Boy” depicts a small boy standing in a pose of apparent dejection. Wearing a yellow mask and hood with a cape tied around his neck, we instantly recognise the costume of a super hero. Take a closer look at the cape and we see that the fabric is patterned with what we might imagine are the illustrations of the boy’s fantasies. All of these things are typical of child’s play and yet there is a palpable sadness in the painting, as if the boy is coming to terms with the very real realisation that he cannot fly. He is stuck at the cusp of an imagined world — an example of Balbzioui’s in-between spaces — which he can never enter into or fully materialise. In this way, we see the dark underside and frustrations of not just Balbzioui’s dream worlds, but of all dream worlds in the sense that they are always unattainable except within our minds.
This is also evident in “Hiding With Love.” At once evoking a classical setting — reminiscent of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet — and a strange no-place with a blackened background, the painting is imbued with tragic humour. The figure is reclining, clutching a bouquet of flowers and wearing a floral balaclava in half-disguise, whilst parrots perch around him. The birds — a recurring motif in Balbzioui’s work — are both symbolic of flight and the character’s inability to fly, whilst their ostentatious colours mock any attempts at hiding.
The same classical style sofa reappears in “Waiting for Action Movie”, a painting which also further illustrates the multiple layers at play in Balbzioui’s work. If we take the title into consideration, we might assume that the balaclava-wearing characters are actors waiting in-between takes. Caught in a limbo off set, the figures are half in character, half not; whilst they are still wearing their costumes, they show awareness of being looked at by posing for the “camera”, or the artist’s paintbrush. Thinking about contemporary culture and photography, we might consider how we play roles in our everyday lives, perhaps even as we enter a gallery to view artwork.
Balbzioui’s video performances further animate the theme of role playing. In the short film ‘The Fish Inside Me’, we see a masked figure attempting to row across a makeshift sea in a plastic wash tub with wooden sticks for oars. Whilst an amusing image, the painful noise of the tub scraping along the ground combined with the fixed gaze of the mask creates an unsettling atmosphere. The figure appears physically otherworldly and yet his inability to unleash his inner fish is marked by the volume of the sound, as if voicing his frustration. In the video ‘Khalimna’, the performers engage more explicitly in the absurd. Here we have figures wearing giant, colourful animal masks riding around on bicycles in the woods, a man wiggling across the ground in a silver tube, another man attempting to read whilst milk is poured onto his head, a man wearing a lion mask in a paddling pool, two men pillow fighting wearing tights as long, thin trunks whilst a sped-up audio track plays in the background. At several points in the video, the third-wall of performance is broken down as we see the actors laughing at themselves or the images that surround them, encouraging us to view the artwork as an experiment in fun.
We see the bird motif return in “Queen hate jumping” in which the characters appear to be dressed for performance as an ostrich, and in the large-scale mural “Crazy Clouds”, but here man and bird have combined to form a hybrid creature which takes centre stage in a hallucinogenic landscape of bright colours and swirling images. We might wonder whether this is the artist is offering us a wry solution to the limitations of humanity. “Humour is so important,” commented Balbzioui, “because it opens the door to more possibilities.”
Indeed, Half Flying is an exhibition that presents us, most significantly, with possibility. The possibility to exist in two worlds and states at the same time, to avoid definition or finality, and to float between. At a time when contemporary culture increasingly demands that we split ourselves between work and home, our real and digital lives, Balbzioui’s work offers us a place to remain still and contemplate different ways of being.
Yassine Balbzioui
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Nick Vigil #59 of the Cincinnati Bengals reacts after forcing and recovering a fumble during the first quarter of the game against the Cleveland Browns at FirstEnergy Stadium on December 8, 2019 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Kirk Irwin/Getty Images)
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – Former Utah State and current Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Nick Vigil picked up his second interception of his career in the Bengals loss to the Cleveland Browns.
He tackled Browns tight end David Njoku and ripped the ball away and took off down the field for 34 yards. Vigil also had 4 tackles and 2 pass deflections.
Here is how all of the players with ties to the state of Utah fared during Week 14 of the NFL season.
Former Utes
Star Lotulelei, DT, Buffalo Bills (9-4)
Lotulelei had one tackle in the Bills’ 24-17 loss to the Baltimore Ravens.
Next Up: at Pittsburgh Steelers (8-5), Sunday at 6:20 p.m. on KSL TV.
Devontae Booker, RB, Denver Broncos (5-8)
The former Ute caught two passes for 24 yards in the Broncos’ 38-24 win over the Houston Texans.
Next Up: at Kansas City Chiefs (9-4), Sunday at 11 a.m. on CBS.
Garett Bolles, OL, Denver Broncos (5-8)
Bolles started at left tackle and played in all 59 snaps on offense in the Broncos win over the Houston Texans.
Tim Patrick, WR, Denver Broncos (5-8)
Patrick caught two passes for 50 yards in the Broncos win over the Houston Texans.
Sam Tevi, OL, Los Angeles Chargers (5-8)
Tevi started at right tackle and played in 57 snaps on offense and 7 on special teams in the Chargers win over the Jacksonville Jaguars, 45-10.
Next Up: vs. Minnesota Vikings (9-4), Sunday at 2:05 p.m. on CBS.
Eric Weddle, S, Los Angeles Rams (8-5)
The former Utah DB picked up 8 tackles and a quarterback hit for the Rams in their 28-12 win over the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday Night Football.
Next Up: at Dallas Cowboys (6-7), Sunday at 2:25 p.m. on FOX.
Eric Rowe, CB, Miami Dolphins (3-10)
Rowe started at safety and led the Dolphins with 9 tackles, while forcing a fumble in their 22-21 loss to the New York Jets.
Next Up: at New York Giants (2-10), Sunday at 11 a.m. on CBS.
Marcus Williams, S, New Orleans Saints (10-3)
Williams had four tackles and one pass deflection in the Saints’ 48-46 loss to the San Francisco 49ers.
Next Up: vs. Indianapolis Colts (6-7), Monday at 6:15 p.m. on ESPN.
Mitch Wishnowsky, P, San Francisco 49ers (11-2)
Wishnowsky punted the ball three times for 134 yards, averaging 44.7 yards per kick. His longest punt was 49 yards. The 49ers beat the New Orleans Saints.
Next Up: vs. Atlanta Falcons (4-9), Sunday at 2:25 p.m. on FOX.
Marquise Blair, S, Seattle Seahawks (10-3)
Blair had one tackle on special teams for the Seahawks in their 28-12 loss to the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday Night Football.
Next Up: at Carolina Panthers (5-8), Sunday at 11 a.m. on FOX.
Cody Barton, LB, Seattle Seahawks (10-3)
Barton started at linebacker and racked up four tackles and a pass deflection as the Seahawks lost 28-12 to the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday Night Football.
Matt Gay, K, Tampa Bay Buccaneers (6-7)
Gay made his only field goal attempt from 44-yards and nailed all five extra point attempts in the Buccaneers’ 38-35 win over the Indianapolis Colts.
Next Up: at Detroit Lions (3-9-1), Sunday at 11 a.m. on FOX.
Matt is GOOD from 44 yards out 🙌 pic.twitter.com/ELJKZMa3W1
— Tampa Bay Buccaneers (@Buccaneers) December 8, 2019
Tony Bergstrom, OL, Washington Redskins (3-10)
Bergstrom played 13 snaps on offense and 2 on special teams as the Redskins lost to the Green Bay Packers, 20-15.
Next Up: vs. Philadelphia Eagles (5-7), Sunday at 11 a.m. on FOX.
Nate Orchard, LB, Washington Redskins (3-10)
Orchard picked up one tackle for the Redskins in their loss to the Green Bay Packers.
Former Cougars
Sione Takitaki, LB, Cleveland Browns (6-7)
The rookie linebacker finished with two tackles for the Browns in their win over the Bengals.
Next Up: at Arizona Cardinals (3-9-1), Sunday at 2:05 p.m. on CBS.
Jamaal Williams, RB, Green Bay Packers (10-3)
Williams ran the ball 7 times for 24 yards in the Packers’ 20-15 win over the Washington Redskins.
Next Up: vs. Chicago Bears (7-6), Sunday at 11 a.m. on FOX.
Daniel Sorensen, S, Kansas City Chiefs (9-4)
The former Cougar had two tackles and a quarterback hit in the Chiefs’ 23-16 win over the New England Patriots.
Next Up: vs. Denver Broncos (5-8), Sunday at 11 a.m. on CBS.
Michael Davis, CB, Los Angeles Chargers (5-8)
Davis served the second game of his two-game suspension in the Chargers’ 45-10 win over the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Kyle Van Noy, LB, New England Patriots (10-3)
Van Noy racked up five tackles in the Patriots’ loss to the Kansas City Chiefs.
Next Up: at Cincinnati Bengals (1-12), Sunday at 11 a.m. on CBS.
Taysom Hill, QB, New Orleans Saints (10-3)
Hill ran the ball 5 times for 13 yards, passed the ball once that was incomplete and caught a pass for 12 yards in the Saints loss to the San Francisco 49ers.
#ProBowlVote @T_Hill4
— New Orleans Saints (@Saints) December 8, 2019
Harvey Langi, New York Jets (5-8)
Langi picked up one tackle on special teams in the Jets’ 22-21 win over the Miami Dolphins.
Next Up: at Baltimore Ravens (11-2), Thursday at 6:20 p.m. on FOX/NFL Network.
Fred Warner, LB, San Francisco 49ers (11-2)
Warner recorded three tackles and a pass deflection in the 49ers win over the New Orleans Saints.
Ezekiel Ansah, DE, Seattle Seahawks (10-3)
Ansah was inactive for the Seahawks in their loss to the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday Night Football.
Former Aggies
Tyler Larsen, OL, Carolina Panthers (5-8)
Larsen and the Panthers lost to the Atlanta Falcons, 40-20.
Next Up: vs. Seattle Seahawks (10-3), Sunday at 11 a.m. on FOX.
Patrick Scales, LS, Chicago Bears (7-6)
Scales participated in 9 plays as the long snapper for the Bears in their win over the Dallas Cowboys on Thursday Night Football.
Next Up: at Green Bay Packers (10-3), Sunday at 11 a.m. on FOX.
Nick Vigil, LB, Cincinnati Bengals (1-12)
The former Aggie had one interception for 34 yards. He also had 4 tackles and 2 pass deflections in the Bengals’ 27-19 loss to the Cleveland Browns.
Next Up: vs. New England Patriots (10-3), Sunday at 11 a.m. on CBS.
Vigil takes it right from him. Our 🏈#CINvsCLE | #SeizeTheDEY pic.twitter.com/mjCggPArRV
— Cincinnati Bengals (@Bengals) December 8, 2019
Kyler Fackrell, LB, Green Bay Packers (10-3)
Fackrell picked up two tackles along with a combined sack in the Packers win over the Washington Redskins.
Darwin Thompson, RB, Kansas City Chiefs (9-4)
The rookie running back had 4 carries for 7 yards and hauled in 4 receptions for 36 yards in the Chiefs’ 23-16 win over the New England Patriots.
JoJo Natson, WR, Los Angeles Rams (8-5)
Natson was inactive for the Rams in their win over the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday Night Football.
Dallin Leavitt, S, Oakland Raiders (6-7)
Leavitt and the Raiders lost to the Tennessee Titans.
Next Up: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars (4-9), Sunday at 2:05 p.m. on CBS.
Nevin Lawson, CB, Oakland Raiders (6-7)
Lawson had a pass deflection in the Raiders’ 42-21 loss to the Tennessee Titans.
Bobby Wagner, LB, Seattle Seahawks (10-3)
Wagner had a game high 14 tackles, including 11 solo tackles for the Seahawks in their loss to the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday Night Football.
Donald Penn, OL, Washington Redskins (3-10)
Penn started at left tackle and played in all 65 snaps on offense as the Redskins lost to the Green Bay Packers, 20-15.
Former Wildcats
Taron Johnson, CB, Buffalo Bills (9-4)
Johnson picked up three tackles for the Bills in their loss to the Baltimore Ravens.
Former Thunderbirds
Miles Killebrew, S, Detroit Lions (3-9-1)
Killebrew played 24 snaps on special teams as the Lions lost to the Minnesota Vikings, 20-7.
Next Up: vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (6-7), Sunday at 11 a.m. on FOX.
LeShaun Sims, CB, Tennessee Titans (8-5)
Sims was inactive for the Titans in their 42-21 win over the Oakland Raiders.
Next Up: vs. Houston Texans (8-5), Sunday at 11 a.m. on CBS.
Former High School Stars
Dalton Schultz, TE, Dallas Cowboys (6-7)
The Bingham alum played 3 snaps on offense and 10 on special teams in the Cowboys loss to the Chicago Bears on Thursday Night Football.
Next Up: vs. Los Angeles Rams (8-5), Sunday at 2:25 p.m. on FOX.
Xavier Su’a-Filo, OL, Dallas Cowboys (6-7)
The former Timpview star started at left guard for the Cowboys and played in all 73 snaps on offense in their 31-24 loss to the Chicago Bears on Thursday Night Football.
Andre James, OL, Oakland Raiders (6-7)
James was inactive for the Raiders in their loss to the Tennessee Titans.
John Ursua, WR, Seattle Seahawks (SNF)
Ursua and the Seahawks face the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday Night Football.
Porter Gustin, DE, Cleveland Browns (6-7)
The former Salem Hills star picked up one tackle for the Browns in their win over the Bengals.
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Uganda Starts Largest-Ever Ebola Vaccine Trial
Uganda has started its largest Ebola vaccine trial to date, health authorities announced Monday, in an apparent effort to prevent the disease from spreading. An epidemic across the border in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo has killed over 1,800 people, making this outbreak the second-deadliest to date, with fatality rates…
Ugandan Activist Sentenced for Vulgar Poem About President
In a cacophonous sentencing hearing filled with profanity and nudity, a Ugandan court has found activist Stella Nyanzi guilty of “cyber harassment” for posting a poem on Facebook that harshly criticized President Yoweri Museveni. Nyanzi was sentenced Friday to 18 months in Luzira Women’s Prison, in suburban Kampala. She has…
Saudi Arabia Women’s Rights Reforms May Still Be Thwarted by Custom
Saudi officials have hailed as “historic” new rights granted to women in Saudi Arabia that further dismantle its heavily criticized guardianship system, but male relatives could still find ways to thwart these freedoms. Thousands of Saudi women took to social media to celebrate royal decrees on Friday that allow women…
Hope and Hopelessness in South Africa’s Record Unemployment
Unemployment in South Africa has hit a 16-year high of 29 percent, according to the nation’s statistics bureau. Newly re-elected President Cyril Ramaphosa swore his top priority would be job creation. But analysts and jobseekers alike say that he needs to address deep rifts within his party before he can…
Two Mass Shootings Renew Focus on Gun Violence in US
After two mass shootings in a span of 13 hours, there have now been more than 250 such events this year in which at least four people were shot or killed, besides the shooter. Officials in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, report 29 fatalities and at least 50 injured…
US, UN Condemn IS-Claimed Attack on Afghan Media Workers
The United States and the United Nations have condemned an Islamic State-claimed deadly bombing against a minibus transporting media professionals in Afghanistan. Afghan officials said the bus was carrying staff of privately-run Khorshid TV in Kabul on Sunday when a bomb placed inside the vehicle went off. The blast killed…
Nigeria to Allow Shia Leader to Leave Jail for Medical Care
A Nigerian court on Monday granted the leader of the country’s main Shia group, Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, permission to leave prison in order to travel abroad for medical treatment. Abdullahi Usman a spokesman for the group told The Associated Press that the court granted Zakzaky and his wife medical leave…
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The Mexican government plans to evaluate the possibility of extraditing the U.S. man accused of killing 20 people, including six Mexican citizens, in El Paso over the weekend and hopes the shooting will result in changes to America’s gun laws. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday that Mexico will…
Russia’s Putin Slams US Nuclear Treaty Withdrawal
Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country will not deploy short- or medium-range nuclear weapons unless in response to U.S. deployments. His comments Monday come after a meeting with his security council concerning Washington’s withdrawal Friday from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. Putin says “our actions will be exclusively…
Nigerian School Girls Learn Technology During Summer Break
Nigerian technologist Chinenye Udeh wants to ensure schoolgirls learn Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for summer. Udeh says she is trying to boost gender parity in technology in Africa’s most populous nation, where less than 20 percent of women are involved in the industry. Girls between the ages of five…
India Scraps Kashmir’s Decades-Old Special Status Amid Massive Security Clampdown
In a far-reaching move, India’s Hindu nationalist government has scrapped the special autonomous status given to Kashmir for decades, sparking fears of a backlash in its only Muslim-majority region. Hours after a massive security clampdown in the state, Home Minister Amit Shah told parliament Monday that the president had signed…
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01 MAY 2017 - ST. PAUL, MN: Immigrants' rights protesters in the rotunda of the Minnesota State Capitol. About 300 people, representing immigrants' and workers' rights organizations, marched through the Minnesota State Capitol during a demonstration to mark May Day, International Workers' Day. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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Re-investigation and RNA sequencing-based identification of genes with placenta-specific imprinted expression
Hiroaki Okae, Hitoshi Hiura, Yuichiro Nishida, Ryo Funayama, Satoshi Tanaka, Hatsune Chiba, Nobuo Yaegashi, Keiko Nakayama, Hiroyuki Sasaki, Takahiro Arima
Within the vertebrate groups, only mammals are subject to a specialized epigenetic process termed genomic imprinting in which genes are preferentially expressed from one parental allele. Imprinted expression has been reported for >100 mouse genes and, for approximately one-quarter of these genes, the imprinted expression is specific to the placenta (or extraembryonic tissues). This seemingly placenta-specific imprinted expression has garnered much attention, as has the apparent lack of conserved imprinting between the human and mouse placenta. In this study, we used a novel approach to re-investigate the placenta-specific expression using embryo transfer and trophoblast stem cells. We analyzed 20 genes previously reported to show maternal allele-specific expression in the placenta, and only 8 genes were confirmed to be imprinted. Other genes were likely to be falsely identified as imprinted due to their relatively high expression in contaminating maternal cells. Next, we performed a genome-wide transcriptome assay and identified 133 and 955 candidate imprinted genes with paternal allele- and maternal allele-specific expression. Of those we analyzed in detail, 1/6 (Gab1) of the candidates for paternal allele-specific expression and only 1/269 (Ano1) candidates for maternal allele-specific expression were authentically imprinted genes. Imprinting of Ano1 and Gab1 was specific to the placenta and neither gene displayed allele-specific promoter DNA methylation. Imprinting of ANO1, but not GAB1, was conserved in the human placenta. Our findings impose a considerable revision of the current views of placental imprinting.
https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddr488
RNA Sequence Analysis
Genetic Epigenesis
Genomic Imprinting
Trophoblasts
Okae, H., Hiura, H., Nishida, Y., Funayama, R., Tanaka, S., Chiba, H., ... Arima, T. (2012). Re-investigation and RNA sequencing-based identification of genes with placenta-specific imprinted expression. Human Molecular Genetics, 21(3), 548-558. [ddr488]. https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddr488
Re-investigation and RNA sequencing-based identification of genes with placenta-specific imprinted expression. / Okae, Hiroaki; Hiura, Hitoshi; Nishida, Yuichiro; Funayama, Ryo; Tanaka, Satoshi; Chiba, Hatsune; Yaegashi, Nobuo; Nakayama, Keiko; Sasaki, Hiroyuki; Arima, Takahiro.
In: Human Molecular Genetics, Vol. 21, No. 3, ddr488, 01.02.2012, p. 548-558.
Okae, H, Hiura, H, Nishida, Y, Funayama, R, Tanaka, S, Chiba, H, Yaegashi, N, Nakayama, K, Sasaki, H & Arima, T 2012, 'Re-investigation and RNA sequencing-based identification of genes with placenta-specific imprinted expression', Human Molecular Genetics, vol. 21, no. 3, ddr488, pp. 548-558. https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddr488
Okae H, Hiura H, Nishida Y, Funayama R, Tanaka S, Chiba H et al. Re-investigation and RNA sequencing-based identification of genes with placenta-specific imprinted expression. Human Molecular Genetics. 2012 Feb 1;21(3):548-558. ddr488. https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddr488
Okae, Hiroaki ; Hiura, Hitoshi ; Nishida, Yuichiro ; Funayama, Ryo ; Tanaka, Satoshi ; Chiba, Hatsune ; Yaegashi, Nobuo ; Nakayama, Keiko ; Sasaki, Hiroyuki ; Arima, Takahiro. / Re-investigation and RNA sequencing-based identification of genes with placenta-specific imprinted expression. In: Human Molecular Genetics. 2012 ; Vol. 21, No. 3. pp. 548-558.
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15 Fun Running Games to Encourage Physical Activity
December 16, 2019 November 26, 2019 by Tony
Running is one of the best forms of physical activity for kids. It improves their cardiovascular fitness, strengthens muscles, builds strong bones, reduces feelings of stress, and provides many other health benefits.
But even the enthusiastic and energetic child will eventually become bored with running laps around a track or in the gym. The best solution is to teach your children a variety of fun running games. These types of games can keep children entertained for hours and make it much easier for them to obtain the exercise they need to stay healthy.
In this guide, I’m going to share my top 15 fun running games to encourage physical activity. These games are easy-to-learn, highly addictive, and guaranteed to make your children more physically active.
Fun Running Games to Encourage Physical Activity
Know the kid’s limits. Make sure it’s not too hot out and make sure kids get enough water while playing these running games.
#1 – Scavenger Hunt
This classic game is incredibly exciting and very popular amongst young children. The objective of Scavenger Hunt is to solve a series of clues to find the ‘treasure’.
To play Scavenger Hunt, you will need:
A large outdoor space with landmarks
A set of clues
How to play Scavenger Hunt:
Start by creating a set of clues. Each clue should direct the children to the next clue until eventually, they reach the treasure. Some clues specific (“Run to the drinking fountain”) and others more cryptic (“Get up now and walk on your feet, find the next clue beneath a seat”).
Give the kids the first clue and have them run to that destination.
Once they arrive, they must find and decipher the next clue and before moving to that destination. Eventually, they will find the “treasure”, which can be candy or a toy.
Because there is a prize at the end, the children will be running as fast as they can — using up a lot of energy and improving their fitness. To make the game more interesting, make some clues that have multiple potential answers. This will split the group up, giving some of the slower runners a chance to find the clue first and take the lead. Check out our nature scavenger hunt riddles.
#2 – Flag Football
The game has all of the fun of football without the collisions! It is played in a similar way to American football, except there is no tackling. Instead, people will pull a flag off of a player’s belt to signify that they have been tackled.
There are also several other differences, like no kicking and the fact that you can’t run the ball when you are within five yards of a touchdown. The rules are designed to be simple, which makes it a great game for children to play.
To play Flag Football, you will need:
A flag football set
A football
A large open area to play, which can be marked out using cones
At least 10 players (5 per team).
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How to play Flag Football:
There are several variations of flag football, but the most common way to play it is:
Choose a large open playing field. The size of the field can vary slightly based on the number of players. If you have 7-9 players per team, a field measuring 80 yards by 40 yards with 10-yard end zones and a halfway line marked out. Feel free to use a smaller field if you have fewer players.
Split the players into two teams and choose a captain on each team. The quarterback is often a good choice for captain, as they direct their team around the field.
Before starting, decide how long the game should be. Two halves of between 10 to 25 minutes in length usually work well.
Flip a coin to determine who starts with the ball. Play starts with a team holding the ball on their five-yard line.
The team with the ball will have three plays to make it to the halfway line. If they do so, they get another three plays to score a touchdown. Remember that teams cannot run the ball when they are within 5 yards of the opponent’s end zone, they must pass it. Additionally, the quarterback cannot run unless he has been rushed.
Teams receive 6 points for every touchdown under 50 yards and 7 points for touchdowns over 50 yards.
If the team does not score a touchdown, the other team gets the ball and starts playing from their own 5-yard line.
You can read the official rules here or simplified rules for kids here.
If you want flag football sounds like something you want to try, you will need a flag football kit. It consists of field markers and belts with detachable flags. This kit from Stumptown Sportz is a great choice because it includes belts for 14 players with 3 flags per belt.
#3 – Sharks and Minnows
This kid’s running game is similar to capture the flag but much easier to learn. This makes it ideal for younger children who may struggle to learn the complex rules of CTF.
To play Sharks and Minnows, you will need:
A large rectangular playing area (a basketball court or half a soccer field is ideal). You can also use lines or cones to mark out a rectangular area that is ideal for the number of players you have.
How to play Sharks and Minnows:
Choose between one to four children to be the “sharks”. They will stand in the middle of the playing area
The rest of the children are “minnows”. They must attempt to cross the playing area. The minnows stand on one edge of the playing field.
The game starts with the sharks shouting “Fishy, fishy, fishy, come swim in my sea!!”.
The minnows respond with “Sharky, sharky, sharky, you can’t catch me!”, then they attempt to run from one side of the playing area to the other without being tagged.
When a minnow is tagged, they become a shark and will try to tag the other minnows.
The final one or two minnows are declared the winners and will start as sharks in the next round.
#4 – Solve The Puzzle
This is a challenging game that combines puzzle-solving with competitive running. The rules are extremely easy to learn, so kids of all ages can give it a go.
2 x large-sized jigsaw puzzles (less than 40 pieces each)
Colored envelopes to hold jigsaw pieces (a different color for each team)
A large outdoor playing area
How to play Solve The Puzzle:
Prepare for this game by placing all of the puzzle pieces into colored envelopes. The envelopes should be differently colored, so each team is seeking envelopes that look different.
Place the envelopes around the playing area, in fairly obvious locations
Divide the players into two teams and tell them which envelope color they are seeking
When you say go, the two teams will run as groups in search of their envelopes. When they find one, they will run back to the starting point and open it to reveal the jigsaw pieces. Once the pieces are placed, they will search for another envelope.
As they bring the pieces back to their home base, they combine the puzzle. The first team to complete the puzzle wins!
#5 – Pony Express
This fun running game is a fantastic way to introduce young children to competitive running. The concept is simple, so they will pick it up in minutes and will have the time of their lives as they try to outrun or catch their opponent.
To play Pony Express, you will need:
A large open space with a 25-foot diameter circle marked out on it using chalk or some rope
At least 6 players
Two batons (optional)
Start by dividing the children into two teams.
Have the teams line up on opposite sides of the circle. The first player should be standing on the circle line with the rest of the players standing behind him or her. The first player in the line holds the baton if you decided to use one.
When you say go, the first players on both teams will start running around the circle in a clockwise direction. They have two goals — either to reach their starting point and hand their baton to the next player without being tagged OR to tag their opponent.
If the player successfully makes it to their starting point and hands the baton off, they walk to the end of their team’s line and awaits their next go.
Play continues until one player manages to catch the player on the other team.
#6 – Capture The Flag Redux
Capture the flag is one of the most exhilarating kids running games. It is very strategic, competitive, and encourages teamwork. Capture the Flag “Redux” is an even more exciting version of the game which is designed to be played in the dark.
The goal of the game is to capture the other team’s flag from their base and bring it back to your own base. If you are tagged in enemy territory while trying to obtain the flag, you will be placed in jail. Fortunately, you can be freed if another teammate manages to tag you.
In Capture The Flag Redux, all players are wearing glow in the dark wrist bands, so it is easy to identify allies and enemies in the dark. The “flag” is actually a glowing orb and the jail is marked out with glowing beacons. It is a lot more strategic than normal to capture the flag because stealth is more of a factor when playing in the dark.
To play, you will need:
The Capture The Flag Redux Game which include glow in the dark wristbands, beacons, and jail markers
A large open space
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How to play Capture The Flag Redux:
Divide the playing area into two equal-sized territories (one for each team). Use string or chalk to mark where the territories begin. You can also use landmarks like trees, poles, and sidewalks to signify where territories end.
Divide the players into two equal teams
Each team sets up jail markers in their territory. This is the location where enemy players who are tagged in their territory will go
Give the teams an orb each, which they will hide somewhere in their territory. Once it is hidden, it cannot be moved by its home team and must always return to this location. Once placed, players cannot stand within 10 feet of their own orb unless an enemy player is touching the orb. This makes it easier for an enemy to grab the orb.
At the start of the game, the players will stand in a neutral area outside of the play area. When you say “Go” the game starts.
Players must attempt to locate and steal the enemy’s orb and take it to their own orb. If they are tagged while carrying the orb, they will go to jail. Any player tagged in enemy territory (with or without the orb) will also go to the enemy’s jail.
Players can be freed from the enemy’s jail by being tagged out of it. Players cannot stand within 10 feet of their team’s jail (which gives the enemy a better chance of freeing teammates).
Players who are in their own territory are safe and cannot be tagged.
When a team manages to steal the enemy’s orb and get it back to their own orb, they win a point. The orb is then returned to the enemy, who has 30 seconds to hide it before play resumes. The first to three points wins.
Various strategies can be used when playing. Some teams will designate players to be seekers (looking for the enemy orb) and guards (guarding the team’s orb). You can also have some players working as guards for the jail, who will attempt to stop jailbreaks.
#7 – Last Runner Out
If you are looking for a more competitive running game, try Last Runner Out. It was developed by Jim Stintzi as a training tool for cross-country runners. Last Runner Out is great for teaching kids how much fun competitive events can be.
To play Last Runner Out, you will need:
At least 3 participants
A running track or large outdoor area with a start/finish line
How to play Last Runner Out:
Have the participants line up at the start line.
When you say “Go” they will start running laps.
After a lap or two, yell out “Last Runner Out Next Lap!”
When the next lap is completed, the person who is last will be eliminated. The eliminated person must start running around the route in the opposite direction while the rest of the group keeps running.
At the end of each lap, the runner who is last will be eliminated, with the winner being the last person running.
#8 – Where To Run Next
This is a simplified version of Scavenger Hunt, which works well for groups of young children. It’s a great game for encouraging kids to run around like a pack and work as a team.
A large open area with various landmarks (statues, seats, trees, fountains, etc)
Some paper for writing clues
A bag to hold the clues
How to play Where To Run Next:
Start by writing clues onto several pieces of paper. These clues should be very simple, like “Run to the place where you drink water”, which would be a water fountain.
Have one of the players draw a clue from the bag. The entire group will then run to this location together
Once everyone has arrived, a different child draws the next clue.
Play continues until all of the clues have been used.
#9 -Suitcase Relay
This is one of the more unusual kid’s running games I’ve ever come across, but it is actually a TON of fun. In addition to testing a child’s running ability, it tests how quickly they can get dressed!
To play Suitcase Relay, you will need:
A small suitcase or bag for each team
Some random clothes to go into each suitcase (the weirder and more colorful the better)
How to play Suitcase Relay:
Divide the kids into teams of 2 to 4 players each
For each team, pack a suitcase that contains an equal number of clothes of similar types.
Designate a start and finish line. Half of the players from each team stand at the start line and the other half at the finish line. A suitcase containing clothes is placed at the start line for each team.
When you say go, the first child in each team at the start line will open their suitcase and put on the clothes that it contains, on top of their current clothes. They will then run to the finish line.
When they reach the finish line, they take off the clothes and give them to their teammate, who puts them on and runs back to the start line.
This continues until everyone in the team has had a chance to run.
The team that finished first is the winner.
#10 – Multiple Choice
This game requires clever thinking and great fitness levels. It is a useful running game because it can easily be customized to match the age and fitness levels of the children who are playing.
A large open area to play on
How to play Multiple Choice:
Start by writing a number of multiple-choice questions on separate pieces of paper. These questions can be relating to a subject that the children are currently studying or some trivia that the kids would find interesting.
Place the pieces of paper in several locations around the playing area.
The players must then run as a group to find each of the questions. When they find a question, one person will read it aloud and the group will decide on the correct answer.
The players will run back to your location and tell you their answers. If they are correct, they will move onto the next question. If not, they must perform some exercise or something unpleasant, like having a bucket of water thrown on them or licking a lemon! You could also make the kids do an embarrassing or funny dare for wrong answers.
You can also play this game with several smaller teams, awarding a prize to the team that answers the most questions correctly. Check out our article on fun paper games as well.
#11 – Laser Tag
Laser tag is a fun running game that most kids will happily play for many hours. The objective of the game is to shoot opposition players with a toy gun that shoots infrared beams. All players wear infrared-sensitive targets which track if they have been shot or not.
There are many ways to play laser tag, including team vs team, capture the flag, domination matches, and Battle Royale. You can choose the mode based on how many players are available and their ages.
To play Laser Tag, you will need:
A laser tag set (one gun and vest for each player)
An open area for the children to run around as they shoot each other
How to play Laser Tag:
Start by helping the kids into their laser tag vest and explaining how the laser tag gun works. Some guns have different firing modes, reloading mechanisms, and ammunition counts.
Explain the rules of the current mode you are playing
Give the children some time to take a position, then start your chosen game mode.
#12 – Egg and Spoon Race
This classic kids running game is action-packed, hilarious, and a lot of fun. While this game is usually played with real eggs, you can also use an egg and spoon race kit, which makes the game much less messy as you won’t be dealing with broken eggs. The rules for this game are extremely simple, which means children of all ages can play it.
A spoon and an egg for each player (or an egg and spoon playset)
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A sporting event: an egg-and-spoon race is staged as part of the annual sports day at many primary schools, participants must balance an egg or similarly shaped item upon a spoon and race with it to the finishing line, see how far they can run
How to play The Egg and Spoon Race:
Define start and finish lines for the race
Give each player a spoon and an egg.
When you are ready to start, tell the children to place the egg onto their spoon and to put their other hand behind their back
As soon as you say go, the children must race to the finish line, moving as fast as they can without dropping their egg.
If a child drops their egg, they must pick it up and start the race again from the start line.
The first child across the finish line without dropping their egg is the winner.
#13 – Tag
Every list of fun running games has to include Tag! It is the world’s most popular running game amongst children and played by millions of children each day. There are also some fantastic variations of Tag which make the game even more fun.
To play Tag, you will need:
A large, open space to run around in
How to play Tag:
At the start of the game, one player is nominated to be “It”. One of the best ways to choose it is to draw straws.
The “It” player will count to 10 while the other players move away.
After the count is up, the “It” player will attempt to tag another player. When they do so, the player they tagged will become the new “It”.
There is usually a rule of “no tag backs” which means the new “It” can’t tag the person who just tagged him or her. The game ends when all players are exhausted or when a truce has been called. A truce is usually something like “No more tags until tomorrow at lunchtime”. The game will continue the next day, with the last person who was “It” retaining the title the next day. It’s also common to have safe zones where tags cannot occur, like the classroom or lunch area.
There are many variations of tag, including:
Chain Tag
Each person who is tagged will join hands with the person who tagged them. They then run together to tag other people. You end up with a huge group of people holding hands and attempting to surround other players to tag them.
When the “It” player tags a person, they become frozen and cannot move. However, they are re-tagged by a non-It person to be unfrozen. The final person tagged becomes “It” for the next round.
The group splits into two teams, one being cops, the other being robbers. The cops must tag the robbers and send them to jail. The robbers must evade the cops and can also free their teammates from jail by tagging them one at a time. The game ends when the cops have placed all of the robbers in jails. Afterward, the teams will be swapped.
Zombie Tag
This is a type of survival tag. The game starts with one or two zombies who are attempting to “eat” the humans by tagging them. When they successfully tag a human, they become a zombie. Humans can defend themselves by hitting the zombies with soft objects (rolled-up socks or nerf bullets). After being hit by an object, the zombies must freeze for 10 to 15 seconds.
#14 – Water Balloon Relay
Another fun running game that is ideal for warm and sunny days. Young children find this game particularly fun and laugh their heads off when splashed with water.
To play Water Balloon Relay, you will need:
Some water balloons, filled with water
At least 4 children
How to play Water Balloon Relay:
Start by dividing the players into teams of between 2 to 4 players.
Mark out a start line. Make the distance short for young kids and longer for older ones.
Have a player from each team stand on the starting line with a water balloon. When you say “Go” they must run from the start line to the other side of the yard and return again without popping their water balloon. If they drop or burst their balloon, they must grab another one and run from the start line again.
If they make it back to the start line with balloon intact, they will hand it to the next player in their team, who will perform the same run.
The first team to finish wins.
Check out more fun relay race activities.
#15 – Fill the bucket
This simple game will test the children’s athleticism and ability to balance. It’s very easy to set up and a lot of fun. This game is very similar to the water balloon relay, but with the objective of filling a bucket with water.
To play Fill The Bucket, you will need:
Access to water
Cups and a bucket for each team
A large bucket to hold water
How to play Fill the Bucket:
Divide the players into teams of 2 to 4 players
Designate a start line and place an empty bucket (of identical size) about 15 to 20 feet in front of each team. Have another bucket under a hose that is full of water next to the start line.
Instruct the first runner in each team to fill their cup from the bucket.
When you say go, the team’s first runner will run to their empty bucket and pour their cup of water in, they will then run back to the starting point and hand the cup to their teammate.
The teammate will fill the empty cup from the bucket of water at the starting line. They will run to the team’s bucket and pour it in.
This process continues until one team has filled their bucket. They are declared the winner.
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Business Divorce Part III:
A Divorce Without Litigation
by Kevin Pratt
In Part I of our four-part Business Divorce series, we discussed the value of knowing your options when pursuing a business divorce. Part II discussed the opportunity cost of discovery. Now, in Part III, we will address resolving a business divorce without litigation.
Business litigation takes a significant amount of time and money. In most instances, litigating a business divorce through a verdict at trial runs counter to a business’s profitability goals. However, there are notable exceptions in which a business will benefit from litigation during a business divorce.
In this installment of our Business Divorce series, we will take a closer look at the calculus that goes into deciding whether to pursue a business divorce resolution without litigation, or whether to proceed to trial.
Business Litigation Alternatives: Arbitration and Mediation
In most cases, there are two alternatives to litigating a case through trial in open court: arbitration and mediation. There are benefits and drawbacks to each choice, and the best option depends on the specific details of your conflict and business divorce.
Arbitration is a method of dispute resolution involving one or more neutral third parties agreed to by the disputing parties, whose decision is binding and, in most cases, cannot be appealed. Many business contracts include an arbitration clause. Arbitration is a strong choice because it can be significantly faster and more economical. Also, the hearings are private. However, the informality that makes this process faster and less expensive also may make the decision hasty, which is complicated by the reality that, in many cases, there can be no appeal from an arbitrator’s decision.
Mediation is a method of non-binding dispute resolution involving a neutral third-party who tries to help the disputing parties reach a mutually agreeable solution. Like arbitration, mediation is private as well as less costly and less time-consuming than a trial. Unlike arbitration, the two parties work together as a team to find a solution. The process is less rigid and creative problem-solving is often used. The downside of mediation is that it requires two relatively friendly and open parties who are willing to work together and compromise as well as a skilled, experienced, and unbiased mediator.
Nine Questions Businesses Should Ask Before Deciding On Litigation
Taking another party to court is a big decision that could have serious consequences for your business, especially if the trial is related to a business divorce. Winning a case can be a boon, but it could also cost you time and resources that ultimately harm your company. Losing a case can be a huge setback that could even shutter your business.
When deciding whether to litigate a business divorce through trial, businesses should ask and answer the following questions:
Is there potential value with the threat of litigation versus the reality of litigation?
The uncertainties and costs of litigation may motivate an adverse party to be more accommodating in pre-litigation negotiations than the party otherwise would be if a lawsuit is underway. On the other hand, be careful not to threaten litigation if you are unwilling to follow through with the action when negotiations go bad.
Will litigation prevent immediate harm?
For example, if the adverse party is pursuing key customers, employees, records, or trade secrets, then a business owner may be forced to move immediately to protect those vital interests through active litigation. Otherwise, the business could be irreparably harmed by doing nothing.
Should litigation be pursued to force a break-up?
If it has become impossible for the owners to conduct business together, then a business owner may be forced to pursue a judicial dissolution of her company through an active litigation posture. This may be especially true if the other party is not willing to work with you on a solution.
Is there a possibility of your company becoming a defendant?
This question is counterintuitive because when you, as the business owner, are deciding whether to go to trial, you necessarily focus on all the ways you have been aggrieved. However, every business owner owes it to herself to evaluate whether and to what extent the adverse party will claim you aggrieved them. Understanding, and accepting the possibility of, an adverse verdict against you on a counterclaim must be considered before going to trial.
What is the respective financial strength of each party?
If there is a resource discrepancy between the parties, then the party with greater resources may derive a tactical benefit from pursuing litigation. There may be value in the threat of litigation if one party has significantly more resources.
How important is time in resolving the dispute?
If the parties are concerned about a protracted business divorce resolution and its impact on the business’s viability, then the parties should consider an alternative dispute resolution because these alternatives adjudicate the dispute more quickly.
How important is confidentiality?
Confidentiality is maintained more easily through an alternative dispute resolution. However, if a party strongly desires to publicize the alleged wrongdoings of an adverse party, then a trial in open court likely will be more desirable.
How complicated and technical are the relevant business issues?
The more complicated an issue, the more value in resolving your business divorce through alternative dispute resolution because, in most instances, a third-party mediator agreed upon by both parties will have a better understanding of the sophisticated business issues than a judge, whose background may not be business-oriented.
Would the business divorce be resolved through equitable relief granted by a court?
Understanding what type of relief is being sought, i.e., your preferred outcome in the divorce is critical in evaluating whether to pursue a trial in open court or an alternative dispute resolution. Judges may be better suited to grant equitable remedies, such as a temporary restraining order, a permanent injunction, or specific performance.
Discuss Your Business Divorce Legal Options With The Attorneys At Lincoln Derr
The team of business divorce attorneys at Lincoln Derr can help your business analyze the cost-benefit of the alternative dispute resolution process by analyzing your business divorce and helping you answer the above questions. Our experience includes trying hundreds of cases to verdict. Each of the above questions highlight which dispute resolution is most likely to provide your business with the preferred outcome. Once we understand your business dispute, its preferred outcome, and the best path to resolution, we will get to work.
To ask our North Carolina business attorneys a question, learn more about our legal services, or schedule a meeting, please contact Lincoln Derr today.
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Business Divorce Part IV: Litigating a Business Divorce
by Jeremy Sugg | Feb 22, 2018
In part four of our four-part series on business divorce, we discuss what happens when all else fails in pursuing a North Carolina business divorce and you’re forced to consider the last resort: litigation.
Business Divorce Part II: The Opportunity Cost of Discovery
by Lincoln Derr | May 23, 2017
For the second part in our business divorce series we address the opportunity cost of informal and formal discovery.
Business Divorce Part I: Know Your Options
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It’s vital to understand your options when dissolving a business in North Carolina. Part one of our four-part series on business divorce.
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I'm looking to do some rides further afield this year, to explore some roads I haven't been on before, but still close enough that it could be done as a reasonable day trip. I bought a book called 'Lost Lanes' (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-Lanes-Glorious-Southern-South-East/dp/0957157312 ) for inspiration. It's got 30-odd routes around the south-east of England, but is more geared up for people going at a leisurely pace and not necessarily on a lightweight road bike: many of the rides are under 30 miles long and feature off-road sections. Also, the rides tend to start and finish at railway stations, but I think it's probably easier and cheaper to drive (as otherwise you'd have to ride to/from Paddington or Waterloo or wherever before and after the train journeys to/from the actual ride). So I've used the some of the rides in the book as a starting point, but re-routed and elongated them and often chosen a more suitable starting point. The idea is that all of them should be less than a two-hour drive away.
These are the routes I've got:
Kent/Sussex - 55 miles to/from Shadoxhurst (near Ashford), 1 hr 20 min drive down the M20, mostly flat, heading through Romney marshes, to the coast in the shingle wilderness of Dungeness, and passing through Rye. You could get a very fast train from Stratford to Ashford, but it's pricey. https://www.strava.com/routes/12125522
West Sussex South Downs - 53 miles to/from Blackdown (near Haslemere), heaths, woods, hills, probably covering some of the route of the Velo South event (I haven't actually checked) the route fiendishly finishes with a climb to the highest point in Sussex. You could get a train to Haslemere from Waterloo / 1 hour 30 min drive down the A3 https://www.strava.com/routes/12125751
Hampshire - 40 miles to/from Easton (near Winchester), similar to the ride above but further west, 1 hr 40 mins down the M3 or train to Winchester from Waterloo. https://www.strava.com/routes/12125860
Thames Valley / The Chilterns - 48 miles to/from Stokenchurch (near High Wycombe), about 1 hr 10 mins up the M40 or train to HW from Marylebone. A ride of two very different parts: one hilly and the other flat. https://www.strava.com/routes/12130354
The Cotswolds - 64 miles to/from Combe (middle of nowhere beyond Oxford, quite near Blenheim). Nearly 2 hours' drive up the M40 / train from Paddington to Hanborough. A bit of a trek this one, but taking in loads of the famous places in the Cotswolds such as Burford, Lower Slaughter, Bourton-on-the-Water. Quite a bit of climbing. https://www.strava.com/routes/12131523
Herts / Chilterns - 47 miles to from Watton-at-Stone (near Hertford / Welwyn Garden City). This is the closest one, just 45 mins' drive up the A10 or a short train journey from Finsbury Park to Knebworth (or from Tottenham Hale to Hertford East). Gets quite hilly in places. https://www.strava.com/routes/12131733
Suffolk - 68 miles to/from Grundisburgh (beyond Ipswich). About 1 hr 40 min drive up the A12 or get the train from Liverpool Street to Ipswich. A long ride, but fairly flat, taking in the Suffolk countryside and then heading to the coast at Dunwich and Aldeburgh. https://www.strava.com/routes/12132818
I won't be doing any of these until the weather gets better, but hopefully will do approx one a month from April through to September. I'm happy to do them solo, but if there's interest in doing a B/C group pace club ride with various people driving, I'd be up for that.
TomOrr
Sounds good! I’d need plenty of warning though so I can smooth it with the wife/baby. I have a 3 bike bike rack in the back of the car too, and could probably get another in the back with a seat down, so could take another 2-3 people.
I was hoping to get started on these shortly, but unfortunately I've torn a calf muscle and will be off the bike for at least a month and then only building back up gradually, so I don't think these rides are likely to start until June now.
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April 30th, 2019 by Yast Team
While the openSUSE Conference 2019 is approaching, the YaST team is still busy not only fixing small bugs for the upcoming (open)SUSE releases but working on features and changes for later versions.
Although there is much more work behind this sprint, we will have a look at these changes in this report:
The first bits of the YaST Network refactoring have been submitted to factory.
AutoYaST gets support for specifying NFS shares in a sane way.
The Partitioner’s tree behaviour has been improved.
Libyui has been updated to support Qt 5.13 (do not miss the screenshots in this report).
The installer does not offer enabling autologin for text-only system roles.
But that’s not all. We have some pretty exciting news regarding the LibYUI Testing Framework which, hopefully, will reduce the hassle of maintaining YaST openQA tests in the future. If you are interested, we published a separate post a few days ago with all the details about this topic.
Submitting First Bits of the YaST Network Refactoring to Factory
yast2-network 4.2.2 is the first version which includes some code from the ongoing refactoring effort. As we announced in our last report, we have just started and there is a long road ahead of us, but you can see some results already in the routes management area.
Additionally to cleaning up and improving the codebase quality, we are fixing some bugs and introducing some minor enhancements along the process. For instance, version 4.2.2 permits to have multiple default routes and does not drop extra options for them.
If you want to know more details about the process, you might be interested in the kickstart meeting notes that we added to our repository a few days ago.
Auto-installation onto NFS Shares: the Sane Way
During the previous sprint, AutoYaST was powered again with the capability of installing onto an NFS share. That feature was available in SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 (and openSUSE 42.x) but, for several reasons, we did overlook it when the new storage stack was re-implemented for (open)SUSE 15.
The problem with this feature in older versions, apart of not being documented at all, is that it requires to use some hacks and a non-validating AutoYaST profile. For that reason, we have redesigned how NFS drives are described in the AutoYaST profile. With the new format, we have a drive section per each NFS share, for example,
<partitioning config:type="list">
<drive>
<device>192.168.1.1:/exports/root_fs</device>
<type config:type="symbol">CT_NFS</type>
<use>all</use>
<partitions config:type="list">
<partition>
<mount>/</mount>
<fstopt>nolock</fstopt>
</partition>
</partitions>
</drive>
</partitioning>
Although the old format is still supported to keep backward compatibility, we encourage you to use the new one for now on. And of course, this feature will be appropriately documented in the official (open)SUSE 15 documentation.
No Longer Offering Autologin for Text-Only System Roles
Autologin is a feature that most modern display managers (KDM, GDM, SDDM, LightDM) offer as a convenience function for home users. Users reported that YaST also provided this for the “Server (text only)” system role where that does not make sense, so we fixed that.
Yet Another Qt Version
This is not actually a big deal; there is another version of the Qt libs which we use for the graphical version of YaST. Now it’s Qt 5.13, and we needed to adapt some functions that have become obsolete in the meantime. Fortunately, Qt always provides drop-in replacements for things they obsolete, so this was mostly a pretty mechanical task to go through the warnings about functions or classes that are now obsolete and replace them with the new counterpart.
But how long have we been doing that? Quite a while, actually; it all started with Qt 2.x in late 1999 for SuSE Linux 6.3. That was the first YaST2. It already came in both a Qt version with a graphical user interface and in a text-only (NCurses) version.
Back then we were more advanced than the KDE of that time: KDE 1.x was still using Qt 1.x, and the first version of YaST2 already used Qt 2.x. We kept upgrading throughout all the Qt 2.x versions and in SuSE Linux 9.0 we jumped to Qt3, which looked like this.
And as you know, that’s not the end of the story. We have kept updating through all the Qt 3.x, Qt 4.x and now Qt 5.x versions, as you can see in the following screenshot of the upcoming openSUSE Leap 15.1. It’s been a while: almost 20 years of happy Qt usage, always up-to-date.
Improving the Partitioner UX
When it comes to UX, the tree of our new and shiny partitioner needed some love. We fixed an annoying issue which caused all the branches to be expanded after every change on any device. Besides that, we also changed the initial view. See the screenshot below in which sections -levels with icons like “Hard Disks” or “RAID”- are initially expanded and items representing devices are collapsed, not displaying, for example, the full list of partitions until the user decides to expand those.
However, the bad news is that these changes will not be available in (open)SUSE 15.1, although you can give it a try as soon as they land in Tumbleweed.
Let’s Talk about Multi-device Btrfs
The improved behavior of the navigation tree is not the only enhancement in the Partitioner we are preparing for the future (where “future” means Tumbleweed and the 15.2 releases of both SLE and openSUSE Leap). We also want to make possible to use the YaST Partitioner to define Btrfs file-systems that spread over several disks and partitions. That’s a pretty unique feature of Btrfs that combines at file-system level certain characteristics usually offered by software RAID and LVM.
But that also implies a quite different way of organizing the storage devices, which is a challenge to represent in the already complex user interface of the Expert Partitioner. So, first of all, we have put together this document describing all the struggles of representing advanced Btrfs features in the Partitioner, together with some possible solutions for the short and mid terms.
Please, feel free to provide feedback about the proposed solutions and to offer new ones. Help us to shape the future of the YaST interface!
As we mentioned at the beginning of this report, we owe you a blog post about the Libyui Testing Framework status. But as you wait for it, you might want to register for the openSUSE Conference or check the schedule.
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Day in the Life: George Field
I know lots of people say no two days are the same for them but for me that really is true. And that's because I don't work nine-to-five. I live in Comrie in Perthshire and clock up about 45,000 miles a year working for Air-serv covering Scotland, the North East, the Channel Islands, Isle of Man and some of their National Accounts.
My job is to secure installations for Air-serv's garage forecourt equipment. At Air-serv I have a great support network who take care of production, installation, paper work and finance so I am free to sell. I don't have routine hours so I might be processing orders in the morning then going to an appointment in the afternoon. I could be at a show or entertaining in the evening or I could be out on the road cold calling.
Networking is an important part of my job whether it's at a dinner like the APEA or the Forecourt Trader of the Year Awards, or shows like the PetroForum and the Forecourt Show at the NEC.
And that's why I love my job because it really is so varied. I've had my own company in the past so know how that works and working for Air-serv is very similar in that they just let me get on with it. As long as I report in with my figures every quarter, they are fine with that.
Right back to the very beginning, and my first job was selling high-pressure cleaners in London. I went for an interview; the boss took me to the back of his unit and demonstrated a high-pressure cleaner. That same day he put the cleaner in the back of a car and sent me to do a demonstration. I sold the machine, came back with a cheque and he gave me the job.
Later, it was while working for Anglia Cleaning Equipment, that I was introduced to garage forecourt equipment and loved the concept. I felt they were cash machines for my customers and for me.
I started my own business selling Anglia's pressure cleaners and J&S Engineering's forecourt jet washes and eventually vacuums. My brother-in-law, an engineer, was keen to design me my own car wash and from then on I sold my own equipment under the GLF name.
It was the '80s, I was the only supplier in Scotland which had only independently owned sites and the equipment did indeed prove to be a tremendous financial benefit to the garages. The vacs and jet washes sold themselves.
The market changed with supermarkets opening garages and oil companies buying independent garages. I managed to secure contracts for GLF with Safeway's (now Morrison's) and Shell Scotland and Northern Ireland.
I was offered an opportunity to sell my company in 2006 and to be employed by Air-serv which, before I joined, had basically concentrated on garage forecourt air machines.
Air-serv had the financial capabilities to be able to manufacture jet washes, vacuums and air machines and then rent them or profit share them to the independent garages and the big national companies.
When it comes to advice for business success, I'd say "know your market and be prepared to change when necessary". Too often, if a company is successful, the owners hang on too long before changing and jet washes need to be continually improved upon.
I have attempted to always be honourable; I do feel in the long run it works better even in today's cut-throat society.
I must admit if a customer asks for something my reply is always "that's not a problem". Then I promptly pass it over to Air-serv's technical and production guys and they always seem to manage. It is beyond me how they do it. I have never, in 40 years, told a customer "We can't do that".
My hobby and interests are my work. I love doing this job. But I do always try to be home on a Thursday night to play volleyball and on Sundays and Fridays to go to church.
I don't really have a greatest achievement, but if I had to say something, it would be securing Safeway's business for a small company in Scotland in the early '90s or Tesco's contract with Air-serv in 2008.
My wife wants me to add that it's hard work being a salesman's wife so, my greatest achievement should be keeping my wife for 44 years!
Name: George Field
Job title: General sales manager North/national accounts
Company: Air-serv
Career history: I have been in the industry for 40 years. I started out as a salesman, selling from the back of my car. I moved on, ran my own company, sold it and went to Air-serv
Greatest achievement: Being married for 44 years
Tips for business success: Be prepared to change
Most likely to say: That's not a problem
Least likely to say: We can't do that
Other interests: Volleyball and going to church
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Discount chain Silly Solly’s is planning a mega expansion across Queensland creating 200 new jobs. Here’s where the likely new stores will go.
Silly Solly’s plans major expansion with 200 new jobs
by Glen Norris
30th Dec 2019 12:06 PM
DISCOUNT chain Silly Solly's is planning to open 12 new stores in 2020, creating more than 200 jobs as its defies a brutal downturn in the retail sector.
The chain, which uses the slogan "Nothing Over $5", has been on an aggressive expansion path after relaunching in 2017.
Silly Solly's, which sells everything from bedding to chocolates from its network of 17 stores, was founded 30 years ago by Solly Stanton, who remains a shareholder and advisor.
The company recently opened a 2000 square metre store on the Gold Coast along with outlets at Morayfield and Toowoomba.
Once a dominant player in the discount variety arena, Silly Solly's sold out to the Warehouse Group in 2000 and eventually became a virtual retail memory.
However, the brand was reborn in 2017 at Rockhampton and Mr Stanton said the company was now on a mission to "make shopping great again".
Silly Solly's Morayfield branch manager Toni-Lee Blight gets ready for opening day. Photo: Luke Simmonds.
Mr Stanton said the chain was taking advantage of straightened economic times with price-conscious consumers seeking value for money.
He said since relaunching Silly Solly's two years more than 500 jobs had been created with another 200 likely with the planned store openings in 2020.
"The old saying that the poor need a bargain and the rich want a bargain rings true," he said. "We have 10,000 products with nothing over $5."
INSIDE SILLY SOLLY'S MORAYFIELD
Silly Solly's wall of flowers.
The locations of the 12 new stores was yet to be determined but the majority would be located in the Brisbane, Sunshine Coast and Wide Bay areas.
Potential sites in New South Wales and Victoria also was being examined.
"They want us in Sydney," said Mr Stanton.
"In Queensland, we are going back to regional towns and coal towns where they have nothing."
Silly Solly's operated under a licensee model, rather than as a franchise, which means store owners make all the major decisions about shop location and other operational issues.
Mr Stanton said the power of the Silly Solly's brand meant that sometimes landlords would contribute to the establishment costs of a new store.
Mass boxes of fairy lights at Silly Solly’s.
"They want us so occasionally they will make a contribution to the fit-out and stuff like that," he said. 'It's definitely more attractive to people in terms of startup costs than a franchise."
Mr Stanton said that one of the strengths of the Silly Solly brand was that it did not sell online.
"You go into David Jones and people have got their phones out to take a photo and to compare it to the price online," he said. "Our customers don't do that."
Silly Solly's at Morayfield.
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I wrote this two years ago and somehow never posted it. Better late than never?
We are in Pensacola, camped within a mile or two of where we interred a bit of an old friend’s cremains. Yesterday would have been his 74th birthday.
Kat, the Magic Bugger, and I are two days into our scheduled four week visit to Florida’s Gulf Islands National Seashore campground. There was rain last night with another cold front moving in today. The long-term forecast believes today will be the nicest of our visit, except for yesterday … as Chad and Jeremy put it in ‘64 “But that was yesterday, and yesterday’s gone.”
But that wasn’t his song. This was his song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w019MzRosmk
We set out for the beach with a tablespoon and our bag of ashes, parking at Shelter 16. I wanted a spot above high tide, a place above most storm tides. Frank Herbert’s Dune series was one of his favorite reads, back in his younger days. A waterfront dune would have been ideal, but people aren’t supposed to even walk on them. A nice spot at the foot of a dune overlooking the Gulf seemed just right. In time a big hurricane will wash away that dune and its vegetation, but until then this is Walt’s beach. Just behind the dune is the Langdon Battery updated and placed in service in 1943 with two twelve inch guns serving as a WWII shore defense. Would that I could report that the battery was manned by sailors, but it was a Coast Artillery Corps outpost, then a branch of the Army. Walt was a Navy guy. Sorry, dude.
The Langston Battery
But in Santa Rosa Island’s entire history as a seaport fortification (Civil War to the end of WW II) no big gun has ever fired at a hostile target. Mankind’s collective memory of this little island is cheerful … lots of fishing, camping, cushy service time during the Civil and World Wars, and after the Defense Department deeded the land to the National Park Service, the short-term home of a million happy campers.
Adios, Old Friend
That Disturbed Sand Is It
Come to think of it, I might like to be interred on Park Service land. But please wait until power changes hands in Washington: Don’t plant me on no damned Trump golf course.
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3 thoughts on “Walt’s Beach”
Steele Away Home Canine Rescue and Foster says:
Believe says:
Walt’s beach… well, you could have certainly done worse…….
He would not share his wishes for his cremains. We did the best we could: some went on a twig raft down the mighty Mississippi, most went into and onto the ground of The Grove at Ole Miss, and some here on Pensacola Beach. He wanted no service but we gave him one anyway featuring just a few close friends, a meal, and a couple of drinks. And yes, one final Hotty Toddy cheer for an Ole Miss grad.
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MAEKAN & BYBORRE — Redefining Comfort: Matthijs Loriaux
Listen to MAEKAN & BYBORRE — Redefining Comfort: Matthijs Loriaux
Interview & Photos by Eugene Kan
Video by Ralph Sarmo
Posted — June 27, 2019
Comfort. It’s something essential to our lives.
The degree of comfort we experience can impact how we view the world around us. Comfort can take shape in a practical sense. Are we dry? Are we able to move freely? Are we confident about how we look?
Comfort can also apply psychologically. Are we comfortable with the challenge ahead and the uncertainty of not knowing what’s next?
In abundance, some would say too much of it creates complacency. Too little of it, and you’re unable to settle into a rhythm, because you’re only focused on reducing the discomfort.
For Men’s Fashion Week 2019 this past January MAEKAN and the BYBORRE team partnered on a series of conversations with new and old friends on this concept of “Redefining Comfort.” Our conversations were candid and casual with a special interest around the inspirations of pioneers and creators who are looking to put their stamp on the world.
In our fifth episode, we speak with designer and Central Saint Martins graduate student Mattijs Loriaux, better known as “Matta.” The conversation’s focus was primarily driven in our responsibility in creating and how the importance of knowledge and foundation in the fashion landscape. His commitment focuses on the shared progress of both sustainability and fabrics with the ultimate goal of changing consumer attitudes. Loriaux is part of the next generation of fashion flagbearers, and his thoughts and critical analysis are necessary to an industry that’s grown immensely in relevance and power.
We’d like to extend a special thanks to WeTransfer, GORE-TEX, The Woolmark Company, and the whole BYBORRE team for making this series happen.
At MAEKAN, the story defines the medium. Some stories function best as written text, others hope to capture the emotion through an intimate audio experience. In cases such as this audio story, the transcripts we provide are done to the best of our ability through AI transcription services and human transcribers. We try our best, but this may contain small errors or non-traditional sentence structure. The imperfection of humans is what makes us perfect.
Eugene: So, for people who aren’t familiar with you maybe you can introduce yourself and what you do?
Matthias: My name is Matthias, I’m from Amsterdam where most people actually know me as Matta. I’m currently in Central St. Martin’s in London doing a master’s in fashion critical studies, on the side I do several jobs involved in the communication or branding of fashion.
Eugene: Nice. For people that maybe aren’t familiar with what that curriculum entails maybe you can explain what it means?
Matthias: It’s basically a very academical approach to fashion as a readable text or readable objects with all its cultural, socioeconomic, gender implications, political implications.
Eugene: It’s more along the lines of fashion as the output and how is it commenting on the world around us, would you say?
Matthias: It’s about that. It’s also about obviously taking from that and how you interpret your world around you as an individual. You kind of translate that back, feeding that back into aesthetics.
Eugene: What originally drew you to that exact discipline?
Matthias: It’s interesting because I’ve always been very much interested in lifestyle, music and of the stylistic choices that accompany several music genres. I’ve always been very much involved in hip hop, grunge, those types of subcultural genres and styles.
Like ten years back, I thought I wanted to be involved in that whole music aspect then actually after a while I started to realise that actually the aesthetics, the clothing kind of was more what I was actually interested in.
Eugene: Within the sort of whole range of cultural pillars and that’s kind of up for determination, it could be food, music, design, art, fashion. Where do you think fashion sits amongst that whole landscape and what is its importance amongst creative culture?
Matthias: It’s kind of what we briefly were talking about just earlier now. Fashion is a way of putting objects onto the body, like ornamenting the body with objects that have symbolical implications. So it’s a very direct way of presenting oneself and also to kind of align yourself with your peers.
Eugene: And do you think that the role of fashion has increased in importance or diminished or is about the same? I guess I’m trying not to load the question too much because I think that your background is as fascinating in the sense that at this given moment in time, most people would say that fashion is going through this state of uncertainty in terms of what’s being outputted, why it’s being outputted. How do you view fashion? How does it reflect on us as a broader culture and society? To be very fair I didn’t really know your background so much as like Borre said this guy is cool. And honestly the minute you said you were doing critical studies in fashion, I thought this is actually really fascinating because I have a lot of interest in the topic itself.
Matthias: Yeah I think it’s a very weird moment for fashion because I think, now more than ever, it is part of popular culture in a very broad sense. There’s probably like a bigger market now than ever. There’s a younger market coming up as well. And you see this predominantly I think in the high the high end fashion trends that are kind of trying to tap into those newer millennial consumer markets. And it’s interesting because you see that actually those brands are now drawing towards t-shirts and hoodies which, if you think of it from a broader perspective, that’s the most modernistic you can go almost. It’s like a ready-made–I think that word has been coined as of lately but it’s true–it’s ready-made, it’s something that gets mass produced and then a logo can be stamped on it and then it can be sold as being fashion but actually it’s just a garment, it’s a clothing basic. And I’m kind of grappling with this thing as well. It’s something that’s been occupying my mind over the past year or two years that where’s that leading us as a society? In my understanding what couture and high end fashion was as in a function in society is that it’s this weird kind of space where we could play around with things like gender implications, how we expect each other to dress in society and then create these wild things that play around with those things. So for instance how Chanel was always deemed as this person that liberated the woman of the corset. She changed the whole way of dress. I mean she wasn’t the sole person to manifest this, but she definitely made a difference in how then our status quo, our clothing changed. So it’s going to be interesting to see where this time is going to lead us.
I think discomfort is actually really important because it's a space where we can grow and we can learn things and we can push ourselves. So obviously in relation to this conversation right now it's that also if we push and kind of challenge ourselves as consumers then that might contribute to meaningful processes as well.
Eugene: Yeah, for you obviously going to school is to establish sort of a foundational element. So I guess I’m under the assumption that it’s sufficiently interesting that you want to have an impact on this industry or culture going forward, right? How important is a certain intellectualization of this industry? And I guess it’s along the lines of this: I always think that in creative culture you don’t always need to go to school to make it, it helps and obviously it opens certain doors. But what is the importance of having some sort of educational foundation to what you’re trying to do and how will that enable us to move forward versus if we just try to like kind of figure it out along the way? Because I’m interested like how the structural way of breaking down problems, which I think in general is what school does, how that can enable us to move forward because as you mentioned you’ve been spending the last year or two consumed with where we are currently, obviously where we’re going to go.
Matthias: Yeah that was a big choice for me going back to doing a postgraduate degree and kind of finding those intellectual pathways to find answers or to better understand perhaps where we are going and where we could go because in that sense doing research and having an academic background kind of teaches one critical thinking really to use existing knowledge from existing research that has been proven in some sort of way to either question that.
It’s like a continuous design process of the collective mind, of the collective intellect of us as a society and where we can push ourself and design ourselves towards in that sense. To continuously like innovate and adapt to where we need to go as a society.
Right now most of the discourse about innovation and innovation against pollution mostly comments on innovation in fabrics and whatnot which is very important obviously, but if we don't change the way that consumers come to perceive brands and come to perceive products and what they are and how they then consume these, so what type of attitude they have towards these products, then all the efforts in innovation that we're making and in production and whatnot won't really matter.
Eugene: This is potentially a dangerous question but how do you feel the general sentiment is from an established institution like Central St. Martin’s in regards to the current fashion landscape and how a curriculum like critical thought and analysis factors into it?
Because I would argue that currently I think that we’re definitely at a place and time were beyond fashion I think in general we’ve lacked that layer of analysis and critique and there’s a lot of reasons why we are where we are right now and neither here nor there for this conversation so much as I think that this might be somewhat of an unpopular opinion but the overall democratization of everything was deemed to be awesome, everyone has an opportunity, but then you soon realize that people that maybe haven’t gone through the hoops, and the hoops actually are not playing the game or having access so much as you’re putting yourself in a position because you understand the landscape to have an educated opinion on it versus just hey you know what I’m going to go on a comment section on the website and just rip into something whether I believe it or not I was just saying this in my opinion.
Matthias: Yeah it’s the whole concept of what is truth nowadays and fake news obviously but also the whole culture of being able to take everything and everything, what’s the difference between copying, what’s the difference between taking a reference? It’s good that we’re blurring those lines as to question them and to explore what those things still mean nowadays or what they should mean.
Yeah, I do feel like, because of that, these types of way of working, because it’s kind of accepted now, it does create a lot of product to be put out there in the world and that in that sense there’s no criticism as it seems to kind of distinguish or to kind of justify or legitimize in that sense this is interesting design and this is just a cultural expression.
Eugene: At what point do we have to take an honest look at the way things are developing and shaping up and establish where we stand on certain things? I guess my point is that there are certain designers that feel as though this is where we are as culture and society where everyone is tripling down on memes, so we will soon embrace that into our design rather than being like this is stupid or maybe we have an opinion on it.
So I’m always curious because it could essentially be a race to the bottom if we continually feed into where we’re currently going versus taking a stand and pushing back. But I guess being sufficiently removed from fashion I’m always just kind of interested to see because I think fashion as an industry and the people involved have to have a very unique pulse on all things which allow them to create things of relevance for today. So that means that they have to understand music, design, art, all these things and it culminates in a product that generally speaking is a little bit more accessible.
And I think that that’s the part of it that’s that’s fascinating versus like let’s say tech. I think tech has proven itself over the last… Let’s just arbitrarily choose a number, let’s say the last 18 months and shown that they lack a certain sense of empathy and understanding of culture which has put them in a certain place and I think that for you to be relevant as a fashion brand you almost have to understand where culture is at any given moment in time.
Matthias: Yeah definitely you know you have to
tap into what you think the consumer will like in say a year. In that sense it’s difficult because a lot of the people that create obviously the process of creation is also something that often cannot really be explained I think. Like why did you make something? I like it. You know it’s an aesthetic and especially that why something would be of the moment, I feel like for a lot of people it’s just a vision I guess in that sense, it’s just a feeling.
Eugene: Do you think that’s a sufficiently good answer? I guess it’s like do they need to be able to articulate it or should it really just be sort of this intangible sort of feeling or vibe like I get it or don’t get it?
Matthias: I’m not sure if we should always have to explain ourselves for choices like these. But the thing that I kind of believe in myself for where fashion should go is that we create brands and products that, going back to that symbolical value and what things imply or brands or products imply to the consumers, that they have such relevance in that sense, they symbolize something so that they become something that the way we consume these products is compared to how we consume art because then it transcends something being a part of a trend or a fleeting moment. I think if we get to a state of consumption where we consume fashion from such a point of view in theory we would have to consume less.
I think it's a very weird moment for fashion because I think, now more than ever, it is part of popular culture in a very broad sense. There's probably like a bigger market now than ever. There's a younger market coming up as well. And you see this predominantly I think in the high the high end fashion trends that are kind of trying to tap into those newer millennial consumer markets. And it's interesting because you see that actually those brands are now drawing towards t-shirts and hoodies which, if you think of it from a broader perspective, that's the most modernistic you can go almost.
Eugene: To that point, are humans intrinsically tied to the need for symbolism which is why fashion in reality is always going to have a place?
Matthias: Yeah but then when we think back about what we are talking about earlier and if we’re just creating T-shirt with just any prints on there or a brand logo and it’s very on the moment of now, I always question myself how long are you going to have that product and consume it or just store it in your personal archive?
Eugene: I kind of just inferred that obviously you want to have some sort of impact on fashion and the broader landscape by virtue of going through the process of getting your master’s etc. What to you is actually a goal in the grand scheme of things? To me it feels as though the subject matter infers a certain type of interest in… because by virtue of it being critique in fashion there there’s probably some sort of underlying thing you want to achieve with that, right?
Matthias: As I said earlier, just kind of trying to contribute to a form of fashion, something that I really love and enjoy but also know that there’s mechanisms and ways that this industry works or that this cultural concept works that it’s just not up to par with where we should go as a whole world, as it being one of the biggest polluters.
Eugene: What do you think that contribution looks like? I mean what’s the outcome you’re seeking to to achieve?
Matthias: So I was saying earlier how you can establish a form of consumption or an attitude of consumers towards particular products that come to symbolize something more than being just a T-shirt. It has a significant value to that one individual or a couple of individuals because of what it taps into or what it comes to represent to them. And if we can establish that with more brands and more products then I think we’re already making a big step. Right now most of the discourse about innovation and innovation against pollution mostly comments on innovation in fabrics and whatnot which is very important obviously but if we don’t change the way that consumers come to perceive brands and come to perceive products and what they are and how they then consume these, so what type of attitude they have towards these products, then all the efforts in innovation that we’re making and in production and whatnot won’t really matter.
Eugene: Over the course of the series it’s focused on the idea of redefining comfort and I think that in the most sort of practical sense comfort is physical comfort but how do you look at comfort or discomfort in ideas? Because that’s generally the world in which you’re playing right now and it’s like comfort in an item, comfort in an idea, discomfort in not knowing, how do you basically approach discomfort?
Matthias: I think discomfort is actually really important because it’s a space where we can grow and we can learn things and we can push ourselves. So obviously in relation to this conversation right now it’s that also if we push and kind of challenge ourselves as consumers then that might contribute to meaningful processes as well.
Eugene: Is it a continual process for you to establish discomfort, comfort etcetc. Is it an ongoing cycle?
Matthias: Yes, very much. Especially the past couple of years I’ve really come to a state of mind or a state of being I guess of trying to really challenge myself and push myself to to make the most out of life really.
It’s funny too, one of my best friends and another good friend of mine I knew passed away and it really puts life in perspective and that’s like it’s this wildly abstract thing actually that’s such a sheer chance that we’re actually here right now living getting to experience the world and life, every day should be celebrated and you should make the most out of it for yourself. So I guess when that happened I started to really evaluate what would make me happy in life and where I want to go and want to push myself.
Eugene: Do you identify more as being a student or graphic designer or a branding person? What do you think is what you self identify as?
Matthias: I am a graphic designer, strategist, marketeer in that sense but also a student simultaneously. But I guess kind of what it comes down to is continuously learning and pushing myself in that sense to understand more, to get more skills in order for me to find my way into my trajectory that we were just talking about. So, it’s a continuous learning process and there’s always a hunger for getting new knowledge and new experiences. It’s a continuous thing, I think learning never stops. I hope it never stops.
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BROCKTON, Mass. ---- The Massasoit men's soccer team treks to Rochester, N.Y., to take on the 15th-ranked Mercer County Vikings in the NJCAA Northeast District Semifinals hosted by Monroe Community College at John L. DiMarco Field on Saturday at 2 PM.
The Warriors (10-5) are riding a 7-game win streak and undefeated in the month of October, after topping the Community College of Rhode Island last Saturday in the Region 21 Championship contest, 2-1.
Massasoit averages 3.93 goals per game, led by freshman forward Charlie Swann's (England) 19 goals and five assists (43 points). Fellow freshman Leon Zaffonato (Brazil) is next in points with 30 (10g, 10a), followed by sophomore midfielder Deivys D'Almeida (New Bedford) with 19 poi+nts (6g, 7a).
The Green and White will be in search of revenge after falling on the road to Mercer County 4-1 in the season opener.
A streak will end on Saturday, as the Vikings (17-3-1), like the Warriors, are on a winning streak of the their own. Mercer County has won nine consecutive matches, and just like Massasoit, has not lost since Sept. 30, going undefeated in the month of October. During that stretch, Mercer has outscored the opposition 46-8 with a total of five shutouts.
The Vikings advanced to the district tournament by topping Essex County 3-1 last weekend in the Region 19 finals.
Mercer County averages 3.86 goals per game and yields only 1.02 per game on average for the season. Offensively, Eiichi Yamaguchi leads the team in goals (24) and points (54), while Adir Versano leads the nation in assists with 24.
Over the last 10 meetings between the two colleges, the Vikings lead the series 5-3-2. Saturday will mark the third meeting at the districts in the past 10 years with the series split 1-1.
The last time Massasoit defeated Mercer was on Nov. 8, 2015 in the district semifinals held in Brockton, 1-0.
With a victory, the Warriors would take on the winner of No. 3 Monroe College vs Monroe Community College, on Sunday at 12 PM in Rochester, NY. In addition, a win in the semifinals would give the Warriors an automatic bid to the NJCAA National Championship, hosted by Yavapai College in Prescott, Arizona, from Nov. 13-18, 2017.
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S.O.S. ditches survival mechanics to become a full-on battle royale game
What’s that sound? It’s the sound of a genre becoming even more saturated, that’s what, as SOS is converting into a battle royale game called (drumroll) SOS: Battle Royale.
The original idea behind the game was to toss 16 players into a map and have them play a 30-minute match to find a relic and escape in a helicopter, with up to three winners per match and the chance to coordinate via voice chat. There were plenty of survival mechanics along the way, including making your own weapons and traps to survive. And a la Running Man, the streaming audience would be pushing buttons too.
Yesterday, Outpost Games announced massive changes to the early access survival game, to the point that it’s now a battle royale game, not a survival game at all – in fact, it appears the survival elements have been stripped out entirely, and you’ll just be looting things like weapons from the island.
“You thought you were signing up for a reality TV show, but the network has decided it would be much more entertaining for their audience to watch you fight to the death instead,” the studio says. “You already signed the contract, so you really don’t have much choice. If you want to live, you’ll have to be the last one standing.”
“In Content Drop 3, we’ve made some significant changes to La Cuna to streamline the process for new players to join the game. Each match will be a rapid, high-intensity 10 minute battle, have 32 players, and only 1 survivor. To begin your new journey on La Cuna Island, you’ll drop on to the Island where you are 1 of 32 players who must fight to the death. Along with your wits, you will have to equip yourself with various weapons found on the island. Guns are certainly an option, but melee weapons are just as deadly. Keep your eyes open for footprints and other indicators that will help you stalk your enemies.”
Massively OP’s MJ streamed the earlier version of the game; we’ll get the new version on tap once the anguished screaming dies down.
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creepywhistle
The first link comes up as 404 already. They changed their website and erased all news about the game from just 7 days ago and beyond. Trying hard to erase the fact survival mode ever existed. The news is still preserved on Steam, though.
Danny Smith
Battle Royale, the new “we have given up” genre for developers who want to say ‘ah, fuck it’ mid development.
Mewmew
More games doing pure Battle Royale conversions? Is it April Fools? No? This stuff is really happening? Sigh…
Sorenthaz
It’s a pathetic shame because what isn’t mentioned in this blurb is that the game was great for RP shenanigans. The game’s strong suit was when folks roleplayed, and the game had systems designed around such, i.e. “crowd favorite” awards, a popularity rating, and the intro/outro segments. They had a pretty clever streaming site that integrated Twitch.tv but added some extra twists and bits to it, and viewers could watch through it and vote on airdrops and such. That obviously needed some balancing due to high viewer streamers getting votes more in their favor and such, but instead of bothering with that the devs decided to just dump on the original game that they had spent years working on in order to go for a Battle Royale mode?
It’s hilarious because they tried to sound super confident two and a half months ago or so. They said the game would get through to launch just fine, they weren’t worried if reception was bad initially, etc. But then they decided to drop this bomb on the game and kill off the community that built around it? Yeah, screw them. SOS was a unique game that could’ve been something special, but instead they decided to turn it into another Culling.
In other words they killed their game and pulled a massive bait-and-switch on folks who paid upwards of… what, $100? on Founder packs.
I wonder if that counts as deceitful marketing to present the game as one thing and then suddenly change it while basically saying: “hah, sucks for you guys, thanks for your money though!”
Tizmah
Haha, it never ceases to amaze me that game companies never learn. This goes all the way back to the 80s when arcade games fell into the trend of everything being about space shooters. Then Miyamoto comes along with a well made game called “Donkey Kong” and blows everything out of the water.
But no, lets make a game or make changes to our game to grab a piece of that trendy pie, when there is only slim pickings left.
PurpleCopper
I wasn’t entirely sold on the whole competitive survival aspect of this game. Seemed like an identity crisis of sort, trying to mix battle royale with reaching a goal first. Which is also why I didn’t like Hunt: Showdown.
But just straight up making a battle royale game? That’s even worse. Where’s the gimmick? What differentiates you from other games? Literally nothing.
Soooo they brought in players for a completely different game then changed it? That is actually pretty messed up. Bait and switch much?
Yeah, I wonder if that’s reportable on Steam or something. Steam of course refuses to give refunds or anything for folks who got suckered into it; I’m sooooo glad I didn’t take the plunge and buy one of the pricy founder packs.
Oleg Chebeneev
Battlerite recently also announced Battle Royale mode
Greaterdivinity
Awww, how’s Snoop Dog gonna RP in that? Guess that expensive promotion didn’t pan out as well as they’d hoped, at least it was pretty fun : (
This is kinda disappointing, but if it’s what they need to stay afloat oh well. I dug the notion of a “reality TV” style survival game that encouraged folks to roleplay, even if I have no interest in playing and little interest in watching. It was unique and different and actually tried to do something interesting with a genre that’s largely abandoned now (survival games).
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Origins of human alcohol consumption revealed
By Charles Q. Choi
File photo (GERMANY-BEER/ REUTERS/Michael Dalder)
Human ancestors may have begun evolving the knack for consuming alcohol about 10 million years ago, long before modern humans began brewing booze, researchers say.
The ability to break down alcohol likely helped human ancestors make the most out of rotting, fermented fruit that fell onto the forest floor, the researchers said. Therefore, knowing when this ability developed could help researchers figure out when these human ancestors began moving to life on the ground, as opposed to mostly in trees, as earlier human ancestors had lived.
“A lot of aspects about the modern human condition everything from back pain to ingesting too much salt, sugar and fat goes back to our evolutionary history,” said lead study author Matthew Carrigan, a paleogeneticist at Santa Fe College in Gainesville, Florida. “We wanted to understand more about the modern human condition with regards to ethanol,” he said, referring to the kind of alcohol found in rotting fruit and that’s also used in liquor and fuel.
To learn more about how human ancestors evolved the ability to break down alcohol, scientists focused on the genes that code for a group of digestive enzymes called the ADH4 family. ADH4 enzymes are found in the stomach, throat and tongue of primates, and are the first alcohol-metabolizing enzymes to encounter ethanol after it is imbibed.
The researchers investigated the ADH4 genes from 28 different mammals, including 17 primates. They collected the sequences of these genes from either genetic databanks or well-preserved tissue samples. [Holiday Drinking: How 8 Common Medications Interact with Alcohol]
The scientists looked at the family trees of these 28 species, to investigate how closely related they were and find out when their ancestors diverged. In total, they explored nearly 70 million years of primate evolution. The scientists then used this knowledge to investigate how the ADH4 genes evolved over time and what the ADH4 genes of their ancestors might have been like.
Then, Carrigan and his colleagues took the genes for ADH4 from these 28 species, as well as the ancestral genes they modeled, and plugged them into bacteria, which read the genes and manufactured the ADH4 enzymes. Next, they tested how well those enzymes broke down ethanol and other alcohols.
This method of using bacteria to read ancestral genes is “a new way to observe changes that happened a long time ago that didn’t fossilize into bones,” Carrigan said.
The results suggested there was a single genetic mutation 10 million years ago that endowed human ancestors with an enhanced ability to break down ethanol. “I remember seeing this huge difference in effects with this mutation and being really surprised,” Carrigan said.
The scientists noted that the timing of this mutation coincided with a shift to a terrestrial lifestyle. The ability to consume ethanol may have helped human ancestors dine on rotting, fermenting fruit that fell on the forest floor when other food was scarce.
“I suspect ethanol was a second-choice item,” Carrigan said. “If the ancestors of humans, chimps and gorillas had a choice between rotten and normal fruit, they would go for the normal fruit. Just because they were adapted to be able to ingest it doesn’t mean ethanol was their first choice, nor that they were perfectly adapted to metabolize it. They might have benefited from small quantities, but not to excessive consumption.”
In people today, drinking in moderation can have benefits, but drinking in excess can definitely cause health problems, experts agree. Scientists have suggested that problems people have with drinking, such as heart disease, liver disease, and mental health problems, result because humans have not evolved genes to sufficiently process ethanol. Similarly, humans have not evolved genes to handle large amounts of sugar, fat and salt, which, in turn, have given way to obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and many other health problems.
One model for the evolution of alcohol consumption suggests that ethanol only entered the human diet after people began to store extra food, potentially after the advent of agriculture, and that humans subsequently developed ways to intentionally direct the fermentation of food about 9,000 years ago. Therefore, the theory goes, alcoholism as a disease resulted because the human genome has not had enough time to fully adapt to alcohol.
Another model suggests that human ancestors began consuming alcohol as early as 80 million years ago, when early primates occasionally ate rotting fermented fruit rich in ethanol. This model suggests that the attraction to alcohol started becoming a problem once modern humans began intentionally fermenting food because it generated far more ethanol than was normally found in nature. The new findings support this model.
In the future, Carrigan and his colleagues want to investigate what the ethanol content of fallen fruit might be, and find out whether apes, such as chimpanzees or gorillas, are willing to consume fermented fruit with varying levels of ethanol.
“We also want to look at other enzymes involved in alcohol metabolism, to see if they’re co-evolving with ADH4 at the same time,” Carrigan said.
The scientists detailed their findings online Dec. 1 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Tagged as 10 million years ago, adh4, ancient history, Charles Q. Choi, drinking, ethanol, germany-beer, history, human ancestors, live science, michael dalder, origins of human alcohol consumption revealed, reuters, sociology
Europeans’ white skin developed later than thought
By Jenn Gidman
Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel in 2011. Traits of white skin emerged more recently than thought in Europe. (AP Photo/Lehtikuva/Vesa Moilanen)
Science notes that Europe is often thought of as the “ancestral home of white people.” But a new DNA study suggests that pale skin and other traits we associate with the continent may have emerged only within the last 8,000 years—a “relatively recent” occurrence.
The study—published last month on the bioRxiv.com server and presented last week at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists’ annual meeting—compared genome DNA across three populations of farmers and hunter-gatherers who crossed over into Europe in discrete migrations within the past eight millennia, Science notes.
What scientists found: a handful of genes tied to diet and skin pigmentation that withstood natural selection and thrived in the northern regions. The data indicates hunter-gatherers who settled in Spain, Hungary, and Luxembourg about 8,500 years ago lacked two specific genes—SLC24A5 and SLC45A2—and had darker skin, Science notes.
But hunter-gatherers hunkered down further north in Sweden had both those light-skin genes and also a third gene that leads to blue eyes (and possibly fair skin and blond hair).
When the third demographic, the Near East farmers, arrived, they also carried the SLC24A5 and SLC45A2 genes, so paler skin started emerging throughout the continent as the populations interbred.
Although researchers don’t offer a definitive answer as to why natural selection picked those genes to thrive in the north, one paleoanthropologist speculated at the meeting that the lack of sun in the northern parts of Europe required people to adapt by developing lighter skin to better absorb more vitamin D, as well as the LCT gene that allowed them to digest the sugars their ancestors couldn’t in milk, also filled with vitamin D.
(This one infant could tell us where the first Americans came from.)
This article originally appeared on Newser: Europeans’ White Skin Came Later Than Thought
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Tagged as 8000 years ago, American Association of Physical Anthropologists, ancient history, anthropology, Crown Princess Victoria, dna, eight millienia, Europe, Europeans' white skin developed later than thought, foxnews.com, Jenn Gidman, Newser, Prince Daniel, science, skin pigmentation, slc24a5, slc45a2, sociology, white skin
Scientists make new discovery about Stone-Age sex
By Matt Cantor
This undated image made available by the NIH’s National Cancer Institute shows the 46 human chromosomes. (AP Photo/NIH, National Cancer Institute, Hesed Padilla-Nash, Thomas Ried)
Scientists are puzzling over a new discovery regarding Stone Age sex: It seems that for every 17 women who reproduced at the time, just one man did the same.
The findings are based on an analysis of the DNA of 450 people from geographically diverse locations. Researchers compared Y-chromosome DNA, which is inherited only from our male forbears, with mitochondrial DNA, which comes from women, Pacific Standard reports.
Such analysis can show experts our numbers of male and female ancestors, and the mystery here is why these ancient numbers are so out of whack.
“It wasn’t like there was a mass death of males,” says Melissa Wilson Sayres of Arizona State University. “They were there, so what were they doing?” Her team has suggested that perhaps a few males accumulated a great deal of wealth, pushing out others when it came to reproduction.
As Danielle Paquette puts it at the Washington Post, “Survival of the fittest might have actually been survival of the richest.” This would have occurred after the dawn of agriculture, suggesting that the top male reproducers were essentially the best farmers.
Amanda Marcotte writes at Slate that the findings would seem to run counter to the thinking of evolutionary biologists who believe our nature was defined during the earlier hunter-gatherer period of cavemen.
She’s also glad that an age in which a few men got all the women is long gone. “That sounds terrible for both men and women.” (Other recent evolutionary research examines why men like curvy women.)
This article originally appeared on Newser: 8K Years Ago, Women Reproduced Way More Often Than Men
Tagged as ancient history, Matt Cantor, national cancer institute, Newser, pacific standard, scientists make new discovery about stone age sex, slate, washington post, women vs. men
2M-year-old find may be ancient ‘playground’
Have archaeologists found an ancient playground? (stock photo) (AP Photo/The Tampa Bay Times, Edmund D. Fountain, Pool)
An investigation into what appears to be a nearly 2 million-year-old site in China’s Hebei province suggests the spot served an important purpose: fun. The South China Morning Post compares the dig site to a “playground” for ancient hominids, noting that it was home to some 700 stone objects and 20,000 fragments; some may well have been kids’ toys, believes lead researcher Wei Qi.
He speculates that the objects, most less than two inches long, were made by children and their mothers. “You can almost feel the maker’s love and passion,” says Wei of one piece he describes as “beautifully shaped.” The other bits of evidence supporting his playground theory: The remains of animals or large tools in the area are scarce, suggesting it’s not where hominids lived and a limited number of adults toiled there.
The site is part of the Nihewan basin, which has been the source of a vast trove of ancient discoveries since 1921, Ancient Origins reports.
What’s also relatively new is the dating of the site, carried out by studying its magnetic properties. Results suggesting it dates to between 1.77 million and 1.95 million years ago could make it older than the Dmanisi site in Georgia, which UNESCO calls the “most ancient” in Eurasia.
But outside researchers have their doubts about the playground theory: “It is difficult to rule out the possibility that (the objects) were just stone fragments created by natural forces,” says one.
If the discoveries really were made by hominids more than 1.8 million years ago—when the first hominid is though to have left Africa—it could change the story of human origins, the Week notes.
(A recently discovered jawbone is also challenging such conceptions.)
This article originally appeared on Newser: 2M-Year-Old Stones May Have Belonged to Children
Tagged as 2 million years old, ancient history, archaeology, Matt Cantor, Newser, playground, south china morning post
February 4, 2015 · 12:04 am
Unexpected find: Seating plan for Rome’s Colosseum
By Neal Colgrass
A man dressed as a gladiator enjoys his lunch in front of Rome’s Colosseum, Friday Nov. 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Spectators who once flocked to Rome’s Colosseum could find their seats with the help of red numbers painted over entrance archways. What’s amazing is that hints of that paint still remain, Discovery reports.
A team restoring the Colosseum has spotted remnants of it in Latin numerals carved high up on an entrance gate. “This is an exceptional discovery because we did not expect that some trace of the red paint was still preserved,” Colosseum Director Rossella Rea tells the International Business Times.
The red color, derived from clay minerals and iron oxide, had to be repainted every two or three years—which makes the find that much more unexpected.
It also casts a light on how Romans found their seats when going to watch gladiators, wild beasts, and public executions. “The 50,000 spectators had a ticket that said which numbered gate arch they were supposed to enter,” says Rea.
“Inside the arena, there were other numbers to help people access their seats, which were assigned according to social class.” Admittance was free, but of course the emperor had the best seat in his private box, New Historian reports.
Rome’s social and political elite also sat high up, followed by upper-class businessmen and government officials, ordinary Roman men, and finally women and the poor, who had to sit or stand on wood benches.
Built in 70AD, the Colosseum is undergoing a $33 million restoration to clean off dirt that’s accumulated since the Middle Ages. (After its glory days, researchers say, the Colosseum became a “condo.”)
This article originally appeared on Newser: Surprise Find: Seating Plan for Rome’s Colosseum
Tagged as 70 ad, Alessandra Tarantino, ancient history, archaeology, colosseum, discovery, International Business Times, Neal Colgrass, new historian, Newser, roman history, Unexpected find: Seating plan for Rome's Colosseum
Mummy mask papyrus may reveal oldest-known gospel
By Brian Mastroianni
File photo. (REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany)
A team of researchers made a surprising find when examining a papyrus-wrapped mummy mask — they found what they believe to be the oldest-known copy of a gospel in existence. The researchers found a fragment of the Gospel of Mark that dates back to about 90 A.D., Live Science reports. Previously, the oldest surviving copies of Biblical gospel texts date back to 101 to 200 A.D.
The text was written on a papyrus sheet that was later reused for the mummy mask. While the stereotypical image of ancient mummies involves bejeweled golden masks, that level of finery was only reserved for the wealthy. The mummy mask for the average person would have been made out of recycled material like papyrus, according to SmithsonianMag.com.
In order to retrieve the text without damaging it, the research team applied a method of ungluing the papyrus without obscuring the paper’s ink. About three-dozen researchers are using this technique to analyze hundreds of texts from mummy masks.
“We’re recovering ancient documents from the first, second and third centuries,” Craig Evans, a professor of New Testament studies at Acadia Divinity College in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, told Live Science.
Evans is part of a large team of researchers working on the project, which is based in Oklahoma City. “The scholars involved are from all over the world,” he told FoxNews.com.
The academic said that the team has uncovered documents from a range of eras. These include not just Christian texts, but classical Greek texts like copies of stories by Homer and even personal letters.
Some of the personal documents and business papers found within the masks have dates on them, Evans said. This particular gospel was dated partly by looking at the other documents found within the same mask.
This technique is not without controversy. The ancient masks are destroyed in order to retrieve the documents. However, Evans asserted that “we’re not talking about the destruction of any museum-quality piece.”
Roberta Mazza, lecturer in classics and ancient history at the University of Manchester, wrote a blog post critical of the work of Evans and his research team. In reference to a speech Evans made about the gospel text discovery, Mazza wrote that “the audience who attend their talks are told fantasy stories on the retrieval of papyrus fragments and their date … apologists’ speeches are not only misinformed, but can even encourage more people to buy mummy masks on the antiquities market and dissolve them in Palmolive soap.”
Last year Mazza found a 1,500-year old piece of papyrus in the university’s John Rylands library that contains some of the earliest documented references to the Last Supper and ‘manna from heaven.’
For the researchers examining the mummy mask, the text’s discovery marks a significant achievement. Evans said that the text could offer clues about how the Gospel of Mark might have changed over time.
A first volume of the various texts found on the mummies will be published by the researchers later this year.
Tagged as ancient history, bible, Brian Mastroianni, foxnews.com, gospel of mark, live science, Mohamed Abd El Ghany, mummy mask, Mummy mask papyrus may reveal oldest-known gospel, new testament, papyrus, reuters, Roberta Mazza, University of Manchester
Bronze Age Palace & Royal Burial Unearthed in Spain
(Courtesy the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
BARCELONA, SPAIN—Science Daily reports that an audience hall has been found in the Bronze Age palace at La Almoloya, located in southeastern Spain. Archaeologists Vicente Lull, Cristina Huete, Rafael Micó, and Roberto Risch of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona suggest that the hall is the oldest-known building constructed specifically for political use in continental Europe. It features a ceremonial fireplace and a podium, and benches lining its walls would have seated 64 people. Other buildings at the site are well-constructed with eight to twelve rooms in each residence. Some of the stucco-covered walls were decorated with geometric and naturalistic motifs in what has been dubbed the Argaric style. A tomb discovered near the political hall contained the remains of a man and a woman, whose skull was encircled with a silver diadem. She had also been buried with four ear dilators, two of silver and two of gold. Rings, earrings, and bracelets made of silver were among the grave goods. Other items include a bronze dagger held together with silver nails, and a small ceramic cup decorated with silver rims. To read about Bronze Age shipwrecks, see ARCHAEOLOGY’s “Cape Gelidonya and Uluburun.”
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Mezzo soprano
Yulia Matochkina
Mikhail Vekua
Mikhail Petrenko
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Mariinsky Opera
Yannis Kokkos, Costume Designer
Paola Mariani, Costume Designer
Michael Bauer, Lighting Designer
Maestro Valery Gergiev, Musical Director
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Premiere of this production: 25 May 2016
The performance has 1 intermission
Running time: 2 hours 45 minutes
Samson and Delilah (French: Samson et Dalila) is a grand opera in three acts and four scenes by Camille Saint-Saëns to a French libretto by Ferdinand Lemaire. It was first performed in Weimar at the Grossherzogliches (Grand Ducal) Theater (now the Staatskapelle Weimar) on 2 December 1877 in a German translation.
The opera is based on the Biblical tale of Samson and Delilah found in Chapter 16 of the Book of Judges in the Old Testament. It is the only opera by Saint-Saëns that is regularly performed. The second act love scene in Delilah's tent is one of the set pieces that define French opera. Two of Delilah's arias are particularly well known: "Printemps qui commence" and "Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix" ("My heart opens itself to your voice", also known as "Softly awakes my heart"), the latter of which is one of the most popular recital pieces in the mezzo-soprano/contralto repertoire.
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Places that bring people together.
The Municipal District of Lesser Slave River recognizes that a dynamic, active, and healthy community requires programs, services, and amenities for all stages of life. This is achieved through a focus on recreational, social, and cultural opportunities – all elements that help to make the Lesser Slave River a community well beyond the ordinary.
Residents are welcome and encouraged to utilize one of the many local excellent recreation facilities, described below, which are available at reasonable rates for meetings, recreation programs, fund raising events, social activities, and much more!
DID YOU KNOW THAT RESIDENTS OF LESSER SLAVE RIVER RECEIVE A 25% DISCOUNT WHENEVER THEY RENT ONE OF THE MD'S EXCEPTIONAL FACILITIES? LEARN MORE ABOUT EACH VENUE IN THIS SECTION, AND CONTACT THE RURAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT AT 780.849.4888 FOR MORE INFORMATION.
Officially opened July 18, 2018, the Canyon Creek Wildfire Legacy Park is a fun and attractive community playground area that overlooks Lesser Slave Lake. As its name denotes, this little park is tucked in behind the Widewater Fire Hall. With the collaboration and support of the Widewater Athletic Association, this rest area wheelchair-accessible playspace was built for the benefit of all who livein, or travel through, the region.
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Other Noteworthy Facilities & Venues
Boreal Centre for Bird Conservation
The Boreal Centre for Bird Conservation (BCBC) is the only educational and research facility in the world strategically located to study boreal birds on their breeding grounds. The BCBC offers 6,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor exhibits, interpretive programming, a gift shop and office space. It also provides research space and computer work stations for staff, volunteers, and visiting researchers and educators.
The Boreal Centre for Bird Conservation provides year-round facilities for rent and a variety of interpretive and educational events and environmental education school programs.
Website: www.borealbirdcentre.ca
The Nest | Boreal Centre for Bird Conservation
The Nest is a peaceful, sun-washed timber-frame building located next to the Boreal Centre for Bird Conservation within beautiful Lesser Slave Lake Provincial Park.
The Nest has room for 10 guests with four bunk-bed rooms and two queen-bed rooms. In addition, it has two washrooms with showers and a large common room with full kitchen facilities and fireplace. Outside is a large deck with barbeque, firepit and picnic table.
Staying at The Nest means you’ll be able to:
Explore scenic lakeshore trails and self-guided hikes
Witness an abundance of wildlife, often right on your doorstep
Discover the secluded lakeshore
Delight in long summer evenings and spectacular sunsets
Book a banding lab tour at the nearby Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory
Take in the exhibits and interpretive programs at the BCBC, or
Just kick back and relax!
For more details about The Nest, please visit The Nest Comfort Camping.
The Nest is closed over the winter, but reservations will re-open in February, 2016. When it’s available for rent, you can reserve your spot online at reserve.albertaparks.ca or call the toll free number at 1.866.427.3582. The cost is $250 per night and the building can house a maximum of 10 people.
Website: Click here for more information about this facility.
The municipality maintains a boat launch on Lesser Slave River, on the outskirts of the Town of Slave Lake. There is no charge to launch your boat and there is ample parking for vehicles and trailers. There are also launches located at Cross, Fawcett, and Lawrence Lakes, Canyon Creek and Canyon Creek Harbour, and at the Point Boat Launch in Slave Lake.
Canyon Creek Community Arena
Free to the public, the Canyon Creek Arena houses an indoor hockey rink and is available for event booking during skating season. The arena is open every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday between 6:00 and 9:00 pm. Operating hours during High Prairie School Division days may vary.
Contact: Gwen Zwick
More Info: Facebook Page
Canyon Creek Hotel
With a scenic view of the Lesser Slave Lake, this hotel was once the stomping grounds for commercial fishermen, and was even used as a fish hatchery and processing plant. Located 25 km west of Slave Lake on Highway #2, the Canyon Creek Hotel hosts its popular Steak Night every Friday.
Canyon Creek Wildfire Legacy Park
Officially opened July 1, 2016, the Canyon Creek Wildfire Legacy Park was created as a tribute to the region's bravery, resiliency, and hope in the wake of the devastating May 2011 wildfires. With the collaboration and support of the Red Cross and the Widewater Athletic Association, this rest area and one-of-a-kind playspace was built for the benefit of all who live, work, and play in the region.
Contact: MD Administration
Home to the Flatbush Library, the Flatbush Community Complex is located along Highway 44 in the Hamlet of Flatbush. This facility can accommodate approximately 350 people and the grounds include ball diamonds, a well-appointed playground, and ample parking. Equipped with full kitchen amenities, this venue allows for both indoor and outdoor participation.
Contact: Tiffany Osborn
Flatbush Royal Canadian Legion #137 Hall
The Flatbush Legion Branch #137 Hall is available for rental and can accommodate up to 65 people. The hall has full kitchen facilities, pool and shuffleboard tables, and a patio.
Legacy Centre
The Legacy Centre is the home of the Slave Lake Child Care Society and the Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks of Canada Lodge No. 379. The Legacy Centre boasts social gathering and banquet facilities, child care, a permanent interpretive wildfire exhibit and enhanced performing arts infrastructure.
Website: legacycentre.ca
Facebook: facebook.com/slavelakeregionallegacy
Smith Community Equine Arena
The Smith Community Equine Arena is located on Smith’s beautifully-decorated, rustic main street. Please call the number below for schedules and booking of the facility's equine riding arena.
Contact: Sherri Hayes
The Smith Community Complex is located on Smith’s beautifully-decorated, rustic main street. Host to a number of community events, the facility offers a full kitchen and dance hall.
Smith Community Gymkhana Grounds
The Traildusters Horse Club offers trail rides, horse clinics, horse riding and gymkhanas; year round; indoor and outdoor. For more information contact Lilly Wasiecko at 780.829.3628.
Contact: Lilly Wasiecko
The Lesser Slave Regional Visitor Information Center is located at 12 Poplar Drive - on the highway due east of the Town of Slave Lake. The facility offers a boardroom for rent that holds up to 15 people.
Website: slavelakeregion.ca
Widewater Community Complex
Located in scenic Wagner, Alberta, the Widewater Complex provides year-round rental facilities including an auditorium, kitchen, bar, ball diamonds, and lakeside camping.
Anyone’s first stop in Lesser Slave River should be the Visitors Information Centre, located on Highway 2 just five km east of Slave Lake. A multitude of information about every recreational activity imaginable can be found here, and local staff are eager to help plan a fantastic stay or a day out in the Region. Visit the Municipal History section to learn more about our region's rich heritage.
Legendary Lesser Slave River
The MD recognizes that a dynamic, active, and healthy community requires programs, services, and amenities for all stages of life. This is achieved through a focus on recreational, social, and cultural opportunities – all elements that help to make the Lesser Slave River a community well beyond the ordinary.
The public is welcome to utilize one of the many local excellent recreation facilities, described below, which are available at reasonable rates for meetings, recreation programs, fund raising events, social activities, and much more!. Have an event coming up? Keep in mind that residents of Lesser Slave River receive a 25% discount whenever they rent one of the MD's exceptional facilities? Learn more about each venue in this section, and contact the Rural Services department at 780.849.4888 for more information.
Take our Facility Rental Survey
Have you ever rented one of the facilities managed by the MD of Lesser Slave River? Let us know about your experience by taking part in our Facility Rental Survey. This will help us better understand what works, what needs improvement, and what we can do to make our facilities even better for those who use them.
THE SLAVE LAKE REGION TOURISM STRATEGY IS OUR PLAN TO SHOWCASE THE THOUSANDS OF UNIQUE OUTDOOR PURSUITS OF OUR RUGGED-AND-REAL BOREAL REGION TO ALBERTA, CANADA AND THE WORLD AT LARGE. GIVE IT A READ AND DISCOVER HOW WE PLAN TO SPREAD THE WORD.
Community Complex
Smith Community
Equine Arena
Widewater
Fire Hall Park
Facebook: facebok.com/LegacyCentreAB
Tiffany Osborn, Facility Operator
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Gwen Zwick, Facility Operator
Facility Facebook Page
Free to the public, the Canyon Creek Arena houses an indoor hockey rink and is available for event booking during skating season. The arena is open every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday between 6:00 and 9:00 pm. Operating hours during High Prairie School Division days fluctuate, and as such will be posted on the MD Facebook page.
THE Slave Lake Tourism Startegy IS OUR PLAN TO SHOWCASE THE THOUSANDS OF UNIQUE OUTDOOR PURSUITS OF OUR RUGGED-AND-REAL BOREAL REGION TO ALBERTA, CANADA AND THE WORLD AT LARGE. GIVE IT A READ AND DISCOVER HOW WE PLAN TO SPREAD THE WORD.
The Traildusters Horse Club offers trail rides, horse clinics, horse riding and gymkhanas; year round; indoor and outdoor. For more information contact Lilly Wasiecko at 780.829.3628..
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Contact: Gordon Wolters
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Officially opened July 1, 2016, the Canyon Creek Wildfire Legacy Park was created as a tribute to the region's bravery, resiliency, and hope in the wake of the devastating May 2011 wildfires. With the collaboration and support of the Red Cross and the Widewater Athletic Association, this rest area and one-of-a-kind playspace was built for the benefit of all who live, work, and play in the region. The park overlooks the waters of Lesser Slave Lake.
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Cherie Hayes, Facility Operator
The Smith Arena is located on Smith’s beautifully-decorated, rustic main street. Please call the number below for schedules and booking of the facility's equine riding arena.
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Lake & River Activities
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AuthorEmma ClarendonPosted on June 29, 2016 June 29, 2016 CategoriesFilm, UncategorizedTagsAaron Eckhart, Angela Bassett, Babak Najafi, Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman
The sequel to Olympus Has Fallen will be available to buy on DVD and Blu-ray on the 18th July.
Mike Banning is back in a brand new adventure with the President of the United States – this time taking place in London.
It’s another year, another city and another threat to American President Benjamin Asher’s life as a terrifying plot comes to light while on a state visit to London. Mike Banning must once again do whatever it takes to rescue the President – who is also forced to step up in order to rescue the free world.
This adrenaline filled film stars Gerard Butler as Mike Banning, Aaron Eckhart as President Benjamin Asher, Angela Bassett and Morgan Freeman.
The film was directed by Babak Najafi and written by Creighton Rothenberger, Katrin Benedikt, Chad St. John and Christian Gudegast.
London Has Fallen will be released on digital platforms from the 11th July and on DVD and Blu-ray on the 18th July. The film is available to pre-order through Amazon now.
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Luisa Piccarreta
PADRE BUCCI BOOK
THE PRODIGIES OF THE BVM
YOUR BISHOP
THE SERVANT OF GOD LUISA PICCARRETA
Who is the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta?
What the Catholic Church says about Luisa Piccarreta
Letters from Trani Archdiocese
Luisa’s Appeal
October 27, 2005 closing of the Cause of Beatification of Luisa Piccarreta
Closing homily-The Mother Church, Corato, Italy October 29, 2005
Biographies and information about Luisa Piccarreta by Fr. Bucci
Biography of Luisa Piccarreta by Fr. Bucci
A collection of memories of the servant of God Luisa Piccarreta by Fr. Bucci
First conference of Fr. Bernadino Guiseppe Bucci, O.F.M.
Second conference of Fr. Bernardino Guiseppe Bucci, O.F.M.
Third conference of Fr. Bernardino Guiseppe Bucci, O.F.M.
Letters from St. Annibale Di Francia to Luisa Piccarreta
Luisa Piccarreta and St. Annibale Di Francia
Luisa Piccarreta and St. Annibale Di Francia-Apostle of the Divine Will
“A life more celestial than terrestial” in the words of Saint Annibale Di Francia
The childhood memories by the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta
Luisa and St. Francis of Paola
Prayers for the Beatification of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta
What is needed….
Personal Reflections of Fr. Bernardino Bucci On A Few Passages On The Writings of Luisa
LETTERS OF LUISA PICCARRETA, THE LITTLE DAUGHTER OF THE DIVINE WILL
Luisa Piccarreta Association
Census of Divine Will Groups
THE VIRGIN MARY IN THE KINGDOM OF THE DIVINE WILL
THE SIX STEPS
DIVINE MERCY IN THE DIVINE WILL
The Eucharist And Divine Mercy
Dvine Mercy Novena and Chaplet
The Priest, Minister Of Divine Mercy
THE HOLY MASS
A Short History of the Roman Mass
The Value Of The Holy Mass
The Three Excellencies Of Holy Mass
An Exhortation To Hear Holy Mass Devoutly
The Holy Mass and The Saints
Pope Benedict XVI – The Apostolic Letter Motu Propio ‘Summorum Pontificum’
The Traditional Roman Mass in Pictures
The Latin Mass
Catholic Doctrine On The Holy Trinity
The Basilica of Guadalupe
The Apparitions And Miracle of Our Lady Of Guadalupe
A Chronology Of Events Related To The Miracle
Why The Name Guadalupe?
The Mystery In Our Lady’s Eyes
Latest Popes and Our Lady Of Guadalupe
Protectress Of The Unborn
The Guadalupe Story
REFLECTIONS ON THE BOOK OF HEAVEN
Jesus gives Luisa the Key to His Will
The adoration of the Most Holy Virgin when She encountered Jesus carrying the cross
The Meanings Of The Crowning of Thorns
THE MYSTICAL MARRIAGE OF JESUS TO THE SERVANT OF GOD LUISA PICCARRETA
As Redemption unfolded, so will the Kingdom of the Divine Will unfold
Effects of the sorrow of the Celestial Mama
Hierarchy of the Children of The Kingdom of the Divine Will
How the Cross destroys three evil kingdoms and constitutes three good kingdoms in the soul
Last Seven Words of Christ from the Hours of the Passion
Passages on the title of ‘The Book of Heaven’
The ‘OUR FATHER’ from the Book of Heaven
The first who will Live in the Divine Fiat will be like the yeast of The Kingdom of the Divine Will
THE MOST HOLY NAME OF JESUS MAKES HELL TREMBLE
The story of “why?”
The value and effects of the Hours of the Passion
Jesus redid everything for all in general and for each one individually during the course of His Whole Life
One who lets the Divine Will Reign within herself is a little Kingdom of the Supreme Fiat
Our Lord Jesus Christ Thanks Luisa
Passages On Jesus Dwelling In The Heart Of Luisa
The Divine Will is hell for the devil
The effects of the blessing of Jesus
The First Sermon of Jesus preached to the children of Egypt
The immense value of the writings on the Divine Will
The power of the victim souls
How Jesus Himself, will become the vigil custodian of these writings
How the Divine Will, will form many Jesus where It Reigns
How these writings form the most beautiful ornament for those walls of the Eternal City
Passages On Luisa Living From The Heart of Jesus
Passages on Purgatory
The “Glory Be” of the soul in the Divine Will
The exchange between Jerusalem and Rome
The Feast of The Cross in Heaven
The pains that Jesus suffered in His Passion were triple
To Live in the Divine Will is Sacrament and surpasses all the Sacraments together
LUISA AND ST. ALOYSIUS
Reflections On Possessing The Gift Of The Divine Will
The angels around the soul who does the Hours of the Passion
The five drops of blood from the Blessed Mother’s Most Pure Heart in order to form Jesus’ Little Humanity
The Tears of Jesus
Jesus’ delight at the company of the ‘prisoner’ near the Prisoner
Passages on characteristics of the Children of God
Reflections On Importance Of Asking For The Kingdom To Reign On Earth
The last sign of love at the point of death
Reflections On Perseverance
The three necessary conditions in order to obtain the Kingdom of the Divine Will
To the priests, as to new prophets, is the task given to make known the Divine Fiat
Visits And Acts Of Reparation From The Book Of Heaven
Extraordinary Things That Happen When You Are Linked to Luisa
How Jesus on the cross still cries out to every heart “I Thirst”
Luisa, the new Eve, not Eve the tempter but Eve the reformer and restorer who will call again the Kingdom of the Divine Will on Earth
Reflections On Firmness-The Greatest Virtue
The Arms of Jesus and The Queen of Heaven are Boats in the Sea of The Divine Will
The Three Kinds of Daily Bread
What it means to be Firstborn Daughter of the Divine Will
Jesus Makes Up For The Creatures If They Break The Continuous Flight
The certainty of the Kingdom of the Divine Will upon Earth
God Gives And The Soul Receive
The vigils of Jesus
By Meditating The Hours Of The Passion You Acquire All Virtues
The Acts done in the Divine Will are Divine Messengers to the Celestial Fatherland
One who Lives in the Divine Will takes possession of the Humanity of Jesus and like another Jesus can plead for her brothers and sisters before the Divinity
Prayer without fervor, but done to please Jesus
Souls united to grace will have a distinct Glory in Heaven
The First Children Of The Divine Will Will Form The Entrances For Other Creatures To Enter The Kingdom Of The Divine Will
The glory that the soul will receive in Heaven
The value of intentions
The value of one single instant in the Divine Will
‘MY FIAT’, the most beautiful name that will make all Heaven smile and all Hell tremble
How the soul can be food for Jesus
The Celestial Militia
There is no beauty that equals suffering for God alone
Dissolving Oneself In Jesus
Effects Of Each Word Read From The Writings
How three walls of strength are formed for the creature who gives her will to God
Living The Life Of Faith In The Divine Will
Reflections On Jesus I Trust In You
The Acts done in the Divine Will, will be the defenders of the Divine Throne
The Truths, Divine Birth, and the greatest miracle that God can do
The Two Agonies of Jesus in the Garden and on the Cross
The Will of God is the paradise of the soul on Earth
How to make Jesus be born and grow in your hearts
Importance Of Calling The Divine Will In Our Little Acts
MOST POWERFUL PRAYERS OVER THE HEART OF JESUS
One who lives in the Divine Will is nourished by the Divine Breath
The Divine Will Is Spying On You To See If You Call It In Your Acts
The effects of the circulation of the Divine Will in the soul
The race of the “I Love You” in the Divine Will
The soul who decides to Live in the Divine Will has her name written with indelible characters of light in Heaven
Reflections On Abandonment In The Divine Will
The fruit and the purpose of Communion
The soul who operates in the Divine Will gives for all and receives for all
Those who Live in the Divine Will move in the Fiat just by breathing
Thousands of Angels are the guardians and custodians of the Acts done in the Divine Will
How To Repair For The Coldness Of Creatures
Jesus finds rest in the souls who live in His Will
Reflections On Luisa Crushing The Head Of satan
How To Repair Jesus For The Offenses He Receives In The Eucharist
The greatest miracle that God can perform is a soul who Lives in His Will
How all of Heaven goes to meet the soul who fuses herself in the Divine Will
In Order To Give Us The Gift Of The Divine Will, God Does Not Count The Time, But The Acts That We Do
Jesus Can Not Live Without The Children Of The Divine Will
God Can Not Deny Anything To Luisa And Those Linked To Luisa
Passages on Luisa being born twice.
What Causes Jesus To Double His Love For Us
Jesus does not like forced things, othrwise He moves on
In The Last Supper, Jesus gave Luisa the place of honor between Himself and John
The More Acts Luisa Performs Within Us, The More Her Divine Life Grows Within Us
A Spirit Of Continuous Prayer Rejects The Devil And Gets Rid Of Disturbance
Enchanting scenes that Jesus enjoys in the soul who lives in His Will
Every Good On Earth Comes From The Children Of The Fiat
Reflections On Giving Jesus, Mary, And Luisa Freedom To Operate In The Soul
The soul is like a canvas which receives the portrait of the Divine Image
Effects Of Each Word Read From The Writings Of Luisa
The Steps Needed To Live In The Divine Will
In the Divine Will there are no blind ones and attention is the eye of the soul
The great difference between the soul, temple of God, and God, temple of the soul
The Little Paradise of God
The Little Winner
The Queen of Heaven goes around through all the Nations in order to place Her Children in safety
The three prerogatives that the one who Lives in the Divine Will acquires
The two species of love: one, spiritual and divine, the other, corporal and disordered
Everything that one does in the Divine Will does not remain down on Earth, but departs for Heaven
Jesus used the word Religion in order to propagate the Faith in the whole universe
The beauty of the interior soul
The Kingdom of the Divine Fiat will be the preserver from all evils
The meaning of the words: “HE HAS CAST DOWN THE MIGHTY FROM THEIR THRONES AND HAS EXALTED THE LOWLY”
The portentous effects of uniting our lives with that of Jesus
The soul that Lives in the Divine Will forms three Acts in each heartbeat
The space of the human will is the Divine Room for the wonders of God
The two arms of Jesus
Patience is the secret key to open the treasure of virtues
The Dowry that Jesus will give to those who will Live in His Divine Will
The Sublimeness and Power of Sacrifice
The difference between the Blessed and the Pilgrim soul
The Position of the Church – Approved
The Beatification
“The Most Holy Rosary and The Brown Scapular are inseparable!”-Sister Lucia of Fatima
THE 24 HOURS OF THE PASSION
THE BLESSED MOTHER
THE THREE MISSIONS
PRODIGIES OF THE DIVINE WILL IN THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
THE CONCEPTION OF THE DIVINE WILL IN THE SOVEREIGN QUEEN OF HEAVEN
Entrustment Of Our Home To Mary Help Of Christians
FEAST OF OUR LADY THROUGHOUT THE YEAR
Titles of Our Lady THE NAME OF MARY
Six Biblical Reasons Mary Is The “New Eve”
Titles of Our Lady as LADY
Titles of Our Lady as MOTHER
Titles of Our Lady MARY AS A CHILD
Titles of Our Lady as THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
Titles of Our Lady as VIRGIN
Titles of Our Lady The QUEEN
Titles of Our Lady as DAUGHTER
Titles of Our Lady on GLORIES OF MARY
Titles of Our Lady as HOPE
Titles of Our Lady as VESSEL or TABERNACLE
Titles of Our Lady on HEART OF MARY
Titles of Our Lady as ADVOCATE
Titles of Our Lady as PATRONESS and DEFENDER
Titles of Our Lady as COMFORTER
Titles of Our Lady as OUR MEANS TO HEAVEN
Appearance of Mary Establishing Scapular Occurred in Flurry of Holy Wonders
THE LITTLE FAMILY OF LUISA PICCARRETA
Feast of the Assumption in The Divine Will
FEAST OF THE HOLY TRINITY
Feast Of The Annunciation In The Divine Will
The Feast Of The Visitation In The Divine Will
Feast Of Easter In The Divine Will
Feast Of The Sacred Heart Of Jesus In The Kingdom Of The Divine Will
Feast Of Pentecost In The Divine Will
Feast Of The Epiphany Of The Lord In The Kingdom Of The Divine Will
Feast Of The Immaculate Heart Of Mary In The Kingdom Of The Divine Will
Feast Of The Holy Name Of Jesus In The Kingdom Of The Divine Will
The Feast Of Corpus Christi In The Divine Will
Feast Of The Transfiguration, Transubstantiation And Transmutation In The Divine Will
Feast Of The Ascension Of The Lord In The Divine Will
Feast Of Christ The King In The Divine Will
Feast Of Divine Mercy In The Divine Will
Feast of the Divine Will
Feast Of The Immaculate Conception In The Divine Will
Feast Of The Nativity Of The Blessed Virgin Mary
THE SOLEMNITY OF THE ANNUNCIATION OF OUR LORD-MARCH 25
Feast Of The Exaltation Of The Holy Cross
Feast Of The Seven Sorrows Of Mary In The Kingdom Of The Divine Will
The Feast of The Precious Blood
The Holy Face Of Jesus In The Kingdom Of The Divine Will
THE NINE EXCESSESS OF LOVE
Cristina Montella-Sister Rita of the Holy Spirit: “The Little Girl of Padre Pio”
THE ROSARY AND THE SOULS IN PURGATORY
Museum of The Holy Souls in Purgatory
On The Feast of Christ The King-The cause of the Beatification of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta began in Trani, Italy
CATHOLIC SYMBOLS FOR JESUS
Personal Reflections of Father Bernardino Guiseppe Bucci
The Spiritual Plagues of Humanity-The Martyrdom of this Age
Prayer For Freedom From Curses
CHRISTMAS WITHOUT CHRIST
ROLE OF THE PRIESTS
St. Annibale Maria Di Francia-Patron of Vocations
Prayer of St. Annibale Maria Di Francia For Vocations
Catholic Priest: Created for Souls
The Necessity Of The Catholic Priesthood
Respect For The Priesthood
The Priesthood And The Eucharist
The Priest as Soldier In The Army Of The Lord
Priests Must Live A Martyr’s Life
Unforgettable Images Of The Priesthood
“The Dignity and Duties Of The Priest” (excerpt) By St. Alphonsus Liguori
23 Reasons Why A Priest Should Wear His Collar
Fr. Michel-Marie, A Cassock in Deep Marseille, City of France
Meet 10 of the World’s Most Amazing Priests
St. Aloysius Gonzaga-Jesuit Saint
St. Benedict, Abbot:Feast Day July 11
Blessed Mother Marie Rose Durocher
List Of American Saints, Blesseds, Venerables, and Servants of God as recognized by The Roman Catholic Church
St. Joseph Feast Days and Prayer to St. Joseph
Novena To St. Joseph
St. Joseph – Foster Father of Jesus
St. Joseph, Patron of Dedicated Souls
St. Joseph, Model Of The Role and Responsibility Of Fatherhood
ADRIANA PALLOTTI
Sacramentals: Armor Of God
THE HOLY ANGELS
The Nine Choirs Of Angels
10/2 Feast of the Holy Guardian Angels – St. Thomas Aquinas On The Will Of The Holy Angels And Their Role As Guardians
Scriptural Passages Of Importance On The Holy Angels
New Pontificate Officially Began
Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Francis: Where There is Culumny, There is Satan Himself
St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles
The Papacy Of The Catholic Church
Popes of Different Catholic Ages
List of Popes Recognized As Saints And Blessed
Biography: Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI
Motu Propio – Porta Fidei For The Indiction Of The Year Of Faith
Pope Benedict XVI On Community Prayer
Pope Francis Asks: Pray Three Hail Mary’s for Him
Pope Francis Prays In Mary’s Month At St. Mary Major In Rome
Prayer Consecrating Pope Francis’ Pontificate To Our Lady of Fatima
Mary and the Deceiver
Papal Coat of Arms
POPE FRANCIS: “THE NEW AND MOST POWERFUL PRAYER”
Pope Francis’ Favorite Marian Image
Mary is a Mother Who Helps Christians Grow
The Lord We Adore Is He Who Washed The Apostles ‘Feet At The Last Supper” By Pope Benedict XVI
Pope’s Secret Cardinals In Pectore
Pope Pius XII saw “The Miracle of The Sun”
The History of Eucharistic Adoration
Twelve Reasons From The Teaching Of The Church For Wanting To Spend One Hour With Jesus In The Blessed Sacrament
“I Am The Living Bread That Came Down From Heaven” (Jn 6:51)
19th Century Saints Adoration Quotes
Eucharistic Adoration for The Sanctification of Priests and Spiritual Maternity
Eucharistic Adoration: A Window To Heaven
Perpetual Adoration: An Ancient Devotion In Modern Times
Pope Benedict XVI: “Spending time in prolonged silence before the Eucharist” is one of the most authentic experiences of our being church.”
True Story That Inspired Bishop Fulton Sheen’s Eucharistic Adoration
Pope John Paul’s example inspired Pope Francis to pray Rosary daily
History Of The Holy Rosary
Benefits and Blessings Of The Most Holy Rosary
ILLUMINATION-THE SUN OF THE DIVINE WILL
PRAYERS IN THE DIVINE WILL
PREVENIENT ACT AND ACTUAL ACTS
GOOD MORNING AND GOOD-BYE IN THE EVENING TO JESUS IN THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
PRAYER OF CONSECRATION TO THE DIVINE WILL
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BE ATTENTIVE BOOK
DIVINE JUSTICE CALENDAR DAILY MEDITATIONS
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Return to THE BLESSED MOTHER
[adapted from Michael Brown’s The Last Secret]
There were great holy men and there was much mysticism during the medieval period, particularly in the 1200s. If St. Dominic and St. Francis in themselves were enough to make this a special period, the extraordinary thing was that the episode of great wonders was only beginning. No longer were there only the one-shot sightings of Mary, as was the case most of the time, since her first apparition in Spain (in the first century).
By the Middle Ages there were plenty of people experiencing multiple or “serial” apparitions and as usual Mary seemed to favor the humble but appeared to people of all persuasion.
Among the new seers were Pope Honorius III, Queen Helene of France, and Princess Ermesinde of Luxembourg. The princess’s occurrence took place near a clear spring (or clairefontaine) that gave the area its name. Clairefontaine wasn’t far from Luxembourg and had been blessed by Saint Bernard on a journey through the area six decades before. Apparently it was known even then as a place of sacred marvels, the sparkling water running past luxuriant foliage in a delightful stream.
It was in this charming valley that Princess Ermesinde, recovering from the recent death of her husband, was meditating under a tufted oak when she had her vision. It was an experience that would inspire erection of a convent dedicated to the Heart of Jesus. Some say she was dozing, others that she was awake and sitting. Whether a vision or apparition, what she saw was the sky “open” and a woman of incomparable grace descend on a fleecy white cloud. The woman was Mary, holding Jesus. She approached the princess and stationed herself by the stream. Around her was a flock of unearthly white lambs. As they gathered she smiled at the animals and caressed them. On their back they bore unusual and unforgettable black crosses but the most striking feature was the Child, Who was of such beauty that Ermesinde felt there could be no equal in the world.
While Ermesinde’s experience, if it occurred with her eyes closed, in a sleeping state, was technically more a “vision” (and a fleeting one at that, lasting but a few moments), there were many other instances at this same time, at this important historical juncture, that were experienced in a fully wakeful state or that left physical evidence. Such was the case in Spain of a young shepherd named Francisco Alvarez who lived on the outskirts of Alcaraz and whose case typified many of Mary’s appearances during this particular period. One afternoon Alvarez, who had a badly crippled arm, was dozing at the foot of an ancient holm-oak when he awoke at the sudden rustling noise of his cattle, which were trying to flee the area. The same thing happened the next day. They were being spooked by something. When Alvarez finally saw why, it took away his breath: A strange and intense light was emanating from the holm-oak and stranger still was the sound of sweet music. (Recall that a holm-oak would later be the site of the Fatima apparitions.)
Overcome, Alvarez fell into sort of a faint and when he recovered noticed that the light was gone — replaced by a statue of Mary nursing Jesus. The image, which may have been hidden in the tree during the Moslem invasions, spoke to Alvarez, requesting the townsfolk to build a chapel. When the herdsman expressed concern that no one would believe his story, he was told to extend his useless arm and it was immediately healed.
That case was more the combination of locution and statue phenomena, which were by far the most frequent manifestations, but of most interest remained visions or apparitions. While visions could be symbolic manifestations or like a dream, apparitions were living images seen with the physical eyes and often Mary was not transparent or ephemeral but a corporeal apparition, meaning she had tangible aspects.
She seemed physically present. She could touch a seer. She appeared to a man we know as Blessed Reginald of Saint-Gilles while he was in Rome and anointed his eyes, ears, hands, and feet, which brought him out of a serious illness. She had also appeared to Anthony of Padua in 1221 encouraging him when he was challenged about her Immaculate Conception (“My son, feel assured that I was born without sin”) and her visit to Pope Honorius had come in 1226, when she told him to ignore a group of cardinals who were opposed to establishment of the Carmelite Order.
In like fashion she appeared at least twice to Albert the Great, who as a youth had been an untalented, even “dim-witted” student but who through the Rosary, through beseeching Christ and Mary, was granted the gift of intelligence — miraculously illumined — and went on to become an authority on physics, astronomy, chemistry, and biology, such a natural scientist that there were those who would soon compare him to the great Roger Bacon. (He also excelled at philosophy and when he went to Cologne, Thomas Aquinas was among his pupils.) In 1225 there was also testimony that Mary had been seen at a grave accompanying a young deceased boy’s soul as it sailed skyward and she appeared to a Dutch woman named Lutgardis who experienced stigmata (specks of blood as if from a crown of thorns) on her forehead. The standard apparition was to those whose names were lost to history or who attained the merest of footnotes. In Kiev there was a missionary known as Hyacinth who in 1231 was beginning Mass when word came of an attack by a tribe of Mongols. The Tartars had suddenly burst into the city and their mission was to destroy everything and everybody. There was no choice but to take immediate flight and still dressed in his vestments, Hyacinth grabbed the Blessed Sacrament from the tabernacle and was ready to leave when he heard an inexplicable voice. It seemed to come from an alabaster statue. “Hyacinth, my son, said Mary. “Are you going to leave me behind to be trampled underfoot by the Tartars? Take me with you.”
“How can I?” protested Hyacinth. “Thy image is too heavy!”
“Take me nonetheless,” beseeched Mary. “My Son will lighten the burden.”
Somehow Hyacinth grabbed the large statue with one arm while carrying the Blessed Sacrament with the other and in that way did he escape the raging flames of Kiev. We see then that Mary spoke several ways, sometimes while she was seen, sometimes in a pure locution, sometimes in a nonverbal fashion, and sometimes through statues. Her very presence said that mankind was in great need and again hinted at chastisement. Flame. Fire. Disease. There were already so many warnings. They indicated big trouble as the Church stumbled into worldliness and sexual scandal (more and more notorious in the monasteries) and as society as a whole headed toward the error of materialism, underscored by Mary’s tremendous appearance to seven wealthy merchants in Florence. This rarity — a simultaneous apparition to a group of people — occurred on August 15, 1233, as the merchants, devout if caught up in money, were in thanksgiving after Communion. It was at that time that each saw a bright light encompassing the Queen of Heaven and her angels. “Leave the world and retire together into solitude in order to fight yourselves,” said the Blessed Virgin. “Live wholly for God. You will thus experience
heavenly consolations.”
After another apparition in May of 1234 the seven men set up a crude hermitage on Monte Scenario and then on April 13, 1240, which was Good Friday and also the Feast of the Annunciation, Mary appeared a third time bearing a black habit, a book, a scroll, and palms. “Beloved and elect servants, I have come to grant your prayers. Here is the habit which I wish you to wear henceforth. It is black that it may always remind you of the keen sorrows which I experienced through my Son’s Crucifixion and death. This scroll bearing the words `Servants of Mary’ indicates the name by which you are to be known. This book contains the Rule of Saint Augustine. By following it you will gain these palms in heaven, if you serve me faithfully on earth.”
That was the start of the Order of Servites. There was also the Order of Mercy, which was likewise inspired by a simultaneous vision. That case involved three men, Peter of Nolasco, Raymond of Pennaforte (the most competent authority on canon law at that time), and King James I of Aragon in Spain, who all saw Mary on the same night but from what I can tell in different places. According to the literature she instructed them to work together to form an order whose purpose would be the ransoming or rescue of Christians who had been captured by the Moors. The three men heeded her request and one evening as King James sought a location to house the order, he was astonished to see seven unusually bright stars hovering over a hillock. It brought to mind the seven stars representing angels in Revelation 1:16 and all the countryside witnessed it. This was a place called Puig. When James directed workmen to the site, they found another of those hidden images of Mary, shielded in a bell!
Then there was the great revelation to Simon Stock. This was a classic, corporeal apparition. A holy hermit whose father had been Lord of Kent, Simon at age 47 had entered the Carmelite Order and was sent to the order’s very root, Mount Carmel in Israel. Located in the northern part of that country between Megiddo and Tyre, Carmel stood as a testimony to many generations of mankind. There, along the sparkling Mediterranean, its caves had been the habitat for ancestors who began with the prehistoric forebears known as homo erectus and went through the Neanderthal phase and then an Amudian phase linked to the emergence of modern homo sapiens.
It was a treasure trove for archeologists but more important was its spiritual history. Mount Carmel was where Elijah called down the fire, ordered death for the prophets of Baal, and then went up to the top of the mount, telling his servant seven times to look out to the sea. When he finally did the servant saw the unusual sight of “a cloud as small as a man’s hand” rising from the water (1 Kings 18:44) in a way that reminds us of the puffs or billows of cloud associated with the Virgin. Indeed, the Carmelites would later claim the cloud (which of course was many centuries before her birth) was Mary’s forerunner or “prefigurement,” and whether or not that’s true it was a very holy place and dedicated to Mary by ancient hermits. Simon was so impressed by the holy men, whose existence was uncovered by the Crusaders, that he joined the order and was soon their leader (based along the Medway River in England). But more than an administrator Simon Stock was a visionary. His most famous apparition and one of the most important in history came during a night of prayer on July 16, 1251, when his cell was flooded with a great light bearing the Blessed Mother, who held the Infant and also a sleeveless brown outer garment that was to be known as the scapular. It was a broad piece of cloth that went around a monk’s head and became the Carmelite habit (later modified for laymen as a string with cloth squares). And it too indicated special times. It too indicated the need for protection. And it was protection that Mary promised. As Simon himself recounted, “She appeared to me with a great company, and holding the habit of the order said, ‘This will be for you and for all Carmelites a privilege. He who dies in this will not suffer eternal fire.'”
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« Trivia time #42 | Biradari (1966) »
Naughty Boy (1962)
Kishore Kumar is one of those actors (Mehmood being another) who either makes me laugh out loud or completely irritates me. The script, direction and supporting characters make the difference usually, and I think that’s the case (and by “case” I mean problem) here too. Even though Shakti Samanta directed, after about the first hour I was fast-forwarding through more than I watched—not only is the frantic slapstick not funny, but the Curse of the Second Half derails what little entertainment there is. The story manages an interesting turn in the middle but then resolves itself in the stupidest manner possible. Plus the supporting cast are grating—even Madan Puri as a buffoonish bad guy just isn’t funny. In fact Edwina, who watched some of it with me and appears in two songs, asked me how on earth I can sit through such stuff.
She seems quite amazed at my tolerance for total crap, but I’m sure it comes as no surprise to any of you who come here regularly.
There are a few redeeming factors: SD Burman’s songs are charming and beautifully choreographed by Surya Kumar, and Kishore’s love of singing shows in his sparkling renditions (although Manna Dey sings for him once!). I think his son’s stamp is all over the music as well although he isn’t credited. Heroine Kalpana looks very pretty, although she doesn’t have much to do besides put up with Kishore and his buddies and their juvenile antics. I also loved the animated credits (courtesy someone named Albert Zacharias), although when the credits are one of the best things about a film that’s not a good sign.
Kishore plays Pritam, an office worker having trouble finding a place to live in the big city of Bombay. He runs into an old friend one evening by the name of Jagdish (Sunder), who invites Pritam to come and live with him. Jagdish lives in a colony owned by Munnidevi (Praveen Paul), a woman disappointed in love, who thus forbids all the denizens of her chawl to engage in any romantic shenanigans (including marriage).
Jagdish has two other roommates, Bhimsen (Kundan), who is a boxer; and lovelorn poet Viyogi (Krishnakant), who has the most annoying falsetto voice ever ever ever. I don’t know what anyone was thinking letting that go by. Dr. Jadibuti (Om Prakash) is the eyes and ears of the colony and he has a soft spot for Munnidevi although it goes nowhere. I am sad to say that I will never see Om Prakash in quite the same way due to Edwina telling me what a lecherous grabby guy he was—not exactly the benign tipsy grandfather of his usual onscreen persona *sigh*.
In any case, Pritam soon meets a pretty girl by the name of Neena (Kalpana) (everybody says “Neena” although it’s subtitled “Meena” throughout) on a rainy day when their umbrellas blow away and collide.
He is instantly smitten, but of course she…not so much (the obligatory sharp “Shut up!” which always makes me laugh). Neither of them notice that they’ve inadvertently exchanged umbrellas by the time they manage to disentangle them. Pritam had borrowed Viyogi’s, which was given to him by his long-lost sweetheart, so he has the perfect excuse to seek Neena out again to retrieve Viyogi’s precious chhatri. He tracks her down with help from the local street vendors and for some reason disguises himself as an umbrella repair man instead of simply going to her house and asking for the umbrella back.
It’s apparently just to amuse us, because she soon figures out who he is (his false mouche falls off) and it doesn’t further the story any, but never mind. There are many little diversions like this, which rather than entertaining just drag the film’s pace down. She tells him that she has left Viyogi’s umbrella at a friend’s house, but that she’ll have it by the evening. She is also clearly amused by him although he doesn’t seem to realize that she likes him.
Neena lives with her Mamaji (Kanu Roy) who has a friend named Mr. Mathur (Madan Puri in a Hitler mustache), just arrived home from travels abroad. Mathur is obviously interested in Neena as well, and invites them to visit him at his newly purchased hotel.
Pritam now fakes a heart attack in his office in order to meet Neena that evening as planned. He also sings a lovely little ditty “Nazaren Milaake Jo Duniya Ki Nazaron” which takes him along the street past the vendors and into a little club where Edwina is dancing! The two of us shriek in unison: “That’s you!” “That’s me!” and I say smugly, “I told you so.” Since she was a favorite of choreographer Surya Kumar and it’s a 1962 film, I figured she would show up at some point.
But poor Pritam: when he shows up at Neena’s house to get the umbrella, the maid gives it to him and informs him that Neena has gone to Poona. Her sister Beena (Laxmi Chhaya in a blink-and-you-miss-her appearance) is getting married. Neena’s uncle is a teacher of classical music, and Pritam decides to ingratiate himself with Mamaji by becoming his student. There is a lot of raucous Carnatic-style noise for comic effect which quickly gets on my last good nerve, but Neena is pleased to see Pritam there when she returns home.
This leads to a lovely duet “Sa Sa Sa Sa Re”—oh the songs are such GOOD FUN.
It’s now obvious that Neena likes Pritam as much as he likes her, but he stumbles along cluelessly for a while making excuses to see her (which she generally doesn’t understand). We get more fun songs to help things along, like this one when he hopes to meet her at the movies and gives her a single ticket but she sends her uncle instead, not wanting to go alone. Communication is not Pritam’s strong suit!
Possibly it isn’t Neena’s either.
After a LOT of hemming and hawing and tiresome completely unnecessary machinations on Pritam’s part, they finally admit their love for one another. Then Neena receives a telegram from her father (Shivraj) asking her to come back to Poona, and on the way there her train derails and crashes into a gorge. Neena’s name appears on the list of those killed and we are treated to Kishore Nahiin Face.
Pritam grieves for all of about ten minutes and Edwina and I both remark on how quickly he bounces back from despair. His colleagues from the office arrive to take him out for a picnic and he goes after some token protests. At this point Edwina tells me that the girls in his office are played by Saroj Khan (2nd from right front in both screen caps) who we all know found fame later as a choreographer (her mentor was choreographer Sohanlal); her close friend Teresa (far right in both screen caps) who later married Memsaab favorite Oscar (they are still married); and a dancer named Tina Misquitta (far left in first screen cap, second girl from left in the second) whose daughter Kimi Katkar later became a model and actress in the 1980s.
Of course a picnic would not be a picnic without a rollicking song, and what a treat this one is too (Teresa is featured front and center in the striped skirt). I love the Brazilian flavor of it!
While Pritam is thus frolicking with his office pals, Dr. Jadubati gets a surprise when Neena shows up looking for Pritam. She asks him whether Pritam is doing all right after the news of her “death” and doesn’t *quite* get the answer she’s hoping for.
Furious and heartbroken, she decides to teach him a lesson and instructs Dr. Jadibuti not to tell Pritam that she is alive. She poses incredibly unconvincingly as an entertainer from Finland named Edna (!) hired to work at Mathur’s Hotel Vienna, and Mathur is encouraged to believe that she might marry him. At this point my flagging interest is revived somewhat in the hopes that there might be an interesting twist behind Pritam’s lightning-fast rebound.
Will this tangle be sorted out? Will Pritam fall for Edna (well, yes, in about five minutes flat)? Did he really love Neena, and if so why didn’t his sorrow last more than four days? Will Neena forgive him and tell him the truth or will she marry Mathur?
In all, there are some intermittent funny scenes and dialogues, but essentially you have to sit through a lot of idiocy for what turns out to be no real good reason (I think the film’s message can be summed up in the phrase “time heals all wounds and quickly too when your film is going over budget”). Kishore is hit-and-miss, sometimes endearingly goofy and sometimes a little too much—he does shine especially in the musical moments, of which there are plenty. I didn’t hate this movie by any means but I’ll probably not sit through it again, although I will definitely keep the songs on my playlist. If you do want to check it out, it’s available with subtitles on Youtube—but only on an unsubtitled VCD otherwise. Eyeroll.
This one is my favorite: Kalpana is just stunning, and naturally Edwina is there too with sister Marie and friends.
Posted on November 6, 2011 at 6:01 pm in Hindi movies | RSS feed You can skip to the end and leave a reply.
Tags: Edwina, Kalpana, Kanu Roy, Kishore Kumar, Krishnakant, Kundan, Laxmi Chhaya, Madan Puri, Om Prakash, Praveen Paul, RD Burman, SD Burman, Sunder
51 Comments to “Naughty Boy (1962)”
Ava Suri
I find it hard to sit through such movies too. It is obvious the audiences in those days could put up with a lot. I picked the song which had Edwina in it to watch, the last one. It has her trademark hairdo.. so delightful. Kalpana looks really stunning in this dance.
I added the first one last night after Tom put it up for me (thanks Tom!) :) She is lovely in both of them. And yes, Kalpana was quite beautiful in that last one. Pretending to be Finnish really worked out well for her!
Carla (filmigeek)
Such a shame that you didn’t enjoy it – Kishore looks so cute and those wonderful songs make it seem so tempting, it is no fair to be disappointed. Alas, it was a treat to watch the songs with you and Edwina!
It was fun in places, especially the musical places, but overall just such a dumb story with badly contrived excuses for OTT slapstick. Kishore can be so much fun, but he needs to be managed well (like Mehmood) and he just wasn’t here.
And we were happy to see you too!
I think Kishor Kumar (and Mehmood) can be quite grating too, if allowed to go overboard by a bad script, and a soft director. But I love animated credits, the hand-drawn ones, they always announced that a film was going to be ‘fun’. Even if it wasn’t, we didn’t always know it as kids.
I haven’t seen ‘Naughty Boy’, but I think I wouldn’t mind seeing it once, even of FF.
These credits were awesome, really cute and funny and introducing the next set of names perfectly. They really do announce a film as fun, don’t they? As I said, I didn’t hate the film, it made me laugh in places and the songs are perfectly delightful—with a FF button you might get some fun out of it :)
memsaab, if it grated on your nerves (your last good one? That’s a good one (pun unintended)!), then I’m definitely giving it a miss. I’ll listen to the songs on raaga or dishant or something. I remember Madhu mentioning something about Kalpana + Naughty Boy, and I don’t think it was complimentary. Thanks for taking one for the team!
You are welcome. My blog tagline is “I watch bad movies so you don’t have to” after all ;-)
dustedoff
I watched this a couple of years ago, and hated it so much I couldn’t even bring myself to review it. It was just not worth the effort. But yes, did you notice – it was released in the same year as Professor, and in both Kalpana played a girl named Neena who falls in love with a man named Pritam?
I didn’t think about the Neena-Pritam thing at all, mostly because once a film is done I always forget what the character names were. I can’t remember everything! I didn’t hate this, I enjoyed parts of it, but overall it’s not really worth sitting all the way through.
I remember watching this not so long ago and there are a few things that I remember very well from the movie.
First, the songs. They are just so delightful. Typical SD Burman light numbers.
Second, how brief the mourning period for Kishore is and how quickly he gets back to enjoying life with his friends, as if nothing had happened at all. That was just SO unreal.
Overall, I did not really mind the movie very much. But that’s because I did not have any expectations. I have seen so many Kishore movies of this type by now that I’ve almost come to expect nothing in terms of a storyline. *sigh* Unfortunately, many of his movies had a weak script – but that’s not his fault. In fact, they were almost always salvaged (if at all) only by songs and Kishore’s slapstick comedy. Yes, a lot of the comedy is OTT but then a lot of Bob Hope’s was too – and he was insanely popular in Hollywood in his time, wasn’t he? Granted that Hope’s jokes were funnier but that’s more a script-writer’s problem,
Third, (especially now that you’ve reminded me of it), the extremely irritating falsetto voice of Krishakant. What was the point of that? If it was meant to be funny, it clearly wasn’t. I remember almost wanting to punch him everytime I heard him speak – and I am not a violent person by nature. :-)
Fourth, I remember being thrilled at seeing Edwina in the songs. It must feel really good to be able to see a movie, featuring her, in her company. Am sure she must be feeding you with a lot of stories as you watch the movie together. :-)
Thanks a lot, Greta, for this review. And oh, that piece of inside info about Om Prakash is going to make me see him in a different light also from now on, I think.
The way Kishore was sad for all of ten minutes was so dumb, and to then make the entire second half revolve around something that stupid without any kind of surprise was tiresome.
Bob Hope also gets on my last good nerve :) But I love the Three Stooges. Go figure.
Thanks for the incredibly fun review! I showed my mom the pictures and we both gushed over how-old-is-Saroj Khan-anyways-she’s-still-so-active, and how-Kimi-looks-so-much-like-her-mom, and other general awesomeness. I love your reviews, but honestly, I love the small tidbits of random Bollywood info even more.
Why is this movie titled “Naughty Boy” anyways? Makes me crack up just thinking of the ‘naughty’ things Kishore must be getting upto :)
Saroj was such a cutie pie, wasn’t she? All of those girls were very pretty. I’ve had a lot of fun getting random tidbits of info from Edwina, and she’s very kind to let me share some of them—including the not-so-flattering—with you :)
The movie may be intolerable, but the nuggets of information that you collected while watching this movie with Edwina are priceless. Littleknown facts about Kimi Katkar’s mother, Oscar’s wife etc are invaluable information and it adds considerable to our knowledge about unsung artists of the past.
I would have loved to watch more films with her, but she finds them hard to sit through. She mostly just enjoys the songs…I guess a lot of people are like that, wink wink :D
So sad (horribly sad!!) to hear this about Om Prakash!!! I couldn’t read beyond that line….He was my absolute favorite….always saw him as a fun loving grand-dad…*sigh*
Well pretend you didn’t read it :D I think I can still enjoy his performances as a loony old man, just be happy you were never a pretty young thing who had to deal with him on a set! I am sure he’s not alone in that characteristic, not by a long shot.
Om Prakash lecherous and grabby? Another of my delusions crushed! Even Edwina couldn’t sit through this and you did? You deserve two medals – one for sitting through the movie and another for writing about it in such a funny way, even if it didn’t deserve such kind handling!
Well Edwina doesn’t sit through many of them apparently. She can’t sit still that long, I think! And I’m glad you like the review and I’m sorry about OP too :(
A couple of years ago, I was curious to know more about Kalpana. I googled and didnt find the information I was looking for. A few weeks ago, the Times of India published an article stating that she was leading a lonely life in Pune. I felt sorry that the people who entertained us many years ago, are now leading such a lonely life at the fag end of their lives. Anyway, thank you for the info about Saroj Khan and Kimi’s mom. Kaviraj
Someone who seems to know her left a more detailed series of comments under my “Professor” post starting here: https://memsaabstory.wordpress.com/2008/10/18/professor-1962/#comment-29882
Sounds like she is actually quite content. I know Indians especially tend to think that people living alone must be terribly sad and lonely, but speaking as a person who lives alone (except for the dogs) I am very happy that way myself :) But I can’t convince any Aunties I meet of that!!!!
Kishore Kumar was so down-market in 1962 both as an actor and a singer. Even his regular Dev Anand used Rafi’s voice for his songs. I don’t know of any movie in which he acted or sung in 1963. His “Ganga Ki Lehren” (1964) was a one off though it can’t be termed as a comeback.
Possibly “Guide” (1965) was the beginning of Kishore’s comeback which was followed by “Jewel Theif” (1967), “Padosan” (1968) and “Aradhana” (1969).
Queer he turned down an offer to sing “Kasme Vaade Pyar Wafa Sab…” for Upkaar (1967) since he wanted to sing only for heroes…..
It seems he was never really interested in being an actor, he only wanted to be a singer. That certainly shows in this movie!
I can usually only take Kishore the actor in small, well-administered doses but I quite liked “Naughty Boy.” I guess the songs and the intermittent moments of hilarity were enough to entertain me. Plus it’s the only movie where I found Kalpana of the melting face both tolerable and pretty.:-)
I have to disagree with the notion that Kishore Kumar was “down-market” in 1962. It was the opposite actually. He was so busy in the late 50-early 60s period with his own productions (Jhumroo came out in 1961) and outside assignments that he didn’t have time to sing songs for himself much less playback for other actors.
Kalpana of the melting face did look quite nice :) And Kishore/Pritam didn’t bother me nearly as much as all the other supporting characters…I don’t regret watching it, but I can think of lots of other movies I’d watch again before this one :)
@Memsaab -Though I’d heard of this film, I had not gotten around to actually seeing it. Maybe the name made me unsure of what to expect. After reading your review I don’t have to worry about it as you have watched it for all of us :) Thanks for the review and for sharing several nuggets about various people.
It is true that Kishore acted in fewer movies in the early sixties but that could be because he was busy making his own (Jhumroo, Door Gagan ..). There were also many stories about his eccentric behavior with producers who owed him money or did not pay him upfront, which made many filmmakers hesitate to approach him. His then wife’s illness too must have left him with lesser time to devote to acting.
The songs are worth seeing, but you won’t have missed much else if you don’t watch it.
pacifist
I was waiting for someone to announce they enjoyed the film so that I could agree with them.
Like Shalini I was entertained enough.
Kishore Kumar’s main drawback is that he doesn’t look attractive enough (I know that’s very superficial of me ;-) ) so his tomfoolery can be annoying, but here he was quite tolerable.
Kalpana, I don’t mind. The songs were great.
I don’t find him unattractive, especially when he’s funny…but I didn’t like most of the other people in this, or the stupid story :)
Om Prakash grabby ! Now I need not have guilt pangs over my irritation at his whining moralistic dialogues. No wonder the role in Dus Lakh suited him to a T.
Possible future post: Do let us know what’s Edwina Mam’s favourite dance numbers in Hindi films (even if she did not appear therein but would feel like shaking a leg when it plays). Please give her my regards.
Ha ha ha!!! He can be whiny, now that you mention it. Ah well. Apparently his brother Pachhi was just as bad too.
Alas! Edwina has gone home, leaving me and my dogs all on our own. I’m going to have to do my own dishes again now and find my dinner as and when I can :( I made her a set of CDs of her dances (the songs) so that she can start dancing again every day—she still is so graceful. She also asked me to give everybody here her love and regards, and hopefully she will keep showing up now and again to give us the benefit of her wit and wisdom!
i think tina misquitta was married to v shantaram’s son.
Heyy Memsaab, Give the fact that you have Vintage magazines, would you be kind enough to put some scans of Amitabh bachchan articles and his film reviews ?? In case if you don’t wanna put on blog, can you please share me at my email address .. mastidea@gmail.com ??
Thanku very much in advance and god bless you.
Actually most of my vintage magazines are either before his time, or after the time he began his reciprocated boycott of the film journalism industry—there is nothing about him except vague references to Jaya’s “angry middle-aged husband” or Rekha’s “angry middle-aged hero boyfriend”. He is never mentioned by name. Ever.
Thanks Very Much for reply Memsaab. I would be glad if anytime you find anything substantial to share with me. This is wonderful to see your fascination towards bollywood, specially such lost gems of past. Though i rarely comment, but i visit at your site regularly. Thanks for entertaining us.
Thanks for saying that Jeevan :) I will be putting up more articles soon!
Please can you find me a video of a old movie 1963 – Ramu Dada ; I watched back home in our cinema in Mombasa, Kenya
You can order Ramu Dada from induna, I just got it a couple of weeks back.
Suneel V Gaur
Memsaab I want Ramudada badly. where is it available in Mumbai. which company has released the DVD.
By the way Naughty Boy was about OK. Not that bad if you understood the dialogue. But Krishnakant and Omprakash are the worst actors in this movie. They have killed and thats a big crime. who made them actors I dont know. The Boxer [Kundan[ acted well though.
Anyway how are you Memsahab. Not heard from you in a long time. Unfortunately I could not meet Shammi Kapoor despite him calling me over becoz of the distance between our residences. He stayed in town while I am in the suburbs. If you have his autograph to spare please give it to me. it will ease the pain somewhat of not meeting him.
Take care and God Bless from your old filmi friend,
Ramu Dada is on an unsubtitled dvd, I think induna has it (Google it!). I did not get Shammiji’s autograph…I really much preferred the photograph of the two of us.
Simplegal
Om Prakash being a “lecherous grabby guy” in real as opposed to his benign, grandfatherly, uncle-ish image that I have of him, was the hardest thing to swallow for me. He is among my favorite character-actors and to have that image contradicted is a disappointment indeed.
Seems like people are quite the opposite in real life of what they portray in reel. A big, big SIGH! :-(
Krishnakant and om Prakash killed acting.lol.
Naughty Boy is probably on top of the list of unlikeliest vintage Bollywood film titles, for me at least…based on your review, I find the plot slightly quirky too, but it’s a typical Bollywood comedy nonetheless…by the way memsaab, have you come across any Bollywood film from 1960 entitled Superman? I heard about it years ago and according to IMDb, it features Nirupa Roy as one of the cast…I’m not sure if that movie is still available, but since you specialise in obscure movies, I believe this might perk your interest… =D
I have heard of Superman but I’ve never seen it available anywhere sadly. We live in hope though!
Yeah me too…I’m also impressed that you have a collection of silent films too…so I’m wondering…have you come across the very first cinematic adaptation of Saratchandra Chatterjee’s novel Devdas? It was filmed and screened in 1928, and apparently the role of Chandramukhi required two actresses to essay!
Memsaab Naughty boy was a entertainer. Could you please tell me who is the dialogue writer of the salim Khan starrer Ramu Dada. This was the first and last film of his as a hero. Would be grateful for your help. You are an encyclopedia of Hindi films so you were the best person to ask.
Tom Daniel
According to the movie credits from the VCD, the dialog for 1961’s Ramu Dada was written by someone named Vrajendra Gaur.
Thanks Tom. By the way Vrajendra Gaur was someone who merited a blog by Memsaab. Kindly see it Tom and you will know all about Mr Vrajendra Gaur’s great achievements in the Hindi Film industry.
memsaab why dont you give us a write up on character actor Kundan who played Kishore Kumar’s friend in Naughty Boy. He also acted in Kati patang [the notorious taxi driver], Shankar Shambu, Khoon Aur Pani, Do yaar, resham ki Dori, Jaali Note, etc.etc.
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MERC Approves PPAs for Solar Projects Totaling 235 MW in Maharashtra
Projects are being developed under Mukhyamantri Saur Krishi Vahini Yojana
Solar, Utility Scale
The Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) has approved power purchase agreements (PPAs) for grid-connected solar photovoltaic (PV) projects totaling 235 MW.
MERC reviewed a petition filed by Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) regarding approval for the long-term procurement of 235 MW of solar power under Mukhyamantri Saur Krishi Vahini Yojana with a set of 2 to 10 MW capacity projects connected in order to meet MSEDCL’s solar Renewable Purchase Obligation (RPO).
In April 2018, MSEDCL tendered 1 GW of solar PV projects to be developed under the Mukhyamantri Saur Krishi Vahini Yojana. During financial bid, MSEDCL received bids for 285 MW of cumulative solar capacity and rates ranged from ₹3.09 (~$0.044)/kWh to ₹3.30 ($0.047)/kWh.
MSEDCL later negotiated with the bidders to reduce their tariff rates. As a result, bidders submitted a revised tariff rate of ₹3.15/kWh. MSEDCL found the rates quoted by the bidders up to ₹3.15/kWh at 11 kV level to be financially viable and economical along with the benefits of distributed generation, and approved the submission. The weighted average of the tariff is now ₹3.13 (~$0.044)/kWh.
Upon query about increase in the tariff rate as against approved by MERC of ₹2.72 (~$0.038)/kWh, MSEDCL stated that the reason for increase in tariff from ₹2.72 (~$0.038)/kWh to ₹3.13 (~$0.044)/kWh is because of the geographic spread and smaller size of the projects. Secondly, the earlier rates were at the distribution periphery and exclude the transmission and distribution losses up to 11 kV level. Lastly, all the solar projects would be located within the state with social benefits although with minimal additional cost.
While examining the submission made by MSEDCL, MERC noted that the due process for the procurement of solar power had been followed by the DISCOM, and that the submitted tariff rates are within the range of the previously approved tariff rates by MERC, considering the transmission and distribution losses, project size and the geographic spread.
MERC opined that the submitted rates were competitively obtained and were twice negotiated, and also stated that the solar power procured from these projects will count towards the fulfilment of MSEDCL’s solar RPO.
Recently, MERC approved the initiation of a district (circle) wise competitive bidding process for the procurement of solar power under Mukhyamantri Saur Krishi Vahini Yojana. MERC approved the ceiling rate of ₹3.10 (~$0.044)/kWh, an increase in the maximum capacity limit from 50 MW to 100 MW for each district.
Image Credit: Tata Power Solar
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Maharashtra Adopts Tariff of ₹3.05/kWh for 184 MW of Solar Projects
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Solar’s Share in India’s Total Installed Power Capacity Reaches 9.6% at the End of 2019
Solar REC Trading Volume Improved in December 2019
NTPC Floats O&M Tender for a 50 MW Solar Project in Madhya Pradesh
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Franklin Evans: juddrules
Art New England: by Robert Moeller
17 September - 13 December 2014
Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing or popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves the artist's artistic consciousness. Art is free, but it is not a free-for-all. The one struggle in art is the struggle of artists against artists, of artist against artist, of the artist-as-artist within and against the artist-as-man, -animal or -vegetable. Artists who claim their artwork comes from nature, life, reality, earth or heaven, as “mirrors of the soul” or “reflections of conditions” or “instruments of the universe,” who cook up “new images of man”—figures and “nature-in-abstraction”—pictures, are subjectively and objectively, rascals or rustics. -Donald Judd, American Dialog, Vol. 1-5
Donald Judd was an exquisite contrarian. Call him a minimalist and he’d say, no, he wasn’t. To be fair, the term itself was widely rejected by artists working at this narrow-end of the artistic spectrum, and so it was only natural that what started out as an explanation of the work, became the rules that governed both its wider understanding and presentation. Looking back, what’s become clear is that the dialogues that emerged from this era were as intrinsic to the work (from the artist’s perspective) as the work itself. In part, it was the apparatus of distinction—the breaking with old ideas that felt stale and over-used. It was a carving down to the essential nature of an object that interested Judd, but it required sensitivity to some rules-based order.
At Montserrat College of Art, Franklin Evans has expertly taken Judd’s advisories to heart, if not literally, in an installation called juddrules that continuously sweeps across the entire gallery like an elegant wave of ordered form and natural chaos. What Evans captures is the tensions that fill out the interior life of a painting, informed by biography, color and a wide array of materials. As Judd said, “Art is free, but is not a free-for-all.” And Evans’ highly structured/unstructured homage to him adheres brilliantly to Judd’s sage and cautionary directive.
Indeed, what Evans accomplishes is allowing the viewer inside the deliberate mosaic of the creative process. Everything is laid bare and yet the work is fully cohesive. Evans uses tape to mark, set borders and string like connective tissue. It hangs from the ceiling, slashes across painted surfaces and stands in for line, gesture and mark-making. Its very flimsiness becomes its strength, in architecture forms that feel permanent and deliberate.
Evans situates several metal folding chairs throughout the exhibition to enable viewers to take in specific channels of the work. One view opens and closes like a stretch of roller coaster track bracketed by vertical lines of tape. Here, the artist asks you to take a journey with him, and as your eyes move down this sliver of the overall installation, the information he has placed in the corridor begins to speed up before a gentle upward curve slows it down again.
Seated in another chair, there’s a broader view of the work. Here, one begins to see a long, interconnected, painting take shape. It isn’t so much the intersection of painting and sculpture, but it’s the intersection of a painting with you in it—under you, beside you and above you. It is like being injected into the very essence of the work. The forms are so organic and natural that they make no specific claims as a single gesture but instead inform the whole. Everything is balanced and the absence of any visual neediness is the fulcrum upon which it all rides. The stability and control of the application of ideas inherent to creating the work are exposed and an interior monologue emerges. It is one in which the artist engages with the ideas of another artist while writing an autobiography of sorts, about himself, or if you will a form of portraiture about the absorption and consumption of ideas.
It begins here with Judd and transforms itself fully into Evans. What Judd allows, Evans expands upon. Judd’s rules become markers in Evans’ story. It’s not a question of primacy but rather the natural accrual of information and influence and its reinvestment in new work. Interestingly, one wonders if Judd would find Evans’ approach too unruly, too much the free-for-all he cautioned against. That being said, it is hard to imagine Judd finding fault in the precise nature of Evans’ harnessing of so many disparate elements into such a singular and profound work.
Franklin Evans: juddrules Montserrat Gallery Beverly, MA September 17 – December 13, 2014 montserrat.edu/galleries/montserrat/ http://artnewengland.com/blogs/franklin-evans-juddrules/
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Could Snapchat really be worth $10 billion?
by James O'Toole @jtotoole August 1, 2014: 11:37 AM ET
A money-hungry ghost.
"Dumb move." "Zero sense." "Remarkably stupid."
That's just a sample of the reaction last year to news that disappearing-message app Snapchat had turned down a whopping $3 billion buyout offer from Facebook. But with news from Bloomberg this week that Snapchat is in funding talks with China's Alibaba valuing the company at $10 billion, it's safe to say many observers are reconsidering Snapchat's worth.
Snapchat and Alibaba declined to comment on the reported funding talks. But the question about Snapchat has always been whether a product that seems so ephemeral has the potential to justify such a massive long-term investment.
That's hard to judge, as the privately held company is very selective about the data it releases publicly. Snapchat doesn't provide figures for its total user base or its revenue, though it's undoubtedly losing money at present given its lack of ads.
What is clear is that the service is wildly popular, particularly among younger users.
CEO Evan Spiegel has said Snapchat's core audience is between 18 and 25 years of age -- a demographic advertisers covet. As of May, users were viewing over 1 billion stories and sharing more than 700 million snaps per day, up from just 350 million in October.
That's a stunning pace of growth -- Mitch Lasky, general partner at Snapchat investor Benchmark, told CNNMoney last year that the company's growth as a mobile service "is probably the most explosive we have ever seen."
Related: OkCupid's "bad date" experiment
But back up for just a second and repeat that valuation: $10 billion. Can a three-year-old company with no revenue really be worth more than Hyatt Hotels (H)? Than Safeway (SWY)? Than Burger King (BKW)?
It's valuations like this that have prompted observers like hedge-fund mogul David Einhorn to proclaim that we're in the midst of a new tech bubble, with the bottom set to fall out "when the market reapplies traditional valuations."
Whether Snapchat is worth it depends on exactly how the company plans to make money. Display ads and sponsored messages are the most obvious routes, though the service could also experiment with premium subscriptions or "virtual goods" like filters to enhance messages.
"You have to think about where the revenue could come from to support that value, and it's hard to see that today because the company hasn't shown any user interfaces that are revenue-generating," said Brian Blau, research director at Gartner.
Twitter proves skeptics wrong ... for now
What Snapchat does have going for it, Blau said, is great brand awareness and a growing user base to rival similar mobile-ready services like WhatsApp, Instagram, Twitter and Japanese messaging app Line.
Line is reportedly mulling an IPO that would value it around $10 billion, while WhatsApp fetched $19 billion in an acquisition by Facebook earlier this year.
Facebook paid $1 billion for Instagram back in 2012, and has grown its user base substantially since then. Twitter, while still losing money, is flying high on the New York Stock Exchange at the moment with a market cap of around $27 billion.
"At the level that Snapchat's at today, it's difficult for any tech company to reach those heights," Blau said.
Related: Facebook at all-time high on mobile might
But it's not as if Snapchat's technology is hard to replicate. It's already facing competition for similar photo-sharing service like Taptalk, and just this week, Instagram introduced Bolt, its own disappearing-message app.
Even if it can hold off these competitors, Snapchat still faces the challenge of collecting meaningful user data, the currency of big tech and social media companies like Google, Twitter and Facebook.
A big part of Snapchat's appeal is the fact that messages sent through the app exist only temporarily, rather than being logged for potential discovery by parents, co-workers and other unwanted viewers. But that means that -- provided Snapchat keeps its promise to regulators -- it can't mine the communications of users for marketing insights the way other social networks do.
"I don't have a lot of clients asking about Snapchat, because how do you gather data?" said Bob Pearson, president of marketing firm W20 Group. "How do you get market research? How do you integrate it with search and e-commerce?"
So while Snapchat is generating a lot of excitement, it's got a long way to go to deliver on the hype.
CNNMoney (New York) First published August 1, 2014: 11:37 AM ET
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Baseball hall of fame voters are showing Larry Walker some love
It's the Maple Ridge legend's last year on the Baseball Hall of Fame voting ballot and he may yet get in.
Patrick Johnston
In his final year on the Baseball Writers’ Association of America ballot, the trend line for Larry Walker’s Baseball Hall of Fame dreams looks very good.
According to hall of fame voting tracker Ryan Thibodaux, the Maple Ridge Kid has appeared on just over 87 per cent of the ballots so far revealed to the public by voters.
“Walker is basically in as good a position as someone who needs to make a more than 20% jump can be. Voters are flipping from no to yes at a rate that would get him in the Hall if the trend continues,” Thibodaux replied in a direct message to me. “But There’s an awfully long way to go, and the voters who keep their ballots tend to be more stingy with their votes, and to change their minds on candidates less often. Walker will need a few of those private ballot voters to check his name. It’s difficult to predict if that will happen.”
Just over 100 ballots have been revealed by voters so far; according to Thibodaux, last year’s vote saw 232 ballots publicly revealed before the final tallies were announced by the hall of fame.
With 103 ballots revealed/~25.0% of the vote known:
Jeter – 100%
Walker – 87.4%
Schilling – 79.6%
BB/RC – 77.7%
Rolen 49.5%
Vizquel – 48.5%
Sheffield – 38.8%
Manny – 37.9%
Helton 36.9%
Wagner – 32.0%
Andruw – 30.1%
Kent – 28.2%
Sosa – 21.4%
Tracker: https://t.co/bp1RXBnrHI
— Ryan Thibodaux (@NotMrTibbs) December 30, 2019
In last year’s voting, Walker appeared on 65.9 per cent of the pre-announcement publicly revealed ballots. In the end, 357 voters revealed their ballots; Walker’s name appeared on 59.7 per cent of those.
There were 68 voters in 2019 who did not reveal their ballots, but based on the math, Walker’s name appeared on just 27.9 per cent of those.
In the end, his total 2019 tally was 54.5 per cent, 20.5 points shy of the 75-per-cent total needed.
There’s lots of voting yet to come, and Walker will need to appear on 70.9 per cent of the remaining ballots to achieve the standard.
“Right now, I’d call it a coin flip for Walker’s chances. That alone is pretty remarkable considering where he came from a few years ago,” Thibodaux added. “That he’ll be in the 70-plus per cent range almost without question this year after getting just 21.9 per cent three years ago is amazing.”
The deadline for voters to submit their ballots is Tuesday.
Year over year tracking for Larry Walker, Curt Schilling, Barry Bonds (Clemens is similar), and Omar Vizquel.
All have ballot #101 for you in just a moment… pic.twitter.com/G1L7KBBErW
Thibodaux’s collated all the voting data on an online spreadsheet. Click here to see it.
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LG V20 Review: Premium Audio, Dual Camera
by Chester Tan February 5, 2017
The first LG V-series, V10, appeared in 2015 and got many consumers interested due to its second screen and rugged design, which includes water resistance and drop-proof. The new V20 launched late last year shed the claim to be element-proof, but added some likeable LG G5 features and used tough materials to withstand drops and shocks.
First of all, the rear casing is made of aircraft-grade AL6013 aluminum. It is thin but extremely tough and cannot be casually bent, allowing the casing to be thin and strong. There is no coating on the aluminum, so you feel the raw metal cool. The top and bottom of the phone is made of silicone polycarbonate (Si-PC), a material commonly used in crash helmets, which is what makes the V20 shock resistant and does not ding easily like metal, yet it feels solid and not plasticky. In the event of any accidental drops, the rear casing may pop out, an expected behaviour in order to absorb some of the shock.
The V20 gets the bragging rights as the first Android smartphone that runs on Nougat (Android 7.0) out of the box, though this advantage quickly becomes insignificant with more smartphones getting the firmware update, including the G5 and the Moto Z. Another uncommon feature is that V20 can support dual SIM and micro SD card at the same time, while most phones come with a hybrid SIM-SD slot.
Another significant aspect of the V20 is that B&O has lent its brand to the smartphone model, boasting its audio capabilities. While the G5 requires the separate purchase of the Hi-Fi Plus module, the V20 has the 24-bit Hi-Fi Quad DAC built-in. The V20 provides the option of using either the normal audio processor or the Hi-Fi Quad DAC, by simply enabling from the pull down notification shortcut icons. The Hi-Fi DAC delivers improved audio resolution with more detailed treble output and added spatial response.
The premium audio processor is not limited to playback. Both video and audio recording are now capable of 24-bit format. The HD Audio Recorder app lets you set sampling rate from 44.1KHz to 192KHz, in 16-bit or 24-bit depth, saved in 3GP, WAV or FLAC format. On top of that, I can adjust gain, enable limiter, and filter low frequencies below 150Hz.
Based on my test, the audio recorder can achieve quality that is unheard of (no pun intended) on smartphones. Stereo imaging is excellent and immerses me into the recording. When the gain is at -20dB and other audio filters off, the microphone is able to withstand loud audio levels and capture low-frequency tones, while the highs are also clean and undistorted. In this setting, no problem when recording in noisy environments like disco pubs, stadiums, or rock concerts. Most smartphone mics would only be able to capture the highs while the lows would be neglected. For voice-only recording, adjust the gain, set LCF (low cut filter) to 150Hz so that the lower frequencies like ambient noises are removed for better conversational recording.
Similarly, when using the “Manual Video” recording option, I can enable 24-bit Hi-Fi Audio or adjust audio filters to control the outcome, resulting in more professional-sounding, less distorted audio for video recordings. The use of 24-bit Hi-Fi Audio should be used when creating premium content and not for social sharing, because not all the platforms, for instance Instagram, supports 24-bit audio, and will make the audio channel sound jibberish.
What Does 24-bit Audio Mean?
A higher bit-rate in audio is similar to a higher pixel count in photo images. It is always better to record or capture in higher resolution, but ultimately, one might not need all the data unless the intention is to edit and transform the recording. Recording in higher bit does not necessarily mean better quality, because it all depends on the source. For photography, it is the sensor. For audio, it is the microphone. While the LG V20 microphone sounds impressive, it is still incomparable to professional mics. So, if you were to plug in quality mics to record on the V20, the result should be nothing short of super.
B&O Play Earphones
The bundled B&O earphones are not characteristically special, but I admit I am being critical here since it is a pair of B&O earphone. The bass is not extended, there is slight boost in mid-treble giving the lead tracks a broader sound. They are tuned for good treble-based music, with wide and airy sound staging. The LG V20 s powerful DAC also means the earphones is designed to show off the highs.
The V20 speaker offers nothing unique. Audio quality delivered is clear though lacking in lower frequencies.
Having used the LG G5 for an extended period of time, many thanks to LG Singapore, the V20 feels similar to G5 with the UX, dual camera, overall shape and form, plus the unique second screen which inspires other upcoming phone models from the competitors. V20 continues to have infrared sensor and support universal remote control settings. Since there is no modular attachment, the V20 feels more rigid and durable thanks to the above-mentioned material use. The removable 3200 mAh battery is a notch larger than G5, though the battery life is not significantly extended. The V20 lacks granular management of apps and the battery usage, so occasionally I feel excessive battery drain with increased body temperature.
The Android 7.0 supports multi-window but there are very limited apps that work in this mode, to my disappointment. The calculator app was also absent from the Qslide App drawer, where apps can run on a floating window.
The usefulness of the Second screen can be improved. Currently, the screen is rather small, and notifications appear too brief before it disappears. There are limited number of shortcut apps to be added to the second screen.
Ultra-wide Camera
The dual camera remains my favourite among all the smartphones I review. Granted, the Huawei Mate 9 camera delivers more pleasing images with its aggressive exposure controls and wide aperture trickery. But the ultra-wide 135-degree angle camera is something that cannot be post-processed, unlike exposure levels or bokeh.
During my review with multiple smartphones, I find myself using the V20 more to capture photojournals, while the Mate 9 is ideal for close objects. The exposure level for the V20 is geared towards the conservative, and I get underexposed images if there are high contrast areas.
In addition, the V20 front camera is also wider (120 degrees) so that I can include more background views and people in selfies. Like the rear camera, the front camera can choose between wide angle and normal angle, though it uses the same camera.
Multi-view Camera Mode
The multi-view camera mode is already a feature in G5, where it makes use of all 3 camera lenses to record a multi-view video recording at the same time. With the V20, it allows 4 views, the fourth being the cropped front camera view. On top of that, if you have the LG 360 CAM, the camera can also be chosen as one of the views for recording. I thought that was rather amazing.
Where the G5 may have failed to gain consumer interest, the V20 makes it up. Moving from G5 to V20 feels more like an upgrade, with better build quality, premium audio processor, dual camera setup, second screen, B&O earphones. As a musician, a photographer, and a social media enthusiast, the V20 offers all the features that are close to my heart. Retailing at S$998, it comes in Silver and Titan, plus a new colour, Pink!
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Better built compared to LG G5
Ultra wide-angle camera remains my favourite feature among smartphones
Premium audio processor for video and audio recording
Multi-view camera mode also supports connecting to LG 360 CAM
Video editing supports altering speeds for 2 segments from x1/4 to x4 speeds.
Infrared port
Relatively poor battery performance given such a powerful smartphone, though battery is swappable which easily extends the usage.
Overall UI less responsive than competitors like Huawei Mate 9
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Norman Beischer Medical Research Foundation CEO, Andrew Brooks, Prof Gabor Kovacs, Visiting Professor Richard Anderson and Epworth obstetrician & gynaecologist Megan Di Quinzio
International Speaker Headlines Epworth Symposium
The recent and Tenth Epworth Obstetrics and Gynaecology Symposium took place at the Park Hyatt Melbourne, and included an international headline speaker provided by the Norman Beischer Medical Research Foundation.
Professor Richard Anderson, the Elsie Inglis Professor of Clinical Reproductive Science, and Head of Section, Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Edinburgh, was brought to the event due to his expertise in obstetrics and gynaecology, and particularly his clinical research in male and female reproductive endocrinology.
Professor Anderson’s variety of talks at the Symposium included Fertility Prevention In Young Girls, From PCO To Hot Flushes: New Pathways For Treatment and Anti Mullerian Hormone: So Much More Than IVF.
The Norman Beischer Medical Research Foundation’s CEO, Mr Andrew Brookes said it was a pleasure to have Professor Anderson address the Symposium, which brought a great insight from his topics of discussion.
“Professor Anderson is renowned for his clinical research in both male and female reproductive endocrinology, bringing his expertise and latest evidence to Australian obstetricians and gynaecologists,” Mr Brookes said.
“Along with his team, he is recognised as the first to show how kisspeptin administration to males increases luteinising hormone pulse frequency. His further work has explored the interaction between kisspeptin and neurokinin B in the control of reproduction in women and men,” Mr Brookes said.
The Tenth Epworth Obstetrics and Gynaecology Symposium was a major success and included talks by twenty-one industry experts. Other areas of interest discussed at the Symposium included Skeletal Dysplasia And Other Genetic Diseases, Labial Plastic Surgery and Pelvic Pain And Endometriosis.
“Having Professor Anderson address the Symposium brought a wealth of knowledge to those attending,” Mr Brookes said.
“Involving international educators, such as Professor Anderson, is one of our objectives at the Norman Beischer Medical Research Foundation, being the delivery of the latest information, practices and data to Australian medical practitioners.”
Prof Richard Anderson speaks at the Tenth Epworth Obstetrics and Gynaecology Symposium
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I pored over books when I started to become interested in photographers. I spent countless hours at the library, reading, and studying the photographs. In that sense there were numerous photographers that informed my own style over the years. With the internet, it is so much easier to click through images and see new work, but there will always be something special about holding a beautifully printed book and marveling at the photographs.
Someone recently asked me which are the photographers I have learnt the most from. I immediately took that to be the photographers whose work I studied in books and magazines over the years. Books have always had a special place in my heart – even more so the beautifully printed Art Photography books.
For example, this beautiful volume, featuring photographs of Monica Bellucci (Amazon), features images by a diverse number of photographers who had the opportunity to photograph this stunning Italian actress / model. Interesting to note how varied their approach was. The printing in this large book is gorgeous, and it is already one of my most favorite photography books. Just paging through it, is an experience, and I had to include it here as one of the best photography books on my shelf.
These are my other favorite books on photography.
(The recommended instructional photography books are listed on a separate page.)
(Amazon USA) (Amazon UK)
01. Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best
If I had to pick one photographer whose work had an immediate and enduring impact on me, it would be Elliott Erwitt. The gentle humor with which he observes the world is at once endearing and insightful.
One of the great legends in photography, his personal work is recognizable because of that stamp. Even if you’re not familiar with his photography, you’ve seen his images in posters and album covers.
02. Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer
Henri Cartier-Bresson is arguably the single most important influence in the world of photography. With that, this book deserves a place on photographer’s shelf. Or any books with his images, really.
He instilled the idea of “The Decisive Moment”, that fleeting moment when the scene in front of you comes together in way that has a certain visual resonance. He explained it in an interview: “Photography is not like painting. There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.”
03. Photowisdom
Subtitled, Master Photographers On Their Art, this is a beautiful volume filled with images that will leave you in awe. The list of world-class photographers also talk about their photography, giving insight into what inspires them.
04. Avedon: Fashion 1944 – 2000
Richard Avedon’s Fashion photography has been a consistent inspiration to all over the decades, his influence immeasurable. This comprehensive volume is a book to be studied often.
05. Vivian Maier: Street Photographer
The story surrounding the discovery of Vivian Maier’s legacy is as interesting as the images are wonderful to behold. Completely unknown as a photographer during her lifetime, she shot a vast number of photographs while working as a nanny, roaming (predominantly) the streets of Chicago.
A must-have book if you appreciate Street Photography and Art Photography.
06. Monica Belluci
This is one of my favorite books on my shelf – stunning images of Monica Belluci, a breath-takingly beautiful Italian model / actress, shot by numerous photographers. With the variety of approaches on one single subject – Monica Belluci – this volume is filled with potential ideas and inspiration for any photographer.
07. Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits
Gregory Heisler is an undisputed genius when it comes to photographic lighting. In this book he has collected 50 of his his best portraits he has taken during his career, and he discusses the thought-processs behind each image. He offers insight in how he came to take specific images, and how he decided why to set up up certain portraits in certain ways.
Gregory Heisler’s humility, and the way he allows glimpses into the frustration and disappointments along the way – the struggles to get to iconic images – all this is told in entertaining and thoughtful way.This is a book to devour, and then dip into again and again, and learn from.
08. Nick Brandt: A Shadow Falls
A Shadow Falls is a sumptuously printed collection of images by wildlife photographer, Nick Brandt. His beautiful photographs just have to be seen! Really, it’s an experience.
If there is one word I can use to describe the images in this book – epic!
09. Annie Leibowitz at work
Annie Leibovitz is one of the leading modern photographers. This volume is less a showcase of her work, but rather a conversation where she talks about photographs and the stories behind them.A good read and a glimpse into her life.
10. David duChemin: Within the Frame
Subtitled, ‘The Journey of Photographic Vision’, David duChemin discusses what motivates him as a travel photographer and his wisdom and approach to photography. Any of his books are worth reading as he has an engaging style of writing.
11. Nicknight: The Photographs of Nick Knight
Nick Knight is a British photographer with a colorful and flamboyant style to his Fashion photography. As one of the top photographers in the Fashion field, there is some incredible work on display here.
12. Alvarado’s Classic Modern Pin-Ups
Robert Alvarado’s pin-up photography is something I’ve long admired. With the photographs all slickly stylized and highly polished, this book is wonderful to page through and feel inspired by.
Alvarado’s Pin-Up Nudes is also available, featuring his distinctive style.
13. National Geographic: The Photographs
National Geographic: The Photographs, is a huge volume filled with Compelling images from the best photography magazine you could find. Yes, you could regard the National Geographic as a photography magazine.
14. Jeanloup Sieff: 25
Jeanloup Sieff is a master photographer, and this beautiful volume spanning 4 decades showcases his incredibly sensual images.
15. David LaChapelle: Heaven To Hell
This impressively huge book features the trade-mark vibrant images from David LaChapelle’s vivid imagination.
16. Don McCullin
Don McCullin’s images from war-torn regions across the planet, had real long-lasting emotional impact on me. Many of his photographs have become iconic images of war-torn regions during the latter half of the 20th century. No one can look at his photographs and not find them emotionally affecting.
17. Witness in Our Time: Working Lives of Documentary Photographers
Witness in our Time: Working Lives of Documentary Photographers
My interest in photography was originally fueled by the great photo-journalists such as Don McCullin, and I’ve always had a strong interest in this field.
This book covers recent trends in documentary photography, in the words of twenty-nine people deeply involved in the genre.
18. Steve Simon: The Passionate Photographer
The Passionate Photographer, subtitled Ten Steps Toward Becoming Great, is a book that is meant to inspire and fuel your passion to improve your photography. Not quite a how-to instructional book, this book will appeal to photographers of all kind.
19. The Invisible Line: Ken Oosterbroek
Ken Oosterbroek was a South African news photographer who I truly believe was one of greatest news photographers in the world – his life was cut short in tragic circumstances, which is also portrayed in the book (and movie), Bang Bang Club.
The Invisible Line – The Life and Photography of Ken Oosterbroek – showcasing his best images, depict an important transitionary era in South African history. It is also a biography and it makes for a fascinating book.
20. The Bang Bang Club
The Bang Bang Club portrays the lives of the photographers who covered the news in South Africa during the turbulent time in the 90’s. Living in South Africa and following the news photographers’ work as published at the time in various newspapers in Johannesburg, theirs is a personal story that has specific resonance for me.
8 Comments, Add Your Own
1Darren says
What do you think of the printing in the Vivian Maier book? A few people have really slated it on Amazon (though that’s true of most things) which makes it seem a bit pointless. You might aswell just look at it on the internet if the printing is genuinely poor.
2Neil vN says
I did notice the negative comments on Amazon about the print quality in the book. I like the print quality. To my eye, it looks good. As for the comments about the images being too sepia .. I’m ambivalent about this. I’d prefer a more pure B&W, but wouldn’t knock the book for having images with richer tones.
3Mike Swiegot says
Here is another great book which might interest you. Full of beautiful photography.
Audrey 100
4regi says
OMG! a book of photos of Monica Bellucci!!! WOW! i may have to buy that just to remind myself how utterly gorgeous a human being can be
5Pasquier says
Great list, Neil – nice to see some favourites.
Glad you included Ken Oosterbroek – a favourite of mine – I remember visiting his exhibition in the early 90’s – amazing.
I guess my list would include Tim Page and David Duncan Douglas (Vietnam war), W. Eugene Smith.
At the moment, with snow outside I tend to drift towards the work of Michael Kenna and Edward Weston (indoor work).
6Dermot says
Great list Neil. Thanks for posting – some interesting books there for me to investigate! Happy New Year to you!
7Ann Steward says
Thank you for this list!!
8bartonB says
Thank you so much for your list and thoughful comments. They left me quite moved, particularly the inclusion of Vivian Maier.
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Chelsea News: Women Defeated In Pre-Season Opener Against Montpellier
August 9, 2019 neoprimesport Football, Trending 0
Chelsea FC Women have announced that they will take on French club Montpellier ... that Chelsea will travel to France to take on Montpellier as part of their schedule
Despite goals from Guro Reiten and Maren Mjelde, Chelsea Women began their pre-season campaign with a frustrating 5-2 loss to Montpellier in the Women’s French Cup on a blistering hot evening in the south of France.
The Blues came up against a fitter and sharper opponent who were dominant throughout the contest, particularly in the first half as Montpellier scored four goals.
Our latest signing, Guro Reiten, registered her first goal in a Chelsea shirt and her Norwegian team-mate, Maren Mjelde, converted wonderfully from the penalty spot in the closing moments of the game. However, the two goals were not enough to compete with a ruthless Montpellier today.
Guro Reiten scores her FIRST Chelsea goal and gets us back into the game
Emma Hayes’ squad traveled across the channel on Monday for our first pre-season tour. We had been invited to take part in the Women’s French Cup, a friendly pre-season tournament between Chelsea, Montpellier, Paris Saint-Germain, and Bayern Munich.
The Blues have played Montpellier twice previously. The first occasion was a friendly in last years pre-season, which ended in a narrow 3-2 defeat and the second meet was at the quarter-final stage of the Women’s Champions League in the 2017/18 campaign.
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Hayes started with Anita Asante and Maria Thorisdottir as the center-back pairing, with Deanna Cooper and Jess Carter stationed at full-back in front of Ann-Katrin Berger in goal.
Drew Spence was today’s captain in midfield alongside Sophie Ingle, Ji So-Yun and Reiten, Adelina Engman and Bethany England were the attacking duos.
Montpellier opened the scoring four minutes into the match when Sandie Toletti made a clever run in between Maria Thorisdottir and Deanna Cooper. And the French midfielder calmly finished her effort into the bottom corner.
Their lead was doubled shortly after as our defense got split open again, and this time Sarah Puntigam found joy and rounded the onrushing Berger.
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The Austrian earnt herself a brace seven minutes later when a corner got whipped into the middle of the box, and the Chelsea players failed to clear the ball which enabled Puntigam to tap in from close range.
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Ji So-Yun, who had been pulling the strings in the heart of midfield threaded the ball through to the no.11, who composed herself to slot underneath Cindy Perrault in the French goal.
Despite the defeat, the players moved one step closer to peak fitness after putting in a big shift against top-quality opposition this evening.
We will next be in action on Thursday when we face either Paris Saint-Germain or Bayern Munich at the same venue, Stade Michel Bendichou.
Chelsea (4-4-2) Berger; Carter, Asante, Thorisdottir (Bright 60), Cooper (Eriksson 60), Ingle, Spence © (Flemming 60), Ji (Mjelde 60), Reiten (Kirby 60), Engman, England (Bachmann 60).
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Pre-Teen Post-Punk: Interview with Chandra
d.ma Interviews 04/14/2009 01/13/2010 8 Minutes
When people sing “Love Me Do” to themselves on their way to a date ten years on the other side of their second divorce, it’s a sign that a young songwriter has got to a universal truth. This kind of precocious wisdom is embedded in the work of songwriters like Hank Williams, Prince, Elvis Costello, and Randy Newman. People who aren’t old enough to have lived the songs they’ve written nevertheless know how the song embodying that life should go. – Sasha Frere-Jones, The New Yorker
It should exist, but it shouldn’t be this good. A Delta 5-meets-Jackson 5 adolescent post-punk EP with paranoid undertones, large doses of Farfisa organ and occasional melodica solos? Sounds like a dollar record. Actually, it sounds like the best dollar record ever. Transportation, the EP recorded by then-12-year-old Chandra Oppenheim and her cast of collaborators, is a brilliant artifact of the early-80’s New York club scene and a fascinating listen, full of propulsive rhythms and mildly obscure yet insistent phrasing. I usually use the term “teenage girl poetry” as an offhand diss when artists unwisely delve into confessional mode, but Chandra’s lyrical acumen just might salvage an entire genre of verse.
As the daughter of conceptual artist Dennis Oppenheim, the precocious and self-assured Chandra was in the right place at the right time. Her father’s acquaintances Eugenie Diserio and Steven Alexander, already active in the downtown scene as The Dance, were looking for a child to front an experimental rock band, and the rest is history. After recording the 4 songs on the exceedingly rare original Transportation EP, the group toured the Northeast, debuting at the Mudd Club in 1980. Sometime thereafter, Diserio and Alexander took more of an advisory role, and Chandra recorded a second EP with an all-kid band as The Chandra Dimension. Those songs, stronger than those on the original EP, have finally seen the light of day thanks to Cantor Records’ recent release of both EPs on a single piece of wax, accompanied by a beautiful booklet. Moved by what we heard, we decided to speak with Chandra and dig a little deeper into her story.
When did you get involved in music in the first place?
Well, I was about 10 and I would write little songs and stuff. Like, my best friend from school was getting teased and I would write her a song and make her happy to chear her up—things like that. I was always in plays and stuff too. So Eugenie and Steve were friends of my dad and wanted to do a project with a kid. And they knew that I had done theater and wrote songs and stuff, so that’s how everything started.
What did you do the years right after finishing both those EPs?
We all continued working together and recorded a few more songs on a 4-track. But then I was in a private school that was very demanding. I also thought it was very easy to get back into music, thinking I could just leave it and come back to it while I focus on school, but I was wrong [laughs].
The second EP is great too. Why was it shelved for so long?
It got shelved because the band was fizzling out and my interests were changing. I remember school being rough and I would bring my homework to band practice. So it ended up being a conflict, so it was over before it was released.
It’s definitely reflective of the time and area you came from. How was it growing up when post-punk was fresh and exploding?
I was just a kid so it wasn’t anything too special. I was more influenced by the kids around me. I had a crush on a boy who liked the Doors, so I liked the Doors. I liked The Kinks a lot too. Then it got into these ‘80s pop stuff, the Go-Gos and other one-hit wonders of the ‘80s [laughs]. I remained interested in ‘60s and ‘70s rock; Talking Heads and other stuff my dad hip me out to in the beginning.
What about hip-hop? How was living in ‘80s Brooklyn when hip-hop was a baby? Did you dig it; did you ever get involved?
The only thing I knew about hip-hop was that Eugenie, from the band, showed me some rap music to help my songwriting sometimes [laughs]. The only other thing rap-related I remember listening to a lot when it was out Blondie’s “Rapture”. It wasn’t until I was in college that I was into Public Enemy and KRS.
“Get It Out of Your System” by Chandra
http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/8/9/2538351/chandra_get%20it%20out%20of%20your%20system.mp3
How artistically influenced were you by your parents would you say?
So I was very influenced by my parents and what they listened to. On one hand, my mother listened to Janis Joplin, The Stones, and Dylan, and a little soul music thrown in. My dad was more into the cutting edge stuff, Patti Smith, B-52s, Blondie, Lou Reed, and of course Talking Heads. My mom lived in Brooklyn and my dad lived in Manhattan so I lived in between those two areas and was exposed to a lot of stuff.
How do you think growing up surrounded by creative types affect you?
Well for one thing, it made me feel like the sky’s the limit. I saw my father do what he wanted to do without a care of what people thought. I felt that this was the best way to operate in the world. In terms of being around these people, I felt like I was an adult when I was a kid. Other kids lived with more rules, and I was around adults and got to see scary movies and go to parties.
The downside of that was that I was around adult that probably didn’t’ think of me as a kid either. I was a kid of a well-known conceptual artist so I was used to being around crazy people in crazy situations all the time. I was exposed to behavior that wasn’t the best for a child’s development; like drug-use for example. But again, because it was around all the time, it wasn’t interesting or enticing or anything either.
How was working with musicians that were older than you? Did they just do whatever you wanted? Did you feel like they projected their own aspirations on you?
Not at all—they were great. They definitely guided me and I think they were really successful at that. They guided me but also let me lead the way. Now that I’m a mother I can see how kids can be so explosively creative on their own. They let me lead the way so that we could go further. And when I got off track, they would get me back on it.The stuff we did together is great and a lot of that has to do with the music. I mean, they were already a band and had already played together, so it wasn’t like starting from scratch. It wasn’t like we were all strangers working together.
Where were your parents during this process? Were they protective of you and your talents?
The protectiveness mainly came from me being a pre-teen and being totally naïve of sexual things and how I looked on stage. Eugenie was 27 and was wearing these sexy outfits she made herself. When I saw these, I wasn’t thinking that it was sexy– I was thinking that it was cool that she made something for herself. I wanted to learn how to make clothes for myself too. So I just made what she made, and my dad didn’t think those clothes were right for me. I went back to wearing what I wore everyday, which was jeans and t-shirts. After all, I was just a kid fronting a rock band.
How was playing New York’s famous MUDD club? What do you remember about that night? Was it crowded? What was the reaction to a pre-teen singer of an experimental band?
I was nervous [laughs]. I remember listening to the Jackson Five’s ABC song they were playing as an interlude of sorts, and that we were going to go on right after. I remember hearing that song and being nervous as it ended. It was crowded that evening too, but I remember people being really, really into it. After being on stage for a few minutes, it was my favorite place to be in the world [laughs].
You toured DC and Philly and even made it to Berkeley. We’re based in the Bay Area; what do you remember about that tour stop?
You are? I love the area. I actually have family there, so what I remember mostly about that Berkeley trip was hanging out with family. It was a long time ago [laughs].
During the tour, did you feel the buzz or the attention you were getting?
I didn’t feel like a celebrity ever, but I do remember a buzz. There was a lot of local press and a lot of radio-play so I definitely felt it.
At this point you weren’t working with the older musicians and were joined by an all-teenage band. How was the switch?
My best friend was in the band too, which made it more fun. But I remember before we even worked together and thinking about the potential of all of us being friends and that got me excited.
How would you describe your song writing process then?
Back then, I wrote the music and melodies. Usually, if not every time, I would come in with lyrics and melodies and start singing. The band would usually just come in with the music. Sometimes I would play the keyboard and mess around and I would write some riffs and stuff.
So how does a 12-year-old write songs that deal with weird and serious topics like you did? You hadn’t experienced what you wrote about right?
You’re right, I didn’t. Mainly, I was just in the moment and writing about things that struck me as odd or scary. Sometimes it was just stuff I wanted to express what I was thinking and what I thought my friends were thinking.
After hearing the re-issue and reading the booklet, we were left wondering what happened to you. What have you done all these years?
I am still involved with music. Up until a couple years ago, I was in and out of bands. The last thing I was working on was an improvisational project. We would come into the studio, and the producer would bring in his computer and I withmy notebook, and I’d sing and make noise over these tracks. I hope to release that soon. I was in and out of all sorts of bands after recording Transportation.
I kept writing throughout the years. I would say between ten and thirty-eight, I wrote pretty consistently. I was working on a Portishead- bossa-nova sounding project, which I was proud of, but nothing came of it either due to band personalities and stuff [laughs].
Do you have any of these recordings? Anything ever come of them?
I do have recordings of the various things I’ve done since, but some of it makes me cringe. The record that you heard is basically my favorite thing of mine I’ve done in my career. It’s funny that it happened at the very beginning of my life and sometimes I wish I could do something as good as that.
Most people don’t even record one good song in their lifetime, let alone a bunch of them, and especially not when they’re 12.
We’ll thank you for saying that. I guess you’re right [laughs].
Foreword by Nate LeBlanc, Interview by David Ma. All photos courtesy of Cantor.
NERDTORIOUS would like to thank Chandra for being so gracious with her time (this was her first interview in almost 30-years!) and Aaron Levin, owner of Cantor, for arranging the interview.
Chandra’s lone album, Transportation, has been given the deluxe re-issue treatment by Cantor Records. It is currently available from Wax Poetics’ storefront and other various online sites. Pick it up while you still can.
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Wow! Thanks for this!
Princess says:
OMGShe sounds like Bacon. Me: What do you want for tauoket toight?He: Do you fancy pizzaMe: No,i hate pizzaHe: You might like it since you haven’t had pizza for agesMe: No thanksHe: Maybe you need to find a pizza shop that you like And it goess on until I tell him, If you want pizza, SAY OUT LOUD THAT YOU WANT!
Matt Wolf says:
this is amazing, thank you.
Amazing! One of my all time faves!
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The Anadromist says:
Thanks for this Interview. I bought Chandra’s EP when I lived in the City back in the 80’s after reading a cover story about her in the late Soho News. It was an entrancing little bit of post-punk nouvelle vague. Very much a period piece. Ah it was another age then wasn’t it.
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Moritz says:
Thanks for this interview, awesome!
Stuart Pyle says:
Those songs have been running around in my head since 1980 – great to hear what she was up to whn you did the interview!
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Aesthetics of Play
February 5, 2015 February 6, 2015 benmakesgames
I re-watched Extra Credits’ episode “Aesthetics of Play” recently. In it, they talk about how some of the genres we use – like FPS – are kind of… unhelpful. For example: does it really tell you about the games to call both Portal and Borderlands FPSes? Instead, they suggest one alternative way of grouping up games: according to their AESTHETICS, as described in a paper called “Mechanics, Dynamics, Aesthetics”. (Which I STILL have not read, but really should!)
As they talked about these aesthetics, I thought about whether or not Mysterious Space appealed to them, and whether it should. Keep in mind that while many games touch on many or most of these aesthetics, most games really only adopt two or three as CORE aesthetics. Trying to focus on too many would probably result in a mess (although when you look at games like Minecraft, it’s clear that it’s not impossible!)
Sense Pleasure
Games that are fun to play just for their sights and sounds.
In the Extra Credits episode they mentioned Rez, and… YES: I used to play that game once every month or so, when some part of me would say “hey, Ben: you know what’d be great? Rez? it’s so cool how it goes with the music! it’s just so fun!”
Whoa: and I just realized: with that vibrating adapter they made for the PS2 (which I, sadly, never owned), Rez was accomplishing “sense pleasure” in ways I had not previously considered >_>
DDR and Wii Fit are other great examples of games appealing to sense pleasure.
But Mysterious Space? Not so much 😛
It’s hard to imagine Mysterious Space ever incorporating sense pleasure as a CORE aesthetic. Sure, all games want to look and sound good, and Mysterious Space is no exception, but again, think of DDR and Rez… Mysterious Space is not that kind of game. And that’s okay 🙂
Games you play in order to experience a life that is not your own. It could be a war hero, a football player for a famous team, a skilled hunter, or a rock star.
I like all of these examples, because they’re largely games that lack a strong narrative, which I would have expected to be necessary in order to allow you to convincingly play a role. But think of Rock Band: clearly a game that also cares about Sense Pleasure, but Rock Band (unlike, say, DDR) ALSO attempts to put you in the shoes of a rock band as it rises to fame, initially playing for small venues, but eventually touring the world. It may seem silly, but this is why you might play Rock Band over DDR, or why you might play Call of Duty over Unreal Tournament.
It’s just as hard to say “Mysterious Space lets you really enjoy the role of a trans-human space fighter pilot” as it is to say “Super Mario Brothers lets you really enjoy the role of a heroic plumber” 😛 Again, this is not an aesthetic that Mysterious Space aims to deliver on.
These are games you play for their STORIES.
I’ve recently been playing Life is Strange, and that game is a GREAT example. Gone Home is perhaps a “purer” example, where narrative is almost the ONLY strong aesthetic. The Final Fantasy games, Mass Effect, and other RPGs are also obvious narrative-driven games. Perhaps less-obviously, and therefore more-interestingly, games like The Sims and Dwarf Fortress also attract players for their narrative, but rather than being about delivering a narrative to you, they’re about allowing you to create your own!
While this is not a core aesthetic for Mysterious Space, it is something I’d like to explore with the game. Mysterious Space already features those Logs/Journals, which give us a glimpse into its universe, and the stories of the people living there; it’s something I’d like to bring into greater focus in the future. How much would people want to play Mysterious Space for its story, though? Probably not so much 😛
These are games you play for a challenge! As Extra Credits described it, these are “games as obstacle courses”.
And at last: something Mysterious Space appeals to! (And rogue-likes as a whole!)
Ikaruga, Tetris, the Mario games – even Peggle (it doesn’t have to be a HARD game) – are other examples of “obstacle course” games.
A game you play in order to work together to achieve something.
This is an interesting to one to me, because lots of games that might not otherwise be fellowship games can become fellowship games with the addition of a co-op mode! Borderlands, for example, I greatly enjoyed as a game to play with my friend. Yeah, it’s also a game about challenge, and POSSIBLY narrative, but we only played when we hung out together. We built our characters to complement one another. We each looked out for gear that would help the other person (“ooh, this vending machine is selling a class mod you might like!”) It was very much about the fellowship.
On the other hand, some games are BUILT for fellowship: MOBAs – like League of Legends – are about fellowship and competition (see below!) Really, any team sport – soccer, basketball, football – focuses on these aspects.
This is something I’m currently working on adding to Mysterious Space. From my experience playing Borderlands, you might have an idea of the reasons I like fellowship in games. Honestly, Mysterious Space isn’t there yet. I said “lots of games that might not otherwise be fellowship games can become fellowship games with the addition of a co-op mode”, but it’s not as simple as dropping in that option! While testing out Mysterious Space’s co-op mode I’ve noticed problems: there isn’t much incentive to work together, fight monsters together, or even be in the same area of the map! If Mysterious Space is REALLY going to feature fellowship as a core aesthetic, these problems need to be addressed, and it will probably require changing some very basic/low-level things about the game, rather than just tacking on a couple new mechanics.
A game you play in order to be better than others.
While team sports cover fellowship AND competition, it’s easy to take fellowship out of the picture, resulting in everything from Tennis to Magic the Gathering.
But these are very DIRECT methods of competition. Rogue-likes often feature competition in a sort of indirect way: through high score tables, and also achievements (game-verified, or not). For example: “I beat the game without using ANY potions” might be something to brag about on the forums; proof to yourself of your mastery; proof that YOU can do something OTHERS can’t.
Like the rogue-likes before it, Mysterious Space features a high score table. Someday, I might also make a GLOBAL high score table, so you can see how you do compared to people around the world. But could Mysterious Space – or ANY rogue-like – ever feature DIRECT competition?
I am thinking, after I get local co-op in, of adding a sort of quick 1v1 battle mode, just to duke it out with a friend, but I’m also intending this to just be a fun add-on; not necessarily something you come to the game for. But who knows: maybe it’ll be something that really appeals to some players *shrugs*
Games you play to learn new things; discover new spaces!
Magic the Gathering is another interesting example they gave in the Extra Credits, or at least one that would not have been intuitive to me, but really tells you what this aesthetic is about. A big part of Magic is the deck-building… taking some new cards, thinking about how they works, realizing that this one card’s mechanics might work with this OTHER card’s; realizing you could build a whole deck around it! That kind of discovery is really interesting, and Wizards of the Coast specifically appeals to players who want to do this; they call them “Johnny”s, and they make sure that every set has some cards that will appeal to Johnny players. They’ve identified two other common play styles as well – which they call Timmy and Spike – and it’s interesting to see where these overlap with the aesthetics, although there is definitely a focus on competition throughout, which makes sense; that is ultimately Magic’s core-est of core aesthetics.
Games featuring procedurally-generated content will almost automatically appeal somewhat to players looking for discovery: every game is different; there’s the potential to find yourself in a situation you’ve never been in before.
Hidden recipes are another mechanic that lends itself to this aesthetic. When you walk up to a crafting table in Terraria, and there’s some totally-new crazy item you can make from something you happened to pick up while you were out fighting monsters… that’s also an excitement from discovery.
Mysterious Space definitely plays with discovery. Besides the procedurally-generated sector, planets, and equipment, there’s also unlockable ships, secret paths, and logs to find. I wouldn’t say it’s a CORE aesthetic of the game, but it is there, and it’s definitely something that will continue receive attention as the game develops.
Games that let you express yourself creatively.
Even when a game doesn’t let you express yourself, players who really enjoy this aesthetic will find a way. Cosplay, fanfiction… humans love to create.
And so we have everything from building structures in Minecraft, to naming your Rock Band band, and designing and dressing its members. Even MMOs let you customize your character, although some allow you to do so more than others: the customization of City of Heroes, for example, was an important aspect for its players.
There’s also expression in HOW you play a game, though. My grandma, for example, plays video games (yes: she is an awesome grandma), and has even played Skyrim, and World of Warcraft, and in these games, she always – always – stays true to her real-life ideals. She is honest, honorable, and good, and that is how she plays her characters.
A player who chooses in-game powers, items, or whatever, based NOT on their in-game effects, but instead on how these powers, items, etc will be presented – both to that player, and to people that observe that player – is playing to express themselves.
Mysterious Space scratches this surface so lightly, I think it hardly counts. And again, that’s fine. Trying to appeal to EVERY aesthetic would be crazy.
Abnegation
Games you play to relax/zone out/unwind.
This is casual games in a nutshell. There’s usually some challenge, but think Tetris, Peggle, puzzle games, or even grinding in an MMO. You don’t necessarily play because you want to super-focus, or accomplish something awesome, but because you just want to chill out and play a little game.
Rez, actually, is also great for this.
And thinking of Rez again, it’s interesting to see how combining different aesthetics results in different, but usefully-comparable games.
Rez and grinding in an MMO both appeal to abnegation – so if you’re looking for that, these might both satisfy that need, despite seeming so different on the surface. Why do they seem so different, though? For one, most MMOs don’t deliver on sense pleasure, and Rez doesn’t deliver on fellowship.
And what about Mysterious Space? I would never have thought of it as appealing to players for its abnegation aesthetic, but in an old review, shortly after the 7DRL, a player noted how easy it was to just jump in, play for a few minutes, and be done; this was something he specifically identified and enjoyed in Mysterious Space!
It was never something I intended, but since it’s there, I’m glad to have it. Now that’s been recognized for what it is, is it something I should continue to focus on? I think so! I have a desire to make an approachable, easy-to-understand, and easy-to-play game; but I would never want to do so at the EXPENSE of challenge and depth. It’s a tricky line to walk, but it’s one I’d like to attempt.
The Final Score
This was an exciting (and much longer than I expected) adventure in game design, but where does all of this leave Mysterious Space?
Sense Pleasure – no
Fantasy – no
Narrative – kind of. a little. may expand on later.
Challenge – VERY YES
Fellowship – almost. current co-op is lacking, but this is definitely an aesthetic I want to focus on.
Competition – only kind of. we have high score tables, and I may make a quick 1v1 mode for fun, but it’s not really a core mechanic for Mysterious Space.
Discovery – sure; yeah. I think some games deliver on this aesthetic better than Mysterious Space does, but Mysterious Space definitely has some of this, and it will continue to do so.
Expression – nah, not really
Abnegation – apparently!
I hope this lets you know what you’re getting into with Mysterious Space, but more than that, gives you a new way of looking at games in general; identifying the things you like about games, and don’t like!
Have fun! 🙂
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Do I have a cyber czar for Obama!
President Obama is is creating a cyber czar to oversee an enhanced security system for the nation’s computer networks.
I doubt if he will ask me, although we did meet briefly outside the Marvel Ranch during his primary campaign stop, but I nomimate 24’s scowling computer whiz Chloe O’Brian.
She’ll reduce spammers and hackers to quivering geeks and ensure that you somehow reach tech support in India sometime before the next Ice Age (with apologies to global warming freaks).
Special ed teacher busted for selling coke; prison term increases sevenfold for pedophile after appeal boomerangs. You can't make this stuff up!
More people should read the newspaper, the original handheld device.
Of course, I almost dropped the handheld device that is the print edition of the Reading Eagle this morning.
There are two stories in Thursday’s Eagle that are pure catnip to bloggers. With stories like these, nobody can get bored out of their skull.
Granted, bloggers usually don’t the have the time, the temperament and the taste for acute, in-depth analysis.
We’re in and out of there, firing a lethal left and a rock-ribbed right in crisp staccato, then backpedaling for another flurry in another direction. You know, sting like a bee and float like a butterfly.
So allow me to give these two articles my best Muhammad Ali one-two punch.
Story No. 1: A Reading High School special education teacher is arrested after selling cocaine to an undercover Berks detective in a Muhlenberg Township bar.
Well, that sure reflects well on the school district, doesn’t it? And a special ed teacher at that. We can’t be hasty here because the guy is innocent until proven guilty. Still, I remember when teachers supplemented their income by managing rec swimming pools and playgrounds or by painting houses. No teacher should ever sell coke, unless he’s a soda jerk. Then again, who remembers what the hell a soda jerk was since soda fountains disappeared like covered wagons.
Story No. 2: A pedophile and admitted drug abuser who unsuccessfully appealed a state prison sentence saw that sentence increased sevenfold Wednesday in Berks County Court.
The dude thought 3.5 to 7 years in state prison followed by 42 years of probation was too stiff. So he appealed — twice. The second time wasn’t the charm. Be careful what you wish for. It could turn on you like a boa constrictor. Judge Stephen Lieberman gave the guy a pair of saucer eyes by upping 24.5 to 49 years in state prison. The schmuck won’t need Phillies tickets for awhile. Think the guy now wants to use a cheese grater to reshape his head?
Red Roof Inns are gonna have to go white to be green
Sometimes most of us suffer from an abduction of intelligence. And crushing truths perish from neglect.
I have to admit that I don’t spend much personal time pondering how to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
I’ve been too busy watching the NBA conference finals and thus had no clue that painting flat roofs white and making roads a paler color would be comparable to taking every car in the world off the road for 11 years.
Cynics, of course, may surmount this assumption with scorn.
But that’s just what U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said at a climate change symposium in London. And this guy ain’t exactly an underachiever in the realm of energy generation. He’s a Nobel laureate in physics, which sort of trumps my communications degree from Temple.
Of course, with white roofs everywhere, darkness may never come in cities and suburbs.
Life is a sea of turbulent tradeoffs, it seems.
Does it ever end?
Obama (surprise, surprise) goes to his left in picking Sotomayor to be the newest Supreme
There are, of course, a lot of perks that go with being president.
You can to fly around the world in Air Force One and not have to go through airport security. You can even eat on the plane.
You never have to drive yourself. You get to play with nuclear buttons if you wish. In short, being president is almost as cool as being a rock guitarist.
Granted, there are a few things a president must do. One of them is to nominate a Supreme Court justice whenever there is an opening. A president’s legacy can be shaped by his Supreme Court choices.
If he picks enough whackos, they soon may decree that all Americans must wear their underwear on the outside. And declare Swedish to be the official language.
Sitting on the Supreme Court is a few steps above being a district justice. It’s such an important job that it merits all sorts of conversation on both sides of the aisle. Nerves are stripped raw just by debating it.
President Barack Obama named federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor as the nation’s first Hispanic Supreme Court justice today, praising her as “an inspiring woman” with both the intellect and compassion to interpret the Constitution wisely. If confirmed by the Senate, Sotomayor, 54, would succeed retiring Justice David Souter and would join Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as the second woman on the current court.
Unless a few unforeseen skeletons pop up in her closet, Sotomayor should be a slam dunk to be confirmed since you don’t have to be a calculus whiz to do the math and realize Sotomayor likely has the votes on her side.
A self-described “Newyorkrican” who grew up in a Bronx housing project after her parents moved to New York from Puerto Rico, Sotomayor seems a lock to line up on the left of the court with three other liberals — Ginsburg, John Paul Stevens and Stephen Breyer. The only question is how liberal she will turn out to be.
By the way, is anybody shocked that Obama didn’t name a conservative? I wish he had just to hear the shocked silence coming out of Rush Limbaugh’s mouth.
Heroism is a trait quintessentially American in all its hues
“A coward dies a thousand deaths, a hero only one.”
— Shakespeare
Today is Memorial Day.
Granted, it is a day for barbecues, picnics, family fun.
But it is so much more.
Today America pauses to honor its war dead, all those valiant men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice so freedom can reign across our land.
Nothing is more honorable than to be a warrior for a noble cause. Men and women whose majestic courage squelched any fears they may have had when they stood at the brink of chaos against hellish odds, confronting the enemy.
God bless them all.
And God bless all the men and women in uniform today, stoic heroes facing the dangers spawned by despots serving as the devil’s tools.
Those challenges never abate, whether they are in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, God knows where.
The latest perilous moment surfaced this very Memorial Day when North Korea claimed it carried out a powerful underground nuclear test, a major provocation in the escalating international standoff over its rogue nuclear and missile programs.
Of course, it’s comforting to know that whenever some wannabe bully tries to kick sand in Uncle Sam’s face, our troops can lash lasers in retaliation, counter shots with terrific trajectory and pristine precision.
There undoubtedly will be many deeds yet to come by our troops that will be heroic, dramatic and historic.
The Pope is on Facebook, meaning religion sure has changed since they etched the Ten Commandments on stone tablets
Technology roils us all like the sea. It sucks all of us into the maelstrom of its tidal wave.
Indeed, even the Pope is catching the online wave.
Pope Benedict XVI now is into social networking with a Vatican portal that includes Facebook and iPhone applications.
Imagine what Moses and Jesus could have done if the Internet had been around in their day. Laptops could have multiplied along with loaves and fishes.
Obama and Cheney: War of words over Gitmo
Obama vs. Cheney this morning. Mano a Mano.
The reincarnation of Cain vs. Abel, Ali vs. Liston, Rocky vs. Apollo, Lucifer vs. Michael the Archangel (you decide who’s who).
A heavyweight brawl with words, not fists, over Guantanamo.
Two men whose views have nothing in common except for the rigor and vigor of their convictions.
Their words had a pride and swagger; their sentences punctuated with glistening ripples of sinew.
Obama called Gitmo “a misguided experiment.”
Cheney called the interrogations “legal, essential, justified, successful.”
Let Left vs. Right put a shimmer and gleam into your comments.
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Archiv: Democrats left
15.12.2019 - 12:51 [ Ben Norton / Twitter ]
376 congressmembers just voted to increase the US military budget to an absurd $738 billion per year 187 Democrats helped 189 Republicans Only 41 Dems opposed the absolutely awful 2020 NDAA bill—including Tulsi Gabbard, Barbara Lee, Ro Khanna, AOC, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: (international) war lobby, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Barbara Lee, cooperations / collaborations, corporate / zombie democrats, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, hypocrites, Ilhan Omar, mainstream left / contras, military budgets, National Defense Authorization Act / Gesetz zur Autorisierung der nationalen Verteidigung (NDAA), Rashida Tlaib, Republican Party (USA) / "Grand Old Party" (GOP), Ro Khanna, the American Left, the Squad, Trump Administration, Tulsi Gabbard, US House of Representatives (Congress chamber), USA und war / endless war.
22.11.2019 - 18:01 [ Ilhan Omar, Abgeordnete des US Repräsentantenhauses / Twitter ]
No one in the wealthiest county in the world should be forced to sleep on the streets. Today I am introducing the Homes for All Act, a bold 21st century vision to build 12 million new public & affordable housing units and guarantee housing as a human right. #HomesforAll
Nachrichten Kategorie: International. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, favourites, homeless population, Homes for All Act, Ilhan Omar, laws / bills / legislation, Poor People's Jane Bond, poverty / workers / underclass, rents / housing, the American Left und US House of Representatives (Congress chamber).
22.11.2019 - 17:27 [ Ford Fischer / Twitter ]
219 Dems voted in favor of fully reauthorizing the PATRIOT Act enabling the federal government’s mass surveillance of citizens. Only 10 Repubs voted for it. The “squad” (AOC, Omar, Pressley, Tlaib) joined most Repubs in voting “no.” Gabbard didn’t vote.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Kontrollmechanismen / Control Mechanisms. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: (electronic) police state, (mass-)identification, (mass) observation (surveillance), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, authoritarianism / absolutism / totalitarianism, Ayanna Pressley, civil / equal / human rights, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), hypocrites, Ilhan Omar, mainstream left / contras, morality / values / ethics, Patriot Act, progressives, Rashida Tlaib, Republican Party (USA) / "Grand Old Party" (GOP), respect, the American Left, the Squad, Trump Administration, Tulsi Gabbard, US House of Representatives (Congress chamber) und USA.
Joe Kennedy says he’s considering Senate run
Kennedy said that he is motivated to run because „our system has been letting down a lot of people for a long time, and we can’t fix it if we don’t challenge it.“
„I’ve got some ideas on how to do that. And I don’t think our democratic process promises anyone a turn. What it does promise is the chance for anyone to earn it — if we think we have something to offer and are willing to put ourselves and our ideas out there,“ he said in response to individuals who have advised him to wait.
Nachrichten Kategorie: International. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: candidacies / nominations, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, good ideas, Joe Kennedy III, primaries / caucuses und US Senate (Congress chamber).
27.08.2019 - 01:23 [ Boston Globe ]
Joe Kennedy kept his head down for his first couple terms in Congress. Then Trump became president
The vision he offered was of a capitalism that would be judged, he said, “not just by how much it produces, but how widely it shares; how good it does for how many; and how well it takes care of all of us.”
The speech amounted to an effort to guide his party toward a vision for how to tackle one of the most salient issues facing the country: the growing divide between the very rich and everyone else.
Nachrichten Kategorie: International. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: capital / capitalism, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, families, Joe Kennedy III, richdom / haves / have-mores („wealth“) / upper class, strategies und US presidential election 2028.
30.07.2019 - 06:01 [ US House Oversight and Reform Committee ]
New Documents Show Corporate and Foreign Interests Seek to Influence U.S. Nuclear Policy
Chairman Cummings issued the following statement:
“Today’s report reveals new and extensive evidence that corroborates Committee whistleblowers and exposes how corporate and foreign interests are using their unique access to advocate for the transfer of U.S. nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia. The American people deserve to know the facts about whether the White House is willing to place the potential profits of the President’s personal friends above the national security of the American people and the universal objective of preventing the spread of nuclear weapons.”
The Committee’s second interim report is based on more than 60,000 pages of new documents produced to the Committee in response to requests that Chairman Cummings made to a host of outside companies about their involvement with plans to transfer U.S. nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia. The report states:
New documents and communications show that IP3, the private company lobbying the White House to transfer U.S. nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia, repeatedly sought a $120 million investment from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. It is unclear if the company ultimately received the investment.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: capital / capitalism, Colony Capital, corporations / companies, Democrats left, Elijah E. Cummings, enrichment level (nuclear technology), exports / imports, foreign policy, House Committee on Oversight and Reform, lawmakers, lobbying / meddling, nuclear power plants, nuclear technology / industry, nuclear weapons / atomic bombs, Qatar, reports, Saudi Arabia, Thomas Barrack Jr., Trump, Trump Administration, Trump campaign und United Arab Emirates (UAE) / Vereinigte Arabische Emirate.
28.07.2019 - 14:15 [ Elijah E. Cummings, Abgeordneter des US Repräsentantenhauses / Twitter ]
I’m begging the American people to pay attention to what is going on. Because if you want to have a democracy intact for your children, and your children’s children, and generations yet unborn we’ve got to guard this moment…this is our watch.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: affairs / scandals, Baltimore, checks and balances, Constitutions, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, Elijah E. Cummings, favourites, lawmakers, presidents (executive branch), reports, Robert Mueller, the American people und US House of Representatives (Congress chamber).
18.07.2019 - 15:02 [ Bernie Sanders, candidate for President / Twitter ]
Trump knows that when we stand together and fight for racial, social, economic and environmental justice, we have the power to defeat him. So the demagogue is doing what he knows best: Divide and conquer through hate. His attacks only make us stronger. #IStandWithIlhan
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Bernie Sanders, candidacies / nominations, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, extreme right-wing crazies, far-right, Greenville, Ilhan Omar, lawmakers, North Carolina, parents (race / sex / birth place and date / fortune) / racism / sexism / discrimination, presidents (executive branch), Rashida Tlaib, Republican Party (USA) / "Grand Old Party" (GOP), the American Left, the Squad, Trump, US Congress, US presidential election 2020 und USA.
18.07.2019 - 14:02 [ American Jewish Committee (AJC) / Twitter ]
This horrifying chant does not make America great. In fact, it is eerily reminiscent of a darker time in our nation’s history.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, American Jewish Committee (AJC), Ayanna Pressley, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, extreme bullshit, extreme right-wing crazies, far-right, Greenville, Ilhan Omar, lawmakers, North Carolina, parents (race / sex / birth place and date / fortune) / racism / sexism / discrimination, presidents (executive branch), Rashida Tlaib, Republican Party (USA) / "Grand Old Party" (GOP), the American Left, the Squad, Trump, US Congress und USA.
Trump’s ‚Go Home‘ Invective Echoes Nazi Incitement Against Jews
As with Israel’s Likud and their leader Netanyahu, but a thousand times over, Trump’s invectives highlight the moral depths to which the Republican party has sunk: It has transformed from a Grand Old Party into a cheerleading squad that prostrates itself before its master, no matter what he says or does. Whether out of fear or hope for favor or both, the Republicans’ feebleness also echoes the conduct of similarly spineless political parties, which facilitated but later succumbed to the most evil tyrants of the 20th Century.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, extreme bullshit, extreme right-wing crazies, far-right, Greenville, Ilhan Omar, lawmakers, North Carolina, parents (race / sex / birth place and date / fortune) / racism / sexism / discrimination, presidents (executive branch), Rashida Tlaib, Republican Party (USA) / "Grand Old Party" (GOP), the American Left, the Squad, Trump, US Congress und USA.
18.07.2019 - 13:38 [ Jonathan Greenblatt, @ADL CEO / Twitter ]
This is the sound of illberalism, intolerance. Listen closely: it’s a danger not just to immigrants and minorities but to all Americans. Put politics aside. Time for leaders from all parts of society, people from all walks of life, to step up and say: enough.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: ADL (Anti-Defamation League), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, extreme right-wing crazies, far-right, Greenville, Ilhan Omar, Jonathan Greenblatt, lawmakers, North Carolina, parents (race / sex / birth place and date / fortune) / racism / sexism / discrimination, presidents (executive branch), Rashida Tlaib, the American Left, the Squad, Trump, US Congress und USA.
18.07.2019 - 13:06 [ IfNotNow / Twitter ]
American Jewish institutions need to stop smearing Ilhan Omar and instead defend her from the fascist in the White House who is trying to get her killed.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: #standwithIlhan, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, extreme right-wing crazies, far-right, Greenville, IfNotNow, Ilhan Omar, lawmakers, North Carolina, parents (race / sex / birth place and date / fortune) / racism / sexism / discrimination, presidents (executive branch), Rashida Tlaib, the American Left, the Jewish Left, the Squad, Trump, US Congress und USA.
You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise. -Maya Angelou
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: #standwithIlhan, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, extreme right-wing crazies, far-right, Greenville, Ilhan Omar, lawmakers, North Carolina, parents (race / sex / birth place and date / fortune) / racism / sexism / discrimination, presidents (executive branch), Rashida Tlaib, the American Left, the Squad, Trump, US Congress und USA.
18.07.2019 - 12:23 [ Merriam-Webster Dictionary / Twitter ]
Tonight’s top searches, in order: racism, socialism, fascism, concentration camp, xenophobia, bigot
18.07.2019 - 12:09 [ ABC News / Youtube ]
Trump 2020: The president holds campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina | ABC News
18.07.2019 - 11:46 [ Bloomberg TicToc / Twitter ]
WATCH: After Trump mentions @IlhanMN the crowd erupts at a protester who is then led out of the Greenville, NC rally in handcuffs
WATCH: A Crowd in North Carolina chants „Send her back!“ as Trump spends 3 minutes criticizing Rep. @IlhanMN
18.07.2019 - 11:37 [ Bloomberg TicToc / Twitter ]
Trump continues attacks on Democratic congresswomen during rally
A Crowd in North Carolina chanted „Send her back!“ as Trump spent 3 minutes criticizing Rep. Ilhan Omar. He went on to further attacks on the rest of „The Squad.“
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, bad ideas, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, extreme bullshit, extreme right-wing crazies, far-right, Greenville, Ilhan Omar, lawmakers, North Carolina, parents (race / sex / birth place and date / fortune) / racism / sexism / discrimination, presidents (executive branch), Rashida Tlaib, Republican Party (USA) / "Grand Old Party" (GOP), speeches / remarks / rallies, the American Left, the Squad, Trump, US Congress und USA.
18.07.2019 - 11:25 [ RawStory.com ]
Trump thinks impeachment is over after House vote
Following a vote by the Democratic House to table an effort by Rep. Al Green (D-TX) to approve articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, the president gloatingly told reporters “that’s the end of it,” and mocked the resolution as a “ridiculous project.”
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, impeachment, lawmakers, presidents (executive branch), resolutions / motions, Trump, US House of Representatives (Congress chamber) und USA.
Here are the 95 Democrats who voted to support impeachment
Still, more than a dozen of those who sided with Green Wednesday had not endorsed that effort yet formally, including Reps. Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.), the chairman of the Judiciary Committee; Eliot Engel (N.Y.), chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee; and Zoe Lofgren (Calif.), who chairs a key subcommittee on immigration.
Here is the full list of the 94 Democrats who voted in support of Green’s impeachment effort:
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Al Green, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, impeachment, lawmakers, presidents (executive branch), resolutions / motions, respect, Trump, US House of Representatives (Congress chamber) und USA.
17.07.2019 - 14:13 [ Daniel Neun / Twitter ]
Well, at least no Black LAWMAKER Down in the country of foreign / world / solar system policy geniuses, for now. @AyannaPressley @AOC @RepRashida @IlhanMN: Best from Berlin! And think about helping to keep @TulsiGabbard in the 2020 race. Foreign policy always is a kind of mirror.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: #standwithIlhan, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, coups / attempts / regime changes / invasions (aggressions / interventions), Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, foreign policy, Ilhan Omar, parents (race / sex / birth place and date / fortune) / racism / sexism / discrimination, political left, progressives, Rashida Tlaib, the American Left, the Squad, Tulsi Gabbard und US presidential election 2020.
17.07.2019 - 13:06 [ Elizabeth Warren, US Senatorin / Twitter ]
Let’s be very clear: @realDonaldTrump’s tweets were racist. Persist, @SpeakerPelosi. Persist. #shepersisted
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: (public) debates, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, Elizabeth Warren, Nancy Pelosi, parents (race / sex / birth place and date / fortune) / racism / sexism / discrimination, presidents (executive branch), progressives, resolutions / motions, Speaker of the House, speeches / remarks / rallies, Trump, US Congress, US House of Representatives (Congress chamber) und USA.
This president would love nothing more than to divide our country based on race, religion, gender, orientation, ability, or immigration status. This is the only way he thinks he can prevent the solidarity of working people. We’re not falling for it.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: (public) debates, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, Ilhan Omar, lawmakers, parents (race / sex / birth place and date / fortune) / racism / sexism / discrimination, presidents (executive branch), progressives, Rashida Tlaib, Republican Party (USA) / "Grand Old Party" (GOP), the American Left, the Squad, Trump, US Congress, US House of Representatives (Congress chamber) und USA.
Those Tweets were NOT Racist. I don’t have a Racist bone in my body! The so-called vote to be taken is a Democrat con game. Republicans should not show “weakness” and fall into their trap. This should be a vote on the filthy language, statements and lies told by the Democrat…..
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: (public) debates, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, Ilhan Omar, lawmakers, parents (race / sex / birth place and date / fortune) / racism / sexism / discrimination, presidents (executive branch), progressives, Rashida Tlaib, Republican Party (USA) / "Grand Old Party" (GOP), resolutions / motions, the American Left, the Squad, Trump, US Congress, US House of Representatives (Congress chamber) und USA.
Trump Rallies G.O.P. to Oppose Resolution Against Racist Language
The measure is a chance for Democrats to go on offense, and put Republicans on the record either rejecting or endorsing what the president said.
While some Democrats are pressing for a stronger resolution of censure, House leaders have opted instead for a narrower measure based on Mr. Trump’s latest remarks, in an effort to generate a unanimous vote in their party.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, Ilhan Omar, lawmakers, parents (race / sex / birth place and date / fortune) / racism / sexism / discrimination, presidents (executive branch), progressives, Rashida Tlaib, Republican Party (USA) / "Grand Old Party" (GOP), resolutions / motions, the American Left, the Squad, Trump, US Congress, US House of Representatives (Congress chamber) und USA.
16.07.2019 - 18:48 [ MSNBC / Youtube ]
President Trump vs. The Squad – The Day That Was | MSNBC
Four progressive congresswomen of color responded to attacks by President Donald Trump, saying his “blatantly racist” assault on them is nothing more than a distraction.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, Ilhan Omar, lawmakers, parents (race / sex / birth place and date / fortune) / racism / sexism / discrimination, presidents (executive branch), progressives, Rashida Tlaib, the American Left, the Squad, Trump, US Congress, US House of Representatives (Congress chamber) und USA.
116TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. RES. Condemning President Trump’s racist comments directed at Members of Congress.
(1) believes that immigrants and their descendants have made America stronger, and that those who take the oath of citizenship are every bit as American as those whose families have lived in the United States for many generations;
(2) is committed to keeping America open to those lawfully seeking refuge and asylum from violence and oppression, and those who are willing to work hard to live the American Dream, no matter their race, ethnicity, faith, or country of origin; and
(3) strongly condemns President Donald Trump’s racist comments that have legitimized and increased fear and hatred of new Americans and people of color by saying that our fellow Americans who are immigrants, and those who may look to the President like immigrants, should ‘‘go back’’ to other countries, by referring to immigrants and asylum seekers as ‘‘invaders,’’ and by saying that Members of Congress who are immigrants (or those of our colleagues who are wrongly assumed to be immigrants) do not belong in Congress or in the United States of America.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, Ilhan Omar, lawmakers, parents (race / sex / birth place and date / fortune) / racism / sexism / discrimination, presidents (executive branch), progressives, Rashida Tlaib, resolutions / motions, the American Left, the Squad, Trump, US Congress, US House of Representatives (Congress chamber) und USA.
16.07.2019 - 14:16 [ NBC News ]
House to vote on resolution condemning Trump’s ‚racist comments‘
The House on Tuesday will vote on a disapproval resolution condemning President Donald Trump’s ‚racist comments‘ in which he said that a group of freshmen congresswomen of color should „go back“ where „they came“ from.
The resolution twice refers to ‚racist comments‘ from Trump but it does not call the president a racist.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, Ilhan Omar, John Cusack, lawmakers, parents (race / sex / birth place and date / fortune) / racism / sexism / discrimination, presidents (executive branch), progressives, Rashida Tlaib, resolutions / motions, the American Left, the Squad, Trump, US Congress und US House of Representatives (Congress chamber).
Two GOP lawmakers back Trump’s comments on Democratic lawmakers: ‚I’ll pay for their tickets out of this country‘
Multiple GOP lawmakers criticized President Trump on Monday after he tweeted that four Democratic congresswomen of color should “go back” to their home countries, but at least two congressional Republicans backed up his comments.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, far-right, Ilhan Omar, lawmakers, parents (race / sex / birth place and date / fortune) / racism / sexism / discrimination, presidents (executive branch), progressives, Ralph Abraham, Rashida Tlaib, Republican Party (USA) / "Grand Old Party" (GOP), Steve Daines, the American Left, the Squad, Trump, US Congress und USA.
Ocasio-Cortez condemns congressional Republicans for ’spineless complicity‘
„For hours, we waited for a single Republican in Congress to condemn Trump’s brazenly racist comments, but all we heard was a deafening silence — complicity,“ Ocasio-Cortez wrote in an email to supporters.
„Not a single Republican in Congress unequivocally disavowed Trump telling four American Congresswoman to go back to their countries, displaying tacit approval for Trump’s naked racism,“ she added.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, Ilhan Omar, lawmakers, parents (race / sex / birth place and date / fortune) / racism / sexism / discrimination, presidents (executive branch), progressives, Rashida Tlaib, Republican Party (USA) / "Grand Old Party" (GOP), the American Left, the Squad, Trump, US Congress und USA.
Trump lashes out at as progressive Democrats blast him in press conference
The president tweeted before, during and immediately after the press conference, which was carried on cable news networks.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, Ilhan Omar, lawmakers, parents (race / sex / birth place and date / fortune) / racism / sexism / discrimination, presidents (executive branch), press conferences, progressives, Rashida Tlaib, the American Left, the Squad, Trump, US Congress und USA.
16.07.2019 - 11:40 [ MSNBC ]
Full ‚Squad‘ Press Conference In Response To President Donald Trump’s Attacks | MTP Daily | MSNBC
Representatives Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) respond to President Trump saying they should “go back” to the counties they came from.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, favourites, Ilhan Omar, lawmakers, parents (race / sex / birth place and date / fortune) / racism / sexism / discrimination, presidents (executive branch), press conferences, progressives, Rashida Tlaib, the American Left, the Squad, Trump, US Congress und USA.
After Trump Accuses Four Democratic Congresswomen of Hating U.S., They Fire Back
WASHINGTON — President Trump, under fire for comments that even members of his own party called racist, amplified his attacks on four Democratic congresswomen of color on Monday, saying that they hated America and that one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress sympathized with Al Qaeda.
16.07.2019 - 00:46 [ Bernie Sanders Presidential Campaign / actblue.com ]
Please split a contribution between Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, and our campaign for president.
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Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Bernie Sanders, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, Ilhan Omar, lawmakers, parents (race / sex / birth place and date / fortune) / racism / sexism / discrimination, presidents (executive branch), progressives, Rashida Tlaib, the American Left, the Squad, Trump, US Congress, US presidential election 2020 und USA.
Yet another example of Trump’s ignorance & disdain for the values that truly make America great. His comments that 4 US citizen Members of Congress should “go back” to the countries they came from is further evidence he does not belong in the White House.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, Ilhan Omar, lawmakers, parents (race / sex / birth place and date / fortune) / racism / sexism / discrimination, presidents (executive branch), progressives, Rashida Tlaib, the American Left, the Squad, Trump, Tulsi Gabbard, US Congress, US presidential election 2020 und USA.
15.07.2019 - 22:06 [ Weißes Haus / Youtube ]
President Trump Hosts the 3rd Annual Made in America Product Showcase
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, extreme bullshit, extreme right-wing crazies, Ilhan Omar, lawmakers, parents (race / sex / birth place and date / fortune) / racism / sexism / discrimination, presidents (executive branch), progressives, Rashida Tlaib, Republican Jewish Coalition, Republican Party (USA) / "Grand Old Party" (GOP), the American Left, the Squad, Trump, US Congress und USA.
Trump steps up attacks on progressive congresswomen, says they ‚hate our country‘ and Israel
„These are people that hate our country,“ he said. „They hate it, I think, with a passion. Now it’s possible I’m wrong. The voter will decide. But when I hear the way they talk about our country — when I hear the anti-Semitic language they use, when I hear the hatred they have for Israel — and the love they have for enemies like al Qaeda — then you know what? I will tell you that I do not believe this is good for the Democrat Party.“
Asked if he was concerned that his comments were being seen as racist, giving white nationalists a reason to find common cause with him, Trump said, „It doesn’t concern me because many people agree with me. All I’m saying is that if they want to leave, they can leave. It doesn’t say leave forever.“
Republican Jewish Coalition: Democratic congresswomen Trump targeted are communists who hate Jews and America
The Republican Jewish Coalition also agrees with Graham. It tweeted a clip of his statement, made to Fox News, and wrote “He isn’t wrong.”
Asked to elaborate, an RJC spokesman wrote to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that “we simply believe that everything Senator Graham says in this clip is correct, both in fact and sentiment.”
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, extreme bullshit, extreme right-wing crazies, Ilhan Omar, lawmakers, Lindsey Graham, parents (race / sex / birth place and date / fortune) / racism / sexism / discrimination, presidents (executive branch), progressives, Rashida Tlaib, Republican Jewish Coalition, Republican Party (USA) / "Grand Old Party" (GOP), the American Left, the Squad, Trump, US Congress und USA.
Graham declines to condemn racist Trump tweets and calls Democratic congresswomen ‚a bunch of communists‘
„Well, we all know that (New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) and this crowd are a bunch of communists, they hate Israel, they hate our own country,“ Graham said during an appearance on „Fox and Friends.“ „They’re calling the guards along our border, the border patrol agents, ‚concentration camp guards.‘ They accuse people who support Israel of doing it for the Benjamins. They’re anti-Semitic. They’re anti-America.“
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, extreme bullshit, extreme right-wing crazies, Ilhan Omar, lawmakers, Lindsey Graham, parents (race / sex / birth place and date / fortune) / racism / sexism / discrimination, presidents (executive branch), progressives, Rashida Tlaib, Republican Party (USA) / "Grand Old Party" (GOP), the American Left, the Squad, Trump, US Congress und USA.
14.07.2019 - 18:40 [ Nancy Pelosi, Sprecherin des US Repräsentantenhauses / Twitter ]
When @realDonaldTrump tells four American Congresswomen to go back to their countries, he reaffirms his plan to “Make America Great Again” has always been about making America white again. Our diversity is our strength and our unity is our power.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, extreme bullshit, Ilhan Omar, lawmakers, Nancy Pelosi, parents (race / sex / birth place and date / fortune) / racism / sexism / discrimination, presidents (executive branch), progressives, Rashida Tlaib, Speaker of the House, the American Left, the Squad, Trump, US Congress und USA.
Trump Tells Freshman Congresswomen to ‘Go Back’ to the Countries They Came From
Only one of the women, Ms. Omar, who is from Somalia, was born outside the United States. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez was born in the Bronx to parents of Puerto Rican descent. Ms. Pressley, who is black, was born in Cincinnati and raised in Chicago. And Ms. Tlaib was born in Detroit to Palestinian immigrants.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Democrats left, extreme bullshit, Ilhan Omar, lawmakers, parents (race / sex / birth place and date / fortune) / racism / sexism / discrimination, presidents (executive branch), progressives, Rashida Tlaib, the American Left, the Squad, Trump, US Congress und USA.
14.07.2019 - 18:23 [ theNewCivilRightsMovement.com ]
Trump Tweets Ugly Nativist Attack on Foreign-Born Democrats Telling Them to ‘Go Back’ Where They Came From
In a series of tweets no doubt aimed at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MI) Donald Trump said she should go back to the country where she was born and fix the corruption there instead of criticizing his immigration policies.
Our members in NH just asked @BernieSanders if he’s also an anti-Occupation Jew and looks like the answer is YES! Learn more about us bringing the crisis of Israel’s military occupation over Palestinians to 2020 elections w/this exclusive from @Politico:
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Bernie Sanders, campaigns, candidacies / nominations, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, extreme right-wing crazies, governments / regimes, IfNotNow, Israel, Netanyahu, occupations / zones, primaries / caucuses, progressives, the American Left, the Jewish Left, US presidential election 2020 und USA.
06.07.2019 - 15:05 [ Politico.com ]
2020 elections: Progressive Jewish group IfNotNow expands forces for 2020
The organization is also taking a page out of the playbook of groups such as Black Lives Matter and the American Civil Liberties Union: It plans to “bird-dog” presidential candidates at public events to create viral moments and prod the Democratic Party leftward on the issue of Israel.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: campaigns, candidacies / nominations, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, extreme right-wing crazies, governments / regimes, IfNotNow, Israel, Netanyahu, occupations / zones, primaries / caucuses, progressives, the American Left, the Jewish Left, US presidential election 2020 und USA.
05.07.2019 - 21:32 [ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Abgeordnete des US Repräsentantenhauses / Twitter ]
Thank you, @SenSanders. It’s an honor to work alongside you and the millions of other people fighting for education, healthcare, and a living wage as rights.
Nachrichten Kategorie: International. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, candidacies / nominations, corporate / zombie democrats, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, Joe Biden, mainstream left / contras, primaries / caucuses, the American Left und US presidential election 2020.
I’m proud to be working with @AOC and so many other Democrats to pass Medicare for All, debt free college and a Green New Deal. This is the agenda America needs — and that will energize voters to defeat Donald Trump.
CNN Exclusive: Biden expresses skepticism of Democrats‘ leftward tilt and AOC’s mass appeal
Biden, speaking with CNN’s Chris Cuomo in Des Moines, Iowa, suggested that „Medicare for All“ is irrational, argued that the majority of Democrats are „center left“ not „way left,“ and said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, while „brilliant“ and „bright,“ did not represent Democrats who can win a general election in a competitive district or state.
Nachrichten Kategorie: International. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, candidacies / nominations, corporate / zombie democrats, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, Joe Biden, mainstream left / contras, primaries / caucuses, the American Left und US presidential election 2020.
03.07.2019 - 11:40 [ Judy Chu, Abgeordnete des US Repräsentantenhauses / Twitter ]
„If you want water, just drink from a toilet.“ That’s what border patrol told one thirsty woman we met on today’s #DemsAtTheBorder trip. These are the same CBP personnel who threatened to throw burritos at members of Congress. Changes must be made. #DontLookAway
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: camps, civil / equal / human rights, conditions, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) / Department of Homeland Security, cynism / sadism, Democrats left, detentions / arrests, extreme right-wing crazies, hierarchies / chains of command, Judy Chu, lawmakers, parents (race / sex / birth place and date / fortune) / racism / sexism / discrimination, state (executive branch / authorities), Texas, Trump, US Congress, US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), USA, visits und White House.
We meet a machine with a movement. ???
Nachrichten Kategorie: International. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, attorneys / prosecutors, congratulations, Democrats left, elections, favourites, justice / systems, New York, Poor People's Jane Bond, progressives, Queens, the American Left, Tiffany Caban und USA.
26.06.2019 - 07:32 [ Rob Smith, Executive Director of The Justice Collaborative / Twitter ]
This is the most stunning win yet in the movement to elect decarceral prosecutors: Tiffany Caban (@CabanForQueens), a 31 year-old queer, Latina public defender will become the District Attorney of Queens, the 11th most populous county in America. That’s people power.
Nachrichten Kategorie: International. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: attorneys / prosecutors, Democrats left, elections, justice / systems, New York, progressives, Queens, Tiffany Caban und USA.
Queens D.A. Primary Too Close to Call, as Cabán Narrowly Leads Katz
She also captured endorsements from Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and two Democratic presidential candidates, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Ms. Cabán thanked the Working Families Party and Democratic Socialists of America. The crowd chanted, “Black Lives Matter,” “People-powered justice,” and “No new jails.”
“I ran because for too long too many communities in Queens haven’t had a fair shot in the criminal justice system,” Ms. Cabán said.
Queens, today you have an opportunity to make history by electing @CabanForQueens as your next District Attorney! Tiffany will bring the transformational change we need to our broken and racist criminal justice system. Find your poll site here:
It was great speaking at the @SCDemocrats Convention this morning — thanks to our supporters and everyone there for the warm welcome! .. #TULSI2020
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: conventions, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, primaries / caucuses, progressives, South Carolina, speeches / remarks / rallies, the American Left, Tulsi Gabbard und US presidential election 2020.
The corporate wing of the party thinks we’re an “existential threat” because we want to: -Make health care a right -Break up big banks -Save the planet -Make college tuition-free -End endless wars -Make the wealthy pay their fair share If that makes us a „threat,” so be it.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: (international) war lobby, capital / capitalism, corporate / zombie democrats, corporations / companies, coups / attempts / regime changes / invasions (aggressions / interventions), Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, education, health care / medicare, mainstream left / contras, primaries / caucuses, progressives, social democracy / democratic socialism, speeches / remarks / rallies, the American Left, Third Way (Think Tank), US presidential election 2020, Wall Street, war / endless war und war-ending.
Let us not kid ourselves. It is very easy for politicians like Trump to pound the table and talk about how tough they are. But it will not be the sons and daughters of billionaires who get killed in a war with Iran. It will be the working class kids of this country.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: AUMF (Authorization for Use of Military Force) 2001, Bernie Sanders, checks and balances, Constitutions, coups / attempts / regime changes / invasions (aggressions / interventions), Democrats left, Iran, Strait of Hormuz drone incident, the American Left, US Congress, US House of Representatives (Congress chamber), US presidential election 2020 und USA.
And I urge the American people to make your voice heard. Organize. Call your member of Congress. Let all our leaders know that a war with Iran would be a catastrophe. #NoWarOnIran
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: AUMF (Authorization for Use of Military Force) 2001, checks and balances, Constitutions, coups / attempts / regime changes / invasions (aggressions / interventions), Democrats left, Ilhan Omar, Iran, Strait of Hormuz drone incident, the American Left, US Congress, US House of Representatives (Congress chamber) und USA.
21.06.2019 - 21:36 [ Ro Khanna, Abgeordneter des US Repräsentantenhauses / Twitter ]
Next week, I will be introducing an amendment to the Defense bill prohibiting any dollars from being used for a war in Iran without Congressional authorization. Every Democrat should join this to prevent another trillion dollar war in the Middle East. #NoWarWithIran
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: AUMF (Authorization for Use of Military Force) 2001, checks and balances, Constitutions, coups / attempts / regime changes / invasions (aggressions / interventions), Democrats left, Iran, Ro Khanna, Strait of Hormuz drone incident, the American Left, US Congress, US House of Representatives (Congress chamber) und USA.
21.06.2019 - 20:56 [ Vox.com ]
House Democrats vote to repeal 9/11-era law used to authorize perpetual war
The House voted Wednesday to repeal the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), which was passed in the days after 9/11, and gave President George W. Bush the authority to go to war with al-Qaeda and any related organization. For the past 18 years, presidents of both parties have used this same 2001 congressional war authorization as justification for wars all over the Middle East.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: AUMF (Authorization for Use of Military Force) 2001, Barbara Lee, checks and balances, coups / attempts / regime changes / invasions (aggressions / interventions), Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, Gulf of Oman incident, power struggles, presidents (executive branch), Strait of Hormuz drone incident, Terrorkrieg / global war on terror (de / en), the American Left, Trump, US Congress, US House of Representatives (Congress chamber) und USA.
19.06.2019 - 17:37 [ Newsweek ]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Explains Socialism During Instagram Live Stream: ‚It Does Not Mean Government Owns Everything‘
You can have free market economies with democratic socialist businesses. What on earth is a democratic socialist business? A perfect example of that is worker cooperatives…which means that…workers own the shares of the company,“ Ocasio-Cortez said.
„So a more ‚democratically socialist‘ business would have workers on the board of the corporation instead of billionaires on the boards of corporations. So it’s really about democracy in the economy.
Nachrichten Kategorie: International. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrats left, favourites, Poor People's Jane Bond, social democracy / democratic socialism, the American Left und US Congress.
We’re officially in! We just got the line up for the first debates in Miami. See you on Wednesday, June 26th as I offer to serve you as president and commander in chief. Remember to donate tulsi.to/debate-donate to help make sure we remain qualified through the third debates!
Nachrichten Kategorie: International. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: (public) debates, candidacies / nominations, Democratic National Committee (DNC), Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, donors, grassroots, grassroots donors, primaries / caucuses, progressives, Tulsi Gabbard und US presidential election 2020.
15.06.2019 - 13:57 [ Intercept ]
Why Won’t the Democratic Candidates Move to the Left on Foreign Policy?
Maybe Democrats don’t want to draw attention to how much Obama got wrong when it comes to foreign policy: his support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen when it kicked off in 2015; the complete botched U.S. covert intervention in Syria and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in that country on Obama’s watch; the war in Libya which has left that country looking like a Mad Max hellscape; the drone wars in Pakistan and Yemen with their civilian death tolls; the failure to make progress on the Israel-Palestine conflict; the failed pivot to Asia; the failed reset with Russia.
Maybe Democrats also can’t agree on what a progressive new foreign policy should look like. Because let’s face it: a lot of conservative Democrats, and even some liberal ones, are quite hawkish and like big wars.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: (international) war lobby, AUMF (Authorization for Use of Military Force) 2001, Bernie Sanders, candidacies / nominations, corporate / zombie democrats, coups / attempts / regime changes / invasions (aggressions / interventions), Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, Elizabeth Warren, foreign policy, Joe Biden, mainstream left / contras, Terrorkrieg / global war on terror (de / en), the American Left, Tulsi Gabbard, US presidential election 2020 und war / endless war.
Bernie Sanders backs 2 policies to dramatically shift corporate power to U.S. workers
Sanders said his campaign is working on a plan to require large businesses to regularly contribute a portion of their stocks to a fund controlled by employees, which would pay out a regular dividend to the workers. Some models of this fund increase employees’ ownership stake in the company, making the workers a powerful voting shareholder. The idea is in its formative stages and a spokesman did not share further details.
Sanders also said he will introduce a plan to force corporations to give workers a share of the seats on their boards of directors.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: (minimum) wages, Bernie Sanders, capital / capitalism, corporations / companies, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, drafts, Elizabeth Warren, favourites, good ideas, laws / bills / legislation, Poor People`s James Bond, Poor People's Jane Bond, shareholders, the American Left, US Congress und US presidential election 2020.
01.06.2019 - 09:53 [ The Young Turks / Twitter ]
Bernie Sanders Interview with Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks
Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks interviews Senator Bernie Sanders. Support the Home of Progressives
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: (electronic) police state, (international) war lobby, Bernie Sanders, candidacies / nominations, capital / capitalism, Cenk Uygur, corporate / zombie democrats, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, Hillary Clinton, independent media, Joe Biden, mainstream left / contras, Obama Administration, poverty / workers / underclass, social democracy / democratic socialism, the American Left, The Young Turks, TYT Network, US presidential election 2016 und US presidential election 2020.
01.06.2019 - 09:52 [ Cenk Uygur / Twitter ]
. @BernieSanders: „We don’t want to make the same mistake we made last time“ referring to how similar @JoeBiden is to Hillary Clinton.
31.05.2019 - 09:09 [ Tulsi 2020 New Hampshire / Twitter ]
New DNC rules came out today for the next round of debates. We will need 130,000 unique donors and 2%+ in 4 qualifying polls. If you have not donated yet and want to see Tulsi’s message of of peace, aloha, and service above self, continue, please donate:
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Aggressive Progressives, Democratic National Committee (DNC), Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, Go! Go! Go!, grassroots donors, nomenclatura (ruling classes / „political“ classes / „elites“ / oligarchies / guilds / etc), the American Left, they change the rules when they cannot prevail by the rules, Tulsi Gabbard und US presidential election 2020.
Sanders, Warren, and Wyden Slam Assange Indictment, a Renegade Use of the Espionage Act to Criminalize Journalism
The Justice Department filed 17 charges against WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange on Thursday, deploying the controversial Espionage Act as a cudgel against First Amendment protections and press freedom. It’s the first time the U.S. government has used the Espionage Act to prosecute a publisher, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, along with Sen. Ron Wyden, who all have been outspoken on civil liberties issues, slammed the indictment.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: (international) war lobby, Bernie Sanders, charges / indictments / trials / sentencings / judgments / rulings, Constitutions, Democrats left, detentions / arrests, Elizabeth Warren, Espionage Act, extraditions / renditions / deportations, freedom of the press, Großbritannien / United Kingdom (UK), Julian Assange, many many eyes, Ron Wyden, the American Left, US presidential election 2020 und USA.
Biden, Sanders tied atop new Iowa poll
An Iowa Starting Line/Change Research poll released on Monday shows Biden and Sanders each receiving 24 percent support among likely Democratic caucusgoers in Iowa.
They’re trailed by South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who received 14 percent of the vote, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who came in fourth with 12 percent, and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) who also had double figures at 10 percent support.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: (international) war lobby, Bernie Sanders, candidacies / nominations, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, Elizabeth Warren, Iowa, Joe Biden, mainstream left / contras, nomenclatura (ruling classes / „political“ classes / „elites“ / oligarchies / guilds / etc), Obama Administration, polls / surveys, primaries / caucuses, the American Left und US presidential election 2020.
21.05.2019 - 06:03 [ Yahoo.com ]
2020 election poll: Joe Biden’s lead shrinks to zero against Bernie Sanders in critical Iowa
Reading into the polls just a bit more, Mr Biden has more to worry about than just Mr Sanders, too.
Ms Warren stands out as the most liked candidate in the race, with a favourability rating at 78 per cent — the top in the race. She is followed by Mr Sanders, who is the next closest with 71 per cent.
Dem leaders feel squeeze on Trump strategy
“All I hear from my constituents is that we’ve got to get rid of this president — that’s basically all I hear,” said Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.), chairman of the House Budget Committee, who warned of the political risk if the Democrats’ investigations don’t produce some public results in the next few months.
“If we get to the fall and nothing’s happened, and no report has been issued and no referrals have been made, then we risk demoralizing all of our people who are pushing us very hard to take action against the administration,” Yarmuth said.
Nachrichten Kategorie: International. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Constitutions, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, documents / files, information access, mainstream left / contras, power struggles, subpoenas, Trump Administration und US Congress.
The main responsibility of the president is to keep Americans safe. Trump has failed—undermining our national security by tearing up the Iran nuclear deal, threatening military action, bringing us closer to war with Iran that will be far worse than war in Iraq.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: (international) war lobby, candidacies / nominations, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) / nuclear deal / internationales Atomabkommen, the American Left, Trump, Tulsi Gabbard und US presidential election 2020.
18 years, thousands of dead, trillions of dollars. We’re right back where we started. Our leaders have failed us. It’s time our troops in Afghanistan came home.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Afghanistan, Democrats left, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Terrorkrieg / global war on terror (de / en), the American Left, Tulsi Gabbard, US presidential election 2020, USA, war / endless war und war-ending.
Venezuela coup linked to Bush team
(21. April 2002)
The Bush administration has tried to distance itself from the coup. It immediately endorsed the new government under businessman Pedro Carmona. But the coup was sent dramatically into reverse after 48 hours.
Now officials at the Organisation of American States and other diplomatic sources, talking to The Observer, assert that the US administration was not only aware the coup was about to take place, but had sanctioned it, presuming it to be destined for success.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Gesellschaft und Geschichte / Society and History. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: (international) war lobby, (pre-)history, Bush Administration, coups / attempts / regime changes / invasions (aggressions / interventions), Democrats left, Elliot Abrams, far-right, general strikes, governments / regimes, Hugo Chávez, Ilhan Omar, Iran-Contra affair, Neocons, Öl / oil / crude / petroleum, Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), Terrorkrieg / global war on terror (de / en), Trump Administration, US Congress, USA und Venezuela.
03.05.2019 - 17:12 [ Wikipedia ]
2002 Venezuelan coup d’état attempt
The Venezuelan coup d’état attempt of 2002 was a failed coup d’état on 11 April 2002 that saw President Hugo Chávez ousted from office for 47 hours before being restored to power. Chávez, who had been elected in 2000, was aided in his return to power by overwhelming popular support and mobilization against the coup and assistance of loyalists in the military.[8][unreliable source?]
The situation began on 9 April, when a general strike was called by the trade union organization „National Federation of Trade Unions“, Confederación de Trabajadores de Venezuela (CTV). The proposed strike was in response to Chávez’s appointments to prominent posts in Venezuela’s national oil company, PDVSA.[9] Two days later in Caracas, up to one million Venezuelans marched in opposition to Chávez.[10][11] At one point during the march, opposition leaders redirected the protestors to the presidential palace, Miraflores, where government supporters and Bolivarian Circles were holding their own rally. Upon the opposition’s arrival, the two sides confronted each other. Gunshots rang out, and by that evening 19 people were dead, including both supporters and opponents of the government.[6] Then, the military high command started the coup at Miraflores and demanded that Chávez resign. President Chávez refused to resign, and he subsequently was arrested by the military.[12][13][14] Chávez’s request for asylum in Cuba was denied, and he was ordered to be tried in a Venezuelan court.[9]
Nachrichten Kategorie: Gesellschaft und Geschichte / Society and History. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: (international) war lobby, (pre-)history, Bush Administration, coups / attempts / regime changes / invasions (aggressions / interventions), Democrats left, Elliot Abrams, far-right, general strikes, governments / regimes, Hugo Chávez, Ilhan Omar, Neocons, Öl / oil / crude / petroleum, Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), Terrorkrieg / global war on terror (de / en), Trump Administration, US Congress, USA und Venezuela.
Pompeo: The problems in Venezuela have been years in the making
May. 02, 2019 – 7:12 – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo responds to Rep. Omar claiming the U.S. is to blame for the turmoil in Venezuela on ‚The Ingraham Angle.
Nachrichten Kategorie: International. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: (international) war lobby, Bush Administration, coups / attempts / regime changes / invasions (aggressions / interventions), Democrats left, far-right, good jokes, governments / regimes, Ilhan Omar, Neocons, Terrorkrieg / global war on terror (de / en), Trump Administration, US Congress, USA und Venezuela.
03.05.2019 - 17:02 [ Ilhan Omar, Abgeordnete im US Repräsentantenhaus / Twitter ]
Just as in interventions past, those who oppose war are labeled supporters of dictators and haters of “freedom.” We saw this playbook in Iraq. The situation in Venezuela is dire and the Trump Admin is making it worse. We must support diplomacy, not war.
Nachrichten Kategorie: International. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: (international) war lobby, Bush Administration, coups / attempts / regime changes / invasions (aggressions / interventions), Democrats left, far-right, governments / regimes, Ilhan Omar, Iraq / Irak, Libya, mainstream left / contras, Neocons, Obama Administration, Syria, Terrorkrieg / global war on terror (de / en), Trump Administration, US Congress, USA, Venezuela und Yemen.
01.05.2019 - 12:06 [ David Cicilline, Abgeordneter im US Repräsentantenhaus / Twitter ]
I introduced H.R.1004 to prevent American military action in Venezuela. Congress should pass this bill before we rush into another unnecessary war.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Constitutions, coups / attempts / regime changes / invasions (aggressions / interventions), David Cicilline, Democrats left, governments / regimes, laws / bills / legislation, US Congress, USA und Venezuela.
28.04.2019 - 19:28 [ Tulsi Gabbard, Abgeordnete im US Repräsentantenhaus / Twitter ]
If you share only one thing about Tulsi with your friends and family, make it this video. Over six minutes, this raw and emotional exchange encapsulates the reason she is running for president. #Tulsi2020
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: (international) war lobby, Afghanistan, candidacies / nominations, coups / attempts / regime changes / invasions (aggressions / interventions), Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, Terrorkrieg / global war on terror (de / en), the American Left, Tulsi Gabbard, US presidential election 2020, war / endless war, war-ending und worldwide.
McConnell vows to be ‚Grim Reaper‘ for socialist legislation
„We are having a legitimate debate about the virtues of socialism and I don’t want you to think it’s just a 28-year-old congresswoman from New York. This is much broader than that. I’ve got five colleagues in the Senate, five colleagues running for president, who have signed on to the Green New Deal and Medicare For All,“ he said.
Nachrichten Kategorie: International. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, laws / bills / legislation, Mitch McConnell, popcorn, Republican Party (USA) / "Grand Old Party" (GOP), right-wing, the American Left und US Congress.
Joe Biden Announces 2020 Run for President
Mr. Biden is seen by many Democrats as a trustee of former President Barack Obama’s legacy, perhaps capable of restoring the consensus-seeking liberalism of Mr. Obama’s administration. The former vice president has encouraged that perception, labeling himself to reporters in early April as an “Obama-Biden Democrat” and suggesting that accounts of the left wing’s ascendancy in the party were greatly exaggerated.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: (international) war lobby, Aggressive Progressives, Bernie Sanders, capital / capitalism, Democratic National Committee (DNC), Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, Joe Biden, mainstream left / contras, nomenclatura (ruling classes / „political“ classes / „elites“ / oligarchies / guilds / etc), Obama Administration, primaries / caucuses, progressives, social democracy / democratic socialism, superdelegates, the American Left, the American people, turning points, Us or Them, US presidential election 2020 und Wall Street.
21.04.2019 - 17:04 [ Elizabeth Warren, US Senator / Twitter ]
Today in Perry, Iowa I wanted to be perfectly clear: When I’m president of the United States, no veteran will ever be deported.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Kontrollmechanismen / Control Mechanisms. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: candidacies / nominations, Democrats left, Elizabeth Warren, extraditions / renditions / deportations, laws / bills / legislation, US presidential election 2020, USA und veterans.
TYT Army Lays Out Its Strategy
Nachrichten Kategorie: Presse, Internet, Medienkomplex / Press, Internet, Media Complex. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Aggressive Progressives, Alison Hartson, candidacies / nominations, Democrats left, elections, good ideas, independent media, progressives, the American Left, The Young Turks, TYT Network, US Congress und US presidential election 2020.
13.04.2019 - 12:24 [ Bernie Sanders, US Senator / Twitter ]
Ilhan Omar is a leader with strength and courage. She won’t back down to Trump’s racism and hate, and neither will we. The disgusting and dangerous attacks against her must end.
Nachrichten Kategorie: International. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: #standwithIlhan, 9/11 attacks / Attentate am 11. September 2001, asymmetric warfare (terrorism) / assassinations, Bernie Sanders, candidacies / nominations, conservatives, corporations / companies, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, extreme right-wing crazies, far-right, Ilhan Omar, mainstream left / contras, manipulations, New York Post (media), no problemo - that's why we have been sent back, progressives, remembrances, Republican Party (USA) / "Grand Old Party" (GOP), right-wing, Rupert Murdoch, smear campaigns, the American Left, US Congress, US presidential election 2020 und USA.
13.04.2019 - 10:25 [ Andres Salomon / Twitter ]
The full CAIR speech. The part that was taken out of context is at 15:17. Watching the full thing, you can clearly see that she’s talking about all muslim-americans being blamed for 9/11. Never forget that, either. #IStandWithIlhan
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: #standwithIlhan, 9/11 attacks / Attentate am 11. September 2001, asymmetric warfare (terrorism) / assassinations, conservatives, corporations / companies, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, extreme right-wing crazies, far-right, Ilhan Omar, mainstream left / contras, manipulations, New York Post (media), progressives, remembrances, Republican Party (USA) / "Grand Old Party" (GOP), right-wing, Rupert Murdoch, smear campaigns, the American Left, US Congress und USA.
13.04.2019 - 10:22 [ Donald J. Trump, Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten / Twitter ]
WE WILL NEVER FORGET!
Nachrichten Kategorie: International. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: #standwithIlhan, 9/11 attacks / Attentate am 11. September 2001, asymmetric warfare (terrorism) / assassinations, conservatives, corporations / companies, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, extreme right-wing crazies, far-right, Ilhan Omar, mainstream left / contras, manipulations, New York Post (media), progressives, remembrances, Republican Party (USA) / "Grand Old Party" (GOP), right-wing, Rupert Murdoch, smear campaigns, the American Left, US Congress und USA.
Ilhan Omar: progressive Democrats condemn Republican smears and urge party to do the same
Rightwing critics have used an edited clip of the “some people did something” comment to falsely claim that Omar does not believe that September 11 was a terrorist attack, that she downplayed or demeaned the seriousness of the attack, and that she is un-American or not loyal to the United States.
Fox News and the New York Post, both owned by Rupert Murdoch, have devoted high-profile coverage to the misleading claims, including a graphic New York Post cover with her quote and an image of the World Trade Center towers in flames.
Beto O’Rourke on Benjamin Netanyahu: ‘Racist’
In response to a voter’s question about his policy toward Israel and Palestinian rights, O’Rourke reiterated his support for a two-state solution and accused Netanyahu of having “joined forces with far-right parties who are inherently racist in their speech and the way that they want to treat their fellow human beings in that part of the world.”
He then went further, telling reporters in a gaggle afterward that Netanyahu is a “racist.”
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: annexions, Beto O’Rourke, Democrats left, elections, extreme right-wing crazies, Israel, Netanyahu, occupations / zones, Palestine und US presidential election 2020.
31.03.2019 - 14:22 [ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Abgeordnete im US Repräsentantenhaus / Twitter ]
.@katieporteroc is a Financial Services hearings badass (look up her questioning) and her story as a survivor is a story of resilience. She speaks truth to power on special interests and predatory banks. Donate to her campaign here:
Nachrichten Kategorie: International. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, candidacies / nominations, cooperations / collaborations, Democrats left, Katie Porter, Poor People's Jane Bond, popcorn, the American Left und US Congress.
It’s almost as though there is a directed + concerted far-right propaganda machine with a whole cable news channel, and a dark-money internet operation propped up by the Mercers et al dedicated to maligning me & stoking nat’l division, reported on by @JaneMayerNYer or something
Nachrichten Kategorie: Kontrollmechanismen / Control Mechanisms. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrats left, dissent, far-right, planetary atmospheres (climates), Poor People's Jane Bond, propaganda (de / en), science, the American Left und US Congress.
US: Democrat Presidential Candidates Boycott AIPAC Convention
Bernie Sanders, Beto O’Rourke, Kamala Harris, and Elizabeth Warren said they will not go to the event. AIPAC’s list of confirmed speakers also does not feature any Democrat running for president or any expected candidate like former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden.
Nachrichten Kategorie: International. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee), Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, far-right, foreign policy, governments / regimes, Israel, lobbying / meddling, presidents (executive branch), US presidential election 2020 und USA.
House Democrats explode in recriminations as liberals lash out at moderates
(1.3.2019) Several are also pushing to reform or eliminate the procedural tactic that has prompted the uproar — the “motion to recommit,” which essentially gives the minority party one final opportunity to amend a bill moments before it comes up for a final vote.
Pelosi trained much of her closed-door frustrations on veteran lawmakers, noting that some held seats on coveted committees. “What is this?” she asked, according to the aides.
Nachrichten Kategorie: International. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, laws / bills / legislation, mainstream left / contras, motion to recommit, Republican Party (USA) / "Grand Old Party" (GOP), sabotage (de / en), tactics, the American Left und US Congress.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Warns Veteran Democrats
(8.3.2019) ‚So what happened this week was that there was a Republican procedural maneuver called motion to recommit. The thing about this is that it happens about 5 minutes before passage of major legislation. In this case, it’s ‘H.R.A.’ the gun safety legislation that advocates have been working on for years to get to the floor of the House and so for months and months people are working on this legislation,‘ she explained.“
09.03.2019 - 16:14 [ Nicolas J.S. Davies / Mintpress.com ]
Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen: Calculating the Millions-High Death Toll of America’s Post-9/11 Wars
Altogether, in the three parts of this report, I have estimated that America’s post-9/11 wars have killed about 6 million people. Maybe the true number is only 5 million. Or maybe it is 7 million.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: (international) war lobby, #standwithIlhan, Barack Obama, body counts / death tolls, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, Ilhan Omar, mainstream left / contras, nomenclatura (ruling classes / „political“ classes / „elites“ / oligarchies / guilds / etc), Obama Administration, progressives und Terrorkrieg / global war on terror (de / en).
Assad must go, Obama says
(18.8.2011) As Obama issued his statement, the leaders of France, Germany and Britain joined him in calling on Assad “to face the reality of the complete rejection of his regime by the Syrian people and to step aside.”
Obama had spoken to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron over the past two weeks to discuss calling for Assad’s resignation and to coordinate steps on sanctions.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: (international) war lobby, #standwithIlhan, Barack Obama, CDU, CSU, David Cameron, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, France, Germany, governments / regimes, Großbritannien / United Kingdom (UK), Hillary Clinton, Ilhan Omar, Libya, mainstream left / contras, Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy, nomenclatura (ruling classes / „political“ classes / „elites“ / oligarchies / guilds / etc), Obama Administration, progressives, Syria, Terrorkrieg / global war on terror (de / en), Tories, unspeakable curses und USA.
Hillary Clinton: Muammar Gaddafi ‚must go now‘
(2.3.2011) Testifying before the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee, Clinton called for an end to the violence in Libya.
She also added that the United States had reserved all its options as it considered additional steps that might be needed to stop Libyan forces from attacking civilians.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: (international) war lobby, #standwithIlhan, Barack Obama, body counts / death tolls, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, governments / regimes, Hillary Clinton, Ilhan Omar, Libya, mainstream left / contras, nomenclatura (ruling classes / „political“ classes / „elites“ / oligarchies / guilds / etc), Obama Administration, progressives, Terrorkrieg / global war on terror (de / en), unspeakable curses und USA.
09.03.2019 - 15:46 [ IPPNW - International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War ]
Body Count: Casualty Figures after 10 Years of the “War on Terror”
This investigation comes to the conclusion that the war has, directly or indirectly, killed around 1 million people in Iraq, 220,000 in Afghanistan and 80,000 in Pakistan, i.e. a total of around 1.3 million. Not included in this figure are further war
zones such as Yemen. The figure is approximately 10 times greater than that of which the public, experts and decision makers are aware of and propagated by the media and major NGOs. And this is only a conservative estimate. The total number of deaths in the three countries named above could also be in excess of 2 million, whereas a figure below 1 million is extremely unlikely.
09.03.2019 - 15:41 [ Nafeez Ahmed / Middle East Eye ]
Unworthy victims: Western wars have killed four million Muslims since 1990
(8. April 2015)
In the absence of even the possibility of corroboration, these figures provide plausible estimates based on applying standard statistical methodology to the best, if scarce, evidence available. They give an indication of the scale of the destruction, if not the precise detail.
Much of this death has been justified in the context of fighting tyranny and terrorism. Yet thanks to the silence of the wider media, most people have no idea of the true scale of protracted terror wrought in their name by US and UK tyranny in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Democrats’ Dilemma – What Ilhan Omar and Dean Phillips tell us about the future of the Democratic Party.
As she saw it, the party ostensibly committed to progressive values had become complicit in perpetuating the status quo. Omar says the “hope and change” offered by Barack Obama was a mirage. Recalling the “caging of kids” at the U.S.-Mexico border and the “droning of countries around the world” on Obama’s watch, she argues that the Democratic president operated within the same fundamentally broken framework as his Republican successor.
Nachrichten Kategorie: Weltöffentlichkeit / World Public Opinion. Nachrichten Schlagwörter: (international) war lobby, #standwithIlhan, Barack Obama, Democratic Party (USA), Democrats left, Ilhan Omar, mainstream left / contras, nomenclatura (ruling classes / „political“ classes / „elites“ / oligarchies / guilds / etc), Obama Administration, progressives und Terrorkrieg / global war on terror (de / en).
Rep. Omar appears to criticize Obama in latest swipe at Dem establishment
While progressives have criticized Obama in the past, Omar’s comments — on the heels of a tumultuous week that saw her comments on pro-Israel lobbying shake up Congress — serve as another reminder of how the incoming class of rising star Democratic lawmakers is challenging the party’s status quo.
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India faces a threat from China: RSS Chief
Edited By Odishatv Bureau Published By Odishatv Bureau On Dec 25, 2012 - 9:28 AM
Meerut: India is increasingly facing a "threat" from China as it is expanding its influence on all four sides of the country, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) supremo Mohan Rao Bhagwat said here.
"India not only faces a threat from China but also from Pakistan and Bangladesh as well," Bhagwat said at the concluding session of three-day camp in Shatabdi Nagar in Madhavganj last evening.
Cautioning India from the threats arising from its neighbours, Bhagwat said that Guru Hedgewar(founder and first Sarsanghachalak of RSS) had referred to China as a threat from the beginning but he was labelled as a "war monger".
Regarding the gang-rape of the 23-year old para-medic student in Delhi, Bhagwat said,"It is a matter of great concern that in the capital city, girls are not safe though there is no need to be disheartened, we just need to think of solutions".
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Cuttack residents complain as JICA work leaves cracks inside houses
Edited By Bikram Keshari Jena Published By Soumyajit Ghose Last updated Dec 19, 2018 - 10:09 PM
Cuttack: The drainage and sewerage works carried out by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in the city continues to give rise to new problems for the locals in the city. As per allegations cracks have developed in walls and floors of houses in Kalyan Nagar locality owing to the underground digging work carried out by JICA.
According to sources, many locals in the area alleged that their houses have developed cracks and some of them have been forced to live in tents fearing danger.
“We are living in a tent for over a year as the walls of the houses collapsed due to huge cracks that developed after underground digging work,” a Kalyan Nagar resident said.
“They (JICA) had come to us and said that repair work will be done by them if any damage is caused to the house. Now there are cracks and water leakages are making life difficult,” said another local.
Meanwhile, the locals complained that despite informing about the cracks to the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) and other department officials no action has been taken in this regard.
On the other hand, the CMC deputy Mayor, Ajay Barik denied receiving any complaints and said that necessary action will be taken if any such issues are brought to notice.
“The CMC has not received any such complaints. They should give us a written complaint following which it will be reviewed by the council,” Barik said.
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Open Data Institute launches new ‘Closed Data Institute’ with £104M funding from unnamed source
The Open Data Institute, a non-profit company known for championing the benefits of open data has today announced it will launch a sister company, the ‘Closed Data Institute’.
The announcement comes after a meeting between senior ODI staff, political leaders, international financial groups and advertisers, during which an agreement was made to support them to keep their data as closed as possible.
“With the election looming, we know that politicians will want to provide access only to those who should know, and know what is best for citizens.” ODI’s VP of Institutional Innovation, Tony Stark, explained in an industry press conference this morning.
“There are a lot of reputational – and financial – benefits in keeping closed data as scarce as possible,” Stark continued. “If governments or organisations wish to conceal aspects of their work or performance, we will now support them at the Closed Data Institute.”
The International Head of Data at the IDBF commented, “We’re entering into an age where data will be the only thing that matters. We’ll be making sure we hold the door open, or close it, depending on who can benefit.”
The ‘Closed Data Institute’ (CDI) will work along a business model similar to that of the ODI, offering training courses for public and private sector groups, developing a global network of closed, self-replicating data nodes, and an exclusive membership programme to world-leading groups, who cannot be named for legal reasons.
Courses include ‘Closed Data in a Day’, ‘Identifying Colleagues in Closed Data’, ‘Keeping Institutional Knowledge on your Desktop’, and ‘Closed Data in Practice’ – a 3-day training course focusing on more technical Digital Restrictions Management applications.
Further, ODI is pleased to announced its new EU Horizon 3030 research project 'AWMAN' (Avoiding aWkward situations where facts May get in the wAy of opinioNs)
The location of the CDI has not yet been disclosed [due to a dispute with a geospatial data organisation].
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HBO Max is really planning a Friends reunion special
The Friends friends love to hang out these days, but it’s typically only on Instagram and not in an actual revival series where its easier for all of the characters to ignore their children now that they’re older, nobody talks about Joey’s adventures in Los Angeles, and Ross has been married a half-dozen more times since the end of the original series (a couple to Rachel, maybe one to Phoebe, and then a few to some celebrity cameos). Now, though, it looks like the Friends friends might be getting back together for something more exciting than a viral Instagram post… but it’s still probably not going to be an actual Gilmore Girls/Veronica Mars/Twin Peaks-style revival.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, HBO Max is currently “in talks” with the core cast of Friends and the show’s creators to put together some kind of “unscripted reunion special” on the streaming service. The full cast is apparently on board (which was not the case the last time there was a reunion like this, back in 2016 for a celebration of director/producer James Burrows on NBC), but THR stresses that “a deal is far from done.” Essentially, HBO Max has done the bare minimum of work, which is getting everyone to agree that they would hypothetically do this, and now it has to actually put in the effort to make it happen—including finding the money to pay for this and planning out a schedule for when none of the Friends have better stuff going on.
Finding the money for Friends hasn’t been an issue for HBO Max so far, since it is already reportedly paying $425 million to steal the series away from Netflix for five years, and putting together a Friends reunion has apparently been a major project for WarnerMedia Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt (WarnerMedia owns HBO Max). Again, though, the cast has maintained for a long time that they wouldn’t want to do a scripted revival, so it remains to be seen what sort of shape this reunion will take—no offense to the Friends, but, say, recreating one of the sets and having them hang out and talk about their Friends memories wouldn’t be especially exciting. Still, people love Friends, and if there’s an exclusive Friends thing that you can only get on HBO Max, that’ll sound pretty sweet to WarnerMedia no matter what it ends up being.
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Best. Sweepstakes. EVER: The Grammys Are Going To Assassinate One Lucky Fan And Feature Them In The ‘In Memoriam’ Reel
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If you’ve ever dreamed about being part of music’s biggest night, then get PUMPED because an awesome sweepstakes promotion may make that dream come true: The Grammys are going to feature one lucky fan in their “in memoriam” reel after sending an assassin to the fan’s house to murder them.
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Judging from some serious social buzz, fans are beyond excited at the prospect of A-list celebs grieving over them when their face flashes on screen at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards. All you need to do to enter is submit a short video stating why you think you should be murdered by The Recording Academy and immortalized at the ceremony. And your loved ones will be there to see your big posthumous moment, because the Grammys will cover first-class travel to New York for up to three grieving family members.
Once they apply, participants are asked to share their video on social media with the hashtag #GrieveMeAtTheGrammys. The winner will then be notified when an official Grammys assassin arrives at their home with a professional photographer, who will take tasteful head shots for the reel. The lucky fan even gets to choose their preferred picture before being clinically shot in the temple.
Talk about a five-star treatment!
The Grammy Awards is also guaranteeing that the winner’s somber black-and-white portrait will be featured between two sound editors that no one knows, to ensure they get as much limelight as possible. And here’s the cherry on top: The cameras will cut away to a sobbing Usher right after the winner’s picture is shown. Whoa!
The deadline for this incredible contest is coming up, so if you’re interested in throwing your hat in the ring, send in your application soon. Oscars, pay attention. This is how it’s done!
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Click here to login ‘Sentience’ statement rouses debate among veterinarians
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Texas' highest court will hear a case next month in the Supreme Court Building in Austin (above) to determine whether pet owners can claim damages for the sentimental value of their animals. Some fear AAHA's statement that animals are 'sentient beings' might inadvertently encourage similar lawsuits.
The American Animal Hospital Association’s (AAHA) statement that animals are “feeling, sensing beings capable of sentiency” is generating curiosity, applause and some concern within the veterinary profession.
Officials with AAHA, representing 16,000 veterinarians and 5,500 veterinary practices, said the group is simply stating something most already know:
Like humans, other animals are "feeling beings."
“The American Animal Hospital Association supports the concept of animals as sentient beings,” the position statement reads. “Sentiency is the ability to feel, perceive or be conscious or to have subjective experiences. Biological science as well as common sense supports the fact that the animals that share our lives are feeling, sensing beings that deserve thoughtful high-quality care. The care that is offered should provide for the animal’s physical and behavioral welfare and strive to minimize pain, distress and suffering for the animal.”
AAHA’s Board of Directors adopted the statement in July but didn’t announce it to the public until mid-October. Although the statement doesn't specify this, Executive Director Dr. Mike Cavanaugh says AAHA's position refers to companion animals — dogs, cats and the like — given that the group represents companion animal practices.
“Our Board of Directors believes that animals are sentient beings, and we’re willing to take a firm stand,” he said. “The AAHA board decided that now was the time to show leadership.”
AAHA might be the only national veterinary group to make such a statement, but it’s not the first veterinary organization to do so. In 2004, the California Veterinary Medical Association crafted welfare guidelines that identified animals as “sentient beings with wants and needs.”
Since then, other veterinary medical groups have been slow to use such terminology. The American Veterinary Medical Association, representing more than 80,000 veterinarians, does not have a position statement regarding sentience. The idea that animals think and feel, however, is addressed in several AVMA policies on issues of animal welfare and pain management.
On the Veterinary Information Network (VIN), an online community for the profession and parent of the VIN News Service, some veterinarians identified pitfalls in making blanket statements about the sentience of animals.
“I find it amusing that AAHA used a blanket label of ‘animals’ when declaring sentience,” wrote Dr. Alison Stambaugh of Clearlake, Calif. “Technically, that includes not just my cats but my dumb-as-rocks turtles, my minimally-interactive geckos and the cockroaches on my walls.”
Others on VIN consider the sentience of animals to be a “no-brainer” but are concerned about political implications of using the term. Dr. Pete Cyrog believes AAHA’s statement could “open up a can of worms” related to the lengths society might go to protect animals from pain.
“Perhaps the bigger question is, ‘Now that you are using the term, what do you intend to do with it?' " wrote Cyrog of Green Valley, Calif. “Are all animals going to need anesthesia for every procedure that is done on them so they are no longer conscious of their feelings?”
He added: “We don’t anesthetize babies undergoing circumcisions. Thoughts to ponder.”
Dr. John Carey also weighed in on the VIN discussion, noting that the concept of sentience carries baggage. As a practitioner in Madison, Wis., he began exploring sentience as a philosophical issue when a law student implored him to treat a vomiting dog at no charge.
“If he were human he could go to the ER for free, right?” Carey recalled her stating.
“Unfortunately, sentience has recently gained an additional connotation … in that sentience awards individual rights,” he wrote on VIN. To make his point, he paraphrased a philosophical quandary that he believes reflects the meaning of sentience in today’s social and political climates.
“If you meet a wild boar on a pathway, why should you have the right to kill the animal before it tries to kill you since you are both sentient?” he asked.
Given that the word sentience spurs such connotations, AAHA should have avoided using it, Carey contended.
“They could have released the statement without using the word ‘sentiency’ without losing any meaning,” he wrote on VIN. “I think the scientific community in general has finally accepted that animals have emotions and feel pain, as the statement says. I think some have even come to realize that animals can have higher emotions (previously reserved for us special humans) such as loyalty, affection, jealously, satisfaction.”
Dr. Gary Block, owner of a specialty referral practice in Rhode Island, considers fearing any long-term impact tied to defining animals as sentient beings to be “inane.”
AAHA’s position proclaims the obvious, he said by email, and “cannot be debated.”
It’s “much ado about nothing,” Block added, noting that during the mid-2000s — long before AAHA issued its declaration — pet owners began seeking punitive and compensatory damage awards in cases of alleged malpractice or wrongful death involving animals.
“Although I am no judge or lawyer, I can’t imagine cases regarding animal cruelty or where plaintiffs were trying to recover non-economic damages having hinged on whether or not animals were sentient,” Block wrote. “Not surprisingly, many are assuming this is a nefarious plot by the animal rights community and promoted by ambulance chasing lawyers to open the floodgates to lawsuits against vets.”
CVMA Executive Director Valerie Fenstermaker said that to her knowledge, the association's recognition of animals as "sentient beings" in the group's 2004 welfare principles has not been referred to in legal cases.
Legal side of sentience
When it comes to civil remedies, animals are classified as chattel and worth no more than their replacement costs — a stance upheld by supreme and appellate court rulings on pet-related litigation in more than 25 states.
In July, the Supreme Court of New Jersey rejected an owner’s emotional distress claim in McDougall v. Lamm. In a 5-0 decision, Justice Helen Hoens wrote, “Although we recognized that many people form close bonds with their pets, we conclude that those bonds do not rise to the level of a close familial relationship or intimate marital-like bond."
Some courts, however, are opening the door to the notion that animals are sentient beings. In August, the Oregon Court of Appeals ruled in a neglect case that animals could be classified as victims of a crime, implying that they are sentient beings.
A case before the Texas Supreme Court also could upend the strict property standard for animals.
On Jan. 10, the high court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in Strickland v. Medlen, a case involving a Fort Worth family who sued an animal shelter employee after their dog mistakenly was euthanized. The owners seek damages tied to the dog’s sentimental value despite 121-year-old legal precedent that strictly limits awards to the price a pet might fetch in the marketplace.
The Texas Courts of Appeals ruled last year to alter established law by overturning a trial court’s refusal to allow sentimental damages based on the precedence that pets are property. The three-judge panel found that an 1891 Texas Supreme Court decision that limited the status of pets to property was antiquated and failed to reflect the “attachment owners have to their beloved family pets.”
Given Texas’ conservative leaning on many social and political issues, some believe that if emotional value is allowed for pets in the Lone Star State, the decision could reverberate across the nation.
If damage precedents spike, so will the volume of pet-related lawsuits, some legal experts say. Court dockets could become flooded with malpractice and wrongful death cases. This could force veterinarians to practice defensive medicine as malpractice insurance costs rise, said Dr. Jim Wilson, a lawyer and veterinarian who has for more than a decade tracked legal challenges to the notion that pets are property.
“I’m interested in seeing the outcome of this Texas case,” Wilson said, “With what I've read to date, I'm struggling to determine whether that case would only expand sentimental damages. This form of damage has been awarded for inanimate property known as heirlooms. Awards under this legal theory generally have been limited to $10,000 or less, whereas non-economic damage awards for human life have been in the hundreds of millions of dollars."
Wilson continued: "So far all the state supreme courts of which I am aware have struck down lower court rulings allowing non-economic damages for the loss of pets."
That hasn't stopped owners from continuing the fight. To find some middle ground, attorney Carolyn Matlack proposed creating a new legal classification that regards animals to be innate beings worth more than inanimate objects. She coined the term “sentient property” in 2004.
Matlack could not be reached for comment about whether the classification has been used in court.
AAHA's sentience statement was not designed to help redefine how animals are treated in court cases. Though the group recognizes that some clarification is needed on animals' legal classification, pets already are treated differently from inert property, AAHA officials say.
“If I beat on my car I am not going to get into trouble, but if I beat on my animal, I'm going to get into big trouble,” Cavanaugh reasoned.
He added that while AAHA supports the idea that animals can be sentient, the group does not favor raising the legal classification of animals so that non-economic damages might apply in lawsuits involving pets.
Extrapolating human characteristics
Questions about pet worth aside, some in the veterinary profession note that science hasn’t proven what animals feel emotionally, if anything. Applying human perceptions to animal behaviors, critics say, is an anthropomorphic slippery slope that could one day impact how animals are used for food and research.
Fear, for example, is an emotion felt by humans, but it might be a survival instinct in dogs. Animals can exhibit behaviors suggestive of depression or grief such as diminished appetite, hiding, excessive sleeping and wandering around looking for their companion. Still, no one knows whether it’s true grief, said Dr. John Daugherty, a practice owner in Poland, Ohio, and a VIN consultant.
“What I do know is that it’s far too easy to project our feelings on to other creatures without knowing for sure if they think the way we do,” he wrote on VIN.
Cavanaugh acknowledges that “Everyone is going to have their opinion.”
“If you look at the physiological makeup of pain pathways, animals and humans are essentially identical,” he said. “My sense is they do feel pain, and they respond to it. When it gets beyond that, it's an academic philosophical discussion that some enjoy, but we're not going to go there.”
There's no need to, he added.
“I don't know if my border collie can scientifically be proven to have emotion, but I know she's very intelligent and can feel and perceive and have subjective experiences,” Cavanaugh said. “That satisfies my curiosity.”
Editor's note: This article was amended from its original to replace the word "objective" with "subjective" in AAHA's sentiency statement. The error originated with an AAHA news release that now is corrected.
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Trump: "Hong Kong does not help in the trade war with China."
August 15, 2019 World 3 Views
Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader; Kevin McCarthy The House Minority Leader; and Marco Rubio are Republicans who have made extensive statements in support of the protests. On the other side of the corridor Nancy Pelosi the majority leader of the house; Chuck Schumer the leader of the Senate minority; and most Democratic presidential candidates have done the same.
Protesters initially protesting against a bill that allowed for deliveries to mainland China expanded their demands to include universal suffrage, an independent investigation into police action in the demonstrations, and amnesty for hundreds of arrested demonstrators. The protests were largely peaceful, but occasionally became violent, including a chaotic scene at the airport when protesters attacked two mainland Chinese men, including a journalist.
The police routinely used tear gas, pepper spray, and batons to disperse protesters. Hong Kong officials have defied an independent police tactics commission, some of which have been condemned by international groups such as the United Nations Human Rights Office, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. The government believes that an investigation by a police guard is sufficient, but critics say the agency is staffed by government-related individuals.
Also, officials have signaled no willingness to submit to the demands of the demonstrators, which increased the fear that the impasse could lead to Beijing's bloody action in the Tiananmen style. Mr. Trump tweeted on Tuesday that the Chinese government had transferred troops to the Hong Kong border, and encouraged everyone to be "calm and safe."
A garrison of Chinese People's Liberation Army (SLA) soldiers is stationed in Hong Kong, but most observers believe it unlikely that Beijing would repress protests unless it would destroy territorial autonomy as a last resort and could have devastating economic repercussions to have.
In online forums popular with Hong Kong protesters, people largely welcomed the recent comments by Mr. Trump, but expressed concern that the United States would not take any major action. China has accused foreign countries, especially the US, of secretly standing behind the protest movement.
"Whenever there are major protests in Hong Kong, not only is Washington involved, but there are also many American organizations at the forefront actively supporting the demonstrators," said Zhao Kejin, an expert on international studies in Chinese Tsinghua University, during a briefing on Thursday organized by the government in Beijing. "This is the root of why Hong Kong has become chaotic."
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Mayor signs up for global action on climate
Christchurch Mayor Lianne Dalziel is going to sign up to the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy.
The covenant is an international alliance of cities with a shared vision to combat climate change.
Mayor Lianne Dalziel will sign up to the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy.
Christchurch City Council has agreed that Mayor Dalziel should join the coalition so that the city can join with about 7500 cities around the world who are committed to moving to a low emission future and a more resilient society. These cities represent more than 680 million people.
The Mayor was originally invited to join the covenant by Michael Bloomberg, the former New York Mayor and the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change.
Since receiving that invitation considerable work has been done by the Council to ensure that Christchurch meets the criteria for becoming part of the covenant.
“We recognise that the actions of cities around the world are key to finding solutions to the massive challenge of climate change,” Mayor Dalziel says.
“We have a huge incentive to act quickly to reduce carbon emissions in order to improve community health and build better economies. We will identify climate risks and vulnerabilities, and implement adaption strategies to support the development of more resilient communities.
“Christchurch is joining the Global Covenant to further our commitment to tackling climate change.
“By sharing ideas, aligning strategies, investing in innovative solutions and speaking with one voice, cities of all sizes can tackle climate issues.
“Above all, we must take joint responsibility for our future.”
The Global Covenant targets “ambitious, measurable climate and energy initiatives that lead to an inclusive, just, low-emission and climate resilient future”.
Christchurch City Council has already set itself a target of becoming net carbon neutral by 2030. It is also looking at developing strategies that would enable Christchurch to become carbon neutral by 2050.
Various initiatives are under way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from Council activities, including the 100 per cent battery electric car sharing scheme, the new LED street lighting, and an energy efficiency programme of work.
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Fire tragedy in Surat: death toll increases to 23, owner of coaching centre arrested
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The death toll in the massive fire in a commercial complex in Gujarat’s Surat has increased to 23 on Saturday. A day after the tragedy, the police on Saturday arrested the owner of the coaching centre where many students and some teachers died. Surat Police Commissioner Satish Sharma told media persons that the police arrested Bhargav Butani, owner of the coaching centre in Takshashila Arcade in Sarthana area of the city. “We have lodged FIR against builder and arrested owner of the coaching centre,” Mr. Sharma told media persons. In the tragedy, more than 15 persons were injured, several of them critical and battling for their lives in various hospital in the city.
Source: The Hindu May 25, 2019 06:00 UTC
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Oshie, Carlson lift Capitals over Bruins in mid-season test
By Scott CharlesDec 11, 2019, 10:30 PM EST
The 82-game regular season is a marathon for NHL teams, but at various points of the season you want to measure yourself up against a top team in your conference.
On Wednesday Night Hockey, the Metropolitan Division-leading Washington Capitals defeated the Atlantic Division-leading Boston Bruins 3-2 at Capital One Arena.
John Carlson scored the go-ahead goal 4:42 into the third period to help propel the Capitals. T.J. Oshie scored twice and Braden Holtby made 30 saves as the Capitals collected their seventh win in the previous eight games.
David Pastrnak scored his NHL-leading 26th goal for Boston but the Bruins have dropped four consecutive games (0-3-1).
Oshie often overlooked
Whether it’s Alex Ovechkin, Nicklas Backstrom, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Carlson or Holtby, Oshie is often neglected when listing the Capitals’ star power.
Since being acquired in July of 2015, Oshie has been a consistent offensive threat for the Capitals in the previous four-plus seasons. He has averaged 25.5 goals and added his 12th and 13th of this season in stellar fashion on Wednesday.
Oshie made a quick deke to his forehand before ringing a shot off the crossbar, but then finished his own rebound to even the score early in the second period.
Oshie gave the Capitals a 2-1 lead with a highlight-reel goal. The American forward danced around Bruins defenseman Connor Clifton before converting a nifty deke 3:30 after his first of the game.
While other players in Washington’s lineup receive credit for the Capitals’ strong play in recent years, Oshie should not be forgotten about as he has proven to be a key piece to the puzzle in Washington.
OH MY @TJOshie77. ?@Capitals | #BOSvsWSH pic.twitter.com/O6LJ9ytyu3
— NHL on NBC (@NHLonNBCSports) December 12, 2019
Pastrnak remains red-hot
The Czech winger has solidified himself as one the best pure goal scorers in the NHL today and recorded his 26th goal of the season on Wednesday. No. 88 is on pace for 67 goals this season and has helped the Boston Bruins secure a 10-point lead in the Atlantic Division.
Pastrnak tallied a short-side snipe to give the Bruins a 1-0 lead against the Capitals Wednesday. Defenseman Charlie McAvoy was able to complete a cross-ice pass because centerman Patrice Bergeron skated hard to the net in order to create an open passing lane.
If Pastrnak is able to continue this torrid pace, he could be in line to collect a lot of hardware at the NHL Awards show and help the Bruins collect a trophy they fell just short of last season.
That's No. 26. @pastrnak96 | #NHLBruins pic.twitter.com/f2VVOZSp6K
— Boston Bruins (@NHLBruins) December 12, 2019
Ovechkin’s office
The sign of dominance in any competitive sport is if you can continue to repeat an action while your opponent is aware of what is coming.
For Alex Ovechkin, his presence from the left circle throughout the course of his career has been spectacular. The captain of the Washington Capitals has recorded 299 of his 679 goals (44%) from the left circle or above. And since the 2012-13 season, 54% of his goals have come from that spot on the ice.
NHL teams will continue to game plan and know exactly where No. 8 will be on the ice, especially when Washington is on a power play, but his excellence from that area should be viewed in the same breath as Wayne Gretzky’s operation from behind the net.
Alex Ovechkin has 679 career goals. ?
299 of those have come from his office. ?@Capitals | #BOSvsWSH pic.twitter.com/Vw0sGmDIjB
Scott Charles is a writer for Pro Hockey Talk on NBC Sports. Drop him a line at phtblog@nbcsports.com or follow him on Twitter @ScottMCharles.
Tags: Alex Ovechkin, Boston Bruins, Braden Holtby, Charlie McAvoy, David Pastrnak, Evgeny Kuznetsov, John Carlson, Nicklas Backstrom, Patrice Bergeron, T.J. Oshie, Washington Capitals, Wednesday Night Hockey, Alex Ovechkin, Braden Holtby, Charlie McAvoy, Connor Clifton, David Pastrnak, Evgeny Kuznetsov, John Carlson, Nicklas Backstrom, Patrice Bergeron, T.J. Oshie
Tags: Joe Thornton, Pittsburgh Penguins, San Jose Sharks, Washington Capitals
Yes, Justin Williams led ‘Storm Surge’ in Hurricanes’ return
By James O'BrienJan 19, 2020, 9:45 PM EST
Sports sometimes stick to “Hollywood” scripting, but hockey can be stubborn. In this case, Justin Williams delivered during his return to the Carolina Hurricanes and NHL in general.
Williams closed out what was a pretty exciting, and occasional strange, shootout in Carolina’s favor. It went eight rounds, but Williams scored the shootout-deciding goal as the Hurricanes beat the Islanders 2-1.
Naturally, that wasn’t enough for this “bunch of jerks.” Williams also fittingly took center stage during the “Storm Surge,” giving a salute. You can watch those great moments in the video above this post.
More on a storybook return for Justin Williams
James Reimer made fun of our thirst for a narrative after the game.
“It was all a conspiracy from the beginning. That was the plan,” Reimer joked, via the Hurricanes’ website. “We fooled everyone.”
Really, there’s only one question about this Williams return: what took Rod Brind’Amour so long to send him out in the shootout? Just number eight? Nice sense of the moment, Rod.
(Just kidding — mostly.)
Williams made an impact on the game proper, firing three shots on goal, delivering a hit, and blocking a shot during 13:06 time on ice. Despite being a grizzled veteran at age 38, Williams faced some jitters.
“I was nervous the whole game, to be honest,” Williams said. “It was a playoff game out there. That’s what it felt like that. Teams weren’t giving an inch. There were chances either way, and it could have gone either way,” he said. “I’ve played over 1,200 of these, so I was like, ‘OK, Justin. Get real here. You can do this.’ It was fun. We got what we wanted: two points.”
Well, Brind’Amour believes Williams “fit right in.”
Speaking of people getting right back into the groove, the Hurricanes provided a fun variation on his nickname: on Sunday, Williams became “Mr. Round 8.”
Tags: Carolina Hurricanes, James Reimer, Justin Williams, New York Islanders, Rod Brind'Amour, Storm Surge, James Reimer
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Media Trends 2019: an earthquake in audience engagement, and openness to new business models
Nic Newman
The 2019 edition of the Journalism, Media and Technology Trends and Predictions report finds an industry rethinking many of its assumptions about the way digital operates.
The latest edition of Nic Newman'a annual Journalism, Media and Technology Trends and Predictions report was released today, and it makes for fascinating reading.
It captures a moment in time where the industry as a whole is waking up to the fact that many of the solutions it thought were the way formward in digital media aren't going to be sustainable, and we need to try more radical appraches. In particular, the Facebook traffic collapse and the subsequent stumbing of many digital pure play titles has exposed the reality of the audience landscape for the first time in nearly a decade — and it's not pretty.
From the report, I get a sense that publishers are becoming aware that the answers to our problems are, well, complex. And that’s good. The quest for a single solution to our digital woes has led us down some dangerous alleys, from paywalls around undifferentiated content, to a dangerous over-reliance on Facebook.
Here’s some of my initial thoughts on the findings. I’ll save analysis of some of the findings around specific technologies — like audio or newsletters — for later posts.
The Audience Engagement earthquake
Without any doubt, 2018 was the year that the audience engagement landscape changed completely. For the past seven or eight years, Facebook had come to dominate the conversation to such a degree that many “social media” teams for newspapers were, in essence, Facebook post producers.
And then came the Facepocalypse earlier in the year, and a catastrophic drop in traffic across the industry. And that has opened people’s minds to new approaches to audience engagement. The new landscape is beautifully summed up by this figure:
Google — and, thus, SEO, is in the ascendency again. My latest SEO course sold out in record time, at such a rate that we’re hoping to have another one in the diary for the spring. People will always search for content, and so it remains a viable technique, one that was somewhat neglected at the height of the Facebook era.
It is interesting to see Apple News rating so highly. 18 months ago I was describing it as the biggest secret in audience development — it looks like the secret is out. With Apple likely to make some big move in this space post the acquisition of Texture, this is worth watching.
The one platform I’m surprised not see see represented at all is Flipboard - cross-publishers analytics have shown it on the rise as a traffic source although the experience of individual publishers has varied.
Platform skepticism on the rise
Probably the single most reassuring aspect of the report is this, though:
But there also appears to be a change in sentiment toward third party platforms in general. Many publishers have been burned by creating bespoke content only to find the goalposts changing or the monetisation slow to materialise.
Nic goes on to quote an (anonymous) UK publisher as saying that they are focused on using social to bring people back to the site:
“We aren’t interested in building communities on external platforms for the benefit of that platform."
This is exactly as it should be — and should have always been. Social media activity needs to be tied into the site’s business model in an intelligent way. And just spamming Facebook with links was never that. It will be interesting to see how long the current focus on Facebook groups lasts, especially now that Facebook have started making groups less prominent in your notifications, switching many groups to “highlights only”.
Social Media is still relevant for journalism
At least one UK newspaper has seen the social media role switch from being a journalistic one to a marketing one - and then back again. It should, I think, remain with editorial, because even as social media declines in relative importance as an acquisition method, it will continue to be an incredibly important journalist too, allowing the reporting of stories that might be hard to break otherwise. Nic highlights the BBC’s anatomy of a murder story as an example, but there are many others.
With luck, we’ll see social media move back to being a central investigative and verification role, rather than an essentially promotional one in the newsroom. Just bundling social media in with audience development means that essential journalistic side gets neglected in too many newsrooms. Sure, all journalists should have a baseline understanding of social media as a reporting tool, but there’s room for specialists who can dig deeper an verify deeper, too.
The danger, of course, is that social media gets too swept up in the techlash that’s underway, and people drop it rather than reassess their relationship with it. We shall see.
New skills needed for social media content
One trend I’m hearing very clearly from many working on social content is the need to refine workflows around how you balance creation for multiple streams. This is a big challenge for many newsrooms going into 2019.
Right. And I wonder if anyone has really cracked workflows for video and visual storytelling. How to create for IG and Snapchat Discover and AMP Stories and YouTube and Facebook video. Organise teams / output by story or by platform?
— Sarah Marshall (@SarahMarshall) January 9, 2019
However, as Nic points out, a more fundamental challenge might be acting that you need to have the right skills and those might look quite different from what we have associated with “serious” journalism in the past:
The ‘news feed’ is in many ways a hangover from the desktop era, whereas stories are made for mobile screens, demand more visual storytelling skills and rely heavily on the personality of the reporter.26 Publishers looking to attract younger audiences in particular will need to develop more of these skills in 2019.
And that might mean hiring different sorts of people.
The Faustian Pact
The one part of the report that makes me most nervous is the number of publishers looking to the tech platforms and governments for financial support. This runs the risk of being a Faustian pact that will cost publishers dearly. Subsidy by Government carries obvious editorial independence questions and costs, as the Russian and Chinese examples show, - but then, so does subsidy by tech platforms. Money rarely comes without strings, and platforms throwing money at us to avoid regularly oversight doesn’t feel a move that wold benefit anyone apart from the tech platforms.
As scrutiny of the tech platforms grows in the coming year — Google and Amazon have got off lightly so far — taking money from them will seem increasing at odds with a perception of editorial independence. Google is handling this well at the moment, largely funding intermediaries rather than publishers themselves.
Yes, things are bad out there, and yes, the duopoly have sucked away money that used to flow into publishers’ pockets — but throw away what trust we have left and we’ll be in even direr straights.
Enter the Triopoly
Talking of Amazon and the duopoly, Nic suggests that we’re entering the world of the Triopoly, with Amazon joining Facebook and Google as a major force within the ad market:
Research group eMarketer finds that consumers are increasingly starting product searches on Amazon rather than Google, enabling it to charge higher premiums. Overall Amazon has taken 4% of online ad spending in the US, a figure that is expected to rise to 7% by 2020.
Another example of competition in digital coming from unexpected places. And that push on ad revenue leads us to this…
The Business Model: Reader Revenue
Another big number: 59% of publishers have some form of reader revenue as their main revenue focus for the year:
52% are focusing on subscriptions
7% are focusing on donations (the Guardian model).
81% still see display revenue as an important source of income, but this shows a really strong desire to diversify away from the ad-based model, born, I suspect, out of necessity.
I talked quite a lot about this in my contributions to Nic when he was researching the report. Here’s what I said:
We’ll start to encounter the limits of the membership model, I suspect. I’m not sure we’re past the “single magic fix” era of thinking yet, and memberships are likely to be where people flee next. But some of them are going to fail. Clearly, there’s a ceiling on how many subscriptions or memberships people are going to pay for, and as more titles adopt it, we’ll see those limits kicking in. I suspect that the more generalist sites will find it harder going, and the Buzzfeed experiment will be an interesting one for that very reason. Even The Correspondent will be fascinating to watch in a much more crowded marketplace than its original market.
Making memberships and paywalls work requires a fanatical focus on delivering reader value, so they feel like re-upping their subscriptions, coupled with a great audience acquisition strategy. These are really hard to balance, and the industry really isn’t good yet at asking hard questions about the value of what they’re producing. There are signs that’s changing - I’ve had more conversations around the ‘are we producing too much content?’ question than ever before, which is a step in the right direction.
I think the rest of Nic’s research supports that. In essence, making reader revenue work isn’t as simple as throwing up a paywall of some sort and calling it job done, it’s a hard process of evaluating the value of what you’re producing and its effectiveness at attracting or retaining those customers.
As Rasmus Kleis Nielsen from the Reuters Institute put it in his recent piece for Neiman Lab:
Much of the news currently published online is simply not worth paying for. Some of it is hardly worth our fleeting attention, let alone hard-earned cash.
The Sun’s failed paywall is a lesson in the dangers of trying to charge for largely undifferentiated content.
The Curious Absence of Analytics
I was surprised by the relative paucity of mentions of analytics as a result of this — use of analytics a critical part of making that journey, and it you try to do it without them, you really are navigating without a map. However, one interesting example did pop up:
The Financial Times has created a dashboard that monitors the reading habits of existing female subscribers to encourage editors to create more content that might appeal to women. But deeper research on gender preferences has also led to new products such as the Long Story Short newsletter, five stories you shouldn’t miss, curated by a female FT journalist. One unexpected by-product was that this newsletter also proved a hit with disengaged male readers.
This is fascinating to me, because five years ago when I did a chunk of workshops for the FT with Neil Perkin, there was a lot of nervousness around using analytics in the newsroom. Now, they’re moving to the forefront of the title using the intelligently for content planning and development.
There's plenty more in the report I'd like to address, but given that this is already over 1,800 words, this is probably a good time to stop. In the meantime, grab yourself a copy of the full report:
Download Journalism, Media, and Technology Trends and Predictions 2019.
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So many reasons to celebrate: Mo Audio turns 1
One week ago today, Mo Audio celebrated its first birthday. Our guest was soul and R&B singer Donnie, whose critically acclaimed album The Colored Section broke the mold for what modern soul should sound like.
Donnie’s an amazing artist. And he’s just one of the amazing artists we’ve had the pleasure of talking to on our show over the past year.
I am so thankful for the opportunity to work with my co-hosts, Carlton Hargro and Larmarrous Shirley. We had a podcast together years ago when Carlton and I were colleagues at Creative Loafing. Here’s a throwback shot from one of our sessions. We used to record at Harlem Bar, now BQE Lounge, off Edgewood Avenue.
It’s really something how things come full circle. Now, instead of being underwritten by our local newsweekly, Carlton and Larmarrous have Slo Mo, a publication dedicated to all things soul music, to support our weekly broadcast.
I frequent Edgewood Avenue — including what I think will be a fun summer with DJ Tabone‘s Kool School Sundays at BQE.
Then there’s the connection with Jabari Graham, with whom I first crossed paths via Art Beats & Lyrics. Plus, he was friends with Dubelyoo, and we had North Carolina in common.
J’s the reason we have our show now, being the founder of AB+L Radio. And AB+L Radio was recently awarded a Best of Atlanta Award by Creative Loafing.
I am truly blessed to have such talented, striving, inspiring visionaries in my life. They make my life substantial. They make me feel like I’m a part of something special. Because they all certainly are. I love you guys. Thank you for everything.
Tags: ABL Radio, Carlton Hargro, DJ Larmarrous, DJ Tabone, Jabari Graham, Mo Audio, Slo Mo, Sound Table
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ChanteSez … It’s too early for end of the year blues
As we approach the end of the year, there are a few things I feel I’ve done well here at onthelookoutatlanta.com, and just as many that I could have done better.
Funny how that seems to be the way of life. Honestly — today, anyway — I’m not looking at this truth with a contented smile. Today, I am sad.
Lest this turn into one of those blogs, back to the point. Things that worked well, things to improve.
For starters, I’ve been consistent with posts … until recently. I’d like to pick things back up in 2014.
I’d also like to see more of the “worthwhile people” mentioned in my site’s mission. I’ve focused mostly on the information and events. I’m always open to ideas. Just leave me a comment.
When you search “Jamal Ahmad Atlanta” on Google, onthelookoutatlanta.com is likely to show up on the first page!
Same for “Kai Alce Atlanta”!
You have hung in there with me. I am incredibly thankful for that. Please keep reading, and stay in touch with me.
Tags: ChanteSez, Jamal Ahmad, Kai Alce
Categories Connections
WCLK-FM changes format, replaces ‘S.O.U.L.’ with smooth jazz in ‘survival’ move
WCLK-FM (91.9) adjusted the formatting of just about all of its shows starting Monday, Aug. 26, in an effort to save the station, according to assistant general manager Tammy Nobles. The most painful of these adjustments is to Jamal Ahmad’s “S.O.U.L. of Jazz” show. It seems the soul has been sucked out of the 2-6 p.m. weekday time slot and replaced with smooth jazz.
Ahmad has consistently offered quality soul music to WCLK listeners and beyond. He’s known for playing rare grooves — you probably know the hip-hop track featuring a sample from one of these gems — and breaking new music from local and international artists.
His show provided a welcome reprieve from the nationally syndicated talk fests occasionally interrupted by your uncle’s favorite song from back in the day, or your little niece’s latest R&B infatuation.
Ahmad was voted Best Drive Time DJ by Creative Loafing for a couple of years, and his show on WCLK was one of the legs upon which the table of Atlanta’s music scene has been built — the others being our venues, retail outlets such as Moods Music, and the people (both artists and patrons).
Nobles acknowledged Ahmad’s strong following, but insisted that the Arbitron ratings for his show — and the overall decrease in station listenership — justified a change. She said that focus groups were conducted, including a 900-song survey with many tunes and artists listeners said they weren’t familiar with.
In short, the station needs more money. Over the past year, the station went from having two fund drives to three, but still fell short of its fundraising goals. This is amid less support from the Clark Atlanta University, the station’s primary source of funding and where it is housed. In 2012, the station pulled in $250,000 less from CAU than it did in 2011, according to its 2012 financial statement.
Tags: Atlanta music scene, Atlanta soul music, Jamal Ahmad, jazz, S.O.U.L. of Jazz, soul, soul music, WCLK-FM
Slo Mo Magazine gives a voice to Atlanta’s soul scene
Launching a print publication is a risk these days. But when you’re as passionate about soul music and culture as co-publishers Carlton Hargro and Larmarrous Shirley, it’s a risk worth taking. And it’s calculated.
Slo Mo is a monthly print publication highlighting “soul. music. culture.” as the cover tagline states.
With the professional experience to back up this new project, the odds are good. Hargro is the former editor of Creative Loafing-Charlotte, and Shirley is an award-winning graphic designer for publications such as Atlanta Magazine.
Hargro serves as the publication’s editor (and author of all the first edition’s articles), and Shirley is its designer. For future editions, they’ll be working with various freelancers to cover Atlanta’s soul music scene, from singers and musicians to DJs and promoters, visual artists, scenesters and more.
Add to the mix the sustainability of the magazine’s unconventional format. It’s a poster-sized fold-up that the two can bankroll on their own.
That said, ad spots are available — and priced to suit the small-business budget.
Shirley came up with the Slo Mo idea years ago, and in recent years picked up a similarly sized zine and knew that would be the way to go. It complements the overall concept of the publication, which is to fight against the dumbing down of music and culture by providing worthwhile content built within a dynamic design, Shirley says. It’s like moving things forward by forcing people to slow down and pay attention to what’s real.
Moods Music is the publication’s primary point of distribution for now, says Hargro. With Moods being the go-to retailer for soul music and hard-to-find imports, it makes sense. Hargro said they’re deliberate about the pick-up points because the magazine is meant to be niche. In later months, distribution will max out at 25 spots where lovers of soul music and culture are likely to gather, he says.
Plus, it’s more cost-effective that way.
A crowd of more than 50 people showed their support at Moods on Sunday, June 23, as the duo officially launched and passed out copies of the publication.
A few in attendance — including producer Daz-I-Kue and vocalist Kameron Corvet — are mentioned in the inaugural issue. Others, including Ron Smith of Harmony in Life, Aishah Rashied Hyman of Spread Love (and Mrs. DJ Kemit), and Aalyah Duncan of A-List Events Marketing are sure to have their events and artists mentioned in future editions.
The duo is open to story ideas, and both Hargro and Shirley are big on making sure they stay accessible. Part of the reason the publication was founded, Hargro said, is so that soul music promoters, artists and lovers of the culture won’t have to hurdle the barriers often found when pitching to traditional media outlets. So hit them up at slomomedia@gmail.com.
Not only is this a risk worth taking, should Slo Mo succeed, all of Atlanta’s soul scene will win.
Full disclosure: Yours truly is on tap to write an August 2013 feature on House in the Park. If you have ideas for an angle, leave me a comment!
Tags: Carlton Hargro, DJ Larmarrous, Larmarrous Shirley, media, Slo Mo, soul
Categories Connections, New music
On The Lookout with Peven Everett: 5 quick questions
Peven Everett, a longtime house music producer/vocalist/performer with Chicago roots, is coming to the Sound Table tomorrow night, courtesy of Kai Alce and NDATL/Distinctive. Alce will be spinning, along with ST’s own Karl Injex.
OTL caught up with Everett for 5 quick questions.
Photo by Carlos Bell
1) How are you? (I mean this sincerely!) What’s going on?
Everything’s pretty OK right now. What’s the use in complaining.
2) Give us the rundown of how a (typical, if I may) Peven Everett production comes together.
It’s hard to say so I don’t because often times my explanation is thought to be self-preserving. I think it’s selflessly preserving as well as being involuntarily self-preserving. Everyone does it different and must never tell their method if they wish to have any future value.
3) Who or what are you on the lookout for these days? (It could be an artist, musical style, an inspiration, or an issue in the news.)
I am on the look out for everything.
4) What new projects are you working on? What should we be on the lookout for from you?
Be looking to like what you hear. No matter what.
5) What is the future of house music/soul music, in your opinion?
It could go many ways but only one way is the right way. There are only a few ” artists” with infinite marketing budgets and lips tight enough for a huge payoff as historically seen in the televised part of the music industry. Ninety percent of them — no, 95 percent of them — have been to my live shows LOL. Music shields my spirit from the little things and keeps the beauty of my dreams from harm. Business and life are like a piano. A hidden hand is useless.
Tags: Kai Alce, NDATL, Peven Everett, Sound Table
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Personal skills and competences
Artistic skills
Driving licenses
Surname, First name
Cordeiro, Nuno
Occupational field
Entrepreneurship / Project Management / Software Engineering
February 2017 to Present
Occupation or position held
Entrepreneur and business developer.
Growing a small real estate company that focuses on refurbishing properties and renting them for short or midsize periods. Using technology and hard skills to define, simplify and automatize most processes.
Main activities during this time: negotiating properties and financing; planning and overseeing development; digital marketing and customer acquisition; defining expansion plans.
Occasional consulting for startups and previous customers.
Nuno Miguel Cordeiro Unipessoal Lda
February 2015 to January 2017
Serial entrepreneurship and personal growth. Travelling, learning skills, and pursuing several projects.
Main activities during this time: visiting many countries; learning German; advising for boleia.net, a hitchhiking website; advising and solving technological issues for two other startups. Also involved in supervising and contributing to the activities of CEdUP - Entrepeurship Club of the University of Porto.
March 2015 to February 2016
Member of the supervisory board of CEdUP - Entrepeurship Club of the University of Porto.
CEdUP – http://www.cedup.up.pt/
November 2009 to January 2015
Software Field Service Engineer, responsible for deploying and supporting semiconductor testing and packaging machines, in clients throughout Europe and North Africa.
Main responsibilities include: validating, deploying and testing machine software; in loco development and bug fixing in order to integrate the machines into the customer process; occasional development of new solutions (C/C++); occasional team leadership/management responsibilities.
Several multinational customers: Allegro MicroSystems, Elmos Semiconductor, Epcos, Infineon Technologies, Isabellenhütte, Melexis, Murata Electronics, MEAS - Measurement Specialties, Philips Lumileds, Shurter, Sensirion, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, Tyco Electronics.
Ismeca/Cohu – https://www.cohu.com/
March 2009 - October 2009
Software Consultant, doing evolutive maintenance on database applications.
PT SI – http://www.ptsi.pt
September 2006 – February 2009
Software Engineer, working mostly for the semiconductor industry, involved in projects with results consistently above expectations. Responsible for preventive and evolutive maintenance of a data management software tool, written in C/C++, for Infineon Technologies (IFX). Co-creation, together with a Romanian colleague, of a tool that parses XML files in order to convert and load data into an Oracle database, for Qimonda - at the time one of the largest DRAM manufactures in the world.
Critical Software – http://www.criticalsoftware.com
March 2006 – July 2006
Teacher for the subject Algoritmos e Estruturas de Dados (Algorithms and Data Structures), responsible for the practical lessons in four classes and providing assistance in the creation and correction of grading material.
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP) – http://www.fe.up.pt
(Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto – FEUP)
October 2005 – March 2006
Research fellowship.
LIACC - Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial e Ciências da Computação – http://www.liacc.up.pt
(Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science)
Title of qualification awarded
Licentiate in Electronics and Computers Engineering – Telecommunications
Grade Point Average: 14 (from 0 to 20)
Principal subjects / occupational skills covered
Grades on subjects pertaining to programming and telecommunications (on a scale from 0 to 20):
Graduation Project: 19
Sistemas Digitais (Digital Systems): 17
Microprocessadores (Microprocessors): 16
Automação Industrial (Industrial Automation): 15
Sistemas de Microcomputadores (Microcomputer Systems): 14
Comunicações Digitais e Redes de Computadores (Digital Communications and Computer Networks): 16
Sistemas de Telecomunicações (Telecommunications Systems): 16
Sistemas Gráficos (Graphical Systems): 18
Arquitectura de Sistemas de Processamento Digital (Digital Processing Systems Architecture): 17
Inteligência Artificial (Artificial Intelligence): 15
Televisão Digital (Digital Television): 16
Sistemas de Informação (Information Systems): 17
Sistemas Multimédia (Multimedia Systems): 19
Name and type of organisation providing education and training
(Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto)
Level in national or international classification
Portuguese Licentiate (5 year degree)
European level (*)
Spoken interaction
Spoken production
(*) Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) level
English Certification
BEC Higher (University of Cambridge)
TOEFL grade
(Test of English as a Foreign Language)
Reading – 30 (perfect score)
Listening – 30 (perfect score)
Speaking – 29
Writing – 30 (perfect score)
GRE grade
(Graduate Record Examination)
Verbal Reasoning – 550
Quantitative Reasoning – 760
Analytical Writing – 4.5
Social skills and competences
Highly sociable and constantly in a good mood;
High capacity for adaptation to multicultural environments acquired through multiple trips abroad, including a participation, in 1999, in the 40th International Mathematical Olympiad in Bucharest, Romania; in 2005, in the Rescue Simulation League of RoboCup 2005 in Osaka, Japan; and in 2006 in two Rescue Simulation League competitions, the first in Eindhoven, Holland, for RoboLudens 2006 and the second in Bremen, Germany, for RoboCup 2006;
These experiences provided the ideal skill set for a long-term work experience at Ismeca which included constant traveling and socializing with colleagues and customers from very different geographical, cultural and social backgrounds;
Good communication skills acquired in several extracurricular activities such as, for example, the participation in the gathering and organization of provisions for the Portuguese Food Bank campaigns, and the “Hora do Conto” (Story Hour), of the Fundação do Gil, with regular visits to hospitals to read tales to children.
Goal oriented personality with high autonomy honed while traveling around the world for Ismeca and being responsible for reserving flights and hotels as deemed necessary;
Leadership and organization skills in socially intense environments, acquired during the organization and administration of several academic activities included in the “Semana de Engenharia” (Engineering Week) celebrations from 2002 to 2005;
Organization skills improved by participating in several extracurricular activities such as collaborating in the organization of “Minho Campus Party 2k+2”, a computer enthusiast gathering and LAN Party event with over 600 participants.
Technical skills and competences
Experience in fine-tuning complex mechanical systems acquired while working with Ismeca and their technological partners. Familiar with several types of sensors and actuators;
Detailed knowledge of the inner working of a computer system, including memory subsystem and several I/O technologies;
Capacity to fully assemble and disassemble a PC, with experience in the identification and resolution of hardware and driver issues, acquired during the assembly and maintenance of dozens of personal computers.
Proficient in web application technologies like PHP, AJAX and several JavaScript Frameworks (e.g. MooTools, jQuery);
Knowledge in HTML, CSS, XML and DTDs, XSD, XSL, Perl, Flash;
Skilled in the administration, manipulation and extension of the Joomla CMS;
Construction of database information systems using PHP/SQL;
Experienced debugger and programmer in C/C++ and Python;
Decent programming skills in Verilog and Assembly (out of practice due to neglect);
Advanced knowledge in Digital television and associated Technologies, including compression algorithms, transmission and coding standards for audio, video and metadata;
Experience in the installation and administration of average complexity wired and wireless networks (DD-WRT; WDS clouds); and workstations in Windows and Linux;
Knowledge of a large quantity of commercial software, including several applications for computer virtualization, office work, antivirus, firewalls, malware removal tools, system administration tools (both local and remote), image editors, sound editors, and many others.
Artistic skills and competences
Learning to play the ukulele;
Acting part in the 2007 theatre play “A um dia do paraíso”, written and staged by José Carretas, with ten exhibitions in the Teatro Carlos Alberto (TeCA) national theatre and highly favorable reviews;
Member of the university’s drama club in FEUP, in 2000/2001 and 2005/2006, culminating with a leading part in the play “Perdi a minha pen-drive”, staged by José Carretas, with an attendance of more than one thousand people in two sold-out exhibitions;
Ballroom dance lessons in Clube Finianos between November 2000 and May 2001 and in Academia Pedro Sousa from October to December 2001.
Other skills and competences
Natural talent for languages and communication in foreign environments. Practiced several sports: horseback riding; skiing; snowboarding; water skiing; paint-ball; swimming; boxe savate; and full-contact, amongst others.
Portuguese Driver’s License for category B vehicles;
Portuguese Sailor’s License, conferring the ability to navigate up to 3 nautical miles from the coast and 6 miles from a harbor, during daytime, in vessels with up to 60hp.
Reached round 2 of Google Code Jam 2012 and 2013, among 3000 of the best coders in the world (more than 45 000 programmers participated);
Mentioned as one of the reference employees and awarded an Apple iPad in Ismeca's 2010 yearly review;
Winner of Portugal Telecom's innovation award 'Shadowing with Zeinal Bava - Spend a day with our CEO' in 2009;
Third place in Critical Software's 'Reasoning Challenge' in 2008;
Consistently achieved great results in Critical Software’s internal performance analysis from 2006 to 2009;
European champions title in the RoboCup Rescue Simulation League, obtained in the RoboLudens 2006 event, in Eindhoven, Holland, for the “FC Portugal” team;
Presented a poster in the “Robótica 2006” conference, in Guimarães (Portugal);
Graduation project graded 19 on a 1-20 scale in 2005;
Participation in the “RoboCup 2006” event in Bremen, Germany, for the “FC Portugal” team, in the “Rescue Simulation” competition;
Participation in the “RoboCup 2005” event in Osaka, Japan, for the “FC Portugal” team, in the “Rescue Simulation” competition;
Founding member of the FC Portugal Rescue team in 2005;
Elaboration of an opinion article, subsequently published on DailyTech, for the Televisão Digital (Digital Television) subject, obtaining a classification of 18 (on a scale from 0 to 20);
Creation, for the “Sistemas de Informação” (Information Systems) subject, of a database enabled website for a (fictitious) computer store, using PHP and SQL, obtaining a classification of 17 (on a scale from 0 to 20);
Production of a virtual robot, in OpenGL, for the Sistemas Gráficos (Graphical Systems) subject, obtaining a classification of 18 (on a scale from 0 to 20);
Gold medal at the Portuguese Mathematics Olympics in 1999 (in Santarém);
Bronze medal at the Portuguese Mathematics Olympics in 1996 (in Castelo Branco).
João Certo, Nuno Cordeiro, Francisco Reinaldo, Luís Paulo Reis and Nuno Lau, FCPx: A Tool for Evaluating Teams' Performance in RoboCup Rescue Simulation League, in Gelbukh, A. and Reyes-Garcia, C. eds, Special Issue: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Research in Computing Science, Vol. 26, pp.137-148, November 2006, ISSN: 1870-4069
Luís Paulo Reis, Nuno Lau, Francisco Reinaldo, Nuno Cordeiro and João Certo. FC Portugal: Development and Evaluation of a New RoboCup Rescue Team. 1st IFAC Workshop on Multivehicle Systems (MVS'06), Bahia Convention Center, Salvador, Brazil, October 2 – 3, 2006
Francisco Reinaldo, João Certo, Nuno Cordeiro, Luís Paulo Reis, Rui Camacho, Nuno Lau. Applying Biological Paradigms to Emerge Behaviour in RoboCup Rescue Team. In Carlos Bento, Amílcar Cardoso, Gaël Dias (Eds.): Progress in Artificial Intelligence, 12th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2005, Covilhã, Portugal, December 5-8, 2005, Proceedings. Vol. 3808, pp. 422-43487. Springer LCNS, 2005, ISBN 3-540-30737-0
Areas of professional interest
Rich Internet Applications (RIAs);
Mobile communications (especially on subjects relating to contents and cell phone OSs and applications);
Software applications and human interfacing (automotive, home automation, etc.);
Artificial Intelligence;
Nanotechnology;
Robotics;
Automation and computerization of processes;
Areas of personal interest
Consumer electronics;
New technologies and new technological applications;
Computer science and networking;
Astronomy;
Economy and business;
Biology and bioengineering;
Epidemiology;
Arimaa (154th person to finish the Arimaa bot ladder);
Literature;
Board games, logical puzzles and charades;
Music;
Movies;
Theatre;
Tourism.
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A New Theory of the Characteristic Impedance of General Printed Transmission Lines Applicable when Power Leakage Exists
Nirod Das
Conventional definitions of the characteristic impedance, such as the voltage-current, power-current, and power-voltage methods, which have been commonly used for standard nonleaky transmission lines, become invalid when power leakage occurs. In this paper, we present a new theory of the characteristic impedance for printed transmission lines, applicable under the general conditions with or without power leakage. The theory is founded on dual field and circuit theories of transmission lines, formulated in the spectral domain, and uses a new approach called "the wavenumber perturbation approach." In order to correctly compute the complex characteristic impedance under leakage conditions, the new theory requires to carefully "extract out" the surface-wave or parallel plate-wave poles on the complex k-plane. In obvious difference to this, it is well known that the poles must be "included" for a correct solution of the complex propagation constant of the leaky line. Incidentally, unlike the conventional methods, the new theory derives the complex characteristic impedance together with the solution of the phase and attenuation constants, in a single unified procedure. This avoids additional efforts in computational or analytical/formulational complexity. Results for selected cases of interest are presented, which demonstrate the validity and simplicity/elegance of the new theory.
IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
7 PART 1
https://doi.org/10.1109/22.848493
parallel plates
Characteristic impedance
Leaky waves
Planar transmission line
Slotline
Stripline
Das, N. (2000). A New Theory of the Characteristic Impedance of General Printed Transmission Lines Applicable when Power Leakage Exists. IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 48(7 PART 1), 1108-1117. https://doi.org/10.1109/22.848493
A New Theory of the Characteristic Impedance of General Printed Transmission Lines Applicable when Power Leakage Exists. / Das, Nirod.
In: IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 48, No. 7 PART 1, 2000, p. 1108-1117.
Das, N 2000, 'A New Theory of the Characteristic Impedance of General Printed Transmission Lines Applicable when Power Leakage Exists', IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 48, no. 7 PART 1, pp. 1108-1117. https://doi.org/10.1109/22.848493
Das N. A New Theory of the Characteristic Impedance of General Printed Transmission Lines Applicable when Power Leakage Exists. IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. 2000;48(7 PART 1):1108-1117. https://doi.org/10.1109/22.848493
Das, Nirod. / A New Theory of the Characteristic Impedance of General Printed Transmission Lines Applicable when Power Leakage Exists. In: IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. 2000 ; Vol. 48, No. 7 PART 1. pp. 1108-1117.
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Annual review of anthropology. Volume 25
W. H. Durham, E. V. Daniel, B. Schieffelin
Annual Reviews Inc., Palo Alto, CA, distr in UK by Wiley
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1. [No author]. Internal and external imperial dynamics in Habakkuk : a contextual study of the Book of Habakkuk from a Malawian socio-economic and political viewpoint.
Degree: 2015, University of KwaZulu-Natal
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10413/13419
► This study is an economic reading of the book of Habakkuk from Malawian socio-economic and political viewpoint. It is a good example of scholarly study… (more)
▼ This study is an economic reading of the book of Habakkuk from Malawian socio-economic and political viewpoint. It is a good example of scholarly study of Scripture not done as „art for art‟s sake,‟ but undertaken because of the recognition that the Bible has something essential to say to a critical human situation. Designed as a dialogue between an ancient biblical text of Habakkuk and a modern context of Malawi, the study examines the internal and the external imperial dynamics in effort to better appreciate the shared relevance of these two chronologically disparate contexts. The two contexts share the common reality that both are socially, economically and politically shaped by the challenges of devastating imperialism. The dialogue is facilitated through a contextual biblical studies framework – using the tri-polar model or the African contextual biblical hermeneutics model – that recognizes the importance of our contexts in the interpretation of the biblical text. Since we cannot measure the people‟s well-being through the eyes of the elite but of those who suffer and struggle in life, this study deliberately chose the context of the poor and marginalized to be the subject of interpretation. To truly understand the Bible is to read it through the eyes of the oppressed, since the God who speaks in the Bible is the God of the oppressed (Fiorenza, 1981:100). The study will use liberation and postcolonial biblical hermeneutics belonging to the wider context of biblical interpretation in theology of liberation as sub-theoretical frameworks. The two frameworks are ideo-theological orientations where potential lines of connection between the biblical text with its contexts and today‟s readers and their contexts are drawn. This study is concerned with why Malawi is still rated among the ten poorest countries in the world with over half of its populace still living below the poverty line despite having been independent for fifty-one years? Malawi continues to face many socio-economic and political problems, which are caused by economies of extraction – a particular form of capitalism that African states inherited upon gaining independence from colonial masters. It is exploitive as it involves those who do not labour gaining from those who labour. In this study, economies of extraction are a useful link between economic dimensions of Habakkuk and those of Malawi. The study therefore aims at exploring what is contained in both Habakkuk and Malawi that assists us to understand and value both contexts. Such an interpretation within the context of a critical situation, theology of liberation offers a message that has as its aim emancipatory effects on the poor and marginalized (Fiorenza, 1981:109). Advisors/Committee Members: West, Gerald Oakley (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Bible. – Habakkuk.; Bible – Socio-rhetorical criticism – Malawi.; Sociology, Biblical.; Theology.
author], [. (2015). Internal and external imperial dynamics in Habakkuk : a contextual study of the Book of Habakkuk from a Malawian socio-economic and political viewpoint. (Thesis). University of KwaZulu-Natal. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10413/13419
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author], [No. “Internal and external imperial dynamics in Habakkuk : a contextual study of the Book of Habakkuk from a Malawian socio-economic and political viewpoint. ” 2015. Thesis, University of KwaZulu-Natal. Accessed January 20, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/13419.
author], [No. “Internal and external imperial dynamics in Habakkuk : a contextual study of the Book of Habakkuk from a Malawian socio-economic and political viewpoint. ” 2015. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
author] [. Internal and external imperial dynamics in Habakkuk : a contextual study of the Book of Habakkuk from a Malawian socio-economic and political viewpoint. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of KwaZulu-Natal; 2015. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10413/13419.
author] [. Internal and external imperial dynamics in Habakkuk : a contextual study of the Book of Habakkuk from a Malawian socio-economic and political viewpoint. [Thesis]. University of KwaZulu-Natal; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10413/13419
2. Musa, Hassan. Ironic depiction of being wise in search of Wisdom : a socio-rhetorical study of the Elihu speeches in Job 32-37.
Degree: PhD, Old and New Testament, 2018, Stellenbosch University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/103302
► ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation is an investigation of the socio-rhetorical function of the Elihu speeches in the book of Job. We have also discussed how… (more)
▼ ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation is an investigation of the socio-rhetorical function of the Elihu speeches in the book of Job. We have also discussed how many scholars in the historical interpretation of the book of Job identified crucial areas of serious concern that still relate to the authorial, literary and theological problems of the book of Job. These areas include the poem on wisdom (Job 28), the speeches of Elihu (32-37) and the speeches of Yahweh (38-42:6). But our focus has been on the Elihu speeches which help us to see the irony of the depiction of being wise in search of wisdom within the interactions of Elihu and Job primarily. We have indicated in our statement of the problem that there has not been much interest in the study of the book of Job especially in African contexts and by African scholars, thus we thought it wise to pick up the challenge of attempting to contribute to filling that vacuum. Our hypotheses point to the expectations on the role of irony as a new cutting edge to the understanding of the meanings of wisdom, suffering and justice. That irony plays a vital role in our understanding of the role of God in human suffering and the question of justice in the book of Job. In order to provide an adequate study that would be satisfactory to our investigation of the Elihu speeches, we found Robbins’ (1996) guide to socio-rhetorical interpretation useful in leading us into the multidimensional aspects of the Elihu speeches. Thus we used it as a guide (not a strict manual to be slavish about) in our study as evident within our various chapters. Chapter 1 provides the background to the study in relation to the writer’s home (traditional) background which in a sense mirror’s the patriarchal context which highly values social and religious orders. It further provides information as to the problem, methodology, hypotheses and conceptualizations for the study. Chapter 2 provides a survey of the book of Job in relation to its history of interpretation. Chapter 3 is an intertexture of Job 32-37 towards the literary study of the inner texture and patterns of the Elihu speeches. Chapter 4 is the intertexture of Job 32-37 which shows how the Elihu speeches interacted within other texts in the world that form their contextual rhetoric. Chapter 5 is the sociocultural texture of Job 32-37 which provides information about the social and cultural texture of the Elihu speeches and represents the formative (composition/ compilation) context of the Elihu speeches. Chapter 6 is the ideological-theological texture of Job 32-37 which presents the function of the Elihu speeches toward an interpretation in service to power as well as its sense of spirituality (consciousness of the divine and the sacred). Chapter 7 provides the summary/conclusion and recommendations for further studies. The contributions that this dissertation has made to Old Testament scholarship especially in African contexts in regards to Job scholarship is on the fact that we have demonstrated how socio-rhetoric can be utilized as a… Advisors/Committee Members: Bosman, Hendrik L., Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Theology. Dept. of Old and New Testament..
Subjects/Keywords: Bible. Job XXX-XXXVII – Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Bible. Job – Socio-rhetorical criticism; Irony; UCTD
Musa, H. (2018). Ironic depiction of being wise in search of Wisdom : a socio-rhetorical study of the Elihu speeches in Job 32-37 . (Doctoral Dissertation). Stellenbosch University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/103302
Musa, Hassan. “Ironic depiction of being wise in search of Wisdom : a socio-rhetorical study of the Elihu speeches in Job 32-37.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, Stellenbosch University. Accessed January 20, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/103302.
Musa, Hassan. “Ironic depiction of being wise in search of Wisdom : a socio-rhetorical study of the Elihu speeches in Job 32-37.” 2018. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
Musa H. Ironic depiction of being wise in search of Wisdom : a socio-rhetorical study of the Elihu speeches in Job 32-37. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Stellenbosch University; 2018. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/103302.
Musa H. Ironic depiction of being wise in search of Wisdom : a socio-rhetorical study of the Elihu speeches in Job 32-37. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Stellenbosch University; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/103302
3. Nautiyal, Jaishikha. Rhetorical Agency in the Bhagavad Gita.
Degree: MA, Communication, 2013, North Dakota State University
► This M.A. thesis presents a rhetorical analysis of the Indian philosophical and religious text, The Bhagavad Gita. Utilizing Kenneth Burke's Pentad of act, scene, agent,… (more)
▼ This M.A. thesis presents a rhetorical analysis of the Indian philosophical and religious text, The Bhagavad Gita. Utilizing Kenneth Burke's Pentad of act, scene, agent, agency and purpose as a primary interpretive lens for uncovering universal human motivations, this rhetorical critique conceptualizes the idea of rhetorical agency as a model for action in the Gita's dialogical progression between Krishna and Arjuna. Rhetorical agency in the Gita differs from a traditional understanding of agency in that the former amalgamates competing yet co-existing pragmatic and consummatory agencies that Arjuna may utilize to act in the here and now but also relinquish the control on the fruits of his act, to ultimately transcend all human action by breaking the cycle of birth and death. In that sense, by virtue of rhetorical agency, the Gita may be considered in Burke's words Equipment for Living, because it provides a template for life across the universe. Advisors/Committee Members: Majdik, Zoltan P. (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Bhagavadgita; Rhetorical criticism
Nautiyal, J. (2013). Rhetorical Agency in the Bhagavad Gita . (Masters Thesis). North Dakota State University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10365/27021
Nautiyal, Jaishikha. “Rhetorical Agency in the Bhagavad Gita.” 2013. Masters Thesis, North Dakota State University. Accessed January 20, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10365/27021.
Nautiyal, Jaishikha. “Rhetorical Agency in the Bhagavad Gita.” 2013. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
Nautiyal J. Rhetorical Agency in the Bhagavad Gita. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. North Dakota State University; 2013. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10365/27021.
Nautiyal J. Rhetorical Agency in the Bhagavad Gita. [Masters Thesis]. North Dakota State University; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10365/27021
4. [No author]. Postcolonial redaction of socio-economic parables in Luke's gospel and a Kenyan application.
Degree: Theology, 2008, University of KwaZulu-Natal
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10413/1207
► For those who have the courage to doubt, it can be said that the Bible which is highly regarded in Africa is not only an… (more)
▼ For those who have the courage to doubt, it can be said that the Bible which is highly regarded in Africa is not only an innocent book but also a guilty one because of the many social, political and religious evils that have bedevilled Africa from time to time and which it has condoned and has been used to sanction. Using postcolonial biblical criticism, and as a way of demonstrating that the entire Bible is another text of the empire, this thesis argues that imperial ideology promoted in Luke's socio-economic parables has contributed to another social evil i.e. the gap between the rich and the poor in Kenya. Advisors/Committee Members: West, Gerald O (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Bible. NT. Luke – Criticism, redaction.; Bible. NT. Luke – Socio-rhetorical criticism.; Bible. NT. Luke – Parables.; Bible – Postcolonial criticism.; Bible – Africa.; Bible – Hermeneutics.; Christianity – Kenya.; Postcolonialism – Kenya.; Marxist criticism.; Theology.
author], [. (2008). Postcolonial redaction of socio-economic parables in Luke's gospel and a Kenyan application. (Thesis). University of KwaZulu-Natal. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10413/1207
author], [No. “Postcolonial redaction of socio-economic parables in Luke's gospel and a Kenyan application. ” 2008. Thesis, University of KwaZulu-Natal. Accessed January 20, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/1207.
author], [No. “Postcolonial redaction of socio-economic parables in Luke's gospel and a Kenyan application. ” 2008. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
author] [. Postcolonial redaction of socio-economic parables in Luke's gospel and a Kenyan application. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of KwaZulu-Natal; 2008. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10413/1207.
author] [. Postcolonial redaction of socio-economic parables in Luke's gospel and a Kenyan application. [Thesis]. University of KwaZulu-Natal; 2008. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10413/1207
5. Meggison, Jenny. The Anointing That Teaches: A Socio-Historical and Rhetorical Study of Chrisma in 1 John 2:20 and 27.
Degree: 2015, University of Western Ontario
URL: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/2738
► Definitions of χρῖσμα in 1 John 2:20 and 27 have inadequately explained the term as physical ointment, rhetorical symbol, or simple alias for the Holy… (more)
▼ Definitions of χρῖσμα in 1 John 2:20 and 27 have inadequately explained the term as physical ointment, rhetorical symbol, or simple alias for the Holy Spirit or Paraclete figure from the Fourth Gospel. This thesis employs a variety of exegetical methods, including rhetorical-critical, socio-historical and grammatical analysis in order to respond to the need for a historically contextualized definition. Specifically, the models of limited good, patronage and brokerage are applied to the text, along with insights from group formation theory and memory studies. Comparisons with Philo, Xenophon, and other ancient authors lead to a rhetorically and culturally informed interpretation of chrisma, significant for understanding the community addressed in the text historically and theologically. The thesis contends that χρῖσμα is 1 John’s culturally symbolized term for a communally experienced instructive reality that establishes group ethos and enables a communal lifestyle in conformity to correct christology.
Subjects/Keywords: anointing; chrisma; Early Christianity; First John; Johannine Theology; labelling; New Testament; socio-historical method; rhetorical criticism; χρῖσμα; Biblical Studies
Meggison, J. (2015). The Anointing That Teaches: A Socio-Historical and Rhetorical Study of Chrisma in 1 John 2:20 and 27 . (Thesis). University of Western Ontario. Retrieved from https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/2738
Meggison, Jenny. “The Anointing That Teaches: A Socio-Historical and Rhetorical Study of Chrisma in 1 John 2:20 and 27.” 2015. Thesis, University of Western Ontario. Accessed January 20, 2020. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/2738.
Meggison, Jenny. “The Anointing That Teaches: A Socio-Historical and Rhetorical Study of Chrisma in 1 John 2:20 and 27.” 2015. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
Meggison J. The Anointing That Teaches: A Socio-Historical and Rhetorical Study of Chrisma in 1 John 2:20 and 27. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Western Ontario; 2015. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/2738.
Meggison J. The Anointing That Teaches: A Socio-Historical and Rhetorical Study of Chrisma in 1 John 2:20 and 27. [Thesis]. University of Western Ontario; 2015. Available from: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/2738
6. Heacock, Clint Lyle. The integration of postmodern values and rhetorical analysis : a case study.
Degree: PhD, 2010, University of Chester
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10034/211269
► Both traditional preaching theory and the listening context of the hearers have undergone radical changes within the last thirty years. Contemporary preachers no longer can… (more)
▼ Both traditional preaching theory and the listening context of the hearers have undergone radical changes within the last thirty years. Contemporary preachers no longer can assume the authority inherent in their position or preaching methods, and postmodern listeners exhibit the desire for increased diversity and points of view in sermons. This thesis will address these challenges by advancing the notion that attention to rhetorical criticism in the exegesis of biblical texts sheds new light on the nature of preaching in terms of form and function. The resulting multi-vocal and non-hierarchical leadership orientation has application for postmodern audiences. The methodological structure of theological interpretation undergirding this thesis involves four tasks of the hermeneutical cycle adapted from Richard Osmer’s approach. This approach engages in the task of contextual interpretation that connects with both Christian tradition and Scripture, and furthermore leads to the construction of a pragmatic plan for future homiletics. Chapter 1 introduces the problem facing contemporary homileticians: the changed context of preacher and hearer. The chapter advocates that one way forward for preaching involves the use of rhetorical criticism as the exegetical basis for a values-based homiletic, and then finishes with an overview of the thesis chapters. Chapter 2 demonstrates the fourfold task of the hermeneutical cycle by establishing the provenance of the method, critiquing it and grounding the approach of the thesis in the contemporary postmodern setting. Chapter 3 engages in a contextual interpretation of historic shifts in the fields of rhetoric, biblical studies and homiletics, analyzing and evaluating these trends. The chapter concludes by constructing a pragmatic plan for future biblical studies, a rhetorical-critical-narratological methodology that will be applied to the text of Ezekiel. Chapter 4 demonstrates that a contextual interpretation, evaluation and analysis of the New Homiletic results in the formation of a values-based approach to preaching and leadership orientation that is appropriate to postmodernity. Chapter 5 builds upon a contextual interpretation of synchronic and diachronic methodologies and advances a complementary approach to exegesis. The chapter then applies the rhetorical-critical-narratological approach developed in Chapter 3 to the discourse of Ezekiel to establish its contextual and rhetorical situation. The chapter then engages in a close rhetorical-critical-narratological reading of the literary unit of Ezekiel 15. Chapter 6 engages in a contextual interpretation and evaluation of three Ezekiel commentaries and sermons from Ezekiel 15, locating them along the pendulum-like series of shifts identified within Chapter 3. Chapter 7 demonstrates the integration of biblical studies and homiletics with the production of a sample multiple point-of-view sermon based upon the exegesis of Ezekiel conducted in Chapter 5. The chapter critiques the sermon and provides an example of the…
Subjects/Keywords: 230; rhetorical criticism : preaching : Ezekiel
Heacock, C. L. (2010). The integration of postmodern values and rhetorical analysis : a case study . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Chester. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10034/211269
Heacock, Clint Lyle. “The integration of postmodern values and rhetorical analysis : a case study.” 2010. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Chester. Accessed January 20, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10034/211269.
Heacock, Clint Lyle. “The integration of postmodern values and rhetorical analysis : a case study.” 2010. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
Heacock CL. The integration of postmodern values and rhetorical analysis : a case study. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Chester; 2010. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10034/211269.
Heacock CL. The integration of postmodern values and rhetorical analysis : a case study. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Chester; 2010. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10034/211269
7. [No author]. Resilience as organicist metaphor in OneNYC : the plan for a strong and just city.
Degree: 2017, Baylor University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2104/10025
► This thesis analyzes the discursive and material effects of resilience as organicist metaphor in One New York: The Plan for a Strong and Just City… (more)
▼ This thesis analyzes the discursive and material effects of resilience as organicist metaphor in One New York: The Plan for a Strong and Just City (OneNYC). The resilience metaphor’s form and function is inherently conservative, constraining the vision of an ecologically just NYC within broader discourses of growth-dependent urban planning, the reversal of white flight, and intensification of environmental racism. By figuring social equity as a product of economic and environmental resilience strategies, the rhetorical form of de Blasio’s speech and OneNYC plan centralizes neoliberal market logic of development as a natural, organic mode of perceiving and engaging the city. Despite intentions of planners and the de Blasio administration, the naturalization of such market logics materially functions to displace responsibility for disaster relief onto affected communities. At the same time, it incentivizes speculative investing that makes green washing and displacement of New York City’s most vulnerable communities inevitable. Advisors/Committee Members: Perry, Samuel P (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Resilience. Rhetorical criticism. Urban planning.
author], [. (2017). Resilience as organicist metaphor in OneNYC : the plan for a strong and just city. (Thesis). Baylor University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2104/10025
author], [No. “Resilience as organicist metaphor in OneNYC : the plan for a strong and just city. ” 2017. Thesis, Baylor University. Accessed January 20, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/10025.
author], [No. “Resilience as organicist metaphor in OneNYC : the plan for a strong and just city. ” 2017. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
author] [. Resilience as organicist metaphor in OneNYC : the plan for a strong and just city. [Internet] [Thesis]. Baylor University; 2017. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2104/10025.
author] [. Resilience as organicist metaphor in OneNYC : the plan for a strong and just city. [Thesis]. Baylor University; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2104/10025
8. Sykes, Jason. Poststructuralist Critical Rhetorical Analysis as a Problem Analysis Tool: A Case Study of Information Impact in Denton’s Hydraulic Fracturing Debate.
Degree: 2016, University of North Texas
URL: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849657/
► Energy and the natural environment are central concerns among stakeholders across the globe. Decisions on this scale often require interaction among a myriad of institutions… (more)
▼ Energy and the natural environment are central concerns among stakeholders across the globe. Decisions on this scale often require interaction among a myriad of institutions and individuals who navigate a complex variety of challenges. In Denton, Texas in 2014, voters were asked to make such a decision when tasked with a referendum to determine whether the city would continue to allow hydraulic fracturing activity within its borders. For social scientists, this situation requires further analysis in an effort to better understand how and why individuals make the decisions they do. One possible approach for exploring this process is a method of poststructuralist critical rhetorical analysis, which is concerned with how individuals’ identities change through interaction with institutions. This study reflects upon the texts themselves through a poststructuralist critical rhetorical analysis of images employed by those in favor of and those against Denton’s ban on hydraulic fracturing in an attempt to identify images that alter the grid of intelligibility for the audience. The paper includes deliberation about the relative merits, subsequent disadvantages, and possible questions for further study as they relate to the theoretical implications of critical rhetorical analysis as information science. Ultimately, the study identifies poststructuralist critical rhetorical analysis as a method for solving information science problems in a way that considers closely the way identity is shaped through engagement with institutions. Advisors/Committee Members: O'Connor, Brian Clark, Klaver, Irene, Anderson, Richard L., 1970-.
Subjects/Keywords: Hydraulic Fracturing; Rhetorical Criticism; Poststructuralism
Sykes, J. (2016). Poststructuralist Critical Rhetorical Analysis as a Problem Analysis Tool: A Case Study of Information Impact in Denton’s Hydraulic Fracturing Debate . (Thesis). University of North Texas. Retrieved from https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849657/
Sykes, Jason. “Poststructuralist Critical Rhetorical Analysis as a Problem Analysis Tool: A Case Study of Information Impact in Denton’s Hydraulic Fracturing Debate.” 2016. Thesis, University of North Texas. Accessed January 20, 2020. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849657/.
Sykes, Jason. “Poststructuralist Critical Rhetorical Analysis as a Problem Analysis Tool: A Case Study of Information Impact in Denton’s Hydraulic Fracturing Debate.” 2016. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
Sykes J. Poststructuralist Critical Rhetorical Analysis as a Problem Analysis Tool: A Case Study of Information Impact in Denton’s Hydraulic Fracturing Debate. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of North Texas; 2016. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849657/.
Sykes J. Poststructuralist Critical Rhetorical Analysis as a Problem Analysis Tool: A Case Study of Information Impact in Denton’s Hydraulic Fracturing Debate. [Thesis]. University of North Texas; 2016. Available from: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849657/
9. Carter, Arthur Francis, Jr. Diaspora Poetics & (re)Constructions of Differentness:Conceiving Acts 6.1 â 8.40 as Diaspora.
Degree: PhD, Religion, 2016, Vanderbilt University
URL: http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu//available/etd-03232016-140915/ ;
► Diaspora is a term applied varyingly in the Humanities and Social Sciences to individuals, communities, spaces and historical events. Jewish history and experience were formative… (more)
▼ Diaspora is a term applied varyingly in the Humanities and Social Sciences to individuals, communities, spaces and historical events. Jewish history and experience were formative in popularizing and expanding the nomenclature of diaspora between the late nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. Transliterated from the Greek noun διαÏÏοÏά (diaspora), the termâs modern development relied heavily on paradigmatic projections of sameness. In Diaspora Studies, diaspora generally functions as a heuristic that highlights the maintenance and evolution of relationships, identities and memory that are subsequent to boundary crossings. Iterations in Africana and Black Atlantic Studies exemplify the termâs use as theoretical concept or presumed, transnational identity. New Testament Studies, however, principally uses diaspora as a binary framework to (re)construct the Jewish milieu of early Roman-era Judaism and Christianity, receiving little consideration as analytical theory. Diaspora, thus, in the study of early Christian literature primarily denotes non-Palestinian geography. These three disparate trajectories intersect in these prolegomena to a diaspora-oriented reading of Acts 6.1 â 8.40. Informed by Martinican Ãdouard Glissantâs Caribbean Discourses, this Black American engagement with Black Atlantic cultural criticism provides context for reevaluating the etymology and intellectual traditions of the diaspora-concept. Its resultant view approaches diaspora as a form of relatedness that privileges the multidimensionality of identity while negotiating particularity as relatedness-amidst-difference. Applying this (re)vision of diaspora to Black American discourse aids in the contextual construction of a poetics of diaspora that is characterized by figurative negotiations of i) ethno-cultural/geopolitical difference, ii) Empire, iii) intra-communal debate and iv) (re)narrations of the past. Modeled on Black American discourse, this diaspora poetics generates alternative readings of ancient texts across various imperial settings. When applied to Acts 6.1 â 8.40 and its ancient imperial context, diaspora poetics highlights Actsâ recurrent validation of geopolitical particularity and thematic focus on interactions between Palestinian and non-Palestinian Jews. Diaspora is integral in Lukeâs negotiation of the diverse and tenuous world of early imperial Rome. Consequently, this (re)reading of diaspora calls for (re)interpreting Acts 6.1 â 8.40 amongst ancient Diaspora contexts by contextually (re)conceiving difference and (re)evaluating Black American poetics. Advisors/Committee Members: Tracy Sharpley-Whiting, Ph.D. (chair), Joseph Rife, Ph.D. (committee member), Daniel Patte, Ph.D. (chair), Susan Hylen, Ph.D. (committee member), Houston A. Baker, Jr., Ph.D. (committee member), Annalisa Azzoni, Ph.D. (committee member), Gary Phillips, Ph.D. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Black Atlantic Studies; Diaspora Studies; Hellenistic Jewish Literature; Luke-Acts; Cultural Criticism; Empire Studies; African American literary criticism; Socio-rhetorical criticism; New Testament Studies; Contextual Biblical Criticism; Acts of the Apostles; Biblical Criticism
Carter, Arthur Francis, J. (2016). Diaspora Poetics & (re)Constructions of Differentness:Conceiving Acts 6.1 â 8.40 as Diaspora . (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu//available/etd-03232016-140915/ ;
Carter, Arthur Francis, Jr. “Diaspora Poetics & (re)Constructions of Differentness:Conceiving Acts 6.1 â 8.40 as Diaspora.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed January 20, 2020. http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu//available/etd-03232016-140915/ ;.
Carter, Arthur Francis, Jr. “Diaspora Poetics & (re)Constructions of Differentness:Conceiving Acts 6.1 â 8.40 as Diaspora.” 2016. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
Carter, Arthur Francis J. Diaspora Poetics & (re)Constructions of Differentness:Conceiving Acts 6.1 â 8.40 as Diaspora. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2016. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu//available/etd-03232016-140915/ ;.
Carter, Arthur Francis J. Diaspora Poetics & (re)Constructions of Differentness:Conceiving Acts 6.1 â 8.40 as Diaspora. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2016. Available from: http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu//available/etd-03232016-140915/ ;
10. Miller, David Jay. Characterisations of YHWH in the song of the vineyard : a multitextural interpretation of Isaiah 5:1-7 .
Degree: 2013, University of South Africa
► The Song of the Vineyard, Isaiah 5:1-7, portrays YHWH as a vinedresser who has carefully prepared land and planted a choice vine, a symbol of… (more)
▼ The Song of the Vineyard, Isaiah 5:1-7, portrays YHWH as a vinedresser who has carefully prepared land and planted a choice vine, a symbol of the people whom the deity has chosen. When the reasonable expectation that the vine produce good fruit is thwarted, the vinedresser destroys the vineyard. YHWH, the vinedresser, may seem to be characterised by these actions as a demanding god who will swiftly and harshly recompense any failure to meet expectations. This thesis poses the hypothesis that although this brief song may at first seemingly present a monochromatic characterisation of YHWH, it may actually present a spectrum of characterisations when viewed through multiple interpretive lenses. Socio-rhetorical criticism is the methodology used to examine this hypothesis. This methodology, developed by Vernon K. Robbins, encompasses diverse interpretive approaches, examining five aspects, or “textures,” of the text to obtain a broad interpretive spectrum. In this thesis, three of the textures, innertexture, intertexture, and socio-cultural texture, are considered in separate chapters. The chapter on innertexture examines the world of the text itself, in particular its progressive nature and emotive content. The next chapter examines the intertextural relationship between this Isaian song and two other ancient songs (The Song of the Reed Sea and the Song of Moses), associative references to Sodom, and parallels with the Song of Solomon. The chapter on the socio-cultural texture examines the portrayal of YHWH in light of the socio-economics and socio-cultural values of the world of the story, eighth century B.C.E. Judah. Through this interpretive lense, YHWH is seen as a patron or benefactor who has been dishonoured by his people. In socio-rhetorical criticism, ideology is often presented as a separate texture; in this thesis, it is considered as part of the act of interpretation of all textures, since readers’ ideologies interact with the text. The sacred texture, the last of Robbins’ proposed textures, is presented as the conclusion, with a summary of the spectrum of characterisations of YHWH that the multi-lensed interpretive approach uncovers. The conclusion also includes suggested implications of these finds for the community of faith. Advisors/Committee Members: Snyman, Gert Floris (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Prophetic writings; Isaiah; Song of the Vineyard; Eighth Century Judea; Textures of texts; Socio-rhetorical criticism; Biblical interpretation; Intertextuality; Sociology of ancient Israel; Oral poetry in biblical writings
Miller, D. J. (2013). Characterisations of YHWH in the song of the vineyard : a multitextural interpretation of Isaiah 5:1-7 . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of South Africa. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10500/10146
Miller, David Jay. “Characterisations of YHWH in the song of the vineyard : a multitextural interpretation of Isaiah 5:1-7 .” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, University of South Africa. Accessed January 20, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/10146.
Miller, David Jay. “Characterisations of YHWH in the song of the vineyard : a multitextural interpretation of Isaiah 5:1-7 .” 2013. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
Miller DJ. Characterisations of YHWH in the song of the vineyard : a multitextural interpretation of Isaiah 5:1-7 . [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Africa; 2013. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10500/10146.
Miller DJ. Characterisations of YHWH in the song of the vineyard : a multitextural interpretation of Isaiah 5:1-7 . [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of South Africa; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10500/10146
11. Kice, Brent C. From the mountains to the podium: the rhetoric of Fidel Castro.
Degree: PhD, Communication, 2008, Louisiana State University
URL: etd-08152008-093238 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/1766
► This dissertation examines the rhetoric utilized by Fidel Castro that Castro used in order to maintain his tenure as the sole leader of Cuba for… (more)
▼ This dissertation examines the rhetoric utilized by Fidel Castro that Castro used in order to maintain his tenure as the sole leader of Cuba for almost 50 years. Castro employs identification through division with an enemy, and he is able to perpetuate this division through an ongoing, dynamically perceived narrative. This narrative takes shape in the form of “the revolution,” a rhetorical construction designed to create a collective Cuban identity, which, in turn, is furthered through ideology by Castro’s elimination of competing points of views. Castro’s unique role as narrator has allowed him to adapt to events and maintain this narrative of revolution.
Subjects/Keywords: dictator; rhetorical criticism
Kice, B. C. (2008). From the mountains to the podium: the rhetoric of Fidel Castro . (Doctoral Dissertation). Louisiana State University. Retrieved from etd-08152008-093238 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/1766
Kice, Brent C. “From the mountains to the podium: the rhetoric of Fidel Castro.” 2008. Doctoral Dissertation, Louisiana State University. Accessed January 20, 2020. etd-08152008-093238 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/1766.
Kice, Brent C. “From the mountains to the podium: the rhetoric of Fidel Castro.” 2008. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
Kice BC. From the mountains to the podium: the rhetoric of Fidel Castro. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Louisiana State University; 2008. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: etd-08152008-093238 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/1766.
Kice BC. From the mountains to the podium: the rhetoric of Fidel Castro. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Louisiana State University; 2008. Available from: etd-08152008-093238 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/1766
12. Mahlangu, Elijah. The family (reality and imagery) as a hermeneutical prodedure for interpreting the Gospels within the socio-cultural context of the ancient Mediterranean world : an African social-descriptive approach.
Degree: New Testament Studies, 2007, University of Pretoria
► The study of the family in the classical period is gaining momentum and continues to engage amongst others, biblical scholars. This mounting interest by biblical… (more)
▼ The study of the family in the classical period is gaining momentum and continues to engage amongst others, biblical scholars. This mounting interest by biblical critics is indicative of the fact that the family as reality and imagery could be a hermeneutical procedure and methodology through which the Gospels and other New Testament texts and message could be interpreted. The researcher has chosen the Roman, Jewish, African and New Testament families to substantiate this assertion. The contribution of the social-scientific scholars to an understanding of how the family could be utilised as a paradigm in biblical criticism, is the first aspect to be stated and discussed. Their major thrust as far as the family is concerned is that the New Testament is both a reflection of and a response to the social and cultural setting in which the text was produced. Therefore, meanings explicit and implicit in the text are determined by the social and cultural systems inhabited by both authors and intended readers. The researcher goes beyond the contribution of the Western and North American scholars by postulating what he calls the African social-descriptive approach. It is an attempt to appropriate the results of the social-scientific biblical critics from an African perspective. It is therefore, contended that the concept and experience of the African family is closer to the narratological symbolic world of the Gospels during the Graeco-Roman era. As a result, the New Testament message can be proclaimed and interpreted in the context of the cultural milieu already experienced in Africa. Concerning the Roman and Jewish families, it is asserted that when Christianity entered these cultures, a negotiation of meaning was necessary. To the Romans the Christian faith was to a large extent presented in a language of something valued by the Romans, the family. Whatever the obstacles in other respects to accepting the new religion, the Romans would find the Christian symbolism of the family recognisable and intellectually comprehensible. They would therefore, understand something new, Christianity by means of something old, the family. The Jewish tradition was also indelibly interwoven into family life. Although at that time the Gentile converts were welcomed, Palestine Judaism remained fundamentally an ethnic tradition fostering a conception and praxis of religion, which was bound up with Jewish ethnic identity. The family symbolism in the Gospels had much affinity with the Old Testament. For instance, God as the Father had converted Israel from a barren couple (Abraham and Sarah) and adopted them as his own. The New Testament message of the church as a family consisting of those redeemed and born in God's family was not to be new to the Jews. The New Testament perspectives of family is also discussed by referring to the synoptic gospels and John. These New Testament writers use many analogies to describe the nature and identity of the church. One of the most common analogies was that Jesus came and altered the existing conceptions and… Advisors/Committee Members: Prof S J Joubert (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Family africa; Bible nt gospels hermeneutics; Bible nt gospels socio-rhetorical criticism.; Bible nt gospels criticism interpretation etc; UCTD
Mahlangu, E. (2007). The family (reality and imagery) as a hermeneutical prodedure for interpreting the Gospels within the socio-cultural context of the ancient Mediterranean world : an African social-descriptive approach . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Pretoria. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29449
Mahlangu, Elijah. “The family (reality and imagery) as a hermeneutical prodedure for interpreting the Gospels within the socio-cultural context of the ancient Mediterranean world : an African social-descriptive approach.” 2007. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pretoria. Accessed January 20, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29449.
Mahlangu, Elijah. “The family (reality and imagery) as a hermeneutical prodedure for interpreting the Gospels within the socio-cultural context of the ancient Mediterranean world : an African social-descriptive approach.” 2007. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
Mahlangu E. The family (reality and imagery) as a hermeneutical prodedure for interpreting the Gospels within the socio-cultural context of the ancient Mediterranean world : an African social-descriptive approach. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Pretoria; 2007. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29449.
Mahlangu E. The family (reality and imagery) as a hermeneutical prodedure for interpreting the Gospels within the socio-cultural context of the ancient Mediterranean world : an African social-descriptive approach. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Pretoria; 2007. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29449
13. Mahlangu, Elijah. The family (reality and imagery) as a hermeneutical prodedure for interpreting the Gospels within the socio-cultural context of the ancient Mediterranean world : an African social-descriptive approach .
Degree: 2007, University of Pretoria
URL: http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11132006-162036/
Mahlangu, E. (2007). The family (reality and imagery) as a hermeneutical prodedure for interpreting the Gospels within the socio-cultural context of the ancient Mediterranean world : an African social-descriptive approach . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Pretoria. Retrieved from http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11132006-162036/
Mahlangu, Elijah. “The family (reality and imagery) as a hermeneutical prodedure for interpreting the Gospels within the socio-cultural context of the ancient Mediterranean world : an African social-descriptive approach .” 2007. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pretoria. Accessed January 20, 2020. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11132006-162036/.
Mahlangu, Elijah. “The family (reality and imagery) as a hermeneutical prodedure for interpreting the Gospels within the socio-cultural context of the ancient Mediterranean world : an African social-descriptive approach .” 2007. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
Mahlangu E. The family (reality and imagery) as a hermeneutical prodedure for interpreting the Gospels within the socio-cultural context of the ancient Mediterranean world : an African social-descriptive approach . [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Pretoria; 2007. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11132006-162036/.
Mahlangu E. The family (reality and imagery) as a hermeneutical prodedure for interpreting the Gospels within the socio-cultural context of the ancient Mediterranean world : an African social-descriptive approach . [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Pretoria; 2007. Available from: http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11132006-162036/
14. Berry, Wade Jason. The spirit and social and moral identity in Paul's letter to the Galatians.
Degree: PhD, 2011, Texas Christian University
URL: https://repository.tcu.edu:443/handle/116099117/4291
Subjects/Keywords: Paul, the Apostle, Saint.; Bible. Socio-rhetorical criticism.; Bible. Social scientific criticism.; Holy Spirit.; Social perception.; Social groups.; Group identity.
Berry, W. J. (2011). The spirit and social and moral identity in Paul's letter to the Galatians . (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas Christian University. Retrieved from https://repository.tcu.edu:443/handle/116099117/4291
Berry, Wade Jason. “The spirit and social and moral identity in Paul's letter to the Galatians.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas Christian University. Accessed January 20, 2020. https://repository.tcu.edu:443/handle/116099117/4291.
Berry, Wade Jason. “The spirit and social and moral identity in Paul's letter to the Galatians.” 2011. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
Berry WJ. The spirit and social and moral identity in Paul's letter to the Galatians. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas Christian University; 2011. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: https://repository.tcu.edu:443/handle/116099117/4291.
Berry WJ. The spirit and social and moral identity in Paul's letter to the Galatians. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas Christian University; 2011. Available from: https://repository.tcu.edu:443/handle/116099117/4291
15. Davidson, Rachel Diana. Subversive Voices in Contemporary Motherhood: The Rhetoric of Resistance in Independent Film Narratives.
Degree: 2011, IUPUI
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1805/2711
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
Interpretive textual analysis, informed by a feminist perspective, is applied to five independent films written and directed by female filmmakers… (more)
Interpretive textual analysis, informed by a feminist perspective, is applied to five independent films written and directed by female filmmakers in order to understand to what extent the rhetorical construction of motherhood as presented in the films deviates from or supports a patriarchal Western vision. This study provides a rich textual analysis of Amreeka (2009), Frozen River (2008), Waitress (2006), The Dead Girl (2006), and Lovely and Amazing (2001); five films that each considers the role of contemporary mothering as a central part of its plot. Each film has been distributed within ten years of the inception of this study, is considered an independent film, has received some degree of critical acclaim, and is written and directed by a female filmmaker. Using a feminist critical interpretive lens, this study investigates the public and private sphere identification of the mothers, the mother-child relationships, and the family systems that work to unveil a vision of motherhood in contemporary independent film and identify the extent to which this vision challenges or adheres to traditional representations. The readings of these films rely on theoretical insights of feminist film criticism and feminist theory. In addition, feminist rhetorical perspectives provide the framework to reveal the broader cultural implications of the representation of contemporary motherhood in public discourse. The analysis reveals a subversive reading of contemporary mothering characterized by the rejection of domesticity and other traditional mothering ideologies. Informed by resistance theory, the findings suggest the female filmmakers utilize the symbolic inversion tactic as a tool to resist their subordinate status. The subversive discourses give voice to female filmmakers attempting to negotiate power in a traditionally patriarchal forum by invoking a rhetoric of resistance. However, the rhetorical construction of the “indie” mother is characterized by maternal sacrifice and maternal autonomy which ultimately forces women to negotiate their mothering identity in relation to the hegemonic childrearing model of intensive mothering. The production of contradictory messages illustrates an attempt to adapt to existing conditions rather than transform the patriarchal system suggesting that independent film is a dynamic medium that both reflects hegemonic discourse while remaining open to ideological variance.
Advisors/Committee Members: Dobris, Catherine A., Sheeler, Kristina K. Horn, Goering, Elizabeth M..
Subjects/Keywords: motherhood representation, independent female filmmakers, feminist rhetorical criticism; Motherhood in motion pictures; Independent filmmakers; Rhetorical criticism; Feminist film criticism
Davidson, R. D. (2011). Subversive Voices in Contemporary Motherhood: The Rhetoric of Resistance in Independent Film Narratives . (Thesis). IUPUI. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1805/2711
Davidson, Rachel Diana. “Subversive Voices in Contemporary Motherhood: The Rhetoric of Resistance in Independent Film Narratives.” 2011. Thesis, IUPUI. Accessed January 20, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/2711.
Davidson, Rachel Diana. “Subversive Voices in Contemporary Motherhood: The Rhetoric of Resistance in Independent Film Narratives.” 2011. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
Davidson RD. Subversive Voices in Contemporary Motherhood: The Rhetoric of Resistance in Independent Film Narratives. [Internet] [Thesis]. IUPUI; 2011. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1805/2711.
Davidson RD. Subversive Voices in Contemporary Motherhood: The Rhetoric of Resistance in Independent Film Narratives. [Thesis]. IUPUI; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1805/2711
North-West University
16. Sindo, Vuyani Stanley. A socio-rhetorical approach to the Pauline theology of reconciliation in 2 Corinthians / Vuyani Stanley Sindo .
Degree: 2014, North-West University
► This study is a socio-rhetorical approach to the Pauline theology of reconciliation in 2 Corinthians. Scholars generally focus their attention on where καταλλάσσω and καταλλαγή… (more)
▼ This study is a socio-rhetorical approach to the Pauline theology of reconciliation in 2 Corinthians. Scholars generally focus their attention on where καταλλάσσω and καταλλαγή terminology appears in discussing Paul’s theology of reconciliation. This has led to some scholars reducing Paul’s theology of reconciliation to simply referring to God being reconciled to men and vice versa, while other scholars tend to focus on reconciliation between human beings, almost to the exclusion of reconciliation between God and men. The current research argues that reconciliation with God is intrinsically linked to reconciliation between people in the church. Chapter One of this study looks at areas of disagreement amongst scholars concerning Paul’s theology of reconciliation. Chapter Two reviews the current state of research on Paul and his theology of reconciliation, while Chapter Three discusses the question of the Socio-historical use of the καταλλάσσειν and διαλλάσσειν terminology in the New Testament, and its uniqueness in Paul. In Chapter Four both the literary and historical contexts of Paul’s teachings on reconciliation in 2 Corinthians are explored. In Chapter Five the exegesis of 2 Corinthians 5:11-6:10 is performed and the implications for reconciliation are spelled out.
Subjects/Keywords: Reconciliation; Atonement; Justification; Righteousness; Adoption; Peace; Christology; Socio-rhetorical
Sindo, V. S. (2014). A socio-rhetorical approach to the Pauline theology of reconciliation in 2 Corinthians / Vuyani Stanley Sindo . (Thesis). North-West University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10394/13431
Sindo, Vuyani Stanley. “A socio-rhetorical approach to the Pauline theology of reconciliation in 2 Corinthians / Vuyani Stanley Sindo .” 2014. Thesis, North-West University. Accessed January 20, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/13431.
Sindo, Vuyani Stanley. “A socio-rhetorical approach to the Pauline theology of reconciliation in 2 Corinthians / Vuyani Stanley Sindo .” 2014. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
Sindo VS. A socio-rhetorical approach to the Pauline theology of reconciliation in 2 Corinthians / Vuyani Stanley Sindo . [Internet] [Thesis]. North-West University; 2014. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10394/13431.
Sindo VS. A socio-rhetorical approach to the Pauline theology of reconciliation in 2 Corinthians / Vuyani Stanley Sindo . [Thesis]. North-West University; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10394/13431
California State University – Sacramento
17. Terry, Andrea J. The new and improved, 100% genuine Jesus: reimagining and redefining Christian politics.
Degree: MA, Communication Studies, 2010, California State University – Sacramento
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10211.9/283
► This study examines politically liberal Christian group identity by exploring their rhetorical treatment of an ???Other;??? in this case, politically conservative Christians. A review of… (more)
▼ This study examines politically liberal Christian group identity by exploring their rhetorical treatment of an ???Other;??? in this case, politically conservative Christians. A review of the literature concerning communication at the intersection of religion and politics is provided, and the concept of Othering is identified as a key component of religious group identification and mobilization. The sample for analysis will include articles from the 2008 primary presidential election cycle that address politically conservative Christians in the flagship magazine for politically progressive Christians, Sojourners. Critical theory will be applied to articles from this monthly publication in order to discover who the Other is, and to explore the strategy of redefinition as it is used in the Othering process. Advisors/Committee Members: Williams, Mark A.E..
Subjects/Keywords: Critical theory; Close reading; Christianity; Politics; Progressive; Sojourners; Rhetorical criticism; Othering; Rhetorical imagining; Content analysis
Terry, A. J. (2010). The new and improved, 100% genuine Jesus: reimagining and redefining Christian politics . (Masters Thesis). California State University – Sacramento. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10211.9/283
Terry, Andrea J. “The new and improved, 100% genuine Jesus: reimagining and redefining Christian politics.” 2010. Masters Thesis, California State University – Sacramento. Accessed January 20, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10211.9/283.
Terry, Andrea J. “The new and improved, 100% genuine Jesus: reimagining and redefining Christian politics.” 2010. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
Terry AJ. The new and improved, 100% genuine Jesus: reimagining and redefining Christian politics. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. California State University – Sacramento; 2010. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10211.9/283.
Terry AJ. The new and improved, 100% genuine Jesus: reimagining and redefining Christian politics. [Masters Thesis]. California State University – Sacramento; 2010. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10211.9/283
18. Munson, David N. Margaret Fuller and the Rhetoric of Transcendental Nationalism.
Degree: PhD, Communication, 2018, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/174126
► In this project, I track the development of Margaret Fuller’s rhetoric of transcendental nationalism within the context of the Roman revolution in 1848. My central… (more)
▼ In this project, I track the development of Margaret Fuller’s rhetoric of transcendental nationalism within the context of the Roman revolution in 1848. My central purpose is to situate the legacy of Margaret Fuller in the field of rhetorical theory and criticism, as well as to position her dispatches from Italy as the culmination of her work—not an eclipse of her previous writings, but a vital part of any understanding of the woman, the writer, the Transcendentalist, the feminist, the nationalist, the revolutionary that was Margaret Fuller. Furthermore, I argue that Fuller’s dispatches offer a model for a distinctly transcendental form of nationalism through her combined skills, such as critiquing large networks of power, her classical knowledge and familiarity with the language of myth, her growing narrative form and structure, her love of German-Romantic philosophy and literature, her literary nationalist voice, and her deeply-rooted belief in the collective power of the Italian people. Although arriving as a travel-writer abroad, Fuller was also a foreign correspondent for the New-York Tribune with the task of reporting back on any and all happenings. Europe, at the time, was in a tumultuous state, which would soon erupt in open insurrection and full-blown revolution. And Fuller was right in the middle of it. After travelling through England and France, she arrived in Italy and quickly became a convert to the Italian nationalist cause. Although her dispatches begin with descriptions of her encounters with art, nature and culture, once in Italy Fuller adopts a more aggressive rhetorical voice that quickly evolves into a sophisticated rhetoric of transcendental nationalism. This dissertation will explore how Fuller transformed her Transcendental belief in the power of individualism and the art of self-culture into a radical, revolutionary, nationalist rhetorical style that called a nation together based on common origin, character, spirit, and destiny in an effort to pursue a new Democratic Order. This dissertation thus traces the works of Margaret Fuller beginning with her major publications in America, continuing through her dispatches from Europe (1846-1850), and ending with a distinct rhetorical form and style, which I call the rhetoric of transcendental nationalism. Advisors/Committee Members: Crick, Nathan (advisor), Poirot, Kristan (committee member), Sumpter, Randall (committee member), Burk, James (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: rhetoric; Margaret Fuller; Transcendentalism; nationalism; rhetorical criticism; rhetorical theory; Roman revolution; 1848; Italy
Munson, D. N. (2018). Margaret Fuller and the Rhetoric of Transcendental Nationalism . (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/174126
Munson, David N. “Margaret Fuller and the Rhetoric of Transcendental Nationalism.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed January 20, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/174126.
Munson, David N. “Margaret Fuller and the Rhetoric of Transcendental Nationalism.” 2018. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
Munson DN. Margaret Fuller and the Rhetoric of Transcendental Nationalism. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2018. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/174126.
Munson DN. Margaret Fuller and the Rhetoric of Transcendental Nationalism. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/174126
19. Gorman, Heather M. Interweaving innocence : a rhetorical analysis of Luke's passion narrative.
Degree: Religion., 2014, Baylor University
► At least three issues remain unsettled with regard to the interpretation of Luke’s passion narrative: (1) the sources that Luke employed when composing his narrative;… (more)
▼ At least three issues remain unsettled with regard to the interpretation of Luke’s passion narrative: (1) the sources that Luke employed when composing his narrative; (2) how best to translate δίκαιος in 23:47 and how this confession contributes to Luke’s characterization of Jesus; and (3) the function of the parallels between Jesus in his passion narrative and characters in Acts. Past and current approaches to these issues—source, redaction, and literary criticism—have left the conversation at somewhat of an impasse. This dissertation approaches Luke’s passion narrative (Luke 22:66–23:49) and the issues associated with it with a compositional-rhetorical method. It explores Luke’s use of Mark as well as Luke’s final product with insights gained through the ancient rhetorical tradition. Several techniques and exercises described in the rhetorical handbooks and progymnasmata—refutation and confirmation, rhetorical figures, synkrisis, narration, and paraphrase—help elucidate Luke’s compositional techniques, characterization of Jesus, and the function of the parallels between Luke and Acts. Thus, this study entails a new approach to old problems. This dissertation works toward solutions to the interpretive questions by first describing the interpretive questions and the various solutions proposed in recent years. It then describes and justifies the compositional-rhetorical methodology employed in the study. Next, it discusses the tools needed for a compositional-rhetorical analysis, including an understanding of ancient education and the relevant exercises described in the rhetorical tradition. That understanding provides the necessary foundation for the analysis of Luke 22:66–23:49, which the dissertation treats in two smaller units: 22:66–23:25 (the formal trial) and 23:26-49 (the informal trial). These sections follow the argument of Luke’s passion narrative, noting how Luke’s structure, style, and use of sources relate to the techniques previously described. The dissertation concludes by synthesizing the material in the previous chapters and ultimately argues that (1) Luke did not use a non-canonical written source when composing his passion narrative; (2) a translation and interpretation of the centurion’s confession must acknowledge the political implications of δίκαιος; and (3) through the parallels between Jesus, Stephen, and Paul, Luke sets up these characters as models for his audience to imitate. Advisors/Committee Members: Parsons, Mikeal Carl, 1957- (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Luke.; Rhetoric.; Mark.; Progymnasmata.; Passion narrative.; Rhetorical criticism.; Source criticism.; Synoptic problem.
Gorman, H. M. (2014). Interweaving innocence : a rhetorical analysis of Luke's passion narrative. (Thesis). Baylor University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2104/8904
Gorman, Heather M. “Interweaving innocence : a rhetorical analysis of Luke's passion narrative. ” 2014. Thesis, Baylor University. Accessed January 20, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/8904.
Gorman, Heather M. “Interweaving innocence : a rhetorical analysis of Luke's passion narrative. ” 2014. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
Gorman HM. Interweaving innocence : a rhetorical analysis of Luke's passion narrative. [Internet] [Thesis]. Baylor University; 2014. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2104/8904.
Gorman HM. Interweaving innocence : a rhetorical analysis of Luke's passion narrative. [Thesis]. Baylor University; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2104/8904
20. Burton, Aaron V. Jesus in the Movies: A Rhetorical Analysis of Selected Films from 1912-2004.
Degree: PhD, Communication Studies, 2008, Bowling Green State University
URL: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1205087180
► The purpose of this investigation is to discuss popular film interpretations of Christ’s life and how the films’ narratives function rhetorically. These films become part… (more)
▼ The purpose of this investigation is to discuss popular film interpretations of Christ’s life and how the films’ narratives function rhetorically. These films become part of the rhetorical dialogue and add to the discussion of Christianity. Using Fisher’s (1984) Narrative Paradigm, a thematic and character analysis is conducted identifying the common themes of sacrifice and vengeance, noting the progress in the Christ character. Six films have been selected for analyses that represent both the successes and failures of the Christ Film genre. The films selected are From the Manger to the Cross (1912), The King of Kings (1927), The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and The Passion of The Christ (2004). In addition, the investigation seeks to understand each film in the particular period that it was produced. Using rhetorical analysis and history data, this investigation attempts to understand the ways that films about Jesus aid in spreading the message of the Gospels. Advisors/Committee Members: Makay, John (Advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Speech Communication; Rhetoric; Rhetorical Criticism; Narrative Paradigm; Christ Film; Film Criticism; Religious Communication; Christianity
Burton, A. V. (2008). Jesus in the Movies: A Rhetorical Analysis of Selected Films from 1912-2004 . (Doctoral Dissertation). Bowling Green State University. Retrieved from http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1205087180
Burton, Aaron V. “Jesus in the Movies: A Rhetorical Analysis of Selected Films from 1912-2004.” 2008. Doctoral Dissertation, Bowling Green State University. Accessed January 20, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1205087180.
Burton, Aaron V. “Jesus in the Movies: A Rhetorical Analysis of Selected Films from 1912-2004.” 2008. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
Burton AV. Jesus in the Movies: A Rhetorical Analysis of Selected Films from 1912-2004. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Bowling Green State University; 2008. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1205087180.
Burton AV. Jesus in the Movies: A Rhetorical Analysis of Selected Films from 1912-2004. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Bowling Green State University; 2008. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1205087180
University of Gothenburg / Göteborgs Universitet
21. Prado, Evelyn. Under the Shadow of a Self-Sufficient Writer: The Critic and J. M. Coetzee.
Degree: 2018, University of Gothenburg / Göteborgs Universitet
► J. M. Coetzee’s writing has consistently challenged the work of the critic, questioning the principles of literary criticism and preempting its ordinary procedures. A distinguishing… (more)
▼ J. M. Coetzee’s writing has consistently challenged the work of the critic, questioning the principles of literary criticism and preempting its ordinary procedures. A distinguishing trait of this challenge is the solipsistic dimension of Coetzee’s writing, described here as a form of self-sufficiency in relation to the role of the interpreter. This dissertation examines Coetzee’s interrogation of literary criticism and the response produced by the dominant strand in the scholarship on his works. The work of the critic is conceived in the phenomenological terms of proximity, which presupposes an empathetic and celebratory stance in relation to the author, and distance, commonly associated with detachment and impartiality. A rhetorical approach to narratives as communicative acts provides the theoretical framework to gauge Coetzee’s implied views about the work of the critic. Three central issues intersect in the argument presented here. The first is Coetzee’s role in paving the way for a fundamentally proximal response to his works, a response that is often deferential. The second is the consolidation of this celebratory practice in Coetzee scholarship and its tendency to ignore the resistance to critical paraphrase and containment performed by his works. The third issue is the disempowering effect of the self-sufficient dimension of Coetzee’s oeuvre on the critic’s interpretive authority. Self-sufficiency is projected by the scope of Coetzee’s literary project, which includes prose and criticism, and it becomes particularly evident in the context of his later self- referential or autobiographical works, two of which are discussed here: the novel Disgrace and the memoir Summertime. The self-sufficiency of Coetzee’s writing disempowers the critic in two ways. First, the continuities between both spheres of his oeuvre give rise to a potentially self-explanatory relationship between them because the critical pieces indirectly provide a congenial explanatory framework to elucidate the fiction. The critic’s intellectual autonomy becomes, therefore, a questionable issue. Second, Coetzee’s works enact what can be described as a preemptive awareness of critical procedures that undermines the critic’s interpretive authority by throwing into relief the inescapable bias and flaws of the interpretive process.
Subjects/Keywords: literary criticism; critical distance; phenomenological criticism; rhetorical approaches to narrative; autobiographical writing; Disgrace; Summertime
Prado, E. (2018). Under the Shadow of a Self-Sufficient Writer: The Critic and J. M. Coetzee . (Thesis). University of Gothenburg / Göteborgs Universitet. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2077/55266
Prado, Evelyn. “Under the Shadow of a Self-Sufficient Writer: The Critic and J. M. Coetzee.” 2018. Thesis, University of Gothenburg / Göteborgs Universitet. Accessed January 20, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2077/55266.
Prado, Evelyn. “Under the Shadow of a Self-Sufficient Writer: The Critic and J. M. Coetzee.” 2018. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
Prado E. Under the Shadow of a Self-Sufficient Writer: The Critic and J. M. Coetzee. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Gothenburg / Göteborgs Universitet; 2018. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2077/55266.
Prado E. Under the Shadow of a Self-Sufficient Writer: The Critic and J. M. Coetzee. [Thesis]. University of Gothenburg / Göteborgs Universitet; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2077/55266
22. Terry, Andrea June. The Rhetoric of Political Time: Tracing the Neoliberal Regime's Ascent.
Degree: 2017, Texas A&M University
► In this dissertation, I argue that Stephen Skowronek?s theory of political time can be used as analytic to better understand the rhetorical opportunities and constraints… (more)
▼ In this dissertation, I argue that Stephen Skowronek?s theory of political time can be used as analytic to better understand the rhetorical opportunities and constraints for presidents and presidential candidates. In particular, I look to Ronald Reagan as a case study: as a president who came on the heels of the end of FDR?s liberal era, Reagan set the tone for a new presidential regime, consisting of particular rhetorical and policy commitments that were all shaped through his neoliberal economic policy. After identifying the rhetorical hallmarks of the neoliberal era as constructed by Reagan, I analyze the rhetorical efforts of his successor, regime articulation president George H.W. Bush, to negotiate the changing domestic and international atmosphere within the rhetorical and policy constraints of Reagan?s neoliberalism. Finally, I identify and analyze the preemptive efforts of Bill Clinton and Ross Perot during the 1992 election as they attempted to renegotiate key aspects of Reagan?s rhetorical and policy commitments to win the presidency. The analysis of each individual?s rhetoric is aided by attention to both discursive and visual rhetoric: the rhetorical interiors and exteriors of regime discourse. The analysis of Reagan?s neoliberal regime emergence begins with the 1964 primary run against Barry Goldwater and continues through his presidency. Analysis of Bush begins with his 1980 primary election contest against Ronald Reagan and culminates in the 1992 election. Both Clinton and Perot were analyzed using stump speeches and advertisements from the primaries through the 1992 presidential election. For each individual, analysis of Time magazine covers provided visual confirmation or rejection of each rhetor?s rendition of neoliberal regime commitments. In the end, while Reagan was successful in establishing the rhetorical and policy commitments of the Neoliberal regime, Bush was unable to perform those commitments to the satisfaction of the base; as a result, Clinton?s rendition of the neoliberal regime, which he presented as a ?third way? during the 1992 presidential election, succeeded in winning the presidency. Advisors/Committee Members: Mercieca, Jennifer R. (advisor), Poirot, Kristan (committee member), Barbour, Jennifer J (committee member), Mackin, Robert R (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: political time; rhetorical criticism; thick contextualism; George HW Bush
Terry, A. J. (2017). The Rhetoric of Political Time: Tracing the Neoliberal Regime's Ascent . (Thesis). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/161372
Terry, Andrea June. “The Rhetoric of Political Time: Tracing the Neoliberal Regime's Ascent.” 2017. Thesis, Texas A&M University. Accessed January 20, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/161372.
Terry, Andrea June. “The Rhetoric of Political Time: Tracing the Neoliberal Regime's Ascent.” 2017. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
Terry AJ. The Rhetoric of Political Time: Tracing the Neoliberal Regime's Ascent. [Internet] [Thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2017. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/161372.
Terry AJ. The Rhetoric of Political Time: Tracing the Neoliberal Regime's Ascent. [Thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/161372
23. Kelly, Casey Ryan. The rhetoric of Red Power and the American Indian occupation of Alcatraz Island (1969-1971).
Degree: PhD, Communication Studies, 2009, University of Minnesota
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54605
► Beginning with Congressional efforts to terminate the sovereignty of federally-recognized tribes in 1953, the federal government's final efforts to assimilate American Indians parodoxically created the… (more)
▼ Beginning with Congressional efforts to terminate the sovereignty of federally-recognized tribes in 1953, the federal government's final efforts to assimilate American Indians parodoxically created the conditions for an urban pan-Indian movement for self-determination. Cities such as San Francisco swelled with alienated and militant young Indians seeking to reestablish a sense of place and community. On 20 November, 1969 a group calling themselves the Indians of All Tribes seized and occupied Alcatraz Island in the name of "all tribes." The 19-month long occupation grew into the crucible of contemporary American Indian activism, symbolizing a larger project of reclaiming a homeland for the indigenous peoples of North America. The occupation is referred to by many as the foundation of the concept of Red Power: a militant language, or way of speaking, that channels the American Indian community's intellectual and rhetorical power into the creation of a homeland. This project examines the rhetoric of the Indians of All Tribes to explain the features, tropes, symbols, utterances, and performances which constitute Red Power. Starting with the emergence of self-determination in separatist American Indian literary, underground press, and the speeches and minutes of emergent radical protest organizations, this project historicizes the concept of Red Power that informed the occupant's rhetorical and material practices. This dissertation examines the rhetoric of the Indians of All Tribes to demonstrate the ways in which the group's militant demands, radical interpretation of American history, and defense of traditional Indian practices constructed and affirmed a positive collective identity for many alienated and disempowered Indians grappling with the intersectional experience between urban and reservation life.
Subjects/Keywords: Alcatraz Island; Occupation; Red Power; Rhetorical Criticism; Social Protest; Communication Studies
Kelly, C. R. (2009). The rhetoric of Red Power and the American Indian occupation of Alcatraz Island (1969-1971) . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Minnesota. Retrieved from http://purl.umn.edu/54605
Kelly, Casey Ryan. “The rhetoric of Red Power and the American Indian occupation of Alcatraz Island (1969-1971).” 2009. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Minnesota. Accessed January 20, 2020. http://purl.umn.edu/54605.
Kelly, Casey Ryan. “The rhetoric of Red Power and the American Indian occupation of Alcatraz Island (1969-1971).” 2009. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
Kelly CR. The rhetoric of Red Power and the American Indian occupation of Alcatraz Island (1969-1971). [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Minnesota; 2009. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: http://purl.umn.edu/54605.
Kelly CR. The rhetoric of Red Power and the American Indian occupation of Alcatraz Island (1969-1971). [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Minnesota; 2009. Available from: http://purl.umn.edu/54605
24. Leonardi, Marianne. Narrative as Self Performance: The Rhetorical Construction of Identities on Facebook Profiles.
Degree: Department of Communication and Journalism, 2010, University of New Mexico
► New ways of creating and presenting the self in the "space" of the Internet are fascinating, but not yet fully understood. Framed in the theoretical… (more)
▼ New ways of creating and presenting the self in the "space" of the Internet are fascinating, but not yet fully understood. Framed in the theoretical literature of Goffman's presentation of the self, and Burke's conception of rhetoric, the study's primary concern is to explain and understand how Facebook users construct identities using narrative fragments on their profiles and the offline effects of these narrative performances. Specifically, this study argues that narratives are a type of rhetorical performance, and that both narratives and identities have symbolic meaning and rhetorical components. While the effects of online identities occur at the macro-level, the actual process of construction and presentation occur at the micro-level. The method of narrative criticism informs the primary framework, called the Narrative Performance Model (NPM), that I created and used to analyze 100 Facebook profiles of undergraduate students at a large, southwestern university to understand the micro-level process of the performance of identities and to answer the following research questions: (1) What features are used in the narrative performance of identities on Facebook? (2) What types of identities result from the narrative performances on Facebook profiles, and (3) What role does cultural capital play in the narrative performance of self? Focus groups discussions of undergraduate college students added a depth dimension to the narrative criticism, helped answer questions that could not be answered in the analysis of Facebook profiles, and answered the following research question: What are the offline consequences of communicating online identities on Facebook? The micro-level analysis of 400 pages of text from Facebook profiles reveal that students use both linguistic and paralinguistic features in their narrative performance of identity. Students challenge and alter traditional conventions of grammar, writing, and narratives to present specific narratives of self. Students use these features to communicate five types of identities on their profiles: (1) the essential self; (2) the desired self; (3) the preferential self, (4) the dynamic self; and (5) the demanding self. Cultural capital makes possible the above mentioned narrative selves, and in effect, perpetuates the hierarchical arrangement of society by highlighting class differences. A thematic analysis of focus group discussions reveal that offline consequences fall within four general themes: (1) keeping it real; (2) Facebook official; (3) friending; and (4) relationship boundaries – family as friends. In addition to an in-depth discussion of macro and micro-level findings, the practical, theoretical, and methodological contributions are discussed. Advisors/Committee Members: Schuetz, Janice, Woodall, Gill, Foss, Karen, Burris, Beverly.
Subjects/Keywords: Internet; Facebook; Identity; Narrative; Rhetorical Criticism; Narrative Performance Model (NPM)
Leonardi, M. (2010). Narrative as Self Performance: The Rhetorical Construction of Identities on Facebook Profiles . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of New Mexico. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1928/10316
Leonardi, Marianne. “Narrative as Self Performance: The Rhetorical Construction of Identities on Facebook Profiles.” 2010. Doctoral Dissertation, University of New Mexico. Accessed January 20, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1928/10316.
Leonardi, Marianne. “Narrative as Self Performance: The Rhetorical Construction of Identities on Facebook Profiles.” 2010. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
Leonardi M. Narrative as Self Performance: The Rhetorical Construction of Identities on Facebook Profiles. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of New Mexico; 2010. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1928/10316.
Leonardi M. Narrative as Self Performance: The Rhetorical Construction of Identities on Facebook Profiles. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of New Mexico; 2010. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1928/10316
25. Cole, Kristen L. "EVERY 'ONE' AND EVERY 'THING' CAN BE LOVED": A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF NETWORKED SELF-REPRESENTATION BY THE OBJECTùM SEXUALITY COMMUNITY.
► Using rhetorical criticism informed by actor-network theory (ANT), in this dissertation I explore the emergence of queer identity and queer community building within the Objectùm… (more)
▼ Using rhetorical criticism informed by actor-network theory (ANT), in this dissertation I explore the emergence of queer identity and queer community building within the Objectùm Sexuality Internationale Web site (OSI) – the largest source of information related to a community of over 300 hundred individuals who experience emotional and romantic desire towards objects. My goals in this study are (1) to identify and understand how rhetorical strategies are emergent and networked (rather than individually enacted) within the OSI Web site; and (2) how these emergent rhetorical strategies promote multiplicity of sexual desire and identity through the challenging of heteronormative and anthropocentric binaries and normativities via queer posthuman forms of love and connection. Using an ANT informed rhetorical criticism, I identified four layers of communication that facilitate the emergence of actor networks within the OSI Web site: (1) translation – the process by which human actors depict experience in texts); (2) enactment – the process by which actors (human and object) interact in ways that create networks of action and agency); (3) representation – the process in which certain macroactors (actors that appear as recurring and stable categories) present the interests of other actors within the network); and (4) teleaction – the movement of representations from place to place and over time through memory and text. Within these layers, I identified four categories of translation, thirteen macroactors, and four types of teleaction. The translations that emerge on the OSI Web site include how objectùm sexuality became a term and community, what it means to be objectùm sexual, how people who identify as objectùm sexual have come to make sense of their experiences, and public pleas for acceptance regarding objectùm sexuality. The macroactors that emerge include people, communication devices, purposes of OSI, orientation, animism, sensuality/intimacy, nonverbal communication, love, gender, attraction, marriage, medicalization, and the Red Fence. The processes of teleaction that emerge include verbal, nonverbal, hybrid, and symbolic actors. These four layers then led to the emergence of four higher-level rhetorical dimensions. These include: (1) terminological dimension – the interrelationship between terms and the OS community; (2) ontological dimension – the emergence of a higher-level philosophy about the existence of beings and the meanings and modes of being, existing, living, and loving for OS; (3) axiological dimension – the emergence of criteria for ethical values and judgments in relation to OS; and (4) epistemological dimension – where the dimensions of ontology and terminology meet and the nature and scope of knowledge about OS is represented. Together, these four transcendent levels facilitate the rhetorical construction of the OS community and critiques of heteronormative/anthropocentric frames of love, desire, and sexuality. Overall, these various strategies lead to two larger rhetorical moves: (1) OSI communicates… Advisors/Committee Members: Foss, Karen A., Littlejohn, Stephen W., Chavez, Karma R., Eguchi, Shinsuke.
Subjects/Keywords: objectum sexuality; queer theory; posthuman; actor-network theory; rhetorical criticism
Cole, K. L. (2013). "EVERY 'ONE' AND EVERY 'THING' CAN BE LOVED": A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF NETWORKED SELF-REPRESENTATION BY THE OBJECTùM SEXUALITY COMMUNITY . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of New Mexico. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1928/23317
Cole, Kristen L. “"EVERY 'ONE' AND EVERY 'THING' CAN BE LOVED": A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF NETWORKED SELF-REPRESENTATION BY THE OBJECTùM SEXUALITY COMMUNITY.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, University of New Mexico. Accessed January 20, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1928/23317.
Cole, Kristen L. “"EVERY 'ONE' AND EVERY 'THING' CAN BE LOVED": A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF NETWORKED SELF-REPRESENTATION BY THE OBJECTùM SEXUALITY COMMUNITY.” 2013. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
Cole KL. "EVERY 'ONE' AND EVERY 'THING' CAN BE LOVED": A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF NETWORKED SELF-REPRESENTATION BY THE OBJECTùM SEXUALITY COMMUNITY. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of New Mexico; 2013. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1928/23317.
Cole KL. "EVERY 'ONE' AND EVERY 'THING' CAN BE LOVED": A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF NETWORKED SELF-REPRESENTATION BY THE OBJECTùM SEXUALITY COMMUNITY. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of New Mexico; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1928/23317
26. Guzman, Carlos Rodrigo. CONTESTED KNOWLEDGES: A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF 'ECLIPSES FOR AUSTIN' BY PABLO VARGAS LUGO AT THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND SCIENCE.
► The debate on whether art has any cognitive value might be traced to the texts of early philosophers and theorists who have approached the matter.… (more)
▼ The debate on whether art has any cognitive value might be traced to the texts of early philosophers and theorists who have approached the matter. In general, art has been constrained to contemplation and aesthetic experience while its contribution to knowledge is often disregarded. Science, on the other hand, constitutes the main system of organized knowledge production and enunciation. Contemporary artistic practices that address scientific knowledge tend to reformulate the latter in order to either produce new experiences with it or expand its cognitive capabilities. The works produced by these practices serve as artifacts that expose science's biases, axiomatic tenets, priorities, and limitations, as well as contest and complete the realms of experience in which science fails to provide an account. As discursive artifacts, these artworks may be analyzed from a rhetorical framework and methodology in order to unveil their role in rearticulating science and producing responses to the specific situation in which they come into being. Through a rhetorical analysis of 'Eclipses for Austin' (2009) by Mexican artist Pablo Vargas Lugo, this thesis aims to identify and describe the way contemporary artistic practices operate to expand on knowledge produced from scientific inquiry and enunciation. The analysis, grounded in Lloyd Bitzer's idea of the rhetorical situation, has shown that these works address a rhetorical exigence (generated by the differences and similarities between art and science), are limited and enabled by constraints from both realms of experience, and produce a fitting response helps to expand the knowledge and understanding formulated by science. Advisors/Committee Members: Foss, Karen, White, Judith M., Schaefer, Richard.
Subjects/Keywords: Contemporary Art; Science; Rhetorical Criticism; Knowledge; Solar Eclipses
Guzman, C. R. (2013). CONTESTED KNOWLEDGES: A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF 'ECLIPSES FOR AUSTIN' BY PABLO VARGAS LUGO AT THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND SCIENCE . (Masters Thesis). University of New Mexico. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1928/23275
Guzman, Carlos Rodrigo. “CONTESTED KNOWLEDGES: A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF 'ECLIPSES FOR AUSTIN' BY PABLO VARGAS LUGO AT THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND SCIENCE.” 2013. Masters Thesis, University of New Mexico. Accessed January 20, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1928/23275.
Guzman, Carlos Rodrigo. “CONTESTED KNOWLEDGES: A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF 'ECLIPSES FOR AUSTIN' BY PABLO VARGAS LUGO AT THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND SCIENCE.” 2013. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
Guzman CR. CONTESTED KNOWLEDGES: A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF 'ECLIPSES FOR AUSTIN' BY PABLO VARGAS LUGO AT THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND SCIENCE. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of New Mexico; 2013. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1928/23275.
Guzman CR. CONTESTED KNOWLEDGES: A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF 'ECLIPSES FOR AUSTIN' BY PABLO VARGAS LUGO AT THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND SCIENCE. [Masters Thesis]. University of New Mexico; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1928/23275
27. Mapes, Margarethe. GLOBALIZED BACKLASH: WOMEN AGAINST FEMINISM’S NEW MEDIA MATRIX OF (ANTI) FEMINIST TESTIMONY.
Degree: PhD, Communication Studies, 2016, Southern Illinois University
URL: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1163
► Feminisms are oftentimes confronted with dissonance, resistance, and backlash. Invested in criticizing the cultural and institutional emergence of patriarchy and calls to re-order structures… (more)
▼ Feminisms are oftentimes confronted with dissonance, resistance, and backlash. Invested in criticizing the cultural and institutional emergence of patriarchy and calls to re-order structures of inequality make feminism threatening to status quo power dynamics. “Women Against Feminism”—a social media phenomenon and space for women to post anti-feminist messages—began gaining notoriety in 2013. By 2015, “Women Against Feminism” expanded to multiple social media platforms, gained thousands of anti-feminist submissions, and received ample support and criticism across news outlets. This study explores “Women Against Feminism” as a potential site of 21st feminist backlash, noting nuanced rhetorical strategies that rely on fearing feminism, declarations of interpersonal and intrapersonal love, and co-opting feminist ideology to propagate anti-feminist narratives. I situate backlash as a communicative phenomenon of perception rather than a clear-cut movement reacting toward a stated goal of progress by a social group. In this way, feminist progress functions as an illusory cultural script where backlash reacts toward the perceived enactment of a feminist goal, rather than (although not excluding) the successful feminist execution of that goal. Thus, this study dually investigates what backlash strategies are used while also uncovering how differing audiences perceive feminism. Finally, I set forth a series of suggestive practical methods for feminist engagement across dissonance and difference. Advisors/Committee Members: Stucky, Nathan.
Subjects/Keywords: Cyberfeminism; Feminist Backlash; Feminist Rhetorical Criticism; Online Engagement; Women Against Feminism
Mapes, M. (2016). GLOBALIZED BACKLASH: WOMEN AGAINST FEMINISM’S NEW MEDIA MATRIX OF (ANTI) FEMINIST TESTIMONY . (Doctoral Dissertation). Southern Illinois University. Retrieved from http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1163
Mapes, Margarethe. “GLOBALIZED BACKLASH: WOMEN AGAINST FEMINISM’S NEW MEDIA MATRIX OF (ANTI) FEMINIST TESTIMONY.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Southern Illinois University. Accessed January 20, 2020. http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1163.
Mapes, Margarethe. “GLOBALIZED BACKLASH: WOMEN AGAINST FEMINISM’S NEW MEDIA MATRIX OF (ANTI) FEMINIST TESTIMONY.” 2016. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
Mapes M. GLOBALIZED BACKLASH: WOMEN AGAINST FEMINISM’S NEW MEDIA MATRIX OF (ANTI) FEMINIST TESTIMONY. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Southern Illinois University; 2016. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1163.
Mapes M. GLOBALIZED BACKLASH: WOMEN AGAINST FEMINISM’S NEW MEDIA MATRIX OF (ANTI) FEMINIST TESTIMONY. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Southern Illinois University; 2016. Available from: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1163
28. Larson, Victoria. Political crises: Chris Christie responds to Bridgegate.
Degree: 2014, Ryerson University
URL: https://digital.library.ryerson.ca/islandora/object/RULA%3A5500
► This case study focuses on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s response to the Bridgegate crisis. This paper presents a case study of a political individual’s… (more)
▼ This case study focuses on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s response to the Bridgegate crisis. This paper presents a case study of a political individual’s response during a crisis across three distinct texts. Building on Image Repair Theory (Benoit, 1997a), differences across texts are identified and compared by observing the presence of Denial, Evasion of Responsibility, Reducing Offensiveness, Corrective Action and Mortification. The three distinct texts are analyzed through qualitative textual coding. These consist of Governor Christie’s prepared press conference response, his responses to reporter’s questions, and messages sent publically via Twitter January 9th 2014. Findings suggest that Image Repair Theory is useful for supporting a comparison between texts within a political image repair effort. Corrective action, as well as mortification strategies, were found to be used most prominently across the texts. The application of image repair theory in this case study led to the recommended addition of two new subcategories (Repentance and Taking responsibility) within the strategy of Mortification from Benoit’s (1997a) Image Repair Theory.
Subjects/Keywords: Image reconstruction; Apologies; Reputation management; Verbal self-defense; Rhetorical criticism
Larson, V. (2014). Political crises: Chris Christie responds to Bridgegate . (Thesis). Ryerson University. Retrieved from https://digital.library.ryerson.ca/islandora/object/RULA%3A5500
Larson, Victoria. “Political crises: Chris Christie responds to Bridgegate.” 2014. Thesis, Ryerson University. Accessed January 20, 2020. https://digital.library.ryerson.ca/islandora/object/RULA%3A5500.
Larson, Victoria. “Political crises: Chris Christie responds to Bridgegate.” 2014. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
Larson V. Political crises: Chris Christie responds to Bridgegate. [Internet] [Thesis]. Ryerson University; 2014. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: https://digital.library.ryerson.ca/islandora/object/RULA%3A5500.
Larson V. Political crises: Chris Christie responds to Bridgegate. [Thesis]. Ryerson University; 2014. Available from: https://digital.library.ryerson.ca/islandora/object/RULA%3A5500
29. Barker, John Robert. Disputed Temple: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Book of Haggai.
Degree: PhD, Theology, 2016, Boston College
URL: http://dlib.bc.edu/islandora/object/bc-ir:106870
► The book of Haggai emerged from a dispute in the early Persian period over the propriety and feasibility of rebuilding the temple in Jerusalem in… (more)
▼ The book of Haggai emerged from a dispute in the early Persian period over the propriety and feasibility of rebuilding the temple in Jerusalem in 520 BCE. As a record of that dispute, the book is a rhetorical artifact that displays a variety of strategies designed to persuade the Yehudite community that Yhwh wanted his house rebuilt. Theological and socioeconomic objections and obstacles to reconstruction had to be overcome before the Yehudites would accept Haggai’s call to rebuild. This dissertation argues that although some of the Yehudite community accepted Haggai’s claim that Yhwh wanted his temple built, others remained unpersuaded, fearing that the adverse agricultural and economic conditions, as well as the lack of a royal builder, were signs that Yhwh was not ready to begin the period of restoration. The oracles and narrative portions of the book are intended to counter these fears by arguing that Yhwh will provide for the adornment of the temple, bring prosperity to Yehud once the temple is built, and has already designated the Davidide Zerubbabel as the chosen royal builder. Haggai further strengthened commitment to reconstruction by vilifying those Yehudites who failed to support the temple as unclean and non-Israelite. Rhetorical analysis illumines not only particular features of the text but also indicates what theological and socioeconomic sources of opposition to temple reconstruction were most important in this period. This sheds further light on the socioeconomic conditions of early Persian period Yehud. Advisors/Committee Members: David S. Vanderhooft (Thesis advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Haggai; Minor Prophets; Persian Period; Rhetorical Criticism; Temple; Twelve Prophets
Barker, J. R. (2016). Disputed Temple: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Book of Haggai . (Doctoral Dissertation). Boston College. Retrieved from http://dlib.bc.edu/islandora/object/bc-ir:106870
Barker, John Robert. “Disputed Temple: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Book of Haggai.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Boston College. Accessed January 20, 2020. http://dlib.bc.edu/islandora/object/bc-ir:106870.
Barker, John Robert. “Disputed Temple: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Book of Haggai.” 2016. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
Barker JR. Disputed Temple: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Book of Haggai. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Boston College; 2016. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: http://dlib.bc.edu/islandora/object/bc-ir:106870.
Barker JR. Disputed Temple: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Book of Haggai. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Boston College; 2016. Available from: http://dlib.bc.edu/islandora/object/bc-ir:106870
30. DeChristopher, Mary Kaitlin. CrossFit (Cult)ure: a Rhetorical Analysis of Symbolic Convergence Through Digital Media.
Degree: MA, Communication, 2019, Virginia Tech
► Community is created, developed, and produced by CrossFit as an organization through their website mission statement and visual media, and the community of CrossFitters are… (more)
▼ Community is created, developed, and produced by CrossFit as an organization through their website mission statement and visual media, and the community of CrossFitters are able to respond in kind on CrossFit social media. CrossFit culture has become a tour-de-force in the health and fitness industry over recent years, where individuals come together from all walks of life to connect to others through a health and fitness-centric focused community. The high-quality promotional media produced by CrossFit HQ offers a glimpse into what the organization promotes and values, and the official webpage is the main starting point for potential new members to engage with CrossFit as an organization. Likewise, the CrossFit Facebook page offers research into how individuals in the CrossFit community engage with promoted material, as well as how they may shape their identity or understanding as a result. Using symbolic convergence theory (SCT) as a lens, research will look at CrossFit website content, Facebook posts, and corresponding content to develop a better understanding of the CrossFit community as well as how members develop a sense of shared reality and identity through their membership in the organization. Advisors/Committee Members: Waggenspack, Beth M. (committeechair), Mielczarek, Natalia (committee member), Myers, Marcus Cayce (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: CrossFit; Symbolic Convergence; Fantasy Theme Analysis; Rhetorical Criticism; Digital Media
DeChristopher, M. K. (2019). CrossFit (Cult)ure: a Rhetorical Analysis of Symbolic Convergence Through Digital Media . (Masters Thesis). Virginia Tech. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10919/90410
DeChristopher, Mary Kaitlin. “CrossFit (Cult)ure: a Rhetorical Analysis of Symbolic Convergence Through Digital Media.” 2019. Masters Thesis, Virginia Tech. Accessed January 20, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/90410.
DeChristopher, Mary Kaitlin. “CrossFit (Cult)ure: a Rhetorical Analysis of Symbolic Convergence Through Digital Media.” 2019. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
DeChristopher MK. CrossFit (Cult)ure: a Rhetorical Analysis of Symbolic Convergence Through Digital Media. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Virginia Tech; 2019. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/90410.
DeChristopher MK. CrossFit (Cult)ure: a Rhetorical Analysis of Symbolic Convergence Through Digital Media. [Masters Thesis]. Virginia Tech; 2019. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/90410
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‘Lillian’s Right to Vote’: Picture book about the history of voting rights
February 2, 2016 July 5, 2016 / pamelaokramer
“Lillian’s Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965,” is much more than its title indicates. It is a picture book that is, in fact, a powerful metaphor for the unimaginable struggle of African-Americans to achieve the vote, equality in the eyes of the law, the respect due all human beings, and the absolute right to pursue justice without fear.
This book is a sort of one-woman-show, a fictional view of a one-hundred-year-old black woman struggling to climb a mountain — the mountain that represents the steep and tortuous path to full civil rights — as she slowly makes her way to the top of that mountain. There stands a voting place, the place where she can exercise her God-given right to cast her vote without facing the threats and obstacles that historically have blocked African-Americans that freedom to select their own government.
As she climbs that mountain/ladder, she again sees in her mind’s eye at each “rung” the pictures of prejudice and bigotry that from our country’s conception have plagued her family and the families of all African-Americans: her great-grandparents being sold as slaves at an auction while standing in front of the store in Alabama where only rich white men are allowed to vote; and so the years of torture creep by, the Civil War, which should have ended in a state of freedom, but did not; the failed reconstruction poll taxes which no black person had the means to pay in order to vote; Jim Crow; segregation; hangings of innocents; violent, murderous reactions to the stubborn and courageous black quest for freedom. And finally, the 1965 Voting Rights Act which once-and-for-all demanded that no person could be denied the right to vote based on his or her color or race.
And Lillian votes. But there is a terrible and tragic irony at the end of Lillian’s story. The unspeakably sad truth is that the top of the mountain is still far, far away. Millions of Americans and their representatives in government will, to this very day, go to any lengths to keep African-Americans from full suffrage — no early voting for working people; voter ID laws enacted with the lame and phony excuse of “preventing voter fraud.” There will be justice in America — someday — but Lillian’s brave journey will continue. It must.
This is a picture book for older readers. “Lillian’s Right to Vote” is the kind of picture book that is perfect for the intermediate classroom. It would be a great book to introduce the history of voting rights to students about to engage in projects about this topic. It’s a great addition to any classroom library.
Please note: This review is based on the final hardcover picture book provided by Schwartz & Wade Books for review purposes.
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Sometimes students feel more comfortable talking about their personal issues with a trusted teacher than with a parent. Teachers trained in dealing with drug problems can assist students with accessing appropriate resources and support. When suspecting drug use, duty of care procedures must be followed. Only the appropriate school committee should be notified, and as different schools will have different reporting and referral procedures it is important to be aware of these and respond accordingly.
Illegal drugs are associated with many short and long-term harms. These relate not just to how much someone is using, but also how much their use affects their life and the lives of those around them. If you think a student or someone else is affected by drug use, here are some tips to allow you to support them and communicate effectively with them about their drug use:
Gather information to make sure you have an understanding of the drug/s you think they may be taking. Reflect on their situation so you can organise your thoughts and have a clear idea of what it is that concerns you about their drug use;
Arrange a suitable time to talk where you will have some privacy and won’t be interrupted;
Ask about their drug use; don’t make assumptions that they are using drugs;
Behavioural changes are a good starting point for discussion, for example, “I noticed you haven’t been yourself lately…”;
Be prepared for a negative reaction. One reason for this may be they do not view their drug use as a problem. Be sure to stay calm and reasonable. Don’t let it turn into an argument;
The conversation will be most effective if you avoid judging or lecturing. This can be extremely difficult! But you are more likely to get through to the young person if you have a two-way conversation rather than lecture them;
Listen to the young person and express your concerns in a supportive and non-confrontational manner. Evidence suggests that “motivational” rather than confrontational conversations are most helpful. Watch Making the Link for video demonstrations of how to have motivating conversations with young people;
Use statements including “I” as this doesn’t put the blame on them. Instead of saying, “You make me feel worried when you use drugs” say something like “I feel worried about your drug use”;
Remind them of their good qualities. Young people will be more likely to listen and take advice on board if they feel valued and respected;
Be trustworthy and supportive so they know that they can rely on you in a time of need and that what they tell you is kept confidential (unless concerns for safety override);
Remind them that we are all human and that we all have problems so that they are not too hard on themselves. Let them know that help is available;
If they do not want to change, encourage them to learn how to reduce their risk of harm until they’re ready to quit. Let them know you are available to talk in the future.
Seeking professional help may be the next step. You can consult the school counsellor who will be able to support you in your efforts to communicate with a student. See Where to get help for a list of places available to help people of all ages with any drug issues.
School-based Drug Prevention Programs
There are a number drug prevention programs that have been developed for implementation within schools within the context of the Australian curriculum. Developed in consultation and collaboration with teachers, these programs are designed to increase awareness and reduce alcohol/drug use and related harms. Browse School-based Drug Prevention Programs that have been evaluated and shown to have positive outcomes in Australia.
This factsheet was developed following expert review by researchers at the Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use at the University of Sydney, the National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre at the University of UNSW and the National Drug Research Institute at Curtin University. See Teacher booklet for more information.
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Home Crime OP-ED: Cities That Ignore the Need for Police Reform Will Pay Dearly
OP-ED: Cities That Ignore the Need for Police Reform Will Pay Dearly
Bay area city governments cannot afford to ignore Oakland’s struggles with police reform. The Oakland Police Department is under the control of federal judge Thelton Henderson and his appointed monitor. Oakland refers to him as the “compliance director” rather than the “court-appointed receiver”. This arrangement, which features a stripped-down police chief, handcuffs Oakland’s ability to deliver effective Police services.
Oakland’s Police Department (OPD) is dysfunctional because of its own inaction and lack of accountability. In 2000, attorneys sued the city and individual police officers in the notorious “Riders” case, a group of Oakland police officers who terrorized West Oakland, under the guise of fighting crime. Oakland settled with the 119 plaintiffs for $11 million and agreed to implement 51 police reforms.
Regrettably, after 7 years of ignoring the reforms, the city paid $1 million a year to the court-appointed monitor who faithfully reported how the city failed to implement the reforms.
In 2010, the court appointed a receiver to run the department, taking control away from the city.
After spending more than $15 million to fight reforms, Oakland still won’t address a process to identify problem officers, internal investigations and eliminate racial profiling. The city would rather pay millions for police misconduct while no one is held accountable.
The lesson is: Implement basic control of the Police Department accountability and other simple reforms and funds are available to make citizens safer.
Talk about the inmates policing themselves. Oakland’s city auditor claims to investigate city mismanagement and the lack of performance, yet there has been no audit of the millions spent by OPD for a failed computer tracking system.
The OPD’s $200 million budget, nearly half of the city’s general budget, is a major drain because 92% of the police officers live outside the city.
Six reforms that can make a difference:
1) The city auditor should divert her resources from petty investigations and do a performance and budget audit of the Police Department and identify basic cost savings reforms that will put more officers on the street.
2) Oakland should hire civilians, instead of patrol officers, to investigate nonviolent crimes such as auto thefts and burglaries. 3) Establish civilian review of the Police Department, implement the internal investigation reforms, and eliminate the obscene current condition of more internal investigators than homicide investigators. 4) implement the remainder reforms so that the department is freed from federal jurisdiction and cost.
5) Implement technology that will improve police services. Keep the shot tracker program in place. Yes, put cameras throughout the city of Oakland. This technology exposed the Rodney King beating, the Boston marathon bombers, freed a New Jersey driver, and the out-of-control Albuquerque Police Department. 6) The city should require every police car and officer to have cameras that records every citizen interaction.
Every city has to show the courage to implement reforms that run an efficient department and accountability of its officers. Money without reforms will not reduce crime.
Clinton Killian
Clinton Killian is an attorney at Oakland downtown Oakland law firm Fried & Williams LLP and former public official. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Working-class voters in the 2016 Russian parliamentary election: ‘Better LDPR than the party of power’
What have Trump, Brexit and Russia’s 2016 elections got in common? While it’s debatable whether the referendum and presidential elections represent a revolt against the elites – by whom and for whose benefit, we should immediately ask – the Russian elections surely are completely unrelated – after all, the ruling party increased its share of the vote?
Usually Russian elections are something I largely ignore. My research has been about the ‘everyday’ experience of ordinary Russians, and formal politics is a topic my working-class informants usually actively avoid, beyond their misinterpreting Navalnyi’s most successful slogan. They insist that the slogan applies to more than just United Russia: that all politicians and bureaucrats are ‘crooks and thieves’. The most political statement I can recall from my informants was in 2010: that Medvedev and the government would never have the interests of the people at heart and would only act for the benefit of city-folk. With such cynicism and distrust of politics as a main narrative, you can probably tell where I’m going with the bundling of Trump, Brexit and Russia.
However, it so happens that when I arrived in my new job here in Denmark, one of the first things I was asked to do was to give a public talk on the ‘meaning of the Russian elections’. Beyond a rather spiteful spat between Russian political scientists arguing about the absolute and percentage share of the vote for the ruling party, United Russia, and the disappointment about the opposition’s performance, surely the only possible take away would be the tightening of the ruling elite’s grip on the administrative delivery of votes for ER?
I’m not qualified to really engage in analysis of voting patterns or the validity of the term electoral authoritarianism and so on, so for me the only result worth noting, apart from the fall in turnout, was that while all the parties’ vote share fell (apart from UR), LDPR’s rose – Zhirinovsky’s nationalist and populist party. While acknowledging LDPR’s links and usefulness to the Kremlin, let’s leave aside the issue of whether LDPR is a real political party and whether Zhirinovsky is a real – i.e. free – political actor. These issues are not relevant.
Leaving aside the rise in UR’s share – not a ‘real’ phenomenon but rather an artefact of ballot stuffing, administrative resources, and outright falsification, the only ‘real’ winner in improving showing was LDPR (their absolute number of votes of course, fell from 2012, but then so did everyone else’s). In fact, if we wanted to underline LDRP as a significant fixture of Russian electoral, not to mention political, life we could point to the consistency in percentage vote share in the elections since 2003: 11, 8, 11, 13, as well as the party’s back-from-the-dead resurrection after the 1990s. LDPR is the only party machine apart from the Communists to survive intact the whole of the post-Soviet period of electoral politics. Sergei Shpilkin’s assessment of fraud puts the real voting figures for LDPR at 17%, v. 18% for Communists and 40% for United Russia. Real turnout according to him was 37%.
As Alexei Makarkin rightly pointed out in 2007 – to its voters, Zhirinovsky’s disingenuous opposition positioning and his clear links to the Kremlin are irrelevant. LDPR remains attractive to conservative patriots who are pro Putin foreign policy, nostalgic for the USSR in some way, distrusting of the state in general and harbour anti-elite sentiment simultaneously. And my small ethnographic sample bears out the paradox of ‘outsider-loyalty’ identity among voters. If the political histories weren’t so different, it might be worth comparing LDPR voter identity to the Jacksonian world-view of middle- and lower-class Americans that it is argued swung Trump’s election.
LDPR had the most expensive campaign spending 50% more than ER ($10m). Arguably, it also ran the best targeted media campaign of any parties in the election, with clear and simple media messages – particular those of interest to vulnerable citizens and which are sensitive areas for UR – inflation on food products, access to medicine, access to housing finance. These important and highly resonant issues were overshadowed by the attention given by the media to LDPR’s typically provocative and chauvinist foreign policy pronouncements such as ‘Return the borders of the USSR’, and ‘an end the humiliation of Russians’. These were but two of a number of catchy slogans broadcast on a loop, in the waiting area of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo international airport in August, for example. This exclusive focus on LDPR’s nationalist rhetoric is also present in Western analyses of the election, [with Andrew Monaghan describing the party as merely ‘nationalist’.] Only four of the 28 well-produced TV ads were on the subject of foreign policy and differed little from the government’s formal policy. What resonated with my informants were specific measures like caps on pay ratios between CEOs and workers, and policies to restrict debt collectors’ activities – loose credit policies were likened to drug pushing. LDPR as a self-styled protest party is also evident in Sevastopol billboards responding to ER campaign. ‘Vote LDPR or carry on putting up with it.’
[This placard was actually from 2015]
Makarkin also finds what he calls a periphery of protest voters who might vote LDPR given lack of alternatives, given Zhirinovsky’s move to ‘mainstream’ great Russian chauvinism which is anti-Soviet and anti-West, and not particularly ‘extreme’ against backdrop of Putin’s foreign policy. In his latest piece Makarkin seems to indicate LDRP’s continuing success as a kind of maturing and greater realism on part of lower-middle class and lower class electorate – ‘we’ll take our elite-led chauvinism with a pinch of oppositional salt – and after all, Zhirinovsky can be no worse than the corrupt URs. The Communists, Opposition and others who are always going to lose.’ People can choose unthinking or thinking loyalty to Putin; choose internal emigration; or choose LDPR – and strikingly Makarkin includes disaffected youth in this equation – something of the Bernie Sanders-Trump linking there. And what Makarkin describes was pretty much exactly what I encountered among my long-term informants: People switching from other parties, including UR to LDPR, but not only that of course – what I was able to examine was the more substantive reasoning behind their voting behaviour.
Thus, LDPR, Trump and to a lesser extent the Brexit campaign came together to prompt me to re-examine my long-term ethnographic research data in a more explicitly political way. What emerges is the attraction, regardless of political system, of populist reactionary currents that cross left-right political classification and challenge traditional survey methods. Political ethnography – engaging with local contexts and individuals and communities – can help understand the ‘mature’ phase of electoral authoritarianism in Russia, by acknowledging the complexity of ordinary voters’ views, values and positions, regardless of who they vote for.
Fact is we don’t have much of a dataset of political ethnographies of populist voting, so I offer a proxy attempt at one here. The point of the piece is to illustrate the potential for political ethnography to enrich our comparative understanding of politics and society. So, even though Russian, British and US electoral politics are completely different, talking to voters ethnographically seems to uncover some commonalities. As Jan Kubik notes, a contribution of political ethnography may be to focus on processes of opinion formation – this takes place and changes over time. But talking to people about politics is harder than you might think. What follows is a small sample of my revisiting of informants before and after the election.
Non-voters. These are the biggest group – borne out by the district and national results – ‘We would vote LDPR, but we don’t vote. Why would we?’ Said by man in his 50s about whole family. This was the same person that in 2009 told me Medvedev would never care about ‘people like him’. Zhirinovsky is not a serious politician, but at least he’s genuine ‘nastoyashii’. He has the right idea about recreating the borders of the USSR; Russians were the biggest victims of the end of the USSR. The younger men in this family had similar views, but if anything were more xenophobic. Victimology, trauma, loss, anger. Dangerous emotions regardless of whether or not they are expressed at the ballot box. I write about trauma and loss at length in my book. ‘I don’t know a single person who voted. I wouldn’t even know where to go to vote.’
Attitudes towards opposition – cynicism towards Navalnyi (I don’t vote for him, but….) – ‘how can he be walking around if he hasn’t done a deal?’ And can we answer that? ‘Opposition is divided and ordinary people can see that’ (cf. David White’s EEP piece 2015). ‘I don’t watch his stuff. It’s just for Muscovites’. This turned out to false. The informant, a 30-yr-old male with technical education working in Turbine factory and on above average wage later sent me a link to Navalnyi videos about Medvedev’s dacha – published on YouTube three days before the election. There’s an interesting argument that this intersects with about the broadening and flattening of internet audience in Russia that has political implications which I’ll come back to. ‘I never thought about voting for them’ – the dominant narrative about opposition. ‘Cultural’ distance in terms of class, metropolitan identity, etc, is a factor, surely.
My ‘thinking’ LDPR informants 1. ‘Protest vote with nowhere to go – desperation’: Q. Do you like Zhirinovsky? A. I don’t like ER. ‘Zhirik is a clown but I voted for him because we need to send a message and there is no way of doing that. UR has too much power. This is the last time UR will win big.
My ‘thinking’ LDPR informants 2. ‘Tactical opposition vote’ ‘I think UR has too much power. I voted for the opposition. So that the UR has limits’ ‘uprava’ (?) – also connotations of justice and punishment. ‘I voted against UR, so that they get a normal competition.’ Did you vote for UR in the past? Doesn’t answer at first ‘A the moment, UR is like a monopolist. It passes its own laws, and puts them into practice itself and controls them’ So you think a counterbalance is needed? You said many people didn’t vote. Did people discuss this? ‘Yes. I did vote for UR before, but then I found out lots of interesting things. [referring to Navalnyi Medvedev dacha video] A lot of people said the same thing to me: why bother voting when UR will win just the same.
Regional and local concerns. Almost all the important posts are held by representatives of UR. Take the Regional Governors, and accordingly the regional administrations […] I discussed my choice with no one.’ So you’re unhappy with the regional regime [stroi]? How does that affect your thinking? ‘Almost all the higher-ups are corrupt and wallowing in bribes.’
Thinking KPRF (Communists) informant 1: ‘Almost everyone was labouring under the illusion that Clinton would win. But during the last six months I have had the feeling that Trump would win…. What about our elections? Yes. I voted. I voted for the Communist Party. But not because I trust them. but rather to “squeeze” votes away from the UR. Unfortunately, after the elections this year, I am finally convinced that the opposition in our country DOES NOT EXIST. For whomever you vote the result will be UR… Everyone I talked about the elections to (more than a hundred people), did not vote for UR. Mostly – for the KPRF and the LDPR.’ Unlike LDPR informants, this informant struggled to find paying work putting her more in the camp of other informants who do not vote but used to vote LDPR. Also – women don’t vote so much for LDPR.
‘Thinking’ LDPR informants 3. ‘Other opposition parties are too weak’ ‘Why not vote for other parties – Rodina, Yabloko, Spravedlivaia Rossiia?’ ‘I think the other parties are too weak. I might have voted for Communisits, but I don’t like Ziuganov so much’.
Socio-Economic context: Downward spiral of economy. Labour unrest – miners in Rostov (unpaid wages), farmers in Kuban, unemployment, underemployment. No safety valve is available. Massive income destruction: high inflation AND ruble devaluation means real incomes of ‘average’ industrial workers falls from $800 to $200. Best paid workers among my informants earn 40,000 roubles at VW. This is $600. They earned around 30,000 roubles in 2012 which was around $1000. Can import substitution soften this? – not really – inflation+quality and trust issues are key. Division in my informants between those voting at all = getting at least an average salary. And those not voting because completely disillusioned and ‘excluded’ = those suffering non-indexed wage cuts, stoppages and wage arrears.
Electoral Data for districts where informants live: they are typical – i.e. Communists do not do better than nationally, neither do LDPR (important because in some Regions they outperform). Focus on UR and LDPR. Three types of electoral district – metro, district urban – typically 10-30k inhabitants plus villages, rural UR got 40, 45, 50+ in these districts. In the oblast as a whole 45% LDPR got 15-20% across board; KPRF got 15%. Side note: Yabloko got 226 votes from the 44,000 electors in the district studied (turnout was less than 50%. PARNAS got 107. These parties did about twice as well in the metropolitan districts of Kaluga (2-3% of the vote)
‘I found out lots of interesting things.’ Internet penetration of opposition messages. Traditional view of TV and internet constituencies – separate ‘parties’ in Russia according to Muratov (Novaia gazeta editor). Cottiero et al. 2015 in Nationalities Papers confirm this is no longer the case – Internet a mirror of society. Is this ‘bad’? This comment from an informant was interesting : ‘I found out lots of interesting things.’ Which cemented his anti UR vote. What was he referring to? To Navalnyi, which he and others had previously denied was even on their radar. This was true in 2012 when I surveyed internet use by my informants. But striking, now, internet habits of my ‘conservative’ informants are more omnivorous. Here is an indication of the diversity of internet current affairs sources:
https://www.youtube.com/user/kamikadzedead – latest post on corruption in leadership of Russian football association (Mutko) by Dmitri Ivanov. He is a ‘liberal’ middle-of the road vlogger. Some association with 2011-12 protests, white ribbon movement and ‘League of electors’ movement.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsAw3WynQJMm7tMy093y37A Navalnyi on Medvedev dacha
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtO0TzSAoIOzTnTsQeywSSw Mount show with Daniel Kaigermazov– unlike others has an outlet on VK as well as YouTube – anti-American anti-Ukraine satire.
Some conclusions: Uses of micro/ethnographic qualitative portraits of voter choice that include exploration of political values and socio-economic context helps avoids issues that have dogged interpretations of poll mapping post-brexit/trump: ecological fallacies. As Economist James Kwak notes in criticising the rise of big data journalism: ‘Some of those [Trump] voters will be racists. Some will be poor people concerned about their economic future. Some will be poor racists concerned about their economic future’ clearly there is a real problem with group tendencies and sorting producing knowledge of questionable value. Trump voters had lower education – but that doesn’t map on to class or income neatly – plenty of insecure workers with degrees in the US as elsewhere, and in some parts of US there are high income areas with low education. Political anthropology can provide more than just snapshots of the landscapes of values that cut across so-called class-gender-ethnicity divisions, and that inform voting and political consciousness – a kind of political intersectionality.
So is this just a repackaged reading of ‘white working-class anger’ = racism & sexism? No, I really think this kind of recourse to a crude ‘identity politics’ is part of the problem, not the solution – witness the panning Paul Krugman got when he used this term recently. A better approach, one that still acknowledges identity but is more reveal the complexity of reality is that by Berkeley sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (2016) (she popularised the concept of emotional labour) – on a link between political voting and ‘deep story’ – internalised emotional value systems. Indeed this is how Hochschild explains the electoral success of the tea party with poorest US citizens. Unsurprisingly her book has been in demand recently.
The deep story for Hochschild is a story of resentment, exclusion and neglect. My voters ‘deep stories’ reveal long-term value systems (in the book, but less in the ‘electoral’ talk), some of which are inherited from Soviet mores, as well as the despair, anger and betrayal identified among protest and populist voters elsewhere. However, they also reveal mobile, shifting evaluations of electoral politics and politics in general – dare I say it, there is practical adaptation to electoral authoritarianism here that is sophisticated and nuanced; ‘sophisticated’ reasoning –I hesitate to use that word – surely all political reflection is sophisticated. But too often pollsters, journalists and even academics infer simplistic reasoning. Especially when it comes to less-educated or working-class persons.
Two social geographers Christian Parenti and Matthew Richmond wrote two of best pieces I’ve read on Trump victory and actually analysing voters’ concerns. First talks about voters taking Trump seriously but not literally, a point worth making in comparison to Zhirinovsky’s populism and about voters themselves. Richmond rather hyperbolically calls Trump’s victory a ‘historic crisis in the epistemic basis on which we understand political change.‘ , but then goes on to make a more valid point about the dangers of social science in general inevitably reproducing the bias of the social group conducting it. ‘In simple terms, we must move closer to the social worlds that quantitative and theoretical political science purports, but largely fails, to represent.’ – he highlights as challenges to quantitative approaches, issues of unquantifiable uncertainty, demographic boundedness as a false premise, the persistence of two-dimensional left-right axis of political positioning. Richmond refers to Bourdieu’s example of the pollster’s non-response as the most interesting, most meaningful response (Distinction: 398).
Unsurprisingly, his piece calls for more involved qualitative work on how political opinions emerge and coalesce: ‘How does their evolution into political subjects unfold, so that they move from the “don’t know” category into voting for Trump, or remain in the “don’t know” category despite being a target of his hate?’ Richmond ends up arguing for active listening, as opening up political space. It is not passive to listen. Richmond: ‘political subjectivity as a space of possibilities is important because it highlights the fact that the regularities we observe in the world, including in the political behaviour of different populations, have structural bases but are radically undetermined.’
All our ‘examples’ of populist success – even the meagre one of LDPR – indicate the dissatisfaction among voters with the status-quo. Of course, the electoral contexts are completely different. However, even in the authoritarian system of Russia where the ruling party is guaranteed a large majority – indeed constitutional majority, absolute support for the status quo fell significantly. Is this like the Jacksonian interpretation of Trump’s victory in US? In a way, yes. LDPR and to a degree the other ‘systemic opposition’ can access not people’s ideology, but a set of deeply held values that go back in time and are formative of aspects of the Russian state’s character itself: fear of enemies, the urge for social justice in a kind of ‘deserving estates’ form (many of my informants come from labour aristocracies fallen on hard times). There is also fear and awe of the state as a punitive mechanism in equal measure, and support from the individualist estates of Russian society – small business, skilled and technical workers. But again, like Jacksonian values there are contradictions indicative of the cultural-historical roots of such populism, with LDPR voters also responding to ideas about just claims of ‘equality of dignity and right’ based on self-reliance and in-group membership of a folk community (Russel Mead 1999: 12-14).
This entry was posted in LDPR, new media, political ethnography, populism, Trump, working-class, Zhirinovsky on 02/12/2016 by Jeremy Morris.
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill., May 1, 2018 – The Poultry Science Association Foundation (PSA Foundation) was pleased to recognize Mr. Nathan Anders as the recipient of the Inaugural Dr. James H. and Shirley H. Endowed Memorial Scholarship during the Poultry Science Club Awards Banquet, April 14, 2018, in College Station, TX. Mr. Anders is currently a junior enrolled in the Department of Poultry Science at Texas A&M University with a dual major in Agricultural Science. Dr. Denton, Executive Director of the Poultry Science Association Foundation, established the scholarship in memory of his beloved wife Shirley, who was admired by faculty and students in Poultry Science for her support of Dr. Denton as faculty advisor for the Poultry Science Club. Dr. Denton served as Poultry Marketing Specialist with the Texas Agricultural Service beginning in 1977. Later at Texas A&M University he served as Associate Department Head-Extension and Department Head in Poultry Science. Contribution of the Poultry Science Department Family at Texas A&M University was recognized by both Shirley and Dr. Denton for the value in shaping their lives throughout their career.
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REVIEW: “FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY” (2019) MGM
A movie, whether based on a true story or fictional one, may be a blend of both facts and fictionalized scenes and events. “FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY” seems to be case in point depending on whom you speak to. But instead of pointing out fact v. fiction, just sit back watch and enjoy this one folks. Let go of the being overly critical all the time as ‘Fighting with my Family’ might have its flaws and not be completely true down to the line, it definitely does have its charms.
Probably the first thing you will do is a double take on the director and writer and make sure if it is THE Stephen Merchant doing triple duty here writing/directing/starring in this film. Turns out it is, which immediately ups the ‘interesting’ level a notch or two. Even more crazy is to think that Merchant did not know a thing about wrestling before taking on the project.
Inspired by the story of the Knight family, the film tells the story of Saraya “Paige” Bevis (Florence Pugh) and her desire to become a female wrestler. With the odds against her, along with a family of completely wrestling crazed parents in dad Ricky (Nick Frost), mom Julia (Lena Heady) and brother Zak (Jack Lowden), all of whom put on wrestling shows and train others in Norwich, a small suburb in the UK. Paige and her brother get called up for a WWE tryout, but with only Paige making the cut, Zak is completely devastated and Paige must deal with not only this, but the drastic change her life is taking and the hard road to living out her dream of being a WWE Superstar.
The next hour is filled with what it’s like to attend the WWE school of hard knocks led by Hutch (Vince Vaughn), and how to alienate and then make best friends with your competition. This part can sometimes just be all to consuming as we’ve seen this type of story many times before. Overcoming adversity to win the challenge at the end and it’s here that the film can’t help feeling clichéd. The saving grace here is the flashbacks to Zak being left behind in Norwich and where his life is heading, or seemingly not heading to and it’s got some truly lovely, heartwarming story line. But training montage footage galore, sibling rivalry leading to a profound confrontation that resolves the issue, and the underdog overcoming the odds gives no surprises to the ending. Now of course, it’s going to pump in the Hollywood magic to try to help the movie. The Rock is throughout the movie, and while he wasn’t truly vital to Paige’s career, his scenes are fun. The actors do an amazing job with their roles, and have very good comedic chemistry. This movie is witty and charming but at times, it’s all over the place.
The initial presentation of the Knight family rang true, authentic and affable. Putting it in their actual home was a good idea. Frost and Headey were great in the roles as Paige’s parents and Puge did a very good job as Paige. Lowden as her brother made a good mentor, but it also tried to take the high road and make Paige an angelic character. However, from what I understand, if you are a fan of Paige or the Knight family at all, you will quickly start to see fictionalized moments, exaggerations and inaccuracies. These are something that as a viewer who has no knowledge of the wrestling world, will not impact in the slightest. No matter this situation, everyone will recognize names such as Hulk Hogan and ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin – and of course The Rock with his signature “If you smell what The Rock is cooking” done a few times for good measure – makes you realize how far this guy has come.
Overall, the film maintains a good balance of comedy and drama and you don’t need to know anything about WWE or sports entertainment to enjoy the film. Merchant does a good job for his first run here.
Grade: C+
Review Screening Monday, February 11, 2019 ~ courtesy of LAFTV meetup
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One to Another
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The Savannah College of Art and Design Presidential Fellowships for Faculty Development provide opportunities for SCAD faculty to enhance their teaching skills or contribute to professional, scholarly or creative development.
Sandra Reed is one of fourteen fellowship recipients for this cycle.
The fellowship project in brief: To explore the companion portrait format, which bespeaks rigid convention, and in many ways, exclusion; to place contemporary families within this form, such as same-sex and multiracial couples, and other unions that are indicative of contemporary times; of which I consider all to be positive role models in general and in specific.
The goals and objectives of the fellowship project are outlined below. Completed actions are discussed in the pages and categories, at right.
Project Goal 1. Model professional practice.
Objective 1. Renew individual creative practice.
Objective 2. Revisit the subject of human likeness.
Objective 3. Study historical companion portraits.
Objective 4. Explore contemporary themes within an established portrait tradition.
Project Goal 2. Offer related study opportunities for SCAD community.
Objective 5: Offer three Portrait Sessions for SCAD community.
Objective 6. Exhibit one or more pendant pair at the SCAD Museum.
Objective 7: Highlight historical pendant portraits in the SCAD Museum permanent collection, such as Mr. & Mrs. Greatorex by Joseph Wright of Derby ca 1790 through programming (artist talk or other presentation) for the SCAD and Savannah community.
Objective 8: Document work for SCAD Digital Image Database and personal website.
Project Goal 3: Participate in larger community of artists and educators.
Objective 9: Seek opportunity to present related paper at SECAC 2010.
The award is based upon selection criteria including the following:
1. The extent to which the award will enhance the future performance of the individual’s duties as a faculty member.
2. A clear indication that the award will benefit students, the department and the institution.
3. Length of time since previous funding was awarded by the college.
4. Evidence of the applicant’s record of teaching, scholarly or creative activity.
5. Merit of the project as described in the narrative (significance of the project to the discipline, appropriateness of the budget request, project design, feasibility of the objectives, etc.)
Reed received a stipend to augment costs of study travel, studio supplies, model recognition, framing, and documentation. The name of this website, One to Another, is based on the relationship that exists between Reed and the portrait subjects, as well as (more apparently) the relationship between the subjects of the related companion works.
Reed proposed the following evaluation criteria for the Fellowship:
Have works of art been completed and selected works framed? Complete list at right (Inventory). Yes, fifteen works framed.
Has SCAD Museum had the opportunity to plan an educational showing? The SCAD Museum does not currently exhibit the works in its collection to which this project relates. In lieu, two works were exhibited in DeFine Art 2010, one in 2011. Fifteen works were exhibited at DePree Art Center in End of the Line in 2011.
Has the Visual Resource Center had the opportunity to select Fellowship works for the SCAD Digital Image Database?
Have selected Fellowship works been added to the artist’s website? Yes, via this blog, which is linked to sandrareedfineart.com
Were three Portrait Sessions offered? Yes, see Portrait Workshop category at right.
Has a panel and/or paper abstract been submitted to SECAC 2010 (deadline Jan 1, 2010)? Yes, “Companion Portraits and the Contemporary Family” was accepted for and presented on the About Face session at SECAC 2010 in Richmond, VA.
Pendant portraiture historically features a man and woman in celebration of betrothal or marriage. Each companion portrait is a resolved and stand-alone work in itself: unlike a diptych, the works are not physically attached to one another. Each work is visually related to its companion by the pose, gaze, lighting, and setting of the subjects; formal elements such as color and value; materials such as media and support; format (the size and shape of the painting); and frames. Each portrait gains new meaning by its relationship to the companion image. For the purposes of this project, companion portraits will include diptych and recto-verso forms in addition to the standard separated works.
Companion portraits evolved from the tradition for commissioned triptych altarpieces to depict the donors on opposite sides of the central image. They also correspond with the rise of the nuclear family within Western civilization, and are found from the early 16 century onward most frequently in Dutch, Italian, English, and later, American collections. The scale of private residences was a factor in the popularity of companion portraiture, which more readily accommodate two smaller works, for instance, on either side of a doorway or fireplace, than one single larger work. The changing nature of contemporary family structure empowers pendant portraiture as a conceptual form. Pendant portraiture takes on additional meaning when the subjects typify contemporary relationships, such as a multicultural and same-sex couples. Single-parent families reference life expectancy and family size (an only child caring for an aged parent, once rare, is increasingly common) as well as social mores (the acceptance of unmarried or divorced parents).
Tradition places the man on the left and the woman on the right in a companion pair. The left hand side (stage right) is strongly associated with paternal authority. In companion portraits, reading left to right, one encounters the husband first. He is often shown in a pose which gestures toward his spouse or betrothed, as his gaze engages the viewer. The left side is associated with political power as well: when a photograph is taken of a handshake, the individual on the left appears dominant as his/her hand covers the hand of the individual to the right.* Even in burial, the husband is typically placed in the left-hand vault.* Although the husband is situated on the left in a majority of cases, pragmatic or conceptual reasons account for rather frequent exceptions. The man might be placed on the right (stage left) due to the appearance of a particular sitter (to achieve a flattering view); the direction of light in the studio; visual balance; or design (to incorporate attributes or props). An artist might consciously place the woman in the left-hand position, the seat of authority, for any of these reasons, as well as a conceptual statement, to characterize the relationship, or for expressive reasons.
In formal terms, illumination is a central unifying feature of companion portraits. Commonly, the primary light source may be centered between the subjects or be placed on one side. In the standard three-quarter view (angled) pose, the face of both subjects would be illuminated in the former scenario; and the face of one subject would be shaded in the latter. Separate light sources might be placed to ‘push’ the subjects together; the side (rather than face) of each subject would be illuminated in this situation. There are many other lighting possibilities and considerations (e.g., natural or artificial, high or low). The color of light may indicate cultural origins, or serve the concept. For instance, complementary colors may be used to suggest completion through opposites. Fluorescent paint may suggest spirituality.
Many companion portraits have been separated. A striking case in point is the del Porto family pair. Painted by Veronese for their Venetian home, the painting of mother and daughter is in the Walters Museum and the painting of father and son is in the Ufizzi. If a powerful family lineage cannot hold the companion pieces together, then what can? Documentation (such as the project blog), and experts in provenance will help determine the existence of a companion work.
The pendant portrait form is not limited to the relationship of marriage. There are historical examples of sibling pendant portraits, such as a pair of sisters painted by David, and the Spencer siblings by Gainsborough. In Memling’s now-dismembered triptych of Abbot von Crabbe’s ordination, his mother and brother are placed in the side panels (each with their respective patron saint). Diptychs of donor and patron saint abound. Most commonly, a donor would request to be paired with the Virgin and Child. In an early Netherlandisch work, Abbess Jean du Boubais commissioned a most interesting work from Jeanne Bellagambe. A Cistercian monk, for whom she commissioned the work, is seen with St. Bernard on the right facing side; to the left is the Virgin Mary at the moment of miraculous lactation. Her portrait is featured on the back of the Cisterican monk’s portrait. It is believed that the painting is a visual statement of submission to newly-mandated rules governing convent life. Similarly, after a bitter disagreement, Thomas Jefferson commissioned John Singleton Copley to paint Samuel Adams’ portrait, and reportedly hung it in his parlor, side by side with his own earlier portrait by Copley, to demonstrate his renewed allegiance. Clearly, companion portraiture is a powerful statement of familial and political affinity.
In my opinion, the best portraits are works in which money did not change hands: the artist was not paid to create the work and the subject was not paid to model. The creative equation is freed from the restraints of commerce. It seems true, however, that pendant portraits are far more likely to be commissioned works than other portraits. In this regard, my project takes on unfamiliar territory in that I am creating pendant portraits that have not been commissioned. After more than twenty-five sessions with nine couples, no one has asked either about compensation or what happens to these drawings and other works when they are complete. The equation is one of trust and collaboration.
*Thanks to Professor Lancaster for bringing these to my attention.
SCAD community members may access the Visual Resource Center’s Digital Image Database to view several dozen companion portraits by selecting all entries under “Category” and entering “Companion” under “Subject Type.”
Most artists are trained in traditions so that our own creations may achieve the depth and richness built on the myriad of works which preceeded our own. Without understanding and valuing traditions, an artist will only be able to draw from his/her own intuition to make their work. Traditions offer solutions, devices, and a comfortable place to add one’s own expression. That being said, ultimately, our work reflects our time, our ideas, our world views, our emotions, our abilities both as technician and as poet. Tradition, like everything else must be subject to sacrifice to get at the essence of a concept.
Pendant portraits offer the recipient of such works a window into a communication between the souls and characters of the portrayed as seen and felt by the artist. Ideally, when a painter paints a portrait, as he/she paints anything, his/her mind must be free to capture the essence of that moment, free from the weight of history, from expectations of the end result and payment schedule, so that the work may reflect the honesty of its time and thus have a chance to hang along side the works of the artist’s heroes. No standard of measurement can exist from conception to final strokes except those of the artist’s own ability to make magic with paint, brush, knife, and hands.
The relationship forged between the artist and his/her subject cannot be undervalued. The artist, trained to nurture their already hightened sense of empathy, sees beyond the surface of the subject, noting posture, gesture, facial expression, and surroundings to find a poetic concept they can capture for the benefit of all. The model, amature of painting, vulnerable to the creative pursuit of the painter, surrenders to the moment so that the artist can see his/her real self. To an artist, there is no purer passage of time than when painting a subject from life; sexual, primordial, yet refined and temporal. The journey through a portrait is defined by the layers of paint, the marks of agony covered by discovery and triumph. An artist arrives at the end not by formula but by exhausting every opportunity to make the work better.
To me, the successful pendant ensemble is more like a dyptich in that a dialog exists between both works which cannot be expressed fully were they not together. The artist lives for the opportunity to create this dialog, the underlying message not necessarily revealed to the casual viewer. As important as it is to understand and nod to tradition, an artist has to be able to pierce the fabric of all the corruptive forces surrounding him/her to get to the essence of the idea, in this case the depiction of a dialog between two souls.
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Comment by Andrew Petrov — September 14, 2009 @ 4:33 am
I thoroughly enjoyed seeing your well developed and recognizable style ported over to portraiture.It was a rewarding tour and I shall return often and encourage others to do the same.
Comment by Edward — October 14, 2009 @ 1:19 pm
I was not at all aware of pendant portraiture before this. And yet it has some significant connections to the direction my work is going in. I am interested in researching it further and already considering ways I might incorporate it into my future work with landscapes and images from nature instead of people.
Comment by Bernadette Waystack — January 11, 2010 @ 3:20 pm
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Contemporary companion portraits – by Damien Hirst
Pendant pairs of a different sort.
SECAC 2010 Panel / Paper Proposal Abstracts
Second pair of rare pendant portraits of pre-Civil War black couple found in Philly
Sequence ?
Jacque – Rigo – Jesse paintings in-progress
Jacque – Rigo – Jesse drawings
12/05/09 “Couples Discourse”
11/24-12/1/2009 Jacque-Rigo-Jesse
11/29/09 MoMA – Mirror.
11/27/09 An Evening at the Met
11/09 On Exhibit – deFINE ART 2009.
10/09 On Exhibit – Nat’l Juried Exhibit
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The First “World War,” also known as the
Great War, took place after the turn of the century from 1914 to 1918,
and was named this because it was the first conflict of global proportions.
The war resulted in the loss of military lives and the near destruction
of Europe. The massive destruction of the war was largely
a result of the use of technology in warfare. The use of technology
in warfare was a result of the industrial revolution at the end of
the nineteenth century which brought mechanization and mass production
to society. This brought the use of things never used or heard of
into the war and included airplanes, submarines, and tanks, as well as
radio communications, machine guns, and poison gas. The use of submarines
played a major part in getting the U.S. to join the war.
With the launching of the Dreadnought,
the first battle ship to concentrate all artillery power to massive twelve
inch guns and break the twenty knot speed barrier, the worlds navies became
obsolete overnight. The world powers were rushing to build a new
class of war ships to replace the older out dated ones. Germany and
England soon became entrapped in a naval arms race, with each trying
keep pace with the others building program. When the War arrived
in 1914, both Germany and England had navies made up of heavily armed capital
ships, which were large heavily armed and thickly armored battle ships
such as Destroyers. The world waited for the clash of Germanys high
seas fleet and Englands Grand fleet. The Great War ships only
had a few encounters such as in the battle at Jutland and Dogger while
the underestimated and largely overlooked submarine would play a revolutionary
In the Wars second month Germanys tiny
U-boat fleet made up of only twenty six submarines and ranking fifth in
size among the wars combatants demonstrated the tremendous offensive potential
of the “Underseeboot”. On September 5th, 1914 commanding officer
on the U-21 Korvettenkapitan Otto Hersing found the British light cruiser
Pathfinder moving toward his position, submerging the U-boat had only to
wait till the Pathfinder was within his range. He fired a single
torpedo and hit the Pathfinder accurately and the ship went down in under
four minutes with heavy loss of life. The true eye opener came
merely seventeen days later when the U-9, under the command of Kapitanleutnant
otto Weddigen, sank three 10,000 ton British armored cruisers, Aboukir,
Houge, and Cressy in the course of only one hour using five torpedoes.
Approximately one thousand four hundred British sailors lost their lives
in the attack and the loss of three capital ships was embarrassing to the
British Navy. Naval establishments around the world sat up and took
notice at that point. The sinking of the British cruisers had
proven the submarines worth to the military as an offensive weapon but
its use against merchant shipping brought the weapon its own place in the
military world. On February 4, 1915 angered by the British blockade
of the North Sea, Germany declared the water around the British Isles a
war zone. Germany now would sink all merchant vessels found
in those waters without warning. This was the first time the world
had seen a form of unrestricted submarine warfare on merchant shipping.
As result England was receiving no goods from the outside world which
was very nearly starving out England because of the unmerciful nature of
the German attacks.
The United States, long a neutral spectator
to the war, found herself slowly being drawn into the conflict. Before
her entry in 1917 a warning was sent by Germany that American waters would
not be immune to the U-boat threat. Germans sent two voyages to the
town of Newport, Rhode Island in that same year. After the United
states entered the war on April 6, 1917 they waited for a reappearance
of the submarines for months before seeing another U-boat. When they
finally did it was for the sinking of the American ship S.S. Carolina.
The S.S. Carolina was a five thousand
ton passenger liner transporting over 217 passengers from San Juan, Puerto
Rico, to New York City. When a message was intercepted by a wireless
operator that the Isabel B. Wiley was sunk by a German U-boat, no
more that fifteen miles away, the message was instantly sent to the S.S.
Carolina. Captain Barbour then put his ship in a defensive zig zag
pattern to make the ship a less easy target but it was too late. The U-boat
had already fired shells in to the ships wake disabling it.
The captain fearing for the safety of his passengers then loaded the life
boats and as soon as they were clear of the ship witnessed the U-boat fire
shell upon shell till the S.S. Carolina rolled over and sank. No
lives were lost in the sinking but later life boat number five was overturned
and 13 people were drowned. By doing this the Germans
not only insured American involvement in the war but they were also taking
their own losses.
In 1915 Germany was also losing heavily
to British submarines and the most successful of these attacks was the
Submarine Massacre of 1915. October 10-11, 1915 the British
submarine E19, in the command of Lieutenant-Commander Francis Cromie was
patrolling south of the Swedish island Oland when they spotted a German
cargo steamer and the crew was made to abandon the steamer so the British
crew could sink it, but they were unable to sink it due to rough weather.
The following morning E19 hailed the 75m long German steamer S/S Walther
Leonhardt loaded with iron ore from Sweden. The crew was ordered
to enter the life boat and the ship was detonated with explosive
in the hull. Later that morning another ship loaded with ore from
Sweden, that had witnessed the previous sinking was spotted but refused
to stop being chased by the submarine at surface speed with deck
guns firing till it ran aground near the coast. The sub crew then
placed dynamite in the hold but failed to sink her. About 1
pm another ship, this time a 100m German ship called the S/S Gutrune, was
stopped and after the crew was safely in the life boat was sunk using
valves and pumps on the hold.
Submarine warfare played a major part
in World War 1 and was just as important as all the trench battles on the
Eastern Front. In most cases gained much more victories and
losses in a much quicker fashion than the trenches. The battles in
the trenches were long and resulted in much more loss of life while the
naval battles in most cases helped bring about the end of the war.
They played the part of starving out Germany and bringing a halt
to the war just by barricading trade. If not for the use of submarines
in the war it would have been a much longer war and would probably have
resulted in complete destruction of Europe. Also if Germans had not
used the submarine when it did Americas entering in the war would
have been prolonged and the allies would probably have lost.
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Clips From Last Night: Exclusive with PM Netanyahu
On last night's "Piers Morgan Tonight", Piers Morgan had an exclusive interview with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the current state of the Middle East. "Gadhafi is no friend of Israel," he said. "He's not friend of the Jewish people. And I think his people can see now, he's no friend of the Libyan people."
Piers also asked Netanyahu about the murder of the family in the West Bank. Here was his response:
Netanyahu told Piers, "We're now looking for the killers. We'll find them."
Watch tonight for more from Israel and Saturday when the Netanyahu interview will be replayed in full.
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Melissa Pierson
Why did Piers keep interrupting Prime Minister Netanyahu? Not only was it very annoying and disrespectful, but also we wanted to hear what the Prime Minister had to say.
I agree with Melissa. I was so embarrassed when Piers kept interrupting the Prime Minister. I was also embarrassed that Piers Morgan would be so presumptuous as to claim to speak for the majority when Piers shockingly began giving advice to the Prime Minister on policy decisions which have far reach consequences that Piers Morgan cannot possibly understand in the way that Netanyahu so intimately and wisely understands. Piers Morgan seemed rude, unsophisticated, and I am positive he made the Prime Minister wonder why he had even granted CNN an interview.
I was very impressed with the Israeli Prime Minister's keen intelligence, wisdom, and graceful handling of the shockingly rude and embarrassing interview.
Barbara Ingram
I absolutely agree!!! I am watching the exclusive now (2 days later) and I am appalled at the rudeness and disrespect from Piers Morgan!!!!! I will never watch another show of his! The PM should have walked out! I would have! HOW RUDE!!!!
Gary Anadolian
I'm no friend to Palestinians but they do have the right to leave as a human being and have the right to have a state. I'm no friend to Israel but they deserve to live in peace in Israel. This is the first time I really enjoyed watching an interview that made any Israeli official hard to respond. I applaud Piers on his remarkable job and I wish that all others would have the same strength to follow in his footsteps to any leaders in the world without the fear that they may lose their job. Yes, I agree with Maya, He did interrupt PM a few times to PM, but he did that just to make sure that he hears his questions answered truthfully. Again, I applaud Piers and I hope he will keep doing a wonderful job in this path and also hope that he will interview Hamas leader with the same direct questions as well. Good Luck piers, job well done.
To all of you that angry with Piers about yesterday interview should consider thinking that the interview was not about being rude, it was all about hearing the right answers. I know most of you probably are Jew, and I don't blame you being angry, but how long we going to have the right Israeli PM to have the balls to find the peace with Palestinians. If we don't have this type’s of direct questions to any Israeli officials, we will never have the right answers. PM Netanyahu was elected for a second time and he is repeating the same mistakes as he did before. Basically, his not interested in peace, he just interested to humiliate the Palestinians until they give up their homeland. I applaud Pier's for his courage and honesty I can only wish him success in his future interviews. Keep up the good work. My Jewish friends before you are critic to Piers please read the history and applaud Piers.
MELISSA MUST BE A JEW. LEADERS ARE TO BE TREATED AS TYPICAL CITIZENS. BOTTOM LINE. PIERS CAN ASK WHAT EVER HE WANTS. AND HAS THE RIGHT TO QUESTION ANYONE. SO GET OFF YOUR JEW POST. THE P.M. ACTED AS A CITIZEN AND ANSWERED AS HE SHOULD HAVE, SO WAKE UP MELISSA. YOU ARE A JEW PROBLEM.
Melissa,
You are 100% right! Piers wasn't interested in what Netanyahu had to say. He kept firing questions and was quite abrasive. Interviewers are supposed to be non-biased but his clearly showed through.
I like Piers Morgan BUT the interview last night with Prime Minister Netanyahu was NOT his best interview. Piers constantly interrupted, did not speak to the Prime Minister with respect, and asked inappropriate questions that were not for public knowledge. Prime Minister Netanyahu was very gracious in the way he replied to Piers. I suggest that if Piers is going to act like a bully, perhaps he is in the wrong job.
In the future, perhaps if CNN journalists disagree with their interviewee they can speak either before or after instead of during the answers to their questions. Mr. Morgan paused just long to pretend he was listening and then interrupted with his own opinions/agenda. It was extremely grating as I wanted to hear the rest of the answer!
I've never seen him be this rude and disrespectful with any of his other guests. I won't be watching him again.
As if Netanyahu didn't have an "agenda"? Interviews of controversial political figures are worthless unless they ask pointed questions on the issues. This was not an interview of the Pillsbury bake-off winner. I thought Morgan didn't ask enough tough questions. He made only loose references to the 44 years of international condemnation of Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine. Which btw, has also been condemned by every US President since the 1970s.
I am done with Piers...what a jerk. I have been watching him since Larry King retired, but I am done with him
Totally agree. I can't imagine Morgan being that disrespectful and rude to Obama or any other PM or President. I haven't watched Morgan previously, but I have to say I was really underwhelmed with his depth of knowledge and questions. I would have liked to have referred to him as Mr. Morgan here, but, alas, he fall short of earning that respect.
Completely agree. Some people can't take the truth.
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Pier Morgan was brillant; he was not overly aggresive. He was tough, bold, direct. The Prime Minister was great, cool, answered with sharp wit. I think of all the interviews Pier had since he took Larry King chair, this is number one in my judgment.
Carl Grentich
Piers Morgan's arrogant, rude, and inappropriate behavior in the interview of Mr. Netanyahu was expected. He was, after all, born and raised in Ireland, and is obviously heavily biased towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I had not watched his interviews until now, and I surely will not be watching them in the future.
Onu Rahman
Piers Morgan's interview with Israel's Prime Minister was brilliant, direct and to the point.It is one of the best interview
i have watched.
Melissa, Was he really rude or is it just you and and all the other intimidators here ( a strategy so commonly used by supporters of Isreal to suppress the media) didnt like what you heard.
BTW that strategy is getting old so you might try a new one!
Why dont we look at the UN resolutions passed against Isreal till 1992. Keep in mind this list does not include those from 1992 thru 2011 and the dozens of other resolutions the were vetoed...... DO I need say more ?
Resolution 106: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for Gaza raid".
* Resolution 111: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for raid on Syria that killed fifty-six people".
* Resolution 127: " . . . 'recommends' Israel suspends it's 'no-man's zone' in Jerusalem".
* Resolution 162: " . . . 'urges' Israel to comply with UN decisions".
* Resolution 171: " . . . determines flagrant violations' by Israel in its attack on Syria".
* Resolution 228: " . . . 'censures' Israel for its attack on Samu in the West Bank, then under Jordanian control".
* Resolution 237: " . . . 'urges' Israel to allow return of new 1967 Palestinian refugees".
* Resolution 248: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for its massive attack on Karameh in Jordan".
* Resolution 250: " . . . 'calls' on Israel to refrain from holding military parade in Jerusalem".
* Resolution 251: " . . . 'deeply deplores' Israeli military parade in Jerusalem in defiance of Resolution 250".
* Resolution 252: " . . . 'declares invalid' Israel's acts to unify Jerusalem as Jewish capital".
* Resolution 256: " . . . 'condemns' Israeli raids on Jordan as 'flagrant violation".
* Resolution 259: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's refusal to accept UN mission to probe occupation".
* Resolution 262: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for attack on Beirut airport".
* Resolution 265: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for air attacks for Salt in Jordan".
* Resolution 267: " . . . 'censures' Israel for administrative acts to change the status of Jerusalem".
*Resolution 270: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for air attacks on villages in southern Lebanon".
* Resolution 271: " . . . 'condemns' Israel's failure to obey UN resolutions on Jerusalem".
* Resolution 279: " . . . 'demands' withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon".
* Resolution 280: " . . . 'condemns' Israeli's attacks against Lebanon".
* Resolution 285: " . . . 'demands' immediate Israeli withdrawal form Lebanon".
* Resolution 298: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's changing of the status of Jerusalem".
* Resolution 313: " . . . 'demands' that Israel stop attacks against Lebanon".
* Resolution 316: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for repeated attacks on Lebanon".
* Resolution 317: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's refusal to release Arabs abducted in Lebanon".
* Resolution 332: " . . . 'condemns' Israel's repeated attacks against Lebanon".
* Resolution 337: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for violating Lebanon's sovereignty".
* Resolution 347: " . . . 'condemns' Israeli attacks on Lebanon".
* Resolution 425: " . . . 'calls' on Israel to withdraw its forces from Lebanon".
* Resolution 427: " . . . 'calls' on Israel to complete its withdrawal from Lebanon.
* Resolution 444: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's lack of cooperation with UN peacekeeping forces".
* Resolution 446: " . . . 'determines' that Israeli settlements are a 'serious
obstruction' to peace and calls on Israel to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention".
* Resolution 450: " . . . 'calls' on Israel to stop attacking Lebanon".
* Resolution 452: " . . . 'calls' on Israel to cease building settlements in occupied territories".
* Resolution 465: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's settlements and asks all member
states not to assist Israel's settlements program".
* Resolution 467: " . . . 'strongly deplores' Israel's military intervention in Lebanon".
* Resolution 468: " . . . 'calls' on Israel to rescind illegal expulsions of
two Palestinian mayors and a judge and to facilitate their return".
* Resolution 469: " . . . 'strongly deplores' Israel's failure to observe the
council's order not to deport Palestinians".
* Resolution 471: " . . . 'expresses deep concern' at Israel's failure to abide
by the Fourth Geneva Convention".
* Resolution 476: " . . . 'reiterates' that Israel's claim to Jerusalem are 'null and void'".
* Resolution 478: " . . . 'censures (Israel) in the strongest terms' for its
claim to Jerusalem in its 'Basic Law'".
* Resolution 484: " . . . 'declares it imperative' that Israel re-admit two deported
Palestinian mayors".
* Resolution 487: " . . . 'strongly condemns' Israel for its attack on Iraq's
nuclear facility".
* Resolution 497: " . . . 'decides' that Israel's annexation of Syria's Golan
Heights is 'null and void' and demands that Israel rescinds its decision forthwith".
* Resolution 498: " . . . 'calls' on Israel to withdraw from Lebanon".
* Resolution 501: " . . . 'calls' on Israel to stop attacks against Lebanon and withdraw its troops".
* Resolution 509: " . . . 'demands' that Israel withdraw its forces forthwith and unconditionally from Lebanon".
* Resolution 515: " . . . 'demands' that Israel lift its siege of Beirut and
allow food supplies to be brought in".
* Resolution 517: " . . . 'censures' Israel for failing to obey UN resolutions
and demands that Israel withdraw its forces from Lebanon".
* Resolution 518: " . . . 'demands' that Israel cooperate fully with UN forces in Lebanon".
* Resolution 520: " . . . 'condemns' Israel's attack into West Beirut".
* Resolution 573: " . . . 'condemns' Israel 'vigorously' for bombing Tunisia
in attack on PLO headquarters.
* Resolution 587: " . . . 'takes note' of previous calls on Israel to withdraw
its forces from Lebanon and urges all parties to withdraw".
* Resolution 592: " . . . 'strongly deplores' the killing of Palestinian students
at Bir Zeit University by Israeli troops".
* Resolution 605: " . . . 'strongly deplores' Israel's policies and practices
denying the human rights of Palestinians.
* Resolution 607: " . . . 'calls' on Israel not to deport Palestinians and strongly
requests it to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention.
* Resolution 608: " . . . 'deeply regrets' that Israel has defied the United Nations and deported Palestinian civilians".
* Resolution 636: " . . . 'deeply regrets' Israeli deportation of Palestinian civilians.
* Resolution 641: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's continuing deportation of Palestinians.
* Resolution 672: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for violence against Palestinians
at the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount.
* Resolution 673: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's refusal to cooperate with the United
* Resolution 681: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's resumption of the deportation of
Palestinians.
* Resolution 694: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's deportation of Palestinians and
calls on it to ensure their safe and immediate return.
* Resolution 726: " . . . 'strongly condemns' Israel's deportation of Palestinians.
* Resolution 799: ". . . 'strongly condemns' Israel's deportation of 413 Palestinians
and calls for there immediate return.
T Oliver
great list, I agree and second the motion.....Resolution 800?
To AJ and others:
Number of issued UN resolutions against Israel does not prove anything. Unfortunatelly it only tells the sad story what UN has become ... I wonder if people know that Palestinians (and other) Arabs simply do not recognize Israel as a state and often speak about their "Palestine" as the whole territory from Jordan to the Medit.sea (you can see that for example in the textbooks on geography in schools). Is it very sad that the propaganda of hatred against Israel is taken as a reality and truth and even like a justice 😦
JOHN ROOSEVELT
You forgot Security (not General Assembly) Resolution 1701: calling for the disarming of Hizbollah – now, in flagrant violation of international law..not General Assembly opinions.
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Thank you AJ
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Thank you for posting this, the following video more then give you the answers you seek
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhWgZu6tcZU&w=640&h=360]
Bonnie Johnson
AJ, Can you remember any resolutions the UN imposed on the Palestinians when it was found out that they had been transporting bomb material and and terrorists in UN ambulances?
AJ, its great to finally read a sane, moral, ethical comment. Keep it up!
Perhaps, AJ, you could check out the Durban II Conference reports where Israel AND the U.S. left as a result of negative Israeli/anti-semitic sentiments expressed there.
AJ, I'm down to Resolution 279 and there are a lot of reaffirmations, not new resolutions and they are so far from 1953 to 1970, in the past!
#271 is about Denise Michael Rohan who tried to set fire to the AL Aqsa Mosque, yet Israel is blamed for this guy (who was tried and found to be insane) being able to sneak around and do that?
Excellent post, AJ!
AJ, This was in our local paper dated Sunday, March 20, 2011..........Rockets fired..........Jerusalem, Israel – Palestinian militants in Gaza fired more than 50 rockets into Israel on Saturday, the heaviest barrage in two years, Israel officials said. A Hamas official was killed and four civilians were wounded when Israel hit back with tank fire and air strikes. (Your World in Five Minutes by the Associated Press).
Now, if Israel could be held responsible for some nut job trying to burn down the Al Aqsa mosque, why can't the Palestinian Authority be held responsible for allowing this?
I wonder if there will be a UN Resolution comdemning this? Don't hold your breath people!
Hmmmmmm, maybe the Palestinians watched the interview with Mr. Netanyahu too, think this could be their answer to Pier's suggestion that Netanyahu go to Ramallah?
This is a good site that shows the character assination of Israel by the Palestinians:
http://www.palwatch.org/site/modules/cartoons/cartoons.aspx?fld_id=latest&doc_id=2377
What a pathetic post. Obviously, from a biased, Israel hater. You forgot to post the UN resolutions against the Palestinians and Hamas for their terrorist and murderous acts against Israeli civilians in the past 60 years. You also forgot to post the UN resolutions against the neighboring Arab dictators, who oppress their citizens, kill and imprison their political opponents, and treat their female citizens as sub-human. Perhaps you are a neo-nazi, perhaps an Al-Qaida sympathizer, but surely not an intellectual, or a clear thinker.
Elie Abitbol
You seem to be an intelligent person. You have complied a great list of all the UN resolutions against Israel.
You should now be fair and mention the sponsors.
Why don't you spend your time trying to convince your brothers of the futility of their dreams..
It took the Jewish people 2000 years to return to Zion and this time we will not leave.
Accept this reality and take what is given to you. You have wasted enough opportunities already.
Make peace and you will live with honour. Refuse it and you will live in misery and destruction.
canon ball
I am watching the interview right now and I just created an account just to say the same thing. Pierce was annoying, interrupting everytime and throwing in an opinion as if he was a master of world affairs and knows more than the prime minister. I THINK CNN SHOULD CAREFULLY REVIEW THIS INTERVIEW AND SEE THAT HE IS NOT FIT TO BE A HOST OF ANY SHOW other than "AMERICA'S GOT TALENT". It seemed like he was trying too hard to live to a LARRY KING standard...and seemed so out of place sometimes asking same questions which the PM had already answered. I give kudos to the prime minister for remaining calm and not calling him out for his rude interruptions.
i never enjoyed a larry king interview old and boring. pierse is on point and should be even more forceful
To all who were not happy with the posting I will ask you the same question Pier asked Bibi Netanyahu. Will you want your family to live in Gaza ? No..... Non of us would. Why ? because it has been turned into an open air prison camp. 80% of people below poverty line, 70% unemployment, no proper electricity or water. Very limited vaccinations and education for children. I challenge anyone of the defenders of Bibi Netanyahu here to go live one week in Gaza....just one week and then you can post anything you want here.
AJ posted "I challenge anyone of the defenders of Bibi Netanyahu here to go live one week in Gaza….just one week and then you can post anything you want here." I have found that it does not take a week to become appalled at Israel's treatment of fellow human beings; it usually takes 24-48 hours, and the visitor need only visit the West Bank. Even though Israelis are raised from birth with anti-Arab propaganda and Apartheid, its press has more freedom than the US press. At some level, I sympathize with Americans who are upset with Mr Morgan; they just dont know any better. They live with distorted facts and re-written history from e.g., OJ Simpson's old lawyer Allan "The Case for Israel" Dershowitz. This book has been fully refuted by honest Israeli historians and of course Norman Finkelstein.
AJ, The Palestinian Authority has been stealing money for decades that has been meant for the Palestinian people. Arab countries, church groups in the U.S., the list is extensive!
That's why Yasser Arafat's wife could afford to live in Paris and Switzerland!
Don't try and lay blame on Israel, it has been said that if all the money that was meant for the Palestinian people had been used for their betterment they could be living in a place that looks like Beverly Hills instead of the bullet riddled slums they live in.
I guess body bombers and the procurement of bomb making material is much more important to the PA than the health and welfare of their own people.
Do you want to live in Iran or Darfur or China or...?
that question makes no sense.
Werner Schillmann
Yet another non-sense comment by this AJ retarded. Please educate yourself about the Middle East before posting the next comment. Maybe then you will make some sense, and not ridicule yourself with your worthless thinking.
Lets stick with the facts. There is no point getting emotional or personal. Isreal is the occupying force and thus has clear obligations towards the Palestinians under International law. Only when Isreal decides to follow thru with UN resolutions and leave West Bank and allow Palestinians to freely and openly create their own state as stated in "The road map" it cannot absolve itself of its obligations.
Noone, thank you for your comparison of Palestinians to Darfur, Iran and China (though I think Gaza is in much worst condition than China or Iran due to the blockade) Dont you think that Isreali's air, sea and land blockade has anything to do with their condition ? Even concrete and building material for construction under supervision by United Nations (which was btw needed to rebuild the 5000 homes destroyed and 50,000 damaged by IDF during Gaza war) was not allowed into Gaza. Please read the Geneva convention and more specifically article 4 for more details on collective punishment! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Geneva_Convention
Interrupt him indeed because he his still repeating the same old talking points of Israel from the past decades. At a time in history when the world need to get beyond tribal warfare . Israel is wanting to move the world backwards into tribal segregation in calling for a pure jewish homeland. we are all human and the rest of the world should not accept anystate declaring a single religion
Betty Kanter
Clive, are you stupid or incompetent?. Why can't Israel be a Jewish state?. Isn't the Vatican a Catholic country?. Or Saudi Arabia a Muslim country?. Please stop writing ridiculous statements, and go home to mommy. She is waiting for you to eat your soup and go to bed with your teddy bear.
Carl Zaisser
These people obviously believe that when Benjamin Netanyahu opens his mouth there is at least a small chance that he might speak the truth about Palestine and Israel's position in the Middle East. How unbelievably naive Americans are.
Jeevanjyot Kaur
I completely agree with Melissa.We also wanted to hear the comments of Prime Minister but Piers´s rudeness destroyed the interview.Looks like he forgot that he is not on some Talent Show.This is the first time we had seen his program and if this is the way he conducts his interviews....then we are not interested in his program anymore.His behaviour reflected signs of unprofessional.
cathy madison
I very much enjoyed your interview with Netanyahu. I don't watch nights that you have say the Kardashians or stupid celebrities but I did watch the night you had the older actresses and you did an excellent job and it was interesting. You are light years better than Larry King. I stopped watching him at least a decade ago. I love anything British especially Masterpiece Theatre. Keep up the good work and interesting interviews where we actually get enough time to really learn something. P.S, I am a right wing conservative christian women!
Excellent interview, probing questions yet not threatening, you put your guest at ease and know when to redirect the question if they stray, you shined way more in this interview than the other boring guests they throw at you. Try to stay where you belong, you have more to offer than you've showed in the past. Again great interview, everyone can take what they want from it as you kept the bias at bay.
I am happy with the interview done by Piers Morgan. He let the PM off the hook on real tough questions. There was no mention of the 1967 boarders and the UNGA/10791 which is quite clear. The concessions / onus is on the Israelis and they do not like it one bit. The PM made some reference to "flooding Israel with refugees", that flood is made up of displaced people that were born and lived in Palestine now known as Israel. It is good to see this on CNN but I suspect that the Anti-word will begin to be thrown about.
Disagree with this if you like but these are FACTS not my opinion.
UNGA10791/A/63/L.35 26 Nov 08
12.Calls upon Israel, the occupying Power, to comply strictly with its obligations under international law, including international humanitarian law, and to cease all of its measures that are contrary to international law and unilateral actions in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, that are aimed at altering the character, status and demographic composition of the Territory, including via the de facto annexation of land, and thus at prejudging the final outcome of peace negotiations; This included Israel’s construction of a wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in and around East Jerusalem.
The GA/10791 called for a two state settlement on the 1967 borders, East Jerusalem for the Palestinian State (west for Israel), and a “just” resolution to the refugee problem (”compromise")164 in favour to 7 against 3 abstentions.
The solution is not complicated. It is complicated for the Israeli government to now tell the Jewish people that they have to give back this property as it really does not belong to them which in essenence is the heart of the UNGA10791 vote, that is why the reference is made to "The Occupied Palestinian Territory"
P. Johnson
And, of course Israel will be recognized and allowed to exist?......SURRRRRRE...Or, of course, they will be protected from folks who break into a home and stab a 3 year old to death...SURRRRE!!!
kay johnson
Morgan's interview with Netanyahu sicken me he wants Israel to give the palestinians all their lands so they can murder the Jews. The land that has already been given away will be recovered by the Jews. That land belongs to the Jews always has and always will, the world has always hated and murder Jews yet they still exist, because they are God's people and no matter what happens to them they will come out on top in the end.
actually the land hasn't always belonged to the Jews. They weren't even considered Israel till after WWII...before that it was called PALATINE filled with PALESTINIAN people. Also, the Israelis are killing the Palestinians over land. why is that okay but it's not okay for the Palestinians to kill the Israeli's over their houses?
PALASTINE..my bad.
gary simon
THe Palies weren't called that till after 1967 war that they lost. To get sympathy.
the land has been a country three times in history, Israel, Israel, and Israel.
In the 1920's, when people were called Palestinians, they were talking about the Jews who lived in Paliestine.
read http://www.thereligionofpeace. The world will be a much better place when we can obliterate Islam....which is Satan
Gary you can repeat the lie from now into eternity and it won't change the fact that the illegal occupation of Palestine has been condemned by literally dozens of UN resolutions, and every US President since Carter has expressed disapproval and frustration with regard to Israel's obstinacy and intransigience. You've already lost the battle for the hearts and minds!
Megan, I don't know where you get your hateful information from, but for you to know, Israel is the only democracy in the middle east. Israel has a law of protecting lives. For example, Hamas makes Palestininas to hide weapons in their houses knowing that Israel won't drop bombs in residencial areas, and if they reject they will be killed (The Palestininans). So since Israel knows that, before they go to these homes to clear the weapons , they call these families to evacuate their homes. Many Palestinians have been treated in Israeli hospitals. Do you think any Israeli can go to Palestine without their heads chopped off? Israel has been so patient with it's enemies that no other country has ever been. With all do respect check other sources to get the truth. Anger takes most of your inteligence and common sense away.
I get my "hateful" information from Palestinian's who grew up through this and Jewish friends who have seen this when they go over to Israel to visit family who were payed to move into a settlement on Palestinian land. I have Jewish friends who refuse to go back to Israel because of what they have seen. By the way, you might want to educate yourselves on Islam before you slam it. You sound like an ignorant American who thinks every Muslim is a terrorist. Wake up call, read some websites that are not based in America because America censors a lot.
Megan If the Palestinian Arabs "barely have human rights" it's because they are under Hamas and the PA, who barely seem to understand what human rights are. Give up the use of terror as a means to an end, stop killing innocent families and civilians and address the problems in your own society instead of pawning the blame off on anyone but yourselves.
The "use of terror" is being employed by the Israeli government by their very well planned out strategy of importing orthodox jewish "settlers" (really illegal occupiers)from around the world to displace the native Palestinians. And American taxpayers subsidize it!!! 500,000 illegal "settler's" to date! They bulldoze Palestinian homes, burn their orchards, divert their water, threaten and intimidate, all under the approving eye of the Israeli tanks and IDF soldiers. The world is tired of your excuses and the stalling tactics that enable you to stuff hundreds of thousands of more Jewish religious fanatics into Palestine Territory.
Enough already of the Likud Party line propaganda "Loretta"!
Loretta, I don't know if you think I am from Palestine or whatever since you used the word "you" like you were telling me what to do....anyways, I am as white as American white bread. I just have a variety of friends both Jewish and mid-eastern and I have taken a class that deals with the Palestine/Israel conflict so I have read up a lot on it. If you live in America, You have received very stretched information and I encourage you to do your own research from sources outside of the US.
Hmmm...I wonder why the Palestinian's murdered the Israeli settlers...let's see...probably because the Israeli government is creating a holocaust-like life for the Palestinian's where they are unable to leave their houses in fear that their house will no longer be there by the time they get home. By the way, calling the Palestinian's terrorists disgusts me. They barely have human rights. They have tried peaceful protest and have seen family members killed or thrown in jail only to face years of torture so SOME Palestinian's have turned to the Israeli Zionists type of violence. Hey Netanyahu, how about you become a man of his word and create peace by staying on your own land and by stopping the Israeli government from allowing settlements and this crazy segregated world you have going on over there.
Another thing, if you have a problem with Iran or someone near you..deal with it. The U.S already contributes $3.5 BILLION per year to your horrific oppression of the Palestinians, DON'T MAKE US DO ALL YOUR DIRTY WORK.
To really educate yourself on what is going on with Israel/Palestine, go here http://ifamericansknew.org/ read some articles and see what is really going on over there, you'll be surprised..
You need to read a history book. Israel (formerly Palestine) has always been the Jews ancestral home. They want to live in peace–unlike the Palestinians. Who butchers babies and children in cold blood? The Israelis are never the aggressors but only respond to violent attackers. Why have peace efforts been rejected by Palestinians? Because they don't want peace–only Israel's destruction. Piers Morgan was a poor interviewer–too biased and abrasive to be effective.
Ancestral home? Sorry, no 3000 year old rainchecks.
Because you're stooge like Mike and Megan who cannot the historical and archaeological facts that land belongs to the Hebrew people before the conquest of Assyria, Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Roman, and Islamic Empire. The term Caanites, Hebrews and Israelites are describe as the same people
god are yo stupid. Israel has done more to help the Palies than all 23 arab countries combined. Israel gave them Gaza, they voted in Hamas, and started firing rockets at Israel.
Piers is an idiot.
And so is Megan
Incidentally, because of Israel, the Palies economy is growing, the women are the fattest on Earth because they have way too much food and are a bunch of donothings. TRUE>
Pallies economy is growing? ARE YOU KIDDING? Most Palestinian's are unable to have jobs because there is no guarantee that they will get there! Almost 17% unemployment in the West Bank and 40% in the Gaza Strip??? Is that a good economy?
Megan,thank you for telling the truth
Yes, you are correct. You are intelligent and don't listen to the rude and disrespectful posts here. It is interesting to see the Zionist war machine post right here before our eyes. The propaganda, with lies and manipulation to demonize the people of Gaza and region. Some of it is misinformation from decades, but I believe a huge portion is direct, malicious, and very intentional. One can justify the oppression from Israel if the Palestinian people are considered "unholy" and evil. One person calls then Satan? see how that works. Cheers, and thanks for the posting and smart debate.
I am deeply saddened when I read anything even remotely supportive of killing an innocent family and I would NEVER trust anyone who did so...who would or should?
For every Israeli killed in response to murders of Palestinians (almost never mentioned in the US Press), we know that about 20 Palestinians will be murders. Read the statistics. Like Gadaffi, Israel (whoever happens to me PM) sends assassins to other countries and to international waters to kill unarmed Arabs, and a number of the victims are Christians.
Maybe when israhell stops its political assassinations..land grabbing...bulldozing..
ethnic cleansing..apartheid and lies..
Hamas will stop lobbing ineffectual rockets that never cause any damage or casualties.
Mary Hartfield
Megan, I feel sorry for you... How does it feel to be brain washed and unable to think for yourself?. Were you able to graduate from high school, or a drug addiction did not allow you to do that?. Please go back to rehab; brain rehab that is. Maybe then you will have some spare time to read and learn some history, and put your confused mind in order.
john barrett
I lost alot of respect for Mr. Morgan after his interview with Prime Minister Netanyahu. I hung on every word the Prime Minister could get in, before being rudely interupted by Morgan. Would of liked to have heard his entire answer to the question's. Prime Minister Netanyahu is afascinateing World Leader, so Cool under pressure,when the World around him wants his head. To be so rudely treated by a wanna be, but isn't a reporter, speaks volume's about cnn, and the news media! Simply put...Disgraceful
I could not agree more. It is sickening watching the CNN network and hearing what the reporters have to say about Israel. Speaking of biased news networks, CNN is the worst. This is so true.
Netanyahu got all of his disingenuous Likud Party "we're the victims here" talking points in and was not challenged on any of them. It served as nothing more than a pro Israeli propaganda puff piece. Shameless and vacuous sloganeering, misinformation and disinformation. Absolutely nothing new...I repeat, absolutely NOTHING new from Netanyahu and Israel for 44 years now. The same old same old lies and excuses. And until AIPAC influence and money is banished from the legislative process in American government, there won't be anything new.
Finally someone who sees through all the BullSh!t! 🙂
There are billions of us Megan, just not in our government. But with AIPAC in the "Situation Room" what else can we expect? Right Wolf?
I agree with Megan. Piers does a tough interview. But he let the PLO PM off the hook much easier than Netanyahu
you're stupider than a Nazi.
Jews – 160 Nobel prizes.
Arabs – 5, and three were by Hindus and a Phoenician.
One Jewish country. 57 muslim countries. 23 Arab terrorist tyrannies. the average Arab in israel has far more rights than any Arab in any Arab country.
Gary now you're gonna play the "nazi" card? LOL This is exactly why you've lost the battle for the hearts and minds. You'll never learn will you? You think as long as you can roll out the "nazi" and "anti-semite" references and the "Nobel Prize" cards things are going to go as they always did. That time is past. Israel is violating THE LAW. And it's also violating humanity's sense of right and wrong. You are isolated and alone in your false indignation and hubris.
well said!!!
Maybe some day Magen, Mike and hateful people like them decide to acctually check the facts and understand the evil that exists among themselves.
Pierse do you plan to interview Mr. Abbas with the same tone and slant you used on Mr. Natanyahu? As usual nobody seems to be aware or concerned at all with what is in the Bible .
Megan needs to read her Bible the history of Israel is there past present and future.
You need to read information from outside of the US. You might change your mind. The whole issue is because Israeli Zionists (if you don't know the word look it up) believe that the holy land belongs to them. Whether right or wrong, there were people living in those areas when the Israeli government put in effect all kinds of crazy checkpoints, road blocks, even WALLS.
And since everyone thinks I'm stupid and don't know my history...The world wanted the Jews to have a homeland for a long time but it wasn't until after WWII that France and Britain decided to actually divide Palestinian land up into the Jewish land and then Palestine. Israel wasn't declared until 1948 and then the settlements started and there are millions of Palestinian refugees living in camps Lebanon unable to have jobs or education.
Have you ever read any real book about the history of the Middle East? At least you can look into wikipedia ...
Peter Hersh
Megan, how can such an incompetent, clueless, brain-washed person be so courageous to write so many stupid non-sense like you do?. Are you a frustrated muslim extremist hiding under the name of Megan?. Or an unemployed neo-nazi spreading your hate to the world?. Go back to where you belong!. If you do not know where that is, ask your mother!.
P. Miller
Piers should interview these people.... they are really trying to bring understanding and peace to real time in the world...
http://mlctoisrael.com/2011/03/18/arrival-in-jerusalem/
Israel, in 65 years it's become a major intellectual mecca. Yahoo considers Tel Aviv 'the one country who must visit before you die."
the entire Arab world is a sewer. And if you're on the Arab side, you are a sick moron.
Arabs never negotiate. THey just see somehting they want, and kill everyone till they get it. Even if it takes centuries.
They're subhumans
Antoinette Dick
I always liked Piers until this interview last night & was shocled at his arrogance, absolute rudeness & disdain displayed towards the Israeli lkeader, & the total lack of respect shown the dignity of the Israeli leader's position through Piers' many interruptions & pressing to making his own views known instead. Piers' facial expressions spoke volumes as well lending to our thinking he holds anti-Semetic views. We're both deeply disappointed and saddened!
The PR campaign is failing "Antoinette Dick". Netanyahu, Israel and you deserve all the disdain coming your way.
Kathie James
You are wrong, John Doe. Once the muslims gain control of the world, the one in disdain will be you... and your crooked, dysfunctional family. Go and spit out your hatred at your father, as he is the one who did not take good care of you, and did not provide you with the proper education. What a pity...
Jerome Upchurch
This was a great discussion that took place last night. There needs to be a series or several parts and maybe the term Hebrew will also be examined. A leveled playing field.. man against man. Thanks to Morgan, PM and CNN!
How unfortunate to see Netanyahu dragged out the tired, old, untrue "no partner for peace" phrase – just as MJ Rosenberg, a former AIPAC newletter editor, had recently predicted he would! http://politicalcorrection.org/fpmatters/201103100007
The Palestine Papers revealed that it was, in fact, Israel that proved to be "no partner for peace." According to the papers, Palestinians offered concessions that went way beyond what would have made for any kind of viable "state" and self-determination…yet Israel still refused and pressed for more.
http://aliabunimah.posterous.com/the-palestine-papers
Israel has shown it doesn’t want "peace" – not until it accomplishes its P-I-e-c-e plan and finishes taking prime arable land and water from Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank and Occupied East Jerusalem (and, who knows, perhaps some of Gaza’s natural gas, via "slant drilling"?).
The Arab peace offer of 2002 (aka Saudi Initiative) remains on the table; yet Israel refuses it. That plan – for normalized relations and peace if Israel would draw its borders on the pre-1967 "Green Line" - was offered by all of the Arab states, and the majority if not all of the non-Arab Islamic states. It was in the past few years also ratified by Hamas!
I was so disappointed with the tone and format of Mr. Morgan's interview with P.M. Benjamin Netanyahu. He seemed to treat the Prime Minister with the same disdain as does President Obama. Mr. Morgan's rude, persistent interruptions failed to allow the eloquent answers that P.M. Netanyahu attempted to share in an effort to enlighten an ignorant international world regarding Israel's historic efforts to reach a peace agreement with a culture that is only interested in spreading hatred. I would not be surprised to see Mr. Morgan's ratings slip further following this biased interview. God bless Israel.
Celine, Are you more worried about Eloquent speech or Human rights ? The questions Piers asked are long over due. Isreal is the only country in the world that has continued to occupy and subjugate the Palestiniansfor over 60 years. Humiliating and collectively punishing an entire nation and getting away with it...I wouldnt call that eloquent speech!
rude, rude, rude is Piers Morgan!
Great interview & good job Mr. Morgan !! Keep up the good work sir.....I would however like to see more world leaders if possible on your program than Hollywood (C. Sheen).
R. Travis
Piers, surely you only pretend to be so naive with the questioning of "Don't you want to be the one who goes down in history for making peace with the Palestinians?" You are aware that there is no partner for peace since you have access to same information as I do, and incase perchance my access is better, I shall gladly be of service to you..... if only it would help. Check out the link.
http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=4813
B. Goldstein
I was hoping that Piers Morgan would be up to the job. I was utterly aghast by his lack of style and maturity in handling
this important interview. He was rude, not letting the Prime Minister complete sentences and articulate his thoughts with Piers aggressively asserting his next question or his opinion. Piers showed a serious lack of sophistication and he has lost a CNN fan. Good interview technique is not about "being smarter" than your guest. It is about challenging with calm, clear and highly intelligent questions. Fortunately, Prime Minister Netanyahu is extremely intelligent but deserves a better interviewer.
Additionally, Piers seemed most comfortable siting headlines and referring to the ubiquitous "they". They say...
Sorry, Piers, you are no Tim Russert. I was hoping.
Sorry Goldstein. I think no matter who or what channel it was on you wouldnt be happy. If Pier was asking easy questions and being friendly with Bibi he would have gotten rave reviews here. Enough with the Megaphone tactics. Lets reflect for a moment and think as Human beings. If Isreal with agree to the UN resolutions and give some of the land there will finally be peace in the Holly Land.
My comment has nothing to do with the politics of the discussion or the substance that Prime Minister Netanyahu attempted to talk about. I say "attempted" because the interviewer was unbelievably unprofessional. Piers Morgan demonstrated his lack of objectivety and predetermined bias, two characteristics of an inept and essentialy unfair interviewer. More importantly, I was shocked at his rudeness. I could not believe that a third-rate media hack would have such disdain for any head of state. His tone and repeated interruptions of a Prime Minister – of any country, demean him and by extenstion, CNN. Larry King, Anderson Cooper, Barbara Walters, Oprah and a host of others would have been more civil and professional.
Shame on CNN and especually Piers Morgan. It's time for that ship to leave the pier. A new low for CNN in attempting to further meaningful discourse.
Alan I could not have said it better, I am a recent CNN viewer and I was shocked and disgusted the way Piers Morgan intviewed the Prime Minister of Israel. Common decency demands that when you ask someone a question you allow them to answer, otherwise don't ask the question. The patience and courtesy shown Piers said volumes of the character and class of the Prime Minister. May Prime Minister Netanyahu know only success and peace.
PS- After reading the numerous comments above I must say I am beginning to understand why our world in in such a sad state of affairs.
Halli Casser-Jayne
Well, no surprise that another Brit proves to be pro Palestinian. I wasn't too thrilled with the manor in which Mr. Morgan conducted his interview with Prime Minister Netanyahu, who he repeatedly interrupted. Then he interviewed the Palestinian Ambassador and coddled him. In his follow up with Mr. Dershowitz he did what everyone seems to want to do these days: Place the burden of peace and inability to arrive at peace strictly on Israel and PM Netanyahu. Mr. Dershowitz rightly pointed to Mr. Morgan the history of negotiations between the two parties and the Palestinians refusal to cut a deal. If Mr. Morgan wants to build an audience, he better master the facts before he conducts interviews with heads of state.
B.Crouch
I was so disgusted at Piers Morgans treatment of Israel's president
Benjamin Netanyahu. The Palestinian charade has been well known
for years and to see a simple minded person being rude to an obviously
intelligent,informed man like Mr. Netanyahu is just too much.
I thought Mr. Netanyahu handled himself perfectly amid all the stupid
questions posed by Mr. Morgan.
j englehart
couldn't catch the broadcast & agree with melissa pierson, we wanted to hear netanyahu's words mre than piers opinions. Wishing the web site culd close caption the replays forb those who nedd it
any one know where tnscripts could be had?
What CNN is blocking anti=Israel comments now?
What is truly tiresome is to see the same old self-serving excuses, slogans and inventions by obviously self-interested Jews trying to spin this in a way that makes Israel look like the victims. Nothing could be further from reality.
Is more like Palestinian apologist like you playing with Palestinian victim cards twisting their words around as if they wanted to have Israel as partner for peace. The only Peace Palestinian wants is when the whole Israel is under their control where Jews and other non-muslim live under Muslim thumb. Nevertheless we have people like Karen Armstrong, Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter and John L Esposito who are an apologist for Islamist and these so-called Palestinians.
You also have Jews like Norman Finklestein, Noam Chomsky, Max Blumenthal, Gideon Levy, David Resnick
Ilan Pappe, MJ Rosenberg and many many others. The entire world is against israel's illegal occupation. Wake up!
Yeah we have jewish traitors like Norman Finkelstein Chomsky and Naomi Klein. There are not the first. In world war 2 we have Maria Pavle (Who is Jewish) whose husband is leader of Croatia allied with Hitler.
Traitors? G-d are you delusional. Finklestein's parents were Holocaust survivors. WHY...WHY..would he be a traitor? Why would any of the Jewish and Israeli intellectuals and historians I cited be traitors? You are lost in your own self-righteous fantasy world.
Don't lump up his parent and him together. He's is another person and just because his parent is Holocaust survivor doesn't mean he could care about Jews today. Look who he's siding with my boy. If he couldn't care about Israel and call for its destruction. If today is 1940s he would convert to catholicism just to save himself from holocaust and he couldn't care if he 6 million were murdered by the Nazi. Thats who Finkelstein is. So does Noam Chomsky and Israeli Shamir.
There simply is no such thing as Palestinian "terrorists". It is THEIR homes being bulldozed, THEIR land being stolen on a daily basis for 44 years. Enough is enough! 500,000 illegal occupiers have to be removed from the occupied territories and Israel has to return to the 1967 borders. And THAT'S how you end terrorism!
Agreed!! 😀
Keep up the good fight Megan. It's a noble and worthwhile endeavor..Don't let the shills distract you!
You are NOT allowed to mention here the Jewish control of the "news" media in America?
Dear Mike, in case you didn't realize it 🙂 Fox top program personalities and it's owner a certain Mr. Mr. Murdoch who certainly do contol Fox News ain't Jewish and yet see Israel completely opposite of you because they understand the situation, have all the facts and know the history, all of which your bigoted gratuitous remarks sadly show you are so completely ignorant of. Clearly it is because of peope like you that the problems persist. Isn't it inhumanly amazing how some murderers slpipped into an Israeli family's home, stabbed a husband and wife and infant and other children to death last week and the Palestineans celebrated? Isn't also true that this murderous break in was one of so very many such over the years? Of course no Israeli ever entered a Palestineans home in the dead of night and murdered a soul.
Dear Mike, in case you didn't realize it 🙂 Fox top program personalities and it's owner a certain Mr. Mr. Murdoch who certainly do contol Fox News ain't Jewish and yet see Israel completely opposite of you because they understand the situation, have all the facts and know the history, all of which your bigoted gratuitous remarks sadly show you are so completely ignorant of. Clearly it is because of peope like you that the problems persist. Isn't it inhumanly amazing how some murderers slipped into an Israeli family's home, stabbed a husband and wife and infant and other children to death last week and the Palestinians celebrated? Isn't it also true that this murderous break-in was one of so very many such such acts over the years? Of course no Israeli ever entered a Palestinian's home in the dead of night and murdered a soul. What is your view? The victims deserved being murdered? Or is it that the perpetrators were the victims? One might suppose in your upside down Alice in Wonderland-like world black is white as you suffer not only myopia but also color blindness.
"intelligent" you're not. Propagandist..you are. Murdoch is a self proclaimed zionist. Look it up.
Btw I didn't see the video of the celebrating palestinians you mention... if it's not on former AIPAC lobbyist Wolf Blitzer's "Situation Room"...it didn't happen. Got a link?
jonDC
Piers is an arrogant jerk. He is also out of touch with American society. CNN, you lost a viewer.
Mike have been reading those books filled with Straw Man and Conspiracy theory from Elder Protocol of Zion to Israeli Lobby written by John J mearsheimer. Completely brainwashed. Look at the way he's parroting their word such as "illegal Israeli settlement" which has no quality and base on hoax.
Memphis says: CNN International has promoted it's new service in Arabic, another older idea Inside thr Middle East, (they keep showing thr Pre-Protest pieces, like everything is just "hunkie-dory" inside these regimes", 100's of hours of what's doing in the Middle-East, no acknowledgment of an Israel being amongst those nations. For once they put in 1 hr of this Prime Minister to weigh in on what's happening in his neighborhood. I speculate, that all of these societies see that you csn peacefully change your leadership, (though it can be frustratiing) and have simply said, "That's for us!" Still, if you are a cable customer, CNN is the only service worth watching, especially for natural disasters where the presenter doesn't weigh-in politically. I hear that Dish-Network has an Israel-Broadcasting Authority package, but then ones Hebrew has to be really broadcast worthy, mine is just barely there, & I need the fast cable Internet service. The discussion above is descending I to a bar-room-brawl. Still, I count this as a heartening outcome, from the single hour out thousands of aired on the rest of the Middle-East. Memphis
And, after tonights interview with a Palestinian representative is there any doubt where our friend, Piers stands? If the folks who are so quick to jump on Israel and the "so called" Jewish control of the American media can give some objective thought to what just happened this last 2 nights they might have seen the stark difference in the way he handled the Prime Minister and our friend tonight. Sure does look like Piers is controlled by the Jewish lobby, eh? HA. Piers makes Larry King look smart and FAIR.....This discussion is rediculous.
"Old and tired smear tecnique"?......Yeah, Mike for sure kinda like the charge of "Jewish control of the media"......Yup, for sure the "old and tired smear tecnique". OLD, TIRED and VERY RIDICULOUS!
@ Phil
The guy(Mike) is trying play Palestinian victim cards and accused Jews of playing the same old victim cards without merit. That's the Double standard he apply. Whether far right or far left Mike is no doubt an anti-semite. BTW mike before making assumption I'm jewish. I'm not jewish nor christian. So you can stop there now
It's interesting that Jedi's and Phil's posts have been placed here out of order at the "head of the line" by CNN's blog censors. It only proves what Mike, John Doe and I have been saying. "news" is manipulated by the Jewish owners and editors to present the pro-Israel spin and demonize and label any criticism and expose' as "anti-Semitism".
This is reprehensible. And these types of overt rigging of public opinion is tantamount to stuffing the ballot box. It's un-American and anti-democratic.
Of course you're not Jewish. We all knew that.
You appear to be an Indian Sikh or Buddhist monk or perhaps a Rastafarian..
Shinto? Am I getting close???
previous comment for jedi..
Crystal Reilly
I was overjoyed to hear Piers Morgan would be interviewing someone of substance rather than drug addicts like Charlie Sheen, who he was nice to....I was infuriated and had trouble watching him cut Mr. Netanyahu off. So unprofessional. I didn't care to hear Morgan's views and did want to hear what the Prime Minister had to say. I got the impression Morgan was anti-semetic and pro Palestinian. But his rude interview style was unbelievable. CNN should definitely find someone else to fill Larry King's shoes. At least he was curteous and unbiased in his interviews. His questions were 3rd rate and he spent his time interrupting and trying to antagonize the Prime Minister. Israel belongs to the Jews. Read your Bible. Israel wins in the end and shows a great deal of integrity in the mean time. Look at how many people have contributed to society and most of the best of the best in entertainment and science, etc., are Jews. I dread the day the US quits backing Israel. You can disagree all you want but that doesn't change what the truth is. Once again, Piers, find another job.
Thanks for wording it for me Crystal. Piers, I have tred to appreciate your devil's advocate for a long time, but disrespect to a head of state doesn't spell WINNING to me.
Sorry, but the cat is outta the bag now and the info on who owns and controls the corporate media mega conglomerations is all over the internet. The numbers of Jews in network ownership and executive positions is STAGGERING. Shall I elaborate?
Movies..television..Network news..Cable..the major newspapers..book publishing..
Yahoo..AOL..Google..Facebook..Youtube..Craigslist..Wikipedia
Even Murdoch..the lone Gentile in the mix is a self proclaimed Zionist! Any more questions?
Again Mike is lumping Rupert Murdoch and George Lucas most entertainer as part new world order zionist conspiracy. Keep on exaggerating Mike....with your straw man theory. 🙂
Oh BTW Mike I'm not jewish nor christian . I knew he's going to make this assumption. The guys(Mike) is living in lalaland filled with mass hysteria in regards to world zionist conspiracy theory. I hope he didn't lump up freemason and the zionist together. That will be a good laugh. 🙂
Of course you're not a Jew, you're probably a Tibetan Buddhist...lol
Btw "jedi" are you broadcasting from Jerusalem? Your English needs some work...I detect a Hebrew accent in there...hehe
Hebew accent. lol. First I'm tibetan now I'm jewish. Maybe I'm a Tibetan Jews. Keep on guessing my dear.
Piers, if you're reading these remarks, be advised this discussion has been invaded by Zionist propagandists and shills called "sayanuim" who troll the internet for stories on Israel and related issues. Their intention is to spin and manipulate public opinion and perceptions about Israel to reflect positively on Israel and negatively on its detractors.
They disparage any criticism using all the age old propaganda techniques you see employed here. They are hired by The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and others are volunteers (sayanim) for AIPAC, ADL and JIDF (Jewish Internet Defense Force). In other words they are a highly organized propaganda army.
You should google "Hasbara megaphone" for details.
Mike are you desperate. 🙂 Piers is part of zionist conspiracy too. Is cnn news my boy the zionist runs it according to you 🙂
Mike, you posted 24 messages here (so far). YOU are the most busy debater, the real megaphone 🙂
I almost "hear" Piers' voice in Mike
If the promised land were used in a peacefully shared & sustainable way by Abraham's seeds Male & female)
would we have a new world order indeed
I can almost "hear" a New York accent...lol
Piers..btw, AIPAC and many many many many (many many) Jewish orgs also employ "letter writers" that no doubt will be inundating your mail clerk at CNN with faux disgruntled Americans who'll vow never to watch CNN again. I hope former AIPAC employee Wolf Blitzer is still talking to you.
Listen CNN. You wish to occupy neutral ground between liberal MSNBC and Conservative Fox. Hiring Piers Morgan to do a non fluff interview shows not only his lack of ability but why you have become a lightweight in news, opinion and are no longer a leading cable news channel. Piers should stick to film and TV show personality interviews for which his interview - so called - of Israel's PM furnihed clear proof he is better suited for. Serious nterviewers need to know history, be informed of the subject matter and know how to listen to the interviewee not show his own ignorance of the subject matter and certainly not constantly interrupt to show how smart he is which only in this interview demonstrated the reverse.
Piers..."intelligent" (pardon me while I stifle a derisive snort) is a paid Israeli propagandist. There are HUNDREDS of them trolling the internet...maybe thousands if you count all their "sayanim" for all their dozens and dozens of pro Israel apologist organizations. Disregard "intelligent"...
@ Intelligent
If were you, I ignore this guy(Mike) since the man is desperate for attention. Look at the presented himself in the post. He's stuck in his own world of zionist conspiracy just like those new world order conspiracy theorist. Is not worth it. Let him babble with idiocy.
IKHAN
This leader of an apartheid racist regime should not be welcome on American soil.
As reported by Maa'riv,Haar'etz and Reuter , while addressing Bar Ilan University in April 2008 Mr.Netanyahu had this to say about 9/11 attacks;
' 9/11 has been ver good for Israel'. 'We are benefitting from attacks on Twin Towers and Pentagon and America struggling in Iraq'.
His regime arbitrarily rejects our political leadership's 'humble' requests and the demands of international community to freeze illegal settlements. Under our blanket protection the regime in Israel gets away with murder state terrorism. Its a hurdle to the peace process.
Ask morally upstanding and courageous Jews in Israel like Gush Shalom and many other organizations. They will tell you that Israeli state policies and unconditional support by US work against the interests of both Americans & Jews.
Ask highly respected Jewish public intellectuals like Naom Chomsky, Uri Avnery and MJ Rosenberg or brave patriotic Jews from Jewish Voice for Peace, JStreet or distinguished Rabbis from Rabbis of North America for Peace and Americans would learn the truth and see thru the fog of propaganda created by Israeli state machinery and their supporters.
Hey mike!
Never blogged once before tonight. Keep the faith, we'll be praying for you.
Pray for the Palestinians instead... I have faith : )
jhubers
First Netanyahu, now Dershowitz? How much is Israel paying you for this free bit of propaganda?
jHubers...My sentiments exactly. Moreover with former AIPAC lobbyist Wolf Blitzer wielding so much influence at CNN, it's no wonder there's never any mention of Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine. See my earlier post about the staggering number of Jewish owners and executives in American media and "news"..
During his interview with Larry King , Larry comes right out and says that one thing he dislikes about Piers is the fact that he always interrupts people and dosnt listen enough. Get it together Piers you could be good but you need to def. work on that problem.
Piers Morgan is doing a fantastic job; sadly some don't like his honesty and direct questions. The only way we can have peace in the world is address truth, this upsets Netanyahu fans of course. How dare any one question "the chosen people" for occupying land. Do you think the Native Indians can invade DC ? Netanyahu has literally has been laughing at ALL our presidents and at the UN sadly no leader from the western world is strong enough to take on Israel..... and the middle Eastern leaders have been bought by our tax dollars except for Iran. Now will the US wage war with Iran because the Middle East is on shaky grounds???? it's kingdom are toppling like dominoes.
As with most of the comments Mr. Morgan your behavior with the prime minister was one of disgust! If I had been him I wouldv'e walked out on you. Did you ever think Mr. Morgan we as the audience were interested in what he had to say!!! However because of your rude behavior of interrupting him guess we'll never know. I personally will never watch your program again! Happy Trails you jerk!
Piers you have gone where very few western broadcasters / journalists have gone; Bob Simon from CBS is the only other one that comes to mind. Some misinformed viewers might interpret your interviews as Anti-Jewish but that is totally absurd. Keep up the good work.
One of the key elements, if not “The key element”, to mid-east peace is the United States Government’s foreign policy towards Israel. The second element is the Israeli government posture in saying they want peace but instead engage in actions which are counter productive. Hamas, the P.A and splinter groups within The OPT do not help their cause either by appearing divided and engaging in counter productive actions and must recognize Israel’s right to exist just as Israel must also recognize A Palestinian State and its right to exists within the 1967 boarders including East Jerusalem and the right of return and Gaza.
Once the US continues to vote in favour of Israel at the UNGA’s annual vote on the CORE ISSUES there would never be and end to this madness. The US has to be the leader here if there is to be a real peace and a two state solution.
Mr.Obama, The time is now, do not let this historical opportunity slip away. It’s time for US and Canada to vote with the Rest of the world on “The Peaceful Settlement of The Palestinian Question” to say, settle this issue on the 1967 boarders and make your peace, put away that Veto pen and do not abstain, but so far weather it’s a democratic or republican administration in charge the voting on Palestine remains the same, shameful.
In the diplomatic world there are lots of talks and polite banter but there also has been over 40 years of talks, on and off as it were and 60 years or war. Too many INNOCENTS have died on both sides and will continue to die unless this is resolved, post haste.
When Mr.Obama was elected there seemed to be a new glimmer of hope for the region, He said that “my administration will aggressively seek a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians". but that little ray of light is fading fast as per the last vote at the UN, no change in the status quo, more of the same old song just a different singer.
I am not defending terrorist activities, suicide bombings or rocket attacks and I would agree that these are horrible acts unleashed on innocent people but the sword cuts both ways here. The Israelis conduct terrorist acts and indiscriminate bombings of their own, maybe not suicide as a weapon of choice but terrorize the Palestine population just the same, but that stuff is said to be them defending themselves, remember Israel’s –
– “Break the Bones Policy”?
Ah yes I forgot torture is or was legal in Israel.
There are many things that can be seen or referred to as “Obstacles to Peace”
– East Jerusalem
– The Separation Wall
– Settlements continued building of Illegal Settlements in the OPT
– US policy re Israel
– 1967 boarders
– Refugees, right of return
The answer is all too simple not COMPLICATED AT ALL. If the Israelis are so confident that they want this peace then, put your offer where your mouth is. Go to the UN and announce that you are willing to accept peace AS OUTLINED by the UNGA in “The Peaceful Settlement of the Palestine Question” Give the Palestinians one week to accept and if they don’t then rescind the offer. The entire world would see you truly as approaching the Palestinians with an outstretched hand and not a clenched fist. The Palestinians would be fools not to accept this offer as it is the heart of UNSC 242 and UNGA’s annual vote. If they accept the next step would be statehood and a welcome end to all these years of protracted war, bitter hatred, contempt for one another and finger pointing.
Two very bitter pills here for Israel would be, removing all settlers and settlements from the West Bank and East Jerusalem and the return of all displaced refugees
OMG "the Palestinians would be fools not to accept this offer"??! Are you serious? They did it several times already in past! Israel removed all her people from Gaza – did it stop terrorist atacks from there? The only reason for lowering number of terrorists victims is the "Separation Wall". Right to Return: About how many millions of people are you talking? And what about those Jewish refugees from Arab countries (You sure know about them)? What about their compensation or return? As for UN resolution (from 1967) it states besides other things that Israel has got a right to safe and defendable borders. Where are those? Why are people talking again and again about the right of Palestinian Arabs for their state while forgetting to ask the recognition of the State of Israel by Palestinians and many other Arab countries? Wake up, please and try to see the reality.
Nancy of NY
How and why was Netanyahu welcome on US soil? Had this man been a Middle East ragamuffin occupying Israel soil and killing it people the Western world would be screaming genocide, genocide. Unfortunately Arab leaders have been bought by our tax dollars to keep the silence of Israel brutality against the Mideastern Christians and Muslims are being killed. The corrupt and degenerate Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has hired Pakistani solders to invade Bahrain with the blessing of the US army. Will US army go defend the people of Bahrain like they did in Kuwait? NO ! These are sad times in politic it's obvious it's matter of time the Saudi Kingdom will come tumbling down along with the Kingdom of Bahrain ( bad move on the Bahrain part) but is it not true the Saudi money supports the Kingdom of Bahrain. With all our brain power and might we the American have failed again. No one talks to the little suppressed people do they before making these mistakes? What has our intelligence gathering taught us ? Why are we not using our own intelligence gathering ? Why do we rely so much of 'The Chosen People' ..... we always seem to be fighting wars for them since the 1st world war, 2nd and now what the 3 !
Why is America so afraid of Israel ? Who runs our country ? Israel has defied the US and the UN how many times why ? What makes them control our govt ?
Maybe because Israel is right and you are not [;-)]
@Nancy
It is ok for arab to take the land away from the Jews after their war with Byzantine empire in the 7th century and is ok for them to erect the dome of rock in the middle of the ruin temple of mount. right? Even if they let jews back to jerusalem they must live under their thumb as long as they accept Muslim supremacy. Is ok for both arab christian and muslims to initiate the pogrom against jewish community during damascus affairs in the middle east and their blood libel toward jewish community (during the 19th century). And is ok for arab leader like Mohammad Amin Al-Husseini to call for an end to world jewry during world war 2 when he collaborated with nazi. right? Nancy. Talk about genocide You should read history where Muslim also instigated the pogrom in the middle east and Al-Andalus Spain during 11th and 12th century and Farhud in Iraq by Rashid Ali Gaylani after anglo- Iraq war
Sofia Bain
We were shocked by the rudeness and abrasiveness and hostility that was exhibited by Piers Morgan towards P.M. Benjamin Netanyahu. It seems Piers had one sided question, as to why, Israel doesn't make peace. This morning, we hear on the news Hamas bombed Israel. Isn't that enough of an answer. To say that Israel doesn't want Peace, is ridiculous.
There are many many people in Israel that are suffering, yet, struggles to be the best in technology, medicine and other inventions that are beneficial to everyone. Including the best hospitals in Israel taking in Arabs from Gaza when they can't get medical help there.
Stop blaming Israel, if you haven't been there, you will realize how tiny this Country is, and its been Judah for many centuries dating to the bible. But if propaganda is spread every day, people start believing it. God bless Israel.
First thing to understand is that this was a REPRISAL to another of israel's assassinations of Hamas leaders.
When was the last time Hamas assassinated any leaders of the israeli government?
The second thing to understand is Hamas are Palestinians and they are fighting to free the Palestinian West Bank and East Jerusalem from ILLEGAL OCCUPATION by 500,000 imported orthodox jewish "settler" fanatics.
This is an action that israel's propaganda machine will spin as a "terrorist attack"..but it cannot be denied that Palestinians are fighting a 63 year old policy of LAND GRABBING that has been condemned by every US President since Carter...dozens and dozens of UN Resolutions and the international community.
But as long as jews own and operate the media in America and Europe you will be reminded on a daily basis of Palestinian "terrorists", and NO mention will ever be made on any consistant basis to the theft of Palestinian land by zionist jews in israel.
Jo Watkins
I thought 'Piers' was rude and disrespectful to the PM. What nonsense going on about 'don't you want to be a hero and what about your legacy.' He has no true understanding between these peoples. It was obvious whose side he was on,
and it wasn't Israel.
Psalms 69: 35. Let heaven and earth praise Him, the seas and all that moves within them, 36. for God will deliver Zion and build the cities of Judah, and they will settle there and possess it; 37. and the seed of His servants will inherit it, and those who love His Name will dwell in it.
suhail khan
Jo why did piers needed to be on Israel side anyway? You sound like one dimensional person who does not understand the other side. Lets get one thing clear, ISRAEL IS THE OCCUPIER OF PALESTINIAN LAND. I am a muslim and I have watched these two side be in this dispute for most of my life. Now please understand me that I do believe that palestinians are not the innocent party in this mess either. But Israel must return the land. I have come to the grips with the fact that until Palestinian land is given back to the Palestinian people. I do not see any peace there.
I was watching Alan dershowitz on Morgan,s show last night and said something to the fact that reason Yasir Arafat never made peace with israel was that Arafat was scared that his people would kill him. I remember that Arafat did make peace with the Jewish folks during Bill Clinton's office days. And Alan forgot that It was then Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin who was gunned down by a jewish vigilante. Palestinians did not kill Arafat. Infact Arafat died at peace.
All I am saying is that there are mean and nasty people on BOTH sides that do not love peace. You just can not blame the Palestinians as a whole as I as a Muslim believe that there are peace loving beautiful people on the jewish side.
Noone wants P.Morgan to be pro-Israeli, but as a journalist he should be on no-side. He should simply lead the interview for viewers. What "Palestinian land" you are refering to? In 1947 UN agreed the division of Palestina Mandate area into 2 states – Jewish and Arabic. Arabs there in the area never accepted this decision, so they did not created their own state either. Until today Palestinian (and other) Arabs do not recognize the State of Israel. That is the main obstacle to the peace process. Should Israel support the state of Palestinian Arabs and forget about Arabs not recognizing Jewish legitimacy of Israel? Also it was Arafat who refused to fulfill the agreement signed then in 1993. Unfortunatelly many Palestinians (and other) Arabs do not care about their well-being and independency but only about the destruction of Israel. And what surprise Israel does not want to allow that.
Hoe often we hear comments like "Until today Palestinian (and other) Arabs do not recognize the State of Israel."
1. One cannot recognize a country that expands its territory on a daily basis. If Palestinian (and other) Arabs were to recognize the "State of Israel," does that mean accepting stolen territory?
2. When is Israel going to recognize a State of Palestine? Why do Israel's supporters never ask themselves this simple question?
Thanks Suahil for this reasonable post.
As yourself, I have watched the dispute for most of my life. However unlike you, as an Israeli I have also participated in it. I'll start by saying that your bottom-line is correct: There are both nasty and peace loving beautiful people on both sides of the fence. Most Israelis and most Palestinians, like everyone else on this planet, just want to provide for their families in dignity and raise their children in peace.
For some reason which I can't fathom, people tend to focus on what tears us apart, instead of on that which brings us together. For the extremists in this forum, I'd like to provide some reasonable insight.
Mike claims that, and I quote: There simply is no such thing as Palestinian "terrorists".
Unlike Mike, I don't deal in absolutes, and I think that there are many grey areas in any issue. I can understand that one man's "terrorist" is another's "freedom-fighter", it's all an issue of perspective. However, I think that most people can agree: The deliberate targeting of innocent civilians is in-fact terrorism. Mike and Megan may claim that Israeli settlers are not "innocent", but I would reply that the victims of the most recent home invasion were children, ages 11, 4 and 3 months. If deliberately stabbing a baby in her crib for poilitical or religious reasons isn't terrorism, then what is???
To be fair, I will offer some criticism of Israel and Netanyahu as well:
Ths Israeli talking point that there is no humanitarian crisis in the Gaza strip, holds no water. Israelis have heard this line so much and so often that many find it easy to believe. As a former Israeli combat soldier who served 2 tours of duty in Gaza I personally observed horrific and sub-human living conditions, particularly in the Khan-Younis refugee camp. The stench rising from the alleyways between the dense piles of tin homes was so unbearable, I literally had to put my ear-plugs in my nose to avoid vomiting. Saying that I was a strong supporter of the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and the dismantlement of the Gaza setllements, would be a severe understatement ...
That being said, it's also important to take a wider hitorical view of the Palestinian refugee situation.
Fact: The Khan Younis refugee camp was formed in 1948 under Egyptian control. Israel only occupied the Gaza strip in 1967. Another Fact: There are any number of additional Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and the West-Bank. Over the course of history, especially after WWII, millions of people were displaced from their homes and borders were redrawn. They weren't rejected and placed in camps – They were integrated into their new countries. In contrast, the Palestinians who were displaced during the 1948 war, were rejected by neighboring ARAB countries. Israel didn't create the refugee problem, but as a democratic and free society, we should have done better instead of making it worse.
I find much of the rhetoric on this page abhorrent. Playing the blame-game doesn't solve problems, it exacerbates them. There is plenty of blame to go around on both sides and pointing fingers at one-another will achieve absolutely nothing. The real key to the solution is good will and good faith. I'm hoping that those of us, the younger generation born after 1967 on both sides of the conflict, who don't automatically fall in line with historic dogma, will find the way to succeed where our parents have failed.
I appreciate your point-of-view, and applaud your recognition that I have one too.
Peace from Jerusalem,
IIan, Thanks for your comments. Unfortunately, the violence and poltical chess game has resulted in great loss of life on both sides. I am sad to express that over half century,s violence and dispute has left some scars inside me as well. And I am not even from your region. This is actually my first interaction with an Israeli. I even let my teen age daughters read your post. ( sort of educational experience) -– PEACE INDEED-–
Roya
It was embarrassing to watch Piers Morgan’s interview with the Prime Minister of Israel. I was embarrassed of behalf all American people for the way pierce kept interrupting the Prime Minister and interjecting his own view. This is not the American interview style, it may British; regardless this style of interview may be OK when Piers had Charlie Sheen on his show and may be even necessary to stop Charlie’s nonsensical blabbering but, to be so rude as to interrupt people such as the Prime Minister of Israel or veteran interviewers such as Barbara Walters is inappropriate and disrespectful. Please don’t do this anymore Piers it is very annoying.
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Shirin repeated a line that Israelis teach their kids, namely that "But for you to know, Israel is the only democracy in the middle east." That line is right up there with "There are no Palestinians," and "A land without people for a people without (ever enough) land." Having different roads and different laws for Jews and non-Jews is not my idea of democracy. Nor is destroying crops of Arabs, or expelling Christians.
Piers would not shut up and listen..I was embarrassed. Where did he learn to interview? Bring Larry back!!!!
I can not agree more with the overwhelmingly negtive comments about the utterly rude interviewer Piers Morgan and his poor interview techniques. It was very embarrasing the way he interviewed (or better yet, lectured) the Israeli Prime Minister. I had been commenting to relatives and co-workers since Piers took on his new job of how he repeatedly interrupts his guests just when they are getting on with their interesting answers and comments. Piers is always right there looking down at his next question to be asked. It might not be all his fault, but that of his producers, who might be telling him to make sure he gets in all his pre-planned questions. He so obviously is not even paying attention to their answers, and probably the reason he raises the tone of his voice as he rudely interrupts with his next question. I can always tell when he is ready to interrupt. I give the Israeli PM so much praise in the way he politely smoothed out the rude and disrespectfull interruptoins by (dumb) Piers. This was the final straw for me; I will not watch him any longer, and I predict less than 6 months left to the :"Piers Morgan Worst Interviewer" Show. Sorry for rambling, but this guy's got to go, CNN!
Lie ..deny ..defy
then lie ..deny ..defy
63 years of Israel
Israel has never owned any moral highground...never. Israel has broken every
agreement, defied every international rebuke thumbed their nose at world opinion and
given the finger to every critic, friend and foe, since before the state was created
by the UN to the present.
How long will the world allow them to get away with smearing defaming and silencing
the opponents of their brutal policies with Holocaust buzzwords?
The "guilt trip" strategy is alternated with the "poor victim" strategy to stifle
and delegitimize criticism.
It's so transparent..it would be laughable...if it wasn't so malicious.
Prime Minister Netanyahu is a wise man, and Morgan was handled quite well by him. From the other room I thought I heard Liam Neilson and was suprised it was the Prime Minister. I learned alot from this interview and googled what I didn't understand. Too bad bitterness overtakes some individuals and closes of the learning aspect.
Piers Morgan. Uninformed, outclassed,and once agan leaving the general public wonderng, how'd this guy get this job? I wondered why he wouldn't let Netanyahu finish a reponse when it dawned on me; outside of his predetermined sound bites,there is no substance. The simpletons auto response s always for Israel to give up land. History has proven that Palestine isn't interested in concessions. They are only interested in the destuction of the Israeli state. Where is there peace in that mindset? Can somebody please get Larry back?
kate gessner
i hear the interview and al i can say is shame on both piers and ben. both of you have heard what God wants because i have sent both my web page. israel has heard 6 messages from Gods angel and watched them happen after they received them. and someone from the media helping spread hate is unforgiveable. the world would be at peace if the governments had listened but now we are into the last days and shame that you all refused to allow me to tell the word what God told you. katesdreams has all the messages God has been giving us. in the forum are all the messages you were supposed to share. yet you refused to listen. shame on the world. it is easier living lies than hearing Gods message. hearts of stone is free to all who wish to hear what God is saying. 20 years ago i warned the world that all that is coming could be changed but the words governments did not want to hear. now it is too late. watch as our hate tears the world to nothing. sickness and starvation shall be our lives. our hate has brought us to this. shame on al of us for alllowing it to get this far.
Glenda Clemens
Thank you Mr. Morgan for a deeply insightful and moving interview. I was proud to have the priviledge to hear you insightful interview.
Mr Morgan failed to challenge Netanyahu on so many fronts. It was disappointing to see that he was providing Netanyahu with a forum to tell lies and spread the Zionist propaganda. Israel is a racist country that has no respect for human life and dignity, and Netanyahu's crimes were allowed to go unchecked.
I (and I'm sure many others) am in TOTAL agreement with this comment!
I found the interview appalling. Obviously Peirs is very biased against Israel typical Brit euro anti semtic spin watch ccn world news! Netanyahus job not to please the world, or Europeans who dont have the best track record on Anti semtism. HIs job is to protect Israel and her people! The day after this horrible interview 50 plus mortars fired at Israel by Hamas. Life would be better if they built a society not just militancy! CNN you can do better than this>
The prime minister repeated the statement about three times that the land is the ancestrial land of the jewish people insisting they are the one who is compromising to give up the 25% thats occupied by the palestinians. Piers should have call him on that argument are he alredy accepted the western point of view of if they conquire they own that land like America and the British empire. If the prime minister would like to make that comparison and the western world accept that then they wouldnt have a problem if 200 yesrs later the native Americans want the AMERICAS BACK.
I was pleasantly impressed with the interview since I have never appreciated Piers Morgan's talent as an interviewer.
I am surprised that some posters indicated that he was "against Israel" – well I am an Israeli and think that it is the duty of a journalist to ask difficult questions. If you think that Morgan was nasty, then you should see the Israeli interviewers when they are talking to our PM!
In reply to the following poster:
"AJ
To all who were not happy with the posting I will ask you the same question Pier asked Bibi Netanyahu. Will you want your family to live in Gaza ? No..... Non of us would. Why ? because it has been turned into an open air prison camp. 80% of people below poverty line, 70% unemployment, no proper electricity or water. Very limited vaccinations and education for children. I challenge anyone of the defenders of Bibi Netanyahu here to go live one week in Gaza....just one week and then you can post anything you want here".
I suggest that you have little or no knowledge of the history of Gaza if you think that all this started with the current Israeli government. Gaza was under Egyptian control from 1948 until the 6 Day War, 1967 and during that entire time there was a curfew, i.e. they weren't treated very well even then.
Israel withdrew unilaterally from Gaza in 2005, a step welcomed by the majority of our people. All the settlers were removed from their farms and the state of the art glasshouses for fruit and flowers were left intact for the Gazans to use. Sadly instead of growing flowers for Europe, they were turned into military bases for their attacks on Israel. In the resulting political fight between Hamas and the PLO during the run-up to their elections, Hamas used brute force, murder and other methods to ensure their victory (PLO candidates being thrown from the roofs of tall buildings!). The civilian settlements in Southern Israel were attacked on a daily basis, with nearly 10,000 rockets being aimed at this area. The Blockade was imposed after it was obvious that they were receiving massive amounts of weapons through Egypt and by sea. It was also imposed most of the time by Egypt who was also fed up with the regime in Gaza.
Hamas made no effort to use monies received from Europe and elsewhere to improve the status of their citizens. The entire structure went towards one thing – war against Israel. Therefore it is no surprise that they are poor, are unemployed and have suffered greatly under this Islamic extremist government. Hamas doesn't want any improvement for the Gazans – that would spoil their control over them. Then they wouldn't be so intent on killing Jews.
I feel very sad about the situation in Gaza. I knew quite a few people who came from there and worked locally in our suburb. They are decent, hard-working people who deserve a better life but have NO chance of getting it whilst Hamas, and their masters in Iran, are controlling them. Are you aware that they hold public executions where the families of the executed are present? Do you know that they are putting down demonstrations by those Gazans calling for democracy and unity with the PLO with great force and violence. Of course none of this is mentioned in the Western press who are so anxious to blame just one side in this conflict.
There could be progress and eventually a settlement but they need to accept Israel's right to exist before anything can go forward. Our people also deserve to live in peace – several GRAD rockets fell only a couple of days ago and everyone is sleeping in shelters again.
Both sides need to make concessions and be willing to move forward. Sadly I don't see Hamas, Hezbollah or any of these Islamic extremist groups as being partners for any agreement.
Who ever support the Israeli occupation and love Israelis for there killing and crime to the women and children of Palestine.
Why don't you give the half of the idle land of the Kansas or Montana to Israeli and we want to see if you are really showing the generosity to the Israeli. It's okay to applause when other are suffering but it's not okay when it's come to your own backyard.
Sam: What about killing and crimes of Palestinians on women and children of Israel? If you cannot see any connection between Israel and Eretz Israel you are lost. Why not offer YOUR backyard to Palestinian Arabs instead?
bronxboy
Sam, aside from your obvious dilusional statement, why not have some Arab country make a home for the 'Palestinians' who are Arabs with a new name, and who weere screwed by the Arab countries. Arabs living in Israel live better from a social, economical and religiously than Arabs in any Muslim country. As for killing civilians, where do u want to start?????
Message for those Islamofobia.
When Jews killed thousand of Muslims it's okay and they can gets away from it.
But, when they killed Jesus you didn't let jewish gets away with it basically you just made a region out of it.
These are the kind of comments that we expect from Muslims. The sickest minds on earth are you and your brethren who kill their own for fun and kill civilians to make a point about their dilusional dreams of power. I can only hope you and yours visit the 72 virgins real soon.
Mrs Buhl
Piers is absolutely amazing in this and every interview he has done. Larry King never pushed his guests. Perhaps (not surprisingly) that's why all of the comments regarding the interview with bibi are so critical of piers, any critique of the Israeli line is considered beyond the pale in the US. Piers is seriously clever at his interviews-from Sheen to Bibi-you have to look at how he approaches his guests in the context of what is occurring at the time. So he gave Sheen a lot of leeway to show how over the edge he has gone-therefore exposing his complete wackiness without doing it overtly-which is tasteless in an interview and makes the host look like a bully. With bibi he was basically reminding him over and over that the international community is tired of Israel's foot dragging on peace-this must be seen in context of what is occurring in Egypt, Libya, etc... It's a critical point given they are changing. Israel's old line that the middle east is full of anti democratic despots not to be negotiated with is going to be seen as a ruse (rightfully so). Piers was trying to show that times are a changing and Israel will only hurt itself by clinging to old tropes. He us quite clever-and for the idiots amongst us-his angles can be easily lost. I for one believe he is above Christian A., and CNN is finally worth watching. He's polemical! Get with it people. Watch Piers and your watching TV history. I'm afraid most tv viewers aren't savvy enough to get it. You won't get it in on fox, jazeera or BBC interviews, dare I say you won't get in from Rose either-who is increasingly looking like larry king in disguise. Keep watching and you might get it!
Go piers-there are some of us out in tv land who are dedicated watchers!
44 years of Israeli excuses and lies. 44 years of stalling and stealing. 44 years of giving the entire world the finger.
Land grabbing..ethnic cleansing and apartheid...and we American taxpayers subsidize it to the tune of 157 Billion dollars and counting. That about sums it up.
Stop funding Israel's racist immigration policies.. stop supplying them with jets and bombs and see how fast they make peace. Get the duplicitous AIPAC/Zionist lobby's influence out of our government and out of our politicians pockets NOW!
Oh...and for those of you who think CNN's Mid East coverage is objective..replace Wolf Blitzer (the former AIPAC lobbyist for Israel) with someone who isn't a former AIPAC lobbyist for Israel.
1. You know PMorgan pushed bibi because there is the same old anti-Semite name calling.
2. You know he didn't push hard enough because no one is calling for his resignation/firing.
3. You know your dealing with religious ideologues because psalms/god is being used as argument (scary!).
4. You know most people don't quite grasp the argument, because their intellectual shortcoming come raging through.
5. Dome are really at a loss when they say Piers is a journalist and should show some objectivity-being a TV host is quite a distance from being a field journalist presenting reportage.
6. Perhaps all a typical cross section of US television viewers/voting body. (again scary?)
M R
Wow. I logged in to see if other people thought that Piers was a little rude as well. What did I see? The conversation quickly turned into a critique of Israeli policies and then devolved into an anti-semitic rant.
Amongst all the very sad brainwashed racist comments from haters that surface every time this subject is raised, it is slightly heart-warming that the only two comments that seem to offer any hope are from an actual Israeli and an Muslim. Ilan and Suhail – maybe there is some hope!
As for my opinion on the interview, I agree with Mrs Buhl and Ruth. I'm pro-Israel (Jewish) and British, but was happy with the interview overall. I think Piers (/any interviewer) Should put difficult questions to their guests – only this way can we see their response. Yes – I would have liked to hear more of the PM (It's a rare opportunity) and less of Piers, but I didn't see it as anti-Israel, just his general style. I would have liked more depth, the answers just touched the surface of what could have been fascinating insights or discussions – the whole thing felt rushed, but there was a lot to cover. I've not seen the other two interviews yet – I hope that the other side had the same format too.
We dont need the world according to an uniformed Peirs Morgan this is America no BBC no CNN world news we are a different audience. It was a disgrace I fell terrible for BIBI. He was pushing HIS worldview who cares we are not interested and his views are extremely misguided. I am done with CNN was in Atlanta in 1980 when it all started what a shame what happened another Chiritane Amanapour youll be happy when you futher slip to the bottom in the ratings!
The ad hominem attacks on Piers here by a certain tiny segment of the American population (less than 2%) but wield an enormous amount of influence in the media would be laughable if it wasn't so malicious.
The truth about Israel today and how long US TAX PAYERS shall support a state that does not recognize the dignity of others unless you are a Jew:
Israel is stealing Palestinian land to import fanatic Jews and pay them American tax payers hard earned money to build settlements in a land that belongs to Palestinians that have not that much to begin with. This is one of the outrageous crimes of the century, and Americans need to know this.
Today Israel’s government has adopted a self destructive behavior that will not serve them well in the future.
They have the option to accept the Palestinians’ right to exist and have their own state.
They have the option to stop stealing land from the West Bank and dismantle the illegal settlements that they have built.
They have the option to stop importing Jews from all around the world that are not born in Israel.
They have the option to behave humanely.
But unfortunately they have decided to occupy, kill and steal Palestinian land.
Until they elect governments that are humane, willing to accept the Palestinian suffering they have caused, they will never live in peace in the Israel they have created. The entire world knows and sees the truth.
I believe the day will come, when America will say, we cannot support Israel’s criminal behavior.
To their own benefit, Israel should find a way to negotiate a just peace deal with Palestinians before American support evaporates.
Mary Spurgeon
I was totally shocked by Piers' obvious Antisemitism!
I don't think Piers is really anti-semitic or anything (I like Jews actually but can't stand Netanyahu). Why do people see Israel government = Jews? I am sure many Jews don't approve of Mr. Netanyahu's uncooperative nature and hawkishness. But that said, journalists should give politicians such as him, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Gadaffi explain themselves without frequent interruption (I think Piers would do that to those two too) . There's no doubt concerning Mr. Netanyahu's high intellect and political skills including communication but Morgan could have been less obviously judgemental and that said asking tough questions is necessary. Here's to a bold interview (which could have been better)!!!
E Redeherf
After watching the entire interview, a couple of things remain 100% clear: Israel has nuclear weapons, Israel will not seek peace with the Palestinians, and finally, that the Israelis will play the victim card forever. It has become tedious and frankly pathetic. It no longer produces sympathy but rage when you see that they are using the holocaust card to basically get away with everything and anything. Enough already.
Mary Maude Henry
Piers, how often do you have to be critized for the continual interruption before you take the hint, you were more polite with Charlie Sheen for God's sake, you don't listen, you are waiting for your turn to speak, you ask a question and don't wait for the answer(even if the audience wants to hear the answer) and you don't like the Prime minister and you are too infantile to hide your feelings, don't interview him!!!!! You have a lot to learn and your middle-aged smugness is beginning to be tiring.MMH
You spoke my mind. That's exactly what I wanted to say to Piers. His interview approach is a shame to journalism.
Netanyahu must be charged for the war crimes he committed back in 2009 in Gaza, why has everyone forgotten what he did, we saw children and women ripped in pieces, dont you all remember ??
First: Hamas is fully responsible, beside otherthings they used their own people as human shields. Second: PM was Olmert that time ... anything else?
Well...looks like CNN's editor has been doing some "editing" of this blog. Removing some posts and rearranging the order with the intent of placing pro-israel posters "anti-semite" smears of Mike as the most recent comments so it will be seen by those looking for the latest posts.
Wanna know how to become an "anti-semite"? Criticize a jew or israel.
Christine A. Jubic
This Zionist Pig is no diplomat....and I wouldnt be one bit suprized if these latest killings being blamed on the Palistinians are not the work of the Mossad. They are infamous for such false flag ops (think Irgun, Stern Gang, Black Hand and Beyond) see also "Missing Links: The definative Truth About 9/11" – also Mossad. They are EVIL incarnate and care little for anyones life but their own.
I hear ya John. That's exactly why Americans are getting fed up with AIPAC/Israel influence in our government and the Jewish ownership and manipulation of news and media. Btw, they not only own the news and media corporations top to bottom, but the bureau chiefs, editors and staffers and news writers all up and down the chain (including AP and Reuters) are predominantly Jewish. Is it any wonder we only get the pro-Israel spin in the news in America?
I'll be shocked if this post is still here after the CNN blog censors get a look at it!
G-d gave Israel to the Jews. What part of this is so complicated? No one has the right to try to undo what G-d has done, not the UN the USA or any other nation or person. If you don't like what G-d did tell Him that if you dare. Psalms 78: 52. He drove His nation like sheep, and guided them like a flock in the desert. 53. He led them in security and they did not fear, for the sea covered their enemies. 54. And He brought them to the boundary of His holy place, this mountain which His right hand acquired. 55. He drove out nations before them, and allotted them an inheritance [measured] by the cord; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents. . 1 Why are the nations in an uproar? And why do the peoples mutter in vain?
ב יִתְיַצְּבוּ, מַלְכֵי-אֶרֶץ– וְרוֹזְנִים נוֹסְדוּ-יָחַד:
עַל-יְהוָה, וְעַל-מְשִׁיחוֹ. 2 The kings of the earth stand up, and the rulers take counsel together, {N}
against the LORD, and against His anointed:
ג נְנַתְּקָה, אֶת-מוֹסְרוֹתֵימוֹ; וְנַשְׁלִיכָה מִמֶּנּוּ עֲבֹתֵימוֹ. 3 'Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.'
ד יוֹשֵׁב בַּשָּׁמַיִם יִשְׂחָק: אֲדֹנָי, יִלְעַג-לָמוֹ. 4 He that sitteth in heaven laugheth, the Lord hath them in derision.
ה אָז יְדַבֵּר אֵלֵימוֹ בְאַפּוֹ; וּבַחֲרוֹנוֹ יְבַהֲלֵמוֹ. וַאֲנִי, נָסַכְתִּי מַלְכִּי: עַל-צִיּוֹן, הַר-קָדְשִׁי.
insert derisive snort here_____
Netanyahu falsely claimed on international tv that Israel lifted "all the retrictions" on Gaza! NOT SO! Gaza is still very much under siege. Conditions were made slightly better in terms of number of food items allowed in after Israel's assault on the Gaza aid flotilla, but still at most Israel permitted only 40% of normal pre-siege levels of aid to get into Gaza. An estimated 400 patients have died from being prevented from getting medical care in Egypt or Israel. About 150 vital medicines are extinct in Gaza, and only 5% of the water is potable. These are violations of very basic human rights (right to movement; to fresh water; to medical care; to education; to having a home). So either Netanyahu doesn't know what his government is doing or he intended to mislead CNN viewers.
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Exactly where could I find this particular Weblog platform FOR piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com ?
Netanyahu is a freaking CRIMINAL!!!!!
treat palestinians as human being.
Jardena
Chris, feel better now? BTW did you notice that the video and the blog is 16 month old? What about taking care about your own life. Seems much to do there 🙂
Right on Chris..ignore snide remarks from judeo-hypocrites
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PM Netanyahu is a crazy guy. I like him and i understand why he says what he says and why his country acts the way they do. After
almost getting wiped off the face of the earth you learn to stay on the offensive. I agree with his comment about Gadhafi. He is no
friend of Israel and or America. He was a terrorist that took power in a unstable country.
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Duke Porn Star "Belle Knox": "[To] have that sexual autonomy, it is so incredibly freeing"
Waiting tables at your neighborhood Applebee's.
Logging a few barrista shifts at the campus coffee shop.
Even spending Friday night babysitting a couple of your professor's rug-rats.
These, are some of the typical jobs held by many college students. Performing hardcore sex acts on camera for money? Less common. But this is the part time profession selected by "Belle Knox," a Duke University freshman using porn as a way to offset her robust tuition costs.
After being outed by a classmate, "Knox" opted to publicly reveal her identity with an article titled "I'm the Duke University Freshman Porn Star And For The First Time I'm Telling The Story In My Words," which she wrote for xoJane.com. Joining "Piers Morgan Live" exclusively Thursday evening, she spoke of being empowered by her choice to join the adult film industry:
"We are in a society where we are so repressed, every single day. We’re told that sex is bad. We’re told not to have sex. We’re told not to show our bodies, and that’s really true for women," she explained while seated directly across from Morgan in his LA studio. "To be in porn and to be able to be naked and to be able to be free and have that sexual autonomy, it is so incredibly freeing."
A women's studies major, Knox noted that the cost of attending Duke exceeds 60 thousand dollars annually. Turning to porn is significantly more profitable than traditional clock-punching, and it requires much less of her personal time. And those that are mouthing off about her work, are often times the same people who are logging in to support it:
"I think eighty percent of the world's traffic on the internet is pornography. And I think that probably every single person at some point in their life has watched pornography," said Knox. "So I think it’s extremely hypocritical that the same society that consumes me is also condemning me."
If you're curious as to how she chose her adult film name, she explains that right here.
For the next edition of "Piers Morgan Live," watch CNN at 9p.
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duff crary
If that is what that Duke freshman has to do to help pay her incredibly expensive tuition and fee expenses, and it is not illegal, then more strength and perseverance be with her. True, it may be "politically correct" not to loudly proclaim her work to everyone, but to be honest and not ashamed about that work should not be a problem for anyone to deal with. (What exactly does Duke University do, or justify requiring, to have such an expensive educational "tab"?)
A man who works in IT
To rebuttal @ duff crary. "What exactly does Duke University do, or justify requiring, to have such an expensive educational "tab"?" Well for one its one of the top school in North Carolina. Top school on the Eastern Coast. as well as TOP 20 UNIVERSITIES IN THE COUNTRY... If you want top of the line education you best be ready to shell top of the line money.
I also believe she is .... let me retract that. I believe she has made a very ignorant mistake in doing thing... Why pay $42k a year, when you could go to NC State or UNCC; pay a lot less and still have the same educated values equal to someone (let's say MIT) who came out of MIT. Sure you might be a top look during an application process but as soon as a background check is called into order.. You are screwed. 80-90% screwed for a professional job.
Also she is a load of crap, I've done some research on this girl. Not only did she have enough to pay for school (both parents have middle-high paying jobs) she also had enough scholarships/grant to cover 60% of her tuition. Which might explain why both of her parents will not come onto the scene as well as the school.
March 7, 2014 at 2:46 am | Report abuse | Reply
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UNCC versus MIT...no match my friend. Let me guess...your grades were so so and you attended UNCC but you always dreamed of MIT?
March 7, 2014 at 9:58 pm | Report abuse |
Maybe Duke should reconsider charging their undergrad students $60,000 for tuition every year! That is the real scandal.
She is an absolute idiot...how can you even put her in the category of being smart....
March 7, 2014 at 12:42 am | Report abuse | Reply
She did get into Duke....
So what? I know plenty of people who went to Duke who are absolute morons.....
dalewalk
Probably got in by banging the chancellor. She's like.. obviously not too.. like bright.
But I would like to consume her.
March 9, 2014 at 3:25 am | Report abuse |
JAHawthorne
Sha, Calling people idiots is telling me you don't have a great education. Most people that do have a education wouldn't say that. They would say something more mature.
Let's not forget Bush went to Yale!
An idiot who can easily make $80,000 a year, pay for college, live very well while doing so and be completely debt free. By the time she is mid twenties and ready to settle down she might even own a house free and clear.
I'm so glad that neither my son nor my daughters ever stooped this low in order to afford college. I can't imagine ANY parent being proud of this choice by their child. I also pity any children this girl may have in her future because this stuff NEVER goes away.
She clearly has what it takes to become a US congressperson.
a caveat, I have NOT read through all the comments, but can't she just go to a cheaper school? I used to have the opinion that it was best school or forget it, but I have 6 siblings, and they are successful at many different levels of schools – and I mean incomes over $200K
gusifer
Of COURSE she could! However, this is not about her family like she claims. It's about her. She is self centered and lacking in morals (thats feminism for you) and she did it for herself.
She is a shallow, selfish idiot. Sadly, I am so very used to this out of American women of my generation. Do something stupid, then blame the first person who finds out for ANYONE finding out. Please. Feminism, you have destroyed my generation.
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Her intellect generally fits nicely as a "dim witted freshman" (which is great for her career), but from Duke? I'm sort of turned off here.
She is right... too many hypocritical goofs out there who have no clue and condemn the woman just because she wants to live her life they way she wants to and has the right to. She is NOT hurting anyone!
Watch one of her videos and tell me the same things afterwards. You are wrong, uninformed.
piliage
Well, at least screwing people for money to pay for college is great training for her future career as a lawyer.
I'm not sure that her undergrad degree in "women's studies" will get her into the finest of law schools.
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Headline News should read "Cable Network Hits New Low."
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You want to finish your career, go to a community college, not an elite college to persuade your dreams.
this is an act of passive violence!
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rsdofny
She works so hard to get into the a top university in the country. Her revelation of the side job will change her entire career ahead of her. She is trying to stand strong to justify herself during this firestorm. But I am sure that she did not realize this could happen when she signed on to do this. Anyway, there is no reason why she has to blame Duke for not giving all the scholarship that she needs.
She was outed by a fellow student? Well, well, well. I guessing that fellow student feels accomplished! This girl will probably be thrown out of Duke within the next few weeks. The University will site "safety concerns" which will be ironic, because "safety of students" on campus is never a high priority.
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work it girl
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Don't really care how she earns her living, but what a waste of money to study "women's studies" and "sociology" and such an amazing school.
It's her money to waste, and she's not putting herself in debt to earn a degree that will not qualify her to actually do anything, but millions of kids are.
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Incredibly empowering. Awesome.
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When she turns tricks, Piers would be a perfect pimp.
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Whenever she decides to to try and get a normal job, she will realize then what she's done..
Time it will take to pay off tuition at $10,000 per film : one year, 23 films. Time it will take to get her self respect back and get a normal, decent job : A LIFETIME
Why is the media giving her this coverage? Don't they have any respect & dignity? This idiot is some ones daughter that will be kicked out of Duke with all her tricks & STD. Cnn & other media is exploiting like any Pimp? She is so much like Cat Marnell who estranged her parents & sibling. Cat has found a publisher & written her book why she estranged her parents like Patty Davis. These girls are very bright Pot Heads with wiring gone astray. People like her have the gift of the gab & diarrhea of the brain. Unfortunately they suffer from BLPD among other mental illness that needs to be addressed & not be mocked for there stupidity.
There is nothing empowering about getting a load on your face.
Well said. The girl is so naive. Hopefully one day she'll see the truth before it's too late.
teaclown
Watched some of her videos. Hot stuff. Worth a look if she's your type.
Time for a buffet at Charlie Sheen's home.
Piers, your wife needs more friends.
Has anyone considered her major? Sociology and Women's Studies. I may be way off but some things are not adding up: 1) Father is a doctor and could pay tuition 2) Apparently, she had a free ride to other good schools 3) She's obviously intelligent – would she really botch her future so carelessly?
Perhaps this is a big experiment – part of her cirriculum, an attempt to expose what would happen to a modern day Hester? Oh, how rich it would be – twitter, Facebook, an interview with CNN, families, potential employers, Duke...on and on.
I'm just sayin.
She's too young to know how foolish she is and how embarrassed she will be when she's older.
I'm sure someday her kids will be proud of what a role model their mother was.
She is certainly on the right track to grow up to be a US senator or major media celebrity, and thus would never know the meaning of the word "shame."
More power to her if she could seriously believe it feels "incredibly freeing" doing this. However,there's nothing empowering about being looked at as a piece of a** to others.
Being smart and having class or moral character are different things.
Mike Handley
This, my friends, is an example of a strange form of liberalism. She claims that there is a political agenda when people say there is something wrong with that industry but what she doesn't get is that there is. She "seems" to be for woman's rights, but what she doesn't understand is that no matter what she says, she really has no point of going to school anymore. Plain and simple. No job is going to take her after finding this story except the industry she already used to pay for college. Quite plain and simple, if she wants to be in that kind of industry stay with it. She's promoting her actions as if we should serve a silver platter to her and put her in historical books for fighting for the rights of women to stoop low to pay for college. Btw, I also read that her parents were able to pay for college. Another cry for publicity if you ask me.
Commander Zsvartz
If this was Obama's daughter would there be such a firestorm?
Dr. Kevin Weeks D.O. of Spokane Wash. will file suit against Duke Univ.
His daughter was a virgin when she entered her freshman year.
Cnn is exploiting this vulnerable child. Shame on you and sham on Piers Morgan. This is how he will be remembered when he is soon gone and deservedly so.
Please stop expecting people to feel pity for this so called 'vulnerable' child. It was her own fault that she did this and it was her fault for really believing that people weren't going to find out in college. It's the internet, people are going to find out and she should know that in today's world, there are people with fervent beliefs who react accordingly to incidents. On top of that, she acts with dignity in what she's doing. She did this to herself and she will have to face the consequences of her actions, but now that her face is out there, people are going to exploit her even more than Piers Morgan has.
DanaScully
She brushes off other women's feelings, she is at that age where she knows it all. I'm sure she can justify just about anything she does. Hopefully this is her only moment in the limelight.
Apparently she took Modern Feminist Studies 101 in her first semester.
In the future, her success will be hailed as a milestone in women's rights. There was a time, and not so very long ago, when single mothers and unmarried women who were known not to be virgins were thought of as "fallen women" who had been "ruined" and were unemployable. In fact, there are big parts of the world where this is still true. I predict Belle Knox will be hailed as a heroine. She will also be a powerful person to be reckoned with once her education is complete.
If she was truly in financial need she could get loans, grants, scholarships, etc. etc. but instead she decided to ruin her life by delving into this industry. Yup a true 'hero' of women's rights if you ask liberals. Liberals are the downfall of America. We are on the path to a socialist immoral society with mass government surveillance and oppression...pretty much the Soviet Union with a progressive twist of immorality added.
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Where are the parents to take care of that girl????
" Liberals are the downfall of America."
It was those damn liberals who put and end to child labor, promoted 40-hour work weeks, ended slavery, got women and minorities the right to vote, ended lynchings and Jim Crow laws, supported a minimum wage, wrote the Pledge of Allegiance and "America the Beautiful," integrated schools, ended the Vietnam War, balanced the federal budget, and created nationalized healthcare, and pushed for enforcement of First Amendment rights for everyone. Yes, they are the downfall of America.
Nixon, who brought an end to the Vietnam war that was started (for US purposes) by Kennedy, was a liberal? And Nixon, who brought about national occupational health and safety (OSHA) was a liberal? Wow... I have been so misinformed.
I've seen her listed as 18, and with several films under her belt (no pun intended!). Was she underage when she started?
American society has failed if the best educated of our youth is resorting to facial abuse for money,and her classmates are watching for pleasure. What a fall for a once dignified society.We are so in love with the concept of freedom that we dont challenge the things that degrade and dishonor us. While her choice is a poor one we as a country are making that choice with her by watching.
OK, just one question:
What did she do that was wrong? I stipulate that "wrong" mean harming others as a result of her actions.
Please only answer this question and don't digress onto your soapbox.
slughand
First Libertarian, that is not the definition of wrong, that is your definition and a very narrow one at that. Here are some better ones.
adjective: wrong
1. not correct or true.
2. unjust, dishonest, or immoral.
synonyms: illegal, unlawful, illicit, criminal, dishonest, dishonorable, corrupt; More
unethical, immoral, bad, wicked, sinful, iniquitous, nefarious, blameworthy, reprehensible;
adverb: wrong
1. in an unsuitable or undesirable manner or direction.
noun: wrong; plural noun: wrongs
1. an unjust, dishonest, or immoral action.
synonyms: misdeed, offense, injury, crime, transgression, violation, peccadillo, sin; More
injustice, outrage, atrocity;
tort;
verb: wrong; 3rd person present: wrongs; past tense: wronged; past participle: wronged; gerund or present participle: wronging
1. act unjustly or dishonestly toward (someone).
So to answer your question I would say, "What about her family and their honor"? Is this what every father dreams of for their daughter to do and become? Is this something they can be proud of and cherish for a lifetime?
derbuzenpuken
You want to know who she's harmed as a result of her actions? How about her father for starters. An Army Doctor that just got back from a war zone and found out. A man saving our soldiers' lives as well as Afghanistan's citizens in a battle zone. A Hero. A man of integrity. He comes home to a spoiled brat that's smearing his good name in public worldwide.
When all is said and done, all we have is our integrity. This selfish young woman has destroyed what has taken her father a life time to build. What say all you "free thinkers" now????
I found out about this on a Military web site:
http://undertheradar.military.com/2014/03/army-doctor-returns-home-gets-a-shock/
De F*c* are you saying!?
Do you bring children to this world for your own selfish things? what the hell: "You want to know who she's harmed as a result of her actions? How about her father " ?!?!? seems to me you live in another planet.
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PAsound
Doesn't surprise me very much. It echoes the mind of the vast majority of college girls in this nation. A backwards view of what feminism is and stands for, as well as a victim mentality that gives them the mental right to do what they want without thought of the consequences. Enjoy your time Miss Belle. When you are worn and have a slew of mental issues following this "career", you will be too disgraced and challenged to find another line of work.
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Chester Winefield
I have pity for Ms Knox. I find this type of behaviour to be degrading for women in general. It is a sad day when we see such innocence being slaughtered. I think this will instead tarnish her credibility and future. How the hell did she get on Piers Morgan anyhow?
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Obviously, this interview didnt help Piers morgan's career in tv. His show got eventually cancelled after this interview aired !
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Pilgrimage In Medieval Ireland
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Kilmolash Church Co Waterford
Kilmolash church is one of my favourite places to visit. It is located close to the Cásan na Naomh (path of the saints) an off-shoot of the ancient road from Lismore to Ardmore called St Declan’s Road. Its roughly about 5 or 6 miles from the historic town of Lismore, the site of the great monastery of St Cathage/Mochuada . Kilmolash started out its life as an early ecclesiastical site dedicated to St Molaise who was venerated locally on the 17th of January. There is no evidence written or physical to suggest that the site was at any time a place of pilgrimage, although this can not be ruled out completely. The annals record that the site was plundered by Norsemen in AD 833. In AD 912 Cormac Mac Cuileannan, bishop and vice abbot of Lismore, King of Déisi is also recorded as the abbot of Cell-Mo-Laise (Kilmolash). Suggesting Kilmolash was in the sphere of influence of Lismore. By the later medieval period the church had become the parish church for the parish of Kilmolash.
Today the site consists of the ruins of a multi-period church surrounded by a D-shaped graveyard. The graveyard is defined by a wooden fence and an earth and stone bank. The modern by-road follows the curve of the graveyard.
The church is rectangular in shape and consists of a nave and chancel divided by a rounded chancel arch. The nave and east wall are largely late medieval in date while the chancel walls appear to be much earlier, possibly even 12th century in date (O’Keeffe 2003, 171).
This little church has many interesting architectural features and the west wall is particularly striking with its finely carved doorway with hooded moulding and holy water stoup.
West gable of Kilmolash church
The fabric of the building is constructed from sandstone and is in a poor state of repair and in need of some form of conservation especially the north and south walls.
Window in the west gable of Kilmolash church
Doorway in west gable of church
Holy water stoup in west gable of church
A double belfry survives in the west gable positioned over an ogee-headed gallery window.
The nave and chancel are divided by a chancel arch. The arch is made of dressed stones, one of which bears the inscription Feare God, Honer the Kinge, Anno Dom 1635. Beneath the chancel arch is a large ogham stone. The inscription is worn but only the letters ‘NN’ can be identified (MacAlister 1945, vol. 1, 285-6). The stone also has two inscribed crosses located close to the ogham text. For more information on ogham stones visit Ogham in 3D project website.
Chancel arch at Kilmolash
Ogham stone under the chancel arch with incised crosses
Stone with the inscription God, Honer the Kinge, Anno Dom 1635
The most unusual feature at the church is rare piece of Romanesque sculpture positioned over a flat linteled door in the west end of the north wall. The carving in question is a finely carved rosette stone (Power 1898, 91; O’Keeffe 1994, 129-32). A similar type rosette stone is found at Coole Abbey.
A flat lintel door in the north wall of the church. Note rosette stone over the lintel
Unfortunately the rosette stone is not in-situ and was it was originally part of a larger composition. The carving is ‘rendered in low relief, the flower is carved onto a block of square stone and was highly stylized within a frame of beads‘ (O’Keeffe 2003, 171). The stone likely dates to first part of the 12th century.
Rosette stone at Kilmolash church
The graveyard surrounding the church contains many fine examples of eighteenth and nineteenth century gravestones and one late medieval gravestone with a figure carved on it found on the north side of the church. Today only the head can be discerned with some difficulty. The ITA files state that the head was believed to be the head of St Molaise (ITA files).
Medieval graveslab at Kilmolash
Traditionally people believed the face on the graveslab represented the head of St Molaise
A fragment of a font is also found in the graveyard and likely the same as the one identified by Buckley in 1898 and found in the graveyard wall and kept in the church (Power 1898, 92). In 1894 Redmond recorded that ‘… a holy well exists in a field adjoining the church, but that it was covered in many years ago, and now no trace of it can be found’ (Redmond 1894-95, 155).
Fragment of medieval font in the graveyard at Kilmolash
Given its roadside location Kilmolash is easy to get too and a wonderful place to pass a some time and I highly recommend a visit.
Buckley, M. J. C. (1896) Notes on Kilmolash Church, Near Cappoquin, Co. Waterford, WAJ vol. 2, 212-20.
Buckley, M. J. C. (1899) Ecclesiological gleanings and jottings in Waterford and elsewhere. (continued) WAJ vol. 5, 44-8.
Macalister, R. A. S. (1945) Corpus inscriptionum insularum Celticarum, 2 vols. Stationery Office, Dublin.
O’Keeffe, T. (1994) Lismore and Cashel: reflections on the beginnings of Romanesque architecture in Munster. JRSAI vol. 124, 118-52.
O’Keeffe, T. 2003. Architecture and Ideology In the Twelfth Century. Dublin: Four Courts Press.
Power, Rev. P. (1898) Ancient ruined churches of Co. Waterford, WAJ vol. 4, 83-95, 195-219.
ITA Files
http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/2317/
http://www.libraryireland.com/topog/K/Kilmolash-Decies-Without-Drum-Waterford.php
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Wang Zi-Ping was born in 1881, during the unsettling time of the last Chinese empire. Early in his life, Wang was a member of an underground revolutionary group known as "The Righteous and Harmonious Fists" during the Boxer Rebellion. This is believed to be resulting from the fact that he had lived most of his life under colonial rule from major European powers. He later became a merchant in Northeast China before serving in the army, training soldiers when the country was in turmoil due to foreign invasions. During his youth, Wang had repeatedly defeated Western boxers who challenged the Chinese to fights. Once, during a challenge, he single-handedly defeated a squadron of foreign military police. During another challenge, he picked up a large millstone and was since then known as the "King of Thousand Pounds".
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