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__label__wiki	0.624301	0.624301	Robust Phase-based Speech Signal Processing From Source-Filter Separation to Model-Based Robust ASR Loweimi, Erfan (2018) Robust Phase-based Speech Signal Processing From Source-Filter Separation to Model-Based Robust ASR. PhD thesis, University of Sheffield. Text (PDF of the PhD Thesis) Erfan_Loweimi_PhD_Thesis.pdf The Fourier analysis plays a key role in speech signal processing. As a complex quantity, it can be expressed in the polar form using the magnitude and phase spectra. The magnitude spectrum is widely used in almost every corner of speech processing. However, the phase spectrum is not an obviously appealing start point for processing the speech signal. In contrast to the magnitude spectrum whose fine and coarse structures have a clear relation to speech perception, the phase spectrum is difficult to interpret and manipulate. In fact, there is not a meaningful trend or extrema which may facilitate the modelling process. Nonetheless, the speech phase spectrum has recently gained renewed attention. An expanding body of work is showing that it can be usefully employed in a multitude of speech processing applications. Now that the potential for the phase-based speech processing has been established, there is a need for a fundamental model to help understand the way in which phase encodes speech information. In this thesis a novel phase-domain source-filter model is proposed that allows for deconvolution of the speech vocal tract (filter) and excitation (source) components through phase processing. This model utilises the Hilbert transform, shows how the excitation and vocal tract elements mix in the phase domain and provides a framework for efficiently segregating the source and filter components through phase manipulation. To investigate the efficacy of the suggested approach, a set of features is extracted from the phase filter part for automatic speech recognition (ASR) and the source part of the phase is utilised for fundamental frequency estimation. Accuracy and robustness in both cases are illustrated and discussed. In addition, the proposed approach is improved by replacing the log with the generalised logarithmic function in the Hilbert transform and also by computing the group delay via regression filter. Furthermore, statistical distribution of the phase spectrum and its representations along the feature extraction pipeline are studied. It is illustrated that the phase spectrum has a bell-shaped distribution. Some statistical normalisation methods such as mean-variance normalisation, Laplacianisation, Gaussianisation and Histogram equalisation are successfully applied to the phase-based features and lead to a significant robustness improvement. The robustness gain achieved through using statistical normalisation and generalised logarithmic function encouraged the use of more advanced model-based statistical techniques such as vector Taylor Series (VTS). VTS in its original formulation assumes usage of the log function for compression. In order to simultaneously take advantage of the VTS and generalised logarithmic function, a new formulation is first developed to merge both into a unified framework called generalised VTS (gVTS). Also in order to leverage the gVTS framework, a novel channel noise estimation method is developed. The extensions of the gVTS framework and the proposed channel estimation to the group delay domain are then explored. The problems it presents are analysed and discussed, some solutions are proposed and finally the corresponding formulae are derived. Moreover, the effect of additive noise and channel distortion in the phase and group delay domains are scrutinised and the results are utilised in deriving the gVTS equations. Experimental results in the Aurora-4 ASR task in an HMM/GMM set up along with a DNN-based bottleneck system in the clean and multi-style training modes confirmed the efficacy of the proposed approach in dealing with both additive and channel noise. Phase spectrum, group delay, source-filter separation, Hilbert transform, robust ASR, statistical normalisation, generalised vector Taylor series, channel estimation Mr Erfan Loweimi	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20196
__label__cc	0.668815	0.331185	Able Embroiderers Posted by HAND/EYE Magazine on January 10, 2010 at 22:00 Does a work of art reveal the soul of its creator? If so, the needlework of Kagoshima City’s Nui Project, an embroidery workshop for the mentally disabled, uncloaks souls whose workings are little understood. Nui Project’s dazzling textiles and shirts, stitched by artists living with Down’s Syndrome, autism, and other mental and physical challenges, force viewers to re-examine their assumptions about the mentally handicapped – and make textiles lovers pause in outright admiration. Nui Project’s parent organization, Shobu Gakuen, was established in 1973 as a rehabilitation facility for the mentally disabled. Kobo Shobu, its craft-based workshop, started in 1985 – and the Nui Project is Kobo Shobu’s embroidery atelier, surrounded by sister projects in woodwork, ceramics, dyeing, washi paper, and other disciplines. If the participant is capable of choosing between the various crafts, he or she chooses what medium to pursue; if not, family members decide for them. Nui Project welcomes about 25 participants, most of whom live on campus. They are assisted in their embroidery work by four staff coordinators. Staff member Sayaka Enomoto tells HAND/EYE that the coordinators “just watch the artists working (or playing) with threads on a piece of shirt or cloth in their own way. We don't really teach them how to sew or how to stitch, but to those who can understand stitching techniques we sometimes give advice so that they have more options. The artists play with threads in many ways people don't usually think of as stitching. Through observing these individual proclivities, the staff learns what materials would be best for them, and prepares projects exactly right for each person.” Anyone who has visited a successful artist’s studio has seen the combination of space, light, organization, and attentive assistants that are a modern creator’s dream. Under the auspices of Nui Project, mentally disabled people work under exactly these circumstances. The fluid originality of what the embroiderers make abundantly justifies the investment in them. The gently warped shape of a heavily embroidered shirt is as avant-garde as anything seen in the high fashion world. The relentless repetition of stitches creates fields of deeply original texture and pattern. Patterns emerge that are somehow familiar and tangible, yet at the same time seem on the verge of disappearing. Writer and craft observer Scott Rothstein comments, “The members of the Nui Project are pushing the limits of fiber. These artists draw on shirts using thread and create sculptures...Vibrant and intuitive, this work demonstrates the possibilities of fiber in an unprecedented manner. What is distinct about art from the Nui Project is the artists’ direct and unencumbered response to their medium. There is a spontaneity seen in these works that is unique in contemporary fiber art. These pieces do not look labored, they seem as if they were created in an instant.” Rothstein is right to spotlight the shirts in particular. Perhaps because we think we know what a shirt should look like, Nui Project’s shirts surprise and inspire with their variations on form and proportion, and the intensity of their perfect imperfection. Staff members, sure that the shirts are meant to be worn, step in sometimes with a sewing machine to mend a tear or correct a flaw that does not seem to be part of the artist’s design. But a deep respect for the voice of each maker keeps them cautious: “Nui Project staff think that it's very important to have the artists pursue their own style on individual works. Just by stitching with one needle, they put so much energy and meaning into their work, which comes from what they do, what they think of, and how they feel. Working in collaboration with the artists, the staff always takes care to get what they're trying to say and make sure that their work remains a means of their expression.” Nui Project’s Design Office Chief Hatsune Doi comments, “Our mission is to share the amazing talent of those with developmental disabilities and to tell people the importance of having their own styles, their own identity. By questioning the very idea of disability, we want to show that our artists can impact the world of textiles or other fields of art. Even all of society.” HAND/EYE hopes you will look at their work and be part of Nui Project’s impact on the world. Nui Project conducts an on campus gallery show every three months, with profit shared with the artists. A larger exhibit takes place every two or three years, and one will happen soon in Kyoto. Attending a show or exhibition, or stumbling on a gallery in Japan who has a contract to sell the various crafts of Kobo Shobu, is the only way to purchase a Nui Project shirt. To learn more, visit shop.yoshikowada.com and purchase the book called Nui Project. You can also visit Scott Rothstein’s blog artfoundout.blogspot.com.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20197
__label__cc	0.665469	0.334531	China Know-How Chinese-Austrian EU Summer School Eurasia-Pacific Uninet Home The Chinese Studies Center at the University of Salzburg in cooperation with the Eurasia-Pacific Uninet, annually organizes Summer Schools in China and Austria. While "China Know-How" is intended for students from Austrian/European institutions of higher education, young scientists, and employees of international companies, the "Chinese-Austrian EU Summer School" is designed for students of Chinese member institutions of Eurasia-Pacific Uninet. The China Know-How Summer School is an intensive summer program in the People's Republic of China. Target audiences are students and young scientists from Austrian and European universities and universities of applied sciences, as well as for employees from companies with international activities. Courses are held in English by distinguished scholars at Peking University and Fudan University. The following two courses are offered. Course A: "Modern China Studies" This course focuses on topics such as economics, politics, law, environment, internet policy, foreign policy, language, history, arts, culture and cross-cultural management in modern China. Seminars by experts and visits to joint-venture companies are included in this program. Location: Peking University, Beijing and Fudan University, Shanghai Course B: "Chinese Language and Cultural Studies" This program focuses on acquiring and deepening knowledge of Chinese language and cultural skills. Location: Beijing Foreign Studies University - cancelled for 2018! Chinese-Austrian-EU Summer School The program gives students from Chinese member institutions a basic knowledge of Europe in general and Austria in particular. Lectures and workshops cover aspects of European and Austrian history and culture as well as Austrian economy, law, politics, music, philosophy. Lectures are offered by: University of Salzburg University Mozarteum Salzburg University of Heidelberg, Germany Paris Descartes University, France University of Venice, Italy European Court of Human Rights, Strassbourg Eurasia-Pacific Uninet, Veterinaerplatz 1, A–1210 Wien, Austria / Europe Tel.: +43 (0)1 250 77-4209, Fax: +43 (0)1 250 77-4290, E-mail: eurasiapacific@vetmeduni.ac.at © 2007 webdesign-salzburg.at	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20198
__label__wiki	0.672966	0.672966	Paul Bosauder Flamenco Tour Fri 31 Jan, 8:30pm – 10:30pm Whakatane Little Theatre, Rex Morpeth Park, Short St, Whakatane Students and Seniors: $51.69 Additional fees may apply Paul Bosauder website Join world-class flamenco musicians as they explore the limits of flamenco dance, composition and improvisation. Tierra y Mar; flamenco Danza y Guitarra; contrasts tradition and innovation, expression and discipline. Paul Bosauder is in many respects a cultural ambassador, performing around the world as a highly regarded flamenco guitarist and composer, promoting his love of this music along with his love for his country of origin – New Zealand. Following more than ten years living, working, studying and creating with Spain’s elite flamenco artists, Paul received Matricula de Honor while completing his studies at ESMUC (Escuela Superior de Musica de Cataluña). In 2018 he introduced Australasia to his work resulting in a completely sold-out summer tour. Paul’s debut flamenco guitar album Tierra y Mar, reached #1 on the NZ Independent Album charts across all genres. This summer, Tierra y Mar expands to include the talents of the multi award-winning flamenco dancer, Triana who will interpret traditional flamenco styles as well as Paul’s compositions. Triana has worked alongside top flamenco artists like Trini de la Isla, Gabriel de la Tomasa, Nino de los Reyes and Olga Llorente. The performance also includes talented percussionist Lito Manez and the cante (singing) of Thais Hernandez. Award-winning Spanish flamenco guitarist and producer Alberto Lopez finds Paul to be “a sensitive and emotive performer with a deep understanding of flamenco music. His compositions are original and full of personality but still respectful to the traditions and building blocks of true flamenco music”. Paul’s emergence on stages as a soloist has enabled him to capture the essence of Spanish music and dance, combining traditional and innovative flamenco elements to create a truly moving and emotive performance. Each note, crafted and formed with flamenco emotion, recreates Spanish landscapes through sound (Paisajes sonoros). “Flamenco is a language and music that developed in communities… el pueblo, just like blues and jazz,” Paul explains. “If you know how to play, to accompany dance and song then the audience will accept you, even admire you. There is a huge range of styles and tastes within Spain, but flamenco is a live music where young people strive to play, sing and dance the best they possibly can. Paul has performed on an international level in Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Greece, France, Lebanon, UK, Mexico, USA and New Zealand. Sherwood, Queenstown Hanover Hall, Dunedin, Otago Gourmet Beach BBQ with Harcourts (Sunshine and a Plate) Surf & Sand Ohope's Beachfront Venue, Whakatane, Bay of Plenty Thu 5 Mar Martinborough Town Hall, Martinborough, Wairarapa Leisurely Lunch with Jo Seagar (Sunshine and a Plate) Magnolia Estate, Whakatane, Bay of Plenty Wed 4 Mar Local Foodie Tours with MTF & ECHD (Sunshine and a Plate) Eastern Bay of Plenty, Whakatane, Bay of Plenty Papa Hou, Christchurch Nelson Musical Theatre, Nelson, Nelson / Tasman Wed 5 Feb	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20199
__label__wiki	0.543008	0.543008	Public Talks & Tours Waitangi Day at He Tohu Thu 6 Feb, 9:30am – 9:50am Thu 6 Feb, 10:00am – 10:20am Thu 6 Feb, 12:00pm – 12:20pm Thu 6 Feb, 1:00pm – 1:20pm Te Ahumairangi Ground Floor, National Library, cnr Molesworth & Aitken Streets, Thorndon, Wellington Thursday 6th February, 9am to 5pm. He Tohu tours will run every half hour from 9:30am. Tours are 20 mins long. Last tour at 4pm. Bilingual tours at 11am and 2pm. ‘Walking backwards into the future’—is an expression that asks us to use our past experiences to build a positive future. Bring the family to the National Library on Waitangi Day and see the Treaty of Waitangi. Learn about New Zealand's constitutional past to help you imagine the future. ‘Walking backwards into the Future’ encourages us to look at where we’ve come from and the journey that still lies ahead. It asks that we use our past experiences to build a positive future. Celebrate Waitangi Day at He Tohu Waitangi Day at He Tohu is an opportunity for you and your whānau to see the Treaty of Waitangi. - whānau and bilingual He Tohu tours - tours of National Library digitised collections - a reading corner with books/ comics and other Treaty resources - film from Nga Taonga Sound and Vision, and - a kids’ craft table with Treaty-related activities to help the new generation walk backwards into the future. See the Treaty of Waitangi The Treaty of Waitangi is not a single large sheet of paper but a group of nine documents: seven on paper and two on parchment. Together they represent an agreement drawn up between representatives of the British Crown on the one hand and representatives of Māori iwi and hapū on the other. Te Tiriti o Waitangi is named after the place in the Bay of Islands where it was first signed on 6 February 1840, but it was also signed in a number of other locations around the country in the following months. See all nine sheets when you visit the He Tohu exhibition. Get a head start and have a look at the Archives New Zealand online exibition about the Treaty of Waitangi. Chon - NZ Tour Wellington Valhalla, Wellington 6-Week MCing Intensive Course with Hugo Grrrl Toi Pōneke Arts Centre, Wellington North Ridge to Balance Crossing Te Manawa Museum of Art, Science and History, Palmerston North Napier Hill Cemetery Tours - Summer 2020 Old Napier Cemetery, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne Sun 26 Jan – more dates The Tawa Loop Walk – Te Apiti – Manawatu Gorge	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20200
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The Telegraph's Delingpole: "Wind farms: even worse than we thought…" From decidedly "non-warmer" James Delingpole on wind farms (he calls " Bat Chomping Eco-Crucifixes") that: ruin views, kill birds, cause bats to implode, destroy the British film industry, frighten horses, enrich rent-seeking toffs like David Cameron's father-in-law Sir Reginald Sheffield Bt, drive up electricity bills, kill jobs, create fuel poverty, cause old people to die of hypothermia, wipe out property values, drive people mad with strobing and noise pollution and enable smug liberal idiots to spout rubbish like "Oh, I don't mind them. Actually I think they're rather beautiful", but also by 2020 they're set to drive up consumer bills in the UK alone by £120 billion. From The Telegraph (James Delingpole; 3/8/2012): The Global Warming Policy Foundation has produced yet another devastating report: this time on the economics of wind farms. Turns out they're even worse than we thought. Not only do the Bat Chomping Eco-Crucifixes (TM) ruin views, kill birds, cause bats to implode, destroy the British film industry, frighten horses, enrich rent-seeking toffs like David Cameron's father-in-law Sir Reginald Sheffield Bt, drive up electricity bills, kill jobs, create fuel poverty, cause old people to die of hypothermia, wipe out property values, drive people mad with strobing and noise pollution and enable smug liberal idiots to spout rubbish like "Oh, I don't mind them. Actually I think they're rather beautiful", but also by 2020 they're set to drive up consumer bills in the UK alone by £120 billion. This is about ten times more than it would cost if we stuck to gas. (Which we have in abundance, just waiting to be exploited, in places like the Bowland Shale). In the latest Spectator, Matt Ridley delivers the coup-de-grace. Here's a taste: To the nearest whole number, the percentage of the world's energy that comes from wind turbines today is: zero. Despite the regressive subsidy (pushing pensioners into fuel poverty while improving the wine cellars of grand estates), despite tearing rural communities apart, killing jobs, despoiling views, erecting pylons, felling forests, killing bats and eagles, causing industrial accidents, clogging motorways, polluting lakes in Inner Mongolia with the toxic and radioactive tailings from refining neodymium, a ton of which is in the average turbine — despite all this, the total energy generated each day by wind has yet to reach half a per cent worldwide. If wind power was going to work, it would have done so by now. The people of Britain see this quite clearly, though politicians are often wilfully deaf. The good news though is that if you look closely, you can see David Cameron's government coming to its senses about the whole fiasco. The biggest investors in offshore wind — Mitsubishi, Gamesa and Siemens — are starting to worry that the government's heart is not in wind energy any more. Vestas, which has plans for a factory in Kent, wants reassurance from the Prime Minister that there is the political will to put up turbines before it builds its factory. Some readers may occasionally detect in my coverage of wind farms a mild hint of contempt for those involved in the wind farm industry whether as lawyers (that means you Mrs Nick Clegg), paid propagandists/disrupters (see commenters, below), rent-seekers (yep, Sir Reginald) or corporatist blood-suckers feeding off the backs of innocent taxpayers. One thing is certain: the arguments against wind farms are so abundant and well-known that ignorance is no longer a plausible excuse. If you're involved in the wind farm industry, you're a weapons-grade tosser, simple as that. "Wind farms are beautiful" meme is in Japan also, despite the complaints from the residents who live near one of them and suffer health problems from the ultra-low frequency from the wind mills. I guess anything can be said to be beautiful after witnessing the wreckage at Fukushima I Nucleaer Power Plant. Labels: global warming, James Delingpole, wind farms Maju said... When I compare wind farms with every other energy production system, except solar, the advantages show up. Nuclear is obviously disastrous, carbon is most dirty, oil and gas are already rare enough to have prices climbing vertically. Surely wind energy production can be improved somehow but either we accept that our civilization (broadest sense) is dead (and us as species with it surely) or we find alternative power sources that are sustainable. And of course global warming is very real. But even if we ignore it, the problems of polluting sources are just impossible to manage at all. Delingpole a notorious climate change denier: http://www.skepticalscience.com/search.php?Search=James+Delingpole&x=0&y=0 What comes out of my ass makes more sense that what comes out of his head. That Article is nothing but hackery. These same types try to convince you that it's better ecologically to buy a Hummer then a prius. Wind mills are beautiful. The look of a solar farm is absolutely stunning. There is no audible nor measurable noise in typical distance to people's houses and regardless of that cars on roads make a lot more noise than any wind farm ever can do. And yes, I am very liberal and I am absolutely proud of it. The quoted author who said that about wind farms is no better than Tepco. Elliot said... Some paid commentors here as well, I see. Who needs bats or birds or anything, as long as you get to feel Pure and Authentic, de-carbonizing your footprint at others' cost? If Dellingpole's facts are facts, his own politics are besides the point, no? nothing would happen - jet stream blows 10000s of trees. If it blew 10000s of turbines - its still the jet stream passively blowing something. trees and turbines dont make wind, they just blow in the wind that is there. The point you all seem to miss is the demand for electricity. Do you have a coffee maker? Air conditioning? Refrigerator? Computer? 5 Computers? TV? Cable? Smart phone? Water heater? Washing machine? Dryer? Electric car? Do you rent a billboard? Do you light the sign to your business? Do you eat fast food? Do you go out to eat? Did you buy a new car? Do you wash your car? I hang my clothes out to dry. I drive a 41 year old car that runs on Diesel. The airplane I fly is 66 years old I don't run the air conditioner hardly at all. I have a ton of blankets and a woman to keep me warm if I am cold. In the winter I wear a LOT of clothes in the house. This winter I didn't use any amount of heat other than an electric blanket on a couple of nights when the wife made me sleep on the couch. This past weekend I collected rain water in buckets and washed my car with it that required no pumps or any water meant to be used for drinking. Look around your neighborhood. Is it well lit? Can you see steam rising from the street lights when it rains? Not using LED lights yet? Your government probably sends hundreds of thousands of dollars to the utility company each year if not millions to light your streets. LED lights or no lights at all would cut demand. Beyond the lighting you have water pumps and heating and cooling at all of the public buildings. Global warming is a hoax. Carbon offsets are a joke. Obummer says oil is outdated yet he flys around on Air Force One that won't burn anything other than outdated oil. The earth will be consumed by our sun which will go super nova before eventually burning out. What will all of us tree huggers do then? If you folks want to be honest then admit we have too many people in the world addicted to energy. If you folks want to do something then get your own wind turbine and solar setup and live off of that. Get off of the grid. Simplify your life. If I drive a 41 year old car then why do you drive a car that is 5 years old? Count up the ways the earth is raped by car production, computer production, smart phone production and on and on and on. Get political. Run for office. City governments are some of the biggest energy consumers to be found. Do your part and make your community as energy efficient (actual) and energy independent as possible. Start in your own home. Set the example. Get political. All of these subsidies handed out to "green" energy companies are nothing more that political paybacks and insurance for political support and continued paybacks. Tens of millions of your tax dollars year after year are handed out as bonuses to "winners" who quickly find themselves bankrupt without any benefit to anyone other than the corrupt beneficiary companies and their "executives". Again, get involved. Get informed. Start at home. Get rid of the corrupt politicians, they are EVERYWHERE. Run for office. Set the example. Do good. Don't be STUPID. Smoking Caster >If I drive a 41 year old car then why do you drive a car that is 5 years old? Uh, because there aren't enough 40 year old cars to go around? Scattershooting.... I think conserving water is important in drought areas. Commercial electricity is lightning in a bottle, use it or lose it. Can't be stored (yet). Google is working on it I hear. My phone company throttles my cell phone Internet usage as they can't supply the bandwidth because 5% of users use 90% of the bandwidt running bit torrents. Humans have been wasteful since they used fire torches to run mastodons over cliffs. How do you change human nature? Make them pay for it. And we will indeed. Wind turbine farms are huge near my home...among the largest in the world. They rarely kill birds and the biggest complaint is they can interfere with over the air TV signals. I would rather freeze in the dark and read by a candle than have electricity gnerated by a nuclear power plant. Anonymous female said... "The earth will be consumed by our sun which will go super nova before eventually burning out. What will all of us tree huggers do then? " Smokey, that's a bit of a far off event to be asking what will the tree huggers do then, isn't it?--4-5 billion years before it becomes a red giant. The sun doesn't have enough mass to go supernova. Just saying. :-) The UK government is one of the last ones in Europe which wants to increase nuclear electricity generation. The media spin of the private-owned MSM there is massively pulling into that direction. Meanwhile even the French people are more nuclear-critical than the British now. Britain has much wind and could enjoy basically free electricity as wind doesn't need to be imported. And yes, I enjoy the view of the big wind farms near my village and I am proud that in winter German wind farms helped France out of its electricity crisis when France was forced to shutdown quite some nuclear plants due to low river water levels. But, to some people, undistorted TV MSM reception seems more important than sustainability... @Karen: irrational what you said. Windmills are not any relevant obstacle for winds: they do not just have much much more hole than obstacle (compare to cities) but they are small (compared to hills, mountains and skyscrapers) and do not heat nor cool significantly the atmosphere. So in answer to what you said, I have only stopped for a moment to think about it today but I felt dazed by the absurdness of the question. However as Mairena said, there are no stupid questions, so I tried to make my answer the less stupid possible. @Elliot: the only interests who could pay hit-people, would be the oil industry (including many of the biggest private companies on Earth, which would like global warming to be false or rather get people to believe it while they make a huge profit with our present and future) and the nuclear industry (who would love to be the replacement of oil when it's gone). Environmentalism does not pay (at least not for most, not in terms of money). Actually I'm realizing with this post that Ex-SKF (and you, Elliot) are probably what they call in the USA "libertarians" (i.e. extremist ultra-capitalists, aka "liberals" in European language). As this "ideology", in spite of some contradictory details of its discourse, is just a tool for corporate interests and manifests itself as a new variant of fascism/reactionarism, I should not be surprised that it denies the obvious (global warming - or is not obvious that the beginning of spring is moving ahead, for example?) or that it attacks the few alternative energy sources we have at hand. Maybe technical design corrections should be proposed against the uniform mega windmill standard... but criticizing a technology that has been with us for many many centuries, if not millennia, an that does (almost) not pollute other than with its presence and production, seems totally ill-willed (and hence maybe promoted by a commercial interest?). @Maju, calling libertarians "extremists", you sound like you work for the FED that considers anyone paying cash at an internet cafe is a potential terrorist... If you think the current windmills are the same as windmills from centuries past, you are nuts. Oh boy. Now I'm a extremist? What's new? Why am I being abused on my own blog? Let's see, I have been: Commie Fear-mongerer Bad trader TEPCO shill Pro-nuke Anti-nuke Now an extremist? Any other names I missed? @Anonymous: they are extremists: they believe in reducing the state, which acts as stabilizer, and giving all the power to private companies (corporations, which incidentally control the FED). Libertarians (specifically Patri Friedman and Peter Thiel) are for example one of the main support of the military dictatorship in Honduras, which is murdering peasants, journalists and other dissidents only to get some such business going. Capitalist-libertarians have some funny contradictory fetishes like their obsession with the FED and the gold standard but they are not truly central to their ideology and are more like the Nazi obsession with Jews and race: they could have done without it, really, just that their true ideology is so feeble that they actually need to make up things, specially to forge mythical foes around which to rally the dumb and mediocre (and who is not against the FED?) Also, personally, as someone with a Communist-Libertarian trajectory (Anarchist), I truly feel offended by the hijacking of the term "libertarian" these fascists have done. I'm not attacking you but the ideology of "libertarianism", La Primavera. I'm here for the Fukushima info primarily, not for this oil-capitalist propaganda stunt. @Maju, you should bring your argument to Ludwig von Mises Institute, not on my blog. For those of you anti wind folks out there, reading an anti-nuke blog, do you think the correct solution is to continue burning petrochemicals? Do you REALLY think putting ten million years worth of deposited greenhouse gases in a period of centuries is going to have no effect on global climate? The thick bastards that still cling to AGW denial are just some of what's killing civilization, too stupid to know what they're talking about and also too stupid to keep their fucking mouths shut. These seem to increasingly go hand in hand. Solar? I don't know... doesn't that technology work a hell of a lot better outside of an atmosphere? I say we scrap commercial fusion, which for all we know will forever be a carrot on the end of a stick just out of reach, and really buckle down and focus on space elevator technology. Send robots and a small supervisory crew to the moon, orbit a few solar panels, and with development in microwave power transmission we start beaming electricity to moon's surface to facilitate construction of massive solar arrays, which can produce power that can be microwave transmitted to geosynch collectors around Earth, which carry power back to the surface through atmosphere via carbon monofilament tethers containing a space elevator and a superconductor electrical bus. The problem with earth based solar? In a word, the atmosphere. Why not take advantage of its presence through wind, then? Mankind will never drive silicon pulling factories that make solar panels with electricity derived from a solar array near the plant. Windmills require material processing but after that machining factories could concievably be (even mechanically) wind-driven, operating only when local output is enough to feedstock production. Any of the above may not be precisely thought out but certainly it is more viable than, let's burn all the carbon we can squeeze, and if we still haven't solved fusion then dig up all the uranium we can find, and either everything goes fine or...???? Libertarians are some of the most dangerous idiots out there. Only a country as screwed up as USA could produce such a political mentality, the folks who want to have their cake and shove it straight up your ass too, and also don't want anyone else to have cake that they self-proclaim the rights to. They are such a joke that they would be relatively harmless except for their uncanny ability to attract those even stupider than themselves, as evidenced by this topic, but if you want real gold peruse the lewrockwell links in your sidebar. Hilariously frightening! The atmosphere is no big deal for solar power: plants have been using both since the beginning of time. Solar has economic profitability issues: measured in money (and ignoring all the hidden costs of other methods) it is not profitable enough, although in the last few years there have been a lot of technical advances that improve a lot its efficiency. But, as with wind, nuclear or even oil itself, most is just political will. Supporting solar (just as other energy systems are being supported, including windfarms) can only cause an acceleration of technological advances and quick increase of profitability. Solar and other renewables, including wind (plus hydrogen as portable fuel or energy storage method), is the only realistic option for the future. Oil is vanishing and becoming truly expensive, never mind its dirtiness and warming effect, coal and nuclear are not realistic alternatives (extremely dirty and destructive, plus there's not enough uranium nor room for so many nuclear power plants). The only solution is to invest heavily in renewables and, among them, probably solar and wind are king and queen. It's the future and the countries that invest in them will be the most advanced ones soon. EXSKF, One for your list- Violin Wing-Nut The pro "renewables" need to consider how much energy is used in producing the wind turbines & solar panels (hint start with the processing of the required rare earth metals needed) and compare with the energy generated by them. And also realise that you either need conventional power gen as backup as wind is very unreliable. Wind and solar are both (like nuke) only possible with vast subsidy and only benefit the companies providing and supporting. They are a con. Ask any competent engineer that knows about this! If you believe in man made climate change, wind and solar (with current tech) are contributors. Early-generation photovoltaics were indeed of a bad ROI in regards of energy invested to produce energy. And they require high-tech infrastructure to produce. Photovoltaics would be less attractive if taken into account the (still) cheap energy used to produce them. However, this is not true for wind farms and thermic solar energy usage (=to produce hot water). These are comparably low-tech things. Thermic solar energy also offers the advantage of being storable in form of warmth energy (-> heating). And, regarding baseload aspects: It is true that always a part of the installed wind farm capacity cannot produce because of low wind situation. But this becomes moot as there is always wind somewhere. If wind farms would be everywhere, there would be always electricity available as there is always wind somewhere. The limiting factor only is political will to build wind farms and to improve the electric grid so that it can supply frequent generation/load distribution path changes. "hint start with the processing of the required rare earth metals needed"... That's the kind of things that if you don't move decidedly forward, you only delay dealing with: once the economy focuses on that, then these problems will be solved more easily. Big progress has already been made. Not being any expert I have been collecting (and mentioning at my blogs) snippets some of the promising developments of the last years: - Dyes make solar energy 10X more efficient (2008). - New cobalt-phosphate catalist to make hydrogen-solar energy cheaper and cleaner (2008). - Photosynthesis 'replicated' with a manganese catalyst (2008). - New iridium photovoltaic cell converts 41% of solar input (2008). - Carbon nanotubes work as efficient solar cells (2009). - New materials to replace the costly electrolites and cathodes in solar energy production (2010). - First practical 'artificial leaf' developed (2011). - Another tech advance to improve solar energy's efficiency by 80%. - IPCC report claims that renewables can power the world in few decades. - Cuba investing in solar energy. I can't be sure if all these advances are mutually compatible (probably not all) nor exactly how much cheaper and cleaner solar is but, from these news (and others I surely missed), I get the quite clear idea that solar energy is today much cleaner, cheaper and efficient than five years ago. I also get the idea that most of these advances have taken place in the USA and Europe but that, if these do not use them, others (like Cuba) will. And whoever does will be best placed in energy production in the near future. I'm sure you're right 8:15, nobody in the renewable camp takes into consideration that one actually has to build a windmill in order to reap payback energy from it. Please. Takes money to make money, as they say. This is not at all different from a coal plant, NG genset, nuclear reactor, hydro ect. Any energy infrastructure is rendered useless should it run out of it's required resource, nukes need fuel, the disappearance of water resources is well documented, fossil plants need fossil, windmills need... hmm, well aside from any miscellaneous petroleums mechanically required, they essentially run on air, nothing short of a solar nova is likely to deprive us of that anytime soon and unlike impure coal or oil even air that is polluted to some degree will probably work just as well. The point you actually illustrate here, probably without realizing it, is the desperate need to do whatever we can to make our current infrastructure as efficient as it can be, expending a minimum of resources to do it, and then gear ourselves industrially towards the replacement of nonrenewables in our global energy base. It can be done. But those in money (power) don't have an interest in it because their interest (money) is most geatly capitalized upon in the impending collapse of fossil fuel markets. Personally I see an unsettling future ahead if we don't commit now to a different course than we are presently set upon. Many in the renewable energy camp think that the first thing to do is to reduce the consume of energy and products and use money for toilet paper... but I'm trying here to be "pragmatic" and specially pedagogical for you bourgeois-minded people who can't live without a car. Or do not roads need investment or does not the fuel and airplanes (and airports and roads) used in, say, bringing oranges to Europe from Chile cost anything? The whole system is badly designed to spend much more energy and resources than we really need because in capitalist economic "science" (more like pseudoscience or dogma) GDP grows the more we consume (overall) and unused wealth sources (nature mostly) are considered to have zero value (what is absurd and false). All is conceived as if "wealth" grows the more we waste: if I only need 2500 Kcal of food but I eat 3000 or more, then it's "good" for the economy (someone makes money = universal coupons from it), while if I just eat what I need or less because I need a diet, then the GDP decreases and it's "bad" for the economy. It's crazy! So, yes many people in the environmentalist camp has thought in all that but does not bother telling you because you don't seem prepared to pay any attention to any discourse that claims necessary or at least convenient to reduce consume and hence GDP (in general, some people in poor areas of the world would obviously still need an increase of their GDP but overall Planet Earth needs less GDP, less work, less trade, less economy and less "wealth"). And you and me are part of Earth, believe it or not. Europe has small wind turbines only 1 metre across that produce almost as much as the big turbines like http://www.home-energy.com/ (I'm not associated with this company in any way). I'm sure if there wasn't a huge oil and nuclear lobby we humans would have solved our energy problem years ago. A simple fresnel lens used with solar cells works wonders on their efficiency also. I'd like to know what the net energy production of a nuclear power plant is after you subtract all the energy used to build them and then run and cool them while they are productive and after they are decommissioned. Is there any or is the whole thing a sham? Darth3/11 said... While not directly a "wind turbine" comment, here in Tokyo I compared my local grocery store selection of tangerines. Some were from the USA! No way I am going to support the carbon footprint on that one. I bought some mandarines from Japan, where they grow like crazy. Just one example of something one can do while waiting for solar/wind to come online. Thanks for the links. I think most of the public is not aware that windfarms have a carbon footprint that is worse than that of Combined Cycle Gas Turbines (CCGT). So for people who want to find a replacement to nuclear plants, and who have a concern for carbon footprint, it is better to install CCGTs than windfarms. Gordon Hughes, "Why Is Wind Power So Expensive?", The Global Warming Policy Foundation, GWPF Report 7, 05 March 2012, http://thegwpf.org/images/stories/gwpf-reports/hughes-windpower.pdf Page 5 : "every 10 new units' worth of wind power installation has to be backed up with some eight new units' worth of fossil fuel generation." Page : 32 "Suppose that 10 GW of wind turbines substitute for 10 GW of gas combined cycle plant operating on base load. (...) Under such a regime the thermal efficiency of the [backup gas OCGT plants operating on a stand-by basis] is unlikely to be higher than 35%, so total CO2 emissions would be 32.1 Mt of CO2 per year. When wind generation displaces efficient base load plants it is correct to claim that more wind capacity leads to increased – not reduced – emissions of CO2. Indeed, the situation is much worse if wind generation displaces nuclear power with minimal CO2 emissions." To the last anonymous: you are spreading propaganda of a sectarian cartel of climate change skeptics, presided by Nigel Lawson, who was minister of finance with nothing less than Thatcher (!) and who directed the privatization of several big public companies, including British Gas plc. He's a well-known climate change skeptic - but winter, yet another year, came late (later) and spring early (earlier) - never mind the tornadoes. The so-called Global Warming Policy Foundation has been denounced not just as a small but vocal fringe group with just some 80 members but also as having major finance sources (oil companies and such obviously) and orchestrating a propaganda campaign. They have been accused of double standards when demanding transparency all around but for themselves. Some have asked for a public inquiry. In any case the GWPF can only be considered as a dangerous propaganda appendix of the Oil lobby. Anyhow, gas is most dangerous because of fracking. Years ago I would not have been so worried about gas but nowadays it is clearly a most dirty and dangerous source. In Europe anyhow natural gas usually means bowing to Putin. Similarly oil usually means bowing to Washington... so alternate sources are needed as a matter of economic sovereignty. Wind and solar are the main candidates, although I'm open minded as long as they do not produce notable residues. It is pollution (and not necessarily only as CO2 what scares me). Another potential source is biogas (a way to using manure before using it as organic fertilizer). The problem these all have is that they are not controlled so easily by large corporations, which have monopolized energy production and distribution since the early 20th century. It's a political problem: oil barons or us. I choose us. Previous anonymous said... Yes, but, Maju, how do you get rid of gas if you use wind turbines ? How do you generate electricity on the days without wind ? "Wind electricity generation in this case produces extra CO2, which is a truly counter intuitive result. If this level of inefficiency is truly the result of wind energy use, a cynic could observe that Putin and OPEC might want to promote wind energy in countries like Germany in order to increase its dependency on fossil fuel. " K. de Groot & C. le Pair , "The hidden fuel costs of wind generated electricity. " http://www.clepair.net/windsecret.html @Previous anonymous: There are two elements of answer: (1) you need an storage system and that is surely hydrogen (which can also be used as portable fuel for vehicles and such). The main problem of hydrogen is that it's extremely flammable (security concerns which can be reasonably tackled) but its product (and source if produced by electrolysis) is just water, so, even in case of catastrophe, it does not pollute. (2) Reducing fossil fuel generation to the minimum does not necessarily mean total elimination: they can still be used as secondary sources of electricity or for some transport while other alternatives develop. But in general I think that hydrogen tech is the panacea (with the mentioned security caveat and issues of technological inefficiencies which are already being addressed to at least some extent). Like computers and other innovative technologies, the more demand there is for them, the cheaper and more efficient they become. It may not happen overnight but it's clearly the way to go looking a couple of decades ahead. Political will should help. Personally, (in a capitalist context), rather than subsidizing this or that energy methods, I'd tax heavily pollution and security risks, etc. (also foreign origin, specially if it comes from dictatorships or polluting economies). That would make the hidden costs of fossil fuels and nuclear more apparent and would deny them the passive subsidy in terms of future environmental destruction (= health and resource costs and all that). Like with nuclear, fossil fuel energies are subsidized because the future shared costs are not accounted for. Where is the true cost of DWH or Fukushima catastrophes accounted? Nowhere. But not even the dumping of nuclear residue or that of CO2 and sulphide emissions is even considered anywhere. So tax them like Irish garlic imports: 230%!!! Dissuasive taxes may work where the economists mathematic formulas fail. This backup capacity theory anon 12:59 tells us is flawed because there is always some wind somewhere. You just need enough wind park capacities evenly spread over the continent together with sufficient grid capacity. The larger and evenlier distributed the network is, the bigger and reliabler its baseload capacity becomes, reducing the need for conventional non-renewable energy sources. However, this would require substantial investments that do not return in a few months, but long-term. However, capitalist short-sighted profit thinking ("shareholder value") prevents this. Instead of granting plant life extensions, governments should imho concentrate of renewing and upgrading prehistoric electric grids to make them able to support renewables. The details are a bit technical but it's clear that diversification of sources is not harmful. While larger scale is somewhat different I'm familiar with energy management at the scale of an isolated farmhouse (where renewables become very interesting because the grid is not going to you as in the city) and there you surely want a couple of different renewable energy sources (like wind and solar, or solar and biogas, or...) plus storage (usually batteries) plus an emergency fuel generator because sometimes everything else goes awry. I guess that in a distributed grid all this should be actually more manageable but diversity of sources both in space as in production and not just a one type of energy source are almost invariably better. Just thinking now that biogas actually is a gas power plant where the benfit comes that all that gas would be produced anyhow and is now instead used as fuel before. Biogas has been available for long being similarly efficient to fossil "natural" gas but for some reason it has not been promoted. Is collecting and processing manure from cows and pigs and even humans ourselves so costly that can't compete with fracking, oil sands and even the almost infinite cost of nuclear energy? I don't think so. Instead I suspect that we are before another ideological and corporativist lobbied (bribed) political choice. @Maju Wind turbines supply 30% or so of their nominal power, because there is not a strong wind every day. So you must find how you supply the remaining 70% to the consumers. I think in countries with plenty of hydro power like Switzerland or Austria, a combination of wind and hydro power could be a solution. But in other countries it is difficult to find an abundant carbon free technology to complement wind. Biogas must be analysed on a case by case basis about its carbon footprint and its impact on deforestation which is said to be a major source of CO2. Solar alone cannot complement wind. You will need a third power source during the nights with no wind. @Atomfritz : could you provide litterature substantiating the claim that there is "always some wind somewhere". For example, we have a plot with wind production in Ireland in April 2011 at http://www.clepair.net/fotos/Udofig%20%287%29.gif . From which country should Ireland have imported wind-generated electricity during the 25 April - 30 April period, while there was almost no wind in Ireland ? Can you find another country which had abundant wind during these six days ? @Maju George Monbiot said "Switching to green fuels requires four and half times our arable area. Even the EU’s more modest target of 20% by 2020 would consume almost all our cropland." : http://www.monbiot.com/2004/11/23/feeding-cars-not-people/ @Previous anonymous: have you even read what I wrote? (1) Solar + hydrogen alone is a very good solution and will no doubt be the main power source 20 years from now in at least some countries, which will be then considered the most advanced ones. (2) Other complementary options, including wind, biogas, hydro (I really think hydro is more harmful for the environment than wind but well) and even fossil fuels are to be considered according to local needs and circumstances. Do you have any conflicting interests to declare? I ask because you sound like working for some big energy industry. What Monbiot says is about producing biofuel and what I said is about using already existing manure to generate biogas. Biogas is not biofuel: biofuels are oils or alcohol, liquid stuff, biogas is methane which will in any case be released to the atmosphere as byproduct of human or animal life. You don't grow pigs for biogas, you grow them for ham and steaks and use their manure for something else than polluting. You don't grow humans for biogas but we do produce it anyhow. @Maju "using already existing manure to generate biogas". Manure is not an efficient way to produce biogas. As far as I know there are no biogas facilities currently using manure only. I heard that manure can be mixed with other vegetal or animal products, and by doing so, the total efficiency of the biogas facility becomes lower than if you use no manure at all. Perhaps solar and hydrogen will be a good solution 20 years from now. But what should Japan do now and in the coming 20 years if it chooses not to restart its nuclear plants ? That's to make compost: you can use (in theory at least) domestic trash if properly separated and you'd recycle human and animal excrements into biogas and compost (excellent fertilizer). But to make biogas dung alone is good enough, specially human and porcine one because these are too strong to be composted directly. Any other rotting organic trash will produce biogas almost naturally, however this product needs refinement to make it 98% methane (the basic gas contains also CO2 and traces of corrosive H2S (which is the one producing the odor). Anyhow nothing that is not available today. Can you bother at least reading the corresponding Wikipedia entry before throwing falsehoods (no doubt good faith errors, but also no doubt laziness-caused errors as well) around? Japan? Japan should begin evacuating Fukushima department altogether and maybe all Eastern Honsu. That's something in which the Japanese state has failed its citizens miserably. Seen what we have seen this year, I doubt that Japan can ever recover and it's a true pity because the Japanese culture may have some defects like irrational obedience to authority or xenophobia but it also has great attributes which for me are most apparent in some of its best art, which has no equal on Earth. Japan also is one of the most advanced countries on Earth, so they should have no problem implementing and even developing further renewable energies. But maybe they need to go radically socialist in order to do that - I do not know for sure but I know that money is nothing but printed paper, convenient exchangeable coupons, not at all a slim fraction as real as life or death, never mind the products they pay for. You can't evaluate economy only on monetary terms but in order to escape from them, at least partly, some form of socialism in which mere monetary gain, let alone private gain such as TEPCO's, becomes at least less important. Environmentally sustainable economic systems surely need socialism, at least to some extent, in order to work. But on the other hand they are extremely necessary, so they may be the ultimate reason why we go socialist after all, rather than just raw classical class war. In the end it is a problem of how Humankind (and its local or ethnic parts) will survive its own science and power. It needs rational management of such power for the good of all, something that irrational markets alone can't do. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogas#In_Germany "Biogas in Germany is primarily extracted by the co-fermentation of energy crops (In German science mostly the term ‘NawaRo’ is used that means ‘nachwachsende Rohstoffe’ = renewable resources) mixed with excrements or rather manure, the main crop utilized is corn" This is what I meant when I said: "as far as I know there are no biogas facilities currently using manure only". Ok, maybe in Germany there are some questionable methods. But in principle the concept of biogas is conceived to use as much as possible residues. In Britain it's produced from landfills, in China, where it's being used since the 1950s (the Maoist government saw no reason to let waste such a precious resource as dung) it is produced from dung in cooperative farms... their model can be installed for $300-1400 and needs little maintenance... The fact is that resources are there for us to use, we just need to get into the right mindset as societies and get them working. There's no need to be so highly dependent on fossil fuels and nuclear anymore. The main reason why oil can still be hard to get rid of is vehicle fuel. While hydrogen is a realistic possibility in the mid-term it really needs much more dedicated political focus than renewable electricity production, which is already developing at some decent pace, even if not good enough. Val Martin said... no conventional generation plant has ever been shut down anywhere in the world due to wind turbines. The world is burning more fossil fuels now than ever. China have invested big time in wind yet are building 2 coal fire power stations every week. Wind power is only a passenger on the electricity system. It is all a scam to tax you fools more but make you feel good about it.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20203
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__label__cc	0.514588	0.485412	IQ — The Road of Bones (Giant Electric Pea GEPCD2046, 2014, 2CD) by Paul Hightower, Published 2014-08-12 British neo-prog veterans IQ have seen numerous lineup changes over the past several years. Since 2009’s Frequency, original drummer Paul Cook has returned, longtime bassist John Jowitt has handed his job back to Tim Esau, the guy he replaced (Esau’s work on the early albums was always superb), and keyboards are now in the capable hands of Neil Durant (ex-Sphere). Got all that? Some bands thrive under such circumstances, and while it hasn’t motivated them to work any more quickly (their last three releases have each been spaced five years apart) it hasn’t altered the recorded product much. The same formula of dynamic, heady, and powerfully melodic prog that has been part of the IQ musical brand going back to the early 80s is still on display here. Several versions of the album are available, including single and double disk, plus a deluxe box set that includes a third CD of outtakes and other goodies. Whichever version you get, the musical experience is largely the same. IQ have been guilty of regurgitating the “Supper’s Ready” formula for epics on almost every album (“Without Walls” in this case), though there’s also plenty of fresh ideas and hooks to keep things interesting. Their ongoing partnership with engineer Rob Aubrey means it all sounds great, and guitarist Mike Holmes’ production chops have yet again resulted in songs blessed with wide sonic range, power, and clarity. Singer Peter Nicholls has turned in his usual set of evocative though opaque lyrics, and even though his voice is beginning to mellow into something resembling Tim Bowness he can still reach into dark corners of the subconscious with ease. Some bands prefer consistency with minor tinkering around the edges to constant reinvention. It’s been IQ’s modus operandi for years, and hopefully they’ll be back no later than 2019. Filed under: New releases, 2014 releases Related artist(s): IQ Gogglesphere & Lafcadio - Babies in Hell & Sham Duvet – One might ask why these two discs are being addressed in the same review; it’s because both Gogglesphere and Lafcadio are essentially the same band – or that is to say they have the same... (2006) » Read more Steve Tibbetts - "Last Chance" from 1982	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20206
__label__wiki	0.903057	0.903057	Filmy Fool by Ankur Bhatia March 9, 2019 April 10, 2019 Leave a CommentCaptain Marvel Movie ReviewMovies, Reviews Directed By: Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck Cast: Brie Larson, Samuel L Jackson, Jude Law, Clark Greg MCU is now in its final-final leg. This is it, the home stretch, 'the end game', and Captain Marvel serves as an important thread to round it all. Marvel Cinematic Universe, now in its 21st film has done it all. There have been multiple origin-stories & follow-ups, a pseudo-Avenger film, and 3 Avenger films. The MCU is now the biggest movie franchise of all time (Box-office collections of over $17Bn) and will serve as a benchmark for not just creating an entertainment juggernaut, but also being able to see many years into the future. However, with every new film, the expectations inch up, the stakes rise, and detractors multiply. And as with everything in life, the law of averages is bound to come into force, sooner or later. Unfortunate as it may be, Captain Marvel will fall into the lower end of MCU film spectrum, with the likes of Iron Man 3, GoG Vol 2 and Thor: The Dark World. But I will get there in a bit, first some background. There has been endless talk about Captain Marvel ever since Nick Fury used that pager in Avengers: Infinity Wars post-credit scene. Captain Marvel is essentially an origin story of Vers, a Kree warrior who is hounded by dreams of what feels like her past or maybe another life. Trained by an older, more experienced Kree named Yong-Rogg (Jude Law), she finds it hard to fully commit to the Kree way. What follows is really proceedings spanning 24-48 hours, making this the shortest origin story in MCU. Marvel is known for visual wizardry, but there are only sporadic instances and nothing that hasn't been seen before. Where it really shines is in creating fantastic younger renditions of Nick Fury and Phil Coulson. (Note: The shoutout Coulson received upon his entry on screen gave me goosebumps and was an extremely satisfying moment.) The background score is not inspiring, way below par from the benchmark set by films such as Thor: Ragnarok, GoG Vol 1 and Vol 2, Iron Man 1 & 2, and Black Panther. My biggest disappointment with Captain Marvel is not with visuals or background score. It is with its writing. There just isn't enough depth in the lead characters, especially Carol. Who is Carol Danvers? What motivates her to get up in the morning or ignore protocol? These are answers that are essential for an origin story to work. The screenplay does take time to get into the groove but wastes the opportunity. Compare this to Iron Man, Thor, Spiderman: Homecoming or Doctor Strange. Answers to all these questions were crystal clear in them. That is why each of these films stands tall independently, not just as a part of the MCU. Sadly, Captain Marvel feels like more of a filler, tying up loose ends and answering questions like where did the name Avengers come from? or how did Fury lose his eye?. Good to know but not mission critical. Don't get me wrong, when the film gets its footing, it does fly and with some style. Brie Larson as Carol Danvers does a good job but she could have done so much more. There is a line in the film where Carol says "I have been fighting with one hand tied behind my back". That's what the team writers do to Brie, tie her down by not giving her character any layers to explore. Samuel L Jackson is funny and refreshing as young Nick Fury. He has impeccable timing and gets a lot more lines in this film which was great to see. The fight sequences are enjoyable too and showcase the abilities of Captain Marvel well. Ironically, the high point of the film comes after the film is over. The first post-credit scene is the real reason for the existence of the film and it should not be missed at all. There is another post-credit scene after the long credits are done but I would recommend you give that a pass. I really wish there was more for me to highlight but there isn't. Marvel aficionados would have already seen the film or would be watching it anyway. As for the rest, Captain Marvel will give you enough to sit through without getting bored but as you leave the theatre, the film will leave you. Captain Marvel Official Trailer Sonchiriya Movie Review Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota Movie Review Subscribe to Filmy Fool Never miss a post in the future. Get notified through email on every new post. © 2020 Filmy Fool. Metro Magazine \| Developed By Rara Theme. Powered by WordPress.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20207
__label__cc	0.633439	0.366561	SWISS welcomes Bombardier CSeries CS100 Busy morning at Madeira Airport Flying home via SXF was cheaper than a one-way train Swiss Training Airbus A330-200 Jetman Dubai Trip report: Transatlantic on United Airlines December 11th 2014, 14:05 \| Written by Konstantin Koll This trip report is about my recent trip with the Misses from DUS to EWR on United Airlines—my first longhaul flight on an American carrier, and the itinerary would also include my first transatlantic flight on a narrowbody (a Boeing 757). Normally, I opt for European carriers like Lufthansa or Swiss for my travels because of better service and less hassle than North American airlines. Due to some poor planning and late booking, we ended up on an United Airlines itinerary to New York City. Though I've had plenty of domestic flights on American carriers (like old Continental Airlines, American Airlines, Southwest, United and so on), this would be my first longhaul flight on an American airline, and the return flight to Germany would also be my first transatlantic flight on a narrowbody. DUS-LHR To catch our morning flight to LHR, we had to be at the airport by 5am at the latest. After parking our car, we entered the terminal building around 4am, and went straight to the Lufthansa checkin area. Unfortunately, the checkin kiosk could not process our tickets, as the code sharing agreement between United Airlines and Germanwings (operating carrier on two out of four flights) was not in place yet. We were manually checked in at the service counter, with our luggage checked through to New York. We had ample time left, so we explored the terminal building, bustling with activity on this Sunday in November. Incidentally, and perfect for today's destination, the American cardstacker Bryan Berg built the Manhattan skyline from playing cards! After our way through security, we proceeded to a bus gate on the lower departure level. I had the opportunity to capture a great shot of flight LH 409 just arriving from EWR. The flight was operated by one of three Lufthansa Airbus A340 based in DUS, which have safely taken me over the pond numerous times. Soon our flight to LHR was called, and all passangers were bussed to a shiny new Canadair Regional Jet 900 on a remote stand. These jets have just been delivered recently, so the cabin was in impeccable condition. Now, I've written in an earlier trip report that I absolutely dread the new Germanwings concept for Lufthansa's non-hub European traffic. Unfortunately, we've had no choice given our late booking, so I was at least eager to find out if anything had improved since last summer. Takeoff was quite smooth and on time, just at dawn. We were able to capture some great photos of a beautiful sunrise above the North Sea! What was not so great, however, was the inflight service. Although the crew was very friendly and attentive, the cheese sandwich handed out for breakfast was a joke, just like in my previous experience. Germanwings seriously has to get their inflight food in order, even at the expense of higher ticket prices! LHR-EWR We arrived at LHR Terminal 2, the newly inaugurated Star Alliance terminal, and walked into the building. The facilities are very bright and spacious, and finding your way is fairly easy (for connecting passengers, do not go past the immigration counters). Connecting flights are one level up, behind yet another security check. Security in the UK was much more strict than in Germany, as all passengers had to take off their belts and shoes. Behind security, all United passengers had to report to a United agent to verify their ESTA and APIS forms—something I've never experienced when connecting in FRA or ZRH. It was a very long walk to the satellite building of Terminal 2, where all United Airlines flights depart. We made it just in time to take a few pictures before boarding our EWR-bound Boeing 767. We were greeted by the purser and settled in our seats. Compared to the shiny CRJ-900 of our previous flight, the cabin looked a bit dated—almost like a time travel 20 years back. It was raining outside and windy, so we experienced a rather bumpy, but timely departure from LHR. Soon, service began with a round of drinks and lunch. Both the misses and me have chosen the chicken, and I must say that it was quite delicious and filling. As we didn't sleep the night before to catch the first flight of the day, we reclined our seats after desert and dozed off. As I had the airshow on my screen, I just remember waking up south of Iceland, and then right before Halifax. Similar to another flight in 2008, there were strong headwinds, so the remainder of the flight seem to take forever. We eventually made it to EWR more or less on time, and then past immigration and customs. We were happy to reach Manhattan's Penn Station after an easy train ride—our hotel was just opposite, so we could start exploring New York City right away. EWR-HAM All good things come to an end, and this also holds true for vacations. After a thrilling week in the Empire City, it was time to head back home again. We left Manhattan around 12am, and took a train to EWR. Again, the checkin kiosks could not process our tickets, ao be just received temporary boarding passes for our onward flight HAM-DUS. After getting rid of our luggage (somehow my bags always get a lot heavier when returning from the US) and making our way through the TSA checkpoint, we had several hours to kill before our flight, so we strolled the duty free shops and frequented Starbucks. I also sneaked out to take a few pictures :) At 5pm boarding of our Boeing 757-200 commenced. I was a bit nervous, as this would be my first transatlantic flight on a single aisle aircraft. However, for some reason the seat pitch was much more generous than on the Boeing 767 before. It took us about 20 minutes to taxi to the runway (the airspace around New York City is typically congested by lots of regional jets). Takeoff was quite an expierience, as the engines of the Boeing 757-200 are overpowered. They bring a fully loaded Boeing 757 to takeoff speed in no time! Soon after takeoff, dinner was servered with several rounds of drinks. I had the chicken on a pasta bed with a creamy sauce—a very delicious treat! A friendly flight attendent also gave both the misses and me a second brownie for desert :) The entertainment system was much better than on onboard the Boeing 767, so I watched “22 Jump Street” (thumbs down) and the Asian movie “Snow on the Blades”, which I highly recommend. After a short nap (and a way too short “night” between the time zones), a small breakfast was served. It was still dark when we arrived in HAM. Here's some footage of our takeoff, taken by the misses with her iPhone (she seized the window seat, of course). With the highest thrust/weight ratio of all modern airliners, a Boeing 757-200 really is an overpowered rocketship! HAM-DUS We've arrived 30 minutes early in HAM, and were greeted by a gentleman from United Airlines as soon as we entered the terminal building through a jet bridge. As HAM is not at all designed for connecting traffic, the very few connecting passengers were directly led into the sterile area of the airport and through border control (in the EU, passengers clear customs at their final destination, not at the first port of entry). We had about two hours to kill before boarding, so we wandered the spacious and rather deserted airport and airside shops. It was nice to hear German spoken all over again, though :) We exchanged our temporary boarding passes at the gate without any hassle, and were bussed to another Canadair Regional Jet awaiting its first leg of the day (the crew would later continue their HAM-DUS-HAM-NCE run for a nice layover at the French Riviera). Takeoff was on time, and just right for a beautiful sunrise and some nice clouds above Northern Germany. For inflight service, I've chosen the meat sandwhich, which was definately much better than its cheese bretheren :) As it's only a short hop from HAM to DUS, we've soon finished our very memorable trip to New York City. Again, here's a takeoff video with a great view of the ramp at HAM. Note the white tail Airbus A340, the Lufthansa B747-8i and the Airbus A310 MRTT at the Lufthansa Technik hangar!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20210
__label__wiki	0.91723	0.91723	Four Walls Publishing Tag Archives: National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research Brain Injury History in Football, Health Crisis in American Football, Severe Casualties of American Football NFL Deaths Reflect Inept Care and Record-Keeping February 28, 2015 Matt 3 Comments Since 1960 at least 16 NFL players have died of injury, a game-related condition or a possible link to football, impacted by inadequate medical management. Meanwhile, “public football” stokes a hot Q&A with Irv Muchnick, the iconoclastic sports journalist whose new book chronicles fall of the game as we know it. By Matt Chaney Posted Saturday, February 28, 2015 Copyright ©2015 by Matthew L. Chaney In 1960 America, a football player was not only exposed to lethal injury and illness of the extreme sport. Once a casualty, he was vulnerable to shoddy medical response as well, beginning in professional football. A worst-case scenario unfolded October 9th in the new American Football League, amid a sweltering Sunday on the Texas seaboard, where the Houston Oilers hosted the New York Titans—the NFL’s Tennessee Titans and New York Jets franchises today, respectively. Air temperature topped 90 degrees with dense humidity for the 1 p.m. kickoff at Jeppesen Stadium, and early in the game Howard Glenn, an offensive guard for New York, was struggling to stay on his feet. Teammates thought heat was affecting Glenn in the first quarter, when he complained repeatedly in huddles. Titans offensive tackle Ernie Barnes urged Glenn to stay in the game since coaches wouldn’t allow him to stop and sit. Team trainers would support the coaches, Barnes reminded his buddy, and no doctor made the road trip from New York. Collisions on the field were viscous, meanwhile. Football’s head-on contact had steadily increased since advent of hard plastic helmets during World War II. Face bars became standard by the mid-1950s, when physics, technology and human will converged to make head bashing commonplace in the game. In 1960, Howard Glenn donned a double-barred face mask on his helmet. The muscular 6-foot-2, 245-pounder fired low into foes at scrimmage, neck forward and face-first—in the law of modern football—and sometime around halftime at Houston, two opposing linemen smashed Glenn between them. Clearly injured, Glenn rose unsteadily. No stretcher was available on the Titans sideline so a teammate helped him off the field, but head coach Sammy Baugh ordered Glenn back to the huddle, witnesses later told The Houston Chronicle. Accounts vary whether Glenn played in the second half, which he basically spent on the sideline. A spectator recalled seeing Glenn wandering near the Titans bench in a daze, unattended. No one realized Glenn’s neck was broken, with a fractured cervical vertebra just below his brain. Trainers helped Glenn to the locker room after the game. He undressed and sat nude on a metal folding chair, clutching a towel and quivering in labored breaths. A teammate, Art Powell, yelled at the trainers: “Why in hell don’t you get a doctor to him?” Glenn deteriorated rapidly. The Associated Press would report he became “belligerent in the clubhouse then hysterical” as he fell from the chair, convulsing. Two Houston doctors were summoned and Glenn was finally taken to a local hospital at 5:30 p.m., while rest of the New York team headed for the airport. Within an hour Titans players learned Glenn had died, as their plane sat on a runway, and tackle Ernie Barnes wept in his seat. The two young black men had bonded as friends in Glenn’s short time with the team, especially for art, a mutual love. Now Barnes remembered their final scene together: Glenn stricken on the locker room floor as teammates rushed out from showers, dripping wet. “The news shook my heart,” Barnes later wrote. “The hurt deepened and all I could see in my mind was Glenn’s body lying in the water on the cement floor. He died a lonely death. It took time and reasoning for me to get over Howard’s death… it enters my mind often.” Authorities were perplexed for Howard Glenn’s case, initially. According to a Houston team doctor “Glenn wasn’t hurt in the game or… his injuries were not serious enough to be noticed,” reported The AP. Some Titans officials readily discounted football as a factor, speaking with media that first night, and many observers believed heatstroke caused the fatality, Barnes among them. But the next day an autopsy revealed Glenn’s neck had crumbled apart in the hours after injury, primarily because Titans staff failed to recognize or diagnose. Harris County medical examiner Dr. Joseph Jachimczyk said “the fracture was very near Glenn’s brain and did happen during Sunday’s game,” reported The AP. “He said death was not instantaneous because the edges of the fractured bone had to cut the spinal cord before death occurred.” Jachimczyk remarked, “The unusual thing about these cases is not the quickness of death but that the victims even live at all.” Glenn was buried at Louisville Cemetery in Mississippi, his native Winton County. Besides AFL experience, Glenn played for the New York Giants of the NFL and the Hamilton Tiger Cats in the CFL. Earlier, at Linfield College in Oregon, Glenn starred in football and track and field. Following the tragedy, Barnes requested his release from Titans brass. “I told them I didn’t want to play on a team like this,” he said. Barnes retired from professional football in 1965 and his career as an artist blossomed; he died in 2009. Contemporary blogger Bill McCurdy concluded that Glenn in 1960 was “a victim of the times and what can happen to those who play football under the worst of circumstances—or even the best of conditions.” In American football today, detection and treatment of heartbeat arrhythmias and more cardiac malfunctions in young players remain inadequate, most experts agree. But football was primitive about managing cardiac risk during the Vietnam War era. The NFL was no exception for lax action despite exploding revenues and expanding resources over TV rights and its merger with the former AFL. No uniform policy for cardiac management existed, basically. League and franchise officials certainly knew young athletes suffered “heart attack,” in the catch-all term. Medical literature was plentiful by 1970 while sports pages and television reported cardiac incidents from multiple activities, regularly, led by basketball and football. Historically, two NFL players had died after games, Stan Mauldin and Dave Sparks, in the decade following World War II. Moreover, the Detroit Lions had experienced recent cardiac fatalities off the field. Promising Lions tackle Lucien Reeberg, 21, died in the 1964 offseason [see below] while free-agent line prospect Ed Schreck, 23, was briefly under contract before he succumbed during heart surgery in 1968. Yet the Detroit franchise stood unprepared for a third event, in 1971, and this time on national television. Chuck Hughes, 28, a 6-foot, 180-pound wide receiver for the Lions, was naturally gifted to catch a football. But a genetic heart defect stopped the blonde Texan on Oct. 24, apparently triggered by physical exertion. Nearing end of the Sunday NFL telecast, Chicago at Detroit, Hughes dropped face-down after a pass pattern, “twitching uncontrollably,” a witness said, as a crowed of 54,419 “silently watched.” Television viewers were horrified. “They turned the TV cameras on him [Hughes] for us until the spirit left him,” Barnard Collier would write for Esquire magazine, “and then they turned away.” Time was precious for Hughes but Lions doctors had to be waved onto the field, by Bears linebacker Dick Butkus, because of a silly league rule. Then they could only roll Hughes over, pound his chest and deliver mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, unsure about his distress. An off-duty anesthesiologist charged out of the stands, like he could help. While the Lions had prepared meticulously for playing the Bears, down to practicing Sudden change! for a turnover, no medical procedure was in place for sudden cardiac collapse of a player. The impromptu treatment of Hughes was crude, futile, pathetic. Apparently there was no electronic defibrillator machine, state-of-art treatment for cardiac victims, on the premises at Tiger Stadium. The football player was dying, his wife Sharon realized from the stands, and she began screaming. “After what seemed forever, Hughes was placed on a stretcher,” spectator Richard Bak later recalled. An ambulance came onto the field and Sharon Hughes was summoned from the stands for ride to the hospital. But with everyone loaded, ambulance drivers groped for the misplaced ignition key. At this point Sharon figured it was too late for her husband. “She stared at what the doctors were doing and she watched as Chuck’s ear turned slowly black and blue,” Collier recounted for Esquire. “Now she knew that Chuck was beyond reviving. After that, time slowed so much that hurrying did not matter. She kept thinking about their marriage and how much Chuck was in love with football.” At the hospital, defibrillator shocks were administered but no heartbeat restored. Machines kept Hughes alive until he was pronounced dead at 4:41 p.m., an hour after the Lions game ended. Team doctors still couldn’t pinpoint cause of death, whether it occurred at the heart or brain. “I’ve never seen anything like it in professional football,” said Dr. Edwin Guise, Lions physician. Franchise owner William Clay Ford expressed bafflement. “I’m horrified and shocked. He [Hughes] was a great player and a great person,” Ford said. An autopsy confirmed hardened arteries caused the coronary malfunction in Hughes, who had family history of heart disease. In fact, Hughes had been tested for heart trouble months before his death, by cardio specialists at Henry Ford Hospital. Hughes was hospitalized again for chest pains in the preseason, after being crushed by tacklers in an exhibition game, but tests were negative and he returned to the football field. Sharon Hughes, widowed with a toddler son, ultimately won a settlement of undisclosed amount from Ford Hospital. Her lawsuit against the facility and unnamed doctors alleged a heart problem had been detected but “they willfully and wantonly” failed to inform Chuck. “The defendants well knew that Hughes was a professional athlete and as such was required to engage in strenuous physical activity not advisable for one who had suffered heart damage,” the complaint stated. Sharon Hughes also won a $43,250 claim for workman’s compensation. Insurance representatives of the Lions, bound to indemnify the franchise for court losses and costs, had argued the death of her husband was unrelated to football. From 1960 to 2010, at least 16 active or contracted NFL players died of a) football injuries, b) game-related conditions or c) possible link to the sport. The annotated cases below are deaths of those players in the NFL and former AFL, collected in my ongoing review of news reports on casualties in football history. The incidents are harvested largely through electronic search of news databases. I make no medical claim of the information and little for its scientific value. This qualifies as raw data, news content, comprising case leads in need of expert follow-up by multi-disciplinary specialists of medicine and science, particularly for establishing or dismissing a football link in the majority of incidents. No qualified epidemiological team has ever been assembled and funded to reliably assess fatality rates of vast American football—none—despite a purported entity at the University of North Carolina, the so-called National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research, funded by the American Football Coaches Association, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the National Federation of State High School Associations, and the National Athletic Trainers’ Association. The NCCSIR has no facility of street address on campus. Officials have declined to answer my email queries since 2011. Presently, 8 of 16 NFL cases below are omitted from “total” football statistics self-published by the sports academics representing UNC in Chapel Hill. None of the cases involves cancer, drug overdose or suicide. Likely some omitted cases can be verified as game-related, still, by credible researchers. Others probably cannot be accurately assessed for a football link, either way. Deaths of NFL and AFL players in the last 55 years include the following cases available in news reports: 1960: Howard Glenn, 26, a 6-foot-2, 245-pound offensive guard for the New York Titans, of the AFL, died on Oct. 9 of a broken neck sustained in a game with the Houston Oilers. [See story above.] 1960: Ralph Anderson, 24, a 6-4, 225-pound wide receiver for the San Diego Chargers, was a rising star in pro football and subject of a “tampering” lawsuit against his AFL team by the Chicago franchise of the NFL. But the talented athlete was diabetic, challenged to stay in the lineup, and in early November he missed a Chargers game. Anderson came back with big performances but was stricken again as he lay down on Friday night, Nov. 25. Anderson was found dead the next morning, and an autopsy ruled diabetic seizure as the cause. The athlete was survived by a 3-year-old daughter, and when the Chargers later played in the AFL championship game, the team voted that Anderson’s share of player proceeds be presented to his girl. Head coach Sid Gillman also gave his share to the child. Sources: Associated Press and United Press International. The death of Ralph Anderson was either missed or deemed unrelated to football by game-funded reviewers. His case is not included in 1960 football fatality data posted without scientific vetting on a website from UNC-Chapel Hill. 1961: John Sherer, 20, a 6-3, 240-pound defensive tackle on the inactive list of the New York Titans, had foregone college football at the University of Miami after being drafted by the AFL. Sherer was a schoolboy legend in his native Pennsylvania, where he led a team of prep all-stars to victory over a squad of standouts from other states. Sherer barely missed making 1961 Titans roster, cut on the last day in training camp, so he played semipro football in hopes of getting a call from New York during the season. But on Sept. 26 Sherer collapsed and died following a gym workout in Philadelphia, of a reported heart malfunction. Sources: New Castle News and Associated Press. 1963: Stone Johnson, 23, a 6-1, 180-pound running back for the Kansas City Chiefs, AFL, was touted as one of the fastest men in pro football. Johnson had been a sprinter for the U.S. Olympic team in Rome and a football player for Grambling College. He left college football after being drafted by the AFL, but he suffered a broken neck as a Chiefs rookie, trying to tackle in an exhibition game against the Houston Oilers on Aug. 31. Emergency surgery stabilized fracture of the C5 vertebra and Johnson was placed in traction, but the spinal-cord nerve bundle was damaged and he died on Sept. 8. Some in football alluded to individual fault for the tragedy. Game officials were touting “head up technique,” their new theory for headless hitting, and the Football Coaches Association’s anointed death researcher chimed in, Floyd R. Eastwood. As a PE professor who went by “Dr. Eastwood” with the press, this college teacher held only a PhD in education, far short of a medical or science doctorate and follow-up certifications. Nevertheless, Eastwood routinely promoted untested concepts for casualty prevention in football—parroted widely by sportswriters—that placed responsibility primarily on individuals, not the system. Following Johnson’s death in 1963, Eastwood said “degree of skill” could dictate mortality of a football player, without mentioning the field physics of forward colliding in shatterproof headgear and pads. “Most injuries are sustained while blocking or tackling and if more players were trained properly in these respects, fatalities would take a sharp decline,” Eastwood declared. Sources: Associated Press and United Press International. 1964: Lucien Reeberg Jr., 21, a 6-4, 300-plus offensive tackle for the Detroit Lions, NFL, was a rising star publicized as the “baby-faced giant” of pro football. But Reeberg was unhealthy, ballooning as high as 317 pounds. Hospitalized in Detroit, Reeberg died of cardiac arrest caused by chronic kidney disease on Jan. 31, 1964. Reportedly the Lions had wanted Reeberg evaluated for weight loss when he mentioned blood in his urine to a nurse. Team physician Dr. Richard Thompson said, “The disease [uremia] will crop up one day and not the next, and as a result of this, the young people tend to ignore the disease.” Reeberg, a native of Bronx, N.Y., had played college football for Hampton Institute, which he left after being drafted by the NFL. In 2011, blogger Bill Dow interviewed Reeberg’s old roommate, former Lions linebacker Ernie Clark. “Lucien was Christmas morning,” said Clark. “I think about him all the time, and after he passed away my heart really wasn’t into football and I’ve never been the same.” Sources: Jet magazine, Blog.DetroitAthletic.com, Newspaper Enterprise Association, Associated Press and United Press International. The death of Lucien Reeberg was either missed or deemed unrelated to football by game-funded academics. His case is not included in 1964 football fatality data posted without scientific vetting on a website from UNC-Chapel Hill. 1965: Mack Lee Hill, 25, a 5-11, 235-pound running back for the Kansas City Chiefs, averaged 5.2 yards a carry over two seasons in the AFL. Nicknamed “The Truck,” Hill suffered torn knee ligaments in a game and underwent surgery on Dec. 14. Complications developed, spiking Hill’s temperature to 108 degrees and causing respiratory distress and convulsions. Hill died on the operating table of a pulmonary embolism, blood clotting blocking lung circulation, attending doctors told the AP. But differing expert opinion followed, regarding a football link or none, as in hundreds of player deaths since the 1960s. The Kansas City Star reported that an autopsy by hospital pathologist Dr. O. Dale Smith involved “interesting speculation” to blame a rare form of heatstroke unrelated to football. Smith noted further research was needed, but he concluded “that the very strength of young Hill, especially his powerful musculature, contributed to his vulnerability to a temperature crisis in his body” during anesthetic and surgical stress, The Star reported. Football-funded analysts like Eastwood, however, apparently classified the Hill case as game-related of “indirect” cause. 1969: Frank Buncom Jr., 29, a 6-2, 235-pound linebacker for the Cincinnati Bengals, was a three-time all-star in the AFL and looking forward to the new season. Then blood clotting lodged in his lung arteries early on Sept. 14, Sunday morning of the opening game. Buncom’s gasping rousted his roommate in the team hotel, but the athlete died before medical help arrived. The linebacker and his wife Sarah had an infant son, Frank Buncom III, and an education trust fund for the child was established by players of the Bengals and the San Diego Chargers, Buncom’s former team. Decades later, 2015, the late AFL star’s grandson, Frank Buncom IV, committed to play college football for Stanford University. Sources: UTSanDiego.com, Associated Press and United Press International. 1971: Charles “Chuck” Hughes, 28, a 6-foot, 180-pound wide receiver for the Detroit Lions, died of a coronary attack suffered during a game against the Chicago Bears on Oct. 24. [See account above.] 1979: James Victor “J.V.” Cain, 28, a 6-4, 225-pound tight end for the St. Louis Cardinals, was “a perfect physical specimen” who passed a preseason physical “in great shape,” reported The Associated Press. But Cain collapsed in humid 85-degree weather the night of July 22, after running a pass pattern without contact at training camp in St. Charles, Mo. Team doctors and trainers administered cardiopulmonary resuscitation to Cain, working without a defibrillator machine. “When [75 players] saw that CPR was started, it just got dead silent,” said Cards spokesman Steve Curran. “At one point, Coach [Bud] Wilkinson had the players on a line in prayer. They kept yelling, ‘Come on, J.V., come on, J.V.’ There were tears. It was very emotional.” Cain, a 6-year team veteran, was pronounced dead at a local hospital 90 minutes after he was stricken on the football field. A pathologist concluded the cause of death was cardiac arrest from an “extremely rare congenital condition” known as myocardial fibrosis. Sources: Associated Press, United Press International and Washington Post. The death of J.V. Cain was either missed or deemed unrelated to football by game-funded academics. His case is not included in 1979 football fatality data posted without scientific vetting on a website from UNC-Chapel Hill. 1980: Melvin Johnson Jr., 25, a 6-foot, 175-pound running back for the Kansas City Chiefs was an undrafted prospect the team had a penchant for signing and developing, like Mack Lee Hill before. Unfortunately, Johnson ended up mindful of the Hill tragedy [above] when he too died during routine surgery in Kansas City, in his case for a wrist fracture of football. Surgeon Dr. James Whitaker said cardiac arrest caused the death. Johnson had ranked among the nation’s fastest teenagers during high school in Louisiana, and he played college football for the University of Colorado. The Chiefs signed Johnson as a free agent in 1979 but he spent the season on the disabled list, never appearing in an NFL game. “We had very high hopes for him,” said Chiefs spokesman Doug Kelly. “He had good ability and a great deal of speed. We thought his chances of making the team [in 1980] were very good.” The deceased athlete’s younger brother, Troy Johnson, later played four seasons in the NFL. Sources: United Press International, Salina Journal, Thibodaux Daily Comet and HoumaToday.com. The death of Melvin Johnson Jr. was either missed or deemed unrelated to football by game-funded academics. His case is not included in 1980 football fatality data posted without scientific vetting on a website from UNC-Chapel Hill. 1983: Larry Gordon, 28, a 6-4, 230-pound linebacker for the Miami Dolphins, was a highly regarded player who helped lead his teams to playoff victories and a Super Bowl, flashing brilliance throughout his seven-year career. Dolphins coach Don Shula still expected greatness from Gordon, his former No.1 draft pick from Arizona State gifted in athleticism and physique. On June 25, amid desert heat at 6 p.m., Gordon was jogging in preparation for upcoming NFL training camp when he collapsed near a relative’s home in Arizona, said police. Gordon, a Florida resident married with two children, was pronounced dead at a Phoenix hospital. An autopsy by medical examiner Dr. Heinz Karnitschnig identified the cause as congenital heart disease, idiopathic cardiomyopathy. “His coronary artery was in perfect shape. He didn’t have a heart attack,” said Bob Edwards, of the Maricopa County morgue. Toxicology exams found no drugs in the body; specifically, no cocaine was detected in a gall bladder sample. In 1986, as cocaine toxicity killed athletes in the NCAA and NFL, the question arose publicly regarding Gordon’s case. His brother Ira Gordon, a Phoenix drug counselor and former NFL player, told The Arizona Republic that evidence of cocaine use was found in a bedroom that Larry occupied at time of his death. Ira said he had personally requested the autopsy and toxicology assays that tested negative for narcotics. Sources: Arizona Republic, Miami Herald, Associated Press and United Press International. The death of Larry Gordon was either missed or deemed unrelated to football by game-funded reviewers. His case is not included in 1983 football fatality data posted without scientific vetting on a website from UNC-Chapel Hill. 1998: Leon Bender, 22, a 6-5, 300-pound draft pick at defensive tackle for the Oakland Raiders, suffered fatal mishap at his agent’s home in Atlanta on May 30, following team mini camp. An epileptic, Bender died on a bathroom floor at some point before a scheduled workout. Autopsy results were inconclusive while toxicology results were negative for drugs and alcohol. Bender had talked on the phone to family members until 3 a.m., including his wife Liza, before being discovered dead about noon. Bender’s epilepsy wasn’t lethal in itself, and a single episode couldn’t be detected postmortem—neither could some forms of cardiac malfunction. What was known, a grand mal epileptic had no body control in a seizure, which Bender’s family members believed he experienced in the bathroom then suffocated for his landing position and obstructions. Leon and Liza Bender had a 2-year-old daughter at time of his passing. Source: Associated Press. The death of Leon Bender was either missed or deemed unrelated to football by game-funded academics. His case is not included in 1998 football fatality data posted without scientific vetting on a website from UNC-Chapel Hill. 2001: Korey Stringer, 27, a 6-4, 335-pound offensive tackle for the Minnesota Vikings, reported to training camp as an All-Pro from the previous season. Oppressive heat enveloped most of the country as the Vikings opened workouts on Aug. 1 in Mankato, Minn. Several players struggled through drills and Stringer faltered and vomited, having to sit out. Next morning, Stringer was back on the field in full pads until collapsing amid 98-degree temperature and stifling humidity. By the time Stringer was transported to a hospital he was comatose with a body temperature of 108 degrees. Organs began failing, including both kidneys, until finally the heartbeat stopped, unable to be revived. Stringer was pronounced dead about 2 a.m. on Aug. 3, and public debate erupted. Vikings coaches met with media while Stringer’s teammates were kept off-limits for interviews. Head coach Dennis Green suggested the players preferred public silence. “It’s a private thing and they deserve their privacy,” said Green, who snapped at a reporter for questioning whether team medical personnel should be available. “We chose not to,” Green replied. “I’m not going to discuss that… so you can step back.” Offensive line coach Mike Tice said a newspaper photo spurred the tragedy, not decisions of the coaching staff, by shaming Stringer when camp opened, picturing him doubled over at the sideline, looking weak. So the prideful Stringer came back the next day “out to prove to people that he was a leader and that he wasn’t going to let anybody embarrass him like that,” Tice said. “It’s very unfortunate that he worked himself to death.” Elsewhere, football’s anointed death researcher, exercise professor Fred Mueller at UNC, withheld blame of Vikings staff when pressed on CNN by news anchor Carol Lin. “I just heard about this… I don’t really know any of the details,” said Mueller, demurring as the so-called expert who’d agreed to discuss the case on international television. Despite heavy evidence of heatstroke and negligence on part of the football system, “Dr. Mueller”—funded by football organs, with his PhD in education—speculated about the individual, Stringer, saying “there’s a possibility it could be attributed to some other health problems.” But Mueller would have to include this highly publicized death in his next “study” from Chapel Hill. Postmortem investigation including autopsy left no question that heatstroke killed Stringer, driven by lack of policy and prevention on part of the Vikings and NFL. Heat illness plagued every football level, contributing to deaths of an arena player, college player and a high-school player the same week as Stringer, and critics assailed the sport. Football officials had promised since 1960 to eliminate heat illness that experts declared was completely preventable—but practices and games had only come to start earlier in hot weather, over decades, and necessary measures weren’t standardized such as sideline ice bath in a kiddie pool. In August 2011, Kelci Stringer settled her final lawsuit against parties found culpable of her husband’s death, including the NFL and helmet maker Riddell. That same summer at least seven high-school football players and one coach collapsed and died from July 22nd to September 1st. Lawsuits followed, targeting schools and personnel for wrongful death of football heatstroke—a decade after Korey Stringer in the NFL. Sources: St. Paul Pioneer Press, New York Post, Associated Press, CNN, CBS News, ESPN.Go.com., Carlisle Sentinel, Reading Eagle, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, WSVN-TV, Miami Herald, Florence Morning News, Rivals.Yahoo.com, KDAF-TV, WTEV-TV, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, WSB-TV, WXIA-TV, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, KLRT-TV, KRIV-TV, ABC News and Dallas Morning News. 2005: Thomas Herrion, 23, a 6-3, 315-pound offensive lineman for the San Francisco 49ers, collapsed and died on Aug. 20 following a night exhibition game amid cool weather at Denver. An autopsy determined ischemic heart disease caused the death, blockage of a coronary artery. Greg Aiello, NFL spokesman, said Herrion “may be a case of an unfortunate hereditary condition that is not easily detected, even by the regular and thorough cardiac screening used by NFL clubs.” Herrion was clinically obese by criteria of the Body Mass Index, like a horde of NFL athletes, and controversy flared again over his death. So league officials changed their story regarding the plethora of 300-pound players, upwards of 500 behemoths in training camps every year, compared to less than 10 on record prior to 1970. Earlier in 2005, year of PED hearings in Washington, NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue and cohorts told Congress the herd of mammoths wasn’t because of widespread doping, drugs like anabolic steroids and synthetic growth hormone, but for a modern wave of “fat” athletes. They told politicians like senators John McCain and Henry Waxman that drug abuse producing artificial specimens in the NFL was an epidemic of the past resolved by “steroid testing.” Pot-bellied players had taken over, said league and union officials. But their excuse flip-flopped months later, when media criticized obesity in the league that impacted health of Herrion, as chronicled in my book, Spiral of Denial: Muscle Doping in American Football: “Now officials contended the NFL primarily featured muscled specimens with low body fat, so the league could argue BMI standards were an invalid application for its athletes. League medical liaison Dr. Elliot Pellman said the question of obesity among players still had to be answered by research. The league was commissioning its own studies. ‘There’s a 1-in-200,000 chance that an individual the age of Mr. Herrion will suffer a sudden death,’ Pellman said. ‘It happens, and no one knows why it happens.’ Pellman said obesity was a cultural problem, not football’s. Officials dismissed a study, based on the BMI, that concluded virtually all NFL players were overweight or obese. Bears nutritionist Julie Burns said NFL players were abnormally muscular humans. Taglibue said, ‘We have athletes that are fitter than most people in society, bigger than most people in society, and doing things that are different and more demanding than many people in society.’ PEDs, meanwhile, did not apply. ‘Huh?’ remarked Sam Donnellon, the Philadelphia Daily News, on mixed messages from the league.” Additional sources: Contra Costa Times, Associated Press, NBC News and CBS News. 2007: Damien Nash, 24, a 5-10, 220-pound running back for the Denver Broncos, knew well about cardiac disease. Nash’s close older brother, Darris, 25, had a heart transplant for dilated cardiomyopathy, discovered for his cardiac episode while playing basketball. So Damien, training during the offseason at home in St. Louis, hosted a local fundraiser for the Darris Nash Find A Heart Foundation. Damien played a portion of the charity basketball game featuring his NFL and college friends then greeted people in the crowd. Festivities moved to Nash’s home in Ferguson, Mo., but he suddenly collapsed. Damien Nash was pronounced dead at a hospital, and initial autopsy results were inconclusive. Family members suspected a cardiac problem, but cardiomyopathy like his brother’s normally wasn’t genetic, said doctors. Such damage likely would have emerged already in Damien, for his life and job in elite athletics. And he passed several heart screens by NFL teams that his agent trusted as thorough. Damien did not drink nor use drugs, said family members, and toxicology results came back negative. Cause of death remained “undetermined” in the final report, issued by the St. Louis County Medical Examiner’s Office. “It was a natural death of cardiac origin,” said a spokesman, “but we were unable to determine an exact origin.” Nash and his wife, Judy, had a 7-month-old daughter at time of his death. Sources: Associated Press, Denver Post and NPR.org. The death of Damien Nash was either missed or deemed unrelated to football by game-funded academics. His case is not included in 2007 football fatality data posted without scientific vetting on a website from UNC-Chapel Hill. 2010: Gaines Adams, 26, a 6-5, 258-pound defensive end for the Chicago Bears, was an athletic specimen who had been drafted No.1, fourth overall in his college class, by Tampa Bay. Traded to Chicago midway through the 2009 season with 13.5 career sacks, Adams wore the label of “bust” but kept potential intact, like a 4.55-second speed in the 40, with no serious injuries or apparent heath issues. But weeks following season’s end, on Sunday morning, Jan. 17, 2010, Adams collapsed at home in Greenwood, S.C., and was pronounced dead at a local hospital. Autopsy found that cardiac arrest of an enlarged heart killed the athlete, who had no such family history. Relatives and friends were shocked. “I am honored to have been able to know [Gaines Adams] and to have been his teammate,” said Bucs center Jeff Faine. “A truly bright soul.” Sources: Sarasota Herald Tribune, St. Petersburg Times, Associated Press and ESPN.com. The death of Gaines Adams was either missed or deemed unrelated to football by game-funded academics. His case is not included in 2010 football fatality data posted without scientific vetting on a website from UNC-Chapel Hill. Football’s on-field tragedies of Howard Glenn, in 1960 at Houston, and Chuck Hughes, 1971 at Detroit, framed the period’s dangerously inferior medical planning and response for players of all ages. During the Vietnam War era, America’s sparse emergency-care system led to more football deaths than any other factor, according to my review of severe casualties appearing in news. I’ve collected thousands of fatality and survivor cases, including about 350 player deaths from the 1960s and about 275 from the 1970s. The subsequent reduction of football fatalities isn’t measurable in close terms, much less absolute numbers, say independent experts. Undoubtedly, however, the trend is due primarily to society’s widespread establishment of EMT crews, modular ambulances, life flights, emergency rooms and trauma surgery. Within the game, the NFL has improved its own medical management—but not to the point of effecting “safer football” like officials claim today. “Anyone with two eyes on a Sunday afternoon [in season] can see that’s not so,” said Irv Muchnick, the investigative journalist and independent blogger with cunning for exposing dark underbellies of sport-entertainment conglomerates. Muchnick thoroughly dissects football ugliness, amid contemporary crisis for the game over brain injuries. He focuses on ill-resourced outback levels below the NFL, particularly the public schools and municipal “youth” leagues with millions of juveniles colliding in helmets and pads. Many American kids play tackle football on public property before they enter first grade, while they cannot legally drive a car until age 16 nor buy cigarettes until an adult. Change looms, as Irv Muchnick chronicles in his new book, Concussion Inc.: The End of Football As We Know It, published by ECW Press of Canada. In an email Q&A for ChaneysBlog, Muchnick addresses football problems and more, notably his current co-investigation, with independent journalist Tim Joyce, of sexual assault in U.S. Swimming: Q1. Discuss your new book, the circumstances drawing you into the football issues by 2010. Basically, it went like this: In late 2009 my book on the Chris Benoit murder-suicide came out. The book immediately got inserted into the 2010 U.S. Senate race in Connecticut between Democrat Richard Blumental and Republican Linda McMahon. Blumenthal is a liar who claimed military service “in Vietnam,” when in fact he had a cushy stateside Reserves stint during Vietnam. McMahon is the wife of Vince McMahon and the former CEO of WWE. She poured $50 million of their wealth from this publicly traded company into the failed race against Blumental, and $50 million more into another failed Senate race two years later, against Chris Murphy. Such sterling choices in our democracy! Alerted by the fine early work on football by Alan Schwarz in The New York Times, and aware that I had a unique perspective on and reportorial resources for the concussion crisis story, I waded in, and by late 2010 I had “rebranded” my blog, naming it Concussion Inc. I answered only to a crazy boss: me. Benoit had been the first CTE study announced in 2007 by Chris Nowinski’s Sports Legacy Institute and Center for the Study of CTE in Boston. (The Benoit study was done by Bennet Omalu — now coming to the silver screen, but back then being written out of the story not just by the NFL but also by Schwarz, Nowinski, and Cantu, the Northeast Gold Dust Trio.) Chris Benoit’s father and now my good friend, Mike Benoit, had insisted throughout my research for Chris & Nancy that I was underplaying brain disease and overplaying drugs and other generic explanations for his family’s tragedy, and I came to see how right he was. From there, all the connections flowed—principally Dr. Joe Maroon of UPMC … and WWE, and the NFL, and anti-aging huckerism, and the goofy hype for resveratrol supplements, and his proximity (at minimum) to the steroid/HGH abuse on the multiple-champion Steelers. There was no major publisher market for the book I was writing, so like the late Red Smith, I undertook my “daily spelling lesson” at what I jokingly call ConcussionInc.net LLP. The topics and the obsessions were spontaneous responses to the news of 2010-11-12. My main narrative interest was in exposing the interlocking ecosystem of problems and commercial “solutions.” I hope that readers come away convinced that safe tackling, better helmets, better mousetraps are the filtered cigarettes of the 21st century. I credit a little-known fellow native Missouri writer by the name of Chaney with a game-changing insight on how state “concussion awareness” laws are not just bullshit, but jiu-jitsu bullshit— magically creating new private profit centers from the public trough, principally our public high schools. Along the way, I jousted a couple of times with Bob Costas, an acquaintance-friend from the St. Louis sports mafia. The book collects and reorganizes all this material the way books are supposed to do: to put the author over. In all seriousness, there’s some stuff there that I’m very proud of. No other journalist has gone deep with the story of Dave Duerson’s role on NFL-NFLPA disability benefits board. No one else has called out the Congress of Neurological Surgeons for giving Roger Goodell a standing ovation before his lame speech at their convention. No one else documented how the Centers for Disease Control accepted unprecedented private funding from the NFL for the federal government’s “concussion education campaign,” or how the National Institutes of Health helped Maroon and his cronies develop their phony, for-profit ImPACT program to the tune of millions in research subsidies. Q2. What is “public football”? There is an answer, perhaps not as flip as it sounds, that all of football is truly “public” football—up through and including the NFL, a phony nonprofit that gets municipal subsidies for stadiums (plus other things). Since this situation will probably get worse before it gets better, as the industry has both the federal National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control in its pocket, I expect that within a few years the Super Bowl will be coordinated with the Presidents’ Weekend national holiday: the regular season and playoff schedule will have expanded yet again, so that fans don’t have to go to work the Monday after the game. The thrust of what we mean by public football, however, is taxpayer-funded programs at the professional sport’s feeder levels. I say go ahead and allow all the fools who want their sons to play club and private school football. But let’s get our public school systems out of it. “Death of football” ideology is wishful thinking, but with new levels of “awareness” of traumatic brain injury—and with the failed prevention costs and litigation flowing from that awareness—the goal of stamping out public football in this targeted way is achievable. Q3. Furthering this point, you’ve been characterized as bent on banning football. But isn’t that a simplistic view of, or strategic response to, your argument in the debate? I’m not out to ban football. Prohibition of just about anything is too blunt an instrument. It’s not fair to the zealous and it doesn’t work. But adult statecraft involves more than simply rambling about personal choice. I find it amusing that many of those who accuse people with my viewpoint of “having an agenda” are blind to their own as they grasp at commercial rearguard initiatives, such as helmet technology, more “professional” coaching of kids, or tail-chasing Zackery Lystedt state laws. We don’t ban boxing, but it has a somewhat saner footprint on our culture than it used to have. We don’t ban tobacco, but cigarette marketing is curtailed and kids are protected. Last rejoinder to this straw-man argument: I refuse to play the game of having to prove my bona fides before I can join the football debate. Put your guns down and let’s talk about football as an activity, not as a religion. I’m not an expert—thank God. But it’s better to have common sense than no sense at all. Q4. Compare the “blogosphere” with traditional daily news media, when it comes to reporting and analyzing public issues in sport. Let’s stipulate that new media and mainstream media types are simply blaring their bugles from different formations of the same march against human folly. I know that, minus the filter of an editor, I’ve shown my own ass plenty of times. It doesn’t matter if the public learns the truth about football from me or The New York Times or Professor Hieronymus Buttocks. And if Schwarz hadn’t started doing what he was doing in 2007, you and I are not even having this conversation today. But did Schwarz and The Times take anything close to the number of shots downfield they should have? Give me a break. When Schwarz wrote about his buddy Chris Nowinski getting a $1 million NFL grant, the story all but giggled like a schoolgirl. After Bennet Omalu fell out with Bob Cantu, Schwarz basically blacked the former out of coverage, while quoting the latter in the venture-capital hype for Xenith, a space-age helmet company. In his account of the fed investigation of Riddell’s promotional claims, Schwarz treated the lying Joe Maroon with kid gloves. Schwarz’s takeout disclaimer on the death of the Cincinnati Bengals’ Chris Henry was cringeworthy; The Times quoted NFL’s latest consulting face, Dr. Richard Ellenbogen, to the effect that sometimes bad behavior is just bad behavior, and Schwarz reminded readers that nice white quarterbacks, like Steve Young and Troy Aikman, who also had sustained concussions, were not “on C block.” Eventually Schwarz became associate producer of a documentary funded by the billionaire developer of the King-Devick Concussion Test. I don’t want anyone to think I’m picking on Schwarz. Jim Litke, the national sports columnist for the Associated Press, has done some great stuff on how Roger Goodell co-opted Mommy sports bloggers with cornball clinics on “safe tackling.” But AP analysis of how state Lystedt Laws “lack bite”—thank you very much—are just playing “gotcha.” Nowhere do I see a single passage about how these laws were designed, in the first place, to offload football industry liability onto the public sector. In an age of rampant advertorial, you’re daft if you don’t acknowledge that bloggers, social media, what have you, can be a useful check and balance. Q5. Discuss your co-investigative series with Tim Joyce on sexual predator coaches and athletes in U.S. Swimming. Swimming is the right next book in several respects. Because it’s a niche sport, Tim and I have more of the field to ourselves (though outlets like ESPN, of course, which for the most part ignore the story, do manage to “big foot” us from time to time). Just as a large segment of our boy population is getting systematically brained in football, disturbing numbers of girls are getting raped at all rungs of our Olympic sports system. As with concussions, we are less interested in being designated cops than in following the money. The profiteers of so-called amateur sports and the nonprofits of “Child Abuse Inc.” play defense much faster than the public realizes or perhaps cares. But to get down to business: 400,000 kids, 12,000 coaches — you don’t need an advanced degree in statistical analysis in order to extrapolate from the scores of known and under-reported cases; to factor in the forms of denial and cover-up; and to conclude that this is, bar none, the largest-scale molestation narrative outside the Catholic Church. It makes Penn State look like a garden party by comparison. The hardest part to explain is that every institution has its own sick dynamic. In swimming, it’s not willy-nilly opportunistic pedophiles. Rather, there is a unique power imbalance. Most often it’s a 30-something male coach and an early or mid-teens star girl swimmer, who is emerging from the physical and emotional changes of puberty, and is desperate for adult approval, college scholarship, Olympic glory. Parents are asleep at the switch; they are totally invested until something bad happens to their own kid. The rippling societal costs, in terms of life-long cases of eating disorders, substance abuse, and broken relationships and families, are incalculable. Yet all we see above ground is NBC’s feel-good patriotic package for a fortnight every leap year summer. With the Rio Games upcoming, Tim and I are going deep with the story of Brazilian national Alex Pussieldi, who is the Rowdy Gaines of swimming coverage on the country’s SporTV network. Two years ago Pussieldi fled South Florida, where he had gotten his start in American coaching under the recently deceased Hall of Famer Jack Nelson, whom Diana Nyad credibly accuses of molesting her for years at the Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale. In the course of reviewing thousands upon thousands of pages of discovery documents USA Swimming tried to suppress, Tim and I told the full story of the cover-up by that organization as well as local police, city government, and the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, of Pussieldi’s 2004 physical assault and Peeping Tom practices against a Mexican boy who was swimming and being boarded by him. Pussieldi was a major creep and international human trafficker, and his rise to prominence was aided by former USA Swimming president and conflicts-crazed consultant Dale Neuburger, who steers contracts with foreign national teams to coaches like Michael Phelps’ guy, Bob Bowman. Neuburger also was an architect of swimming’s scam offshore insurance subsidiary, the “United States Sports Insurance Co.” in Barbados. ESPN’s Outside the Lines still won’t tell its viewers, but all this is under investigation by the FBI and the Government Accountability Office. Q6. The U.S. Swimming scandal is monumental with much yet to uncover and untold victims in need of light. So it doesn’t sound like you’re returning to football analysis anytime soon, not in your former diligence that produced the new book. That is correct. The football follies are now out there for all to see and interpret. Geez, our friend Bennet Omalu is about to be portrayed by Will Smith. I’ll continue to comment on a connection or two as we move along–and of course I reserve the right to change my mind–but the focus of my energy is swimming and Rio ’16. Q7. For what may be called the “genuine iconoclast” writer in sports issues, it appears there’s often little competition on reporting a problem, however terrible, because few media are willing to probe and pay the price to do so. Correct? Yeah, no doubt I’m a little bit nuts, and I don’t have the excuse of having played football. Maybe I should have gone straight and gotten a real job, but it’s way too late for that. My name is on a Supreme Court case involving writers’ rights in new media, and Concussion Inc. is my third book, and I’m proud of those things. They’re not rewarding financially, but they’re rewarding. Matt Chaney is a writer, editor, teacher and restaurant cook in Missouri, USA. Chaney’s 2001 MA thesis at the University of Central Missouri involved electronic search for thousands of news reports on performance-enhancing drugs in American football, a project inspired by his experience of injecting testosterone as a college player in 1982 (Southeast Missouri State). 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CainJetsJohn ShererkidneyKorey StringerLarry GordonlawlawsuitLeon BenderLionsLucien ReeberglungMack Lee HillmedicineMelvin Johnson Jr.National Athletic Trainers' AssociationNational Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury ResearchNational Federation of State High School AssociationsNCAANCCSIRneckNew York TitansnewsNFLNFL deathNFLPAobesityPaul Tagliabueproper techniquepublic footballRalph Andersonreliabilityresearchresearch fraudrisk assumptionRoger Goodellsafer footballsciencespearingspinesport mediasportswritingstadium subsidysteroidStone Johnsonsudden cardiac deathtacklingTBItestingThe End of Football As We Know ItThomas HerrionTim JoycetrainerU.S. SwimmingUNCUniversity of North Carolina Chapel HillUSA FootballvalidityVikingsworkman's compensationyouth football Experts: Football Death Reports Aren’t Valid Epidemiology January 12, 2015 Matt 2 Comments The University of North Carolina’s self-published football casualty statistics are deemed ‘unverified’ and ‘unreliable’ while its claim of zero deaths in 1990 is debunked by two case finds Posted Monday, January 12, 2015 When sportswriters report 17 football players died in America during 2013, and medical writers and researchers cite the same figure, everyone’s common information source is the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research (NCCSIR) at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. The annual UNC numbers on football fatalities have been quoted worldwide since the 1970s and include statistical framework back to 1931, the year football organizations assumed control of annual recording. Reports are posted at the NCCSIR website and everyone presumes the data meet epidemiological standards for charting mortality risk in American football. But the numbers do not qualify as epidemiological research, not remotely, say two experts who have monitored faults and recurring issues in UNC postings for three years. “There is no independent verification of the data,” said Don Comrie, the CEO of PanMedix, a New York company that designs statistical analysis protocols for medical and pharmaceutical research. “When we look at the UNC data, there is no reliability.” Epidemiologist Charles E. Yesalis says NCCSIR reports fail to pass muster for his discipline. Yesalis, author of epidemiological studies, journal articles and books on sports, identifies an historical misstep by UNC workers who lack medical and scientific credentials—their reliance on limited news content for casualty assessment of millions of football players, the vast majority being juveniles. “When you’re dealing with (information) as what might get reported in the news, versus trying to identify accurately what’s reported in emergency rooms, or hospital records, that’s problematic,” said Yesalis, professor emeritus of public health for Penn State University, with his doctorate of science from Johns Hopkins University in 1975. “It’s tough, it really is,” Yesalis said, empathizing with the football academics at UNC. “You’re trying to glue this all together, which is what it appears they’re doing. And they’re not the first people to do this on a variety of disease states, ER conditions, injuries and all that.” Yesalis and Comrie have followed my email updates and blog critiques of UNC football publications since 2011, when I began collecting news reports of catastrophic player casualties found online. For fatalities, I’ve located more than 1,400 deaths among active football players from 1960 to 2014, cases both confirmed and still suspect for links to the sport. And when comparing to the approximate 1,050 deaths UNC logs in the timeframe, methodological holes emerge for the NCCSIR. Center officials refuse to answer my inquiries but an overriding fact is clear: more people die from football than the game-funded “studies” convey to the public. Faults beset six decades of UNC football data, with inconsistent classifications and case omissions exposed by contemporary electronic search. Missing are deaths caused by football collision, defined as “direct” fatalities of the sport, along with likely hundreds of “indirect” or game-related fatalities—particularly for cardiac arrest, its various mechanisms that can include delayed attack from previous chest blows, according to a recent study. Casualties omitted from 2011 UNC statistics, for example, include 13-year-old Kansas school player Alec Mounkes, who died of blood clots following an ankle injury. Kishon Cooper, 8, collapsed and died in Florida while training at home for “youth league” football. Two young men succumbed, Marcellis Williamson and Andy Collins, of blood clots and cardiac arrest, respectively, as free-agent hopefuls for professional football. During 2012, Pennsylvania semipro player Willie Mims collapsed at football practice and later died, as did prep player Temoc Castellanos, 15, stricken during off-season conditioning for his school team. An aspiring player in Texas, 15-year-old Jacob Gatlin, collided heads with another on a football field at school. The boys were participating in a “7-on-7” passing drill without helmets during “athletics class” directed by coaches, school officials told media, and Gatlin suffered a skull fracture and fatal brain hemorrhaging. None of these deaths is recorded by UNC. Several high-school players died of cardiac arrest in 2012, during exercise and restive state like sleep, including: Anthony Vaeao, California; Austin Lempera, Illinois; Cody Stephens, Texas, David Widzinski, Michigan; and Tyler Miller, New York. Such cases require specialized postmortem applications for diagnosis and determining a possible link to sport, according to a host of experts worldwide. None of these deaths is included in UNC “research.” Many more of possible football ties since 1960, found online, require proper scientific evaluation. Errors likewise dog UNC’s recorded cases, such as the 2010 death logged in the wrong year. Youth player Quadaar White, 15, died of a broken neck in Philadelphia on Aug. 31, 2010, but the NCCSIR recorded his case for 2011. I repeatedly emailed then-center director Frederick Mueller. Instead of correcting his mistake, Mueller—a lifelong football man with a PhD in education who goes by “Dr. Mueller”—demanded that I cease contacting him. Mueller has since retired as an exercise professor, after co-authoring football surveys at UNC from the 1970s to 2012. The error on Quadaar White remains standing in NCCSIR reports at the website. 1990 Collision Deaths, Retrieved Online, Nullify Old UNC Claim Now a substantial mistake has emerged involving Mueller, his inaccurate declaration publicized for three decades from Chapel Hill, such as it reads here, typos intact, on Page 1 of the UNC report for 2013 football deaths: The 1990 report was historic in that it was the first year since the beginning of the research, 1931, that there was not a direct fatality in football at any level of play.(Mueller & Schindler 1991) This clearly illustrates that data collection and analysis is important and plays a major role in prevention. Wrong, at least on the first point. Minimally two direct football deaths occurred during 1990, both of violent “sandlot” incidents, according to reports I recently retrieved from NewsBank database. One case occurred merely 80 miles from Chapel Hill: Jamarl Gentry, 17, died on Nov. 7, 1990, of a broken neck suffered in a pickup tackle game at Winston-Salem, reported The Greensboro News & Record. The second 1990 football death retrieved from NewsBank is Christopher Mock, 19, a college student from Bluffton, Ind. Mock died on Dec. 1 of a brain injury suffered in sandlot tackle football, reported The Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. During December I forwarded these cases to Mueller, NCCSIR medical director Dr. Robert Cantu in Boston, and other officials like Kristen Krucera, PhD, the athletic trainer who’s replaced Mueller as center director. I requested their comments, repeatedly. Only one person replied, Mueller, by email: “I told you to take me off of your mailing list,” he griped. Modern Emergency Care Dramatically Cuts Football Deaths Since 1960s NCCSIR officials argue that their dubious football statistics and recommendations like Heads Up “safe contact,” the latest version of stale “head up” theory, have reduced player deaths by as much as two-thirds since the 1960s. Historical news shows no such evidence. Rather, the major reason for fewer reported football fatalities was faster, better medical care that kept seriously injured players alive, with an assist from modern helmets. Most football fatalities in the 1960s were connected to inadequate medical care, based on news reports. Players died of brain bleeding, spinal fracture, chest impact, ruptured spleen, lacerated kidney, blood clotting, heat stroke, cardiac arrest and more maladies that became better managed in America by end of the Vietnam War. “By the early 1970s, many influential members of medical society (in the United States) believed that lessons learned on the battlefields in Korea and Vietnam in terms of triage, rapid transport of trauma patients to definitive care centers, and standardization of pre-hospital and in-hospital care could be applied effectively to civilian patients,” recounts a Canadian medical review. The 1970s advancement of emergency medicine in America—led by widespread establishment of EMTs, modular ambulances, life flights, emergency rooms and trauma surgery—saved countless athletes who would have died previously without it. The steel head-and-neck brace or “halo cast,” breakthrough technology available nationwide by 1973, stabilized vertebral fractures that previously killed people. Numerous tragedies were averted in football and all walks of life, with immobilization techniques for spinal casualties and treatment like the halo brace. Even Mueller admits emergency response has cut football deaths from brain injuries, compared to a half-century ago. “The line is going down with fatalities. I think that’s related to kids getting better medical care on the field,” Mueller told HealthDay.com, after reviewing news reports of two-dozen players who survived catastrophic brain bleeds in 2011. “They’re not dying, but they’re having permanent brain damage.” Left unsaid? I had forwarded Mueller those cases, or he probably would’ve missed most. UNC Changes in Death Definitions Trim Football Numbers Since 1960s Factors beyond emergency care and improved helmets also have reduced football deaths in UNC records since 1960. Based on available information, numbers have been shaved as much as one-fifth since 1960 just by altering definitions to qualify game fatalities. Background begins in 1931, when the American Football Coaches Association hired Floyd R. Eastwood, a college professor with a PhD in education, to record yearly football casualties—formerly the task of media entities like The Associated Press. News accounts describe Eastwood’s method for collecting cases and defining types of football death. “Dr. Eastwood” analyzed news reports of deaths among football players for 35 years, working for both the coaches association and the NCAA, groups which continue to fund the NCCSIR today. Relying heavily on the NCAA’s “clipping service” of major newspaper and wire-service articles, Eastwood gathered stories of casualties and looked for football causes or possible links, sometimes basing a case decision on news content alone. Eastwood had to track national football casualties while grounded on campuses where he taught PE pedagogy and gym classes. Limited in information access and funding, he tried to assimilate medical protocol despite a personal résumé far short in education and training for the mission. Eastwood followed up many football incidents he learned of, making phone calls and mailing information forms to witnesses and authorities. But their responses likely varied in substance and it was difficult and costly to obtain medical files and death certificates from across the country. Moreover, Eastwood surely understood that official information was frequently tainted by simple incompetence and/or football allegiance among local authorities. “Keep in mind…,” intoned Comrie, who has compiled football casualty data, “many doctors in many parts of the country don’t want to blame football. So on those death certificates, is that information reliable? I don’t know. We don’t have a clue.” Most significantly, Eastwood defined and qualified several types of football death differently than his present-day successors at UNC. For example, Eastwood believed that football exertion and impacts could trigger congenital brain bleeds in players, caused by “AVM” and Chiari arterial malformations since birth. Medical opinion was divided, but many doctors determined that football spurred these cerebral vessel ruptures of natural origin, and Eastwood embraced the stance. UNC researchers dismiss these incidents today, meanwhile, like the 2010 death of college player Ben Bundy, killed by his genetic brain-artery malformation that launched a blood clot during a team workout. Bundy wasn’t counted in the annual NCCSIR report. Eastwood included meningitis fatalities among players and field deaths of referees for his 1960s football statistics. Neither type of incident figures into current UNC data. Eastwood counted players dead of blood clots originating from leg injuries, classifying them as indirect fatalities of the game. In recent decades, however, UNC publications include only an occasional death via non-cerebral blood clots; many additional cases are omitted without explanation, like Mounkes, the aforementioned schoolboy, and Ben Jordan, 16, a South Carolina prep player dead of a pulmonary embolism in 2012 after he was hospitalized for blood clots during successive football seasons. Altogether, the types of deaths counted by Eastwood but not counted by UNC comprise as much as 20 percent of the 350 football fatalities from the 1960s that I’ve collected. And the “sandlot” classification has become the biggest area of NCCSIR shell games that produce smaller numbers, over time, and inspire the rhetorical mirage of “safer” football today. UNC Qualifies Few ‘Sandlot’ Fatalities for Football Statistics Since 1980s Erstwhile PE professor Floyd Eastwood held a broad view of what constituted a “sandlot” death, qualifying any person who died from injuries suffered while playing any type of football: organized or informal; tackle or “touch”; games in vacant lots, flag leagues and PE classes; and even passing and catching during school recess. In 1962, for example, Eastwood counted a young father who died of striking a telephone pole during a backyard touch game with family as one of the professor’s 19 direct football fatalities that year. Eastwood also logged indirect or game-related sandlot deaths, numerous cases in his 1960s data, for causes such as cardiac arrest and heat stroke. Thus far, NCCSIR officials decline to provide me with the names and locations for football deaths in their multi-decade collections. They decline to address inconsistencies in data classifications back to Eastwood’s tenure. They do not offer, or possess, a single peer-validated document incorporating detailed cases, formal literature review and a complete research method that identifies limitations. UNC transparency isn’t needed, however, to deduce that Mueller et al. have basically counted only “youth league” players for sandlot fatalities since 1986, based on NCCSIR postings, cases found online, and public statements of Mueller and colleagues. UNC no longer counts fatalities of flag football, “touch” games, PE classes, “athletics classes,” recess periods, and intramural competition at colleges; deaths from tackle sandlot games are no longer included—yet all types still load those numbers from the 1960s and ’70s. It would seem “sandlot” deaths were disappearing by the 1980s, according to football-funded researchers. Indeed, UNC statistics from 1986 to 1998 do not list any direct fatalities in the category. On the contrary, numerous deaths of impacts occurred in the period that Eastwood would’ve counted for sandlot classification, including the following cases I’ve located: 1986: Ervin Kolk, 27, died of “being kicked in the head during a touch football game” at Tukwila, Wash., reported The Seattle Times. 1987: Joshua Arruda, 12, died of “injuries he received when he fell and hit his head on a rock during a tag football game at school,” reported The Daily News of Los Angeles. 1988: An adult male, unidentified, died of “a severed aorta after taking a blow to the chest” in touch football at North Conway, N.H., reported The Sporting News. 1989: Walter Jackson, 27, died “as a result of the head injury he suffered” in touch football, reported The Buffalo News. 1990: Jamarl Gentry, 17 (aforementioned case), died of a broken neck sustained in pickup tackle football at Winston-Salem, N.C., reported The Greensboro News & Record. 1990: Christopher Mock, 19, (aforementioned case), died of head injuries sustained in pickup tackle football in Indiana, reported The Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. 1991: Timmy Hysinger, 29, died “of a head injury he suffered… playing touch football in the street” at Mauldin, S.C., reported The State newspaper. 1994: Chris Hart, 18, dead “from head injuries suffered in a flag football game” at Texas A&M University, reported The Houston Chronicle. 1996: Terry Crayton, 16, died after “being knocked unconscious in a gym-class collision… playing a game called ‘speedball,’ a combination of soccer and football” at a Milwaukee school, reported The La Crosse Tribune. 1996: Jason Boone, 19, died of “receiving a severe head injury… in a touch football game” at Maryville, Tenn., reported The Knoxville News-Sentinel. 1996: Derek McMillen-Morgan, 16, died of “massive spinal injuries (sustained) when tackled” during a pickup game at Canton, Ohio, reported The Akron Beacon Journal. The following deaths also are omitted from UNC statistics that log zero “sandlot” collision fatalities in said years: 2000: Maurice Doty, 16, “died of cardiac arrhythmia due to blunt force impact of the chest” in a pickup tackle game at Dayton, Ohio, reported The Daily News. 2005: Kenny Luong, 19, “died from (head) injuries received during a UC Irvine fraternity football game,” reported The Orange County Register. 2005: Steve Lynes, 19, “died of (head) injuries suffered during a pickup football game” at Brigham Young University, reported The Associated Press. 2005: Robert Meza, 24, died of a brain injury sustained in flag football at Taylor, Mich., reported The Detroit News. 2006: Logan Honsinger, 10, “died after his diaphragm was ruptured, an injury authorities… suspect he received during practice” for his youth-league team at Hemlock, Mich., reported The Associated Press. 2006: Andre Thibault, 12, “died from injuries suffered… when he tripped and fell into a pole while playing football” at Halstead, Kan., reported The Kansas City Star. 2008: John Buzzard, 15, “died of heart and brain-related conditions” sustained “during a touch-tackle football game” at Brooklyn, N.Y., reported The Staten Island Advance. 2008: Coty Bluford, 14, died of injury sustained when he knocked “heads with another boy” in football play during PE class at school in Lenoir City, Tenn., reported The Associated Press. 2008: Dominique Edwards, 19, died of a ruptured kidney sustained “when he dove for a football… and struck his left side” in a pickup game at Macon, Ga., reported The Telegraph. 2008: A boy, unidentified, 11, died “after being struck in the throat during a recess game” at school in Lake Oswego, Ore., reported The Oregonian. 2012: Jacob Gatlin, 15 (aforementioned case), died of skull fracture and brain hemorrhaging after a collision during a 7-on-7 passing session in school “athletics class” at Hawkins, Texas, reported The Longview News-Herald. 2012: Alex Lott, 17, died of a neck fracture “received playing touch football” at Richton, Miss., reported The Jackson Clarion-Ledger. Again, these cases require examination by accredited authorities for qualification in valid football research, but this news batch demonstrates the stark, unannounced change between 1960s record-keeping and modern death data from UNC. “We hear, ‘Oh, football’s become safer,’ ” Comrie said. “I don’t know if it’s become safer. I’m hearing this but I don’t know. Because no one’s willing to sift through the (UNC) data, we don’t know how many kids died or what they died of. We don’t know how many football deaths were purely preventable.” Comrie, who has consulted for the U.S. Air Force and NFLPA regarding brain injuries and assessment, sees professional incompetence for NCCSIR publications that claim to reduce football mortality rates. “It’s certainly uninformed,” he said. “Science is about asking questions. If you have incomplete or inaccurate data, you’re probably asking the wrong questions. The lack of information is bad for everybody, including the NFL, the NCAA and the national high schools. “Reliable data is the key to making strong recommendations about what to do, but decisions are being made in football based on nothing,” Comrie said. “Everyone should know the data is just crap, period.” Like Eastwood in the past, UNC researchers erroneously announce football deaths in absolute numbers, never mind that their primary means of incident details–news content–remains inadequate. Any accuracy would be a lucky guess and unverifiable anyway. The total for a given year “could be stone-cold accurate or it could be off by a million miles,” said Yesalis, the epidemiologist. “It’s all based on how you count the population at risk, football players. It’s how you count the death events, how you acquire information, with bias for relying on news reports. Even of a death, there could be an injury where the kid is taken from the field and dies maybe three weeks later. Well, how confident can you be that will be reported (in news)? “Basically going by news media alone? No epidemiologist would say that’s ideal.” Comrie believes enough information exists empirically to resolve deficiencies through collaborations among investigators like me, the UNC academics, and appropriate authorities from medicine and science. Amassing death certificates would be a scientific start. Vital data on football mortality risk “probably exist somewhere, in some form,” Comrie said, but politics stymie progress. “They (game officials) have just made it as difficult to get and to analyze as they possibly can because they want no change in the status quo. I have my beef in all this, because I can’t make reasoned decisions because the data’s unreliable. And the scientific community just goes along. “We’ve been operating in a world where no one’s ever checked to see if the (football) data are real or not,” Comrie said. “They publicize it, of course, under UNC, but what was their research method? How did they do it? But since the method, regardless, produced exactly what the media wanted to hear and the parents wanted to hear, no one’s ever questioned it.” Modern Myth of Safer Football, Research Heroes and Saving Lives In 1998, the United States Sports Academy gave Fred Mueller an award for “lasting contributions to the growth and development of sports medicine through practice or scholarship.” A UNC-Chapel Hill press release heralded the university’s “Life-Saving Dr. Mueller,” stating: Statistics he compiled, first with Dr. Carl Blyth, also of UNC-CH, on football injuries and deaths helped lead to rule changes and improved coaching credited with saving dozens of lives a year in the United States. Comrie scoffs in New York, pondering what’s really happened around the so-called National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research—which has no street address in Chapel Hill, no facility on campus, nothing of validated research. It’s all a façade fronted by Mueller types and feel-good statistics, Comrie alleges, designed to lead naïve kids and parents along the Yellow Brick Road to Safer Football. “It’s the mythology being confused for reality,” he surmised. “And the way to promote mythology is to make sure there are no hard facts or evidence. “So we go through the curtains and we find out the great, mysterious Oz is not who he appears to be.” AFCAAVMblood clotBob ColgatebrainChapel HillchestChiariconcussioneducationembolismepidemiologyFloyd Eastwoodfootball injuriesFred MuellerHeads Uphigh schoolinternal injurykidneymedicinemiddle schoolNATANational Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury ResearchNCAANCCSIRNFHSNFLplayerPop WarnerreliabilityresearchRobert Cantusafe tacklingsciencespinespleenstatisticssubdural hematomaUNCUniversity of North Carolinavalidityyouth league Health Crisis in American Football, News Analysis, Severe Casualties of American Football Cardiac Death Foils Medical Tracking in Football, All Sports October 24, 2014 Matt 1 Comment Risk of Sudden Death Understated in Football, Say Experts Information Barriers, Autopsy Limits Promote Short Data Sample 31 Player Cases Led by Cardiac Deaths, 2014 To-Date Posted Friday, October 24, 2014 As concern spikes again for deadly injuries in American football, field collisions have killed from two to five teenagers thus far in 2014, pending further analysis, and an exact number may remain in question. Actual football mortality constitutes a much bigger picture, meanwhile, through incalculable player deaths that are indirectly related to the game. Minimally two dozen American football players have succumbed in sudden death this year. Most of the cases are perplexing, challenging for accurate diagnosis and impractical for linking to football, according to contemporary studies and authorities. Record-keeping is stifled, resulting in significant under-reporting of deaths overall in American sport, especially for cardiac disease, say experts. For American football, sudden cardiac death (SCD) has been marginally recorded over some 120 years of casualty reporting−while likely being the leading cause of mortality in the game. And a particular, robust SCD class has been practically excluded, left undocumented: Those active football players who die without physical exertion, in daily life outside game activities. Actually, say experts, an athlete’s restful or normal state can combine with previous exertion to induce cardiac arrest in some variations. “Yes…,” affirms Dr. Kimberly G. Harmon, of the University of Washington, a leading researcher in sudden death among athletes, “exercise can cause changes in the heart in some conditions that may make SCD more likely either at rest or at death.” This year at least seven American football players have died during sleep and minimally five have collapsed at home, on campus, or while shopping. See their cases amid the 2014 summaries below, hyper-linked to news reports. The dozen dead were schoolboys and collegiate players who participated regularly in training sessions and games. Each was hours or days removed from his last athletic exertion. Nine more players have collapsed during football-specific activities, such as games and practices, then died. Additional cases likely have occurred this year, sudden deaths of active football players, but information is hindered, leading to skewed recording and analysis−and weak prevention. Privacy law is one limitation but the research field relies too heavily on inconsistent news media, which traditionally generate the lot of football’s catastrophic casualties to become recorded. Thus final statistics are short regarding millions of players, most prepubescent. “Current methods of data collection underestimate the risk of SCD,” conclude Harmon et al., in the group’s landmark 2011 research on collegiate sports. “Accurate assessment of SCD incidence is necessary to shape appropriate health policy decisions and develop effective strategies for prevention.” “Deaths in high school athletes may be even less likely to be identified by media reports as opposed to higher-profile NCAA athletes,” the researchers surmise in their article for Journal of The American Heart Association. Faulty U.S. Death Investigations Impact Medical Data on Sports Proper postmortem exam is problematic for American SCD casualties in general, not only athletes. America’s current death-investigation system struggles with “widespread dysfunction,” as documented by government and media reviews in the past decade. Only about 9 percent of all deaths are autopsied in this country, and cardiac disease can elude identification and diagnosis even under pathology exam. “The coroner-medical examiner system in the United States is highly variable in quality,” says Harmon, the MD and professor of sports medicine and family medicine at UW, via email. “Coroners are often elected or appointed officials with their only requirement being graduation from high school.” “In many cases (of sport SCD) forensic pathologists are not performing the autopsies and most of the time cardiac pathologists are not involved.” The basic mission of coroner and ME offices nationwide is to rule natural causes or foul play in a death, “and not necessarily the actual pathology,” notes Harmon. Verifying a possible sport link is impractical, typically impossible. “Often the training of the pathologist is limited and budgets to run (microscopic) histology−which is critical in making a correct (SCD) diagnosis−are limited,” notes Harmon, who encounters the issues in her review of college cases. “Often experts will come to different conclusions as to etiology or not be able to make a definitive call on cause of death.” Common thread is lack of evidence and sound conclusion, for SCD incidents in football players, like 2013 prep fatalities reported in Michigan and North Carolina. For the latter case, The Fayetteville Observer editorial board criticized state pathologists and procedures. “When young football player Evan Raines died last year during practice at Seventy First High School, his family had to wait more than a year to find out why,” the newspaper editorialized on Oct. 5, continuing: “But they weren’t singled out for what appears to be a glacial work pace at the N.C. Medical Examiner’s Office. … And they weren’t singled out, either, for an autopsy report that was vague and incomplete. That, we have learned, is the prevailing condition, too.” In Missouri, a local coroner acknowledges knowing little but to declare cardiac arrest as cause in the recent death of 22-year-old international student Kazadi Mutombo. The ruling was based on hearsay that the fit and athletic young man collapsed in workout clothes after visiting the YMCA in Joplin. Autopsy proved fruitless; the coroner’s consultant pathologist detected negligible evidence of harm to Mutombo’s heart, which “appeared to be in good shape.” “There’s just certain things you don’t find out from autopsies, and you’ll never know,” says Newton County coroner Mark Bridges. Accurate Death Analysis Crucial to Surviving Family Members Researchers estimate almost a third of SCD cases in athletes under age 35 produce “negative autopsy” results for the different forms. State-of-the-art, costlier analysis is needed. “Because electrical and other (cardiac) conditions will not be detected, it is not unusual for a routine autopsy to conclude that the cause of death was indeterminate,” states a Michigan study. “In such cases, heritable conditions such as cardiac ion-channel disorders are suspect and genetic analysis could help to elucidate the cause of death and prevent future deaths in families at risk.” The call is universal among experts, to overhaul SCD tracking in sports such as American football, foremost for preventing congenital health calamities among athletes and their families. Genetically inherited cardiac conditions include most cardiomyopathies, like “enlarged heart” or HCM, and the “channelopathies,” heartbeat malfunctions caused by the organ’s electrical current, becoming increasingly detectable in advanced assays. “In the past decade, the emergence of the channelopathies, in particular long QT syndrome and catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, has transformed the importance” of advanced analysis, observes Dr. Mary N. Sheppard, of the Department of Histopathology at Royal Brompton Hospital in London. “Sudden unexpected death during exercise particularly can, in many families, bring to their attention a hitherto unsuspected cardiac condition which is inherited and may be diagnosed by screening first-degree family members,” Sheppard writes for her 2012 analysis published in British Journal of Sports Medicine. “Missed diagnoses (or) wrong diagnosis can have catastrophic consequences for families in which other members are at risk of sudden death because they carry the defective gene for that condition.” 31 Death Cases Among Football Players, 2014 To-Date This collection of death cases among active American football players in 2014 is a sampling of public reports, online news. This analysis does not purport to present any accurate number or estimation of deaths caused or related to football activities. See 31 annotated cases below, including fatal casualties of brain bleeding, cardiac disease, heatstroke, and pulmonary embolism, culled from reports in Google banks since January. Twenty-seven teenagers are among this sample 31 deaths, which are comprised of 1 youth football player, 2 middle-school students, 19 high-school players, 8 collegiate players, and 1 adult in flag football. Case capsules are wholly constructed of news content. The information requires medically specialized followup, vetting by a multi-disciplinary team that would include accredited epidemiologists and a cardiac histopathologist, among experts, for scientific qualification beyond raw data, which is news content. No such research team has yet been funded and assembled for American football. Additional deaths among active football players appear online: suicides, drug overdoses, and more unexpected casualty. Further deaths reported around the sport, including of coaches and referees, also do not appear below. Cases are collected and filed by Matt Chaney, MA, at email: mattchaney@fourwallspublishing.com. My condolences to family and friends of every deceased athlete. Oct. 17: Jamond Salley, 16, Virginia, a 5-10, 203-pound lineman for Park View High School in South Hill, complained of a headache after contact during a game. Salley collapsed on the sideline of a brain bleed and was pronounced dead at hospital. Cause of death was blunt force trauma, according to the medical examiner’s office. Sources: WTVR-TV and SoVaNow.com. Oct. 12: Trey Taulton, 18, Texas, a 6-foot-1, 210-pound receiver for Mesquite Horn High School, died during sleep of “natural causes,” reports The Mesquite News. Oct. 1: Tom Cutinella, 16, New York, a linebacker and offensive guard for Shoreham-Wading River High School, sustained a brain bleed during a game of contact, say police. Cutinella died later at hospital and no autopsy results were available at time of this posting. Source: WFAN-TV. Sept. 29: Isaiah Langston, 17, North Carolina, a lineman for Rolesville High School, collapsed during a game on Sept. 26 and died three days later at hospital. A family member says cause of death was linked to a blood clot at the brain, reports WTVD-TV. Sept. 28: Andrew Madrid, 14, Texas, a football player for Marfa High School, collapsed while playing soccer with friends at the school on this Sunday. He died later at hospital. Sources: Big Bend Sentinel and KWES-TV. Sept. 28: Demario Harris Jr., 17, Alabama, a cornerback for Charles Henderson High School, collapsed of a brain bleed after making a tackle during a game on Sept. 26. Harris died two days later at hospital of a brain hemorrhage caused by contact during the game, says his father. Sources: People, WSFA-TV, and Dothan Eagle. Sept. 28: Jeremiah Pierce, 12, New Jersey, a youth player in Penns Grove Midget Football, collapsed during practice on Sept. 23 and died five days later at hospital. Results of any postmortem examination were not available at time of this posting. Sources: New York Daily News and South Jersey Times. Sept. 1: Miles Kirkland-Thomas, 16, New York, a 6-2, 295-pound lineman for Curtis High School, collapsed during football practice and was pronounced dead at hospital. Cause of death was hypertrophic cardiomyopathy or HCM, and obesity contributed, according to the medical examiner’s office. Source: Staten Island Advance. Aug. 25: Walker Wilbanks, 17, Mississippi, a lineman for Jackson Preparatory School, collapsed during a game on Aug. 22. He died three days later at hospital of over-hydration, or hyponatremia, according to Dr. Joe Pressler. Source: Clarion Ledger. Aug. 24: Marquese Meadow, 18, Maryland, a 6-2, 300-pound lineman for Morgan State University, collapsed at football practice on Aug. 10. He died two weeks later at hospital of heatstroke, according to the medical examiner’s office. Sources: Baltimore Sun and Washington Post. Aug. 20: Jason Bitsko, 21, Ohio, a 6-4, 280-pound offensive lineman for Kent State University, died during sleep at home. Final autopsy results are pending for public release. Sources: The Associated Press and WOIO-TV. Aug. 16: Will Wheeler, 17, Massachusetts, a 5-11, 165-pound defensive back for Central Catholic High School, died during sleep at home. Autopsy is planned, reportedly, but no results are yet available online. Source: Eagle Tribune. Aug. 13: William Shogran Jr., 14, Florida, a lineman for Sebastian River High School, collapsed at football practice then died at hospital. Heat illness possibly contributed, according to reports. Further information was unavailable at time of this posting. Sources: New York Daily News and WPTV-TV. Aug. 11: Zyrees Oliver, 17, Georgia, an offensive lineman for Douglas County High School, collapsed during football practice on Aug. 5. He six days later at hospital of over-hydration, say doctors. Further pathology results are pending but currently unavailable online. Sources: Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Weather Channel. Aug. 10: Dan Malakoski, 36, Pennsylvania, collapsed while playing flag football and died at hospital, reportedly of cardiac arrest. Source: NewsItem.com. Aug. 6: Noah Cornuet, 16, Pennsylvania, a 6-2, 270-pound lineman for Burrell High School, collapsed at football practice then died at hospital. Reportedly, a non-cancerous heart tumor caused the death. Further information is unavailable online. Sources: WTAE-TV and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. July 21: Shawn Afryl, 22, Minnesota, a 6-3, 310-pound offensive lineman for Winona State University, collapsed during a conditioning workout and died at hospital. Cardiac arrest reportedly caused the death. Sources: Chicago Tribune and Minneapolis Star Tribune. June 30: Sean Tillotson, 17, Vermont, a running back and tight end for Oxbow Union High School, died of a pulmonary embolism, a blood clot lodged in lung tissue, during an airport layover in Denver, Colorado. Tillotson was recovering from a second surgery on a knee that was injured the previous football season. Source: Valley News. June 30: Gage Meeks, 11, Louisiana, who was preparing to play football for Calhoun Middle School, became stricken at home and died at hospital. A doctor said cardiac arrest caused the death. Sources: KNOE-TV and Monroe News-Star. May 21: An unidentified boy, 14, New Jersey, collapsed while throwing a football during PE class and died at hospital. The incident occurred at Thomas E. Harrington Middle School. Source: Philadelphia Inquirer. May 13: MarQuavious Payne, 17, Georgia, a 5-11, 185-pound linebacker for Cedar Shoals High School, died during sleep at home. Pathology results are unavailable online. Source: Athens Banner-Herald. April 27: James Michael Creamer Jr., 15, New York, a lineman for St. Peter’s Boys High School, died in sleep at his home. An allergic reaction or choking may have contributed to the death, say family members. Source: Staten Island Advance. April 21: Jaqwan Cephus McGill, 16, North Carolina, a 5-6, 155-pound running back for South Columbus High School, collapsed at a convenience store and was pronounced dead at hospital. Autopsy was performed but results remain unavailable online. Sources: Fayetteville Observer and WECT-TV. April 15: Mekail Evans, 17, Alabama, a 5-10, 195-pound linebacker for Clay-Chalkville High School, collapsed and died at home following a workout. The teen had a heart condition that was previously undiagnosed, say family members. Sources: Trussville Tribune and Al.com. April 6: Ronald Cunningham, 19, North Carolina, a 6-2, 285-pound lineman for St. Augustine’s University, collapsed on campus, possibly of cardiac arrest, and died at hospital. Cunningham had recently injured a knee in football practice and was awaiting surgery. Pathology results, if any, are unavailable online. Sources: WTVR-TV, WRAL-TV, Charlotte News Observer and Richmond Times-Dispatch. March 25: Will McKamey, 19, Maryland, a 5-9, 170-pound running back for the U.S. Naval Academy, collapsed of a brain bleed at practice on March 22 and died three days later in hospital, following surgery. No football contact distinguishable on video could be linked to the injury, say family members. McKamey previously suffered a severe brain bleed in football, 2012, when he was a high-school senior in Tennessee, but no surgery was performed after that incident and he returned to the sport. Sources: USA Today and TheDailyBeast.com. March 8: DaQuan Henderson, 15, South Carolina, a defensive lineman for Whale Branch Early College High School, died at a hospital. Henderson’s mother said her son had been diagnosed with irregular heartbeat and a coroner reportedly determined natural causes for the death. Further information is unavailable online. Sources: Beaufort Gazette and MarshelsWrightDonaldson.com. March 2: Desmond Pollard, 17, Texas, a 6-2, 180-pound receiver for Gilmer High School, collapsed and died during a pickup basketball game. Pathology results, if any, are unavailable online. Sources: KLTV-TV and KYTX-TV. Feb. 8: Eddie Key III, 18, Nebraska, a 6-2, 270-pound lineman for Wayne State University, died in his sleep. Autopsy results reportedly list the cause as pulmonary edema, fluid buildup in the lungs caused by heart failure. Sources: KOLN-TV and Lincoln Journal Star. Feb. 7: Ted Agu, 21, California, a 6-1, 240-pound defensive lineman for the University of California-Berkeley, became stricken during a team conditioning session and died. Autopsy results released in spring reportedly listed the cause as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, thickening of the heart, but the player’s family later filed a wrongful death lawsuit, alleging he had a known sickle-cell condition. Sources: The Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle, and SFGate.com. Jan. 17: Joseph Cooks, 18, Florida, a 6-foot-2, 165-pound wide receiver for Southeastern University, died in his sleep. Pathology results, if any, are unavailable online. Source: Lakeland Ledger. Matt Chaney, with a MA in electronic media studies, is an independent writer, editor, teacher, and restaurant cook in Missouri, USA. For more information, including about his book Spiral of Denial: Muscle Doping in American Football (2009), visit the homepage at www.fourwallspublishing.com. Email him at mattchaney@fourwallspublishing.com. 2014 football deathsalterial malformationathletic trainerathleticsattorneyblood clotbrain bleedcardiac arrestcardiac diseasecardiomyopathycatastrophic injurychannelopathyChiariconcussionDr. Kimberly Harmonfootballfootball injuriesHCMhigh schoolhospitalinjury statisticslawsuitNational Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury ResearchNCAANFLSCDsciencesports medicinestatisticsstrokesubdural hematomasudden cardiac deathtraumatic brain injuryUNCwrongful deathyouth league Brain Injury History in Football, Health Crisis in American Football, News Commentary, Severe Casualties of American Football King Football Infests Institutions, Misleads Public October 3, 2014 Matt 1 Comment Medical Associations Avoid Confronting Injurious Sport Dissident Doctors Threaten Medicine’s Football Bonanza Incalculable Debilitating Injuries Annually in Football Posted Friday, October 3, 2014 No American of driving age and eyesight should feel revulsion over tackle football anymore, the widely corrupt, incessantly violent, powder-keg culture for players and people around them. There shouldn’t be shock when cavalier football officials, led by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, mislead individuals, families, and the entire public. Yeah, the football suits lie, obviously, and when this week already. So while King Football may be shorter on time to heed criticism and reform fundamentally, it isn’t facing apocalypse. The game hasn’t reached the cliff’s edge yet in America, forced to choose between falling or turning complete about. Football remains our premier entertainment, the shark among shows, playing perpetually in-season from local fields to palatial stadiums and throughout millions of video screens, audio feeds, and print pages. It is our nationalized religion, the Church of Football, with media, municipalities, schools and colleges readily hosting worship, indoctrinating players and consumers, young and old. “We couldn’t live without the NFL,” gushes Leslie Moonves, CEO of CBS Corporation, paying billions for broadcast rights, operating within his situational ethic for our free press. And nothing will change fundamentally in near future, regardless whether Goodell goes down (he won’t leave willingly, hauling $37 million annually in his job for the non-profit NFL). The frontman is interchangeable for this model. If Goodell cannot outlast political storm, league owners will substitute “another boilerplate-spewing lawyer… tobacco executive avatar for their bloodsport,” observes Bruce Arthur for The Toronto Star. Football cult will carry on, and not only for its conniving leaders but because society is thoroughly vested too—or caught—virtually every institution and individual is beholden, some way or another, to the gridiron. Our football universe thrives on cultural Spiral of Denial, as a costly, dangerous, and revered social setting marked by recurring crisis since the 1880s. Revelations emerge periodically against the blood sport, along with recriminations, debates, promises—and, ultimately, no legitimate reform undertaken, ever. Foremost because tackle football is incorrigible for deadly violence. Then, crucially, King Football has pimped vital American institutions over some 135 years, namely through mutual marketing, a profit-sharing synergy. No partner institution can react forcefully on football issues. Historically and shrewdly, the good ol’ gridiron officials and advocates have infested government entities such as the CDC and Public Health, schools, colleges, municipalities, police and courts, and legislatures and Congress, along with the private domains of news, medicine and religion. “And that is just it,” surmises essayist John Branch for The New York Times. “The N.F.L. is buttressed by so many parties with a stake in its continued success… that no amount of exasperation will topple it.” “The N.F.L. put itself in this position. But the tougher spot may belong to all the rest of us, bound to the N.F.L. with the nastiest of knots, looking for ways to be outraged in practical and meaningful ways.” Officials of our institutions certainly bumble because of their toxic allegiance to brutal football, financially and politically. The NFL wields more power in this country than government, staining if not benefiting all it touches, as we heard three decades ago from Howard Cosell, late iconoclast of TV sports. Cosell was the famed boxing announcer who moonlighted for Monday Night Football, in the booth with Frank Gifford and “Dandy” Don Meredith on early collaborations between the NFL and ABC. Cosell would appreciate the pathetic comedy these days, as officials of institutions try camouflaging their conflicting interests over football, or just ignore that they’re gripping a wolf by the ears—collision DumbBall, imperiling millions of young minds and bodies. Military boldly calls out NFL for mutual problem Pentagon brass vow to reexamine relationships with the NFL on a moral basis, and they cite, of all things, domestic abuse among football players. Nervy move by military officials, projecting blame for predatory assaults on females, given their deplorable record for the same violence in the Armed Forces. Rather, an independent party should probe the “partnership” between the NFL and Pentagon that is publicized as “a long-term program to care for and prevent concussions… as well as other health issues.” Hear Goodell spin dramatically, conjuring heroism for the collaboration, proclaiming the NFL-Military mission is to help the world: “We’ve had an impact on the military,” bleats the highly paid yak. “Traumatic brain injury is a big issue for our [football] veterans and our military personnel. The information we have and we’ve learned, the research we have, we have shared with the defense department.” “Those changes are going to make not just football, not just sports, but I think our world safer,” Goodell says. But the military doesn’t want to know about casualties or pay for them, beginning with soldiers who suffer brain damage and mental disorder, just like the NFL. And we know the qualification of NFL “research” sometimes means, according to this League of Denial, in-house data specially cooked, CYA against lawsuits and more damage claims. That’s what common interest of the NFL-Military partnership smells like, nothing about “making a difference” or an altruistic “sharing” of reliable study and valid conclusions, as Goodell bluffs. Dissident doctors defy Medicine’s gridiron allegiance No American institution should precede Big Medicine in dissolving its current relationship with football, for industry ethics and substantive empirical evidence that qualify the game as a public health menace, especially for children. Yet medicine has been twisted by football money and politics to becoming largely an endorser of the beloved carnage since the 1950s. “Sports medicine” has gerrymandered the industry to generate growth and profit—while eschewing traditional health values and standards. Recently in California, two sports-med specialists entered public debate with a former NFL lineman on the following question: Would you let your 8-year-old son play Pop Warner football? The physicians, with commercial interest in the game, notably steady patients, agreed they would allow sons to play. One doctor offered a familiar tinny explanation. “If someone [or small boy, per the question] really wanted to play a sport [of collision], I wouldn’t stop him from playing,” said Dr. Ty Affleck, physician of athletics for two colleges. “There are so many benefits derived from playing.” Ben Lynch took exception, the well-compensated NFL player. Lynch is among former athletes who scoff at this talking point, the abstraction of Football benefits outweigh risks for kids!—stock answer today of medical professionals with no tangible reason but personal income, which they won’t mention. Football-boosting doctorate-holders are hard-pressed to prove their positives cited, those so-called doses of discipline, teamwork and courage when a young person straps it on to collide beneficially with others. Heck, for my college football experience, I just say we were student-athletes roaming the field in educational manner, knocking the shit out of each other. Because a football player should “target” every incoming opponent, or think “bounty,” whatever it takes to get vicious. The game’s covering law is primitive: Be predator or prey; avoid becoming the “cart-off” carcass. Bad intent on a football field is survival, not “dirty” play. Head-ramming is a player’s “proper technique” to merely compete, period. Every person inside the sport gets this reality, too, starting with medical professionals in denial. So man bites dog anytime medicine’s football parrots—the accredited flock of MDs, ScDs and PhDs—come up against honest, informed challenge from a layman. That was the hulking Lynch and sports docs, a most curious exchange. The football gladiator, ex-NFL center of a dozen diagnosed concussions and eight surgeries, schooled the MDs on simple health and ethic. They would’ve had to pass-block him to match it. “I think it’s safe to say it’s not a good idea to hit your head on something,” Lynch had to remind the doctors. “I think most people would agree with that.” “I don’t have a son,” Lynch continued. “But if I did, I wouldn’t let him play football—at any level. There’s still so much we don’t know about concussions. There’s so much unknown. This is just my opinion.” Study findings, critics threaten Medicine’s football bonanza Football-friendly specialists and researchers cannot deny mystery persists of brain trauma and recovery, especially for children. But they slyly flip Hippocratic ethos, the keystone Do no harm—or When in doubt, protect the patient—to follow medical-biz credo of Protect football until no doubt, cha-ching. They cluster together in public events and news stories to play word games, claiming lack of “evidence” exists to denounce the blood sport, even for small children who can include girls. A favorite PhD guy for King Football is neuropsychologist Gerald Gioia, who forbids cheerleading for his daughter because “risks exceed safety” in the activity. But football is fine for kids, says Giola. He recommends boys and and presumably girls to play because, of course, science hasn’t proven the gridiron dangers. Gioia repeats the hysteria claim for football brain injury, children in the maw notwithstanding, saying fear-mongering pushes “people over the edge.” “Importantly, science and reason must drive our action-oriented approach to safety in youth sports, maximizing participation and safety efforts together,” Gioia testified before Congress last spring. “We must avoid responding to opinion and anxiety in setting the proper course.” Gioia operates looser for his tangled business and politics regarding athletics, which provide him income streams from the public and private sectors. Among connections, Gioia works with teams of the NFL, NHL, public schools, private academies, “and numerous youth sports organizations in the Baltimore-Washington region,” boasts his bio-page for Children’s National Medical Center, where he heads pediatric neuropsychology. Gioia is one of those usual sports “experts” at hearings and conferences in the United States and abroad, including the wacky 2012 Zurich confab that declared no research yet links football to brain damage—while panelists like him espoused quackery “technique,” Heads Up, as valid prevention of concussion. A pleasant professor, the audacious Gioia co-authored Heads Up policy for the government CDC while also advising for the NFL’s front organ in “youth” athletics, USA Football. The non-profit USA Football generates and promotes the 47-year-old false hope behind Heads Up, known by various refresher names over decades, like “proper technique,” “form tackling” and “head up” contact. Allegedly, it’s headless hitting for football. The NFL is pouring $45 million into retreading and reselling this time-proven invalidity, and millions of children and adults buy the lie, Heads Up, believing in “safe” tackling. Plaintiff attorneys now target coaches, officials, schools and local governments for lawsuits, alleging negligence for failure to instill headless hitting. A court test is bound to materialize and finally blow apart the fallacy. Modern football yaks think they aren’t liable. The NFL disavows legal responsibility for Heads Up, along with USA Football, with officials’ acknowledging there’s no proof the theory is sound—after nearly a half-century of folly, and their constant claiming it does work. Back to Giola, what’s credibility to really matter for a guy like him, embodying conflict of interest wrapped within conflict of interest? Many prestigious citizens are bound to football samely, and the opinion-leading breed anoints the game as vital public entity, as it’s already financed. “You don’t know what the world would be like if we cut out these activities!” Giola says on website of the American Psychological Association. Actually, many medical professionals envision a better America without dangerous sports in schools and parks, especially DumbBall. This side believes a wealth of empirical evidence supports placing unprecedented restrictions on football, perhaps banning it, at least for prepubescent kids. “The literature is clear. This is a dangerous game for children to be playing,” Dr. Paul Butler, retired physician and former college player, said two years ago at forefront in the neo-wave of medical outcry against tackle football. Retired internist Dr. James Harris took up the cause last year in Texas, urging his local school board to consider dropping football, as had Butler in New Hampshire. “It is my medical opinion that there is already sufficient medical evidence available to warrant cessation of tackle football, period,” Harris says. “In all age groups, especially for goodness sake in children.” “I would not let my grandsons play football. … I feel guilty because I love football and I encouraged one of my boys to play. Shoot, I played; thank goodness I wasn’t any good and I’m still okay. Or am I? Are you? Your kids? How about your dad?” Dr. Harris is convinced microscopic examination has established evidential connection between brain damage and football impacts. He cites research of teams led by sport-neuropathologist Drs. Bennet Omalu and Ann McKee. “Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, is a degenerative disease caused in large part by repetitive head trauma, like you get butting heads in football,” Harris says. “I’m talking about routine hitting that is part of football, sub-concussive, any position.” Valid and reliable pathology links trauma harm to athletes, by McKee, Omalu and Dr. Harrison Martland, dating to the latter’s postmortem cases of boxers with “dementia pugilistica” in the 1920s. Further literature piles on, for brain mayhem of collision football, and doctors who dissent from sports-med group-think contend that anti-football findings now constitute a neural research trend moving steadily toward consensus: Collision football is too dangerous for the human brain, particularly in developing children, and has no remedy for the impacts. But many football-friendly professionals blather on, claiming need of more evidence for brain risk and outcome. One of those is Dr. Gillian Hotz, a specialist of pediatric sports neuro-trauma at the University of Miami. “We don’t know enough to say kids shouldn’t play football,” Hotz says. “Everyone around the athlete needs to be educated on this subject.” Especially doctors like Hotz and her colleagues. So here’s a primer lit review, study findings that include some research funded by football organs like the NFL since December 2012: Football leads school sports in diagnosed concussions with prep players nearly twice as likely to suffer cerebral injury than college players… concussed children may need break from schoolwork… single concussion may result in long-term disease… youth athletes may suffer emotional and behavioral dysfunction in months following concussion… physical fighting can lead adolescents to IQ loss equivalent to missing a year of school… football impacts to the head measure same G-forces for children as adults… depression may beset children with brain trauma… no evidence football helmets reduce concussion risk… brain injury often causes vision problems. An onslaught of football-adverse findings have emerged the past nine months, studies in journals of 2014 to-date, with some replicating previous results, such as… deceased college football player diagnosed with severe CTE… 18 college football players and 4 prep players diagnosed with CTE postmortem… concussed teens sensitive to light or noise more prone to anxiety or depression… brain changes can persist two years beyond sport participation… teens with history of concussion more likely to suffer depression… concussed hockey players exhibit micro-structural brain change in advanced MRI… brain injury may be present even without clinical symptoms… concussion during school year means much longer recovery… brain injury may stunt childhood social skills… football players may not recover from brain trauma over the offseason… concussed teens more likely to commit suicide… football may shrink the hippocampus brain region, affecting memory and emotion… chemical response to brain impact can worsen injury or disorder… brain injury common among female criminals… college football players sustain six undiagnosed concussions for every concussion diagnosed… and concussed children should rest and avoid schoolwork post-injury. Perhaps the biggest bomb was recently unleashed in documents of the pending NFL concussion settlement–the league’s historic acknowledgement that about 30 percent of former players suffer brain disease at earlier age and nearly double the rate of the general population. “I think we have underestimated the link between traumatic brain injuries and degenerative diseases,” says NFL researcher Dr. Bruce L. Miller, neurologist and director of the Memory and Aging Center at the University of California-San Francisco. “There is a huge, important link related to brain trauma even early in life and degenerative diseases later in life.” Acute traumatic brain injury and chronic disease kill 50,000 Americans every year, with 235,000 hospitalizations and 80,000 disabled. Total cost for care hits $76 billion, according to Miller. Many of the injured dwell outside diagnosis and treatment, including football players and combat veterans . “A lot of people who suffer from TBI go under the radar,” says Miller, a candid NFL researcher. “Ten to 23 percent of the troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan have TBI. That is a huge number of people. We have 1.8 million troops serving in these conflicts.” “I would argue that head trauma is one major risk factor for dementia in our society,” says Miller. “We have reached only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to understanding what the dementia is following a TBI.” Another earnest researcher funded by the NFL is Dr. McKee, famed pathologist who has confirmed the most cases of brain damage in deceased football players. McKee disturbs the NFL with her frank comments on football dangers, and league officials no longer steer brain donations her way. McKee’s accumulating evidence is startling, especially of pro football. New data were released Tuesday from the Massachusetts brain bank McKee directs, revealing almost 80 percent of football cases she’s examined have tested positive for CTE, or 101 of 128. McKee has found brain damage in 76 of the 79 NFL-player cases she’s investigated postmortem. The sampling isn’t random but biased, since most the men and families suspected brain damage and wanted to confirm. McKee, however, believes she’s helped establish irrefutable link of football battering to brain damage, or exactly what game-sycophant researchers keep harping about. She says that “playing football, and the higher level you play football and the longer you play football, [means] the higher your risk.” The football-funded researchers McKee and Miller are echoed by an independent medical dissident on the game. Dr. Jeff Ritterman also contends war and contact sports “are leading to significant number of serious brain injuries” among Americans. “We are literally knocking ourselves senseless,” Ritterman states, disgusted with the military and violent athletics. “Take a moment to reflect on your own store of cherished memories,” the doctor writes for HuffingtonPost.com. “Imagine not being able to retrieve them, or not being able to lay down new ones. In addition to memory loss we are causing violent outbursts, depression, aggressive tendencies and even death. Is this the legacy we want to impart to our boys and young men?” Incalculable numbers suffer debilitating football injuries annually Contemporary tackle football physically maims thousands every year, from head to toe, possibly reaching a six-figure number in fractures and tears that require surgery. Most cases are juvenile players in school and youth leagues. Football-pandering experts who cry for evidence of public health menace can simply delve into the deep store of player casualties found online. Brain injury constitutes but a segment. Even I, humble ex-sports reporter with MA degree and operating on my dime, have collected more than 1,000 cases of critical football casualties since 2009. Minimally hundreds suffer severe to catastrophic injuries annually, per online reports and other data, and likely most would die if not for high-tech helmets and emergency response. An overlooked category is players with internal injuries that years ago would have killed routinely, for lack of modern treatment that include powerful antibiotics. Indeed, organ ruptures, non-cerebral blood clots and infection combined to kill most a century ago, when football action moved in masses of clawing players who ripped and crushed each other, in contrast to the high-speed, head-on collisions in open space today. Today more than a hundred football survivors of lethal injuries surface online, every year, quite predictably. The cases involve impacts to torso, extremities, head and neck, absorbed from other players and ground contact, and most patients require emergency surgery. The hits inflict damage to brain, spine, eyes, heart, lungs, liver, spleen, kidneys, pancreas, and circulatory system. Countless additional cases occur without reaching an internet posting. Limitations on information include privacy law, with some families quashing or controlling public mention. Independent analysts like myself, along with football-funded researchers and news media, are hopeless for documenting all severe injuries in football. A likely majority of cases are missed. The problem is illuminated by gaping holes in annual case collections of the so-called National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research at the University of North Carolina. The entity, funded by football organs, isn’t a facility on campus and manifests primarily as a website full of erroneous data, trend claim and projection. The staff is unqualified for compiling epidemiological study, the complex discipline no one is capable of achieving for football in near future. The annual UNC reports miss numerous catastrophic football injuries publicized in Google banks, including severe brain bleeds, spinal fractures, and cardiac collapses. Another problem is many cases aren’t publicized within the calendar year and only surface in subsequent periods, including reports of permanent brain impairment and quadriplegia. I’m still finding cases of 2011, for example, previously unreported. Moreover, the UNC material doesn’t cover many classes of grid catastrophe found online, including: internal bleeding of the torso led by spleen-rupture cases galore; blood clotting launched from wounded extremities; “compartment syndrome” or rhabdomyolysis; artery rupture; peripheral paralysis of shoulder, arm and leg; and infection like deadly MRSA. And while tackle football kills fewer players in collisions anymore, the differences are modern skull-preserving helmets and trauma-care infrastructure—and not, as UNC literature purports, the musty concepts of “head up” contact and unenforceable “anti-butting” rules. Besides, football’s contemporary death tolls should be unconscionable for the medical industry to support, given its professed values. Instead, officials characterize annual collision deaths in single digits as somehow acceptable, indicative of “safer” play. Eight teen boys are known to have died of football contact last year at public schools and stadiums, and despite high-tech armor and modern medicine. For 2014, at least two teens are dead of football contact thus far, Navy walk-on running back Will McKamey and New York prep Tom Cutinella. Further, for reports that show in Google, dozens of active football players die of causes with potential indirect links to the game, although challenging to determine either way. Some 30 cases have emerged publicly during 2014 through this week. These players die suddenly, unexpectedly, on fields, in workouts, at home and elsewhere. Cardiac arrest kills most, apparently, followed by causes that include heart attack, heatstroke, congenital arterial malformation such as “AVM,” cerebral stroke, and blood clots in lung and heart. Victims are largely teenagers and America’s common death-investigation offices cannot reliably verify a football link in most cases, if not the vast majority. Finally, suicides and overdoses of active football players also occur regularly, screaming for attention and resources hardly forthcoming. Football officials zealously distance the game from these incidents, in their news quotes and court defenses. But many experts strongly associate brain trauma to violence such as domestic attack and self-harm, and suicide often ends the lives of boxers and football players later found with cognitive disease. Painkiller abuse is traditionally rampant in the NFL, while college and schoolboy football players are increasingly associated through arrests and tragedies. Football players at high schools and colleges die for overdoses of pills and heroin. Others are busted for use and distribution. Some families publicly declare that football injury led their troubled athletes to opiate addiction. Coaches, trainers and doctors have been accused of involvement, from prep ranks to pros. Medical associations traditionally avoid confronting football The bedding of medical authorities with tackle football is a tawdry affair of overt, historic proportion, a conflict of interest longstanding. American medicine’s ethical infidelity was obvious 30 years ago, for its illogical stance of condemning boxing because of brain injuries while simultaneously defending football, the golden cow, according to news reports available in the subscription database Lexis-Nexis. By 1984, the American Medical Association led groups in Britain and Canada in calls to ban boxing for amateurs and to tightly regulate professional ranks. The AMA wanted boxing barred from public funding and facilities in the United States. American medical professionals chided counterparts who defended boxing and talked of reform for “safer” pugilism. “A doctor at ringside is like a priest at a hanging,” joked Dr. Robert Cantu, Boston sports neurosurgeon, speaking to The Toronto Star. “Neither improves the safety of the event.” But Dr. Cantu heartily endorsed collision football at the time, including the struggling “safety” initiative billed as “form tacking,” or impossible “head up” hitting without helmet strike. Today the table has turned. Cantu’s altered his gridiron opinion and come under fire himself, from game advocates led by doctors, for his contemporary recommendation that parents forbid tackle football for children before high school. Cantu contends many doctors support him but are paralyzed to act because of their business ties to football. “Although doctors generally approve, they’ve had to tiptoe around the issue with young patients and their parents,” Cantu writes for Time Magazine. Cantu recounts his conversation on the ethical dilemma with a pediatrician, who said, “You want to do what’s best for your patients. You also want to have patients.” A recent survey by The Aspen Institute finds many doctors share Cantu’s concern for millions of kids in tackle football. Seventy-seven percent of medical professionals polled said they were “uncomfortable” with the activity for ages under 14. The AMA and other associations, for their part, say nothing substantial yet. It’s status quo for Big Medicine’s political and business chicanery with DumbBall in America. In October 2011, Roger Goodell was keynote speaker at convention for the Congress of Neurological Surgeons in Washington. The NFL commissioner received a standing ovation from the 3,000 CNS members in assembly, and independent journalist Irv Muchnick wanted to know why. Muchnick emailed 24 officials of the CNS, copying his query to president Dr. Christopher C. Getch, professor of neurosurgery at Northwestern University. “The Congress of Neurological Surgeons is not supposed to be a cheerleader wing of the National Football League,” Muchnick reminded Dr. Getch. “I challenge the CNS to release the [Goodell] video and take public account of this incident for your group’s independence and credibility. I look forward to hearing back from you.” Silence. None among the CNS officials responded to Muchnick. Matt Chaney is an independent writer, editor, teacher, and restaurant cook in Missouri, USA. For more information, including about his book Spiral of Denial: Muscle Doping in American Football, visit the homepage at www.fourwallspublishing.com. Email him at mattchaney@fourwallspublishing.com. 1905American Medical Associationathletic injurybrainCantucardiaccatastrophic injuryCDCconcussionconflict of interestCongress of Neurological SurgeonsCTEdomestic abuseeducationethicsfalse hopefootballfootball casualtyfootball deathfootball fatalityfootball riskfree pressGioiagovernmentHeads UpheartHippocraticinsuranceinternal injurykidneyliverlungsMcKeemedicineNational Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Researchneurologynews mediaNFLnon-profitOmaluoverdosepainkillerparksproper techniquepublicPublic HealthreligionresearchRoger Goodellsafe tacklingschoolsScott HallenbeckspineSpiral of Denialspleensports medicinesubconcussivesuicidesurgeryTBITeddy Roosevelttraumatic brain injuryUniversity of North CarolinaunreliabilityUSA Footballvalidityyouth football Cardiac Arrest Likely Kills Most in Football 2014 August 20, 2014 Matt Leave a comment American football’s possible role in a player’s sudden death is difficult to assess, particularly in a case of cardiac arrest outside physical activity. But athletic exertion is presumably contributing to many player fatalities this year, among the sampling 21 cases in this review. Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2014 American football, with but one player’s death of field collision so far in 2014, might be poised to inspire proclamations of “safer” play. Last year, eight players died of football contact, all teens. But the violent game is only beginning its regular season, traditionally the deadliest calendar stretch. In 2013, for example, the second collision death did not occur until Aug. 16, opening a run of seven direct fatalities in 12 weeks of prep football. And more young football players are dying unexpectedly in America—especially this year—amid circumstances such as collapsing during a workout, succumbing while asleep, and developing blood clots. These fatalities are largely unverifiable for solid link to the sport that poses bodily stresses beyond physical battering. A 2014 sampling is below, 21 deaths of active players through Aug. 16, mostly teens, culled from reports online. Death investigation continues for many of these casualties while other cases have concluded without pathology exam. When cause isn’t field contact, death investigation of an American football player meets obstacles for objective establishment or dismissal of a game link. Medical specialization is required for accurately diagnosing illness like cardiac arrest, for its varied forms, and the process optimally involves experts of multiple disciplines. Postmortem analysis of a football player, however, is often left to unqualified officials who are merely available, such as a general physician or elected coroner—or no autopsy at all. Bottom line, no research entity can accurately determine the true number of football-related deaths, and notably not the “National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research” at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. No party has succeeded despite a century of published statistics, incomplete yet widely repeated, because case-collecting cannot properly access and assess the sport’s vast domain. The football data’s entire history is fault-ridden, in need of redefining and reclassification for disjointed and limited collecting since the Victorian Era, by parties such as news media, game-funded groups like the NCCSIR, and this reporter. The problem is apparent in overview of football deaths to-date in 2014, particularly the select 21 cases below. Cardiac arrest likely caused the majority of these deaths, which also include cases of heatstroke, apparently, but information is lacking in public reports. Conjecture even lingers over the single collision fatality, Navy running back Will McKamey last spring, based on statements by his parents that seemingly absolve football for culpability. Certainly, evidence of football’s role in many of these casualties will pass undetected, whether missed, lost or ignored. Epidemiological study remains a lofty goal, therefore, on mortality risk and outcome in American football. Valid and reliable numbers on catastrophic casualties, including survivors, must be harvested from a injurious environment hosting four to five million players scattered over 50 states, with about 95 percent of the population being juveniles. Such research, unforeseen at this time, would necessitate a massive commitment of money and expertise, along with extraordinary cooperation by athletes, families, and football officials. The 2014 death cases below are compiled strictly of information available in Google banks, primarily news reports, and require qualified, specialized follow-up for medical designation. Not included are the deaths of active football players such as suicides and drug overdoses. My condolences to the families of deceased players. 21 Fatality Cases of American Football Players in 2014 From Google reports through August 20 Email: mattchaney@fourwallspublishing.com Jan. 17: Joseph Cooks, 18, Florida, a 6-foot-2, 165-pound wide receiver for Southeastern University, died in his sleep. Pathology results, if any, are unavailable online. Feb. 7: Ted Agu, 21, California, a 6-1, 240-pound defensive lineman for the University of California-Berkeley, became stricken during a team conditioning session and died. Autopsy results released in spring reportedly listed the cause as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, thickening of the heart, but the player’s family later filed a wrongful death lawsuit, alleging he had a known sickle-cell condition. Feb. 8: Eddie Key III, 18, Nebraska, a 6-2, 270-pound lineman for Wayne State University, died in his sleep. Autopsy results reportedly list the cause as pulmonary edema, fluid buildup in the lungs caused by heart failure. March 2: Desmond Pollard, 17, Texas, a 6-2, 180-pound receiver for Gilmer High School, collapsed and died during a pickup basketball game. Pathology results, if any, are unavailable online. March 8: DaQuan Henderson, 15, South Carolina, a defensive lineman for Whale Branch Early College High School, died at a hospital. Henderson’s mother said her son had been diagnosed with irregular heartbeat and a coroner reportedly determined natural causes for the death. Further information is unavailable online. March 25: Will McKamey, 19, Maryland, a 5-9, 170-pound running back for the U.S. Naval Academy, collapsed of a brain bleed at practice on March 22 and died three days later in hospital, following surgery. Football contact linked to the injury was indistinguishable on video of the practice, said family members. McKamey previously suffered a severe brain bleed in football, 2012, when he was a high-school senior in Tennessee, but no surgery was performed after that incident and he returned to the sport. April 6: Ronald Cunningham, 19, North Carolina, a 6-2, 285-pound lineman for St. Augustine’s University, collapsed on campus, possibly of cardiac arrest, and died at hospital. Cunningham had recently injured a knee in football practice and was awaiting surgery. Pathology results, if any, are unavailable online. April 15: Mekail Evans, 17, Alabama, a 5-10, 195-pound linebacker for Clay-Chalksville, collapsed and died at home following a workout. The teen had a heart condition that was previously undiagnosed, said family members. April 21: Jaqwan Cephus McGill, 16, North Carolina, a 5-6, 155-pound running back for South Columbus High School, collapsed and died. Autopsy was performed but results remain unavailable online. April 27: James Michael Creamer Jr., 15, New York, a lineman for St. Peter’s Boys High School, died in sleep at his home. An allergic reaction or choking may have contributed to the death, said family members. May 13: MarQuavious Payne, 17, Georgia, a 5-11, 185-pound linebacker for Cedar Shoals High School, died during sleep at home. Pathology results are unavailable online. May 21: An unidentified eighth-grade boy, 14, New Jersey, collapsed while throwing a football during PE class and died at hospital. The incident occurred at Thomas E. Harrington Middle School. June 30: Gage Meeks, 11, Louisiana, who was preparing to play football for Calhoun Middle School, became stricken at home and died at hospital. A doctor said cardiac arrest caused the death. June 30: Sean Tillotson, 17, Vermont, a running back and tight end for Oxbow Union High School, died of a pulmonary embolism, a blood clot lodged in lung tissue, during an airport layover in Denver, Colorado. Tillotson was recovering from a second surgery on a knee that was injured the previous football season. July 21: Shawn Afryl, 22, Minnesota, a 6-3, 310-pound offensive lineman for Winona State University, collapsed during a conditioning workout and died at hospital. Cardiac arrest reportedly caused the death. Aug. 5: Trey Aldrich, 16, Kentucky, a senior football player for Allen Central High School, died in his home. An autopsy was planned but further information is unavailable online. Aug. 6: Noah Cornuet, 16, Pennsylvania, a 6-2, 270-pound lineman for Burrell High School, collapsed at football practice then died at hospital. Reportedly, a non-cancerous heart tumor caused the death. Further information is unavailable online. Aug. 10: Dan Malakoski, 36, Pennsylvania, collapsed while playing flag football and died at hospital, reportedly of cardiac arrest. Aug. 11: Zyrees Oliver, 17, Georgia, an offensive lineman for Douglas County High School, died of over-hydration a few hours after football practice. Further pathology results are pending but currently unavailable online. Aug. 13: William Shogran Jr., 14, a lineman for Sebastian River High School, collapsed at football practice then died at hospital. Heat illness possibly contributed, according to reports. Further information was unavailable at time of this posting. Aug. 16: Will Wheeler, 17, Massachusetts, a 5-11, 165-pound defensive back for Central Catholic High School, died during sleep at home. 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__label__cc	0.522973	0.477027	What is Freediving? Freediving Safety Freediving Disciplines AIDA Competition Rules Freediving NZ What does Freediving NZ do? New Zealand Pool Freediving Safety Standards published! Freediving NZ Strategy Freediving NZ Constitution Expressions of Interest for Depth National Organisation NZ Freediving Clubs Rankings and Records National Records Freedving NZ Pool Nationals 2019 Freediving New Zealand Depth Nationals 2019 Freediving New Zealand Pool Nationals 2018 Splash FNZ Pool Nationals 2017 NZ Depth Nats 17 FDNZ Pool Nats 2016 Trans-Tasman Team Challenge 2016 Fluyd Freediving New Zealand Depth Nationals 2016 CyprusWC15 NZPoolNats15 BelgradeWC15 DepthNats15 Will Trubridge: 102m New Zealand Depth Nationals 2015 OceanHunter 2014 Freediving Auckland Pool Championships Dive Wellington Beuchat New Zealand Pool Freediving National Championships 2014 Wellington Winter Championships 2014 Dive Wellington Beuchat New Zealand Depth Freediving National Championships 2014 Will Trubridge’s Reflections on Limassol 2015 Sep 26, 2015 \| CyprusWC15 Will Trubridge & Fran Rose. Photo by Daan Verhoeven The 2015 World Champs had highs and lows. The mournful absence of Natalia Molchanova /the resurgence of her son Alexey, who claimed two golds. The alarming oversights for Néry’s world record attempt in the pre-comp/the attention to detail in providing for athletes aboard the competition platform. It would be unfair to only fault the competition, but it would be unwise not to use the shortcomings as opportunities for growth and improvement. So I think we should celebrate the hard work and successes of this year’s World Champs, but not equivocate on the serious issues that were brought to light. I was amongst the vanguard of athletes to arrive several weeks ahead of the World Champs. The organisers were ready for us, with a dedicated RIB dive boat and safety team to look after us in our training, and they went out of their way to help athletes get settled in Cyprus, with transfers, accommodation, and local SIM cards. This kind of treatment creates a great positive energy before the comp begins, and the appreciation from athletes was evident at the closing ceremony, where the head organisers received a rousing and prolonged ovation. The safety team were very supportive as well, and all were experienced and competent divers. Will ascending to an FIM Gold. Photo by Daan Verhoeven A certain amount of bad luck came into the competition, with changeable weather and sea currents, a freakish sandstorm, and errant line markings. However we often have more control over our luck than we think. Competition or training was canceled or suspended on at least three occasions due to sea currents and swell. Could it have been known from a location audit that this dive site was susceptible to current/weather in mid-September? One strip of electric tape at the 140m mark was lost from the rope, causing a seriously life-threatening incident. That’s bad luck, but it was very bad oversight that there weren’t protocols in place to spot the marking error, and that it was the only verification method used for line depth. This was also the first AIDA Depth WC in which no world records were announced, and all gold medal performances were lower than the previous world champs. Could this have been due in part to the very early start times for top athletes, who found out the evening before the event and had no time to adjust? In light of these questions, I believe there are two fundamental issues that need to be discussed: The requirement for standards and protocols for running a high-level AIDA comp or WC. The principal objective of the AIDA WC (after safety). 1. The requirement for standards and guidelines for running a high-level AIDA comp or WC. The last four AIDA depth WCs (07, 09, 11, 13) were staged by organisers who had previously run one or more high-profile AIDA events. They’d had opportunities to iron out problems and errors prior to taking on the WC, and knew what athletes would expect of them. When AIDA awarded the 2015 Depth WC to Cyprus nobody noticed or appreciated this difference, and it seems there was a natural assumption that the new organiser would know how things had been done in the past and follow suit. That assumption shows a gap in the process, where there should be a requirement from AIDA for a more detailed logistical plan from the organiser or an on-location audit by an AIDA staff member 1-2 months ahead of the event, or both. Essentially, after being informed that they had won the bid to host the WC, it appears Cyprus was largely left on its own until the judges arrived a few days ahead of the event. This lead to easily avoidable errors such as a counter-ballast line too close to the competition line, uncalibrated sonar, and a lack of certain items of medical equipment. Merely blaming organisers or judges in these cases is not accurate: it is really a symptom of inadequate regulations and guidelines for the World Championships. What can be done? Earlier this year, I started writing an ‘Organiser’s bible’ for running Vertical Blue, so that I wouldn’t have to explain everything to team members each year. When completed, it will have full job descriptions of each role, as well as all the safety protocols, equipment lists, operating guides, excel templates and more. It will be fairly easy to adapt and elaborate on this work to make it applicable to any major freediving depth competition. This was also discussed at the AIDA assembly meeting during the WC, and AIDA Sport Officer Ute Gessman announced she would form a workgroup to create guidelines for major competitions. AIDA’s greatest strength is its members and its wealth of information and experience. Centralising and recording this info and experience for education has been performed very efficiently, but the same process has been overlooked for freediving competitions. As the sport becomes more professional and widespread, in order for AIDA to maintain its position as the global standard in competition and records this work to develop competition standards will be important and ongoing. 2. The principal objective of the AIDA WC (after safety). Every two years there are 100 or more freediving competitions around the world in which athletes can attempt personal bests and national records/rankings. In the same period there is one, and only one, competition in which athletes may compete to become world champion. Therefore in this competition priority should be given to athletes who are contending the championship over those who are attending for the other reasons. In this case, a higher attendance at the World Championships is not a positive result IF it entails a reduction in the standard of competition for those athletes who are contending the championship titles. For example if, in order to fit in all the athletes, the deepest dives are scheduled at 0800, or at a time when conditions aren’t preferable, or with insufficient time between OTs, then the event is failing in its primary objective. In general, this singular event should be designed in such a way as to support the process of deciding the world champions. Perhaps that means holding a qualification round, as is done in the pool WC? After all, there are very few sports where a champion is decided by a single jump/throw/lift/dive, especially one that is announced the evening before. Qualifying depths could count towards the finals as well, and this would add suspense as well as consistency in results. The oft-quoted obstacle to these objectives is budget limitations, but I believe that only once the format of the World Championships is centred upon the contesting of the World Champion title will the media become more interested in the sport. And with media attendance comes increased sponsorship, and thus a greater budget. Coming from myself, these concerns may seen self-interested, but I still believe it to be objectively true that any sport that decides its world champions in the first dives of the first day of the event will both frustrate its top-performing competitors and limit attention from media. Some other guidelines which I believe need to become stipulations for the World Championships are: The emergency equipment that is listed as ‘recommended’ in AIDA guidelines should be mandatory for WC, and other elite-level competitions. Following the fatality in 2013, PEEP masks, defibrillators and other items were determined by experts to be important in certain freediving emergencies. With the increased attendance and depths at the WC these safety measures should be more than just ‘recommended.’ The deepest ten athletes must dive in order from shallowest to deepest: this means that shallower divers don’t sometimes gain a tactical advantage, and it also lends more suspense to the competition. The time interval between OTs should be a function of announced Dive Time (DT), e.g. DT+7 minutes. This system has been used in Vertical Blue for years, and recently in other competitions also, and is both more fair and more practical than a constant OT interval. If an athlete follows a diver who has an announced dive time of 4:30 then it is common sense that there should be a longer interval than if the announced dive time were 1:30. DT+7 ensures that all athletes enjoy a more or less equal amount of time on the competition line prior to their OT. Tags are the physical testimony that an athlete has achieved a certain depth. They should be made carefully, in a way that isn’t reproducible (e.g. embroidered with the AIDA or sponsor logo), and should be retrieved from the athlete immediately after their dive. They should be attached with cotton thread or velcro, or another method that doesn’t involve pollution of the sea. Announcements should be posted into a locked box made out of wood, metal or similar. Medals should be awarded in the same way as they are for the Olympics and all other sports (i.e. if there are 2 silver medals then no bronze is given). Though we are free to choose our methods, and might award 2 golds, 2 silvers and 2 bronzes, or 4th, 5th, and 6th place medals, these measures only serve to dilute the prestige of finishing in the top three athletes, as well as demonstrate an amateur status in our sport. Of course there are obstacles to these guidelines (shallow-to-deep order makes line-setting more difficult, irregular OT intervals create difficulties in managing two adjacent dive lines etc, etc), but there are solutions to these obstacles, and if the above guidelines become stipulations then organisers will easily have the time and means to find these solutions. I believe that a World Championship event that is supplied with a comprehensive set of guidelines, and that has a primary goal (after safety) of providing the optimum format for contesting the championship titles, will raise the level of professionalism, safety, athlete satisfaction and exposure of this, AIDA’s flagship event. As we lower the bottom plate to the first announced depth, together let’s raise the bar on our standard of competition at AIDA International. Copyright © 2014 - 2020 Freediving New Zealand \| Always Dive with a Buddy	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20219
__label__wiki	0.647991	0.647991	You are here: Home / The Bee Hive / I Kidd You Not I Kidd You Not February 12, 2012 by Fred Milliken 1 Comment “I Kid You Not” was the trademark of Jack Paar and the title of a book he wrote. There is much in the style of presenting one’s self in Karen Kidd that reminds me of Jack Paar, an infinite appreciation for what is worthy and noble in life with the emotion and the chutzpah to let the rest of us know what we are missing. So it was with great joy that I reached into my mailbox to find the latest issue of Heredom, the Scottish Rite Research Society’s annual publication and within those pages see an article by Karen Kidd that immediately caught my eye – Hannah Mather Crocker: Patriot, Founding Mother, Freemason. Hannah Mather Crocker is one of the most interesting historical figures of her day. And being a woman Brother Crocker is often overlooked. Perhaps she also has not come to the attention of many historians because she wasn’t an in your face firebrand, rather a mild mannered woman with a top notch education and a pleasing manner. Hannah’s father was one of a long line of well known and prominent Puritan Preachers. Her mother was sister to Massachusetts colonial Governor Thomas Hutchinson. It wasn’t until her late twenties that she married to the Reverend Joseph Crocker. Before that marriage she had accomplished much. At age twenty two she was carrying secret revolutionary dispatches to Joseph Warren, not only a Freemason and Grand Master but also a leading figure in the revolution. Perhaps that is why there was no hue and cry when she became a Freemason. Clearly some kind of dispensation was granted to her to form, with other ladies of her class, a Female only Masonic Lodge, St. Ann’s, shortly before outbreak of hostilities with the British. Crocker served for many years as Worshipful Master and Kidd tells us that she later wrote: “I had the honour some years ago to preside as Mistress of a similar institution, consisting of females only; we held a regular Lodge, founded on the original principles of true ancient Masonry, so far as was consistent for the female character. We recognized the BROTHERHOOD as preeminent, as may be seen from several addresses and songs printed in the Centienel, and other papers.” “One or two of them (male Masons) gave umbrage to a few would-be-thought Masons; but by the most respectable part of them we were treated like SISTERS. The prime inducement for forming the lodge was a desire for cultivating the mind in the most useful branches of science and cherishing a love of literature; for at that period, female education was at a very low ebb. If women could even read and badly write their name it was thought enough for them who by some were esteemed only ‘mere domestick animals.’” “But the aspiring female mind could no longer bear a cramp to genius. They rose to thought, and clearly saw they were given by the wise author of nature, as not only help-meets. But associates and friends, not slaves to man. I have reason to think this institution gave the first rise to female education in this town, and our sex a relish for improving the mind…Our sole aim was friendship, and improving the mind; that by Strength and Wisdom, we might beautifully adorn the female character, and shew to the Brethren that we had obtained the grand secret, of securing the affections of our best friends by performing every domestick duty with ease and harmony. We had our tokens, signs and word; and within due Square we marked our lives by the parallel line of integrity.” As we can see, Crocker was not just interested in Freemasonry nor did she use it to throw her attainment in the face of her male counterparts. She was a tireless worker for freedom from the British, for female education and for women’s rights. But isn’t the reader about this time asking who made Crocker and the ladies of St. Ann’s Lodge Freemasons and who allowed them to exist along side of traditional male-craft Masonry without rancor or discrimination? Kidd thinks it none other than the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, Dr. Joseph Warren. She cites Crocker’s dedication of her literary work titled Series. “To the protection and patronage of the M.W. Past Grand Master, the Past Grand Chaplain, and the present Officers and Members of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, this little work is now humbly dedicated, by the author, with the most ardent wish of benevolence, that every worthy member may square his conduct by the line of integrity.” Clearly Crocker knew these people and travelled in their circle. In 1780 Hannah Mather married another Freemason the Rev. Joseph Crocker of Taunton. In the 17 years of marriage before Joseph passed away they had ten children. Clearly he also knew of her Masonic exploits. And although her surmised benefactor, Dr. Joseph Warren, was long gone she still continued to travel in Masonic circles and to write about those experiences. Sometimes, however, she wrote under the pseudonyms of “A Lady of Boston” and “P Americana.” But to her list of credits we can also add the distinction of author. While to all accounts Crocker was a mild mannered, genteel lady of exquisite manners, still she must have been some kind of woman for Kidd tells us about the “North Square Creed” that apparently husbands of St Ann’s members were asked to sign and which goes something like this: “I believe woman is the ostensible source of man’s true happiness. I believe it was not good for man to be alone, and God in infinite mercy provided him a help meet. I believe a prudent wife is the greatest blessing man can attain in this world. I believe every man that has a prudent wife ought to harkent to the voice of Sarah his wife. I firmly believe it is proper and best for every man to believe in every thing as his prudent wife wishes him to believe. Therefor I do believe in every thing my good wife and the other ladies of this happy circle wish me to unite in believing. In token of our approbation we here affix our names… In the written records that Crocker left behind she left us only the initials of the men who signed the North Square Creed. One of those initials was P.R. Can anybody say Paul Revere? – Kidd brings to our attention. And even more telling she points out that the Mathers had many friends who were members of St. Andrews Lodge. Who were two of the biggest names who were members of St. Andrew’s? Why Dr. Joseph Warren and Paul Revere of course. So at what Lodge were Hannah Mather and her ladies friends raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason? You can answer that one. Remember that Hannah Mather carried secret dispatches for the Colonial insurgents for which she could have been shot as a spy. The Southern California Research Lodge ties this altogether for us. The building had been purchased by the St. Andrews Lodge in 1764. There was a square and compass over the front door and a copper Dragon that had turned green through the weather. It was a community center. Downstairs was the Tavern. Upstairs was the St. Andrews Lodge and the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts (Ancients). It was the largest place for meetings in the north east end of Boston. Historians have called it “headquarters of the American Revolution.” Here the Boston Committee of Correspondence was formed after a few initial meetings at Brother Joseph Warren’s house a few doors away. Here the Sons of Liberty held secret sessions. They wore a jewel around their necks and were known to have a separate language for recognition. The jewel had a picture of the Liberty Tree on it. CAN ANYONE SAY BOSTON TEA PARTY? In her waning years Crocker formed the School of Industry in 1813 for poor girls of the northern district of Boston, thereby once again reaffirming her commitment to women’s education as she had done at St. Ann’s Lodge. Hannah Mather Crocker faded away in oblivion and so did St. Ann’s Lodge. Future Feminists and malecraft Masons were to ignore her contributions as a Patriot, as an early leader of women’s education and women’s rights and as a Freemason. Kidd laments the fact that that history has so ignored such a great woman. But to her credit, Kidd, has taken up the task of not letting this wonderful woman be forgotten. Come ladies rare May we have strength Within due square, To join at length Let each renew her vow, The heavenly lodge above. No timid maid Brothers to meet Need be afraid Tho’ none here greet Hew sacred knee to bow Them join in mutual love. Sure Sheba’s queen The secret plan The first was seen Held here by man To gain this wondrous art. So far beyond our reach She made the vow Shall to each fair That we do now Within due square And gained the wise king’s heart. Their love and duty teach. Let none disclose In sacred love To sacred foes We’ll join above Our token works or signs. With widow, son and mother. May beauty grace With one accord Each lovly face We’ll join the word And wisdom guide our minds To hail each sacred brother. Hannah Mather Crocker Filed Under: The Bee Hive Tagged With: American Revolution, Freemasonry, Grand Master, Joseph Warren, masonic lodge, Paul Revere About Fred Milliken Fred is a Past Master of Plymouth Lodge, Plymouth Massachusetts, and Past Master of Paul Revere Lodge, Brockton, Massachusetts. Presently, he is a member of Pride of Mt. Pisgah No. 135, Prince Hall Texas, where is he is also a Prince Hall Knight Templar . Fred is a Fellow of the Phylaxis Society and Executive Director of the Phoenix Masonry website and museum. Some Interesting Masonic Trivia \| FmI – Masonic Traveler says: […] I Kidd You Not (freemasoninformation.com) […]	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20220
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__label__wiki	0.599473	0.599473	CHINA SHOULD REALLY START TO WORRY ABOUT TRUMP / THE FINANCIAL TIMES OP EDITORIAL \| Etiquetas: China, U.S. Economic And Political China should really start to worry about Trump As Europe wins a reprieve over trade the portents for Beijing have commensurately darkened Edward Luce US president Donald Trump, pictured here on the right with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, has cut himself far more leeway to indulge in China-bashing It was Wednesday so Europe went from being a “foe” of America to a “great friend”. Next Monday might be different. Perhaps Europe will still be in Donald Trump’s good books. The only person who can say for sure is Mr Trump. Even he probably has little idea. But my hunch is that the ceasefire he struck with Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, will hold. Mr Trump loves applause and the last-minute trade agreement with Brussels earned a transatlantic ovation. Europe has won a reprieve. The portents for China have commensurately darkened. They were already dimming before Mr Trump’s latest rabbit trick. His squeeze on China is now likely to be backed by the Europeans and the US business community. Both have long advocated combined western pressure on China to put foreign investors on a level playing field. Both share deep concern about China’s systemic technology transfer. Neither like the sound of Xi Jinping’s “Made in China 2025” plan, since it aims to eat their lunch on artificial intelligence. Mr Trump has cut himself far more leeway to indulge in China-bashing. The chances are that he will use it. There are three forces conspiring to worsen US-China relations. The first is politics. As the US midterm elections loom, the temptation to scaremonger on China will grow. It worked for Mr Trump in 2016. Then he accused China of raping the US economy. He said nothing similar about Europe. Then, as now, most Americans associated post-industrial ravage with China. They did not accuse Europe of stealing their manufacturing jobs. Nor did they blame technology, as they should have. It is hard to win an election against robots. Beijing offers a tried and tested target. The second is geopolitics. Mr Trump needed China’s help during his first 18 months to tighten the screws on North Korea. Without Chinese sanctions, it is hard to imagine Kim Jong Un would have agreed to North Korea’s full denuclearisation. The carrot was the lifting of those sanctions. Anyone could have told Mr Trump that Mr Kim was playing him along. Either way, China will be far less willing to tighten the vice on North Korea a second time. It is already relaxing border restrictions. When the North Korea deal fails, Mr Trump will need someone to blame. At some point Mr Trump is likely to resume the suspended US-South Korea war games, which will escalate tension with China. China is also on the wrong side of Mr Trump’s Iran policy. As he steps up his rhetoric against Iran, Europe will grudgingly comply. For most European companies, the pain of lost American business far outweighs any earnings prospects in Iran. It is a different calculation for China. During Iran’s last bout of isolation, Beijing was its mainstay. China will step up again. This time, however, it will be in defiance of Mr Trump. Taiwan offers Mr Trump the juiciest prospect of retaliation. He has also rehearsed this one before. The first congratulatory call he took after the 2016 election was from Taiwan’s leader, Tsai Ing-wen. Beijing chose to ignore Mr Trump’s dramatic breach of protocol. It is unlikely to treat him with kid gloves a second time. Taiwan is to China what Cuba was to the US during the Cold War — a bright red line. It will not tolerate any dilution of America’s “One China” policy. The third is the lack of Chinese flexibility. Mr Trump’s complaints about Europe are exaggerated and hypocritical. He has a far stronger case against China. Should he genuinely want a deal with Europe on industrial goods, which is anybody’s guess, it ought to be possible. Europe’s surplus with the US is barely half of China’s. Both sides of the Atlantic are already relatively open. There is scope for creative negotiation if there is a will. By contrast, Beijing’s stance is theological. Mr Xi’s “Made in China” goal is to his economic strategy what Taiwan is to China’s national identity. It is non-negotiable. In China’s eyes it is entirely reasonable. China lost face during the so-called “century of humiliation” at the hands of colonial powers. It is now well into its century of restoration. It will take more than bluster to persuade Mr Xi to change course. Are the US and China destined to clash? No. But it is becoming easier to imagine. Mr Xi will try to play the waiting game. He will find opportunities to let Mr Trump declare cosmetic wins. But his margin for error is shrinking. Mr Trump is not the type of president to bide his time. HEALTHY RETURNS: PRIVATE EQUITY IS PILING INTO HEALTH CARE / THE ECONOMIST \| Etiquetas: Health Care, Private Equity Healthy returns Private equity is piling into health care High prices and stiff competition mean investors must think creatively LAST month KKR, a private-equity firm, announced that it would buy Envision Healthcare, one of America’s largest providers of doctors to hospitals. The deal was valued at $9.9bn, including debt. If shareholders agree to the sale, it will be the largest in a string of health-care investments by KKR, including an ambulance service, a company that helps treat children with autism and a maker of medical devices. “Ten years ago only a few private-equity houses had dedicated health-care teams,” says Dmitry Podpolny of McKinsey, a consultancy. “Today nearly everyone does.” Last year saw a frenzy of deal activity, the highest by value since the go-go year of 2007. Private-equity funds are not the only ones keen on the industry. Institutional investors, tech-focused funds, generalist asset managers and corporate buyers are sniffing around, too. As they chase a limited number of targets, they are pushing up prices. Not high enough to dampen interest, however: health care is loved by investors for its resilience in downturns. It held up in 2000, when the dotcom bubble burst, and in 2008, during the financial crisis. People who need medical care rarely wait for an economic recovery. “Particularly late in the cycle, or if you’re leveraged, the sector can offer stability,” says Jim Momtazee of KKR. But interest is not merely defensive. America’s health-care market has grown faster than GDP for decades and annual spending is now $3.5trn. Further growth worldwide will be fuelled by ageing populations, the rising prevalence of chronic diseases, new treatments and an expanding middle class. According to McKinsey, in 1990-2015 health care offered shareholders higher total returns than any other sector. Health care has an added appeal for private-equity investors, says Bain, another consultancy. It has been comparatively untouched by the innovation, disruption and consolidation that have driven costs down elsewhere. Investors argue that they can add value by consolidating assets and making companies more efficient, for example with technology or better joint purchasing. Laboratories are a case in point. A decade ago most labs in America and Europe were small; now megalabs dominate. Dentists, radiologists, ophthalmologists and care homes are consolidating, too. Investors are less vocal about complex systems of reimbursement, though they are another draw. Those receiving health care are rarely those who pay for it, which helps providers be opaque about charges. As payers try to control costs, particularly in America, they are shifting from reimbursing by treatment to reimbursing by outcome. In response, health-care firms are seeking to reposition themselves through mergers and acquisitions. Recent months have seen a string of deals between payers and providers, such as the buy-out of Kindred Healthcare by Humana, a large American health insurer, together with TPG and Welsh Carson, two private-equity firms. During such corporate shake-ups, being private can be useful. “Public markets are impatient and focused on quarterly results,” says Kara Murphy of Bain. “With private capital you can bet on what a company could become rather than what it is.” The particular sensitivities associated with the industry are another consideration. “Given the extra scrutiny that the health-care industry gets, it’s often better for the company to be private,” she adds. Corporate buyers looking to expand into new products or markets offer private-equity firms an exit route. An example is the sale in 2016 of Truven Health Analytics, a health-data cruncher, by Veritas Capital to IBM for $2.6bn. The tech giant paid more than double what Veritas had paid four years earlier. But the data firm was well matched with Watson, IBM’s artificial-intelligence platform, which it is promoting as a diagnostic tool. High prices and stiff competition mean investors must think creatively. “When everything is expensive we look for quality assets in niche markets with high barriers to entry and high growth opportunities,” says Philippe Poletti of Ardian, a European private-equity firm. Lateral thinking led it to disinfectants. In 2013 it co-invested in Laboratoires Anios, a French maker of hand-sanitisers, cleaning materials for hospital equipment and the like. After bulking up the sales team and investing in innovation, it made five acquisitions, in Brazil, Turkey and elsewhere. And it identified a niche within a niche—products for cleaning and disinfecting endoscopes—which it thought it could dominate, for example by buying a producer of endoscope-cleaning machines (which in turn use Anios’s chemicals). When Ardian cashed out last year, turnover had expanded by 25% and earnings by 50%. Public scrutiny of health-care provision, not to mention complex webs of national regulations and payments systems, mean that investors have often preferred products to services. It is easier to sell latex gloves or bandages than surgery across borders. This also helps explain why private equity has made greater inroads into American health care than into Europe’s smaller, more varied markets (where public systems have also often resisted private investment). But that very fragmentation may mean that Europe’s health-care market is next to fall. Budget constraints are making governments there more open to private capital. Several countries, including Finland and Spain, are turning towards public-private partnerships and some investors hope that Britain’s struggling National Health Service will become more welcoming. “In Europe almost every country faces ageing populations and in 10-20 years they will need health care,” says one fund manager. “There’s a huge challenge in providing for that growing demand while increasing efficiency. PE can help solve that problem.” Scarce assets, stiff competition, cheap debt and large amounts of “dry powder” make a volatile mix. “Valuations are very high, but I really can’t see an end in sight,” says Martin Gouldstone of Results Healthcare, an advisory firm. Such remarks normally suggest bubbles. But health care is not normal. Some parts may be hyped (bits of biotech and med-tech spring to mind). There will be disruption as big new actors such as Amazon barge in. But as long as human bodies fail, they will need fixing. QE TURNS TEN / PROJECT SYNDICATE \| Etiquetas: Monetary Policy, QE QE Turns Ten NEW HAVEN – November 2018 will mark the tenth anniversary of quantitative easing (QE) — undoubtedly the boldest policy experiment in the modern history of central banking. The only thing comparable to QE was the US Federal Reserve’s anti-inflation campaign of 1979-1980, orchestrated by the Fed’s then-chair, Paul Volcker. But that earlier effort entailed a major adjustment in interest rates via conventional monetary policy. By contrast, the Fed’s QE balance-sheet adjustments were unconventional and, therefore, untested from the start. The American Enterprise Institute recently held a symposium to mark this important milestone, featuring QE’s architect, Ben Bernanke. What follows are some comments I offered in an accompanying panel session that focused on lessons learned from QE. The most important lesson pertains to traction — the link between Fed policy and its congressionally mandated objectives of maximum employment and price stability. On this count, the verdict on QE is mixed: The first tranche (QE1) was very successful in arresting a wrenching financial crisis in 2009. But the subsequent rounds (QE2 and QE3) were far less effective. The Fed mistakenly believed that what worked during the crisis would work equally well afterwards. An unprecedentedly weak economic recovery – roughly 2% annual growth over the past nine-plus years, versus a 4% norm in earlier cycles – says otherwise. Whatever the reason for the anemic recovery – a Japanese-like post-crisis balance-sheet recession or a 1930s style liquidity trap – the QE payback was disappointing. From September 2008 to November 2014, successive QE programs added $3.6 trillion to the Fed’s balance sheet, nearly 25% more than the $2.9 trillion expansion of nominal GDP over the same period. A comparable assessment of disappointing interest-rate effects is reflected in recent "event studies” research that calls into question the link between QE and ten-year Treasury yields. A second lesson speaks to addiction – namely, a real economy that became overly reliant on QE’s support of asset markets. The excess liquidity spawned by the Fed’s balance-sheet expansion not only spilled over into equity markets, but also provided support for the bond market. As such, monetary policy, rather than market-based fundamentals, increasingly shaped asset prices. In an era of weak income growth, QE-induced wealth effects from frothy asset markets provided offsetting support for crisis-battered US consumers. Unfortunately, along with this life support came the pain of withdrawal – not only for asset-dependent consumers and businesses in the United States, but also for foreign economies dependent on capital inflows driven by QE-distorted interest-rate spreads. The taper tantrum of 2013 and the current travails of Argentina, Brazil, and other emerging economies underscore the contagion of cross-market spillovers arising from the ebb and flow of QE. A third lesson concerns mounting income inequality. Wealth effects are for the wealthy, whether they are driven by market fundamentals or QE. According to the Congressional Budget Office, virtually all of the growth in pre-tax household income over the QE period (2009 to 2014) occurred in the upper decile of the US income distribution, where the Fed’s own Survey of Consumer Finances indicates that the bulk of equity holdings are concentrated. It is hardly a stretch to conclude that QE exacerbated America’s already severe income disparities. Fourth, QE blurs the distinction between fiscal and monetary policy. Fed purchases of government securities have tempered market-based discipline of federal spending. This is hardly a big deal when debt-service costs are repressed by persistently low interest rates. But with federal debt held by the public nearly doubling between 2008 and 2017 – from 39% to 76% of GDP – and likely to rise further in the years ahead, what is inconsequential today could take on considerably greater importance in an interest-rate environment that lacks the QE subsidy to Treasury financing. A fifth lesson pertains to the distinction between tactics and strategy. As lender of last resort, the Fed deserves great credit for stepping into the breach during a wrenching crisis. The problem, of course, is that the Fed also played a key role in condoning the pre-crisis froth that took the system to the brink. This raises a fundamental question: Do we want a reactive central bank that focuses on cleaning up the mess after a crisis erupts, or a pro-active central bank that leans against excesses before they spark crises? That question – whether to “lean or clean” – has fueled a raging debate in policy and academic circles. It has an important political economy component: Are independent central banks willing to force society to sacrifice growth in order to preserve financial stability? It also bears on the bubble-spotting debate. Yet as difficult as these problems are, they pale in comparison to the foregone output of America’s anemic post-crisis recovery. That raises two additional questions: Might a pro-active Fed have prevented the crisis from occurring in the first place? And should it be more aggressive in normalizing interest rates? The Fed’s preference for glacial normalization both in the early 2000s and now keeps monetary policy on emergency settings long after the emergency has passed. Doing so raises the distinct possibility that the Fed will lack the ammunition it will need to counter the inevitable next recession. And that could well make the lessons noted above all the more problematic for the US economy. Unsurprisingly, Bernanke offered a very different take on many of these issues at the AEI symposium. He argued that the Fed’s balance-sheet tools are merely extensions of its traditional approach, stressing that “conventional and unconventional monetary policy works through the same channels, with the same mechanism.” That is debatable. By conflating QE-induced wealth effects with the effects on borrowing costs that arise through conventional channels, Bernanke conveniently sweeps aside most of the risks described above – especially those pertaining to asset bubbles and excess leverage. Ten-year anniversaries are an opportunity for reflection and accountability. We can only hope that circumstances don’t require another unconventional policy experiment such as QE. But in the event of another crisis, it would pay to be especially mindful of QE’s shortcomings. Unlike Bernanke, I fear there is good reason to worry that the next experiment may not work out nearly as well. U.S. LEANS ON DOMESTIC BOND BUYERS / THE WALL STREET JOURNAL \| Etiquetas: Treasury Bonds, U.S. Economic And Political U.S. Leans on Domestic Bond Buyers By Daniel Kruger, bond market reporter The U.S. government has been issuing more debt, but it's not getting more foreign buyers in the door. As a result, U.S. investors have so far financed all of this year’s increase in the federal government’s borrowing. Foreign holdings of the debt have remained essentially flat, though the government’s borrowing has risen by $500 billion, giving foreign investors the smallest share of U.S. government debt since 2003. Even as yields on Treasury securities have risen to multi-year highs, foreign demand for debt at government bond auctions has slowed to the weakest level since 2008. Yields rise when bond prices fall. The drop in demand is happening as Treasury yields approach their highest premiums over German and Japanese debt since the 1980s and as the dollar is in the middle of a rally that caught many investors by surprise. The drop-off in foreign interest also comes as the Federal Reserve is reducing the size of its government bond holdings as part of an effort to restore monetary policy to precrisis norms. Investors and analysts cite two impediments that are discouraging foreign investment. One is the strength of the dollar has made it more expensive for investors in Japan and Europe to hedge the currency risk of buying Treasurys. The second is a new concern about the sustainability of U.S. borrowing practices at a time when the Trump administration is forecast to run a series of trillion-dollar budget deficits beginning as soon as 2020. The hedging costs are “so high and so punitive that it’s no longer attractive” to buy Treasurys, said Torsten Slok, chief international economist at Deutsche Bank. The cost is typically close to the premium of short-term U.S. government bill yields over short-term yields overseas. Those rates are compared with short-term government debt yields, which are closely tied to each market’s central bank’s policies. The Federal Reserve is holding its target rate in a range between 1.75% and 2%, while rates for the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank are negative. At the same time, some foreign investors are concerned that the $1.5 trillion tax cut passed by Congress in December will over-stimulate the U.S. economy, leading to an acceleration in inflation and potentially higher bond yields and interest rates. AMERICANS HAVE BEEN SAVING MORE THAN WAS THOUGHT / THE FINANCIAL TIMES \| Etiquetas: Economics, Personal Savings, U.S. Economic And Political Americans have been saving more than was thought US rate revised higher after statistics overhaul, with GDP figure also altered Kadhim Shubber in Washington The US savings rate was higher in recent years than previously measured, according to revised official figures that assume greater levels of tax evasion by business owners. The data show the average savings rate at 7 per cent between 2013 and 2017, up from the previous figure of 5 per cent. The revision came in the latest economic statistics update from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, which included higher estimates of the amount of income proprietors fail to report to tax authorities. “This shift in the rate is an income story, it is not a consumption story,” said David Wasshausen, head of the national income and wealth division at the Bureau. The Bureau also revised down gross domestic product growth for 2017 from 2.3 to 2.2 per cent, with much of the reduction falling in the second half of the year. The revisions moved GDP growth in the fourth quarter of last year down from 2.9 to 2.3 per cent, largely due to new estimates of business inventories and fixed investment. In the years 2012 to 2016, the Bureau made similar adjustments to quarterly GDP growth, with upward revisions in the first half of the year and downward revisions in the second half, in part due to updated seasonal adjustments. Every five years, the Bureau issues a comprehensive update of the national income and product accounts, incorporating new measures of economic growth and estimates for price information. The Bureau figures published on Friday indicated an extra $650bn of proprietors income from 2012 to 2017, or an average 8 per cent upward revision in each of those years. Proprietors income measures the profits made by sole proprietorships and partnerships. The numbers drew on a tax gap study done by the Internal Revenue Service in 2016 and drove much of the upward revision in the savings rate. The personal savings rate in the US has been on a long decline since the 1970s, a trend that began to reverse after the financial crisis. The figure is calculated by comparing the difference between disposable incomes and personal expenditures. This latest update left the economic picture relatively unchanged in aggregate, with average annual GDP growth between 2012 and 2017 unchanged at 2.2 per cent. The data showed an increase in technology investment, largely due to a better understanding of cloud computing supply chains. Bureau officials had “been a bit puzzled” about why some cloud computing investment appeared to be missing from the previous data, said Erich Strassner, head of its industry applications division. He said the Bureau had carried out an analysis of global supply chains to understand the problem better and had reclassified certain imported servers and storage devices from intermediate inputs — or partially finished goods — to final, fixed investment related to cloud computing. “The result of all this is going to be an upward revision to high-tech investment,” said Mr Strassner. CHINA SHOULD REALLY START TO WORRY ABOUT TRUMP / T... HEALTHY RETURNS: PRIVATE EQUITY IS PILING INTO HEA... U.S. LEANS ON DOMESTIC BOND BUYERS / THE WALL STRE... AMERICANS HAVE BEEN SAVING MORE THAN WAS THOUGHT /...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20226
__label__cc	0.728361	0.271639	HAKAM Events A listing of HAKAM’s events Institutional Reform Committee (IRC) Report: Why the Secrecy? HAKAM Forum dated 18 January 2020 January 20, 2020 January 20, 2020 Coordinator “IRC Report: Why the Secrecy?” was the first HAKAM forum of 2020, held on 18 January 2020 at the KL and Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall. The well-attended forum started at 10:00 am and was led by a panel of distinguished guests, who all had been involved and well-informed of the IRC process; Dato’ Ambiga Sreenevasan (IRC member and former President of HAKAM), Ms. Siti Kasim (Maju), and Mr. Sevan Doraisamy (Suaram) and the panel was moderated by Dato’ Dr. Gurdial Singh Nijar (HAKAM President). The presentations of the forum speakers were followed by a Q&A session, and the forum ended at 12:00 pm. In October last year, prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said the confidential report by the IRC and its seven recommendations that have been passed to the quasi-official Council of Eminent Persons can only be made public once all Pakatan Harapan (PH) component parties agree to it. Key points from the forum on the issue of the release of the IRC Report to the public included: Dato’ Ambiga suggested a pilot pilot project by “releasing just one set of recommendations [by IRC] and see whether the government falls down the next day.” Dato’ Ambiga said she does not know the real reason why PH did not want it to be released but she would “charitably” assume that it is because of public and voters’ perception towards the already much-criticised administration. By withholding the report, the government has denied the public and their own supporters the opportunity to be involved in making the country a better place, something that was promised by PH when they rolled out their election manifesto before 2018 election. Siti Kasim pointed out that transparency is the cornerstone of good governance, hence the Pakatan Harapan (PH) government should make public the Institutional Reforms Committee (IRC) report. Sevan suggested that all CSO and NGOs who have contributed to the making of the report, can release their own recommendations to the IRC, which in effect is a major part of what the IRC has referred to in its process, and this way the public can have access to the institutional problems pointed out and recommended reforms. Dato’ Dr. Gurdial mentioned that HAKAM has been following up the release of the Report with the PM, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad and will continue to do so until the people can know the content of the report. HAKAM wishes to thank everyone who came to the forum and the media for covering the event. See you all next time! HAKAM Forum Media Coverage: The Malay Mail Online HAKAM Events Ambiga Sreenevasan, Committee on Institutional Reforms (IRC), forum, Sevan Doraisamy, Siti Kasim Leave a comment Climate Crisis: SDGs and Role of youth – Forum 15 December 2019 December 16, 2019 December 16, 2019 Coordinator In conjunction with Human rights Day 2019, and the end of 2019, a year full of ups and downs and big moments for climate activists and global rise of youth activists, lead to a large part by 16 year old Greta Thunberg, the newly formed formed Youth Subcommittee of HAKAM, HAKAM Youth held their very first forum on the topic of Climate Crisis and Youth Activism on Sunday 15 December 2019. The forum which was well-attended by youth and activists from climate action and environmental non-government bodies, was held with three panel members, Professor Dr Fredolin Tangang @ Tajudin Mahmud who is the Chairperson of Department of Earth Sciences and Environment, Faculty of Science and Technology Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Aaliyah Abdullah from the Malaysian Youth Delegation (MYD), and Aroe Ajoeni Sulistyorieni, the co-founder of Klima Action Youth (KAMY). Some of the key points, among others, raised during the forum included: The need to expand climate activism to rural and non-English speaking Malaysia to increase awareness and effectiveness, Effectiveness of youth activism in Malaysia, similar to other parts of the world, despite cultural differences and attitudes towards young people getting involved in public debates. It was asserted by both Aliyah and Aro that Malaysian youth are getting more and more involved in climate activism and they are getting their voice heard, and that the government is being more receptive of the views and involvement of the youth, The dire conditions of climate crisis with a very narrow window for action demands more awareness and involvement, and young Malaysians are and must get involved and draw attention to these issues and demand change, Government initiatives regarding climate actions should be widely, and preferably in other languages than English, be promoted so that the public can better understand these movements and the reasons behind them, and There is a need for climate science to be made more understandable for the public, and this can be done through platforms that gathers scientists, activists, non-profits, and policy-makers together. For the public to be more engaged and the policy-makers to effectively address climate crisis, the science behind climate change and its implications should be conveyed in understandable language and this can be achieved by increasing collaborations between scientists and youth activists who then engage the public. The forum which ended at 12 pm. We hope more discussions and forums could be held on these topics in Malaysia, and we applaud HAKAM Youth for their efforts in making this forum possible. For more information and photos of the event please check HAKAM Youth’s Facebook page. HAKAM Events climate change, HAKAM Youth, SDGs - Sustainable Development Goals HAKAM to hold 27th Annual General Meeting on 30 June 2018 May 30, 2018 July 4, 2018 admin NOTICE OF 27TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING TO BE HELD AT HAKAM’S OFFICE at B-01, Ground Floor, Block B, Kompleks Pejabat Damansara Jalan Dungun, Damansara Heights, 50490 Kuala Lumpur, ON SAT 30 JUNE 2018 at 8.30 a.m. Welcome Address; Confirmation of Minutes of the 26th Adjourned Annual General Meeting dated 17 June 2017; Matters Arising; President’s Report for 2017/2018; Treasurer’s Financial Report for the Financial Year of 2017; Election of Office Bearers (President, Deputy President, Secretary General, Treasurer) & Executive Committee and 2 Honorary Auditors; Any Other Business. HAKAM Events AGM, HAKAM Report on “Build and Develop Effective Engaging Content” Workshop — Alaleh Eghbali March 27, 2017 April 6, 2017 Coordinator BY ALALEH EGHBALI (All photos courtesy of HAKAM) Strengthening Civil Society Advocacy Through Effective Engaging Communication NGOs and CSOs in the new world are continuously trying to engage audiences and spread their message across the public. It may seem that it is getting harder to reach people and get them involved in civil society missions, but it should be noted means of communication have changed; Social Media has changed the game. It has now become the main source of accessing and spreading news and content. A large number of NGOs and CSOs in Malaysia still rely on the usual traditional methods of advocacy through press statements and forums. These medium have limited capacity to reach, and a limited opportunity of debate and discussions with audiences. In light of these circumstances, HAKAM has embarked on a social media training journey since 2016, with the first workshop “Leverage on Social Media for Impactful Social Change”. The success of the first workshop, and the positive feedback from the participants, lead to the organization of a second workshop in March 2017. In the second workshop, facilitated by cilisos.my‘s Lau Chak Onn, members of NGOs and activist gathered to sharpen their skills of content development for social media, and learn how to send their message in the most interesting, informative, and concise way possible. Read more → HAKAM Events, HAKAM Reports advocacy, Chak Onn Lau, Cilisos, human rights activists, social media, workshop HAKAM Workshop: Build and Develop Effective and Engaging Digital Content March 1, 2017 March 27, 2017 Coordinator A FREE workshop for civil society organisations and individuals advocating for human rights. Admission is by Pre-Registration, by email to info[at]hakam.org.my. Register early as seats are limited. The internet is a power medium civil society can use to create narratives that matter and shape conversations that will influence opinions. We have the opportunity to engage with 10 million Malaysians, a majority of whom are heavy users of social media. But do we have the type and style of content that people want to read and share? How do we create and build our own content? Come to this workshop! HAKAM is also learning and needing to pick up better skills to create and develop our online content. We wish to share this workshop with civil society organisations and individuals working on human rights. How do you make human rights matter through online engagement Read more → HAKAM Events Chak Onn Lau, Cilisos, content development, engaging conversations, social media, workshop Watch: Our “Ask Me” Series FBLive #4 with Azmi Sharom, recorded on 27 September 2016 September 27, 2016 October 15, 2016 admin Jom Tanya Azmi Sharom on FBLive #4. This was a live broadcast, streamed via Facebook Live from HAKAM’s Facebook Page, and recorded on 27 September 2016. In this FBLive Session #4 broadcast, Assoc Prof Azmi Sharom answered your questions on academic freedom, student activism, the state of administration of the nation, and conflict of laws. HAKAM thanks Mr Chacko Vadaketh for moderating this Facebook Live broadcast. Read more → Bahasa, HAKAM Events, Videos "Ask Me", "Jom Tanya Saya", Azmi Sharom, FBLive event, HAKAM 3 Comments With child, without job: Pregnant Malaysian women and workplace discrimination September 18, 2016 February 22, 2018 Raevathi Supramaniam Source: NST Online DISCRIMINATION: Being pregnant should be the happiest time in a woman’s life. Unfortunately, many have to choose between family and career, because having a bun in the oven could get you passed over for a promotion, sidelined or even fired. While mothers and wives continue to help out with the family finances and fulfil their household duties, most are still getting the short end of the stick, writes Audrey Vijaindren. FINDING their positions redundant, being denied promotions, being placed on prolonged probation, demotion and even getting sacked — these are among the unenviable positions many Malaysian women have found themselves in, especially when they are with child. Shocking as it may seem in this day and age, a recent Workplace Discrimination Survey by the Women’s Aid Organisation (WAO) revealed that more than 40 per cent of women polled have experienced job discrimination due to their pregnancy. The online survey of 222 women polled from across the country revealed that the top five ways employers discriminated against pregnant women were by making their positions redundant, denying them promotions, placing them on prolonged probation, demoting them, and firing them. WAO launched the survey to promote respect, protection and equal rights for women in the workplace, specifically for pregnant mothers. Read more → HAKAM Events, Human Rights & Wrongs discrimination against women, Women’s Aid Organisation (WAO), Workplace Discrimination Survey Watch: Our “Ask Me” Series FBLive #3 with Marina Mahathir, recorded on 8 September 2016 September 8, 2016 October 4, 2016 admin Jom Tanya Marina Mahathir on FBLive #3. Illuminating answers to engaging questions. This was a live broadcast, streamed via Facebook Live from HAKAM’s Facebook Page and recorded on 8 September 2016. In this FBLive Session #3 broadcast, Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir answered your questions on the topics of gender equality, diversity and Malaysia as a nation. Check out HAKAM FBLive session to come. HAKAM Events, Videos "Ask Me", "Jom Tanya Saya", FBLive event, HAKAM, Marina Mahathir 1 Comment Report on on the “Leverage on Social Media for Impactful Social Change” Workshop — Justine Chew August 30, 2016 April 6, 2017 admin BY JUSTINE CHEW Strengthening Civil Society Advocacy through Effective Use of Social Media “When we change to way we communicate, we change society.” — Clay Shirky Social Media has over the past 10 years changed communication between individuals, organisations and nations. This ever evolving communication technology continues to transform the way people interact and even the way they think. That is the reason, Social Media now occupies a vital portion of many successful corporations’ organizational and business strategies. Governments have also recognized the power of social media – to further their causes and goals, construct and deconstruct societies. Government and politics are changed, and some destroyed, through the use of social media. In other parts of the world, civil society leaders and organizations have long teamed up with technology and social media experts to address community challenges through social media and this partnership had created new interesting solutions for those organisations to better serve their community. However, Malaysian Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have yet to leverage much on social media tools notwithstanding that (a) the tools are readily available, and (b) social media is a proven potent platform to shape conversations and influence opinions, facilitate speedier and more effective engagement and sharing of information. “Old ways won’t open new doors.” CSOs have in the past and still do rely on the usual traditional methods of advocacy through press statements and forum and town hall meetings. Traditional medium like these are limited in its capacity to reach and often offer very limited space or time for any discussion or conversation to take place between the speaker and the audience. Under these circumstances, and seeing the limited success in advocacy campaigns by Malaysian CSOs in general, HAKAM developed and implemented a How to Leverage on Social Media for Impactful Social Change in Malaysia Workshop in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 16-17 July 2016. HAKAM’s strategy for this capacity building workshop was to engage and partner with social media experts to train human rights activists, CSO representatives and volunteers in harnessing the tools and potential of social media, covering areas of technology and content for effective advocacy. Read more → HAKAM Events, HAKAM Reports advocacy, HAKAM, human rights activists, human rights defenders, social media, workshop Watch: Our “Ask Me” Series FBLive #2 with Steven Thiru, recorded on 25 August 2016 August 25, 2016 September 26, 2016 admin Jom Tanya Steven Thiru on FBLive #2. Crucial answers to important questions. This was a live broadcast, streamed via Facebook Live from HAKAM’s Facebook Page and recorded on 25 August 2016. In this FBLive Session #2 broadcast, Mr Steven Thiru, President of the Malaysian Bar, answered your questions on a number of current Malaysian issues, especially on topics dealing with the administration of justice, the Federal Constitution, the concept of separation of powers, the role of the Malaysian Bar in defending human rights, as well as the role of the Malaysian Bar vis a vis various other institutions such as the Judiciary, Attorney General’s Chambers and law enforcement agencies in Malaysia and his thoughts on the legal profession in Malaysia. Check out HAKAM FBLive sessions to come. HAKAM thanks Mr Chacko Vadaketh for moderating this Facebook Live broadcast. HAKAM Events, Videos "Ask Me", "Jom Tanya Saya", FBLive event, HAKAM, Steven Thiru	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20230
__label__wiki	0.575433	0.575433	Fresnel Concentrated Solar Power project operates in Dunhuang China Lanzhou Dacheng Dunhuang 50 MW Molten Salt Fresnel Concentrated Solar Power Project was successfully connected to the gird at 17:50 p.m. on December 31, 2019, becoming the first demonstration Fresnel CSP project in China, and the world largest solar thermal power plant taking Fresnel CSP technology. China have seven [...] Jose Santamarta2020-01-08T05:57:07+00:0002-01-2020\|Categorías: BREAKING NEWS, NEWS, Sin categoría, Storage, Top News\|Etiquetas: China, Concentrated Solar Power, CSP, Dunhuang, Fresnel, termosolar\| Hybrid Solar-Energy–Harvesting Device Enables Uninterrupted Power Integrated system simultaneously harvests and stores concentrated solar power with low losses for 24/7 power under all conditions. Researchers at the University of Houston have designed a device that efficiently captures solar energy and stores it for use by applications for the internet of things (IoT) and industrial IoT. Unlike [...] Jose Santamarta2020-01-02T06:18:00+00:0002-01-2020\|Categorías: BREAKING NEWS, NEWS, Sin categoría, Storage, Top News\|Etiquetas: Concentrated Solar Power, PV, solar energy, storage\| Azelio’s verification Concentrated Solar Power project in Morocco delivers first electricity Azelio's verification project in Morocco has been completed and the first electricity has been produced according to plan: that is, by the end of the year. The verification of Azelio's solution for the storage and production of sustainable electricity on demand around the clock, is a significant step in the [...] Jose Santamarta2019-12-31T10:12:00+00:0031-12-2019\|Categorías: BREAKING NEWS, NEWS, Sin categoría, Top News\|Etiquetas: Azelio, Concentrated Solar Power, Morocco\| China-made Long shaft molten salt pump successfully applied in Hami Concentrated Solar Power Tower Project On December 29, 2019, China Power Engineering Hami 50MW Tower Concentrated Solar Power Project was successfully connected to the grid for the first time. The long shaft molten salt pump used in this project is provided by three manufacturers, two imported brands and one domestic brand. The domestic brand long [...] Jose Santamarta2019-12-31T10:08:49+00:0031-12-2019\|Categorías: BREAKING NEWS, NEWS, Sin categoría, Storage, Top News\|Etiquetas: China, Concentrated Solar Power, CSP, Hami CSP Tower, Jinan Warwick Pump, Molten Salt\| More efficiency for concentrated solar power plants thanks to new BASF simulation tool Renewable energy has an important contribution to make in protecting the environment and climate. Solar energy plays a particularly significant role here and has become more widespread in recent years due to photovoltaics. However, this technology does not yet offer an efficient means of energy storage. An alternative is concentrated [...] Jose Santamarta2019-12-30T10:06:33+00:0030-12-2019\|Categorías: BREAKING NEWS, NEWS, Sin categoría, Top News\|Etiquetas: Basf, Concentrated Solar Power, CSP\| Xinjiang’s first concentrated solar power plant operational The first solar thermal power plant in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region went into operation Sunday night. The 50-megawatt concentrated solar power plant is located in Naomaohu Township, eastern Xinjiang's city of Hami. Construction of the project began in October 2017 by Energy China. The concentrating solar power [...] Jose Santamarta2019-12-30T09:39:50+00:0030-12-2019\|Categorías: BREAKING NEWS, NEWS, Sin categoría, Storage, Top News\|Etiquetas: China, Concentrated Solar Power, CSP, STE, termosolar, Xinjiang\| Tibet’s first solar district heating plant Tibet’s first solar district heating plant made up of parabolic trough collectors was put into operation in late October, confirmed Vicot Solar Technology, the turnkey solar field supplier based in Dezhou, China. The 20,000 m2 system supplies heat to 1,800 households in the town of Shenzha, in the Naqu prefecture [...] Jose Santamarta2019-12-19T12:37:07+00:0019-12-2019\|Categorías: BREAKING NEWS, NEWS, Sin categoría, Top News\|Etiquetas: China, CSP, solar district heating, Tibet, Vicot Solar Technology\| Egypt will produce 61,000MW of renewable energy, of which 12,000MW concentrated solar power The 2035 Integrated Sustainable Energy Strategy, which builds on previous strategies, emphasises the importance of renewable energy. Egypt intends to increase the supply of electricity generated from renewable sources to 20% by 2022 and 42% by 2035. Hafez Salmawi, former managing director of the Electricity Utility and Consumer Protection Regulatory [...] Jose Santamarta2019-12-18T14:41:27+00:0018-12-2019\|Categorías: BREAKING NEWS, NEWS, Sin categoría\|Etiquetas: Concentrated Solar Power, CSP, Egypt, PV, wind energy\| Sun could be Middle East’s biggest export by 2030, says Bill Gates-backed company founder By the end of the next decade, the Middle East’s biggest export could be the sun, not oil, according to the developer of a new technology that aims to turn solar power into fuel. Last month – and for the first time commercially – a new Bill Gates-backed clean energy [...] Jose Santamarta2019-12-18T14:14:51+00:0018-12-2019\|Categorías: BREAKING NEWS, NEWS, Sin categoría, Top News\|Etiquetas: Concentrated Solar Power, Heliogen\| ICCSPS 2020: 14. International Conference on Concentrated Solar Power Systems The International Research Conference is a federated organization dedicated to bringing together a significant number of diverse scholarly events for presentation within the conference program. Events will run over a span of time during the conference depending on the number and length of the presentations. With its high quality, [...] Jose Santamarta2019-12-15T15:01:37+00:0015-12-2019\|Categorías: BREAKING NEWS, NEWS, Sin categoría, Top News\|Etiquetas: Concentrated Solar Power, CSP\|	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20235
__label__wiki	0.76592	0.76592	« IS BAILOUT A GOLDMAN SACHS PLOT? TRAVELING UNTIL OCTOBER 15, 2008 » WANNA LIVE FOREVER? EAT A TARDIGRADE. Published on October 3, 2008 in archives. 4 Comments Tags: CRYOBIOTIC, FOTON, GEORGE H W BUSH, HENRY KISSINGER, KRISTIANSTAD UNIVERITY, McCain, POPE BENEDICT, TARDIGRADE, THE ECONOMIST, WILLIAM SHATNER. GREENPOINT, Bklyn, Oct. 3…A convoy of gleaming limousines was parked outside New York’s hottest restaurant last night. Inside, Henry Kissinger, 86 regaled the Dalai Lama, 74, at one table, while Rupert Murdoch, 79, hosted Queen Elizabeth, 82 and Nelson Mandela, 92, at another. George H. W. Bush, 83 and Saudi King Abdullah, 84 waited impatiently at the door for Pope Benedict, 81, to finish his spumoni. “Don’t dawdle, Your Holiness,” Bush said to an approving grunt from his dinner companion. “We don’t have a lot of time.” No, it wasn’t Per Se, Mamofuku, The Waverly Inn or Del Posto. This line of luminaries was waiting to get into a cramped, five-tabled, converted candy store on Manhattan Ave. in Greenpoint called “Durg’s Elixir”. Dinner at Durg’s averages about $1000 a person, excluding wine. But owner Efraim Durg’s customers think it’s more than worth it. Because the speciality of the house is a tiny aquatic, four-legged animal called a tardigrade. And the tardigrade just might hold the secret to eternal life. “It sure saved my life,” says Durg with a smile of relief. Only two months ago, Durg’s health food bistro was going belly up. “People were losing faith in vitamins and organics,” he says. “They were getting fat and flatulent, and weren’t feeling any better.” Then he came across a small item in an obscure science journal. “It said that only one living organism on earth could survive in outer space without protection,” he says. “The tardigrade.” After exhaustive research, Durg realized he had stumbled upon something new. “I had discovered the philosopher’s stone of nutrition,” he says. The tardigrade, an invertebrate animal that varies from .05 to 1.5 millimeters in length, is considered by scientists to be the hardiest living creature on earth. Members of its more than 1000 known species have been found in the freezing Himalayan peaks 18,000 feet above sea level and 12,000 feet below on the ocean floor. According to Wikipedia, tardigrades “can survive in extreme environments that would kill any other animal…Some can survive temperatures close to absolute zero or as high as 303 degrees Fahrenheit. Others have gone nearly a decade without water in the vacuum conditions of outer space.” Tardigrades can enter a “cryobiotic state” in which their organism shows no visible sign of life and all metabolic activity ceases. They can stay that way for decades and can be revived to full life and reproductive power with one drop of water. “There is no way of estimating the age of the typical tardigrade ,” Durg said. “They could be as old as the earth itself.” In September ’07, the Economist, reports, researchers from Sweden’s Kristianstad University aboard the European Space Agency’s Foton spacecraft, released representatives of each of the tardigrade’s 1000 species into deep space. “It would have been tough to put them all in little nano space suits,” Durg says. Luckily, that wasn’t necessary. The tardigrades went into a state of suspended animation and survived the temperatures, the vacuum conditions and the high doses of UVB and UVB radiation. When they returned to earth they resumed their normal lives of crawling along mosses and lichens, stopping occasionally to clutch each other in libidinal frenzy. But life for the slow-moving invertebrates would never be the same. “Tardigrades produce a sugar called trehalose just before they go into a state of suspended animation,” Durg says. “Trehalose protects them against conditions of heat and dehydration, plus invasion by foreign bacteria and viruses. They also generate a large protein which rebuilds their cell structures.” He stops with an astonished look. “On the molecular level they are invulnerable!” What if the tardigrade’s protective powers could be transferred to human beings? Durg thought. “What if tardiigrades were the greatest health food ever invented?” He began experimenting. “I got a few wet branches in Prospect Park and made my first harvest,” he says. “Imagine my delight when, the tardigrades turned out to be pleasantly chewy like calamari.” Moistened with egg yolk and sprinkled with panko the tardigrades made a light, pleasant cutlet. Durg adapted other recipes, producing Tardigrada Parmigiana, Spicy Tarigrada Roll, Spaghetii and Tarigrada Balls… He reopened with a hard sell slogan: “Eat at Durg’s, Live Forever…” Response was immediate. Diners came away reporting new vigor. “I feel so good I might start bothering Barb again,” George H.W. Bush said. With a six month waiting list, Durg has to be brutal. The other night John McCain exploded when told he couldn’t have a table. “It’s your duty as an American to seat me,” he screamed at Durg. “Do you want Sarah Palin to be president?” At that, the entire restaurant arose in unison. William Shatner, 78, was the first to the door. “Come back, Senator,” he pleaded. “You can have my table.” 4 Responses to “WANNA LIVE FOREVER? EAT A TARDIGRADE.” ok i just stumbled across this while looking for plushie tardigrades, and i have to say WELL DONE SIR. Please tell me that I can find a tardigrade restaurant in my area, and start dining on tardifries and tardisalad. There will be a Tartigrade franchise opening soon in your neighborhood Pancake Lord How do you eat the tardigrades? because they can withstand extreme temperatures so you cannot cook them, which means they are alive inside of you, you psycho. Lolwut But, Pancake, wouldn’t the acid from your body kill them?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20249
__label__wiki	0.610358	0.610358	français \| español ILO Centenary Declaration for the Future of Work, 2019 How the ILO works ILO Director-General Former Directors-General Multilateral system The ILO and the G20 G20 summits ILO reports for the G20 The ILO and the G7 G7 France 2019 G7 Canada 2018 The ILO and the BRICS United Nations Reform Partnering for Development Results based management Global level programming in the ILO Country level programming in the ILO Reporting on results The ILO at Work: Results 2014-2015 Efficiency savings Governance and Tripartism Department (GOVERNANCE) Labour Administration, Labour Inspection and Occupational Safety and Health Branch (LABADMIN/OSH) Better Work Branch (BETTERWORK) Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work Branch (FUNDAMENTALS) Social Dialogue and Tripartism Unit (DIALOGUE) Labour Law and Reform Unit (LABOURLAW) History of the ILO ILO in the media All ILO Newsroom content Receive ILO news Send us your email and get ILO news delivered weekly straight to your mailbox This story was written by the ILO Newsroom For official ILO statements and speeches, please visit our “Statements and Speeches” section. "Work in Progress", the ILO's Blog Giving a fair deal to the world's 86 million migrant ... Giving a fair deal to the world's 86 million migrant workers Across the world, millions of people are on the move - doing jobs ranging from manual labour such as harvesting to high-skilled computer programming. Combined, their numbers with their dependents would equal the fifth most populous country on the planet. And their numbers are likely to increase, according to the ILO. Article \| 23 May 2006 Across the world, millions of people are on the move - doing jobs ranging from manual labour such as harvesting to high-skilled computer programming. Combined, their numbers with their dependents would equal the fifth most populous country on the planet. And their numbers are likely to increase, according to the ILO. Its Governing Body recently authorized the Director-General to publish its Multilateral Framework on Labour Migration, which is part of a Plan of Action for migrant workers agreed by ILO constituents at the International Labour Conference in 2004. Furthermore, an OSCE-IOM-ILO Handbook, which aims for better management of labour migration flows in countries of origin and destination, was launched today at the 14th OSCE Economic Forum in Prague. ILO Online spoke with Ibrahim Awad, Director of the ILO's International Migration Programme. ILO online: How can the new OSCE-IOM-ILO Handbook help countries to deal with labour migration flows? Ibrahim Awad: The Handbook highlights effective labour migration policies and practices by using experiences from OSCE and ILO member countries. It discusses issues affecting labour migration policy, including the protection of migrant workers, benefits of organized labour migration, effective administration of labour migration, foreign worker admission policies, post-admission policies, irregular labour migration and inter-state cooperation. The principal objective of the Handbook is to assist member States, particularly those in the OSCE area, in their efforts to develop policy solutions and approaches for better management of labour migration and labour migration flows in countries of both origin and destination. It has been prepared primarily for use by decision-makers and labour migration practitioners in the OSCE area and in countries served by the IOM and ILO. ILO online: Why did the ILO recently adopt a Plan of Action on migrant workers? Ibrahim Awad: Migration is one of the most contentious issues facing the world today. This plan of action protects the rights of workers in one of the most vulnerable sectors. It's a major achievement that serves as a milestone for the future. The action plan represents a historic consensus among our tripartite partners the world over. Never before have so many countries come together to agree on how to address these issues. Why is this important? Because today there more migrant workers than ever before. Their contributions are more and more vital to stabilizing labour markets, creating jobs and achieving economic progress, North and South. However, as the International Labour Conference found, many migrants face exploitation and abuse in the form of low wages, poor working conditions, lack of social protection, denial of workers' rights and discrimination. On the other hand, migrants send huge amounts of remittances - estimated last year at US$160 billion through official mechanisms, including US$250 billion through informal channels - back to their home countries. The money is used to improve living standards, fight poverty, feed families and provide education and schooling. All this contributes to improving human capital, a vital contribution to development at home. That's why we need to be there to help make sure that these migrants get a fair deal. ILO online: What is the Multilateral Framework on Labour Migration? Ibrahim Awad: The Multilateral Framework was proposed by ILO constituents at the 2004 International Labour Conference. It is a unique compilation of principles, guidelines and best practices to serve as a toolkit to assist constituents in developing and improving labour migration policies. Its fundamental purpose is to help governments and social partners achieve effective migration management and protection of migrant workers, as well as to enhance the contribution of labour migration towards development. It was adopted last November by a Tripartite Meeting of Experts held in Geneva. The Framework contains 15 principles which relate to, among other things, decent work, means for international cooperation, the protection of migrant workers, management of labour migration, social integration and inclusion and labour migration and development. ILO online: How will these principles be implemented? Ibrahim Awad: Under each principle, guidelines have been elaborated to help put them into practice. These guidelines are based on already-existing good practices by governments, employers and trade unions around the world. Many countries are today asking ILO for guidance on how to improve or update their regulation of these increasingly complex issues. The ILO has been asked to expand its advisory services and technical cooperation to help member States and social partners put these principles into practice. ILO online: What else can the ILO do to give a fair deal to migrant workers? Ibrahim Awad: The effective management of labour migration has to include a number of key elements. In the first place, migration policy has to be consistent with labour market conditions and realities. These policies need to be based on common international standards to ensure cooperation and accountability. Wider ratification of the ILO Conventions on migration for employment and the UN convention on migrant workers is essential, including obtaining better cooperation between origin and host countries. Migration policy has to be based on broad public support, which is most effectively obtained through extensive social dialogue between governments, employers and workers. Measures are needed to regulate recruitment and prevent trafficking, while promoting decent work and ensuring that migrant workers are covered by national labour laws and social security schemes. Policies also need to be adopted to facilitate the integration of immigrant workers and combat discrimination. The ILO has convened expert meetings and asked member States to contribute best practices for inclusion in the guidelines which will be disseminated through ILO technical cooperation activities, especially those aimed at enhancing capacities of newly emerging migration countries. ILO online: What can the countries of origin do to reduce emigration pressure? Ibrahim Awad: As the ILO Director-General says, if you look at globalization from a people's (migrant's) point of view, its single biggest failure is its inability to create jobs where people live. When it comes to reducing emigration pressure and protecting nationals who seek employment abroad, countries of origin also have an important role to play. On the one hand, they can improve employment prospects in their own countries by giving high priority to employment promotion and decent work in their development strategies. On the other hand, they can supervise recruitment, facilitate remittance transfer, promote the productive investment of migrants' savings and encourage the return and transfer of know-how. The governments of the countries concerned have sought the cooperative management of migration through bilateral agreements with destination countries. Trade unions have also taken initiatives, defending and organizing this particularly vulnerable category of workers. ILO online: What is the main challenge in labour migration policies today? Ibrahim Awad: The biggest challenge is to ensure access to regular, legal channels for labour migration, and thus prevent abuse, exploitation and trafficking. Furthermore, countries which have policies that prevent discrimination and allow for better integration of migrant workers are much more successful in gaining full and productive participation in the labour market. To protect migrant workers' rights and maximize the positive effects of migration, the answer is not stricter policing but better policies. Note 1 - Handbook on establishing effective labour migration policies in countries of origin and destination. Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), International Organization for Migration (IOM), International Labour Office. Vienna/Geneva, 2006. Tags: workers, migrant workers, migration policy This content is available in newsroom@ilo.org	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20253
__label__wiki	0.626394	0.626394	Jacket the first Fluking it, with Chris Edwards Chris Edwards at Sappho's, 2011 (photo by Toby Fitch) The mis-translations, mis-quotations and bricolage poetry of Sydneysider Chris Edwards has made several appearances in Jacket magazine. In 2001 Jacket published three of his poems that are recombinations of David Baratier talking with Simon Perchik and Ward, Lock & Company's illustrated Great Inventors and other poems made from diverse sources including Isaac Asimov, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Arthur C. Clarke, Marilynne Robinson, Richard Wright, Roland Barthes and a number of other writers. There is a terrific sense of play in Chris's work and unlike many experimenting postmodern projects it is always uncannily engaging. Chris is also a typographer and graphic designer (designing, among other things, many of the books published by the irrepressible Vagabond Press) something that is evident in the careful arrangement in cascading poems like 'Aha!', from his own recent Vagabond collection People of Earth - In the next poem, 'hm', glyphs begin appearing (there is a handy glyph glossary accompanying the poem) - In 2008 Jacket published 'So Not Orpheus: Rilke Renditions 1-11' about which Chris explained: "These sonnets are very loosely based on Rainer Maria Rilke's Sonnette an Orpheus 1, 1-11. They might at a stretch be called mistranslations, though I haven't approached Rilke with homophony in mind, the way the Zukofskys approached Catullus, or I did Mallarmé in parts of A Fluke. In spite of my one year of German at high school, I'm never quite sure what Rilke's words sound like, let alone what more than a few of them mean - all I have to go on are the letters, which seem weirdly and wonderfully addressed to me: single letters, especially those Rilke has capitalised, like "O" or "W" in the first stanza of the first sonnet, but also consonant clusters like "st" or "b...m," along with names like "Orpheus" and words like "Angst." Some, frankly, are suggestive. Others are enough to transmogrify a person - into Frankenstein's monster? You be the judge. If I've "responded" to the German's secret experiments, all very well. But the results in this case - So Not Orpheus, so not Rilke - are also, I feel compelled to imagine, "renditions" in all senses of the word, including the most extraordinary." Monogene published Chris Edwards' A Fluke, mentioned above, in 2005. It is a large landscape-oriented, A4-format book that is a mistranslation of Stéphane Mallarmé's 1897 poem Un coup de dés... Jacket magazine published it in its entirety here in 2006. Along with an earlier chapbook, utensils in a landscape, and some of Chris's new work, these major poetry projects were gathered together by Vagabond Press last year in the book People of Earth. Please look out for more of Chris Edwards' poetry and some of his collages when they appear in Jacket2 in the forthcoming penultimate instalment of Fifty-one contemporary poets from Australia. A decade and a half ago, in the mid-1990s, I was participating in a global transformation at my day job at a sciences library at the University of Sydney. Librarians were retraining - shifting from card catalogues, roneodex, microfilm, and crowded rows of books and journals into the technological world of digital media for most of their classification and reference material. Electronic articles and online journals were evolving and becoming the norm. I undertook courses in computer data referencing, electronic cataloguing, web site construction and so on. In early 1996, having learned the basics in a training tutorial at the library, I downloaded The Bare-Bones Guide to HTML from the internet and began, painstakingly, to make my web site. I searched for any Australian electronic literary journals (web-zines) to create links to and found only Gangway– a bi-lingual (German-English) quarterly edited by Sydney-based publisher Gerald Ganglblauer. (Gangway continues to publish many Australian, European and American writers.) Later, in October 1997, John Tranter started an online literary journal called Jacket, edited from his study, upstairs at the rear of his house in Balmain. John invited me to contribute poems to several issues, and then, in 2002, to guest edit a feature in tandem with the print journal, Overland, where I was the poetry editor. In 2004 he invited me to guest-edit issue 27 of Jacket and then asked me to join him in editing the magazine. Here, I'll be presenting some of the highlights from my time as associate editor at Jacket the first. Pam Brown edited a feature of recent (and ongoing) contemporary poetry and visual art for Jacket2 - Fifty-one contemporary poets from Australia. Her most recent book of poetry is Authentic Local (soi3 modern poets) and another, a pocket sized selected, Anyworld, is due in early 2012 from Flying Island. She lives in Alexandria, Sydney. Visit Pam's website and blog. Jacket2 Commentaries feature invited posts by poets and scholars who take a close, serial look at poetry scenes, archives, poetic concerns, or theoretical clusters. Commentaries, although curated, are not edited by Jacket2 staff. We welcome your comments. Send queries and notes to Commentaries Editor Jessica Lowenthal or contact us at this page. Two poets who write about art New Russian poets 'The Last to Leave' With James Schuyler — three editors Find the nest where freedom had no paper works An interview with Lionel Fogarty Three Egyptian poets Mister L.D.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20259
__label__cc	0.743481	0.256519	A Response to Richard Curtis Yesterday, respected agent Richard Curtis posted an article he wrote called Do Authors Make Good Publishers? His conclusion is: No. He cited me as one of his examples, and quoted my website. I wish he'd contacted me personally, because the quote he took is out of date. It's my fault for not updating my website regularly, but I've since had a 180 degree change of stance on self publishing. Authors should self-publish. As ebooks continue to gain ground, and print continues to lose ground, and publishers and bookstores continue to report losses, this industry isn't nearly as stable as it once was. In fact, I'm not sure the industry will survive. In an ebook-dominated world, are publishers even needed? I can't think of a single, compelling reason to allow publishers to keep 52.5% of ebook royalties and give authors just 17.5%--especially when any writer can make 70% by uploading to Kindle themselves. In December, I made over $24,000 self-publishing, and I'm currently averaging $1300 per day. But I'm far from the only one doing well. Among other insights, Curtis said: If your name is not familiar to the reading public, however, emulating Konrath will flop. That's an easy conclusion to jump to, but it's wrong. LJ Sellers sold 10,000 ebooks in December. No agent or prior large publishing contracts. HP Mallory sold over 22,000 ebooks in December. No prior publishing contracts, and she just signed with an agent. Michael R. Sullivan sold over 10,000 ebooks in December. No agent or prior publishing contracts. Amanda Hocking recently turned down a lucrative offer from a house to continue self-publishing. Amanda sold a staggering 100,000 ebooks in December alone. Here's a partial list of authors selling more than 1000 ebooks a month, none of who had any traditional publishing background (no deals, no agents.) David Wisehart B. Tackitt Vianka Van Bokkem Maria Hooley Tina Folsom C.S. Marks Melanie Nilles Robert Burton Robinson Lexi Revellian Lauren Saga Terri Reid Imogen Rose Nathan Lowell Ellen Fisher Sandra Edwards C. S. Marks Sibel Hodge Julie Christensen Holly A. Hook David McAfee Danielle Q. Lee Valmore Daniels Steven L. Hawk Edward C. Patterson William Meikle Beth Orsoff* Eric Christopherson Monique Martin Ellen O'Connell Karen Cantwell Stacey Wallace Benefiel Aaron Patterson Zoe Winters JR Rain And this is a very small sampling of authors doing well epublishing. If you browse the Kindle genre bestseller lists, between 20% and 90% of the authors listed there are self-published authors. In some cases, because of the higher royalties Amazon offers, these writers are making more money than traditionally pubbed authors. I earn $2.09 on a $2.99 ebook. I only earn 82 cents on a $4.79 ebook published by my print publisher. On top of that, I'm earning $100 a day on POD books through Createspace, selling through Amazon. I really think it's time the world stops calling me an outlier who is successful because of my platform. Here are three reasons why the outlier argument is poor: 1. If platform is the key, why are unknown newbies smoking me in sales? 2. If background and name recognition leads to huge sales, why aren't my traditionally published peers who decided to self-pub (I can name a dozen) selling as well as I am? 3. And if my name is so gosh-darn golden, why weren't any of my print novels bestsellers? Change is scary. When it first starts to occur, people are afraid of it, and come up with excuses for it. Of course the industry wants to view me as an anomaly. If I'm not an anomaly, and others can do what I'm doing, the industry is in big trouble. Guess what? Others ARE doing what I'm doing. And the industry IS in big trouble. If you want to read about more self-pubbed authors doing well, check out this thread on Kindleboards, begun by Robin Sullivan. http://www.kindleboards.com/index.php/topic,47263.0.html Lee Lopez said... Great post, and very eye opening. Whistling past the graveyard. It's over for them. They shot the goose that laid their golden eggs. First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you. ~ Nicholas Klein Great article. It's important to hear all sides of the story. Congratulations on your success. My problem with all this is that authors are leaving pubishers high and dry to self publish. This has happened to me (Echelon Press) numerous times in the last six months. Authors who signed contracts with me demanded their rights back because "I" was not selling enough books for them. What is the difference between promoting your book when it is under contract and selling 10,000 downloads or doing it yourself? What has happened is, the publisher has gone thorugh all the processes of editing, covers, marketing, submission to eBook sites, etc. incurring a crapload of expense and gets almost no sales from it. The author DOESN'T sell all those downloads when with the publisher, but immediately a month or two later they are selling those numbers because they are getting all the money. Why couldn't/wouldn't they do the same thing when under contract instead of poking the publisher in the eye with a hot stick? If authors want to self-publish then by all means they should, but not at the expense of their already in place publisher. I have actually had to start saying no to authors who are wanting their rights back to self-publish. This option has always been there, but now you have made it cool, so they want out of contracts. I am thrilled for anyone out there who can make money publishing in any way, but don't screw someone else who has put their faith in you previously. Respect is a pretty cool thing, too. Today in his influential Monday media column in the NYTimes, David Carr asked: "Will the book business do the math and realize that in three years — which is when any book conceived right now would be published — there will probably be more than 100 million e-readers capable of rendering books in new ways?" So will they or won't they? Possibly more important -- and something David Carr didn't even raise -- is: what about the authors? What are they/we going to do? 100 million e-readers and a prominent commentator doesn't even think to wonder about the authors and where they/we fit in here? IMO this tells you how skewed publishing has become over the years. Authors? Who? I guess if it makes Mr. Curtis feel better to think that, it's okay with me. Change is hard, especially when your livelihood is at stake. To anyone who really keeps up with the indie authors though, it's obvious that the number of authors making serious money is growing like crazy. Apparently these folks have mastered the necessary "publishing skills" without having abandoned the "commitment to their muse." Best yet, they have readers buying and enjoying their work. And they did it all on their own. Imagine that. Well said, Joe. The only thing stopping me from putting up an ebook on Amazon is my nervousness about the editing process...but I'm working on that. Now getting my book up on Amazon is my New Year's resolution. The publishing turf was even up for grabs until recently. Now, heel marks streak the terrain. I've experienced the death of an industry, and those with the most invested in the old model will stand their ground until the last bullet whistles past their ears. Meanwhile, action stirs elsewhere. Thanks for all you do! Thanks for the post Joe, and for continuing to spotlight all sides of the issue. One point comes to mind relative to name recognition and success in ebooks. While I agree with you that numerous previously unknown authors have achieved phenomenal success, statistically they are still insignificant. You list 27 authors who sell 1k or more a month. You say it's a partial list. Even if it's 1/4 or 1/6 or even 1/10 of the full list, it's still very small relative to the overall numbers of true indies jumping onto the pool. Not to mention there's a backstory to every person on that list. How many different ebooks comprise their sales figures, how much advertising they're doing, how they price their books, how much money they invested into their finished product to achieve that success, etc. Sure, anybody can attempt this, and maybe even anybody can sell a lot of books, but in my mind it's still akin to catching lightening in a bottle. No one, not even yourself, knows why this thing works the way it does, why some sell so well and others die on the vine. Hell man, it's really no different than traditional publishing. Or music or movies or any other form of entertainment. It's easy sometimes to get fooled into thinking there's money just lying on the ground waiting to be scooped up. All you gotta do is throw a bunch of product up there, make sure it presents well, and you're off to the races. We all know it really isn't that easy. Sibel Hodge said... Look, this isn't easy money. Joe is really excited and invigorated by e-publishing (as well he should be), so sometimes he might go a little too far in his proclamations. But he doesn't go too far very often. I think he's dead on about what's happening in the publishing world...of course, who the hell am I? I've only just started this e-pub thing and I'm not catching lightning in a bottle at the moment. My sales are very, very pedestrian (around 50 ebooks sold in less than a month). But I know at least one writer with zero publishing deals and very little platform who has sold around 700 copies of one book in under a month. It's happening. These are the salad days of e-publishing and ebooks. The good times won't last forever and it won't always be possible for new authors to step in and get noticed. Which is why authors really need to listen to what people like Joe are telling them. I know I am. My Blog: An E-publisher's Manifesto I think the main difference now that the traditional publishing world seems to be in trouble is that readers can choose exactly what they want to read and how they want to read it, instead of the big publishing houses choosing what reader's want to read, based on whether they think it will be a bestseller or not. More choice for readers and authors can only be a good thing. It's a win-win situation. Change is a wonderful thing! And many thanks for the mention, by the way! I read that post yesterday. I was surprised by it as Richard runs the "E-reads" company. He has posted in the past about changes in the industry that were contrary to this post. He wrote the book titled, "How To Be Your Own Literary Agent". Among the e-book publishers, one of the few to be offering advances on e-books is “E-Reads”. “E-Reads” was founded by literary agent Richard Curtis over ten years ago. He feels that e-book rights will be a separate issue in the future (even back then), just like audio rights. This motivated him to offer a business model authors and agents are familiar with and respond to. Talking about self-publishing in that light is a delusional stab at an industry that's crumbling or it's another literary agent attempting to steer business his way with his charm and wisdom of the business. Authors need to stay informed and look deeper so they aren't the proverbial one-legged man in an ass kicking contest. instead of the big publishing houses choosing what reader's want to read, based on whether they think it will be a bestseller or not That kind of statement flabbergasts me. In all my many years of reading I have never had a single problem finding a wide variety of books to satisfy my reading tastes. I see this comment often. It's just plain wrong, IMO. Big publishing unequivocally does not choose what a reader "wants" to read. That some kind of myth, or urban legend perpetuated by those with an ax to grind. The reader chooses what he/she wants to read. Period. Just because every single book ever written is not published by the Big 6 does not mean your choices are diminished. "Authors need to stay informed and look deeper so they aren't the proverbial one-legged man in an ass kicking contest" I absolutely agree with that. Because one thing is certain, this whole ebook revolution is not generated by big business attempting to make things right for independent authors. It's about business, plain and simple, and those who see this as the next viable direction for books and publishing. Everyone's it in for the money. And we'd all do well to remember that. I think you're right in some ways here. More and more authors are becoming successful this way. There's a large pool of unpublished writers out there who have not had success through the typical routes, and are very good writers. Sadly, there just isn't enough room out there for all the good books to get published through regular publishers. More power to these writers who find success self-publishing. Far more writers out there just aren't there yet. They need a good editor or just more time honing the craft. Many don't get the usefulness or understand how to create a good cover. Both of these things help sell ebooks. Most unpublished writers out there don't get how badly you can shoot yourself in the foot by putting something out there that isn't ready, but the temptation of self-publishing is too strong. It's far to easy and convenient to throw something out there to the reading masses. I worry that self-publishing is going to end up swimming in a sea of poor writing that makes it difficult for good writers to get found. For me, I really appreciate the fact that I have an editor and cover artists and production team, etc. to handle the non-writing end of things. I can focus more on writing. Self-publishing takes a lot of work. It's not the 'easy' way to get published. It's merely a different way, requiring a broader range of skills to achieve success or the savvy and money to get the things you need to up your chances (like good editing and cover art). Not that you can't get a poor editor or cover art through the publishing houses, because you can, but the odds are greater and the expense is less to get good ones. Self-publishing is certainly viable and worthwhile for a minority of writers out there. I think it will grow in this regard in the future, but I still don't believe it will bring the demise of traditional publishing. It will change things for sure, but their advantages will remain and be the best option for many. Hell man, it's really no different than traditional publishing. Actually, it's easier than traditional publishing. In self pubbing, the outcome is always the same: the book is published. Very few books submitted to to the gatekeepers wind up getting published. In terms of success, you may be right. The 80/20 rule is probably in place (20% of the group earns as much as the other 80%, and then this can be split over and over.) It's hard to be a huge success in either self-pubbing or traditional pubbing. But I contend that writers can make more money self-pubbing--even a hundred bucks a month beats zero. Big publishing unequivocally does not choose what a reader "wants" to read. Yes, they do. They decide what gets the biggest distribution, or no distribution at all because they reject it. Amanda Hocking was rejected by the industry, and she sold 100,000 ebooks in December. Big publishing decided that readers didn't want to read her. They were wrong about her, and my early books, and many, many others. There has never been an even playing field before now, and readers never had a true choice before now. Readers could only choose what was already vetted for them. Aaron...I like your blog. You've got some good stuff going on over there. Keep it up my man. Now I'm off to check out some of your work ;-) For me, I really appreciate the fact that I have an editor and cover artists and production team, etc. to handle the non-writing end of things. And for that service, you get between 6% and 17.5% of the list price, vs. 70% of the list if you did it yourself. And guess what? You're in the same boat as self-publishers, competing against a million other books. Unless your publisher is giving you a huge marketing and ad campaign, it's just as hard for you to be discovered as it is for a self-pubbed author. If your advantage over a self-pubber is having two copies of your book, spine out in section, is a few hundred bookstores, and you know that at least half of those books will be returned, is it really worth giving up so much in royalties for that? I hear a lot of editors/agents say that there is going to be a lot more poor writing floating around because of self-publishing. You know what? They're right! There's going to be an awful lot of garbage out there, but there will be good stuff too. There's plenty of garbage now. Writers are going to have to market their work effectively, make good covers, write good books, and bust their ass to improve their craft. It will not be easy and the window of opportunity for newer authors won't be open forever. Things will tighten up again in the future, that is for sure. But it's going to be a wild ride for the next couple of years! An E-Publisher's Manifesto Joe, you're a smart, savvy guy. But in my mind you're wrong on this one. Big publishing puts out whatever fits in with their business plan. Readers choose what they want to read based on their own muse. Those are two separate things. To say because I can't read what I don't know about is somehow "diminishing" my choices is illogical. There's a lot of nooks and crannies out there in the book buying world. Books have been written and published for a very long time. The choices are plenty, and always have been. IMO. JT, thanks so much, let me know what you think! "It's hard to be a huge success in either self-pubbing or traditional pubbing. But I contend that writers can make more money self-pubbing--even a hundred bucks a month beats zero" And I absolutely agree the opportunities presented by self-publishing ebooks are unprecedented and alluring as hell. Melissa Romo said... "I worry that self-publishing is going to end up swimming in a sea of poor writing that makes it difficult for good writers to get found." I agree with this. As an aspiring fiction writer who has worked in marketing and advertising for the past 15 years, I can tell you what self-publishing is: an industry with no barriers to entry. That means a lot of entrants who will compete on price and produce a poorer quality product. That said, it's very hard to resist when you're someone, like me, with a finished novel on your hands that might not get picked up by the Big 6. An ebook feels like a better outcome than the manuscript going in a box under my bed. "I can tell you what self-publishing is: an industry with no barriers to entry" Not sure I agree 100 percent with this. It might look that way on the surface, but the fact of the matter is, you still need to be smart and professional and capable in order to entice readers. You need a good title, a good cover, a description that makes someone want to read an excerpt. If you're doing some marketing (as I am), even the kind of writing I'm doing here needs to be good enough for someone to think they might want to read my work. Point is, there's no barrier to entry in terms of throwing a poorly written story up on Amazon, but there's plenty of barriers in terms of getting consumers to buy your product. "Big publishing puts out whatever fits in with their business plan. Readers choose what they want to read based on their own muse." Yes, but the two go hand in hand. Big publishing will only put out what they think is going to make a lot of money, or stick with trusted authors for the same reason. I think they haven't wanted to take a chance on new authors for a long time. And if these authors aren't being published, readers can't choose them. Yes, there probably are a lot of bad self-pubbed works out there, but there are also a lot of brilliant writers whose work wouldn't have seen the light of day before ebooks and self-pubbing. It's time for the readers to make the choice on what they want to read now. "That said, it's very hard to resist when you're someone, like me, with a finished novel on your hands that might not get picked up by the Big 6. An ebook feels like a better outcome than the manuscript going in a box under my bed" Exactly Melissa. I'm in the same boat. And for me, while the idea of making some good cash from my work sounds enticing, it's not the reason I wrote it in the first place. I make an excellent living doing what I do (for over 30 years now), and writing merely represents a lifelong dream I've had of publishing a book. I struggle often with the perceived "legitimacy" of traditional publishing versus just putting the damn thing out there and seeing what happens. I will say though, if I were doing this for a living, and I felt I was good at it, I would almost certainly go the ebook route, as it seems to make the most "business" sense at this time. If it were up to NY, readers wouldn't be able to choose Hocking, because she wouldn't be available. Maybe so Joe, but there are most certainly many, many Amanda Hocking's out there. Just because traditional publishers haven't put their work out does not mean a disservice to the buying public. To knock publishers for this is just silly in my mind. I can only speak for myself, and it's a fact that in 40 years of reading books, I've never had a problem satisfying whatever itch I feel. Just because traditional publishers haven't put their work out does not mean a disservice to the buying public. It's a disservice to both the public, and the author. I'm not going to argue that all self-pubbed books are good. They're not. A lot suck terribly. But I can make an argument that good, commercially viable books get overlooked by NY. I'm proof. So are the authors I've listed in this post. And they are just the tip of the iceberg. "But I can make an argument that good, commercially viable books get overlooked by NY" Of course they do Joe, but the whole argument is still silly, IMO. It is absolutely not a disservice to anybody. That argument will never hold water. Again, IMO. Companies publish what they do based on whatever internal motivations they have. So many here and elsewhere try to make it a personal issue. It's business man, plain and simple. And another point to remember. Monday morning quarterbacking is always right. If you were selling a minuscule fraction of what you do now (with ebooks), would you stand up and say the Big 6 were right in rejecting you? Same thing with Amanda Hocking, or any other previously unknown author who has found success with ebooks. The way I read it, this is where the chip on the shoulder of some authors becomes so apparent. There is no inherent right to have our work published, and likewise there is no inherent right for the reader to have access to everything ever written. "If it were up to NY, readers wouldn't be able to choose Hocking, because she wouldn't be available." We all know there were underrepresented niche markets like erotica, etc. On top of that, what tends to happen with print publishing, is they get a hit like "Twilight" and then flood the market with mediocre books in order to try and replicate the success of that one hit. When those mediocre books don't sell well enough, the industry declares "vampire books" dead. They did this with chick lit also. First the market was nonexistent, then you had a hit like Bridget Jones's Diary, after which the market became saturated. And then it was nearly impossible to sell that kind of book because so many previous ones had sold poorly. The result of this cycle is that an author unlucky enough to come in at the tail-end of the process will have a lot of trouble finding a home for their work. And readers that actually do want to read something new and exciting in that genre are out of luck, because those types of books won't be published for awhile. It's not anyone's fault, it makes total sense. Only now that the technology and mode of delivery has changed, so has the entire ballgame. I don't disagree with the conclusions of your article, but I do technically have a traditional publishing background (one book published by Bantam in 1998, and represented by the Deidre Knight agency for a while). It's so long ago as to be virtually meaningless from a sales standpoint, but... I bet a lot of authors would pay you way more than 5% of their income for you to market their books. Does anyone see any signs of change inside the publishers? The problem with them isn't their selectivity or occasionally botched cover/title, but with the value they add to authors. And this depends on their adaptability to changing distribution. The truth is that unless they decrease their time from acquisition to shelf (virtual or real) to just a couple months, streamline their operations, and increase their ebook royalty rates they will be out of business in 5-10 years. But it's very difficult for older institutions to make these kind of big changes. I'm a new author (finishing revision/editing on my first novel), but I've published 13 video games and seen these same forces at work in the video game publishers. Although there the rising costs of video games (many big budget ones over 50 million dollars!) help the publishers retain value. They still aren't very flexible at all about moving away from the dying packaged goods business, mostly because the number of employees and departments at the companies that deal with this is so large. Existing departments that are growing irrelevant try and fight the change in order to stay alive, failing to realize that in the long run survival lies in rolling with the punches. C.V. Hubbard said... I've been soaking up your advice for sometime now. You are an inspiration, and a thorn in the side of a weak, and bloated industry. Then Amazon Studios came along and convinced me to dust off an old script and enter it in their first ever contest...The response has been great! Now I'm turning the screenplay into a novel and going to self publish it...what do I have to lose but success? Terri Reid said... I have over 20 years in marketing, public relations and journalism. When I decided to publish my first novel, I didn't even consider the traditional route because it took too long. My name is one on the list - I started selling my first novel in August 2010 - I've added two books since then. In December I sold over 5000 books through Kindle. I agree - the downside of e-publishing is there are no gatekeepers, so anyone with a computer and the Internet can download their "Great American Novel." That's what the samples are for - those are the gatekeepers. Try before you buy. But, there are some amazing indie authors out there who have tremendous talent and now they have a place to showcase it. I am a reader, not a writer. I don’t care who published the books I’m reading. I never remember the publisher. I find my books by word-of-mouth, online blogs and other online readers through GoodReads and the like. I do not receive print ads, look at newspapers or watch TV, so I get no ideas there. I relate to the authors I enjoy, typically through their personal websites. I buy the books written by authors I like (sometimes buying their entire canon of work if it’s priced properly) on any platform that will play well on my e-reader (personally, Kindle and iPad with Kindle app). And that, my friends, is how it works on the reader’s end of things. That is my reply that I put (pending approval) on Richard Curtis's website. After 3 months, I sold 122 books in December. I'm a new author and hope to someday sell 1000 book in a month. But, not everyone can shoot up to 1000 in just a few months. If anyone's interested, you can see exact numbers for my daily and monthly sales over the last months in my End of year sales report (complete with spiffy charts!). jtplayer: I will say though, if I were doing this for a living, and I felt I was good at it, I would almost certainly go the ebook route, as it seems to make the most "business" sense at this time. It won't surprise me at all to wake up one day and find your announcement that you're self-publishing. J. E. Medrick said... I read an interesting post over at Aaron G. Niz's blog about how fast things can change and how his being over 30 makes him remember a slower changing world. I'm 26, I played games in DOS in elementary school and now I have a Droid cellphone that connects me 100% of the time. I could probably find an emulator and play that old DOS bowling game on it. So, I wrote a response here. It's about why I love my Kindle, and how easy it was for me to make the change. I hope you get a chance to check it out, Joe! Sarra Cannon said... Of course a big-shot agent would say Authors don't make good publishers. He needs to believe that authors need him in order to survive. The truth is, though, sometimes an author is the best possible publisher for their own work. I'm sick of hearing author friends who are trad. published talk about how their editors made them cut out their favorite parts of their books! They always sigh and say something like, "Well, I know it was for the best. My editor knows the market better than I do." It makes me cringe! Editors at big publishing houses are trying to predict the market two years ahead. It takes them so stinking long to get a book out, they have to consider what the trends and interest will be far in the future. Well, guess what? They are not magic creatures. Editors are human, too. And they are guessing! Perhaps making educated guesses, sure, but still, it's a crapshoot. Since deciding to self-publish in October, I have been happier and my writing has been much freer. I love not having to worry about whether my characters or plot will pass an editor or agent's market tests. All I think about now is the reader, and in my opinion, that makes me the best qualified publisher for my own work. In December, which is only my second month of being published, I sold over 800 ebooks. If I had signed a publishing contract with a traditional publisher, I'd still be waiting another year or so to even see my book in print. Derek, I love your charts. Coolkayaker1, thanks for weighing in. What you said was pretty much what I've always believed, but it was good to hear it from a reader's perspective. Does Curtis even know that some self-pubbers get contracts with traditional publishers? There seems to be little evidence that they are averse to working with writers who are self-published. In other words, writers have everything to gain and nothing to lose by self-publishing, even if they have an ultimate goal of landing a publishing contract. Rivka said... Could you share some thoughts on how e-books will affect the young adults/children's market? (Personally, I think most parents are still weary to buy their young kids something as expensive as an e-book reader, and so they continue to buy print books for their kids, even if they themselves have a kindle or whatnot. That might be one reason for the explosion in the young adults market.) Would all your advice be the same for an author of young adults books? I believe in myself as a writer and I'm proud of the following I've developed via my blog and facebook. I have won awards came very close to landing both agents and book deals but some unforeseen calamity seems to block me at climax every time it seems to be my turn. More and more I think publishing my work via ebooks is the way to go. thanks for making us all believe and for educating us on these matters. I read your every post although I do not comment often. Small correction..... Those with * next to their names sold 1000 copies or more of a single book. Sould be sold 1,000 or more on MORE than one book. The Daring Novelist said... One big thing I very much disagree with: It's not really the publishers who are choosing books regardless of reader wishes - it was the distributors and booksellers (Barnes and Noble in particular). They are the publisher's customers, and it's in THEIR business model and best interests to use push marketing to create best sellers, and to churn the rest of the stock. I don't know how many of you remember the disastrous nineties, when so many midlist authors had to change their pen names every three or four books to keep publishing. They were selling well enough to turn a dollar for the publishers, but BN was pushing for best sellers and would stop ordering those books. So the publisher, who was making some money off that author, would work with the author and they'd change names to get around BN's system. IMHO, a part of jt's differences with the rest of this group is probably his tastes in books. He likes the stuff that this system created. Me, I stopped buying new books at that time altogether. They stopped publishing books I liked. Luckily Amazon kept a lot writers in the public eye by allowing used books to be traded, and then allowing authors to set up a store to sell remaindered copies.... And now, with the dtp, I can get books from those authors again. Thanks, Robin. I took off the * because it confuses me, and added more names who have joined the party. Apologies if anyone pointed this out already - Curtis is not only an agent but also a publisher - is he not? Founded by literary agent Richard Curtis, e-reads brings back books you remember by authors you love. The online publisher's list of titles includes previously published classics in science fiction, fantasy, horror, romance, thrillers and westerns as well as our large and varied selection of hard-to-find general fiction and nonfiction. E-reads is also building a stable of exciting original books by first-class authors. I've published 3 novels with a "Big 6" publisher and have a 4th coming out later this year. I can't say the experience has been anything but great. No, I haven't made a fortune, but I did fulfill a lifelong dream, and I achieved a goal very few people are able to reach. If I had to do it all over again, I'd still shoot for traditional publishing because the legitimacy it provided will stay with me for the rest of my life. That said, I'm thrilled about the rise of indie publishing. I've been around long enough to know that unless you're one of the big sellers, your lifespan as a traditionally published writer is incredibly short. It's good to know there's a fallback in place when that day comes for me. Once the smoke clears in the next couple years, I'm sure a lot of traditionally published authors are going to be thrilled with this option. Thanks for paving the way, Joe. I can't say the experience has been anything but great. That's awesome. Congrats. I'm curious how much money you've made, how well your books have sold, and if you've signed another deal with the same publisher. I normally wouldn't ask, but since you're posting anonymously it isn't revealaing anything personal, but it can add to this discussion. e-reads brings back books you remember by authors you love Curtis was one of the first agents, if not the first, to realistically recognize the value of ebooks. Back in the 90s, there was ebook frenzy, and some ebook rights went for big money. But ten years passed with nothing much happening, and the industry stopped caring. Then Kindle came along and changed everything. One clarification - it was a publishing offer, but it wasn't from a Big 6. It wasn't an unknown, but it wasn't a Big 6. It was an offer I would've been thrilled to take even six months ago, though. And that's about all I feel comfortable saying about that. But yes, great post. Lee Goldberg said... I haven't read Curtis' article yet...or any of the comments on this post... but one thought: Sales aren't necessarily an accurate gauge. How many of the self-published authors who are smoking you in sales are essentially giving their books away at 99 cents? I doubt many of them are smoking you when it comes to revenue. it wasn't from a Big 6. I'll correct that. I assumed it was a Big 6 offer. If you haven't had a Big 6 offer yet, and you've sold 109,000 ebooks in December, then there is something VERY VERY VERY wrong with this industry. But we knew that, didn't we? :) If/when a Big 6 does offer you a contract, don't consider anything less than a million a book. And even then, make sure they don't have non compete clauses, and clear reversion of rights clauses. I doubt many of them are smoking you when it comes to revenue. You'd be correct, Lee. But I'm frankly surprised how some writers are making a lot of money on the 99 cent books. Let's also remember that 2010 was year zero. As these authors continue to produce books, and experiment with different prices, I have no doubt we'll see some of them whipping my butt in $$$. The deals I signed were two-book deals, and I just turned in the final book on the second contract this summer. I pitched a fifth book to the same publisher and they seem excited. My editor said she plans on making another offer, but so far nothing. We'll see what happens. If they don't buy it, I'll join the self published ranks sooner rather than later. All of my books have been released in hardcover and followed with a MMPB edition, and I've taken home about $60,000 for each one if you include foreign sales and movie options (two options, nothing materialized). Not great, just under $200K, but not too bad for a mid-list writer. My publisher seems okay with how the books have done, and my editor still returns my emails. The books have all had favorable reviews in good sized papers and with the four industry pubs, and that seems to make my publisher happy. Maybe that's why we have a good relationship. I really have nothing to complain about. Sure, my ears perked up when I heard about Amazon's 70% royalty, but I can't bring myself to jump ship just yet. I'd love to make $100K a year like you, but I'm a book a year gal, and it seems like the secret to pulling in that kind of money is a steady backlist, which I don't have. I have no doubt that ebooks are the future, and I know traditional publishing is going to change drastically in the next five years. My hope is to stay with it for as long as I can, or until I no longer get out of it what I wouldn't get out of self publishing. Another factor holding me back is self promotion. I hate it, and I can't see myself out there selling books. I'm over 50 now, and it's just not in my personality. I'm still baffled by the appeal of Twitter. I'll keep writing the books because I've always written, and if I don't fit in with the new age of publishing, that's fine too. I accomplished a goal I set for myself in middle school, and I have no regrets. @Anon - Thanks so much for sharing. It sounds like you've had a great experience so far, and the money you've made is very nice for a midlist author. I hope you get a nice offer for book #5, and that you earn out your advances and start getting some royalty checks. Pay close attention to the next contract you sign. The "no compete" clause could prevent you from releasing anything on Kindle yourself. And naturally I encourage you to release things on Kindle yourself. Earning $60k on a book is great. But I'm pretty convinced a self-pubbed title by a midlist author can make at least $24k a year. Depending on how fast the royalties come in, you could wind up earning more money on your own after the 3 or 4 year mark. Perhaps a lot more. Morgan Mandel said... I'm doing my best to get on your next list of big sellers on kindle!! One thing about Kindle books is there are no returns. That is such a blessing. Morgan Mandel http://morganmandel.blogspot.com A lot of people seem worried about bad writing clogging up the works. Two things. 1, of course there will be bad writing. Tons of it. And 2, if you are good, you need to figure out how to rise above. Worthwhile things like lucrative writing careers are always going to be hard, even on an even playing field. Just because there is no longer a cost associated with storage and distribution doesn't mean there is suddenly such a thing as a free lunch. But think about it like this, if you don't have what it takes to write a good book, how likely is it that you have so much EXTRA of what it takes to market books, that you can overcome lousy writing? A bad writer can buy a great cover. But he can't buy great word of mouth. And after his book with the great cover fails, he'll be less likely to do all that hard work again. But also, I think we tend to underestimate what "millions" really means. There are millions of people out there who like reading books so much that they spent $136 or more on a device to help them do it. There is plenty of room on that playing field for everybody. Even people who want to upload bad writing. I've just started reading your blog a few months ago, and your latest posts have kind of thrown my writing thinking for a loop. I'm more excited now about the notion of self-publishing and feel less like I'm giving something up if I choose to publish for myself. Good reading regardless of which side of the debate you're on, and you just may have addicted me to numbers. Actually, Morgan there are returns on Kindle. I had an author in December sold 686 downloads for her short story, but had 29 returns. There are numerous reasons for the returns, Kindle tells me. Bad formats, hated it, clicked on it then forgot to remove from shopping cart. But they do returns. I've heard the most common reasons for returns was hitting the buy button accidentally, or hitting it twice. Mike Fook said... I hit 387 books sold at Amazon Kindle alone in December. Not 1,000 yet - but, will get there! Re: Kindle Returns I had a giant return rate - like 25% for a while when I first got started. Then I looked at how my ebooks had been formatted after Amazon converted them - pure junk. I went back and edited them all very well (HTML editor) and now I got 1 return on 387 books sold in December. I finally read Curtis' post. It is so filled with out-dated information and ignorance that it's hardly worth the time you spent responding to it. Let's not forget that it's Curtis who is been selling ebook editions of some of his clients' works for $15. For a guy as plugged into the biz as he has been in the past, he really has no clue what's happening with the ebook biz. I'm glad someone brought up the age factor. "Over fifty" ? In my experience this IS a deciding factor among publishers. I first started hearing this complaint among romance writers, with middle-aged women insisting their work was being passed over by agents, in favor of that written by "beautiful young men," because of the novelty of men writing romance, and the appeal to all women of the back cover photos of young males. Once I noticed that young males were indeed being picked up by publisher looking for genre romance, I started checking the cover photos on books by female authors who had written at least 4-5 books. Eureka, many of them were indeed aging backwards! In one case, from a first book with a photo of a fifty-something author, to her last book (!) with what must have been her college graduation photo. Too funny! Perfectly understandable. I admore their determination to avoid the standard dismissal of middleaged women in our society. While browsing a selection of books at our big B & NN, written by one of the most successful of the US female authors, a bookseller walked by & laughed & said, "she hasn't looked like that for at least twenty years! She was here for a reading last year." Catfight indeed. Women would be well warned not to let agents figure out their real age while cruising for contracts. Agents want someone who will look good at those book signings. It's the way of the world. Nothing to do but try and fight back by sliding under the radar, another major benefit of SP. You can publish any photo you want,or none at all. Lee wrote: I doubt many of them are smoking you when it comes to revenue. Joe wrote: You'd be correct, Lee. That's an important distinction that gets lost in the hype (most of it justified) surrounding the ebook business. If you sell 1000 copies at .99, you make $350. If I sell 1000 copies at $2.99, I make $2060. That's a huge difference. So comparing the number of ebooks one author is selling to another's is meaningless if you don't know what the sales price is. I wouldn't call a guy selling 500 books a month for 99 cents (earning $175/$2100 annually) a success. On the other hand, a guy selling 500 books-a-month at $2.99 (earning $1,030/$12,360 annually) is on to something, earning typical, low mid-list author money... Mike wrote: "I hit 387 books sold at Amazon Kindle alone in December. Not 1,000 yet - but, will get there!" Some advice...I don't think you are doing yourself any favors putting this in the description of your books: "Author's Note: Reviews of books usually entail other authors buying competitors books and giving them JUNK reviews. There is no way in the world someone could buy this book and rate it a 1 star out of 5 - it's just beyond the bounds of logic. I have had AMAZING feedback on this book when I launched it for free on my website for a test period. Buy this book in spite of any bad reviews, and please, write your own review." It screams of desperation and non-professionalism and is undoubtedly driving sales away, even at 99 cents. he really has no clue what's happening with the ebook biz. Lee, no one has a clue what's happening, except a few authors. But that few is growing. Remember how skeptical you were in the beginning? You still recommend traditional publishing. Give it until summer, when you're making $10k a month. :) Yet. That's the key. What about if he's got 10 books at 500 sales each? And selling at 500 now could mean 1000 in June, or 2000 in December. Remember when publishers used to grow authors? It's happening again, but this time it is readers on Amazon who are growing them. Give it time. These 1000 ebooks a month authors will be making fat bank by the end of the year. Because they're in the same position I was last year. Last December, I made $1650. This December I made $24,000. This has been my experience in looking at royalties at Excessica - I pay out to 100+ authors, and there is definitely an 80/20 split. That's not entirely accurate. I strongly recommend traditional publishing for the first-time author. I still beliieve it's a mistake to self-publish your first book. (I may change my mind...these are fast changing times...but that's what I feel today). But you're right, my views on self-publishing have changed dramatically in the last year...as has the entire publishing business. I do NOT think it makes any financial sense for a midlist author to stick with publishers anymore.... my next non-MONK novel will almost certainly be an original, self-published ebook. "I do NOT think it makes any financial sense for a midlist author to stick with publishers anymore...." Wow, Lee. I admit that kind of surprises me. It's been really interesting to see people like you and Joe (ie, people who know a lot more about publishing than I do!) changing your minds on this topic over the course of the past year. Are you saying that Hocking writes erotica? Because if you are, just an FYI, that isn't her genre. It IS mine. And yes, it has been very underrepresented in print for a long time. The ebook market has picked up that slack for years (literally - years - I know Joe says 2010 is ground zero, but small epubs have been publishing erotica and erotic romance for a lot longer than that, filling that niche market need). So to say that erotica wasn't available isn't quite true - you could find it, if you wanted to. But it's the dirty little secret of ereaders everywhere (and maybe, perhaps, anyone who gets their hands on any new technology from a laptop to a DVR to a Droid to an iPad) - one of the first things people do is look for porn. ;) As someone mentioned in the LJ Sellers post, sex does, indeed, sell. Funny how print pubs wouldn't touch it for so long. And now Amazon is in the process of deciding what they will and won't allow on their site when it comes to erotica. It's a niche market that comes with a stigma - but that's political. I would bet you 80% of Kindles have something "adult" on them. I do NOT think it makes any financial sense for a midlist author to stick with publishers anymore.... Good for you for changing your mind. Not many people are able to. So using Titlez I did a quick check for Amazon Rankings for e-Reads books. The "best" title is at 3,784 and only 8 are under 10,000. For a company who "specializes" in doing e-books this is the BEST they do for kindle rankings? The "Amatures" are consistantly in raking under 1K and more than a few under 100. Do we really want to take his word for it when with all his "experience" in founding a company for this market can't beat what the KB indies are? Only a fool never changes his mind. And my view on whether a midlist writer should take a book contract or self-publish have been evolving, more or less publicly (on my blog) for some time now. But I have to admit my ebook royalties over the last 90 days have really sealed the deal for me. If sales stay as they are, I will earn $28,000 in royalties this year just on THE WALK...an out-of-print book published in 2004...and that's not counting other revenue streams (Nook, CreateSpace, etc.) I would have to be a fool to take a mid-list deal. If you browse the Kindle genre bestseller lists, between 20% and 90% of the authors listed there are self-published authors. That says it all. I was shocked to find sci-fi is 65% indie. Why? Readers want variety that was denied them. One book a year per author and discouraging authors from switching genres... why? To think this is happening right before ebooks hit 'the tipping point.' I'm not sure when in 2011 we'll hit 20% of book dollars going to ebooks, but it is fated. Just look at the hardware vendors trying to get into the market (e.g., Samsung). It looks like Amazon playing coy was very wise to delay the competition. Midlist is the key battleground. It is what makes it worth walking into a bookstore (for anyone looking for a novel). If midlist defects there goes the volume for print and the 'economy of scale' discounts for the printing process. I'm curious when people think the tipping point will be in 2011. I had posted here before it would be at 20% market share. With the ramp up in ereader production (due to demand), I think around May. Some think it will happen at 10% market share (which is about where we should be for December)... Midlist will determine it all and it is only possible to make a full time career on midlist via Indie/Small publisher ebooks. I think the tipping point will be about 33%. When a fifth (20%) of the sales are e-book, I think the traditional publishers will pull their collective Tiamat heads out of the sands. When it hits 1 in 3 of their dollars, I think they'll really start to move. @Joe Konrath said... I assumed it was a Big 6 offer. I'm completely boggled that no big-six has come her way - not that I think she should take it but only a small press has knocked??? That's almost as mindblowing as selling 110,000 ina month @ Selena Kitt said... No Amanada does not write erotica - the reason Joe said this is Amanda had many many rejections ... basically NY saying... "You're not good enough". Then she did it on her own and proved them all wrong. Yeah, I know. I was commenting on gniz's "niche market" remark - I'm not sure if he was implying that Amanda was selling because she was publishing in an "underrepresented niche market" like erotica or not. Just wanted to clarify. :) The "no compete" clause could prevent you from releasing anything on Kindle yourself. Couldn't you circumvent that by using a pseudonym? Yes, but if you're writing a book in the same genre you want the books to be searchable together. Blue Tyson said... jtplayer, I'd lay pretty short money you are an American then - and perhaps for fiction you like to read books written by Americans about the USA or set in the USA. If stuff that you want to read is that easy to find, how about you go find me a few dozen thrillers set in Australia, or similarly for spy novels, or near future SF. And if it is that easy, make them all new books. Plus of course we are blocked from buying a large percentage of the books (but can find lots of them for free online, of course, if we want). This may be a dumb question...but how would any of the big 6 know how many books she was selling on Amazon unless a) Amazon told them or b) Amanda did? She's currently got 5 or 6 ebooks in the Kindle Top 100. And unless the Big 6 are sleeping at the wheel, there are stories of Amanda's sales all over the net. Plus, she has an agent, who is no doubt telling them. "And unless the Big 6 are sleeping at the wheel, there are stories of Amanda's sales all over the net." Isn't one of the points of your blog is that the Big 6 IS asleep at the wheel? It would not shock me at all to discover that while many Agents may be aware of Amanda's success that the people who make the real decisions about who/what to publish have no idea who she is. After all, we all knew she was a success, but it wasn't until December that she really broke the mold. "If stuff that you want to read is that easy to find, how about you go find me a few dozen thrillers set in Australia, or similarly for spy novels, or near future SF" Dude...that post makes no sense whatsoever. I have no trouble finding all the books I want to read. What's so hard to understand about that? And I read books from many different authors, set in locales all over the world. My reading tastes aren't limited in any way, save for the genres I enjoy. @The Daring Novelist: I find that one of the best aspects of ebooks. An author can keep building their fan base and readers can find their author. Ok, I wouldn't want an author writing "Where o Where is Hugglebugglebear" and "When o When will Hugglebugglebear's reign of Terror end" under the same pen name... But otherwise that is a lame part of the system that is being left behind. @Sarra " I'm sick of hearing author friends who are trad. published talk about how their editors made them cut out their favorite parts of their books!" As a reader, I'm finding the ebooks fresher. Sort of like unpasteurized cheese. Yummy, just know what you're in for. ;) I think the entities that forced the name changes are about to be "hoisted by their own petard." 109,000 in a month... Who would have thought 4 months ago? Seriously. I'm reading microchip blogs and they're seeing > 6 million ereaders made 1Q2011, so we can expect healthy ebook market growth to continue. :) I sold over 800 Kindle books in December and tracking stronger in January. I just wish I'd started reading Joe's blog sooner. and perhaps for fiction you like to read books written by Americans about the USA or set in the USA.... But it can't be written by, say, a Brit, because apparently some publishers think a Brit can't write mysteries set in America... as happened for years to one British writer. Ridiculous. To refute the demand for variety, I had such a long post, I blogged it: http://ebookcomments.blogspot.com/2011/01/pareto-principle-and-ebooks.html 20% of the customers buy 80% of the books. Those customers demand the greatest variety. If 'long tail theory' holds out, what the publishers put out could only meet half their demand (at best). So the most 'intense readers' must transition to ebooks for the variety. Of course as soon as I open my mouth my novel goes an hour without a sale. Never again. I retract my last post. Thanks for responding to that article. I read the quote and thought it was hopelessly out of date. :) Really, that seems a little... well, negligent on the part of the author of the post. I mean, if you're going to cite someone, wouldn't you make sure you had an up-to-date opinion/quote? Stuff changes. But what do I know? I'm just a newbie indie author, clearly not cut out for the rough, rough world of publishing, no matter how much it seems like a small business, which I've run before.... Ty Hutchinson said... Joe, thanks for everything you're doing here. I expect to be joining you all very soon. author Dodge Winston said... Fascinating that an agent would frown upon authors being their own publishers... not! He won't see any of the money if an author publishes their own work, typically. This sounds like a scare tactic. Then again we do need professionals to help with contract work, negotiations, and deals with big corporations and Hollywood. There are many paths. To each his own. Jason Letts said... Joe, FYI: B. Tackitt is not an author. Also, that list of names has a lot of doubles in it. Just trying to help! Curtis reposted this and posted a response: http://ereads.com/2011/01/do-authors-make-good-publishers-j-a-konrath-weighs-in.html He says, "Thanks to the many comments contributed by caring authors to the issues we raised, both terms have been expanded and refined and will serve as the basis for defining the new world. Good communications start with good listening. I’ve listened to your comments, and I’ve heard them." @evilphilip said... Asleep...maybe, but completely oblivious? It still boggles me. Just an FYI, I did not mean to imply that Amanda Hocking writes erotica, though I can see why it came across that way. My point was that there are multiple reasons to ascribe to certain authors having difficulty breaking into print publishing. In Amanda's case it was, I assume, a case of the "vampire books are dead" phenomenon that I spoke of... All this talk about "variety" truly baffles me. I've been a fairly voracious reader my entire adult life. At times I'll read as many as 1-2 books a week. I'm 50 years old now and through all those years of purchasing books I've never encountered a single problem feeding my tastes. Maybe it's a genre thing. I like literary fiction, mysteries, historical fiction, thrillers, and pulp fiction. I also read a wide variety of non-fiction. I can go to just about any Borders or B&N and browse the aisles, and invariably I'll find something new and interesting. And then there's online browsing through Amazon or Alibris or Powell's Books. On top of that I have some used bookstores like The Bookman that I frequent pretty regularly. I honestly don't get the knock on big publishing in this regard. So they don't publish everything that's written, so they chase trends, so what? Whatever "variety" ebooks represent is still lost on me until I've somehow stumbled across those new books. Until then they're as just unknown as anything turned down by the Big 6. Just because you've discovered a new author via his self-published ebook, and that author was previously rejected by traditional publishing, doesn't mean the big publishers don't have a clue. It just means they didn't do business with that particular writer. Again, it's only business. And any criticism after the fact is irrelevant Monday morning quarterbacking. IMO. And seriously now, we're gonna start slamming the Big 6 for not knocking on Amanda Hocking's door? First we criticize them for not recognizing her the first time around, and now we knock 'em for not getting down on their knees and shoveling the cash at her. That's quite a chip some of you have sitting up there on your shoulder. I checked out the kindleboard link and found it very sad. It's basically a bunch of authors shouting out their numbers to each other. Everyone seems hell-bent to tell the world how successful and important they are. Everyone has become their own cheerleader and spends their time trying to convince the people above them that they just as important, and the people below them that they're more important. It looks like a sad, sad horserace. Yes, anon, no doubt it would be preferable to some people if none of us ever discussed our numbers, so that the old "most self-pubbed authors only sell twenty copies to friends and family" figure could get thrown around forever. But getting sales numbers out there is a way to explode myths like that, and to provide useful info to those who may want it. Authors can't reasonably make a decision on whether or not to indie publish if there is no available data on sales. Lori Devoti said... Tracking to make well over the 1,000 sales mark this month at Amazon. Good to know I'm incapable as an author to be my own publisher. ;-) Freudian projection. VincentZandri said... I still haven't made the jump to self-publishing (Jeeze, remember a time not so long ago when an author wouldn't even consider such a thing?), but my e-books continue to sell very well via StoneHouse and StoneGate Ink, which are Aaron Patterson's popular imprints. But I am making 50% per sale and everyone of my recently pub'd novels including The Remains, and The Innocent have been Amazon Hot New Bestsellers, The Remains, having hit the Number 1 spot. Having just entered into the E-Book arena, I consider that a very good start. Now Godchild (the follow-up to The Innocent) will be published in a few days. It's not self-published but it will be my first "partnering contract" with StoneGate Ink. My resulting profit margin will be 75% and I get paid once a month instead of every six months. If this works as well as I think it will, I will enter into more partnering agreements for certain. @Lori "Tracking to make well over the 1,000 sales mark this month at Amazon. Good to know I'm incapable as an author to be my own publisher. ;-)" I look forward to each author being added to the list. Congrats! @Vincent "I still haven't made the jump to self-publishing (Jeeze, remember a time not so long ago when an author wouldn't even consider such a thing?) Not Jump? How six months ago. ;) @Ellen: But getting sales numbers out there is a way to explode myths like that It amazes me how many myths and straw-man arguments are thrown at ebooks. Joe has done an amazing job of breaking down the myths. I'm looking forward to his highlights on further Indie authors. Readers are looking forward to the variety. :) Everyone seems hell-bent to tell the world how successful and important they are. That's not what the Kindleboard thread is about. It's about a whole bunch of authors who are freakin' excited that their hard work and efforts are paying off. In my day, getting that phone call from an agent saying they accepted you, or the letter from a publisher saying they bought your story, was cause to run around and whoop like a fool. These days, Amazon is causing the whooping. These aren't authors bragging. They are authors excited, pleased, and often surprised that they can actually reach readers without the gatekeepers. Sad you can't see that. Sometimes DTP gets stuck and doesn't report immediately. Don't sweat it. It always catches up. "I checked out the kindleboard link and found it very sad. It's basically a bunch of authors shouting out their numbers to each other. Everyone seems hell-bent to tell the world how successful and important they are." It's a support group for independent authors. I enjoy the camaraderie and advice there (marketing tips, experience sharing, discussion of work styles and daily struggles). Writers tend to become isolated, and a support group of peers is valuable. Thanks to the internet, writers can hang out together on coffee breaks, discuss works in progress, and celebrate their successes. The Kindle board group has helped me to improve my marketing, and it has introduced me to some great new authors and their books. @gniz "Not sure I agree 100 percent with this. It might look that way on the surface, but the fact of the matter is, you still need to be smart and professional and capable in order to entice readers." Yes, you're right. "Entry" just means you enter, it doesn't mean you do well. JT - You like the selection you get from traditional publishing. You're either easy to please.... or you just happen to be their target market. But not everyone is the same. For instance, for me, most of the cozy mystery authors I really liked in the 1990s (who were selling well enough to make a profit for the publishers) were simply put on the blacklist by the distributors after four books or so. They no longer publish fast and dirty little puzzle mysteries like Perry Mason any more. Not long ago I heard someone who'd done a survey of crime fiction over the past ten years, and the "crime comedy" was almost gone from the genre. (A few major authors, but nothing new.) James Viser said... Since technology has changed fundamentally the publishing game, publishers need to determine how they can maintain relevance. Many publishers may have seen themselves as the "gatekeepers" to what the public should (or shouldn't) read. Technology has democratized publishing and now the big (and little) houses will have to change. There are precedents to "old school" industries surviving and even succeeding when faced with disruptive technology changes. For example, Turbo Tax didn't put all tax accountants out of business, but it did force them to extend into new services (e.g., financial planning). If publishers can find new ways to provide value to BOTH authors and readers, then they can survive and even thrive. Fear, however, is the greatest mental paralysis drug out there. It is unlikely that a publisher reacting out of fear and protecting his or her turf will generate forward-thinking and inclusive ideas. Until then, I'll keep self-publishing and building my fan base, one at a time (I am patient). "You like the selection you get from traditional publishing. You're either easy to please.... or you just happen to be their target market" I don’t think I’m either of those. I have fairly discerning tastes in what I read, and likewise, I read so many different books I’m not sure what “target” audience I would be a part of. Although it’s purely anecdotal, for me the issue of variety has never been an issue. "Many publishers may have seen themselves as the "gatekeepers" to what the public should (or shouldn't) read" Again, what’s with the idea that because a publisher chooses to not publish a particular book, they are somehow saying the public “shouldn’t” read that book? IMO, this is just silly logic. All it means is they made the business decision not to invest their money in that author and his/her work. Self-publishing avenues have existed for decades. They may have been looked down upon by the more “enlightened” class, but nevertheless the option has been available for any author who so chooses. If you don't like the decisions made by big publishing regarding your latest work, then put up your own bread and prove them wrong. This entire criticism is a hollow one, IMO, and only serves to propagate the myth building that goes hand in hand with the new ebook revolution. @jviser - Your comment is so well presented I went and bought your ebook on Kindle. Some advice, if you're willing to accept it. 1. Kill the exclamation points on your webpage and Kindle description. It yells "amateur." 2. Tighten the product description to avoid bragging. Stick to story highlights, compare it to one or two other known writers, but don't insist that the reader will love it. While this approach works with grindhouse films, I've found that readers prefer something subtler. Read a few back jackets from your favorite thrillers and emulate their style and tone. Tom Clancy never says "I PROMISE THIS BOOK WILL BLOW YOU AWAY!" You don't need to either. Tim Frost said... The UK has gone Kindle-crazy, and new owners are quickly discovering two things: Big-name bestsellers are often priced more than the paperback. Indie books can be just as enjoyable, and mostly cost under $1/£1. Indies like me are making hay. I sold nearly 3,000 books in December. You need to make a separate Author Page for the UK site, well worth doing. I self-published for a little less than a year. I'm no good at it (especially promotion), yet I experienced a lot of success. http://rexkusler.blogspot.com/ @The Daring Novelist "Not long ago I heard someone who'd done a survey of crime fiction over the past ten years, and the "crime comedy" was almost gone from the genre. (A few major authors, but nothing new.)" Thank you for sharing these tidbits of the industry. I find it absolutely fascinating how the big6 would abandon genres (sub-genres?) that were doing well but were just not 'best sellers.' I'm convinced that the short shelf life of pbooks killed off 1/4 of the 'good books' before they had a chance to 'get legs.' @J. Viser "For example, Turbo Tax didn't put all tax accountants out of business, but it did force them to extend into new services (e.g., financial planning)." Good point! It is about value. My mom was a CPA (retired) and Turbotax was a blessing for her. It cut their annual software costs. ;) (Competition is wonderful.) Her last decade was done doing Turbotax with 'audit insurance.' She found value (added deductions turbotax missed, in particular, taking advantage of typos in the tax code). The publishers need to do the same. Adapt and add value. The book market is incredibly fragmented. Unless the publishers bat 1000, they'll never fulfill every niche. Congratulations on the sales in the UK. Is the UK site more accessible for European buyers, or is it a truly "UK site?" Rex, I just read on your blog that Amazon Encore is picking you up. Congratulations! "Yes, anon, no doubt it would be preferable to some people if none of us ever discussed our numbers, so that the old "most self-pubbed authors only sell twenty copies to friends and family" figure could get thrown around forever." Someone made a post right here on Joe's blog a few days back along the lines of "Most self-publishers are only reaching friends and family." My reply to that was, "I don't have 1,000 friends, let alone 1,000 friends a month." I think the myth that if you self publish to the Kindle that you will only reach a few dozen readers is a high hurdle to jump and threads like that one on Kindleboards and posts like Joe's prove that it isn't true any more. If you only sold a dozen copies of your book and the Big 6 never had any intention of publishing your book... what would be the loss? Kindle publishing is kind of a Win/Win situation. 'Tim, Congratulations on the sales in the UK. Is the UK site more accessible for European buyers, or is it a truly "UK site?"' Neil, good question. The UK site is just for UK residents, in theory. The German/French/Spanish Amazon sites do not list Kindle titles and I think they must buy from the US site, as UK buyers had to until last August. The UK Kindle site has its own reviews, prices, Top 100 etc. It used to be possible for any Amazon customer to post a review on the UK site, but that's no longer the case. What is so interesting is how different the US and UK bestsellers are. Independent authors are doing much better in the rankings in the UK (although sales numbers will be higher in the US). "If you only sold a dozen copies of your book and the Big 6 never had any intention of publishing your book... what would be the loss? I would agree with that statement. While I can see many reasons why an author would choose to pursue a traditional publishing deal, I likewise recognize the allure of newfound opportunities presented by epublishing. And to say only family and friends buy self-published ebooks is plain nonsense. Some of the rhetoric on both sides of this debate is beyond laughable. IMO. Joe, are there any stats on how many people who spring for these low cost self published ebooks actually read them? I ask because I have a friend who self published a book on the kindle and sold several thousand copies at $.99 - $.299 over the course of about six months. Later she signed a deal with a big 6 publisher for another book. She said with the kindle novel she never heard from her readers, ever, but with the published novel she'd get several emails a month from readers. It makes me wonder how many people who buy these self published books actually care enough to read them. This probably doesn't matter to many authors since most people here only seem interested in how much money thay can make, but it's something someone who wants to write for an audience might think about. "This probably doesn't matter to many authors since most people here only seem interested in how much money thay can make..." Well, now, anon, that's a bit unnecessarily snide. People talk about their sales figures and earnings because those are concrete. We KNOW how many books we're selling. We don't have any way of knowing how many readers read our books, and any comparison between how many traditionally published books actually get read vs. indie books is merely speculative. Not really against ebook publishing for the masses, but there's something sad about it, too. Here it is. Just substitute "Published" for "Super" and you'll see. Jenn McKay said... Well, I'm not a big fan of grouping people into one category and making decisions about their abilities, honestly, but this entry did leave me with one thought about agents: They aren't competent journalists, because they don't get the most up-to-date info. tee hee. DO you have some love to share in 2011? Love Every Day Kbalbify said... Thanks for your comment. I came here after reading the other article and wanted to read more. I decided to write my memoir this past August and it was published 12/10/2010. I sold a few books the first week and now I am learning about targeting my marketing. I didn't want to shop my book for 10 years and get rejected, I wanted it out there, and I will let the readers make the decision. Made no sense for me to look for a publisher or an agent at this juncture. I believe the book Bad Girl Gone Mom and the message written within will stand for itself. Congratulations and wishes for your continued success. gniz said: Just an FYI, I did not mean to imply that Amanda Hocking writes erotica, though I can see why it came across that way. Ah, gotcha. Thanks for clarifying. Although I'm not sure publishing is ascribing to the "vampire books are dead" theory yet, considering what's still being put out there. But maybe, since their lag is so huge, they've stopped accepting them and this is the backlog. @anon 12:41 pm I receive fan mail on my self-published titles, and unsolicited ratings and reviews. However, I put my email at the end of every ebook I release and I usually remember to put a para at the end of my ebooks encouraging readers who find a book they like (not just mine!) to post reviews as reviews are one of the things authors running. I do think with self-pubbed books, while a reader might like it, they not sure how "non-professional" writers (i.e. ones ungraced with a big 6 contract) might respond to reviews or personal correspondence. I mean, we're all "crazy" to self-publish, would you want to email one of us??? ;-) gah - when is blogger going to have a post edit feature! "reviews are one of the things that keep authors running" is what I meant to say. "She said with the kindle novel she never heard from her readers, ever, but with the published novel she'd get several emails a month from readers." Just one indie's experience, of course, but for most of 2010 I had just 2 Kindle books available (3 after 11/23), and I definitely get at least "several" emails from readers a month. My books are all priced at $2.99. I get a few emails a day about my ebooks, but very few these days about my print books. Keep in mind that most readers don't contact authors. Side Tidbit on Ebooks: This Christmas I met a few young adults who are reading ebooks on their IPod touches. I was amazed how many had parents who are not 'readers;' it was more of a surprise that their parents won't buy them books ('the library is good enough,' but a 'non-reader' just doesn't prioritize going to the library). Ironically, their parents give them gift cards for music. They're all pushing for Amazon gift cards so they can buy ebooks! (Or they utilize other store gift cards to buy Amazon gift cards.) What is an 11 or 12 year old going to buy with a $25 ebook budget? Not quite two $12.99 ebooks or a bunch of $0.99 to $2.99 ebooks with a little left over for a few MP3s? "I am a reader, not a writer. I don’t care who published the books I’m reading. I never remember the publisher." That for me says it all. The Big 6 missed their chance at innovation and online sales. NO ONE was better positioned than them to drive the ePublishing market, define their brand, and profit from the changes in technology. Instead, they played Marie Antoinette. Now they can eat... I do hope 2011 is the year big publishing pulls out of the death spiral. The industry can use all the creativity and innovation that it can get. If not, there are a number of SMALL publishing houses and Indie authors filling the gap. A great place to be for both a writer and a reader. Stephen Prosapio Author of DREAM WAR @ Rivka, I was going to leave a comment giving my take on the YA market for e-books, but it would have been way too long, so I wrote a blog post instead. Do Kids Read E-Books? People act like the "big 6" are stupid because they're not jumping up and down to publish and sign-up all these "successful" kildle authors who are selling 1000 books a month. Here's the situation. While kindle and e-books are primarily 100% of the world of self-publishers, who thus tend to look at e-books as the entire world, for the big 6 e-books are only one slice of a much bigger pie. They still primarily make their money off large print runs. When they look at a MS, the question is whether that book will sell a large number of print copies at $13.95 or above. The self-publishers on kindle, for the most part, simply won't sell in print. In fact, they won't even sell at a $7.95 kindle price. There's a big difference between being able to sell a .99 e-book and a $13.95 book. Thus the "big-6" have no need to pay much attention to the kindle authors, unless a reputable agent brings the author forward as someone who can actually write (as opposed to sell 99 cent ebooks) Diff anon from above "The self-publishers on kindle, for the most part, simply won't sell in print. In fact, they won't even sell at a $7.95 kindle price. There's a big difference between being able to sell a .99 e-book and a $13.95 book. Thus the "big-6" have no need to pay much attention to the kindle authors..." Hey Anon, those are some pretty large claims you're making. And how would you substantiate them exactly? The one way we might find out is if a large publisher took someone like Amanda Hocking and pushed her books in print the way they've done with other big authors in the past. As far as I know, and Joe and others would know much better, there has never really been such a test case of a person who sold gangbusters in e-books that could not translate to print. You might be right but how on earth would you know? On top of that, are you honestly telling us that taking a chance on someone like Amanda (who is a proven commodity on the ebook market) is riskier than pushing a complete unknown the way the big 6 do from time to time? David Wisehart said... Please remove my name from the list. I'm doing well, but not that well. Yet. I understand you got the list from Robin, and I've informed her as well. Bella Andre said... To counter the idea that only $.99 ebooks sell, the two biggest selling ebooks that I've put out myself (as opposed to my books with Bantam and Pocket) are $5.99 and $4.99 in ebook and $9.99 in print. In December alone I've sold over 6000 copies. And one of the books - GAME FOR LOVE (Bad Boys of Football 3) @ $5.99) went as high as #55 on the BarnesandNoble bestseller list for nearly a week over xmas. My book was bopping around on the top 100 with Nora Roberts and Steve Martin, etc. Loved it! :) What's more, I get lots of email on the ebook titles I've released, plus a great deal of positive feedback on twitter and facebook. In fact, I feel like I've forged a much closer relationship with my readers in the past nine months than I had in the previous six years. Perhaps because ebooks have afforded me the opportunity to write and publish the books my readers have been asking for for years. My first two original ebooks - LOVE ME and GAME FOR LOVE - were both sequels to series started with Pocket. As far as I can see, it's a win-win for everyone: My readers who want these books, myself as an author because I get the pleasure of writing them, and the big 6 publisher (Grand Central Forever) who will be putting out more Bella Andre books in both e and paperback starting 2012 because these ebooks are rapidly building my audience. :) Bella www.BellaAndre.com WDGagliani said... For me, I'd say that Joe's great image of the "death spiral" is beautifully represented by the fact that today Snooki became an "author." As I posted elsewhere: congrats, publishing biz! Proof that you're flushing yourself down the tubes. It's unfortunate that anyone will buy the stupid thing, but I cannot imagine many real readers wanting to check out A Shore Thing. Yet, imagine how much money they put into it... what a sad shame they're tossing their money away like that, when they could be offering it to any of the people on that success list... talk about misguided. One place I agree with JT: The publishers are not setting themselves up as gatekeepers who choose what the readers get to read. They choose books based on what will do best for their business, and be good for their brand. Same with the big distributors and booksellers. As I've said before, I blame the distributors and booksellers for the narrowing of the market - particularly in the areas I like to read. They aren't against variety, heck, they encourage it.... sort of. They buy according to what makes best use of shelf space - not what they think people ought to read. Part of the strategy is that best sellers are the key to their profitability. But they also have learned that people like to browse, so we have the superstores with lesser selling titles.... The problem comes with the most profitable/efficient way of stocking those shelves. It's easier and doesn't cost them much if they just churn through the "long tail" books. Except that, readers of many of the more niche market books prefer to have lots of backlist. But backlist for niche books is "risky" - and takes resources to track, and doesn't necessarily make more profit per foot of shelf space. After all, those readers will buy the new books if they have no choice. So many genres get churned endlessly. (Which helps Amazon because if the books manage to stay in print, the readers can then go to Amazon to find the rest -- but without bookseller support, it's hard to keep the books in print.) But none of this is a conspiracy. It's just what works best for a particular business model. Lauryn Christopher said... "I can't think of a single, compelling reason to allow publishers to keep 52.5% of ebook royalties and give authors just 17.5%--especially when any writer can make 70% by uploading to Kindle themselves." I've only recently dipped a toe into the epublishing world, and my first book ("Conflict of Interest") hasn't hit the numbers you're talking about - yet. So while it's available to anyone who wants to read it as an ebook, and will come out in POD this year, the manuscript also making the rounds of trad publishers. So far I've gotten very positive feedback, but no one has made an offer - yet. So I keep the book in play. At some point, the manuscript will land on the desk of an editor who is interested enough to give it a decent advance and the kind of visibility that will help drive future sales of it and other books (that are currently in the works). If I look at the offer and offers me a long-term benefit that is better than what I'm doing on my own at that point, I'll take the offer; however, if the book is getting enough attention as an ebook, and the trad publishing offer doesn't compete, I'll stay indie. I just don't see the point in "choosing sides" just now - when this new world of publishing makes both alternatives available, and puts me, as an author, in the position of being able to make the decisions that will best drive my career. Hi Joe! In addition to updating your website, maybe it's time to revisit your blog's subtitle: "I'm a full-time thriller writer. Is it possible to make a living as a genre writer? Well, sort of..." Well you convinced me a while back to self publish and I finally did grin Am super excited to be able to annouce that my book is now available on Amazon and soon to be available through various channels thanks to Smashwords. It was after reading exactly how much a 'published' author makes after the publisher takes their cut that did it to me. After 18 months of hard work I'll be damned if I allow someone else over 50% of the profits!! My thanks to you for an inspiring blog :) The Arrival, now available on Amazon www.damselinadirtydress.com Puking for Publishing said... Why is traditional publishing flailing and failing???? So is Snooki the narrator? It's a safe bet. The main character - Giovanna "Gia" Spumanti - certainly sounds like the pint-sized star. One excerpt reads: "I love food. I love drinking, boys, dancing until my feet swell. I love my family, my friends, my job, my boss. And I love my body, especially the badonk." (for those of you not in the know, a badonk is a large round buttox pleasing to the touch) Simon & Schuster everybody!!! Let's forget about the top, say, 250 independently published ebooks on Amazon (by authors with no previous publishing credentials), and focus on the bottom, say, 250,000. How many ebooks do MOST indies sell per month? Approximately zero. And why do you think that is, JT? You've actually provided the answer yourself, more than once. And the voice of reason finally arrives. Thank you, Lauryn. "I didn't want to shop my book for 10 years and get rejected, I wanted it out there, and I will let the readers make the decision." The idea of time concerns me as well. I'm 42 with two completed novels that I'm editing prior to publishing on the Kindle. If I go searching for an Agent, that process could take a year. The Agent could take a year to place the book. It could be 24 months before the book appears on the bookshelves. (All that in a perfect world.) During that time, even if I got a generous $25,000.00 advance, I only see 1/3 of that up front, 1/3 when I finish with the editing process and the last 1/3 when it finally hits store shelves. That is a lot of time to tie up in a project during which my book could be selling every day, making me money every day. At 300 sales a month of my novel I would be money ahead of the $25k by the time 4 years has elapsed. (300 x 12 x 4 x 2.04 = $29,376) At my age, I'm not sure I'm up for sitting around waiting on other people. I would rather sink or swim on my own. (Or as I've been saying recently, if you want to write a novel you should jump in and swim until you can't see the land.) @ Derek, another good post on your blog. People starting out should take a look. Very helpful (though I'm still unable to post on it for some reason) @ anyone who knows - since we are comparing so many numbers, I'm curious, how many traditionally published authors release at least one book in a given year? Let's say 2010. Anybody have an educated guess? "People act like the "big 6" are stupid because they're not jumping up and down to publish and sign-up all these "successful" kildle authors who are selling 1000 books a month." 1000 books a month is 12,000 books a year. At $14.95 for a trade paperback that is $179,400.00 less about $2.00 per copy printing costs. You stack up a list the size of the one Joe has on the front page full of authors like that -- people who are good producers but not best sellers -- and it starts to add up to a massive chunk of change. Good business is where you find it. If those authors are selling 1,000 books a month on their own... how many books could they be selling per month with the marketing muscle of a huge corporation behind them? lee said: > How many of the > self-published authors > who are smoking you in sales > are essentially giving > their books away at 99 cents? > I doubt many of them are > smoking you > when it comes to revenue. let's call b.s. on the idea that e-books which _sell_ at a price of $.99 are being "given away". since -- down the line -- _most_ e-books will be sold for that.... except the ones coming from stupid corporate publishers... heck, that'd be the ruling price right now, if only amazon would pay the 70% rate at that price... but amazon obviously _prefers_ a dollar to handle a transaction. (i.e., 30% of its $2.99 minimum.) for now, anyway... but you can bet amazon is doing all that it can to lower that fee, and that it _will_ be successful. (even now, amazon is willing to settle for just $.65, as proven by its 35% royality on a $.99 book. but amazon makes you pay the penalty for the lower price, by declining to give you the 70%. so when you drop your price by $2, you eat $1.70 of that.) as soon as it can live on a $.60 fee-per-transaction, amazon will dip its $2.99 minimum to $1.99. and authors will willingly follow, since that will mean more sales, enough so that profits go _up_... and, as it makes more and more, amazon will be able to charge less for each transaction, until eventually the minimum is $.99. ponzo said: > my novel goes > an hour without a sale. um, for your own sake, you might want to _try_ to be a bit less obsessive. ;+) > I checked out > the kindleboard link > and found it very sad. > It's basically a bunch of > authors shouting out > their numbers to each other. > Everyone seems hell-bent > to tell the world > how successful > and important they are. > Everyone has become > their own cheerleader and > spends their time > trying to convince > the people above them > that they just as important, > and the people below them > that they're more important. > It looks like a sad, > sad horserace. well, as someone said, you might misunderstand the purpose of that board. but yes, "marketing" is extremely depressing... it's a wonder that anyone -- anyone at all -- really truly thinks that "it works". do we honestly think amada sold 100,000 e-books in december because she's a great marketer? retract the hype, people, to let your success happen naturally... AuthorHouse said... Joseph D'Agnese said... Name any of the great ones—Austen, Poe. Dickens, Twain—if they were alive today they'd be self-pubbing. Anyone have any experience self-pubbing nonfiction? Plan to try it soon. Will report back. "1000 books a month is 12,000 books a year. At $14.95 for a trade paperback that is $179,400.00 less about $2.00 per copy printing costs." 1000 kindle books selling for .99 or thereabouts will in almost all cases translate to 2 books at $14.95. Don't believe me? Have one of the brave authors on this board raise their book price to $14.95 and see what happens. Also, printing costs are not $2.00/book. Don't forget also all the other direct costs (advance, cover, editing, etc.) and indirect/administrative costs. A .99 kindle wonder-author is not marketable AT ALL unless the underlying book is truly good and well written. Simply because someone sells 1000 or more books per month does not necessarily mean that the book is any good. > The publishers are not > setting themselves up > as gatekeepers who choose > what the readers get to read. i wouldn't be so sure of that... for an inside gander at how the publishing industry views itself, look at "merchants of culture", a new book (from wiley) that is _about_ the publishing industry, one that cites many "insiders"... as the title implies, the view is that they communicate culture. and, if you look at the industry as it _used_to_ exist, they did. the old people in the industry actually nurtured authors and really cared about books and the ideas contained therein, ideas that changed lives and the very course of society... they were serious about books. but then corporations started buying up the publishing houses, and installed office bureaucrats and accountants to run them... they were serious about money. so everything changed, and nothing is the same since... but despite that, the industry still has this grandiose view of itself as the _guardian_ of culture, even as they put out celebrity tripe like snooki's... (god love her, but i bet even _she_ let out a big belly-laugh when they told her that they wanted her to write a book... but hey, you write the check, and she'll write the book, yes!) so it will be a glorious happy day when the corporations decide to leave publishing far behind, and move on to some other widgets. anonymous is absolutely right. $14.95 paper-books will never be able to compete against e-books at $2.99. and that's precisely why the publishing industry is now a dying dinosaur. @The daring novelist:" But backlist for niche books is "risky" - and takes resources to track, and doesn't necessarily make more profit per foot of shelf space. After all, those readers will buy the new books if they have no choice. Last last sentence is one of the key 'game changers' ebooks bring to the table. It has been commented here (on this blog, not this thread) on how readers hold out buying until a series is complete. At $0.99 to $2.99, they will then 'buy out' the series. Quite a few readers have that preference. Heck, I'm constantly searching to see if series that I started are complete in ebook form. To others: The rest of the 'wait on ebooks' arguments do not hold water after the tremendous ereader and ebook sales since late November. :) We'll hit the 'tipping point' in ebooks by end 1H2011. Heck, it is possible we have already transitioned through it. I'm personally waiting for more self-published history. I used to read civil war diaries to better understand history. I'd love to see more personal accounts by veterans. "Also, printing costs are not $2.00/book. Don't forget also all the other direct costs (advance, cover, editing, etc.) and indirect/administrative costs." Yes, printing costs are close to $2.00 a book. The printing of a book is one of the lower cost items in that food chain. Because Amazon charges you $8.00 on Createspace doesn't mean that the big publishers aren't getting a better rate. As for all those other costs -- a big publisher doesn't need to have a huge New York office, doesn't need to have 5 editors and 3 administrators look at a book and pay four different artists to create covers. Those are costs that they built into their current publishing model, but everything they do can be done quicker/cheaper/faster if they wanted to streamline their business. "but everything they do can be done quicker/cheaper/faster if they wanted to streamline their business" Fax your resume to their board room immediately. Only you can save them. The Year Ahead for Media: Digital or Die: Online WSJ "All those e-readers stuffed into Christmas stockings this past holiday season will make this a record year for e-book sales as physical book sales head south." "The impact of increasing digital book sales—which some major publishers estimate now account for 8% to 10% of annual revenue—on physical book sales is still unfolding. Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703808704576061591797222296.html#ixzz1A7vCgNN3" My only comment: There is more worth reading in the article. I'm assuming you're talking about $14.95 pbooks produced by traditional publishers, vs. $2.99 ebooks produced by Juana B. Authors. That's like saying a Rolex will never be able to compete against a Timex. They're both watches, but the comparison pretty much ends there. "$14.95 paper-books will against e-books at $2.99" Well of course that's a lame statement. If the book I want is unavailable as a $2.99 ebook, then I'm gonna buy the paper book. And I'm not alone in that regard. Not to mention the fact that I, like many millions of others, do not own an ereader. And maybe never will. But of course bird believes that someday very soon, all paper books will be a thing of the past, and readers such as myself will have no choice but to buy ebooks. Fat chance of that day ever coming. More Infor on Borders WSJ article "At one publishing company, Borders halted payment on a check that covered books shipped in October, according to an executive." Note: B&N is demanding the same terms Borders receives, but I thought I was quoting too much from the article and wanted to instead quote: "Borders had an estimated 8.1% of retail sales of new printed books in 2010, compared to 22.5% for Amazon.com Inc., and 17.3% for Barnes & Noble," So three months of missed payments on 8.1% of the business and B&N is demanding any payment extension/relief Borders receives... So Neil, tell me man, do you buy any paper books anymore, or are you strictly ebooks these days? And if so, when did you make the switch? Btw...that WSJ link is bogus, you gotta subscribe to read the full story. "That's like saying a Rolex will never be able to compete against a Timex. They're both watches, but the comparison pretty much ends there." That's right. They fill very different market segments, and both can be profitable. Timex is a cheap watch, and it serves the purpose, albeit in a much less elegant way than the Rolex. It also doesn't break the bank to buy a Timex, and the wearer isn't traumatized if the watch is lost. I can't afford a Porsche either. The $2.99 ebook is an affordable-for-the-reader, but also highly profitable (for the author) product. It provides entertainment (arguably not high brow stuff, but the old dime novels also had their place in the great literary chain of being). Quite frankly, I'm not looking to read Franzen every time I pick up a book for a recreational read. I can purchase 6 or 7 good reads for the same price I'd pay for one of the traditionally published products (and many of those aren't any better than the indie works -- the last one I picked up was worse, and I paid $7 for it). It doesn't have to be the "great American novel" every time I sit down to escape into a fantasy . . . just give me a good plot, great characters, and a good writing style. Many indies provide this at $2.99, and the sales numbers indicate it appears to be working for many readers. JT: I'm 50 like you and a discerning reader like you and I got a Kindle for Christmas and I honestly don't see the point in ever buying another novel printed on paper. That's sort of shooting myself in the foot, since I have a hardcover coming out in May, but that's the way I feel. "It doesn't have to be the "great American novel" every time I sit down to escape into a fantasy . . . just give me a good plot, great characters, and a good writing style. Many indies provide this at $2.99, and the sales numbers indicate it appears to be working for many readers" Which is precisely the reason why ebooks will never completely take over printed books. IMO. You make a lot of good points in that post, in particular the one about the old dime novels. I see a future where traditionally published books peacefully coexist alongside a large market share of ebooks, both from true indies and established name authors. I don't see it as an either/or proposition. Because no matter how cheap ereaders become, or how many of the Big 6 go under, there's still going to be a market for good old paper bound books. And as long as there's a market, there will be companies willing to supply that market. ...just give me a good plot, great characters, and a good writing style. You're asking for at least a Seiko. ;) "I'm 50 like you and a discerning reader like you and I got a Kindle for Christmas and I honestly don't see the point in ever buying another novel printed on paper" I hear that Jude, and must admit I've hovered around the purchase of a Kindle for some time now. But for me the allure isn't finding a new reading experience, rather it's more an effort to truly understand this new phenomenon of ebooks and epublishing. Right now I'm reading samples on my iphone, imac or PC. It's really a drag, and since I spend so much time working on a computer, I don't want to start reading on one. The e-ink looks like it might be the ticket. I'm truly interested in reading full ebooks from real independent authors, just to get a feel for what the market comprises. Currently I'm stuck between continuing to query my finished novel, or pursuing the ebook route. And epublishing my book without ever having read a complete ebook seems kind of lame to me. But I seriously doubt I'd ever completely abandon paper books. There's just too many I want to read that I can't buy electronically, and beyond that, I do love the feel of a real book in my hands. I got a Kindle for Christmas and I honestly don't see the point in ever buying another novel printed on paper. Awesome. Congrats! Watch out, though. I bought over 100 ebooks in six months. It's too easy to spend money. Anon said "The $2.99 ebook is an affordable-for-the-reader, but also highly profitable (for the author) product. It provides entertainment (arguably not high brow stuff, but the old dime novels also had their place in the great literary chain of being)." You are, of course, welcome to your opinion, but you sure are making some broad assumptions here. We're talking about a huge number of books and writers on both the indie side and traditional side. The idea that one side is all Rolex and the other timex is... well it's pretty broad. This just started a few months ago. How do you know whether any of it is "high brow" or not? I don't know the answer to that either, but I have read two much hyped indie books in the past month. One was good, one was a little disappointing based on the hype. But both of them were easily as good anything current I've read in their genres. Btw, the one I liked much better of the two? 99 cents. The other was 2.99. "This just started a few months ago" Huh? What started a few months ago? 70 percent royalties started 6 months ago. What blog is this? "The idea that one side is all Rolex and the other timex is... well it's pretty broad. This just started a few months ago. How do you know whether any of it is "high brow" or not? " Sorry if I gave the impression that indie books are all "dime novels". They aren't. There's more than one Rolex in the Kindle indie bin . . . including some great literary fiction. Karen McQuestion's books come to mind. @bowerbird - I really have to disagree with you about all ebooks will be sold at $0.99. I think we'll actually see people coming up from that price. I'm a bit of a lone reed on pricing, except for Bella in that Michael's books are priced at $4.95 and $6.95 and even at that price he can sell 10,500 copies in a month. I don't think people reading ebooks think that this price is too high. Fair enough, Anon. Thanks for clarifying. It's just that, I'm beginning to get the impression there is going to be an extended battle of perception over this whole thing in the near future. "70 percent royalties started 6 months ago. What blog is this?" Still don't get it. You said nothing about royalties in your original post. I'm sure you had a point in there somewhere, it just wasn't articulated very well. Fortunately, the person I was talking to was able to piece it all together, so it's all fine now. "Fortunately, the person I was talking to was able to piece it all together, so it's all fine now" Well, seems to me the person you were talking to made his point quite well the first time. You were the one who had a little trouble figuring it out. But it's all good now...he explained it better for you. I seemed to have stepped into something here. I'm not going to continue this, but... you do realize that all prior comments are still visible and in their original order, right? Yes, I am aware of that. Have a good night. @JT"So Neil, tell me man, do you buy any paper books anymore, or are you strictly ebooks these days?" The truth always has grey: 1. I only buy e-books for myself. 2. I'm given about 20 to 30 print books per year (usually 2nd hand, 'I read this and you should too.') 3. I buy print books for my children. 4. We give friend's/family's kids about $150/year in print books. On a dollar basis: Ebooks: $500/year (myself) Kids books: Us $100/year, grandparents gifts $200/year friends/family gifts $150/year Books we buy as gifts: $150/year Wife: $100 to $200/year in books She just started ebooks ($30 since Christmas) I first received my Kindle in March of 2009. At first it was 50/50 print/ebook. In 2010 I read 106 ebooks to 20 print books. "Fax your resume to their board room immediately. Only you can save them." I'm sorry. I can only save one Anonymous loser at a time and you have proven to be a full time job. "I'm 50 like you and a discerning reader like you and I got a Kindle for Christmas and I honestly don't see the point in ever buying another novel printed on paper." I felt the exact same way when I got the iPad. I'm still buying physical books for the quirky literary stuff, but anything mid-list mass-market paperback I'm not bothering with the paperback and going with the digital download. Jude - Regarding your comments about the vast majority of indie writers at the bottom of the rankings.... You do realize that most of those are people who aren't really trying. Some are people who just scribbled out a book and put it up and have already lost interest and will never write another book. Others are literally writing for friends or relatives. Some will keep it up but are more or less posturing, and making no efforts to learn their craft or learn how to market or anything else. I gotta say it - the people who aren't trying don't count in this kind of debate. And I've got to say this too... the people who can't write, and could never have gotten published traditionally also don't count even if they do try. (At least in terms of "is self-publishing viable.) I can pretty much guarantee you, though, that all of them are likely selling more books than they would if they'd sent their book to a traditional publisher. > That's like saying a Rolex > will never be able to > compete against a Timex. right. it won't. not if the buyer doesn't want to spend a fortune, and only wants to know the time. you do know, don't you, that that is why most people buy a watch... > They're both watches, but > the comparison pretty much > ends there. which is why most people will buy the timex, not the rolex... jtplayer said: > Well of course > that's a lame statement. > If the book I want is > unavailable as a $2.99 ebook, > then I'm gonna > buy the paper book. and what if the book you "want" is only available as an e-book? once the money dries up for the big corporate publishing houses, they won't be able to crank their spin machine to make you want to buy all their books any more. > Not to mention the fact that I, > like many millions of others, > do not own an ereader. > And maybe never will. well, it wouldn't matter to me if you decided that you don't want to read books any more. millions of americans have already made that decision, it would seem. research says that the majority of them read one book (or fewer) last year. many report that they haven't read any books "since college". > But of course bird believes > that someday very soon, > all paper books will be > a thing of the past, and > readers such as myself > will have no choice but to > buy ebooks. Fat chance > of that day ever coming. for someone who says that he's not stupid, i find your reading comprehension certainly seems not to be as good as i'd expect from a person who is calling himself "a reader"... i've distinctly and clearly said, thanks to _print-on-demand,_ you and other people will still have the option of printed books for a long time, _provided_that_ you are willing to _pay_ for 'em. now, sir, if you would be so kind as to please stop misinforming people about what _i_ believe, i'd appreciate it very much. thanks. Guest Post by Blake Crouch Guest Post by Sam Torode Guest Post by Terri Reid Time Investment Guest Post by Jeremy Robinson Guest Post by Lee Goldberg Guest Post by Aaron Patterson Guest Post by Selena Kitt Part 2 Guest Post by H.P. Mallory Guest Post by Robin Sullivan Guest Post by L.J. Sellers	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20260
__label__cc	0.725571	0.274429	Is New Media Transforming Political Cultures in Africa?: A Synoptic Case Study of Nigeria \|In News, silent-histories \|By Tunde Ope-Davies Tunde Ope-Davies (Opeibi) University of Lagos Digital Humanities Since the outbreak of the Arab Spring in the Saharan region of Africa, new media technologies have assumed a new status in Africa and across the world. The use of these digital media platforms is believed to have implications for society, culture, politics and other areas of social ecosystems. The success of Nigeria’s 2012 fuel subsidy protest was, for instance, largely attributed to the use of social media by the civil society organisations and private citizens. Between 2011 and 2019 in Nigeria, our studies have shown that political actors and stakeholders are increasingly using a range of new media technologies to create interactive space for political engagement. Online searches conducted on key topics that are trending show that the WebSphere has become political engagement space in Nigeria. For instance, some web-based platforms and social networking sites such as blogs, portals of national newspapers, political websites, Facebook and Twitter now provide publicly accessible information on democratic practice and civic engagement in Nigeria (Opeibi, 2016, 2019). Using web-based applications and corpus analytical tools (e.g. Sketch Engine, Keyhole, AntConc3.4) and media monitoring methods, we are able to digitally-track and harvest important political issues that enjoy popular discussions in online political space. The information that is extracted gives us an idea of the way the issues are constructed and portrayed and the attitude of the stakeholders to the subject. One such issue that has remained in the public domain as well as in the public sphere in the last fifteen years has been the quest for good governance in Nigeria. Successive administrations at the three major administrative levels (federal, state and local) since 1999 have struggled to convince the average Nigerian citizens of their genuine desire to provide what they perceive as good governance (Opeibi, 2015). Apart from different Twitter hashtags that have developed around key political issues in Nigeria (e.g., #OccupyNigeria, #NigeriaDecides, #BokoHaram, #BringBackOurGirls), the 2015 political campaigns generated some elections-induced hashtags. These included, #APCDecides, #GEJ, #GMB, #Change, #GEJSAMBOCARRYGO, #Forward, #Countdown2Change, #IvoteBuhari, #BuhariOsinbajo, #NigeriaDecides2019, #NextLevel2019 etc. In a similar vein, the 2019 general elections witnessed a significant increase in the use of new media technologies and web2.0 for political campaigns, political mobilization, crowdsourcing, fundraising and civic engagement. Twitter was particularly heavily used by political candidates compared with previous elections. The use of multimedia political websites that provide the space for videos, audio, texts, pictures and real-time interactive conversation enhance the synchronous computer-mediated communication strategies utilised for intense online political engagement. Figure A: Political Website of the All Progressives Congress (APC) during the 2019 Elections Fig. B: Political website of the Youth Progressives Party (YPP) during the 2019 general elections in Nigeria. While some scholars have criticized the claims that social media can improve political participation, our study has shown that regardless of the shortcomings of digital politics, the new technologies are gradually transforming political cultures in Nigeria. Our studies have shown that within the last three electoral cycles, new media usage has increased significantly. S/N Year of Election Types of New Media Used 1 2011 Mobile Telephone SMS, Limited use of Facebook 2. 2015 Facebook, Political Websites, Twitter 3. 2019 Enhanced Digital Features on Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Multimedia Political Websites, Instagram, YouTube, limited Use of Telegram, Experts, scholars and international election observers all agree that 2019 general elections were particularly impacted by technologies at every level. The use of digital technologies is now promoting participatory democracy, credible electoral process and accountability. Government activities, the conducts of elected officials are now transmitted into online public space via social media platforms. Indiscretion and scandals are discussed online and culpable officials are called to account for any acts of indiscretion. It may be argued therefore that new media technologies have created a whole new process of engagement in private and public spaces. Within the context of democratic practice, the new technologies have demonstrated the potential to transform political cultures and create a new public space that will continue to bridge the existing communication gaps between citizens and their leaders. Opeibi, T.( 2019). Opeibi, Tunde. (2019). “The Twittersphere as Political Engagement Space: A Study of Social Media Usage in Election Campaigns in Nigeria.” Digital Studies/Le champ numérique 9(1): 6, pp. 1–32. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/dscn.292 Opeibi, Tunde (2018b). Gaining Political Capital through Social Media: A Study of Akinwunmi Ambode’s Twitter Campaigns During 2015 Elections in Nigeria. Opeibi, T., and Schmied, J. (eds) (2018). From Virtual Sphere to Physical Space: Exploring Language Use in NigerianDemocracy, REAL Studies Vol 13. Gottingen: Cuvillier Verlag, pp 1-30 Opeibi, T., and Schmied, J. (eds) (2018). From Virtual Sphere to Physical Space: Exploring Language Use in Nigerian Democracy, REAL Studies Vol 13. Gottingen: Cuvillier Verlag, 206pp Opeibi, Tunde (2016). Digital Media and Civic Engagement in Nigeria: A Corpus-Based Discourse Study of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s Facebook Page. Taiwo R., and Opeibi, T. (eds.) (2016). Discourse of Digital Civic Engagement: Perspectives from the Developing World. New York: Nova Science Publishers Inc. 1-34 Opeibi, Tunde (2015). New Media and the Transformation of Political Cultures in Nigeria: An exploration of a corpus-based discourse approach. REAL Studies 9.202-231 © 2020 Lorentz All rights reserved	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20280
__label__wiki	0.58603	0.58603	Kohler Expands Environmental, Health Disclosures for Kitchen & Bath Products Leading plumbing manufacturer launches Declare labels, adds more environmental product declarations Jun 5, 2018 11:05 AM ET Tweet This: It's important to understand the products in your home. That's why Kohler offers Declare ingredient labels on select KOHLER products. http://bit.ly/2kNsaPD KOHLER, Wis., June 5, 2018 /3BL Media/ – Today, in recognition of World Environmental Day, Kohler Co. announces expansion of its environmental and human health product disclosures for its kitchen and bath products. Kohler has released its first Declare human health product labels for two popular enameled cast iron fixtures – the Villager® bathtub and the Brockway™ sink. Declare labels, similar to food ingredient labels, detail the material composition of the fixtures and help inform consumers about the safety of the products they use every day. Declare labels are produced using a format developed by the International Living Future Institute (ILFI), and they fulfill product disclosure requirements in the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) green building rating system. Kohler’s engineering and operations team worked together for more than six months on the project. “Developing our first Declare labels required gathering details on the sourced raw material from each supplier, the quantity of naturally occurring impurities, and the final material composition after undergoing chemical transformation during the casting and firing process,” said Jeff Zeman, principal engineer for product sustainability engineering at Kohler. “Architects and designers have asked for information about the products they specify for building projects, and knowing the exact makeup of the raw materials help us continue to invest in product innovation that benefits our customers.” Kohler also recently expanded availability of environmental product declarations (EPDs) for its plumbing fixtures produced for North American and select Asian markets, which helps architects and interior designers maximize the credits they can achieve when targeting a building for LEED certification. Kohler has achieved third-party certification through UL to create on-demand EPDs for more than 1,000 primary kitchen and bath fixtures, or more than 10,000 total product SKUs when accounting for color and finish variations. With this expansion, Kohler offers more EPDs than any other building products manufacturer. “Kohler has long been known as an industry leader in water efficiency,” said Rob Zimmerman, director of sustainability at Kohler. “Providing clear, easy-to-understand environmental and human health data on the products we manufacture takes our sustainability commitment one step further. In partnership with the green building industry, we strive to ensure that all residential and commercial buildings contribute to the overall health of their occupants while minimizing their environmental footprint.” Because Kohler environmental engineers worked with operations leaders to collect energy, water and waste data at 14 of the company’s manufacturing facilities and apply it to individual products, the company achieved UL certification at the facility level instead of the typical product-by-product approach other manufacturers use. This maximizes the number of KOHLER and Sterling products with available EPDs and provides data-supported insights that give Kohler product development teams an edge in designing the next generation of more environmentally favorable plumbing products. Next the teams will gather information to develop EPDs for KOHLER faucets and showering products, planned for 2019. In April, Kohler was one of 34 building products manufacturers that publicly committed to product transparency in a letter from ILFI mailed to architects, designers and other influential leaders in the green building industry. Kohler is currently working with ILFI to create Declare labels for additional fixtures, to launch later this year. Kohler Product Transparency Overview https://www.us.kohler.com/us/EPD/article/CNT125300002.htm About Kohler Co. Founded in 1873 and headquartered in Kohler, Wisconsin, Kohler Co. is one of America’s oldest and largest privately held companies comprised of more than 35,000 associates. With more than 50 manufacturing locations worldwide, Kohler is a global leader in the manufacture of kitchen and bath products; engines and power systems; premier cabinetry and tile; and owner/operator of two of the world’s finest five-star hospitality and golf resort destinations in Kohler, Wisconsin, and St Andrews, Scotland. Kohler Co. has a long history of supporting water efficiency and sustainability and is a leading producer of water-saving plumbing products, which has earned the company 10 consecutive awards from the EPA WaterSense® program. For more details, visit kohler.com for information on water-saving plumbing products, and follow KOHLER on Twitter and Facebook. Anne M. Smith APR anne.smith@kohler.com 920-457-4441, ext. 76429, Cell: 920-698-7573 Supply Chain & the Circular Economy Declare labels World Environmental Day More from Kohler Co. Kohler Co. Attains Third Green Masters Status Dec 16, 2019 12:30 PM ET More Than Just a Toilet: Fusing Partnerships for a Better World Nov 18, 2019 12:00 PM ET EPA Honors Kohler Co. With a Green Power Leadership Award Sep 6, 2019 11:30 AM ET Kohler Co. Releases 2018 Social Impact Report Jun 25, 2019 11:20 AM ET Kohler WasteLAB Honored With Environmental Leader Award May 15, 2019 11:00 AM ET	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20281
__label__cc	0.587704	0.412296	Ka`u News Briefs, Sunday, March 30, 2014 Students map archaeological sites during the Wahi Kupuna internship program. Applications are open for this summers' paid internships in Ka`u. Photo from Kamehameha Schools HAWAI'I COUNTY'S TAKE OF INCOME from the 9.25 percent state Transient Accommodations Tax that is levied on income from vacation rentals, inns and hotels, could increase. On Friday, the state Senate Committee on Ways and Means passed House Bill 1671 to repeal the $93 million cap on county income from TAT revenue. Mayor Billy Kenoi and the Hawai'i County Council both support removal of the cap, contending that the county needs the income to take care of police, fire and ambulance services, as well as roads, parks and other public places used by visitors. Mayor Billy Kenoi State Finance Director Kalbert Young testified that the state also needs the revenue to improve the transportation system, which includes airports, harbors, state highways and parks. He wrote: "We must all remember that TAT revenue is not intended to pay for all the costs or perceived county burdens of providing services for visitors. The TAT revenue merely supplements what is already extracted by the counties from visitor industry businesses." He pointed out that counties already collect real property taxes from hotels and businesses that fund services to visitors and residents. "I would also point out that real property taxes on visitor accommodations are the highest ad valorum rates of any property classes in all the counties. The $93 million in TAT provides to the counties supplemental revenue from state tax revenues." Hawai'i County Council passed a resolution to lift the cap and supporting the counties receiving 44.8 percent of the TAT. The resolution says, "The current allocation to the counties is inadequate for the increased use of resources from visitors on county parks, infrastructure, and first responders." Ka'u Sen. Russell Ruderman voted to lift the cap. Former Ka'u Sen. Gl Kahele also voted to bring more of the TAT income home to the counties. Hawai'i County Mayor Billy Kenoi joined the Hawai'i Council of Mayors in submitting testimony stating: "The cap was always understood to be a temporary measure to assist the state with a temporary budget shortfall, with a sunset in 2015. Now that the state economy is recovering and state Transient Accommodations Tax collections are climbing to record levels, there is no further justification for the cap. We respectfully ask that the committee remove the cap on the counties’ share of TAT revenues." To comment on or like this story, go to facebook.com/kaucalendar. A PIPELINE TO CARRY BIOFUEL between ship and shore at Hilo Harbor was approved by the state Board of Land & Natural Resources on Friday. The pipe would initially be used to import biofuel to Hawai`i Island for transportation and electricity. The BLNR is requiring review and approval of an Environmental Assessemnt before considering whether to give final approval. A tax credit to encourage local production of biofuel is moving through the legislature, with the tax credit available for only those products with low transportation costs. To comment on or like this story, go to facebook.com/kaucalendar. Whale counting sites during Saturday's last humpback observation day for 2014. THE FINAL HUMPBACK WHALE COUNT OF THE YEAR took place yesterday when more than 500 volunteers gathered data from the Ka`u Coast, the shores of Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park and the coastline of O‘ahu, Kaua‘i, and the rest of Hawai‘i. The series of volunteer events was sponsored by the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary. The count is a shore-based census that provides snapshot data on humpback whales. Participants tally humpback whale sightings and document the animals’ surface behavior during the survey. Yesterday, volunteers collected data from 58 sites statewide. A total of 165 whales were seen during the 9:a.m.– 9:15 a.m. time period, the most of any time period throughout Saturday's count (57 sites reported data). Weather conditions varied throughout the state. Many sites experienced calm ocean conditions in the morning before heavy rain and thunderstorms reached different parts of the islands, forcing some sites to cancel the count early. Preliminary data detailing whale sightings by site location is available at: http://www.sanctuaryoceancount.org/resources/ For more information on becoming a Sanctuary Ocean Count volunteer in 2015 visit http://hawaiihumpbackwhale.noaa.gov or http://sanctuaryoceancount.org. University of Hawai`i works with Hawaiian organizations around the state to preserve and educate about Native Hawaiian cultural sites. Photo from Oiwi TV The sanctuary, which is administered by a partnership of NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries and the State of Hawai‘i through the Department of Land and Natural Resources, protects humpback whales and their habitat in Hawaiian waters where they migrate each winter to mate, calve and nurse their young. To comment on or like this story, go to facebook.com/kaucalendar. INTERNS WILL STUDY IN KA`U FOR THE WAHI KUPUNA Program this summer. It is open to University of Hawai`i-Hilo and Hawai`i Community College student applicants. This summer’s interns will conduct cultural resource management projects on Kamehameha Schools’ legacy lands in the moku of Kaʻū. The paid internship is sponsored by Huliauapaʻa, a non-profit organization committed to perpetuating and ensuring the integrity of Hawaiʻi’s wahi kūpuna, and Kumupaʻa, a Hawaiian-owned and operated cultural resource management company. Applicants must be enrolled in the fields of Anthropology, Archaeology, Hawaiian Studies, or a related subjects. Up to six student will be selected following acceptance of applications and interviews. The internship program runs for five weeks from July 14 – Aug. 15. Interns will work 40 hours a week and receive pay. Interns from U.H.-Hilo must enroll in Anthropology 490 for Fall semester to receive credit. The program includes a week of orientation, three weeks in the field and one week of wrap-up. Students will camp and are expected to be fit for strenuous physical activity for the field work. Work will also involve archival research, interviewing, data analysis, lab, keeping field logs and observational data sheets, report writing and making a final presentation to the Society for Hawaiian Archaeology at its statewide conference in October in Hilo. For more information and an application, email to aoloa@huliauapaa.org or call (808) 430-5031. To comment on or like this story, go to facebook.com/kaucalendar. A MILOLI`I HOUSE BURNED down yesterday, according to Hawai1`i County firefighters. They arrived to the unoccupied and possibly abandoned home at 9:33 a.m. and found it nearly collapsed and overcome by flames. The fire was extinguished by noon and no injuries were reported. To comment on or like this story, go to facebook.com/kaucalendar. Esteve Salmo is the star this season in Ka`u Trojan track. Photo from Ka`u High KA`U COAST is the title of one of the artworks on display in the offices of state legislators who encourage constituents to visit them this coming Friday for Art at the Capitol, a program sponsored by the Hawai`i State Art Museum. Ka`u Coast was painted by the late Mike Sakamoto, the famed television host of Fishing Tales, who brought his show to Ka`u. Sakamoto's painting can be seen in the office of Rep. James Kunane Tokioko. Also participating in the art show is Ka`u Sen. Josh Green with a painting in his office called Afro World Independence Congress. Rep. Richard Creagan says the art in his office is by a painter from Ireland (where some of his family comes from) and was created in Hawai`i. The image shows one person looking out a window and another looking out a door. Creagan said the art encourages people to ponder why two people are carrying out two distinct actions at the same time, though near each other. He said it also reminds him of the "opening and closing of doors and windows in life. It's about being open and realizing that you need to leave some things behind," he said."It's a huge painting about 5 feet by 6 feet. I love the painting. It is full of light," said Creagan. More than 500 works are on display in 50 legislative offices and the offices of the governor and lieutenant governor. To comment on or like this story, go to facebook.com/kaucalendar. IN TROJAN TRACK & Field at yesterday’s islandwide Big Island Interscholastic Federation meet in Waimea, Ka'u High standout Esteve Salmo took second in the long jump, reaching 20.01.25 feet. That's just 2.25 inches shy of the first place jump by Dennis Preston of Waiakea High and a full foot beyond third-place finisher Caleb John Statler, of Hilo High. To comment on or like this story, go to facebook.com/kaucalendar. SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS AT PAHALAPLANTATIONCOTTAGES.COM AND KAUCOFFEEMILL.COM. 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__label__cc	0.514541	0.485459	Ka`u News Briefs Sunday, Aug. 24,2014 Paniolo action at Na`alehu Rodeo Grounds yesterday raised funds for Ka`u High's eight-man football team. Photo by Kupono Palakiko Leffew KA`U SOIL & WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT presented a soil health workshop Friday to a diverse group of Ka`u farmers, urging them to adopt soil health management systems that protect natural resources, protect against drought and increase production. Called Unlock the Secrets of the Soil, the session included presentations on keeping soils alive, showing films of earthworms dragging leaves underground to produce organic matter, images of farming under the canopy of a forest and clearing albizia trees for pasture, with planning that protects natural waterways and prevents soil erosion. One of the slogans presented was “Keep it Happy, Keep it Covered. Soil should be covered all the time, preferably with living plants.” Ka`u residents learned about healthy soils at a workshop Friday. One of the overarching messages was that each area to be farmed can benefit from careful planning and that Soil & Water Conservation District can help. Presenters talked about programs that can reimburse farmers for much of the cost of cover crops. A program to “renew the best, motivate the rest,” helps to reimburse those who succeed with good farm practices. Programs that provide funding require farmers to either own or have long enough leases on land to guarantee time to produce their farm products, and landowners have to sign off on such funding. Many services provided by numerous state and federal agencies were described. These include grading and irrigation planning, soil analysis and financial advice. Brenda Iokepa-Moses, chair of Ka`u Soil & Water Conservation District, presented speakers: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service soil scientist Amy Koch, NCRS Hilo Field Office conservationist Kori Hisashima, NCRS county resource conservationist Carolyn Wong, Ka`u Ocean Vista Coffee Estate farmer John Ah San, Universy of Hawai`i assistant extension agent Andrea Kawabata; Kuahiwi rancher Michelle Galimba and soil conservationist and engineer for SWCD Amelia Drury. For more information, see nrcs.usda.gov. Richard Ha “THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS WE CAN LEARN from the hurricane we just went through,” said state Board of Agriculture member Richard Ha on his blog at hahaha.hamakuasprings.com. “People saw what needed to be done on the ground, and they just did it. Trees needed to be cut, so they cut them. Neighbors needed food and ice, so people got them food and ice. People saw the situations that were problems, and they took care of them. Ha said the Center for Food Safety and EarthJustice, the legal arm of the Sierra Club, are “fighting against farmers” by helping defendants in the lawsuit that plaintiffs brought against the county regarding its ban of genetically modified crops. “We have been dragged into a battle, and all we want to do is get back to providing food for people. We’re farmers. We want to grow things and feed people. We don’t want to be involved in lawsuits and philosophical battles. … ‘We farmers are asking for clarity on this anti-GMO bill. We’re saying tell us what the rules are so we can go back to farming. But those two are fighting against us, so we can’t do that. Ha compares people’s actions after the storm to what farmers want to do now. “It’s as if after the hurricane they said, ‘Yeah, we see all the albizia trees are down, but we want you to focus on something that’s happening in the Midwest, or in India. ...’ “Or it’s like they were saying, ‘Yeah, we see all the trees down, but you can’t use chainsaws because they’re dangerous. You’ve got to use axes because they’re natural.’ “We’re saying, ‘Look, we’ve got to use chainsaws. We’ve got to help people.’ “It’s really that simple. We farmers are spending too much time on all that other stuff, and we really just want to get back to farming. “When the Association of Counties asked me to talk about climate change and how the farmer looks at it, I quoted Neil DeGrasse Tyson. He talks about climate change being the guy and his dog walking down the beach. The man walking straight down the beach is the climate, and the dog running back and forth is the weather. “The climate is the policy kind of stuff, and hopefully the climate people make the right decisions. “We farmers deal with the weather. If there’s a storm, or an insect, we deal with it. We’ve got to concentrate on growing food. Otherwise, we end up trying to make policy, and we’re not scientists. We’re farmers. “We just want to get back to farming.” Ka`u High Trojans sold pink T-shirts at the rodeo to raise funds. Photo by Kupono Palakiko Leffew KA`U TROJAN AND RODEO FANS filled Na`alehu Rodeo Grounds yesterday to raise money for eight-man high school football. Pink T-shirts promoted Ka`u High School football, which will take the team off-island this season, flying to Maui and Moloka`i. The team and its coach, Kainoa Ke, ran a food booth, and the team sold shirts. Here are the winners in the rodeo competition: Dummy Roping, four years old and under - Blayne DeMattos; five to eight years of age - Austin Costa Lorenzo; Goat Undecorating, four and under - Blayne DeMattos; five to eight - Clancy Aku; Po`o Wai U - Bronson Branco; Double Mugging - Bronson Branco and Kalai Nobriga; Team 90’s - Danny Joseph and Mike Smith; Calf Roping - Kalai Nobriga; Youth Barrels - Kale Onaka; Wahine Breakaway - Nahe Nobriga; Kane Wahine Dally - Danny and Daphne Joseph; Open Dally - Brian DeMattos and Mike Smith; Kane Wahine Ribbon - Nahe and Kalai Nobriga; and Wahine Mugging - Nahe Nobriga and Macey Loando. Pink Trojan Rodeo shirts raise money for football. KA`U FOOD PANTRY, INC. distributes food to the needy of Ka`u this coming Tuesday and the last Tuesday of each month at Ocean View Community Center from 12 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Its mission is to provide each family with three days of food. Most of the food comes from Food Basket of Hawai`i, Inc. in Kona. Ka`u Food Basket pays them a small handling fee for the food they provide. “We have had as much as 4,000 pounds of food to distribute, and even then we sometimes run out before everyone can be helped,” said board member Dallas Decker. “We operate with a small corp of volunteers – nobody is paid to serve. “But we do need to pay for food. We need about $600 per month to cover the cost of acquiring and transporting food, paying rent, buying bags and boxes and other supplies.” That’s not very much considering that the Food Basket gives three or four days of food to as many as 350 people. President Judy Samuel oversees the operation of shopping, transporting, organizing and distributing food each month with her group of very dedicated volunteers. Other board members are Karen Pucci, Ric Stark, Allison Gusman, Allan Humble, Lynne Kreinberg and the Rev. Dallas Decker. Samuel may be reached at 808-979-6502. Ka`u Food Pantry distributes food on the last Tuesday of each month at Ocean View Community Center. Contributions to the nonprofit are tax deductible and may be sent to PO Box 7105, Ocean View, HI 96737. All contributions are greatly appreciated and promptly acknowledged. HAWAI`I VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK WAIVES ENTRY FEES tomorrow to celebrate National Park Service’s 98th birthday. A schedule of free ranger-led programs and guided hikes will be posted outside Kilauea Visitor Center and the Jaggar Museum by 9:30 a.m. Visitors can enjoy programs including Explore the Summit – a one-hour walk from the Kilauea Visitor Center to the edge of Kilauea caldera, and Life on the Edge, a 20-minute talk about the current eruption from Halema`uma`u Crater given daily at Jaggar Museum overlook. See nps.gov/havo for more information. TEANA KAHOOHANOHANO DEMONSTRATES HOW `OHE (bamboo) are carved into designs and how they are used during an `ohe kapala demonstration on Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Kilauea Visitor Center lanai in Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park. ‘Ohe kapala, or bamboo stamps, were used to present many unique designs for traditional Hawaiian kapa. Today, these designs are being used as patterns on all types of fabric. Teana Kahoohanohano demonstrates `ohe kapala Wednesday. Photo from NPS There will be samples and a hands-on opportunity to learn about this distinctive art form. The program is part of the park’s ongoing `Ike Hana No`eau: Experience the Skillful Work workshops. Free; park entrance fees apply. See kaucalendar.com/Directory2014.swf.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20284
__label__wiki	0.757417	0.757417	Well established tradition says, that, among the many Norman "adventurers" who found their way into our Irish mother land in search of a home during the years following upon the conquest of Ireland by Henry II of England, in the train of the Barrys, Cauntetons, Sir John De Courcey, Fitz-Giralds, Fit-Maurices, Le Flemings, De Hays, De Nugents, Le Powers, De Predergasts, and others, were many people of the Loire river Colony, within whos veins flowed the blood of martyred Waldenses and Albigenses, who had come out of the Alps in troublous (Op cit) times, and who were well known as the Le Loire settlers, some of who tracked up into the province of Ulster, locating in the southern part of County Down, others in Autrim, Tyrone, and far away conrers of "Ould Donegal." An old Irish "Lowry Clan" ruled by an Earl, as chief, distinctly marked on an ancient map of Ireland in possession of the writer, is traceable back to this early French invasion into parts of the northern province of the island; and from it, many of the Lowrys of "northern Ireland," at home and abroad, trace their lineage with pardonalble pride. One of the most happy recollections by the present writer is that of a memorable occasion, when a family ancestor drew from his treasure store on antiquaries a venerable document and read to him carefully and very impressively the following record. "The name "Lowry" orginated from the Loire River colony in France, from whence many came as refugees into Great Britian to escape the bloody persections in their native land, and later crossed over into Ireland, when a corrupt and cruel oligarchy attemted to dictate to thse free born Presbyterians how they must worship God.' This explains why some Lowrys entered Ireland via Scotland. Representatives of thes old Huguenot settlers are still numerous in Northern Ireland, and they continue to exhibit in marked degree the commendable characteristics of their race. In the Province of Connaught there was also a considerable sprinkling from time to time of French Huguenot blood, which is represented in such familiar names as Devliu De Evelyn), Burk (De Burghe), Joly, Dillon (Dilleau), Martin (Martah), Porter (La Porte), Newekk (Neville). Typed by Eileen Norris, who found the infomation in a file in Somerset County, PA at the Historical Center near Somerset. It was a file containing various Lowery, Lowry, Lowary items and correspondence sent by various people. Written on bottom was "copied from a small booklet on Ireland written in 1800's".	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20285
__label__cc	0.525058	0.474942	Custom Built Cabinets "Photos by Erika Bierman Inspiration: “My client held up a plate they had bought in Portofino, Italy, and said, ‘I want my kitchen to feel like this plate,’ ” Neithart says. They love blue, and their house is Custom Built Cabinets a 1920s classic California Spanish house. They also wanted it to feel bright and open. Layout: In this floor plan, you can see the work zone is a simple triangle of the sink, range and refrigerator. The microwave is tucked next to the refrigerator and the dishwasher is next to the sink. Beyond this, there are three key elements that make the small space function well and not feel closed in. Pantry: To the left, you can catch a glimpse of the pantry cabinet. This may be Custom Built Cabinets the most thrilling thing about the entire renovation for Neithart’s clients. They are so happy to have an appropriate place to store their food. There are pull-out shelves to make accessing everything easy. Things they don’t need to access as often go up top, such as extra paper towels. Splurge: La Cornue CornuFe range and counter-depth refrigerator Backsplash: The hand-painted terra-cotta tile plays a major role in the room’s style. “These painted terra-cotta tiles by Tabarka Studio are handmade all the way through, which is an important Custom Built Cabinets consideration,” Neithart says. Knowing her clients liked things to look very tidy, she borrowed a grouted board from the tiler to show them a mock-up of what it would look like. “Because they are handmade and not machine cut, they have uneven edges that do not make for straight, clean grout lines,” Neithart says. “For me, that’s part of the charm, but this look is certainly not for everyone. So my clients took some time to think Custom Built Cabinets about whether or not they’d like that look before committing.” Cabinet details: Speaking of tidiness, Neithart brings up another issue that can arise — using mullions in glass cabinet doors. “Mullions add lines, and if they don’t line up with the shelves, they can be visually busy,” she says. She recommends using plain glass panes without mullions. Or if you do want mullions, you can use glass shelves or do what she did here — line the mullions up with the shelves and paint them to match. One important thing to note is that when you do this, you cannot adjust the heights of your shelves, so consider that before committing. Neithart also recommends “getting a little obscure” with the glass, such as using Custom Built Cabinets seeded, wavy or antique glass designs. Charmean Neithart InteriorsFaucet: The faucet’s graceful curve has a traditional look that befits the home, while its pull-down sprayer is a modern convenience. “He especially loved this faucet,” Neithart says of one of the homeowners. “It has an industrial look.” Countertops: While her clients originally thought they wanted Carrara marble for the counters, Neithart had gotten to know them well enough to know that would not work. They needed something durable Custom Built Cabinets because they cook a lot and have 5-year-old twins, and stains and chips would have driven them crazy because they like neat and tidy. She knew Caesarstone’s London Grey would be a great fit for them. “This one does a really good job of feeling more like natural stone,” she says. “It has veining and coloring that’s very similar to Carrara, but it’s really tough to destroy it.”Charmean Neithart Interiors“People think smaller kitchens are hard to work in, but I feel the opposite way,” the designer says. “Having a small Custom Built Cabinets triangle is very convenient. You’re really just pivoting around most of the time. Smaller kitchens are awesome!”" Previous: Custom Built Kitchen Cabinets Next: Custom Made Kitchen Cabinets	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20288
__label__cc	0.592509	0.407491	Health and medicine, Environmental health The series Health and medicine, Environmental health represents a set of related resources, especially of a specified kind, found in University of Oklahoma Libraries. The Resource Health and medicine, Environmental health 79 Items in the Series Health and medicine, Environmental health Green schools : attributes for health and learning, Committee to Review and Assess the Health and Productivity Benefits of Green Schools, Board on Infrastructure and Constructed Environment, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies, (electronic resource) Gulf War and health Gulf War and health : updated literature review of depleted uranium, Committee on Gulf War and Health: Updated Literature Review of Depleted Uranium, Board of Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, (electronic resource) Gulf War veterans : measuring health, Lyla M. Hernandez ... [et al.], editors ; Committee on Measuring the Health of Gulf War Veterans, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine, (electronic resource) Health effects of beryllium exposure : a literature review, Committee on Beryllium Alloy Exposures, Committee on Toxicology, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies, (electronic resource) Health effects of exposure to low levels of ionizing radiation : BEIR V, Committee on the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiations, Board on Radiation Effects Research, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council, (electronic resource) Health risks from dioxin and related compounds : evaluation of the EPA reassessment, Committee on EPA's Exposure and Human Health Reassessment of TCDD and Related Compounds, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies, (electronic resource) Health risks from exposure to low levels of ionizing radiation : BEIR VII phase 2, Committee to Assess Health Risks from Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation, Board on Radiation Effects Research, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies, (electronic resource) Hormonally active agents in the environment, Committee on Hormonally Active Agents in the Environment, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council, (electronic resource) Implementing health-protective features and practices in buildings : workshop proceedings, (electronic resource) Improving health in the United States : the role of health impact assessment, Committee on Health Impact Assessment, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council, (electronic resource) Indoor allergens : assessing and controlling adverse health effects, Andrew M. Pope, Roy Patterson, and Harriet Burge, editors ; Committee on the Health Effects of Indoor Allergens, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine, (electronic resource) Interindividual variability : new ways to study and implications for decision making : workshop in brief, Board on Life Sciences, Division on Earth and Life Studies, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine Managing health effects of beryllium exposure, Committee on Beryllium Alloy Exposures, Committee on Toxicology, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies, (electronic resource) Measuring lead exposure in infants, children, and other sensitive populations, Committee on Measuring Lead in Critical Populations, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Commission on Life Sciences, (electronic resource) Monitoring and sampling approaches to assess underground coal mine dust exposures, Committee on the Study of the Control of Respirable Coal Mine Dust Exposure in Underground Mines, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Health and Medicine Division ; a consensus study report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine Preparing for a rapid response to major marine oil spills : protecting and assessing the health and well-being of communities : proceedings of a workshop—in brief, Health and Medicine Division, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine Principles and obstacles for sharing data from environmental health research : workshop summary, Robert Pool and Erin Rusch, rapporteurs ; Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Health and Medicine Division, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine Protecting the health and well-being of communities in a changing climate : proceedings of a workshop, Leslie Pray, rapporteur ; Roundtable on Population Health Improvement, Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Health and Medicine Division, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine Protecting the health and well-being of communities in a changing climate : proceedings of a workshop–in brief, Health and Medicine Division, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine Public health linkages with sustainability : workshop summary, Christine Coussens and Erin Rusch, rapporteurs ; Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies Radiation dose reconstruction for epidemiologic uses, Committee on an Assessment of CDC Radiation Studies, Board on Radiation Effects Research, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council, (electronic resource) Rebuilding the unity of health and the environment : a new vision of environmental health for the 21st century, Kathi Hanna and Christine Coussens, (electronic resource) Rebuilding the unity of health and the environment in rural America : workshop summary, James Merchant, Christine Coussens, and Dalia Gilbert editors, Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, (electronic resource) Review of acute human-toxicity estimates for selected chemical-warfare agents, Subcommittee on Toxicity Values for Selected Nerve and Vesicant Agents, Committee on Toxicology, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council, (electronic resource) Review of studies of possible toxic effects from past environmental contamination at Fork Detrick : letter report, Committee to Review Studies of Possible Toxic Effects from Past Environmental Contamination at Fort Detrick, Board on Life Sciences, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies, (electronic resource) Review of the Department of Labor's site exposure matrix database, Committee on the Review of the Department of Labor's Site Exposure Matrix Database, Board on the Health of Select Populations, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, (electronic resource) Review of the Environmental Protection Agency's draft IRIS assessment of formaldehyde, Committee to Review EPA's Toxicological Assessment of Formaldehyde, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies Review of the Environmental Protection Agency's draft IRIS assessment of tetrachloroethylene, Committee to Review EPA's Toxicological Assessment of Tetrachloroethylene, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies, (electronic resource) Review of the Worker and Public Health Activities Program administered by the Department of Energy and the Department of Health and Human Services, Committee to Review the Worker and Public Health Activities Program Administered by the Department of Energy and the Department of Health and Human Services, Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies, (electronic resource) Risk-based waste classification in California, Committee on Risk-Based Criteria for Non-RCRA Hazardous Waste, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council, (electronic resource) Secondhand smoke exposure and cardiovascular effects : making sense of the evidence, Committee on Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Acute Coronary Events, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, (electronic resource) The interplay between environmental chemical exposures and obesity : proceedings of a workshop, Robert Pool, rapporteur ; Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Health and Medicine Division, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine The medical implications of nuclear war, Institute of Medicine National Academy of Sciences ; Fredric Solomon and Robert Q. Marston, editors ; with a foreword by Lewis Thomas, (electronic resource) Toxicogenomic technologies and risk assessment of environmental carcinogens : a workshop summary, Committee on How Toxicogenomics Could Inform Critical Issues in Carcinogenic Risk Assessment of Environmental Chemicals, Committee on Emerging Issues and Data on Environmental Contaminants, National Research Council, (electronic resource) Toxicologic assessment of jet-propulsion fuel 8, Subcommittee on Jet-Propulsion Fuel 8, Committee on Toxicology, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies, (electronic resource) Toxicologic assessment of the Army's zinc cadmium sulfide dispersion tests, Subcommittee on Zinc Cadmium Sulfide, Committee on Toxicology, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council, (electronic resource) Toxicology and environmental health information resources : the role of the National Library of Medicine, Catharyn T. Liverman ... [et al.], editors ; Committee on Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Resources for Health Professionals, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine, (electronic resource) Tracking radiation exposure from medical diagnostic procedures : workshop report, Committee on Tracking Radiation Doses from Medical Diagnostic Procedures, Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies, (electronic resource) A review of the Dose Reconstruction Program of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Committee to Review the Dose Reconstruction Program of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Board on Radiation Effects Research, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies, (electronic resource) Twenty-first interim report of the Committee on Acute Exposure Guideline Levels, Committee on Acute Exposure Guideline Levels, Committee on Toxicology, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, National Research Council of the National Academies, (electronic resource) Twenty-second interim report of the Committee on Acute Exposure Guideline Levels, Committee on Acute Exposure Guideline Levels, Committee on Toxicology, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies Understanding the connections between coastal waters and ocean ecosystem services and human health : workshop summary, Rose Marie Martinez and Erin Rusch, rapporteurs ; Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies Use of metabolomics to advance research on environmental exposures and the human exposome : workshop in brief, Board on Life Sciences, Division on Earth and Life Studies, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine Valuing health risks, costs, and benefits for environmental decision making : report of a conference, P. Brett Hammond and Rob Coppock, editors ; Steering Committee on Valuing Health Risks, Costs, and Benefits for Environmental Decisions, (electronic resource) Waste incineration & public health, Committee on Health Effects of Waste Incineration, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council, (electronic resource) A review of the NIOSH roadmap for research on asbestos fibers and other elongate mineral particles, Committee for the Review of the NIOSH Research Roadmap on Asbestos Fibers and Other Elongate Mineral Particles ; Alan R. Nelson ... [et al.], editors ; Institute of Medicine and National Research Council of the National Academies, (electronic resource) A review of the draft report of the NCI-CDC working group to revise the 1985 radioepidemiological tables, Committee on an Assessment of Centers for Disease Control, and Prevention Radiation Studies from DOE Contractor Sites: Subcommittee to Review Radioepidemiological Tables, Board on Radiation Effects Research, Commission on Life Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, (electronic resource) Accounting for social risk factors in Medicare payment : criteria, factors, and methods, Committee on Accounting for Socioeconomic Status in Medicare Payment Programs, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Board on Health Care Services, Health and Medicine Division, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine Acute exposure guideline levels for selected airborne chemicals, Subcommittee on Acute Exposure Guideline Levels, Committee on Toxicology, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Commission of Life Sciences, National Research Council, (electronic resource) Analysis of cancer risks in populations near nuclear facilities : phase I, Committee on the Analysis of Cancer Risks in Populations near Nuclear Facilities--Phase I, Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board, Division of Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies, (electronic resource) Arsenic, Committee on Medical and Biologic Effects of Environmental Pollutants, Division of Medical Sciences, Assembly of Life Sciences, National Research Council, (electronic resource) Assessing the effects of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill on human health : a summary of the June 2010 workshop, Margaret A. McCoy and Judith A. Salerno, rapporteurs ; Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, (electronic resource) Assessing the human health risks of trichloroethylene : key scientific issues, Committee on Human Health Risks of Trichloroethylene, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies, (electronic resource) Biologic markers in pulmonary toxicology, Subcommittee on Pulmonary Toxicology, Committee on Biologic Markers, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council, (electronic resource) Biologic markers in reproductive toxicology, Subcommittee on Reproductive and Neurodevelopmental Toxicology, Committee on Biologic Markers, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council, (electronic resource) Biologic markers in urinary toxicology, Subcommittee on Biologic Markers in Urinary Toxicology, Committee on Biologic Markers, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council, (electronic resource) Breast cancer and the environment : a life course approach, Committee on Breast Cancer and the Environment: The Scientific Evidence, Research Methodology, and Future Directions, Board on Health Care Services, Board on Health Sciences Policy. , Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, (electronic resource) Clearing the air : asthma and indoor air exposures, Committee on the Assessment of Asthma and Indoor Air, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine, (electronic resource) Climate and health challenges posed by black carbon : proceedings of a workshop--in brief, Policy and Global Affairs, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine Climate change, the indoor environment, and health, Committee on the Effect of Climate Change on Indoor Air Quality and Public Health, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, (electronic resource) Contaminated water supplies at Camp Lejeune : assessing potential health effects, Committee on Contaminated Drinking Water at Camp Lejeune, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies, (electronic resource) Cost of environment-related health effects : a plan for continuing study : report of a study, by the Committee for a Planning Study for an Ongoing Study of Costs of Environment-Related Health Effects, Institute of Medicine, (electronic resource) Damp indoor spaces and health, Committee on Damp Indoor Spaces and Health, Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine, (electronic resource) Developing affordable and accessible community-based housing for vulnerable adults : proceedings of a workshop, Joe Alper, Karen Anderson, and Sarah Domnitz, rapporteurs ; Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence, Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Health and Medicine Division, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine Dioxins and dioxin-like compounds in the food supply : strategies to decrease exposure, Committee on the Implications of Dioxin in the Food Supply, Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, (electronic resource) Drinking water and health, Safe Drinking Water Committee, Advisory Center on Toxicology, Assembly of Life Sciences, National Research Council, (electronic resource) Effects of nuclear earth-penetrator and other weapons, Committee on the Effects of Nuclear Earth-Penetrator and Other Weapons, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies, (electronic resource) Ensuring environmental health in postindustrial cities : workshop summary, Bernard D. Goldstein ... [et al.] ; Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, (electronic resource) Environmental epidemiology, Committee on Environmental Epidemiology, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council, (electronic resource) Environmental neurotoxicology, Committee on Neurotoxicology and Models for Assessing Risk, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council, (electronic resource) Epidemiology and air pollution, Committee on the Epidemiology of Air Pollutants, Board on Toxicology and Environmental Health Hazards, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council, (electronic resource) Exploring health and environmental costs of food : workshop summary, Leslie Pray, Laura Pillsbury, and Maria Oria, rapporteurs ; Food and Nutrition Board, Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council of the National Academies, (electronic resource) Exposure of the American people to Iodine-131 from Nevada nuclear-bomb tests : review of the National Cancer Institute report and public health implications, Committee on Thyroid Screening Related to I-131 Exposure, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine, and Committee on Exposure of the American People to I-131 from the Nevada Atomic Bomb Tests, Board on Radiation Effects Research, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council, (electronic resource) Feasibility of addressing environmental exposure questions using Department of Defense biorepositories : proceedings of a workshop--in brief, Division on Earth and Life Studies, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine Forging a poison prevention and control system, Committee on Poison Prevention and Control, Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, (electronic resource) Global environmental health : research gaps and barriers for providing sustainable water, sanitation, and hygiene services : workshop summary, Christine Coussens, rapporteur ; Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research and Medicine, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, (electronic resource) Global environmental health in the 21st century : from governmental regulation to corporate social responsibility : workshop summary, Myron Harrison and Christine Coussens, rapporteurs ; Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, (electronic resource) Green healthcare institutions : health, environment, and economics : workshop summary, Howard Frumkin and Christine Coussens, rapporteurs ; Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, (electronic resource) Context of Health and medicine, Environmental health A review of the Dose Reconstruction Program of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency A review of the NIOSH roadmap for research on asbestos fibers and other elongate mineral particles A review of the draft report of the NCI-CDC working group to revise the 1985 radioepidemiological tables Accounting for social risk factors in Medicare payment : criteria, factors, and methods Acute exposure guideline levels for selected airborne chemicals Analysis of cancer risks in populations near nuclear facilities : phase I Assessing the effects of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill on human health : a summary of the June 2010 workshop Assessing the human health risks of trichloroethylene : key scientific issues Biologic markers in pulmonary toxicology Biologic markers in reproductive toxicology Biologic markers in urinary toxicology Breast cancer and the environment : a life course approach Clearing the air : asthma and indoor air exposures Climate and health challenges posed by black carbon : proceedings of a workshop--in brief Climate change, the indoor environment, and health Contaminated water supplies at Camp Lejeune : assessing potential health effects Cost of environment-related health effects : a plan for continuing study : report of a study Damp indoor spaces and health Developing affordable and accessible community-based housing for vulnerable adults : proceedings of a workshop Dioxins and dioxin-like compounds in the food supply : strategies to decrease exposure Drinking water and health Effects of nuclear earth-penetrator and other weapons Ensuring environmental health in postindustrial cities : workshop summary Environmental neurotoxicology Epidemiology and air pollution Exploring health and environmental costs of food : workshop summary Exposure of the American people to Iodine-131 from Nevada nuclear-bomb tests : review of the National Cancer Institute report and public health implications Feasibility of addressing environmental exposure questions using Department of Defense biorepositories : proceedings of a workshop--in brief Forging a poison prevention and control system Global environmental health : research gaps and barriers for providing sustainable water, sanitation, and hygiene services : workshop summary Global environmental health in the 21st century : from governmental regulation to corporate social responsibility : workshop summary Green healthcare institutions : health, environment, and economics : workshop summary Green schools : attributes for health and learning Gulf War and health : updated literature review of depleted uranium Gulf War veterans : measuring health Health effects of beryllium exposure : a literature review Health effects of exposure to low levels of ionizing radiation : BEIR V Health risks from dioxin and related compounds : 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__label__wiki	0.594388	0.594388	Mathieu Pernice Ph: Australia: (+61)405057906 / France: (+33)607300016 E-mail: Mathieu.Pernice@uts.edu.au / mat.pernice@gmail.com 2014-Present: Senior Research fellow and Deputy Team leader for Seagrass Health, Climate Change Cluster, University of Technology, Sydney (Australia) 2012-2013: Research fellow- Laboratory of Biological Geochemistry, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) 2010-2011: Research fellow- UMR 7208 Biologie des ORganismes et Ecosystèmes Aquatiques, Paris (France) 2008-2010: Research fellow- Coral Reef Ecosystems Lab, University of Queensland, Brisbane (Australia) 2007-2008: Research assistant and Lecturer (ATER)- UMR 7208 Biologie des ORganismes et Ecosystèmes Aquatiques, Paris (France) 2005-2006 Research fellow- Symbiosis group- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen (Germany) 2003-2006 PhD student- UMR 5178 Biologie des Organismes Marins et Ecosystèmes, Paris (France) [PhD thesis in pdf] RESEARCH EXPERIENCE LAB LINKS: Laboratory for Biological Geochemistry Plant Functional Biology and Climate Change Cluster Behavior and Physiology’lab Coral Reef Ecosystems’lab Symbiosis group Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Universite Paris 6 University of Technology, Sydney Project co-ordinator on the Marine Productivity and Climate Change (42h, Subject Number 91156), University of Technology, Sydney: Excursion to Heron island. 16-22 July 2016 Invited lecturer - Australian Society for Microbiology, University of Melbourne, Australia Single cell measurement of metabolic activity using isotope-labeling techniques and Secondary Ion Mass spectrometry Invited lecturer - Joint Academic Microbiology Seminars, Sydney, Australia Invited lecturer - Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Single cell measurement of metabolic activity: towards a functional understanding of symbiotic interactions in corals Project co-ordinator on the Marine Productivity and Climate Change (42h, Subject Number 91156), University of Technology, Sydney: Excursion to Heron island. 19th-24 July 2015 Lecturer for Biotechnology (1h, Subject Number 91142), University of Technology, Sydney: Exploiting the biotechnological potential of microalgae. Lecturer for AusAID Sustainable Islands program (1h), Sydney Institute of Marine Science: Impact on coral reefs Invited lecturer for Bachelor of Science- University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Bacterial symbioses in mollusks Invited lecturer - Trends in Environmental Research Series, UTS, Sydney, Australia The shallow and the deep: exploring the evolution and function of symbioses in marine environment Invited lecturer - University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Sizing up the symbiotic interaction between cnidarian and dinoflagellate: towards a single-cell view of ammonium assimilation in corals Sizing up the symbiotic partnership: towards a single-cell view of nutrients uptake in cnidaria-dinoflagellate symbiosis Invited lecturer- University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Sizing up the symbiotic part… A single-cell view of coral symbiosis by using NanoSIMS Invited lecturer- Centre IRD, Noumea, New-Caledonia Effect of thermal stress on the regulation of cell death in reef-building corals Invited lecturer- Centre for Marine Studies, Brisbane Australia Influence of environmental changes on cnidarian symbioses : a genomics approach Lecturer- Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris France September 2007- August 2008 Lecturer- Centro Biologia Alpina, Piora Switzerland Training course for master students: Microbial Ecology Training course for master students: Microbiology of the extreme TEACHING COURSES AND LECTURES 2003 - 2006 PhD in Biology (supervisor: Dr Renata Boucher-Rodoni, CNRS) University Paris 6, Paris, France (defended the 23/11/2006) 2002 - 2003 Master Degree in Integrated Biology of Invertebrates University Paris 6, Paris, France Ongoing funding from the European Commission, Swiss and French national agencies, New Caledonian and Australian institutions has provided support for my research program since 2003. Overall, my individual and collaborative efforts have attracted over 750000 euros to fund my research activities. Major awards and grants: 2016: Visiting Speaker Program Award from the Australian Society for Microbiology to give in 5 Australian capital cities “Single cell measurements of microbial activity using isotope-labeling techniques and Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry. 2013-2015: UTS Early Career Researcher Grants 2013 : “A novel electrochemical biosensor for the detection of sub-lethal stress in reef corals: A clinical approach to monitor coral reef health”-24 months (collaborator) 2012-2015: Swiss National Science Foundation program at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne (Switzerland) : “A NanoSIMS study of (sub-)cellular nutrient-transfer in symbiotic corals and sea anemones under changing environmental conditions”– 36 months 2010-2011: CNRS multidisciplinary program at the National Museum of Natural History, Paris (France): “NanoSIMS and Symbiosis”– 12 months 2008-2011: Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship at the Centre for Marine studies, Brisbane (Australia): “Influence of environmental stresses on cnidaria-dinoflagellate symbioses: a genomics approach” – 36 months 2007-2008: Research grant from Singer-Polignac foundation to initiate a collaborative project between the UMR 5178, Paris (France) and the Centre for Marine studies Brisbane (Australia): “Sensitivity to environmental stresses in a scleractinian coral-dinoflagellate symbiosis”. 2006-2007 Research grant from the Government of New Caledonia awarded by the Pacific Fund: “Comparative analysis of bioaccumulation of trace elements in Nautilus populations from Vanuatu and New-Caledonia” – 24 months. 2005-2006 Fellowship Marie Curie Training Site for Marine Microbiology at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology (Bremen, Germany): Molecular characterisation of bacterial symbiosis in Nautilus – 4 months. 2005-2006 Bonus Quality Research from the French Ministry of Research and Education: Symbiotic bacteria in two models for marine invertebrates: specific diversity, physiological roles and bioactive compounds production – 24 months. 2003-2006 PhD Fellowship from the French Ministry of Research and Education, awarded by the University Paris 6: Bacterial symbiosis in Nautilus: Characterisation and Physiological Roles – 36 months. Diving: - Australian Diver Accreditation Scheme (ADAS) scientific diver 2009, Nitrox endorsement -Australian Diver Accreditation Scheme (ADAS) level 1 diver 2012 -FFESSM: Level 2, -PADI: Open Water Diver Boating: -Recreational Boating License issued in France (limited to 5 miles from the shore) Driving: -NSW Drivers Licence Class C -First Aid Certificate and Oxygen Provider with CPR Certificate 2011-Present: Honorary Visiting fellow- Coral Reef Ecosystem Lab, University of Queensland, St Lucia (Australia). HONORARY APPOINTMENTS 2013-2015 Environmental scientist - CARDNO Water and Environment, Sydney (Australia)- Focus on coral reef ecosystems within the Ichtys Nearshore Environmental Monitoring Program (INPEX) The Ichthys Gas Field Development Project, a world scale gas development operated by INPEX, includes the dredging and spoil disposal of 17 millions of m3 of sediments to create a safe shipping channel in Darwin Harbour. This project adopts one of the strictest environmental monitoring programs ever seen in Australia. I have been engaged within CARDNO team to develop and implement the marine environmental monitoring program to assess potential environmental impacts arising from the dredging and disposal activities in the nearshore development area (Darwin Harbour, NT, Australia). Member of editorial board of Frontiers in Microbial Symbioses (Frontiers Microbiology) and Frontiers in Coral Reef Research (Frontiers in Marine Science) Reviewer for Trends in Microbiology, Proceeding of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Environmental Microbiology, Frontiers Microbiology, Molecular Ecology, Bioessays, Plos ONE, Autophagy, Marine Biology, Marine Biotechnology, Ecotoxicology. EDITORIAL BOARD AND REVIEWS OF SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20300
__label__wiki	0.537162	0.537162	MARIN COUNTY DA HATE CRIME HOTLINE MEC Meetings Race and Segregation Renter Protections Community Cohesion and Safety Economics & Employment Why Housing Matters Self Made Myth Coddle the Wealthy Growth of Family Incomes Wealthiest Could Buy Fireside Chats “Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” ~ Benjamin Franklin Marin Voice: Is white privilege preventing true sustainability in Marin? Our love affair with single-family homes and our cars contributes to sprawling development patterns, rising rents and home prices, heavy car use, increasingly wider highways and a growing divide in social and racial equity. Read More How Obama’s New Housing Rules Help Fight Modern-Day Segregation Last Wednesday, the Obama administration released new housing rules that will dramatically strengthen the way our nation addresses segregation—a move that has been met with staunch blowback from the right. Read More What is affordable housing? I keep hearing people say "We don't have any real definition of affordable housing." Yes we do. It's been in place for some decades now. Your housing is not affordable if you have to pay more than 30% of your income to cover the costs of your housing. Read More Marin prohibits discrimination against housing vouchers Landlords renting property in unincorporated Marin are now prohibited from discriminating against people using Section 8 housing vouchers and other third-party housing subsidies. Read More On The Divide:Examining Residential Segregation in Marin County, California Reflecting upon my experiences as a black woman living in an all-white community, this paper offers a critical analysis of the causes and consequences of residential segregation in Marin County, California: a county of urban and suburban communities just 20 minutes north of San Francisco. Read More Marin Housing Conference - April 5, 2017 Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California is pleased to present the upcoming 2017 Conference: 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (Check-in starts at 9:00 am.) Marin Center Showcase Theater 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael, CA 94903 John P. Relman, Managing Partner Relman, Dane & Colfax PLLC James Perry, President, CEO Winston-Salem Urban League And other local and national experts Read more: Marin Housing Conference - April 5, 2017 Tim Wise film, White Like Me, and in Conversation Join us for a Special Film Event to promote dialogue about race in Marin White Like Me, a documentary film Monday, April 17 – Rafael Film Center 6:00 pm VIP wine reception with filmmaker, Tim Wise 7:00 Screening of the documentary film, White Like Me 8:15 Q&A with Tim Wise, moderated by JayVon Muhammad Our special guest: Filmmaker and anti-racist educator, Tim Wise, in conversation with JayVon Muhammad, CEO of Marin City Health & Wellness Center. Tim Wise has dedicated his career to exploring race and racism in the U.S. through the lens of whiteness and white privilege, and argues that our failure as a society to come to terms with the legacy of white privilege continues to perpetuate racial inequality and race-driven political resentments today. Read more: Tim Wise film, White Like Me, and in Conversation Shared office Pad and Book Recommendation VenturePad Grand Opening March 9, 2017 San Rafael, CA: VenturePad, Marin’s premier coworking community and Incubator invites the public to its Grand Opening Party on March 9, 2017 from 5 - 7 pm. Location is 1020 B Street,downtown San Rafael, between 4th and 5thStreets. Hosting over 100 innovative small businesses, VenturePad addresses a critical need in Marin by combining affordable, accessible and professional office space with support services for Marin’s entrepreneurs, freelancers and home office professionals under one roof. Slated to be the County’s entrepreneurship hub, it will have 4000 square feet of beautiful, productive open zones with collaboration spaces, open and dedicated desks, meeting rooms and a café. Read more: Shared office Pad and Book Recommendation Why is Marin County So White? By Ericka Cruz Guevarra February 16, 2017 From KQED Take a trip through some pivotal moments in Marin history that contributed to its demographics today. Bay Curious is a podcast from KQED that answers your questions about the Bay Area. Six years ago, Henry Ma moved to the Bay Area with his wife from New York City. They settled in San Rafael — the perfect location between both of their jobs. When they had two girls, he started to notice something about where he lived in Marin County. “Our daughter was the only Asian in the school of 72 kids,” Ma said. It made him wonder: “The Bay Area is one of the most diverse places in the country. Within the Bay Area, why is Marin County the least diverse?” Henry Ma lives in San Rafael (Courtesy of Henry Ma) Read more: Why is Marin County So White? “Talk to Your Friends About Zoning” : A PSA Campaign for the NIMBY in Your Life From Slate Let’s have a laugh at those hapless millennials, shall we? Half of them seem to live with their parents—and the other half couldn’t live without them! Henry Grabar Henry Grabar is a staff writer for Slate’s Moneybox. No one should be permitted to revel in the schadenfreude about millennial living arrangements without confronting what’s behind them: the sky-high cost of renting in U.S. cities. A growing number of frustrated young people lay the problem at the feet of the anti-development baby boomer, thwarting efforts to expand the housing stock and driving up his own home value in the process. In practice, that means pushing planners to reject high-cost projects (“gentrification!”) and low-cost projects (“crime rates!”) and everything in between (“neighborhood character!”). It’s a classic case of a seemingly innocuous attitude that, perpetuated over and over again in hundreds of different meetings and across residential neighborhoods, has worked to effectively constrain the housing supply, endowing one generation with a windfall in home values and dooming the next to a lifetime of rent payments. Read more: “Talk to Your Friends About Zoning” The Price of Inequality - Joseph Stiglitz The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future A forceful argument against America's vicious circle of growing inequality by the Nobel Prize–winning economist, Joseph Stiglitz. America currently has the most inequality, and the least equality of opportunity, among the advanced countries. While market forces play a role in this stark picture, politics has shaped those market forces. In this best-selling book, Nobel Prize–winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz exposes the efforts of well-heeled interests to compound their wealth in ways that have stifled true, dynamic capitalism. Along the way he examines the effect of inequality on our economy, our democracy, and our system of justice. Stiglitz explains how inequality affects and is affected by every aspect of national policy, and with characteristic insight he offers a vision for a more just and prosperous future, supported by a concrete program to achieve that vision. Read more: The Price of Inequality - Joseph Stiglitz Immigrant Rights Under a Trump Administration What Immigrant Families should do now. Click on Image to download PDF ¡Viva Marin! - A Data, Policy, & Action Guide The Latino Health Policy Partnership of Marin has compiled this Data, Policy, & Action Guide to present a snapshot of Latino health and well-being in Marin County along with specific action steps that can be taken to improve health outcomes for our children, teens, adults, families and older adults. Use this guide to learn about the contributions of Latinos, advocate for policy change, encourage investments in Latino education, business, and economic development, and promote a healthier Marin for all. Download or read the entire PDF report click here Searching for Sanctuary The Department of Homeland Security detains and deports hundreds of thousands of immigrants every year. The massive immigration enforcement regime has devastating effects on immigrant families and communities. Amidst looming threats of mass deportation from the incoming administration, what is the role of local governments and local law enforcement? Our findings indicate that the majority of localities across the country spend their own resources assisting with federal immigration enforcement. There are many ways that cities and counties can lawfully provide sanctuary for immigrants. At the root, they must work to keep families together and safe. We strongly urge county and state officials to take immediate steps to adopt or strengthen the policies outlined within this report. Though sanctuary cities will continue to play an important role, we need more county and states to delineate themselves from federal immigration enforcement and protect theircommunities. To download or read this guide, click here or on the image. Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda Donald Trump is the biggest popular vote loser in history to ever call himself President-Elect. In spite of the fact that he has no mandate, he will attempt to use his congressional majority to reshape America in his own racist, authoritarian, and corrupt image. If progressives are going to stop this, we must stand indivisibly opposed to Trump and the members of Congress (MoCs) who would do his bidding. Together, we have the power to resist — and we have the power to win. Read or download the PDF, click here or on the image The University as a Sanctuary The Marin Equity Summit, a yearly Marin event looking deeply at the issue of equity in Marin, is in preparation for this year’s event and the workshops that will lead up to the summit (currently targeted for November). © 2020 Marin Equity Coalition Web Strategies	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20303
__label__wiki	0.600195	0.600195	Sgt. Clifford Stone \| Eyes Only: The Story of Clifford Stone and UFO Crash Retrievals Labels Clifford Stone, Disclosure, Mel Fabregas, Ufo Source: veritasradio.com This is video segment 1 of 2. Segment 1 is being provided as a courtesy of Veritas Radio. To watch Segment 2 of this exclusive interview, subscribe at www.veritasradio.com. Veritas is censorship and commercial free and survives on your voluntary subscriptions. Thank you for supporting our work. ~Mel Fabregas This interview with Sgt. Clifford Stone was filmed at the 2012 International UFO Congress. "My name is Sergeant 1st Class, US Army, Clifford Stone. I had a secret clearance with nuclear assurity. I was called in on special operations, I participated in crash recovery missions. There were bodies involved. Some were alive. While we were doing this, we were telling the world there was nothing to it." Wow. It's great to hear from someone who's actually worked with crashed UFOs, and the ETs found on board. Retired from the U.S. Army after 22 years, Sgt. Stone has been revealing what he saw and knows since Dr. Steven Greer's 2001 National Press Club DISCLOSURE PROJECT conference. You've seen the YouTube footage (over a billion views, Mel says). Stone is the guy whose answer to a question is that the government has catalogued at least 57 ET species. Stone was trained to be an ET first responder. He had a kind of field guide to ET types and how to keep them alive until medics arrived. Stone was also an interfacer, brought in to communicate with live EBEs; telepathically, of course. Like so many whose lives become entangled with ET realities, Stone hints that he was probably cultivated from a young age for future assignments. He talks about one strange "training mission" to "Florida," where they came upon Grays at a gently placed, but shrapnel spewed B-52 in what was likely a Cambodian jungle. "CLIF-FORD. WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" He is asked, telepathically. We hear about a downed craft in Virginia, of all places, where Stone was brought in to interface with an EBE. The little guy exuded fear. He asked Stone for help. Said there was a big problem ahead. Stone got ET home, safe and sound. Why are we seeing so many UFOs these days, Mel asks. "I think they know something we don't, and that's the part that worries me," says Stone. Stone has amassed over 500 million pages of documents in support of his case that the U.S. has been involved with ETs since the early 40s, if not before, and he's still at it. He's got a new book out that he hopes will encourage others to reveal their ET experiences. "Our visitors have rogue elements with access to technology," Stone says. "But with that said, if any of these rogue elements were to threaten us, others would come to our aid and neutralize that threat. That may be what's happening out in space. Something is. "Someone needs to come and say: 'First of all don't panic, but here's the facts.' That will be the start of disclosure. Otherwise some event is going to happen that thousands of people will witness. A lot of people will panic and we'll be our own worst enemies. "I want my message to be one of enlightenment, and hope for a new beginning and a brighter future. Yes they're here. They're not hostile. They are very spiritually and technologically evolved. They mean us no harm." You'll want to catch Mel's 2009 interview with Sgt. Stone in the Veritas archives. Whitley Strieber \| The Communion Enigma, OffPlanet... New World Next Week \| Trayvon Tragedy, Supreme Cou... Dolores Cannon on TMRN, March 30, 2012 Information Machine Website Promo Intro The Underground - A Hidden Reality and The True St... Lucy Wyatt \| The Bronze Age City Builders, March 2... David Icke "This is Not a Bloody Game!" March 29, ... Dimitar Sasselov, Ben Goertzel \| Exoplanets / AI, ... James Corbett \| US Using Kissinger "Food As a Weap... Robert Schoch \| The Mystery of the Sphinx, March ... Richard Dolan - A.D. After Disclosure, University ... Jack Abramoff \| Secret Weapons Inside Capitol Hill... Mack Maloney \| UFOs in Wartime: What They Didn't W... Pepe Escobar on GRTV \| Responsibility to Protect: ... Henrik Palmgren interviewed on The Vinny Eastwood ... Sgt. Clifford Stone \| Eyes Only: The Story of Clif...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20305
__label__wiki	0.592585	0.592585	Max Igan \| A Path to Remedy or a Road to Oblivion, May 17, 2014 Dr. Nick Begich \| Geophysical Correlations to the Economy, Politics and Social Trends, May 16, 2014 Labels Alex Jones, Dr. Nick Begich, Mindcontrol of Humanity / Source: infowars.com, earthpulse.com Dr. Nick Begich taking calls on the topics of Geophysical correlations to the economy, politics and social trends and the long term effects on the world as we know it. New World Next Week \| 9/11 Whitewash Memorial Opens in NYC, May 15, 2014 Story #1: Brazil Tells World Cup Attendees "Don't Scream When Robbed" Brazil Crime Bosses Threaten 'World Cup of Terror' Brazil's Plans for Anti-Terror Law Alarm Rights Groups Brazilian Police Brutality Allegedly Related to World Cup NWNW Flashback: Brazil Protests Erupt Over Public Services And World Cup Costs (June 2013) Story #2: The 9/11 Story Told at Bedrock, Powerful as a Punch to the Gut 9/11 Artifacts, and the Stories They Tell William Rodriguez on the Ceremony at Ground Zero #BentleyBlockade: "It's just been announced on the ABC that Metgasco's license has been revoked." Metgasco Drilling Suspended, Company Referred to Corruption Commission FCC Chairman to Rethink Controversial Net Neutrality Proposals Banker Death's Finally Get Noticed by Mainstream Media 'Fed Up' Documentary: Sugar Added to Food Causing Obesity Rare Bee Believed Extinct Since 1946 Comes Back to Life Dallas, Texas Considers Ending Over 50 Years of Water Fluoridation Lagarde, Condi Cancel Speeches After Protests New Study Finds Swearing Can Be Good for You EuroMaidan Nightmare: How the Odessa Massacre Was Engineered in Ukraine, May 15, 2014 Labels Ukraine / Source: GlobalResearchTV youtube This video put together by the Oriental Review Open Dialogue Journal in Russia documents how the Odessa Massacre was engineered by the US-backed Yatsenyuk regime and its ultra-nationalist thugs. Read the related article at: Oriental Review Piers Corbyn \| The Myth of Man-Made Global Warming \| Space News \| May 14, 2014 Labels Piers Corbyn, The Great Global Warming Swindle / Source: weatheraction.com, thunderbolts.info The recent Electric Universe conference in Albuquerque New Mexico featured investigators from wide ranging disciplines, who had come to a common conclusion. The key to understanding so-called climate change is the electromagnetic connection between Earth and the Sun. One of the most powerful of these voices is Piers Corbyn, who has received international acclaim for the accuracy of his long-range forecasts. Although we hear daily of a scientific consensus to the contrary, what does Piers make of mankind's alleged role in affecting the climate on Earth? -thunderbolts.info CrossTalk: Ukrainian Red Lines, May 14, 2014 Why does the unelected government in Kiev call the eastern regions' referendums a farce? Is identity the main red line in the Ukrainian crisis? And will Ukraine as a sovereign state continue down the path of disintegration? CrossTalking with Martin McCauley, Michael Hudson and Daniel Welch. -RT.com Glenn Greenwald: U.S. Corporate Media is "Neutered, Impotent and Obsolete", May 14, 2014 Labels Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, NSA, Surveillance / Source: democracynow.org In the final part of our extended interview, Glenn Greenwald reflects on the Pulitzer Prize, adversarial journalism and the corporate media’s response to his reporting on Edward Snowden’s leaked National Security Agency documents. "We knew that once we started publishing not one or two stories, but dozens of stories … that not just the government, but even fellow journalists were going to start to look at what we were doing with increasing levels of hostility and to start to say, 'This doesn't actually seem like journalism anymore,’ because it’s not the kind of journalism that they do," Greenwald says. "It doesn’t abide by these unspoken rules that are designed to protect the government." -democracynow.org Jobs for the boys: Biden's son signs for Ukraine gas giant, May 14, 2014 A son of the US Vice-President has joined the board of directors of Ukraine's largest private gas producer. Hunter Biden now leads the company's legal unit - getting the position a few weeks after his father's trip to Kiev. And, as Marina Portnaya explains, this could be more than just a coincidence. Read more at RT.com The Eyeopener Report \| China's "War on Terror", May 13, 2014 Labels James Corbett / Source: BoilingFrogsPost.com, corbettreport.com Uyghur disenfranchisement is played upon to foment Islamic radicalism and political separatist sentiment. The East Turkestan Islamic movement seeking to wrest Xinjiang from China's control offers a number of parallels to the shadowy "Al Qaeda" terror organization, including a mysterious leader living in a secret mountain base in Pakistan's lawless border region and, as FBI whistleblower and BoilingFrogsPost founder Sibel Edmonds revealed in last year's series on Gladio B, direct support from NATO-associated Gladio operatives seeking to destabilize a geostrategic region in an ongoing, under-the-radar war for control of Central Asia. Find out more about this important subject in this week's BoilingFrogsPost.com Eyeopener report. Transcript & Sources More NSA Secrets Revealed, May 13, 2014 Journalist Glenn Greenwald's new book No Place to Hide hit shelves Tuesday. In it, Greenwald tells the story of how he came into contact with former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, and his months of reporting on the some of the NSA's most coveted secrets.The new book also contains a trove of new NSA documents that were released for the first time today. RT's Sam Sacks breaks down this new information being reveiled about the NSA. -RT.com Vlatko Vedral \| Decoding Reality, May 13, 2014 Labels Vlatko Vedral / Source: legalise-freedom.com, quantumoxford.com Vlatko Vedral on Decoding Reality – The Universe as Quantum Information. What is the nature of reality? Why is there something rather than nothing? These are the deepest questions that human beings have asked, that thinkers East and West have pondered over millennia. For a physicist, all the world is information. The Universe and its workings are the ebb and flow of information. We are all transient patterns of information, passing on the blueprints for our basic forms to future generations using a digital code called DNA. Decoding Reality asks some of the deepest questions about the Universe and considers the implications of interpreting it in terms of information. It explains the nature of information, the idea of entropy, and the roots of this thinking in thermodynamics. It describes the bizarre effects of quantum behaviour such as ‘entanglement’, which Einstein called ‘spooky action at a distance’ and explores cutting edge work on harnessing quantum effects in hyperfast quantum computers, and how recent evidence suggests that the weirdness of the quantum world, once thought limited to the tiniest scales, may reach up into our reality. The book concludes by considering the answer to the ultimate question: where did all of the information in the Universe come from? The answers considered are exhilarating and challenge our concept of the nature of matter, of time, of free will, and of reality itself. Vlatko Vedral’s Frontiers of Quantum Physics Jay Parker and Mark Passio: Satanic Ritualistic Abuse \| Truth Connections Radio Labels Jay Parker, Mark Passio / Source: truthconnections.com This broadcast with Jay Parker and Mark Passio is sure to enlighten many about the darkness that has surrounded life as we have known it for centuries. Mark and Jay were keynote speakers at both Free Your Mind conferences that were held in Philadelphia on the topic of mind control. Both men have an amazing cautionary tale to tell about how they broke free from their controllers and deep rooted belief systems. Their stories will intertwine and paint a picture of the spell many have been under either directly or indirectly. Jay Parker was born into a multi-generational Satanic/Illuminati family and suffered MONARCH trauma-based mind-control as a child. For the first seven years of his life, Jay was subject to Satanic Ritual Abuse in a large cult setting. On his radio show SRA Today, he speaks about recovery and healing methods for Satanic Ritual Abuse survivors. He will discuss in detail new neurological and biological discoveries related to ritual abuse and life in general. He will also discuss Satanic/Illuminati control in the U.S., world society, and religions. He will share his personal life experiences being brought up in a Satanic/Illuminati family, and Inter-dimensional (Luciferic/Satanic) or extraterrestrial forces that interact with and control the Satanic/Illuminati power structure. Below is the link to Jay's radio show. -truthconnections.com The Robert Bingham - UFO Connection Labels Robert Bingham, Ufo / Source: tercermilenio.tv R.I.P. H.R. GIGER \| 5 February 1940 – 12 May 2014 Labels H.R. GIGER / Dedicated to Surrealist painter, sculptor and set designer H.R. 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'US wants new Cold War, Russia should ignore it', May 12, 2014 Labels Paul Craig Roberts, Ukraine / Washington desperately needs a new Cold War with Russia to ensure a healthy Military-Security Complex and to maintain global hegemony, former Reagan administration official Paul Craig Roberts told RT in an interview. -RT.com Michael Schratt \| Man Made UFOs: Deep Black Budget Military Aerospace Vehicles \| Hour 1 \| May 12, 2014 Labels Henrik Palmgren, Michael Schratt, Secret Space War, Ufo / Source: redicecreations.com, secretspaceprogram.org May 12, 2014–Michael Schratt is a private pilot/military aerospace historian and has lectured across the USA on the unique subject of “mystery aircraft,” and classified propulsion systems buried deep within the military industrial complex. Michael talks about the evidence that supports the claim that elements within the military industrial complex (specifically the American aerospace industry) have designed, built and tested flown saucer shaped aircraft which mimic the form, fit and function of that as we perceive to be extraterrestrial UFOs. In this program, we discuss the black budget, off black budget and special access programs that have laid the financial groundwork for those who have been developing secret aerospace megaprojects. We’ll speak about military contractors such as Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin & McDonnell Douglas and their endless funding for their project. -redicecreations.com US Spy Chief Cracks Down on Whistleblowers, May 12, 2014 Labels Edward Snowden, Surveillance / Open-information activists are calling a new rule being implemented by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence a "gag order" on public debate. 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__label__wiki	0.921475	0.921475	Hazard injury boost for Real ahead of El Clasico 54dAlex Kirkland 56mRob Dawson Eden Hazard injury boost for Real Madrid ahead of El Clasico Why Hazard's training regimen isn't a concern (1:54) The FC crew react to John Obi Mikel calling Eden Hazard "the laziest player" he's played alongside. (1:54) Alex Kirkland Real Madrid have been handed an injury boost ahead of El Clasico, with the ankle injury Eden Hazard sustained against Paris Saint-German ruling him out for just 10 days. The Belgium forward limped off the Bernabeu pitch after a stellar performance in Madrid's 2-2 draw with PSG in the Champions League on Tuesday. Hazard: No pressure to replace Ronaldo at Real Mbappe's Madrid showcase upstaged by Zidane's Real veterans Coach Zinedine Zidane, who praised Hazard's performance as "spectacular," said after the game: "He hurt his ankle, it's more than just a knock. He's gone for tests now and we'll see." The club say those tests have diagnosed Hazard with a bruised right ankle after a challenge from compatriot Thomas Meunier, which forced his substitution in the 69th minute. It is the same ankle Hazard underwent surgery on in the summer of 2017, when he had a titanium plate inserted after breaking it on international duty. With Hazard expected to be out of action for 10 days, he should return for Madrid's trip to Mestalla to play Valencia in La Liga on Dec. 15 ahead of El Clasico at Camp Nou on Dec. 18. Hazard's display against PSG was his best of the season to date following a slow start to his Real Madrid career, after the 28-year-old admitted to returning for preseason training overweight.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20307
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__label__cc	0.592992	0.407008	Ireland Online Drugstore HomeUncategorized Solpadeine Ireland Solpadeine Ireland August 31, 2017 By Cogaiseoir No comments yet Solpadeine Ireland is basically used for the short-term treatment of severe to moderate pain when other existing painkillers proved to be non-effective. Patients are allowed to take Solpadeine Ireland for a maximum duration of 3 days only. If you are required to take this medicine for more than 3 days, you should consult with your physician or pharmacist for the suitable advice. Solpadeine Ireland contains codeine, which may cause addiction in case if you take it continuously for duration more than 3 days. It may result in withdrawal symptoms from the medicine once you stop the intake. This drug is available without any prescription; however, patients are still required to use Solpadeine Ireland carefully in order to achieve the best results from the treatment. 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__label__cc	0.645197	0.354803	NoisyRoom.net If you want peace, prepare for war. Founding Docs KeyWiki Progressive/Marxist Profiles Bear Witness: Open Letter to Donald Trump on national security and Russian/Chinese threat Posted on July 28, 2016 by TMH By: Trevor Loudon \| New Zeal My Trump friendly friends at Bear Witness Central have written to the candidate with some some concerns and suggestions re foreign policy and national security. Well worth a read. Dear Mr. Trump: We are writing to you on behalf of the Florida-based conservative organization Bear Witness Central. We congratulate you on your primary victories and for your energizing many average Americans who would never normally consider voting for a Republican candidate. While Bear Witness Central cannot endorse candidates in any election, we admit that there are many areas of common agreement with your platform. Your positions on trade, immigration, the abuse of H-1B visas, and subversion through Islamic refugees are identical to that of Bear Witness Central. We believe that trade reform, a strong military, and responsibly tight border controls are conducive to achieving a sovereign America again. Another area of concern for Bear Witness Central and many Americans are the twin threats of Russia and communist China. Both are on record as opposing American interests and seeking to eviscerate our power in the world. Unfortunately, the Cold War never conclusively ended. Instead, the old Soviet Communists repositioned themselves and gained tremendous advantages in the areas of arms control, technology transfers, and trade concessions. While this assertion is not politically correct, it is grounded in solid factual information. Russia continues to conduct military exercises and maneuvers against the US (sometimes in tandem with China); export weapons to rogue anti-American states; develop global alliance of communist and Islamic powers; commit espionage and subversion against American interests; and pay fealty to communism. Communist China continues to threaten the American mainland with annihilation; support global communist parties and even al-Qaeda/Taliban forces; destroy American manufacturing through predatory trade practices; proclaim their fealty for global Marxism-Leninism; and cooperate with anti-US regimes in Iran, Cuba, and other likeminded nations. Let us proclaim with crystal clarity: the leadership and activist base of Bear Witness Central do not prescribe aggressive actions which would lead to a global war. We are seeking to avoid a Third World War by recommending the following measures: Educating American citizens and political candidates of all parties on the nature of the global threats emanating from Islamo-totalitarianism, Russia, and China. Requesting the political class to publicly identify that Russia, communist China, and Islamo-totalitarianism represent an existential threat to the survival of the United States. Develop a national program of civil defense, comprehensive anti-missile (ABM) systems, and revitalization of our ground, naval, and air forces. A progressive weaning away from any dependence on strategic materials and manufactured goods imported from Russia, China, and volatile regions in the Middle East. Military intervention only when American interests are directly threatened. An unequivocal admission that our industrial economic power is synonymous with the redevelopment of superior military superiority. We argue that the proposed measures would strengthen our power at home without sacrificing the lives and limbs of American soldiers and officers. Restoring American power on the home front is critical in the effort to rebuild our Nation’s economic-military power. Lastly, we kindly encourage you to review some of these quotes and reports mentioned below. They are attached in this letter in order to provide a factual basis for the concerns of the membership and leaders of Bear Witness Central and many other patriotic Americans. “I want to warn Americans…You believe because the Soviet Union no longer exists, Russia now is your friend. It isn’t, and I can show you how the SVR (i.e., KGB) is trying to destroy the U.S. even today and even more than the KGB did during the Cold War.” Defecting KGB/SVR Col. Sergei Tretyakov quoted in Earley, Pete. Comrade J “Russia continues to conduct aggressive offensive missile training in the Pacific against U.S. and Allied Forces. We should understand that they look at ‘reset’ differently than we do…They look at it as regaining their previous USSR position as a superpower.” Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney quoted in Russia Reform Monitor Number 1827 April 26, 2013 “Russian intelligence activity against this country (the United States) is much more active than it was in time of the former Soviet Union. And this activity just now is much more dangerous for this country than it was before.” Defecting GRU Colonel Stanislav Lunev quoted in Pry, Peter Vincent. War Scare: Russia and America on the Nuclear Brink In 2001, Russian troops joined in a Chinese PLA nuclear attack exercise conducted against the United States for assistance rendered to Taiwan. The exercises involved strategic bombing runs conducted by Russian Air Force Tu-22 and Su-27 planes near Japan. The Tu-22s were equipped with nuclear cruise missiles. The details of this Sino-Russian exercise was contained in this report of the following sequence of events: “The Asia scenario began with a Chinese military attack on Taiwan that was followed by the use of U.S. ground troops on the island, said one official. Next, China escalated the conflict by firing tactical nuclear missiles on the U.S. troops in Taiwan, prompting U.S. nuclear strikes on Chinese forces. Russian nuclear forces then threatened to use nuclear missile strikes on U.S. forces in the region, including strikes on troops in South Korea and Japan.” Russia also fired ICBMs from land launchers and SLBMs from submarines in this exercise. Washington Times April 30, 2001 “The Myth that the Cold War has ended is the greatest delusion of the West. Let us ask a simple question: When did the Cold War finish–what date? When the armistice agreement was signed? And who admitted defeat?” he asked with a hint of sarcasm. Many believe that the Soviet Union was defeated. But maybe it has only gotten smaller. In fact, I do not see a large difference between the current Russia and the Soviet Union. Especially because some of its former republics – independent on paper – are still governed by the Kremlin; and if you try to approach any passerby on the Russian street and ask him if the Cold War is finished, he will tell you that it is not so, and that the U.S. is running the Cold War against Russia. He knows it from Russian state propaganda.” KGB/SVR defector Konstantin Preobrazhenskiy quoted in Worldnetdaily January 8, 2001 “Both Russia and China know America’s vulnerabilities, and they are exploiting them as much as they can.” KGB/SVR defector Konstantin Preobrazhenskiy quoted in Worldnetdaily January 8, 2001 “I liked Communist and socialist ideas very much and I like them still.” Vladimir Putin, 2016 quoted in Newsweek, January 25, 2016 “Russia has chosen to be an adversary and poses a long-term existential threat to the United States and to our European allies and partners…Russia is eager to exert unquestioned influence over its neighboring states in its buffer zone…so has used military force to violate the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, Georgia and others, like Moldova.” Supreme NATO commander Philip Breedlove, 2016 In conclusion, the leadership of Bear Witness Central would like to meet with you or your top representatives (e.g. Stephen Miller) to discuss these issues in greater detail. We are willing to meet with you anytime at any location within the State of Florida. Let us join together in our common goal to “Make America Great Again” through truthfulness, solid analysis, and patriotism. Bear Witness Central Directors Bear Witness Central is a communication and action group composed of Americans who have experienced Socialism and/or Communism intervention during their lifetime joined by other concerned Americans. We are a non-partisan group and our main objective is to labor to safeguard our Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the American way of life. Bear Witness Central covers the U.S.A. and has members in the 50 states. This entry was posted in Authors, Military, Politics, Trevor Loudon and tagged Bear Witness, China, Communism, Donald Trump, Foreign Policy, Politics, Russia, Trevor Loudon. Bookmark the permalink. Trump’s Deep Involvement With Russian Oligarchs: Follow The Money Weekly Featured Profile – Beth Lyons Support American Values... 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__label__cc	0.556995	0.443005	SolarPower Europe Calls For 5 GW Of EU Solar Module Manufacturing The European solar association has called on Europe to set up 5 GW of solar PV module manufacturing capacity to cater to the expected around 15 GW of annual demand. Christian Westermeier, President of SolarPower Europe. Image: Johannes Bernreuter At the heart of SolarPower Europe’s European industrial solar strategy is the goal of establishing 5 GW of PV module manufacturing. President Christian Westermeier states that now is the time to develop all segments of the solar manufacturing supply chain, with a policy framework to support the new market opportunities that are arising from both the proposed Clean Energy Package and the removal of the minimum import price (MIP). “Demand for solar is set to rise soon to around 15GW a year in Europe and we should now see a concerted effort to deliver on every segment of the industrial value chain here in Europe,” said Westermeier, adding, “Our members unanimously backed this call both in our Industrial Strategy Taskforce and at our Board meeting. We want to see all solar products, including wafers, cells and modules, made in the EU in the coming years.” Policy director Aurélie Beauvais added that in addition to the establishment of a large manufacturing industry, which should be supported by relaxing state aid laws, the association is calling for more accessible financing and land acquisition, low energy costs and less red tape. SolarPower Europe says it will put its key recommendations to European Commissioner for Energy, Miguel Arias Cañete, in January at the next high level Clean Energy Industrial Forum. Over 35 leading EU solar industrial players are said to backing the call, including Wacker, SMA, Total, Weidmuller, Voestalpine, SolarWatt, ABB and Enel. Under its proposed strategy, the association also envisages the creation of 300,000 direct and indirect jobs by 2030, from around 100,000 today. In September, the European Solar Manufacturing Council (EMSC) was launched at EU PVSEC in Brussels. At the time, the participating research institutes, mechanical engineers, material and PV manufacturers stressed the importance of having big solar manufacturers in Europe. Expected to be founded in early 2019, it “will be an association of upstream producers and science, not just about cheap modules, but also about sustainability, quality and technological advancement,” Total’s Luc de Marliave told pv magazine at the event. In 2017, SolarPower Europe reported that European PV module manufacturing capacity had fallen from 6.9 GW to 6.7 GW over the course of 2016, with utilization falling to only 40% – meaning a mere 2.7 GW of modules produced. In a similar vein, at the high level Clean Energy Industrial Forum at this year’s Intersolar Europe, the critical importance of establishing a European battery industry was underlined by Maroš Šefcovic, VP for Energy Union, European Commission. He said that Europe failed to provide good support and strategic planning for the whole solar PV value chain in the past, meaning it went to other locations (read: China), and that we must learn from this going forward. As such, he said the European industry cannot depend on imports of batteries from Asia, but must capture the market. “We should create manufacturing here in Europe,” he said, across the whole supply chain Previous: Self-tracking Solar Panels, Inspired By A Lizard’s Feet Next: Inverters From China To Be Spared 25% Tariffs – For At Least 90 Days No.6 Taikang Road, Economic & Development Zone of Weishan County international@cnsdpv.com http://m.pvsolare.com/ Copyright © Shandong Zhongjing Solar Energy Co.,Ltd All Rights Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20327
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Special Collections Oral History Program SCOHP_CongdonBarbara_20051016 Text preview (might not show all results) Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections Oral History Program Barbara Congdon ATTENTION: © Copyright Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. "Fair use" Show moreWestern Washington University Libraries Special Collections Oral History Program Barbara Congdon ATTENTION: © Copyright Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. "Fair use" criteria of Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 must be followed. The following materials can be used for educational and other noncommercial purposes without the written permission of Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. These materials are not to be used for resale or commercial purposes without written authorization from Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. All materials cited must be attributed to Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. This interview was conducted with Barbara Congdon at her home in Wenatchee, Washington, on October 16th, 2005. The interviewer is Tamara Belts. TB: Today is Sunday October 16th, 2005, I am Tamara Belts and I am here with Barbara Barker Congdon. She‟s both an alumna of the Campus School and an alumna of Western, and she student taught at the Campus School. I have three forms to go over with her here of potential questions. She has just signed the Informed Consent Agreement and so we are about to proceed. Part one is the Campus School alumni questionnaire and our first question is how did you happen to attend the Campus School? BC: My mother was going back to school to get her BA. She had a two year certificate from Montana. In about 1945 [they] needed teachers [so badly] she was able to teach with an emergency certificate. To continue to teach, she had to get a BA so she went to summer school at Western. She took my brother and me with her. I don‟t know that we were involved in the planning; we just all of a sudden were spending our summer in Bellingham. We were there for two summers in a row. TB: What was your brother‟s name? BC: Keith Barker. TB: What were the years and grades of your attendance? BC: I think we were there the summer of 1953 and the summer of 1954, so it was between my seventh and eighth and eighth and ninth grades. It was junior high time. I graduated high school in 1959 so I think that‟s about when it was. TB: Do you know what kind of fees that you might have paid to attend Campus School? BC: I don‟t have any idea at all. I assumed they needed us to practice on. I know that my mother paid for a special recreation program in the afternoon. TB: Where did you live in the summer while you were going to Campus School? BC: We lived at two places. One was the corner of Garden Street and I believe Chestnut, towards the college from Holly. It was a great big rooming house that was on the corner. I think that was the first summer. We had a kitchen that we shared with the other people that were there. I think there were a few students but also people like my Mom, older students coming back to school. The other year we lived on Forest Street near Sycamore, down where it starts to curve to go towards Fairhaven. It was a small house 1 Barbara Congdon Edited Transcript – October 16, 2005 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED that maybe had two families. The second year a friend of my mother‟s, Mrs. Gibson and her daughter Virginia, went along with us TB: How did you get to and from school? And then please share any favorite memories of that experience. BC: We must have driven. I mean, that‟s almost a mile down to the Garden Street place, and the other too. I don‟t think we rode the bus, so we must have driven back and forth. I think we had a Nash Rambler at that time! I remember the Campus School, but also I really remember the things that happened during those summers. I remember that we planned and decorated the Campus School gym for a dance and that was a big deal. In junior high in Poulsbo the senior high and a junior high were all together in one building, so junior high kids didn‟t have anything other than all school sock dances after football games. As you went in the front door the gym was on the left. It had these floors that were made out of wooden blocks that were all laid on end to form the floor. It was very different and was kind of a hard, funny floor. I remember the smell of the Campus School and the smell of the gymnasium. Maybe I‟m a person that remembers smells. I seem to remember that the classes were grouped by grades: fifth/sixth for my brother and seventy/eighth for me. I remember feeling that the teachers were practicing on us. I don‟t think that I remember particularly being aware that they were being graded or that they were being observed. I remember there were a lot of them. We may have had six or seven, but I remember it wasn‟t just one teacher. And if there were a lead teacher, I don‟t remember. I have no memories of any of the personalities of the people, but I remember that there were a few there. One of the really exciting things for my brother and me was eating lunch in Edens Hall. When school got over (it must have been 11:30 or 12 because we just went to school mornings), we would walk over to Edens Hall and meet my mother. We got to eat lunch at Edens Hall every weekday! This was big time! I also remember the smell there, that downstairs cafeteria. I can remember seeing all these little dishes filled with Jell-O cubes and tapioca. You know what? It just dawned on me. I‟ve got some little pressed glass dessert dishes in the cupboard over there and I think that‟s why I have those. Isn‟t that funny? I had never thought of that before, but I just saw those dishes and they called my name. I now collect clear glassware. Isn‟t that a hoot? Lunch was cafeteria style so we could choose what we wanted to eat. Eating out was a big deal because we only went out to eat two places: a Chinese Restaurant in Bremerton and at the Port Gamble fancy hotel for Mother‟s Day. I think I remember my Mom giving us money to pay each time. I don‟t remember that we had a ticket. After lunch we went to recreation. It was designed for students with children. This was a great idea as it gave her study time without worrying about us. One of the really cool things was swimming in the swimming pool. I lived on the bay and I had the salt water right in front of my house. I had swum in a lake but I had never been in a swimming pool. That was a big deal, the chlorine you know, and this great big indoor swimming pool in the PE building. I remember the tile all around and the swimming suits. Has anybody told you about the swimming suits? Oh my god. They were the worst. They had two styles; were dark gray, some kind of wool and they were ugly! Everyone had to wear those suits in the pool. It had something to do with keeping the pool clean I guess. You were always hoping you would get the good suits, not the bad suits! That was the trauma of recreational swimming! 2 Barbara Congdon Edited Transcript – October 16, 2005 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Also recreation took us on field trips. I remember Dr. Flora took us to the tide pools out at Larrabee State Park. He made quite an impression in junior high, needless to say, quite an impression. When I went to Western, the first time, he was a biology teacher and I took his class on biology for elementary kids; great teacher, especially for non science types. He was the college president when I did my graduate degree! Recreation was fun. I think maybe they took us up to Canada, maybe on a bus. I don‟t remember what we did but I remember going up there to Stanley Park. We went over to Lummi Island Reservation. That‟s who made this skirt. Are the Lummi Island weavers still in existence? What ever happened to them? Do you know about them? TB: I don‟t, no. BC: Well this was a big economic enterprise for Lummis. If you had one of these skirts, you were with it. They weren‟t cheap either I don‟t think. I remember my mother and maybe some other woman and my brother and I going over and watching them weave. They were all set up and they had a window and you could watch. We picked out our skirts. This one was my mothers and I have one that‟s dark green with some kind of Indian dolls all around the bottom. The skirts and the weaving were quite well known. TB: I actually now just realized I think my mother had one of those. BC: Do you? TB: Yes. I‟ve seen that before, we‟re from Bellingham. BC: See here? This was around the top. I was thinking the other day that I should take the skirt off the waistband (unless somebody else wants to preserve it) and use it as a tablecloth or a throw. I‟m sure I‟ll never wear it again and it‟s just hanging in my closet. Look at the lines from the old hems. They show where the styles and skirt lengths changed. My mother took it up and she took it down. She probably wore it to school for teaching. TB: I am familiar with the basketry; I think they do a lot of basketry but I hadn‟t heard about that, although like I said, I‟ve seen that before. BC: Well it was very important. And look at the quality; it‟s pretty darn good here. They were known for weaving a fine product. Evidently all the women that went to summer school at Western went out and treated themselves at the end of summer. So now I have two skirts. I remember another thing. Some evenings we went out to eat. It was just us, our family – a cafeteria that was downtown. I would say maybe across from the Leopold. I want to say Maxwell‟s TB: Manning‟s? BC: I bet it was Manning‟s. BC: How‟s that for memory? TB: Yah! 3 Barbara Congdon Edited Transcript – October 16, 2005 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BC: That was a big deal for us (you notice all the food things here!): to go down town and go through the cafeteria, instead of cooking. I remember roast beef, a scoop of mashed potatoes with gravy over the top and weird mixed green vegetables. But back to Campus School; I took classes that were special to me. One was wood shop. For a girl to take wood shop at any time, let alone in the seventh or eighth grade just didn‟t happen. And I made this tray! I noticed today it says on the back “B.B.” Barbara Barker. I must have cut it out, sanded it and stained it and it‟s been put away forever. It was in my stuff I got from my mother. I said, “Oh, I don’t believe this!” Anyway, that‟s my tray. The other great class was typing, another thing that was totally unheard of for junior high kids. You didn‟t do that until you were probably tenth grade maybe or eleventh grade. I think we had those big black Underwoods with the clackity keys. I can remember it was touch-typing and RT, FG, VB, EDC. I remember walking across campus moving my fingers and saying those letters to myself. When I went back home in eighth grade, I was handing in typed reports. That was really important. That‟s what kids do now, it means nothing. But I really learned how to type properly. I think they even did dictation that we typed as we heard it, just like my high school typing class. I think that was really probably one of the more significant things I got out of there. That was cool. TB: That‟s been mentioned before. BC: Has it? TB: Yes, the typing. BC: Isn‟t that a kick? We must have had those old black Underwoods. TB: For some of the kids that were regularly in Campus School though, they apparently felt like they never learned to write cursive. BC: Oh, really? TB: They printed. They typed. But they apparently all have really bad cursive handwriting or distinctive because they never really learned how to do that. BC: I remember handwriting in grade school, but I don‟t remember anything at the Campus School, any kind of instruction anyway. I do remember the typing and that was a wonderful leg up. I have papers my mother saved from high school. I‟m blown away by the quality and the lack of errors. I must have really gone over them and retyped them. A major job, but it certainly didn‟t hurt me academically. It was great fun. I don‟t remember very many kids. I remember this one guy whose name was Jack who I just thought was absolutely the coolest blonde haired guy. His dad was the principal from Puyallup. He came back the next year and oh how happy I was. Other than that, that‟s probably the only person that I remember. I have some black and white photos of the dance. As I‟m going through stuff, I will dig them out and put them aside and at least let you look and see if there is something that you might want to use for your exhibit. I will keep my eye out for that kind of thing. The other major memory I have is of a writing contest; much to my surprise I won the darn thing. I have the prize that I got, and I have what I wrote. If I had known about the upcoming exhibit when I was going through my things I would have put them aside. In fact, the story may have been when my mother and 4 Barbara Congdon Edited Transcript – October 16, 2005 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED brother and I were out on Lummi Island visiting the weavers. We were driving along the water and we stopped because we saw this Indian guy down on the beach and I think he was carving. So I went down and I talked to him. Well doggone if it wasn‟t one of the Hillaires who are leaders of the Lummi tribe. He told me this story, this Indian legend, and I wrote the doggone thing down, handed it in, and I won! TB: Oh, terrific! BC: Is that a hoot? I still have the story I wrote and the prize, a small ceramic pin of a crab. That‟s another thing related to summer school that just astounds me, but everything was just right…my mother knew enough to stop, he happened to be there, and to be who it was, a Hillaire, an old man who probably died long ago. TB: That‟s wonderful. BC: So anyway, that‟s the other thing that I have that you might be able to use. I think that was a good ego thing … to think, I won. I don‟t remember it being a major amount of effort, but now that I look back on it, it wasn‟t bad! TB: Well you had the foresight to gather that person‟s story if that wasn‟t your assignment. BC: We just went to see what he was doing, and once I got home my mother, being a great teacher, probably said, “You know, that contest, I bet that Indian’s story might be a really good thing for you to write about.” Maybe I came up with it, who knows. Anyway, I did it -- that was the good part. TB: Now where was the lunchroom? I‟ve heard people talk about it but was it in the basement? BC: On the main floor, ground level, of Eden‟s Hall. You know where the stairs are? I went in there not too long ago and it was totally changed, but you know the big steps up? As you‟re looking at the building, you would have gone in the right side at the bottom of the stairs. There was a door that went in there. TB: So you wouldn‟t have gone up the stairs? BC: No, we did not go up the stairs. We went in flat and it was pretty much a third to a half of the bottom of the building. I lived in Eden‟s Hall when I was a freshman and a sophomore. That would have been 1959 and 1960 and they were still feeding people there. As a matter of fact, that‟s where I met and got to know Mike Phelps. He worked in the kitchen there. Kids came from on campus and off campus. There were three meals a day. TB: I know a lot of faculty ate there, too, the single women and occasionally some unmarried men. BC: That was it; that‟s where we ate. TB: How about any favorite classmates? BC: I only remember Jack. I was only there for two consecutive summer quarters. TB: You didn‟t remember any of your teachers really? BC: I do have a remembrance of Frank Punches as I recognized him when I was in the [education] department at Western. I think Punches must have been in our classroom at some point. 5 Barbara Congdon Edited Transcript – October 16, 2005 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED I remember Dr. Flora from the field trips to Larrabee Beach with the recreation program. I think the kids who ran it were students who were in PE or maybe education. During those years most college students were adults like my Mom and older students, very few “college kids.” TB: Like the summer PE teachers? They may have been hired to run the program as a summer job. BC: Yes! TB: So it‟s almost like an extension of their training. BC: Exactly. TB: Who did you sense were your classmates in that school? It sounds like somebody from Puyallup High School… BC: I got the feeling that in the summer, they were all just like me. Their parents were all going to school. I don‟t have any recollection of any Bellingham kids. TB: How about any of your favorite subjects or classroom activities? BC: Well, typing. TB: Do you remember what kind of learning materials that you used mostly? BC: I don‟t remember any textbooks, but I remember knowing that what was happening educationally was very different from what was happening in my school. And not just because of typing and wood shop, I just had that feeling that it was different and that it was innovative and that it was good. TB: Cool. BC: I don‟t remember working hard. I remember it as being … I don‟t know if I would say “fun,” but I would definitely say pleasant. It was not like going to school. I had no complaints. It was great. TB: Students during the regular year say the same thing, how much fun they were having all the time. What about the grading system? Do you have any sense of that? BC: Not a clue. All I remember is getting that prize for writing. That‟s it. TB: Do you especially remember any creative activities such as weaving, making things, anything else? BC: No. Sometimes I think about what I did in college in the same building and I get confused. I remember doing an artwork thing, but that was in an art for the elementary class. It must have been upstairs in that building, No, I don‟t remember anything else. I remember the dance, making decorations for the dance. TB: Now who all came to the dance? Was it just a dance? Was it just your classmates that were there? BC: Yes. TB: Was that maybe the end of the quarter thing? 6 Barbara Congdon Edited Transcript – October 16, 2005 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BC: Probably. I‟m sure they were teaching us leadership skills, to plan and work in committees. After learning those skills I went off to high school and did those things. I guess I didn‟t realize someone had taught them to me. I also was active in 4-H as a kid. I‟m sure all these experiences helped me be Girls Club president in High School. TB: I think you talked about this a little bit, but what was it like for you to be observed so often by student teachers? BC: Didn‟t miss a beat. I didn‟t have any sense that we were being observed, just that the teachers were practicing on us. TB: It didn‟t bother you at all that you didn‟t know for sure who the master teacher was? BC: No, not a bit. I mean, they were my teachers. I don‟t remember any threat of grading. I don‟t remember any discipline problems. I don‟t remember being worried about my grade. I think that for me it was kind of a lark. Maybe because it wasn‟t really my school; it didn‟t count. But I do think that it might have been different for my brother Keith who was two years behind me. He had some academic problems, mainly in reading. He‟s a wonderful writer, and I think maybe he got a little bit of extra academic help. I remember he had a unit on astronomy. Even I remember learning things about it, learning how to remember the planets in order: Men Very Easily Make Jars Serve Useful Needs Promptly. I never forgot it! Isn‟t that a hoot! And it was in his class but it made such an impression on me; that was a very innovative way to learn something. Mnemonic devices! That‟s what I was teaching my study skills students at the college! This is how you remember things! TB: Any sense that there was like a theme for the quarter or anything when you were there? BC: There may have been for Keith‟s class because of the astronomy. It‟s interesting you bring that up. That may have been the reason I think about it as an innovative place. Learning built around a theme would lead to that wonderful integrated learning, I don‟t remember distinctively in my class, but I have the feeling, and remember I said I thought that things were innovative; I think you may be right. TB: I just picked that up from other people. BC: Yes, well that‟s probably it, it makes sense. TB: What out-of-class activities did you engage in? What did you do at recess? What did you enjoy most? Do you remember any games that you played? It sounds like summer school was only half a day then. BC: Oh yes, we went to lunch and that was it for the day. I do remember some games with balls in the Campus School gym. We may have had PE outside. I do kind of remember that a little. There was something going on in PE now that you mention it that was maybe a little more interesting or a little more than what we were doing at home. The out of class activities were in the afternoon recreation program. TB: Did you do any nature walks or anything up on Sehome Hill? BC: Not that I remember. TB: Did you visit the college itself? The college library, attend assemblies or sporting events or anything else at the college when you were at the Campus School? 7 Barbara Congdon Edited Transcript – October 16, 2005 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BC: We probably went to the library when my mother was studying and probably went in the downstairs. Maybe that‟s why I‟ve always loved libraries who knows? TB: That‟s actually where our office is, Special Collections is in the old children‟s section. BC: Yes! I remember that; and going over to the gym. TB: Did you play in the gym (main gym)? BC: No, if we played in the gym, we played in the gym in the Campus School. I think there were two gyms. When you went in the main door, I think there was a gym on both sides of the hall, but I mainly remember the one that was left and it was cold and I remember those basketball hoops inside and the tiny windows protected with woven wire and the floor. TB: I‟ve heard about it and I can‟t imagine it. BC: Well they took four by fours; they set them on end so you could see the growth rings. There were just all these blocks. I‟m wondering if they were leftover from a mill or something. It seems that they were fir, so they must have been this deep or something, and that was the floor. Isn‟t that funny? TB: Yes, people remember it. BC: We went out to Lakewood a couple times too. I may have gone with the recreation program and probably also with my mother. We went out in the afternoon maybe a couple times and just enjoyed it. A lake was special, I remember the muddy bottom. TB: Did you go canoeing? BC: I don‟t remember. Boating wouldn‟t have been a big deal because I had my own boat at home. It was probably more innovative to go to a lake and [go] swimming. I think the difference between public school and Campus School was the classes I got to take that I would have never had the opportunity to take at home. Also, the teaching techniques, but I only realize that now. TB: And what further education did you pursue? BC: Well, I got a BA in music education in 1963. Then I went off to California to teach a couple years and got married. My husband started school down there and then we moved back to Bellingham so he could finish his BA in education, and I got an MA in early childhood education. There was never any doubt of where I was going to go to college. TB: Oh, really? BC: Yes. TB: Because of your own summer experiences there? BC: Yes, I slid right in. I never considered going anywhere else. Maybe I thought about the University of Washington for two seconds. I was assigned to Eden‟s Hall. Heck, I knew Eden‟s Hall. I don‟t remember any concern about going away to school. I don‟t remember any fears. I just remember eager anticipation to go to college. I didn‟t miss a beat. 8 Barbara Congdon Edited Transcript – October 16, 2005 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TB: You said you didn‟t have any fear. That‟s another thing a lot of Campus School kids said, they weren‟t afraid of anything, they weren‟t afraid to try anything. BC: Yes! TB: You only had two summers there, but that‟s interesting! BC: I came from a small high school, and so the Campus School experience gave me opportunities that I wouldn‟t have had. I had never been in a lab until I went to Western and took physical science. I never knew, I had never heard about Newton. I had no science background. Girls didn‟t take those classes. Maybe one girl in my whole high school took a lab class or took chemistry. So when I took physical science twice I got a D both times! I never knew what a Bunsen burner was! I had never been in a lab; I had never done a lab experiment. For a kid from a small high school, Campus School was a wonderful opportunity to be able to do that. You know, I didn‟t ride a bus; we were out in the country. But I had my own boat and motor. I‟d put it in the bay and go down to Poulsbo and see my friends. It was a little different. I was in 4-H. It was just a whole different ballgame. TB: Well, are you still in touch with any Campus School classmates? BC: No. TB: But you do have Campus School memorabilia? BC: Yes. TB: A tray that you made, your award, and the paper that you wrote. BC: Yes. My brother may have some things. TB: So we may contact you about these items? BC: Absolutely. TB: Any other favorite memories of your Campus School days or any other comments that I haven‟t asked you about your time? BC: I just feel very lucky and special that I was able to go. TB: Can you describe more what the smells were? BC: I don‟t know; I‟m a person who remembers smells. I can‟t really tell you what it is, but if I smelled it again I would know it in a minute, absolutely. I would know I was in Campus School and I would know I was in the bottom of Edens Hall. And I definitely know the chlorine smell from the pool because it was heavy duty chlorine! TB: Do you have any thoughts about the ramps that were in Campus School? A lot of people remember them. You were in high school so it might not be the same. 9 Barbara Congdon Edited Transcript – October 16, 2005 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BC: The ramps! Oh yes, absolutely! I had forgotten all about them! Our classroom was on the second floor. The ramps were extremely cool because there were no stairs! I would have never remembered if you hadn‟t said something! They were wide and I think there was a banister about 3 feet high. TB: And they were rubber. BC: And they were rubber, black rubber. You bet I remember those! Isn‟t that funny? We would run down, stamping our feel and it would echo. TB: A lot of people like to tell the story of how fun it was to tear down there as fast as they could when there was no teacher around. BC: The other thing that I remember and I was going to tell you about that, there was a teacher - and I can find what her name was - when I was in my teacher training and we observed in the Campus School, there was a first grade teacher. TB: Miss Casanova? BC: Yes! Miss Casanova, I remember observing her teaching, this Master Teacher, and she had notes. Five by eight cards in her hand as she was teaching. I thought that was the coolest thing because I thought its okay! TB: Oh, to have notes handy. BC: It was a significant thing. For somebody as great as she made it okay to use notes. And it was something I did. I felt comfortable using notes when I taught. You don‟t have to know it all. That was cool. TB: Now the second questionnaire is the Campus School Teacher/Student Teacher questions. How did you come to be a teacher/student teacher in the Campus School? BC: I applied, and I got it. I was very happy about that. This was winter quarter 1962. The first student teaching was supposed to be a half-day in the levels you weren‟t preparing for or in one‟s minor. We taught half day and took 8 credits. Everybody wanted to stay in Bellingham. It was a real coup to be able to student teach in town. I didn‟t have a car so I would have had to arrange transportation or move. The kids who were far away had travel time, they had all that stuff. That‟s how I happened to end up there. TB: If you were a student teacher (which you were), what degrees or certificates were you studying for? BC: BA in elementary education. My minor was elementary music. I was trained to be a music teacher in the elementary schools. That was kind of my specialty. TB: What were the years and grades that you student taught at the Campus School? BC: It was half days; I think it was mornings but I couldn‟t tell you that for sure. It was winter quarter 1962. The reason that I remember that is because I was a skier and I was teaching skiing at Mount Baker on the weekends. I took two classes. I had under a two point for the quarter! I think that was the second time that I had taken the physical science class that I got a D! A 1.8 grade point hat was the low point in my academic career. TB: Did any other family members teach at the Campus School? 10 Barbara Congdon Edited Transcript – October 16, 2005 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BC: No. TB: So your mother, when she was back there doing her degree, she didn‟t need to do any teaching? BC: She had already been teaching. She was just getting her coursework so she could get her BA. TB: To the best of your recollection, please describe a typical school day. BC: You know, I can‟t really tell you much about it other than I worked with Mrs. Hinds and we were floaters. We went into each class at this time several days a week. The only person that I really have many memories of is Evelyn. I don‟t remember the kids, I don‟t remember the teachers, I don‟t remember the other student teachers because it was just the two of us and we just did our thing. TB: So you went into the classroom and not had the classroom come to where you were? BC: Yes, we went into the classroom. We played our autoharps. That‟s how I learned to be an ace on the autoharp. I can put it on my hip, walk around the classroom and play. I remember I bought my own in the College Bookstore and I still have it. Because my piano skills were definitely lacking, this and a guitar were my instruments for teaching. TB: What are some of the things that you did with the kids? What was the music program like? BC: We did listening, we did singing, and we did rhythms. I think we did some music history, composers and those kinds of things. We taught the kids to do some very simple rhythms and actual music writing, to write a little song or something. TB: Wasn‟t that innovative actually to have the students doing compositions? BC: Probably, but it was pretty basic. We might have done a little bit of symphonic form but it wasn‟t a major part, it was something we did once in a while. I remember I was quite impressed by all the rhythm equipment, classical records, and record player on a cart that we pushed around. I do remember rhythm band for the younger ones. The kids would do cymbals and sticks. The cymbals would play this part and the sticks would do their part; that kind of stuff. The things we taught are what a good in-classroom music teacher still does. We did themed songs for the seasons, holidays, those kinds of things. And of course it was different for sixth graders from first graders. I remember it being fun. I don‟t remember I worked too hard. TB: To the best of your recollection, please describe a typical school week including such things as regular assemblies, music... but probably you were floating around. BC: Yes. Now that you say assemblies – we may have done some group things with the class or with singing maybe in the auditorium. I know when I went to California I certainly didn‟t miss a beat. I would lead the whole grade school singing in the auditorium, so I must have learned to do it somewhere. TB: You said winter quarter – you probably wouldn‟t remember this but do you have any memory of Christmas? A lot of people tell the story as students in the Christmas season, they would come in early before school and Mrs. Hinds would play Christmas carols and they would all sing. This was in the Forties and Fifties and especially if the parents were professors they would bring their kids and everybody sang. BC: I was aware that the students were the children of the professors, but I don‟t remember anything specific. When I taught in Bellingham, which I did, down at Franklin School, I had the Spanel kids. Harriet 11 Barbara Congdon Edited Transcript – October 16, 2005 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED and Les were good friends of mine. And Dr. and Mrs. Seal, Michael Seal, those were my Kindergarteners. But I don‟t remember anyone from Campus School. TB: Were there any music programs in the auditorium when all the kids got together other than the Christmas carols? BC: Maybe, but I was there winter quarter. TB: Do you remember, was there a dress code for you as a teacher in the Campus School? BC: I don‟t remember a thing, no. But I‟ll tell you, Mrs. Hinds was dressed to the nines, always. TB: Still always is! BC: I saw her a couple of years ago and I introduced myself. I don‟t think she remembered me, but I saw her and knew who it was immediately. Mrs. Hinds and a teacher I had from the home economic department were always beautifully dressed; something I observed and thought, “When I teach I am going to dress well.” My mother was always beautifully dressed. When I was at the college, kids would say, “You never come dressed the same twice in the whole quarter!” I‟d say, “You got it!” I knew that how the teacher looked had a lot to do with my learning. I‟m a very visual person and if a professor had some God-awful thing on, I didn‟t remember a thing they said. I remember a history teacher at Western. I still haven‟t forgotten the brown suits and the orange and brown wide ties. I was so grossed-out by what that man was wearing! I never learned a thing, and I blame how he dressed on half of it. I was so visual and I was just so appalled! Too bad I didn‟t realize what I was doing to myself. TB: Well Mrs. Hinds would have been wonderful then because she was always dressing up. BC: Oh, right, and high heels and jewelry and makeup! I don‟t know how I kept up. I just remember that she wore lots of vivid blues. I don‟t remember much else. TB: Is there any other part of the curriculum that you particularly remember? BC: Not really, no, that was my first student teaching. TB: And you did your whole day in the public schools? BC: The next year I did a full day at Happy Valley School out towards Fairhaven, a first/second combination class. I got Bellingham both times, talk about lucky! TB: While you were student teaching at the Campus School was there any momentous local, national, or international events? I realized you just missed the Kennedy assassination. BC: I don‟t remember anything. Kennedy was my first year of teaching in California. That was stunning, I‟ve never forgotten about that. So are you talking about when I was in college then? TB: Something at the Campus School. BC: Campus School? No. TB: And the only thing you taught in Campus School was music? 12 Barbara Congdon Edited Transcript – October 16, 2005 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BC: Yes. TB: As a student teacher, did you take your classes to visit areas of the college for special events? Did you take them over to the auditorium? Did you ever show them the big organ over there? BC: I don‟t remember any field trips, but I certainly remember the big organ from my first day of orientation when the gray-haired music professor in his black academic robe sat down and played the most phenomenal music I had ever heard: Bach. Coming from a small town, oh my god! What is this? I just never got over it. It was the greatest thing ever! It certainly got this freshman‟s attention. TB: Well I‟m going to ask you that one later when we get to the Western part! Do you remember any other involvement with the students‟ parents, do you remember faculty meetings? BC: I don‟t think I went to faculty meetings. TB: Any other thoughts about the administrative structure of the Campus School? Was Ray Hawk principal when you were there? BC: The name sounds a little familiar. TB: By the time you got there, weren‟t they already thinking about closing the school down? BC: I think so, or it maybe didn‟t happen too long after, yes. TB: 1967 it closed. BC: I thought that was such a shame. What a resource the college education department and the children of Bellingham lost. If you‟re going to be a teaching institution, my god, you‟ve got a school right there in front of you with innovative curriculum and master teachers like Miss Nicol and Miss Casanova. Interesting they were both single. TB: Well why don‟t you actually tell that story about Miss Casanova now. BC: During some of my education classes, we would go in and observe in different classrooms. She was the one, „the‟ lady. She was the master. I remember observing her on several occasions when she was teaching and she would have a five by eight or a three by five note card with the important things on it that she was going to cover. I was just so impressed and it made me know that it was okay to do that. And I did it teaching elementary as well as college. You can‟t know everything and you don‟t want to leave out anything. But when you‟re 21 years old, I think you think you have to know everything. I‟m sure that idea probably helped me when I first started teaching. TB: Any more thoughts on student teaching at the Campus School? BC: I can‟t think of anything in particular. TB: Okay; part three, Golden Vikings. BC: I threw that paper out! Lisa said, “I wonder if you’re a Golden Viking.” I said, “I hope not!” TB: Every summer they have a reunion, and we send out this questionnaire. I just wanted to make sure I got you now. How did you choose to come to Western then as a college student? 13 Barbara Congdon Edited Transcript – October 16, 2005 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BC: Because I had gone to Campus School. There was no doubt that I was going to be a teacher, so there really was no doubt of where I was going to go. TB: How did you know you were going to be a teacher? BC: Oh, I know how I knew I was going to be a teacher! In 1959 I had three options: I could be a nurse and I hated blood; I could be a secretary and I thought I would be bored to death, and the other option was teaching. My mother was an elementary teacher. TB: Those were the options to women at that time? BC: That was it. Those were the only three, unless I got married and didn‟t go to school. But there was never any doubt in my mind that I was going to go to college. It was always talked about in my family, “When you go to college.” I had friends who were smarter than I was whose parents said, “Well if you want to go…” and they ended up not going or not finishing and they are still living in Poulsbo. At my house you just did it. It was just part of the drill. I went along with it! TB: What were your dates of attendance at Western? BC: 1959 through 1963 and then 1969 through 1971 I think. I‟m a little iffy on that end date, but I know I left there in 1971 with my MA. TB: I have you as getting your masters in 1970. BC: Yes, it probably is. You may be right because my husband got his BA in 1971. We left and went to Moses Lake in 1971 so I may have had my Masters for a year. While my husband was going to school, I was teaching half time, supporting the family and one child, working on my MA half time, TB: So you got a Masters in education? BC: Early childhood education. TB: Oh, early childhood education! And then somehow you have a music endorsement. BC: Education major with a minor in elementary music, yes. TB: Have any other family members attended Western? BC: Mother, that‟s it. TB: What was your first job after leaving Western and any distinctive memories of this experience? BC: I went to California. California schools came to campus and recruited like crazy. California needed teachers very badly. I interviewed in one or two places and I got hired at Los Gatos School District down near San Jose. It was a wonderful place to be. Twenty one years old, right out of school, in sunny California, things were happening, in fact, I went to Stanford for the JFK memorial service. I remember thinking that I was better trained than the people I was teaching with who went to San Jose State. I was paid I think $3,500 my first year of teaching and it was about a thousand dollars more than the kids who were hiring in Washington. 14 Barbara Congdon Edited Transcript – October 16, 2005 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TB: But what was the cost of living really high down there? BC: Somewhat higher. I think I paid $300 a month for an apartment and I shared it with another teacher, so one hundred and a half. When I went down there, my principal Rex Willis from Mountain Home, Idaho, was probably thirty five years old. People were all young. All these cute young women, the principals used to laugh about who had the best looking staff. I taught with Brooke Coors, from Coors Brewery. I taught with a girl from the University of Texas, Hook ‘em Horns you know, who brought her great big long horns to school. There were people from all over the country, and that was cool. I went into a brand new school. The new school wasn‟t ready for the fall so we double-shifted. The first quarter I taught I didn‟t go to school until 11:30 in the morning. I had a swimming pool right out my door and I‟d go out and sit and have my coffee and read the paper before I went to school. I never liked teaching early after that! At the college, you never saw me teaching eight o‟clock classes. I‟d say nine, if you‟re lucky. It was usually ten. That first year spoiled me forever! After several months we moved into a brand new school building with an innovative design. It was very fun, a very fun place to be. TB: Please share any information about your subsequent career. BC: I went on and taught second grade for a couple years but I got bored with that. I thought if I do Dick and Jane one more time I‟m going to throw up! So I moved to Kindergarten, which I wasn‟t trained to do, but because I was a music teacher it was a perfect match for me. I loved teaching Kindergarten, it was great. I got married to Louie Congdon, we had our son Roark, and we moved to Western after my husband finished two years at community college in Campbell, California. Louie got accepted to Western. I made an appointment with the Bellingham School District, went in for an interview and was hired. Evidently I assumed that I would not have a problem getting a job. Can‟t imagine what we would have lived on if I hadn‟t, but I didn‟t seem worried. I have never applied for a job I didn‟t get, but I didn‟t have to apply for too many. I taught at Franklin School down at the bottom of Indian Street near Lakeway Drive. It‟s gone now, they tore it down. I have a couple of pieces of memorabilia from Franklin School. I have a child‟s chair and a teaching aid, a sample box of chocolate beans, butter, etc. from Ghirridelli Chocolates. I taught there and my husband, because he was a college student, was hired as the recess duty guy. This was good as we needed the money. We lived at the corner of State and Cedar Street. Do you know where the armory is? About half a block up from the armory, right on the corner where Cedar starts up to the campus. We bought the house and lived there. We used my husband‟s student loan for the down payment. We figured it was school expenses. That was the first of many houses we bought and sold. I taught at the old district office building north of downtown for Gary Karlberg and then at Franklin for a guy named Ed Brown. I went to Sunnyland School and taught Kindergarten half days with Julie Fleetwood. Do you know Julie Fleetwood? TB: Yes. BC: I ran into Julie Fleetwood at an opening at the Bellingham Museum where my husband‟s daughter, Lisa Van Doren, is a curator. I just couldn‟t believe Julie was there. It was a hoot! We team taught. One of us taught in the morning and one taught in the afternoon because at that time I was working on my masters. I thought if I‟m going to be here in Bellingham I might as well get my masters instead of just my fifth year. It was the best thing I ever did. TB: And you were teaching Kindergarten, right? 15 Barbara Congdon Edited Transcript – October 16, 2005 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BC: I was teaching Kindergarten, yes. So I taught half day, went to school half day. I got walking pneumonia the quarter I had to take my orals. I got out of that one! I picked up a few extra days to prepare. Thank god! My husband graduated and took an industrial arts job in Moses Lake. I retired, had my son Ian and wasn‟t going to teach anymore. Big Bend Community College received a grant for a parent educat local teacher‟s wife with MA in Early Childhood just moved into town! I got hired part-time to start the program. I had never done parent education in my life. And the cool part is, they just said, “Here’s the money, design and start the program.” I didn‟t have a clue. I got hired to do it, and jumped in. I thought I have this opportunity, I‟m going to set this up to be the most educationally sound program I can think of. Later I found a book on parent coop preschools and I couldn‟t have set it up more ideally than I did. I thought well, sometime during that training or when I was sitting on the floor in the stacks at the Library reading those early childhood journals, it went in my brain and it just parked up there – part of that great basic educational training that I got from Western. I knew I didn‟t want to stay in Moses Lake for the rest of my life. After several years I came here to Wenatchee to run the Early Childhood/Parent Co-op Program at Wenatchee Valley College. I got divorced, raised my two boys, and taught here at the college for about nineteen years. When the college dropped that program, I coordinated Telecourses, and helped run the telecast system for the college. Later I worked in the college ski program as assistant director and helped run ski areas. Who knew when I was teaching skiing at Mount Baker that I‟d ever turn that avocation into a real job? The college then closed the ski program, so I ended up teaching study skills, adult basic education, administered the program for a year and then I retired. That was it. TB: Wow. So they had a ski management program? BC: Yes, a two-year technical degree program in ski instruction and, ski area management. It was great. We had kids come from Sweden; we had kids come from all over. It was a phenomenal program. It was very fun. I never thought that some day I would lose my job or they would close the program and they‟d find something else for me to do. I think again that good basic educational training that I had said, “You know how to teach and you know how to learn, you can do this.” I just said, “Sure, I can do this.” I was like the ad for Mikey and the cereal, “Let’s let Mikey try it!” It was like, “Let BC teach it!” TB: Excellent. BC: Thanks to Western, my educational training was excellent. TB: Oh good. Now tell us about your experiences at Western. When you were at Western, where did you live? BC: My first quarter at Western there was no room in the dorm. I was very disappointed. We lived in a house with Mrs. Patterson and her family. I think it was called Heritage House. She fed us downstairs at a long table on the main floor by the kitchen. I lived with a friend Doreen Finseth from high school, Linda Marple, Sandy, and two girls from Hawaii, Michelle Quaintence and Dorothy Felton. There were so many girls, nine maybe, that we took the door off the one bathroom. It was a big old blue house and at night we could hear rats chewing. They eventually ate through the wall. That was the first two quarters and then I went to the dorm. They tore the house down when they built the Viking Union. When there was an opening in the spring I moved to Eden‟s Hall. I lived in the top right hand corner room. TB: North or South? 16 Barbara Congdon Edited Transcript – October 16, 2005 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BC: The old one, I never lived in the new building. The top corner had windows on both sides and it looked out at Old Main and down towards the Bay. I remember it had hardwood floors and a sink in our room which was very cool. All of the old rooms had sinks I think. You had to go down the hall for the potty and shower. I remember we had to wash the wooden floors at the end of the year when we moved out. I had grown up with a house with wooden floors and I knew you never put water on hard wood floors! I worked as a proctor. Do you know what a proctor is? TB: Somebody who presides or watches. BC: That was my part time job. I worked at the front desk and guys would come and say, „I’m here to see Jane.” I would say into a speaker, “Jane, you have a guest,” and it would go, hopefully, into the right hall on the right floor upstairs. The girl would answer and then they would come down. Because the speakers were in the hall, you‟d open up your door if you thought you were going to have somebody visiting. Sometimes the couples would sit there, but usually they were going on a date. Eleven o‟clock each school night, and later on the weekends, was lights off. They locked the door at curfew and nobody could get in. You had to write the girls up if they were late. They‟d try pushing girls in the lower windows, especially on the weekends. My job at eleven o‟clock on school nights – I probably did this one or two nights a week as it was my part time job – would be to open every single door. I had a flashlight and I would shine it on every bed to make sure everybody was in their bed. Sometimes we would wait for the proctor and as soon as they left, we would turn on the lights and study again or whatever. I think this was usually only if we had a test, we were all pretty good about hitting the hay. TB: Oh, they weren‟t even supposed to be studying after eleven o‟clock? BC: No. Lights were out. A cool place to study was in the luggage closet. Down at the end of the hall was a luggage closet and everybody put their empty suitcases in there. It was a good place to go study because you could sit on the floor. It was kind of quiet and two or three people could study together for a test. That‟s what I did. Other than that, where‟d I live after that? Oh, the big deal was we moved out and we moved down on Garden Street. TB: You also lived in Higginson at some point I think when it was brand new. BC: Yes! I lived in Higginson when it was brand new and that was very fun. It was very innovative for two rooms to share their own bath and central dressing area. I remember we lived on the fifth floor. I remember water fights. We used to take our square plastic waste paper baskets and we‟d fill them with water and you‟d go whoosh -- over the rail. Well Dean Mac came to break up one water fight, and guess who threw a bucket on him from the fifth floor! You‟d run through the room, dripping water and go whoosh! Oh, and I remember going across the street to Gus‟s for hamburgers. I think my junior year I moved out with four other girls and we lived down on Garden Street in a house. TB: Can you tell me a little bit more about what dorm life was like then? Did you have a housemother? BC: Yes, we had a housemother. She had gray hair, I can‟t remember her name. The rumor was that she had been a stripper or something. TB: Really? BC: Fifi LeFou or something. TB: We can probably find it. 17 Barbara Congdon Edited Transcript – October 16, 2005 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BC: Oh yes, you could find who was the housemother at that time. But I don‟t know if her name sounded like a stripper… One of the major rules for girls at that time was no pants on campus during weekdays and only before dinner on the weekends! I can remember having a nine o‟clock class and getting up and putting on a pair of loafers and socks and rolling my jeans up and putting a long coat and going to my nine o‟clock class. I can also remember my first quarter, I took social dance at eight o‟clock in the morning two days a week in the coldest gym you have ever been in your life. It was in the bottom of Old Main and I‟ve never forgotten it. Talk about a place to learn social dance! That‟s where I met my friend Craig McGowan from Seattle, who ended up a wonderful biology teacher at Garfield. He won the state Golden Apple award as well as other recognitions, he‟s a dear. We ate in the basement of Eden‟s Hall. Then the Viking Union was built and we started eating over there. I had a friend whose name was Carol Brown and she used to run the catering and sometimes I would wait tables for extra money. Well I didn‟t have any experience doing that. Sometimes we would serve the Board of Trustees. If there was food left, we got to eat it. They often served Cornish game hen upside down on a half of a pineapple with wild rice inside. I don‟t think I had ever had fresh pineapple or game hen. I know I never had wild rice. I had never had asparagus that wasn‟t canned. We usually had cheesecake for dessert. Funny things. Some were really big banquets, but if you were chosen to do the Board of Trustees it was a big deal. TB: Do you know Ralph Munro? BC: I don‟t know him personally but he was a big gun at the school when I was there. I knew who he was. TB: He also worked for Saga and we have a picture of him serving, he did the Board of Trustees or some dinner with the President. BC: Saga food services! Yes, he may have; Saga was run for a couple years by a nice blonde-haired crewcut guy that was just a dear. And again my friend Mike Phelps and some of the Canadian rugby players worked for him. TB: His name has come up before. BC: Steve, maybe? But anyway, a heck of a guy, just a really nice, young guy. Yes, so we all ate at Saga. I remember skiing and the ski bus. A lot of my life, the whole winter revolved around skiing. I lived, breathed and skied, and that was it. In fact, one of the reasons I went to Western was because I could ski, pretty one dimensional when I look back. TB: Yes, it was interesting because I did find you in the annual under skiing. Even though you were a music major, I only found you in the concert choir! BC: You‟re right! Yes, I did a little skiing. That‟s why I can‟t get up and down the stairs anymore at my house. TB: Who are your favorite or most influential teachers and why? BC: Oh man! I remember Dr. Easterbrook. TB: He‟s still there! 18 Barbara Congdon Edited Transcript – October 16, 2005 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BC: Oh really? Well if you ever see him, you have to tell him this! It must have been one of those science for the elementary school classes. He put us in a boat and took us out to the San Juan Islands. It was some guy‟s fishing boat. We went to Fossil Bay. I remember Easterbrook found a sea urchin. He cut up the sea urchin, put it on Triscuits, and we ate it. Isn‟t this funny? This is the kind of stuff kids remember, field trips! I remember laying in a sleeping bag at night and looking up at the stars and talking about the stars. But the thing I remember the most is he brought us coffee in our sleeping bags in the morning! I have never forgotten it and my husband, dear sweetheart, knows that‟s the way to my heart! I love my coffee in bed in the morning! I got to know Dr. Neuzil and his family. He was the ski club advisor. My friend Mike Phelps was very good buddies with Dr. Neuzil. Also I had a very dear, sweet student teaching supervisor, Mabel Hodges I think, when I was at Happy Valley. She had part of her stomach removed and was quite ill (I wonder if she had cancer). Even though she couldn‟t eat, she used to bake these wonderful goodies to bring us when we had afternoon seminars. She was a wonderful woman. The thing I remember most about her was that she was flexible. She would say we were going to have something due on a specific date. Sometimes kids said “Yeah but I’ve got a test,” and she said, “Oh, well that’s okay. Let’s choose another day.” It wasn‟t a big deal to make a change as long as she reached her goal. So you have a test that day? Let‟s do it the next day. Who cares? You know? I tried to use that in my teaching. TB: Did you have Bearnice Skeen? BC: Oh, Dr. Skeen. She was a dear and was my early childhood advisor. That would have been in my masters program, she was a wonderful woman. TB: When you were in music did you have Regier? BC: Bernard Regier I sang for him my freshman year, but I was never terribly impressed with him. I was a music major. I‟m a singer; I played the violin the guitar, and the autoharp. I was destined to teach music to kids. I was never destined to do music theory because I didn‟t know how to play the piano. I took music theory the first quarter of school and I thought I was going to die because we had to write music. We had to follow all these rules of composition. I‟d follow the rules but I couldn‟t play the piano to see how my composition sounded. I wasn‟t smart enough to go to someone who played the piano and say, “Would you play this for me?” As soon as I heard it I would have said, “Oh, that’s got to be changed.” I struggled through that class and immediately changed to a music minor from major so I didn‟t have to take any more theory classes. I‟ll tell you a story about my music education requirements which I probably shouldn‟t tell but I‟ll tell anyway. There was a requirement at Western that you had to be able to play The Star Spangled Banner to get your degree in music. What a stupid requirement! My god! I just couldn‟t do it! I‟d get to “rocket‟s red glare” and just fold. So, I never took the test. Nobody ever found out! Lucky for me they didn‟t have computers to track everything then. What would have happened if I‟d gone in unable to ever pass that darn test? I could have stayed at Western for five years and never learned to play The Star Spangled Banner! And did it matter? No! I was an excellent teacher and it had nothing to do with whether or not I could play The Star Spangled Banner. That‟s how I got my minor! 19 Barbara Congdon Edited Transcript – October 16, 2005 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED I used to tell this story to my students in my study skills class, “Don’t point out the things that you can’t do.” Before I started my first year of teaching, my mother gave me two bits of advice. One was, “It’s easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.” The other was, “Get to know and be nice to the secretaries, janitors and the cooks.” Great advice. TB: What was your main course of study? BC: Music and education. My music was my minor and education was my major. TB: What classes did you like the best or learn the most from? BC: Often I did not like the theory classes, but I did love the application classes. Art for the elementary school, science for the elementary school: the practical stuff that I was going to use. I think those classes were why I felt well prepared when I started to teach. I did have one history teacher that was wonderful; he maybe taught Washington State History. TB: Murray? BC: Yes! If they had all been like him I would have loved history. His son was my age, too. The theory classes were difficult…but the others I did like. They probably saved my grade point. TB: Okay, well we know one of the extracurricular classes you enjoyed the most was ski club. Anything else you especially enjoyed? What about dances? The water fights? BC: [Laughter]. Are you going to say, “You won’t believe this woman!” The water fight incident was just something that happened once. My life pretty much revolved around skiing and people that were skiers. I remember one year when I was teaching skiing I skied from the first weekend of October through May fifth. I never missed a weekend because I was working up there! That was how I earned my money. I had skied a little bit in high school. As a freshman I took skiing as a PE credit. I remember the ski school director, Greg Newton asking me at the end of the ski class, “Would you be interested in teaching skiing next year?” Well, I was, “What?” I was just astounded. I ended up teaching skiing my sophomore, junior and senior year, and then when I went back for my MA. That was pretty good duty; I got a pass and I was going to ski anyway. I made some money; it was fine. And a funny thing, Greg Newton‟s ex-wife was one of my students here at WVC. TB: Oh, in Wenatchee? BC: Yes, Pat Newton. We found that out, we just absolutely hooted, thought it was funnier than all get out. So I studied and I skied and that was pretty much it. The first year I taught the ski school was run by Franz Gabl, an Austrian who had silver medalled in the Olympics. His wife made great mulled wine. I have the recipe. TB: Do you have any other special memories of your first college days? BC: You mean when I first got there? TB: Your bachelor‟s degree. 20 Barbara Congdon Edited Transcript – October 16, 2005 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BC: As I said, the first day when we went in and heard Dr. Schaub play the organ. There was always this story that his hair was so white because he‟d had an unhappy love affair or something. Did you ever hear that? TB: I‟ve heard stories. BC: Something like that, yes. I had never heard anything like that organ in my life! I was just astounded and I think it was at orientation on one of the first days we were on campus. I have always been crazy about Bach and organ ever since, so it took. The other thing that I think was really important, I‟d say probably one of the more important classes that I took at school (and I think every college should require it), covered using the library. I had to take it from some guy who was a librarian… TB: Oh, Herb Hearsey. BC: Yes. I had to take an introduction to the library class. Do you know about that class? TB: I think so. I‟ve heard that people had to take classes from Herb Hearsey. BC: We had to learn about a library resources and how to do research. It wasn‟t taught at my high school: how to do research, how to look up books. Probably the most useful class I took in college. I have used the skills the rest of my life. If I had to do it over again, I may have gone into research. I‟m doing genealogy now and just love it. TB: Excellent. BC: Yes. It was a half a quarter, a couple afternoons a week. Everybody had to take it, it was required. It was absolutely the best. Other special memories were going to a lot of lectures. I heard Linus Pauling talk. I saw Satchmo play in the gym. I saw Hal Holbrook as Mark Train, Vincent Price, Count Basie and some opera stars that are now famous. The only reason I went was because I got extra credit or was assigned by my instructors. Good for those teachers. I didn‟t know who those people were, it would have never entered my mind to go. I did the same thing when I was teaching at WVC, “So-and-so is coming; you’re going, getting extra credit.” You have to force kids into doing those things because they don‟t know enough to do it themselves. TB: When you first came to Western, there was a major change in the curriculum underway and there was a new president, Dr. Jarrett, who really did push the humanities program. There was a lot of building going on, which is why Linus Pauling came for the dedication of Haggard Hall. BC: Oh, is that why? He spoke about sickle cell anemia. TB: Yes, 1959, 1960 he came for the dedication and did make a big speech for that. The Ridgeway dorms got built. Higginson Hall was built. Did you have any sense as a student that this was an exciting time? BC: Oh, absolutely; I loved the sculpture at the library, the Rainforest? I‟d never seen anything like that. Still, I just thought it was great! I loved it! I still love it. TB: That‟s right; the library was being renovated when you were there for the first time. BC: It was. Haggard Hall is the science building, right? 21 Barbara Congdon Edited Transcript – October 16, 2005 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TB: It was. BC: If you don‟t think that was something: to go in there for the first time and have class with all those concrete walls… TB: Tell me more about that, what was that like? BC: It was like, oh my god, what is this? TB: Did you like it, or you didn‟t like it? BC: I don‟t know that I was crazy about it, but I didn‟t hate it. I think that my interest in architecture and design is because of the Western campus. I remember all the hexagonals at the Viking Union. They were in the sidewalk, the furniture, they even used them in the design of the Klipsun that year. TB: Is that a negative reaction? BC: Positive. I like the look now. It set me up for, “This is how things are supposed to look;” absolutely, an unintended outcome, but absolutely. Well, look at the metal on my fireplace. What does that look like? Doesn‟t that look like Haggard Hall? Probably, I mean, it could fit right in there. It‟s gray, it‟s metal, and it‟s sculptural. TB: Just trying to get a sense of what it was like (people‟s perceptions). People in the end, before they renovated Haggard were against Thiry, the one who designed Haggard. He was the same one who designed Higginson Hall as well. BC: And I took a class in my masters program in the home [economics] department on Scandinavian design. TB: From Dr Ramsland? BC: No, it wasn‟t Ramsland. It was a woman; I think it was Dr. Larrabee. I remember Ramsland because my college roommate was in home economics. Dr Ramsland started that wonderful chair collection that is now in the college art gallery. I think my interest in architecture and design is the main non-academic thing that I got at Western, and is significant in my life. TB: What were some of the things you noticed when you came back the second time to get your masters? Anybody else who was a favorite or inspirational teacher? BC: Well, Dr. Skeen definitely because of my masters. Roberta Bouverat was always kind of there but she was never one of my favorites. She was kind of Dr. Skeen‟s protégé. But she was kind of…but look at who she was up against. Dr. Skeen was just such a peach; she was just a dear, and such a master teacher. During that time I was teaching half day, I was going to school half day, taking evening classes, taking afternoon classes, supporting the family. Because I was doing other things, I wasn‟t as much a part of the masters program as the kids who were going full time. I had other stuff I had to do. They had more camaraderie, incidental learning and probably more fun, too. TB: You were just trying to survive. 22 Barbara Congdon Edited Transcript – October 16, 2005 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BC: Yes, I was trying to survive, exactly. One person I met in those classes was Barbara Merriman (Barbara Snow). She has run early childhood programs and worked for Whatcom Community College; she was vocational dean out there. We are still in contact and have been friends for years and years. She was a Home and Family Life Coordinator around the state when I was the same here in Wenatchee. When I was teaching during grad school, I got to know the faculty community as parents of my students. I met Harriet and Les Spanel, the Seals, Abel the math teacher. There was a family with a darling little boy, Steven. He was killed up in Alaska a couple years ago. His dad was an architect in town. They were neighbors of Spanels TB: Well, is there anything else that I haven‟t asked you that you would like to comment on? BC: When my husband was at Western, he was in the technology department, so were Dr. Hill and Rod Slemmons. We did some socializing with Rod and Kif Slemmons, so at that time I got into a different area of what was happening at the college. Louie was a PE minor. If I could take Wenatchee‟s weather and put it in Bellingham, I would live there in a minute. It‟s close to Vancouver, close to Seattle, the water is there, the San Juans, the mountains, this is as close as I can get. I‟m just missing the intellectual, arts…I would be going to things on campus all the time. TB: So there‟s nothing else for the record? BC: I don‟t think so. TB: Okay; I will say thank you very much. BC: You are very welcome. 23 Barbara Congdon Edited Transcript – October 16, 2005 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Danny Beatty interview--October 12, 2005 Danny Beatty is an alumni of WWU, Class of 1955. In addition he did student teaching in the Campus School. SCOHP_BeattyDanny_20051012 Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections Oral History Program Danny Beatty ATTENTION: © Copyright Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. "Fair use" c Show moreWestern Washington University Libraries Special Collections Oral History Program Danny Beatty ATTENTION: © Copyright Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. "Fair use" criteria of Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 must be followed. The following materials can be used for educational and other noncommercial purposes without the written permission of Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. These materials are not to be used for resale or commercial purposes without written authorization from Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. All materials cited must be attributed to Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. This interview was conducted with Danny Beatty in Special Collections, Western Washington University Libraries, Bellingham, Washington, on October 12th, 2005. The interviewer is Tamara Belts. TB: Today is Wednesday, October 12th, [2005] and I am here with Danny Beatty. We‟re about to do the oral history. We are hoping to do two parts: one is the Golden Vikings questionnaire, [two is] asking some questions about fly fishing, since he is an avid fly fisherman. My first question is why did you choose to attend Western? DB: Because of its location and the fact that I didn‟t have funds to go away. That was pretty typical in those days. TB: Now did you live at home while you were there? DB: Yes, for three years, and one year on campus. TB: So you lived at Ferndale? DB: Actually, almost in Blaine. I went to high school in Ferndale, but our home was closer to Blaine. TB: And then your dates of attendance at Western? DB: From 1951-1955 and then lots of classes afterwards clear into the Seventies. TB: What degrees or certificates did you receive from Western? DB: A BA in Education and eventually a standard general certificate for the State of Washington. TB: And then I think you have no other degrees? DB: Correct. TB: O.K. What other family members attended Western? DB: An uncle, an aunt, my brother, my daughter, cousins, first cousins and on out (meaning second cousins etc.) that lived in the area. Quite a number of us are Western grads. TB: What was your first job after leaving Western? DB: That was teaching in Anacortes School District. You were kind of interested in our contract and I brought it. If you‟d like to have a copy of it, there‟s my first teaching contract fifty years ago. 1 Danny Beatty Edited Transcript – October 12, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TB: Wow, that is pretty cool. Your first salary was going to be $3,500 a year. That would be excellent. So you taught at Anacortes? DB: Yes. That was for a year. In February of 1956 I got my draft notice to go into the Army. Somewhere back in the earlier Fifties, I was drafted. I forget exactly all the details, but they had exemptions for college students if you passed a test or had a certain grade point or certain criteria at that time. The Draft Board would give you a deferment. Well, I‟d run out of deferment while I was teaching, and so the superintendent got me an extension until June. Then they said absolutely no ifs, ands, or buts about it, you‟re coming in! So in June of 1956 I was sent to Fort Ord, California. TB: How long were you in the service? DB: I was active duty for two years. I had an interesting experience! Of course at first, basic training and all that was pretty standard. After I got to Germany, I didn‟t like the looks of what my unit would be doing, the fieldwork and stuff. I found out there was an Army education center at the Kaserne (German for post, fort or barracks). I went over and talked to the director and he got me special duties to teach there for all the time that I was in that unit. I was a GED teacher. At that time there were many soldiers that did not have a high school diploma. Now I think it‟s required, but then it wasn‟t. It was our job to teach GED courses and administer the tests and get them equivalent to a high school education. I did that for about six months give or take, and then I was reassigned to division headquarters and I lost that job. Division Headquarters, G-2 clerk, it wasn‟t as much fun, but it was a good job. I managed though, I guess partly because I had a degree and my tests were good. I remember the Colonel, when I interviewed for the job at Division, he was like this. I was standing at his desk and he was looking at my records and he said, “Well, this is a clerk typist type job.” I said, “I don’t type very well.” He said, “You’ll learn.” I wanted to stay with the education center, but he said, “No, you’re coming here.” You don‟t argue with colonels. The Colonel turned out to be a fine officer and easy to work for. TB: Right! Where did you live when you were at Western? (This is going back to your experiences at Western.) DB: Back to Western, yes. One year, my senior year, my friends talked me into moving into town. Actually, the house is gone but it was across the street from the library. It‟s where the Viking Union is now. On the corner was Daniel Hall and I don‟t know if we were the second house over. It wasn‟t an organized house. It was just they had apartments upstairs and downstairs and a basement apartment. It was very crowded, cheap. There was about three of us in a room and a half sort of thing. TB: Who were your favorite or most influential teachers and why? DB: Actually in the science department, I really enjoyed all of the teachers, specifically Dr. Knapman, Miss Platt and Miss Pabst. Dr. Knapman taught chemistry. I enjoyed his classes. He did something for me that really helped me through college, and that was, I think it was my sophomore year. Before and after my Freshman year I worked at a Blaine fish cannery to earn money for the next school year. That was gone; they closed it up. I needed a job for the summer. Knapman had been contacted by the United States Department of Agriculture. They needed somebody in this area to do work in all the fruit and vegetable canneries. I applied for it and got the job. I did that then for years and years afterwards, even after I was teaching. After I was through school and into teaching, it was summer jobs when I wasn‟t going to school. It was supplemental income. It was something that was short season. I kind of appreciated that, a chance to get a job so that I could continue having funds to come to school. TB: What was he like as a teacher? Do you have any memories of him? DB: Dr. Knapman; he was just a professor that you could talk to easily. He was just a very personable man. I don‟t know, we just clicked I guess, that was part of it. He stayed there for many years, and my brother had him for classes and everybody I ever talked to thought he was a wonderful teacher. Miss Platt and Miss Pabst… did you happen to watch channel 9 last night? 2 Danny Beatty Edited Transcript – October 12, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TB: No. DB: They had this E = MC2, The Story of Einstein, and it talked about women in science many years ago. Even in the Fifties it was not that common for women science professors. These were two dandies! I really liked both of them. There were lots of field trips. Ms. Platt took us out for biology class. It was a field class and we learned how to do things in sampling. I followed that process when I went to teach. It was something I could use with the students in field trips and so forth. Students liked that. TB: What about Miss Pabst? DB: Same thing. Platt was biology. I did plant and insect type, both. And then Pabst was geology and we did field trips. I used that through [out] my teaching. I thought it was very important. Kids still talk about it. My former students talk more about what we did outside the classroom. They remember more about that than what we did inside. TB: What about Mr. Walters? DB: Well, he was the band director. I was not a music major, and he just accepted me so nicely as part of the band. It was just fun. I brought you something for that, too. I hope I can find it here. That was one of our band trips (referring to some photos). Maybe I set it aside and didn‟t bring it. I have at home three band tours. At that time, we went on band tours around the state to kind of advertise Western, and the band, for a week. We would go to high schools and put on concerts. As I say, I was not a music major, but I fit in, he accepted us. This fellow was a music major, Don Sires. We were over at Port Townsend for the Rhododendron Festival. It was just a really interesting neat thing. Walters was a person that just accepted us so well, and of course our schedules and stuff, he would try to fit us in so we could be with the band. TB: What did you play? DB: Trombone. TB: O.K. Well I know he was pretty renowned for his marching band. DB: In the book that Kristie gave us at the dinner, the Western Washington University: One Hundred Years, there‟s a picture of the band in the field right behind Wilson Library, where Haggard Hall is. It forms a big „W‟. My picture isn‟t there because I‟m in one of the lines that…the trombones are all real tight and so we don‟t see individuals. But I remember that picture. TB: What was your main course of study? DB: Science and math was where I spent most of my time, plus education classes. I never thought they did me that much good, but we had to take them. TB: Any thoughts about any of those teachers? Did you have Dr. Woodring? DB: No, I didn‟t. In psychology and education classes, honestly, I don‟t remember too many of them. TB: That‟s fine. What classes did you like the best and/or learn the most from? DB: As I explained earlier, the field classes were good. The classes that helped me learn about science and math, that I could use when I went to teach, ended up being the ones I remember. TB: What extracurricular activities did you enjoy the most? 3 Danny Beatty Edited Transcript – October 12, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED DB: Of course band was one for three years. Even though I lived a ways away, I tried to participate in campus activities. When I went to school here, we could park right beside the library. The parking lot is now Red Square. It was between the Campus School and Old Main and the library. There was a parking lot. If we would get here early enough, we‟d park right there. I was always here by 7:30 and I‟d park right there. Right in front of that parking lot there was kind of an all-purpose room in the basement of Old Main. I don‟t know what it is now, I have no idea. It was where they held the mixers and so forth. Those were fun. TB: What about student government? You were on the Board of Control. DB: Yes, for three quarters. It overlapped into summer and I didn‟t attend summer school so didn‟t keep doing it. That‟s one full year. I think it was my junior year. Yes, I was on the Board of Control. I was the finance chairman. That was an interesting experience. Somewhere I got a certificate for my efforts on that because it was quite a job. I don‟t have any idea how student government works now but then it was kind of like a high school almost. There were only 1,200 or 1,500 students here. It‟s not a very big budget. Athletics was a big part of it. I‟m sure if you‟ve interviewed enough of us, you have heard the Chuck Lappenbusch name. He was the one that did the budget for athletics. [Sam] Carver and Lappenbusch. I remember going over to his office and sitting with him and Carver, mostly Lappenbusch, and going through the budget. He was a very interesting man. I didn‟t know him that well, I never took a class from him or anything, but that was my job. It was very interesting to be involved in that. TB: And you were the senior class president? Any thoughts about that? DB: That was a big job I guess. I even brought my Class Day Talk. I brought our Class Day Program. I don‟t know if you have these things. TB: I don‟t have that, but I would love to makes some copies of your speech and your pictures. DB: This was the vice president, Floyd Jackson. Unfortunately Floyd passed away I guess at a fairly young age; he‟s been dead for quite a few years. They moved the walk a bit. They‟ve moved the plaques out here. TB: They started going the other way then. DB: They‟ve also moved them all. They lifted it up and moved it. I went and looked at it this summer when I was here. I guess they needed to get more space. I don‟t have any idea if you are interested in any of this. TB: Oh yes. In fact, I‟ll have to show you, they just did an article on October 4 th about [Memorial Walk], just this year. I can show you. We found another picture where they‟re doing it, but it would be great to get these. DB: I thought it might be kind of interesting but I didn‟t bring it. I have a copy of what I said this summer if you are interested to put the two together. TB: Very much so. DB: You have the annual for 1955? TB: Right. DB: I have some other pictures of graduation in our senior board, the senior class board….(referring to pictures). TB: Do you have any experiences with the Campus School? DB: Yes, I did. My first student teaching as a junior was at Whatcom Junior High School. Whatcom was one of the schools Western used a lot so the cooperating teacher was very much used to having student 4 Danny Beatty Edited Transcript – October 12, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED teachers with them. It was at the level I ended up teaching at, so that turned out to be something that was very helpful. When he finally turned the class over to me, for the amount of time I was there, it was half time. For almost a half day I had the class to myself and I had to prepare and so forth. He just walked out and there you go. I don‟t remember his name, I wish I did. Then the next year I did the full day at the Campus School. The person that was the sixth grade teacher was a member of the staff of Western from the education department. It was Stewart Van Wingerden. There were three practicum teachers; two men, myself and another fellow my age. The third person was a woman that was a bit older. She had a family. She was raising her children. The men were 21 years old. I hate to say how old she was. I would guess 35. I don‟t know, I may be way off. But she seemed older to us 21 year olds. She was very experienced with kids. We just kind of let her take over more. It was not an experience that was normal I think, not like the other one I did, the previous one. I think I ended up after a couple of weeks with a chip on my shoulder if I ever had one. I don‟t really go for that sort of thing, but I was upset with the director of the Campus School (Ray Hawk, I think) because he wouldn‟t let me go and practice with the band late in the day. I could have gone after the kids were gone and gone over and played in the band. But the Campus School administration wouldn‟t let me do that. It was kind of important to me, even though I wasn‟t a music major. He didn‟t understand that. TB: That‟s why you were not in band your senior year, because you couldn‟t be in it and do your student teaching? DB: Correct, I was doing student teaching in the fall. TB: O.K. Please share with us any special memories of your college days. DB: College was very important as it turned out. I was talking to my friend the other day about this. He came over to the house and I had the Western Washington University: One Hundred Years. He said, “If I had known that school was there, I would have been up there in a minute!” He‟s from Los Angeles, went to USC. He said, “We had counselors in high school that came and talked to us about going to college and so forth. I didn’t know much about it, but a counselor did talk to us.” Ferndale had nothing like that in high school. No one would talk to us about what we should do after school and it was never mentioned. In our family it was a given that we went to school, but we could only come here because we didn‟t have funds to go to the University of Washington or Washington State. When I did get to college and got involved in it, it was a very enjoyable experience for me. I met a lot of good people. I made a lot of good friends. I got involved with various parts of the school at that time. It was a good experience for me. I think it helped bring out my personality some. TB: Do you have any thoughts about – I‟ve heard about them – the assemblies they used to have? DB: You know, the Auditorium-Music Building was brand new that fall of 1951. The school brought in all sorts of people. Who was the jazz guy from San Francisco? They had him here. I wish I would have brought the music thing, that tour. We had the world renowned trumpeter Mendez play with our band during the time I was here. I have his signature. You can have some of this stuff some day. It‟s got Raphael Mendez. He came and we practiced with him for a number of days with the band and then we did a concert. Is that what you‟re talking about? That sort of thing? TB: Well that‟s a special memory. I just know that there used to be pretty regular assemblies. DB: Well, the Auditorium-Music Building was almost big enough to hold everybody on campus. When I started school it was 1250 and when I left it was 1500. The auditorium would hold 1,000 to 1,200 people. It‟s all been remodeled now and changed, I know. It was quite a state of the art building at that time. There was a man named David Schwab they hired just to play the organ, and he put on recitals. It was good for us students because we hadn‟t been used to that. We had been out here in the country. TB: Is there anything else I haven‟t asked you about your college career that you would like to talk about? 5 Danny Beatty Edited Transcript – October 12, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED DB: I had some interesting experiences. What year was it? I can‟t remember exactly. A club I belonged to needed a bus to go somewhere. They found out that if they could get one of the group to drive it, they wouldn‟t have to pay as much for the bus. Buchanan, he handled the money parts of the school, and he handled buses for some reason. I said I would drive the bus. I‟d driven everything, living on a farm. I can do anything! They had these old Navy surplus buses, they were really quite something. I said, “I’ll drive it.” I did. It worked out O.K. He called me one day and said, “I’m in desperate need of someone to drive the ski bus.” I was a little hesitant about that, driving up to Mount Baker. He said, “We’ll pay you!” I said, “O.K., I’ll do it.” So I ended up a number of Saturdays driving the ski bus. That was interesting because these buses were awful. You‟d fill up the gas tank in Bellingham or at the school, drive to Glacier, fill it up again, make the loop back to Glacier, fill it up again and come back! They had small tanks and poor mileage and terrible conditions, but we got up there. I remember one situation, one girl was quite badly injured and she had the seat across the back. She was Christian Science and she wouldn‟t let the doctors or anybody [help her]. We brought her back, [and] called somebody. It was January or February and [we didn‟t] get back to school [until] 7 o‟clock, and it was dark and we were trying to find some help for this poor person. I had a lot of interesting experiences. Another trip he talked me into doing was taking the archaeology class -- and Professor Herbert Taylor was in charge of that – we took the group and drove to near Olympia, caught a boat and went over to Squaxin Island, which is an Indian Reservation. He said, “Well, since you drove the bus, we’re going to leave it in Olympia. You’re not a member of this class, but if you’ll help us dig, if you do some work, we’ll feed you.” That was quite an experience and that‟s another part of this I do want to before I leave, find somebody in the archaeology department because I have at home a very rare artifact. Something needs to be done with it. My brother and I are not sure where to go, but this is very, very unique, and it‟s from up in the north end of the county. I do not know the archeology department. I never took their classes, but I became very interested in this and know the location of my artifact. Somebody should give somebody (before I die) the information. TB: We‟ll get that for you today. DB: Those are the kinds of things…in college, somehow I just allowed myself to be involved. Things came up and I was willing to try. TB: Why don‟t you tell me a little more about your [teaching] career? Did you teach most of your time at [Anacortes]? DB: All but one year. TB: Because you were at Sedro-Woolley weren‟t you? DB: I did teach one year there, that‟s how I knew Isabelle. We taught sixth grade at Central School. That was the year I got back from the Army. Anacortes didn‟t have a job for me because I‟d been in the service. I don‟t remember why, it just didn‟t fit for some reason. Anacortes called me back the following year and then I got back into the job I wanted and I stayed there for the next 25 years. TB: What grade level did you teach at Anacortes? DB: Mostly at the middle school or junior high school, seventh, eighth and ninth. That level was always the orphan of the school district, and depending on what shifts were being made with the school populations and buildings available, it would change from a two year school to a three year school to a two year school. Over the years it was many things. I also taught third grade for five years. TB: What are some of the significant things you saw in teaching over the years? Changes? Did you see a lot of changes in the students? 6 Danny Beatty Edited Transcript – October 12, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED DB: In science, it started with Sputnik but a little later in the Sixties, the National Science Foundation got involved with education. I took a number of those institutes…two or three here at Western, the University of Wyoming, I even went to Princeton one summer, one at the University of Washington. I called it the “alphabet science.” They had a long name for the ideas they were trying to formulate in the curriculum and they just went by the initials, that‟s why I called it the alphabet science curriculum. I got involved in all those things at the middle school/junior high level. What it allowed was there were government funds, we had money for equipment, we had money for improving the lab. I actually worked with programs to give the kids hands-on experiences with equipment at their level. I thought that was very good. I saw that improvement from the time I started to the time I retired. My ending years I taught in the mid-Seventies. My first wife and I divorced; I was kind of at loose ends. I thought I needed to do something different so I went and taught third grade for five years! That was a different experience. It worked out fine, I enjoyed it. The kids were great. After that time I went back to the middle school and ended up teaching mostly math then for three years. While I was teaching, I was very involved in getting kids out in various ways -- this kind of fit in more with the fishing part -- I‟d take kids on weekend outings. I did science outings on Saturdays. I even went through the bus driving training class and was able to use the school bus. We took trips; hiked Sauk Mountain, old geological trips up into the upper north parts of the Nooksack, journeys up in that area. We just were very involved in getting students out in the field. I did outdoor education classes. My focus was to get students involved in stuff that they could kind of get handson. Those are the things they remember. TB: Did you find teaching to be a rewarding career? DB: Very much so. Yes. I wrote quite a long section about that down here. My former students, I see them any day I go into town to a store or something. All sorts of businesses and as I say, the mayor of the town, I‟m not living in this town, but no matter what area I find myself, there‟s a former student there. My friend from California, he gets really a kick out of it. We go somewhere, we go out to Coronet Bay and watch the boats, and there‟s one of my former students working for the park. He has to come over and talk to me. Everywhere I go, this is my situation. TB: I bet. DB: O.K. Now you want to move on. I think I pretty well covered it, you get the picture. TB: And we will transcribe this and give you the chance to add in anything else that you would like to talk about. Okay; my first fly-fishing question is how did you get started fly-fishing? DB: While I was in the Army, one of the fellows I worked with in the office was a fly fisherman from Hood River, Oregon. He fished the Deschutes and he talked about it. He made it sound so interesting. I had been fishing prior to that; when I grew up I fished around the creeks and my dad was a salmon fisherman and we did some of that out here in the bay. I didn‟t even have a clue what fly fishing was and he made it sounds so interesting, I went to the PX and bought a fly rod and reel. I had no place to use it over there, but I did buy it, and I brought it back. Then I got to raising a family and not much involved in fishing but I did do a little. One of my good friends, a teacher, was a fly-fisher, and he helped me learn a bit about casting. We went out and he kind of helped me get started a little bit. When I really got involved was in 1974. My neighbor had been up to the lakes in Canada, had met a man that belonged to a fly-fishing club in Seattle and he thought we might start one in Anacortes so this fellow and I and this other teacher, the three of us, got together and formed the Fidalgo Fly Fishers in 1974, 1975, we formed that fly club. From then on, I just kind of focused on fly fishing. Up until then, I did all sorts of fishing. TB: What is it about fly fishing that attracts you? DB: The people, certainly. For the most part I find that people that fly fish are very interesting. There‟s kind of an art to it; the fly tying, that sort of thing. I guess it kind of evolved from those things. 7 Danny Beatty Edited Transcript – October 12, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TB: Can you describe a typical day on the stream, or what would be a perfect day on the stream? Either one. DB: Yes. I‟ll give you more of a typical day. I enjoy both ways, lakes and streams. What we like to do, which we‟ve done almost from the beginning, is have an RV, a trailer, and go into Canada and park the trailer, the RV, right next to the lake, unload the boat, put it in the water, and it‟s right there to use any time you want. We stay in one place for a week or ten days at times, self-contained. You go out and go fishing any time you feel like it. You can sit back and read a book, you can sit in the trailer and tie flies, you can go out and go fishing, you fix supper, you have happy hour, it‟s a total experience away from home. That‟s a typical day for me in Canada, where we like to go. The stream fishing for me right now, unfortunately, the Skagit is not in fishable shape, but to go over to the Skagit River, put my boat in, I usually try to have somebody with me. Often it‟s someone who hasn‟t been on the water before. I try to show them and teach them where the fish will normally be located. That‟s for sea-run cutthroat [trout]. They are a fall fish and they are just a wonderful thing to fish for with a fly. I have a nice boat, it‟s called a River Runner, small River Runner boat, it‟s fourteen and a half feet long. It‟s got an outboard on it, we run up and down the river and look for these pockets and places where the fish will be and spend about three or four hours out. That‟s pretty typical. I have done some of what you call typical stream fishing in Montana, the Madison River and many of those. I‟ve not done it much and it‟s great, but it is different. TB: I‟ve never asked these questions before so I‟m learning. What does it feel like after a day on the stream? DB: It kind of gives you a euphoria type feeling, especially when we are using the RV. You just feel relaxed. I have friends that get up early in the morning, get on the water and just pound it all day. I‟m not that type. I‟m more relaxed at it. I‟ll go out for little while. If the fish aren‟t biting, I‟ll come back, maybe think about tactics, different ways to fish, and go back out later. I do it in a more relaxed way. To me that‟s fun. I do even on the river. I‟ve done it the other way. I‟ve been with guys where you go out early in the morning, you stay all day, you have lunch. It‟s almost like a computer in their minds. Every fish, every swirl, every thing that happens, you‟re successful, you‟re successful. I don‟t look at it that way. That‟s just me. TB: How does it feel to take a fish? DB: To hook a fish? TB: Yes. DB: I think that‟s the initial reaction. I think the reaction of the fish taking the fly is the most important part of fishing for me. I‟m trying to remember, I killed one fish this year. Every other one was release. You want to get the fish in and then release it, but I don‟t focus on the capture or the killing. It‟s the idea of getting this fish to take the fly. That‟s the key. Once that happens, then of course the fight is great and all of those things. And size has some importance I guess but not the main importance. We are very much into capture and release. TB: What happened to the one you killed? It just got too damaged in the fight? DB: No, we wanted one to eat. It was a nice fish, about seventeen or eighteen inches, a rainbow trout. It wasn‟t a wild fish particularly; it was in a place where it was planted. Definitely if there is any indication that it is a wild fish, they definitely are release. TB: What‟s your favorite place to fish? That you are willing to share! DB: Probably Lac le Jeune in British Columbia, which is between Merritt and Kamloops, mainly because it has a wonderful campsite and it allows us to do the things we like to do. The other would be the lower 8 Danny Beatty Edited Transcript – October 12, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Skagit. And also some in the salt water too, but I don‟t do that as much. Weather conditions…my boat isn‟t really big enough to get out in the salt water very far. But I do do that. TB: Do you have a preference for a wet or a dry fly? DB: I guess there is always something to be said about seeing your fly on the water and seeing this swirl and this “take” as they call it. There is certainly something to be said for that. Unfortunately, fish eat more underwater than they do on the surface, so your chances are better underwater. I fish the conditions. But man, you can‟t beat a Tom Thumb fly on the surface of a lake in Canada where the fish are feeding. It‟s just totally different. TB: You‟ve been very active in the organizational structure of fly fishing, what made you decide to get started in that? DB: How it started was through our local fly club in Anacortes. There‟s a lake in the Deception Pass State Park named Pass Lake. You go by it every time you go to Whidbey Island. Pass Lake, since 1940, except for a period of time in the Fifties and Sixties has been fly fishing only. The Washington Fly Fishing Club was the club that got the whole idea of fly fishing only started way back in the 1940s. They came up to Pass Lake every year and had a big outing, the whole club for a weekend and all this. When our club got going and they saw that we were a viable group, they thought we could take over being the sponsors and that sort of thing of the lake. There was the movement to reduce the limit of fish, to try and to make it more quality fishing and try to see if we could get bigger fish. In our fly club, I was the science teacher, and understanding how to do presentations and graphs, I took on the job of developing data and surveys. We went out and did surveys. We did creel census on the lake when fishers came in. We did the measurement on the fish. I did this whole histographic program of the thing and presented it to the Northwest Council of the Federation at a meeting. From there, I took it to the Department of Fish and Wildlife and wrote papers and made presentations. The president of the Northwest Council moved on to be the treasurer of the whole national organization; he asked me if I would take over as president of the Northwest Council. I did. I wasn‟t sure what I was getting into. I hadn‟t had that much experience. I had only been involved for two or three years in the fly fishing organization at most. I took that job on, and that‟s where this came from (referring to some plaques). This is 1982. Before this, I was asked by the president to be a national officer. That‟s where this came in, I became secretary from 1980-1983. Then 1983 and 1984 I became vice president for membership. The organization was going through some very difficult times. I guess it‟s my personality and just my way of dealing with things, but we made it turn around and things started to get better and we increased our membership and our financial situation got better. It just started going good again. Then I became president for two years from 1985 to 1987. It sort of all started back in the late Seventies when I did this presentation for the Department of Fish and Wildlife and it worked. Pass Lake is now total catch-and-release, quality waters, fly fishing only. It‟s got almost everything we wanted. In fact, I‟m not sure, but we may have gotten more than we wanted because sometimes now the guys are thinking maybe we could ease back a little and have a few more fish and have more chance to catch a fish. There are big fish in there and they are pretty difficult. TB: Could you tell me a little bit about the purpose and the structure of the Federation of Fly Fishers? DB: It was started in 1965 as the Federation of Fly Fishermen. It was started by some people in Eugene, Oregon, primarily when they went to the east coast and got guys like Lee Wolf, if that name rings a bell, involved. They started this federation of clubs of fly fishing. The fly fishers, one of their key things is “all fish, all waters”, which means they are not specific to trout, they include all kinds of fish, not specific to stream fishing or lake fishing, this includes salt water, everything. They are very much into the conservation efforts of our resources, wild fish. If Jack Hutchinson had any of the old audiovisual stuff that would be great because there was a film called, Dammed Forever, that the Federation did. It was about the Columbia River dam system. All we‟re hearing now is about the lower Snake Rivers dams and all the problems they are creating for salmon and steelhead. The Federation was way ahead of that in terms of the problems. There were guys in the Federation that knew the right people. They had guys like Bing Crosby 9 Danny Beatty Edited Transcript – October 12, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED do that narration. I don‟t know what happened to these things, but I hope somebody preserved them somewhere. TB: You told some of this, but what are some of the things you are most proud of in regards to your fly fishing involvement or career? DB: All sorts of things. This is one, but that‟s local. These kids, I still see some of these kids. Mike Haley, for years after he left high school would come by to see me and tell me about all the wonderful trips he has taken to the high lakes up in the mountains. Scott Taylor, his dad was the vice principal at the high school. Scott‟s now a professional golfer. Dana Dixon is still out fly fishing whenever he gets a chance. This boy, Jeff Martin went on our outings, Jeff died in the A-boat disaster. I still know all these kids. That‟s local. Also local, I‟ve done a lot of teaching fly tying. This picture was a class. This sort of thing is kind of cool for me to have. I taught the kids and the teacher asked them to do something for them to remember it by. TB: Did you get started tying flies right away? DB: No. I tell you that at all levels of our groups getting together, fly tying is big part, demonstration of fly-tying. I went for all these years to these big shows and I would sit and watch these guys tie flies. I did some myself but as time went on I just got involved with the teaching. Last winter we taught a class at Skagit Valley College, an evening class. TB: Excellent. Well, how did you get involved in teaching others? DB: This started it. One of the teachers at the Fidalgo School, the grade school in Anacortes, was doing a unit based on the book My Side of the Mountain about a boy that kind of went out and tried to live in the wild, learned to live in nature. Part of the thing was you had to find ways to get food. Sally thought well, maybe the kids could learn that one way would be to fish and they could learn to tie flies. She called me up and she said, “Would you come up to school and do this?” I said, “Well, yes.” So I started there. I had been retired for eight years. I had time to do this. I needed a place to teach fly-tying and I went to our senior center and the director was very enthused about doing it so I did a number of classes there. After the grade school I went to the high school and did a class after school. They had several programs after school for kids that were having problems in school. They had this program right after school and they would get their homework done and get them on track. If they do that, then they try to give them a little bonus or a little extra, something more fun. One of the things she worked up was for me to come in and teach fly-tying to those that were interested. I did that. I did all sorts of things. That‟s my fly-tying. TB: Other things that you were teaching that you think are important about fly fishing that I haven‟t asked you? DB: I guess you can do this with anything you get interested in, but you can be just kind of totally involved in so many aspects of it. When I taught school, I taught fly-tying, rod building. Even now, thirty or more years later, former students come up, “You know, I still have that rod, that’s my favorite rod that I built when I was in your class.” Stuff like that. I don‟t know if that answers your question. I guess it‟s a hobby that went wild. TB: No, that‟s nice. What about, you helped students build rods, what was the first way that you built them? What kind of material did you use? DB: Fiberglass rod blanks. I think at the end we were using early graphite modules. But the early ones were fiberglass. TB: Do you have any thoughts about the future of fly fishing, how to make sure the runs continue? DB: We try to be positive. You want to be positive. Fly fishing is going to evolve gradually with materials, possibly with new rod materials. They are trying to come up with more materials that will withstand 10 Danny Beatty Edited Transcript – October 12, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED corrosion maybe for salt water use and stuff. The concern I think is more with the resource than it is with the evolvement of how you fly fish or what you use for fly fishing. The flies that are out there, they change as people come up with materials that are put on the market, but the basic idea of tying a fly has really not changed that much. Thousands and thousands of new flies and new names, but you can just about pick any one and take it back in its history and find something very similar. I kind of get a kick out of that. I think the concern is more the resource, the fish; where they are going to live, what‟s going to be there for them. That‟s my thought. TB: Have you ever designed a fly, came up with an original fly? DB: No. The fly I tie the most, my favorite fly for use with the sea-run cutthroat, it‟s called Knudson Spider. I have the original Spider that he tied. I have two or three of them and I tie it a little different. That‟s what I mean. We kind of add our own little slight differences. I could call it something else, but it‟s still basically what Knudson came up with. Did you go down to see Jack Hutchinson? TB: No, I didn‟t. I know he has a lot of the natural materials and stuff. DB: The reason I ask is that I don‟t know who he might have mentioned, but Knutson was one of the people that he was very involved with. TB: Oh, okay, what‟s Knudson‟s first name? DB: Al Knudson. He ended up living in Marysville. He did make a few originals. TB: Do you think the philosophy of the fly tie is to replicate nature, or to have something jazzy that the fish will be attracted to. DB: Both. Sometimes it‟s the natural, and it‟s amazing how different from the natural it can be but it still triggers that response. A Tom Thumb really doesn‟t look much like a caddis on the surface of the water, but there‟s something about it that triggers a response and the fish comes for it? TB: Any other questions I haven‟t asked that you think should be asked or again, this is new, to start trying to gather fish stories. What do you think are important things to gather, pieces of information about it? DB: I think pretty much we have covered it. Right off hand I can‟t think of anything. TB: All right. Well I will say thank you very much. 11 Danny Beatty Edited Transcript – October 12, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Gloria (Woodward) Pinard interview--July 16, 2005 Gloria (Woodward) Pinard attended the Campus School and later Western Washington University, Class of 1949 (BAE) SCOHP_PinardGloria_20050716 Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections Oral History Program Gloria Pinard ATTENTION: © Copyright Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. "Fair use" Show moreWestern Washington University Libraries Special Collections Oral History Program Gloria Pinard ATTENTION: © Copyright Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. "Fair use" criteria of Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 must be followed. The following materials can be used for educational and other noncommercial purposes without the written permission of Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. These materials are not to be used for resale or commercial purposes without written authorization from Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. All materials cited must be attributed to Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. This interview was conducted with Gloria D. (Woodward) Pinard (BAE 1949) on July 16, 2005. The interviewer is Tamara Belts. This was part of the Golden Viking Reunion weekend. TB: Good morning. Today is Saturday, July 16, 2005. My name is Tamara Belts and I‟m here with Gloria D. (Woodward) Pinard. And we‟re about to do an oral history. She did sign the Informed Consent agreement and does know that she‟s being recorded. OK, welcome to Special Collections. We‟re happy for this opportunity to be doing this oral history with you. Our first question is why did you choose to attend Western? GP: My mother made me. She brought me right out of high school, two weeks after I graduated. Since she was coming to college, I came too, willy-nilly. And I had a great time. But I had to room with mother and that cut into my social life a bit. TB: Now why was your mother coming at the same time? GP: She had not received her degree yet. She had been teaching for years. She graduated with a two year certificate and ever since then she had been taking all opportunities to go back to college. So she decided the summer I got out of high school that she was going to go back and take me with her. TB: Now what was your mother‟s name? GP: Gloria Eunice Austin. And she was here in the early twenties -- „22, „23, ‟24 in that range. TB: And she‟d gotten her two year teaching certificate then? GP: Yes. And she got her degree the year before I did. TB: 1948. GP: Yes. TB: So you were here several years together? GP: No. She did a lot of extension courses and she‟d come back summers. But I started in ‟46 and went summers and all. And the only time I was with my mother was that first summer. After that I lived the life of Riley. TB: So what were your actual dates of attendance at Western? 1 Gloria D. (Woodward) Pinard Edited Transcript – July 16, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED GP: 1946, the first quarter of the summer (first half of the summer) and then from September 1946 right through to June „49 graduation -- and I had to go half that summer. So I ended up being through sometime by the end of July. TB: Excellent! What degrees or certificates did you receive then from Western? GP: BA in education. TB: What other degrees, etc., if any, have you received elsewhere? GP: I‟m eligible to teach up through high school. I have the equivalent of a fifth year and more. TB: Part of this question you‟ve answered but have any other family members attended Western? GP: Yes, my mother. And then I have two cousins Babbette Daniel and Lyle Daniel – both were here. I believe Lyle graduated but I‟m not positive. TB: What was your first job after leaving Western? GP: I taught school at the Boston Harbor School, Olympia. It was an eight grade school, and a county school then. I taught fourth, fifth and sixth grades in one room. In April I came down with red measles, I was never so sick in my life. I was home for two weeks and had to pay my substitute half that month‟s pay because we had no sick leave then. After I was recovered, I went back and finished the year, made out report cards but I just didn‟t feel like handling another year. So I went to work for the State Library in October – for two years. TB: What did you do at the State Library? GP: I worked in the documents section and also up front on the desk. I put books away, I put documents away, I found the Federal number for the documents. It was interesting work but it wasn‟t anything that required a college degree to do. TB: Any other distinctive memories of this experience? Your salary, the work conditions? GP: My salary when I was teaching the first year was $180.00 net. And with that I bought a refrigerator. I was married in my junior year of college and spent my last year as a married woman. We built a little house on some property outside of Olympia. TB: Excellent! How about any other information about your subsequent career? GP: I went back to teaching in ‟55 after I‟d had two children. I was again in a county school outside of Olympia. It was an eight grade school but then it consolidated with Olympia. I taught third grade there for five years. It was interesting. It was my second woman principal. Women principals are fussy about little things like having the shades all the same level -- pulled down, half way. And always you have reading in the morning -- first thing -- because that‟s when the youngsters are the most fresh and able to learn. My principal questioned me one day when we had an art project going at 9 o‟clock because we were using paring knives and I wanted the art work out of the way while they were fresh because I didn‟t want any cut fingers. It was very interesting for those years. I really cut my teeth on teaching. I became better acquainted with what I was doing and what I was trying to do. Teachers were needed there, there was not a sufficient number. I had a call from the North Thurston district so I moved to the South Bay School in North Thurston district and taught a fourth grade there. And then for the next nine or ten years I switched between third and fourth whichever needed the extra teacher. That was in the days when if two boys were fighting on the playground you snagged them by the collars and marched them into the principal‟s office and stood 2 Gloria D. (Woodward) Pinard Edited Transcript – July 16, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED there while the principal paddled them with the Board of Education. I had a very good principal who was very good at keeping order in the school. After he moved to open a new school the one I had was not at all the same and the students ran wild in the halls – he was not a believer in discipline. So when I brought two boys in he looked at me and said, “Well we don‟t do that anymore Mrs. Pinard.” So I had to turn the culprits loose! I was somewhat flabbergasted! I hadn‟t heard that regulation! At any rate, then I moved to a new school that was just built. And for ten years approximately I was at Olympic View and again I had two or three principals, this time men, and things went along. It‟s strange that what you remember are the odd incidences. I had one little boy from the Philippines who came in and could not speak English. He knew one word and that was „bathroom,‟ which was the only thing he needed to say; and when he said that I had another first grader take him to the bathroom. When we learned the word „red‟ (this was first grade) we were learning a big red apple in connection with the color crayon. He looked at his neighbor and picked up his red crayon and made a tiny little dot in the middle of the big sheet of paper. So I took his hand and helped him draw a big red apple on the paper and left him filling it in with his red. From then on he learned English very quickly. He watched what his neighbors did and did likewise and fitted in very well. When we drew pictures of our homes his was the only house built on stilts with a long ladder going up to the door and a palm tree beside it. All of the other boys and girls looked at him and “Ooh that‟s a different house! Look at that house that he drew.” And it was very well drawn. Then I had another little boy, a little colored boy, who came in with his black mommy. This little boy had evidently not been to school before. I turned my back to do something on the board and looked around and here was the janitor down on his knees in front of this little colored boy, shaking his finger in his face, and saying sternly, “Little boys do not hit little girls.” And over in the corner was one of my little girls with a nose bleeding in the sink. So I patched her up and got them back together and made them understand that little boys don‟t go around slugging little girls in the nose! Well I didn‟t have many other problems with him that year. One thing, when I moved to second grade in that school, we had a lot of fun with spelling. We had a scheme of knights and ladies and princes and princesses and if they got a perfect score on their spelling test they got a star. After so many stars on their shield they got to become a prince or a princess. We put on some triumphal music on the record player and I‟d have the crown bearers come out with fancy pillows and the crowns on them and I‟d wear a cloak and have a crown on too and I‟d make them knights and ladies, or princes and princesses, and my, that was a big thing for them! At the end of the year we‟d have a spelling bee and the best speller went home with a junior Scrabble game. No matter how many years I tried that or how often I talked to the group – the loser always cried! It would get down to two students, usually a boy and a girl and one or the other would win, and the other would weep. And I can understand because it was such a disappointment having gone so far and done so well. Then I took a year‟s leave of absence and went to work as secretary in the church. But I went back for two years at Woodland, another new school, with a good principal that I enjoyed. I discovered that I had a color problem in my room. When I gave the boys the color blind test I found I had a couple of youngsters that couldn‟t see colors properly. No wonder we had had a green reindeer on the black board with all of the brown reindeer! One boy was very good at picking out the colors if he could see the crayons, but when I asked him what color this was on one of the alphabet cards he couldn‟t tell me. He thought it was a brown and it was a purple. So I knew he had a color vision problem. The first grade teacher next door to me, who was a man, asked me to come in and pick out some papers for him because he was color blind. He wanted to make sure there were the proper colors laid out for his class. So I went in and sorted out his colored papers. In 1983 I retired! Those were some of my tales! TB: Part of this you mentioned a little bit but where did you live when you attended Western? 3 Gloria D. (Woodward) Pinard Edited Transcript – July 16, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED GP: Oh I lived the first year in Eden‟s Hall and then I couldn‟t get my father to support me any longer so I worked for my room and board. I lived with a lady and her son. She worked in the college office, and I looked after her boy. I had my own room and I thought I was really in seventh heaven! So in exchange for that I got my board and room and my mother managed my other fees. And I did have a job in the college with two of the art teachers, cleaning the rooms, and typing for Dr. D‟Andrea, the music teacher for $.39 cents an hour. That gave me my spending money. I also lived with a Mrs. Evatt on Iron Street the last year of college. The woman I had been with had moved and I lived with this old lady who was 75 years old and needed a companion. I did everything for her. I shopped; took her purse and went to the corner store and bought groceries. I did most of the cooking. I did the gardening – weeded her garden and mowed her lawn, did a lot of the housework for her. We got along very well. She was a talkative old gal and she wanted companionship. I‟d be sitting there with a book in my lap and after she‟d gabbled on a few minutes she‟d say, “Oh I mustn‟t interrupt you now you‟re studying!” And then a few minutes later she‟d be back at it again. But I did get my studying done and did fairly well. The only unhappy experience I had was student teaching. My mother had told me, “Don‟t do your student teaching in the fourth grade Campus School because Pearl Merriman is not the kind of person you‟ll get along with.” And I thought well I want to teach fourth grade so in spite of my mother‟s advice I signed up with Pearl Merriman and mother was right! There were three of us student teachers in the room. It wasn‟t too bad. But I was of a rather sensitive nature and shy and I was afraid of her. She had me completely buffaloed and the other two students as well -- I might as well add! We all three lived through it. I did enjoy the music director because I‟d had her in third grade when I went to Campus School myself. She discovered I could hold the soprano part and she had me singing with the students in the Christmas cantata that we put on (Christmas program). Back then you could have manger scenes and religious scenes without any problem. I never did know what Miss Merriman thought of me really. I suppose she didn‟t think much of me because I had just been married that quarter and every weekend I had the chance I went home. My husband was working in Olympia. My cousin Lyle also had her for his student teaching and he got along fine. He was very good at soft soaping people. He had a charm which I lacked and got along fine with her. But she was extremely fussy about details and I was not that fussy so it was a little hard. My degree teaching I did out in the city and I had a very interesting experience. I had a fourth grade that liked to dance and so we taught them dancing. We put on a Mexican hat dance and did some Mexican songs and that sort of thing for the parents. It was real interesting. I made up a test after our unit on Mexico and tested them to see what they remembered and to see if they‟d learned anything. Any other questions? TB: Back tracking quickly before you move on, do you know who the other two student teachers were that were in there with you? GP: Yes, Don Rairdon and Margaret Ness. TB: And then what was your cousin‟s last name? GP: Lyle Daniel. He and his sister were both there. Babbette was in the play, I Remember Mama. She‟s in the 1949 yearbook. TB: Who were your favorite or most influential teachers and why? GP: Oh, I liked my English teacher. I had Dr. Cederstrom and he was an excellent teacher. He introduced us to Greek mythology and the Greek tragedies. To me that was a whole new world opening up. My mother had never mentioned the Greek tragedies to me so when I went home bursting with stories to tell her she said, “Oh I knew all that already!” 4 Gloria D. (Woodward) Pinard Edited Transcript – July 16, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED My mother was an extremely intelligent woman and had been educated up here also. I had Mrs. Burnet for journalism and I loved journalism; and of all the teachers she and Declan Barron were probably the two I enjoyed the most. I liked science. My favorite class was working with fruit flies -genetics. It was a small class. We had the room clear up on the third floor and I‟d run up those stairs -- all those flights -- several times a day to count my fruit flies and anesthetize them, check what mutant crossovers they had shown and then dump them in the oil bath to kill them! We raised fruit flies in a flask with a banana gel concoction that they ate. They were virgins to begin with but they multiplied well like flies do. So I did enjoy Mr. Barron and his science classes and Mrs. Burnet was the world to me. I wrote, and wrote, and wrote for years on the paper. In fact I earned the Cub Reporter cup at the end of my first year of journalism and got my name engraved on it which was to me a great honor. In the summers I was feature editor, business editor, and women‟s page editor, if I recall correctly! It‟s been a long time. So I would spend a lot of my time sitting on the window sill in the open window in the publications room. TB: Where was that located? GP: It was in the end of Old Main on what would be the second floor above the ground floor. It was overlooking the parking lot. TB: Did you do anything with your journalism later on? GP: No but I had always like to write so for years and years after I retired from teaching I took writing classes and did a lot of biography and autobiography writing. I did write a children‟s book which I haven‟t had published but it‟s ready for me to edit it and take it down to the printer. TB: Nice, nice! What was your main course of study, well beyond education? GP: Well education and field studies in journalism and science. I had Miss Sundquist telling me I should write science books for the students who were a little behind. They usually came in two editions, the regular science book for elementary school and then one that was written a little more simply for those that were not such good readers. She told me I should go into that field and I always felt very complimented. TB: Nice! Which classes did you like best and/or learn the most from? GP: Oh, my science and journalism and English and I did enjoy the printing classes I had. When I was in journalism I went down every week to the print shop and helped put the paper to bed and that was always fun. When I took the printing class I learned a lot more. I was never as quick about hand setting type as they were in the print shop but then I hadn‟t had the experience that the brothers had down there. What else? Most of my classes I thoroughly enjoyed. The only ones that gave me any trouble were the ones about statistics because I didn‟t like mathematics. I had always had a problem. Ever since I was in Campus School I had not learned borrowing and subtraction until Miss Moffat sat me down in front of the board all by myself and showed me how to subtract by adding. This was what Dr. Bond had taught and she had used that method and taught me to add when I subtracted so I never had to borrow (so I thought!) until years later when my husband sat me down and showed me what I was doing – I was really borrowing – and didn‟t know it! Ever since then I had subtracted by adding and it made a world of difference to my outlook on arithmetic. TB: What extra-curricular activities did you enjoy the most? 5 Gloria D. (Woodward) Pinard Edited Transcript – July 16, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED GP: I liked the dances! I did enjoy dancing. And I went to all the round dances and the proms and the social dances. I also went hiking up Chuckanut Mountain. I didn‟t go up Mount Baker. I liked to swim and I swam at Lake Whatcom. Oh, I belonged to the Camera Club and that was fun! TB: What kinds of things did the Camera Club do? GP: Well we sat in a dark, dark, room and learned how to develop film. They had built us a dark room right off the student lounge which was in the basement of Old Main. It had a locked door and when we had meetings we‟d meet in there. And it was rather crowded because there were quite a few of us. I did take a class in photography. I remember one of the assignments was to take pictures of a pair of hands. I needed a close up lens for my little box Brownie so I had to go buy that. It was very expensive and I was on a very limited income so it took a great deal of my money. But I turned in my pictures. We learned how to develop them and how to print them. We used an enlarger, we learned how to soften the lines around the pictures if we wanted just a portrait for example. It was a very interesting class. But I doubt I could do it now because I haven‟t done any of it for that many years! I‟ve relied on the professional photographers. TB: Do you have any experiences with the Campus School? It sounds like you also went to the Campus School. GP: Yes. When I first came to Bellingham I was at the end of second grade. My mother had been going here all spring while my sister and I lived with our aunt. She brought us up here and we were enrolled in first and second grade summer school in the Campus School. It was in Old Main and I had Miss Elliot and I remember she read us Jane’s Father and Mary Poppins that summer and I have never forgotten them. I have read them to my students too when they appreciated that type of story. My sister had Miss Casanova in the first grade and then the following fall I was enrolled in third grade with Miss Moffat and a whole class of boys and girls. I remember we did many different things – we dipped candles at Christmas, we went on the stage in the auditorium and did fairy tales and we made things – we made a booklet and every student in the room put in a poem or a story. I still have mine. We had student teachers that came in and worked with us. We did clay work and I can remember one time around Christmas that I got very scared because the music teacher (I can‟t remember her name off-hand, I probably will in a minute), she looked at me because I wasn‟t singing. She took me by the hand, took me in Miss Moffat‟s office and said, “She isn‟t singing.” I burst into tears; I was so frightened because I didn‟t know the words to the songs. I had not been required to sing Christmas carols up till then so Miss Moffat put me to work cleaning the clay sticks. Then sometime in the spring I got really sick. I remember I was so sick that the wall paper moved and when my mother stood at the foot of my bed she was very, very far away. Her voice was garbled and it was hard to understand her. I had a very high fever. I remember the doctor came, he made house calls in those days, and there wasn‟t much that he could do for me, I just had to live through it. But occasionally mother would give me a little aspirin pounded up and put in a gelatin capsule so I wouldn‟t have to taste it. I got better. I went back to school probably a week after I had gotten sick. But I still wasn‟t really well and that first day back I threw up twice. I didn‟t want anybody to know about it. The first time I got to the bathroom in time, but the second time I was in the classroom and couldn‟t leave my seat, or was afraid too. So I know my dress smelled very badly when I went home. But on the whole it was a most interesting experience and year. At the end of that spring my mother got a teaching job over east of the mountains in a one room school. For four years after that she taught us in one room schools so I‟m really the product of home education. TB: Because your mother taught you in her school? GP: Yes, all through my junior high years, sixth, seventh and eighth grades. TB: Do you remember any of the names of the student teachers that you had? 6 Gloria D. (Woodward) Pinard Edited Transcript – July 16, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED GP: When I was student teaching, yes. I‟m sure it was [Don] Rairdon and Margaret [Ness]. TB: When you were a student in the Campus School you mentioned that there was a student teacher; do you remember that person‟s name? GP: No, no I don‟t remember, but I do remember my mother coming in with a whole group of teachers and little stools and sitting down and watching -- observing. That was fun because I remembered that. But we had student teachers every quarter and I don‟t remember who they were. But some were nice and some were snippy! TB: Please share with us any special memories of your college days? GP: Well I made a lot of acquaintances and enjoyed myself immensely. In fact like you said, those years have been the most interesting years of my life. And do you know I still dream about it at night? TB: Really? GP: Yes. I am at college, I‟m driving my Mercedes Benz car, which I didn‟t have then, I didn‟t own a car then. I didn‟t know how to drive then. And I‟m going from Edens Hall to Old Main and around the campus and I‟m teaching or I‟m a student in a class and I‟m trying to find my classroom. So it has stayed with me all these years. TB: Now I‟m just curious, how did you learn to drive? Or when did you learn to drive? GP: My husband taught me before he went back overseas in the Navy for the Korean War. He got called back in and before he left he had to teach me to drive. I didn‟t pass my driving test but the state patrol officer gave me my license anyway because there was no one at home to get me to work! I was working there at the State Library then. He was gone two years; I was living by myself, in my little house until he got back. TB: All right. Now is there anything that I haven‟t asked that you would like to mention? GP: No, it seems like we‟ve covered my years pretty thoroughly. TB: How about you mentioned earlier that your mother had lots of stories? Could you tell us some of your mother‟s stories? GP: Oh yes. She lived with several girls her age down High St., but I don‟t know the name of the house. But I know the housekeeper was very strict with them. She had many rules and one rule was two baths a week, undoubtedly to save hot water. My mother and her best friend, Carol Grimes, would take their baths together in the bath tub and scrub each others backs. They were both skinny then – she said all the girls were skinny – and always hungry. So some of them would sneak crackers and cheese, or crackers and peanut butter into their room and have midnight snacks. Sometimes one of her friends, Mid Boyd, would sneak out of the window to meet her boyfriend who had a car. She‟d come back in, in the wee hours after a dance or a movie or whatever they entertained themselves with, and she never got caught. Then mother told about the time that some of the girls from the college had gone out to Birch Bay to a dance and had rolled their stockings down and danced the Charleston! The dean of women, who was an old battleaxe, sent them both home. They were expelled! And that was just awful! She insisted they should have been ladies and not done such things! Things like that were not done in 1923 or „24! You did not roll your stockings down and go to a dance! TB: Well, great! Now is there anything else you wish to add? 7 Gloria D. (Woodward) Pinard Edited Transcript – July 16, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED GP: No, I can‟t think of anything unless you can. TB: That‟s pretty much our set of questions. Well, I would like to thank you very much. Like I said, we will transcribe this, we will send it to you. I‟ll give you a chance to edit or make any changes or whatever and hopefully settle on a transcript and we will add it to our collection. GP: Well thank you very much. TB: Thank you. GP: It‟s been nice talking with you, Tamara. 8 Gloria D. (Woodward) Pinard Edited Transcript – July 16, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Harlan Jackson interview--December 12, 2006 Harlan Jackson attended the Campus School from 1948-1955 and Western Washington University, Class of 1966 (BAE). SCOHP_JacksonHarlan_20061212 Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections Oral History Program Harlan Jackson ATTENTION: © Copyright Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. "Fair use" Show moreWestern Washington University Libraries Special Collections Oral History Program Harlan Jackson ATTENTION: © Copyright Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. "Fair use" criteria of Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 must be followed. The following materials can be used for educational and other noncommercial purposes without the written permission of Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. These materials are not to be used for resale or commercial purposes without written authorization from Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. All materials cited must be attributed to Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. This interview was conducted with Harlan Jackson at Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections in Bellingham, Washington, on December 12, 2006. The interviewer is Tamara Belts. TB: Today is Tuesday, December 12th, 2006, and I’m here with Harlan Jackson who was an alumnus of the Campus School as well as an alumnus of Western Washington University. He did sign the Informed Consent Agreement, and we’re going to do the questionnaire for both the Campus School alumni as well as the Golden Vikings. So our first question is: How did you happen to attend the Campus School? HJ: Well, that choice was made by my parents. I don’t know why they picked the Campus School. They’d drive us (my sister and I) to the Campus School everyday and there was someone else in the neighborhood – Vicki Hyde, I believe it was – sometimes her parents would take us, sometimes my parents would take us, and they’d drive us up to the Campus School. TB: Excellent. Did anyone else in your family attend the Campus School, and what were their names? HJ: Well, my sister, Wendy, attended the Campus School. She was a year behind me. TB: Okay, what were the years and grades of your attendance? HJ: Kindergarten through sixth grade; it would’ve been spring of [1955] when I graduated. TB: Did your family pay any fees for your attendance at Campus School? HJ: I’m sure they did. TB: Where did you live when you attended the Campus School? HJ: We lived in an area in Bellingham called Edgemoor; on Bayside Road. TB: And how did you get to and from school? You shared part of that. HJ: Yes, just by carpool mostly. TB: And do you have any other favorite memories of that experience? HJ: Well, sometimes, to get home, I would jog or run. There used to be trails through where Highland [Drive] is, in that area. There were some swamps in there and I could jog all the way down into the 1 Harlan Jackson Transcript – December 12, 2006 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Fairhaven area, and go home. I’d do that once in a while. Most of the time [though] I’d wait for my dad to pick me up after he got off work. TB: So what’d you do in the afternoon between when school got out and he got off work? HJ: Sometimes we’d play on the monkey bars that were in the back of the Campus School lot. There used to be a road that drove up behind the Campus School, [where you had some room to park.] TB: And what did you do for lunch? HJ: Lunch, I think they used to have a cafeteria we used to go in. I remember my favorite dish was when they’d have green beans, I remember that, buttered green beans. But the food was pretty good. TB: Do you remember any favorite classmates and please name them for us? HJ: Well, a lot of [my favorite] classmates would have been ones that were in my class. Gale Pfueller, who lived up in the same neighborhood, Biff Dickerson, who’s still in town (Gale’s still in town, actually). There was John Rice; Bart Wachter, who was a good friend of mine in sixth grade, we used to have a lot of fun together. There was Gary Kulbitski his dad was a football coach for a while, then he moved on I think when we were in high school. TB: Who were your favorite or most influential teachers? HJ: Well, I think my sixth grade teacher, Mr. Van Wingerden. I really enjoyed him. He was the only man teacher I had, so I guess I kind of liked that. Miss [Merriman], I thought she was really a good teacher. I think she was my fifth grade teacher. We used to have an exchange with a class in Canada, and I can remember we went up there, and we were told how strict they would be and how everyone would stand up and so we went up there and stood up when the teacher walked in. I think things have changed up there quite a bit. Then their class came down to be with our class one day. She used to do a lot with puppets, so we had a little puppet show that we had for them. I can remember that, that was a lot of fun. And I think another thing was I always liked PE. The play fields were out in front of the school, and we’d have swimming over in the swimming pool, which was kind of a big deal for us. TB: Oh, nice. Do you remember any of your student teachers? HJ: I remember Mr. Ferguson in sixth grade, he was the basketball coach; at that time we had a basketball team. And some of the time that’s why I was late for my dad to pick me up, because I would have basketball turnout. He’s about the only one I can remember now, but I really liked him. TB: What were your favorite subjects or classroom activities? HJ: I think we made candles in first or second grade, and that was a lot of fun. And the puppets were all fun, of course; and sports [were] always important for me. In fact, when I was in fifth grade, some of us fifth graders organized a football team to play the sixth graders. We worked and had turnout on our own, stuff like that, and we went down to one of the lower parks. I think one of the college kids actually came down, was walking by, and started to referee for us, and we had a good game of tackle; which probably now days you wouldn’t be allowed to do. I think it ended up in a tie. TB: What kind of learning materials did you mostly use? Regular school textbooks, or materials created by your teachers? HJ: I think in earlier grades a lot of it was probably created by the teacher. But I do remember we had this set of books like, “See Spot Run”, that type of books, in the early elementary grades. I’m not quite sure what we had in fifth and sixth grade and fourth grade, but I think it was a little more set. But we had a lot of student teachers, and that was in a sense probably good and bad, because you didn’t really have a good 2 Harlan Jackson Transcript – December 12, 2006 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED continuation of things from one teacher to another. When I think back, I think that so many student teachers – nine of them in a school year – was probably too much and probably was detrimental to some of the learning [opportunities] that were offered. TB: What kind of grading system was in use during your attendance? Letter grades or narrative reports? HJ: I think it was just a report. I don’t remember ever getting a letter grade. TB: Do you especially remember any creative activities, such as weaving or making things? You said you remembered the candles. HJ: Yes, I remember the candles, I remember the puppets, but I can’t remember if we ever made any puppets or not. But that’s about what I can remember right now. We did a lot of stuff in Kindergarten, I remember that; a lot of painting things. Of course we had specials for PE, one of the PE teachers at the college was our PE teacher. TB: Was that Miss Weythman? HJ: Yes, Miss Weythman. TB: What was it like for you to be observed so often by student teachers? HJ: Well, I think it got to the point where you just got used to it. You didn’t really think of it. I guess I was kind of a rebel in a way, because I used to like to give some of them a bad time -- particularly the women ones. I’d test them out. If the student teacher liked sports, then he was okay right off the bat, but if he wasn’t involved in sports in high school or something, then I kind of liked to give them a bad time. TB: Did you attend summer school at the Campus School? HJ: No. TB: What out of classroom activities did you engage in? What did you do at recess, lunchtime, and what did you enjoy the most and what games did you play? HJ: Well, a lot of the times during recess, we’d go out and play tag or we’d – I don’t know if we used the bars very much in the back of the school, but during football season someone seemed to always have a football, so we could throw the football around. You were allowed to do a lot more than you do now. There was times we’d go down to the gym after school. I’m not sure if we were supposed to be down there, but we’d play bombardment in the gym. You had three gyms; one we used for basketball, one was a side gym where we had bombardment, and then there was the Kindergarten gym, I think it was. It had a lot of big wooden blocks you could make things out of. And even though we weren’t in Kindergarten, we would love to sneak in there and build things. TB: Did you visit the college itself, the college library, attend assemblies or sporting events or anything else at the college when you were at Campus School and then any special memories of these experiences? HJ: I think we went over to the library a couple times. In the springtime, a couple years, we used to go out on the knoll and have sort of like a picnic thing towards the end of the school year. Well, we went over to the swimming pool, that’d be a visit. There wasn’t much up here, then, you know. You had the old track and the old gym and Highland Hall and [Edens] Hall. When I first started, they didn’t even have the science building, or the auditorium, you just had the old library. TB: At what grade level did you enter public school? Why did you transfer and what was the transition like for you? 3 Harlan Jackson Transcript – December 12, 2006 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED HJ: It was the start of the seventh grade, and that’s because sixth grade was the last year for Campus School. I don’t think I had any problems of transition. TB: Did you not find grades a surprise? HJ: No, no, I didn’t. TB: Please share any specific differences between public school and Campus School that especially affected you. HJ: I think that the Campus School was weak in teaching the basics of spelling and things like that. I think that affected me, because my spelling is not as good as I’d like it to be. I have to always check over everything so I think that was a disadvantage. Actually my parents wanted to move me into the public schools a little sooner, because they felt maybe I wasn’t getting what I should get. And I and my sister, we were having so much fun up there, we kind of raised a ruckus and they decided to let us finish out. But I think I found that the public schools were a little harder at the time, and I think part of that reason again was because we had so many student teachers. TB: What further education did you pursue: college, graduate, or professional school? HJ: I went on and got my education degree and taught school for thirty-two years. TB: If you later attended Western and majored in education, did you observe or student teach in the Campus School and what was that experience like? HJ: No, I did not. In fact, the Campus School was gone by the time I started student teaching, I think, or it was getting close to the end. TB: How did your attendance at the Campus School influence your life and/or career? HJ: Now, that’s a tough question. I picked up some good discipline. I remember one of the things in sixth grade was the traffic patrol that we used to do. There was a couple of us, depending on who had the most days, because we were always assigned days, and when you got so many days I think you got a star or something. So there were two or three of us who were always asking somebody else if we could take their days. So, I think I got a kind of discipline there, and I think I got some discipline in sports. It’s really hard to say how it’s all molded together. TB: Are you still in touch with any Campus School classmates and if so can you help us contact them? HJ: Well, I’m still in contact with my sister and Pat O’Conner, but I think you already reached him. I see Gale Pfueller once in a while. I think most of the people I’ve mentioned you’ve already kind of shook your head that you were acquainted with them. Some of the girls, I don’t know, Jane Clarke, I forget what her married name is now, and there’s Janet Gregory. She’s on the East Coast somewhere, I think. TB: Do you have any Campus School memorabilia, including photographs, class publications, crafts, artwork? HJ: I don’t know if I have any artwork or not. My mom might have some stuff somewhere, I don’t know. TB: And please share any other favorite memories of your Campus School days and any comments about areas not covered in the questions above. HJ: Well, I think a lot of the fun was watching the buildings go up. The science building used to be kind of a swamp where that is, and we used to go down there and catch frogs. I can’t think of much else. I remember kind of running around the track. Oh! We used to go in the restroom. We’d play, like cowboys 4 Harlan Jackson Transcript – December 12, 2006 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED or something, and we’d try to ambush each other, making the sounds of guns and things; which would make the woman teacher very upset because she couldn’t come in. She would be yelling and holler that she was going to come in. We used to do that all the time and we had a lot of fun doing it. I suppose if I had a little bit more time … Oh! Another thing I remember, too, is, I think it was the fourth grade class it used to have a beehive in it. We used to watch the bees come in and go out, and that was always a lot of fun, too. And when it snowed, everyone would run and look out the window. The teachers would try to get us to sit down, same as they do today. TB: Right, some things never change and apply to every school. Okay, that’s all of our Campus School questions. I guess we’ll just jump into the Golden Vikings. Part II: Golden Viking Questionnaire TB: Why did you choose to attend Western? HJ: Well, it just kind of happened. As I graduated from Bellingham High School, I wasn’t really sure what I was going to do. I thought I’d go to Western for two years then I was going to transfer to Central, that’s what my plan was. But then I got up here, and I made new friends, and I made better friends, I guess, with some of the old friends I had, and so pretty soon I ended up staying here the whole time. TB: I’m fascinated. Why were you going to go to Central? HJ: Oh, I think just probably to leave home and get away, but that never happened. TB: What were your dates of attendance at Western? HJ: I think I started in fall of 1961, and graduated in 1966 I think. TB: What degrees or certificates did you receive? HJ: My Bachelor’s of Education. TB: Did you receive any other degrees elsewhere? HJ: No. TB: What was your first job after leaving Western and any distinctive memories of this experience – salary, work conditions, etc? And please share any information about your subsequent career. HJ: My first job was at Everett, and at that time, everybody from Bellingham kept saying, “Why would you go to Everett?” Because Bellingham and Everett used to [have] a tremendous rivalry. I think the starting salary was $5400. I wondered how I was ever going to make enough money to save up enough money to ever buy a house or anything. I majored in PE so I taught PE and coached and that was at North Junior High in Everett. After four years, I moved up to the high school and spent twenty-eight years there. TB: Have any other family members attended Western? HJ: My dad; I know he picked up maybe his Master’s through Western. TB: What was your father’s name? HJ: Harlan Jackson. TB: Oh, so you’re a junior? 5 Harlan Jackson Transcript – December 12, 2006 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED HJ: Right, he was an assistant superintendent of the schools in Bellingham for many years. TB: Was he an assistant superintendent of Bellingham schools when you were going to the Campus School? HJ: No, he was coaching and teaching at Bellingham High School. I think he probably was getting a little pressure to, and that might have been one of the reasons he wanted to transfer me. TB: Where did you live when you were going to Western as a college student? HJ: Well, I lived at home for two years, I think it was, and then I lived in a house on Iron Street. TB: Any favorite memories of those experiences? HJ: No, but we always seemed to have a lot of fun. It was a really interesting makeup, because we had some people in the house that were real, real conservative, and some that were real, real liberal. And we used to get in some good discussions. Every once in a while we’d even have a faculty member come down from the college and we’d have a good discussion. TB: Who were your favorite or most influential teachers and why? HJ: Dr. Flora was, I thought, an excellent teacher. He made things very interesting. Dr. Taylor was also very interesting and very challenging. You always had to be really on your toes when you had a class from him. Dr. Tomaras probably did the most. He was my PE instructor for a lot of my classes, when I decided to major in PE. The reason I majored in PE was because of Dr. Tomaras. I just took a PE class for the fun of it, it was the History of PE, and I enjoyed it so much I decided to take some more classes. When I took a few more classes, I decided to major in PE. At one time I was thinking of majoring in history, so Dr. Tomaras had a lot of influence in me. Dr. Lappenbusch was a real character, I liked him. He was one of the funniest guys I’ve ever known. Mrs. Kirkpatrick, she really made kinesiology interesting. She was really a good teacher and we all liked her and liked to have classes from her. TB: So your main course of study, then, was physical education. Which extra curricular activities did you enjoy the most? HJ: Well, I did a lot of intramurals; I played intramural basketball up here. That was a lot of fun. We would do things on the sides, you’d get to go out on the weekends and things, but I think intramural basketball was the thing I did the most. I remember one year – they used to divide us into leagues and we were about the middle league in the building, but we started winning a lot of games and one of the guys knew somebody that was down at KPUG radio (that was the radio station everyone listened to in those days). And you know, he’d call up the score of our intramural game, and pretty soon they were announcing our scores over the radio, and they’d say, “We’ll be waiting for the next game, to see if they can beat soand-so.” It did irritate some of the people on the other teams, but it was kind of funny. Finally we got beat in the play-offs. But they’d say, “And now, the next important game...” and then they’d give our score, and then they’d say, “And the NBA’s results...” TB: So what was the name of your team? HJ: I can’t even remember the name of it anymore. TB: Please share any other outstanding memories of your college days. HJ: Oh, I can’t think of anything else, you know, just typical things that college kids do. 6 Harlan Jackson Transcript – December 12, 2006 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TB: Well, I’m curious … That would be the very early years, but any thoughts about the Vietnam War or people’s attitudes about that? It would seem like you were here in a time when there were beginning to be a lot of changes. HJ: Right. There was, that’s right. The war was starting to kick up and we were starting to get the war movement. I can remember we went into register for classes and there were about 30 people laying around on the floor, making it hard for you to get into register for classes. So, yes, there started to become a debate on campus and the hippies started, that movement was picking up, it was a big transition from the crew cut to the long hair, the marijuana was starting to show up, and acid. There was a transition; you could see a real change in some of the students. TB: Anything else that I haven’t asked you that you’d like to comment on? HJ: Not right now, probably in another hour, I’ll think of a lot of things. TB: Okay, well, thank you very much. HJ: Thank you. 7 Harlan Jackson Transcript – December 12, 2006 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Harold Fisher interview--March 1, 2006 Harold Fisher is an WWU alumni, Class of 1951 (BAE); he also attended the Campus School from 1931-1941. SCOHP_FisherHarold_20060301 Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections Oral History Program Harold Fisher ATTENTION: © Copyright Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. "Fair use" Show moreWestern Washington University Libraries Special Collections Oral History Program Harold Fisher ATTENTION: © Copyright Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. "Fair use" criteria of Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 must be followed. The following materials can be used for educational and other noncommercial purposes without the written permission of Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. These materials are not to be used for resale or commercial purposes without written authorization from Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. All materials cited must be attributed to Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. This interview was conducted with Harold Fisher on March 1 st, 2006, in the library on the Western Washington University campus. The interviewer is Tamara Belts. Mr. Fisher‟s daughter Susan Rindal is present and friend Henrietta Moseley. TB: Today is Wednesday, March 1st 2006 and I am Tamara Belts. I am here to do an oral history with Mr. Harold Fisher. Henrietta Moseley and his daughter Susan Rindal are also here and may make some comments. Our first question is how did you happen to attend the Campus School? HF: I asked my mother once how we got here. Usually the professors‟ children were always in the Campus School and I think they tried to use some of the general public, also. I don‟t know how my mother ever enrolled me in the school, but I was very, very fortunate to be there, along with some of my friends. There was just a mixture of the public community that went to this school. TB: Alright. Did anyone else in your family attend the Campus School and what were their names? HF: My sister also attended here. She was a year behind me. Her name is Jo Ann Fisher. She and I both went Kindergarten through ninth grade. TB: What is her married name? HF: C. M. Jones. TB: What were the years and grades of your attendance? HF: My attendance at Campus School was 1931 to 1941; that would be Kindergarten through ninth grade. TB: Did your family pay any fees for your attendance at Campus School? HF: Not to my knowledge. That was one question I had too, whether my parents paid. I don‟t think they had to pay. TB: No, we think it was [considered a] public school. Where did you live when you attended the Campus School and how did you get to and from school (and please share any favorite memories of this experience)? HF: I lived three miles from here out on Eldridge Avenue, which is heading out toward Marine Drive. It‟s right on the bluff overlooking Bellingham Bay. I came to school on the street car. The street car ran out to the end of Eldridge Avenue, turned around and came back. I rode the street car from 1931 to 1938. It went all the way through town up Garden Street to Garden Terrace. That‟s where we unloaded. After 1938, they changed to busing. 1 Harold Fisher Edited Transcript – March 1st, 2006 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TB: Did you have to make any switches on the street car or did the street car came straight up here? HF: Straight through. We were lucky. TB: Yes. What did you do for lunch? HF: I was just thinking about that the other day. I think I always had a lunch pail. My mother always made my lunch for me. On a rare occasion I think we went through the cafeteria and got a bowl of soup or whatever. Lunch pails were what we used in those days. TB: When you were going to the Campus School it was in Old Main, or how we refer to Old Main. HF: Correct. TB: Where was the lunch room there? HF: It was on the lower floor and it was more toward the north end in a room off to the west. The cafeteria and lunch room were down there and kitchen. TB: Do you remember any favorite classmates and can you name them for us? HF: Yes. I‟ve got a list somewhere of my favorite classmates. Ned Carrick, Bill Radcliff, Dick Brunswig, Jo Ann Haggard (who was the daughter of President Haggard), Clarimonde Hicks (she was the daughter of one of the professors). TB: Right, Dr. Hicks. HF: Yes. Phyllis Olsen, Janet Brunswig, many names. TB: Those are all sounding familiar. I like that! Who were your favorite or most influential teachers? HF: My favorite teachers, I think my biggest favorite was Priscilla Kinsman. She was my Kindergarten teacher; Katherine Casanova, she was my first. I had several. I think in fifth grade Evelyn Odom. She was a friend. She lived with Miss Channer. She just came from back east and she had a very peculiar language. We used to laugh about her. Van Pelt and Paul Grim, he was the ninth grade teacher. We always enjoyed him. TB: Can you talk a little bit more about why you liked like Miss Kinsman? Can you think of anything specific? HF: Well she was always so happy and pleasant. She was very cheerful. She always had a nice attitude about her and always had a nice smile. I kind of enjoyed her as being another mother I guess at that time. TB: What about Miss Casanova? HF: She was a little more strict and more formal but I remember her. She wasn‟t quite as pleasant to be around as Kinsman, but we enjoyed her. TB: Anything about Miss Elliot? HF: She lived way out on Marine Drive. I enjoyed her. I don‟t have any particular memories of her. I had Mildred Moffatt for the third grade. I remember one day she sent me home from school because I tossed a pencil across the room. I had to ride the street car home. Mother didn‟t like that! Pearl Merriman, I don‟t 2 Harold Fisher Edited Transcript – March 1st, 2006 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED hardly remember her. Miss Van Pelt, she was very strict but I enjoyed her. All these teachers I had, there were about nine woman teachers and they were all single. I guess at that time they couldn‟t be married. TB: Do you remember any of your student teachers? HF: I can remember one name. Sarles I think it was. It was in our PE class. I do not remember the names of any of the student teachers. We sure had many student teachers and we always had at least one or two every three times a year or so. I do not remember the names, no. TB: What were your favorite subjects or classroom activities? HF: We always had an activity room next to our classrooms. I remember in grade school we had to have cooking classes, sewing classes, and typing classes. I remember Mr. Ruckmick had industrial arts classes. Sam Carver used to have swimming. Miriam Snow, she was the librarian, used to have library classes. They were always interesting. I felt very fortunate to have all these extra abilities that we were subjected to. TB: Excellent. I‟ve heard about that activity room before. Was that something also that you could do if you finished your other assignments, go in and start working on your art projects? HF: It was always connected right to our regular classroom. All the rooms had two rooms. I never seemed to finish my class work, but we always had hand work, hand classes. We made puppets. We made Egyptian cloth and so forth. We did all our yearbooks and writing in this particular classroom and a little bit of hand work and using tools and so forth. TB: Wow. What kinds of learning materials did you mostly use? Did you use regular textbooks or materials created by your teachers? HF: I cannot remember any use of textbooks. I think the information was always provided by the teachers. We did not have regular textbooks that I can remember. TB: What kind of grading system was in use during your attendance (letter grades or narrative reports)? HF: Most of the early report cards were all narrative. They were all written. I think later on when we got into more grades, maybe eighth or ninth grade [letter grades were used] but the earlier ones were all written out. TB: Do you especially remember any creative activities such as weaving, making things, etc? HF: I remember in the industrial arts once my project was making a set of skis with Mr. Ruckmick. I made little boats and so forth. I remember first or second grade I made a couple fishing boats out of pieces of wood, and some of the classes we made puppets. We had puppet shows. We did a lot of writing. Another thing, we had Miss Gragg, she was our writing teacher. She taught us penmanship. We would go round and round and round. I remember that; how to hold your pen and whatnot. I guess we had a lot of experiences. TB: When you had the puppet show, did the students write the play? HF: Yes. TB: And you were talking about writing. Did you learn cursive from her or just printing? HF: Cursive. 3 Harold Fisher Edited Transcript – March 1st, 2006 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TB: You did learn cursive; a lot of people have been talking about penmanship issues! So what was it like for you to be observed so often by student teachers? HF: We got very used to having the student teachers come in and observe. They would bring their little folding stools in, sit in the back of the classroom. We got very used to this, and sometimes we kind of performed for them. It didn‟t bother us; we were just used to that type of activity. TB: Did you attend summer school at the Campus School and if so, why? HF: One year I attended summer school. I was having a little bit of trouble I think in certain classes. That was the only time I attended summer school. I forget how long it was, but it was kind of interesting. TB: Was it very different from the regular school year? HF: Not too much. TB: What-out-of-classroom activities did you engage it? What did you do at recess, lunchtime, what did you enjoy the most and what games did you play? HF: There were two or three little gyms we could use. We always played games like dodge ball, intramural basketball and whatnot. I forget what grade I was in; we had dancing. I still have floor burns on my knees from the dancing class! It was mainly just physical activities. We played ball games and so forth, and the dancing. TB: Did you visit the college itself, the college library, attend assemblies, sporting events or anything else at the college when you were in the Campus School (and then any special memories of that experience)? HF: We always had library classes. We entered the heavy wrought iron doors. Miriam Snow was the librarian and she would always conduct the classes for us. She was later married to Mr. Mathes I guess. Up on the third floor of Old Main was an auditorium and they had a large balcony around there. As Campus School students we would always attend assemblies there that were provided for the student teachers. When they had special programs, we as students could attend along with the students. It was very interesting and I think we were real lucky to be involved in this. TB: At what grade level did you enter public schools? Why did you transfer and what was the transition like for you? HF: I was never in the public school. I started in Campus School in Kindergarten through ninth grade. From ninth grade I went on to high school. I was never in a public [elementary] school. TB: What was it like when you went to tenth grade? Did that seem different or hard? HF: It wasn‟t too hard a transition; a lot of my old classmates that I had gone to school with for ten years were also there. We did not have too much trouble assimilating with the rest of the public. TB: Did you find that your group continued to kind of stick together? HF: Pretty much so. TB: Did you go to Bellingham High School then? HF: Yes. 4 Harold Fisher Edited Transcript – March 1st, 2006 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TB: Do you have any other thoughts about specific differences between public school and the Campus School? HF: The only thing I can think is that I feel that I was very fortunate to have gone to Campus School and have all these different activities that we were involved in. I think it was much better than being in the public school where you didn‟t have these opportunities. TB: What further education did you pursue (college, graduate or professional school)? HF: After I got out of World War II I started at Western Washington College in the fall of 1946, a full one quarter, then I went to Washington State (at that time it was College) in Pullman for two years. I didn‟t do too well in scholastic work there so I started working at Morse‟s Hardware in Bellingham. My wife finally transferred over from WSC. She talked me into going back to Western, so for three more years I went back to Western and I got into education. I never wanted to be a teacher but I was a teacher for 31 years. I graduated in 1951 as a teacher. I had a [BA in Education]. I should mention too that that was the last quarter that they could allow you to have a BA and fifth year. Later on I took another year to get my principal‟s credentials and then I took another year to get my master‟s degree, so I have gone to college for a long time! Seven years! TB: Were all those other degrees at Western? You got your principal‟s papers and your master‟s at Western? HF: Correct. TB: Excellent. If you later attended Western and majored in education, did you observe or teach in the Campus School and what was that experience like? HF: I never did do any student teaching in the Campus School. I would like to have had, but I didn‟t. I did my student teaching at Whatcom Junior High School and Sunnyland grade school. TB: How did your attendance of the Campus School influence your life and/or career? HF: I would say the friends and acquaintances that I [made] and grew up with in Campus School. I still have many friends today that were in this class. TB: Nice. And you are still in touch with some of your classmates? HF: Yes I am. We still have just Campus School reunions. TB: We have their names attached. Would you be willing to serve as a contact person for your class for the purpose of encouraging participation in the Campus School reunion planned for 2007? HF: I think I had mentioned, perhaps. I don‟t like to get too involved but I could help out. TB: And you have also provided some Campus School memorabilia, including some photographs and class work. Please share with us any favorite memories from your Campus School days and any comments about areas not covered by the questions above. HF: I remember sometimes we took little walks or little hikes up on Sehome Hill. That used to be a treat, going up there and seeing the petrified log over the tunnel up there and then getting out on the campus in front of Old Main up on the old knoll. Getting on the grass was a „no-no,‟ but once in a while we would do that and have a little outing out there. That was kind of interesting. 5 Harold Fisher Edited Transcript – March 1st, 2006 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TB: I‟m curious, I‟ve heard a lot of people talk about how they were not supposed to be on the grass during the Haggard era, but in fact you were there before Haggard. So Dr. Fisher was really fussy about the grass, too? HF: Yes. And I can remember one of the maintenance men, his name was [George] Dack, and he had little signs out every once in a while on the grass, „Keep off.‟ I can still remember this. TB: So where was the playground for the kids in the training school? HF: It seems like most of our physical activities were in gyms. I think our playground is more in the area where the Campus School building was built. That used to be the football field. There was an old wooden grandstand out there. I think that is sometimes where we had our outside activities. TB: Any other comments about anything I didn‟t ask? HF: I think not. TB: Terrific. Mr. Fisher also attended what we now call Western Washington University, so he is considered one of our Golden Vikings and we are going to also ask him those questions. Why did you choose to attend Western as a college student? HF: Well for one reason, it was close to home. We lived here. It was cheaper that way. It was just kind of handy to be here. I liked smaller schools. I didn‟t ever want to go to the University of Washington, so Western was kind of natural. I started here right after World War II and there were not too many men there and lots of women! I enjoyed it then. TB: So a lot of men didn‟t come back right away after the service? HF: They kind of dwindled back – 1945, 1946. TB: What were your dates of attendance at Western? HF: My first quarter was in spring of 1946 and then later on I came back in 1948, ‟49, ‟50, somewhere around there. TB: What degrees or certificates did you receive from Western? HF: I had my BA in Education and then I got my fifth year and then later on I got my principal credentials and the master‟s degree. That was later on. But I got a BA in 1951. TB: What was your first job after leaving Western and please also provide a brief employment history. HF: I started interviewing right after I graduated in 1951 to maybe start teaching in the fall of ‟51. I started interviews all the way from Lynden in this state down to Longview [Washington]. We stopped at many, many places for interviews. I skipped Mount Vernon because I had no interest in that; it was just a wide spot in the road. But that is where I ended up in my career! After I did all my interviewing up and down the coast, I came back and a friend of mine helped me have an interview in Mount Vernon and I started there in 1951 and I spent 31 years there, until 1982. TB: Wow. Have any other family members attended Western? HF: I had a Mother that graduated somewhere around 1920 from Western. I had a son, Jeff Fisher, he attended in the „70s, „80s; his wife Debbie, my wife Jody, my granddaughter Jane. 6 Harold Fisher Edited Transcript – March 1st, 2006 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED [SR]: He graduated in 1978 or ‟79. HF: My mother went here, I went here, my son Jeff went here, and then my granddaughter, Jane Rindal, went here a couple years ago. Its four generations of our family that attended here. TB: What was your mother‟s name? HF: Ethel Burklund. TB: Are there any personal achievements you would like us to know about, such as awards, citations, decorations, personal bests of any sort? I think that kind of relates to your career. HF: I didn‟t have any particular achievements, but I do remember one time that President Haggard invited me to perform a half-hour concert on the pipe organ in the music hall so I gave a summer concert one time on the pipe organ. I knew him personally. His daughter was in our class. That‟s one of my highlights I think. TB: Yes, that was a nice organ because it was probably brand new. HF: Yes it was. TB: That is a real personal best! Where did you live most of the time while you attended Western and any favorite memories of these experiences? HF: When I attended Western I started at my parents‟ house out on Eldridge Avenue. I lived in Bellingham until I got my BA. I lived on Forest Street and then for my principal‟s credentials and master‟s degree, I lived in Mount Vernon, Washington and drove to Bellingham. TB: Who were your favorite or most influential teachers and please tell us why? HF: I think one of my favorite teachers was Keith Murray. He was a very interesting fellow. He always had a lot of enthusiasm. The last time I saw him was at the St. James Street Presbyterian Church for a wedding I attended. I also had one teacher, Paul Woodring, he taught classes I attended. I always had him for a class right after lunch and he had a monotone voice and he could put me to sleep! Oh boy. I shouldn‟t mention that! TB: No, that‟s the good stuff! What was your main course of study? HF: I started into education, into teaching, and I took some music classes. I was in the choir. I was in the orchestra one time. Don Bushell, he taught orchestra for me. I was real interested in music at that time and I can remember him well. I always enjoyed him. I think those would be my main favorite teachers. I had several. TB: Which classes did you like best and/or learn the most from? HF: We‟re talking about college now? TB: Yes. HF: I think maybe English class, history. I think I had Van Aver once for an [English] teacher and Hunt. I think these are just general classes I took to help prepare me for teaching. TB: How did you like Van Aver? 7 Harold Fisher Edited Transcript – March 1st, 2006 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED HF: I didn‟t! [Laughter] TB: I‟ve heard two different sides of him. Obviously I don‟t know the man. What activities did you most enjoy, such as sports, clubs, student government? Obviously music. HF: I took a little bit of intramural basketball but mainly in music. I enjoyed singing in the choir, playing in the orchestra, playing the organ. Those are my main enjoyments. I enjoyed music. That was one thing I didn‟t necessarily want to teach but I wanted to keep it for avocation, which I did. TB: Please share with us any other outstanding memories of your college days. HF: I think once in a while we would go out to Lake Whatcom. They called it “Normalstad” at that time. They had different activities. I think in PE classes we played a little golf. It was more fun to hit the balls up in the woods. We had many dances. TB: And the last question is always „please take a moment to consider the impact on your life of your education and experiences at Western.‟ HF: Well I feel that I was very fortunate to go here. I think I personally enjoyed many of the professors. A lot of them I knew by name and they knew me. I think that made a lot of difference in my education too, where they took a personal interest. I am glad to have gone here. I have good memories here, good experiences. TB: Excellent. Thank you very much. 8 Harold Fisher Edited Transcript – March 1st, 2006 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Henrietta (Daesener) Moseley interview--March 1, 2006 Henrietta (Daesener) Moseley attended the Campus School (1954-1961) ; and later attended Western Washington University for her "fifth year." SCOHP_MoseleyHenrietta_20060301 Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections Oral History Program Henrietta Moseley ATTENTION: © Copyright Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. "Fair use&qu Show moreWestern Washington University Libraries Special Collections Oral History Program Henrietta Moseley ATTENTION: © Copyright Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. "Fair use" criteria of Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 must be followed. The following materials can be used for educational and other noncommercial purposes without the written permission of Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. These materials are not to be used for resale or commercial purposes without written authorization from Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. All materials cited must be attributed to Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. This interview was conducted with Henrietta Moseley on March 1 st, 2006. The interviewer is Tamara Belts. TB: Today is March 1st, 2006 and I, Tamara Belts, am here with Henrietta Moseley. She attended Campus School. She did not sign the Informed Consent Agreement but she does know that she is being recorded. Is that correct? HM: Yes. TB: Good. Our first question is how did you happen to attend the Campus School? HM: I always heard from my parents that my mother registered me for Campus after I was born. I have located the application that my mother kept and she registered me on October 6 th, 1949. TB: And you were born when? HM: I was born March 15th, so six months after. TB: She didn’t waste any time! Did anyone else in your family attend the Campus School and what were their names? HM: No. I think I was the only one who went through Campus. TB: What were the years and grades of your attendance? HM: I started Kindergarten in 1954 and went all through sixth grade; I guess I left in 1961. TB: Did your family pay any fees for your attendance at the Campus School? HM: Not that I’m aware of. It all was registering early and having that opportunity; you were selected to go. I never heard anything about fees. TB: Where did you live when you attended the Campus School and how did you get to and from school? Please share any favorite memories of this experience. HM: My family home was down on Garden Street at 242 South Garden. That’s where I was born and raised and lived my whole life. I walked to school. I met Dick and Bill Hearsey along the way and Jackie Levin. The three of us kind of sauntered up and arrived at school, hopefully on time! There were a few times we were not on time, especially in the fall. As we came up Garden Terrace we filled our pockets with chestnuts, I remember that, and huge maple leaves. That was a lot of fun. The three of us were real good buddies for getting back and forth to school. TB: What did you do for lunch? 1 Henrietta Moseley Edited Transcript – March 1st, 2006 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED HM: I had a lunch pail, a little red plaid lunch pail. I was a real chubby little kid, so my mother – bless her heart – she tried so hard to just send the right things for me to eat. But just like Mr. Fisher, I had special days that I got to go down to the kitchen and order their spaghetti or something. That was a treat but most of the time I took my lunch. TB: So then you ate in your classroom or did you go to the cafeteria? HM: I think we ate in the cafeteria down there. There was a cafeteria. TB: Do you remember any favorite classmates? Please name them for us. HM: Yes, I had many favorite classmates. In fact, my oldest friend, today is her birthday and we have been friends since Kindergarten. We’ve been friends for fifty two years now and we still stay in very close contact, Jackie Levin, she’s now Jackie Kotkins. So Jackie and I were very close and Mary Louise Young and Jennifer Yanko and Leslie Swanson and Jeff Peters and Randy Budd. There was a whole list of them. I remember more of my friends from grade school than I do in any other period of my education. That’s pretty interesting. I was able to name and remember eighteen I think. TB: Wow; that is excellent. Who were your favorite or most influential teachers? HM: Kindergarten was interesting. Miss Nicol was really a nice lady. She was much older. I remember I liked her but she didn’t always let me paint! She and I didn’t always see eye to eye because I didn’t get as much painting time in as I would have liked to have. I remember Mrs. Vike in third grade and I just loved her to pieces because she let me do lots of clay work. My mother saved a lot of my clay pieces that I brought today. Mrs. Lee was my fourth grade teacher; she was a family friend. I remember Annabelle Lee. She was a really nice lady. Mrs. Power, my fifth grade teacher, she took me bowling. Then when she moved back to California, she still kept in touch with us and sent cards occasionally. I had some wonderful, wonderful teachers. Miss Weythman, Ruth Weythman, was a family friend. She was a PE teacher. I liked her, too. She was a very nice lady. TB: Do you remember any of your student teachers and could you name them for us? HM: I don’t remember student teachers. There were a lot of them though, like three or four every quarter. We just had a lot of teaching staff on board. TB: What were your favorite subjects or classroom activities? HM: I seemed to like to do things with my hands. I’m sure that’s where my love of doing things with my hands came from. I remember doing wood working, I remember weaving, and the clay work. I loved working with clay. Reading, I enjoyed the reading. We had Dick and Jane and I remember the stories of Sally, Dick and Jane and Muff, the cat I think, little Muffy the cat. I remember spelling. My first big spelling word I think in second grade I think was ‘constellation’. I remember that was just a huge achievement to learn how to spell that. I think some of the special things -- other than doing just math and English and reading -- I really enjoyed the industrial arts that we got to do, [plus] swimming, going to the library, some of those things. TB: What kind of learning materials did you use mostly (regular school textbooks, materials created by your teachers or other)? HM: I think the teachers provided a lot themselves. I do remember that I had Sally, Dick and Jane. That was the first Scott Foresman program that was out I think. We had math books. I don’t remember the name of the math book that I had, but I do remember Sally, Dick and Jane. TB: Excellent. What kind of grading system was in use during your attendance (letter grades or narrative reports)? 2 Henrietta Moseley Edited Transcript – March 1st, 2006 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED HM: Narratives. My mother kept all of them. It’s kind of fun to go back and read over your little reports. They really were very generic in what they said, but they did focus more I think on each individual child. Since I grew up to be a teacher, looking back at these reports and what I did in my grading system, I spent a lot of time writing reports. Maybe that’s where that got started. TB: Nice. Do you especially remember any creative activities such as weaving, making things, etc? Obviously you liked artwork. HM: I liked the artwork. I also liked the music. I remember Evelyn Hines was one of the music teachers that I had. She did The Nutcracker with us one year and we got to perform that on stage in the auditorium. She also taught us a Hawaiian hula dance song, I remember that, of which I can still remember some of the words to it. It was like a line dance we were doing, that was wonderful. One of the neatest things that I remember is every Christmas as the month of December came, we got to go into the auditorium and there was a huge Christmas tree in there. It must have been ten or fifteen feet tall. The music teacher was in there. We got to gather around the tree every morning and had a good forty five minutes of singing together. We got to sing all sorts of Christmas carols from all over the world. That was wonderful. We had Jewish kids in our class and everybody sang. It was just a wonderful time. TB: What was it like for you to be observed so often by student teachers? HM: I think after a while you just didn’t even know they were there because we always had so many people coming into the Campus School to observe. They were just part of the group, part of the family. TB: What out-of-classroom activities did you engage in, what did you do at recess, lunchtime, what did you enjoy the most and what games did you play? HM: I remember the bars out in the back of the building. We went out there for part of our recesses. Some of our recesses were out in front of the building. I do remember that I played a lot of square ball and red rover and in the spring we played baseball. There were some dodge ball and soccer ball games. We got to use the field out in front of the building. We were pretty active out there. Then we did get to go swimming all the time so we got to go over to the big pool. That was wonderful, but I didn’t like the bathing suits! TB: I have heard that before. HM: Oh my gosh! They were like flour sacks! You only could hope to get a green one. I just remember that. If you got a blue one you were in real trouble! TB: Did you visit the college itself, the college library, attend assemblies or sporting events or anything else at the college while you were in the Campus School? HM: We went to the library probably every week because we got to go in and check our books out. That was part of our curriculum. I don’t remember going to games or anything; I think mainly the library. TB: At what grade level did you enter public school? Why did you transfer and what was the transition like for you? HM: My Campus School experience ended with sixth grade so then I moved onto Fairhaven. I do remember that I did not learn cursive writing at Campus School. As I look back, that was a real issue. Maybe you didn’t learn it until fifth grade. I think that was it. We didn’t learn it until late. It’s not that we didn’t learn it but we didn’t learn it until the end of fifth grade going into sixth. Otherwise we always printed. The transition to Fairhaven, I think I found it hard, especially in English. TB: Any reason why? 3 Henrietta Moseley Edited Transcript – March 1st, 2006 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED HM: I don’t think I had all the English preparation that I could have had or should have had. I had a very well-rounded education. TB: Please share any differences between public school and Campus School that especially affected you. HM: As I mentioned, the singing at Christmas, we got to do that. I remember that every year through Campus School. That’s something that didn’t happen in the public school. It might have happened some but not as much. I think that we were exposed to a more well-rounded education. We had a lot more art and industrial arts. We had exposure to swimming and the main library. I think we had a lot more exposure at Campus School. TB: What further education did you pursue (college, graduate or professional school)? HM: I went on to get my degree in elementary education and then my fifth year I received at Western. I taught in Stanwood for fifteen years and moved into Mount Vernon and retired in 2002 with 32 years in the public school system. TB: By the time you would have went to Western, the Campus School had ended, anyway. HM: Yes, in 1967 I think. TB: Yes. How did your attendance at the Campus School influence your life and/or career? HM: I know as a teacher, when I was teaching, there were things that I did as a child at Campus School that I did with my students. For one example, I had the janitor in Stanwood make me fifteen weaving looms. We did a lot of weaving in my first grade classroom. I picked that up from Campus. TB: What is it that students were learning by the weaving? Someone has told me that they were also learning math. Is that part of what they were also learning? HM: I think, and design, repetition. TB: Are you still in touch with any of your Campus School classmates and if so can you help us contact them? HM: I think I mentioned that I am in contact with Jackie Levin. I have seen Mary Louise Young within the last couple years and Jennifer Yanko’s mother I just saw a month ago. Jennifer has her doctorate in linguistics and is at Boston University. She is back on the East coast but she does come out here occasionally. Basically those are the one that I have stayed in contact with. TB: Would you be willing to serve as a contact person for your class for the purpose of encouraging participation in the Campus School reunion planned for 2007? HM: Oh yes. I think everybody participate in this. This is a part of history here. TB: Alright. The question is do you have any campus memorabilia including photographs, class book pages, crafts or artwork and I can see that you brought some with you. HM: I did. TB: Excellent. Please share with us any favorite memories of your Campus School days and any comments about areas not covered by the questions above (for example, Short Tuesdays). HM: Oh, Short Tuesdays! That was a wonderful day. The kids got to go home at noon and the teachers stayed on. That’s when they had their meetings and preparation time. We had Short Tuesday once a month. 4 Henrietta Moseley Edited Transcript – March 1st, 2006 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED That meant I got to go to my friend’s house and we had more time to play so that was a hot day! I really remember Short Tuesdays. TB: Anything else we haven’t talked about? HM: I remember when I was Santa Claus in sixth grade! TB: That would be fun. HM: I was probably the tallest and most appropriate for being Santa Claus. They dressed me up in a Santa outfit and I got to go up and down those ramps and go and give candy canes to all the little kids in Kindergarten and first grade. That was fun; many memories. TB: Anything else? HM: I think that’s it. TB: Excellent. Thank you very much Henrietta. 5 Henrietta Moseley Edited Transcript – March 1st, 2006 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Isabelle (Fisher) Berry interview--September 23, 2005 Isabelle (Fisher) Berry is alumna of WWU, Class of 1939. In addition she did student teaching in the Campus School. SCOHP_BerryIsabelle_20050923 Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections Oral History Program Isabelle Berry ATTENTION: © Copyright Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. "Fair use" Show moreWestern Washington University Libraries Special Collections Oral History Program Isabelle Berry ATTENTION: © Copyright Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. "Fair use" criteria of Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 must be followed. The following materials can be used for educational and other noncommercial purposes without the written permission of Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. These materials are not to be used for resale or commercial purposes without written authorization from Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. All materials cited must be attributed to Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. This interview was conducted with Isabelle Berry at her home in Bellingham, Washington, on September 23rd, 2005. The interviewer is Tamara Belts. TB: Today is Friday September 23, 2005 and I am here with Isabelle Berry. She is a Golden Viking and the sister of Vene Fisher, who was one of the avalanche victims in 1939. We are now going to proceed with our oral history. My first question is, why did you choose to attend Western? IB: Because he did. TB: Did you know you were going to be a teacher? IB: Yes. TB: What were your dates of attendance at Western? IB: From summer of 1936 until spring of 1939. Then I went back and got my degree in 1942. TB: Your BA degree? IB: Yes. That’s all they gave then. TB: Did you go anywhere else or get any other certificates from any other institutions? IB: No. I did go to Monmouth because my first year of teaching was in Oregon and I had to take Oregon history and law. TB: O.K. Have any other family members attended Western? IB: Yes, my granddaughter. TB: What’s her name? IB: Rene Rhone. TB: And then your brother. IB: And my brother. He was in about the third class that got their degree, BA. TB: Do you know why he picked Western? 1 Isabelle Berry Edited Transcript – September 23, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED IB: No. TB: Where did you live when you attended Western? Did you live in a dorm? IB: I lived in Mrs. Davis’ house, but I didn’t see it listed as an organized house. But I know it was an organized house because my sister-in-law had graduated in 1919 and she lived at Davis Hall. The last year I lived at the Harborview Hall. TB: Any favorite memories of your living experiences? IB: No, I don’t think so. TB: What was your main course of study? IB: Science and math. TB: What classes did you like the best or learn the most from? IB: I think math. Although, I took a lot of history because I felt I was weak in history. When I went back for my degree, I took several history classes, and I ended up with that as being a teaching a field because I had taken so many history classes. TB: What other extracurricular activities did you enjoy the most? IB: I loved sports. When I was a junior, I was vice president of the Associated Women Students. TB: What was that like? What kinds of things did you do? IB: The Associated Women Students provided three assemblies for the women during the year and I was in charge of doing that – of getting the speakers or entertainment. TB: What kind of speakers did you usually try to get? IB: I only remember one and that was Miss Lowman, who had paddled to Alaska in a canoe. She was from Anacortes. She came and talked to us. I don’t remember the other two! TB: Was it usually a woman speaker? IB: No, not necessarily. TB: Also, you were on the WAA (Women’s Athletic Association) cabinet. IB: Yes. I was one of the sports directors or whatever. General Sports Manager I think it was called. That held the same point value as the president, and you worked for points to get a letter sweater. The quarter I was to get a letter sweater, they discontinued them! Miss Rupert, the newest of the PE teachers, was very opposed to the letter sweaters. She got them done away with. That was a disappointment. TB: Was Lillian George still around when you were there? She worked in the library as a cataloger. IB: I believe she was, but I don’t remember her. I’m sure she was. TB: Did you have any experiences with the Campus School or the Training School? 2 Isabelle Berry Edited Transcript – September 23, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED IB: I did my student teaching in the Campus School. Well, not in the new school, it was in Old Main. My first student teaching was in math in the seventh grade. Then I did my second student teaching in the spring under Miss Trent because I thought I needed to be qualified for both fourth, fifth and sixth and seventh, eighth and ninth. That was junior high. You had a different supervisor for those. Miss Trent was very unhappy with people who came down from junior high and taught in intermediate because you needed it to get a job, or you thought you might. TB: Oh. So she didn’t think you were as devoted to that age group or something? IB: She didn’t think that we should change. TB: What was it like doing your student teaching in the Campus School? What was the Campus School like? IB: It was part of Old Main. I had Miss Van Pelt as the math teacher and she was a very strict, very severe person. But I don’t remember the lady I taught under out in the city. I went out to the city for my intermediate teaching. I can’t remember where the school was. I’ve tried and tried to find it! TB: So you did the Campus School student teaching… IB: In the fall. Then in the winter I did some student teaching under Miss Weythman for PE. In the spring I did student teaching out in the city. TB: Was that pretty customary for people to do student teaching out in the city as well as in the Campus School? IB: Well usually you had a choice, but I was working toward my degree. When I started, I thought I would go straight through. I started it in the summer. But then I didn’t do that so I was just getting in all my student teaching in one year. When I went back to get my degree, finish it up, I didn’t have to do any student teaching. TB: Who were your favorite or most influential teachers and why? IB: I think Dr. Bond (he was the math teacher), Miss Weythman and Miss Rupert, and then I took some classes from Arntzen in history. I think they were my favorites. TB: Tell me a little bit more. What was Dr. Bond like? IB: He was a very friendly, interesting person. He had been superintendent in Coupeville at one time. He always treated the kids from Coupeville with a little special favor; we were always invited to his house for dinner. My first quarter I took two classes from him, I took beginning math and junior high math. I did very well in the beginning math but not so good in the junior high math. I think I got a B. Then I took trigonometry from him. I used to be very good in geometry in high school but somehow it didn’t carry over to trigonometry and I had a little trouble with that but I got through it all right. He was a very kindly old man. I think he started the climbing up at Mt. Baker. Maxine said that my brother worked for him, but I didn’t know that he did. He worked for a man named Herbert Ruckmick. TB: The industrial arts guy. IB: Yes. He did a lot with them on printing and so forth. The one thing Br. Bond did, he used to scribble maybe three columns of figures across the board real fast and then write the answer down at the bottom. I know how he did it he did it because he kept adding groups of ten. But it was very impressive. 3 Isabelle Berry Edited Transcript – September 23, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TB: What about Dr. Arntzen? What was he like? IB: The thing I remember about Dr. Arntzen, he was always telling stories about the history of things. The one thing he said was that whoever started Boeing (I can’t remember his name) graduated at the end of his class in engineering at the University of Washington. He said there were 157 in his class and he was 157! He always thought that was so funny because Boeing had developed into such a good company. TB: Who were your science teachers? IB: Miss Plympton and Miss Sundquist. TB: Can you tell me about them, what they were like? IB: They were both very friendly and pleasant, but Miss Sundquist was more outgoing and I think maybe it was the course, but I seem to remember learning a lot more from her. I think in Miss Plympton’s class we measured the amount of coloring in the root of your hair and they told me I would not turn white! I remember that. I remember the astronomy part of it was really interesting. We used to go up on Sehome Hill and observe the stars and things sometimes. TB: That was with Miss Plympton? IB: Plympton, I think. TB: What about Miss Weythman. What was she like? IB: She was the PE teacher. She was a good teacher, but of course she was older and the younger teacher always captured your imagination more and Miss Rupert had just come the first year I was there I think. The thing I remember about her, which didn’t set the best example maybe, but, she had a new Pontiac, a very nice car, and she came from I believe Iowa or Ohio, back east somewhere, and she said no one ever passed her on the highway. That’s not such a good thing to tell a group of college students! TB: She had a heavy foot, then! IB: Yes. She was a little lady; she was small. But Miss Weythman, they used to take us on campouts over on the island. There was a Women’s Athletic Association camp on one island, I can’t remember. What island is that? TB: Sinclair Island. You didn’t know Margaret Aiken, did you? IB: No. TB: What about the library? Do you remember the library or did you know Mabel Zoe Wilson? IB: The library was quite new when I went to school there. We thought it was beautiful. It was a nice place to study in the reading room. We were very impressed with it. TB: What about Miss Wilson? IB: Well she was kind of a strict little lady, but we all liked her I think. And then Miriam Snow was there too. She was in charge of the children’s library, or they called it that. TB: Special Collections where I work is the old children’s library. So what was she like, Miriam Snow Mathes? 4 Isabelle Berry Edited Transcript – September 23, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED IB: I don’t remember so much except that I know we had to go into her part of the library to get books for our students. TB: What do you remember about Dr. Fisher? IB: He was a big man who was very friendly and he used to have assemblies for the kids, every Tuesday I think it was, 11 o’clock, and it was required that we go to the assemblies. We had some very interesting speakers. One was Thorpe. TB: Oh, the runner? Jim Thorpe? IB: Yes, Jim Thorpe. I think it was football. The other one was Jesse Owens, the runner. He brought in very interesting people. In fact, Owens gave a demonstration of running in the gym one time. I think he talked to us in assembly, too. Different kinds of programs like that that were really something for someone who came from Coupeville to hear. I thought that was one of the nice things he did. 1939 was Fisher’s last year. Of course, they tried to say he was a Communist, but I never did believe it. TB: You just thought it was really enlightened kinds of speakers, not political. As a student, did you have very much sense of the politics involved in trying them trying to get rid of President Fisher? Did you know before he left that they were trying to get rid of him? IB: I think it came out more after I left than I knew about it at the time. TB: I’m going to try telling you the story of the Avalanche in 1939 that you told me when the tape wasn’t on and maybe you can just sort of confirm it. Maybe that will be easier? IB: O.K. TB: Your brother Vene was not going to school anymore but had wanted to go on this hike, and so he had drove himself up to the mountain and by himself had hiked in to Kulshan Cabin. Then he met up with the group there. IB: Yes. TB: So they did the hike, and at least story-wise, you’ve always heard that he was the last man in the group, sort of bringing up the rear. We think the hike was on a Saturday. IB: Well they hiked in Friday and then they climbed up the mountain on Saturday and then came back to Kulshan Cabin and hiked out on Sunday – normally. TB: O.K. So on Saturday there was this avalanche. IB: It was just after lunch, I believe. TB: Then your family didn’t hear about it until your mother went out to get the paper on Sunday morning and that was the headline of the Seattle paper. You were living at Coupeville at that time. You were upstairs and not up yet. IB: No. TB: Your mother came up and got you up and told you about it. Where was your father? 5 Isabelle Berry Edited Transcript – September 23, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED IB: He was there. Mother woke him. Then we I suppose discussed what to do. We called Roscoe Berry, my boyfriend, and then he came and helped us drive up to Point Roberts. TB: Point Roberts, where your older brother was fishing. What boat was he on? IB: The Saint Michael’s. It was owned by Mike Criscoll and his son did have the boat up here afterwards. TB: But the boat was actually out of Coupeville, so your other brother had been still living in Coupeville. IB: Yes. TB: So you went up and got your other brother from Point Roberts and you all went up to the mountain, it sounds like. IB: Yes. TB: Then your brother Allen… IB: I’m sure he stayed. And then he brought Vene’s car down. TB: He went and worked with them (the rescuers) and tried [to find the bodies] and stayed for a couple days. They probed every square foot of the slide area. IB: Well I think longer than that. They searched for quite a while. You know, they didn’t have helicopters. They didn’t have cell phones. They ran out of money and they had to stop looking. Things were kind of different then. They didn’t call in the government. They didn’t blame the president [laughs]. There was some controversy at the time about them not being roped together. Some people felt if they had been they would all have been lost. They had just got around the crevasse and they thought that the ones that weren’t found were swept into the crevasse. Nobody thought to sue in those days! One girl’s father used to come back every year [to look for her body] because they were Catholic and having the body was real important to them. TB: O.K. TB: Tell me about Mr. Kibbe. IB: Mr. Kibbe taught psychology and we had a good time in his class. He never got a PhD because he said that only those who had to have a doctor’s degree to get a job went for a PhD. I think he had a Master’s. He didn’t have a PhD. TB: Woodring wouldn’t have been there yet, was he? IB: Woodring came my last year, I think. The other person that I knew really well was Dr. Upshall because I worked in the research bureau. Charlotte Hood was his secretary and she was in charge, but Dr. Upshall taught me to give the Stanford-Binet test, and it was one of the first years when they gave every Kindergarten student a Stanford-Binet test. Anyway, when I went to teaching special education in Burlington in 1953 they were giving the kids intelligence tests and I said, “Well I have given the StanfordBinet.” But they had come out with a new test, the Wexler, and so I went back to college to learn to give the Wexler test [under Dr. Budd]. My daughter was in the first grade when I went to teaching special education in Burlington. It was the first year the Dolls were in Bellingham. They started a special education class in Burlington for all the Skagit counties. Jim Larson was our director, and there were two of us and we taught in the old elementary school, 6 Isabelle Berry Edited Transcript – September 23, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED and the room I had had at one time been the coal bin! But they fixed up the bottom part of the school because it was condemned at that time. It was an old school. TB: Did you know Sam Carver? IB: He was there when I was there, but I didn’t know him. TB: Coach Lappenbusch? IB: I knew him better. I took health education from Lappenbusch. That was the only contact – of course, he was the coach and everybody knew him. TB: Did you go to very many of the games? IB: Oh yes, we went to all the games. TB: So all of your classes would have been in Old Main. IB: Unless they had them in the gym. When I started in the summer, I took badminton at eight, tennis at nine and swimming at eleven. I had to run down to the YWCA! That’s where we took our swimming classes. By fall, it was finished (the gym). Then I got down to the serious part of my college education after lunch! TB: I was going to say! Three PE classes in the morning, that’s pretty good! How many classes did you usually have in a day? Or how many hours? IB: I took fifteen or sixteen hours. TB: All those PE classes would have just been one credit. IB: Yes. Then that first summer I took math, which was five credits, history that was five credits, and then the junior high math was three credits and the PE classes were three credits. I will say one thing: when I went to school, lots of the students went on a shoestring. I mean that they had very little. Tuition was about $30 a quarter, and if they could raise that, they went to school. A lot of us lived in the boarding houses and did our own cooking. One time at the house next to me (and I can’t remember the name) there were four girls I knew living there. The last three weeks of school, all they had to eat was cornmeal, canned milk, and jam! One girl did have some money, but she chose to eat with the rest of them and not spend her money. Students really struggled to get through school. I will say that apparently some of them could borrow from the college, but I didn’t and I didn’t know anybody that did. When I graduated in 1939, there were very few jobs. Afterward, someone told me that unless you knew somebody, had a connection with someone, or if you had borrowed money from the college, those are the ones who got the jobs. I didn’t teach my first year out. I went and took my brother’s job in the engineer’s office in Coupeville. Because I had told my folks I would teach two years before I got married, I got a chance to go to eastern Oregon because a girl that I had met in college had also taught in the school in Oregon. She got me the job. There again, a connection. Her husband was on the school board, so I went there, where I rode horseback to school. It was a one-room school in the town of Ritter, which was a population of four. But I taught out of town at the Three Mile School. There was no Ritter school at that time. TB: How many students did you have in your one room? 7 Isabelle Berry Edited Transcript – September 23, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED IB: I had fourteen to start with and then three moved away so I ended up with eleven. I had every class except fifth. TB: Wow. So is that hard or easy in a one-room classroom? IB: Well, in a way it was harder and in a way it was easier. For the students, too, because the students were always reviewing as you taught the class under them, and then looking ahead to what they were going to get the next year. It was not bad in a way, but of course now we do it differently. TB: Right. But you had to be prepared for all those classes! That was a lot. You were there two years? IB: One. TB: Just one. Where was your second year? IB: Woodland. That was a two-room school. It was up the river from Woodland at Green Mountain. That was one of the richer districts in the state because they had the money from Ariel Dam. They had half of it, and half of it went to the school across the river, and we were on the south side of the river. That was interesting. I taught the upper grades and the other lady taught the lower grades. We had a janitor, a music teacher, and a cook! TB: Wow! That was pretty lush! IB: Yes, it was. If I had known then what I know now I could have bought a lot of things, but of course, a lot of the things they use now weren’t available then anyway, but I would have done things a lot differently. That school is still operating. It is more than a two –room school now. TB: About how many students were in the class that you had? The dam probably had a lot of workers. IB: No. I think I had about twenty-five in the four classes. Not in each class, but all total. TB: Wow. So then you two must have gotten married and you came back to Washington? IB: He worked at Boeing. TB: Excellent. Where did you teach most of your career at? IB: Well, I taught at the Maple Leaf School, but the most years I taught at Sedro Woolley. I taught at Maple Leaf and it’s no longer a school in the Shoreline District. That was the year before Shoreline became a district, then I taught there the second year when it was the Shoreline District under Dr. Howard. Then we moved to Mount Vernon after Roscoe got out of the service. Then I went to Burlington to the special education school for one year and then I was out for a couple years then I went to Sedro Woolley and I finished up at Sedro Woolley. TB: Nice. That must be where Danny taught then? IB: Danny Beatty? He taught one year there and then he went to Anacortes. TB: Oh O.K., but he still gets invited back to your retired teacher’s picnic? IB: Well, it’s for all of Skagit County. TB: Oh O.K. 8 Isabelle Berry Edited Transcript – September 23, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED [End of tape] 9 Isabelle Berry Edited Transcript – September 23, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Judy (Hall) Lewis interview--September 2, 2005 Judy (Hall) Lewis attended the Campus School from 1950-1956 and later Western Washington University, Class of 1969. SCOHP_LewisJudy_20050902 Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections Oral History Program Judy Hall Lewis ATTENTION: © Copyright Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. "Fair use" Show moreWestern Washington University Libraries Special Collections Oral History Program Judy Hall Lewis ATTENTION: © Copyright Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. "Fair use" criteria of Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 must be followed. The following materials can be used for educational and other noncommercial purposes without the written permission of Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. These materials are not to be used for resale or commercial purposes without written authorization from Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. All materials cited must be attributed to Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. This interview was conducted with Judy Hall Lewis, a Campus School student, in Bellingham, Washington, on September 2, 2005. The interviewer is Christine Kendall. CH: I am recording Judy Hall Lewis, a Campus School student and we‟ll begin our interview. Judy, how did you happen to attend the Campus School? JL: My mother had registered me to attend the Campus School just after I was born. In those days that often happened. When you were a small child, you were registered to insure your attendance. CK: And she was a teacher, so she was very aware of the school. JL: Mother and Father had both gone to Western and were teachers in the Bellingham public schools. CK: Did she student teach at [Campus School]? JL: She did not. She started her teaching career in Alaska. CK: Did anybody else in your family attend the Campus School and what were there names? JL: My brother Michael attended Campus School. He was two years younger. No other family members attended, but our next door neighbors did, Tim and Tom Irvin. Tim was in my class and Tom was in my brother‟s class. Eventually the neighbors, Nancy and Frank Zurline from across the street also attended. CK: What were the years and grades of your attendance? JL: I attended from Kindergarten through sixth grade. That would be 1950 to 1956. CK: Did you pay any fees? JL: Not that I‟m aware of. I don‟t believe we did. CK: How did you get to and from school? Please share any favorite memories of that experience. JL: My parents and Mr. and Mrs. Irvin were all teachers. My brother and I, and the Irvin boys, were dropped off at 8 o‟clock, but most of the other children didn‟t come until 8:30 or 8:45, so we would go into our classrooms and simply play quietly as the teacher and student teachers were preparing for the day. In the primary grades there were many activities. For example, in Kindergarten there was a cooking station with a little wood stove. I was just totally in my glory! I know my brother liked the blocks and the cars and trucks. We were very eager to go to school. Our parent‟s carpooled, so one week our parents would take us, and the next week the Irvins would take us. 1 Judy Hall Lewis Edited Transcript – September 2, 2005 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED When I was in Kindergarten, Tim and I would leave school each day and we would walk down to 21 st Street to catch the city bus. CK: When you were in Kindergarten? JL: When we were in Kindergarten! We‟d walk down and we‟d catch the city bus. The bus would take us then down to the Fairhaven area where we would get off and I would walk to my grandma‟s on 13th Street and Tim would walk to his grandma‟s on Donovan below 12th street. CK: I‟ll be darned! JL: Our story that year is that we missed the bus one day and so we started walking home, feeling very confident that we knew where we were going. This car came along and called me by name and the man looked familiar, but I couldn‟t remember his name. He offered us a ride to my grandmother‟s and we took it. When Tim‟s mother heard from him that he had gotten in a car with this stranger, she was beside herself. It turned out it was the minister from the church! So he knew who we were, and I just couldn‟t remember his name. We were then told if we ever missed the bus again, we were to walk back to school and make a phone call. It‟s hard to believe that we took the city bus. When our brothers started to school, we would walk down to Garden Street and catch the bus there. Then we would get off the bus at Sacred Heart Church at 14th and Knox and walk on down to our grandma‟s. CK: When they carpooled then, did they drop you off behind the school? JL: Yes. We‟d come up 21st which, you know, is so different now. Just up 21 st behind Campus School is the back door. We‟d get out there and head on in. CK: Jack was mentioning that the fifth and sixth graders were crossing guards. JL: That is correct. At that time in the morning, we didn‟t have a crossing guard because the other kids hadn‟t come to school yet. CK: What did you do for lunch? JL: My brother and I were just discussing that. We took our own lunch. As I remember, we only had hot lunch one day a week. That‟s what I remember. And I remember simply ordering a bowl of buttered beans. I lived for the buttered beans! CK: Did you eat at your desk? Did the food come up the dumbwaiter? JL: It seems to me like when we were in first and second grade, we ate at what would be our worktable (our desk). In third grade, if you were having hot lunch, you got to eat it in what was considered the lunchroom. There was a kitchen area and they would open up the folding door and you‟d come by and get your tray and then find a table to eat your lunch. If I had cold lunch, I believe I ate in the classroom, because the lunchroom would not have held everyone. CK: Do you remember any favorite classmates and would you name them for us? JL: Most of us were in class together from Kindergarten to sixth grade, so our class was maybe twenty kids. Girl‟s names that I remember at the drop of a hat are Jane Ambrose, Taffy Squires, Mimi Sue Thal, Judy Lindsay, Marilee Dickerson, Jan Dinger and Diane Stonehouse. In fourth grade Sue Weyrick joined our class and in sixth grade it was Dottie Parcheski. That was quite a novelty! Boys in the class that I remember were Rick Haggen, Joe Melland, Hugh Gregory, Pat O‟Connor, Mike Smith, Steve Smith, Richie Hayne and Dale Benson. 2 Judy Hall Lewis Edited Transcript – September 2, 2005 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED CK: How was the new student accepted? You said novelty. JL: Thinking back, in fourth grade Lillian Erga joined our class. I believe that Lillian was from Norway and so that was a new experience. We were such a close group and since there was only one of each grade, anyone new was a novelty. CK: She just fit right in. JL: As I remember it she did. CK: Then did you all go on to the same school in middle school together or did people kind of go separate ways? JL: I would think the majority of us went on to Fairhaven Junior High, now Fairhaven Middle School. CK: Who were your favorite or most influential teachers? JL: Miss Nicol was my Kindergarten teacher and I just idolized her. She even came to my wedding! Miss Casanova was my first grade teacher and then Miss Elliot in second grade. They are probably the ones that I remember the most. I can‟t remember third and fourth grade, but Miss Kinsman was fifth grade and Clark Brown was sixth grade. CK: Clark Brown? Was that Dr. Brown? JL: Yes. He was one of the Dr. Brown‟s on campus at that time. CK: So sixth grade you had a male teacher? JL: All the rest were women. CK: What were your favorite subjects or classroom activities? JL: I loved typing. CK: When did you start typing? What class? JL: I think that we started in fifth grade. The typewriters were kept in a storage room at the end of the hall by the music room and so we would have to go and get them and bring them back to our classroom for our typing lesson. We would do swimming at the big pool. It seemed like that was once a week. We would go over to the art building for our art class. Our teachers were professors. Nothing really sticks out. I loved that we had lots of art. CK: Did you do a reindeer head? JL: I don‟t remember doing a reindeer head. We did do a full paper maché critter in third grade as a class project. I am sure that we did Christmas projects and perhaps they were apart of the sing-a-longs that we did in the school auditorium the week before the Christmas break. CK: Jack remembers that. JL: That was always such a special time. I also remember doing a play one year, I think as a third grader, I played Mozart‟s sister, and Hugh Gregory was Mozart and we pretended to play a duet on a harpsichord. That‟s all I remember about the play. 3 Judy Hall Lewis Edited Transcript – September 2, 2005 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED CK: Did you have a special emphasis of different subjects that you would do a particular time of year, any visits or anything that you recall? JL: I‟m sure that we did, but it‟s the extra things that I remember. We were always being visited by education classes that would come in and watch us as we were doing math or social studies. I know we had those kinds of activities. And usually we had about three student teachers per room -- four adults to twentysome kids. CK: Did you use regular textbooks or other kinds of learning materials? JL: I‟m sure that we had textbooks and the usual learning materials. I particularly remember Dick and Jane! CK: What kind of grading was used during your attendance? Letter grades or narrative reports? JL: It was a narrative report on a half sheet of paper CK: Do you especially remember any creative activities such as weaving or making things? JL: Oh yes. Thanks for bringing that up. We did lots of weaving. We did lots of mats. My neighbor Tim and I often would share a loom. We would weave two of everything. I would get one and then he would get the next one. We usually used yarn, but one time I remember that we used a torn up sheet. We also did a lot with clay and then took them to the art building to be fired in the kiln. I especially remember doing jungle animals in the second grade. Each workroom always had two or three easels for painting and there were actual workbenches with vises and tools. I remember making a wooden boat one year. CK: We‟re going to back up a little bit to the teachers because we paused for a moment and there was some rethinking on the teachers and you mentioned that Miss Elliot was Kindergarten, Miss Nicol was first and Casanova second, we‟re not sure about the third and the fourth, Miss Kinsman being the fifth and Clark Brown the sixth, and Dr. Hawk was your principal and Nancy Smith your school secretary. How about your school nurse, do you remember who that was? JL: No, but there was a nurse because she had an office and she wore a uniform. She had an office with a desk and then we had a room that had cots in it, probably about six cots. CK: Was that on the first floor? JL: It was on the first floor. CK: Moving on to the next question, what were your classes like? Were there a lot of student teachers observing – you touched on that a little bit – and/or teaching lessons or parts of lessons? JL: We had at least three student teachers working in the classrooms each quarter. There were also constant visits by education classes. We just took it in stride. Our classroom was fairly large and consisted of two big rooms. One was called the workroom and the other the classroom. CK: The people who came in and would watch, would they adjust their chairs for the activity then, is that how it worked? JL: Correct. CK: Did you attend summer school at Campus School? JL: I did not. 4 Judy Hall Lewis Edited Transcript – September 2, 2005 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED CK: We discovered they did have a summer school earlier on. Whether they had that when you were there, I don‟t know. JL: Tim Irvin‟s mother, Mary, taught at the Campus School I think when we were probably in middle school and I think that she was involved with the summer school program. CK: So that was later on. What extracurricular activities did you engage in and what did you do at recess, lunchtime, and which did you enjoy the most and what games did you play? JL: Recess was held on the backside of the building on the Sehome Hill side where there was a little playground that had bars and a big sandbox. I can remember being out there, particularly hanging on the bars. Then, on the front of the building we had a big grass field and a big blacktop area that sat in front of the art building with hopscotch forms. It seemed like my friend Jan and I often played baseball with the boys. I remember in the gym we lived for “bombardment.” CK: Bombardment? What was that? JL: It was like dodge ball. I know you hear people are playing it again at the “Y.” It was our reward. If we did a nice job with the P.E. lesson then we would maybe have ten minutes where we could play bombardment. CK: Were there two gymnasiums downstairs? JL: There were. Actually no, there were three. At the end of the building closest to Old Main there were two ramps. The one to the west took you to one gym and the one to east took you to two. It seems like one of the gyms to the left was mainly used for the Primary Grades. CK: Were they for different grades? JL: I can remember being in the different rooms. I can‟t tell you why. There was only one grade at each level. Perhaps maybe on a rainy day for indoor recess we‟d use them for different activities. Maybe one always had a game of bombardment going on. CK: Bombardment! [Laughter]. JL: Dodge ball sounds better. CK: Is that where you did your dance lessons then, in your gymnasium? JL: That‟s correct. CK: Would they bring dance instructors in for that? JL: We had Miss Weythman, who was from the college, who would teach the classes. CK: Did you visit the college itself? The college library, attend assemblies or sporting events or anything else at the college when you were in the Campus School and do you have any special memories of those experiences? JL: I don‟t remember sporting events. We were in the Industrial Arts Building often, whether it was for a project or a class or to see something that was going on. I can remember taking our clay to the kiln for firing. We were also in the music building and perhaps we were listening to a small group perform. We used the library. Wilson Library had a section that was for our use, so that‟s where we went and checked our books out. 5 Judy Hall Lewis Edited Transcript – September 2, 2005 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED CK: Do you remember the librarian at all? JL: I do not remember the librarian. Other than that, I don‟t really have any memories of being in other buildings. CK: Did students work in the library at all? Help check out books or do anything? JL: No, I don‟t believe so. I think our claim to fame was being a crossing guard. We‟d have a captain and a lieutenant and their job was to oversee the other crossing guards. I think that we had two at the back entrance to the Campus School, definitely on High Street and I remember there being guards down on Garden Street also because we had to go down the stairs to check on them. You really were “hot stuff” when you were on duty. CK: So the girls got to be crossing guards as well? JL: And captains, yes. That allowed you, then, to be late for class because you had to stay until I would say nine o‟clock or something and then the captain and the lieutenant would pick up the guards and we‟d walk on in as a group. CK: So you would wear some kind of sash? JL: It was a sash. CK: Did you have little flags that you carried? JL: We did indeed. I don‟t remember having a hat. CK: Was it a rotational sort of thing that your name would come up? JL: I remember it being determined by a vote, but perhaps it was a little more controlled by the teachers so that everyone did have a chance. I remember a job chart. Once a week we‟d get new jobs. CK: So there were a number of other types of jobs that might be assigned. JL: Correct. CK: What was the transition like for you when you began to attend public school? JL: I think the transition was fine. A lot of my friends were also going to the same junior high school, and my neighborhood friend, who had attended a public school up until that time, would be going to the same school. School was now only five minutes from my house and so I often went home for lunch. CK: You lived very close. Please share any specific differences between public school and Campus School that especially affected you. JL: I don‟t think that I had any sense of… CK: Of the difference? JL: Yes. I maybe realized that I didn‟t have access to things at the college, but there were so many other new things going on that I‟m not sure how aware I was. CK: How about the difference in grading system – getting a real report card versus the report? JL: No. 6 Judy Hall Lewis Edited Transcript – September 2, 2005 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED CK: What further education did you pursue? College, graduate or professional school? JL: I did my four years of college and also received my master‟s degree in education. CK: At Western? JL: At Western. CK: So you were a teacher? JL: Yes. CK: Do you think your Campus School experience influenced you as a teacher? JL: I do know that because I went to school at eight o‟clock, early, if I wasn‟t engaged in some activity that I was playing by myself, I would ask the teacher if I could help her. That‟s one thing I now remember about my report card, it always talked about my „helping,‟ helping people. I enjoyed small children and started babysitting when I was quite young and was headed in my mind to be a nurse; that‟s what I thought. I was about in the second grade and I was with my grandmother and someone asked me what I was going to be when I grew up and I said I was going to be a nurse; then I said maybe or a social worker. My grandmother spoke up and said, “No, you’re not. You’re going to be a teacher like your mother.” So it was like, Oh! Okay! That‟s what I always thought about being, a teacher. I don‟t ever recall thinking that there was another possibility. CK: I guess what I was wondering is, since the Campus School experience at least from what I hear about it sounds a little different than some public school teaching, do you think that having a different experience in Campus School affected how you taught children in the first or the primary grades? You taught first and second grade. JL: I don‟t think so, although I certainly loved my teachers in Kindergarten and first and second grades. They were just something else. They were really high in my mind, as wonderful ladies that made me feel so good. In that sense, I hope that I was able to do that through the years with my students, [and if so], then yes. CK: I‟ve heard you talk about your teaching experience and bringing, like you brought little snacks for instance, and things like that. I just wondered if anything like that was a carryover from Campus [School]. JL: I‟m not so sure. CK: How has your attendance at Campus School influenced your life, would you say? JL: I think it was just a very supportive elementary school. We always had lots of opportunities and maybe at times we weren‟t as strong in academics -- I know that has sometimes been a complaint -- trying to provide so many experiences for the students. I just look back on it with good memories and the fact that we had a fairly stable class, and so we were a small family. We worked with each other. If somebody had a birthday, we were all invited. If someone was having a skating party, it was the whole class. CK: Are you in touch with any of your Campus School classmates, and if so, can you help us contact them? JL: No. [Laughter] You know, with some it‟s exchanging Christmas cards, and yes, I can provide those addresses. Some I do still see, but the group that I‟m in touch with the most was established in junior high. 7 Judy Hall Lewis Edited Transcript – September 2, 2005 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED CK: Do you have any Campus School memorabilia, including photographs or class publications or crafts or artwork, and may we contact you? I guess I‟m telling you that because as you know, the museum is going to be doing an exhibit of Campus School and they are looking for things to be loaned or even donated. JL: I will look. CK: The last question is, please share with us any favorite memories of your campus school days, and any comments about areas not covered in the questions above? JL: My one story that I always tell my grandchildren is about my second grade year. I had to stay after school two different times. We had a spelling test every Friday and I had been warned by the teacher for a couple weeks not to put periods behind each one of my spelling words. I had somehow discovered that I thought it looked very pretty. They kept getting bigger and bigger! Finally, about the third week, when I had finished and turned in my paper with these periods at the end of each word, I was told that I would need to stay after school and redo my test. That was very traumatic because I had to call my grandmother and tell her that I had to stay after school. Then, also in second grade, I had to stay after school because I got caught kissing my boyfriend behind the classroom door! Another odd thing I remember is that Campus School had ramps that went from the first floor to the second and there were no stairs! CK: Do you know how or why? JL: I do not know why. In those days, or when the school was built, they didn‟t have any of the handicap laws or regulations. The main floor bathrooms in the Campus School had shorter toilets and the sinks were also lower. They were built to fit the size of the children. Why we had the ramps, I do not know. I can remember, because we always walked in school and especially on the ramps, that it was most fun either after school or when no one was looking to run down them as fast as you could! CK: I‟ll be darned! Well thank you very much Judy for the interview. I‟ve really enjoyed listening to your memories. JL: Thank you. 8 Judy Hall Lewis Edited Transcript – September 2, 2005 Campus School Memories Project ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Ruby (Johnson) Smith interview--June 19, 2004 Ruby (Johnson) Smith, WWU alumna, Class of 1951 (BAE). SCOHP_SmithRuby_20040619 Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections Oral History Program Ruby Smith ATTENTION: © Copyright Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. "Fair use" cri Show moreWestern Washington University Libraries Special Collections Oral History Program Ruby Smith ATTENTION: © Copyright Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. "Fair use" criteria of Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 must be followed. The following materials can be used for educational and other noncommercial purposes without the written permission of Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. These materials are not to be used for resale or commercial purposes without written authorization from Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. All materials cited must be attributed to Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. This interview was conducted with Ruby Smith (class of 1951). The interview was conducted on June 19th, 2004 in the Viking Union as a part of the Golden Viking Reunion Weekend. The interviewer is Tamara Belts. TB: I am sitting here with Ruby Johnson Smith who is an alumna from the class of 1951. She’s just signed the Informed Consent Agreement and we’re going to proceed with an oral history. So, first could you tell me why you chose to attend Western? RS: I’m from Bellingham. I only lived about three blocks from here, from Western. It was very convenient to come up the hill and go to Western. Plus, I wanted to be a teacher. TB: Ok, and what were your dates, then, of attendance at Western? RS: 1947 through 1951. TB: Did you get any other degrees from anywhere else? RS: Beyond that? Yes I did. I went back and got my Fifth and Sixth year while I was teaching in Edmonds. I did it with night courses and I did come up to Western, I think, and took one course. I can’t remember what year it was but it was when Bill McDonald was here. He was one of my favorite people, and got my Fifth and Sixth year, yes. I actually got it from different schools because they were night courses and I was teaching at the time and had two children, so I had to work all three in, and I did it. TB: Oh, wow. OK, what was your first job after leaving Western? RS: I went to Edmonds and I was a second grade teacher. TB: Where else did you teach and then also do you have any distinctive memories of your jobs? RS: OK, I taught in Edmonds for thirty one years. My first school was Alderwood. At that time there were only three elementaries and one high school. Then, I quit for a year because I had a child, came back to Westgate Elementary because my school was closed, they tore the building down; it was one of the older ones, and started building schools in the Edmonds area because of the growth. So I came to Westgate and I stayed there until, I can’t remember the year that I retired, but I taught thirty one years. TB: Wow. RS: I did quit one other time, too, and had a second child, but not for very long, I came back. So I taught at one school for twenty five years. TB: Wow. Did you teach the same grade most of the time? 1 Ruby (Johnson) Smith Edited Transcript – June 19th, 2004 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED RS: No, I didn’t. I started in second and ended in sixth. So I really taught second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth, and I taught sixth about ten years. TB: Ok, have any other family members attended Western? RS: No. I wanted them too! TB: Oh, good, good. RS: But, I wanted them to choose too. TB: Right, right. And are there any other personal achievements you would like us to know about; awards, citations, personal bests, any special awards you got in your career? RS: Well, one thing, and I didn’t end up doing it, but I had a chance to go on an exchange program to Australia and teach for a year. It’s through the State Department and I did get elected to go but I changed my mind. My husband at that time, who also went to this school, was retired and there was a big fire in Australia going on at that time, therefore the school that I was supposed to go to, I couldn’t, so that meant we were way out and I was thinking of him while I was teaching, ‘what was he going to do?’ So I turned it down. Which probably I shouldn’t have but I did. TB: Now tell us a little about your experiences at Western. Where did you live? At home most of the time or did you …? RS: Yes, I did live at home. TB: Any favorite memories of that time? I know that you got very involved with social activities at Western. RS: Yes, I did and I loved every one of them, so much. It was fun. Being AWS President was a wonderful experience. TB: Ok, and then your advisor on that was Miss Pabst? RS: Miss Powell, she was not married, whom I kept in contact with until she passed away. She moved to California after she retired. I liked her very, very much. We bonded real well together. And then, I guess I was Princess one year and I enjoyed that experience. I was in the Who’s Who and I enjoyed that experience. I don’t remember all the other things. TB: Well, you were very involved in the Student Planning Board, Interclub Council… RS: And Homecoming, Interclub Council. Yes, I enjoyed, enjoyed every one of those activities. I guess that’s why I’m here today, still working on Western things. TB: Alright! Alright! Who were your favorite or most influential teachers and please tell us why? RS: I think I told you, earlier today, that Miss Elliot, who was a Campus School teacher, who I did some of my cadetting under, was very influential in helping me be a teacher like I wanted to be, also Dr. Murray, I thought he was fantastic, Miss Powell. There were numerous ones. TB: Well, then talk a little bit more about Miss Elliot. You told me earlier this morning about how she was such a great teacher. 2 Ruby (Johnson) Smith Edited Transcript – June 19th, 2004 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED RS: Oh, alright. It just so happened too that one of my best friends was also cadetting at the same time, in the same room with me, which made it real nice. Miss Elliot was very, very strict, but in a way that you loved her. I mean, she made us really have lesson plans, very, very explicit type lesson plans, but as soon as we got in front of the class she took them away from us and wanted us to have it in our head, not our eyes on the paper. And basically, one of the reasons why is [that] when you’re teaching, things don’t follow a pattern. Some child could ask a question or some child could change your whole way of teaching that particular subject. So, it was one of my best memory lessons. I felt like when I went out I didn’t have to have a lesson plan in front of me every day when I was teaching, and I didn’t because you can change so quickly from one type of teaching to another. TB: Ok, well what about Dr. Murray? RS: He was my history teacher and he was just so interesting because he always came up with so many stories that were beyond the book, that we always remembered. He also was very personable with his students. He loved to get to know them on a personal basis too. TB: And can you tell us a little bit more about Miss Powell? I mean, I know that she was dean of women and… RS: Well, I guess what I want to say about her: she was a very private lady but if you worked with her she became one of your best friends and she helped me so much with AWS and Interclub Council and all the other activities that I was involved in, and I just enjoyed her telling me what to do or giving me advice or if I felt I needed to go to someone, I always went to her. TB: That’s nice, nice. Your main course of study was obviously education. I don’t know what the majors were like then… RS: Well, actually, we had to have a major and I think my major was literature. I loved physical education. I like anything to do with sports, but, at that time, there wasn’t as many as there is now and so I had Physical Education as my minor, which I enjoyed because we had to teach PE in school anyway so, that was ok. I am a golfer now so, I guess, maybe that’s why I’m interested in sports. Love to watch the Mariners. TB: Ah, so you must have been involved in the Women’s Recreation Association? RS: A little bit but not on an intramural type program, just purely fun type things. TB: Which classes did you like best and/or were the most fun? RS: Oh my, that’d probably be my education courses. After my, you know, the freshman and the sophomore years your [taking] courses that you have to take and then when you get into your field, I would say, my education courses. TB: OK, and what activities did you enjoy the most? RS: I loved them all. I really did. I enjoyed every one of those activities that I was involved in. TB: When I was a student at least on campus it seemed to me if you lived off campus it was a little bit harder to be involved, but it seems like you were involved… RS: You have to remember that we had less students here at that time, too. It was kind of interesting experience when my class came on campus, which was ’47. We were coming on when all the vets were coming back, so, I mean, there were tons of men here. But it didn’t bother us, of course, it was just, there was a lot of them. And everybody got to know each other because there wasn’t as many students, naturally, 3 Ruby (Johnson) Smith Edited Transcript – June 19th, 2004 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED at that time, so I think whether you lived on campus or off campus it didn’t matter as long as you had the desire to be involved. TB: Western changed a lot in the years you were here... RS: Oh, yes. TB: Lots of construction going on… RS: Not really. Not as much as after we left. TB: That’s true but the Music-Auditorium Building… RS: Yes, we were the first class to graduate in the new auditorium and that was nice because my husband, who also graduated from here, graduated in Old Main. TB: Did you guys march from Old Main over to the new building, the [Music-Auditorium]? RS: Well, I know we went back because they put bricks out in the front of the Old Main that we put our cards in. I don’t remember if we marched from Old Main over or not, I don’t remember that, but I do know we went over afterwards and dropped our cards in where our year [was]. TB: Do you have any other outstanding memories of your college days? RS: I loved it. I wouldn’t be here today if I didn’t enjoy Western. It’s a very special, very special place. Lots of my friends that are here for this weekend; that’s one of the reasons I come back. It is a little harder for me now because my husband died five years ago. He was on the Foundation here at one time; so he was very active on campus too and loved Western and was involved in sports. But I just made up my mind, I wanted to continue. So I did. TB: So have you had a strong tie with Western then, all this time since you graduated? RS: More or less, more or less. We used to come to Homecomings and there were years, of course, when I was so busy or he was so busy we that didn’t come back because we didn’t have the time, with children and so forth, but now that that’s in the past, it’s time to do it again. TB: Well, is there anything else I didn’t ask you that you would like to comment on? RS: No, [not] other than today, we had a very nice walk around the campus. It is beautiful. I love how they’ve left the grass like it was when we were here. I love your new sports, you know, the recreation center. It’s lovely. We were really impressed with that. I was impressed this morning at the brunch with Dr. Morse’s speech. I thought it was wonderful. I just, like it! TB: Tell us a little bit about, though, when you were here, Dr. Haggard? RS: Oh, he was neat. He knew every one of us by name. We’d walk down the hall and he’d say our name. He was just a very down-to-earth, strict, very strict, but that’s ok, we honored that. He was also a very friendly, fun person to talk to but he knew how to run a school too. TB: When he was strict was it in things that he said or you just, sort of knew … RS: Dress codes. I didn’t get in any trouble so I can’t say. TB: Well, some people can just do it with a look, you know, and some people can… 4 Ruby (Johnson) Smith Edited Transcript – June 19th, 2004 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED RS: Yes, that’s right, that’s right! While we would walk down the hall and, ‘Oh, here comes Dr. Haggard!’ You know that kind of thing. TB: Right. Ok. RS: But it was more of a respect than fear. TB: Ok, well... RS: That’s it? TB: Yes … if you don’t have anything more to say. RS: Good. No, it was just a great, great experience to be here. TB: OK. Well, thank you very much. RS: You’re welcome. 5 Ruby (Johnson) Smith Edited Transcript – June 19th, 2004 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Warren Beecroft interview--September 6, 2005 Warren Beecroft is an alumni of WWU, Class of 1947. SCOHP_BeecroftWarrern_20050906 Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections Oral History Program Warren Beecroft ATTENTION: © Copyright Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. "Fair use" Show moreWestern Washington University Libraries Special Collections Oral History Program Warren Beecroft ATTENTION: © Copyright Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. "Fair use" criteria of Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 must be followed. The following materials can be used for educational and other noncommercial purposes without the written permission of Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. These materials are not to be used for resale or commercial purposes without written authorization from Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. All materials cited must be attributed to Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. This interview was conducted with Warren Beecroft at his home in Sumner, Washington on September 6th, 2005. The interviewer is Tamara Belts. His wife, Juanita Beecroft is also present and makes some comments. TB: My name is Tamara Belts and I‟m down in Sumner with Warren Beecroft and we are about to do an oral history. He did sign the Informed Consent Agreement. We are about to proceed. How did you choose to attend Western? WB: Nobody in our family tree had ever gone to college. I‟m talking about grandparents and all that kind of stuff. Somehow I decided that I was going be the first one. At that time I lived up in Canada, in Burnaby. My mother remarried and now I‟m living in Blaine. Now it becomes more possible because in Canada I couldn‟t figure out how I would ever get to a college or university because you had to be on a higher economic level. But when I‟m in Blaine and they tell me things about the great American system, I believed I could go to a university or college. It‟s up to me to figure out how to do it. At that time (I graduated [from high school] in 1939) I hadn‟t firmed things up yet, I just [took the] general course. Now I‟m out and the doors close behind me, in a sense, and I don‟t have anything, I can‟t do anything. I talked to a few people and they said, “Why don‟t you go back to school and take commercial [education]? If you think about Blaine, there‟s no Boeing, no Weyerhaeuser, [so] I went back to Blaine High School for a year and I took shorthand, typing and bookkeeping. People knew me I guess as a good, hard-working kid because I worked in the only drug store in Blaine for years. Then I worked in the only theater in Blaine, and I worked out at Birch Bay in the summers. When it came to delivering papers out at Birch Bay, the paper companies came to me. People kept saying, “How come you have all these jobs and nobody else does? I didn‟t do anything except do what I was told to do and do it well, I guess. By now I‟m sure that I have to get out of Blaine. The only way out of Blaine is I have to have a college degree or something. Technical school and all that stuff is beyond me because I guess I‟m just not mechanically geared. Anyway, I‟m working at the drugstore, in Blaine, and the druggist gets sick and a relief druggist comes [in]. We get talking and jokingly I say to him – now this is why you should always take advantage of an opening in a conversation to plant your seed – “You get around Bellingham a lot. Any druggists down there need a boy to clean up a drugstore for board and room or something like that?” He said, “I don‟t know, I‟ll find out.” Months go by and one day – and we don‟t even have a phone in our house, this is 1940 – the neighbor comes over and says, “Warren there‟s a man on the phone who would like to talk to you." I go over and here‟s this druggist and he says, “Hey Warren, I found a druggist who needs somebody to clean out his drugstore.” Okay, fine. To make a long story short, I end up going down there to Owens Drug in Bellingham. That summer (1940) I‟m working out at Birch Bay at the resort, the big old resort that used to be there. I don‟t know if you remember that skating rink, Shore Acres was the name of it. Part of my work was the 1 Warren Beecroft Edited Transcript – September 6, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED same thing, board and room. One day at breakfast to the cook I said, “Where can I find a place to live cheaply in Bellingham?” She said, “What do you mean?” Well I wanted to go to Western but I don‟t have any place to live. She said, “Well, my boy is going to Washington State this fall; if you want, you can have his room.” But she said, “I can‟t do any cooking. You‟d have a place to sleep, period. You have to do your own laundry and everything else.” Holy smokes! Great! That‟s where I lived [in 1940]. My job in the drugstore is at 701 West Holly, (Owen‟s Drug) right up from the old railroad depot. I sleep at the cook‟s apartment up in the middle of town. That darned college is a mile up on the hill yet! I didn‟t have any transportation and not enough money or connections to [take the] bus. I must have walked 2,000 miles over that crazy city for all those different things! Finally, I ran out of gas. The end of the first quarter was coming; here I am just a dumb country kid, a freshman, overwhelmed by this campus. All the stuff that‟s going on, all of it‟s over my head. The whole social pattern, the instructor would be a doctor. The only doctors I ever knew pulled teeth or put arms together or something. And now I got a doctor who talks to me. Well, he doesn‟t talk to me, he talks at me. All this big world, it hit me. I finally decided well, at least I tried. I go down to work [at] the drugstore. Mr. Owens, the druggist, is a real nice guy. I say, “Mr. Owens, I have to quit.” He says, “What‟s wrong? Is something wrong with the job?” “No, I just can‟t go from sleep, to the school to where I work and back to where I sleep. I don‟t have any time to study or do anything.” He said, “You promise me something: You stay here until I get back from dinner.” Okay, fine. He goes away at his regular time, six o‟clock to eat. He comes back about seven and he says, “Warren, I want to talk to you.” He said, “You have a place to live.” I said, “Who with? He said, “Me.” I was so flabbergasted. To make a long story short, that‟s what I did. I moved in with Mr. and Mrs. Owens. Now remember, I started work there at two bits an hour. That would have gotten me through Western as long as I kept my job in the summer at Shore Acres. I think my enrollment fee the first quarter was sixteen bucks. Weeks pass and Mr. Owens says, “Warren, when are you going to turn your time in?” I said, “I thought you said I‟m working for my board and room.” He said, “Yeah, but you‟ve got to have some spending money. Didn‟t I tell you, it‟s board and room and twenty five cents an hour.” So now I‟m the richest kid in town! That‟s how I got to Western. I didn‟t intend to be a teacher. Not because there‟s anything wrong with being a teacher. But teachers were smart people, and I never made an honor roll in Blaine! I think there are only fifty, sixty kids in the senior class. I found out later it‟s because I didn‟t try. School didn‟t mean much to me. I was an old farm kid or outdoor kid; plants and animals and those kinds of things. Also knowing me as a human being, I‟m not sure yet if I‟m any good. I don‟t mean it quite that way -- good enough or something. At that time you could sign up to be a degree student or a non-degree student. A nondegree student could take anything they wanted and at the end of four years, maybe you had nothing. Or you could come together and become a lawyer or something like that. That‟s why I chose education, because then somebody told me this is what you will take. I‟m on my way, and now I fit into the pattern. I needed an English credit for some reason. Somebody said, “Why don‟t you take journalism, that‟s an easy one.” I do, and I like it. I got the cub reporter award. Up until then, I had never done anything in school. I had turned out for track and football, but nothing in this other world. All of a sudden, people are saying, “Gee, you write some good stuff.” So I sign up now for journalism. But now (1941) the war has come along and another world starts. I‟ve thought about this thousands of times. We don‟t realize what tremendous pressure is put on us all the time by others and the system by what is happening. Anyway, the war hits. The thing to do [is to] defend your country. And good guys do this. A lot of the kids, the very first thing, they dropped their school, no matter where they were, and off they go. Others were more cautious. They finished the quarter and then they went. Everybody went through a system of signing up for something. Well they had the draft just before that. I sign up like people do and I get my card back and it‟s marked 4C. I knew what a 4F was, that had been a joke, “Be glad you‟re 4F.” [But I would have to say], “I‟m a 4C.” They would say, “What is that?” I‟d say, “I don‟t know.” Finally, after a couple of weeks of this, I went down to the draft board and I said, “I got this card, it just says 4C. What‟s that?” He said, “Oh, you‟re a friendly alien.” 2 Warren Beecroft Edited Transcript – September 6, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TB: Oh, because you‟re Canadian! WB: I was born in Canada, see, and hadn‟t become a citizen yet. I said the same thing. “What do you mean an alien?” I‟d heard they were things that were up in the air. I said, “What happens?” He said, “Nothing. Unless we get in a goddamn mess, they‟ll never need you.” Okay. Well, that‟s embarrassing, but at least I know where I am. But now the pressure of others starts on you. I‟m out at Shore Acres and hundreds of people come by and say, “Hey Beecroft! How come you‟re not in the service?” or “When are you going into the service?” Either way I have to explain this damn 4C thing. Everybody would laugh and say, “Beecroft! You‟re a friendly alien!” Finally, after about a year of this „I‟m a 4C – a friendly alien!‟ I go back down to the draft board and tell them I‟m going back to Canada. This is something so dumb now, but that‟s the way it was. They said, “You can‟t. If you go back to Canada, you can‟t ever come back to the United States.” I said, “Why not?” They said, “Because you avoided the draft.” I said, “Well, you‟re not going to take me! How can I avoid it? He said, “That‟s the way the law is. Do you want to go?” I said, “No, I don‟t want to go, but I don‟t want to be like this.” He said, “We‟ll change it.” That‟s fall quarter of 1941. Shoot, I‟m in Fort Lewis in the first week in January in 1942! They changed my classification to 1A! TB: So you actually had to sign up for the draft even before the Japanese [attack] because that isn‟t until 1941, right? Because of the war in Europe, they knew it was coming. WB: Yes. In the old Bellingham Herald, it‟s still there I guess. They published the first ten names drawn in Whatcom County for the draft. It‟s on the front page somewhere -- ten from the city, ten from the county. Guess who‟s in [the] ten from the county? Me. So everybody saw this. Anybody who knew me knew that I was one of the first draftees. Then they see me six months or a year later, so now I‟m either 4F (something‟s wrong with me) – nobody dreamed of the friendly alien stuff – or I‟m a draft dodger of some sort, some religious [objection] or something. That was the end of my career at Western for quite a long time. Uncle Sam first, Western second! Now I‟m in the service (December 1941). I came in [on] the draft. It‟s out of my control. [I] have no choice of what I want to be in. Fort Lewis is full, so they send me, of all places, to Atlantic City. I think, “Is this the way the army works? I live in Blaine, I report to an army base 60 miles away, and they ship me 2,000 miles away to learn my left foot from my right foot!” Any way I‟m back there and because of my work with the Klipsun and the Collegian I thought, the Army does this kind of stuff. I found out that Signal Corps does that. I went through the channels to see if I could be transferred to the Signal Corps and if [I] did what division of the Signal Corps. No thought, no nothing, just glamour -- aerial photography. You get to go up and fly around airplanes and take pictures. It‟s kind of neat. You don‟t have to crawl in mud. It‟s kind of dingbat thinking. [But] I do, I get transferred to aviation photography and I‟m going to go to Denver but there‟s a long waiting line. Ok, Atlantic City still -- wait, wait, wait. The army came in and took the hotels and everything. The stores all closed; the army had everything. What the army wanted was an island, strictly military. They could house troops, feed troups, and march them on the sand. The army said that storekeepers could come back and civilians could come onto the island on Saturdays and Sunday. Spring 1942, sure enough, here one Sunday I‟m walking down the old boardwalk. I haven‟t even talked to a girl now for six or eight months or something. Here‟s a girl, leaning on the rail looking out at the ocean. I just wanted to talk to her. I go up and she talked to me and that kind of stuff, but it‟s late in the day and civilians have to be off by five o‟clock or four o‟clock or some dumb thing, so we make a date for next Saturday. Here comes next Saturday and who gets KP (kitchen police)? Me. The only way I can get off is sick call, that‟s one way, or take the aviation cadet exam. I decided a sick call won‟t work because I‟m not sick. The sick call is usually first thing in the morning and now it‟s 8 o‟clock or something so I missed sick 3 Warren Beecroft Edited Transcript – September 6, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED call, that‟s out. The cadet exam is mental. The first is mental. That only takes a couple of hours. This is how the simplest dumb thing can change your life. All I wanted to do was talk to a girl. So I decided to take the cadet exam. Whether I passed it or not didn‟t matter. I just wanted out of this thing. So I take it, but then the pride comes. If they give you ten questions, you try to answer ten of them any way you can. But this is page after page after page. I decided by golly, I‟m going to answer every one of these the best way I could. So I did. Handed the thing in, and went on the little date. In the middle of the week on the bulletin board, I come in and people are saying, “Hey, Beecroft! Congratulations!” I said, “What happened?” They said, “You passed that exam!” “Holy cats!” I didn‟t think about that. Now what happens? Now you have to take the physical. I thought, “Oh, I‟ll get washed out on that because all these aviators are super people in the movies and stuff.” I go take the physical. They should have movies of these things, how it really was. Here we‟re in a hotel, strictly military, there must be a hundred guys standing there stark naked in a line, waiting for their color blind check. That was their first check. (I still want to go back to that old hotel and sit in that lobby and say, “Wow, I was here with that whole row for a quarter of a mile, of guys standing there naked.”) So we go all through that stuff. Same thing, they post the ones who pass, and it‟s me. I wanted to pass, but I didn‟t want to fly. Here I am, I‟ve passed everything and I‟m a cadet. They ship me off from Atlantic City to Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. The train is full of these nuts that want to fly airplanes. All they do is talk about airplanes and I don‟t know the front end from the back end. A group of cadets went to Butler University in 1942. And my wife Juanita and I went back to Butler in the [1980‟s]. Of course, when I was there it had to be ‟42 or ‟43. It was just a pretty, old college in the trees. When we went back, the campus was ten times bigger I guess. I had to go into the office and tell them who I was. Not that it made any difference but I just had to come back.They asked me a thousand questions about where I‟d gone from here. It was kind of nice. TB: At Butler, part of that was your air training? WB: Yes. The reason to go to Butler or any of those types of universities was to brush up on condensed courses in math, astronomy, psychology, and military discipline. TB: So like ROTC? WB: Yes, it probably would be a lot like that. The only thing they added was ten hours of flight training in a two-winged trainer plane. I had never even been near an airplane in my life. I knew I was going to fly and that was kind of exciting. I‟d seen them up in the sky. Come my day out there, I‟m petrified. Not terrified, just petrified because I have no idea what‟s going to happen. All you do is follow instructions and the instructor said, “Cadet Beecroft! Pick up parachute and go to hardstand #8. Go to the left, and it‟s plane number six. Stand there. Wait for your instructions. If you have time, inspect the plane.” How can you inspect an airplane!?! You don‟t know what to look for! This parachute, I didn‟t know they looked like that. I‟d never seen one. It‟s got one of these harness things. It did say, “Fold your parachute at your feet.” It‟s like you do anything with a bunch of string. I kept working on trying to fold in and hide the strings. I‟m standing there and here comes my instructor. Everything you do with cadets is stiff attention. When he comes close I have to “pop to” and make my heels click and stand at attention. He walks up to me. “Are you Cadet Beecroft?” “Yes sir.” “Have you inspected the airplane?” I haven‟t but I‟m supposed to have, so I say, “Yes, sir.” “Is it ready to fly?” (I don‟t know) “Yes, sir.” “Get aboard.” “How many hours have you had?” “None.” He said, “None? What the hell are you doing in the God damn Air Force?” I don‟t know what I‟m doing here! I get in the plane and up we go. I never knew a plane made that much noise; I didn‟t know they shook. It‟s an old two-wing thing, two seats. We‟re going down the runway and I‟d never gone that fast in my life! 4 Warren Beecroft Edited Transcript – September 6, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Fifty miles an hour was about the best I ever got. Now I‟m going faster (I don‟t know how fast, but sure as heck fast). The ground was going by [very fast]. The wings, it‟s like a bird. The wings are flapping! Not really, but they are vibrating. I think, “This is my Air Force!” Anyway, we go up and he has things he has to do. “Ok, we‟re going to make a left turn.” So we turn. “Did you feel it?” “Yes, sir.” “We‟re going to make a right turn.” “Feel it?” “Yes, sir.” “We‟re going to climb.” “Feel it?” “Yes, sir.” “We‟re going to dive. “Feel it?” “Yes, sir.” Then he says, “Put your left foot on the left peddle. Put your right foot on the right peddle.” I‟m going to learn to fly now. “Put your left hand on the lower part of the handle, the leather handle. Put your right hand on top. Got it?” “Yes, sir.” “Ok, it‟s all yours, you‟re flying it.” Holy cats! I don‟t know what to do. I‟m just doing this. It‟s ok the way it was. He says finally, “Ok, great. Do something.” Of course, I‟d read books on how you do this kind of stuff, but I‟d never done it. I go (motions) and plane goes (noise). He says, “Brilliant, brilliant. Do something else.” I go (noise) and it does the same thing. He says, “Haven‟t you flown before?” “No, sir.” This is what I‟ve used in teaching, to teach teachers or beginning teachers. You don‟t humiliate or degrade the learner. He said, “Jesus Christ! I get all the God damn hayseeds! When you fly an airplane, it‟s like this!” Holy cats! He put that thing up until it stalled and it fell down, and he turned it and rolled it over. I decided then, that‟s it. This is not what I‟m going to do. I don‟t know what else I‟m doing to do. I thought, how many times has a teacher said something to a student that cut them off and didn‟t know it and wonder why this kid quit, bailed out, and went to remedial school and all of the things they do. Anyway to make a long story short, that‟s it. Then I went through the training system, took all the tests. TB: So you did stay in the Air Force? WB: Yes, I stayed in. TB: How did you get from the Army to the Air Force? WB: Now I‟m in Texas and I go through this final advanced testing, all kinds of stuff. Then I have to record from one to ten what I want to be: pilot, navigator, bombardier. I thought navigator would be ok, but I‟m not sure I know enough about maps and all that stuff. But I saw a movie on a Norden bombsite, and the guy was carrying something in a sack and two guards were escorting him. I put pilot at four and navigator maybe five and bombardier ten! That‟s how I ended up going through bombardier training in B-17s and over to England. TB: So were you actually in the Air Force or were you in the flying wing of the Army? WB: When I first went in, that‟s where it changed. It was the Army Air Force. But while I was in it, it became just the Air Force. Then the war‟s over (Summer 1945) and I come back and of course by now I know I‟m going back to Western. I get back in what did you say it was? October? In the middle of a quarter. So I have to wait until the end of the next quarter. Some of the credits I took at Butler and some of them in the service, they took the place of some of the required courses. I remember old Dr. Ross talking to me and saying, “Warren, you took a short cut through Western!” I said, “What do you mean?” He said, “Shoot, we can give you credit for this, and this, and this and you can get out of here in a little over a year -- if you stay in education.” I thought, “Well, I still don‟t know anything about teaching but I want a job and that‟s good enough for me. People teach, so I can teach.” By now, I know that I can do anything. It might take me a little longer, but I‟m not afraid to try anything. I‟ll try this teaching stuff. I do this and Dr. Ross called me in after a couple of quarters, up to the last quarter. He said, “Warren, we‟ve got a problem. You‟re short a three hour course and it‟s not taught until the quarter after this. We can‟t substitute, it‟s the state law.” He said, “What do you think you are going to do?” I said, “I don‟t know. I might go to California because that‟s where my folks are.” I‟m trying to get a job. Where are the jobs? The big market is California, but I don‟t want to go there. He said, “Well you know, we got a new doctor, he came from Stanford and he‟s a real nice young guy and he‟s in that 5 Warren Beecroft Edited Transcript – September 6, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED department. Why don‟t you go talk to him and see if somehow you guys can‟t work out a conference course. I can‟t do anything about it. It will have to be you two.” So I did go and see this guy. I told him the problem and he said, “Where do you eat your lunch?” I said, “Well, I‟m a brown bagger.” He said, “So am I. Why don‟t you bring your brown bag up here on like Monday, Wednesday and Friday and we‟ll have lunch together and we‟ll have Ed. 306 (or something).” I‟m flabbergasted. So I do that and get through the course. He says, “Now what are you going to do?” He had come from Stanford. I said, “Well you know, my folks live down in San Jose. I haven‟t seen them in two year. How about getting me into Stanford?” I just said this, see. He said, “You want to go?” I was kind of amazed and I said, “Yes, yes I sure do.” He said, “Well, I don‟t promise you anything but I‟ll see what can happen.” Ten days later (Fall quarter 1947) I get a thing from Stanford. I end up filling the thing out and I end up in Stanford graduate school in education. The only thing I made a mistake there was I went two quarters and school was easier for me at Stanford than it was at Western! I don‟t know if that was where I got super motivated or whatever. I mean, it wasn‟t “ha-ha” easy. I‟ve been told all kinds of things about Stanford. I had my thesis ok-ed. Then I got thinking, here I am, the only teaching I‟ve done is student teaching one quarter and I‟m supposed to get it. If I take this third quarter and finish my thesis, I got my masters in education and I‟ve never taught. And yet the papers going to say I‟m an expert. I decided, like a dumbbell, to go back to Washington. I didn‟t want to teach in California. I could have taught in Palo Alto but it just wasn‟t my place. I‟d find out I guess first if I could teach or even wanted to. The only thing that happened is that after about ten or fifteen years, I think it was Dr. Walker in Sedro Woolley, he said, “Warren, if you‟re going to go anywhere in education, you better get that master‟s degree.” I didn‟t intend to go anywhere but he‟s the boss, so I went up to Western and transferred what credits they would give me from Stanford to Western. TB: Oh, you didn‟t complete your degree at Stanford? WB: No. That‟s bothered me at times, to be that naïve or whatever the word would be. TB: You took a bunch of classes there but you didn‟t complete your degree. WB: Yes; [I went spring and summer quarter, 1947]. And the hard thing was, there were three guys from Washington, both later went on, one became an assistant superintendent in Tacoma, Joel Lasoy (with their master‟s degree out of Stanford) and the other was at Washington State. Shoot, both of them are dead, too. That‟s what happens when you get to be superintendent I guess. If I had a degree in administration from Stanford, I should be pretty good in the field. I came back to Washington, taught elementary, became a principal and about ten years later started my MA program over again. I went up to see old Dr. Ross again. I told him my woes. “No problem. We‟ll see what we can transfer.” Of course I had to go summers. That was it as far as [my] Western story. The only other thing I did (this was while I was a student, during World War II), I became the yearbook sports editor of Klipsun, Western‟s yearbook or annual. At the very end, co-editor of The Collegian, but that‟s a dirty trick because two of us signed up to co-edit the thing and in the sequence of going there, I transferred to Stanford in the middle of the year and left old Monty Jones; he had to finish the year as editor. TB: I wanted to know a bit more about that. Tell me about Ruth Burnet. WB: Old Ruth, who was at that time the advisor of The Collegian. She was a real nice lady. Did you ever see her? Oh, you weren‟t there. TB: I‟m meeting her daughter on Friday. 6 Warren Beecroft Edited Transcript – September 6, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED WB: She‟s a tall, (this is man talk, I guess) boney woman. But at the same time, she was nice looking. She‟s not a beautiful woman, but nice looking. When she talked to you, she‟d always end up way (illustrates: left arm crossed to right elbow and right hand on chin). It wouldn‟t matter if it was on the table or she was standing up, it would be this way. TB: Oh, she would always put her hand on her chin. WB: And this would be going (motions). And the faster this went, the more trouble you were in! That was the worst signal. Anyway, I took the beginning news writing thing and I did what she told me to. She‟s the one that said, “You know Warren, you got a natural talent to write this kind of stuff.” And she told me about different things. Of course, that was a lot of encouragement. I worked (they call it “work”) hard at it, because I enjoyed it, I guess. Then they had the Collegian banquet. I don‟t know if they still do, but they did. Every year that was a big thing. And they gave out awards. I‟m there as a cub, and Mrs. Burnett says, “And the cub reporter award [goes to] Warren Beecroft.” Holy cats, I about had a fit! I had never had such a high rank in my life. After that she was my favorite person I guess. [In 1942] I got her in trouble a couple of times. Once as the sports editor when a famous Western athlete, a basketball player came up; I was typing one night up in the old Collegian room. In comes this guy and he says, “Warren, I‟ve got to tell you something and you can put it in your paper, people ought to know this.” [He tells me the story about] another athlete -- a spoiled-brat kind of athlete. They have to carry ten members on the team but he never makes the ten. But he gets to all the games in his own car. He has a sports car. This kid goes to Mr. Lappenbusch, he was the basketball coach then – and says to him, “Lappy, I go to all these games on my own and you‟ve let me play a couple of minutes every once in a while. I think I should be able to earn a letter or something.” And of course this star basketball player on the sweeping beat is furious because you don‟t do it that way. I said to him, “I can‟t write that. You saw it. If you want to put it in the paper, you write it, you mark it „Letting off Steam.‟ You mark it 12Ms, that‟s a single column.” The sports column was 22 Ms. I said, “It doesn‟t mean it will be printed because the „Letting Off Steam” column is the cushion, ok.” (If you are trying to fill the paper, there‟s always the “Letting Off Steam” column you can put in). [Then] I had to leave for some reason. That means that was a Thursday night. I‟m sports editor now. There‟s lots of work that goes on to put on the page but I don‟t do that dirty work anymore. I got cub reporters working for me and all this kind of stuff. It sounds dumb to explain it. All I worry about is getting that God damned paper out and “do this, do this, do this.” I have to get to class and I‟m pressing all the time to get this done. Out comes the first paper off the press, I grab it, fold it up, run and catch the bus. I must have had to go somewhere else -- whatever I did. I don‟t know what it was but there was a space of time (maybe I had to go to the dentist). [Finally] I take the bus up to the college and start to walk on to the campus and two or three people say to me “Hey Beecroft! A lot of fire on that sports page! Looks good!” “Oh, thanks.” Somebody else says it. “Oh, thanks.” I go to class, go down to the Collegian office to see what‟s happening. Here on the bulletin board in great big letters: “Beecroft – call Ma immediately.” That‟s what everybody called her, Ma Burnett. I thought, “That‟s funny.” I dial away. “Mrs. Burnett, this is Warren Beecroft.” “Warren! What in the world did you do?” (I haven‟t done anything.) I said, “What did I do?” She said, “Your paper! That article in your column! Dr. Haggard has called, Mr. Lappenbusch has called. Lappenbusch wants you kicked out of school! Don‟t you have a copy?” I said, “Yes.” “Haven‟t you read it?” I said, “I haven‟t had time.” She says, “Read your column.” I know I didn‟t do anything in my column that would do this. I open the page, 22M. My column‟s name is “On the Sideline.” Halfway down that column is a sub-heading, “Letting Off Steam.” There is that letter! I thought, “Holy crap! It says all the things that guy had told me, this kid went to “Lappy” and whined and cried and “Lappy” was going to give in and the writer thought that this was a cowardly type of behavior for a coach -- terrible letter. I said, “Mrs. Burnett, I didn‟t write that.” She said, “Who did?” I said, “It‟s in the 7 Warren Beecroft Edited Transcript – September 6, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED file.” I don‟t know what I want to do with it. Maybe I want to get it out of the file. At least it‟s in the file. It‟s safe. She said, “Well, ok. That‟s ok. I‟ll read it.” That‟s the way that part ends. But ten minutes later, in comes the editor of the paper, Eric Phillips. He says, “Jesus Christ, Beecroft! What in hell did you do?” He goes through the whole thing again. I said, “I didn‟t do it!” I told him who did it and how it was done. He said, “Lappenbusch is a raving maniac. We have to go over and explain it to him.” I said, “Yes, but the problem is, it says in the rules and regulations of The Collegian that a person can write a „Letting Off Steam‟ letter and the writer will never be exposed.” And here it‟s his star basketball player who wrote this! So anyway, of course I tell Phillips and he says, “Yes, that‟s going to be a problem. That‟s what we have to go by. How we get by it is going to be the problem. I‟ll go with you.” So we go over to the gym and at that time Lappy‟s class was above the old swimming pool. (I haven‟t been in that building, I don‟t know if it‟s still there). That was his room. We‟re sitting down in the boys‟ dressing room on a bench and in come these kids going from his class going to the can, see. Every one of them says, “Holy cats, that Lappenbusch, [he keeps saying], “I‟ll get that Beecroft!” Holy cats! Class is over. All these guys go by, and they all give me the signal. Sure enough, here comes Lappy. We‟ve told somebody that we‟re waiting down there, so he knows we‟re there. He‟s a big man anyway, he‟s a football player – had been. I‟m the sports editor! I‟ve talked to him every week for a year or two. Here old Phillips and I are standing side-byside. “Which one of you guys is Phillips?” To me he says, “Hello. Who is this God damned Beecroft?” “I‟m Beecroft.” “You?” I tell him I didn‟t write it. Then he said, “Then I want the name of the guy who wrote it.” I said “Lappy, I can‟t do that. The policy of the paper is that a person can write a letter to the editor but the writer does not have to be disclosed.” And then Phillips says that. Lappy says (looking right down my nose), “All right I‟m going to tell you something. Every word that goes in your page comes to my office first.” I said, “Every article?” “Yes. Every article on that sports page comes to me first and I‟ll check it ok, and then you can put it in your God damned paper.” Ok. I go back to the journalism class -- beginning journalism. I said, “You all need writing experience. I want every tiddlywinks score, any game that has a score. I want the name of the participants, the score and something about the game. It doesn‟t have to be any more than 25 or 50 words. It can be as long as you want. I want them in for the paper.” Sure enough, in comes page after page of every baseball, every intramural, every inter-house game, any game that has a score to it. I tell the editor what I‟m going to do. He said, “Are you looking for trouble?” I said, “No, I‟m doing what he told me to do. It‟s so ridiculous.” So in it goes and here comes the paper. Oh, then I made the cub reporters write headlines for them, too. I wanted lively headlines. “Cats skin the Squirrels” or something. They do it. That goes on for a couple of weeks. Finally I get a notice on the journalism bulletin board again: “Beecroft, go see Lappy.” I said, “Uhoh. Here it is. It‟s all or nothing.” I go in there. He says, “Beecroft, sit down.” He said, “I think you‟ve had time to learn your lesson, right?” “Yes.” “Ok. I don‟t want to see anymore of these.” So that‟s how it ended. The guy that wrote the letter became the superintendent of Mukilteo. He‟s dead now. Ernie Ludwig. I saw him years later and told him. He said, “Did I write that letter?” I said, “Yes, boy, you were mad!” He said, “I remember the thing, but I wasn‟t a very good writer.” I said, “Well, you did enough that day!” Anyway, the only other thing, in the old Klipsun, whatever year … You always see these football pages that have little squares and the players in all of them. I thought there must be another way. I came up with the idea of a checkerboard. He‟s in Bellingham still -- Moose Zurline. Moose at that time was a quarterback. I took a picture of him just sitting like this with his hands out. Then I put the ball players like he was the master player. It was a big sensation. TB: That is pretty cool. WB: Anyway, that‟s my contribution to yellow journalism. TB: You wrote another story about the library -- getting the lights in the library. WB: Oh, that was before the war, yes. 8 Warren Beecroft Edited Transcript – September 6, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED End Tape One Side Two -- Start of Tape Two Side One WB: I don‟t know how the “lights in the library” started. I didn‟t start with the idea of tearing the world apart or anything like that. I started with the idea of doing what I thought I had learned in journalism, and that is that if you have any criticism of a governmental function of some sort, get your data straight. I went back to the Collegian files and spent hours filing through [those]. The only guideline was when the Western Board [of trustees] met. [I had the dates of their meetings]. I didn‟t look at any other stuff. Of course they didn‟t do anything except [shuffle paper]. Years before, somebody had decided that they needed better lights in the library. So the Board [took] action. Six months or a year later, the Board considers the lights in the library again. “We‟re going to do this! We‟re going to do this!” I had all that down; the Board meeting, the date and what they said. What I‟ve got then is a history that they‟ve said and voted on doing things but it never got done or what they started to do never got finished. I got all my data, wrote my evaluation of the situation. A good piece of journalism should have a picture. Now I‟m trying to think, “How the hell do you take a picture of a library?” I can‟t go in there and take a picture of the lights! Then I remembered a Klipsun that had a picture of the lights showing out. I remember that, see, and I went to Ma – Mrs. Burnet – and I said, “Where would that plate be?” She said, “All the plates go to the Bellingham Herald.” She said, “That was several years ago, it‟s probably gone by now.” I said, “Is it all right if I go look for it?” She said, “Good luck if you can find it.” So I did, but I didn‟t tell her what I wanted it for I don‟t think. I didn‟t mean not to – [just] my young mind, I guess. I was so involved with the job I was going to do. Somebody said, “You can get kicked out of school.” At that moment, I said, “I don‟t care this is what I‟m doing.” Anyway, I go down to the Herald and go to the person in charge of that department and tell him [what I need]. He said, “Sure, you‟re welcome to it Warren. But I don‟t know if [you‟ll find it] it‟sa mess. I‟ll show you where it is.” He goes down somewhere with me and takes me to a door and opens it. Holy crap! Here‟s like a big ten by twelve [foot] room with plates just thrown in there, piled six or eight feet high. He said, “It‟s there, and if you can find it, you can have.” I‟m shocked! There are thousands of plates! Then again, I‟ve got a job to do. At least I‟m going to look for it. I did and after an hour or two, I found it. And I showed it to him, and he said, “Yes, take it, you‟re lucky.” Now I take it down to Cox Brothers, who at that time printed the Collegian. They said, “Yeah, sure, we can run that.” Old man Cox, of course, he‟d read the print, he said, “You sure you want to run it this way? You could get kicked out of school.” I said, “I didn‟t do anything. All I did was put on one piece of paper all the things the board has done up until today; and then I‟ve said they haven‟t done it. [I‟m just trying] to make them come to attention [on] this thing.” So it‟s the front page editorial, and there‟s this big, ugly black picture. He ran it. Holy cats; same thing -“Beecroft! Call Ma!” She said, “Warren, for heaven‟s sake. What did you do? Dr. Haggard called and he‟s so upset. He‟s been called by four board members already.” I told her, “I haven‟t done anything wrong. All I did was put the minutes that have been printed every time on one piece of paper at one time.” The only thing that was wrong was it showed the library as it was at night. I remember the word “looms” was in there somewhere -“Library still looms” or something. [Shortly after they put some lights in]. Whatever the first bunch of lights they put in, they were terrible. They were bright enough, it improved the light, but they didn‟t match. They were ugly to me. It was an antique building and it had twentieth century light fixtures hanging in the main [room]. Anyway, it wasn‟t that important. That‟s my library experience. TB: Do you have any specific memories about the Campus School when you did your student teaching? WB’s wife: Yes, he got the measles and everything else that was there! WB: Yes, all those “diseased kids.” That‟s the other thing. I‟m still trying to decide if I want to teach or not (it‟s a little too late) – but my first experiences as a student teacher I catch the measles from one of these 9 Warren Beecroft Edited Transcript – September 6, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED “dirty little kids!” (Laughs). I remember the old doc says, “Haven‟t you ever had the measles?” I said, “I don‟t know. Nobody ever told me.” But the one that got me most, Miss?? -- an old lady, white hair -- and you called her “Miss,” boy! She was cranky with adults. With kids, it was almost like you pushed a button; with kids, she just flowed. With adults, if she had the authority, you knew it. Now I‟m going to do my first day of student teaching in the Campus School in her room. Everybody laughs because I get stuck with her. TB: What grade were you student teaching? WB: It was a primary one. Two things happened in there that got me. This is the very first day. I‟d been in the service and I‟d worn dull clothing all that life. This sounds crazy, but I bet if you could have asked any man what color tie are you going to buy when you get out, it would be red. We were just so tired of these darned brownish green things if you are in the service. Sure enough, I start to buy my civilian clothes. I have to have a bright tie. I don‟t care -- it just has to be bright -- I‟m a civilian, see my tie! I know its reddish, I don‟t know the design or anything, but it‟s bright. I go in on my day to teach. I‟ve done all the preliminary stuff as a student. I‟m wearing a suit! I‟m doing what I‟m doing and the first words she said to me after my first teaching is -- “Warren, if you‟re going to be a teacher, you never wear a red tie!” I was so flabbergasted -- “That‟s the only tie I got!” She said, “That‟s too distracting to children!” That was the end of my red tie. That was my [first] Campus School experience. The other one was Thanksgiving Day. Come to think of it, it wasn‟t her. It was an older teacher. But it was Thanksgiving time, and the kids are drawing Thanksgiving pictures. One kid puts his hand up and says, “Mr. Beecroft! Weren‟t you in the Army? How do you hold a gun?” I had been doing it for three years and never thought anything about it. I got the yardstick and I said, “Pretend this is the gun. What are you trying to do? He said, “I want my pilgrim to shoot a turkey in a tree. Will you stand there so I can see how he would be?” I thought, “There‟s nothing wrong with that.” So I had this yardstick and I said, “Like this.” The teacher came up to me and said, “Warren, you can‟t do that! You can‟t show a child how to use a gun!” I still became a teacher after two introductory things like that! TB: How long did you teach and where did you teach? Was that your whole career? WB: Yes. TB: You taught at Sedro-Woolley; where else did you teach? WB: I did write that down so I would remember. TB: Marblemount Grade School, Valley Forge. WB: The big thing there was… TB: You took scouts to Valley Forge. WB: At the time I went to Stanford graduate school, the theme of their school of education was -- the school at the community center; and the doctor who was head of that and known nation wide was my advisor. So this is my first job and I was trying to think, “How can I make this school, the community center? How do you do it?” It wasn‟t anything I planned to do. But out comes the scoutmaster and I‟m the teacher/principal of this school in the upper Skagit valley. He says, “Warren, we‟re trying to get a scout troop up here. How about being the scoutmaster?” Oh, cripe! “Ok.” That was the year that the National Jamboree would be at Valley Forge. As things went on, I thought it would be kind of neat to have one of these kids be able to go to Valley Forge, if I could only figure out how to get some money. At that time there were two stores and two taverns in Marblemount. I think that was the city (and the post office). And ninety kids at school. It was the 10 Warren Beecroft Edited Transcript – September 6, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED beginning of school and the businessmen in Concrete would have a luncheon for new men teachers. So I went; got through the program and everything and the chairman says, “Announcement time.” Some guy stands up and says his church is going to do this, and somebody else [makes another announcement]. I thought, “Those are kind of dumb things; I want to send a kid to Valley Forge!” (Nobody knows this yet.) Finally I put my hand up, stand up and I say, “I‟m Warren Beecroft and I‟m the new principal up there at Marblemount and scoutmaster. We‟re going to try and send a scout to the Valley Forge National Jamboree and we‟d sure appreciate your help. If some kid comes around knocks on the door selling something, like a movie ticket or something, [please support them]. Thank you.” Somebody says, “What is this thing in Valley Forge?” I said, “It‟s a national scout jamboree. They‟ll be there for a week and it costs $250 per kid.” This was 1947 or 1948. The president says, “Let‟s pass the hat.” I‟m flabbergasted. They plunk it in front of me. (It wasn‟t a hat. I forget what it was, some kind of container.) There are dollars and five dollars and everything in there. I say, “Thank you, I really appreciate it.” Some guy puts his hand up and says, “Hey, Mr. Beecroft! How much does one of those god damn tickets cost?” I‟m thinking movie tickets or the [raffle] ticket the kid will [be selling]. “We haven‟t decided yet. It will probably be twenty five cents.” (That‟s quite a lot, you know.) He said, “No. I mean one of those tickets to how you get there.” I said those are $250. He said, “I‟ll buy one.” I‟m stunned! I hadn‟t even started the [fundraising] and I‟ve already got one kid and some money left over. Again, because school is the community center, it fitted everything. And it worked. Nita, my wife, took care of the female part of it, like luncheons and dinners; when you have people to your house for a cause and they put a dollar in the pot or whatever you want. It got around the community, all over the place up there that this was happening. Everybody wanted to get into the thing somehow. The phone rings one day at school. A male voice says, “Beecroft, this is (“Joe Blow”) of the logging company. One of my god damned drivers dumped a load of logs – cedar – on the way into Marblemount. If you can pick them up, you can have them.” I‟m flabbergasted. A load of cedar logs! That‟s hundreds of dollars! We had a friend, a man who owned the shake mill. I went to see him and said, “How would I get those logs out? He gave them to me, but what do I do?” He said, “That‟s ok. I‟ve got a friend, an assistant. What we‟ll have to do is cut them in eight foot sections and take them out.” They did that. Cut the things out, and gave the scout troop the money. At the end of that thing, I had five kids paid for. The only other place that did that in the state of Washington was Seattle; one troop had five people. When it came to who goes, when it first started, before anything happened, I already had chosen the kid I would like to send. That was Schubert Hunter. He was an Indian kid. His family tree was from the old Indian tribe that used to be up there where the Skagit and the Cascade came together. It was a little Indian community, not a tribe. It disintegrated when civilization came. But old Grandpa Hunter stayed on that piece of land, and this is his grandson. My goal was to get Schubert [to go there]; because I thought, what a neat thing for an Indian kid to add to his memories and stuff to go from way out here in Washington all the way back to Valley Forge. Then it kind of grew from there. Anyway, that was that story. TB: Just a quick couple more things that I‟d like. Who were some of your favorite teachers? You put on here (referring to his questionnaire) Dr. Bond. Can you expand a little bit there? WB: I guess I always had a feeling that he knew everything. He had written quite a few books, too. He could explain math in a way that it didn‟t matter what you asked him. It seemed that he could explain it to you. There was someway he did things [that made you understand]. The thing that I did with Dr. Bond, now [go back], I‟m in charge of the Collegian banquet that they have once a year where they have the queens and all that stuff. We had to do something where you had to know measurement of some sort, of an odd shape. Nobody knew how to figure it out. I said I would ask Dr. Bond, but I felt this was kind of below his dignity. I mean, he writes books and to figure something for that gym over there! I went to him and told him and he knew what it was. I said this is what we need to know and we don‟t know how to do it. He laughed like mad. He said something like, “I‟ll tell you the answer if I can get invited to the dance.” I said, “That‟s a deal!” (He didn‟t mean it.) But he came over and measured 11 Warren Beecroft Edited Transcript – September 6, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED everything that we needed to know. He enjoyed it. It was the first time I had ever seen him out of a classroom with people, and he was really a friendly guy. But he was strict. And he did have… TB: A globe? There‟s also a big globe. It‟s a chalkboard on the globe that the math department has, and we‟re not sure how that got used. It seems like it would be used to teach astronomy. It‟s fine if you don‟t remember. WB: Nobody has said that for forty years and my mind is going a hundred miles an hour. He would bring things to class and they would be such odd-looking things if you didn‟t know what they were. Until when he explained it, what you were trying to do and did, and then it made sense -- because you could do it. Instead of saying, “Just memorize two and two is four -- that‟s all the hell you have to do.” That‟s what you do with Kindergarten kids. But he would make you put two and two together, until you got four, then you feel four, touch four. That‟s the way he would teach very abstract thoughts. You‟d see kids in his class, the point would come to them and here kids are looking at each other and saying, “Holy cats!” That‟s the kind of person he was. TB: What about Kangley? You mentioned Lucy Kangley on here. WB: Oh yes. She was a cold, old gal. But she was a good [teacher]. I think she could read books backwards. She‟s the one that, again, this is after the service when I had a disagreement with her about the Scarlet Letter. I had just got back from the service and all moral structure was not the best, either here or in Europe. We have to read this book, it‟s a dull story anyway, it‟s a love story but it‟s another time. It‟s happening every day in Bellingham, what the guy‟s writing about. I read it. I read it mostly because I am mad. I‟m going to try and find some sense out of this thing. Now we take the test, a written exam. There were two questions; the first question on the test: What is the significance of the [design] on Reverend soand-so‟s bed?‟ I thought, “I‟ll be damned. I read that book, it‟s a dumb story, my grade depends on two chances to answer, and I wasted a whole quarter.” I‟m so ticked off I write…I don‟t remember the exact wording but the idea was, to me, this is a stupid question. There‟s a lot more meat in this book than that question brings out. I forget how I did that. The idea was it‟s a lousy question and this is my reaction to it, which is nothing. I said that to get excited over this kind of behavior, meaning playing around with this other person‟s wife and stuff, was not that important to being touted as the masterpiece of a [literature] class. I get the things back, no grade, but “immediate conference”. She was a big woman. I come in and she says, “Warren, you were kind of upset the other day, weren‟t you?” I said, “Yes. I just can‟t believe that type of thing is that important to the world.” She said, “Well you know, your answer was better than the question.” She said, “Forget it.” She would march up and down the class, talking all the time and never looking at you. But when she did, you felt yourself freeze almost! You felt guilty that you did something. You‟d look for buttons undone or something. She‟d be walking around and talking and then she‟d just [stare]. That was old Doc Kangley. Then there was Mr. Hunt. He was the geography guy. He was just a mister. This would be a long time ago. He‟s the one that said, “You mark my words: Highway 99 is going to have solid stores from the Blaine border to Portland.” I‟ve told her (referring to his wife) many times –“He‟spretty close.” At least from Seattle north; you could almost do it from Seattle to Bellingham except for that mountain range in there. At that time you [were] thinking, “That crazy guy!” He would make you think. [He would say] I wonder what would happen in…he‟d pick something, Spokane, or somewhere around here, [and ask] what would you do or how would you do [something]; that kind of stuff. Of course, his courses didn‟t count. I think most of them were electives. Everybody tried to take one of his classes. If you had a spare, you‟d try to take his class. 12 Warren Beecroft Edited Transcript – September 6, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Now the science teacher, I didn‟t put that name down, it‟s a terrible thing, I can think of things we did but I can‟t think of his name. He was bald-headed, I remember. One of these guys that their hairline ended right here kind of a thing; he was old then. TB: I can‟t think of it either then. There were a lot of women, Leona Sundquist and Miss Platt. End of Tape Two Side One – Start of Tape Two Side Two WB: I suppose the one in Campus School that I admired that affected me the most was [Dr. Hawk]. When I first went to teach up on Marblemount, I am shook up because I graduated from Western and I took this job and nobody told me that you [might] teach in split rooms like this. On paper it says grades 4, 5 and 6, but that didn‟t bother me. I don‟t know how to say it. [But] I wasn‟t ready for it. So it happened and I‟m up there. One of my guiding themes in life was written by some Greek philosopher years ago. I read that in the old library up at Western, and when I did, everything made sense to me. It was: “From a petal of a rose, I can teach about the world.” I‟ve told hundreds and hundreds of people that. The idea is, don‟t use this thing, if you‟re a good teacher, you don‟t need anything. You just need the learners need to learn. And he‟ll bring that to you. That old thought, stuck with me for all of my life. But Hawk comes to Marblemount and my class faces the road and I know his car. In those days it was, “Here comes Mary Jo” or “Here comes William” because that‟s his car. Nowadays they change cars every year so forget about that. Anyway, in comes Dr. Hawk. I‟m in my grades 4, 5 and 6 and I‟m going to tell him off, not bad, but I‟m going to give him a hard time. He gets out of the car, “Hi Warren! How are things going?” I said, “Terrible! I sure wasted my time at Western.” He said, “What are you talking about?” I said, “You didn‟t tell me there are places like this. I got thirty kids in there, 10 in grade 6 and 12 in grade four… (whatever the numbers are). I got three arithmetic classes and three of this… but I still only have six hours. Nobody told me how you do this.” I‟ll never forget what he said. He said, “Warren, they‟re not grades, they‟re children.” And then it was ok. Then when we had math, I think I used the middle grade sequence and I could always enrich it or reinforce it. I used that schedule if I was teaching division or whatever. The only trouble I got into was history because every grade had a different area. That‟s when I used my petal of the rose thing and decided that we would build a relief map somehow of the upper Skagit, from Concrete up. In there, I‟d have measuring, and there would be names of places, and we‟d try to figure out where did they come from and that would be a whole writing thing. I had no money, but they were building the new dams upriver and a couple of the dads worked up there and I asked them if there was any chance of getting any of that plywood. They said, “Sure, we‟ll bring you some.” Holy cats! Every Friday a pickup or two would come down loaded with old plywood chunks. So now the grades 4, 5 and 6 built a relief map of the upper Skagit. It was big. A piece of plywood is four by … I don‟t think it was eight but it wasn‟t square. So we had to study contour and figure that out and measure all of that stuff. The kids did it. When you are through with everything, you could work on the map. That was the motivator. They had it for years. They used to have it at the conference and all kinds of stuff. I was amazed. The only thing that was, not wrong, but you might have trouble with it today was that I used quarter inch plywood for the contour and a piece of plywood was 500 feet of elevation. As you did this you traced it onto wood and cut it. Then of course when you look at it, you have steps. If you‟re building a mountain, you have these quarter inch steps going up. How do you fill them? So I went to the hardware store and I told them the problem. You have to remember when this was, back in 1947. They have a lot more synthetic fillers now. [But we used] shredded asbestos and mixed it with paste. Of course it gave a texture to it, too. But then of course you‟re not supposed to handle that kind of stuff! TB: We didn‟t know that until the Seventies! WB: So that‟s what we did, we covered all the steps in with that stuff. It really looked nice. Then we had an open house. Some of the people who lived up there had lived there a long time or their relatives had. We 13 Warren Beecroft Edited Transcript – September 6, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED had discovered names of creeks or lakes but nobody knew how come, like Bacon Creek. Where did that come from? In the hallway of the school, we had butcher paper and at the top of it we had years. We had kids standing by each piece of paper and they would ask the parents, “Can you think of something that happened here this year? Or do you know the name of this lake?” We got all kinds of information. And for a lot of people, it was the first time they had heard of things too. That was our “petal of the rose” thing. TB: The whole community got involved in that! WB: Yes. It was quite a thing. Oh and then we found two graves from that chart. Something that said there are two graves over on Jones‟ farm, over twenty feet west of the creek that comes down. Sure enough, some kids, on their own, went over there and they found them. The only trouble was they didn‟t know who they were. They were old. I can‟t tell you how they got there, Lord only knows. It‟s pretty tough going to go from there up the Skagit into the Cascades into Canada. You can do it. The other one is over the Cascades, there‟s no pass. Whatever they did, they walked. And of course that was something trying to find out who they were. They‟re still up there. It was kind of neat. It went way beyond what I ever thought it would. After that kind of experience, I went up to see Dr. Hawk and I said, “You taught me a lesson. Just teach them as kids.” We had a good time. TB: Is there anything else you would like to get on the tape? WB: I often think of the good kids at Western, good in the sense that they are part of the student body and part of the campus at the time, and they went off to war and never came back. What a sad loss that was, what they had to offer and nobody knew it. There‟s a picture somewhere, I don‟t know if it‟s in the yearbook or not. I don‟t know what the theme was, but you had to wear a beard, you couldn‟t shave for two months or something. And if you did, they had a stockade. Of course, I worked in a drugstore, I couldn‟t wear a beard. And this other guy, Jim [Junkin]. He was older than us in this class. He was starting to get bald. If I was 22, he was probably 28 or 30; a real nice guy and real serious about getting through school and all that stuff. He had a job somewhere and had to shave. One day, we happened to get off [the bus] in the morning, come up to school and the stockades were there. Several kids had been in there as a big joke. They would put them in there; lock them up for an hour or two. Here he and I come on the campus, no beard, and some guy says, “Hey, there‟s two! Let‟s get them!” They grabbed us and put us both in the old stockades. He‟s one of those that got killed in Iwa Jima as a Marine. I just thought that was a sad, sad thing. There were a lot of good kids up there; [many that didn‟t come back because of] that dumb, wasted war. I benefited from it. I became a better person. I don‟t know about a better person, but a more learned person about people and things. And to know what it‟s like to have a feeling of eminent death and what you think of; you wonder when will I know I‟m dead? That type of thing; you‟re not afraid. And I guess I say that because I was a bombardier and sat in the nose of a B17. You fly for eight hours and you bomb for 45 seconds or something, you have a lot of time to think. (You have other work to do, too). But I used to relive my life at Western a thousand times. I‟d think how did I get here and is it worth it? What difference does it make? All those kinds of things. Later when I started to teach, I had this thread of some sort that said a lot of guys died hoping to make this place better somehow, not knowing how, either. Maybe that‟s what I owed. I lived through it, so maybe there‟s some way I can help someone make this a better place. It‟s kind of corny, but it‟s still there. Little things with kids like honesty and truthfulness. You don‟t have to lie to get somewhere. There are other things besides reading, writing and arithmetic. Later I was one of the first principals of a non-graded primary school. Again because there must be a better way. I tried it for two years and I decided the country wasn‟t ready for it. I spent more time arguing with parents over “What grade is my kid in?” It didn‟t matter. It just wasn‟t worth the time. The best way to teach people is not to upset them. If you are trying to teach you two (referring to the interviewer and his wife) something, it‟s my job as a teacher to find out what you enjoy doing or feel best at and her too, and 14 Warren Beecroft Edited Transcript – September 6, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED they‟ll be different. My job is to moderate whatever we are trying to learn here to your way and to her way. That‟s the petal and rose. I don‟t need a book! The book doesn‟t do that. I [have] got grandkids that went to college. The running joke in our family is me saying, “I‟m going to tell you how you read a textbook and you listen to your old grandpa! If a teacher gives you a history book and says, “read chapter three,” Where do you start? And of course the kids say, “Start on chapter three.” “Wrong!” I said, “You start at the back.” It works this way, if you read the back of the chapter first, you know what you‟re reading for, [because the questions are all laid out]. I said, “So if you read that first, and then thumb your way through the pictures, now you read it. That‟s because you‟ll adjust to the way you want to learn out of that system -- this is what I have to learn -- now I‟ll learn it my way!” Remember, those textbooks were written by teachers and a lot of times kids don‟t think like teachers. So there‟s better ways to do things. One of the methods I learned was when I used to work with remedial reading things. It suddenly dawned on me that if you could speak English, you could read it; how come you don‟t? One day with a kid (this is up at Sedro Woolley High School); he came over to the grade school. I said, “I saw you playing basketball. You did a good job.” The coach had called me and said, “Hey, can you do this? The kid is going to be ineligible and I‟ve got to have him.” I said, “Why don‟t you write it? Tell me about it in writing.” He said, “I can‟t write. I can‟t spell.” I said, “You don‟t have to spell. You can write without spelling. Just write it the way you want too.” “Well Ok.” It was an -- I don‟t have to write because I can‟t spell -- type of thing. This guy says, “Ok.” So he writes this thing, and is going to come back tomorrow or the day after or something. I take it to the secretary and I say, “I want you to type this. Don‟t change any structure. Just correct the spelling.” (I don‟t know what‟s going to happen.) She does this. I said, “Tim, do you remember that story you wrote the other day?” “Yes.” I had Mrs. McClure type it. It‟s a good story. Read it to me. He said, “I can‟t read.” I said, “Try it.” He did. He picked it up. He started out like “The…ball…game…Fri-day…was exciting.” He kept getting faster and faster and he read it. He looked up at me and said, “How come I can read?” I said, “That‟s all reading is. It‟s decoding marks.” All his brain needed was the signals -- like „exciting.‟ He couldn‟t spell „exciting.‟ But it was here (points to his head). All he needed to have was an „e-x-i‟ maybe. Then I got a call from the coach and he said, “What in the hell did you do to that kid? He‟s different. He‟s happy.” I said, “I didn‟t do anything, I just told him he could read.” Then his mother called me. She said, “Mr. Beecroft, is there something you do different than other people?” I told her, “No, just that a learner has to believe in himself, too. He went on to finish high school, everything was just fine. I go to schools and see things happening that still aren‟t right. But I don‟t say anything. Everybody is working hard. So many places are so busy. Now I have a granddaughter teaching. They are working her hard, doing a good job, that kind of stuff. But the job she‟s given to do is wasting a lot of her time and a lot of the learner‟s time. There‟s a better way to do it, but the system won‟t let it happen. I guess as long as you keep looking for answers, you‟ll be all right. Anyway, then I retired. I retired early. I guess I forgot to say that when I retired from school work, I did it early because I was like many people [looking for] another way to make a buck, [which] in education was to be a consultant. I was a consultant for Oxford University Press material. I was an educated salesman, you know what I mean? I knew what you did with the product. A couple years of that was enough. My old boss that I had in Sedro Woolley, Dr. Walker, had come up to Pierce County as a county superintendent. I had written in my date book, I had seen in the paper like five months ago that he had been hired and was coming work on a certain day. I wrote that in my book, „Walker came to work today.‟ One day I turn [the page] and it says „Walker came to work today.‟ I thought, “I‟ll give him a call.” So I call the county office and they give me the number of the superintendent there. Of course he said, “Hey great! Warren, glad to hear from you! I‟m sure glad there‟s somebody I know up here!” And joking I said, “Well, I can beat you at a game of golf, are you in shape to do that kind of stuff?” “Oh that‟s great, sure, sure.” So we set a date and we met out here at Linden. We shook hands and drank a cup of coffee and started 15 Warren Beecroft Edited Transcript – September 6, 2005 Campus History Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED playing; just playing an old friendly game, “Dollar a hole?” “Yes, that‟s fine.” After three or four holes I‟m beating him. Bet‟s on the side, see. I get ready to tee off on this hole and he says just out of nowhere, “Warren, I want you to come work for me.” I‟m getting ready to hit the ball and I say, “What did you say” “I need you as an assistant.” I said, “You‟d do anything to win a god damned golf game! How am I supposed to hit this ball now?” So I went to work for him then for their Title 1 program in the county. Then of course he left and a new one came. And then they merged the two county systems, King County and Pierce County. I skipped something. The new superintendent they hired after Walker, I didn‟t get along with him at all, but I got along with the King County one just as a friend. They had a vacancy in reading curriculum, Title 1. It comes through and I resigned from Pierce County and went to work up there. The next year, they merged the two sections! The board had to choose one of the two superintendents, and so they chose [the King County superintendent] and he was my friend, so that happened to work out fine. I did that for a couple years. This is how it happens. I had never thought up until now, it just happened a second time. I‟m up at the ESD working. Everything is fine; bright sunny day. All of a sudden I get the funniest feeling like I‟m going to be sick to my stomach for no reason. No aches, no pain. It‟s the old grade school up by Highline is where at that time the county office was. It‟s typical of old grade schools, the cans are in one wing, I‟m in the other. So I‟m walking down the hall a hundred miles an hour and she goes, “Hey Beecroft, can I see you a minute?” “No.” [Laughs] I get there, toss my cookies. I think, what the heck is going on? I clean up, come out, and here‟s my boss‟ secretary. I say something smart, “Good morning” or something like that. She says, “What‟s wrong with you?” Nothing. She said, “You look awful pale. You sure you‟re all right?” “Oh yes.” She says, “I think you better come in here and sit down.” The sick room was right there. So I sat on the bed, and the next thing I know, it‟s how many hours later (referring to his wife)? Four or five? That‟s the next instant I know. This became the joke of the area, but it could only happen to me. My boss‟s secretary is a nice, older lady, always kept herself neat and all that stuff, straight as an arrow – straight laced. Anyway, my mentality records that I met her in the hall. I don‟t know that it‟s five hours later and I‟m in a hospital in Seattle, that doesn‟t fit anywhere. I open my eyes and here she is, standing on one side of the bed, and [my wife] is on the other. The joke was I turned that way (that‟s where my boss‟ secretary was) and my profound words that went all through the county, “What motel are we in?” And of course, she about had a heart attack, too! TB: Thank you very much. This has been great. WB: I‟m sure I talked too much. TB: No, no. That‟s great. 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__label__wiki	0.754534	0.754534	MyAppleMenu: Archives MyAppleMenu \| Tomorrow \| Reader \| Singapore \| SushiReader You are here in the archive: MyAppleMenu > 2010 > June Apple No Longer Supports IOS 2.0 Apps iPhone developers are being encouraged to go over the iOS 4 Readiness Checklist in what is Apple’s way of transitioning everyone (from programmers to consumers) to the next-generation of iPhone software. Developers are being told that all new apps and updates must be built with SDK 4 starting now, and that iOS 2.0 software is no longer supported in the App Store. The iPad's Chicken-or-egg Developer Problem Josh Lowensohn, CNET News Developing apps, and games in particular, for the iPad, is very different than it is on the iPhone. Not in the software or familiarity when coming from the iPhone, but in how the game ends up playing on a bigger screen. Is Apple A Victim Of Its Own Success? Aharon Etengoff, TG Daily Apple's difficulty in satisfying the massive demand for its iPhone 4 has reportedly prompted frustrated consumers to consider purchasing alternative smartphone models. Apple Facing Possible Lawsuit Over iPhone 4 Antenna Ed Oswald, Technologizer California-based law firm Kershaw, Cuttiner, and Ratinoff is asking for customers with iPhone 4 signal reception issues to contact it, likely signaling the beginnings of a class-action suit against Apple over the issues. Apple's iPhone 4 On Sale In China's Grey Market The latest version of Apple's iPhone is on sale in Beijing's electronic stores and luxury hotels, months before the official launch of the trendy smartphone in China, state media said Tuesday. We Use iPhone 4's FaceTime Over 3G (Sorta) Mike Prospero, Laptop Magazine Steve Jobs was right to limit Facetime to Wi-Fi connections. Audio came through only in patches, and video was like a slideshow at best. Hulu Plus Announced For iPhone And iPad Mike Schramm, TUAW For US$9.99 per month, you'll get you ad-supported access to the full current seasons of most shows and full back seasons of select shows. Plus, brand new Hulu Plus apps for the iPhone and the iPad will bring the television to you. Users: iPhone 4 Proximity Sensor Causes Issues Joe Aimonetti, CNET News Details of the issue vary throughout the forum posts, but essentially, the proximity sensor (the one that shuts down the screen functionality when your iPhone is close to your face or in your pocket) seems to be malfunctioning. John Gruber, Daring Fireball The first thing you notice is that the iPhone 4 feels smaller in hand — the decrease in width, even more so than thickness, is quite noticeable. It feels tight. Then you turn it on, and you see the screen. More On The iPhone 4 Signal Issue Richard Gaywood, Fscked.co.uk If you’re in a strong signal area, you may not ever see the effect, because even with the attenuation from holding the phone you’ll still have plenty of signal left over. But that doesn’t mean you aren’t going to be affected by the issue unless you are never, ever in a weaker signal area — and the second test above suggests that 3G data transfer rates are still going to be slower anyway. It might (might) be fixable in software. People are talking about things like calibration faults in the signal strength meter, or some sort of dynamic frequency allocation that doesn’t square with any bit of the GSM spec I’ve ever been exposed too. I’m uncertain about this. It doesn’t feel like a software fault to me. Leaked: Apple’s Internal iPhone 4 Antenna Troubleshooting Procedures Clearly Apple is taking the position that nothing is wrong with the antenna, although that’s not surprising since most companies will never willingly admit their flagship product is potentially suffering from an unfixable flaw. Apple, Dell Luxury Laptops: Once Cool, Now Old Brooke Crothers, CNET News Luxury ultrathin laptops from Apple and Dell were once ultra-hip. Now they quietly age at Apple and Dell online stores. Review: Photoshop Lightroom 3 Rick LePage, Macworld The image-processing enhancements in Lightroom 3 are impressive, and only solidify the program’s position as one of the best tools for managing, editing, and publishing photos. Foxconn To Shift Apple Gadgets Production Kathrin Hille, Financial Times Foxconn is preparing to shift part of its production of Apple gadgets from Shenzhen to north and central China, amid a greater willingness from the US company to work with factories away from its long-time Chinese hub. The move, aimed at containing costs, follows drastic wage hikes for large parts of the workforce of the Taiwanese-owned company, after a string of worker suicides and widening labour unrest. Apple Can No Longer Afford Clumsy Product Launches Therese Poletti, MarketWatch Apple Inc. may be able to line up customers around the block, but even the iconic technology company can no longer afford clumsy product launches in the hotly competitive smart phone field. iPhone 4 Review: Apple's Latest Is Much More Than An Upgrade Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times If a quick glance at the iPhone 4’s new features inspires initial cynicism, spending five days immersed in the actual device makes another impression entirely. For the first time since 2007, I feel as though the device I’m carrying isn’t merely an improved iPhone, but a truly new one. A First Look At iPhone's iMovie Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC Apple's latest gadget is a useful mobile video production device. Pity it's not so good at making phone calls. How To Sync And Manage Notes With Gmail And IOS4 Scott Grizzle, App Advice Ever since the first iPhone, there has been a “Notes” application. However, the ability to save and manage notes has always been fairly minimal. Now, with iOS4, Gmail users can easily manage their notes, even across multiple Gmail accounts. Jobs: 'No Way To Be Sure' iPhone Minerals Are Conflict-free Jason D. O'Grady, ZDNet "Until someone invents a way to chemically trace minerals from the source mine, it’s a very difficult problem." iAd Report: Apple's IOS 4 Will Reach iPad In November A report outlining advertisers' plans for Apple's new iAd program indicates that the new interactive ads won't reach iPad users until iOS 4 becomes available for it in November. Windows 8 Leaks Show Microsoft's Eyes On Apple Ina Fried, CNET News Apple Mac Mini With Snow Leopard Server Samara Lynn, PC Magazine One of the most aesthetically beautiful business servers we've ever seen, this tiny, peppy machine makes for a quiet desktop server that's perfect for light-duty home and SMB server tasks. The “Black Art” Of Antenna Design Yukari Iwatani Kane, Wall Street Journal For most designers, there’s always a compromise that they have to strike between the look and feel of a product and its function. But Apple is a company that is renowned for its obsession with design, and designers like Mr. Rolston and Mr. Brunner believe that this was a case in which aesthetics may have won over function. Still, neither designer believes that the problem is a huge one. “Is this really that big of an issue? I’m not convinced it is yet,” says Mr. Rolston. What Is In Apple's New Privacy Policy? Michael Kassner, Tech Republic As you can see, there are many questions left unanswered. Yet, embedding advertisements in mobile phone applications is a game changer and not going away. Enterprise Users Get Tips On iPhone 4 Video Calls David Neal, V3.co.uk Apple has released guidance aimed at enterprises looking to use the iPhone 4 for internal video calls. The company recommends that enterprises open up a number of their network ports in order to take advantage of the phone's FaceTime feature. iPhone 4s Suffering From Buggy Proximity Sensors A number of iPhone 4 owners are experiencing problems with the device's proximity sensor, Apple's support forums reveal. The touchscreen may turn back on after very little movement, and even rapidly switch on and off. Amazon's Kindle App Adds Video, Audio Support The Kindle app is seeing some good support from Amazon -- the most recent update not only enables the Retina Display on the iPhone 4, but adds both video and audio to the offerings in certain titles. Pulsar Update Lets You Pause And Play Back Satellite Radio David Dahlquist, Macworld With the version 2 update, you can pause live radio stations, and pick back up where you left off. You can also use a new Next Song command to skip songs you don't like, or jump backwards to catch something you might have missed, thanks to Pulsar’s enhanced buffering capabilities. Command-Tab To Minimized Windows Whitson Gordon, Macworld Reports: Issues With iPhone 4 And Car Stereos Dave Caolo, TUAW A number of stereo units from Pioneer, JVC and others are giving a "device incompatible" message when connected to an iPhone running iOS 4. Note that the 3G and 3GS phones in question worked fine with these stereos when they were on iOS 3.1.3. Of course, the iPhone 4 only runs iOS 4, but since the older phones are also affected it seems likely that this is a software issue, not a hardware one. DocsPortal Puts Google Docs On Your iPad Lex Friedman, Macworld Kabuki Vision on Monday introduced DocsPortal 1.0 for iPad. The app integrates with your Google Docs account, letting you browse, search, and view all your documents therein—including word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and other files you store with Google. iPhone 4: The Macworld Review Jason Snell, Macworld The iPhone 4 is, in many ways, the best iPhone Apple has ever made. It’s faster than the 3GS, yes, but it’s the screen that is the biggest leap forward in quality. The new face-forward camera not only works well with FaceTime, but opens the door to all sorts of other videoconferencing possibilities in the future. And the rear-facing camera has taken a big step forward from the 3GS, offering quite high-quality stills and Flip-class HD video. Copy iPhone 4's iMovies To iPad Christopher Breen, Macworld As far as the iPad is concerned, the iPhone 4 (and earlier iPhones, for that matter) is just another camera. HootSuite Social Media Dashboard Gets Major Upgrade David Chartier, Macworld Social media clients are almost a dime a dozen these days, but a surprising few of them are designed to help businesses tackle Twitter, Facebook, and the rest of the social Web. HootSuite is one of these chosen few, and it has recently undergone a major upgrade in the name of simplicity, compatibility, and speed. The Curious Case Of iPhone 4 Martin Peers, Wall Street Journal The real question has to be whether concerns about the antenna, combined with carrier congestion issues, will slow uptake of the iPhone among customers not yet converted to Apple worship. Apple Shifts 1.7 Million iPhone 4 Handsets On Launch Weekend Joe White, App Advice After a massive 600,000 pre-orders were taken for Apple’s highly anticipated iPhone 4, an unbelievable 1.1 million units went on to be sold launch weekend. That makes a grand total of 1.7 million iPhone 4 units, and the Sunday sales figures haven’t even been totaled up yet! iPad: The New Halo For The Mac? David Morgenstern, ZDNet iPhone 4: The Ars Technica Review Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica During our time testing the device, numerous peers of ours who had no intention of getting an iPhone 4 began reconsidering it after seeing the screen—this was definitely the main reason why people started changing their minds. At the same time, the signal/antenna issue appears to be a serious concern; we hesitate to straight-up recommend the iPhone for this reason, though in the real world, it may not affect you as much. Out Of The Spotlight, Mac Computer Sales Grow Arik Hesseldahl, Bloomberg BusinessWeek The rise of the iPhone notwithstanding, the Mac is still a big part of Apple, which dropped "Computer" from its name in 2007. Macs sell for an average price of $1,300 with 30 percent gross margins, Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray, said. By comparison, consumer-grade Windows machines sell for half that, about $687, according to research firm IDC. That's why Apple's relatively small slice of the U.S. market - only 6.4 percent in the first quarter of 2010, up from 4 percent in 2005 - doesn't matter much. For every half-point in market share Apple takes from Hewlett-Packard, Dell and all the other Windows vendors, it boosts its sales by about $3 billion, Munster says. Germany Says Apple Must Improve Data Transparency Sarah Marsh, Reuters Apple Inc must "immediately make clear" what data it collects from users of its products and for what purposes, Germany's justice minister was quoted as saying by Der Spiegel magazine on Saturday. "Users of iPhones and other GPS devices must be aware of what kind of information about them is being collected," Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger told the German weekly. Steve Jobs Teases iPhone 4 Antenna Fix: "Stay Tuned" Electronista Apple chief Steve Jobs may have confirmed a firmware-based solution to the iPhone 4's supposed reception problems through an e-mail to a fan. The executive told the reader that "there is no reception issue" but to "stay tuned" for more. The iPhone Apps Throwing Light On Best-selling Books Alison Flood, The Guardian Authors such as Iain Banks and Martina Cole are increasingly supplementing book releases with apps full of bonus material. Hey Apple, You're Holding It Wrong Thomas Ricker, Engadget iPhone 4: Triumph Of The Design Nerds Mike Elgan, Computerworld The iPhone 4 is a marvel of industrial design. Form and function are united beautifully, and it's an incredibly useful phone. I bought one. I love it. But three design decisions by Apple demonstrate a new boldness, a new level of power by hard-core designers inside Apple -- and a corresponding weakness by engineers and usability specialists. iPhone 4 Users Turn To Nail Polish To Fix £499 Gadget Charles Arthur, The Guardian Want to know the must-have item for owners of the new iPhone 4? A bit of duct tape – or a dab of nail polish. 24 Hours With The Apple iPhone 4 Lance Ulanoff, PC Magazine Having never owned an iPhone, I learned a lot about the iPhone 4 and the iPhone ecosystem. Overall, the iPhone is everything Steve Jobs promised and probably a whole lot more than what I got to try out over the last day. Even with the "Death Grip" issue, I think Apple has another winner on its hands. Apple Accused Of 'discrimination' Over iPhone 4 Lauren Milsom, of the Left-Handed Club, which boasts 90,000 members and represents 10 per cent of the population who are left-handed, branded it a ''design flaw''. She said: ''It seems ludicrous to suggest that 10 per cent of potential users should be told they have to adopt a less natural hand hold to use this latest technology." Why Apple Has Put Mac OS X On The Back Burner John Martellaro, The Mac Observer This coherence of OS vision is just what Mr. Jobs needs to put the final nail in the coffin of Windows. iPhone 4 Upgrades To HSDPA/HSUPA Can Double 3G Bandwidth Speeds Jason Hiner, TechRepublic The primary source of the iPhone 4’s speed boost is the upgrade to HSDPA (which began with the iPhone 3GS) and HSUPA (which is new to the iPhone 4). Let Apple Demo FaceTime With You Live Simply dial 1-888-FACETIME, and after a moment or two, an Apple employee will answer and show you how it works as well as "a few advanced tips." Mac Money Mangers Jeffrey Battersby, Macworld An overview of personal finance tools for the desktop, iPhone, and Web. FontLab Releases Fontographer 5 Jackie Dove, Macworld FontLab has released Fontographer 5, a new version of its font editing application. This version of the software—which lets you create, customize, fine-tune, fix, and convert fonts to different formats—is specifically designed for desktop publishers who need quick solutions to font problems. Which Drew The Bigger Crowd In San Diego? Microsoft Store Opening Or Apple iPhone 4 Launch? Joe Wilcox, International Business Times Apple shoppers came to spend money on iPhone 4, not get freebees. Hardware Expert Explains iPhone 4 Antenna Problem Gregg Keizer, Computerworld Reports of call and data signal strength problems in the new iPhone 4 have a basis in fact, a hardware expert said Thursday. Apple Advises On Holding iPhone Steve Jobs responded to a query about the problem from one owner by saying: "Just avoid holding it in that way." The official advice is to "avoid gripping it in the lower left corner in a way that covers both sides of the black strip in the metal band". Apple IOS 4 Vs. Android Multitasking: Which Approach Is Better For Users? Melissa J. Perenson, PC World As it turns out, the way Apple tackles multitasking is fundamentally different from how Google handles the job--and that difference speaks volumes about Apple's mature interface polish as opposed to Google's work-in-progress, developer-optimized approach. Jobs On FaceTime Replacing Hold Button: “Hold Doesn’t Do Anything More Than Mute” MG Siegler, TechCrunch Apple Responds Over iPhone 4 Reception Issues: You're Holding The Phone The Wrong Way Joshua Topolsky, Engadget Apple cops to the fact there are reception issues with the new iPhone -- namely, that if you cover the bottom-left corner of the phone and bridge the gap between the notch there with your naked flesh, you could see some signal degradation. Yes, you read that right: it's not a software or production issue, simply a matter of the physical location of your hand in regards to the phone's antenna. The company's suggested fix? Move your hand position, or get a case which covers that part of the phone, thus breaking contact. Apple iOS 4 Is An Upgrade Worth Having P. J. Connolly, eWeek Hands On: iMovie For iPhone I’ve had a couple of hours to play with iMovie for iPhone and these are my impressions. Steve Jobs: Wi-Fi iPhone Syncing Coming “Someday” "Yep, someday." Facing Off With FaceTime Dan Moren, Macworld Will FaceTime really get video-calling to catch on? It’s hard to say, but with the smooth, slick it-just-works way that Apple’s implemented FaceTime, it will certainly be tough to point a finger at the technology as the culprit. Twitterrific 3.0 Runs On iPad, iPhone Serenity Caldwell, Macworld Twitterrific 3.0 combines the company’s previous three offerings (Twitterrific for iPad, Twitterrific for iPhone, and Twitterrific Premium for iPhone) into a single ad-supported universal application. In addition, the app has been updated to take advantage of iOS 4’s fast app-switching and the iPhone 4’s new Retina display. Lefties: Beware iPhone 4 Reception Problem Chris Foresman, Ars Technica Despite the crafty design, it turns out that some users are experiencing a problem where holding the phone a certain way in the left hand can significantly reduce 3G signal strength. iPhone 4 Screen Yellowing Could Be A Temporary Problem From Assembly "Apple is using a bonding agent called Organofunctional Silane Z-6011 to bond the layers of glass," austingaijin wrote. "Apparently, Apple (or more likely Foxconn) is shipping these products so quickly that the evaporation process is not complete. However, after one or two days of use, especially with the screen on, will complete the evaporation process and the yellow 'blotches' will disappear." Congressmen Query Apple On Privacy Policy Changes Erica Ogg, CNET News On Thursday, coinciding with Apple's high-profile first day sale of the iPhone 4, Reps. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe Barton (R-Texas) announced that they have sent a letter to Apple CEO Steve Jobs expressing their concerns and asking for answers regarding reports that Apple is gathering location information on its customers. Updated Bing For iPhone Strives To Be An All-in-one App Brennon Slattery, Macworld Microsoft updated its Bing iPhone app, adding social network integration, visual scanning, and restructured entertainment sections that may lure people away from Google. iPhone 4: First-commute Impressions Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post Class Action Against Apple And AT&T Is Amended Nick Bilton, New York Times The suit, presented as a proposed class action lawsuit, currently names three individuals who claim that Apple and AT&T “baited” them into purchasing an iPad 3G with the promises of a flexible unlimited data plan, “only to have that promise reneged upon within weeks of their purchases.” FaceTime Versus Fring: iPhone 4 Video Chat Throwdown Jessica Dolcourt, CNET News While Apple's FaceTime calling seems to win all the video chatting marbles, just remember that its victory is relative. FaceTime only operates over Wi-Fi, which hobbles its overall usability. Apple Cripples IBook Fonts Stewart Meagher, THINQ.co.uk Designers of ebooks are starting to grumble about Apple's policy of locking down which fonts can be used on its iBooks platform. Apple's guidelines say that designers choosing their own fonts would lead to "a bad user experience", a claim which some are calling shortsighted. Developers Weigh In On iOS 4 Apple’s iOS 4, released this past week, may boast 100 new features for end-users. But it’s the features most users don’t see that could end up having the more lasting effect on how they use their mobile devices. iPhone 4 Released Today! Apple’s highly anticipated iPhone 4 hits stores today! Queues have been forming all around the world, with 600 people having queued outside London’s Regent Street Apple Store by 07:00am! Apple Debuts iPhone 4 To Sprawling Lines, Lengthy Waits Across the globe, Apple launched the iPhone 4 in five countries Thursday, generating long lines and unparalleled buzz, as only an Apple product launch can do. iOS 4's Hidden Features Now it’s time to explore more of the finer details of iOS 4—the new features and polish that may not make it to Apple’s product pages, but may still make someone’s day. Mac Gems: The Best Gems Of 2010...so Far Crowds Queue Up Across U.S. For iPhone 4 After a global launch that saw the iPhone 4 land in Japan, Germany, France, and the U.K., U.S. customers had their chance to get their hands on Apple’s newest smartphone Thursday morning. And, despite early shipment to some customers and limited iPhone supplies, the crowds still turned up at Apple Stores across the country for the iPhone 4’s official release. Review: iBooks For iPhone And iPad Like the Kindle app, iBooks is an excellent e-reader that feels impressively like the future—while simultaneously feeling a heck of a lot like an actual book. Right now, Amazon’s dominating selection renders it the top dog in the iOS e-reading world. But if the book you’re after is available for iBooks at a good price, the app provides an immersive and thoroughly pleasant reading experience, particularly on the iPad. iMovie For iPhone 4 Is Now Available Michael Jones, TUAW On Eve Of iPhone 4, Apple Resentment On Display Charles Cooper, CBS News Based on the overwhelming pre-orders, Apple likely has another a mega-hit on its hands. All of which is likely to further stir the envy and concerns of rivals watching this former upstart morph into the new Goliath. Apple, Give Us A "Freedom Of Choice" Button Shari Steele, Electronic Frontier Foundation Apple claims it needs to build a walled garden to protect users. From where we’re sitting, however, the walled garden looks very much like an effort to control the user and re-set traditional expectations about what you can do with the products you buy. iPhone 4: How Does It Perform For Video Recording? Xeni Jardin, Boing Boing iPhone 4 Cell Reception Suffers When Picked Up? Victor Agreda, Jr., TUAW Reception drops once your hands cover the metal bits of the iPhone 4. Metal bits which happen to be the antennas. Braving The Crowd: Getting An iPhone 4 Without A Reservation If the pre-order process is any indication, this is going to be moderately more difficult than showing up on launch day for past Apple products. How difficult, you may ask? Well, before you rush out the door with a tent, chair, and your choice of soon-to-be-obsolete electronic gadget to pass the time in line, here are a few tips, tricks, suggestions, and warnings regarding your impending journey. Glass Back Of iPhone 4 Review Unit Collects 'Incredibly Minor' Scratches A review unit sent out by Apple has managed to collect "incredibly minor" scratches on its back made of hardened glass after just a few days of heavy use. Apples Files Second Lawsuit Against HTC As with the previous litigation, the complaint was filed in a Delware district court. Both of the new patents—6,282,646 and 7,380,116—have the same description, referring to a “System for real-time adaptation to changes in display configuration.” Both seem to deal with what happens when you plug in an additional video input or output into a device. iPhone 4 Early Shipments Include Some Defective Retina Displays Keith M, TUAW Several folks who've received an iPhone 4 early are tipping us and reporting to Apple that the fancy, new Retina displays on their new iPhones are defective and showing odd, colored splotches near the bottom edges of the screen. Review: Mac Mini (Mid 2010) Dan Frakes, Macworld The Mac mini remains an impressive feat of hardware engineering and design, fitting decent computing power and a solid set of features in a tiny package. And apart from the slow stock hard drive, there’s not much to complain about with the latest model—this is as full-featured a computer I’ve seen in a package this small, and the new enclosure looks great and is built like a tank. iPhone 4 Rollout A Mess -- But Will Anyone Care? Jonathan Seff, Macworld So yes, it’s been somewhat of a mess (and we’re not even at launch day yet). But the question here is, how much difference will it make? What Is Fast App Switching? Matt Neuburg, TidBITS The app is both backgrounded and inert; but it is still running, in the sense that its resources and interface are still present, so that it doesn't have to be relaunched from scratch in order to resume. That way, when you come back to that app, no matter how, the app can simply pick up doing what it was doing when you left off, instantly. Apple Says White iPhone 4 Won't Arrive Until Late July "White models of Apple's new iPhone 4 have proven more challenging to manufacture than expected, and as a result they will not be available until the second half of July," Apple said in a statement. "The availability of the more popular iPhone 4 black models is not affected." Share An iPad But Not Your Gmail With Mailboxes Lilliput Labs has released Mailboxes for the iPad, a multi-user Gmail client that provides an easy and secure way to access your Gmail or Google Apps email on a shared iPad. Hands On With iBooks With the launch of iBooks for iPhone, Apple has taken time to improve upon the app’s text presentation from its original iPad incarnation. The Georgia font has been added, and it looks very good on the iPhone’s screen. Additionally, you can now disable right-justified text, which is an even more welcome change (though annoyingly, accessible only within the Settings app). Justified text on a screen the iPhone’s size requires often-ridiculous word spacing when hyphenation isn’t available, and indeed iBooks doesn’t hyphenate. Hackers Release 'Jailbreak' Of IOS 4 For Apple's iPhone 3GS Users can now run unauthorized code on their iOS 4-equipped iPhone 3GS, as well as iPhone 3G and iPod touch, thanks to the latest software "jailbreak" released by hackers. iPhone Review: The Footnotes David Pogue, New York Times Japanese Fans Queue Up For Apple's New iPhone Braving summer rains and tweeting about their excitement, dozens of Apple fans queued outside a Tokyo cellphone store Wednesday, the eve of the global launch of the latest iPhone. Apple Knew iPhone 3G Owners Would Run Into iOS 4 Upgrade Problems, Customer Claims One of the many iPhone owners trying to upgrade to iOS 4 with no luck has an interesting story over at Apple’s Discussions forums, in which he alleges that Apple had anticipated upgrade problems with iPhone 3G handsets, and that the company’s top priority is offering iPhone 4 customers the best experience possible. Apple iPhone4: An Object Of Rare Beauty That Leapfrogs The Competition Stephen Fry, The Guardian Apple has once more leapfrogged the competition. HTC Android handsets still impress and offer a viable alternative for many, but iPhone 4's star quality is irresistible. Developers Bet On Apple Now, Google Later Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek Software developers believe Google's Android platform has a better long-term outlook, better technological capabilities, and greater openness than Apple's iOS platform. These are some of the findings of a survey of 2,733 developers conduct between June 15 and 17 by Appcelerator, maker of the Appcelerator Titanium Developer Platform. Apple Approves Erectile Dysfunction App Chris Matyszczyk, CNET News The effect, it says, is close to that of Viagra. And all you have to swallow is the developer's rationale. The app allegedly "makes a kind of high-frequency alpha wave to synchronize with your own brain wave." Checking In On The iPhone 4's Video Quality My One Reason For Upgrading My iPhone 3Gs To IOS4 This has to be the single biggest reason for me to upgrade my iPhone 3Gs to iOS4: the ability to use an old Nokia SU-8W foldable bluetooth keyboard sitting in my drawer since I moved from the N-series smartphones. Now Apple's Really "for The Rest Of Us" Michael Gartenberg, Macworld In the end, that original tagline became a reality. Apple products truly are for “the rest of us,” and will continue to be so as long as Apple continues to deliver and raise the industry bar. App Store: 1% Of Apple's Gross Profit Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune Apple's iPhone 4 Is 'Major Leap,' 'One To Beat,' Reviewers Say Alex Sherman, Bloomberg Apple Inc.’s iPhone 4 will “dazzle” consumers with its thinner redesign, “radically” sharper screen, higher-resolution front-facing camera and updated operating system, reviewers said. Getting A Look Inside The iPhone 4 The iPhone 4 got a timely teardown from iFixit on Tuesday night, confirming that it integrates 512MB of RAM and a new battery connection scheme and revealing the accelerometer/gyroscope hardware, among other things. Apple Sells 3 Million iPads In First 80 Days Kristena Hansen, Los Angeles Times New iPhone Arrives, Rivals Beware If what you care about is size and shape, beauty and battery life, polish and pleasure, then the iPhone 4 is calling your name. But you probably didn’t need a review to tell you that. AT&T Delays Retail Sale Of iPhone 4 Marguerite Reardon, CNET News On Tuesday, AT&T announced that only preordered iPhone 4s will be in stock in its retail stores on Thursday, the official iPhone 4 launch date. Anyone looking to buy an iPhone 4 off-the-rack at an AT&T store without preordering the device will have to wait until Tuesday, June 29. New iPhone Keeps Apple Top Of Class Walter S. Mossberg, Wall Street Journal Just as with its predecessors, I can’t recommend this new iPhone for voice calling for people who experience poor AT&T reception, unless they are willing to carry a second phone on a network that works better for them. For everyone else, however, I’d say that Apple has built a beautiful smartphone that works well, adds impressive new features and is still, overall, the best device in its class. Inside iOS 4: Missing Features For iPhone 3G Users When running on iPhone 3G, iOS 4 disables multitasking, background wallpapers, Bluetooth keyboard support, and a "data protection" feature. Apple iPhone 4: Hands-On Review Yes, the notable features with iPhone 4—both the device and the iOS4, which came out yesterday in advance of the iPhone itself—are mostly tweaks. But what tweaks they are: Apple's focus on improvement is as much key to the quality of its products as innovation. But there's one flaw it can't completely eliminate: the unreliable quality of calls placed over AT&T, which remains the iPhone's only U.S. carrier. We're not going to beat around the bush -- in our approximation, the iPhone 4 is the best smartphone on the market right now. The combination of gorgeous new hardware, that amazing display, upgraded cameras, and major improvements to the operating system make this an extremely formidable package. Yes, there are still pain points that we want to see Apple fix, and yes, there are some amazing alternatives to the iPhone 4 out there. But when it comes to the total package -- fit and finish in both software and hardware, performance, app selection, and all of the little details that make a device like this what it is -- we think it's the cream of the current crop. Steve Jobs Explains Why iPhone 3G Didn’t Get Wallpapers… "The icon animation with backgrounds didn’t perform well enough." iOS 4 Adds Support For Gmail Archive Feature Review: Google Chrome 5 Web Browser Nathan Alderman, Macworld Far faster than Firefox, and more customizable than Safari, Chrome reaches a very happy medium between the two. It’s a great addition to the ranks of Mac browsers, and a clarion call to Apple, Mozilla, and Opera to step up their game. Apple Headed For Privacy Row With IOS 4 Update Ian Paul, PC World Overall, Apple appears to be doing a pretty good job with your location data; however there have been some criticisms over the new policy. Apple does not specify, for example, whether or not it will still track your location even with the Location Services global control turned off. It's also not clear how long Apple intends to store your location data, and what kind of safeguards it has in place to protect its database of location information. What Apple's iOS 4 Does - And Doesn't Do - For Business Galen Gruman, InfoWorld Apple Leaves iPad Vulnerable After Monster iPhone Patch Job The first-generation iPhone and iPod Touch, as well as the much newer iPad, may be vulnerable to some or all of the 65 bugs. The new iOS 4 operating system, which launched yesterday, can't be installed on 2007's iPhone and iPod Touch, and the upgrade is not slated to reach iPad owners until this fall. Apple Makes All The Right Calls On iPhone 4 Ed Baig, USA Today As with previous iPhones, the latest model breaks new ground. FaceTime video calling on the iPhone 4 is one of those cool "seeing is believing" features, and it arrives on top of several across-the-board enhancements. And iOS 4 is a mostly terrific software upgrade. Cutting through the hype, Apple has given longtime diehards, and first-time iPhone owners, plenty to cheer about. iPhone 4 Arriving Early For Some Apple To Open New Direct Perth Store Parade Of iOS 4 Apps Embrace New Features A bunch of apps have already been updated for iOS 4 and now display “iOS 4.0 Tested” in the description. Here are a couple of the better ones. Ars Reviews Adobe Lightroom 3 Dave Girard, Ars Technica Adobe has capitalized on Lightroom's strengths and worked hard to fix its weaknesses, and all that effort has clearly paid off. Apple Telling Customers To Expect iPhone 4 A Day Early, June 23 Google Apps Phone-lock Issues With iOS 4 TJ Luoma, TUAW In a strange twist with what appears to be a security issue, users of Google Apps who set up their accounts using the Microsoft Exchange settings (aka ActiveSync) may find that their iPhones have been set to auto-lock in one minute. Got iLife’s iWeb? iWeb Buddy Adds More Features Jeffrey Mincey, Mac 360 If you’re serious about using iWeb instead of a more advanced web page management system, then iWeb Buddy’s extras will be worth the effort and expense. No, Mac OS X Isn't Going Anywhere Paul Venezia, InfoWorld Why would you centralize on a single operating system that's tasked with everything from cell phone calls to addressing high-end graphics and audio interfaces, especially when you have two perfectly good ways of handling those use cases now? Apple’s Small Problem: iOS 4 And iPhone 4 One-Up The iPad Apple could resolve half of this problem this Fall with a unificationof iOS 4 for both iPhone/iPod touch and the iPad. But the hardware bifurcation between the lines may linger. I suspect Apple may try to ship new iPads in the January timeframe in the future, while it continues to ship new iPhones in the June timeframe to create a greater time gap between this split. Apple Allows Opt Out For Interest-Based iAds You may not be able to completely shut off Apple’s new iAds system when it shows up on iOS 4 devices in July, but at the very least, you can stop it from using your personal information to tailor ads to you. Apple Collecting, Sharing iPhone Users' Precise Locations David Sarno, Los Angeles Times In an updated version of its privacy policy, the company added a paragraph noting that once users agree, Apple and unspecified "partners and licensees" may collect and store user location data. The company says the data is anonymous and does not personally identify users. Analysts have shown, however, that large, specific data sets can be used to identify people based on behavior patterns. Windows Live Messenger For iPhone Hits App Store The iPhone and iPod Touch application allows users to connect to their Windows Live account, and chat with friends through Windows Live Messenger or Y! Messenger. The app still allows messages to be received when it’s closed, which is an added (but expected) bonus. iOS 4: What You Need To Know We’ve got the answers to your questions about the mobile OS update. iOS 4 Available For Download Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS Apple made iOS 4 available for free download today for owners of newer iPhone and iPod touch models. Apple Releases iBooks 1.1 Update For iPhone, iPad Released as a 1.1 update, iBooks is now a universal app for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad; it debuted on the latter device back in April. This latest version brings a number of new features to the reading experience, including bookmarks, the ability to highlight passages, and note-taking capabilities. All of these annotations can stay in sync across your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, too. Complete Review: Apple iOS 4 Make no mistake, multitasking is the lynchpin of iOS 4; for better or worse, the rest is just window dressing—though welcome window dressing, to be sure. Feature: Ars Reviews IOS 4: What's New, Notable, And What Needs Work We'll say up front that we like the update. For iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and iPhone 3G users (as well as second- and third-generation iPod touch users), iOS 4 will add useful functionality that will make your device more useable than ever. There are, however, some obvious downsides, and we'll address those in this review. Exploring iOS 4's Multimedia Features While iOS 4 brings significant changes to many areas of the iPhone and iPod touch, the changes found in the iPod (iPhone) and Music and Videos (iPod touch) apps are mostly refinements of existing features. Spotlight On iOS 4: Changes To The Photos App Heather Kelly, Macworld The biggest change will be familiar to iPad users: The addition of Events, Faces, and Places support. While you can't create new events or tag faces on the iPhone, you can sync existing collections from iPhoto or Aperture. Spotlight On iOS 4: Hands On With Mail Easily the most-requested feature for iPhone Mail (or at least the one I’ve heard the most over the past few years) has been a unified inbox—a single inbox that displays incoming messages from all your accounts. Mail in iOS 4 provides just that: The top level of the Mail-screen hierarchy continues to display a list of your Mail accounts, but above that you’ll now find a new Inboxes section. Pandora For iOS 4 Hits The Streets Mel Martin, TUAW Not a minute too soon! As expected, Pandora has updated the much-loved music app for the iPhone to version 3.1. This build will (drumroll) allow you to keep playing music when you move on to something else. Transfer Time Machine Backups 8 Subtle Changes You May (Or May Not) Notice In iOS 4 Nik Fletcher Every time Apple releases a new OS update, be it on the Mac or iPhone, there’s a bucketload of smaller - lesser-spotted - changes that appear in the system. iOS 4 very much continues this trend, so whilst you’re busy perusing the new update today here’s 8 little changes you may (or may not) spot. Hands On With iOS 4 Folders Review: Safari 5 Tough competition has only made Safari 5 even better. Reader needs a little work, the proprietary CSS3 tricks aren’t quite kosher, and the jury’s still out on extensions. But until Google or someone else steps up for the next shot at the title, Safari 5 is still the fastest, sleekest, all-around best browser in the business. Apple Begins Shipping Early iPhone 4 Orders The first batch of iPhone 4 deliveries are now in transit from China, with Apple sending FedEx notifications indicating a June 24 delivery date. The Silicon Valley's Battle Between Good And Evil Tim Bajarin, PC Magazine Now three of the area's most stellar companies are under scrutiny from government agencies, thanks to developer and customer complaints about their policies. Apple, Google, and Facebook are facing a growing backlash. Whether or not the companies are ultimately found guilty, these complaints have returned the negative focus to the Silicon Valley. Apple: FaceTime Video Calls Won't Use Your Carrier Minutes Dan Frommer, The Business Insider Good news: Apple's new FaceTime video calls won't use up your allotment of carrier minutes, even if they're initiated from within a voice call, an Apple rep tells us. A Closer Look At iPhone 4's Coolest Tech The Apple iPhone 4 packs a lot of cutting-edge tech--one of the reasons preorders for the iPhone sold out immediately. Here's a second look at three standout specs that elevate the iPhone 4 above its predecessor. MobileMe May Find Its Niche In Small Business Jeff Bertolucci, PC World MobileMe, despite its consumerish bent, may find greater success in the small business market. Two features stand out as particularly pro-business: Find My iPhone and Remote Wipe. Inside Apple's New Xcode 4 Development Tool At WWDC, Apple treated its Mac OS X and iOS programmers to a preview of its entirely revised Xcode 4 integrated development environment. Here's a look at what's new and how it matters for end users. iOS 4 Walkthrough TiPb Apple Lightens Up On Some Nudity Apps Kevin Kelleher, Washington Post As a result of Apple's decision to wade into the porn morass, it's quite possible that the company could end up being seen as both as an opponent to free speech and an purveyor of porn. Not an easy trick to pull off. Defending The iPad’s Restrictions Andrew McAfee, Forbes I believe that America's extraordinary track record of innovation and creativity exists not despite its IP laws, but at least in part because of them. I applaud the fact that IP creators and owners have strong rights to exclude, even when these creators and owners are big, powerful corporations. And I really like the bundle of sticks contained in my iPad. First Look: Apple' New Unibody Mac Mini Is The Mac Mini The New Apple TV? Another iPhone Mystery Explained “What your readers are seeing is a routine update of the daily data activity on their devices—whether the iPhone or other handsets—to ensure billing accuracy. Customers are not charged for any data usage as part of this routine update.” WWDC 2010 Wrap-Up There’s nothing in the developer agreement guidelines to suggest these apps wouldn’t be allowed. But, they’re not. And the problem is that the developers who made these apps only found out after they had created the apps and submitted them to the store. Obviously Apple can’t write guidelines that cover scenarios it hasn’t foreseen; but once something new comes up, their policies to handle it should be documented publicly. Find My iPhone App Enables Mobile Device Discovery The Find My iPhone app makes this a much simpler task. Apple Quietly Includes Malware Prevention Update In Mac OS X 10.6.4 Apple silently updated its Snow Leopard malware protection in this week's Mac OS X 10.6.4 update, targeting a Trojan that disguises itself as iPhoto. iPhone 4 Lineup Starts In Texas Don't mess with Texas. Especially Dallas resident Justin Wagoner. He's the first in line for an iPhone 4 at Apple Store Knox Street. For those of you who just glanced at your calendar, you're right. He's a week early. Lost Your iPhone In A Bar? There Is Now An App For That! Alexander Vaughn, App Advice Apple has just released a brand new universal “Find my iPhone” app to the App Store. Getting To Know Safari 5's Extensions Clint Ecker, Ars Technica The first iteration of the extension system allows developers to add features to a number of carefully controlled places within the application. Developers can create toolbars, add items to contextual menus, manipulate windows and tabs, add toolbar buttons, and manipulate and extract content within webpages themselves. Extensions can also selectively inspect and filter resources and deny them from loading. Sizing Up The iPhone 4 For Shutterbugs When Apple announced the iPhone 4 at WWDC 2010, however, the company ticked off nearly every box on the wishlist: more megapixels (though as ever, there are people for whom no amount is ever enough), better low-light sensitivity, an LED flash, a wider angle of view, 720p HD video recording, a front-facing camera, and more. An iPhone 4 isn't going to replace a DSLR or a high-end point-and-shoot, but for all but the most devoted pixel-peepers, the hardware is capable of some very nice images. Apple's A4 Dissected, Discussed...And Tantalizing Paul Boldt, Don Scansen, Tim Whibley , EE Times Who Needs A Mirror When You Have A Cell Phone? DLP Mobile, a small New York City development company that specializes in iPad and iPhone applications, said it is readying the release of a new app designed for the iPhone 4 called the Mirror App. The app takes advantage of the front facing camera on the new iPhone and simply acts as a mirror, with a few extra digital features throw in. The application will make color corrections and has light filters to allow people to apply makeup or add a little gel to their hair in low light settings. Apple Posts WWDC Session Videos To iTunes U Apple has made more than 100 individual sessions filmed at its Worldwide Developers Conference available to developers via iTunes U, for free. Apple Is The New Hacker Bulls-Eye David Goldman, CNNMoney Recent iPad security scares are a sign that Apple's devices are a growing target for hackers, spammers and malicious coders. Biz Break: Age Of Apple's iPad? How Tablets Will Take Over Tech Frank Michael Russell, San Jose Mercury News According to Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps, manufacturers including Apple will sell 3.5 million tablet computers this year in the U.S., but the market will grow at a "whopping" 42 percent yearly rate from now until 2015. ‘First To Do It’ Vs. ‘First To Do It Right’ Android and iPhone fans will read the preceding paragraph very differently. Android fans will read it and say, “Exactly — give us the hardware and let developers figure out what to do with it.” iPhone fans will read it and say, “I can’t wait to get an iPhone 4.” Turn Your iTunes Digital Booklets Into IBooks iTunes Digital Booklets are the PDF files that come with with some iTunes albums, and include lyrics and cover art. Unfortunately, they’ve been of limited usefulness since you can’t really do much more than view them on the computer or organize them into a smart playlist. Come Monday, however, you’ll finally be able to load them onto an iOS 4-capable iPhone or iPod touch—and Apple has kindly released a Knowledge Base article detailing how to do so. First Look: Life, A Web Browser Optimized For The iPad Steven Sande, TUAW Ten Tiny And Amazing Mac Apps You've Never Heard Of Tod Maffin, TUAW Apple Opens Safari Extension Program To Submissions Apple announced at Safari’s release that it would open a Safari Extensions Gallery later this summer, and the doors are now open for submissions. iPhone 4 Confirmed To Have 512 MB Of RAM Arnold Kim, MacRumors We had heard that Apple confirmed this 512MB figure during one of the WWDC sessions last week, and have now verified this. The session it was revealed in is now available (Session 147, Advanced Performance Optimization on iPhone OS, pt 2) for registered Apple developers. Apple's Bozo Attacks On Its Developer Lifeblood Bill Synder, InfoWorld I supported Apple CEO Steve Jobs when he trashed Flash and banned it from the iPhone's and iPad's iOS. I agreed with him when he was tough on the Website that purchased (probably illegally) a lost iPhone 4 prototype. But Apple has crossed the line at least twice this month, prohibiting app developers from using AdMob and Google's advertising services on the iPhone and censoring sexual content in iPhone and iPad apps. Taken together, Apple's bozo moves threaten to deprive developers -- the lifeblood of any platform -- of needed income, and they place Jobs & Co. in the role of a digital ayatollahs, dictating what types of content users will access on their own hardware. Neither action is good for Apple's business, and they smack of monopolistic bullying. iPad Shines Due To Deft Touch Vito Pilieci, The Ottawa Citizen So, why does the iPad work? It's because someone at Apple, and that someone is likely Jobs, said on Day One of the iPhone's development that the software powering the device needed to be made with fingers in mind. Georgetown Apple Store Finally Ready To Open Topher Mathews, Washington Post This Friday night, Apple will finally open its store at 1229 Wisconsin Ave. NW in Georgetown. It's the culmination of a saga stretching back two and a half years to when the technology giant bought the building that housed the French Connection clothing store. Demolition of the building began in November, meaning that it took Apple approximately eight months to physically build the store. That's less than half the 19 months it took for Apple to get design approval for the new building. Should Apple Allow English Porn iPad App? If the Playboy app has already been approved--one that has surely far racier content--how can the Sun be denied? Moreover, perhaps the Apple approval committee also understands the peculiar cultural context inhabited by the Sun in the less than sunny isles. ATandT Investigating User Account Complaints By iPhone 4 Customers Brian Prince, eWeek AT&T said it is investigating reports that customers were able to view other people’s information when placing advance orders for Apple iPhone 4. Children's Book Apps Get Curiouser And Curiouser Nick Wingfield, Wall Street Journal After sampling several early examples of these books apps, I’ve seen some tantalizing hints of the creative possibilities for authors and publishers who recast themselves as app makers. Phone Smart: 2 Apps Let iPad Users Perform Actual Work Bob Tedeschi, New York Times Neither app is enough to make me scrap my laptop — Documents To Go needs to work out some bugs, and Quickoffice is the slicker and more reliable of the two — but now that I can get some work done on the iPad, I plan to pick up an external keyboard. Review: Five iPhone Twitter Apps And as nice an app as TwitBird is in all its incarnations, I don’t find that it offers anything better than the free Twitter app. HootSuite, however, succeeds by coupling its very elegant app with its data-driven approach, since that’s a unique service Twitter’s own client doesn’t provide. Adobe Knocks Apple For Serving Up Outdated Flash Player "10.6.4 update for Mac OS X includes Flash Player, but not the latest version," said Brad Arkin, Adobe's director of security and privacy, in a message on Twitter Tuesday shortly after Apple issued the security and performance update. Apple can, in response, issue a new patch that removes all Flash player once and for all. :-) Apple Releases iTunes 9.2 iTunes 9.2 adds a handful of features, chiefly compatibility with iOS 4 and iPhone 4, both of which are slated for release next week. In addition, the update introduces book syncing and reading with an iPhone or iPod touch running iBooks 1.1, and support for organizing and syncing PDF documents as books. Apple Selling Unlocked iPhone In Canada, Europe Marco Tabini, Macworld According to an FAQ published on Apple’s Canadian and British Websites, customers in those countries—as well as in France and Germany—will be able to buy an iPhone 4 handset for full price but without any commitment or carrier lock. This means that they will be free to choose any GSM carrier that uses frequencies compatible with the company’s phones without having to be subject to a long-term contract—and with the ability to swap carriers at any time without having to replace their devices. Flagship Apple Shanghai Megastore Now Under Red Curtains Apple's cylindrical glass tower entrance to the new underground retail megastore in Shanghai China, set to open mid July, is now decked in red curtains, signaling close proximity to launch. When Apple released a Mac mini that bears an HDMI port on Tuesday, it took mere minutes before people suggested that this new mini was the next-generation Apple TV in disguise. And for some, it may be. We’ll take a deeper look as we have more time to test out the new Mac mini, but here’s a look at some of areas that separate the two. It’s the unwise parent who grants their young child unguarded access to the Internet. Thankfully, Mac OS X provides some protection with its built-in Parental Controls. If you’re concerned about what your child might see online—or are simply interested in limiting the time your Mac-obsessed spawn spends in front of the computer—join us on this tour of Snow Leopard’s Parental Controls. Apple, AT&T Apologize For Massive iPhone 4 Preorder Meltdown Both AT&T and Apple have sent out statements Wednesday acknowledging yesterday's iPhone 4 preorder meltdown. According to AT&T spokesperson Seth Bloom, preorder sales for the iPhone 4 were 10 times higher than the first day of preorders for the iPhone 3GS last summer. Apple has also publicly acknowledged that things did not go smoothly, apologizing to would-be customers who weren't able to get an order in before the iPhone 4 sold out. Apple: 600,000 iPhone 4 Pre-orders In One Day Apple's iPad Joins The 6th Grade: A Novelty Or The Next Big Idea? Ki Mae Heussner, ABC News As educators across the country try to keep pace with technology, Apple's new tablet will be boarding the school bus and carried into to classroom -- the latest teaching tool for schools willing to foot the bill. iPhone Not Safe, MPs Told James Kirkup, Telegraph The Apple iPhone, one of the most popular mobile phones in Britain, is not safe from electronic snooping, government security experts have told MPs. Copland 2010 Revisited: Apple's Language And API Future John Siracusa, Ars Technica US Apple Store Now Showing July 2 Ship Date For New iPhone 4 Preorders Michael Rose, TUAW As of a few minutes ago, with some intermittent switching back to the original date and variation among different areas of the country, the US Apple Store website is now showing a pretty consistent July 2nd shipping date for new preorders. Apple Needs To Cool Its Rhetoric No longer an industry underdog, the company must tread more carefully, says an analyst. Apple Mac Mini (Spring 2010) Rich Brown, CNET Apple's new Mac Mini answers a lot of the issues that have plagued the series over the years. Hands On With The New Mac Mini The new Mac mini, while wider than the previous model, is only 1.4 inches thick. And something else is missing—the power supply. Instead of the heavy, bulky, white power brick that’s shipped with every mini since the line was introduced, the newest mini comes with only a thin power cord and a video adapter. Japan iPhone Pre-orders Trigger Long Lines Pre-orders began Tuesday at 5 p.m., and the early rush for the iPhone 4 led to long lines around Tokyo and overwhelmed computer servers struggling to keep up with demand. How To Get Your Porn App Into iTunes: Wrap A Newspaper Around It Peter Kafka, Wall Street Journal Steve Jobs wants to keep porn out of his iTunes App Store. But not all porn. At least if you define porn as “half-naked shots of unknown British models.” Because that’s what you get with the new iPad app from The Sun. iPhone 4 Ordering: What A Mess I mean, come on, people. This is our fourth annual go-round with new-iPhone releases. Surely the surge of interest and popularity is no longer catching Apple or AT&T executives by surprise. Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.6.4 Apple details three types of of updates contained in Mac OS X 10.6.4: general fixes and improvements, fixes and improvements for Aperture 3, and fixes and improvements for external devices. Apple also released Mac OS X Server 10.6.4 on Tuesday, with improvements for Wiki Server, Software Update Server, vacation mail notices spanning multiple days, improved reliability of VPN connections, and more. The update is recommended for all current users of Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server. Apple Working With Partners To Improve Mac Gaming Performance With more major releases than ever headed to the Mac platform thanks to the release of Valve's Steam service, Apple is working closely with its hardware and software partners to improve performance of graphically intensive titles. WWDC10 Matt Drance, Apple Outsider The battle continues to heat up. With both words and actions, Apple is taking the competition very seriously. Set Up A Kid-friendly Computer Here's how to put together a Mac just right for small and messy hands. $100 Increase For Apple's Redesigned Mac Mini Seen As Disappointment Shaw Wu with Kaufman Bros. issued a note to investors noting that the Mac mini refresh is the most significant for the desktop hardware since it was first introduced in January of 2005. The new hardware added an HDMI port and now has an aluminum unibody exterior. But those additions weren't enough to offset some dissatisfaction with the new price for Wu. Devs Cautiously Optimistic About iOS 4 Nonnative Code Change When Apple revised the terms in its iPhone Developer Agreement to make room for limited analytics by independent third-party advertisers, it also made an adjustment to allow non-Objective-C code in iOS apps under certain conditions and with Apple's written permission. Developers so far seem cautiously optimistic that the change will be a net positive for developers as well as for users of some apps that got caught in what appears to be an Apple versus Adobe crossfire. Apple Launches The Apple Store App Simply called "Apple Store," the new app lets users shop the full line of products available at The Apple Store. But it's more than shopping. You can use the app to read customer reviews, find an Apple Retail Store in your area and monitor in-store events. Speaking of the brick-and-mortar stores, if you're planning a visit you can first use the Apple Store app to arrange personal shopping, schedule a Genius Bar appointment or organize a One to One session. Apple's iPad Nabs Netbook Market Share The iPad is starting to grab market share from Netbooks, a trend that may not bode well for these small laptops, according to a report from DisplaySearch on Tuesday. Apple TV Is Even Less Of A Hobby For Now Thanks To The New Mac Mini Apple’s decision to add a HDMI output and highlight the TV-hookup capabilities of the new Mac mini is made more interesting by the recent rumors that they’re working on a new, cheaper cloud-based version of the Apple TV. It’s not clear when such a product would be ready to go, but you can bet that Apple is going to use the next few months to see how the Mac mini sells as a living-room compatible device. iPhone Reselling Takes Off After WWDC Since Steve Jobs announced the latest update to Apple's smartphone, customers have begun to hit up gadget trade-in sites to sell their old iPhones, which could be a sign that they're ready to upgrade to the latest version of the iPhone. iPhone 4 Sold Out Yes, the mighty iPhone 4 (and Apple's marketing) have won the day and are, at this moment, currently sold out at AT&T's stores for launch day delivery (you can still preorder from Apple, however). Apple's iPhone App Moral Hypocrisy The company wants to ensure both technical and moral purity -- a sure path to killing Apple's creative spirit. Apple's New Mac Mini Is A Small Business Server Too The Mac mini seems well equipped for office life. It may achieve greater success as a small business server than as a living room media center, particularly if the next incarnation of Apple TV is a hit. Apple Is Killing The Tech Sector Scott Moritz, TheStreet Call it hardball or capitalism in its purest form, but Apple's autocratic approach to business and the current sway its products have in the market have been nothing but punishment for other players. You cannot count the number of failures brought on by Apple without also counting the number of new players making apps, iPod and iPhone cases, and USB peripherals. Reactions To "Multitasking In iOS 4 Is Not A Magical Sparkle Pony" Benjamin Mayo, My Playground Of Thought Apple's implementation of "multitasking" isn't perfect from a function perspective (the overall experience is very good though), although it certainly is better than what the article makes it out to be. iPhone 4 Up For Pre-Order — Black Only Just moments ago, Apple’s latest mobile device was put up for pre-sale on Apple’s Online Store. But as was rumored, it’s only available for pre-order in black. They don’t give an estimate as to when the white one will be available, but it will undoubtedly be at some point this summer. Apple’s Midnight Surprise: A Redesigned Mac Mini With HDMI The Mac mini has been given a sleek new slimmer (1.4 inch) aluminum case made using the same unibody technique that Apple uses on the MacBooks. More importantly, the thing packs a powerful processor and supposedly twice the graphics performance. But the big news is that the device has an HDMI output for the first time. You know what that means: this thing just became a lot of people’s media center. First DC Apple Store Set To Open Dealerscope Military Likely To Shun iPhone Amber Corrin, Defense Systems As the military continues its search for the best battlefield smart phone, it’s looking more unlikely that the iPhone will be a contender. The biggest hurdle: Apple’s proprietary technology and the massive price tag attached to implementing it across the Defense Department. Multitasking In iOS 4 Is Not A Magical Sparkle Pony Background processing is extremely constrained to three specific areas, which Apple believes will cover most of the things that most people want to do most of the time. Apparently, You Don’t Have A Choice About Appearing Before Congress TomKnighton.com Really? So, instead of making more hugely popular products that millions of Americans just can’t help but buy, they should have come and answered some silly questions asked by silly people sitting in a silly position just because they’re in Congress, despite there being no requirement to? Witch 3.5 Knows Window Switchcraft I've recommended Witch in the past, but its most recent incarnations have given it a boost in speed and power that makes it irresistible. Witch has better keyboard navigation than ever. Witch is now Spaces-friendly, meaning that it can see windows open in spaces other than the one you're currently in. And the latest version, 3.5, even lets you display a preview of a window. Apple: Write Apps For Us, Not For Them! A video love song to iPad developers (and a warning to anybody considering Android). One Bad Apple: Will Steve Jobs' Ego Undermine Apple's Success? Mario Almonte, Huffington Post What began as grumblings over Jobs' refusal to offer the iPhone to a more reliable wireless network and, more recently, criticisms of the iPad's technical shortcomings, are turning into criticisms of Jobs himself. And Jobs' temperamental response to his growing number of critics threatens to undermine all that he has achieved for Apple. Apple Slapped With Lawsuit Over 'iAds' Monicker Rik Myslewski, Register Another day, another lawsuit for Apple. This time Jobs & Company are being taken to task for naming the iPhone's new mobile-advertising platform "iAds" when that service mark is already owned by a Southern California media company. Apple's Startup Culture Nilofer Merchant, BusinessWeek The essence of what causes Apple to win is the same thing that causes startups to innovate, the same thing that is at the root of all high-performance cultures. His description encapsulates the smart collaboration that underlies the creative acts of innovation throughout Apple and that exemplifies the company's culture. iPhone 4 Has 802.11n, But Not The "Awesome" 802.11n If you're currently running a 5GHz-only N network, your iPhone won't take advantage. Apple Secrecy Is Bitter Fruit On Hill Kim Hart, Politico Apple is famous for its veil of secrecy around the new iPads and iPhones. But Sen. John Rockefeller and others in Congress wonder whether the company has more than technological innovations to hide. When Apple didn’t participate in an April hearing on children’s online privacy, the West Virginia Democrat who chairs the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, gave voice to his suspicions. White iPhone 4 Gets Delayed If you were hoping to reserve a white iPhone 4 tomorrow (which apparently looks sleek with a black bumper), then get ready to be disappointed. Apple's New IOS 4 Game Center Goes Live For Developers Apple's Game Center in iOS 4 is now enabling user logins for the first time since the company began distributing the app with developer builds of the next OS for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. First Look: Lightroom 3 Keep Your Mac Tidy With MacKeeper New MacBook Pros Offer Performance At A Price Personally, I want a notebook computer to combine performance, portability and sturdiness, and that much Apple has accomplished, in spades. Data Caps Force App Developers To Be Efficient As unlimited mobile data plans become a thing of the past for many wireless smartphone subscribers, developers will have to think more carefully about how efficiently their apps use network resources. Apple's One Big Design Flaw Tod Maffin On both the iPhone and iPad, the speaker is located on the rim of the product — which means that when you’re looking at the screen and listening to audio, the audio is shooting out away from you. AVG Brings LinkScanner Malware Detector To The Mac Philip Michaels, Macworld AVG Technologies plans to unveil a Mac version of AVG LinkScanner, a free download that scans Website links for potential threats. AVG says its LinkScanner application checks Web pages in real-time, posting a warning to users if the software finds a Website that could pose potential problems. AT&T Explains iPad Security Breach Reeder, A Google Reader Client, Arrives On iPad WWDC Thoughts David Dunham, Radio Free Lunch More surprising was the number of women. There are never a lot (you inevitably hear someone joking about the lines for the men’s toilet and the lack of line for the women’s), but this year seemed worse than I remember. Two Ways To Delete Lots Of iPhone Photos Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Once again, it's a little surprising that there's a capability of the age-old Image Capture program that Apple hasn't yet built into iPhoto, but there it is. Is Apple Doing Enough To Silence The Watchdogs? While Apple Inc has eased restrictions for iPhone advertising, targeting them more pointedly at rival Google Inc, it hasn't done enough to mollify antitrust regulators. Options For Reading Mac Drives In Boot Camp Topher Kessler, CNET News Despite the advancements in virtualization technologies, Boot Camp is still the best option for compatibility and overall speed when you want to run Windows programs on your Apple hardware. This will arguably always be the case, but while speed is a perk, native support for NTFS in OS X and HFS in Windows prevents quick file transfer both to and from the partitions. Despite this, there are several utilities that will allow two-way file transfers both in OS X as well as in Windows. What The World Wants Next From Apple Eric J. Savitz, Barron's I have absolutely no doubt that the new iPhone will sell like hot cakes once it goes on sale later this month. But as I walked away from the event, I couldn't help wondering: Now what? I won't even attempt to guess. But let me note a few things that Apple-philiacs are currently thinking about. 5 Reasons To Upgrade To Apple's Safari 5 (Ryan Faas), Computerworld A Test Of Apple's Loyalty Mark Veverka, Barron's Perhaps the most important thing that people may be missing in the carrier debate is the fact that AT&T is ahead of its competitors when it comes to the wireless-data learning curve. By virtue of tackling these issues during the early days of iPhone adoption, AT&T is building itself a very capable infrastructure, despite customer sentiment to the contrary. Apple Hits 10,000 iPad Apps — Store Doubled In The Past Six Weeks 2 Months With The iPad: Mature, Powerful, And Very Useful Austin Leeds, Low End Mac Unlike many Apple products, the iPad does not feel first generation. iMovie For iPhone Details Surface Jeff Carlson, TidBITS iMovie for iPhone will require the iPhone 4, and not be available for the iPhone 3GS. Handling video and creating real-time transitions needs the power of the iPhone 4's A4 processor. How The iPad Caused Me To Reshape My Life Apple's iPhone Ad Blockade Probably Won't Result In Antitrust Suit But Apple Is Walking A Thin Line Dan Frommer , Business Insider Hello, Lua While explicit approval from Apple is still required, these new terms seem to acknowledge that there’s a difference between an app that happens to have non-compiled code, and a meta-platform. It’s a step that should allow for many new possibilities. Today Is The Day To Sell A Used iPhone Rik Fairlie, New York Times Gazelle, a site that pays for used electronics and tech products, says Friday is the day you’ll get the most money for an old iPhone. That’s today. Putting Photos On The iPad, No PC Required The Camera Connection kit is an easy way to import photos to the iPad to share when you’re on the road and off the computer. The iPad just can’t hold up its end of the deal by letting you rename folders and view photo data. How Steve Jobs Beats Presentation Panic Thomas Wailgum, CIO.com What Jobs did next, according to Carmine Gallo, author of The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs, was vintage Jobs (and a model for how presenters should deal with stage crises): He did not panic. Design For Readability First Scott Gilbertson, Webmonkey The message of Reader (and tools of its ilk) isn’t that the online publishing model is doomed, but that it desperately needs a reboot to get rid of all the junk that’s clogging up the whole point of the system: connecting readers with the information they want. Let’s Get Serious: Safari Reader Is Not The Death Of Media Mathew Ingram, GigaOM As for the new feature being a surreptitious attempt to push content companies to develop apps, that seems a little Machiavellian, even for Apple — especially since only a fraction of readers are ever going to use the Reader feature. Is The New Apple Ruthless At Its Core? Although federal antitrust officials are reportedly looking into Apple's effort to bar rival advertising networks, it's hard to see how the company's tactics violate the law. Simply put, the iPhone doesn't dominate the smartphone market. The more important question is how consumers will react to the emerging picture of Apple. Review: Air Display Turns iPad Into Pricy Secondary Display Jeff Smykil, Ars Technica At $9.99, Air Display is a bit more expensive than many iPad applications, but if you have a legitimate need and reasonable expectations, it’s worth the money. Feds Laid Foundation For Apple/Google Mobile Ad Feud Eliot Van Buskirk, Wired Apple’s position isn’t as crazy as it might sound. Let's Declare A Moratorium On Browser Speed Claims Harry McCracken, Technologizer Apple says Safari 5 is the world's fastest browser. Other folks disagree. Who's right? Everyone and no one. Do The Feds Have A Case Against Apple? The question in these cases is always whether Apple has enough market power to force people to play by its rules. The federal government will be concerned about whether there will be a healthy market for ad networks outside of Apple's system and whether developers will be able to switch over to those ad networks easily enough to create competition between Apple's ad network and other ad networks. Feature: WWDC Keynote WiFi Woes May Have Been Due To iPhone 4 Drivers Glenn Fleishman, Ars Technica After examining the video from the event and discussing it with two veteran WiFi gurus, it seems almost certain that the MiFi was only part of the problem. A flaw in the pre-release iPhone 4 iOS was clearly another element. That's not to say that having hundreds of WiFi base stations doesn't cause trouble. In fact, the iPhone 4's putative driver problem likely arose from the multitude of network signals. But neither the ocean of signals nor the iPhone 4's performance can be looked at entirely in isolation. Apple Releases iTunes Connect Mobile For Developers App Store developers who have been itching for a way to to keep an eye on their sales stats while on-the-go can finally rejoice. There is, at last, an (official) app for that. Adobe Officially Releases Flash Player 10.1 Apple's Safari 5 Takes Speed Prize On Mac, Windows Safari dethrowned the speed kings from Google and Opera Software to take the top spot in the time trials. Report: Apple's iAd Could Face Antitrust Investigation Agam Shah, Macworld U.S. regulators are planning to investigate whether Apple is shutting out third parties such as Google and Microsoft in advertising the iPhone and iPad, according to a report published by the Financial Times on Thursday. Review: Team Fortress 2 Chris Holt, Macworld Reload Accidentally Closed Tabs In Safari 5 If you accidentally close a tab you didn’t mean to close, just press Command+Z, the Mac’s standard keyboard shortcut for Undo. The “lost” tab is immediately restored. Chronos Releases iScrapbook 3 Ramu Nagappan, Macworld Chronos has released iScrapbook 3, a major upgrade to its digital scrapbooking software. The new version includes twenty new templates, font and cover flow previews, and faster page loading. Safari 5 Tested: Chrome, Opera Still Have JavaScript Edge Overall, Safari 5 is quite snappy, and does feel faster than Safari 4—especially on Windows. Though Safari's Nitro JavaScript engine may have a very slight raw performance advantage, the benchmarks we ran show that Apple and the WebKit team certainly have some areas where it can improve—both in JavaScript performance characteristics as well as optimizing performance for animation and other graphics rendering. The Everywhere Else Machine Minimal Mac What happens for me is that, after a few seconds of use, the device itself seems to disappear. Suddenly, I am holding whatever app I am using in my hands. Resolving The iPhone Resolution Phil Plait, Discover Let me make this clear: if you have perfect eyesight, than at one foot away the iPhone 4’s pixels are resolved. The picture will look pixellated. If you have average eyesight, the picture will look just fine. At the very worst, you could claim Jobs exaggerated; his claim is not true if you have perfect vision. But for a lot of people, I would even say most people, you’ll never tell the difference. And if you hold the phone a few inches farther away it’ll look better. Foxconn Makes No Profits On iPhones: Activists Mahesh Sharma, ZDNet Australia Apple secured a "zero profit" deal to receive iPhones from Chinese technology manufacturer Foxconn, according to a worker rights activist group, which has linked the factory's poor wages and working conditions with a number of young worker suicides. iPhone 4 Does Not Have A Resolution Higher Than The Retina (or Does It?) Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet Safari 5: Fast Like A Cheetah, Tame Like A Housecat Seth Rosenblatt, CNET Speed is important, but it's not the only judge of a good browser. With the exception of the unique Reader feature, Safari 5 does more to bring Apple's browser into line with other browsers than actually forging any new ground, and even with the improvements made to this version Safari still lacks many of the small but useful features competitors offer. For raw JavaScript speed, Safari is at the head of the pack for now, but Apple's focus on other user needs is remains less than exemplary. Safari Reader: A Dislike Button For Online Ads John Paczkowski, Wall Street Journal This seems to be an elegant compromise between readers and publishers. Activating Reader requires additional navigation and a click of the mouse. In other words, it requires motivation. What’s Missing From iPhone 4 Is Part Of What Makes It Great Most companies, seeing their competitors already doing something, would feel forced into releasing their own solution as quickly as possible. Not Apple. And I suspect this ends up being a big benefit for the users. Benchmarks: Safari 5 Shows JavaScript Boost Roman Loyola, Macworld When Safari 5 was released last Monday, Apple claimed that the "world's fastest" Web browser is now faster. Macworld Lab performed a performance test on the new Safari, and our results didn't exactly match those claimed by Apple, we did find a boost in performance. On This Safari 5 Reader Hysteria Perhaps instead of flamebait posts of ‘Apple are out to get us’ media companies should be asking themselves ‘how did reading content online become so sucky’? Deal With Apple 'Easy,' Microsoft Executive Says Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service Microsoft may be the biggest software company in the world, but like everyone else who does a deal with Apple, it too was sworn to secrecy. "We agreed not to disclose our terms," said Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president, online audience business at Microsoft. Mehdi said that Apple was impressed with some new Bing features that are in store for iPhone users." Michael Muchmore, PC Magazine Safari is already a fast, beautiful browser, but the new Reader view makes it even more appealing. Leading support for HTML 5 features will also be important, but you can already get that in Chrome, Firefox, and Opera, and soon in Internet Explorer 9. Safari's strong bookmarking, RSS reader, and vivid new-tab page will appeal to many, but Chrome is still faster, and our Editors' Choice Firefox is more customizable. Legacy iBook Turned Into iPad Stand Bryan Wolfe, App Advice Numerous articles have popped up showing users hollowing out their old iBook screens and putting in its place, a new iPad. In addition, a new aluminum keyboard is installed where the iBook’s keyboard used to be. Researchers: Windows 7 And Mac OS X Both Hit By Fundamental Flaws Brenno de Winter, WebWereld Windows 7 and Mac OS X each have a new, fundamental flaw that will be presented at the Hack in the Box conference in Amsterdam in July. These security holes are so close to the core operating systems that fixing them may be very hard. AT&T Website Hack Leaks iPad 3G User Emails Black hat hackers have exploited a security flaw on AT&T's web servers which enabled them to obtain email addresses from the SIM card addresses of iPad 3G users. Chat Services Take Wait-and-see Approach To Adopting Apple's FaceTime After Apple this week announced its new open standard for video calling, dubbed FaceTime, major online chat providers have expressed interest in the new standards-based technology, but do not yet have plans to adopt it in their own services. A Photographer's Workflow For The iPad Derrick Story, Macworld The iPad might not be the final destination for your images, but with Apple's Camera Connection Kit, it can be a great stop along the way. You can preview your photos on its large screen, build dynamic presentations with them in Keynote while you sip coffee at a cafe, or publish your favorite pictures online—all without cracking open a laptop. Here are some ways enthusiast photographers can build a decent workflow right now using the iPad with the optional Camera Connection Kit. Safari 5 Extensions Start To Appear, 1Password Updated For Compatibility Just 48 hours after Safari 5's release, the first extensions are appearing; safariextensions.tumblr.com is keeping track and listing new ones as they become available. Automatically Log Out Idle Users Good User Interface Design On Mac OS X And The iPhone OS Colin Wheeler, Cocoa Samurai User Accounts On Apple Devices Forcing Office Web Apps To Open On An iPad Now, again, creating and editing Office documents on an iPad is not supported, so it's not surprising it doesn't really work in the mobile version of Safari. That said, with iPads flying off the shelves, it probably should be a supported browser. And Microsoft might want to rethink that decision not to create native apps for the iPhone and iPad as well. Apple's IAd Service Is Like Dealing With The Devil Kevin Hall, DVICE While the details are still coming together as Apple gets its iAd service together, the message is clear: if you want to advertise on any product with an Apple logo, you better be comfortable with the company having hands in both your pockets. Google Protests Apple's iPhone Developers Agreement Gabriel Madway, Reuters Google Inc said on Wednesday recent changes to Apple's developers agreement would effectively cripple Google's advertising tools for the iPhone, creating "artificial" barriers to competition. "This change is not in the best interests of users or developers," Omar Hamoui, founder of mobile ad company AdMob, said in a blog post. AdMob was recently purchased by Google. Among E-Readers, Competition Heats Up Joanna Stern, New York Times Why Instapaper Will Never Be Booted From The iTunes App Store Christopher Mims, Technology Review Creator of the popular reading app Marco Armenti on how he's managed to avoid angering the New York Times - so far. Jobs Has Lofty Goal fFor iPhone 4's FaceTime Video Chat With Open Standard Matt Hamblen, Computerworld Getting an open standard will mean not only talking to standards bodies, but also persuading some industry powerhouses to get behind those standards, including Cisco Systems, Microsoft and Google. All of those competitors are surely interested in providing video chat with mobile devices and could easily favor going in a separate direction from Apple. Developing one's own technology outside of the mainstream industry standard is the very nature of how some technology companies compete -- and win -- today, including Apple. Foxconn Passes Raise Costs To Customers Foxconn Technology Group says its customers — which include global technology giants Apple and Dell — will have to pay more after it increased wages in China by nearly two-thirds in the aftermath of a spate of worker suicides. Apple's iPad Muscles Into Corporate Asia After Retail Buzz Miyoung Kim, Reuters Apple's iPad, initially viewed as a Web entertainment gadget for consumers, is quickly making inroads across businesses in Asia as wedding planners, luxury hotels and airlines hook up to the tablet computer. Accessibility For The Visually Impaired Has Come A Long Way, Thanks To Apple, But Not Far Enough Melanie D.G. Kaplan, SmartPlanet We put a lot of pressure on AT&T (Section 255 of the Telecommunications Act requires manufacturers and providers of phones to be accessible) and Apple to make the iPhone accessible. They promised it would be, and in a year or two, it was. They not only took VoiceOver and moved it over to iPhone, but they changed they way you use the touch screen so it was accessible for someone who can’t see it. How Apple's New Ad-blocker Could Save The Media (Maybe) Peter Robins, The Guardian In other words, two of the big threats to the ad-supported model, ad-blocking and excess inventory, might end up cancelling each other out. I did promise you absurd optimism. Review: eBlaster Mac 2010 Jeffery Battersby, Macworld eBlaster is a powerful tool for collecting information on any and everything taking place on a monitored computer. While I have to admit that the idea of having to gather this kind of information does make my skin crawl a bit, I’m also aware that these tools are necessary. And when you need to surreptitiously monitor what’s happening on another computer you won’t find a better application that eBlaster. Apple Developers, You're Living On The Edge Molly Wood, CNET News If there are three reasons an app can be initially rejected from the store, there seem to be innumerable and incomprehensible reasons an app can be yanked from the store. Apple iPhone 4: An Update On Those Reasons Not To Buy One Matt Warman, Telegraph WWDC10: Apple Design Awards Go To Notable iPhone, iPad Apps Apple's "Evil/Genius" Plan To Punk The Web And Gild The iPad Ken Fisher, Ars Technica So the company that has made an advertising platform a major part of its iOS strategy is also hawking an ad-blocking technology for its Web browser, where it has no stake in ads. First Look: Safari 5's Extensions It's still too early to say whether extensions will catch on and become an important part of the Safari ecosystem. Their introduction, however, kicks Safari's capabilities up a serious notch and represents a direct move against Firefox, although the latter has a considerable lead and a well-established reputation as an extensible browser that are going to be difficult to overcome. Safari 5's 'Reader' Nudges Web Publishers To App Store Ultimately, Apple’s ad blocker differs from the rest because the company also offers a protected alternative for web publishers — the Apple App Store — where they can publish without having their advertisements blocked. Apple Keynote Fail. Google Keynote Fail. It's All Good. Those of us in the business of lame analogies are eager to seize upon this incident as an illustration of the fundamental difference between Apple and Google. Apple commands more control over their developers and their community. Where's The Mac? Apple's WWDC An iPhone World In light of the pattern of the last few years, and the company's growing mobile device and mobile platform businesses, Mac OS X's absence Monday is curious. Better Screen, Same Typography Khoi Vinh, Subtraction Building a great display for typography without building great typographic tools is a dereliction of duty. Apple Is Shutting Google And Microsoft Out Of iOS Advertising Analytics Seth Weintraub, Fortune Apple yesterday upgraded its iPhone Developer Program License Agreement with very specific terms that give it significant advantages over Google and Microsoft in advertising. Could Apple's MiFi Meltdown Have Been Avoided With A WiFi Investment? Sam Diaz, ZDNet In a nutshell, the best way to get around this is to understand the connectivity needs of your audience and cough up enough dough to make sure that the in-house WiFi is robust enough so that guys like me can use it to do our jobs. Shutting down my laptop yesterday so Steve Jobs could run his demo was something I was not willing to do. Just like Steve, I was there to do a job. His was to present. Mine was to liveblog. The Things We Carry! Greg Beato, The Smart Set Pots help sell plants. Bookshelves move books. It’s the same with high-tech gadgets. The usefulness of the iPad may still be up for debate, but the case vendors have already literally created a place for it in our lives. First Smithsonian Mobile App Offers Virtual Tour Of Klein Exhibit FaceTime Changes Name To Avoid Apple Conflict Simon Quicke, Microscope.co.uk Messaging security specialist FaceTime has announced plans to scrap its name after Apple unveiled plans to use the same moniker for its video calling application. The vendor has decided it will change its name after agreeing with Apple that it would not have a conflict over branding. Five Hundred Wi-Fi Networks Walk Into A Bar Glenn Fleishman, Future Tense Wi-Fi can cope with a lot of so-called interference, but the protocol wasn’t designed to handle hundreds of overlapping networks in a small space. WWDC 2010 Journal, Day 1 Mike Morton, Google Mac Team, Google Mac Blog Audience folks quickly caught on to the idea that if you put an interesting message on your iPad screen, the camera would find you. The Merits Of iPhone Moviemaking The iPhone and iMovie for iPhone, with its family-and-friends focus, is likely to change the way people think about portable video—how it’s shot as well as edited. It will be interesting to see if iPhone 4 owners continue to produce polished videos after the novelty of editing video on the iPhone wears off. FaceTime Will Be Successful Because You Don't Need An Account Sachin’s Posterous FaceTime will work because it doesn't change the device you use or your existing behavior. Safari Reader: Apple’s Weapon Of Mass Destruction Jim Lynch Apple had been looked on as some sort of savior for media companies with its iPad device. I doubt many companies will appreciate Apple destroying their ad-based web publishing businesses while simultaneously trying to get them to create apps and content for the iPad. Pulse iPad App Gets Steve Jobs’ Praise in Morning…Then Booted From App Store Hours Later After NYT Complains Kara Swisher, Wall Street Journal Review: NinjaCam For iPhone Beau Colburn, Macworld You may not have a lot of need to take photos secretly with your phone, but if you ever do, NinjaCam will get the job done. Are Apple's Sales Stats Dodgy? Anthony Caruana, ITWire The stats they chose to show omitted one major player and didn’t tell the full story about another. Perhaps there’s a hint of worry in Cupertino. How Does Apple Stay In The Spotlight? Secrecy, 'Steve Appeal' Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, ITworld Take one part mystery, one part charisma, one part branding, and two parts excellent system design and engineering, bake at Apple HQ in 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA for six-months to a year and then release with grand fanfare. It works every time. A Lesson From Apple Writers On How To Write, And Not Write, Depending On The Audience Rex Hammock Bottomline: PR people can’t be bragging in one press release how Apple is charging advertisers tens of millions of dollars to help them get annoying ads and visual distractions in front of people who use Apple products, and then in the next press release, be bragging how they’re helping Apple product users “remove annoying ads and other visual distractions.” Apple Screenshot Confirms IWork Coming To iPhone Nilay Patel, Engadget Adobe Releases Lightroom 3 Jobs To Developers: Stick With The Winning Team Jobs threw a lot of numbers out there, mostly to remind developers that even though other smartphone makers are catching up to and even surpassing the iPhone in some ways, that it's the App Store's reach and size make for a bandwagon that's worth riding for a long time. Cuomo Looks Into iPad Sales Over Discrimination Claim Ben Smith, Politico New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is investigating claims that the computer giant Apple has refused to sell its new iPad to people of Asian descent, apparently over smuggling fears. The Attorney General's's civil rights bureau was tipped off by an Assemblywoman from a Chinese-American section of Queens, who complained publicly last month that her constituents were being asked unusual questions when they sought to buy the devices. The iPad was not yet for sale in Asia at the time of the complaints in May. Behind The Specs Of Apple's Retina Display David Katzmaier, CNET We suspect the iPhone 4's screen will bring a visible improvement over the current, outdated iteration, and rival the best phone screens currently available. But it probably doesn't deserve to be named after an eye part. Apple Could Jump-Start Mobile Advertising, Challenge Old Media Nat Worden, Wall Street Journal Apple Inc. chief executive Steve Jobs said Monday that the company's iAd platform, its mobile advertising network, will go live on July 1, introducing yet another disruptive force in the media industry. The rise of digital advertising already has weighed heavily on traditional media businesses--such as publishing, radio and television--and the nascent mobile market is expected to bring a new wave of upheaval as devices like Apple's iPhone and iPad proliferate. iPhone 4 Impressions And Observations The effect is that the pixels appear to be painted on the surface of the phone; instead of looking at pixels under glass, it like looking at pixels on glass. Combined with the incredibly high pixel density, the overall effect is like “live print”. Apple’s Matrix-Style App Wall Reloaded The new App Wall is perhaps even a little prettier than last year’s model. It shows the top 50,000 apps in the App Store across 30 24-inch LED Cinema Displays. As each app is downloaded it falls into a stack (still color-coordinated) across the displays. Once the display hits 10,800 apps, it resets and starts over with app downloads. What Apple's FaceTime App Means For Skype Right now, it looks like nothing too bruising. Wi-Fi and hardware limitations on the iPhone 4 (like that front-facing camera) will keep FaceTime's audience modest until iPhone 4 sales take off, though not having to register for a new service is sure to attract new users. In the meantime, Skype has a chance to add video calls and other unique features to its iPhone lineup before FaceTime takes off. Even Steve Jobs Has Demo Hiccups About 20 minutes later, Jobs said he'd figured out that there were more than 570 Wi-Fi connections in the room that were disrupting his demo. "So you guys have a choice: Either turn off your Wi-Fi (devices) or I give up. Would you like to see the demos?" he asked the crowd. "Then all you bloggers need to turn off your notebooks. Go ahead, just shut the lids. I'll wait," he said. Why Apple's iBook Numbers Are Meaningless Brad Stone, New York Times Amazon.com can pretty much dismiss that number as overstated — but its execs still have good reason to worry about the threat Apple poses to the Kindle. AT&T Details Early iPhone 4 Eligibility, Pricing Amid the excitement of Apple Worldwide Developers Conference keynote and rumors regarding AT&T’s status as the iPhone’s sole U.S. carrier, the wireless company gave some current iPhone customers even more good news: earlier-than-expected upgrade pricing. With iOS, Apple Gets The OK To Borrow A Cisco Name Robert McMillan, IDG News Service Three years after being sued by Cisco Systems for giving its iPhone the same name as a Cisco product, Apple has taken another page from the Cisco playbook, renaming its iPhone operating system, iOS. Safari 5 Announced... Prematurely? And Now It's Official Chris Rawson, TUAW It got no attention in Steve's WWDC keynote, and it's not showing up in Software Update as of yet, but according to an Apple press release, Safari 5 is out for release today. WWDC 2010: iPhone 3GS Drops To $99 On June 24 Starting June 24, the price of the iPhone 3GS, which began life at $199 (for 16GB) and $299 (for 32GB) will drop to $99 for the 16GB model. Bing Becomes Search Option For Apple Bing joins Yahoo as an option, but Google remains the default search engine. WWDC: iPhone OS Gets New Name, Video Calling The OS, which runs on the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, has been renamed iOS 4.0—a smart move given the number of mobile devices Apple now offers. The new OS offers over 1500 APIs for developers, and Jobs showed off a number of them on stage. WWDC 2010: Second Generation iPod Touch Gets Free Update To IOS4 WWDC 2010: Farmville For iPhone Coming Soon Zynga showed up on the stage at the WWDC keynote this morning to show off one of the most-awaited (and most hated) apps coming to the iPhone: Farmville. Apple Introduces New iMovie App For Editing HD Video On iPhone 4 To take advantage of the new 720p-capable HD video camera in iPhone 4 will be an all-new, $4.99 mobile version of iMovie for editing videos, Apple announced Monday. WWDC: Apple Introduces iPhone 4 Jobs described the phone as, “beyond a doubt, the most precise thing and one of the most beautiful things we’ve ever made” before highlighting a number of its new features. A new screen technology called a retina display add much higher precision to the iPhone. In fact, at 326 pixels per inch, it’s double the 163 pixels per inch resolution of the iPhone 3GS. iBooks To Gain PDF Reading And Note-taking This Month In an update promised for "later this month," Jobs said that iBooks would now support reading PDFs—"one of the biggest requests." PDFs get a separate virtual "shelf" within the app to keep them separate from e-books in ePub format. Netflix Previews iPhone App Netflix will add to its App Store offerings later this summer, when it releases a new app for the iPhone. Previewed during Monday’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, the movie rental service’s app will provide the full Netflix experience: you can stream video (over Wi-Fi and 3G), view recommendations, browse genres, and access your queue. Apple Grabs 22 Percent Of E-book Market With iBooks According to Jobs, users have downloaded more than 5 million books—approximately 2.5 for each device sold—in the first 65 days of iBooks’ availability. In addition, five of the six largest publishers have reported the app's share of their electronic sale to be about 22 percent, which is rather impressive for an e-book reader that has been on the market for just over two months. Apple Says App Store Has Made Developers Over $1 Billion Speaking at Apple's annual developers conference on Monday, chief executive Steve Jobs said his company's industry-leading App Store has generated developers more than $1 billion in revenues while serving up over 5 billion app downloads since its inception two years ago. Full Interview Of Apple's Steve Jobs At D8 Now Available Tales Of Monkey Island Ted Bade, Inside Mac Games Tales of Monkey Island is a lot of fun to play and keeps a smile on your face. The graphics and audio of this game create the perfect ambience. While the game engine has its faults, the story is just so much fun that I found myself looking forward to playing. Global CIO: Cutting Google And Apple Down To Size Bob Evans , InformationWeek Runaway success at Apple and Google has governmental mandarins gleefully preparing litigious and regulatory shackles. And that is sheer madness. Review: Kinemac 1.8.3 Dan Ablan, Macworld Kinemac 1.8.3 is a reasonably priced but powerful 3D-creation tool from which any digital artist can benefit. Whether you’re a hobbyist or a professional 3D content creator, this program is definitely worth checking out. Ulysses Gets Censored Again; This Time By Apple Kirk McElhearn, Kirkville This is really sad; Apple censoring a comic of one of the English language’s greatest novels, while still, fortunately, allowing that novel to be sold in ebook format via its iBookstore. Review: FastTrack Schedule 10 Project Management Software John Brandon, Macworld I can’t think of any truly negative features in FastTrack Schedule 10. It runs fast and nimble, has plenty of powerful features, and has an amazing cadre of templates. The only real downside: it is not an enterprise tool, so multiple project managers cannot access a project at the same time and make changes. And, as a desktop app, it is only available on your Mac and not from the Web, like many competing tools. Dangers Lie In Reaching The Top, Even For Apple Erica Ogg, Tom Krazit, CNET News People wondered if Apple had peaked with the iPod. Then the company introduced the iPhone. People wondered if Apple had peaked with the iPhone. Then it introduced the iPad. When the "Stevenote" is finished on Monday, people will wonder again. Apple has drawn a road map to the next era of computing, but that doesn't guarantee it safe passage. App Makers Worry As Data Plans Are Capped Claire Cain Miller and Brad Stone, New York Times Some developers worry that customers will be reluctant to download and use the most bandwidth-intensive apps and that developers will cut back on innovative new features that would push customers over the new limits. Demystifying Apple Ultimately, all Apple really wants to do is create products that are easy to use and that people want. There's no mystery in this vision. Once the key principles are recognized, it's easy to demystify Apple. The iPad: Past, Present, Future New iPhone Faces High Hopes Yukari Iwatani Kane and Kate O'Keefee, Wall Street Journal Many details of Apple Inc.'s new iPhone are already widely known, but expectations are high for the fourth-generation smartphone's official unveiling this week at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. 2010 Ars Design Award Winners For Mac OS X Software The iPad: One Week In Chimpden Many of the early reviews of the iPad have focussed on its limits as a content creation device. I’ve had the opposite experience. Hands Off My Apple: Can Steve Job's Closed System Keep It Fresh? Jameson Berkow, Financial Post Apple is so hot right now that everything it unveils flies off the shelves, sending its share price higher. The question longer term however, is whether its “closed” strategy of development can continue to deliver the goods — and the buzz — with open-source operating systems such as Android offering slick new applicationsand growing competition. Steve Jobs Single-Handedly Restructured The Mobile Industry Chris Dixon The people griping about Apple’s “closed system” are generally people who are new to the industry and didn’t realize how bad it was before. Steve Jobs' Troops Are In Town As the banners draped across the lobby of the conference center make clear, this event is for the people who created 200,000 iPhone apps and 5,000 iPad apps. Steve Jobs Has Proven Tech CEOs Must Be Accessible In an expected if slightly ironic twist, Steve Jobs -- perhaps the most secretive executive in the tech industry -- has seen the writing on the wall. Joe's Coding Blog As I am sat on the steps of Moscone West on this fresh San Francisco Sunday morning, I couldn't help but wonder, that all these people are affecting the lives of millions around the world in profound ways. Apple Drops To Third, IBM/Lenovo Tops In Reliability Report Apple has fallen to the third position in Rescuecom's latest computer reliability report, after maintaining the highest overall score in 2009. Each of the top five companies showed improvements in scores, with IBM and Lenovo representing the strongest growth as both companies share the top spot for the first quarter in 2010. Official WWDC App Released By Apple For Conference Attendees Those attending Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco next week will have the aid of a new iPhone application designed to help them find sessions and get directions. Developing For The iPhone OS: App Store Vs. Web Apps Ryan Faas, Computerworld If you're coding for the iPhone or iPad, you have to choose. Steve Ballmer's iPad Point: Not Affordable For All Boxcar Brings Push Notification Management To The iPad — And Goes Completely Free Expression Media Handed Off By Microsoft iPad 3G Shortage Won’t Bar Getting Unlimited Data Plan, AT&T Says On Friday, a company spokesman said the decision had been made. “AT&T will honor the $29.99 unlimited data pricing for customers who order iPad by June 7,” he said. MobileMe Account Type Changes Hint At Upcoming Tiers Turns out that several MobileMe subscribers have reported having their account type change, fueling speculation that Apple will announce tiers to MobileMe subscriptions next week during WWDC. DashPad Skirts The App Store With Web-based Widget App DashPad lets you run multiple widgets in Safari on your iPad, such as a calculator, sticky note, Google search box, unit converter, and a Yellow Pages directory. You can arrange them any way you want, and the widgets will remain in their place even if you have to reload the page. Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing Bugs & Fixes: Router's Network Password Can Slow Wi-Fi Speed Ted Landau, Macworld If you are getting a strong signal and everything else seems to be working fine, your type of password may be the reason behind the slow down. Apple Won't Support iPhone To iPad Tethering David Winograd, TUAW Apple's No-donation Policy For Apps Is A Cop-out Jake Shapiro, Ars Technica Aussie Diners Eat Up Apple's iPad -- As Menu An Australian restaurant has ditched printed menus and now hands diners the latest tech-craze, Apple's touchscreen iPad computer, from which to choose and order their meals. Understanding The iPad VGA Adapter Apple Unveils A New HTML5/Web Standards Showcase — Safari Required Apple’s new HTML5 page on its site is a showcase for what you can do with the technology. There are seven impressive examples of things you can do using only HTML5: Video, Typography, Gallery, Transitions, Audio, 360, and VR. “Standards aren’t add-ons to the web. They are the web,” Apple writes. How To Get Rejected From The App Store Neil Mcallister, InfoWorld Often puzzling, always frustrating, the list of reasons why developers are denied access to Apple's iPhone App Store grows ever longer. Tips For Creating An iPad-compatible Keynote Presentation Sang Tang, TUAW While the iPad version of Keynote represents a slight twist on Apple's flagship presentation app and serves as a gateway into multitouch computing on a large display, it has a few shortcomings when compared to its Mac OS X counterpart. As a result, those who start their Keynote workflow on Mac OS X may be surprised when some of their transitions, builds and fonts don't show up the same way on the iPad. Mac Mini Supply Said To Be Dwindling, World Wonders 'Why?' Donald Melanson, Engadget Steve Jobs Gets It Wrong Jason Schwarz, TheStreet Those who assume that Jobs is the only one who can lead Apple are wrong. Leveraging the App Store is more about operations than it is about innovation. The innovation has already happened. Freeing up Jobs from his CEO responsibilities wouldn't be as bad as it sounds. Why Apple And Others Are Nervous About Foxconn Stephanie Wong, John Liu and Tim Culpan, BusinessWeek Foxconn's suicides are a reminder of the human cost that can come with the low-cost manufacturing U.S. tech companies demand. iPad Privacy Catch-22 Richard Perlman, IP Dark Side Arises For Phone Apps Spencer E. Ante, Wall Street Journal In one incident, Google pulled dozens of unauthorized mobile-banking apps from its Android Market in December. The apps, priced at $1.50, were made by a developer named "09Droid" and claimed to offer access to accounts at many of the world's banks. As more companies, governments and consumers use wireless gadgets to conduct commerce and share private information, computer bad guys are beginning to target them, according to government officials and security researchers. Why Does The Open Source Community Love Apple? Stephen Spector, NetworkWorld Why It's Prime Time For Apple TV Pete Cashmore, CNN The time is right for Apple for tackle the TV, and the company's re-entry into that market is a no-brainer. Jobs Rewrites History About Apple Ban On Satire Ryan Singel, Wired The app store remains Apple’s — the rules for who is in and who is out are as murky as ever — and Apple reserves the right to dissemble about what its policies are, even if you do manage to get in. The End Of Malware? Farhad Manjoo, Slate Magazine How Android, Chrome, and the iPad are shielding us from dastardly programs. Countering The Perception That The iPhone OS Is Too Closed Snell’s argument is that Apple should do this to nip the argument that the iPhone is too closed. But if Apple did exactly what Snell argues, critics would still harp on the closed App Store. iPhone critics have seldom let facts get in their way. Schedule E-mail Delivery Mail doesn't include a scheduling feature. You can add one with an AppleScript. AT&T Pulls A Switcheroo On 3G iPad Users It doesn’t matter how many (or how few) people will be adversely be affected by these changes. What matters is that AT&T and—by extension—Apple told consumers exactly what they would be getting by purchasing an 3G-equipped iPad, and AT&T is now changing part of the deal after the fact. AT&T should honor those sales-pitch promises for anyone who purchased an 3G-equipped iPad before Wednesday’s announcement. And Apple should make sure that happens. But I won’t be holding my breath. Opinion: Time For Apple To Open Up The iPhone I’m here to say to Apple that while I understand very well the reasons for the company’s walled-garden approach to native iPhone OS apps, the strengths of that approach have now been surpassed by the bad publicity and reputation that Apple and its products are now getting in the market as a whole. Will The Apple iPad Eat Your TV? Mercedes Bunz, The Guardian The Apple iPad will probably never replace television, but it is likely to cut a big piece out of it. Chad Evans of MLB.com, the official website of US Major League Baseball, is leading the attack. The Good And The Bad Regarding AT&T’s New Data Plans Apple And The Regulators For its tactics to violate antitrust laws, Apple would need to possess what is known as a “dominant” market share. But Apple controls only about a quarter of the smart-phone market. There are more phones on the market using the Android operating system. It is not obvious how the market should be defined, however. There are about four times as many applications written for Apple as for Android devices. And experts estimate that Apple accounted for virtually all the roughly 2.5 billion app downloads last year. Antitrust regulators are right to look into whether the company is leveraging this clout to stymie the development of applications for its rivals, closing the door on competition. How AT&T Is Spinning Its iPhone Sales Lisa Schmeiser, InfoWorld How iTunes Genius Really Works Ever since the feature debuted in 2008, there's been a lot of speculation about how iTunes Genius accomplishes its playlist-building magic. Now an engineer at Apple that works on the iTune Genius team has revealed some tantalizing clues--a rare disclosure for the infamously secretive company. There's Something Sleazy About AT&T Capping Data Plans Right After Raising Early Termination Fees Joe Wilcox, Beta News Analytics And Unannounced Products The challenge, as Jobs notes, is ensuring these packages don’t cross the line of transmitting sensitive information about the user or their device. It shouldn’t be too difficult to find that common ground. Tethering Fee Sours AT&T Plan Deals While some of the changes certainly seem positive, AT&T’s approach to tethering, along with its plan for data overage fees, strikes me as rather hostile to customers. Candid Answers From AT&T On The New iPhone Data Plans Erica Sadun, TUAW The Mac Sale Returns With Ten Apps For $50 Smart Designer Exports Dumb Pictures Of Text There’s no live text, meaning there’s no search. It also means there’s no accessibility on the first computers that are accessible by default if you the developer do no extra work at all. Steve Jobs Is Wrong: The iTunes Model Won’t Help Media More than anything, it feels like an industry grasping at any straw it can, in the hope of building a life raft. iPhone Woes Revealed In FCC, FTC Consumer Complaints What's most noteworthy about the complaints provided by the FCC is that the majority of them take issue with AT&T as much, if not more than, Apple. To read through the complaints is to be struck how much ill-will has been generated by Apple's decision to make the iPhone available exclusively through AT&T in the U.S. New iPhone Data Plans Coming Jordan Golson, 9 To 5 Mac If you are an existing iPhone customer, you can keep your existing unlimited plan for $29.99. If you wish to add tethering as an option, you must drop your old plan and add the new 2GB/$25 plan -- plus pay $20 a month for tethering. iPad Gets New Inferior Data Plan Basically, new iPad owners pay $25 for 2GB of data, or 30 days -- whichever comes first. Steve Jobs At D: Post-PC Era Is Nigh Speaking for an hour and a half at the D: All Things Digital confab, Jobs said the day is coming when only one out of every few people will need a traditional computer. Jobs said advances in chips and software will allow tablet devices like the iPad to do tasks that today are really only suited for a traditional computer, things like video editing and graphic arts work. Steve Jobs Live From D8 Is Steve Jobs Big Brother? Robert Wright, New York Times Why is Jobs choosing the same path that, last time around, kept him from conquering the world? I had puzzled over this for months until I had a conversation with tech-watcher Harry McCracken, who suggested a theory that seemed outlandish at first but is making more and more sense to me: Steve Jobs just isn’t bent on world domination. Maybe Jobs is basically just an artist. Maybe he wants above all to create products that are beautiful. And he succeeds, even if it costs him market share, and even if he doesn’t handle the trade-offs between functional and visual beauty as I would. Adobe Touts iPad Workaround But Apple's Jobs Unimpressed CEO Steve Jobs doesn't seem to be budging from an April 29 post describing Flash as slow, power hungry and unsuitable for some of Apple's products, and detailing his preference for the new HTML5. Apple's Jobs Takes On Rivals Adobe, Google Yukari Iwatani Kane And Nick Wingfield, Wall Street Journal Apple Inc. chief executive Steve Jobs, in a broad-ranging discussion, took more potshots at Adobe Systems Inc.'s Flash software, vowed not to get into search despite Google Inc.'s move into Apple's turf, and called Apple passing Microsoft Corp.'s stock valuation "surreal." Steve Jobs: People Are Voting Against Flash By Buying An iPad Every 3 Seconds Jobs did say that if the market tells them they’re making bad choices, they’ll change. But so far, that isn’t happening. “People seem to be liking the iPad,” Jobs said to laughs and applause. “We’ve sold one every three seconds since we launched it,” he added. Some iPads Can't Take The Heat What lovely New York weather we had this weekend: sunny, high 80s and a light breeze. Perfect for lying around outside and reading a good book. That is, if the book you are hoping to read is not on an iPad. It seems that some iPads do not like direct sunlight, saunas or long walks on the beach. No Global iPhone Halo: Worldwide Apple Mac Market Share Is Flat Erik Sherman, BNET Apple's global personal computer market share for the Mac is flat among consumers and sinking in businesses. That stands in sharp contrast to Apple's success in the U.S. and counters some popular assumptions. I think one reason is that a major selling point of Apple -- that there is a genius near you -- is not available worldwide. Which Retail Store Will Be Busier At Bellevue Square: Apple Or Microsoft? Nick Eaton, Seattle Post Intelligencer Apple Is The New AOL And New Microsoft, And Whoa That Can't Be A Good Thing Is Apple Evil? Mitch Wagner, Computerworld While Apple has made some troubling decisions in recent months, these cases are still evolving, and new information is coming in. So I'll continue giving Apple my business -- but I'm keeping an eye on them. Apple Appeal In Japan Is Turning The Tables After living through an era when it seemed utterly impossible that a U.S. consumer electronics brand would succeed in Japan, Apple's appeal now is truly surreal for me--and a complete turning of the tables. Steve Jobs Replies: No In-App Desktops Apple is walking a very thin line here. When is a menu with icons a desktop, and when is it not? Steve Jobs Replies On Foxconn Suicides "This has our full attention." Sync ICal To-do With iPhone Why yes, it should be a simple matter to sync to-do items between your iPhone and iCal. And it is, with the right software. Security Firm Discovers Spyware In Mac Software Intego, makers of security and privacy apps for the Mac, warned on Tuesday that some Mac software include a new piece of invasive spyware. Macworld has obtained a preliminary list of the applications with the spyware. In a press release, Intego states that a number of apps and screen savers distributed through sites like MacUpdate, VersionTracker, and Softpedia are installing a little more software than users bargain for; Apple’s Mac OS X Downloads site also contained entries for some of the apps, though the download links appear to now be inactive. The spyware in question is called OSX/OpinionSpy and it’s a variant of Windows spyware that has existed since 2008. Making The iPad Fit Into Your Daily Life The iPad’s unique design poses some new questions about where a portable computer and media viewer can fit into our daily lives. I’ve spent a bit of time doing just about everything one can on an iPad, both at home and on the road, and I think I have some answers. The Secret Of Monkey Island: Special Edition Franklin Pride, Inside Mac Games It really just comes down to this. Are you willing to spend $10 on one of the best adventure games ever made, with upgraded graphics, voice acting, and a hint system as freebies? If you like adventure games at all or if you just want to add another classic game to your collection, The Secret Of Monkey Island: Special Edition is a must-buy. Why Is There No IT Focus At Apple's Developers Conference? Dr. Mac: It's True, The Best Apps In Life Are Free Bob LeVitus, Houston Chronicle Adobe Reveals Magazine iPad-izer Software Stephen Shankland, CNET News Flash Player may be banned from the iPad, but that's not keeping Adobe Systems from other efforts to leave its mark on the Apple devices. The latest development: new viewer software announced Monday that lets publishers create splashy digital versions of their magazines. Wolfram Alpha Finds iPad Niche David Talbot, Technology Review The Elements app suggests a future direction for the "knowledge engine"--e-book interactivity. He Vowed He Was Done With Upgrades, Then Along Came The iPad Pete Carey, San Jose Mercury News Apple Is Not The Microsoft Of Mobile Clive Akass, The Inquirer Apple is not having everything its own way and mobile evolution has a long way to go. As Jim Zemlin, president of the Linux Foundation said, "We are in the first five minutes of a very long game." Apple To Direct Subsidies To Foxconn Workers Apple is planning to redistribute some of its product profits back to Foxconn workers, claims a Chinese news site. The change in Apple policy is said to be the result of a corporate investigation exploring the connections between suicides and factory working conditions. Book Publishers Agree Change Coming; Details Murky Mark Egan and Christine Kearney, Reuters Giants and upstarts of publishing gathered at the annual BookExpo America here this week agreed e-books will transform the business, although exactly how it will all shake out remains unclear. The Apple Tablet Is Still A Work In Progress Stuart Kennedy, The Australian The iPad is very much a work in progress. The OS 4 update will add multitasking, the local iBookstore should soon carry the latest books and there's an army of developers and designers working on fresh apps, bags, cases and other add-ons for the gadget. Apple Sells 2 Million iPads In Under 2 Months Apple said Monday that iPad sales have topped two million in less than 60 days since it first launched in the U.S. on April 3. By Heng-Cheong Leong Archive \| Newsletter \| Privacy Policy \| About MyAppleMenu is edited by Heng-Cheong Leong. This site is not affiliated with Apple, Inc. or any other companies in any manner. 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__label__cc	0.698846	0.301154	Demiroz, Pekcan Cutaneous manifestations of anthrax in Eastern Anatolia: a review of 39 cases. Irmak, Hasan\| Buzgan, Turan\| Karahocagil, Mustafa Kasim\| Sakarya, Nurten\| Akdeniz, Hayrettin\| Caksen, Huseyin\| Demiroz, Pekcan\| <p>Anthrax is essentially a disease of grazing herbivorous animals. The most common form of the disease is cutaneous anthrax, which accounts for 95% of all cases. We report here 39 cutaneous anthrax cases in humans that were seen in Eastern Anatolia over a six-year period. The clinical presentation was malignant edema in 16 of the cases (41%) and malignant pustule in 23 (59%). A secondary bacterial infection was present in 13 patients (33.3%) in the vicinity of the lesions. The agent was observed using Gram-stained smears in 25 patients (64%), and Bacillus anthracis was isolated from 15 patients (38.5%). All of the patients were treated with penicillin G or penicillin procaine, except one patient who had a penicillin allergy. One patient with cervical edema (2.5%) died as a result of laryngeal edema and sepsis syndrome. In conclusion, we found that the appearance of the skin lesion of cutaneous anthrax may vary, and this fact, combined with the rarity of this disease, which contributes to a general lack of experience among medical personnel, may make diagnosis difficult in nonagricultural settings</p> cutaneous anthrax clinical findings treatment prognosis	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20337
__label__cc	0.605559	0.394441	Pablo Garcia2016-01-08T04:19:04+00:00January 5, 2007\| Syria (Km 57,373) The trip through Syria lasted two months, it was too much cold and sometimes with some rains; we visited archaeological places like Ebla, Afamia and Palmyra. By this way, slowly and curious we were living together with some families, with their way of life and traditions, but how difficult it was sometimes. After two months which we travelled Turkey, Clara and I arrived to the frontier and we entered to Syria; we were happy and we had many expectations. That night people from that village gave us a warm welcome, the owners of the shops invited us to sit down with them; so we accepted the disinterested invitation of Ahmed who invited us with more than a dozen of fatayier, some traditional pizzas that are cooked with meat. Later we camped to the outskirts of the town and at midnight I woke up with a strong painful in the stomach and then I vomited seven times, as I never made it in my life; it was an endless night, it was cold and I didn’t see the time that it dawns to leave from there. I was intoxicated. At the sunrise I was without forces and I lie on the land while Clara take charge of the tent and the bicycles, then we went to the village which was one kilometre far and there we met Mohamed who offer us one of the rooms of his shop to rest. I was very bad. Later one of his friends carried me to a doctor and after 24 hours of resting and some medications I got better. But it was not Clara’s luck who after few days began to feel bad, and who took one week to recover and to come back to the route. Those were the last days of Ramadan when people abstain from ingesting any kind of food, drink or even of smoking, it was probably the reason why they drove like crazy. Aleppo, the second bigger city of Syria was ready for the great party, the Id al Fitr. People left to do shopping, the streets were plenty and it was dangerous to cycle among so much euphoria. Different to the capital city, people in Aleppo are more traditional and in several occasions we felt uncomfortable. In the streets of the centre, where we were lodged, almost all the women go covered with veils, for this reason several times Clara was approached by women who made to her an expression of scorn about her loose hair or to use a garment short sleeve. And also the men put us out, because they looked at Clara in a bad way. Also in route to Aleppo we were surprised; while we pedalled several times Clara was approached by mottos. They seemed child but they were not so younger. By this way we had to stop and Clara had to cover the arms and to tie the hair. “Another culture”, I told her, although we could not hide our anger. The trip through inlands Syria lasted one month, it was too much cold and sometimes with some rains; by this way we visited archaeological places like Ebla, Afamia and Palmyra, or the dead cities which are 15 centuries old, and Hama and Homs, the other two main cities in route to Damascus. And by this way, slowly and curious we were living together with people of inlands, with their way of life and with their traditions. I remember the history of Ahmed, a young man who married with his 15 year-old cousin “it was an agreement between our parents”, he told me; “now it doesn’t matter my happiness, but that of my children; maybe Allah wanted this by this way”. We wondered about the matrimonial life created by this way, artificial. And it was enough to cycle other km to see it in Sarache, when we were invited to the house of a man who spoke some Italian. He had a good economic position and three children, of those only the male was his pride. His wife who was almost a score of years younger than him seemed a nonexistent and infinitely sad figure. That night we also met the house owner’s friends, two of them were polygamous and according to them they were also married with younger girls. Clara told me that this people were missing a stage of their lives, they pass from child to men or ladies, and at once to mothers. They don’t have that lengthy adolescence as each time happens in occident. Only that people who are related with the western world through the university or English’s study are those who have desires to live another life, of leaving to another country, of studying out, of having more than a girlfriend or of going to dance, they are who dream with another adolescence which they watch on TV, often by American origin. “We are being conquered by occident through television” the friend of Mosab told me. But we also met splendid people, who truly made us feel like at home, with whom we were moved when we said goodbye, they were who showed us that their true values are to create a family. I remember Mosab of Afamia or the numerous family from Khan al Sobl, we saw them so happy, they were very simple people, there were grandfathers, parents and children who lived all together, the men shared with the women who were not seemed nonexistent, they didn’t isolate them, they integrated them, the men respected the women. A difficult day In route to Palmyra we stopped in Al fruqlos, according to information it was a town with Christian people, but we didn’t realize. That night we were invited by Khalil to his house, a graduate university son of a Christian woman converted to the Islam. Then as many other times we were asked after our marital status, since we began our trip in Turkey people at once asked us about this, it would seem that the only way to get respect from Muslims is if we are married, so we always said this; but this time with Khalil was different, because he was a different guy, an open mind person. That night we talked during hours but everything ended in a bad way. Her mother didn’t like us because we discussed about the woman’s ideals between east and occident and she became furious even more when her children agreed with us, of course that we were a bad example. Finally for a “question of space” we camped outside of the house; … and we suffered to much because at 1.00 am three dogs surrounded the tent and they start to bark savagely, they seemed that they wanted to attack us. It was almost a hour of terror, Clara trembled and she cried like a baby, and I was blindly as a lunatic sat down in the middle of the tent with my African knife, calming Clara while I waited to destroy the tent to guess right to the first dog that attack us. Then I could leave the tent and I jumped the wall to ask to Khalil to open us the door to camp in his garden. Truly we hoped that someone came to fright the dogs. But I had to be the one who had to react. Early morning, when Khalil left to work his mother came to us to kick the tent and shouting she order us to leave, “Yala, yala!!!! “ We could not believe it, we didn’t sleep more than a couple of hours and we had to leave. We got up as we could and in the presence of more shouts I shouted her so she calmed down, and in few minutes we left the house. That fucking woman!! Looking for some peace, to the few km Clara and I stopped to have breakfast, we left the main road and we went into a semi-desert area, but from far we listened children’s screams who began to run toward us and we preferred to leave, but the children who ran quick surrounded us and threatening us with stones asked us money. We could not believe it, we could not leave; we were being kidnapped by a dozen of children who weren’t older than 10 years. So we had to go to their house to look for their mother, to whom by means of signs I explained to her what happened. And it was amusing, because in a fit of nerves, which contemplated all the uneasiness of the last 12 hours, I grabbed for the nape to who seemed to be the boss of all children and I lift him from the floor scaring him, so we could go. I also surprised myself. When we arrived to Palmyra Clara had another relapse and she stayed several days with strong stomach-aches, with temperature and vomiting. And I could not make a lot unless to accompany her, to go to the pharmacy or to cook what the doctor ordered her. The Syria was presented in a hostile way. Damascus, km 57,850 After a week of antibiotics, Clara’s uneasiness didn’t stop to worry me, so we travelled by bus to Damascus, but it was enough to arrive to the capital city and to stay in the Four Season Hotel for Clara gets better. Of course, it was a 5 stars hotel which as sponsor offered us 5 free days accommodation in one of its luxurious rooms with all inclusive. Our stay days in Damascus continued by other 3 weeks, which we stayed at John’s home, an alternative musician who rented rooms for students. In that house lived Maria and Salvo, a Spanish girl and a Sicilian boy who studied Arabic, also Sandrine a Belgian who taught French and Adel, brother of John. That house was as our house and they became our friends. We also met Luis, a Spanish guy who introduced us to the Damascus Shell Club, a foreigners association where I have made a couple of presentations about the trip. Finally we left Damascus in route to Beirut, after almost two months in Syria we felt the need to travel to a new country, and in spite of the political crisis, Lebanon caught our curiosity. Highlights from Middle East Pakistan, way to Lahore Bahrain, learning about the Islam By an Iraqi refugee Kuwait, looking for sponsors Teheran – The history of oil Welcome to Iran The Ararat Mount The Kurdistan by bicycle The south of Jordan Cycling Turkey with my girlfriend Km 55,455 by Clara V.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20342
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But perhaps the most significant moment came when President Obama and President Xi stood together and formally joined the landmark Paris Agreement, committing the two nations responsible for roughly 40 percent of global carbon emissions to take serious and sustained action to combat climate change. For all the challenges and threats we face as a nation—from terrorist groups like ISIL and al Qaeda to increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks, from diseases like Ebola and Zika to Russian aggression in Ukraine—no threat is more terrifying in its global reach or more potentially destructive and destabilizing than climate change. The Department of Defense calls it a “threat multiplier.” The Department of Homeland Security considers it a major homeland security risk. As President Obama said in China, “the growing threat of climate change could define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other challenge.” That’s why, today, President Obama took another major step to address the threat of climate change by signing a Presidential Memorandum requiring the federal government to fully consider the impacts of climate change in the development and implementation of all national security policies and plans. First, the President’s memorandum directs 20 agencies from across the government to establish a dedicated working group to identify the U.S. national security priorities related to climate change. Second, it instructs these agencies to develop a Climate Change and National Security Action Plan outlining how they’ll develop and share information on these risks. Third, it directs each agency to develop strategies to address climate-related threats, from impacts on our economy to our food security to the flow of migrants and refugees. The system this memorandum puts into place will ensure that data and insights from climate science become a meaningful component of national security policymaking. The President’s memorandum is supported by a National Intelligence Council report, also released today, which finds that climate change is already having significant impacts—and that these are “likely to pose significant national security challenges for the United States over the next two decades,” including straining our military operations and bases. Already, we’ve witnessed the instability and harm caused by rising sea levels, dramatic flooding, regional droughts, extreme heat, and severe weather events in many parts of the world. A devastating drought contributed to the early unrest and eventual conflict in Syria, as water shortages and crop failures led farmers to abandon their homes in search of more stable sources of food and water. More than 100 million people now live less than one meter above sea level, and the expected pace of sea level rise means that these people will be at increasing risk during this century. In the Arctic, melting sea ice is increasing the potential for international tension as competition for the region’s vast natural resources grows. That’s why the Administration proposed in 2015 to accelerate the acquisition of a replacement heavy icebreaker for the Arctic and began planning for the construction of additional icebreakers. And this year, the Administration requested $150 million from Congress to accelerate production of a new Polar Icebreaker, and the Administration continues to call on Congress to provide this critical funding to the U.S. Coast Guard this year. The report found that, around the world, climate change will only continue to threaten the stability of countries, heighten social and political tensions, increase health risks, jeopardize food security, and negatively impact economic growth. These effects will be especially pronounced as populations continue to concentrate in coastal areas, drought-prone regions, and other vulnerable areas. Given the scale of this threat, it’s imperative that policymakers have clear and accurate information and assessments to weigh how the impacts of climate change will affect our national security. Just as we work to defeat any adversary before they have the ability to attack, we must similarly prepare for and mitigate the impacts of climate change. The security of our nation—and the well-being of our world—depends on it. Atoms for Peace Business energy Fukushima Google Government marketing nuclear SDVOSB seo social media techniques veteran veterans Video Developed by Brand Echo Media Solutions. 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__label__cc	0.609404	0.390596	This is a refresher about all the crap that we're going to have to live through yet again when she gets the nomination. It won't deter dems from voting for her because... well... They are kind of gullible and will believe Clinton lying rather than bother to look at any facts. A Visit from Saint Nicholas (in the Ernest Hemingway Manner) \| The New Yorker James Thurber, a very nice read. Minorities line up behind … Donald Trump... Because a new poll, which still has Trump leading the race, shows 40 percent of blacks are lining up behind Trump, as are 45 percent of Hispanics, and even nearly 19 percent of Asians. ... Better get used to the phrase, President Trump. Jeb Bush Challenges Donald Trump To A One-on-One Debate \| Video \| RealClearPolitics This is what you do when you're at 3% and desperate. Trump should just ignore him. Clinton vs. Trump: Still A Dead Heat - Rasmussen Reports™ So, just how does this square with all the know-it-alls saying running Trump would be a sure win for Hillary. Truth is they say that to scare reps into not supporting Trump and it's working a bit. Still Trump is right up there with her. But after the public is reminded of what a skank Hillary really is her numbers will drop. There isn't much bad they can try to say about Trump is there. It looks like he'd win in a landslide because after he wins the nomination all the nay sayers in the GOP will suddenly discover what a great guy he is... yada yada. Trump slams Virginia GOP over registration mandate Trump slams Virginia GOP over registration mandate - CNNPolitics.com It occurs to me that as an independant I could sign that pledge and be as faithful to it as the candidates are to the campaign promises they make. In Their Own Words: Why Bill’s ‘Bimbos’ Fear a Hillary Presidency - Breitbart Democrats are nuts if they don't think this will be an issue. TASS: Russian Politics & Diplomacy - Russian Defense Ministry accuses Pentagon of imitating fight against Islamic State Who you gonna believe, Russia or the Obama administration... Tough question. Teacher tells students to use ‘big people words’. But is shocked when they do. \| Surveee Teacher tells students to use ‘big people words’. But is shocked when they do. \| SurveeeThree former kindergartners were trying to become accustomed to first grade. Their biggest hurdle was the teacher’s insistence on no baby talk. “You need to use ‘big people’ words” she would always remind them. She asked Wendy what she had done over the weekend. “I went to visit my Nana” “No, you went to visit your GRANDMOTHER. Use big people words!” She then asked Joey what he had done and Joey replied “I took a ride on a choo-choo.” The teacher said “No, you took a ride on a TRAIN, use big people words!” Then she asked little Johnny what he had done and Johnny said “I read a book.” “That’s wonderful! What book did you read?” Little Johnny thought about it, then puffed out his chest with great pride and said “Winnie The Sht.” Don Lemon Cuts Off Kurt Schlichter; Hillary/Bill Clinton; 12-22-2015 Democrat Don Lemon doesn't like free speech when it doesn't fit his agenda. Question #2. Who the hell is Don Lemon? Never heard of him. I liked the clever line that Bill Clinton turned his intern into a human humidor. Keep in mind while you listen to this is that Kurt was saying that Hillary was an enabler for her husbands bad treatment of women. Don didn't like that and cut him off even though it's been proven true. A bit of fun. Webb Attacks Clinton With Eye on Independent Run - Bloomberg Politics Things are getting interesting on the Democratic side. Webb is a good and honorable man. Clinton should be worried as she is neither good nor honorable. I wonder if some Republicans will send him money just to mess up Clinton... Just saying... The Sanders campaign is taking its fight with the DNC to the next level What Sanders doesn't understand is that Clinton owns the DNC Everything happened for a reason, remember that. Sarah Palin: "I Was Not Allowed" To Tell The Truth About Obama In 2008 (... Wanna know what Trump tapped into? This will give you a hint. VIDEO Uncovered Trump Interview From Over 25 Years Ago Will Shock A Lot... His views go back a long ways. Discussion between Hillary and Trump, "Oh, the other one!" Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump walk into a bar and grab a booth. Donald leans over, and with a smile on his face, says:“The media is really tearing you apart for that scandal.”Hillary: “You mean the Mexican gun running?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “You mean SEAL Team 6?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “You mean the State Dept. lying about Benghazi?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “You mean voter fraud?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “You mean the military not getting their votes counted?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “The NSA monitoring our phone calls, emails and everything else?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “You mean the of drones in our own country without the benefit of the law?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “Giving 123 Technologies $300 Million and right after it declared bankruptcy and was sold to the Chinese?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “You mean Obama arming the Muslim Brotherhood?”Trump: “No the other one:”Hillary: “The IRS targeting conservatives?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “The DOJ spying on the press?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “Sebelius shaking down health insurance executives?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “Giving SOLYNDRA $500 MILLION DOLLARS and 3 months later they declared bankruptcy and then the Chinese bought it?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “Obama’s ordering the release of nearly 10,000 illegal immigrants from jails and prisons, and falsely blaming the sequester?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “Obama’s threat to impose gun control by Executive Order in order to bypass Congress?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “Obama’s repeated violation of the law requiring me to submit a budget no later than the first Monday in February?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “The 2012 vote where 115% of all registered voters in some counties voted 100% for Obama?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “Obama’s unconstitutional recess appointments in an attempt to circumvent the Senate’s advise-and-consent role?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “The State Department interfering with an Inspector General investigation on departmental sexual misconduct?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “Me, The IRS, Clapper and Holder all lying to Congress?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “I give up! … Oh wait, I think I got it! You mean that 65 million low-information voters who don’t pay taxes and get free stuff from taxpayers and stuck citizens again with the most pandering, corrupt administration in American history?”Trump: “THAT’S THE ONE!” Hillary Clinton’s ‘Secret Weapon’ Could Escalate Campaign Rhetoric - WSJ It's the rapist in chief she's planning on sending out to fight for her because she's to weak to fight for herself. Hawaii can’t seem to name anything after native son Obama - The Washington Post Yup, boring as hell. Mesmerizing perspective, sad yet hopeful. I recommend it highly. This will crack you up, even if you've never had a cat. Brownshirts are back: Muslim sharia police patrol German streets Bilderberg Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bill Burr, the comedian, mentioned that Hillary went to Bilderberg Meetings... What's that, I wondered and I looked it up. It would seem that Bill might think that Hillary was therefore for a one world government because of this: ""To say we were striving for a one-world government is exaggerated, but not wholly unfair. Those of us in Bilderberg felt we couldn't go on forever fighting one another for nothing and killing people and rendering millions homeless. So we felt that a single community throughout the world would be a good thing." Bill also mentioned the Illuminati: The Illuminati whatever that is. Googling it throws up a lot of conspiracy theories. But, back to Bilderberg, it looks like a bunch of the inner circle of political power in the U.S. as well as other countries and may be harmless. Or not... There's plenty of reason Hillary shouldn't be president but I doubt this will be one of the ones that would convince the middle of the road voter. Another source of interest: Just who exactly is going to the Bilderberg meeting? - BBC News June 2015. List of United States presidential elections by popular vote margin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Just a few things to note. Obama is the only democrat in recent history to get over 50% of the popular vote. 51% and 52% against very weak opponents. Bill Clinton won with just 43% because Ross Perot took votes away from Republicans. His second term was also less than half at 49%. In both cases most of the country didn't want him. As a matter of fact very few democrats got to 50% of the vote while several Republicans not only got to 50% some approached 60% or more. The only democrat to get to 60 was Johnson likely due to the assassination of Kennedy and FDR leading up to WWII. The sad fact for democrats is that most Americans don't much like them. As for Hillary one could easily ask would she be where she is today if it were not for the coattails of her cheating husband Bill? By staying with Bill after being embarassed by his womanizing one could ask what message that says for all women. To be successful you have to demean yourself and put up with a cheat. Just about every successful woman I know would have kicked his ass out the second they found out. Not Hillary, she gave up her womanhood for the power surrounding Bill. That speaks little of what she is about. Not only did she stick with him she even worked to discredit the women he preyed on. What kind of woman, what kind of person is that? Yet, her support hovers around 40%, the percentage of Democrats in the population. And that among many other things is why I have concluded that Democrats as a group are gullible and dumb. VIDEO: Women defy media narrative, love Trump at packed Michigan rally \| The American Mirror Washington Post removes cartoon depicting Ted Cruz's daughters as monkeys - POLITICO Imagine for a moment what the left wing press would say if Obama's daughters were depicted as monkeys. Gingrich explains why Trump is a 'big asset' for the GOP The history professor chimes in... DICK MORRIS' '08 PLAY-BY-PLAY ANALYSIS Vol 1, #11 - DickMorris.com at DickMorris.com This is from 2007 but it's still relevant in discussing Hillary's run for the president. Both dems and reps should read this. I don't know if Hillary ever rebutted it. Virginia Attorney General Unilaterally Revokes Concealed Carry Permit Reciprocity with 25 States \| RedState This is what happens when you elect Democrats. Your constitutional rights get stolen. "In one of the most galling and senseless gun grabbing moves that Democrats have perpetrated during their ongoing failed campaign against the Second Amendment, Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring (D) has announced that Virginia will no longer honor reciprocity agreements on concealed carry permits with 25 of the 30 states it currently recognizes. The practical effect of this move is that your Virginia concealed carry permit used to be good in 31 states, and now it’s good in 6. Of the 6 states that remain, only West Virginia is even close to Virginia." Clinton announces plan to battle Alzheimer's - Yahoo News Hmm, why is this particular disease so important to her. Is it close to home? "Hillary Owes Donald Trump an Apology, That Video Doesn't Exist" - Hugh ... In other news... Up till today Lindsey Graham was running for president... Who knew? Hillary Clinton returns late after commercial break A bit of the behind the scenes info. From what I've seen and heard that there is only one ladies room. One of O'Malley's aids beat Hillary to the bathroom and I suspect stayed in there long enough to make Hillary late coming back. Politics isn't always high and lofty (if it ever is) Sometimes it really gets down and dirty. Good move on O'Malley's part. It won't help him much but it'll hurt her. Add this to her statement that as president she'll pick out the flowers and dinnerware at the WH. Good to see she has her priorities right with such lofty plans for running the country... Sanders says DNC’s timing of Saturday night’s debate was meant to ‘protect’ Clinton - The Washington Post "Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders said in a television interview that the Democratic National Committee deliberately scheduled debates at times when viewership would be low in an effort to “protect” the party’s front-runner, Hillary Clinton." Said Saunders speaking the obvious. He must know this was how it was going to be. Costco Employee makes extremely Anti-Semitic remarks on camera Let's face it, she's demoing juice, she's one of those people with a tiny little mind. Paul Ryan’s first deal is just like John Boehner’s old ones. The more things change....... This gives fuel to Trump. Sessions: Omnibus Explains Why ‘Voters Are In Open Rebellion’ This will piss you off whether you are right or left. For example an illegal alien can get a government check for children they have that are NOT in this country! And lots more. Hell, it seems the reps are the same as the dems, with few exceptions. No wonder Trump is doing so well. "Jeff Sessions: Paul Ryan's Omnibus Spending Bill Explains "Why Voters Are In Open Rebellion"" It's just plain disgusting is all! Frank Sinatra considered Kate Smith the best singer of her time, and said when he and a million other guys first heard her sing "God Bless America" on the radio, they all pretended to have dust in their eyes as they wiped away a tear or two. Here are the facts... The link at the bottom will take you to a video showing the very first public singing of "GOD BLESS AMERICA". But before you watch it, you should know the story behind the first public showing of the song. The time was 1940. America was still in a terrible economic depression. Hitler was taking over Europe and Americans were afraid we'd have to go to war. It was a time of hardship and worry for most Americans. This was the era just before TV, when radio shows were HUGE, and American families sat around their radios in the evenings, listening to their favorite entertainers, and no entertainer of that era was bigger than Kate Smith. Kate was also large (plus size, as we now say), and the popular phrase still used today is in defer-ence to her, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings". Kate Smith might not have made it big in the age of TV, but with her voice coming over the radio, she was the biggest star of her time. Kate was also patriotic. It hurt her to see Americans so depressed and afraid of what the next day would bring . She had hope for America, and faith in her fellow Americans. She wanted to do something to cheer them up, so she went to the famous American song-writer, Irving Berlin (who also wrote "White Christmas") and asked him to write a song to make Americans feel good again about their country. When she described what she was looking for, he said he had just the song for her. He went to his files and found a song he had written, but never published, 22 years before - back in 1917. He gave it to her and she worked on it with her studio orchestra. She and Irving Berlin were not sure how the song would be received by the public, but both agreed they would not take any profits from God Bless America . Any profits would go to the Boy Scouts of America. Over the years, the Boy Scouts have received millions of dollars in royalties from this song. The video starts out with Kate Smith coming into the radio studio with the orchestra and an audience. She introduces the new song for the very first time, and starts singing. After the first couple verses, with her voice in the background still sing-ing, scenes are shown from the 1940 movie, "You're In The Army Now." At the 4:20 mark of the video you see a young actor in the movie, sitting in an office, reading a paper; it's Ronald Reagan. To this day, God Bless America stirs our patriotic feelings and pride in our country. Back in 1940, when Kate Smith went looking for a song to raise the spirits of her fellow Americans, you have to doubt whether she realized just how successful the results would be for her fellow Americans during those years of hardship and orry..... and for many generations of Americans to follow. Many don't know there's a lead in to the song since it usually starts with "God Bless America ....." So here's the entire song as originally sung..... ENJOY! FROM: Patty Lewis, Human Resources Director TO: All Employees RE: Gala Christmas Party I'm happy to inform you that the company Christmas Party will take place on December 23rd, starting at noon in the private function room at the Grill House. There will be a cash bar and plenty of drinks! We'll have a small band playing traditional carols... feel free to sing along. And don't be surprised if our CEO shows up dressed as Santa Claus! A Christmas tree will be lit at 1:00 PM. Exchanges of gifts among employees can be done at that time; however, no gift should be over $10.00 to make the giving of gifts easy for everyone's pockets. This gathering is only for employees! Our CEO will make a special announcement at that time! Merry Christmas to you and your family, RE: Gala Holiday Party In no way was yesterday's memo intended to exclude our Jewish employees. We recognize that Hanukkah is an important holiday, which often coincides with Christmas, though unfortunately not this year. However, from now on, we're calling it our "Holiday Party." The same policy applies to any other employees who are not Christians and to those still celebrating Reconciliation Day. There will be no Christmas tree and no Christmas carols will be sung. We will have other types of music for your enjoyment. Happy now? Happy Holidays to you and your family, RE: Holiday Party Regarding the note I received from a member of Alcoholics Anonymous requesting a non-drinking table, you didn't sign your name... I'm happy to accommodate this request, but if I put a sign on a table that reads, "AA Only", you wouldn't be anonymous anymore. How am I supposed to handle this? Somebody? And sorry, but forget about the gift exchange, no gifts are allowed since the union members feel that $10.00 is too much money and the executives believe $10.00 is a little chintzy. REMEMBER: NO GIFTS EXCHANGE WILL BE ALLOWED. RE: Generic Holiday Party What a diverse group we are! I had no idea that December 20th begins the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which forbids eating and drinking during daylight hours. There goes the party! Seriously, we can appreciate how a luncheon at this time of year does not accommodate our Muslim employees' beliefs. Perhaps the Grill House can hold off on serving your meal until the end of the party or else package everything for you to take it home in little foil doggy baggy. Will that work? Meanwhile, I've arranged for members of Weight Watchers to sit farthest from the dessert buffet, and pregnant women will get the table closest to the restrooms. Gays are allowed to sit with each other. Lesbians do not have to sit with Gay men, each group will have their own table. Yes, there will be flower arrangement for the Gay men's table. To the person asking permission to cross dress, the Grill House asks that no cross-dressing be allowed, apparently because of concerns about confusion in the restrooms. Sorry. We will have booster seats for short people. Low-fat food will be available for those on a diet. I am sorry to report that we cannot control the amount of salt used in the food . The Grill House suggests that people with high blood pressure taste a bite first. There will be fresh "low sugar" fruits as dessert for diabetics, but the restaurant cannot supply "no sugar" desserts. Sorry! Did I miss anything?!?!? TO: All F%^ing Employees RE: The F%^ing Holiday Party I've had it with you vegetarian pricks!!! We're going to keep this party at the Grill House whether you like it or not, so you can sit quietly at the table furthest from the "grill of death," as you so quaintly put it, and you'll get your f%^ing salad bar, including organic tomatoes. But you know, tomatoes have feelings, too. They scream when you slice them. I've heard them scream. I'm hearing them scream right NOW! The rest of you f%^ing wierdos can kiss my ss. I hope you all have a rotten holiday! Drive drunk and die, The Btch from Hll!!! FROM: Joan Bishop, Acting Human Resources Director RE: Patty Lewis and Holiday Party I'm sure I speak for all of us in wishing Patty Lewis a speedy recovery from her recent nervous breakdown and I'll continue to forward your cards to her at the asylum. In the meantime, management has decided to cancel our Holiday Party and give everyone the afternoon of the 23rd off with full pay. Happy Whatever! DRUDGE POLL WHO WON THE 5TH REPUBLICAN DEBATE '16? You don't have to vote to see the results. I think Christy made some points when he pointed out that Rubio and Cruz's bickering over who voted for what was what was wrong with our government. And it pointed out something many of us have known for seven years, that first term senators make lousy presidents. Fiorina and Trump are the only ones that understand and have a clue about how to use technology against our enemies. Cruz doesn't understand that carpet bombing went out after we got smart bombs. Paul and Kasic will never be in the running and should drop out. Jeb looked foolish when he attacked, or tried to, attack Trump who put him down easily when he said he was 41 where Jeb was 3 and would soon be off the end of the stage. Jeb had no comeback. Later Jeb flubbed his closing statement. Just bad. I am confident that the only way he would be the nominee is if they rig it. Carson did not appear strong although what he said was okay, he just isn't what reps are looking for right now. Anyway, that's my take on it. Trump the clear winner, the rest far behind. Your opinion may vary and if so is of no interest to me. 34 Islamic nations form coalition to fight terrorism 34 Islamic nations form coalition to fight terrorism - CNN.com Interesting that this comes after Trump's call for banning muslims. I wonder if he will get the credit for this? I kinda doubt it. Last week I bought a new Ford, F-250 Tri-Flex Fuel TruckThe new truck was built by a company we didn't bailout..Go figure, it runs on either hydrogen, gasoline, or E85.I returned it to the dealer yesterday....Because I couldn't get the radio to work.The service technician explained that the radio was voice activated.He pushed a button on the steering wheel...'Nelson,' the technician said to the radio.The radio replied, 'Ricky or Willie?''Willie!' he continued and 'On The Road Again'Came from the speakers.Then he said, 'Ray Charles!', and in an instant' Georgia On My Mind' replaced Willie Nelson .I drove away happy, and for the next few days,Every time I'd say, 'Beethoven,'I'd get beautiful classical music, and if I said,'Beach Boys,' I'd get one of their awesome songs.This afternoon, some guy ran a red lightAnd nearly creamed my new truck,But I swerved in time to avoid him.I yelled, 'Ass Hole!'Immediately the radio responded with,"Ladies and gentlemen...The President of the United States" Damn, I love this truck.... Almost an hour long. If you think it's nigh impossible to change the mind of a liberal, just try changing the mind of an elitist politician in the Republican party. Their claim that an independent Trump run would give the presidency to Hillary is wrong. It would be a three way race and I strongly suspect Trump might win that. What then my Republican friends, how much worse would it be to be completely out in the cold. Donald Trump Responds to His Muslim Ban Idea and Hillary Clinton "GOP front runner Donald Trump sits down with Chris Wallace for an exclusive interview to discuss his campaign strategy and explaining his comments about banning Muslims from coming to the United States" Couple Realizes Chili's Waiter Had Done Something To Their Drinks, Take Matters Into Own Hands Not much if they are Muslim. We hear a few, a very few every now and then but hell, there's a BILLION of them that are not supposed to be radicalized and only 300 million who are. So where are those billion? Why don't we hear anything from them? I am amused by all the pundits trying to figure out the Trump phenomena. I don’t know about anyone else but I’ll tell you my story. Back in 2000 before 9/11 and shortly after ‘W’ came into office he signed a huge Ag bill that was TWICE the money giveaway that Clinton (Bill) had signed previously. WTF? What happened to cutting spending etc. I was disheartened with him and the reps but I hung in there like everyone else, faithfully voting for reps hoping they would do the right thing and constantly being let down. When I moved down here in 2008 I did not register as a rep although I kept voting for reps and kept getting disappointed over and over again. I told people I was independent but I kept voting rep. Along comes Trump and I see him upsetting the applecart, he doesn’t need their money and they can’t control him. They need to control their politicians, both parties do. Bernie Sanders is the joke put in there by the dems to make it look like the dem voters have a say in who their nominee will be. It was Hillary from the get go. Their party chair worked for H, the fix was in from the beginning. Everyone knows that but the weak minded sheep who think they have a say, they don’t. But the reps are no different, they put up a bunch of people but their money, all 125 million of it is behind Jeb, their choice, not mine. Well, I’ve had enough of voting for the lessor of two evils. Hell, who really knows which one that is anyway. They are both the same, will do the same thing and screw us equally well. But then there’s Trump, the wild card. He’s isn’t part of the club, hell, neither am I. I don’t know if he’ll win but I have decided that no matter what I’ll vote for him. Either if he is on the ticket or a write in but I’m not doing any more of this lessor of two evils crap. And if I do have to write him in he will be the only vote I cast. Screw the down ticket, what the hell have they done for any of us but lie their asses off. I would love it if a whole lot of dem and rep voters do what I’m planning to do. I would love to see Trump crash the DC glass cage of self privileged assholes who rule our lives without our consent. And screw all the pundits too. They who wine and dine with the privileged few and get paid handsomely for perpetrating the dual parties BS. That’s my plan, my reason and my decision. This is the first time in decades that I know my vote will mean something. Even if only to show the assholes at the GOP what I think. If a lot of us do this maybe, just maybe we can get the changes we want. Hell, how much worse can it possibly get. Ex-Guantanamo detainee now an al Qaeda leader in Yemen \| The Long War Journal Obama strikes again... The location of your mailbox shows you how far away from your house you can be in a robe, before you start looking like a mental patient. I thought my vasectomy would keep my wife from getting pregnant but apparently it just changes the color of the baby. My therapist said that my narcissism causes me to misread social situations. I'm pretty sure she was hitting on me. I always wondered what the job application is like at Hooters. Do they just give you a bra and say, "Here fill this out"? The speed in which a woman says "nothing" when asked "What's wrong?" is inversely proportional to the severity of the shit storm that's coming. Denny's has a slogan, ' If it's your birthday, the meal is on us.' If you're in Denny's and it's your birthday--your life sucks! If I make you breakfast in bed, a simple "Thank you" is all I need--not all this, "How did you get in my house" business! The pharmacist asked me my birthday again today--pretty sure she's going to get me something. On average, an American man will have sex two to three times a week; whereas a Japanese man will have sex only one or two times a year. This is upsetting news to me. I had no idea I was Japanese. I can't understand why women are okay that JC Penny has an older women's clothing line named, "Sag Harbor." I think it's pretty cool how Chinese people made a language entirely out of tattoos. What is it about a car that makes people think we can't see them pick their nose? Benghazi hero’s sis rips Hillary Clinton \| Boston Herald Hillary Clinton’s most repugnant lie \| New York Post Donald Trump: British police officers warn about growing ISIS radicalisation in London \| UK \| News \| Daily Express Students Demand Building Called ‘Lynch’ Be Renamed Because of Racial Overtones \| NBC 10 Philadelphia Yes! Absolutely! And Attorney General Loretta Lynch needs to change her name too! "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading." In a gunfight, the most important rule is ....HAVE A GUN!!! These are shooting tips from various Concealed Carry Instructors. If you own a gun, you will appreciate these rules... If not, you should get one, learn how to use it and learn the rules. RULES:A: Guns have only two enemies: rust and politicians. B: Its always better to be judged by 12 than carried out by 6. C: Cops carry guns to protect themselves, not you. D: Never let someone or something that threatens you get inside arm's length. E: Never say "I've got a gun." If you need to use deadly force, the first sound they should hear is the safety clicking off or the hammer cocking. F: The average response time of a 911 call is 23 minutes; the response time of a .357 is 1400 feet per second. G: The most important rule in a gunfight is: Always Win - there is no such thing as a fair fight.Always Win - cheat if necessary. Always Win - 2nd place doesn't count. H: Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets .... You may get killed with your own gun,but they'll have to beat you to death with it, because it will be empty . I: If you're in a gunfight: (a) If you're not shooting, you should be loading. (b) If you're not loading, you should be moving. (c) If you're not moving, you're dead. J: In a life and death situation, do something .... It may be wrong, but do something! K: If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. Nonsense! If you have a gun, what do you have to be paranoid about? L: You can say "stop" or any other word, but a large bore muzzle pointed at someone's head is prettymuch a universal language; and, you won't have to press 1 for Spanish/Mexican, or 2 for Chinese,or 3 for Arabic. M: Never leave an enemy behind. If you have to shoot, shoot to kill. In court, yours will be the only testimony. N: You cannot save the planet, but you may be able to save yourself and your family. Someone smart once said that to solve a problem you must first understand it. Before I could decide where I stood I first considered what the problem was. In this case there are two aspects of the problem. One is when do you think life begins. Once you determine that for yourself you can then decide at what point you can stop it. Stopping it before it begins would be okay in my mind but stopping it after would not be okay. So, when does it begin? That is your decision to make for yourself. It seems people focus on the current and only solution to the problem and miss what the problem actually is and therefore can't solve it. You can't solve a solution, you can only solve a problem. Concentrate on solving the problem is the only thing that makes sense. However, once the problem presents itself there is currently only that one solution and nobody likes it. We would all be much better off if both sides looked for better solutions than bitch about the only solution there is. It would be nice if we could stop bad people from coming into our country and killing us. Our government has proven it is incapable of doing that. If you can't filter out the poison that's in the water than it's a good idea not to drink any of the water. Until our government shows it is capable of keeping the bad guys out then maybe it's a good idea to keep all of them out. On this point it seems Trump is correct and rather than dump on him wouldn't it be better for our government to solve the problem. By saying he would ban all Muslims he is pointing a glaring finger at the failure of our government to protect us. Am I the only one to see this? Over 100 MILLION Guns Sold in US Since Obama Became President of United ... This is funny if it wasn't so tragic. They elect a guy in the hopes he'll stop guns and this happens. Truth is people don't feel safe with Obama running things, I know I don't. Hillary Supporters Hope She'll LOWER the STANDARD of LIVING if Elected P... This is why logic and common sense doesn't work when talking to Democrats. ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State, Daesh: What's The Difference? Which is which and why, useful info. WaPo: Gun Violence Declining, Except in Gun-Free Zones In light of this evidence the only conclusion I can make is that the dems are doing it on purpose to try to enact laws to take away everyone's guns. To what end? But it has failed miserably as the more the dems talk about gun control the more guns are bought. If those idiots really wanted less guns then they would get less if they just shut the fuck up! But that supposes they are not idiots and there is no evidence to support that. Countdown Timer - Countdown to Jan 20, 2017 in Washington DC Countdown until Obama leaves office. Donald Trump Addresses Republican Jewish Coalition 12/03/2015 FULL SPEECH Authorities Search Redlands Home Tied To Suspect Syed Farook Authorities Search Redlands Home Tied To Suspect Syed Farook « CBS Los Angeles Neighbor afraid to call police because of Political Correctness. He didn't want to be called a racist. 14 dead because of PC! Watch What Happens as Defiant Trump Spokeswoman Turns 9/11 Question on CNN Host It's fascinating to watch the far left CNN reporter try to change the subject and obviscate the truth. Of course this is CNN and that's what they do best, lie. In my eye she came off looking stupid but then, that's just me. Top 17 Hillary Clinton Scandals \| InsideGov By no means ALL her scandals, just the 17 top ones! SEVENTEEN! Man oh man is this really the best thing the dems can come up with! Murdoch unloads on Kerry, Obama, the left - POLITICO Ah, music to my ears partly because I know it is fingernails on the blackboard to liberals.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20357
__label__cc	0.54362	0.45638	You are here: HomeNews2007 MoCCA Art Festival Expands 2007 MoCCA Art Festival Expands Posted by Frederik Hautain on Nov 27, 2006 The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art’s 2007 MoCCA Art Festival just got bigger. Faced with an unprecedented flood of exhibitor applications for the 160 exhibitor tables filling the three ground floor ballrooms of New York’s historic Puck Building (295 Lafayette Street at Houston), festival organizers have decided to add space upstairs for more exhibitors. “We’ve never had this many applications this early before. When we started processing exhibitor applications at the beginning of November, it quickly became clear that the number of people who wanted to exhibit was going to greatly exceed our capacity,” says MoCCA President Ken Wong. “Within just a few weeks, we were officially sold out. But the applications are still coming in, so we decided we had to do something to accommodate more people.” The solution that Art Festival organizers came up with was to convert the Puck Building’s elegant seventh-floor Skylight Ballroom from a lecture hall into exhibitor space. By shifting panel sessions to the museum itself (located just two short blocks west), festival organizers were able to instantly add another 60+ tables. “There are so many talented and enthusiastic creators out there who deserve a place to showcase their work,” says Wong. “Knowing how many creators wanted to get in, we were thrilled to find a way to increase our capacity.” About the 2007 MoCCA Art Festival. The 2007 MoCCA Art Festival will take place the weekend of June 23-24 at the historic Puck Building (295 Lafayette Street at Houston) in downtown Manhattan’s famed SoHo arts district. The festival will be open to the public from 11:00am to 6:00pm both days. Admission starts at $8/day or $10/weekend but is only $5/weekend for MoCCA members. The MoCCA Art Festival, held each June since 2002, offers a unique venue to see and purchase comics, mini-comics, web comics, graphic novels, animation, posters, prints, original artwork, and much more. Thousands of people who love cartoons and comics -- from hardcore collectors and enthusiasts to the merely curious -- come to the Festival each summer to meet, talk to, and purchase works from some of today’s best cartoon and comics artists, writers, editors, and publishers. Each year, the Festival also invites dozens of well-respected creators, scholars, and other experts to participate in a two-day slate of lecture/discussion panels on a wide range of comics and cartoon topics. With additional space now available, those who wish to exhibit at the 2007 MoCCA Art Festival can download Exhibitor Applications & Guidelines from the museum’s website (www.moccany.org). Utter Foolishness & Nonsense - written by Frederik Hautain on Mar 20, 2006 The Art of Viz - written by Frederik Hautain on Sep 12, 2006 Art of The Darkness Sneak Peek - written by Frederik Hautain on Mar 5, 2007 Tori Amos & The Comic Book Tattoo - written by Frederik Hautain on Apr 8, 2008 2007 Toronto Comic Arts Festival - written by Frederik Hautain on Jun 18, 2007 A Look Inside the Lab - A Genre Bender Interview Part 2 - written by Neil Figuracion on Aug 16, 2005 Hammered - written by Neil Figuracion on Dec 25, 2005 Todd McFarlane: A Retrospective - written by William Gatevackes on Feb 28, 2006 Buildings, Life and Loss - written by Neil Figuracion on Aug 29, 2005 Misadventures at the MoCA - written by Neil Figuracion on Dec 29, 2005 Cute Manifesto - written by Eliot Johnson on Aug 7, 2005 Promoting a TPB at MoCCA - written by Tyler Chin-Tanner on Jun 5, 2009 Comparing Conventions - written by Tyler Chin-Tanner on Apr 9, 2010 Here's Comes the Pood - written by Tyler Chin-Tanner on May 13, 2010 Luc Schuiten Has a Heart for Nature - written by Bart Croonenborghs on May 29, 2009	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20361
__label__wiki	0.750875	0.750875	Get the latest updates as we post them — right on your browser Where to Pick Up MTSubscribeAdvertise Home Real Estate Jobs Directory Conferences Guides Our Books Awards Archive \| PDF . Last Updated: 07/27/2016 My profile: Login or register for free Beyond Moscow THE GREAT GAME:Shy Chechen's War Reporting Deserves Praise By Carlotta Gall Apr. 02 1998 00:00 Last week, I was in Bodo of all places, a small town in the far north of Norway. Fishing boats and fjords are about all there is there, but somewhat incongruously, I was steeped in Chechen issues. Some 400 Norwegian journalists descended on the town for a yearly conference, and one of the seminars billed was "The High-8 versus the Kalashnikov" by Chechen journalist Khazman Umarova. The sad thing was that Khazman never made it. She was stuck in Moscow trying to secure a passport from the Russian bureaucrats. The woman who escaped through Russian military lines time and again during the war failed when it came to dealing with officialdom. As one friend said: "The Chechens are brilliant fighters but no good at bureaucracy." We were supposed to do the presentation together but in the end I had to do it on my own. I found that even in her absence, Khazman was the main draw. The local press was on to me to know why she had not been able to travel, suspecting Russian motives in the delay. In a talk to local journalism students, the stories about Khazman raised the most interest and even a few laughs. Of my slides, full of the agony and horror of the war, the ones of Khazman laughing with Chechen fighters were a welcome high point. She is a petite, shy 27-year-old. Looking at her, you would never imagine she was capable of such extraordinary feats of bravery and resilience that have made her a legend among both local and foreign journalists in Chechnya. She became a journalist by chance. A British reporter gave her a High-8 video camera to take into the village of Samashki after the massacre by Russian troops. The village was blockaded, and only local Chechen women were being allowed in. Khazman's footage of burned bodies pulled from the cinders of their homes was the first confirmation of the massacre. From then on, she worked to film, for posterity, the major battles of the war and the scenes of bomb attacks, as well as demonstrations and interviews with the Chechen leadership. She worked for Presidentsky Kanal, Chechnya's first channel set up by the then-President Dzhokhar Dudayev, which became a clandestine channel under Russian occupation, broadcasting from a mobile transmitter in the mountains. As I watched it, I often thought of Khazman somewhere up in the mountains, interviewing Dudayev in his various hideouts, editing the film in the back of a car and transmitting the material from a makeshift television station. She slipped through checkpoints and crossed the front line time and again, once bringing through a metal rod for a new transmitter, telling the soldiers itwas a curtain rail for her bombed-out house. She followed the Chechen fighters into some of the most dangerous fighting, including the hostage raid in Pervomaiskoye, where she was the only journalist filming on the Chechen side. She did a huge service to her people, gathering and broadcasting information and helping foreign journalists, which allowed Chechnya to win the propaganda war. And she had the hardest task of all, reporting a war against her own people that tore her apart inside. The risks were great -- in particular, capture by the Russian forces -- and she could never take a break or fly home to peace and quiet. I wish she had been there to hear the applause. Main • News • Business • Opinion • Arts & Ideas • Calendar • Blogs • Multimedia B for B • Appointments Subscriptions • Reprints • Advertising TOOLS & FORMATS RSS Feeds • Mobile version • PDF edition • Archive search • Safari Extension • Firefox Toolbar Create Yourself • Student Project • Lost in Translation • Our Books Events • Business Special Home • Residential • Commercial • Beyond Moscow Home • Employees • Employers Home • Russia for... • Country Supplements Mini Guide • Real Estate • Classifieds Contact Us • Licensing Agreement • SiteMap © Copyright 1992-2014. The Moscow Times. All rights reserved. Электронное периодическое издание «The Moscow Times» зарегистрировано в Федеральной службе по надзору за соблюдением законодательства в сфере массовых коммуникаций и охране культурного наследия 04 июля 2006 г. Свидетельство о регистрации Эл № ФС77–24949. 16+	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20362
__label__cc	0.564598	0.435402	What's really going on in London Understanding the resi market Tag Archives: fizzy living Fizzy Living picks up £32.4m refinancing Private rented sector landlord Fizzy Living has agreed a refinancing of its four current projects in its portfolio. Pricoa Mortgage Capital has agreed the £32.4m package that will fund its current live projects, freeing up capital to further grow the business. The deal shows how strong the demand is from funders, for well let private rented homes. “This portfolio offers a compelling combination of excellent quality assets, good locations and stellar sponsorship,” said Aaron Knight, director of European debt obligations at Pricoa Mortgage Capital. “For the foreseeable future, our appetite for portfolios like this one will exceed the supply and we look forward to seeing more opportunities in this space and to the expansion of our relationship with Fizzy over the coming years.” Julian Turner, deputy finance director and head of treasury at Fizzy’s parent company Thames Valley Housing, revealed that the deal provides low rate finance over the medium term: “With interest rates at historic lows, this debt funding has been put in place at under 3% over ten years. This is made possible as Fizzy has already established a solid track record and is generating performance that not only satisfies but attracts the senior debt market. Its portfolio is operating at optimum level in a market that is poised for further substantial growth.” Geeta Nanda, chief executive of TVH, commented, “This is another great first for Fizzy and Thames Valley Housing. Having first shown that PRS is deliverable in the UK, this demonstrates that the strength of the Fizzy model is extremely attractive to equity and third party debt investors alike. We are delighted to have conducted this debt package with Pricoa Mortgage Capital who are a new player in the market, and hope that it will be the beginning of a long term partnership. It was in March 2014 that Fizzy agreed a £200m funding package from Silver Arrow, part of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, to support its expansion. To date, the brand has flats to rent at sites in Poplar, Epsom, Canning Town and Stepney Green. Posted in development, housing association, private rented and tagged fizzy living, pricoa, thames valley housing on 10th February 2015 by Chris Bown. Leave a comment Mayor signs off two major new rental projects London mayor Boris Johnson has selected developers for two residential sites in east London, with 40% of the proposed new homes destined for private market rental. The sites at Silvertown Way and Pontoon Dock will deliver around 1,200 new homes, of which 480 will be for private rental. The land is owned by the Greater London Authority, and is part of a tranche of sites taken on by the GLA in 2012, with the aim of bringing them into use quickly. “These schemes will be built faster than conventional methods, by providing a US-style private rented model alongside traditional tenures,” said mayor Johnson. “It’s important for London’s economy to support the growing rental market, providing top quality homes and management, together with the reassurance of longer term tenancy agreements. I also want to entice more institutional investors to come forward and invest in quality homes for Londoners.” The developments will include a restriction to ensure that the private rented homes cannot be sold off for a minimum period of ten years. The larger of the two sites, at Silvertown Way in Canning Town, will accommodate 1,000 homes. It has been awarded to Galliford Try, working with Opal Land, itself a joint venture between Thames Valley Housing Association and Linden Homes. The project split will include 347 private rented homes, 232 for affordable rent, and 154 for affordable home ownership, along with 86,000 sq ft of commercial space. Thames Valley’s PRS specialist Fizzy Living is to manage the private rented homes within the development. Homes for rental at Pontoon Dock have been designed by Assael Architecture At Pontoon Dock the development will include 137 private rented homes, 42 affordable rented and 31 shared ownership homes on a site next to Thames Barrier park. Here, the project will be delivered by Bouygues Development, Grainger and funding partner the London Pensions Fund Authority. The Pontoon Dock project will be majority funded by the LPFA. Said the authority’s CEO Susan Martin: “Investing directly in the redevelopment of the Pontoon Dock site will not only deliver essential housing for London, but will also provide LPFA with the attractive, liability matching, long-term returns we need to provide for our pensioners.” Posted in investor, private rented, social housing and tagged Boris Johnson, bouygues, fizzy living, grainger, thames valley housing on 16th September 2014 by Chris Bown. Leave a comment Government action demanded to support private rented sector Two separate calls have come from those in the property industry, calling on the government to involve itself actively in the promotion of the private rented sector. Only with this level of support, they argue, can the sector gain traction, and help solve the UK’s housing crisis. Agent GVA suggests three initiatives, to help the housing market. In its Development Outlook for summer 2014, the firm suggests there needs to be: * a substantial expansion of the new town/garden city initiative * further stimulation of the private rented sector “on sites less suitable for owner occupier housing” * more public sector affordable homes However, the researchers at GVA are under no illusions: “All these initiatives would require increases in government expenditure, which seems unlikely to occur in an era of public sector cut backs.” That said, the government has previously committed itself to substantial support for the housing market including Help to Buy, Funding for Lending, Build to Rent and Get Britain Building. It’s just that, together, these initiatives may have helped in some way, but do not appear to have solved the key issue. Meanwhile, PRS developer Fizzy Living believes it is only a change in planning law that will help move things up a gear. The company’s managing director Harry Downes says rental housing needs its own planning classification. “We need to get tot he point where the government, local authorities and planners understand the PRS,” he told Property Week, “where it has its own planning classification and where it forms part of a section 106 agreement.” Downes has suggested his firm would bind itself to work with local authorities, introducing such restrictions as a cap on incomes for those eligible to rent. “If the government is serious about solving the housing crisis, then it just has to give local authorities the policy to make it happen.” Posted in build to rent, help to buy, private rented, regulation and tagged fizzy living, GVA, harry downes on 8th September 2014 by Chris Bown. 1 Comment Downes calls on planners to back private rented sector Local planners need to embrace the professional private rented sector, and recognise it in development agreements. Only by including a private rented provision in section 106 agreements, will the sector gain the traction it needs. That’s the argument put forward by Harry Downes, managing director of Fizzy Living. PRS developments need a leg-up from the planners, he says, in order to give them a chance in the current overheated development market. Currently, most sites to go a developer who builds for sale, as their business model – a quick turnaround with a full financial exit – allows them to bid more for building land. “While true long-term PRS operators have to directly compete for sites with the deliverers of open-market sale property, the growth will be slow,” he warns in Property Week. “All sites are fiercely contested…the winner is usually the one whose residential valuation exercise knocks out the highest land value.” The problem is, he adds, that someone holding the properties they build for a decade or more, with the liabilities of managing those properties built into the cost structure, will not be able to come up with such a frothy return as a house builder. Downes says there are plenty of investors waiting to participate in the market, similar in scale to the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, which put £200 million behind Fizzy Living earlier this year. Ready to invest long term, they have the potential to significantly change the rental market for the better, giving tenants well-designed, professionally managed properties they will want to live in. Downes says one solution would be for section 106 agreements on major sites to include a PRS factor. These are legal documents, regularly entered into by developers and local authorities, and can cover a wide range of commitments from the parties. Often they deliver local infrastructure benefits, from new roads right down to park benches. The terms of the deal could include a minimum size of, say, 50 units – to help deliver scale; it would cover a long term commitment for the rental units to remain so for a minimum period of, say, 10 years; and “where appropriate…an income cap on tenants, to ensure the flats are actually tenanted by the generation rent target market”. As Downes reiterates, the problem of affordability is not going away anytime soon – in London, anyone looking to buy will currently need a deposit of around £80,000 to purchase their first home. The professional private rented sector is ready to deliver – but it needs a few simple elements of support to get the momentum going. Posted in development, planning, private rented and tagged fizzy living, harry downes, section 106 on 9th June 2014 by Chris Bown. Leave a comment Fizzy Living adds fifth project in Lewisham Private rented sector developer and manager Fizzy Living has committed to buy 136 apartments in the Lewisham Gateway scheme in south London. The flats will be within a 193 unit first phase being built by Muse Developments, part of an overall scheme that is destined to include up to 800 homes in total, under various forms of tenure. For Fizzy, the deal is the fifth site the company has taken on. It is the first transaction to make use of a recent injection of £200 million from the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, which has provided a long term funding commitment to Fizzy’s growth. Fizzy is a stand alone private rented sector brand owned by Thames Valley Housing. For Muse, the opportunity to forward sell the majority of the first phase of its development will give the company the capital to continue developing the second phase at a faster pace. Increasingly residential developers are looking to private rented sector landlords to buy early phase developments, helping them to fund a faster completion of major redevelopment projects. Posted in development, private rented and tagged fizzy living, lewisham, muse developments on 21st May 2014 by Chris Bown. Leave a comment Housing associations shy away from rental, as sales boom A booming housing market – helped by government incentives – is forcing housing associations to cut back on their plans to enter the private rented sector. In London and the south east, the impact of the Help to Buy scheme means house prices are rising, and there is greater demand from buyers who can now get on the housing ladder with a minimal deposit. As a result, several housing associations are cutting back on their private rented aspirations. Affinity Sutton has abandoned plans to build hundreds of homes a year for private rent, reports Inside Housing. Notting Hill Housing Trust and the Guinness Partnership are also reportedly scaling back plans in a marketplace where building to sell can give them a better short term return, than building to rent. The news is a setback, as last year nine housing associations bid successfully for funds under another government initiative to boost the housing market, Build to Rent. But house prices are rising, and busy builders are hiking construction costs, while land values are strengthening – all making the quick buck of a sale look more attractive. Keith Exford, the chief executive of Affinity Sutton told Inside Housing: “We took the decision at the beginning of the year that returns on PRS are just not big enough given the risks involved.” However, not everyone is focused on the short term, it seems. In the last week, Fizzy Living, the private rented company of the Thames Valley Housing Association, agreed a £200 million cash injection from the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, specifically to invest long term in growing a portfolio of private rented homes in the UK. Posted in development, help to buy, private rented and tagged abu dhabi investment authority, fizzy living on 14th March 2014 by Chris Bown. Leave a comment Fizzy Living receives £200 million investment to build rental homes Private rented sector developer Fizzy Living has received a £200 million cash investment to help speed the growth of its rental homes portfolio. The funds have come from the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, via its investment vehicle Silver Arrow. The injection will enable Fizzy Living, which is owned by Thames Valley Housing Association, to significantly expand its activities in the private rented sector, where it has set out firmly to provide rental homes primarily for young professionals, and initially in the greater London area. Said John Garrity, group chair of TVHA: “As the PRS market is growing quickly with new players emerging all the time, it was a specific objective of ours for Fizzy to have access to a larger capital source within the first two years of operation. We now look forward to Fizzy proceeding rapidly towards its goal of building a large portfolio of quality private rental accommodation.” The involvement of ADIA, which is well known for its significant investment in other areas of property, including major commercial projects, shows that the UK rented housing sector is now attracting institutional funds. The deal also suggests that ADIA has seen past the historic opinion of many institutional investors, who believed that offices, retail and warehouse properties presented better returns than housing. Fizzy is likely to split the money between purchasing complete blocks of apartments or whole schemes from developers, and undertaking its own residential developments. Already the company has Poplar, Stepney Green, Canning Town and Epsom which it is renting out. Fizzy Living launched in early 2012 with £30 million of funding from TVHA. It has subsequently drawn in a further £40 million from Macquarie Capital, but the involvement of ADIA will now considerably accelerate its activities. TVHA is probably the leader among housing associations getting into the private rented sector. It has managed to finesse the relationship between a not for profit parent and its commercial arms-length subsidiary in Fizzy Living successfully, while other housing associations are still struggling to get comfortable with the concept. Garrity made the point that “profits generated from this venture are invested back into the association to meet our social purpose”. One key to Fizzy Living’s success is the fact that it has its own, stand-alone branding, complete with an edgy design and website designed to appeal to the target market; and a strong customer service ethos to support its renters. Geeta Nanda, CEO of TVHA, noted that ADIA’s investment reflected that differentiation in the market: This, we believe, is largely to do with the clarity of Fizzy’s focus, which delivers a great solution to the housing needs of a defined demographic.” Posted in development, investor, private rented, social housing and tagged fizzy living, Thames Valley Housing Association, TVHA on 11th March 2014 by Chris Bown. Leave a comment Downes calls on planners to relax affordable housing rules A few simple changes of outdated planning rules could boost the provision of professionally managed private rented sector (PRS) housing in London and other British cities. Planners need to simply be more open minded in determining what is “affordable housing”, and use existing legal frameworks to ensure PRS homes are delivered and ring fenced for the medium term. That’s the plea from Harry Downes, director of Fizzy Living. Writing in a recent edition of Property Week, Downes says PRS landlords and their tenants have much to offer localities, and local councils should be actively encouraging them. Fizzy is the private rented sector business owned by Thames Valley Housing Group, a major housing association with a portfolio of 15,000 properties across London and the south east. Fizzy Living is already offering private rented sector flats for rent at three developments in east London, and one in Epsom, Surrey, and is promising a new deal for renters including prompt attention to any issues, free wifi, and flexible lease terms. Fizzy Living’s new Epsom development The private rented sector is really the only practical accommodation option for a rapidly growing group of people. These are young professionals who have a good job, ambitions and a social network, but lack the massive deposit currently required to get a property with a mortgage. Downes labels them “rentysomethings”. There is an easy way for councils to solve the problem “to achieve their commitment to provide affordable housing – as in, housing that is affordable – in their boroughs,” says Downes. “They can do this by using the section 106 framework to allow buildings of more than 50 flats to be developed as 10 year PRS opportunities.” Downes says the professional PRS landlord presents four key advantages that benefit both the tenant, and the local community. By building substantial size projects with an average of around 100 flats, professional landlords deliver scale, and with that comes a positive impact on communities. Unlike a private landlord, who can sell out at any time, there is long term commitment, which means tenants are more likely to stay long term, too. Great, proactive management means buildings that stay working well. And finally, there is community, something professional landlords today know is part of making their tenants feel wanted – whether that’s a centrally managed fitness facility, or an online forum that helps individuals find flatmates. Downes says there are lots of people now wanting to rent; around 2.2 million 20 to 24 year olds were recorded in the 2011 census in the UK. They are, he insists, “valuable assets” as they “spend their time and money in the local bars, shops and amenities, pay taxes and contribute to their community”. Fizzy, and companies like his, would very much wish to accommodate these renters, and are looking for the opportunities to do so. They just need the planners to be a little more helpful, when allocating sites for development. Posted in development, investor, private rented and tagged affordable housing, fizzy living, harry downes, planning on 20th February 2014 by Chris Bown. Leave a comment Market starts to understand PRS development valuation Call for planning changes to support private rental L&G invests £16m in Manchester PRS development Argent and US developer Related head into UK rental market Sigma expands £1 billion PRS finance Jill on Survey reveals relative rental costs around UK cities Frustrated renter on Ten ways to ease the housing shortage – Legal & General contributes private rented sector homes on Aviva prepares for private rented investment push http://www.infoszfera.hu/newaboutus.php?2091jerseys on Government action demanded to support private rented sector Chris Brown on Tax office converts to private rented flats on Liverpool waterfront housing association	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20367
__label__cc	0.695152	0.304848	MOVIE/DVD REVIEWS TV/DVD REVIEWS Twins of Evil; Hell Never Dies: Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson 07/21/19 » July 24th, 2019 \| Category: Danny Worsnop, Starbenders, The Party After; Live On Tour: The Tour 01/11/2020 Radio Legend Lou Brutus to Release A Rock N Roll Memoir Like No Other This Spring THE BIRTHDAY MASSACRE cuts “DIAMONDS” for release on March 27th… on Tour! Sleeping With Sirens Announce Co-Headline Tour With The Amity Affliction VOLBEAT ANNOUNCE 15 U.S. HEADLINE DATES ON THE “REWIND, REPLAY, REBOUND WORLD TOUR” Ministry Announces The Industrial Strength Tour With KMFDM & Front Line Assembly Kicking Off July 1; In Celebration of 30 Years of “The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste” Danny Worsnop, Live On Tour: The Tour; 01/11/2020 – Danny Worsnop, Starbenders, The Party After Sleeping With Sirens, Set It Off, Belmont, Point North; The Medicine Tour (U.S.) 01/08/2020 The Medicine Tour (U.S.) 01/08/2020; Sleeping With Sirens, Set It Off, Belmont, Point North ICE NINE KILLS Raise Funds For Australia Wildfire Relief with Ltd-Edition T-Shirt Sale Danny Worsnop Releases New Single ‘Another You’ Wednesday 13, Dope, Static-X; December 7th, 2019 Danny Worsnop Releases new song and music video! Asking Alexandria Release Deluxe Version of Self-Titled Album; ‘LP5 DLX’ BONES UK Announce Unplugged EP and 2020 Tour with KORN & Breaking Benjamin Wisconsin Death Trip 20th Anniversary Tour: Wednesday 13, Dope, Static-X 12/07/2019 Solutions Tour: K.FLay 11/30/2019 The Gereg Tour 2019; The HU, Crown Lands 11/26/2019 KNOTFEST TO MAKE HISTORY ONCE AGAIN WITH THE FIRST EVER KNOTFEST UK	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20370
__label__wiki	0.84569	0.84569	Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball Top 300 RankingsTop 300 Rankings Closer ChartCloser Chart Hitting ForecasterHitting Forecaster Pitching ForecasterPitching Forecaster Scoring LeadersScoring Leaders Most Added/DroppedMost Added/Dropped Player NewsPlayer News Fantasy Baseball 101Fantasy Baseball 101 Dynasty RanksDynasty Ranks DFS Cheat SheetDFS Cheat Sheet Custom Auction ValuesCustom Auction Values Fantasy baseball: Which pitchers can take advantage of July's schedule? 208dTristan H. Cockcroft Josh Donaldson's deal creates power trio in Minnesota 5dEric Karabell Nats' Scherzer starts '20 with clean bill of health Fantasy baseball analysis of offseason trades and free-agent signings 24dTristan H. Cockcroft and Eric Karabell Sources: Twins land Donaldson for 4 years, $92M Questions remain about new Blue Jays ace Hyun-Jin Ryu 28dTristan H. Cockcroft Yankees' Gerrit Cole a contender for top fantasy pitcher in 2020 Fantasy baseball rankings for 2020 points leagues 3dAJ Mass Dallas Keuchel's fantasy value on the rise with White Sox Diamondbacks' Madison Bumgarner still a top 30 fantasy pitcher Kluber brings his 2019 baggage to a new ballpark in Texas Angels offense gets major boost from Anthony Rendon Fantasy baseball 2020 roto rankings Fantasy baseball: 2020 H2H Roto rankings Tommy Pham-Hunter Renfroe trade fantasy implications Phillies 'co-ace' Zack Wheeler is not a fantasy ace Yasmani Grandal could be fantasy's top catcher as a White Sox Reds' Mike Moustakas locks in long-term 2B fantasy eligibility 2019 fantasy baseball busts who could become sleepers in 2020 drafts 112dTim Heaney Closer depth chart: All the latest moves 39dFantasy Staff MLB first overall pick Adley Rutschman headlines fantasy baseball 2024 future all-star team Fantasy baseball points ranks: Who is in the 'Rule of 7' club for the stretch run? 168dAJ Mass Fantasy baseball points ranks: Using RC/27 to identify trade targets The Indians' soft schedule makes Adam Plutko an excellent streaming candidate. Tim Heitman-USA TODAY Sports Tristan H. Cockcroft July can be a tricky month as far as formulating a pitching strategy is concerned in fantasy baseball. Fantasy baseball forecaster for Week 13: June 24-30 Fantasy baseball prospect rankings: Top options for the stretch run It's the month in which the All-Star Game is played, that traditionally on the second or third Tuesday of the month, baking in a three-to-four-day All-Star break that affords teams an opportunity to shuffle their rotations. That break, too, allows teams to demote certain pitchers to minor league affiliates, that rest period accounting for a chunk of the minimum 10-day requirement for a minor league stay and therefore easing the blow. You'll often see a pitcher start the Wednesday or Thursday game immediately preceding the break, get demoted to the minors, then be summoned on the earliest date that his team needs a fifth starter after the break, typically the Monday or Tuesday afterward -- using the Thursday and Monday dates referenced, that'd provide the pitcher exactly a 10-day minor league stay. In short, don't panic if your productive pitcher receives an unexpected demotion within the next week-to-10-days -- à la Chris Paddack's two weeks ago -- as it's entirely possible his team is only leveraging the roster rules around the upcoming All-Star break. It's the aces, though, who reap the greatest reward in the month of July. Due to the aforementioned "reset" created by the All-Star break, teams have the luxury of maximizing their aces' assignments during this unusual month, potentially starting them in the final game before it on Sunday, then again in the first game after it on Friday (or Saturday and Thursday in the case of the Houston Astros or Texas Rangers, the only teams to play on the first day back this year, Thursday, July 11). Last season, Trevor Bauer, Jon Lester and Kyle Hendricks (he worked that Saturday-Thursday pattern) all worked on four days' rest spanning the All-Star break, despite the fact that none of them was technically "on turn" in their respective rotations at the time. All three pitchers wound up amongst the 15 who tied for the month's lead with six starts. Now here's the catch: Until managers announce their second-half rotations, which typically happens anywhere between the 3-4 days before the break and the very first day of the second half, we won't know the order of any team's rotation, making advanced planning especially difficult for July. That's why aces reap the rewards: We know they'll still be in their respective rotations, and they're the most likely to make the most starts during the month. But that doesn't mean we can't speculate on good month-long streaming candidates, just as we did four weeks ago. If you're planning ahead, the best way to do this is to lean upon the July schedules, then merely hope that rotation orders fall into place. The Forecaster can help: I've used it to analyze all possible pitching matchups during the 31 days in July -- though there are games played on only 28 of those -- in order to identify the best "streaming starter" candidates who could provide you something more during the month. The following individual pitchers and/or team rotations stand out as the strongest month-long investments for July. I've included only those pitchers who are currently available in at least 50% of ESPN leagues. Homer Bailey, Danny Duffy, Jakob Junis, Brad Keller and the Kansas City Royals' pitching staff: Wait [e] what? The Royals? Really? Difficult as it might be to believe it -- especially in the case of Bailey, whose ERA since the beginning of 2015 is a ghastly 5.83 -- the Royals have the month's most favorable pitching schedule, not to mention a staff in which not a single pitcher is rostered in greater than 17.3% of ESPN leagues (and that's closer Ian Kennedy's rate). If you want long-term, locked-in streamers, here they are, as the Royals will play a league-high 26 games (tied with five other teams), a league-high 17 home games at one of the best parks in baseball at suppressing power, and will face teams that rank in the bottom 10 in the game in runs per game for 21 of those 26 contests. As for their individuals' talent, consider this: In the past three weeks (June 5-25), the Royals have a league-leading 11 quality starts (tied with five other teams) and 3.94 ERA (eighth-best) as a staff. Steven Matz and Jason Vargas, New York Mets: Considering where we all were with Vargas just two short months ago -- he had a 7.20 ERA, had allowed .313/.405/.563 slash rates in his four starts and one relief appearances through April 26, and was generating headlines in the local media that the team should place a call to free agent Dallas Keuchel -- it's remarkable to think that today, he's a strongly recommended choice for the month ahead. It's the right play: Since his May 25 return from a hamstring strain, he's 3-for-6 in quality starts with a 2.27 ERA. Matz, despite his extremely inconsistent past month, stands good odds of a rebound July. The Mets begin the month with a light week, five home games including the two-game Subway Series (July 2-3), but even that comes against a New York Yankees team that will be fresh off its flight back from London. Outside of a pair of road games against the Minnesota Twins (July 16-17), the Mets' second-half-of-July schedule is ridiculously light: Four games against the San Francisco Giants played in pitchers' heaven Oracle Park, three apiece against the Miami Marlins, Pittsburgh Pirates and San Diego Padres and two against the Chicago White Sox. Every one of those five teams has averaged more than a quarter-run per game beneath the league average for the season (4.78). Even better: The Giants, Marlins and Pirates are the three worst teams in baseball in terms of wOBA against left-handed pitchers. Adam Plutko, Cleveland Indians: Mike Clevinger would be the pick here if available in more than the 9% of ESPN leagues that he is, but the Indians' July schedule is so favorable, Plutko gets the nod as a sort of "heads up" that whomever the team tosses into the mix for spot starts will be a strong streaming choice. The team begins its traditional second half with three games against the Twins and concludes July with a pair against the Houston Astros, but there isn't a truly frightening matchup on the schedule for the entire remainder of the month. Plutko is 3-for-6 in quality starts with a 4.26 ERA and sparking 8.3 K-to-walk ratio since being summoned as a Corey Kluber fill-in, but it's also worth pointing out that Aaron Civale, Zach Plesac and Jefry Rodriguez have performed well as fellow fill-ins for the team's injury-tattered rotation. Keep those Indians fill-ins on hand for the long haul so long as there's word they're not up for a mere one-day assignment. Other pitchers to consider: Adbert Alzolay (89% available in ESPN leagues); San Diego Padres starters Logan Allen (76%) and Eric Lauer (93%); and Spencer Turnbull (84%). Conversely, here are the pitchers who look least likely to help on the streaming front in the month of July. There's no roster percentage requirement here, but these are pitchers generally regarded in the "matchups" class. Marco Gonzales and Yusei Kikuchi, Seattle Mariners: Neither has pitched particularly well since the beginning of May -- though Gonzales is riding a back-to-back quality starts streak -- as Gonzales' ERA is 5.75 in his 10 starts and Kikuchi's is 5.47 in 10 during that time span. That the Mariners have the majors' 24th-ranked relief ERA (5.33) during that time doesn't help matters for the starters in the win column. Then we get to the schedule: Only the aforementioned Mets (22 games, which underscores how favorable their July schedule in the games they do play) play fewer games in July than the Mariners, and only the Texas Rangers (20.0%) and Astros (21.5%) face weaker schedules in the strikeout department (21.7%). If you haven't cashed in your Mariners pitching chips, you need to do so right now. Lance Lynn, Rangers: He can be a very productive fantasy starter at times, but due to his traditionally non-elite command, ground ball and hard-contact rates, Lynn is susceptible to painful slumps as well. July seems like a time where those odds are elevated for him, as the Rangers face the aforementioned worst monthly schedule for strikeouts, not to mention they join the Colorado Rockies as the only teams to not face a single opponent that the Forecaster grades a top-10 pitching matchup. The Rangers play 12 of their 25 games at home at hitting-friendly Globe Life Park and play three-game road series against the Twins and Astros, providing Lynn few favorable windows. He has eight quality starts, a 3.34 ERA and 30.3 percent strikeout rate during his past nine turns, having faced a lot of extremely favorable matchups in that time, so this is probably the best sell-high point he has had in his career in years. Cincinnati Reds starters: Amongst the available-in-more-than-50% crew, Anthony DeSclafani, Sonny Gray, Tyler Mahle and Tanner Roark have been plenty useful to this point of the year, but things get a bit tougher for the quartet in July. The team won't play a single one of its 25 games at a pitching-friendly venue, with 16 of them at Great American Ball Park and another three apiece at Colorado's Coors Field and Milwaukee's Miller Park. Other pitchers to sell/avoid: Miami Marlins starters Sandy Alcantara (10% rostered in ESPN leagues) and Jordan Yamamoto (51%); Zach Eflin (57%); Oakland Athletics starters Brett Anderson (12%), Chris Bassitt (20%) and Mike Fiers (36%). July schedule for all 30 teams The "R/G," "HR/G" and "K%" numbers combine all opponents' performance in those categories, while the "10 BEST" and "10 WORST" counts are the number of games against offenses that the Forecaster grades the 10 best and 10 worst matchups for a pitcher. R/G HR/G	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20376
__label__wiki	0.606431	0.606431	Dalang Publishing: Introducing Indonesian Historical Fiction to the U.S. In News by Dennis Abrams January 26, 2016 Translation is finding new energy in the world industry: after all, digital makes borders more porous than ever, foreign markets more enticing. But translation is expensive, difficult to do well, and frequently hard to sell in distant markets unless you have sales forces on the ground. What’s more, translators frequently must agitate for proper acknowledgment and metadata inclusion. All the more reason to applaud California-based publisher Lian Gouw, 82. She refers to herself as a “watch-outer,” looking out for her translators’ interests as avidly as she does those of her authors. —Porter Anderson By Dennis Abrams \| @DennisAbrams2 Lian Gouw of Dalang Publishing An article in the Jakarta Globe looks at Lian Gouw, the founder and owner of Dalang Publishing, a two-person operation based in San Mateo, California. It specializes in translating historical fiction from Indonesia. The article looks back at weeklong series of talks about two translations published by Dalang. Last autumn, Gouw brought two authors and their translators from Indonesia to participate, presenting their works in stores and on campuses in the Bay Area. Stefanny Irawan, the translator of Daughters of Papua, one of the featured books in Dalang’s “A Taste of Indonesian Literature” tour, told the Globe that Gouw “sincerely wants to help Indonesian literature, introduce it to the world.” And while Gouw does receive a subsidy from the Indonesian government for her work, she still had to “dig into her own pocket to cover the costs of hosting her visitors.” The article tells us: “No other publisher has done anything like this before in aid of Indonesian literature. Complicating matters is the fact that Stefanny [Irawan] is the only one of the four participants who has ever been to the United States before. Of the other three, only Hayat Indriyatno [Indriyatno Nurhayat Mohamed], the translator of Kei, has traveled outside Indonesia. For authors Anindita Siswanto Thayf (Daughters of Papua) and Erni Aladjai (Kei), this is their first trip abroad.” While the Indonesian authors and translators’ tour drew limited crowds, Gouw is accustomed to an uphill battle in promoting Indonesian literature. When the group visited the San Jose State University’s Martin Luther King Jr. Library, they asked to see the world literature section, and, in particular, the Indonesian shelves. “And there were two books. Two,” Gouw tells the newspaper. “Can you guess what they were? They were two dictionaries. Dictionaries!” Gouw took matters into her own hands, giving the library the original versions of the eight books that Dalang has published. “Now the originals are going to be there and represent Indonesian literature. And that’s great,” she said. “That’s what it’s all about.” In an interview with the Globe last year, Gouw said that it was her policy “to only publish literary novels, only use Indonesian translators who live in Indonesia, and solicit Indonesian reviewers along with foreign reviews”—all to prove that “Indonesian literature can be successfully presented by Indonesians.” As Hayat Indriyatno acknowledged, Gouw “can be a hard taskmaster, but when you see the finished product and the lengths she goes to to promote her books, you realize how deeply meaningful this is to her.” Dennis Abrams Dennis Abrams is a contributing editor for Publishing Perspectives, responsible for news, children's publishing and media. He's also a restaurant critic, literary blogger, and the author of "The Play's The Thing," a complete YA guide to the plays of William Shakespeare published by Pentian, as well as more than 30 YA biographies and histories for Chelsea House publishers. Tags: Asia, authors, Dalang Publishing, indonesia, Lian Gouw, translation, USA	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20378
__label__wiki	0.791577	0.791577	Angela dumps Ranbir for Shahid Kapoor Swimsuit model Angela Jonsson is discarding men in her life faster than you would discard a swimsuit. Just days after she was linked to Bollywood's Casanova Ranbir Kapoor, it is rumoured that she has left him for another Kapoor boy-Shahid Kapoor. After the model was seen cozying up with Ranbir at his residence and various nightclubs, buzz is that she has moved on to Shahid Kapoor and all for the sake of publicity. Buzz is that her 'Kapoor boys escapades' are an attempt to break in to the industry and dining with A-listers is surely the easiest way to get spotted. A source told Mumbai Mirror, "Ranbir hardly knew Angela. However, being a ladies' man, he reciprocated to her overtures with much gusto. But he never thought he'd get linked up with her. Apparently, photographers were told to click Ranbir with Ms Jonsson in public. Somehow, these pictures always made their way to the media." However, when Ranbir realised what the young starlet was up to he immediately stopped taking her calls or entertaining her at all. Undeterred by Ranbir's dismissal, Jonsson has reportedly moved onto Shahid Kapoor. "So what's wrong in her being seen with happening young guys? Every heroine aspires to do the same. Angela just succeeded in her strategy. Why grudge her that?" A young actress told the tabloid. Seems like Ranbir has met his match! Shahid Kapoor Resumes Mausam Wrap Up Shoot Posted on Friday, May 20, 2011 (EST) Shahid Kapoor resumed filming for Mausam after five day break to nurse a hand injury sustained on set on May 15 and first reported by Sawfnews.com. May 20, 2011, (Sawf News) - Shahid Kapoor resumed filming for Mausam after five day break to nurse a hand injury sustained on set on May 15 and first reported by Sawfnews.com. "Back on set MAUSAM .. Last 5 days 25th I wrap the film ....." Shahid tweeted May 20, afternoon. As Sawfnews.com first reported Shahid injured his hand in an accident when a giant wheel fell on his hand during the shoot at Jogeshwari in Mumbai on May 15. He was immediately taken to ER and treated. He was advised to rest for a few days and allowed to go home. If not for that accident, Shahid would have been done with the shoot today. On May 14 he tweeted: "On set mausam .... Last 5 days http://yfrog.com/h25wfxtj along with his photo on the set which seemed like a night shoot. Sonam Kapoor, the female lead in the film, is not part of this patch work schedule. A year in making, Pankaj Kapoor's romance drama is due for release on July 22. The film will clash on Box Office with Ajay Devgan's Singham, a cop thriller, due for release on same day. Shahid dedicated the entire 2010 and half of 2011 to Mausam. Late last year he started looking for his next projects and has signed up two films - Sajid Nadiadwala production Heer Aur Ranjha to be directed by Sabir Khan and Kunal Kohli's untitled film with co-star Priyanka Chopra.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20388
__label__cc	0.650504	0.349496	About R&B Distillers R&B stands for Raasay and Borders; two unique and contrasting landscapes, two sides of a family, and uncommon provenance for whisky – until now. In September 2017, we opened the first legal distillery on the Isle of Raasay in the Inner Hebrides, creating an entirely new provenance for Scotch whisky. Raasay & Borders Distillers The Borders has not seen a whisky distillery since 1837, and our Isle of Raasay Distillery became the first legal distillery on the island of just 120 residents. Our roots in both the Scottish Borders and the Hebrides are physically embodied by our Co-founder, Alasdair Day. Alasdair’s great-grandfather, Allan Macdonald, hailed from the Hebrides. His other great-grandfather, Richard Day, was a whisky blender in the Border town of Coldstream with a heritage dating back to 1820. Building distilleries takes time though, so we are satisfying our impatience by working with a Highland distillery to very deliberately craft the styles of whisky representative of what’s to come. Some families have a family bible. The Day family has Richard Day’s cellar book, its contents as sacred as any scripture. In 1895 a young Richard Day walked into a licenced grocers at No1 Duke Street in the Borders town of Coldstream to begin his first day as an office boy at J&A Davidson. Richard Day took over his employer’s business in 1923, having learnt the art of blending, and so began the family whisky tradition that lives on in R&B. The Cellar Book In the pages of the cellar book, an accounts ledger in which can be found record of our Co-founder’s great, great-grandfather buying probably beer – possibly whisky – Richard Day later recorded all his acquired wisdom, decades of whisky learning and lore. Over time the volume with all its blended whisky recipes passed into the capable hands of R&B’s Alasdair Day and after a 70 year gap The Tweeddale Blend was recreated. As whisky adventurers and innovators, at R&B we rarely do anything by the book. Unless, of course, it’s Richard Day’s cellar book. Our Distilleries Our Whisky Our Original Pioneers R&B is a meeting of minds as well as terroirs. In Bill we have a canny head for business, and in Alasdair, an uncanny knack for making whisky. Alasdair Day Alasdair has spent 25 years in the food industry, but his great-grandfather’s whisky heritage kept calling him back to a family tradition. Alasdair has been successfully recreating his great-grandfather’s Borders whisky since 2009. Now he’s adding modern twists to time-honoured methods to create our new handcrafted whiskies. The multi-award winning Tweeddale whisky is now an integral part of R&B. Bill Dobbie Bill has led a number of highly successful private equity funded businesses. He is an experienced entrepreneur, founding and building various internet based enterprises. Somehow he also finds the time to sit on the boards of several companies. His taste for business is perhaps matched only by his taste for fine whisky. RT @erika_n77: Is it wrong that when i saw where they had to climb on #SASWhoDaresWins did i automatically blurt out..gin distill… https://t.co/dXegnriKpa, 2 hours ago	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20394
__label__cc	0.643239	0.356761	RedGlobe News RedGlobe on Facebook RedGlobe on Twitter May 1st Our day Communists Statements and documents Venezuela Bolivariana Britain and Brexit USA The other America Israel & Palestine Peace Now! WFTU statement against the new Israeli air strikes and USA aggression Category: Israel Over the last 3 days, Israel is unleashing new air strikes against targets along Gaza Strip, under the pretext of answering to the launching of rockets. Since last March, at least 258 Palestinians have been murdered in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli army, during their protests for the end of the Israeli blockades and the return of the Palestinian Refugees to their homeland. In parallel, the USA President signed a decree which recognizes the sovereignty of Israel over the Golan Heights, territory that Israel seized from Syria in 1967. In the name of 95 million workers in 130 countries all over the globe, the WFTU strongly condemns this new escalation of Israeli aggressiveness against the people of Palestine, as well as the unacceptable decree signed by the USA President, which opposes any sense of the International Law. We extend our internationalist solidarity with the people of Palestine and of Syria and we demand the end of the Israeli military operations and occupation and the end of the USA aggression against the people of the Middle East. Your experience on this site will be improved by allowing cookies	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20396
__label__wiki	0.588228	0.588228	Look, Laugh, Live RSHIPS Hey Busy Girl ...And Relax Cheryl FINALLY Confirms She’s Pregnant With Stunning Bump Photo Anna Duff February 23, 2017 7:30 am The 33-year-old singer unveils her blossoming tum in a new campaign for L'Oreal Paris and The Prince's Trust IT’S FINALLY PUBLIC! Cheryl and Liam Payne really are having a baby. We mean, it’s been pretty obvious for quite a while, what with Chezza stepping out with a bump back in November an’ all. But now she’s officially revealed her blossoming (and completely gorgeous) tum, in a new campaign for L’Oreal Paris and The Prince’s Trust. YAAAAY. See: Cheryl Just Shared An Unexpected Instagram Post About The BRITs Cheryl looks content and glowing in the shoot, which sees her posing side on and cradling her stomach. Her figure is only emphasised by a form-fitting black midi. And lady, pregnancy DEFINITELY suits you. See: Cheryl Turns To Kourtney Kardashian For Celebrity Motherhood Advice Cheryl is joined by celebrities including Dame Helen Mirren, Katie Piper and AJ Odudu in the campaign, which launches a three-year collaboration between L’Oreal Paris and The Prince’s Trust entitled All Worth It. This aims to help raise the confidence of 10,000 young people across the UK who are struggling with self-doubt. Cheryl says: ‘As a long-standing supporter of The Prince’s Trust and spokesperson for L’Oreal Paris I am so happy to support this partnership. Cheryl unveiled her bump back in November, but this is the first time she’s publicly acknowledged her pregnancy ‘Young people are currently facing more and more problems with self-confidence and we have to address these issues as a real priority. ‘My hope is that this partnership will help young people feel accepted and valued for who they are and make sure that they get the support they need to make the most out of life.’ Despite rumours about Cheryl and Liam flying around for so long, they’d so far kept silent on the baby speculation. Black Friday clothing deals to update your entire wardrobe A Week Of Breathtaking Views, Seafood And Rooftop Bars In Portugal 11 Thoughts Everyone Has When Sharing A Bed Liam Payne kept quiet about the news at last night’s BRIT Awards Neither had given any hints on their social media pages, and One Direction’s Liam, 23, even stayed quiet as he accepted a BRIT Award last night. But now we know how Cheryl planned to announce her amazing news, we kinda get it. It’s a brilliant cause, and she looks beautiful. Huge congratulations to you both! Now… bets on names?! Liam Payne On His Relationship With Cheryl: ‘We Have Our Struggles’ Cheryl Opens Up About How ‘Challenging’ Life As A New Mum Can Be Isn’t It Time That We All Left Cheryl And Liam Payne Alone? Subscribe to Look Magazine	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20402
__label__cc	0.605141	0.394859	12/27/2011 - 2012 Trends & Forecasts This evening's guests will bring us enlightenment on what they predict will be "in" and "out", new and exciting, and emerging trends for the New Year. From food and wine, to travel and even......shoes, we'll get insight into what to expect for 2012. The team from Slow Living wish you a most safe, celebrative New Years' and a year ahead full of laughter, family, friends, good living and many "slow" moments! Cheers! Michelle Dickey Marketing Team Leader Jerry Aman, Store Concierge Napa Whole Foods Market A Whole Foods Story... Wow! What a ride. Back in 1980, we started out with one small store in Austin, Texas. Today, we’re the world’s leader in natural and organic foods, with more than 310 stores in North America and the United Kingdom. What a long, strange trip it’s been. We still honor our original ideals, and we think that has a lot to do with our success. Who are we? Well, we seek out the finest natural and organic foods available, maintain the strictest quality standards in the industry, and have an unshakeable commitment to sustainable agriculture. Add to that the excitement and fun we bring to shopping for groceries, and you start to get a sense of what we’re all about. Oh yeah, we’re a mission-driven company too. If you are interested in learning about our business practices and what makes us tick, check out our Core Values, Quality Standards, Declaration of Interdependence, and more. Around here, we often talk about our mission in terms of Whole Foods – Whole People – Whole Planet. Basically, we think these elements all play a huge role in our success. Whole Foods — We search for the highest quality, least processed, most flavorful and natural foods possible because we believe that food in its purest state — unadulterated by artificial additives, sweeteners, colorings and preservatives — is the best tasting and most nutritious food there is. Whole People — Our people are our company. They are passionate about healthy food and a healthy planet. They take full advantage of our decentralized, self-directed team culture and create a respectful workplace where people are treated fairly and are highly motivated to succeed. Whole Planet — We are committed to helping take care of the world around us, and our active support of organic farming and sustainable agriculture helps protect our planet. And while we assist our global neighbors through our Whole Planet Foundation’s micro-lending operations, we also step out the back door of each of our stores to support food banks, sponsor neighborhood events and donate to local non-profit groups. Whole Foods Napa http://wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/napa/ Our Napa Store features several unique venues, such as a wine and cheese tasting room where you can experience the best pairings before you bring them home and a Culinary Center where you can take cooking classes with our in-house and guest chefs. We also offer fun cooking classes for kids, teaching them how exciting cooking with good, wholesome foods can be. You’ll can also order a coffee drink from our new outside patio walk-up window, or grab a freshly-made sandwich, slice of wood-fired pizza, or a scoop of delicious gelato while picking up your groceries. Your neighborhood store, with all of its stone, wood and recycled material décor, also makes it a natural fit for the Napa Valley landscape. Whole Foods Market is proud to be a part of the Napa Valley community. Our store is committed to educating and helping our community understand the value of eating natural, fresh, whole foods that are minimally processed. By choosing nutrient-rich foods, and eliminating foods with artificial ingredients, you can improve your health and vitality. We support a locally grown concept and you can learn more about our “family” at http://wholefoodsmarket.com/products/locally-grown/index.php?state=CA Paige Piland Foot Candy, St Helena http://www.footcandyshoes.com/ When Napa Valley vintner Perry Butler counted his wife Carolyn's pairs of shoes, he stopped at 500. Obviously, she had a passion for more than making fine wine. He thought "Why not combine both passions, which involve high style and world travel?" While Perry is tasting wines for his label, Juslyn Vineyards, in London, Milan, New York and Paris, Carolyn could meet with designers on the Left Bank or its equivalent. And so, Footcandy was born. The elegant shoe store now has three locations in Saint Helena, Sonoma, and Walnut Creek. Carolyn Butler's buying philosophy, "I am the consumer, I sell to myself." Paige and Scott show off a few samples! These stores, brimming stylishly with all manner of shoes for every taste, are a “must do” for all visiting the Napa Valley or Sonoma - whether for your wife, girlfriend or pampering yourself. Visit their blog for the latest and greatest in shoes, handbags and boots. http://footcandyblog.wordpress.com/ Florida Schilling — Owner Thompson Creekside Travel, Napa http://www.thompsoncreekside.com/index.htm Stephen and Florida at V Wine Cellar Raised in Tahiti, Florida’s favorite subject as a grade schooler was geography. She was always intrigued and fascinated by the diversity and cultures of the world. In March 1974, Florida was offered a travel consultant position by Virginia Thompson of Creekside Travel in Napa, which she jumped at and, in 1979, became the manager. In the summer 2009, she was offered the ownership of Thompson Creekside Travel and has not looked back. Florida takes pleasure seeing a trip unfold and to be part of anyone’s travels, whether a honeymoon or family reunion or just for fun. She believes travel cultivates your mind and opens your horizons to the various cultures through its people, history and food. Some of her favorite destinations are Vietnam, Cambodia, Peru, Argentina, Turkey, and India. She finds their history, people and food amazing and interesting. To contact Florida: travelwithflo@sbcglobal.net Some useful travel tips from Florida: Before you go: · Make sure passport is valid · Make a copy of your passport - credit cards—medical card and other important documents. Keep the copies with you on the trip—separate from the · Get travel insurance · Cancel mail and newspaper deliveries Handy items in your luggage: · Electrical plugs and converter (check you electronic devises and cameras, some are dual voltage) · Hand sanitizer · Extra memory card for camera · Sunscreen · Small Umbrella When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money. ~ Susan Heller AND........ DON’T FORGET YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR 12/20/2011 - Last Minute Holiday Gift Ideas from Slow Living Radio Lost for a gift idea for a special person in your life? Are they a "foodie", book addict, wine or pet lover? Then we have the guests who may give you the inspiration you need! Join us as Slow Living Radio welcomes Stephanie Deigman, General Manager of Copperfield's Books, for book ideas for all manner of topics, and book accessories. Michael Tuohy, a widely acclaimed chef, now Executive Chef at St. Helena's Dean & DeLuca, for food and food accessory items you may not think of, then our own Scott Lewis will inspire you with some novel ideas for your wine lover. Finally we have the pleasure of Erin Morris, owner of Fideaux stores, with an array of dog, cat and human-pet-a-holic gifts. So grab your notepads and listen. Be stimulated with your own twists on their suggestions and don't forget - relax, don't stress - nobody minds a late Christmas gift, it just prolongs the pleasure of the season for them! And we at Slow Living Radio wish you all a wonderful, peaceful and fun filled Holiday. Cheers to the season from the Yank, the Aussie and the Irishman! Michael Tuohy, Executive Chef Dean & DeLuca, St. Helena Michael with a gift basket from Dean and Delucca http://www.deandeluca.com Michael’s Blog: michaeltuohy.typepad.com/ HISTORY of Dean and DeLuca The corner grocery store grew up with the neighborhood, and occupies a busy corner in SoHo in what has become the most vibrant artists’ haven in the world. In the early days, Joel Dean and Giorgio DeLuca traipsed around the world to find artisan-produced foods that pleased their customers, not to mention themselves. They wanted products that fired their imaginations, challenged their tastes and turned dinner into a creative exercise. Giorgio and Joel’s dream of a place that would offer customers a sumptuous celebration of food, a place to experience all of the pleasures that cooking and eating can bring, the original DEAN & DELUCA, opened for business in September 1977. Artist and founding partner Jack Ceglic designed the original store to evoke a turn of the century food department, with high ceiling fans spinning over a vast array of products that lined the high, white walls. Joel Dean and Giorgio DeLuca searched for handcrafted products and artisan foods and imported their discoveries into their enchanting emporium. On display was a staggering variety of produce and foodstuffs, including many never previously sold in this country. A MOVE In 1977, a need for more space began the expansion to the 10,000 square feet of an Army/Navy store, and to Jack Ceglic’s plan for a new outdoor marketplace concept. The result? Massive exposed columns, Carrarra marble floors, white tile walls, stainless steel shelving and display cases, ample room for meat and fish, bakery and pastry, cheese, candy and coffee display counters. The new DEAN & DELUCA opened in 1988 with four times the space. Soon, smaller retail outlets were to follow, in Manhattan’s Rockefeller Plaza and in the Paramount Hotel. Espresso Bars were opened in locations around New York and in Washington, D.C., and in 1993, a second store with 10,000 square feet opened on Market Street in Washington, D.C.’s Georgetown District. Since then, DEAN & DELUCA has opened stores in Charlotte, Kansas City, Napa Valley and Tokyo that have become epicenters of epicurean excellence in their locations. Today, DEAN & DELUCA still offers the very best in service, quality and of course, selection. Epicurean treats for cooking, eating and entertaining abound even as they did in the original DEAN & DELUCA back in the '70s. DEAN & DELUCA has a team of International food experts who search for the best and newest food products from around the globe. They also have launched a new wine division and can recommend the best food and wine pairings for any event or for that special dinner at home. Please stop in for a visit. Erin Morris, Owner Fideaux, St. Helena and Healdsburg http://fideaux.myshopify.com/ Fideaux was born of a simple concept, people LOVE their pets! We were one of the very first dog boutiques to open with the St. Helena store in 1996. Since then we have been having a blast finding the newest, coolest dog and cat products out there. From designer dog beds, Swarovski crystal collars and toys, to scoops of biscuits (just $4 for a heaping scoop!), we have the BEST there is to offer, and we LOVE what we do. I mean, really, what is better than helping people find just what they need for their best friend? Oh, and did we mention that the shopdog is pretty cute too? Our loyal customers have been bugging us for years to do a website and we are finally on it! So have fun shopping for you and your canine and feline friends, and if you are ever in the area be sure to stop by and say hi. Sometimes nothing beats touching, feeling, squeaking (and for your dog, sampling a cookie). We invite you to visit our two locations in the beautiful California Wine Country. They are full of our favorite merchandise, and you are sure to have a wagging good time shopping. Be sure to bring along your furry friend for a cookie (or 10) and some fresh water. Scott Lewis, Proprietor V Wine Cellar, Yountville http://www.vwinecellar.com/ We started out with the hopes of creating a place that we’d like to drop in to, have a great glass, see friends from the business and pickup an interesting bottle or two. Since then, we’ve grown to over 4,000 square feet of lounge, tasting space, private dining, outdoor cigar patio and wine retail. A good friend of ours, who also happens to be a great winemaker, likes to say “this is the place people in the know like to go”, and we’re proud to be that place we could only have imagined a few years back. We invite you to join us in the discovery of great wines, big and small, sound advice and great times. Our guests like to tell us that coming to V is like visiting your best friend’s house, but with better wines. So come in, put your feet up and enjoy Napa Valley’s very own living room. The Wine Program at V Wine Cellar is born of passion and a desire to offer wines that follow only one theme: Integrity. Some of the wines are tried and true -they deliver time and time again. We know and love them. Many of our selections are from newly recognized and next to be discovered. We're lucky to see these folks in our shop daily. Some even work here occasionally. Although we're located in the heart of Napa Valley, we offer the most interesting wines from the world over. Our 3000 plus bottle inventory isn't listed in its entirety but we rotate our online offerings monthly so check back to see what we're highlighting. Feel free to drop us a line if there's something you're looking for but don't see here right now. After all, we're here to help. Sometimes, you're faced with the difficulty of buying a gift for an avid wine collector and you're stumped. Here are some great ideas sure to please even the most dedicated cellar owner. Artwork (Andy Berry Gallery) Instant Cellar 12/13/11 - Simply Stunning Christmas - Auberge du Soleil Style Christmas is just around the corner! Are you planning your Christmas meal and wondering how to make it just that bit more special? Auberge du Soleil Executive Chef, Robert Curry and Pastry Chef, Paul Lemieux, will share some simple, yet special ideas to give your meal that Auberge-touch. Then Head Sommelier, Kris Margerum, will give us ideas on some great wines that won't break the budget and some more unexpected pairings from around the world. Spa Director, Amy Wilson-Moghina, will leave us with some festive season refreshers and relaxation tips, and spa gift ideas - all in the comfort of your own home. About Auberge du Soleil: http://www.aubergedusoleil.com/ Auberge du Soleil the California Wine Country’s most prestigious luxury inn is nestled in a 33-acre sunlit olive grove on the slopes of Rutherford Hill, on the eastern verge of the Napa Valley. Auberge du Soleil is a distinctive property that captures the international atmosphere of today's Napa Valley. Boasting extraordinary views, hillside walkways that wind through olive groves and sculpture gardens, elegant cottages, an intimate spa and unparalleled service, the Auberge sets the standard for gracious hospitality. Its Michelin-starred restaurant, one of the first great Wine Country establishments, pays tribute to its legacy with an award-winning menu and wine list. Luxurious accommodations, exceptional cuisine and service earn Auberge du Soleil recognition year after year as one of the world’s most renowned small luxury hotels. The Michelin-starred Restaurant celebrates its 30h anniversary in 2011 and unveiled a refreshed décor as well as a new private dining deck featuring Auberge du Soleil’s famed panoramic views of the Napa Valley. Originally opened as a destination restaurant in 1981, the Auberge became the first luxury hotel in Napa Valley when it added 50 Provence-inspired maisons and two private cottages five years later. ROBERT CURRY Executive Chef, As Executive Chef of Auberge du Soleil, Robert Curry oversees all culinary aspects of the renowned Napa Valley inn and Michelin-starred restaurant, which will celebrate its 30th anniversary in April 2011. Curry’s menu reflects his extensive experience in the traditions of both Napa Valley and France, which continue to inspire the cuisine at Auberge du Soleil. His signature dishes include: White Corn Soup with Rock Shrimp and Chervil Oil; Seared Ono with Wakame, Tempura Maitake, Glazed Pork Belly, and Dashi; Bacon Wrapped Veal with Foie Gras Ravioli, Sugar Snap Peas and Wild Mushrooms; and Liberty Farm Duck with Figs, Hearts of Palm, Fennel, Arugula and Port Beet Sauce. Curry brings to the Auberge a passion for Wine Country cuisine cultivated at award-winning restaurants in the Valley, on both coasts and in Europe. Prior to joining Auberge du Soleil in spring of 2005, he served as Executive Chef at the Wine Spectator Greystone Restaurant at the Culinary Institute of America in St. Helena, Calif. There, his menus showcased ingredients harvested daily from Greystone’s own organic garden and the bounty of local farmers and purveyors. Prior to that, he launched the Flying Fish Café, the fine-dining seafood restaurant at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Fla. Curry made a name for himself early on among Northern California food lovers during his eight years at Domaine Chandon in Yountville, Calif., first serving as Executive Sous Chef under Philippe Jeanty and ultimately succeeding him as Executive Chef. A native of Los Angeles, Curry began his culinary career there in 1986 at Ma Cuisine, Wolfgang Puck and Patrick Terrail’s cooking school, during which time he received his degree from the Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park, N.Y. Following graduation, he was recruited by Michael Richard and Alain Giraud for Citrus Restaurant. In the late ‘90s, he traveled the world to study cuisine, working with Alain Ducasse at his three-star Louis XV in the Hotel de Paris; with Joseph Thuet at the Moët & Chandon Résidence de Trianon in Epernay, France; and in Paris at the two-star Michel Rostang. PAUL LEMIEUX Executive Pastry Chef, Chefs Rob and Paul at the Napa Valley Wine Auction Executive Pastry Chef at Auberge du Soleil, Paul Lemieux is the creative force behind the delectable desserts and confections produced in the kitchen at this renowned Napa Valley inn. At the 80-seat dining room at Michelin-starred Auberge du Soleil, Lemieux offers an outstanding seasonal dessert and cheese menu. He created the Auberge Torte au Chocolat, the inn’s signature dessert. Lemieux handcrafts each torte with 11 layers of crisp hazelnut dacquoise, exquisitely smooth chocolate crémeux, fresh pureed organic hazelnuts and intensely rich dark chocolate ganache and ships them daily to fans nationwide. His sweet touch is evident throughout the resort, from the house-made confitures served at breakfast, to the chocolate-hazelnut truffles, pistachio caramels and amandes au chocolat he pairs with vintage Madeiras after dinner, and the pâte de fruits given to all dinner guests as a thoughtful parting gift. Lemieux’s passion and creativity in the art of pastry making are the result of nearly 20 years of experience honed at renowned restaurants throughout the United States. A native of Wisconsin, he spent time developing his skills at top restaurants on both coasts. He began his career after graduating Magna cum Laude from Johnson & Wales University College of Culinary Arts in Providence, R.I., in 1992. After early stints as a chef and pastry chef on the East Coast, he made the move to San Francisco, where he worked with renowned chef Traci Des Jardins at Rubicon. Recognizing his talent and passion for confections and chocolates, Des Jardins mentored Lemieux and, in 1996, appointed him pastry chef. A year later, she asked him to join her as pastry chef at her new namesake restaurant, Jardinière. An instant success, Lemieux continued to demonstrate his creativity in the world of desserts, adapting his own style of simple and pure flavors and focusing on fresh and seasonal ingredients in each dish. Lemieux quickly was recognized as a true culinary star, earning critical acclaim by Gourmet magazine, which referred to him as “San Francisco’s up-and-coming pastry star.” His passion for chocolate was well known, and in 2002, he founded, with wife Michele, Paul Lemieux Chocolates, a Portland, Ore., small-production company creating artisan truffles with organic ingredients purveyed from local farmers. He was lured back into the restaurant world in 2002, when he was recruited to the position of pastry chef at Lucere Restaurant at Portland’s Riverplace Hotel. In 2003, his culinary journey led Lemieux to the Napa Valley, where he has flourished, not only as the creative mastermind behind Auberge du Soleil’s unforgettable desserts, but also in his role as educator at the Culinary Institute of America, where, as Adjunct Baking and Pastry Instructor, he trains and mentors the next generation of pastry chefs. KRIS MARGERUM Head Sommelier As Head Sommelier at Napa Valley’s Auberge du Soleil, Kris Margerum follows a simple philosophy when selecting wine for the inn’s Michelin-starred restaurant: One plus one can equal three. The right wine complements the food, and together, they create an unforgettable experience. Margerum has been in pursuit of the perfect food and wine pairings at the iconic wine country inn for more than 25 years, during which time he has developed close relationships with the top wine makers of Napa Valley. His wine list currently offers 1,500 selections from a 17,000-bottle cellar and has been awarded Wine Spectator’s Award of Excellence for the past five years. Margerum works in partnership with Executive Chef Robert Curry to create exquisite food and wine pairings for the six-course Chef’s Menu and all of the other dishes Curry dreams up for the Restaurant and the more casual Bistro and Bar. Margerum is also responsible for the restaurant staff’s wine education and conducts wine tastings and advanced-level winery tours for them on a regular basis. “A few years ago, I started conducting blind tastings,” recalls Margerum. “This allows me to evaluate each wine on its own merits, without prejudice. I taste more than 100 wines a week to find four or five that meet my ideals and make the wine list and hope our guests can benefit from knowing that each wine has been hand selected.” Margerum has developed wine lists for a number of other Auberge Resorts’ properties, including the opening wine list for Esperanza in Los Cabos, Mexico and for Calistoga Ranch in Napa Valley. More recently, he turned his attention to Auberge Spa, where he pairs wines by the glass with the floral or herbal notes in a selection of spa treatments to create the ultimate wine country spa experience. His newest project, a collaboration with Auberge pastry chef Paul Lemieux, showcases Margerum’s passion for Madeira wines and Lemieux’s talent with confections in an after-dinner presentation of Madeiras and house-made chocolates. Margerum’s career with Auberge du Soleil spans more than 25 years. Prior to being appointed head sommelier in 1999, he acted as the restaurant’s assistant food and beverage director for six years, helping to oversee daily operations, planning, budgeting, forecasting, hiring and reviews, monthly inventories and guest satisfaction management. Before that, he acted as assistant restaurant manager for the Auberge and was promoted to restaurant manager after a year. He began his career at Auberge du Soleil in the dining room as a server. Margerum is a graduate of the Sterling School of Service and created the Napa Valley Sommelier Society, which meets quarterly at various Napa Valley restaurants to discuss common issues and strategies – and, of course, to taste wine. AMY WILSON-MOGHINA Spa Director, Auberge Spa In her position as Spa Director of Auberge Spa, Amy Wilson-Moghina oversees all aspects of operations, staff management and treatment protocol at the award-winning spa, open exclusively for hotel guests at Auberge du Soleil. Wilson-Moghina joined Auberge du Soleil after tenures at well-recognized spas in the U.S, including the Boulders Resort in Carefree, Ariz., Alvadora Spa at the Royal Palms Resort in Phoeniz, Ariz., and most recently, at the first Heavenly Spa by Westin at the Westin Hilton Head Island Resort & Spa in South Carolina. Wilson-Moghina has a Bachelor of Science in Recreation and Leisure Services from Murray State University in Kentucky and is Comprehensive Aesthetics Certificate from the National Aesthetics Institute in Scottsdale, AZ. Amy and Robert relax before the show. Created for the exclusive use of the inn’s guests, Auberge Spa occupies a 7,000- square-foot building overlooking the Napa Valley. Anchored by a central courtyard punctuated by fountains and 100-year old olive trees, the spa reflects the French country inn charm and elegant simplicity of Auberge du Soleil. The eight treatment rooms – including three designed specifically for couples – surround the courtyard, each bathed in natural light streaming through French doors that lead to a private garden with outdoor shower or tub. Spa treatment-wine pairings at Auberge Spa are offered daily and are complimentary. Posted by Slow Living Radio at 4:52 PM 1 comment: 12/06/11 - Grapeseed Oil and Grüner Veltliner - Two Napa Success Stories Slow Living Radio explores... One story, an Austrian chef marries an American and starts an award-winning Grapeseed Oil Company - a first for Napa, using the seeds left over from the winemaking process. The other, a gent of Austrian heritage who decides to bring a taste of his homeland to Napa and makes the Valley's first Grüner Veltliner, then wins a gold in Vienna! Napa is a melting pot of cultures in wine and food, but one doesn't often think of Austria. However, our guests this evening have made a significant impact to the valley in their own unique ways. Their stories are inspiring! Nanette & Valentin Humer Founders, Food & Vine™, Inc., and Salute Santé Grapeseed Oil Having introduced grapeseed oil to the American market in 1995, Food & Vine, Inc., makers of Salute Santé, has remained the leader in the industry and the primary innovator in the brand. Five exquisitely flavored oils, including roasted garlic, basil, chili, rosemary and lemon, plus the original grapeseed oil and the newly introduced extra virgin cold pressed grapeseed oil make up the skus for the line. Grapeseed oil’s inherent culinary qualities, such as high smoke point, neutral flavor profile, emulsification properties, and visual clarity, make it an invaluable addition to the kitchen and dining table of fine cooks gourmands alike The company’s high quality products are matched only by its environmental responsibility. Co-op America Business Network has certified Salute Santé as a green company that seeks out environmentally friendly methods wherever possible, as evidenced by their production methods, recycling programs and the grapeseeds themselves. Food & Vine is certified by the Non-GMO Project as a GMO-free company. Food & Vine, Inc., is located at 68 Coombs Street, Suite I-2, in Napa, CA 94559. More information is available by calling (707) 251-3900 or visiting the website at www.grapeseedoil.com. About Salut Grapeseed Oil It’s Delicious! Salute Santé! Grapeseed Oil has long been the secret of gourmet chefs who love its light and nutty, yet neutral flavor. It has the unique ability to enhance the flavors of ingredients instead of overpowering them and leaves no greasy aftertaste! It makes savory marinades and salad dressings that will not cloud when chilled, so you can use them right out of the refrigerator. The high smoke point (485 F) makes it ideal for hot food preparation which means you can sauté, fry or bake without any smoking, splattering or burning. The excellent emulsification properties make it ideal for whipping mayonnaise and creamy dressings that will not separate when chilled. The Salute Santé! Infused Grapeseed Oils shine with delicious fresh flavors, making them ideal as a liquid spice in all your cooking or as a simple and delicious dip for bread in place of butter or margarine. It’s Ecological! Salute Santé! Grapeseed Oil is an ecologically sound product that is made from the seeds of grapes after the wine is pressed. There is no need for hybrid or genetically engineered crops, nor does it require new farmland, crops or water to produce. It’s Healthy! Salute Santé! means “to your health” in Italian and French. Grapeseed oil is high in vitamin E and is 76% essential fatty acid, linoleic acid (also known as Omega 6). It is low in saturated fat, contains natural chlorophyll and valuable antioxidants (known as proanthocyninidins). Studies have shown a unique ability that may significantly raise HDL cholesterol (the "good" cholesterol), lower LDL cholesterol (the "bad" cholesterol) and triglycerides; the effect of which may lower your risk of cardiovascular disease and impotency, something that no other food product has been known to do! It contains no cholesterol, no sodium and no preservatives such as TBHQ or BHT. It is not hydrogenated and contains no solvents, no trans-fatty acids or free fatty acids. It’s Guaranteed! Salute Santé! Grapeseed Oil is 100% natural Italian grapeseed oil. We sign off with our quality logo on every new batch of grapeseed oil which assures you the freshest and best quality grapeseed oil available. We guarantee a two year shelf life in our special dark glass bottle which filters out ultra violet light, unlike commonly used clear glass or plastic bottles. For more information on our guarantee, visit the About Our Guarantee page. It’s Kosher! Salute Santé! Grapeseed Oil is certified Kosher by Rabbi Abraham Hochwald, Regional Rabbi for the Northern Rhine. Rudy Von Strasser Owner and Winemaker Von Strasser Winery The Von Strasser Story With a family connection to Eric de Rothschild, Rudy wrote a letter asking to do an internship at Chateau Lafite-Rothschild. Each year the Chateau had been hiring an intern from the French winemaking program at Montpellier. Thinking that two minds are better than one, Mr. Rothschild invited Rudy to work for the 1985 harvest as their first American intern. (The result was so successful, that each year since the Chateau has chosen a new Davis graduate to work as an intern at the winery.) Rudy returned to Napa Valley in the spring of 1986 and was hired as the enologist at Trefethen Winery and Vineyards. In 1988, he became the assistant winemaker in charge of production at Newton Vineyards in St. Helena. Shortly after their marriage in 1989, Rudy and Rita von Strasser set out looking for a vineyard property to make their home. Having already developed a deep passion and talent for producing Cabernet Sauvignon, Rudy was committed that the property must be in a microclimate blessed with the ability to grow and produce the finest red wines in Napa Valley; wines worthy to carry the von Strasser family name. Serendipitously, the old Roddis Estate Winery on Diamond Mountain had just been put on the market, and in the spring of 1990, the von Strasser label was born. The history of the property reads like a who’s who of early California Cabernet History. After being denied a permit to turn his estate into a golf course, William Bounsall decided to subdivide his property, and in 1968 sold 1/3 of his property to Albert Brounstein. Canadian born, Al pioneered the modern decade of winemaking in this AVA by planting Cabernet Sauvignon in three distinct vineyard sites and bottling each separately under the name Diamond Creek Vineyards. The next year, 1969, Bounsall himself decided to get into the grape business and planted 2 acres to Cabernet Sauvignon with bud-wood from the famous Martha’s Vineyard. In 1978, Bill Roddis bought the Bounsall ranch and started Roddis Cellars. The wines were made by Andre Tcheistcheff, and in their days where considered by many to be the biggest wines made in the Napa Valley. In 1985, the winery was sold to the Gilby family (British gin), who used it as a corporate retreat. The vineyards, now totaling about 7 acres, were leased to Pine Ridge Winery, who bottled the grapes separately as their “Diamond Mountain” Cabernet Sauvignon. In 1990, Rudy and Rita von Strasser bought the property and began the fulfilling task of renovating and modernizing the estate and the vineyards to make the property one of the gems of Diamond Mountain. The building that houses the winery is an historic barn that was built in the late 1880’s. Through careful planning it has been remodeled into a modern winemaking facility while retaining its working-ranch charm. To take full advantage of the hillside location and to better control the variables of winemaking, the von Strassers added caves to their property. Dug into the virgin hills, these caves retain an ideal climate for barrel aging, and average temperature of 55 degrees and an average humidity of 80%. The Judgement of Vienna California’s First Grüner Veltliner Producer Wins Gold Medal In Vienna, Austria Rudy and his team celebrate! In 2005, Rudy von Strasser, owner/winemaker of Napa Valley’s von Strasser Winery took an enological leap-of-faith and pioneered the planting of the famous Austrian white-wine grape called Grüner Veltliner in California. Although his customers immediately raved about the quality of this new wine, Rudy wanted to see how it ranked against the top wines of Austria. So last year, he sent a sample to the prestigious AWC Vienna wine tasting (which bills itself as the largest official wine competition in the world), and won a silver medal. Not content with merely good, this year Rudy sent his newest 2010 vintage to this Austrian blind tasting: the result was a GOLD MEDAL. Rudy von Strasser is a first generation American citizen; his mother is from Hungary and his father is an Austria. In 2005 Rudy identified a small one-acre section of his Estate vineyard which he felt would be ideal for experimenting with the Austrian white grape. His total yield is extremely small; roughly 250 cases per year. Other than a few selected restaurants and retail locations, the wine is sold only at the winery. For further information, call 707-942-0930 or visit http://www.vonstrasser.com Winery Blog - http://www.vonstrasser.com/index.cfm?method=blog.bloglist 12/20/2011 - Last Minute Holiday Gift Ideas from S... 12/13/11 - Simply Stunning Christmas - Auberge du ... 12/06/11 - Grapeseed Oil and Grüner Veltliner - Tw...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20406
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__label__cc	0.601592	0.398408	About SUSS USYD Discipline of Surgery Affiliated Surgical Societies SUSS Workshops Becoming a Surgeon Basic Surgical Skills Surgical Education and Training (SET) Surgical Research Web Resources for Surgical Training End the wait for people who need life-saving transplants – DonateLife Week 2016 Sydney University Surgical Society is again running an information stall to promote organ and tissue donation awareness during DonateLife Week 2016. Today, more than 1,500 Australians on the waiting list to receive transplants. One day, you could transform the lives of 10 or more people by becoming a donor. If you’ve decided about becoming a donor, you need to register your decision on the Australian Organ Donor Register and most importantly, discuss it with your loved ones. You can get involved by doing any of the following: Visit the SUSS DonateLife Week information stall on Eastern Avenue, University of Sydney, on Tuesday, August 2 and Thursday, August 4 and pick up some free merchandise and fill in a form to register your decision with the Australian Organ Donor Register. Stay tuned for details of our Transplant Symposium in early September – we have confirmed an intensive care specialist and a transplant surgeon to speak, plus more to come! Like the DonateLife at Sydney University Facebook page to stay updated on the week’s events and for insights into the medicine, science, and personal aspects of organ donation. Remember – you can help end the wait for people who need a life-saving or life-transforming transplant! Low Anterior Resection By Darcy Gray, Stage 2 ‘GI Extravaganza’ Surgical Revision Day SUSS is proud to be collaborating with the UNSW Surgical Society to host a one-day intensive review of abdominal surgery. The program will include a comprehensive, high-yield overview of surgical anatomy and abdominal surgery, and is tailored to final year medicine exams. This event will be valuable for senior medical students preparing for surgical barrier exams and long cases. Junior students are also welcome, but final and penultimate year students will be given preference. Time: 9.00 am – 4.00 pm Venue: Central Lecture Block 7, University of New South Wales Kensington campus The schedule for the day is as follows: 9 – 10 am: GI Anatomy and Blood Supply Revision with Dr Tim Wang (SET trainee and Anatomy X course coordinator) 10 – 11 am: Oesophagogastric Surgery with Dr Steve Leibman (Oesophagogastric Surgeon at Royal North Shore Hospital) 11 – 11:30 am: Break 11:30 am – 12:30 pm: Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery with Professor David Morris (Surgical Oncologist, St George Hospital) 12:30 – 1 pm: Ventral Hernias 1 – 2 pm: Lunch 2 – 3 pm: Colorectal Surgery with Dr Andrew Gilmore (Head, Colorectal Unit Liverpool Hospital) 3 – 4 pm: Abdominal Trauma with Dr Jeremy Hsu (Director of Trauma, Westmead Hospital) Registration for this event is essential: Notice is hereby given for the Annual General Meeting of the Sydney University Surgical Society, which will be held on Monday 27th June at 6:00pm in Bosch Lecture Theatre 1, University of Sydney. The agenda will include: 1) President’s Report 2) Constitutional Amendments All motions must be sent to the Society Secretary by 20th June (Kevin Phan, kpha5955@uni.sydney.edu.au). In the interests of time, only motions with notice will be considered at the meeting. The current constitution is available here. 3) Elections Nominations for positions will be taken from the floor or via proxy (see below). Candidates must be nominated by a third party, have their nomination seconded by another third party, and accept their nomination. Positions include and will be voted on in the following order: 1. President 2. Vice President 3. Secretary 4. Treasurer Committee positions 5. Research Officer 6. Information, Communications and Technology (ICT) Officer 7. Skills Lab Coordinator 8. Community Officer 9. Stage 1 and 2 Representatives 10. Clinical School Representatives: 1 for each of Concord, RPA, Nepean, Northern, SAN, Westmead Please RSVP on the Facebook event. Nathalie Rasko ADDENDUM 4/6/2016 We are pleased to announce that this year, for the first time ever, we are going to accept nominations from students who are unable to attend the AGM in person. If you can attend, please do so. However, if you are a Stage 3 student and currently on an out-of-town rotation, you are in luck. HOW TO NOMINATE YOURSELF IF YOU CANNOT ATTEND IN PERSON Email the President, Nathalie Rasko, at nras4398@uni.sydney.edu.au and include the following: – Your name and SMP stage – The position(s) you are running for (you will be nominated in the order of position, which is listed in the ‘About section’) – Speech that will be read out on your behalf at the AGM: write 150 words about your previous experience and why members should vote for you. If you are running for an Executive position, you can write 250 words. – A passport-style photo of yourself which will be included in the powerpoint in your absence (so people know who they are voting for). SUSS and Level Medicine Present Women in Surgery Grand Rounds SUSS and Level Medicine are very excited to present a special Grand Rounds on ‘Women in Surgery’. Five surgeons have generously donated their time for the evening to discuss issues that face all genders. All are welcome to come to hear this diverse panel share their thoughts on work/life balance, surgical training and careers, future directions for the surgical profession, and of course their passion for surgery! Dr Pecky de Silva is a Vascular Surgeon working at Hornsby Hospital and the Sydney Adventist Hospital. She finished her training in January 2013. During training she went to Singapore for a year and Edinburgh for a year. She started in private practice in November 2013 and in public practice September 2105. She works part time: 3-4 days a week usually, but she is on call 1 in 2, so she can end up working on a day off! She works part-time because she has a gorgeous 3-year-old girl who was born in June 2013. Pecky loves being a surgeon and has a great work-life balance! Dr Carolyn Jameson (MBBS BSc(Hons) PhD(Med) FRACS) is a qualified bariatric and advanced laparoscopic surgeon with experience across a number of subspecialty areas. She is a Staff Specialist General Surgeon at Auburn Hospital, surgeon with Sydney Bariatric Clinic, Clinical Lead in Surgery for the eMeds/eMR project at RPA and VMO at Westmead Private Hospital, Norwest Private Hospital and HSS. She completed her surgical training through St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney, Royal Darwin Hospital and RPA. She undertook post-fellowship training in head and neck surgery, surgical oncology, renal and pancreas transplantation and bariatric surgery at the Westmead Hospitals. Dr Jameson is an examiner for RACS, faculty member for the HETI GDESS, tutor for the University of Notre Dame medical school, member of the Racesafe medical motor racing retrieval team and a member of the Kolling Institute of Medical Research. She has worked in regional NSW and overseas in the Solomon Islands and Nepal. Outside her surgical life, Dr Jameson is busy with her family and 3 children. Dr Henry Woo is a urological surgeon with a sub-specialised practice in prostate disease. He has particular research interests in novel treatments for BPH and prostate cancer. He is a board director of the Australian and New Zealand Uro-genital and Prostate Cancer Trials Group (ANZUP) and the Australian Urological Foundation (AUF). He has published extensively and is on the editorial boards of several international journals. He is the Professor of Surgery at the Sydney Adventist Hospital Clinical School of the University of Sydney. Outside of medicine, his interests lie with ‘retro stuff’, vinyl records, live music, travel industry, social media activism and fitness. Dr Mifanwy Reece is a SET 4 General Surgical Registrar currently doing Colorectal Surgery at Concord Hospital. Her subspecialty interests include Colorectal and Upper GI Surgery. She lives in Sydney during the week but her home is on the Central Coast, where she hopes to work in the future. Her partner is a Colorectal Surgeon and they have a beautiful 2 year old son who they say is their greatest achievement. Dr Reece loves her job and surgery was an easy career choice to make – but her life is far from easy! She gets a lot of help (a nanny, an au pair, cleaners, parents who visit often and fill the freezer with food, and most importantly, a very supportive partner and devoted father to her son). Dr Reece believes she is a better mother because she has a fulfilling career and she is a better doctor because she is a Mum. She looks forward to a time when surgical training is more flexible so trainees can achieve greater work-life balance – for family, research or whatever they choose. Dr Amanda Cuss (B Med Sci Hons, MBBS Hons, B Health Sci) is a SET 3 trainee currently doing Breast Oncoplastic Surgery at Chris O’Brien Life House. Breast Surgery is her area of interest as she enjoys open surgery, the patient dynamics and the ongoing interaction with patients and the multidisciplinary care. It’s also probably slightly more malleable in terms of career and life balance. Dr Cuss has trained at multiple places: Blacktown Hospital, Canterbury Hospital, Concord Hospital, and RPA Hospital, as well as Lismore Base Hospital, Prince of Wales Hospital and Royal Hospital for Women. She has a research background in Immunology from the Centenary Institute and the Garvan Institute. She has just come back from maternity leave and returned to work with a 7.5 month old baby boy. She looks forward to chatting with the medical students and providing an honest view of life as a surgical trainee. Time: 6.00 – 7.30 pm Venue: Kerry Packer Education Centre Auditorium, RPA Hospital Page 10 of 17« First«...89101112...»Last » Paediatric Surgery Grand Rounds Women in Medicine Surgical Skills Worksh… GlobalHOME and SUSS present: Global Surg… Urology Ground Rounds SUSS Annual General Meeting 2019 Stage 1 Suturing Workshops (23 and 30 Ju… VR and AR in Surgery and Medicine Sydney University Surgical Society Institute of Academic Surgery, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, 2050 sydunisurgsoc@gmail.com © 2006-2018, Sydney University Surgical Society	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20416
__label__wiki	0.546678	0.546678	U.S. - Cash-strapped states cut smoking-prevention funds.. May 28, 2009 - Cash-strapped state governments are slashing funding for tobacco prevention and cessation programs in a move anti-tobacco groups say could backfire, costing taxpayers later for treatment of tobacco-related illnesses among people who might've quit. In Vermont, a recently adopted state budget reduced funding for anti-tobacco efforts by $1.9 million from the previous year, which critics say will force cutbacks in youth smoking-prevention activities and at hospitals that offer in-person smoking-cessation counseling and nicotine-replacement therapy. In Vermont, for example, the state estimates that it saves up to $5 million annually in Medicaid expenses as an indirect result of its quit-smoking initiatives. Other states have made similar cuts, or are contemplating them: _In Washington state, lawmakers cut $22 million from tobacco prevention programs for the next two years, which will reduce paid public service announcements on radio and TV and force curtailment of a quit line. _In Maryland, the state slashed funding for tobacco control in the fiscal year beginning July 1 from $16.7 million last year to $4.6 million. _In Colorado, where lawmakers dipped into a cash reserve from the 1998 tobacco industry settlement and imposed a sales tax on cigarettes to help balance the state budget, funding for tobacco education and cessation programs was cut by $6 million. "You're seeing disproportionate cuts to tobacco prevention and cessation programs, and it's a foolish strategy," said Thomas Carr, manager for national policy for the American Lung Association. "It may solve the budget deficit now, but it increases your costs in the long run, because of the costs tobacco use imposes on state economies in health care costs and lost productivity." Smokers wanting to quit are calling state-run hotlines in record numbers these days, in part because of skyrocketing taxes on cigarettes, according to Fisher. On April 1, the federal tax on cigarettes jumped to $1.00 per pack, and some states are jacking up their taxes on tobacco, as well. Reference: Strapped states cut smoking-prevention funds by By JOHN CURRAN (Associated Press writers Colleen Slevin in Denver and Curt Woodward in Olympia, Wash., contributed to this report), Associated Press, 5/26/2008. A couple related news brief: Smokers now more motivated to quit..; Quit-smoking hotlines are being swamped... Click on image to enlarge..Sperrin Lakeland Trust. Posted by tobaccowatch.org Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 1:34 PM New South Wales - comply with tobacco laws too co... Australia - will the federal tax on cigarettes inc... Croatia - adjusting to new smoking ban.. Jordan - fast-food restaurants smoke free as of Ji... WHO - Indonesia is crying out for your help... Nicogel - cigarette alternative to be sold in 10 A... Indonesia - 1st 3-months of 2009 cigarette sales ... PMI - opens its new Research & Development Campus ... South Australia - bill will be introduced to fine... U.S. - Cash-strapped states cut smoking-prevention... EU launches new anti-smoking TV campaign.. U.S. Department of Defense is endorsing the observ... Florida's Governor signs tobacco tax increase into... Switzerland - unified program to ban smoking in bu... U.S. - Midwest States smoking bans do not hurt bus... Hong Kong - bar owners an employees march to prote... World NO Tobacco Day - May 31, 2009 - GET INVOLVE... U.S. - snuff out dissolvable smokeless-tobacco pro... Canada - federal government introduces legislation... California - lawmakers may consider $1.50-per-pa... Tobacco Update CyberConference: more spending mo... Camel ORBS flavored candy shaped tobacco pellets..... Pakistan - Government must withdraw Statutory Reg... New York City Council ban candy-flavored tobacco,...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20418
__label__cc	0.739545	0.260455	Federal Court of Appeals - e-cigarettes - rules against the FDA.. December 7, 2010 - U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in an opinion said today the FDA can only regulate e-cigarettes as a tobacco product. The ruling means the government can oversee the marketing of the products, not restrict their sale. (No. 10-5032 SOTTERA, INC., DOING BUSINESS AS NJOY, APPELLEE v. FOOD & DRUG ADMINISTRATION, ET AL., APPELLANTS) The appeals court unanimously (3-judges) upheld an injunction against the FDA’s attempt to ban them or regulate them more strictly as drugs. February 2, 2010 - U.S. FDA appealing a federal judge's ruling on e-cigarettes.; January 31, 2010 - U.S. FDA - judge's ruling regarding e-cigarettes must be appealed - ASAP.. A nebuliser is a device used to administer medication in the form of a mist inhaled into the lungs. The e-cigarette consists of a battery, a heating element and a cartridge that contains a liquid suspension with nicotine. When a user inhales from the cartridge, the liquid is heated and the vaporized liquid can be inhaled. How can both not be devices to administer a substance? Nicotine is a highly addicting, highly toxic substance that has been shown to enhance the growth of an existing cancer and also, in itself is carcinogenic. (PAPER: Nicotine in cigarettes linked to breast cancer..) Nicotine is very poisonous and ingesting even the smallest amount can cause extreme fatigue, vomiting, a rapid yet weak pulse, and possibly nervous breakdowns, even death. (FDA: Electronic cigarettes contain toxic chemicals..; E-cigarettes - scientists want more safety studies before use..) The e-cigarettes user inhales various flavors of nicotine (that may isolated from tobacco or synthetically made). The Halo Electronic Cigarettes web site states that Chinese smoke juice (nicotine) is notorious for being manufactured using Pesticide-Grade Nicotine, and Industrial-Grade Propylene Glycol. These contaminated ingredients pose an increasing and unnecessary risk to electronic cigarette users throughout the world. More from Halo: The e-liquid industry is flooded with inferior made juice from overseas, from companies that care little about the safety of their customers. It is notorious for being manufactured using inferior grades of Nicotine, Glycerin and Propylene Glycol. These low-grade ingredients pose an increasing and unnecessary risk to electronic cigarette users throughout the world. From Ruyan e-cigarettes flavors: regular tobacco, marlboro, mint, almond, chocolate, cherry, regular, menthol, Apple and strawberry. They have surveyed a number of electronic cigarette smokers and the overwhelming favorites are menthol and, believe it or not, strawberry. More: Philip Morris - Ruyan Group - e-cigarettes.. The federal appellate court's opinion is an embarrassment for the United States and a set back for the effort to prevent youngsters from becoming nicotine addicts never able to reach their full potential. The New York State Assembly has voted overwhelmingly 125-0 to ban e-cigarettes [e-cigs]; a product which has already been banned in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Israel, Mexico, and New Zealand, restricted in Finland, Malaysia, and Singapore, pending restriction in the UK as a drug, and the subject of law suits by attorneys general in several states, says public interest law professor John Banzhaf, Executive Director of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH). (New York Moves Towards Total E-Cigarette Ban, Tobacco Facts, 4/29/2010) Even Russia has proposed to ban electronic cigarettes - until the manufacturers have carried out clinical studies and toxicity analysis. (Russia - electronic cigarettes to be banned..) The FDA is “studying the opinion and considering next steps,” Jeffrey Ventura, a spokesman for the agency, said in an e-mailed statement. Non-profit health organizations such as The American Lung Association, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, the American Heart Association and the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, have called for e-cigarettes to be removed from the market. Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, criticized the decision. “This ruling invites the creation of a wild west of products containing highly addictive nicotine, an alarming prospect for public health,” the group said in an e-mailed statement. “We urge the government to appeal this ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court.” The American Heart Association.. “We’re gravely concerned about the implications of today’s ruling,” association chief executive Nancy Brown said in a statement. “The appeals court has cleared the way for the industry to peddle these products to consumers without any scrutiny as to their safety or efficacy. Reference: FDA Loses Appeal, Can't Regulate Electronic Cigarettes as Drug, Court Says by Don Jeffrey (djeffrey1@bloomberg.net), editor responsible for this story: David E. Rovella (drovella@bloomberg.net), Bloomberg.com, 12/7/2010; E-Cigarettes Win Appeals Ruling by DUFF WILSON, The New York Times, 12/7/2010. Some e-cigarette news briefs: E-cigarettes - a device for delivery of variable amounts of vaporized nicotine..; U.S. e-cigarette imports banned indefinitely - ASH..; THIS MUST STOP - e-cigarette company asking active duty soldiers to buy their product..; Electronic cigarettes - study finds not an effective nicotine delivery system..; U.S. - federal appeals court, import of e-cigarettes on hold again..; U.S. FDA appealing a federal judge's ruling on e-cigarettes..; U.S. FDA - judges ruling regarding e-cigarettes must be appealed - ASAP..; California - attorney general thinks e-cigarette distributor is targeting minors..; E-cigarettes - scientists want more safety studies before use..; In Process: US. 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__label__wiki	0.509002	0.509002	The University of Sydney - Medicine and Health Undergraduate Handbook 2020 Medicine and Health Handbook You are here: Home / Medicine and Health / Coursework Degrees / Bachelor of Applied Science (Occupational Therapy) About the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sydney Dental School Sydney Medical School Sydney Nursing School Sydney Pharmacy School Sydney School of Health Sciences Sydney School of Medical Sciences Coursework Degrees Bachelor of Applied Science (Diagnostic Radiography) Bachelor of Applied Science (Exercise & Sport Science) Bachelor of Applied Science/Bachelor of Advanced Studies (Exercise & Sport Science) Bachelor of Applied Science (Exercise & Sport Science) (pre-2020 enrolment) Bachelor of Applied Science (Exercise Physiology) (2020 enrolment) Bachelor of Applied Science (Exercise Physiology) (pre-2020 enrolment) Bachelor of Applied Science (Occupational Therapy) Bachelor of Applied Science (Physiotherapy) Bachelor of Applied Science (Speech Pathology) Bachelor of Arts/Master of Nursing (Pre-registration) Bachelor of Nursing (Advanced Studies) (Pre-registration) Bachelor of Nursing Offshore - Singapore (Post-registration) Bachelor of Oral Health Bachelor of Pharmacy and Management Bachelor of Science/Master of Nursing (Pre-registration) Bachelor of Science (Health)/Master of Nursing (Pre-registration) Medicine & Dental Medicine Bachelor of Arts/Doctor of Medicine Bachelor of Science/Doctor of Dental Medicine Bachelor of Science/Doctor of Medicine Appended Honours Health Sciences (Honours) Nursing (Honours) Resolutions of the Senate Resolutions of the Faculty Health Sciences electives unit of study table Honours unit of study table Health Sciences electives unit of study descriptions Honours unit of study descriptions Table A: unit of study table Table A: Exercise Science major unit of study table Table A: Physical Activity major unit of study table Table A: unit of study descriptions Table A: Exercise Science major unit of study descriptions Table A: Physical Activity major unit of study descriptions Table A: Physical Activity and Health major unit of study table Table A: Physical Activity and Heath major unit of study descriptions Table A: Health Sciences electives unit of study table Units of study table - full-time Units of study table - part-time Units of study descriptions You will follow a prescribed course of study with a total of 192 credit points to qualify for the award of the Bachelor of Applied Science (Occupational Therapy). The course consists of: 156cp of core units, and 36cp of elective units, including - a minimum of 6cp from the Behavioural or Social Sciences and - 6cp from the Biomedical Sciences. During this four year degree, students will cover a wide range of topics including theories of what people do in daily life and why; knowledge of the development of human capabilities (e.g. cognitive, motor, psychosocial) and the ways in which injury and illness typically disrupt them; activity and environmental analysis; and theories and techniques for promoting participation in daily life. Through over 1,000 hours of supervised clinical placement students will gain hands-on experience with real clients, learning to apply knowledge, clinical reasoning and the practical skills required of the profession. Placements occur during semester time and during recess periods at all levels of the course, and are located in both metropolitan and country facilities. The discipline of Occupational Therapy offers an embedded honours program. This program runs in parallel with the pass degree; honours students complete their degree at the same time as pass students. Honours students undertake some alternative units of study in the last 3 semesters of their degree and conduct a research project with one-to-one supervision from an experienced academic. Entry into the honours program is competitive and based on weighted average mark. An honours degree is an opportunity for students to contribute to knowledge in their discipline, gain valuable professional skills, and broaden their career options. To qualify for the award of Bachelor of Applied Science (Occupational Therapy) Honours, a candidate must complete the requirements for the pass degree but include the alternative units of study listed in the Honours pathway of the Occupational Therapy table of units of study. Graduates of the Bachelor of Applied Science (Occupational Therapy) course are eligible for membership of the Australian Association of Occupational Therapists (Occupational Therapy Australia) and the World Federation of Occupational Therapists (WFOT). Email our team(fhs.ltadmin[at]sydney.edu.au) © 2002-2020 The University of Sydney. Last Updated: 29-Nov-2019	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20428
__label__wiki	0.588713	0.588713	Fight for transparency only just begun — Corona By Benjamin B. Pulta 06/04/2012 Fight for transparency only just begun — Corona Ousted Chief Justice Renato Corona said he has no regrets on any of his actions in seeing the impeachment proceedings against him before the Senate court to its logical end. In a statement, Corona added he believed his lawyers led by retired associate justice Serafin Cuevas did all they could for his defense under the circumstances. Corona said his call for a greater transparency in government is a common and popular undertaking that deserves to continue. “The quest for transparency in government service does not end with my leaving ... It has in fact only just begun. A growing number of dedicated Filipinos have now taken the clarion call and, with the help of our friends in the media, many have taken up the cudgels of demanding higher levels of transparency through the outright waiver of confidentiality. This is the new standard for public trust in government service,” he said..... MORE After the big show DIE HARD III Herman Tiu Laurel ... Clashing figures EDITORIAL 06/04/2012 Willful violation of the Charter FRONTLINE Ninez C... Joining voices and efforts for the dissolution of ... U.S. behind the crash of Russian plane Syndicated hypocrisy CROSSROADS Jonathan De la Cru... Defense pact up in senior RP military, civilian of... Shortages woes, K+12 to greet school opening By Ja... Fight for transparency only just begun — Corona By... Palace admits waiver clause in SALn ‘not unconditi... Estrada seeks cuts to labor chief’s power over dis... BI adopts stricter rules in registering, issuing v... Cops, troops deployed on opening of classes By Mar...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20429
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__label__wiki	0.779273	0.779273	Education Trade Show Coup for Queenstown Edu-tourism Queenstown has the opportunity to globally showcase its position as an international education destination next year after being confirmed as host venue for Australia and New Zealand’s largest education and student travel trade show. Around 500 participants from 50 different countries are expected to attend the Australia New Zealand Agent Workshop (ANZA) to be held at Queenstown Events Centre from 29 February - 2 March 2012. Formatted in a similar way to TRENZ*, which was recently held for the first time in Queenstown, the workshop facilitates one-on-one appointments between agencies that send student and edu-travellers to the region and those who provide educational and tourism services at the destination Attendees are also offered professional development seminars or opportunities to showcase their own programmes, schools, countries and regions. Destination Queenstown Convention Bureau Manager Kylie Brittain says securing ANZA is a strategic win for Queenstown which represents a ‘coming of age’ for the resort as an edu-tourism destination. “Education is a major export earner for both Australia and New Zealand and Queenstown is now recognised as a credible international education destination with many options as a place for students to live and learn outside of their home countries. “Hosting ANZA gives us the opportunity to display our offering to this market niche. It’s an international platform that can promote the resort as a superb study destination,” she says. Queenstown’s ‘live and learn’ opportunities have been profiled and organised through Study Queenstown, a specialist organisation set up two years ago which brings together the education institutions offering services in Queenstown to provide a one-stop-shop for people considering study in the region. Study Queenstown spokesperson Charlie Philips says the organisation works hard to present Queenstown as a credible, well established edu-tourism destination. “Study Queenstown represents all the education providers in the area from secondary school to tertiary and language institutions. We work together to present Queenstown as a serious education destination with organisations that are experienced in hosting, teaching and supporting international students.” Mr Philips believes hosting the ANZA workshops offers an opportunity for Queenstown to forge new relationships with international agencies and to showcase the synergies between education and tourism. The 2011 ANZA workshop was held in Royal Pines Resort on Gold Coast and welcomed 519 participants representing 357 organisations from 52 countries with a total of 4582 pre-scheduled meetings taking place over two days. For more information about The Australia New Zealand Agent Workshop visit www.anzaworkshop.com. For more information about Queenstown please visit www.queenstown-nz.co.nz. Posted by shalia 0 comments Two Of Australia's Well Known Convention/Incentive Brands Unite micenet AUSTRALIA magazine and American Express have formed a strategic alliance. American Express Meetings & Events, an extension of American Express Business Travel, has agreed to make micenet magazine available to some of its key meetings and events decision makers. American Express is a leading travel management company and meetings, events and incentive provider that reaches customers around the world. This strategic alliance will extend micenet AUSTRALIA’s readership to an even greater audience of highly qualified convention and incentive travel buyers. For advertisers, the strategic alliance will result in greater exposure to an extended, sophisticated and highly resourced sector of the market that has been relatively untapped by business event publications in the past. Helen Batt-Rawden, Publisher of micenet magazine says, ‘selecting effective distribution channels is a key component to a company’s marketing mix and integral to the successful operation of an organisation. We constantly strive to research and introduce more qualified and exclusive distribution channels that will not only give our advertisers more exposure within the niche C&I buyer arena, but will also maintain our leading status in the marketplace and ensure the magazine is more widely read by QUALIFIED buyers than any other C&I/MICE-related magazine in the Australian marketplace'. New A380 has duty free store on board The rush to buy duty-free items before boarding is now over for some lucky passengers. Korean Airlines took delivery of its first A-380 Airbus, which has been fitted with an enviable, built-in duty free shop for premium passengers. The first of 10 super jumbos on order was delivered by the French aeronautical manufacturer in Seoul this week. With 407 seats, including 12 first-class suites, 94 business-class seats and 301 in economy, the Korean national carrier also boasts the lowest number of seats. The world’s sixth largest carrier is scheduled to receive nine additional A380s over the next three years. And in a bid to rival Singapore Airlines, Korean will actively woo business travellers into the jaws of the plane’s entire upper deck. The aircraft is Airbus’s eighth A380 delivered this year out of a proposed assembly line of 24 in 2011. There are now a total of 49 A380s flying the global skies. AUSTRALIAN CONSUMERS EMBRACE NEW INVITATION ONLY TRAVEL DEAL SITE, TRAVELCANDY.COM.AU TravelCandy.com.au, Australia’s specialist invitation-only travel club is signing up members so fast that they have had to hire two new staff members to cope with demand. TravelCandy.com.au CEO Sam Friend says, “We always thought there was a need for hand picked travel deals but we had no idea just how popular it would be in the Australian market. We have been pleasantly surprised by the response and we have had to grow rapidly to accommodate the demand.” The site, which has only been live for three months, has already signed up over 10,000 members, lwith numbers growing steadily each day. Friend attributes the surge in numbers to the power of word of mouth and increased consumer demand for handpicked travel deals and quality content. “Wotif’s offering is largely the same as it was 10 years ago, no reviews, generic content but good at processing bookings. We are about inspiring people to get more balance, take a holiday and plan it in advance to save some money.” “Australians are very comfortable with purchasing in advance if they are getting a great deal. On our site, we sell limited numbers of exclusive holiday experiences at extremely good prices. We have sold everything from Daintree Ecolodge escapes to Sydney Harbour Sailing packages. We have one customer who has bought something every week!” For further information or to sign up for a free VIP membership, please visit www.travelcandy.com.au/free What Ash Cloud? Travel Insurance Group Raises Concerns Over Ash Cloud Flight Guidelines "A myth" says Ryanair chief Travel insurance provider WorldNomads.com says safety must be put ahead of profit as airlines push for more lenient guidelines for flying through ash clouds. After clouds of volcanic ash caused the cancellation of 1600 flights in Scotland, England and Germany this week, the heads of two of Europe's biggest airlines have questioned the need to close airspace. Both Ryanair and British Airways flew test flights through areas that Britain's Met' Office said contained extremely high densities of ash, without ill effect. Ryanair chief Michael O'Leary went as far as to describe the ash clouds as a myth. In an opinion piece published on the WorldNomads.com, travel safety specialist Phil Sylvester said, "Mr. O'Leary might be right. I hope he's acting on the advice of his aircraft engineers, but it worries me when travel safety decisions are influenced by people who have one eye on the bottom line." Mr. Sylvester said his concerns were sparked when he read reports that the British Transport Secretary had made changes to guidelines, allowing aircraft to fly under areas of high ash density, after lobbying from the airline chiefs. "Of the thousands of people inconvenienced by Grimsvotn's eruption, I didn't hear one of them insisting their plane should fly regardless of safety doubts," said Mr. Sylvester. "The only people making that demand are the bosses of British Airways and Ryanair." "These would be the same two businessmen who were part of an industry that incurred losses of $1.7 billion dollars when that other ash cloud closed European airspace in 2010. They are under enormous pressure to make sure that doesn't happen again; the very existence of their businesses depends on it." Mr. Sylvester said. While acknowledging that it wasn't in the best business interests of the airlines to put passenger safety at risk, Mr. Sylvester said he is worried by the apparent process. He added, "We could organize a conga line of scientists from both sides of this argument to take part in an enormous game of 'yes it is safe - no it isn't', but are you comfortable with profit-and-loss being part of the equation?" Read more about Volcanic Ash & Safety Decisions http://ow.ly/54pei http://journals.worldnomads.com/safetyhub/story/73046/Iceland/Volcanic-Ash-and-Safety-Decisions Phil Sylvester is a journalist and travel safety specialist at travel insurance provider WorldNomads.com based in Australia. He can be contacted for comment at phil.sylvester@worldnomadsgroup.com MAORI KING AND NEW ZEALAND PM OPEN NOVOTEL AUCKLAND AIRPORT Novotel Auckland Airport was officially opened today by King Tuheitia and New Zealand Prime Minister, John Key, in a traditional dawn ceremony. The launch of the innovative hotel – just 50 metres from the international terminal – comes just over 100 days from the kick-off of the World Cup, and will provide a huge confidence boost to New Zealand tourism after the devastating Christchurch earthquake earlier this year. One of New Zealand's most significant new hotels The $65 million hotel project has been developed by one of New Zealand's largest Maori entities, Tainui Group Holdings, in partnership with Auckland Airport and Accor, who operate the hotel. Auckland Airport handles over 13 million passengers annually, projected to grow to 24 million by 2025, with 73% of all international visitors to New Zealand arriving or departing from Auckland. That figure is expected to grow substantially in the wake of the Christchurch earthquake, making the opening of the Novotel highly strategic for the country's short-term and long-term tourism needs. It will also significantly benefit most international visitors, as many flights to Auckland arrive late at night and connections to key regional airports are not till the following morning. International flights departing Auckland often leave early in the morning, making an overnight stay at the airport necessary, especially as it can take up to an hour's drive to reach downtown Auckland. A contemporary, stylish hotel that pays homage to New Zealand's heritage and traditional culture "For the majority of visitors to New Zealand, the Novotel is the first and last impression they have of the country, so the design of the Novotel has been infused with subtle references to New Zealand's natural environment, culture, art and heritage," says General Manager, Paul Columbus. "We believe it will be a showcase for the best New Zealand has to offer. "Part of the New Zealand experience is the close encounter with nature, so the hotel has been surrounded with distinctive indigenous plants, including Pohutakawa (NZ Christmas) trees, while the triangular architectural features of the building are designed to reflect the bows of traditional Maori 'waka' canoes, which first arrived here at Manukau Harbour many hundreds of years ago." There is a distinct green theme in the hotel's lobby where guests are greeted by a 'living wall' of indigenous plants that are nurtured by a hydroponic system. All the timbers used in the Novotel are 100% FSC-accredited Southland maple beech, which are harvested on a sustainably-managed basis, and are part of the hotel's commitment to become a fully certified Earthcheck hotel. Major effort has also been made to reduce energy and water usage in the hotel's daily operations. The design of the hotel has been undertaken by leading New Zealand architect and designer, Warren & Mahoney. Some of New Zealand's most promising designers and artists have been commissioned to work on the hotel's fit-out, and the locally-produced items range from a vast, self-supporting spiral steel staircase in the lobby to a Maori patterned 'Patiki' screen in the restaurant, designed to represent abundance and 'manaakitanga' (caring for people). While paying homage to the past and to Maori heritage, the Novotel is also very much a reflection of contemporary New Zealand, with the latest in communication technologies, including full arrival and departure monitors in the lobby to ensure that guests are kept fully informed of the latest plane movements. A room that features the latest interior design trends and anticipates new ones Novotel Auckland Airport is the first hotel in the Pacific region to have Novotel's new NEXT concept room. The room has been designed to give a maximum impression of spaciousness and freedom of movement. The bathroom is a key design feature and marks a significant shift from traditional hotel rooms. It is separated from the rest of the room by a transparent glass partition that can be covered by an internal privacy screen. Windows are larger than standard and are double glazed so that there is no noise even from an Airbus A380 taking off. The lighting systems provide light where guests most need it. The bed is one of the new room's fundamental and most striking features and central to all guest activities: sleeping, working or reading. The bed is raised and framed by an upholstered headboard that follows the contours of the back perfectly, while providing another opportunity for New Zealand theming, with images of the graceful, undulating indigenous toi toi grasses "We offer the most innovative connectivity with a proper working desk and communications panel that can help convert a room into a mobile office," says Columbus. "We will also eventually be able to introduce room access via mobile phone – the first in New Zealand – so that a guest will be able to get off the plane and go straight into their room. "A key to an airport hotel is its flexibility. Hence our 263 rooms offer everything from deluxe suites to superbly designed accessible rooms, which have been designed in consultation with experts rather than being just after-thoughts. "Fitness is an important part of an airport hotel experience, so our in-Balance Fitness gym has the most sophisticated equipment and we will also have special facilities for airline crews." Destination attractions There are a surprising number of activities in close proximity to the airport. Wine tastings and dinners can be organised at one of New Zealand's most renowned wineries, Villa Maria, and Butterfly Creek is a vast tourist park offering everything from a tropical butterfly house with over 750 species to New Zealand's only saltwater crocodiles. A comprehensive meetings hub A major feature of the hotel is its conference centre, with 12 meeting rooms, capable of hosting conferences for up to 315 delegates theatre style An international restaurant offering the finest in local cuisine and wines The Square restaurant offers all-day dining, with a menu featuring the finest in local produce. The Novotel is just a short drive from one of New Zealand's most famous vineyards, Villa Maria, and the wine list contains many Auckland-based premium wines. Novotel Auckland features specially designed individual dining pods for solo diners, with private TV screens so guests can watch a full range of programming while they eat. There is also a separate private dining area for small groups. Special Opening Deal Rates start from NZ$179 per night, but until the end of August, a 25% discount is offered on all fully flexible rates. Bookings: www.novotel.com or via Accor Reservations Service or through travel agents. The Novotel Auckland Airport is managed by Accor, New Zealand's largest hotel group with over 30 hotels in operation. Accor will open a second hotel at Auckland Airport later in the year – Formule 1 Auckland Airport. Hotel brands operated by Accor in New Zealand include Sofitel, Pullman, MGallery, Grand Mercure, Novotel, Mercure, All Seasons and Ibis. Fiji Orchid Blooms HM MAGAZINE EXCLUSIVE BY RODERICK EIME IN FIJI In a scene reminiscent of that ‘80s beer commercial “They said you’d never make it”, Jenny and Peter Bourke built their dream of luxury Fiji on a run-down remote island in the middle of nowhere that no one wanted to touch. Fiji born and bred, Jenny, reels in laughter when she recalls her first ITB in Berlin 20 years ago when she masqueraded as a Tahitian to poach business leads from the better prepared French Polynesians. “It was hilarious,” she says, her normally serene demeanor breaking into a girlish giggle, “I came to the biggest travel show in the world with a box of brochures and no idea. ‘What have you got me into!’ I screamed at my husband. But I learned quick.” “Dan Costello (Fiji Beachcomber and doyen of Fiji hospitality) famously said to me ‘You know nothing about the industry. How on earth do you think you’re going to make it work?” The saga of Nukubati Island is well known in hospitality circles, and it’s a story with a happy ending. Tripadvisor now rates the all-inclusive private island resort 100% positive with a 2011 Travellers’ Choice award to boot. But Jenny and Peter couldn’t rest on their laurels and the Fiji Orchid was born. Not as a swank resort or destination spa, but as a comfortable transit lodge just a few minutes from Nadi airport for guests on their way to or from an outer island experience. “As so many of these stories start, it began with a coincidence,” Jenny told HM. “I was working with Don Burness, the horticulturalist, on gardens for Nukubati while he was living in the old Raymond Burr house on Saweni Beach.” “Well, this place was divine. Okay, needed some work, but the potential was immediate and I said almost playfully to Don ‘If you ever want to sell …’ and well, 12 years later I bought it.” The couple began to transform the two main buildings into dining and reception areas and added six luxury bures. The formal opening was in early 2010 and already the Fiji Orchid has gathered glowing reviews. Among the five acres of lavish gardens (with orchids, of course) there’s a pool, the 20-seat Raymond’s Restaurant, bar, lounge, ornate meeting room and a small spa treatment bure. The property even has its own helipad for guests transferring to private islands. The back story is of course the Raymond Burr connection. The Canadian-born actor, best known for his TV dramas, Perry Mason and Ironside, was a keen gardener with interests in wine and art. His love of Fiji was part climate and part seclusion. Like so many Hollywood types of the ‘50s and ‘60s, they craved privacy and in Fiji, no one knew him. Here he could relax and be with his long-time partner away from prying eyes and gossiping tongues. His handsome portrait hangs in the restaurant with an obvious look of approval. Jenny’s very personal style of hospitality extends to the way she conducts business and she has largely eschewed the online travel agents, working mainly through ‘traditional channels’. “Everyone knows how things work in cycles here in Fiji,” says Jenny, who has formal qualifications in economics, “and even when others are slashing rates we stick to ours. Sure, we’ll value-add, but we won’t discount. I’d rather suffer the short term pain.” Jenny admits she’ll be using online distribution shortly, but with strict channel management. For now there is no urgency as occupancy is exceeding expectations. Single or double day rooms are FJD$350 + tax for seven hours or FJD$550 + tax for overnight with a 12 noon checkout. Includes transfers to Nadi airport, Denarau or Lautoka. The Southern Highland's best kept secret is out Gibraltar Hotel, Bowral opens to wide acclaim Nestled on 100-acres, among century old elm and pine trees and under the shadow of Bowral's iconic Mt Gibraltar, is the new Gibraltar Hotel, the most luxurious and modern hotel accommodation available in NSW's Southern Highlands. Just one and half hours easy drive from Sydney and Canberra, Gibraltar Hotel offers 76 luxurious suites each with vistas of beautiful Bowral woodland or Mt Gibraltar itself. The Hotel also features a challenging 18-hole golf course, the largest conference centre in the region with a unique, elegant ballroom, 6 breakout meeting rooms, a wedding chapel with a full organ, as well as its own heated indoor swimming pool, cardio centre and luxurious Day Spa and Grooming Lounge. Owner John Uliana says: "We wanted to create a destination where guests can simply relax and enjoy the Resort's facilities or venture out and take pleasure in some of the many activities the Southern Highland's has to offer." "Guests can enjoy cuisine from the Hotel's restaurant, Gibraltar Grill, or dine in Harvey's Bar overseen by internationally acclaimed Food & Beverage Manager, UgoBisognoand Chef, Jonas Ottosson," says Uliana. "Ugo and Jonas have cleverly blended a mix of contemporary Australian fare with an international touch to deliver a menu which utilises fresh local produce, and is accompanied by a selection of the best Southern Highland cold climate and Australian wines available." Ottosson's famous Grill is a key draw card for local and visiting food aficionados. Returning to the Highlands after a stint overseas, Gibraltar Grill is fast becoming renowned for featuring prime meat cooked to absolute perfection. "It's all about attention to detail so our guests can enjoy their steak just as they like it, every time" says Ottosson. " Gibraltar's modern décor is an eclectic mix of Indian artefacts, paintings and sculptures by local Bowral artists, and New York City Chic. "It's a true blend of city chic meets country warmth with its individual stamp of luxury and comfort which will be appreciated by every guest and visitor," says Uliana. Surrounded by Gibraltar Country Club's challenging 18-hole golf course, the Hotel will appeal to golf enthusiasts wanting to enjoy a round or two during their stay. "After a challenging day on the golf course, visitors can relax and enjoy the cocktail of the day or a glass of award-winning wine in Harvey's Bar, named after one of Australia's best loved musicians and local Bowral resident, Geoff Harvey," says Uliana. Harvey's Bar is open daily from 11am with live entertainment each Friday and Saturday night. "It's fast becoming a favoured spot for Hotel guests and locals alike," says Uliana. "Enjoy a lingering glass of wine while listening to Geoff tinkering on the ivory keys…. it simply doesn't get more relaxing than that. " Gibraltar Hotel is close to over 60 Southern highland's wineries, 16 cellar doors, Bradman's International Cricket Hall of Fame, antique trails and Gibbergunyah Walking track where walkers can mingle with kangaroos, echidnas and wombats before returning for a meal at the hotel's landmark Gibraltar Grill. The Gibraltar Hotel offers a number of affordable packages which combine meals, spa, and golf and of course, a stay in one of its elegant suites. The specially commissioned and designed AH Beard Continental King beds are so comfortable the Hotel claims guests have been known to ask to purchase the bed or pillows on leaving. The spacious suites all feature digital flat screens TVs, Wi-Fi, glorious resort-like marble bathrooms including plush towels and robes. "We know our suites are the most comfortable, relaxed and stylish in the Southern Highlands," says Uliana, "and we look forward to welcoming you to the Highland's best kept secret soon!" For more information, visit www.gibraltarbowral.com.au Lonely Planet Axes Aussie Jobs in UK Move Travel guide publisher Lonely Planet is cutting staff numbers and moving its online division from Melbourne to London, but will keep its Footscray headquarters, Fairfax media reports today. The report says the move is part of a restructure that will see 60 to 70 jobs go - some 15 per cent of total global staff. Chief executive Matt Goldberg is quoted as saying: "Lonely Planet is facing a series of financial challenges from external forces beyond our control – a sluggish global economy, the troubled retail sector, a declining print market and, quite significantly, the effects of the strong Australian dollar". The company blames the strong dollar for revenues losses of $13m in the year to March. Founded in 1973 by Melburnians Tony and Maureen Wheeler, Lonely Planet is now owned by British broadcaster BBC Worldwide. Grand Mercure Mount Lofty House continues Meteoric Rise by Roderick Eime in Adelaide When the smoke cleared, over 2000 square kilometres of South Australia lay scorched by some of the worst bushfires in over a century. Firestorms comparable to wartime incendiary bombing destroyed many hundreds of properties, tens of thousands of head of livestock and left 28 South Australians dead. That day, 16 February 1983, became known as Ash Wednesday and James Morgan and his young family, the new owners of Mount Lofty House at Crafers, were fortunate to escape with their lives. They lost everything and the 130-year-old manor home was reduced to a blackened shell. Devastated, the Morgans sold up and the new owners undertook a three-year restoration and renovation, re-opening the ‘new’ Mount Lofty House as a guest lodge with just eight rooms and a restaurant named after the famous founding family who built the original house, the Hardys. There was also the Arthur Waterhouse Lounge and John Richardson Room with the Tiers Bar and Lounge areas before an additional 21 rooms and public areas were added in 1988. In 1993, the property changed hands again and further improvements were made which quickly catapulted Mount Lofty House into the limelight as a premium bridal, function and dining venue, gathering numerous awards. Another freshen-up took place in 2002, all of which apparently met with the approval of resident ghost George, a former carriage-man and gardener, whose benign presence some guests claim to have noticed near rooms seven and eight. Current earthly owners, David Horbelt and Malcolm Bean, both established and well-regarded hoteliers, purchased the 4.5 star Grand Mercure Mount Lofty House in May 2009 from Accor Première Vacation Club and immediately spent a further $500,000 on improvements including the installation of Jessie Sheehan (ex-Rydges Melbourne) as GM with Mat Downs (ex-Sydney) joining soon after as Director of Sales. Horbelt and Bean now maintain the successful Accor relationship under a franchise agreement. The success continued with revenue growth of 42 percent in the first 12 months and yet further enhancements are planned. “When we finish at the end of the year, we’ll have achieved the level of Victorian, up-scale boutique property David and I envisaged,” Bean told HM. “In that form we may consider the Accor M Gallery brand, although the local flavour and regional (Adelaide Hills) ‘brand’ is working equally well. There is nothing like this property in Adelaide, perhaps even Australia, especially when you consider it is just 15 minutes from the CBD. ” Horbelt, a known wine connoisseur, planted a second vineyard of terraced grapes to complement the existing Chardonnay fruit already producing the award-winning Piccadilly Restaurant’s house white. The first Pinot Noir vintage will be served in the next twelve months as a perfect accompaniment to the hotel’s own organic produce and renowned Adelaide Hills food and Tomich wines. Overlooking the picturesque Piccadilly Valley, Grand Mercure Mount Lofty House is located at 74 Mt Lofty Summit Road, Crafers. The hotel will host the ‘Tasting at the Top’ gourmet food event on 17 June featuring a six-course degustation menu created by Piccadilly Restaurant’s Executive Chef, Girard Ramsay. For further information, visit www.mtloftyhouse.com.au Wego.com Puts the Power of Connecting with Millions in the Hands of Hotels with the Launch of a Brand New Hotel Editing Tool and Premium Hotel Listing “Hotels are rewarded with a free one month premium listing when they sign up for account and answer a few questions about their property.” Travel comparison site Wego.com today launched yet another groundbreaking marketing tool providing hoteliers greater control of the appearance of their property’s listing on the popular site. Hotels are now able to manage and update property details including images, descriptions, amenities and location maps instantly using Wego’s specially designed editing tools. Hotels can take ownership of their listing by creating their own account on Wego.com and with the launch of the Premium Hotel Listings product, properties can now also add their website URL, contact details and also highlight special offers on Wego.com and sites powered by Wego. These listing tools place the power of instant connection with millions of Wego travelers, directly into the hands of property managers without paying any commissions. Hoteliers can sign up to manage their hotel listing and receive a free premium listing by visiting http://hoteliers.wego.com/. “We recognise the need for hotel owners to be able to market their direct booking channels and special offers on Wego. A lot of Wego travelers also express a preference to make their bookings on the hotels own website,” explained Craig Hewett, Founder & CCO of Wego.com. Andrew Hickey Vice President for Rooms, Resorts World Sentosa applauds the tool. “It’s becoming increasingly difficult for hotels to get noticed online so we welcome Wego’s Premium listings as a tool for us to stand out from our competitors,” he said. Wego’s Premium Hotel Listings are sold on a flat-fee subscription basis, with costs varying based upon a property’s number of rooms. Rates start from $25 per month. Hotel Special Offers are created in minutes with a choice of customised pre-built offers, including: Percentage discount on room Dollar discount on room Room upgrade Food and beverage credits Complimentary Value Adds (e.g free internet access) Advance purchase rates Free night Stays (e.g. stay 3, pay 2) Special offers can be configured to be redeemable either online as part of the booking process, or as printed coupons to be redeemed on arrival. The special offers will be displayed prominently on relevant hotel search result pages and on Wego.com’s weekly deals newsletters giving greater visibility and opportunities for conversion. Wego.com continues to break barriers to provide the hotel industry with the ultimate sales and marketing tools, delivering customers directly to your door with the lowest distribution costs. Seventh A380 Enters into Service with Lufthansa San Francisco served daily by an A380 Lufthansa’s seventh A380 enters into service as scheduled. The aircraft (registration DAIMG, “Mike Golf”), which was ferried to Frankfurt from the Airbus plant at Hamburg-Finkenwerder last weekend, will further increase Lufthansa’s capacity. From yesterday, 10 May, it will be deployed daily on the Frankfurt – San Francisco route. A total of seven A380s will now take off daily for five destinations. Lufthansa flight attendants will welcome passengers aboard an A380 70 times per week – on the airline’s routes between Frankfurt and Johannesburg, New York, Beijing, Tokyo and now also San Francisco. Each week, almost 37,000 passengers will have an opportunity to fly on a Lufthansa A380. Lufthansa expects to take delivery of the eighth aircraft of this type next month. Another two A380s will be delivered in 2012. The airline has ordered a total of 15 Airbus A380s. Most fuel-efficient aircraft The Airbus A380 is the world’s most fuel-efficient aircraft, burning about 12 percent less fuel than other wide-body jets, and is approximately 30 percent quieter than the current generation of wide-body aircraft. Currently, Lufthansa provides A380 service to Tokyo, Beijing, Johannesburg, and New York, and will begin service to Miami on June 10, 2011. The airline has ordered a total of 15 A380 aircraft, all scheduled for delivery by 2015. This will make Lufthansa the largest A380 operator in Europe. Lufthansa’s A380 is configured with 526 seats and features the airline’s new First Class product. Located on the upper deck, the First Class cabin is the quietest in commercial aviation and boasts an air humidification system – the first of its kind to be installed on a commercial aircraft – that improves air humidity to help fight off jet lag. Two large, luxurious bathrooms with separate changing and lavatory areas offer enhanced personal space and storage. The cabin’s eight generously proportioned, ergonomic seats measure 6’9” feet in length and 2’7” feet in width and provide the ultimate in comfort and innovation for an exceptional travel experience. Also located on the upper deck is the award-winning Business Class cabin with 98 seats featuring improved functionality, including more storage and a power supply that works with all worldwide connections. The main deck is home to an impressively spacious Economy Class cabin. Each of its 420 seats features an in-seat video screen, an optimized ergonomic design and a slimmer seat back that adds two inches of personal space per passenger. All the details on the Lufthansa A380 are available at www.lufthansa.com/A380. Galaxy Hotel Joins Worldhotels Galaxy Hotel™, the signature hotel of Galaxy Macau™ – the newest five-star integrated destination resort in Macau – has joined Worldhotels, the global network for independent and unique properties. With 1,500 magnificently appointed guest rooms, including 150 suites, Galaxy Hotel is scheduled to open together with the highly anticipated Galaxy Macau on May 15, 2011. The palatial new HK$14.9 billion Galaxy Macau brings its “World Class, Asian Heart” approach to the Cotai entertainment area with a focus on authentic Asian-style hospitality and true resort features – both firsts for the market. Featuring the world’s largest skytop wave pool, the sensational 52,000 square-meter Grand Resort Deck also includes a 350-ton white sand beach, offering guests the ultimate in relaxation amidst a landscape of magnificent pools and lush gardens. Galaxy Macau will have more than 50 food and beverage outlets, with the widest selection of pan-Asian cuisine under one roof, as well as vibrant bars, lounges and retail boulevards, to present a leisure experience unmatched in the city. Representing an evolution in resort accommodation, Galaxy Hotel provides luxurious five-star amenities throughout its 1,500 contemporarily-designed rooms, complete with stunning views. The rooms also afford guests a level of deep comfort that conveys the kind of respect only a host with true Asian Heart can present. Located just a short stroll from the glitz and glamour of Cotai, Macau’s hottest and most dynamic tourism and leisure destination, Galaxy Hotel is only a 5-minute drive from Macau International Airport and Taipa Ferry Terminal. Owned and operated by Galaxy Entertainment Group (“GEG”, or “the Group” – HKEx stock code: 00027), Galaxy Hotel will join its sister property, the luxurious Five-Star Diamond StarWorld Hotel and Casino, as Worldhotels’ second affiliate in Macau. Welcoming Galaxy Hotel as a Deluxe Collection affiliate, Worldhotels Vice President Asia- Pacific Roland Jegge said, “Galaxy Hotel, and the entire Galaxy Macau development, is setting a distinctive Asian-style hospitality benchmark in Asia’s gaming and entertainment capital.” Mr. Heinz Roelz, Director – Hotels & Hospitality for Galaxy Macau, said, “Worldhotels is a network for unique properties, and both Galaxy Macau and Galaxy Hotel fit that description in every way. This is the only true destination resort in Macau and the first authentically Asian property of its kind anywhere. We are excited about the prospect of opening our doors to the world on May 15, and we are delighted to do so as part of the Worldhotels network.” Arab Arrested After Cockpit Invasion Thwarted by Peter Needham - eglobaltravelmedia.com.au An apparently crazed passenger holding a Yemeni passport rushed down the aisle and tried to break into the locked cockpit of an American Airlines flight from Chicago bound for San Francisco. The man, identified as Rageh Ahmed Mohammed Al-Murisi, 28, was brought down when crewmembers and passengers – including a retired Secret Service agent – acted together. He was charged in US District Court in San Francisco with interfering with a flight crew and is due to appear in court with an Arabic interpreter, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Almost immediately, relatives of the accused in the US came forward, telling media that he wasn’t a terrorist, he was a “nice guy” who spoke limited English. Authorities said flight safety was not compromised. Passengers reported Al-Murisi was mumbling and then yelling “God is great” in Arabic – not something to put passengers’ minds at ease in the current climate. Cockpit doors on US passenger aircraft have been fortified since the deadly terrorist attacks of 11 September 2011, in which hijackers armed with boxcutter knives gained control of four planes. The latest incident comes at a time of heightened security, with concerns that terrorists might try to attack the US in retaliation for the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. Yemen is home to renegade Yemeni American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a fanatical Islamist believed to have masterminded two attempts to bomb US-bound aircraft since 2009. These are twitchy times in US skies. At the weekend, a man tried to open a door during a Continental Airlines flight from Houston to Chicago. The flight landed safely in St Louis, where the man was arrested and charged. And last Friday, security fears saw three imams, including an American Muslim, evicted from a US domestic flight (on the ground). Ironically, they had been heading for a conference on Islamophobia. Upgraded online booking system for tickets to Machu Picchu Tourists can now book and pay for tickets to visit Peru's leading attraction, Machu Picchu, from anywhere in the world thanks to an upgraded online booking system. From the end of April tourists can now simply go to www.machupicchu.gob.pe, reserve tickets, pay by VISA, print out tickets and go directly to the Historic Sanctuary. Peru's Tourism Board coordinator for Asia Pacific, Rosana Guinea comments: "Having an online booking portal where tourists anywhere in the world can plan trips to Machu Picchu does make it a lot easier. It also allows us to understand the visitor profile to Machu Picchu as we capture information such as nationality, age and gender. We also plan to develop this site further with more information and have other cultural tours and activities available to book." Machu Picchu is on everyone's wish list when booking a trip to Peru and 2011 is a very important year as it marks 100 years since the American explorer and politician, Hiram Bingham, rediscovered this lost city of the Incas for the world to see. The Inca citadel of Machu Picchu remains Peru's top tourist attraction and the first quarter of 2011 saw visits to Machu Picchu increase by 33,000 people compared to the first quarter of 2009 to 127,963 visitors (figures are compared to 2009 and 2010 as the citadel was closed between January and April 2010 due to heavy rain and mudslides). Online booking site: http://www.machupicchu.gob.pe/ www.peru.travel Merpati Indonesian Air Crash Identical Type Xian MA60 aircraft in Merpati colours Source: www.traveldailyasia.com Officials in Indonesia have told state-run Merpati Nusantara Airlines to stop buying the Chinese-made Xian MA-60 aircraft involved in a Saturday’s fatal crash. The airline last year announced an order for 15 new Chinese-made turboprop planes, 13 of which have been delivered. In the wake of the crash of a Merpati MA-60 in West Papua last weekend however, Members of Indonesia’s House of Representatives have urged an immediate investigation into the planes. “If the aircraft are not proper to fly, we have to return the 13 planes and cancel the purchasing order of two more planes,” the Jakarta Post quoted house member Ahmad Muzani as saying. The West Papua crash was the third safety incident affecting a Merpati MA-60 since their delivery. Local news portal, tempointeraktif.com reported that an electrical problem affected one of Merpati’s MA-60s in West Nusa Tenggara province in July 2010, while in February this year another MA-60 skidded off the runway at Kupang airport in East Nusa Tenggara. Philippine-based low-cost carrier, Zest Air has also experienced two incidents with its MA-60s, including one occasion in 2009 when a plane veered sharply on landing, before colliding with a concrete barrier. Other safety incidents involving the aircraft have been reported in Africa and South America, involving Air Zimbabwe and TAM Bolivia. Merpati’s safety record is also questionable however; in 2009 one of its Twin Otter planes crashed in West Papua province, killing all 16 people on board, and in April last year a Boeing 737 operated by the airline overshot the runway at Manokwari in West Papua, injuring 44 people. Merpati is one of the Indonesian airlines still on the EU aviation blacklist. Meanwhile it has been reported that the flight data recorder from Saturday’s crash has been discovered. The cause of the incident is still unclear, but bad weather has been cited as a possible factor. All 27 passengers and crew died when the plane crashed into the sea 500 metres short of the runway at Utarung Kaimana airport in West Papua province. More: Aviation Safety report Tourists make lucky escape as another boat sinks in Vietnam's Halong Bay Heavy traffic on Halong Bay (file picture) Source: www.chinapost.com.tw A group of French travelers had a lucky escape in Vietnam when their tour boat sank on Halong Bay, the party's leader said on Monday, in an eerie echo of an accident earlier this year that killed 12. There were no injuries in the latest incident, which involved 28 French tourists on Sunday afternoon at the popular visitor attraction, said Josette Farret, a 65-year-old who was among those on board. “We felt that there were some technical problems before the departure of the boat, which was in poor condition,” she said. According to Dang Huy Hau, government vice-president in Quang Ninh province, the boat went down after a collision with another craft delivering water, but Farret insisted there was “absolutely no collision”. Hau said an investigation would be conducted after the boat is salvaged. “Everybody aboard the tourist vessel was transferred to another boat before it completely sank,” he said. In Vietnam's worst tourism accident, 11 tourists and their guide died in February when a boat sank in Halong Bay, a UNESCO World Heritage site known for its stunning limestone cliffs, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) from Hanoi. A senior provincial official said water leakage resulting from human error was the most likely cause. The boat's captain and engineer were arrested for investigation over alleged safety violations. The local travel agency that organized the February tour was unlicensed and the tour guide unregistered, officials said. After the tragedy, a safety inspection of 135 tour boats found 98 with a variety of minor technical or safety problems, Hau said, adding that owners of the boats had been ordered to correct the problems immediately. Jonathan Galaviz, a tourism sector economist at Galaviz & Co. consultancy, said in February that the fatal sinking was an indication of a continued lack of attention to safeguards. “Safety standards for tourism must be taken seriously by the Vietnamese government if the country wants to protect its long-term tourism image,” he said. “The public relations impact of incidents such as these are far and wide.” Travel to the Moon by 2015 Russian Soyuz Spacecraft World's first space tourism agency Space Adventures plans to offer the first trip around the moon as early as 2015, the company announced on Thursday. The Virginia-based space travel firm, which is the only company to have booked and offered commercial rides to the International Space Station, will double the room in the Soyuz spacecraft for the flights. Soyuz spaceship, which was provided by Russia's Federal Space Agency, has carried seven passengers since 2001 to Space. A trip for two around the moon in the bigger spaceship will cost around $150 million per passenger. According to Space Adventures, the circumlunar trip will require at least two months of training to help familiarize the passengers with spacecraft and the outer space environment. As commercial space travel continues to draw private investment, Space Adventures officials expect the lunar trip to be a landmark in the history of space exploration. "The moon holds a special place in all of our hearts. It's a symbol of the space future that humanity wishes for, a symbol of our curiosity, and something that we see every night. When the private moon mission launches, the eyes of the world will truly be upon those people, and it will truly be an extraordinary event," said the company's chairman Eric Anderson. Source: http://www.ibtimes.com/ Air Tahiti Nui and Viva! Holidays are offering hot new deals on a selection of Tahiti holiday packages and fares booked in May. The "You Deserve Tahiti" packages from Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane include return Economy Class flights with Air Tahiti Nui, transfers, accommodation and multiple bonuses. 4 nights Tahiti from AUD$1555 ex MEL, $1575 ex SYD and $1579 ex BNE: For a short break you can't surpass this package which includes four nights for the price of three at the Radisson Plaza Resort in a Deluxe Ocean View Room plus a bonus gift from Radisson Le Spa. 7 nights Tahiti & Moorea from AUD $2150 ex MEL, $2169 ex SYD and $2175 ex BNE: Experience the beauty of Tahiti and Moorea with a night at the Manava Suite Resort Tahiti at either end of your holiday, and 5 nights in between at the Moorea Pearl Resort in a Garden View Room, with bonus daily breakfasts. 7 nights Tahiti & Moorea from AUD $2439 ex MEL, $2459 ex SYD and $2465 ex BNE: Spoil yourself with 2 nights at Manava Suite Resort Tahiti on arrival and departure, and 5 nights at the Hilton Moorea Lagoon Resort and Spa in a Garden Bungalow with a private plunge pool. This package includes bonus daily breakfasts in Moorea. 7 nights Tahiti & Bora Bora from AUD $3045 ex MEL, $3059 ex SYD and $3069 ex BNE: Indulge in the ultimate island getaway with 2 nights at Manava Suite Resort Tahiti, 5 nights at Le Maitai Polynesia, Bora Bora in a Garden View room, and bonus daily breakfasts, lunches and dinners in Bora Bora. Air Tahiti Nui is also offering the "Magical Autumn Special" with return airfares from $AU1227 per person ex Sydney. These fares include pre-payable taxes. Packages and airfares must be booked before 23 May 2011 and are subject to availability. The autumn airfare is valid for departures between 1 May and 15 December, 2011. The Radisson Plaza Resort package is valid for travel from 16 August to 15 December 2011 and all other packages are valid from 1 November to 15 December, 2011. Packages are priced per person, twin share. To book the packages call Viva Holidays on 13 14 15 or visit or www.airtahitinui.com.au. For more information on the airfare contact your travel agent or Air Tahiti Nui on 1300 732 415. Flights to Tahiti are with Air Tahiti Nui, the international airline of Tahiti and her islands. Five-Star Organic Retreat Opens At Khao Sok Nestled among a plethora of palm trees under the soaring karst limestone mountains of Khao Sok National Park, Thanyamundra launches this Spring as a one-of-a-kind luxury retreat on a working organic farm. The first-ever organic boutique resort in southern Thailand offers nine Asian antique filled rooms and suites in two modern, Thai inspired villas. Formerly the home of a European entrepreneur committed to health, fitness and sustainable living, Thanyamundra has been reimagined to deliver the finest hotel service, gourmet organic cuisine, and holistic wellness in one of Thailand's most breathtaking natural environments at the edge of one of Earth's oldest rainforests. Two hours drive from Phuket International Airport, with its comprehensive regional and international air connections, Thanyamundra provides an easily accessible escape from urban life on the most intimate scale. Personal service under the leadership of butlers trained at some of Thailand's finest hotels, an English-speaking chef with an extensive Thai and international repertoire and talented massage therapists on call are matched at Thanyamundra by visiting experts and teachers, world renowned in their fields, from sports to yoga and meditation to environmental science and visual arts. Thanyamundra's dedicated butlers lead their guests on arrival to the retreat's seven elegant guest rooms and two spacious master suites split across the two contemporary villas. All are fully equipped with modern comforts from high-speed wireless Internet and LCD flat screen televisions to Thai silk interiors and spacious private bathrooms with separate rain showers. Suites with generous terraces overlook the verdant panorama of rice paddies and fruit trees to the wild bamboo jungle and ancient rock formations of Khao Sok National Park. At all times of the year, Thanyamundra welcomes its guests, limited to twenty at a time, to explore the groundbreaking 12 hectare (1600 square metre) organic farm with charismatic Pierre Larigaldie who oversees these visionary crop fields. Since Larigaldie began preparing the earth here four years ago, all plantings have been 100% organic and chemical free and today Thanyamundra's organic farm is the only one in southern Thailand with an Agricultural Certificate of Thailand (ACT), part of the International Organic Accreditation Service. Rows of aromatic Thai and Italian basil, dill, coriander and chilies run parallel to white and purple eggplants, red snake beans, winged peas, bitter gourd and morning glory, then onward to avocadoes, papaya, passion fruit, mango and a variety of banana trees. Reach down to taste ingredients like fresh rocket leaves straight from the earth for sublime edible memories not soon forgotten. Guests are encouraged to pick their produce under the guidance of Thanyamundra's dedicated chef who leads custom organic cooking classes back in the main villa's show kitchen. Learn to make Thai classics like tom yum goong hot & sour soup or kaeng kheow waan green curry from entirely organic ingredients. Linger over all Thanyamundra's fresh from the garden meals enhanced by sommelier selected Old and New World wines on the villa's panoramic terrace as butterflies of kaleidoscopic hues flutter past, in the elegant Chinese style dining room with high back polished wood chairs or at a table specially set up outside among the retreat's rustic natural charms, under the unpolluted, constellation filled sky. Thanyamundra boasts a variety of invigorating fitness and leisure facilities. Swim laps or sun bathe alongside the 50-metre hilltop infinity pool, stay fit with the latest Technogym equipment in gym open around the clock, or take to the blissfully quiet surrounding roads for running or cycling. Equally restorative and invigorating are Thanyamundra's Thai and holistic spa treatments, meditation, yoga and Pilates sessions. To take full advantage of the surrounding national park, join Thanyamundra's guided jungle trek with resident and visiting naturalists, in search of the lar gibbon whose females can be heard calling out on mist filled mornings, plus long-tailed macaque monkeys, Malay sun bears, tapirs, monitor lizards and even elephants and the endangered clouded leopard that inhabit Khao Sok National Park. Guests who want to delve deeper into these exceptional natural surroundings may participate in the Thanyamundra Adventure Experience with river kayaking, tubing, lake swimming and elephant trekking inside the national park, active pursuits equally suited to corporate groups and incentive trips. In addition, individual guests or groups can work alongside the onsite farm team or reserve the entire farm to host uniquely memorable private functions for up to fifty. Akino Nourdine Sales & Marketing Representation for Thanyapura E-mail: akino@thanyapura.co.th www.thanyapura.com SKYCITY GRAND Hotel ranked best 18th best hotel in the world New Zealand Hotels are rated among the best in the world by the latest Expedia hotel rating survey, the Insiders' Select List. Three New Zealand hotels were named in the top 100, clamied as a good sign for the tourism industry just months away from the beginning of the Rugby World Cup this spring. Auckland's SKYCITY Grand is ranked 18th, with the Waterfront Suites in the Bay of Islands 34th and Mantra Marina in Queenstown at 64. Since 2007, Expedia has polled its travellers and experts worldwide to compare a vast range of hotels and resorts in terms of service and experience and corresponding value for the consumer. The Cedarbrook Lodge in suburban Seattle was labelled the respondents' favourite hotel, surpassing three southern Italian hotels - Rome's iQ Hotel Roma, Hotel Antiche Figure in Venice and Hotel Berchielli in Florence. Louise Crompton, Expedia.co.nz marketing manager, says: "For New Zealand to have an unprecedented three hotels in the top 100 is a great reflection of what New Zealand offers in terms of quality and value." The full Expedia Insiders' Select list is available at expedia.co.nz. Celebrity Millennium to cruise in Australia and Asia in 2012 Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines has just announced the 2012 deployment of Celebrity Millennium, which will operate a series of Asian itineraries, visiting Australia on her way to Singapore during the previously announced down under deployment of Celebrity Solstice. The 2158-passenger Millennium, which has previously spent several seasons cruising in Australia, will offer repositioning cruises from Hawaii to Sydney and from Sydney to Singapore, with the vessel fresh from an "extensive refurbishment" scheduled for April 2012 which will see the addition of 107 new AquaClass staterooms. The Hawaii-Sydney sector will coincide with the November 2012 solar eclipse, while the vessel's newly announced Asian season includes eight 14-night cruises from Singapore and Hong Kong, with ports of call including Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City and Halong Bay. Millennium's new 2012/13 Asia itineraries will open for sale on Saturday 09 April. New Best Western opens in Lake Taupo, NZ Best Western is pleased to introduce their latest member property in Taupo, New Zealand. The Best Western Caboose Lodge & Conference Centre is perfectly positioned on the lakefront at Lake Taupo, with spectacular views across the lake, to the three volcanic cones of Ruapehu, Tongariro and Ngauruhoe. The 40-room, four star Quarlmark rated hotel is within minutes of the town centre and airport. Rooms feature comfortable queen sized beds, tea and coffee making facilities, internet access, writing desk and chairs, a modern ensuite bathroom, complimentary toiletries, iron and ironing board, and hairdryer. Guests can also enjoy the outdoor swimming pool and spa, small fitness room, and onsite bar and restaurant with a panoramic position overlooking the lake. The restaurant serves fresh cuisine, made from local produce including free-range meat and poultry products. For more information on the Best Western Caboose Lodge and Conference Centre visit www.bestwestern.co.nz/cabooselodge Novotel Auckland Airport set to take off on 27 May with GM Paul Columbus in the pilot's seat Internationally experienced hotelier, Paul Columbus, has taken up the role of General Manager of the new Novotel Auckland Airport and is currently positioning it for a May 27 take-off. The hotel will be officially launched by Maori King Tuheitia Paki and Prime Minister John Key in a traditional dawn blessing ceremony. Paul Columbus brings over 30 years experience in hotel management, including 20 years in New Zealand with Millennium Copthorne Hotels and other groups in a variety of hotels, including a short stint at an Auckland Airport hotel. He moved to the UK in the early 2000s, before joining Accor in 2003. Paul worked in a number of Novotel hotels in northern England, and was promoted to Area General Manager for Accor responsible for seven hotels in Yorkshire and the north-west of England. The prospect of opening one of New Zealand's most dynamic new hotels proved too great an incentive for Paul and he returned to Auckland to pilot the launch of Novotel Auckland Airport. "It is an incredible year to return to New Zealand," said Paul. "After the tragedy of the Christchurch earthquake I think it is incumbent on the rest of the country to ensure that 2011 is remembered for more positive reasons. We have a unique opportunity to showcase the country to the rest of the world during this period. "The World Cup will be a remarkable event and the launch of Novotel Auckland Airport is going to play an important part in its successful staging. Auckland Airport will now be an even busier gateway for the country and we believe the Novotel will provide an exemplary first and last impression to visitors travelling to New Zealand for the World Cup. "Obviously its role will go well beyond the World Cup and that's why it has been so cleverly designed with its sophisticated and multi-functional facilities. We will be able to offer everything from deluxe suites to affordable hotel rooms, along with extensive meeting and function venues, and a high-quality restaurant. "It will be a showcase for local design, with a distinctly green tinge, including our unique 'living wall' that will greet guests as they arrive in the hotel's lobby." The NZ$65 million Novotel Auckland Airport project is a joint venture between Tainui Group Holdings and Auckland International Airport, with Accor as the hotel operator. The 263 room hotel has been designed by Warren & Mahoney Architects, and blends 21st century contemporary design and hi-tech features with subtle references to New Zealand culture and heritage, With the opening of the Novotel – which will be followed by another Accor hotel, Formule 1 Auckland Airport – Accor will extend its New Zealand hotel network to 31 – the largest network in the country. Rates start from NZ$179 a night, but there is a special 25%-off opening deal till the end of June, Further information: www.novotel.com New era for Virgin Australia - First Virgin aircraft (pictures) First 'Virgin Australia' aircraft arrive Virgin Blue has today officially rebranded as the VIrgin Australia Group of Airlines, with the much-hyped landing this morning of the first two aircraft carrying the long-awaited and much-rumoured new livery. The 737 and A330 also reveal the design of the carrier's new economy and business calss cabins, which will be rolled out across the majority of the carrier's current domestic fleet by the end of the year. DJ said the Business Class product which is already on sale on the A330 product between Sydney and Perth and which debuts 26 May, will also be available for sale on the Boeing 737-800 fleet "in the last quarter of 2011". "Virgin Australia will provide a new standard of airline travel in Australia," said ceo John Borghetti. "We have listened to what today's traveller wants from an airline and we are incorporating that into every feature and every part of our service, while maintaining competitive pricing," he added. The 737-800 features Boeing's innovative 'Sky Interior' with larger overhead lockers, mood lighting and sculpted sidewalls to provide a feeling of spaciousness and light. Each 737 will have 8 business class seats in a 2-2 configuration in a separate premium cabin, with a 37 inch seat pitch. The 737s will also have 168 economy seats. Virgin Australia's new A330s have 251 "luxury high comfort economy seats" as well as 27 business class seats with a 62 inch seat pitch. The rebranding exercise will also see a single look and feel across all of its airlines - both domestic and international - with V Austraria and Pacific Blue to also operate under the Virgin Australia brand by the end of the year, Borghetti said. The carrier will today launch a major national advertising campaign to reposition the airline in all sectors of the market. For pictures of the new aircraft see www.traveldaily.com.au/photos. More information in today's Travel Daily. FREE HIGH SPEED INTERNET FOR ALL MARRIOTT REWARDS MEMBERS IN ASIA PACIFIC AND AUSTRALIA All Marriott Rewards members, no matter what level of the program they have achieved, will now receive complimentary in-room high-speed internet access at JW Marriott® Hotels & Resorts, Marriott® Hotels and Resorts, Renaissance Hotels® and Courtyard by Marriott® hotels in Asia Pacific, including Australia, China (including Hong Kong), Guam, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. "Asia Pacific is the fastest growing region for Marriott Rewards, and we feel that complimentary high-speed internet access will make Marriott International hotels the first choice for business travellers," said Simon Cooper, President and Managing Director, Asia Pacific, Marriott International. "You can't put a price on staying connected. So we don't." Marriott Rewards Gold and Platinum elite members already receive free high-speed internet worldwide. Marriott Rewards is free to join and has no blackout dates on redemption stays. Members can earn and redeem points at more than 3,400 Marriott International hotels around the world, including Marriott® Hotels & Resorts, JW Marriott® Hotels & Resorts, Renaissance® Hotels, Courtyard by Marriott®, Residence Inn by Marriott®, Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott®, TownePlace Suites by Marriott®, SpringHill Suites by Marriott®, and Marriott Vacation Club® as well as at participating Ritz-Carlton Hotels around the world. Members can also redeem points for frequent flyer miles, cruises, car rentals, merchandise and more. In Australia to make a reservation, please call (02) 8298 5250 or go to www.marriottrewards.com William and Kate Postpone Honeymoon The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have postponed their honeymoon and plan to spend the weekend at a private location in the UK, before William returns to work next week, according to reports. The newly married couple were spotted leaving the palace in a private helicopter which is rumoured to have taken them to the queen’s private residence, Balmoral. Balmoral Castle on the Balmoral Estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland has remained a favourite residence for The Queen and her family during the holiday periods. The Castle is located on the large Balmoral Estate, a working estate which aims to protect the environment while contributing to the local economy. The newlywed’s decision to delay their honeymoon, which has caused some surprise, is thought to have been prompted by a wish to let the media surrounding the wedding calm down. There are also some speculation that it was prompted by security concerns. According to a spokesperson “The couple have asked for their privacy to be respected during the coming weekend and during their honeymoon.” It has now been revealed that the couple spent the first night after their wedding in the Belgian suite at Buckingham Palace which is usually reserved for heads of state. The royal wedding was watched by an estimated two billion people in 200 countries around the world. More than 24 million people tuned in to watch the wedding on television in Britain alone. Education Trade Show Coup for Queenstown Edu-touri... Two Of Australia's Well Known Convention/Incentive... AUSTRALIAN CONSUMERS EMBRACE NEW INVITATION ONLY T... MAORI KING AND NEW ZEALAND PM OPEN NOVOTEL AUCKLAN... The Southern Highland's best kept secret is out Gi... Grand Mercure Mount Lofty House continues Meteoric... Wego.com Puts the Power of Connecting with Million... Upgraded online booking system for tickets to Mach... Tourists make lucky escape as another boat sinks i... 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__label__wiki	0.50781	0.50781	Mankind Pharma signs up with Glenmark Pharmaceuticals for co-marketing of Remogliflozin Etabonate in India मैनकाइंड फार्मा का ग्लेनमार्क फार्मास्यूटिकल्स के साथ अनुबंध हिंदुस्तान जिंक द्वारा राजस्थान में फुटबाल महाकुंभ के आयोजन की घोषणा Udaipur : Mankind Pharmaceuticals Ltd. and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd. today inked a sub-licensing agreement to co-market sodium glucose co-transporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitor, Remogliflozin Etabonate (Remogliflozin) in India. Under the agreement, Mankind will market the drug under its own trademark while Glenmark will manufacture and supply Remogliflozin to Mankind. In April 2019, Glenmark received approval from the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) for Remogliflozin Etabonate after successfully completing Phase-3 clinical trials. During the trials Remogliflozin demonstrated good efficacy and safety profile in a head-to-head comparison against Dapagliflozin. Subsequently, Glenmark launched Remogliflozin indicated in the treatment of Type 2 diabetes mellitus in adults under the brand names ‘Remo’ and ‘Remozen’. Remogliflozin has been launched at a breakthrough price that is significantly lower and cost-effective over other SGLT2 inhibitors available in the country. In fact, Remogliflozin is the only SGLT-2 inhibitor to be manufactured in India from an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) to the formulation. “We are pleased to collaborate with Glenmark for the new anti-diabetic Remogliflozin because it provides a much-needed option to help adults with Type 2 diabetes to manage this disease. Mankind Pharma is committed to addressing some of the most pressing health problems faced by patients with cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, by identifying and mitigating specific risks. This is particularly important in reducing overall disease burden. Moreover, this strategic decision will not only strengthen our diabetes portfolio but also help consolidate our position as the fastest-growing player in the anti-diabetes segment. Remogliflozin is 50% economical than rest of the other similar agents currently available in SGLT-2 inhibitors class, which shall help for its better access among middle & low socio-economic strata of the society,” said Dr Sanjay Koul , Director of Marketing, Mankind Pharma Ltd. “Our collaboration with Mankind demonstrates our commitment towards providing novel, innovative treatment options for efficient diabetes management. Our partnership with Mankind is an important milestone in our strategy to widen patients’ access to the latest, novel and globally-researched SGLT2 inhibitor, Remogliflozin in India and will provide a strong foundation for a long-term collaboration with Mankind for Remogliflozin,” said Sujesh Vasudevan, President, India Formulations, Middle East and Africa at Glenmark Pharmaceuticals. हिन्दुस्तान जिंक को तीसरी तिमाही में 1,620 करोड़ रुपये का शुद्ध लाभ, तिमाही के दौरान धातु एवं चांदी का रिकाॅर्ड उत्पादन	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20442
__label__cc	0.630163	0.369837	Login • Register • Bank • Shop • Arcade • Factions • Members • FAQ • ToO Chat • Change font size Board index ‹ McAlister Park ‹ Finneman's Market View your posts • Register Login Stanley Cup Playoff 2018 Live Chats If there's something on your mind that just doesn't seem to fall into any of the other categories, well, it quite likely belongs inside Joe Finneman's marketplace. Think of it as a general store for general discussions! by bookworm » Wed Apr 11, 2018 11:55 am I set up a Chatroom channel for live chatting the Stanley Cup Playoffs! Join #NHL if you're able to be online while you watch, especially if you are rooting for either team playing, and let's have some ToO viewing parties! If you are watching but can't chat during game action you can at least come by to check in during intermissions! For now just drop by when a game is on and see if anyone else is there, we'll get more organized and hopefully have progressively more attendance as the rounds advance. Schedule of games, times, and channels ToO Historian Location: reading or on the computer Cash on hand: 1,077.56 Bank: 58,231.74 E-mail bookworm Re: Stanley Cup Playoff 2018 Live Chats by Catspaw » Wed Apr 11, 2018 9:16 pm Fun idea! I'll try to come by at some point. I'm watching some games at my parents' house (it's more fun watching with my dad, plus he has resisted learned how to use the Roku to use the NHL app to watch, so this way I know he can have the game on) so I won't always have computer access, but there are lots of games still to come! If anyone likes to be on the chat but isn't sure who to cheer for, one of my favourite hockey writers has a handy article to help you pick which playoff team's bandwagon to join! Click here of you're interested. Care Bear Admin Catspaw E-mail Catspaw by bookworm » Wed Apr 11, 2018 9:28 pm It's crazy that the Golden Knights are in the playoffs in their first season! by Catspaw » Tue Apr 17, 2018 9:43 pm They're doing super well, too! Definitely unexpected. I'm hoping to make the chat for a while Wednesday night! How often are there people chatting about hockey? It can't be as fun as listening to my dad yell at the TV (in a good kind of way) but chatting with hockey fans is always fun! by bookworm » Sun Apr 22, 2018 9:41 am Interesting game yesterday. Toronto had four players in the penalty box at the same time at one point! I've never seen that before! The first penalty was a four minute on one Boston player and two minutes on two Toronto players, but the teams stayed at 5 on 5 which I don't understand. (Why didn't that make it 4 on 3? Or at least 4 on 4 since each team was penalized? I know I don't understand all the nuances of hockey but this one really confused me.) But then Toronto got two successive penalties so it ended up being 5 on 3. Hmm, I must not have been watching when that happened. That sounds like quite the event! Maybe they were offsetting penalties? Some of the nuances of stuff like that isn't my forte either. I was disappointed to see the Leafs lose in game 7 tonight. I wasn't on the chat because I was watching on and off between making supper, doing dishes, doing laundry etc. but they could have won. Right up until the last ten minutes or so they were in it. Oh well. We're moving on to the second round tomorrow night, and I'm looking forward to the new matchups! It should be fun. by bookworm » Thu Apr 26, 2018 9:28 am It was announced as offsetting yes, but that's what I don't understand. It was one player vs two players penalized and four minutes vs two minutes served, so either way one team should have had an advantage it seemed. Unless they think two players serving two minutes each negates the one serving four so keep it all even. But that doesn't make sense either because the penalties are severed concurrently not back to back so it's only two minutes total time even though two are in the box, and the other team would then have their guy in for two more minutes after still. I don't know. by Catspaw » Sun Apr 29, 2018 9:32 pm I think this might explain that, but it is still a bit of an odd one: From the NHL rulebook: 19.1 Coincidental Minor Penalties - When coincident minor penalties or coincident minor penalties of equal duration are imposed against players of both teams, the penalized players shall all take their places on the penalty benches and such penalized players shall not leave the penalty bench until the first stoppage of play following the expiry of their respective penalties. Where goalkeepers are involved, refer to 27.1. Immediate substitution shall be made for an equal number of minor penalties or coincident minor penalties of equal duration to each team so penalized and the penalties of the players for which substitutions have been made shall not be taken into account for the purpose of the delayed penalty rule (Rule 26). This rule only applies when at least one team is already serving a time penalty in the penalty box that causes them to be short-handed. When one minor penalty is assessed to one player of each team at the same stoppage in play, these penalties will be served without substitution provided there are no other penalties in effect and visible on the penalty clocks. Both teams will therefore play four skaters against four skaters for the duration of the minor penalties. Should one or both of these players (or any other players) also incur a misconduct penalty in addition to their one minor penalty, this rule shall apply and the teams would still play four skaters against four skaters (the player incurring the misconduct penalty would have to serve the entire 12 minutes – minor plus misconduct – and his team would have to place an additional player on the penalty bench to serve the minor penalty and be able to return to the ice when the minor penalty expires). When multiple penalties are assessed to both teams, equal numbers of minor and major penalties shall be eliminated using the coincident penalty rule and any differential in time penalties shall be served in the normal manner and displayed on the penalty time clock accordingly (see 19.5). If there is no differential in time penalties, all players will serve their allotted penalty time, but will not be released until the first stoppage of play following the expiration of their respective penalties. There have been some good games lately! I've been watching when I can and enjoyed watching the OT Saturday night in Vegas. That was pretty exciting, with a Vegas goal called back in the first OT period due to goaltender interference and then San Jose winning in double OT! I enjoyed tonight's OT less, since I want Nashville and their gross catfish to exit the playoffs as quickly as possible, but hey, apparently we don't all get what we want. Go Jets! by bookworm » Sun May 20, 2018 9:08 pm The Golden Knights are in the final! I'm rooting for them to win. This article tried to tell me that might not be a good thing (the previous title was "The hidden downside of a Vegas Stanley Cup win") but I didn't understand the point it was trying to present. by Catspaw » Mon May 21, 2018 9:27 pm I think the point is that true diehard fans are made through the hard times, not just the good times, so winning a Cup the first year of existence sets the bar super high, with nowhere to go but down, and that fans who love the team this year because they're doing so well might be in for a letdown/reduced interest if they do less well next year, which is very likely. I can remember cheering wholeheartedly for teams that lost in the playoffs (especially in the final round) that made me feel close to that team even in defeat. In 2011 when the Vancouver Canucks lost in the finals to the Boston Bruins, I already didn't like the Bruins, but I hated them even more after that. This February, almost 7 years later, there was a player on the Canadian men's Olympic team that the announcers kept saying was part of the Bruins Cup winning team of 2011, and I kept saying (yes, out loud) to stop talking about it, because it just made me cranky. I will always remember that loss. I will always cheer for the Canucks. I will always hate the Bruins. That's how fandom goes. Vegas is missing out on the "suffering together" part of fandom....though I'm sure their turn will come. It happens to all of us. There are just more painful years for some teams than others. I don't know if that helps, bookworm, but that's my interpretation of the article, based on my experience. Maybe not everybody has moments like that, but I have a few! by bookworm » Tue May 22, 2018 12:08 pm That makes sense, thanks Catspaw. It doesn't convince me I shouldn't root for them though, because I don't care about the Knights themselves one way or the other, I just think as a fan of the sport in general it would be pretty neat for a team to win in their first year. by Catspaw » Tue May 22, 2018 4:50 pm Glad I could help! It would be pretty crazy. I'm waiting to see what the final match-up is to make my decision, since I'm okay with all three teams but don't love any of them. I have a friend who is a crazy big Lightning fan, so if they beat the Caps, I might cheer with her, though the Caps have been so long-suffering that it seems cruel for them to lose the one year they finally manage to get past the Penguins! by bookworm » Fri May 25, 2018 11:41 am This is it! Washington Capitals vs Las Vegas Golden Knights for the Stanley Cup! Pick a side and join the chat! #NHL Game 1: May 28 on NBC Game 2: May 30 on NBCSN Game 3: June 2 on NBCSN Game 4: June 4 on NBC Game 5: June 7 on NBC - if needed Game 6: June 10 on NBC - if needed by Laura Ingalls » Fri May 25, 2018 2:37 pm Go Caps! “Home is the nicest word there is.” ― Laura Ingalls Wilder Happily married to Almanzo Location: Suburbia Cash on hand: 495.80 Bank: 80.45 E-mail Laura Ingalls by Catspaw » Fri May 25, 2018 8:33 pm Yay! Laura and I are cheering for the same team! Go Caps! I think it's Ovi's turn. It would be awful for them to finally make it past the Penguins and then win in the third round in game 7 just to lose to a team that didn't even exist a year ago. Holtby has been awesome, and I've always liked him. by bookworm » Sun May 27, 2018 10:44 am Oh I forgot I wanted to mention an amusing incident I saw in West Final Game 5. The Jets goalie's mask strap broke and he had to change to his backup mask. One of the commentators said "Could that affect the goalie?" The other said "Oh no, you can feel a difference but it's not going to throw him off his game." The Knights immediately score. The guy goes "Maybe I was wrong about the mask..." Probably just coincidental timing, but it was really funny. by Catspaw » Sun May 27, 2018 8:36 pm I was not at all amused by the goal, but that is pretty funny commentary! At least the guy was willing to admit to being wrong. I was watching CBC, not NBC, so I didn't hear that. The judge is out on how much of a difference the mask made, but Hellebuyck went back to his usual mask as soon as they could get it fixed. I might miss part of the game tomorrow, but I am very curious to see how things go! This should be interesting! by bookworm » Mon May 28, 2018 6:30 pm The final is underway! Join the chat if you can! 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__label__wiki	0.705437	0.705437	By admin August 11, 2019 eamebrrqddyvLeave a Comment on Top Stories Top Stories “I just don’t want to take a step back, just keep making moves forward,” Kolb said. With the main focus on gaining experience and learning, scoring isn’t the most important thing, according to Kolb. “We may not put up a whole bunch of points,” Kolb said. “But you may feel good about it because you did certain things and accomplished certain things.” Kolb also understands that he may not be perfect in his second start, but plans to take as much away from the game that he possibly can. “Maybe we make mistakes and we say now I understand what coach is saying,” Kolb said. “Rather than, just writing it down on paper and not doing anything about it.” Kolb showed promise in his first game as a Cardinal, completing four of seven passes for 68 yards, hooking up twice with wideout Larry Fitzgerald. Kolb also had 19 yards rushing. Head coach Ken Whisenhunt said Kolb could play into the second quarter Friday night, which should give the quarterback plenty of time to learn.ArizonaSports.com’s Craig Grialou contributed to this report D-backs president Derrick Hall: Franchise ‘still focused on Arizona’ What an MLB source said about the D-backs’ trade haul for Greinke Coming away with a win or loss isn’t what concerns quarterback Kevin Kolb heading into Friday’s preseason matchup with the Green Bay Packers. “It’s a nice way to test ourselves,” Kolb said. “Win or lose or domination on either side of the ball, it’s not going to tell us what were going to be like as a team, it may just indicate the direction that we’re going.” Kolb’s main goal is to gain experience in a system that he’s only spent two weeks in. Cardinals expect improving Murphy to contribute right away Comments Share Nevada officials reach out to D-backs on potential relocation 上海419论坛GD上海后花园ZK上海楼凤TH上海龙凤419XY娱乐地图BJ杭州桑拿PZ爱上海DZ苏州桑拿WH贵族宝贝HI贵族宝贝PG Switzerlands first climate neutral ship MS 2017	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20454
__label__cc	0.711803	0.288197	Time is Transient. We are Eternal Time is Transient. We are Eternal is Teater Garasi’s newest production, which departs from the investigation and reflection of ‘order’ and ‘disorder’. The production, directed by Yudi Ahmad Tajudin, is a further exploration of Teater Garasi’s collective art projects since 2008 that include Je.ja.l.an (The Streets) and Tubuh Ketiga (Third Body), which are an attempt to investigate how the explosion of voices and narratives (ideology, religion, and identity) in post-1998 Indonesia has created and unveiled tension and violence—both new and latent. A former migrant worker, Rosnah, is an aspiring artist busking to survive in Jakarta, a city full of noises ―voices, colors, smells, bodies, buildings, machines, bus stops, and endless traffic jam. She looks for pauses in between so she can dance. Her time is marked by the annual Lebaran (Eid el-Fitr), when she returns home to her family. Celebrating the festivities, she faces the inevitable, all the slipping moments that persistently try to sneak into the annual family portrait: the departure of his older brother to Afghanistan, her younger brother’s obsession with reciting the call to prayers, her mother’s kitchen sink, the lost of the family’s pet, her abandoned son, her father’s penchant for shooting birds to kill time. Meanwhile, there is a cat killer out there. This is a cacophonic tour to the street level of the 21st century Indonesia. The chaos of the politics at the higher places –the global war, economic inequalities, state politics, religious tensions– populates the everyday as competing noises and contesting narratives, while traumatic historical violence continue to haunt in the background. And we dance while we are in the cacophony.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20461
__label__wiki	0.787531	0.787531	Links 16/8/2018: MAAS 2.4.1, Mesa 18.2 RC3 How to install Linux apps on your Chromebook Chromebooks are great because they’re simple: there’s a lot you can get done with web services without exposing yourself to the troubles and security issues that plague more complex platforms. But if you need to do a bit more with your Chromebook, you have a few options. Most Chromebooks these days allow you to install apps from the Google Play Store, which should fill most productivity gaps. If not, you’ll soon have one more option: installing Linux apps. To be clear, you’ve been able to install Linux apps on Chromebooks for years because Chrome OS is Linux. But, it’s about to get much easier. Top 5 Features Still Missing From Chrome OS Google’s Chrome OS gets a lot of things right, and the platform has evolved considerably over the years. Not only does it offer an always up-to-date version of the Chrome browser, but there are also Android apps, stylus input, and even Linux support on some devices. However, Chrome OS is far from perfect. You have to make compromises if you choose to live with a Chromebook, but you shouldn’t have to make quite this many. Here are the top five things Google should fix. Walmart’s selling an all-aluminum Chromebook with a comfy keyboard for just $220 If you’re not considering a Chromebook when you’re shopping for a notebook, you’re doing it wrong. Google’s low-cost laptops are typically light, fast, secure, and have almost everything you need for remote work a.k.a. the Internet. Today, you can get in on the action for a great price. Walmart is selling the Acer Chromebook 14 (CB3-431-C6ZB) for $220. That’s about $30 to $40 cheaper than you’d usually pay for this laptop. Crypto Updates Sent In For Linux 4.19 Kernel, Speck Is Still In The Kernel The Linux kernel’s crypto subsystem updates were sent out today with its new feature work for the Linux 4.19 kernel. One change we were curious to see was whether they were going to nuke the Speck cipher code, but they did not. Back during Linux 4.17, the Crypto updates added the Speck block cipher (and in 4.18, file-system encryption support with Speck was added) which has come under fire since Speck was developed by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and it’s speculated that it could be back-doored by the agency but at the very least can’t be a fully trusted for encryption. The Big Networking Update Sent In For Linux 4.19, Including 802.11ax Bits David Miller sent in the networking subsystem updates today for the Linux 4.19 kernel merge window. New round of 64-bit ARM Patches Merged into Linux 4.19 Kernel, Includes GCC Stackleak Plugin Support A new round of changes for 64-bit ARM architecture (ARM64/AArch64) were just loaded into the Linux 4.19 kernel merge window, and its generally some pretty good stuff being included. The 64-bit ARM space on Linux as been fairly busy, and there’s likely more to come before Linux 4.19 kernel is released. 64-bit ARM Changes For Linux 4.19 Has “A Bunch Of Good Stuff” Will Deacon submitted the 64-bit ARM (ARM64/AArch64) changes on Tuesday for the Linux 4.19 kernel merge window. Why Locking Down the Kernel Won’t Stall Linux Improvements The Linux Kernel Hardening Project is making significant strides in reducing vulnerabilities and increasing the effort required to exploit vulnerabilities that remain. Much of what has been implemented is obviously valuable, but sometimes the benefit is more subtle. In some cases, changes with clear merit face opposition because of performance issues. In other instances, the amount of code change required can be prohibitive. Sometimes the cost of additional security development overwhelms the value expected from it. The Linux Kernel Hardening Project is not about adding new access controls or scouring the system for backdoors. It’s about making the kernel harder to abuse and less likely for any abuse to result in actual harm. The former is important because the kernel is the ultimate protector of system resources. The latter is important because with 5,000 developers working on 25 million lines of code, there are going to be mistakes in both how code is written and in judgment about how vulnerable a mechanism might be. Also, the raw amount of ingenuity being applied to the process of getting the kernel to do things it oughtn’t continues to grow in lockstep with the financial possibilities of doing so. The Linux kernel is written almost exclusively in the C programming language — while the most significant reasons that the kernel needs to be hardened arise from aspects of this programming language. GSoC Final Report Nothing lasts forever, and this also applies for GSoC projects. In this report, I tried to summarize my experience in the DRI community and my contributions. VKMS Coming In Linux 4.19 Is One Of The Best GSoC & Outreachy Projects Of The Year One of the student summer coding projects that ended up being a cross between Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and Outreachy was the VKMS driver to provide a virtual KMS implementation for headless systems and other interesting use-cases. Rodrigo Siqueira applied to GSoC 2018 to work on the long talked about “VKMS” driver while separately Haneen Mohammed had applied to Outreachy with a similar goal. Given the overlap, they worked together to get the Virtual KMS driver working. These summer student coding projects are drawing to a close and this initial driver is being sent sent into Linux 4.19 via the DRM tree. Not bad considering most GSoC/Outreachy projects introducing new code don’t make it mainline so quickly, if ever. Scheduler utilization clamping Once upon a time, the only way to control how the kernel’s CPU scheduler treated any given process was to adjust that process’s priority. Priorities are no longer enough to fully control CPU scheduling, though, especially when power-management concerns are taken into account. The utilization clamping patch set from Patrick Bellasi is the latest in a series of attempts to allow user space to tell the scheduler more about any specific process’s needs. Contemporary CPU schedulers have a number of decisions to make at any given time. They must, of course, pick the process that will be allowed to execute in each CPU on the system, distributing processes across those CPUs to keep the system as a whole in an optimal state of busyness. Increasingly, the scheduler is also involved in power management — ensuring that the CPUs do not burn more energy than they have to. Filling that role requires placing each process on a CPU that is appropriate for that process’s needs; modern systems often have more than one type of CPU available. The scheduler must also pick an appropriate operating power point — frequency and voltage — for each CPU to enable it to run the workload in a timely manner while minimizing energy consumption. Linux 4.18.1 Linux 4.17.15 Linux 4.9.120 Linux Kernel 4.18 Gets First Point Release, It’s Now Ready for Mass Deployments Linux kernel 4.18 was released on Sunday, August 12, 2018, by Linus Torvalds, and it’s currently the most advanced kernel series available for Linux-based operating systems. The first point release, Linux 4.18.1, is now available, which marks the Linux 4.18 kernel series as stable and ready for mass deployments. All Linux OS vendors are now urged to adopt the latest Linux 4.18 kernel series for their operating systems on supported architectures as it brings various new features, improvements, and updated drivers for better hardware support. Linux kernel 4.18.1 is now available for download from kernel.org or our software portal. GNU Linux-Libre 4.18 Kernel Officially Released for Those Who Seek 100% Freedom Following in the footsteps of the recently released Linux 4.18 kernel series, the GNU Linux-libre 4.18 kernel is now available for those who don’t want to run any proprietary firmware on their Linux-based operating system or the GNU operating system. Including pretty much the same new features and enhancements as Linux kernel 4.18, the GNU Linux-libre 4.18 kernel cleans up the new psp-dev crypto and icn8505 touchscreen drivers, removes the atom isp driver, and adjusts numerous others. Embedded Linux Conference Europe tackles tech’s diversity problem The Linux Foundation has posted session descriptions for the Embedded Linux Conference Europe and OpenIoT Summit Europe, to be held Oct. 22-24, in Edinburgh, with topics ranging from RISC-V to deep learning to workplace diversity. Even if you can’t make it to Edinburgh Oct. 22-24 for the Embedded Linux Conference Europe (ELCE) and co-located OpenIoT Summit Europe, the session descriptions are a good place to find clues about what’s hot in Linux and open source embedded technology. To be sure, the Linux Foundation offers a heavy dose of sessions on Linux Foundation projects such as Zephyr or Yocto Project, but it’s still a very inclusive collection from across the industry. 10 Reasons to Attend ONS Europe in September \| Registration Deadline Approaching – Register & Save $605 Linux Foundation Zephyr Project Attracts IoT Developers and Tech Giants The Linux Foundation has always been committed to welcoming companies and organizations of all sizes as part of its heritage and ongoing vision for opening technology for all to experiment with and to build things. The Zephyr Project, an open source project to build a real-time operating system (RTOS) for the Internet of Things (IoT), announced last week they grew their community of contributors with support for more than 100 developer boards and the addition of six new members. These industry and academic leaders include Antmicro, DeviceTone, SiFive, the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, The Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) and Northeastern University. Graphics Stack Intel Begins Teasing Their Discrete Graphics Card Mesa 18.2-RC3 Released With Two Dozen Fixes Mesa 18.2 as the next quarterly feature release to the contained OpenGL/Vulkan drivers is about two weeks out if all goes well, but today for testing Mesa 18.2-RC3 is now available. DRM Updates Sent In For Linux 4.19 With New VKMS Driver, Intel Icelake Work David Airlie has submitted the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) updates for the Linux 4.19 kernel merge window with these various open-source graphics/display driver updates. NVIDIA are working towards better support for NVIDIA Optimus on Linux Thanks to a little Twitter tip, we’ve learned today that NVIDIA are indeed working to provide better support for NVIDIA Optimus on Linux. Currently, if you have a laptop with NVIDIA Optimus the official NVIDIA driver gives you the option between using the Intel GPU or switching over to the NVIDIA GPU. It doesn’t handle it like you would expect it to on Windows, where it would offload the work to the more powerful NVIDIA GPU. Not an ideal situation, to switch between the two GPUs and from when I had a laptop with one (some time ago) it required logging out before it would take effect. libinput’s “new” trackpoint acceleration method This is mostly a request for testing, because I’ve received zero feedback on the patches that I merged a month ago and libinput 1.12 is due to be out. No comments so far on the RC1 and RC2 either, so… well, maybe this gets a bit broader attention so we can address some things before the release. One can hope. Because basically every trackpoint has different random data ranges not linked to anything easily measurable, libinput’s device quirks now support a magic multiplier to scale the trackpoint range into something resembling a sane range. This is basically what we did before with the systemd POINTINGSTICK_CONST_ACCEL property except that we’re handling this in libinput now (which is where acceleration is handled, so it kinda makes sense to move it here). There is no good conversion from the previous trackpoint range property to the new multiplier because the range didn’t really have any relation to the physical input users expected. The Linux Benchmarking Continues On The Threadripper 2950X & 2990WX While I haven’t posted any new Threadripper 2950X/2990WX benchmarks since the embargo expired on Monday with the Threadripper 2 Linux review and some Windows 10 vs. Linux benchmarks, tests have continued under Linux — as well as FreeBSD. I should have my initial BSD vs. Linux findings on Threadripper 2 out later today. There were about 24 hours worth of FreeBSD-based 2990WX tests going well albeit DragonFlyBSD currently bites the gun with my Threadripper 2 test platforms. More on that in the upcoming article as the rest of those tests finish. It’s also been a madhouse with simultaneously benchmarking the new Level 1 Terminal Fault (L1TF) vulnerability and the performance impact of those Linux mitigations on Intel hardware will start to be published in the next few hours. An Early Look At The L1 Terminal Fault “L1TF” Performance Impact On Virtual Machines Yesterday the latest speculative execution vulnerability was disclosed that was akin to Meltdown and is dubbed the L1 Terminal Fault, or “L1TF” for short. Here are some very early benchmarks of the performance impact of the L1TF mitigation on the Linux virtual machine performance when testing the various levels of mitigation as well as the unpatched system performance prior to this vulnerability coming to light. Phoronix Test Suite 8.2 M2 Released With Offline Improvements, L1TF/Foreshadow Reporting The second development snapshot of the upcoming Phoronix Test Suite 8.2-Rakkestad to benchmark to your heart’s delight on Linux, macOS, Windows, Solaris, and BSD platforms from embedded/SBC systems to cloud and servers. AMD’s New Threadripper 2990WX Much Faster On Linux Than Windows 10 A Quick Look At The Windows Server vs. Linux Performance On The Threadripper 2990WX One of the frequent requests/comments stemming from the launch-day Windows 10 vs. Linux benchmarks on the new AMD Threadripper 2990WX were questions about whether this 32-core / 64-thread processor would do better with Windows Server given Microsoft’s obvious tuning of that Windows flavor to high core/thread counts… Well, here are some initial figures with Windows Server 2016 and a Windows Server 2019 preview. Given the immense interest and speculation about the Windows Server performance on the AMD Threadripper 2990WX, to see if it would give Linux better competition relative to Windows 10, I ran some initial benchmarks so far. I am still doing some more Windows vs. Linux exploration and benchmarking (a lot of other interesting tests from this new hardware) while for today are the Windows Server 2016/2019 results alongside the other operating system tests on this 2990WX system. Testing web applications with Selenium Whenever one is engaged in large-scale changes to a software project, it is nice to have some assurance that regressions are not being introduced in the process. Test suites can be helpful in that regard. But while the testing of low-level components can be relatively straightforward, testing at the user-interface level can be harder. Web applications, which must also interact with web browsers, can be especially challenging in this regard. While working on just this sort of project, your editor finally got around to looking at Selenium WebDriver as a potential source of help for the testing problem. The overall goal of the Selenium project is automating the task of dealing with web browsers (from the user side). The WebDriver component, in particular, provides an API allowing a program to control a browser and observe how the browser reacts. There are many potential applications for this kind of functionality; it could be used to automate any of a number of tiresome, web-oriented tasks that resist the use of simpler tools, for example. But perhaps the most obvious use case is regression-testing of web applications. The Selenium code is distributed under version 2.0 of the Apache license; it is available on GitHub. The WebDriver component offers API bindings for a number of languages, including Java, JavaScript, C#, Perl, PHP, Python (2 and 3), and Ruby. Your editor, naturally, was interested in the Python bindings. Fedora 28 packages the relatively old 3.7.0 release from December 2017, which is discouraging, but the current 3.14.0 release can be had from PyPI. One must also obtain a “driver” for one or more specific browsers; your editor has been using geckodriver to test with Firefox. Best Free Linux Password Managers A password manager is a utility which helps users store and retrieve passwords and other data. Most password managers use a local database to hold the encrypted password data. In modern society, people face a bamboozling amount of information to retain. Most people read a considerable amount of information online on a regular basis. Whether you conduct business online, read for your job, or just read for pleasure, the internet is a vast source of information. Retaining that information on a long-term basis can be difficult. However, some nuggets of information need to be recalled quickly. Passwords are one such example. As a computer user, you’ll no doubt have numerous passwords to remember. Sites have arbitrary rules for various services. For example, a site may insist on a minimum number of characters, capital letters, numerals, and special characters which make choosing the same password for each site to be impossible. More importantly, there are good security reasons not to duplicate passwords. Password reuse and simple, easy-to-guess passwords are difficult issues. If you’re using the same password on more than one site, you risk having several accounts stolen if any one of them is breached. MAAS 2.4.1 released! MAAS 2.4.1 has now been released and it is a bug fix release. Please see more details in discourse.maas.io [1]. 15 Tips On How to Use ‘Curl’ Command in Linux Disassembling JITed code in GDB Export all Stremio movie names How to Install Asterisk on Debian 9 How to Monitor your Linux Server using osquery How to Use htop to Monitor System Processes in Ubuntu 18.04 MongoDB installation & configuration on RHEL/CentOS General steps for building older versions of Firefox for Android How to Back Up Your PostgreSQL Database Learn how to install several VPN protocols on your Linux device How to enable sudo on RHEL convert Decimal to IP from stdin netctl 1.18-1 and systemd 239.0-2.parabola7 may require manual intervention Top 8 ETL Tools What is a tar.gz File, and How Do I Open It? Linux See Bandwidth Usage Per Process With Nethogs Tool How to update source tree at /usr/src using svn on FreeBSD How to Install Lubuntu 18.04 Dual Boot with Windows 10 How to Create a Dummy Zombie Process in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Disable suspend on lid close until current shell exits Install Webmin on Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) Server Linux chage Command Tutorial for Beginners (6 Examples) Install and Use The Signal Encrypted Messenger App How to limit CPU usage with CPULimit on Ubuntu Linux Tropico 6 to launch in January 2019, Linux support still happening Tropico 6 is having a little extra time in the oven, with it being announced today for a January 2019 release. One thing that concerned me, was that their announcements and PR emails only mentioned Windows for the PC release. They cleared that it up on the Steam forum post after I asked about it, to confirm Linux support is still happening. When speaking to them over email, they clarified further that they are aiming to launch the Linux version at the same time as Windows, but they can’t give a 100% guarantee on that right now. Either way it’s happening—great! 7 Billion Humans from Tomorrow Corporation to arrive with Linux support on August 23rd Tomorrow Corporation have officially announced that their programming puzzle game 7 Billion Humans will launch on August 23rd with Linux support. Always love their style, I have fond memories of World of Goo which was one of the indie games that came to Linux back in the “early days” of 2009. Tomorrow Corporation also previously put out Human Resource Machine and Little Inferno, so it’s really great to see yet another developer continue supporting Linux for so long. CrossCode, the 2D action RPG set in the distant future to officially launch on September 20th The absolutely gorgeous puzzle game Evergarden is now out Puzzle game Evergarden from Flippfly is out today with Linux support and not only is it gorgeous, it’s also a very interesting puzzle experience. Valve seems to be working on tools to get Windows games running on Linux Valve appears to be working on a set of “compatibility tools,” called Steam Play, that would allow at least some Windows-based titles to run on Linux-based SteamOS systems. Yesterday, Reddit users noticed that Steam’s GUI files (as captured by SteamDB’s Steam Tracker) include a hidden section with unused text related to the unannounced Steam Play system. According to that text, “Steam Play will automatically install compatibility tools that allow you to play games from your library that were built for other operating systems.” Valve could be working on compatibility tools to make gaming on Linux easier than ever Something to look forward to: Gaming on Linux has never been the ideal experience, and the lack of AAA game compatibility is one of the main reasons for this. That’s where Valve comes in, apparently – the company seems to be quietly working on a compatibility tool of its own, called “Steam Play.” It seems Valve could be taking another shot at bringing Linux to the forefront of PC gaming if recently-discovered Steam GUI files are anything to go by. Curious Reddit users dug into Steam database files obtained by Steam Tracker. Recent updates to the database include numerous hints at something called “Steam Play,” which is beginning to sound like a compatibility tool of sorts. Steam may be getting tools that will enable Windows games to run in Linux Valve announced the Linux-based SteamOS in 2013, just prior to the reveal of the vaguely console-like Steam Machine PCs. It was a big, bold move that ultimately petered out: Valve ditched the Steam Machines section of its website in April, aalthough you can still hit it directly if you know the URL. Looks like Steam’s getting built-in tools to run Windows games on Linux A few lines of code uncovered in Steam suggest that Valve is working on compatibility tools to allow users to play games regardless of operating system. Put another way, Steam’s going to let you run Windows games on Mac and Linux with a set of software built directly into the client. Uncovered strings all come under the “Steam_Settings_Compat” header, and all reference back to Steam Play. That’s currently the moniker Valve used to distinguish games that come as a single purchase playable across Windows, Mac, and Linux, but the strings suggest a new definition on the way. Rumour: Valve May Be Adding Windows Steam Game Compatibility to Linux In a very interesting move, sleuths over at GamingOnLinux appear to unearthed evidence that Valve is experimenting with tools that could allow Windows Steam games to be playable on Linux operating systems. Up until this point, a game has to be specifically developed for Linux in order to be compatible with Unix-based operating systems. There are workarounds available right now, but it’s notoriously unreliable and a major hassle to get sorted. However, updates posted to the Steam Database github indicates Valve is at least testing an automatic method for running Windows games on Linux. Picking through the github notes, the tool appears to be called ‘Steam Play’, which the compatibility info says “Steam Play will automatically install compatibility tools that allow you to play games from your library that were built for other operating systems.” SteamPlay May Soon Allow Games to be Installed on Unsupported Operating Systems, Particularly Linux An observant Reddit user recently noticed that one of the latest commits for the Steam Database on GitHub contains a few lines of code that reference Steam Play and Wine compatibility, which may mean this is something Valve is working on for a future update. Steam Play is a feature that allows users to buy a game one time, and then install it in whatever OS it is supported in – which sounds like a great feature, unless you own a game that isn’t supported in Linux. At this point, Steam won’t allow games that do not have Linux support to be installed on a Linux machine. If this code actually makes it to a future Steam update, it could mean that Steam users on Linux machines will be able to install Windows games on the Linux version of the Steam client, through Wine – or maybe directly through the Steam client. First-person grappling-hook platformer ‘The Free Ones’ is out with Linux support, it’s pretty good The Free Ones is a first-person platformer that sees a slave escape from captivity and it’s out with Linux support. One that sadly got a little buried under our steaming pile of release emails. They just recently updated it again, so I took a bit of time to see if it’s worth your cash. Crazy Justice to finally enter Early Access with Linux support on August 23rd Daedalic Entertainment’s futuristic thriller ‘State of Mind’ is out with day-1 Linux support Good stuff from Daedalic Entertainment here as they’ve released State of Mind today with full Linux support. This Unreal Engine powered adventure game will see you explore a world on edge, as natural resources are running low, crime is on the rise and there’s a lot of pullution in the air and water. Graveyard Keeper from Lazy Bear Games and tinyBuild is out with same-day Linux support Graveyard Keeper is a slightly amusing game that has you manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. It’s officially out now with Linux support. Boyfriend Dungeon, an action-RPG dungeon crawler where the weapons transform into people is on Kickstarter CnCNet are providing Red Alert & Tiberian Sun with an updated renderer using OpenGL for better Wine support A little different to what OpenRA [Official Site] are doing with updated gameplay on an open source game engine, CnCNet [Official Site] are providing downloads for Red Alert & Tiberian Sun that have an updated OpenGL renderer so they work better with Wine. They also offer up the original Command & Conquer, although that doesn’t seem to have the single-player portion. PSA: Workaround for a working MTP KDE Connect is awesome, we all know that. But sometimes you still want (or need) to acces the files on your Android phone via a good old USB cable. And to do so, you need a working implementation of the MTP protocol. Many people on bugzilla complain that the MTP support in Plasma is just broken. And indeed the MTP implementation we have has always been ignoring a fundamental limitation of MTP: the protocol doesn’t allow parallel operations, unlike the old Android USB mass storage did. In practice, if more than one process spawns an mtp ioslave, everything breaks. Museum Day, or, the Benefit of Skiving Off Tomorrow, there’s the fund raiser training session. Given that we’ve been raising funds for Krita since time immemorial (our first fund raiser was for two Wacom tablets and art pens so we could implement support for them, the second to let Lukas Tvrdy work on Krita for a couple of months and after that, we’ve had the kickstarters), that might seem superfluous. But I’m still hoping to learn lots. After all, it’s not like we’re exactly awash in money. How to navigate your GNOME Linux desktop with only a keyboard Almost ever since I first started using Linux, I’ve been on a mission to find the perfect window manager. My first experience with Linux was in the late 90s, and I first tried installing it on my own in the early 2000s. Like many converts, my previous experience was largely with Windows, and so my early mission was to find an experience that closely replicated Windows, or at least let me interact with it in a familiar way. So I’ve been making a concerted effort to learn the GNOME keyboard shortcuts, and honestly, it hasn’t been as hard to stick with them as I had thought. Just like any other set of keyboard shortcuts, the trick is to practice them a bit, and then do what you can to discourage you from slipping back into your old ways. I set my mouse just a wee bit further away, and when practical, will flip the switch on the bottom when I’m in a keyboard-heavy activity so I’m not tempted by muscle memory. The other trick is to have a good cheat sheet handy, posted up somewhere that you can easily see it. I made my own for GNOME, and I’ve created a version of it that you can download too. The GNOME project turns twenty-one years old this month, but as it keeps growing and evolving to keep up with the changing needs of computing environments, it wouldn’t surprise me if I’m still using it twenty-one years from now. And if you are too, I hope you will have taken the time to learn the keyboard shortcuts by then. GNOME Celebrates Its 21st Birthday By Releasing GNOME 3.29.91 Today marks 21 years since the GNOME desktop environment project was started by Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena. Coincidentally, released today is GNOME 3.29.91 that is the GNOME 3.30 desktop’s second beta release. GNOME 3.29.91 released GNOME 3.29.91 is now available! GNOME 3.30 Desktop Environment Gets Beta 2 Release Ahead of September 5 Launch Coming two weeks after the first beta release, the highly anticipated GNOME 3.30 desktop environment received a second beta release today as Michael Catanzaro informed us via an email announcement. This beta 2 release is tagged as GNOME 3.29.91, and it marks the Software String Freeze stage in the development cycle. But it doesn’t look like it was an easy release for the GNOME Release Team, as Michael Catanzaro reports build failures for several components, including GNOME Boxes, which didn’t make it for this second beta release. As a consequence, numerous components weren’t updated in this beta 2 release. Zorin OS 12.4 Released, Available to Download Now The latest update to the popular Ubuntu-based Linux distribution, Zorin OS 12.4 boasts of being “more secure and compatible than ever before.” “This new release brings together the latest software updates, bug fixes, performance enhancements and hardware support out of the box. Zorin OS 12.4 introduces an updated hardware enablement stack,” say the Zorin devs. Major Zorin OS Linux Release Is Coming This Fall Based on Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS Shipping with the updated HWE (Hardware Enablement) stack from the recently announced Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS point release, which is powered by the Linux 4.15 kernel from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver), as well as an updated X graphics stack, Zorin OS 12.4 brings all the latest software and security updates from the Ubuntu repositories, along with performance enhancements and bug fixes. “Zorin OS 12.4 introduces an updated hardware enablement stack. The newly-included Linux kernel 4.15, as well as an updated X server graphics stack,” reads the release announcement. “In addition, new patches for system vulnerabilities are included in this release, so you can have the peace of mind knowing that you’re using the most secure version of Zorin OS ever.” [Podcast] PodCTL #45 – Container Registries This week is the One Year Anniversary of the PodCTL podcast! We’ve now got a few teeth coming in and we’re ready for the terrible twos. This week we dug into the role of Container Registries and how they interact with both Kubernetes, but also CI/CD pipelines and security systems (e.g. scanning, image signing, etc.). We also go into some design consideration basics for container registry usage. How software users are like kittens CentOS Linux 7.5 Operating System Is Now Available for IBM POWER9 Architecture Released back in May 2018, CentOS Linux 7.5 is based on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 operating system and supported 32-bit (i386), 64-bit (x86_64), ARM64 (AArch64), PowerPC 64-bit Little Endian (PPC64el), PowerPC 64-bit (PPC64), and ARMhf architectures. However, the initial release only supported IBM POWER8 processors, but it’s now available for IBM POWER9 processors too. “I am pleased to announce the general availability of CentOS Linux 7 (1804) for POWER9 processors (ppc64le – powerpc 64-bit little endian). This release is derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 ALT,” said James O’Connor. “Note this release is 99% equivalent to the existing CentOS 7 Linux 7 (1804) for POWER8 processors (ppc64le – powerpc 64-bit little endian).” What the CoreOS Acquisition Means for Red Hat and the Container Space Red Hat, the 800-pound gorilla of the open source software world, bought CoreOS at the end of January. That was important for anyone interested in containers, and here’s why: by combining the two companies Red Hat hoped to consolidate its position as one of the leading players providing useful software based around Kubernetes, the open source container management system. You’ll recall that CoreOS developed Tectonic, an entire container management platform built around Kubernetes, and has been a champion of the software for some time. Since then, the CoreOS team at Red Hat has been hard at work, and at the beginning of May it introduced what it is calling an “Operator Framework” for building Kubernetes applications. Bulls bet on Bank of America, this software name “Halftime Report” traders Jon and Pete Najarian spot unusual activity in Red Hat, Boston Scientific, and Bank of America. Red Hat (RHT) to strike $164.88 in short term period Strs Ohio Sells 142,688 Shares of Red Hat Inc (RHT) Looks Like A Buying Opportunity: Kimberly-Clark Corporation (KMB), Red Hat, Inc. (RHT) Analysts Watch-List Stock: Red Hat, Inc. (RHT) Have Stock Gurus Now Turned Sour On Red Hat, Inc. (RHT), Lumber Liquidators Holdings, Inc. (LL)? Speculative Bullish Options Activity in Red Hat (RHT) Ahead of Q2 Earnings Announcement on 9/20 -Susquehanna Red Hat Inc. (RHT) Dips 3.07% for August 15 Instant alterations:: Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) Fluctuating Stocks: Extended Stay America, Inc., (NASDAQ: STAY), Red Hat, Inc., (NYSE: RHT) Notable Traders Alert: Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc., (NASDAQ: FOXA), Red Hat, Inc., (NYSE: RHT) Jonathan Dieter: Flock 2018 Debian Turns 25! Here are Some Interesting Facts About Debian Linux One of the oldest Linux distribution still in development, Debian has just turned 25. Let’s have a look at some interesting facts about this awesome FOSS project. When the late Ian Murdock announced 25 years ago in comp.os.linux.development, “the imminent completion of a brand-new Linux release, [...] the Debian Linux Release”, nobody would have expected the “Debian Linux Release” to become what’s nowadays known as the Debian Project, one of the largest and most influential free software projects. Its primary product is Debian, a free operating system (OS) for your computer, as well as for plenty of other systems which enhance your life. From the inner workings of your nearby airport to your car entertainment system, and from cloud servers hosting your favorite websites to the IoT devices that communicate with them, Debian can power it all. Today, the Debian project is a large and thriving organization with countless self-organized teams comprised of volunteers. While it often looks chaotic from the outside, the project is sustained by its two main organizational documents: the Debian Social Contract, which provides a vision of improving society, and the Debian Free Software Guidelines, which provide an indication of what software is considered usable. They are supplemented by the project’s Constitution which lays down the project structure, and the Code of Conduct, which sets the tone for interactions within the project. DebConf 18 – Day 3 Most of Japan is on summer vacation now, only a small village in the north resists the siege, so I am continuing my reports on DebConf. See DebConf 18 – Day 1 and DebConf 18 – Day 2 for the previous ones. Hands-on with Linux Mint Debian Edition 3 Beta I have been out of touch for the past six months, because I accepted a teaching position in Amsterdam. The amount of time that required, and the weekly commute from Switzerland (yes, really, weekly), was vastly more than I expected, and left me no time to do justice to my blog. But now I am back again, and determined to manage my time more effectively and keep up with blogging. Although I haven’t been writing, I certainly have been keeping up with news and developments in the Linux world. What really inspired me to get busy and write again was the announcement of LMDE 3 (Cindy) Beta. Hooray! How long have we been waiting for this? It feels like years. Oh, that’s because it has been years. Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL, and CentOS Linux Now Patched Against “Foreshadow” Attacks Both Canonical and Red Hat emailed us with regards to the L1 Terminal Fault security vulnerability, which are documented as CVE-2018-3620 for operating systems and System Management Mode (SMM), CVE-2018-3646 for impacts to virtualization, as well as CVE-2018-3615 for Intel Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX). They affect all Linux-based operating system and machines with Intel CPUs. “It was discovered that memory present in the L1 data cache of an Intel CPU core may be exposed to a malicious process that is executing on the CPU core. This vulnerability is also known as L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF). A local attacker in a guest virtual machine could use this to expose sensitive information (memory from other guests or the host OS),” reads the Ubuntu security advisory. Railway computer runs Linux on Kaby Lake Lanner’s rugged, Linux-friendly “R6S” railway computer runs on an Intel 7th Gen Core i7-7600U chip and offers 10x M12 PoE ports, 3x mini-PCIe slots, and EN 50155 and EN 45545 certification. The R6S uses the same dual-core, Kaby Lake Core i7-7600U CPU as Lanner’s recent V6S vehicle surveillance NVR computer and similarly offers 10x GbE ports with Power-over-Ethernet (PoE). Yet, the R6S is more specifically targeted at trains. It offers compliance with ISO 7637-2, EN 50155, and EN 45545 certifications, and has passed EN 61373/MIL-STD-810G shock and vibration resistance certifications. It also supports a wider set of applications, including “rolling stock control and monitoring, infotainment, video surveillance and fleet management.” Michael Kors announces new Wear OS smartwatches Popular fashion brand, Michael Kors, has announced an update to its long-serving Runway series of watches. It’s reviving the Runway watch as a Wear OS smartwatch, adding new silicone band option while retaining the familiar design, case and steel bracelet options. Android August Security Update Released for Nokia 8 Android 9 Pie (Go Edition) Will Release This Fall With New Features How To Stop Google From Tracking Your Location? [This Time For Real] Audio & Video Tags Exploited For Collecting Sensitive Data in Google Chrome: Update Now A Bug in Chrome Gives Bad Actors License to Play ‘20 Questions’ with Your Private Data Google Voice app for Android updated with Contacts tab Eight Motorola phones are getting Android Pie Android Pie issues mean Google Pixel owners might not want to update just yet Android 9 Pie review: the predictive OS Sony Xperia devices will start getting Android 9 Pie in November Google shaves half a gig off Android Poundland Edition Skype Preview for Android will soon relay SMS messages from your PC and Mac The $999 Galaxy Note 9 is the best Android phone you can buy Rollout begins of dark mode and Material Design within Android Messages Google working on native hearing aid support for an upcoming Android release Google is bringing native hearing aid support to Android How to Back Up and Restore Your Android Phone or Tablet Are your Android apps listening to you? The Android app that could boost your phone’s battery life by 30 per cent Google Voice w/ tweaked navigation & Contacts tab rolling out to Android via server-side update Which smartphones will get Android 9 first Synology and Android: Everything you need to know Android 9 Pie (Go edition) will make Android Go better this fall Android Pie makes it impossible to record calls with third-party apps Visual Studio gains some go-faster stripes for Android emulation Make your car safer and smarter for $30 or less Third-party calling apps no longer work with Android 9.0 Pie iOS and Android Users Are Seeing Different Data About the Same Heart Rates Want a new iPhone or Android smartphone? Here’s how and where to sell or trade your current model Samsung’s Android Go Smartphone Manual Leaked Online 8 hurdles IT must overcome if they want open source success Open source software has the potential to drive innovation and collaboration across an enterprise, and can transform the way developers work together. “Open source is now part of the evaluation criteria when deciding on a software platform, so much so that it is expected,” said Matt Ingenthron, senior director of engineering at Couchbase. “In this way, open source has somewhat faded into the background in a positive way. Just like no consumer would inquire if a mobile phone had internet access or text messaging, choosing an open source solution is almost always an option.” Sprint calls on open source analytics to prevent cyberfraud Mobile phone-related fraud is big business. Fraudsters, hackers, and other bad actors employ creative techniques to compromise networks, hijack user information, and piece together customer identities that are then sold for big bucks on the dark web. To protect its customers, Sprint needed to transform the way it detected and blocked fraudulent activity. “In the mobile phone business, there’s no markup on selling devices — our bread and butter is the network and the services that are delivered on that network, through the devices,” says Scott Rice, CIO of Sprint. “Identity theft is a huge problem and the ability for nefarious actors to use that theft of information to impersonate our customers means we were eating the costs of the devices and the costs of services delivery.” Open Source Platform Delivers LDAP Integration The latest release of InfluxData, an open source platform for metrics, events, and other time series data, adds LDAP integration, new advanced analytics, and self-healing capabilities in the time series database platform. According to the company, time series data, collected and stored with InfluxData’s Time Series database platform is integral to observability and is becoming mission critical for organizations. Enhancements to InfluxEnterprise make it easier for administrators to keep this mission critical data available and secure by checking and verifying every requested action. This includes creating databases, storing data and running queries – against a user’s stored authorizations and role. YOYOW-WeCenter Special Edition Release: Free and Open Source The YOYOW-WeCenter Special Edition, customized and developed by YOYOW and based on WeCenter Q&A community framework, has been released on GitHub. Compared to regular WeCenter frameworks, YOYOW is providing free open source services and will be continually iterating products and will be introducing an incentive mechanism. Each Q&A community can directly integrate into YOYOW’s bottom layer network and enjoy the network services provided by YOYOW. Using AI on patents Software patents account for more than half of all utility patents granted in the US over the past few years. Clearly, many companies see these patents as a way to fortune and growth, even while software patents are hated by many people working in the free and open-source movements. The field of patenting has now joined the onward march of artificial intelligence. This was the topic of a talk at OSCON 2018 by Van Lindberg, an intellectual-property lawyer, board member and general counsel for the Python Software Foundation, and author of the book Intellectual Property and Open Source. The disruption presented by deep learning ranges from modest enhancements that have already been exploited—making searches for prior art easier—to harbingers of automatic patent generation in the future. Diverse technical topics from OSCON 2018 The O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON) returned to Portland, Oregon in July for its 20th meeting. Previously, we covered some retrospectives and community-management talks that were a big part of the conference. Of course, OSCON is also a technology conference, and there were lots of talks on various open-source software platforms and tools. An attendee who was coming back to OSCON after a decade would have been somewhat surprised by the themes of the general technical sessions, though. Early OSCONs had a program full of Perl, Python, and PHP developer talks, including the famous “State of The Onion” (Perl) keynote. Instead, this year’s conference mostly limited the language-specific programming content to the tutorials. Most of the technical sessions in the main program were about platforms, administration, or other topics of general interest, some of which we will explore below. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 42 Dweb: Building a Resilient Web with WebTorrent WebTorrent is the first torrent client that works in the browser. It’s written completely in JavaScript – the language of the web – and uses WebRTC for true peer-to-peer transport. No browser plugin, extension, or installation is required. Using open web standards, WebTorrent connects website users together to form a distributed, decentralized browser-to-browser network for efficient file transfer. The more people use a WebTorrent-powered website, the faster and more resilient it becomes. Bitslicing, An Introduction Bitslicing (in software) is an implementation strategy enabling fast, constant-time implementations of cryptographic algorithms immune to cache and timing-related side channel attacks. This post intends to give a brief overview of the general technique, not requiring much of a cryptographic background. It will demonstrate bitslicing a small S-box, talk about multiplexers, LUTs, Boolean functions, and minimal forms. Firefox Security Add-on on 222k Devices Found Sending Browsing Data to Remote German Server There is a popular browser add-on which is installed by 222,746 Firefox users according to Mozilla’s own statistics of add-on downloads. According to a German security blogger, Mike Kuketz, and the author of uBlock Origin, Raymond Hill, this particular add-on has been spying on users’ activity by tapping into their browser histories and keeping track of the web pages that they visit. This add-on is the Web Security extension for the Mozilla Firefox browser. Web Security is designed to protect users from online phishing and malware attacks that could potentially steal personal information. This comes across as ironic as the extension is found to be unethically keeping tabs (pun intended) on your own information, evading your privacy without your consent. The reason that this news is hitting the stands so massively is that the add-on was publicized by Mozilla itself in a blog post just last week. The add-on boasts fantastic reviews and that’s why it is used so widely by so many people too. Time Dilation I riffed on this a bit over at twitter some time ago; this has been sitting in the drafts folder for too long, and it’s incomplete, but I might as well get it out the door. Feel free to suggest additions or corrections if you’re so inclined. You may have seen this list of latency numbers every programmer should know, and I trust we’ve all seen Grace Hopper’s classic description of a nanosecond at the top of this page, but I thought it might be a bit more accessible to talk about CPU-scale events in human-scale transactional terms. So: if a single CPU cycle on a modern computer was stretched out as long as one of our absurdly tedious human seconds, how long do other computing transactions take? Add-on Recommended By Mozilla Caught Logging Users’ Browsing History According to the reports by Mike Kuketz, an independent security blogger from Germany and uBlock Origin, an add-on named “Web Security” has been caught collecting users’ browsing history. Soon after this discovery by Hill, Kuketz added a post on his blog about the same extension pointing to the same strange behavior of the add-on. A user on Kuketz’s blog decoded the garbled data and found that the add-on was collecting users’ browsing history and sending it to a German server. Oracle open sources Graphpipe to standardize machine learning model deployment Oracle, a company not exactly known for having the best relationship with the open source community, is releasing a new open source tool today called Graphpipe, which is designed to simplify and standardize the deployment of machine learning models. The tool consists of a set of libraries and tools for following the standard. Oracle open-sources Graphpipe to make it easier to deploy machine learning models Oracle today open-sourced Graphpipe, a tool created to make it easy to serve machine learning models in the cloud made by popular frameworks like TensorFlow, MXNet, Caffe2, and PyTorch. Graphpipe was designed to simplify the deployment of machine learning for use on mobile apps and IoT devices, as well as web services for end users or AI for internal use at companies. “Graphpipe is an attempt to standardize the protocol by which you speak to a remotely deployed machine learning model, and it includes some reference servers that allow you to deploy machine learning models from existing frameworks very easily in an efficient way,” Oracle cloud architect Vish Abrams told VentureBeat in a phone interview. Prior to joining Oracle, Abrams led efforts at NASA to open-source the OpenStack cloud computing platform. Oracle open sources GraphPipe, a new standard for machine learning models Machine learning is expected to transform industries. However, its adoption in the enterprise has been slower than some might expect because it’s difficult for organizations to deploy and manage machine learning technology on their own. Part of the challenge is that machine learning models are often trained and deployed using bespoke techniques, making it difficult to deploy models across servers or within different departments. Oracle offers GraphPipe spec for machine learning data transmission Oracle has developed an open source specification for transmitting tensor data, which the company wants to become a standard for machine learning. Called GraphPipe, the specification provides a protocol for network data transmission. GraphPipe is intended to bring the efficiency of a binary, memory-mapped format while being simple and light on dependencies. There also are clients and servers for deploying and querying machine learning models from any framework. Oracle releases GraphPipe, an open-source tool for deploying AI models Major tech firms regularly open-source internal software projects, but it’s not often that Oracle Corp.’s name comes up in this context. Today marked one of those occasions. The database giant this morning released GraphPipe, a tool for easing the deployment of machine learning models. Development on the project was led by Oracle cloud architect Vish Abrams, an open-source veteran who previously worked at NASA as part of the team that created the OpenStack data center operating system. Oracle Open Sources GraphPipe for ‘Dead Simple’ Machine Learning Deployment Pseudo-Open Source (Openwashing) Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Linux on App Service Environment [Ed: Exactly the same company that is attacking GNU/Linux using patents and bribes officials to reject, dump GNU/Linux.] Windows 10 Build 17738 includes fix for WSLs ‘tar and curl’ commands [Ed: Some of these 'fixes' have involved Microsoft perturbing UNIX/Linux tools to become more like Windows. This is dangerous for reasons that were explained at the time.] Open Source Software Poses a Real Security Threat [Ed: Contrast Security attacks FOSS while ignoring, conveniently, back doors in proprietary software (hidden temporarily through secrecy). These are classic FUD tactics regarding security.] Zombies: Top 5 Open Source Vulnerabilities That Refuse To Die [Ed: Microsoft partner WhiteSource continues to stigmatise FOSS as a security nightmare, using bugs branded by other Microsoft partner for extra panic] Openness/Sharing/Collaboration How a civic hacker used open data to halve tickets at Chicago’s most confusing parking spot Matt Chapman used the Freedom of Information Act to get the City of Chicago’s very mess parking ticket data; after enormous and heroic data normalization, Chapman was able to pinpoint one of the city’s most confusing parking spots, between 1100-1166 N State St, which cycled between duty as a taxi-stand and a parking spot with a confusingly placed and semi-busted parking meter. After surveying the site and deducing the problem, Chapman contacted the alderman responsible for that stretch of North State Street, and, eight months later, the signage was cleaned up and made more intuitive. Followup data analysis showed that Chapman’s work had halved the number of parking tickets issued on the spot, with 600-odd fewer tickets in the past 20 months, for a savings of $60,000 to Chicago motorists. Open Hardware/Modding Bluespec, Inc. Releases a New Family of Open-Source RISC-V Processors Bluespec Inc. has released Piccolo, its first in a family of RISC-V open-source processors provided as a vehicle for open innovation in embedded systems. Piccolo is a 3-stage RV32IM processor whose small “footprint” is ideal for many IoT applications. The repository (https://github.com/bluespec/Piccolo) contains a royalty-free synthesizable Verilog core that can be easily integrated and deployed into an ASIC or FPGA. Bluespec, Inc. will actively maintain Piccolo. It also offers commercial-grade tools for the customization and verification of RISC-V cores. Configurations will be continually added to provide the full spectrum of embedded controller features. Companies or universities interested in contributing to the Piccolo project should contact Bluespec, Inc. (add contact – RISC-V open source support). Programming/Development File Indexing In Golang I have been working on a pet project to write a File Indexer, which is a utility that helps me to search a directory for a given word or phrase. The motivation behind to build this utility was so that we could search the chat log files for dgplug. We have a lot of online classes and guest session and at time we just remember the name or a phrase used in the class, backtracking the files using these are not possible as of now. I thought I will give stab at this problem and since I am trying to learn golang I implemented my solution in it. I implemented this solution over a span of two weeks where I spent time to upskill on certain aspects and also to come up with a clean solution. How Agile helps non-technical teams get things done What are the best ways for governments to improve effectiveness and efficiency? At San Jose City Hall, we’re getting traction with an unconventional approach: agile for non-technical teams. Public servants who do everything from emergency management to parks programs are finding that Agile methods help them with that most basic of challenges: Getting things done amid frequent interruptions and evolving priorities. Last September, I proclaimed, “Scrum is the best thing that’s happened to our government team.” Our innovation team of five had discovered that planning and delivering work in small increments enables us to stay focused, aligned, and continuously improving. We didn’t yet know if our experience would be replicable by other teams in our organization. We offered Agile training for 10 colleagues to see what would happen. Nine months later, 12 teams and more than 100 staff members throughout our organization are using Agile methods to organize their work. Notably, the spread of Agile among city teams has been largely organic, not driven by top-down mandates. Top Linux developers’ recommended programming books Without question, Linux was created by brilliant programmers who employed good computer science knowledge. Let the Linux programmers whose names you know share the books that got them started and the technology references they recommend for today’s developers. How many of them have you read? Linux was developed in the 1990s, as were other fundamental open source applications. As a result, the tools and languages the developers used reflected the times, which meant a lot of C programming language. While C is no longer as popular, for many established developers it was their first serious language, which is reflected in their choice of influential books. “You shouldn’t start programming with the languages I started with or the way I did,” says Torvalds. He started with BASIC, moved on to machine code (“not even assembly language, actual ‘just numbers’ machine code,” he explains), then assembly language and C. “None of those languages are what anybody should begin with anymore,” Torvalds says. “Some of them make no sense at all today (BASIC and machine code). And while C is still a major language, I don’t think you should begin with it.” It’s not that he dislikes C. After all, Linux is written in GNU C. “I still think C is a great language with a pretty simple syntax and is very good for many things,” he says. But the effort to get started with it is much too high for it to be a good beginner language by today’s standards. “I suspect you’d just get frustrated. Going from your first ‘Hello World’ program to something you might actually use is just too big of a step.” Aretha Franklin, The Queen Of Soul, Has Died At 76 Aretha Franklin, the undisputed Queen of Soul and a music legend who enjoyed a career longer than many of her successors, died Thursday. She was 76. Her publicist confirmed her death to the Associated Press, saying she died in at her home in Detroit from advanced pancreatic cancer. “In one of the darkest moments of our lives, we are not able to find the appropriate words to express the pain in our heart,” her family said in a statement. “We have lost the matriarch and rock of our family.” Children are susceptible to peer pressure from robots In a study published today in the journal Science Robotics, researchers from Germany and the UK demonstrated that children are susceptible to peer pressure from robots. The findings, say the researchers, show that, as robots and AIs become integrated into social spaces, we need to be careful about the influence they wield, especially on the young. As one Samsung factory opens and another may close, shifting supply chain means different IP risks [Ed: Very, very, very, very, very slow news day for the patent trolls' lobby, IAM. So they write about Samsung shifting factory location as though it's about patents; but it's not. Not even remotely...] Where is the biggest smartphone factory in the world? If you guessed Shenzhen, or anywhere else in China, you’re wrong as of last month. Samsung in July opened what has been dubbed the world’s largest smartphone factory in Noida, just outside of Delhi. Meanwhile, South Korean media this week reported that Samsung may be on the verge of shuttering its smartphone factory in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin. The news comes as the top global handset maker ramps up production in other parts of Asia. Physical Home Cluster Setup Dell inspiron with extra Intel Pro/1000 Dual port Server Adapter 3 Nodes Dell Poweredge 610 ( each with a different Solid State Drive) Juniper SRX 220 Router Tenda 8 port Gigabit Desktop switch The whole thing is housed in a StarTech.com 12U Adjustable Depth Open Frame 4 Post Server Rack Here’s what it looks like: Health/Nutrition A Contractor Knowingly Sold US Troops Defective Earplugs For Years. Now They’re Paying For It A defense contractor has agreed to pay $9.1 million to settle claims that it furnished U.S. service members with earplugs that it knew were defective, the Department of Justice announced on Thursday. The settlement suggests that pure greed may be partly to blame for the military’s “silent epidemic” of hearing loss. Veterans Group Sues to Block VA Shadow Rulers A liberal veterans group is suing to block the influence of three outside advisers who have been secretly influencing the Department of Veterans Affairs from Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s private club in Palm Beach, Florida. ProPublica reported last week that the advisers — Marvel Entertainment chairman Ike Perlmutter, West Palm Beach doctor Bruce Moskowitz and Washington lawyer Marc Sherman — have been shaping VA personnel and policy decisions despite having no official role or relevant expertise. The trio, sometimes referred to as the “Mar-a-Lago Crowd,” is failing to disclose its activities as required by federal law, according to a lawsuit filed today in federal court in Washington, D.C., by VoteVets, a liberal activist group that says it represents 500,000 supporters. Three More Intel Chip Exploits Surface Spectre-like “Foreshadow” Flaw In Intel CPUs Can Leak Your Secrets Intel Foreshadow exploits: How to protect yourself from latest chip vulnerability Like the Spectre and Meltdown exploits earlier this year, the new L1TF / Foreshadow vulnerabilities allow for a form of speculative execution attack. Unlike those earlier exploits, these affect modern chips with SGX architecture extensions, designed to protect data and applications from interference. L1TF Explained in 3 Minutes from Red Hat Linux Kernel TCP Vulnerability 2 On the week of July 15th, researcher Juha-Matti Tilli disclosed a vulnerability in the Linux kernel to the kernel maintainers, the National Cyber Security Center – Finland (NCSC-FI), CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC), and Akamai. The vulnerability, CVE-2018-5391, is a resource exhaustion attack triggered by a specially crafted stream of IP datagrams that cause expensive processing within the Linux kernel. This vulnerability is similar to the Linux TCP vulnerability announced August, 6th, 2018. Two Linux bugs let remote attackers knock out network devices with low-traffic attacks The US CERT Coordination Center posted an alert about the security issue, tagged with the ID CVE-2018-5391, and notes the issue affects versions 3.9 and above of the Linux kernel. Security updates issued for VMware, Samba, Internet Key Exchange, and Linux US-Cert announced updates and patches for VMware, Samba, Internet Key Exchange, and Linux kernel, respectively, to address a host of vulnerabilities. The VMware security updates fixed vulnerabilities in vSphere, Workstation, Fusion, and Virtual Appliances which could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information if exploited, according to an August 14 advisory. The Samba Team released security updates to address several vulnerabilities which if exploited could allow threat actors to gain control of an affected system. Microsoft, Intel Warn of ‘Foreshadow’ CPU Security Attacks [Ed: A Microsoft booster's take] Intel Issues Security Advisory on L1 Speculative Execution Attack Method [Ed: Also a Microsoft booster's take] Protecting Our Customers through the Lifecycle of Security Threats [Ed: Intel's face-saving take] QEMU 3.0 Brings Spectre V4 Mitigation, OpenGL ES Support In SDL Front-End QEMU 3.0 is now officially available. This big version bump isn’t due to some compatibility-breaking changes, but rather to simplify their versioning and begin doing major version bumps on an annual basis. As an added bonus, QEMU 3.0 comes at a time of the project marking its 15th year in existence. QEMU 3.0 does amount to being a big feature release with a lot of new functionality as well as many improvements. Changes in QEMU 3.0 include Spectre V4 mitigation for x86 Intel/AMD, improved support for nested KVM guests on Microsoft Hyper-V, block device support for active mirroring, improved support for AHCI and SCSI emulation, OpenGL ES support within the SDL front-end, improved latency for user-mode networking, various ARM improvements, some POWER9 / RISC-V / s390 improvements too, and various other new bits. How the L1 Terminal Fault vulnerability affects Linux systems Announced just yesterday in security advisories from Intel, Microsoft and Red Hat, a newly discovered vulnerability affecting Intel processors (and, thus, Linux) called L1TF or “L1 Terminal Fault” is grabbing the attention of Linux users and admins. Exactly what is this vulnerability and who should be worrying about it? Flaw discovered in Intel chips, allows attackers to steal cloud data [Ed: Intel deserves to go bankrupt for selling billions of chips with defects and back doors in them (no accident, they put the ME there consciously)] Theo on the latest Intel issues Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) posted to the tech@ mailing list with some background on how the latest discovered Intel CPU issues relate to OpenBSD. These 3 issues (CVE-2018-3615, CVE-2018-3620, CVE-2018-3646) together are the currently public artifacts of this one bug. OpenBSD chief slams Intel , says more CPU flaws likely to be found The head of the OpenBSD project, Theo de Raadt, has warned that more flaws related to speculative execution in Intel CPUs are likely to be found and that the two vulnerabilities found by Intel, as a result of examining the Foreshadow bug — found by two independent teams — are cause for much worry. De Raadt told iTWire that Foreshadow was “the wrong name. It is one of three side effects of a very poor Intel decision”. And he added in a mailing list post, “CVE-2018-3615 (Foreshadow) is by receiving the most press which is amazing considering it is by far the most boring of the 3, since very few few people give a rat’s ass about SGX – who cares if SGX is broken when the CPU can’t run your OS safely? Some convincing press agencies were hired, I guess, and have performed a masterful job of distracting.” New family of new speculative execution bugs, Foreshadow, adds to Spectre-Meltdown misery Three newly discovered speculative execution vulnerabilities found in Intel CPUs may turn out to be more serious than their Spectre and Meltdown cousins, because this time the side-channel attack bugs affect microprocessors that support Intel Software Guard Extensions, as well as virtual machines running on the same third-party cloud as the susceptible device. The new family of Spectre-like flaws, dubbed Foreshadow (CVE-2018-3615) and Foreshadow-NG (CVE-2018-3620 and CVE-2018-3646), were independently uncovered by two separate research teams — one from imec-DistriNet-KU Leuven in Belgium, and the other from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, the University of Michigan, and University of Adelaide and CSIRO’s Data61 in Australia. Security updates for Wednesday Cisco, Huawei, ZyXel, and Huawei patch Cryptographic IPSEC IKE Vulnerability 11-year-old shows it’s child’s play to mess with elections At the DefCon Voting Village in Las Vegas last year, participants proved it was child’s play to hack voting machines: As Wired reported, within two minutes, democracy-tech researcher Carsten Schürmann used a novel vulnerability to get remote access to a WinVote machine. This year, it was literally child’s play: the DefCon village this past weekend invited 50 kids between the ages of 8 and 16 to compromise replicas of states’ websites in the so-called “DEFCON Voting Machine Hacking Village.” Election Websites, Back-End Systems Most at Risk of Cyberattack in Midterms Both adult and kid hackers demonstrated at DEF CON how the hackable voting machine may be the least of our worries in the 2018 elections. Two 11-year-old budding hackers last week at DEF CON in Las Vegas used SQL injection attack code to break into a replica of the Florida Secretary of State’s website within 15 minutes, altering vote count reports on the site. Meanwhile, further down the hall in the adult Voting Machine Hacking Village at Caesars Palace, one unidentified hacker spent four hours trying to break into a replica database that housed the real, publicly available state of Ohio voter registration roll. He got as far as the secured server — penetrating two layers of firewalls with a Khali Linux pen testing tool — but in the end was unable to grab the data from the database, which included names and birthdates of registered voters. How Netflix Secures AWS Cloud Credentials Netflix has long been the poster child for being an “all-in-the-cloud” organization. The streaming media service relies on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for infrastructure and computing resources that it uses to operate. Researchers Reveal Security Vulnerabilities in Tracking Apps Millions of users around the world regularly install tracker apps on their Android devices to help them keep track of friends and loved ones. Some of those tracker apps, however, contain vulnerabilities that could potentially enable an attacker to track the users of the apps. Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology detailed 37 vulnerabilities found in 19 mobile tracking apps in a session at Defcon in Las Vegas on Aug. 11. The researchers responsibly disclosed the flaws to Google and noted that, as of the time of their presentation, 12 of the apps had been removed from the Google Play store, leaving seven still publicly available and vulnerable. “In this project it was very easy to find vulnerabilities,” security researcher Siegfried Rasthofer said. “There were no sophisticated exploits.” Reconsidering Speck The Speck cipher is geared toward good performance in software, which makes it attractive for smaller, often embedded, systems with underpowered CPUs that lack hardware crypto acceleration. But it also comes from the US National Security Agency (NSA), which worries lots of people outside the US—and, in truth, a fair number of US citizens as well. The NSA has earned a reputation for promulgating various types of cryptographic algorithms with dubious properties. While the technical arguments against Speck, which is a fairly simple and straightforward algorithm with little room for backdoors, have not been all that compelling, the political arguments are potent—to the point where it is being dropped by the main proponent for including it in the kernel. WireGuarding the mainline The WireGuard VPN tunnel has been under development — and attracting attention — for a few years now; LWN ran a review of it in March. While WireGuard can be found in a number of distribution repositories, it is not yet shipped with the mainline kernel because its author, Jason Donenfeld, hasn’t gotten around to proposing it for upstreaming. That changed on on July 31, when Donenfeld posted WireGuard for review. Getting WireGuard itself into the mainline would probably not be all that hard; merging some of the support code it depends on could be another story, though. WireGuard implements a simple tunneling protocol allowing network traffic to be routed through a virtual private network provider. It has been developed with an eye toward smallness, ease of verification, and performance, rather than large numbers of features. It is, according to the patch posting, “used by some massive companies pushing enormous amounts of traffic”. Some effort has gone into making WireGuard widely available, an effort that has helped to create a significant user community. But the ultimate way to make this kind of software widely available is to get it into everybody’s kernel; that requires upstreaming. Putting Stickers On Your Laptop Is Probably a Bad Security Idea Mitchell said political stickers, for instance, can land you in secondary search or result in being detained while crossing a border. In one case, Mitchell said a hacker friend ended up missing a flight over stickers. Video Shows Hotel Security at DEF CON Joking About Posting Photos of Guests’ Belongings to Snapchat But the room check captured on video suggests the walkthroughs are subject to abuse by hotel personnel who may use them as opportunity to snoop on guests or take and post images for amusement. And accounts of other searches that involved hotel security staff refusing to show ID or showing insufficient ID, and displaying bullying and threatening behavior to guests in occupied rooms, raises questions about the legality of the searches and the tactics and training of security personnel. Researchers in Finland detect vulnerability in password management software Researchers identified a security gap in more than 10 applications used by millions around the world, including an app used by Finland's population registry. How to Protect Your PC From the Intel Foreshadow Flaws AT&T Sued After SIM Hijacker Steals $24 Million in Customer’s Cryptocurrency It has only taken a few years, but the press, public and law enforcement appear to finally be waking up to the problem of SIM hijacking. SIM hijacking (aka SIM swapping or a “port out scam”) involves a hacker hijacking your phone number, porting it over to their own device (often with a wireless carrier employee’s help), then taking control of your personal accounts. As we’ve been noting, the practice has heated up over the last few years, with countless wireless customers saying their entire identities were stolen after thieves ported their phone number to another carrier, then took over their private data. Sometimes this involves selling valuable Instagram account names for bitcoin; other times it involves clearing out the target’s banking or cryptocurrency accounts. Case in point: California authorities recently brought the hammer down on one 20-year-old hacker, who had covertly ported more than 40 wireless user accounts, in the process stealing nearly $5 million in bitcoin. One of the problems at the core of this phenomenon is that hackers have either tricked or paid wireless carrier employees to aid in the hijacking, or in some instances appear to have direct access to (apparently) poorly-secured internal carrier systems. That has resulted in lawsuits against carriers like T-Mobile for not doing enough to police their own employees, the unauthorized access of their systems, or the protocols utilized to protect consumer accounts from this happening in the first place. Voting Machine Vendors, Election Officials Continue To Look Ridiculous, As Kids Hack Voting Machines In Minutes Defence/Aggression Mexico’s Tlatelolco Massacre, and Its Echoes Today Mental Illness does not Explain Terrorism If we truly want to get to a place where we can live in a society that treats mental health seriously and effectively we need to have the ability to have tough conversations. Following the Danforth shooting we need to be able to speak openly and honestly about Islamic terrorism, guns, crime, mental health, fentanyl and policing without getting into shouting matches. ‘Ultimate Form Of Civilization Jihad’ Planned For This Michigan City Sterling Heights is unique in that it is home to not only a growing Muslim community but one of the largest concentrations of Chaldean Catholic Christians in the U.S. These Christians fled persecution in Iraq. Word of the open house spread quickly among Chaldeans and other Christians when a flyer showing the targeted church started circulating in the area last week. Ceuta Onslaught: How Gaddafi’s Grim Prophecy for Europe is Coming True “Now listen, you people of NATO,” Gaddafi said on the eve of NATO’s invasion of Libya in 2011. “You’re bombing a wall which stood in the way of African migration to Europe and in the way of al-Qaeda terrorists. This wall was Libya. You’re breaking it.” Honour Killing in UP : Brother beheads sister, waits for police with blood-soaked knife Her father Kallu Gazi and brother Aas Mohammad were very annoyed with her eloping with Abid whom they disliked. About a week ago, Aas Mohammad had publicly announced in the colony that he would behead her sister for daring to go against the family members. “Girl With A Book” Frightens Extremists: Malala On Pak School Burning According to Dawn, Diamer Superintendent Police (SP) Roy Ajmal said 12 schools, including only-girls schools were set on fire. He also said that in a few cases, books were also thrown out and torched. Dawn quoted local police officer Mohammad Bashir as saying that the attack on schools took place near Chilas before dawn on Friday, however, no casualties were reported as the schools were closed when the attack took place. Police added that no group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet. Amnesty accuses Turkey of ‘turning blind eye’ to abuses in Afrin Amnesty International says Turkish forces in the northern Syrian city of Afrin are giving Syrian militias “free rein” to commit serious human rights abuses. The group alleges torture, forced disappearances and looting. Syria: Turkey must stop serious violations by allied groups and its own forces in Afrin Research released today reveals that residents in Afrin are enduring a wide range of violations, mostly at the hands of Syrian armed groups that have been equipped and armed by Turkey. These violations include arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances, and confiscation of property and looting to which Turkey’s armed forces have turned a blind eye. Some of these groups, and Turkish armed forces themselves, also have taken over schools, disrupting the education of thousands of children. Russian-backed separatists are using terrifying text messages to shock adversaries — and it’s changing the face of warfare Russian-backed separatists are “adept at identifying Ukrainian positions by their electrometric signatures,” US Army Col. Liam Collins wrote in late July. Linguistic Contortions in Gaza News outlets have performed torturous linguistic contortions to avoid stating the simple fact that Israel is shooting hundreds of demonstrators with live ammunition, killing 30 and injuring close to 2,000. An Associated Press headline (4/6/18) said, “Palestinian Protesters Burn Tires, Sending Smoke Billowing at Gaza/Israel Border; Israeli Troops Fire Back Sporadically.” That’s a logical impossibility: Israeli forces cannot “fire back” at people who aren’t firing at them. The sentence rests on the absurd assumption that burning tires is the same as shooting people. Man who destroyed Trump’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star charged with felony vandalism The man who allegedly used a pickaxe to vandalize President Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame has reportedly been charged with vandalism. Israeli Military Clears Itself of Wrongdoing in 2014 Gaza War’s ‘Black Friday’ Known as “Black Friday,” Israel’s assault on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Aug. 1, 2014, was one of the deadliest and most scrutinized episodes in the 50-day war that summer. On Wednesday, the Israeli military cleared itself of wrongdoing in the bitterly contested episode. It published the conclusions of the examination into its conduct as Israel eased some restrictions on Gaza and moved to shore up the fragile cease-fire agreements that ended that war. Human rights groups like Amnesty International have said there was “strong evidence” that Israel carried out war crimes in Rafah by killing scores of Palestinians, most of them civilians. Some accused the Israeli military of firing in revenge, disproportionately and indiscriminately, after Hamas militants abducted a soldier, Lt. Hadar Goldin. Whatever happened to al-Qaeda in Afghanistan? The troops waging America’s 17-year-old war in Afghanistan are confronting a puzzle: What has become of the enemy who drew them there? Al-Qaeda, the group whose September 11 terror attacks provoked the U.S. invasion in 2001, has shrunk to relative obscurity among the military’s other missions in Afghanistan, supplanted by newer threats such as a local branch of the Islamic State. And it is a matter of debate how much al-Qaeda’s remaining Afghan presence still focuses on launching attacks overseas, according to current and former military officers and government officials, experts, and Afghans from areas where the group operates. Only a small portion of the 15,000 American troops in Afghanistan are involved in the counterterrorism mission that the military calls its “core objective” there. Even fewer of those are hunting al-Qaeda, whose presence in the country has dwindled after years of drone strikes. Instead, U.S. special operations forces are focusing on the Afghan branch of ISIS, a less secretive group that in some way offers an easier target. Transparency/Investigative Reporting Wikileaks served via twitter The US Democratic National Committee (DNC) has subpoenaed Wikileaks via Twitter. Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, the DNC’s law firm, filed a motion to serve Wikileaks through Twitter and first-class mail on 20 July. The motion was granted by US District Court Judge John Koeltl on 6 August. On 10 August, Cohen Milstein tweeted to Wikileaks from a newly created account linking to legal documents hosted on a website that appears to have been created for the purpose. Democrats Tweet-Serve Subpoena to WikiLeaks The Democratic National Committee’s vendetta against WikiLeaks, Russia and pro-Trump political operatives took an unconventional turn recently when the political party served WikiLeaks with a subpoena over Twitter. A law firm representing the DNC notified WikiLeaks it had been sued simply by mentioning the document publisher in a tweet and dumping the associated legal URLs to fill out the rest of the tweet. “By Court order, you are being served with the following legal documents,” the law firm said August 10. Are Summons Just Getting Tweeted Now? Analyzing the Legal Issues With Serving Formal Papers on Social Media Last Friday, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) served WikiLeaks via Twitter. While the microblog service is extremely popular within the White House these days, it’s one of only a handful of instances when it has been used for such an official purpose, maybe except that time when the U.S. Secretary of State found out he had been fired in a presidential tweet. So, the law firm representing the DNC in its civil lawsuit against WikiLeaks officially served the legal documents on the case to WikiLeaks by tagging its official account in a post. Notably, the account seems to have been created specifically for that purpose, as it is relatively new and has no other tweets. Courage announcement We thank Naomi Colvin for her work as Courage Director over the last year, including the successful campaign to resist Lauri Love’s extradition to the US, which was widely publicised in the UK and abroad. Naomi joined Courage in 2014. We wish her all success. Courage defends those who are subject to serious prosecution or persecution. It is designed to increase the power of defence campaigns through mutual aid, sharing basic financial and internet infrastructure and solidarity. The White House Is Terrified As Omarosa Is Giving Trump The WikiLeaks Treatment Omarosa’s decision to slowly leak out her taped conversations is exactly what Trump and WikiLeaks did with the Russian hacked Clinton emails, and it is terrifying the White House. Environment/Energy/Wildlife/Nature Group aims to help resolve DAPL protest warrants An organization formed to provide legal help to opponents of the Dakota Access oil pipeline is launching an effort to help protesters with criminal warrants resolve their cases. There are about 100 outstanding warrants issued for people from 25 states. Dead fish, birds, manatees, even a whale shark. Toll from worst red tide in decade grows. And while red tide is an annual event, Ruane sees the severity of this year as a chance to educate his constituents about the risks of over-fertilizing, not addressing pollution from stormwater run-off and the need for long-term fixes to the Everglades. He’s also hoping to convince the Corps — he took the agency’s South Florida deputy commander Lt. Col. Jennifer Reynolds on a tour Tuesday — to speed up changes in managing the lake and reconsider flushing water to the coasts. It should also serve as a wake-up call, Baroon said. “Wildlife is the canary in the coal mine,” she said. “It’s the thing telling us your environment is very unhealthy and as a human species you need to do something about it.” Germany’s car industry can’t build its own battery cells Later this year, Audi will sell an electric vehicle that can keep up with Tesla’s performance and range. Mercedes, Volkswagen, and BMW will follow soon, as they are set to regain technological leadership, especially when it comes to luxury cars. But even if they do, they will be depending on suppliers from China, Korea, or Japan to deliver one crucial part of their EVs: the battery cells. As it turns out, Germany’s automotive industry is not able to build those highly needed components. At least, not anymore. Gruesome Faroe Islands whale cull turns the sea RED as fishermen force hundreds ashore to butcher them Horrific photos reveal the aftermath of a brutal killing of a pod of whales on a remote Arctic island. The animals are rounded up and slaughtered by villagers several times a year in a tradition that has caused outrage across the world. One of these culls happens every summer where thousands of pilot and beaked whales are massacred in bays across the Danish-owned Faroe Islands as inhabitants prepare for the harsh winter months ahead. Images show fishermen driving herds into shallow waters that have already been stained red by the blood of previously slaughtered animals. The water is littered with dozens of corpses many of which can be seen with massive gashes on their bodies where people have hacked at them. Where do people get money to buy California homes these days? Often, from mom and dad Back in 2011, about one in four FHA loans in California included down payment money from relatives. Today, it’s one in three. Japan regulator reportedly looking into whether Apple secretly crushed an App Store competitor Japan’s Fair Trade Commission is looking into whether Apple improperly pressured Yahoo Japan to shut down a game streaming platform that competed with the iOS App Store, according to Nikkei. Yahoo Japan’s Game Plus service allowed people to stream full games made for other platforms and to play HTML5 games on mobile phones, which would have allowed iPhone owners to get games without going through the App Store. Apple probed in Japan over anti-competitive behavior Yahoo told multiple business partners that it was forced to cut back because of pressure behind the scenes from Apple. The Japanese company relies on the U.S. tech giant for part of its profits in the form of sales through the App Store. Uber reportedly lost $891 million in the second quarter of 2018 as growth slows Bloomberg characterized the report as Khosrowshahi embracing the company’s “growth above profit” ethos. But it has cast a spotlight on some of Uber’s more expensive, trouble-prone projects. Specifically, the company’s beleaguered self-driving car operation is said to be losing as much as $200 million a quarter, The Information reported today. And Bloomberg noted that Uber is being urged by investors to off-load the unit. Uber CEO Embraces Losing Money With Revenue Growth Slowing Nearly a year into Khosrowshahi’s tenure, Uber reported on Wednesday a second-quarter loss of $891 million. While it’s a 16 percent improvement from a year earlier, the loss follows a rare profit posted in the first quarter, thanks largely to the sale of overseas assets. Tencent Slumps After First Profit Drop in at Least a Decade The very government that has favored Tencent as a technology champion is now directly hurting its results, with the bureaucratic shakeup in Beijing blocking its path to making money from games. The Shenzhen-based company relies on new content to draw and keep users on its WeChat messaging service, over which it sells in-game items and advertising to a billion-plus users. Tencent hasn’t been able to cash in on the world’s most popular games, including Fortnite and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. ‘There’s an Alternative to the Hierarchical, Top-Down Capitalist Corporation’ No, you know, it’s always struck me as bizarre, even if you are a great lover of capitalism, our system, and you just think it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread. Even if you’re like that, if that’s your point of view, the fact is that places, like, I don’t know, let’s pick one: the People’s Republic of China—for the last 25 years, that economy, which is organized in ways that are different from the one we have here in the United States, that People’s Republic of China has achieved the most rapid economic transformation from poor country to superpower economically, that we have ever seen in the history of the human race. OK…. That alone would mean we ought to be exploring, in our classrooms, in our media: What’s that about? How did they accomplish that? That’s something that most of the world’s people dream of, and so it’s an important matter. And now you add another couple of other considerations. That it’s the largest country by population on this planet. And it is a superpower, has nuclear weapons and all of that. And you’d say, any rational person would understand: Of course we have to look at that model of how you do economics, how you organize an economic system, to ask the logical, rational question: not necessarily that we must copy them, but are there things about what they do, and how they organize, that we might be able to learn something from? More Than One Million Labour Leave Voters Have Abandoned Brexit, Says Gordon Brown Gordon Brown has said more than one million Labour supporters who voted for Brexit have now changed their mind, as pressure grows on Jeremy Corbyn to back a second EU referendum. The former prime minister said on Wednesday that the country was “losing hope” and had been “immobilised by divisions”. “Remain voters are despondent, fearing that we have moved from a soft Brexit to a hard Brexit to a no-deal Brexit,” he told the Edinburgh International Book Festival. “But leave voters believe that none of the Brexit options- a Norway-style deal, a Swiss-style deal or the Canadian option – can deliver what they were promised and now feel betrayed. “Our country is often accused of being stuck in the past. The problem this time is that we are stuck in the present – and, as each day passes, becoming less and less optimistic about the future.” Brown said polling, including a survey from Hope not Hate that suggested 21% of Labour leave votes had changed their mind, meant more than one million of the party’s supporters had abandoned Brexit. Labour’s internal arguments over Brexit are set to come to a head at its annual conference in September. Corbyn is facing a move by pro-EU members to hold a vote committing the party to holding referendum on Theresa May’s final Brexit deal. Fox Business Took a Shot at Denmark. Denmark Fired Back. An anchor, Trish Regan, called the country a warning about socialism, mentioning it alongside Venezuela. The Danish finance minister led an angry response. AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics Trump ends Obama-era rules on US-led cyberattacks: report The memorandum required that an extensive interagency process take place before the U.S. government embarks on any cyberattacks. Trump reversed the rules to try and ease some of those restrictions, which critics argued were detrimental to launching the attacks quickly, according to the Journal. Trump Strikes Back at ‘Ringleader’ Brennan There’s more than meets the eye to President Donald Trump’s decision to revoke the security clearances that ex-CIA Director John Brennan enjoyed as a courtesy customarily afforded former directors. The President’s move is the second major sign that Brennan is about to be hoist on his own petard. It is one embroidered with rhetoric charging Trump with treason and, far more important, with documents now in the hands of congressional investigators showing Brennan’s ringleader role in the so-far unsuccessful attempts to derail Trump both before and after the 2016 election. Brennan will fight hard to avoid being put on trial but will need united support from from his Deep State co-conspirators — a dubious proposition. One of Brennan’s major concerns at this point has to be whether the “honor-among-thieves” ethos will prevail, or whether some or all of his former partners in crime will latch onto the opportunity to “confess” to investigators: “Brennan made me do it.” Trump-Media Logrolling Today, hundreds of newspapers, at the initiative of The Boston Globe, are purporting to stand up for a free press against Trump’s rhetoric. Today also marks exactly one month since I was dragged out of the July 16 Trump-Putin news conference in Helsinki and locked up until the middle of the night. As laid in my cell, I chuckled at the notion that the city was full of billboards proclaiming Finland was the “land of free press“. So, I’ve grown an especially high sensitivity to both goonish behavior toward journalists trying to ask tough questions — and to those professing they are defending a free press when they are actually engaging in a marketing exercise. As some have noted, the editorials today will likely help Trump whip up support among his base against a monolithic media. But, just as clearly, the establishment media can draw attention away from their own failures, corruptions and falsehoods simply by focusing on Trump’s. Big media outlets need not actually report news that affects your life and point to serious solutions for social ills. They can just bad mouth Trump. And Trump need not deliver on campaign promises that tapped into populist and isolationist tendencies in the U.S. public that have grown in reaction to years of elite rule. He need only deride the major media. They are at worst frenemies. More likely, at times, Trump and the establishment media log roll with each other. The major media built up Trump. Trump’s attacks effectively elevate a select few media celebrities. Censorship/Free Speech FCC shuts down Alex Jones’s flagship radio station The Austin American-Statesman reported Wednesday that the pirate radio station, Liberty Radio, was hit with a $15,000 fine and at least temporarily pulled from the airwaves. Austin pirate radio station, flagship for Alex Jones, faces $15k fine A pirate radio station that serves as controversial host Alex Jones’ Austin flagship has been knocked off the city’s airwaves – at least temporarily – and the Federal Communications Commission has levied a $15,000 penalty that the station’s operators are refusing to pay. Google Needs To Come Clean About Its Chinese Plans Eight years after Google initially took a stand against Internet censorship by exiting the Chinese search market, we are disappointed to learn the company has been secretly re-considering an extended collaboration with the massive censorship and surveillance-wielding state. According to an Intercept report released at the beginning of the month, Google is working on a censored version of its search service for release in China. In 2010, EFF and many other organizations praised Google for refusing to sacrifice the company’s values for access to the Chinese market. At the time, this move followed public backlash and several attacks on Google’s infrastructure that targeted the personal data of several prominent Chinese human rights activists. Google’s departure from China showed that strong core values in fundamental human rights could beat out short-term economic gain in the calculus of an Internet company. But now it seems the company has reversed course. This news comes amid other reports of American tech giants compromising values to enter or remain within China: Facebook has piloted a censored version of its own platform, and Apple recently faced criticism for moving its customers’ data into China-hosted servers, and adding code to filter the Taiwanese flag emoji in Chinese locales. Within China, Google’s direct competitor, Baidu, has been facing a significant amount of social, regulatory, and economic backlash over recent advertising malpractice, such as monetizing questionable medical advertisements, heavily deprioritizing non-Baidu services, and allegedly promoting phishing sites. There may well be a growing demand for competition within the Chinese search engine market. Court Says CBP Likely Violating First Amendment By Forbidding Photography Of Publicly-Viewable Border Crossings Another (partial) win for the First Amendment, the ACLU, and American citizens. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a decision forbidding the photography of CBP officers at border crossings. (h/t Mitra Ebadolahi) The CBP seems to have a problem respecting the First Amendment rights (along with several other rights) of American citizens when engaged in its border patrolling and protecting. This same appeals court recently allowed the heavily-harassed citizens of an Arizona border town to move forward with their First Amendment lawsuit against the agency, ruling that the CBP acted arbitrarily when dealing with protesters and activists documenting checkpoint activity. The record clearly showed the CBP removed people it didn’t like from its imaginary zone of exclusion while allowing other random citizens more aligned with the CBP’s open harassment of American citizens to venture inside the ad hoc DMZ to harass citizens documenting harassment. The decision does not hand the plaintiffs a complete victory. It does shift the burden of proof back on the government and instructs the lower court to allow the case to proceed to see if the government can actually offer up anything supporting its random time/place restrictions that border on total violation of established First Amendment principles. The appeals court seems inclined to believe the CBP cannot simply forbid photography of publicly-viewable enforcement activities by members of the public. We’ll have to see what the lower court does on remand, considering it already granted the government a free pass once, because National Security > Established Constitutional Rights, apparently. I’m Alex Jones x Infinity Worse (on Twitter) Twitter just suspended Alex Jones for a week after he called on millions of people to pick up weapons to attack the press. I am still in the dark about what I said on Twitter that is x Infinity worse, as mine is a permanent suspension. Anyway, I hope with Alex Jones (and me) gone, your Twitter is better, kinder, more… ideologically pure. @jack seems to be on a campaign ahead of the midterms to make Twitter less politically diverse, so I hope that is good for you, not to have to block all those nasty contrary opinions and all. Soon enough it’ll be just down to what the Party wants you to read and for most people that is a comfortably numb place to be. I wish you well! You will learn, as I have, to love Big Brother. Twitter will help you learn. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis held people must discuss and criticize unpopular ideas, that free speech is not an abstract virtue but a key element at the heart of a democratic society. Even the fact that speech is likely to result in “violence or in destruction of property is not enough to justify its suppression.” Brandeis concluded “the deterrents to be applied to prevent violence and disruption are education and punishment for violations of the law, not abridgment of free speech.” Free speech is not an ends, it is a means, in a democracy. Shame on Twitter, et al, for treading on that mighty concept. Free speech is messy, and it is our essential defense against fascism, whether from the left or the right. Video Games In Germany Can Now Maybe Kinda Sometimes Have Swastikas As you likely know, Germany has some very restrictive laws surrounding how and when Nazi iconography can appear in the country. This has resulted in a heavily-policed artistic community, particularly when it comes to video games, which has produced some fairly funny happenings about games accidentally going to Germany chock full of Nazi stuff and other funny happenings in which the game makers make a show of doing as little as possible to get around the law. In the realm of other media, such as movies, the German government has put in place a review process to make sure that the use of Nazi symbols furthers the artistic or historical accuracy of the entertainment. Video games have not had such a review system. And, look, on some level this sort of attempt by Germany to restrict the use of these hateful symbols is understandable. The kind of global embarrassment that comes with committing the worst genocide in history is the sort of thing that leaves a mark. But we’ve also pointed out that these German laws aren’t so much stamping out fascist thought as they are putting the government’s collective head in the sand as some kind of grand virtue signal to the planet. TLS 1.3 is Coming – an Opportunity for Amazon, Google and Microsoft to End Censorship A new standard for cryptography is on the horizon, called Transport Level Security 1.3 (TLS 1.3). TLS 1.3 is a major update to cryptography, and fundamentally changes how websites and services will handle negotiating and executing encrypted services. Among the big improvements are faster handshakes with websites (meaning faster page load times), new ciphers (new and stronger types of encryption) and new hash functions (types of verification to check if data is genuine). It also features privacy improvements such as reducing the amount of metadata that is exposed to eavesdroppers, as all metadata that isn’t needed for the routing around the web itself is now hidden behind encryption. A Free Press Works for All of Us ProPublica does not have an editorial page, and we have never advocated for a particular policy to address the wrongs our journalism exposes. But from the very beginning of our work more than a decade ago, we have benefited enormously from the traditions and laws that protect free speech. And so today, as the nation’s news organizations remind readers of the value of robust journalism, it seems fitting to add our voice. ProPublica specializes in investigative reporting — telling stories with “moral force” that hold government, businesses and revered institutions to account. There are few forms of journalism more vulnerable to pressure from the powerful. What we publish can change the outcome of elections, reverse policies, embarrass police or prosecutors and cost companies boatloads of money. The main subjects of our work, in most cases, would much prefer that our reporting never appear or be substantially watered down. Murphy’s Law: Big Tech Must Serve as Censorship Subcontractors In a recent tweet, US Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) warned that “Infowars is the tip of a giant iceberg of hate and lies that uses sites like Facebook and YouTube to tear our nation apart.” His solution: “These companies must do more than take down one website. The survival of our democracy depends on it.” Yes, odd as it might seem, Senator Murphy believes that the future of America can only be secured by suppressing information and discussion he doesn’t like. That sentiment seems to be going around. David McCabe of Axios reports on a leaked policy paper from the office of US Senator Mark Warner (D-VA). Two of its most dangerous proposals: “[N]ew federal funding for media literacy programs that could help consumers sort through the information on online platforms. ” In other words, well-financed government propaganda to make sure we hear what Mark Warner wants us to hear (and think what he wants us to think about what we hear elsewhere). ‘Towering’ opponent of censorship John Calder dies aged 91 Described as “at the forefront of postwar publishing and a towering figure in the fight against censorship,” the Canadian-born Calder founded his own company in 1949, now part of Alma Classics. Calder Publishing published Chekhov, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky as well poetry, novels, criticism and plays of Beckett. Alma Books’ founder Alessandro Gallenzi told The Bookseller that Calder died on Monday morning (13th August) at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh after suffering a rapid decline in health over the past few weeks. Gallenzi described Calder, who was a publisher, bookseller and author himself, as “a passionate publisher and a fiercely independent man”. Edinburgh festivals: Calder, publisher who helped beat censorship, dies aged 91 Lester Holt talks Twitter censorship Why Did Facebook Purge TeleSUR English? Analysis: teleSUR censorship shows that the press can never be free in a world of social media superpowers Five examples that show internet censorship is as much a threat to the left as the right The banning of right wing controversialist Alex Jones from multiple social media platforms last week was a cause of celebration for many liberals, but should those on the left really be so complacent about creeping censorship? So far, the evidence suggest that there is indeed plenty for the left to worry about when it comes to corporations like Facebook and Twitter and their alliances with government censors. Privacy/Surveillance IA concerns over privacy, security issues with encryption law Internet Australia has raised serious privacy and security concerns about the Australian Government’s proposal to introduce a new cyber encryption law, warning the draft law seeks unprecedented expansion of powers to access citizen’s devices. US gov staffers are officially banned from using Huawei and ZTE devices Trump, who famously made a cameo in Zoolander, this week signed the Defense Authorization Act into law. The bill, which goes into effect over the next two years, introduces a ban on devices and equipment used to route or view user data made by Chinese manufacturers including Huawei and ZTE. Brazilian data protection is strong step forward, action needed on enforcement Brazil’s newly passed data protection law is a huge step forward in the protection of user privacy. It’s great to see Brazil, long a champion of digital rights, join the ranks of countries with data protection laws on the books. We are concerned, however, about President Temer’s veto of several provisions, including the Data Protection Authority. We urge the President and Brazilian policymakers to swiftly advance new legislation or policies to ensure effective enforcement of the law. Here’s What Happens When We Allow Facial Recognition Technology in Our Schools Facial recognition technology — unregulated, prone to error, and poorly understood — is being rapidly rolled out in schools. The idea of facial recognition technology conjures up scenes from books and films set in dystopian futures in which freedom and liberty have been forfeited in exchange for the illusion of security. From 1984 to Minority Report, these are worlds where everyone is suspect, and no one is safe. Today, you don’t need to look to fiction to imagine these consequences. Facial recognition technology — unregulated, prone to error, and poorly understood — is being rapidly rolled out in the institutions where we should place the most trust: our schools. In recent weeks, the NYCLU sounded the alarm after the Lockport City School District received $4 million in state funds to purchase facial recognition technology. More recently, RealNetworks announced that it is offering its facial recognition technology to any K-12 school in the country for free, claiming it’ll make schools safer. This is a dangerous path that schools should think twice about. We will do just about anything to protect our children. Promises of an omnipotent machine correctly identifying and stopping potential perpetrators make facial recognition technology alluring to parents and educators. And from the perspective of cash-strapped school districts, obtaining this technology for free can seem like a no-brainer. But facial recognition technology does not make our schools safer. In fact, facial recognition technology is especially prone to sabotage: For 22 cents, you can purchase a pair of cardboard glasses to fool it. Civil Rights/Policing Pope Francis changes church’s teaching on the death penalty “Consequently the church teaches, in the light of the Gospel, that the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person,” and she works with determination for its abolition worldwide,” reads the new text, which was approved in May but only published Thursday. Afghan child bride killed by husband in revenge: Officials After the other girl in the arrangement was killed by her own husband, Hameya’s husband began to torture her in revenge and eventually killed her, Shahabi told AFP. Saudi Arabia arrests two more women’s rights activists: rights group “The arrests of Samar Badawi and Nassima al-Sadah signal that the Saudi authorities see any peaceful dissent, whether past or present, as a threat to their autocratic rule,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch, in a statement. Court Strikes Down New Hampshire Law That Disenfranchised Voters Over Handwriting Judge finds the state’s signature-match process to be “fundamentally flawed.” On Tuesday, a federal judge struck down a New Hampshire law that disenfranchised hundreds of voters each general election because of their handwriting. The law in question required election moderators to compare the signature on a voter’s absentee-ballot application to the signature on an affidavit that the voter sends with the absentee ballot. If the election official felt that that the signatures did not match, they would simply throw out the vote. In the ruling, U.S. District Judge Landya McCafferty called the process, “fundamentally flawed,” finding that it violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution because the law did not provide voters with notice and an opportunity to be heard before they were disenfranchised. Under the law, New Hampshire voters were not informed of the decision that their signatures do not match or given an opportunity to address it before their vote is discarded. This is exactly what happened to our client Mary Saucedo, a 95-year-old woman who is legally blind and requires the help of her husband Gus to fill out her ballot. In 2016, an election moderator determined that Mary’s signatures did not match and threw out her vote without notification. It was one of the rare times Mary was not able to participate in the democratic process since 1944, when she first voted in a presidential election. Disenfranchisement does not only violate individuals’ constitutional rights — it can impact close elections. At least two voters at the Laconia Rehabilitation Center were disenfranchised during the 2016 general election because of the signature-match law. The Senate District 7 race — which covers Laconia — was decided by only 17 votes and, in fact, was subject to a recount. During the recount, the secretary of state took the position that he did not have the authority to overturn the moderator’s decision to reject these ballots due to “signature mismatch.” As the court noted, “[T]he likelihood of error . . . is only compounded by the lack of meaningful review or oversight.” The court also agreed, “It cannot be emphasized enough that the consequence of a moderator’s decision—disenfranchisement—is irremediable.” ‘Journey for Justice’ Caravan Launches Cross Country Trek The Trump Administration, with Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions as its willing lightning rod, is in the process of dismantling key aspects of the U.S. political asylum program. To that end, the administration has begun to zero in on what is known as Temporary Protected Status(TPS). TPS was established by Congress in the Immigration Act of 1990. It’s a humanitarian program that mandates that the United States should suspend deportations to countries that have been destabilized by war, civil conflict, or natural catastrophe. According to the National TPS Alliance, if the trump Administration manages to crush the program, over 450, 000 people would face possible deportation, putting them in harm’s way, facing extreme violence and possible death. In response, a national grassroots coalition of refugee and immigrants rights activists will caravan from Los Angeles to Washington D.C. Those who are directly affected by Trump’s extreme anti immigrant policy–the TPS recipients themselves will lead the Journey for Justice Caravan. When Sarah Sanders and the ACLU Teamed Up for Voting Rights As the midterm elections approach, Republican state officials and lawmakers have stepped up efforts to block students from voting in their college towns. Republicans in Texas pushed through a law last year requiring voters to carry one of seven forms of photo identification, including handgun licenses but excluding student IDs. In June, the GOP-controlled legislature in North Carolina approved early voting guidelines that have already resulted in closing of polling locations at several colleges. And last month, New Hampshire’s Republican governor signed a law that prevents students from voting in the state unless they first register their cars and obtain driver’s licenses there. One nationally prominent Republican, however, once took the opposite stance on student voting. As an undergraduate at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, Sarah Huckabee — now White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders — sued to allow students to vote after being one of more than 900 purged from the county’s rolls. “It’s almost like taxation without representation,” she said at the time. “They thought that because we were young that they could walk all over us, but obviously that’s not the case.” Illustrating the adage that politics makes strange bedfellows, the 2002 lawsuit paired a then-20-year-old Sanders with the American Civil Liberties Union. It began, as disputes over student voting often do, with a town-and-gown conflict. Reversing the usual pattern, a Democrat rather than a Republican instigated the student disenfranchisement. Prisons Switch Device Providers; Render $11.3 Million Of Inmate-Purchased Music Worthless Because of the tablets, inmates will have to return the players, and they can’t transfer the music they already purchased onto their new devices. The corrections system is switching to JPay. Unfortunately, nothing else is switching. Money isn’t easy to obtain in prison, meaning most of this suddenly useless music was purchased with funds from friends and family at inflated prices. The prison system comes out of it OK. It has collected $11.3 million on the sale of worthless infinite goods to a literally captive audience. Now, with a lucrative JPay contract in effect, inmates are out millions of dollars in digital goods. The only options to keep what they purchased means shelling out more cash for the opportunity to put their purchased music completely out of reach. Boy, 8, Runs into Street, Gets Hit By Car. Judge Must Decide: Was Mom at Fault for Not Being With Him? A very sad story in England had a good court outcome the other day: The mother of a boy who ran into the street and got seriously injured by a car (at age 8) was found NOT guilty of his accident — something the insurance company had accused her of, because she wasn’t with him at “Unite the Right 2″ Showed the Growth of Anti-Fascism and the Police Response August has seen a rash of confrontations as far-right ensembles — from open white nationalists to radical right anti-immigrant and anti-LGBT groups — hit the streets and are met by massive community contingents. The story has evolved from one of opposing street contingents to a mass anti-fascist upswell in cities around the US — a point that has been eclipsed by allegations of massive police overreach on protests meant to halt the rise of the far right. Last weekend saw far-right activists convene in Washington, DC, on the one-year anniversary of the first “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. An estimated 40 “alt-right” supporters turned out for “Unite the Right 2,” and counter-protesters showed up in larger numbers. “Their rally happened, but it was clearly [outnumbered] 300 to 1,” said Scott Brown, an organizer with Shut It Down DC, the coalition which coordinated the actions across Washington, DC, on August 11 and 12. Last year’s “Unite the Right” rally was intended to be the high-water mark for a racist movement moving toward ascendancy. Donald Trump’s presidency offered a huge opportunity for the “alt-right” and the larger white nationalist movement to access recruits, but as conservative moderates started to turn on them, they needed to see exactly where they stood among the right. That event on August 12, 2017, brought out a thousand people from a range of organizations, from the National Socialist Movement to the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) to various “alt-right” fraternal projects. WikiLeaks Wonders if ‘Bloody Gina’ Had Sexual Response to Torture CIA Director Gina Haspel is facing a new wave of criticism over the excessively colorful description of enhanced interrogation techniques under her supervision at a Thailand black site in 2002, which prompted WikiLeaks to ask whether the current CIA chief “has a sexual response to torture.” New CIA documents, declassified at the request of the National Security Archive, an independent non-governmental research institution, and released on August 10, have shown the agency’s director Gina Haspel in a new light. Our Vision for Achieving Gender Justice In the Trump Era and Beyond The ACLU has been fighting gender discrimination since its founding. Under the leadership of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the 1970s, the Women’s Rights Project was instrumental in knocking down the vast majority of laws that explicitly treated women differently from men and in establishing constitutional protections against discrimination on the basis of sex. Bill Proposes Greater Accountability for New York Prosecutors Who Break the Law Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York has a bill before him that would create a commission to bring a greater measure of accountability to prosecutors who withhold evidence, suborn perjury or commit other ethical violations that undermine justice. It would be the first of its kind in the country and conceivably create a model for other states to follow. The bill, passed overwhelmingly by the Senate and Assembly in June, authorizes the governor, the Legislature and the state’s chief judge to pick 11 people to investigate allegations of misconduct. The panel, when it sees fit, could issue warnings and recommend sanctions, or even firings, to the governor. Now, prosecutors are overseen like any other lawyer — by disciplinary committees attached to the state’s appellate courts. But ProPublica’s 2013 analysis found that even when convictions are thrown out as a result of harmful misconduct on the part of prosecutors, the appellate courts often fail to refer them to disciplinary committees. United Kingdom: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals v Kymab, Court of Appeal of England and Wales, Civil Division, [2018] EWCA Civ 1186, 23 May 2018 Following the Court of Appeal’s decision that two of Regeneron’s patents were valid and infringed, it refused to grant Kymab permission to appeal to the Supreme Court, but held that the injunction against Kymab should be stayed, subject to certain conditions, whilst Kymab applied directly to the Supreme Court for permission to appeal. Qualcomm’s Settlement With Taiwanese FTC Ignores Broken Promises Last week Qualcomm reached an agreement with the Taiwanese Fair Trade Commission (TFTC), overturning the $778 million penalty the TFTC levied in October. Qualcomm promised to invest $700 million in Taiwan and commit to certain process safeguards over their licensing arrangements with handset makers. In exchange, the original TFTC ruling is wiped away. Qualcomm will not be required to pay the majority of the fine and—far more important—Qualcomm can continue to ignore license requests from other baseband chip manufacturers. As covered before, the ability to refuse to license competitors—in violation of Qualcomm’s commitment to license their standard-essential patents on non-discriminatory terms—is an anti-competitive act that provides Qualcomm with the ability to raise competitors’ costs and obtain more than the value of their patents in licensing. Registration No Longer Constitutes Legitimate Use Defence in Turkey Turkey has welcomed the new Intellectual Property Code (the IP Code) numbered 6769. This came force on January 10 2017. One of the major changes in the new IP Code is an explicit provision in Article 155 preventing later dated IP registrations being submitted as a defence in infringement actions. Germany: Feldmausbekämpfung, Federal Court of Justice of Germany, X ZB 18/16, 27 March 2018 The Federal Court of Justice held that in utility model registration proceedings, the utility model department must examine whether one of the grounds for refusal listed in Sec. 2 Utility Model Law exists. Pappalardo v. Stevins (Fed. Cir. 2018) Last week, in Pappalardo v. Stevins, the Federal Circuit affirmed-in-part, vacated-in-part, and remanded a decision by the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida granting a motion to dismiss filed by Defendant-Appellee Samantha Stevins, in which Ms. Stevins sought to dismiss an amended complaint filed by Plaintiff-Appellant Michael Pappalardo for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. Mr. Pappalardo had filed suit against Ms. Stevins asserting state law claims of fraud and negligent representation and seeking a declaratory judgment naming him as sole inventor of U.S. Patent Application No. 15/275,597. As alleged in Mr. Pappalardo’s complaint, he met Ms. Stevins at a pharmaceutical products trade show, where he disclosed to her a product related to liquid and solid cannabis delivery systems. As also alleged in the complaint, Ms. Stevins indicated that she had access to funding from a network of investors for the product, and the two entered into a business relationship to commercialize the product. The complaint further alleges that Ms. Stevins recommended filing the ’597 application, which names Ms. Stevins as a joint inventor. Mr. Pappalardo’s complaint further alleges that Ms. Stevins attempted to independently exploit his technology, and he responded by filing suit against her asserting claims of fraud and negligent representation and seeking declaratory judgment of sole inventorship. The District Court dismissed the declaratory judgment claim on the grounds that it lacked jurisdiction to hear claims for correction of inventorship for a pending patent application, and dismissed the state law claims on the grounds that they were contingent on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s determination on the ’597 application. The District Court had also determined that it lacked diversity jurisdiction over Mr. Pappalardo’s state law claims. The Federal Circuit noted, however, that because the District Court had original jurisdiction over a federal question in the declaratory judgment claim, it could have exercised supplemental jurisdiction to hear the state law claims because they were so related to claims in the action that they formed part of the same case or controversy. The Federal Circuit also noted that because that authority is generally discouraged where a court has dismissed all claims over which it has original jurisdiction, and because the District Court stated that it was “hard-pressed to find that [Mr.] Pappalardo has adequately plead[ed] damages and causation—both elements needed to state an actionable claim for fraud and negligent misrepresentation—with the requisite particularity,” the Federal Circuit would interpret that statement as a decision declining to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the state law claims. The Federal Circuit therefore affirmed the District Court’s dismissal of the state law claims. Honey badger don’t care – transforming trademark infringement into artistic or expressive works African honey badgers became well known in 2011 for their feisty nature. At the peak of their popularity, a multitude of cars were plastered with bumper stickers decorated with such catchphrases as “honey badger don’t care”, “honey badger don’t give a s***” and other variations on that theme. The impetus behind the now-infamous honey badger is the humorous soundtrack recorded over a National Geographic video about African honey badgers and their prey, titled The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger, which was written and produced by comedian and writer Christopher Z Gordon. International report – Dressing up a brand against lookalikes: part one The launch of any fashion brand is usually preceded by clearance and the registration of one or more trademarks. However, this is not always the case and a trademark registration does not always provide the necessary scope of protection against copycats. This drives the need for unconventional means of brand protection. Disney Finds It’s Not So Easy to Sue Over Knockoff Characters at Birthday Parties Does Disney really want to go to trial to prevent knockoffs of Darth Vader, Iron Man and Elsa and Anna from Frozen from showing up at children’s birthday parties? If the studio really wishes to continue a lawsuit over unlicensed characters, it may need to after experiencing a setback against Characters for Hire, LLC. On Thursday, a New York federal judge refused to grant summary judgment in favor of Disney in its ongoing case against Nick Sarelli, alleged to run a “knock-off business … built upon the infringement of Plaintiffs’ highly valuable intellectual property rights.” What’s more, U.S. District Court Judge George Daniels threw out most of Disney’s trademark claims against a defendant who will send out individuals dressed as “The Princess” (meaning Leia) or “Big Hairy Guy” (meaning Chewbacca) for special events. Daniels recognizes some similarity, but isn’t buying that Disney and Sarelli compete in the same business nor that Sarelli’s customers are likely to be confused. The judge makes the point that it’s “adults, not children” who plan parties and there’s no evidence of actual confusion. Disney Gets Early Loss In Trademark, Copyright Suit Against Unlicensed Birthday Party Characters Late last year, we discussed a lawsuit brought by Disney against Characters For Hire, a small company that sends costume characters to children’s birthday parties. Those characters, as we said at the time, are barely-altered clear homages to storied Disney-owned characters, such as Dark Lord (Dearth Vader) and Big Hairy Guy (sigh, Chewbacca). While Disney sued over both trademark and copyright, the alterations to the characters and the very clear disclaimer Characters For Hire puts on its site and documents meant the chances for confusion as to Disney’s affiliation was always non-existent. When you add that the changes in the characters and the medium in which they were offered at least partially put us in the idea/expression dichotomy zone for copyright law. That part of the law essentially says copyright applies to specific expressions (written stories, film, music, and sometimes characters), but not general ideas (a Dark Lord, a, sigh, Big Hairy Guy). Elected Official Files Business, Trademark Registrations Using Name Of Website That Frequently Criticized Her Becker has gone after Edwards and Wedge LIVE! as well, claiming the site is funded by “realtors” using “dark money.” The contentious relationship has escalated in recent months, with the formation of an activist group by Edwards that opposes the policies and zoning changes Becker would like to institute. Edwards also asked readers to comment on proposed plans during the public comment period, leading to Becker receiving negative responses by readers of his site. All of this has now culminated in an intellectual property war without the knowledge of one of the participants. A public notice of a business registration was spotted by a Wedge LIVE! Fan while reading the analogue version of the local paper. This was passed on to Edwards, who had no idea his site’s name was being turned into a business by a subject of his criticism. Berlin Court: ‘framing’ of copyright protected images not a communication to the public Just when you think all has been said about linking, framingand communication to the public, another judgment shows up and proves you wrong. This time, a legal dispute between the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB = ”German Digital Library”, the German content provider for Europeana) and the Verwertungsgesellschaft Bild-Kunst (VG Bild-Kunst), a German collecting society for visual artists, gave the Higher Regional Court of Berlin the chance to further clarify what constitutes a communication to the public, and what does not. Automated ‘Content Protection’ System Sends Wave Of Bogus DMCA Notice Targeting Legitimate URLs Topple Track’s failures came to the EFF’s attention because it targeted one of its URLs, supposedly for infringing on artist Luc Sky’s copyright for his song “My New Boy.” The page targeted by Topple Track discusses the EMI lawsuit against MP3Tunes — one that has been on the EFF’s site for eight years. If Luc Sky even exists (the EFF could find no info on the artist/track), the discussion of a long-running legal battle certainly didn’t contain an unauthorized copy of this track. Presumably Topple Track has customers. (The “Luc Sky” dead end isn’t promising.) If so, they’re being ripped off by DMCA notices sent in their names that target tons of legit sites containing zero infringing content. The URLs targeted have no relation to the name/title listed as protected content and it’s impossible to see how an algorithm could do the job this badly. There’s obviously no human interaction with the DMCA process Topple Track employs, otherwise none of the DMCA notices listed would even have been sent to Google. What did we say about trust? Judge Rules Photographer Owned Marilyn Monroe Photo Copyright, Fair Use Moves to Trial U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer of the Southern District of New York recently entered an opinion and order in a copyright case involving the famed “Last Sitting” photographs of American movie star Marilyn Monroe. Although the case will continue to proceed towards a trial, Judge Engelmayer resolved various issues in the case including a determination that the owner of the copyrights to the Last Sitting photographs is the trust of the now-deceased photographer who took the photos and not Condé Nast, the publisher of the magazine Vogue where the photographs first appeared in 1962. Facebook Bans Ads for Kodi Boxes Because Pirates Are Ruining Everything A line added to Facebook’s commerce policies this week specifically bans “Promoting the sale or use of streaming devices with Kodi installed,” though the policy does allow the sale of remote controls and keyboards that support the app. We’ve been over this a few times: Kodi is not a piracy application. It’s an open source video player that happens to support add-ons, and a few third party developers happen to make add-ons for pirating TV shows and movies. Another group of people and companies sell “fully loaded” Kodi boxes, which are basically small computers with Kodi installed alongside a bunch of piracy add-ons. Facebook Bans ‘Promotion’ Of Kodi Boxes, Even If They’re Perfectly Legal If you haven’t noticed, the entertainment industry has a new, terrifying bogeyman. Over the last year or two, pressure from entertainment industry lobbying groups has resulted in an all-out war on streaming video devices (aka computers) that run Kodi, the video streaming software. Kodi has technically been around since 2002, first as Xbox Media Player, after which it became the Xbox Media Center until 2014. The XBMC Foundation then renamed the software Kodi, and it became popular as an easy way to store and stream content, including copyrighted content, from hardware running Kodi to other devices in or out of the home. For years now, tinkerers everywhere have built custom-made PCs that use the open-source Kodi platform. In more recent years, outfits like Dragonbox or SetTV have taken things further by selling users tailor-made hardware that provides easy access to live copyrighted content by not only including Kodi, but integrating numerous tools and add-ons that make copyright infringement easier. Driven largely by clearly-terrified entertainment-industry execs and lobbyists, numerous studios, Netflix and Amazon have tried to sue these efforts out of existence. Even the FCC has tried to help the entertainment industry in this fight, demanding that Ebay and Amazon crack down on the sale of such devices. Since the FCC lacks authority over copyright, it has instead tried to justify its involvement here by focusing on these devices’ illegal use of the FCC approval logo. It’s another big favor to the entertainment industry by the Pai FCC, who you’ll recall killed efforts to help make the traditional cable box sector more open and competitive. Irony Alert: Disney (Yes, DISNEY!) Whines About ‘Overzealous Copyright Holders’ Here’s one that might create a bit of a stir. The history of the 20th century and maximalist, ever expanding copyright is often associated with one particular company: Disney. I mean, the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) is regularly called the “Mickey Mouse Protection Act” and Tom Bell once created this lovely Mickey Mouse Curve showing how copyright terms always seemed to expand just before the original movie starring Mickey, Steamboat Willie was about to enter the public domain… Telling the Truth About Defects in Technology Should Never, Ever, Ever Be Illegal. EVER. Congress has never made a law saying, “Corporations should get to decide who gets to publish truthful information about defects in their products,”— and the First Amendment wouldn’t allow such a law — but that hasn’t stopped corporations from conjuring one out of thin air, and then defending it as though it was a natural right they’d had all along. Some background: in 1986, Ronald Reagan, spooked by the Matthew Broderick movie Wargames (true story!) worked with Congress to pass a sweeping cybercrime bill called the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) that was exceedingly sloppily drafted. CFAA makes it a felony to “exceed[] authorized access” on someone else’s computer in many instances. Fast forward to 1998, when Bill Clinton and his Congress enacted the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a giant, gnarly hairball of digital copyright law that included section 1201, which bans bypassing any “technological measure” that “effectively controls access” to copyrighted works, or “traffic[ing]” in devices or services that bypass digital locks. Notice that neither of these laws bans disclosure of defects, including security disclosures! But decades later, corporate lawyers and federal prosecutors have constructed a body of legal precedents that twist these overbroad laws into a rule that effectively gives corporations the power to decide who gets to tell the truth about flaws and bugs in their products. Businesses and prosecutors have brought civil and criminal actions against researchers and whistleblowers who violated a company’s terms of service in the process of discovering a defect. The argument goes like this: “Our terms of service ban probing our system for security defects. When you login to our server for that purpose, you ‘exceed your authorization,’ and that violates the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.” Europeans Take “Upload Filter” Protests to The Streets Following massive protests, the EU copyright reform plans were sent back to the drawing board last month. This means that the proposal will be opened up for changes, also to the controversial “upload filter” text. In support of this effort and to show critics that the opposition is real, the protests will soon move beyond the web, to the streets of several European cities. Share this post: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. Permalink Send this to a friend If you liked this post, consider subscribing to the RSS feed or join us now at the IRC channels. Pages that cross-reference this one How anyone out there can do the job the media failed to do (after an apparently unprecedented arrest at the home of Bill Gates) 9 updates from the police department of Seattle but still nothing material/concrete, only promises and major delays IRC logs for Sunday, January 19, 2020 The police department (PD) of Seattle is unable to open its own files about arrest for pedophilia at Bill Gates' home; it has been unable to open these files for several months, it claims... "It might be easier if we start from the GitLab software," Stallman said Fear of China is being leveraged to promote an agenda of patent maximalists; the general idea they promote is that granting millions of low-quality patents is the only way to compete, even if in reality that merely handicaps the whole market The narrative surrounding last week's decision against CRISPR patents may have been virtually monopolised by the litigation think tanks and law firms; it certainly feels like no journalism is left to rebut them, fact-check, and introspect Links for the day EPO judges throw out patents on life (CRISPR at least); there's now growing hope that they'll have the courage to do the same to patents on software IRC logs for Saturday, January 18, 2020 Pro-StartPage voices appear to be paid (or have been promised pay) by StartPage; the key strategy of StartPage seems to be, attack and betray people's privacy while paying people in particular positions to pretend otherwise IRC logs for Friday, January 17, 2020 IRC logs for Thursday, January 16, 2020 Microsoft is working hard to describe itself as the exact opposite of what it is and what it has been; ‘Internet rot’ helps a lot with this agenda, not to mention control of the media (the narrative) The EPO continues to scatter invalid patents (IPs) that are European Patents (EPs) all over Europe and nobody can stop this, not even the judges of the EPO because they lack independence (by their very own admission) The tactics of Team UPC aren't changing, only the shamelessness associated with these tactics is changing (because it looks like the end of days to them) A reader's explanation of what Microsoft is trying to accomplish with its so-called 'embrace' and what steps will come next (how they manifest themselves) IRC logs for Wednesday, January 15, 2020 The photo (or meeting) may mark the turning point of the Openwashing as-a-Standard Initiative (OSI), which less than a year earlier took a bucket of money from Microsoft IRC logs for Tuesday, January 14, 2020 Unwittingly, people are being reminded of the 'special relationship' between Microsoft and the US Army (or government); The back doors or bug doors are still there, even 7 years after Edward Snowden's NSA leaks The window is closing (and Windows/Vista 7 closing down); the chance to use machines that the users actually control is still there Dishonesty for short-term financial gain (e.g. advertising money) will be a big loss in the long run. There’s a reason why so many news sites perish and Datamation (where I wrote more than a decade ago) now throws away remnants of reputation by spreading a big lie from Microsoft. The patent-granting extravaganza of what a reader and contributor of ours likes to call "Club Med" will result in great pain (not just for the Office but for Europe as a whole); pointing out who's to blame (the culprits) is an exercise in practicality Team UPC's delusions continue to unmask UPC proponents (in 2020) as totally and entirely detached from reality A reminder of Microsoft’s universal “PC tax” ambitions — evidence that the company was never interested in ‘playing nice’ with anybody Contact us (encrypted/PGP) IRC Channel: Come and chat with us in real time	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20462
__label__wiki	0.828978	0.828978	Robert Lemos Ring Flaw Underscores Impact of IoT Vulnerabilities A vulnerability in Amazon's Ring doorbell cameras would have allowed a local attacker to gain access to a target's entire wireless network. A vulnerability in Amazon’s Ring Video Doorbell Pro IoT device could have allowed a nearby attacker to imitate a disconnected device and then sniff the credentials of the wireless networks when the owner reconfigured the device, according to a report issued by security firm Bitdefender. The issue, which was fixed by Amazon in September, underscores the impact of a single insecure Internet-of-Things device on the organization in which it is deployed. While the vulnerability may only occur in a single network device, the result of the flaw could be leaked information — the wireless network password, for example — which would have far more serious repercussions. "IoT is a security disaster, any way you look at it," says Alexandru Balan, Bitdefender's chief security researcher. "Security is not the strong suit of IoT vendors — only rarely, do we see vendors who take security seriously." The discovery of a serious vulnerability in a popular IoT product comes as businesses and consumers increasingly worry about the impact that such devices may have on their own security. Only about half of security teams have a response plan in place to deal with attacks on connected devices, according to recent report from Neustar. Even critical-infrastructure firms, such as utilities that have to deal with connected operational technology, a widespread class of Internet-of-Things devices, are ill-prepared to deal with vulnerabilities and attacks, the report says. Vulnerabilities in IoT devices can have serious repercussions. In July, a team of researchers found widespread flaws in the networking software deployed in as many as 200 million embedded devices and found millions more that could be impacted by a variant of the issue in other real-time operating systems. The issue with Amazon Ring is not as serious but it is a reminder that vulnerabilities can still be easily found in the devices by attackers paying attention, says Balan. "We tend to look at the popular devices, and those tend to have better security than the less popular devices," The rest of the Ring device's communications are encrypted and secure, according to Bitdefender. The mobile application only communicates with the device through the cloud, even if the app and device are already on the same network, the company's analysis stated. Cloud communications are conducted over encrypted connections to API services using Transport Layer Security (TLS) and certificated pinning. The device's initial connection with the local network is the only time that it sends data without encryption, Balan says. "This is a proximity based attack, so its not that big of a threat on a global scale. You need to be with a hundred meters or so to issue the deauthentication packets and force the user to reset the password." The existence of the vulnerability is not an indicator of the commitment of Ring's security team, Balan adds, noting that within a few days Amazon responded and two months later closed out the report. By September, the company issued a patch — within three months after the initial communication, according to Bitdefender's disclosure timeline. As of November, all affected devices had been patched, which Balan says is a better outcome then the majority of disclosures that Bitdefender works on with other IoT vendors. "Amazon is one of the few that take security seriously," he says. "Inherently everything has some flaw that will be discovered. The only challenge with IoT is whether you take that disclosure seriously." The trend that more vulnerabilities are being discovered in popular products is a sign that the manufacturers are paying attention and responding to researchers, Balan observes. "If someone does not have vulnerabilities disclosed in their product, then that is likely the most risky product, from a security perspective. If the vulnerabilities were discovered, then props to them — that's a good thing." Utilities' Operational Networks Continue to Be Vulnerable Millions More Embedded Devices Contain Vulnerable IPnet Software What Do You Do When You Can't Patch Your IoT Endpoints? The Etiquette of Respecting Privacy in the Age of IoT 6 Security Considerations for Wrangling IoT Check out The Edge, Dark Reading's new section for features, threat data, and in-depth perspectives. Today's top story: "What a Security Products Blacklist Means for End Users and Integrators." Veteran technology journalist of more than 20 years. Former research engineer. Written for more than two dozen publications, including CNET News.com, Dark Reading, MIT's Technology Review, Popular Science, and Wired News. Five awards for journalism, including Best Deadline ... View Full Bio	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20465
__label__cc	0.573483	0.426517	Wabisabipix Photographic observations in a transient world PETRA:THE ROSE RED CITY HALF AS OLD AS TIME. Posted in backpacking, British Museum, film locations, Film set, jordan, petra, photo, photoblog, Photography, travel, walking, walks, writing on August 13th, 2014 by wabisabipix It was 1991 and the world had just seen the end of the first Gulf War and the political maps of the globe was being rewritten,the 1980’s were now a distant memory and the future and the unknown beckoned.I was 20 years of age and had been fully enjoying one of the best periods that teenagers have,that wonderful time between working in any meaningful career and being tied down by any commitments and with just enough cash in your pocket to set off on shoestring expeditions to wherever caught your eye on the world map.I had a few years previously set off on a backpacking trip to Morocco that had taken me traveling by train and rickety bus across Europe and into the African continent by ferry and on a circular route that took me to cities with fabled and exotic names, Fez,Ouarzazate,Tangiers,Marrakech. The trip took me into the Sahara on the back of a camel and gave me many great experiences of world travel along the way. I was bitten by wanderlust and there was no way of stopping me.It was simply a matter of putting together a small amount of money and finding another destination worthy of heading off to,the more exotic the better and if it was harder to get to then even more so. On this occasion I had set my target on Petra the legendary rose red city half as old as time.Such a fantastic place certainly fired up the imagination. I had spent the last few weeks traveling down the Nile from Cairo by train and had taken in many of the well trodden sights along the way.The Pyramids,Luxor and Abu Simbel among a few. I had crossed the Sinai on a local bus and found myself at the coast port of Nuweiba.I had bought a ticket for passage to the Jordanian port of Aqaba on board a ferry full of migrational workers and was now heading towards my destination.On board I had been chatting with a few fellow Europeans,a German backpacker and a travelling artist who had more than a passing resemblance to the great Dutch artist Rembrandt. The two were enthusiastically discussing their journey and Rembrandt was showing his remarkable sketches,collected over several weeks while traveling leisurely down the Nile.Rembrandt(as I will refer to him from now on) had been sketching both the locals and the remarkable Egyptian monuments along the way and had gathered a stunning portfolio of work.We were all and very much traveling on a shoestring and after several hours the ships horn announced our arrival at the port of Aqaba and we all joined the immigration line for entry to Jordan.After getting our visa stamped (and unbeknown to me our Egyptian Visa Cancelled) our German colleague made it clear he was going to spend the week in Aqaba and Rembrandt was heading to Petra like myself so we set off to find a guest house and split the costs. Aqaba was a lively town,the evening was spent telling tales of our journeys and chatting with the friendly locals in french style cafe’s usually with the odd picture of Saddam Hussein on the wall.One shop owner had a well practiced tale to tell of his time working with Peter O’Toole and Omar Sharif when they had filmed Lawrence of Arabia at the nearby Wadi Rum.I spent that night keeping a sharp eye on a mosquito on the roof and listening to the cockroaches clicking under the bed,comforted in the knowledge that the previous night in Nuweiba it had been 20 cockroaches living in my shower pan clicking a concerto all night and now it was only the one,luck me! The next day we ate a french style breakfast of bread and cheese and tracked down a minibus driver who agreed to take us the Petra.At this time the were very few tourists in Aqaba as it was just after the Gulf War and there was still the climate of fear affecting the tourist industry.The locals were very glad for any trade they could drum up and we had the rickety old minibus to ourselves for a half decent barter. Rumbling into Petra late that evening after nightfall we found a small guest house with room and settled in for the evening.There was time for exploring in the morning.And even better no Cockroaches. With the abrupt awakening of soaring desert temperatures and a cockerel crowing next door I ate breakfast quickly and wandered outside.The excitement to view this fabled destination was at a peak.Men in colourful traditional garb were herding horses up and down in the small village road outside and it was very clear that this wasn’t going to be another tourist trap experience like Egypt where you have to fight off an army hustlers the moment you stagger out of your hotel.Here everyone was very laid back and seemed unbothered that you were a westerner.If they had something to sell you the Bedouin would ask you several times and let you be.It was going to be a great few days after several weeks in the land of the Pharaoh and not a papyrus scroll in sight! It is no surprise that nobody had known the way to this legendary Nabatean city until it was found by a 27-year-old Swiss explorer called Johann Ludwig Burckhardt. Burckhardt’s great ambition was to discover the source of the River Niger. In England in 1809 he secured the backing of the Royal Society for a journey across the Sahara from Cairo. Burckhardt went to Cambridge to start learning Arabic so that he could pass himself off as a Muslim. On his way east, in Malta, he heard of a Dr Seetzen, who had set out from Egypt into Arabia in search of the lost city of Petra, but had been murdered and took up the challenge himself, only this time disguised as a local.While on his way south from Nazareth to Cairo,along with a group of traders and some sheep and goats.Local people were chatting about ruins in a narrow mountain valley a short distance off the road that passed through the desert.It was near the supposed tomb of Aaron the brother of Moses.Burckhardt disguised as an Arab explained that he wanted to make a sacrifice of a goat to Aaron and persuaded a local guide to take him to the ruins.On arrival he was awestruck at what he saw,but left in a hurry heading for Cairo fearing that his true identity may be discovered and that he would meet the same fate as Dr Seetzen. Every now and then as we headed down the desert track a tribal horseman would ride past us bidding us “Salaam!” as they rode past.We marvelled at the bizarre rock formations and the Obelisk Tomb as we passed it on our left.It was sensory overload and we most certainly were out of our comfort zone toto! Looking around, and scanning the horizon the landscape was unlike any I had seen before,it was almost like the setting from a fantasy of science fiction epic.Vast rolling hills of epic proportions in the distance with a stunning spread of colours.I wouldn’t have been surprised if characters from Star Wars had pottered around in front of me,such was the alienation of the spectacle in front of me.Indeed Petra was chosen as the main film set in the film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and one can see why. Wandering down a dusty path we made our way down into the area that was originally the Grand Caravan trail into the city known as the Siq, a narrow canyon approximately 3/4 of a mile long that leads the traveller into the heart of the city of Petra.As we approached the Siq entrance, we notice an ancient dam on the left that had protected the ancient city from flash floods and enabled it to prosper.The Nabateans were masters of water control and this is what made the city work.The rock walls that lead this canyon into the city are literally scored with small water channels and cisterns that would have provided free flowing water here in the desert. Walking down this cobble stoned road over 2000 years old is one of those moments in life to relish.The excitement builds as the canyon winds and twists and slowly narrows and you notice carved offering alcoves to ancient Gods along the trail. And then you see it…..! Slowly but surely the light in the distance changes and the stunning facades of one of the most remarkable buildings in the ancient world opens up in front of you! The sight of the rose red Treasury building in Petra is simply priceless. There was not a sound at this time,no tourist buses and ipad waving tour groups that are the curse of modern day travel ,world events had made this destination very much off the beaten track and therefore not an option for the average package tourist at this time. We had it to ourselves. Just two people standing there and connecting with an age old scene reaching across time and…… silence! A short walk to the right of the treasury we wandered our way past the street of facades lined with tombs galore.The Treasury is but one of the amazing sights in the lost city and it would take days to fully explore the region.All along the surrounding mountains are thousands of tombs ranging from the common people to huge megalithic Royal Tomb structures giving a taste of how amazing this marvel of ancient civilisation must have been in its glory days. Established as long ago as the 300BC this town has seen a lot of history. The home of the Nabateans,an ancient Aramaic people that controlled much of the spice trade routes through the area and worshipped gods such as Dushara and al Uzza,faceless block gods that later became more human like as the Romans eventually dominated the region. Facing us was the splendour of an ancient amphitheatre carved out of the rock,surprisingly Roman in appearance but very much Nabatean.My companion,Rembrandt ,couldn’t help but fulfil one of his wishes and recite the poem by John Burgon,an ode to the ancient city. It seems no work of Man’s creative hand, by labour wrought as wavering fancy planned; But from the rock as if by magic grown, eternal, silent, beautiful, alone! Not virgin-white like that old Doric shrine, where erst Athena held her rites divine; Not saintly-grey, like many a minster fane, that crowns the hill and consecrates the plain; But rose-red as if the blush of dawn, that first beheld them were not yet withdrawn; The hues of youth upon a brow of woe, which Man deemed old two thousand years ago, match me such marvel save in Eastern clime, a rose-red city half as old as time. John Burgon, 1845 Overwhelmed by the sights of that day we retired back to our hotel for food and drink and an evening of Chess a game much liked by the locals. The following day ,refreshed,I wandered alone along the ancient colonnade street ,a once grand spectacle now in ruins because of flash floods over the centuries this old high street even shows the old chariot tracks in its ancient cobbled road and reminds me of the ancient and tragic city of Pompeii. Rembrandt at this time was endeavouring to sketch the ancient ruins and I went canon EOS600 film camera in hand wandering alone in this ancient valley. Along the way a young girl and her little brother came out of what appeared to be a cave and showed me her herd of goats.We communicated as best we could and wandered on our way with a salute of “Salaam!” Photographically the region holds a picture on every corner and I cannot over estimate how overwhelming it is with words alone,it truly has to be seen to be believed. Later that afternoon we clambered up the carved steps that led into the mountains and passed an old lady serving mint tea.heaven knows how she got there but after quite a climb her mint tea was very welcome.At the top of these rather precarious steps is another ancient wonder very much like the Petra treasury known as the Deir or Hermits Cell.From here you can also get splendid views into the nearby valley Wadi Araba. As we viewed the splendid structure a thunder storm rolled in out of nowhere and we took cover in the Hermits lair. The following day I bid farewell to Rembrandt as he continued on his epic journey back to Europe through Damascus and Turkey sketching as he went.I was heading back to Cairo and back on the migrant boat.He sent me a postcard when he completed his journey. I have travelled a lot working as a photojournalist over the years since then,however one thing that will always be fixed in my memory is that first sight of Petra that rose red city half as old as time. 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__label__wiki	0.810096	0.810096	Why Warrington Work Force and Education Employment Development BeInspired BeInspired – School and Employer Links Key Sites Business Location Service Business Events & Networking Council support for leasehold residents By: Angela Hankey category: Property News Cllr Bowden met with residents at The Base, Dallam Lane, to hear their stories of feeling misled when purchasing leasehold properties, and of their ongoing struggles with a range of issues, including escalating ground rents. The government is currently looking at the reform of the leasehold system. Joining Russ and residents at the meeting were cabinet member for housing, Cllr Maureen McLaughlin and cabinet member for environment and public protection, Cllr Judith Guthrie. Also taking a leading role in the discussions was Catherine Williams, who co-founded The National Leasehold Campaign (NLC) in 2017. NLC has been set up to campaign for the abolition of residential leasehold, as well as full and proper redress for people in England and Wales currently trapped in leasehold contracts. Catherine talked about the success of the campaign, which has built a following of 15,000 people on Facebook. She also talked about the group’s influence in Parliament, and being invited, along with Leasehold Knowledge Partnership, to speak to MPs about the issue. More than 160 MPs have now have signed up to an All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG), to consider leasehold reform. The group heard stories from residents about it not being made clear that they were purchasing a leasehold property until a deposit was paid, and of being told by housebuilders that they would be able to purchase the freehold on their property, before it was sold off to investors from under their noses. Residents also shared their experiences of the escalating costs and stress of being trapped in leasehold properties, and of the freeholders of their properties charging large amounts of money for permission to carry out simple renovations and home improvements, excessive maintenance costs and rising residential ground rents. Following the discussion, an action plan was drawn up, with the council committing to support residents by: • Tabling a motion at Full Council, providing a statement of solidarity for residents trapped in leasehold properties • Developing plans to refuse to work in partnership with developers who continue to sell new-build properties on a leasehold basis • Working and communicating with developers about the issue • Asking local solicitors to stand in solidarity with the council and residents Cllr Russ Bowden said: “This was a really valuable discussion, which gave us greater insight into the issues local people are facing. We heard stories from residents who have been trying to free themselves from leasehold contracts for many years and the misery it is causing them and their families. We learned about the huge impact being trapped in a leasehold property can have on people’s abilities to make plans or move house. “We are committed to supporting residents in any way we can, and we will be continuing our discussions with them. Our action plan gives a way forward to work with, and assist those residents, currently trapped in leasehold contracts – and to take steps to prevent local house buyers being exploited in the future. “It was also fantastic to meet with NLC, to find out more about their campaign and forge new links with them. We will continue to support them in the work they are doing.” inwardinvestment@warringtonandco.com Tweets by @WarringtonCo © 2012-2013 Business News. All rights reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20468
__label__wiki	0.609069	0.609069	Temporary Page Containing Groups Bilateria Other Gastropoda Caenogastropoda Heterobranchia Pterotracheoidea Click on an image to view larger version & data in a new window This tree diagram shows the relationships between several groups of organisms. The root of the current tree connects the organisms featured in this tree to their containing group and the rest of the Tree of Life. The basal branching point in the tree represents the ancestor of the other groups in the tree. This ancestor diversified over time into several descendent subgroups, which are represented as internal nodes and terminal taxa to the right. You can click on the root to travel down the Tree of Life all the way to the root of all Life, and you can click on the names of descendent subgroups to travel up the Tree of Life all the way to individual species. For more information on ToL tree formatting, please see Interpreting the Tree or Classification. To learn more about phylogenetic trees, please visit our Phylogenetic Biology pages. Containing group: Gastropoda Colgan, D.J., W.F. Ponder, E. Beacham and J. Macaranas. 2007. Molecular phylogenetics of Caenogastropoda (Gastropoda: Mollusca). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 42(3):717-737. Harasewych, M. G., S. L. Adamkewicz, J. A. Blake, D. Saudek, T. Spriggs and C. J. Bult. 1997. Neogastropod phylogeny: A molecular perspective, J. Moll. Stud. 63:327–351. Harasewych, M. G., S. L. Adamkewicz, M. Plassmeyer, and P. M. Gillevet. 1998. Phylogenetic relationships of the lower Caenogastropoda (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Architaenioglossa, Campaniloidea, Cerithioidea) as determined by partial 18S rDNA sequences. Zoologica Scripta 27(4):361-372. Ponder, W. F. and D. R. Lindberg. 1997. Towards a phylogeny of gastropod molluscs: an analysis using morphological characters. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 119:83-265. Strong, E. E. 2003. Refining molluscan characters: morphology, character coding and a phylogeny of the Caenogastropoda. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 137(4):447-554. Title Illustrations Lambis lambis Outram, Central Singapore Specimen Condition Live Specimen Spider conch (Lambis lambis) This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License - Version 2.0. © 2007 Ria Tan Melo melo South East, Singapore Bailer volute (Melo melo) Page copyright © 2005 First online 21 January 2005 Citing this page: Tree of Life Web Project. 2005. Caenogastropoda. Version 21 January 2005 (temporary). http://tolweb.org/Caenogastropoda/20279/2005.01.21 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/ This page is a Tree of Life Branch Page. Each ToL branch page provides a synopsis of the characteristics of a group of organisms representing a branch of the Tree of Life. The major distinction between a branch and a leaf of the Tree of Life is that each branch can be further subdivided into descendent branches, that is, subgroups representing distinct genetic lineages. For a more detailed explanation of the different ToL page types, have a look at the Structure of the Tree of Life page. articles & notes Caenogastropoda Branch Page Caenogastropoda Images Caenogastropoda Movies Caenogastropoda People Show Glossary Entries Move Internet Links to Top Show Only Taxon Lists Show Random Pictures From This Group Explore Other Groups Skip to main content Go to quick links Go to quick search Go to navigation for this section of the ToL site Go to detailed links for the ToL site Images, Movies,... Finding Things Building Treehouses Evolution/Phylogeny Scientific Content Build Treehouses Images/Media ToL/EOL Home Picture History/Future Citing the ToL Tech Development Privacy Policy — Copyright Policies Tree of Life design and icons copyright © 1995-2004 Tree of Life Project. All rights reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20469
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__label__cc	0.538914	0.461086	TFF MISSION & VISION TFF CALL FOR ENTRIES TESLA SCIENCE FOUNDATION FESTIVAL TEASER FESTIVAL EVENTS TFF DIRECTORS TFF AMBASSADORS TFF PROMOTING TESLAFY TESLA and The LAMPLIGHTER TFF CREATORS STUDENT FILMS SUBMISSION SCRIPT SUBMISSION PITCH SUBMISSION ART EXHIBIT SUBMIT TESLA Biography TESLA INVENTIONS Tesla / My Early Life Tesla / My First Efforts At Invention Tesla / My Later Endeavors Tesla / The Discovery of the Tesla Coil and Transformer Tesla / The Magnifying Transmitter Tesla / The Art of Telautomatics TESLA QUOTES TESLA CONNECTIONS TSF Awards TFF Awards TFF NEWS TFF POSTING TFF Archives TESLA FILM FESTIVAL HOME My First Efforts At Invention I shall dwell briefly on these extraordinary experiences, on account of their possible interest to students of psychology and physiology and also because this period of agony was of the greatest consequence on my mental development and subsequent labors. But it is indispensable to first relate the circumstances and conditions which preceded them and in which might be found their partial explanation. From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering but, to my present view, it was a blessing in disguise for it has taught me to appreciate the inestimable value of introspection in the preservation of life, as well as a means of achievement. The pressure of occupation and the incessant stream of impressions pouring into our consciousness through all the gateways of knowledge make modern existence hazardous in many ways. Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves. The premature death of millions is primarily traceable to this cause. Even among those who exercise care it is a common mistake to avoid imaginary, and ignore the real dangers. And what is true of an individual also applies, more or less, to a people as a whole. Witness, in illustration, the prohibition movement. A drastic, if not unconstitutional, measure is now being put through in this country to prevent the consumption of alcohol and yet it is a positive fact that coffee, tea, tobacco, chewing gum and other stimulants, which are freely indulged in even at the tender age, are vastly more injurious to the national body, judging from the number of those who succumb. So, for instance, during my student years I gathered from the published necrologues in Vienna, the home of coffee drinkers, that deaths from heart trouble sometimes reached 67% of the total. Similar observations might probably be made in cities where the consumption of tea is excessive. These delicious beverages super-excite and gradually exhaust the fine fibers of the brain. They also interfere seriously with arterial circulation and should be enjoyed all the more sparingly as their deleterious effects are slow and imperceptible. Tobacco, on the other hand, is conducive to easy and pleasant thinking and detracts from the intensity and concentration necessary to all original and vigorous effort of the intellect. Chewing gum is helpful for a short while but soon drains the glandular system and inflicts irreparable damage, not to speak of the revulsion it creates. Alcohol in small quantities is an excellent tonic, but is toxic in its action when absorbed in larger amounts, quite immaterial as to whether it is taken in as whiskey or produced in the stomach from sugar. But it should not be overlooked that all these are great eliminators assisting Nature, as they do, in upholding her stern but just law of the survival of the fittest. Eager reformers should also be mindful of the eternal perversity of mankind which makes the indifferent "laissez-faire" (A policy of very limited government regulation.) by far preferable to enforced restraint. The truth about this is that we need stimulants to do our best work under present living conditions, and that we must exercise moderation and control our appetites and inclinations in every direction. That is what I have been doing for many years, in this way maintaining myself young in body and mind. Abstinence was not always to my liking but I find ample reward in the agreeable experiences I am now making. Just in the hope of converting some to my precepts and convictions I will recall one or two. A short time ago I was returning to my hotel. It was a bitter cold night, the ground slippery, and no taxi to be had. Half a block behind me followed another man, evidently as anxious as myself to get under cover. Suddenly my legs went up in the air. In the same instant there was a flash in my brain, the nerves responded, the muscles contracted, I swung through 180 degrees and landed on my hands. I resumed my walk as though nothing had happened when the stranger caught up with me. "How old are you?" he asked, surveying me critically. "Oh, about 59," I replied. "What of it?" "Well," said he, "I have seen a cat do this but never a man." About a month since I wanted to order new eyeglasses and went to an oculist who put me through the usual tests. He looked at me incredulously as I read off with ease the smallest print at considerable distance. But when I told him that I was past sixty he gasped in astonishment. Friends of mine often remark that my suits fit me like gloves but they do not know that all my clothing is made to measurements which were taken nearly 35 years ago and never changed. During this same period my weight has not varied one pound. In this connection I may tell a funny story. One evening, in the winter of 1885, Mr. Edison, Edward H. Johnson, the President of the Edison Illuminating Company, Mr. Batchellor, Manager of the works, and myself entered a little place opposite 65 Fifth Avenue where the offices of the company were located. Someone suggested guessing weights and I was induced to step on a scale. Edison felt me all over and said: "Tesla weighs 152 lbs. to an ounce," and he guest it exactly. Stripped I weighed 142 lbs. and that is still my weight. I whispered to Mr. Johnson, "How is it possible that Edison could guess my weight so closely?" "Well," he said, lowering his voice. "I will tell you, confidentially, but you must not say anything. He was employed for a long time in a Chicago slaughter-house where he weighed thousands of hogs every day! That's why." My friend, the Honorable Chauncey M. Depew, tells of an Englishman on whom he sprung one of his original anecdotes and who listened with a puzzled expression but - a year later - laughed out loud. I will frankly confess it took me longer than that to appreciate Johnson's joke. Now, my well being is simply the result of a careful and measured mode of living and perhaps the most astonishing thing is that three times in my youth I was rendered by illness a hopeless physical wreck and given up by physicians. More than this, through ignorance and light-heartedness, I got into all sorts of difficulties, dangers and scrapes from which I extricated myself as by enchantment. I was almost drowned a dozen times; was nearly boiled alive and just mist being cremated. I was entombed, lost and frozen. I had hair-breadth escapes from mad dogs, hogs, and other wild animals. I past through dreadful diseases and met with all kinds of odd mishaps and that I am hale and hearty today seems like a miracle. But as I recall these incidents to my mind I feel convinced that my preservation was not altogether accidental. An inventor's endeavor is essentially lifesaving. Whether he harnesses forces, improves devices, or provides new comforts and conveniences, he is adding to the safety of our existence. He is also better qualified than the average individual to protect himself in peril, for he is observant and resourceful. If I had no other evidence that I was, in a measure, possessed of such qualities I would find it in these personal experiences. The reader will be able to judge for himself if I mention one or two instances. On one occasion, when about 14 years old, I wanted to scare some friends who were bathing with me. My plan was to dive under a long floating structure and slip out quietly at the other end. Swimming and diving came to me as naturally as to a duck and I was confident that I could perform the feat. Accordingly I plunged into the water and, when out of view, turned around and proceeded rapidly towards the opposite side. Thinking that I was safely beyond the structure, I rose to the surface but to my dismay struck a beam. Of course, I quickly dived and forged ahead with rapid strokes until my breath was beginning to give out. Rising for the second time, my head came again in contact with a beam. Now I was becoming desperate. However, summoning all my energy, I made a third frantic attempt but the result was the same. The torture of suppressed breathing was getting unendurable, my brain was reeling and I felt myself sinking. At that moment, when my situation seemed absolutely hopeless, I experienced one of those flashes of light and the structure above me appeared before my vision. I either discerned or guessed that there was a little space between the surface of the water and the boards resting on the beams and, with consciousness nearly gone, I floated up, pressed my mouth close to the planks and managed to inhale a little air, unfortunately mingled with a spray of water which nearly choked me. Several times I repeated this procedure as in a dream until my heart, which was racing at a terrible rate, quieted down and I gained composure. After that I made a number of unsuccessful dives, having completely lost the sense of direction, but finally succeeded in getting out of the trap when my friends had already given me up and were fishing for my body. That bathing season was spoiled for me through recklessness but I soon forgot the lesson and only 2 years later I fell into a worse predicament. There was a large flour mill with a dam across the river near the city where I was studying at that time. As a rule the height of the water was only two or three inches above the dam and to swim out to it was a sport not very dangerous in which I often indulged. One day I went alone to the river to enjoy myself as usual. When I was a short distance from the masonry, however, I was horrified to observe that the water had risen and was carrying me along swiftly. I tried to get away but it was too late. Luckily, though, I saved myself from being swept over by taking hold of the wall with both hands. The pressure against my chest was great and I was barely able to keep my head above the surface. Not a soul was in sight and my voice was lost in the roar of the fall. Slowly and gradually I became exhausted and unable to withstand the strain longer. Just as I was about to let go, to be dashed against the rocks below, I saw in a flash of light a familiar diagram illustrating the hydraulic principle that the pressure of a fluid in motion is proportionate to the area exposed, and automatically I turned on my left side. As if by magic the pressure was reduced and I found it comparatively easy in that position to resist the force of the stream. But the danger still confronted me. I knew that sooner or later I would be carried down, as it was not possible for any help to reach me in time, even if I attracted attention. I am ambidextrous now but then I was left-handed and had comparatively little strength in my right arm. For this reason I did not dare to turn on the other side to rest and nothing remained but to slowly push my body along the dam. I had to get away from the mill towards which my face was turned as the current there was much swifter and deeper. It was a long and painful ordeal and I came near to failing at its very end for I was confronted with a depression in the masonry. I managed to get over with the last ounce of my force and fell in a swoon when I reached the bank, where I was found. I had torn virtually all the skin from my left side and it took several weeks before the fever subsided and I was well. These are only two of many instances but they may be sufficient to show that had it not been for the inventor's instinct I would not have lived to tell this tale. Interested people have often asked me how and when I began to invent. This I can only answer from my present recollection in the light of which the first attempt I recall was rather ambitious for it involved the invention of an apparatus and a method. In the former I was anticipated but the latter was original. It happened in this way. One of my playmates had come into the possession of a hook and fishing-tackle which created quite an excitement in the village, and the next morning all started out to catch frogs. I was left alone and deserted owing to a quarrel with this boy. I had never seen a real hook and pictured it as something wonderful, endowed with peculiar qualities, and was despairing not to be one of the party. Urged by necessity, I somehow got hold of a piece of soft iron wire, hammered the end to a sharp point between two stones, bent it into shape, and fastened it to a strong string. I then cut a rod, gathered some bait, and went down to the brook where there were frogs in abundance. But I could not catch any and was almost discouraged when it occurred to me to dangle the empty hook in front of a frog sitting on a stump. At first he collapsed but by and by his eyes bulged out and became bloodshot, he swelled to twice his normal size and made a vicious snap at the hook. Immediately I pulled him up. I tried the same thing again and again and the method proved infallible. When my comrades, who in spite of their fine outfit had caught nothing, came to me they were green with envy. For a long time I kept my secret and enjoyed the monopoly but finally yielded to the spirit of Christmas. Every boy could then do the same and the following summer brought disaster to the frogs. In my next attempt I seem to have acted under the first instinctive impulse which later dominated me - to harness the energies of nature to the service of man. I did this through the medium of May-bugs (or June-bugs as they are called in America) which were a veritable pest in that country and sometimes broke the branches of trees by the sheer weight of their bodies. The bushes were black with them. I would attach as many as four of them to a rotor on a thin spindle, and transmit the motion of the same to a large disc and so derive considerable "power." These creatures were remarkably efficient, for once they were started they had no sense to stop and continued whirling for hours and hours and the hotter it was the harder they worked. All went well until a strange boy came to the place. He was the son of a retired officer in the Austrian Army. That urchin ate May-bugs alive and enjoyed them as though they were the finest blue-point oysters. That disgusting sight terminated my endeavors in this promising field and I have never since been able to touch a May-bug or any other insect for that matter. After that, I believe, I undertook to take apart and assemble the clocks of my grandfather. In the former operation I was always successful but often failed in the latter. So it came that he brought my work to a sudden halt in a manner not too delicate and it took 30 years before I tackled another clockwork again. Shortly there after I went into the manufacture of a kind of pop-gun which comprised a hollow tube, a piston, and two plugs of hemp. When firing the gun, the piston was pressed against the stomach and the tube was pushed back quickly with both hands. The air between the plugs was compressed and raised to high temperature and one of them was expelled with a loud report. The art consisted in selecting a tube of the proper taper from the hollow stalks. I did very well with that gun but my activities interfered with the window panes in our house and met with painful discouragement. If I remember rightly, I then took to carving swords from pieces of furniture which I could conveniently obtain. At that time I was under the sway of the Serbian national poetry and full of admiration for the feats of the heroes. I used to spend hours in mowing down my enemies in the form of corn-stalks which ruined the crops and netted me several spankings from my mother. Moreover these were not of the formal kind but the genuine article. I had all this and more behind me before I was 6 years old and had past through 1 year of elementary school in the village of Smiljan where I was born. At this juncture we moved to the little city of Gospic nearby. This change of residence was like a calamity to me. It almost broke my heart to part from our pigeons, chickens and sheep, and our magnificent flock of geese which used to rise to the clouds in the morning and return from the feeding grounds at sundown in battle formation, so perfect that it would have put a squadron of the best aviators of the present day to shame. In our new house I was but a prisoner, watching the strange people I saw through the window blinds. My bashfulness was such that I would rather have faced a roaring lion than one of the city dudes who strolled about. But my hardest trial came on Sunday when I had to dress up and attend the service. There I meet with an accident, the mere thought of which made my blood curdle like sour milk for years afterwards. It was my second adventure in a church. Not long before I was entombed for a night in an old chapel on an inaccessible mountain which was visited only once a year. It was an awful experience, but this one was worse. There was a wealthy lady in town, a good but pompous woman, who used to come to the church gorgeously painted up and attired with an enormous train and attendants. One Sunday I had just finished ringing the bell in the belfry and rushed downstairs when this grand dame was sweeping out and I jumped on her train. It tore off with a ripping noise which sounded like a salvo of musketry fired by raw recruits. My father was livid with rage. He gave me a gentle slap on the cheek, the only corporal punishment he ever administered to me but I almost feel it now. The embarrassment and confusion that followed are indescribable. I was practically ostracised until something else happened which redeemed me in the estimation of the community. An enterprising young merchant had organized a fire department. A new fire engine was purchased, uniforms provided and the men drilled for service and parade. The engine was, in reality, a pump to be worked by sixteen men and was beautifully painted red and black. One afternoon the official trial was prepared for and the machine was transported to the river. The entire population turned out to witness the great spectacle. When all the speeches and ceremonies were concluded, the command was given to pump, but not a drop of water came from the nozzle. The professors and experts tried in vain to locate the trouble. The fizzle was complete when I arrived at the scene. My knowledge of the mechanism was nil and I knew next to nothing of air pressure, but instinctively I felt for the suction hose in the water and found that it had collapsed. When I waded in the river and opened it up the water rushed forth and not a few Sunday clothes were spoiled. Archimedes running naked through the streets of Syracuse and shouting Eureka at the top of his voice did not make a greater impression than myself. I was carried on the shoulders and was the hero of the day. Upon settling in the city I began a 4 year course in the so-called Normal School preparatory to my studies at the College or Real Gymnasium. During this period my boyish efforts and exploits, as well as troubles, continued. Among other things I attained the unique distinction of champion crow catcher in the country. My method of procedure was extremely simple. I would go in the forest, hide in the bushes, and imitate the call of the bird. Usually I would get several answers and in a short while a crow would flutter down into the shrubbery near me. After that all I needed to do was to throw a piece of cardboard to distract its attention, jump up and grab it before it could extricate itself from the undergrowth. In this way I would capture as many as I desired. But on one occasion something occurred which made me respect them. I had caught a fine pair of birds and was returning home with a friend. When we left the forest, thousands of crows had gathered making a frightful racket. In a few minutes they rose in pursuit and soon enveloped us. The fun lasted until all of a sudden I received a blow on the back of my head which knocked me down. Then they attacked me viciously. I was compelled to release the two birds and was glad to join my friend who had taken refuge in a cave. In the schoolroom there were a few mechanical models which interested me and turned my attention to water turbines. I constructed many of these and found great pleasure in operating them. How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate. My uncle had no use for this kind of pastime and more than once rebuked me. I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls I had perused, and pictured in my imagination a big wheel run by the Falls. I told my uncle that I would go to America and carry out this scheme. Thirty years later I saw my ideas carried out at Niagara and marveled at the unfathomable mystery of the mind. I made all kinds of other contrivances and contraptions but among these the arbalist I produced were the best. My arrows, when shot, disappeared from sight and at close range traversed a plank of pine 1 inch thick. through the continuous tightening of the bows I developed skin on my stomach very much like that of a crocodile and I am often wondering whether it is due to this exercise that I am able even now to digest cobble-stones! Nor can I pass in silence my performances with the sling which would have enabled me to give a stunning exhibit at the Hippodrome. And now I will tell of one of my feats with this antique implement of war which will strain to the utmost the credulity of the reader. I was practicing while walking with my uncle along the river. The sun was setting, the trout were playful and from time to time one would shoot up into the air, its glistening body sharply defined against a projecting rock beyond. Of course any boy might have hit a fish under these propitious conditions but I undertook a much more difficult task and I foretold to my uncle, to the minutest detail, what I intended doing. I was to hurl a stone to meet the fish, press its body against the rock, and cut it in two. It was no sooner said than done. My uncle looked at me almost scared out of his wits and exclaimed "Vade retro Satanas!" ("Step back Satan!") and it was a few days before he spoke to me again. Other records, how ever great, will be eclipsed but I feel that I could peacefully rest on my laurels for a thousand years. 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__label__cc	0.684243	0.315757	Posts Tagged ‘Keanu Reeves’ by The Flickcast, Feb 24 2017 // 12:00 PM That’s right, it’s time for a brand new episode of occasional series The Flickcast. And no, we don’t have a joke for this one. Sorry. On this week’s episode Chris and Joe discuss Stranger Things season 2, Star Trek: Discovery, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, the teaser for Avengers: Infinity War, the new Iron Fist trailer, Legion, The Expanse, and more. Plus, the usual even more. Beer selections this week include Hop Hunter from Sierra Nevada for Chris and Goose IPA from Goose Island Beer Company for Joe. Picks this week include Chris’ pick of the film John Wick Chapter 2 and Joe’s pick of the latest album from Big Wreck called Grey Street. As always, if you have comments, questions, critiques, offers of sponsorship, or whatever, feel free to hit us up in the comments, on Twitter, at Facebook, Google+ or shoot us an email. Tagged: Comics, Dan Stevens, Deadpool, FX, John Wick 2, Keanu Reeves, Legion, Marvel, Movies, Netflix, Ryan Reynolds, Sci-Fi, Star Trek: Discovery, Stranger Things, SyFy, The Expanse, Thomas Jane The Flickcast 290: Welcome to the Rock by The Flickcast, Jun 3 2015 // 3:00 PM Due to “circumstances” we’re a bit late with a new episode of The Flickcast again this week. But don’t worry, it’s here now. You can relax . . . and enjoy. On this week’s episode, Chris and Joe’s anger barely registers. But still, they manage to summon a bit of it. People seem to like it when they rant. So there’s that. Topics this week include even more on Mad Max: Fury Road, the aborted Tron 3, the reboot of Point Break, Ash vs. Evil Dead, the career of The Rock, Big Trouble In Little China and a whole lot more. Picks this week include Chris’ pick of the History Channel mini-series Texas Rising and Joe’s pick of the BBC show Space Odyssey. No, the other one. Tagged: Ash vs. Evil Dead, BBC, Big Trouble in Little China, Bill Paxton, Bruce Campbell, Delroy Lindo, Dwayne Johnson, Hulk Hogan, Keanu Reeves, Mad Max: Fury Road, Patrick Swayze, Point Break, Ray Winstone, Sam Raimi, San Andreas, Space Odyssey, Sylvester Stallone, Teresa Palmer, Texas Rising, The Rock, Tron 3 The Flickcast Episode 275: Who You Gonna Call? by The Flickcast, Feb 4 2015 // 1:00 PM Once again, it’s a brand new episode of The Flickcast. Don’t worry, we’re not counting them to make some kind of point. But if we were, we could tell you this is the fourth episode in a row for the new year. Again, not that we’re counting or trying to make a point. On this week’s show, Chris and Joe talk about a whole slew of new and recurring topics . . . as usual. Some of these topics include the occasional humor of Saturday Night Live, the reboot of Ghostbusters featuring an all-female cast, the first Game of Thrones trailer, the talent and somewhat less talent of Kristen Wigg and Melissa McCarthy, making movies on an iPhone 5s, Chris Pratt as Indiana Jones and a whole lot more. As if that’s not enough already. Picks this week are back to more of the usual with Chris’ pick of the movie John Wick , starring Keanu Reeves, and Joe’s pick of the new web browser called Vivaldi. Tagged: Bill Murry, Chris Pratt, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Game of Thrones, Ghostbusters, Harold Ramis, Indiana Jones, Indie Films, iPhone 5s, John Wick, Kate McKinnon, Keanu Reeves, Kristen Wigg, Leslie Jones, Melissa McCarthy, Movies, Saturday Night Live, Sundance, Tangerine, The Flickcast, Vivaldi, Web Browsers Here’s a New Trailer for ’47 Ronin’ With Keanu Reeves by Joe Gillis, Oct 28 2013 // 11:00 AM Let’s just get this out of the way right now: We like Keanu Reeves. Sure, his acting may not always be, well, terrific, but he still manages to make it work and has been a big part of some of our favorite films of all time. Next up for the actor is the fantasy/action film 47 Ronin, which from this new trailer, we can safely say looks pretty great. Here’s the synopsis: After a treacherous warlord kills their master and banishes their kind, 47 leaderless samurai vow to seek vengeance and restore honor to their people. Driven from their homes and dispersed across the land, this band of Ronin must seek the help of Kai (Reeves)—a half-breed they once rejected—as they fight their way across a savage world of mythic beasts, shape-shifting witchcraft and wondrous terrors. As this exiled, enslaved outcast becomes their most deadly weapon, he will transform into the hero who inspires this band of outnumbered rebels to seize eternity. Check out the trailer after the break. Look for 47 Ronin this Christmas. Posted in: News · Trailers Tagged: 47 Ronin, Action, Carl Rinsch, Drama, Hiroyuki Sanada, Keanu Reeves, Movies, Rinko Kikuchi, Trailers, Universal Here’s Another Trailer for ‘Man of Tai Chi’ With Keanu Reeves by Joe Gillis, Sep 5 2013 // 9:00 AM When you’re a successful actor looking for the next challenge, that next challenge is often to direct a movie. Add Keanu Reeves to that list of actors. His first directing effort is a martial arts film called Man of Tai Chi. In it Reeves plays the owner of a Beijing underground fight club who recruits a skilled tai chi practitioner (Tiger Hu Chen) to battle on his deadly martial arts circuit. There’s a new trailer for the film out today and in it we get a lot more of the martial arts action we should expect from a film lie this. And yes, there’s also a bit of story in there too, for those of you who like that kind of thing. The latest trailer is after the break. The movie hits theaters on November 1. Posted in: Movies · News · Trailers Tagged: Keanu Reeves, Man of Tai Chi, Martial Arts, Movies, Tiger Hu Chen, Trailers Movies: Keanu Reeves Knows Kung-Fu In This New Trailer for ‘Man of Tai Chi’ by Joe Gillis, Jun 13 2013 // 8:30 AM His first time in the big chair is a martial arts film called Man of Tai Chi. In it Reeves plays the owner of a Beijing underground fight club who recruits a skilled tai chi practitioner (Tiger Hu Chen) to battle on his deadly martial arts circuit. There’s a new international trailer for Man of Tai Chi out today and in it you can get a look at Reeves, Tiger and all the action. As the star fighter of the movie was also Reeves’ martial arts trainer and stunt double from The Matrix series, we expect some pretty great fights from this one. We hope Keanu’s direction will rise to the occasion too. Look for Man of Tai Chi to arrive in theaters later this year. The trailer is after the break. Posted in: Martial Arts · Movies · News · Trailers Tagged: Action, Iko Uwais, Karen Mok, Keanu Reeves, Man of Tai Chi, Martial Arts, The Matrix, Tiger Hu Chen, Trailers, Yuen Woo-Ping The Potential Third ‘Bill and Ted’ Movie’s Script Has Been Completed by Jonathan Weilbaecher, Mar 6 2012 // 3:00 PM There has been talk of a third Bill And Ted film for quite some time. A few weeks ago it was stated by Alex Winter that the script has been written, by the original writers no less, and is waiting on a green light. Winter intially made this proclamation at a screening of his cult classic film Freaked, but it didn’t really register. Yesterday Winter actually re-affirmed the news via a twitter back and forth: @kelly_carlin: is it true? Bill & Ted’s 3? > Hey Kelly. -Script done? Check. -We love it? Check. -Green light? Working on it! That’s so totally awesome! Knowing that there is a completed script, written by the guys that did the originals, and loved by at least half of the original Wyld Stallyns is most excellent news indeed. Part of what makes this story so fun, beyond the reaffirmation of a completed script, is that Kelly Carlin, to whom Winter was responding, is George Carlin’s daughter. There is an awesome symmetry to the impetus of this story comes from Rufus’ daughter herself. Here’s hoping that the powers that be decide to put a little money down and give us a chance to take another wild ride with the saviors of humanity. San Dimas High School football Rules! Posted in: Comedy · Movies · News · Prequels and Sequels · Rumor · Sci-Fi · Writers · Writing Tagged: Alex Winter, Bill and Ted, George Carlin, Keanu Reeves, Kelly Carlin, News, phone booth, script, Sequel, Time Travel, Twitter, Writers Fan Film: ‘Scott Pilgrim Vs. The Matrix’ Will Blow Your Mind by Matt Raub, Aug 24 2010 // 12:00 PM It’s no secret that we’re all pretty big fans of Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World around the Flickcast offices. We proved that with our review of the film, handful of clips we presented, and disappointment we showed in it’s performance at the box office. Now we’re taking solace in other fans like us taking to the internets with creativity and ingenuity. The running theme with fan films as of late has been a so-called trailer “mash-up” where the audio from one trailer overlays the visuals from another, making it into a cool new concoction of geek and hilarity. This, of course, shouldn’t be confused with the brand of “trailer mash-ups” that swept the web a few years ago which brought us some gems like Scary Poppins or the immortal Shining trailer. These new mash-ups are a bit less imaginative, and slightly more lazy, until now. Enter YouTube user AEmovieguy, who has taken that style of mash-up to a new level by matching up the visuals to the audio and getting the actors to actually look like they’re speaking the lines. It doesn’t sound as impressive as it looks, but we assure you, it’s pretty amazing. Check out what he did with a few minutes of footage from all three Matrix films and the audio from the Scott Pilgrim trailer after the jump. You won’t be disappointed. Posted in: Action · Comedy · Fan Films · Fandom · Movies · News · Sci-Fi · Trailers · Video · Video Games Tagged: Fan Films, Keanu Reeves, Mash-ups, Michael Cera, Neo, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, The Matrix, Trailers The 100 Cheesiest Movie Quotes Of All Time by Chris Ullrich, Jan 26 2010 // 2:00 PM Sometimes a video needs an explanation so you can better understand its significance or its substance. Other times, a video needs no introduction and can stand on its own. This video is one of those second ones. But I’m still gonna give it one anyway. Containing what could arguably be called some of the cheesiest movie lines of all time, the video captures what’s best and worst about the movies we love and helps us remember, at least in some small way, why we love them. Movies, like life, are often imperfect. But that doesn’t stop them from being a hell of a lot of fun most of the time. Click through to enjoy this video from YouTube user hh edits, which was first featured at Pajiba. I know I did. Posted in: Comedy · Movies · News · Video Tagged: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Batman & Robin, Brandon Lee, Castaway, Dolph Lundgren, Face Off, Keanu Reeves, Mortal Kombat, Movie Quotes, Movies, Predator, Roddy Piper, Showdown In Little Tokyo, The Happening, The Matrix, They Live, Tom Hanks, Top Gun, True Lies, Twilight	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20477
__label__cc	0.614209	0.385791	Birds of Bellwoods Look Back in "A Year Ago" Video Birds of Bellwoods recently released Victoria, and now they've treated "A Year Ago" from that album to a music video. The clip compiles footage of the band from their recent travels on tour, including festival stops at Osheaga, Festival d'Été, Hillside and Mariposa. It was shot and edited by the group's tour photographer/videographer Morgan Hotston. "'A Year Ago' started in a conversation I was having with a buddy of mine who lives out in BC," frontman Stevie Joffe tells Exclaim! "There's a beautiful festival in Jasper we've been lucky enough to play twice, and the first year this friend came and met up with us to party and yell at mountains and that kind of thing. When we were invited back I got in touch right away to bring him in on round two. It had been about six months since we'd chatted. He told me he wouldn't be able to make it this year, as he was now married and expecting his first kid. I remember him saying 'that's all it takes.' Brought a few lines like that in, we jammed it until it was about thirteen minutes long and then cut it down from there." Joffe added, "Apparently the kid loves it. But he's a baby, so I'm sure he doesn't grasp the inherent existential dread." Despite the underlying nostalgia, the song is an upbeat jam that was surely a massive sing-along at the aforementioned festival sets. See the band's upcoming tour dates below, then hit play to relive Birds of Bellwoods' memories from shows gone by. 11/27 Edmonton, AB – Temple 11/28 Red Deer, AB – The Vat 11/29 Calgary, AB – The Gateway Bar 12/01 Kamloops, BC – Blue Grotto 12/02 Vancouver, BC – The Railway 12/06 Barrie, ON – The Foxx 12/08 Burnstown, ON – Neat Café 12/09 London, ON – Rum Runners 12/13 Waterloo, ON – Maxwell's 12/14 Windsor, ON – Green Bean 12/15 Niagara Falls, ON – Taps Brewery 12/16 Hamilton, ON – Mills Hardware More Birds of Bellwoods Feb 27 @ 7:00PM - Birds of Bellwoods Oshawa @ The Music Hall Birds of Bellwoods \| Wooly Birds of Bellwoods The Elwins, Birds of Bellwoods, Bonjay to Play Exclaim! Stage at Toronto's Bentway Sunday Socials Last summer, the Bentway — the new public space underneath the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto — made its presence known with creative progra... Edmonton's Sonic Field Day Unveils 2019 Lineup with PUP, July Talk, the Glorious Sons Sonic Field Day is returning to Edmonton this year, and the festival has just revealed its 2019 lineup. The fest will take place on Septe... Ontario's Go North Music Festival Reveals 2019 Lineup Ontario's Go North Music Festival is gearing up for its third straight year of music-making, and organizers have now lifted the curtain on t... Springtide Music Festival Unveils 2019 Lineup with Born Ruffians, Zeus and Birds of Bellwoods Springtide Music Festival will be coming to Uxbridge, ON, on April 26 and 27, and organizers have just unveiled the acts that will grace the... Hamilton's Liquid Art Festival Reveals 2019 Lineup Hamilton-based brewer Collective Arts is set to throw its second annual Liquid Art Festival this June, and organizers have now announced the...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20478
__label__wiki	0.969244	0.969244	Alex Cuba Jan 20 @ 7:00PM \| Mills Hardware \| Hamilton Advance: $22. Check Out Our Mills Hardware Venue Profile More Concerts In Hamilton At this stage in the game, you know what to expect from an Alex Cuba record — not that that's a bad thing. Expect solid instrumentation from... Alex Cuba 'Lo Único Constante' (album stream) Smithers, BC-based Cuban-Canadian singer-songwriter Alex Cuba is about to follow up 2015's Healer with a new album titled Lo Único Constante... Metric, Cœur de Pirate, Alex Cuba to Play Parliament Hill for Canada Day Celebrations We're exactly one month away from Canada Day, when a number of national acts will perform on Parliament Hill to celebrate the holiday. Artis... Alex Cuba "Sarah" (video) Juno and Latin Grammy winner Alex Cuba dedicated his tune "Sarah," from his fifth studio album Healer, to his business partner and wife of 2... Alex Cuba Jane Mallett Theatre, Toronto ON, October 27 "It wasn't easy for me to move the show in April to October and then again in October," says Juno and Latin Grammy winner Alex Cuba. The... Alex Cuba "No Esperes Más" (video) Cuban-Canadian jazz musician Alex Cuba returned with his latest LP Healer earlier this year, and now Exclaim! is giving you the first look a... Alex Cuba Healer After raking in numerous Junos and Latin Grammys for his last few albums, Cuban-Canadian B.C. musician Alex Cuba is back with his fifth solo... Alex Cuba "Static in the System" / "Ruido En El Sistema" Alex Cuba's forthcoming album, Ruido En El Sistema, is due out October 2 via Caracol/EMI. If you don't speak Spanish and were wondering what... Alex Cuba "Caballo (pre-mix)" Canada's rising nueva-nueva trova star provides Exclaim! with an exclusive track from his forthcoming album due in October. What the hell is... Alex Cuba North By Northeast Toronto ON June 11 to 15 Armed with only an acoustic guitar and his trademark throwback afro and sideburns, BC resident Alex Cuba put on a stylised and surprisingly... Alex Cuba Agua del Pozo Five years ago it would have been inconceivable that some of the most inimitable Cuban music today was coming not from the land of the son o... More Alex Cuba	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20479
__label__wiki	0.929534	0.929534	George Goodwin1 M, #23671 George Goodwin lived at Latchford, Oxfordshire, EnglandG.2 Child of George Goodwin Abigail Goodwin+1 d. b 1759 [S15] George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume II, page 122. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Baronetage. [S37] BP2003 volume 3, page 3614. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37] Charles Shuckburgh1 M, #23672, b. 1694, d. 1752 Consanguinity Index=0.0% Charles Shuckburgh was born in 1694.1 He was the son of Sir Charles Shuckburgh, 2nd Bt. and Diana Verney.2,1 He married Sarah Hunt, daughter of Colonel Henry Hunt, in 1718.1 He died in 1752.1 He lived at Longborough, Gloucestershire, EnglandG.1 He lived at Farthingstone, Northamptonshire, England.1 Children of Charles Shuckburgh and Sarah Hunt Lt.-Col. Richard Shuckburgh+2 d. 2 Sep 1773 Sir Charles Shuckburgh, 5th Bt.2 b. 17 Mar 1721/22, d. 10 Aug 1773 [S37] BP2003. [S37] Sarah Hunt1 F, #23673 Sarah Hunt is the daughter of Colonel Henry Hunt.1 She married Charles Shuckburgh, son of Sir Charles Shuckburgh, 2nd Bt. and Diana Verney, in 1718.1 Her married name became Shuckburgh. Children of Sarah Hunt and Charles Shuckburgh Colonel Henry Hunt1 Colonel Henry Hunt lived at Blockley, Worcestershire, England.1 Child of Colonel Henry Hunt Sarah Hunt+1 Captain Richard Shuckburgh M, #23675, d. 1724 Captain Richard Shuckburgh was the son of Sir Charles Shuckburgh, 2nd Bt. and Diana Verney.1,2 He died in 1724, unmarried.2 He was Army Captain.2 Reverend Edward Shuckburgh M, #23676, d. February 1729/30 Reverend Edward Shuckburgh was the son of Sir Charles Shuckburgh, 2nd Bt. and Diana Verney.1,2 He died in February 1729/30, unmarried.2 He graduated from Christ Church, Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)2 He was the Rector at Bromsall, Staffordshire, EnglandG.2 Jane Beaw1 F, #23677, b. circa 1674, d. 20 June 1744 Last Edited=22 Jan 2017 Jane Beaw was born circa 1674.1 She was the daughter of William Beaw and Frances Bowsie.1 She married John Arundell, 3rd Baron Arundell of Trerice, son of John Arundell, 2nd Baron Arundell of Trerice and Margaret Acland.1 She died on 20 June 1744.1 She was buried on 23 June 1744 at Thornbury, Gloucestershire, EnglandG.1 Her will was proven (by probate) on 14 July 1744.1 After her marriage, Jane Beaw was styled as Baroness Arundell of Trerice. Her married name became Arundell.1 Her last will was dated 28 January 1739. Child of Jane Beaw and John Arundell, 3rd Baron Arundell of Trerice John Arundell, 4th Baron Arundell of Trerice2 b. 21 Nov 1701, d. c 10 Aug 1768 [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 268. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage. [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume I, page 263. William Beaw1 Last Edited=3 Oct 2003 William Beaw married Frances Bowsie, daughter of Alexander Bowsie.1 He held the office of Bishop of Llandaff between 1679 and 1706.1 Child of William Beaw and Frances Bowsie Jane Beaw+1 b. c 1674, d. 20 Jun 1744 Frances Bowsie1 Frances Bowsie is the daughter of Alexander Bowsie.1 She married William Beaw.1 Her married name became Beaw.1 Child of Frances Bowsie and William Beaw John Ramsay l'Amy1 John Ramsay l'Amy lived at Dunkenny, Angus, ScotlandG.1 Child of John Ramsay l'Amy Agnes l'Amy+1 d. 14 Sep 1840	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20481
__label__cc	0.740857	0.259143	Moveable Feast Cafe 2017/04/09 … Open Thread 29421 Views April 09, 2017 168 Comments Moveable Feast Herb Swanson Welcome to the ‘Moveable Feast Cafe’. The ‘Moveable Feast’ is an open thread where readers can post wide ranging observations, articles, rants, off topic and have animate discussions of the issues of the day. The ‘Moveable Feast Cafe’ will have two new open threads each week. The Saker stated moderation policy will apply eg ‘no caps’, no obscenity … etc to all post. The Cafe is now open for business … come on in and have a good time. Saker Webmaster Igor Bundy on April 09, 2017 · at 4:14 pm EST/EDT https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8-tQDBUwAAwyHX.jpg Russia and Iran have warned the US they will “respond with force” if their own “red lines” are crossed in Syria. Vasco da Gama on April 09, 2017 · at 7:28 pm EST/EDT Igor Bundy – please stop pushing the incorrect news about Russia and Iran. Please check what Russia and Iran have actually said – rather than rely on the MSM and a doc written in Arabic Mod Peter AU on April 10, 2017 · at 6:39 am EST/EDT Not sure of the origins of the original, perhaps Hezbollah? Several different screen shots on the net But have not yet tracked down the original source. Screenshot here with translation. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8-IRWIWsAA4FyH.jpg Veritas on April 10, 2017 · at 11:34 am EST/EDT Kremlin confirms fake news https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201704101052484957-russia-us-syria-red-lines/ “We are not aware about that, we cannot confirm that and we do not know where Reuters got this and where these anonymous sources appeared from again,” Peskov told reporters….” Check your sources – especially if they come from the MSM about Russia and Iran. Peter AU on April 10, 2017 · at 2:18 pm EST/EDT Russia also has no idea where a number of tomahawk missiles went. I believe Russia asked the US about the missing missiles? Possibly put out by Hezbollah as an unofficial part of the joint operations? This gives Russia plausible deniability yet sends the message. Reading the translation, it seems inline with Russia, Iran’s positions. Russia is sticking by Syria, and announced directly after the missile attack they would be beefing up Syrian air defence systems. I take it the new air defense systems will be used to defend against US attacks if required. nice try on April 12, 2017 · at 6:15 pm EST/EDT More like Russia knows exactly where the missing tomahawks went. They probably are trolling the US military to see if the US knows. Any the US can’t account for can be considered “finders keepers, losers weepers”. Remember the Chinese did finally give back a remote-controlledUS underwater drone after “finding it” near a submerged communications cable. Ann on April 10, 2017 · at 6:57 am EST/EDT here’s a good video of Adam Garrie – employed by Peter Lavelle over at The Duran – in a talk show – very well done – about the latest Trump feat – https://youtu.be/4mQKFomqnqY White whale on April 11, 2017 · at 2:13 pm EST/EDT The Duran’s view on Brit FM Bozo-Boris canning his trip to Moscow this week, preferring to hang out with the G7 gang in Italy: The Russians have hinted that he is frightened of meeting Lavrov – the most terrifyingly competent foreign minister in the world – and they are probably right.’ http://theduran.com/boris-johnson-humiliated-g7-rejects-sanctions/ Uncle Bob 1 on April 09, 2017 · at 4:15 pm EST/EDT Just as I said in another post,we see now that the US is “considering” more sanctions on Russia and Iran. It appears that while my conclusion that the winner of the US election could only be the candidate most “Russophobic” was only “a little bit” wrong. Trump during the election wasn’t anti-Russian (at least in statements),but after seeing the level of Russophobia in the US deep state he has now embraced it as his own. He sees “Russia-hate” as the key to his survival against his enemies.And is now going the “full monty” with it.Considering his fly off the handle personality,that bodes ill for the World.What I said yesterday about Russia’s two choices is now even more valid: https://www.rt.com/usa/384112-trump-sanctions-russia-iran/ Larchmonter445 on April 09, 2017 · at 5:19 pm EST/EDT You may be correct. However, Trump has a way of going along and then turning to his own process to win what he wants. You can be certain he does not want the ME wars. He goes along to get the neocons and Russophobes off his back. Be a little patient. That attack was very symbolic, not very kinetic. Let’s see how Putin responds. This game was always going to be won only by Putin. Even the big air base in Syria being built is sop to the MIC. If it protects Kurds while keeping the Iranians from supplying Hezbollah, Erdogan will create holy hell for the Kurds. Is the US going to fight Turkey and tear apart NATO? The war moves to watch are against Iran. The goal is to disarm Iran. Especially, since Iran humiliated the US Navy. There has to be US payback for that and the threats to US naval power. Look at the moves China and Russian are making in Pakistan and Afghanistan. That connects to Iran. Powerful geography that will crush any notion of NATO and the US domination. Is the Trump goal to stay in Iraq and Syria and control those countries? You can’t control the ground from the air. Air power controls air power. So, the question is, will the Turks, Iranians and Russians submit to US air power? US has to refuel midair to control the skies. US has to use aircraft carriers in the Med, Red Sea and Persian Gulf to put enough planes in the air. Duty cycle of the US air power is low. They cannot sustain a prolonged air power strategy. This is the flea with an erection on a barge going under the bridge yelling out, “Open the drawbridge!” He thinks his dick is that tall. The US can do grave damage in a short period. The question is where will it try to do that damage? The US Navy wants this. They will find an Iranian base and destroy it. It will be a small navy outpost sold to the world as major. And the video that comes out will be denied if it’s from Iranian media. End of episode. The thing that triggers it? Anything they can dream up in Syria, Iraq, Yemen or the Gulf. The US Hegemon is riding high. Trump is using that momentum. Does he want to be President like Bush? Can he call back the storm he is using? This is all post-Obama. The question is can Trump make it post-Bush? McMaster just ousted KT McFarland from the NSC. She was Flynn’s asst. They are sending her to Singapore as ambassador so she will be far away and won’t talk about the chaos inside the NSC and Oval Office. The flea with a hard-on, General McMaster. Typical steroid rage one star. He wrote a book on how to defeat Ho Chi Minh and General Giap. Laughable. Eisenhower wouldn’t take that bait. But McMaster thinks he knows how to defeat everyone. “Open the drawbridge!” Maybe, but the guy that exposed the Susan Rice outing of Flynn is now saying sources tell him the Pentagon (deep state stooges) are making plans for 150,000 US “boots on the ground in Syria. If true, that doesn’t sound like Trump doesn’t want war in the ME. Of course they would be masqueraded as needed to “fight ISIS” but we all know what the “real” purpose would be.Trump personality is so changeable that he seems to go with whoever seems to be more powerful. And I think he decided that the deep state was too strong to fight.That they would end by destroying him if he fought them.What he doesn’t realize is they will still hate him,no matter what. And at the “right moment” turn back on him. The “only ” possibility I can imagine is if the generals oppose this plan.But as most of them are political animals,I don’t know if they will. I may be wrong but my conclusions on the branches of the US military are that the Air Force and Navy are more the warmongering branches of the services (the Air Force gets to bomb places,and the Navy to sail around dominating,so whats not to like for them).While except for some generals,the Army is the least warmongering (its their blood that is on the line more). While the Marines,I’m not sure of. I think they are split between those knowing that they are some of the first to die in war.And those that are “gung-ho” for combat “glory”. Which is stronger I don’t know. Auslander on April 09, 2017 · at 6:56 pm EST/EDT The logistics of moving 150,000 troops with all their kit in to a suspected hostile combat zone is staggering. For starters you double that number for logistics, transport, supply and support. US ain’t got that number any more, they are scattered all over the world and the cuts under Obama have gutted many of the combat echelons, especially in the backbone of the fighting units, the senior NCO’s and company grade officers with experience. Toss in the politically correct experiment of women now in combat units and even in the Marines and you have a recipe for a disaster of epic proportions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL_RKh_yrhs Time frame? One year minimum. Look at the map. Even if they manage to get that many troops in and on the ground after building all the infrastructure needed, if things go sour they have no way out. It will make Cannae look like a kindergarten tea party. sadness on April 09, 2017 · at 9:12 pm EST/EDT Your 150,000 troops on the ground? Easy squeesy in….Israel, the source of all this mess. Israeli’s would love the money and prestige, the troops would have easy access. Station them in the Golan. Get serious about this whole war thang, them poncy terrorists ain’t worth nothin. Attack Syria from the south, Russia be neutered – VVP will never attack Israel. Take out them Hezbollah with a couple of tiny tactical nukes. Nato’s Turkey has the empire’s back in the north. Problem solved, lets get some real killing action going on here, Trumpland over what was LebanonSyria&Iraq beats Disneyland any day. Neo-Israeli-Trumpland the complete ME in one small war. The final solution to make Trump the worlds first entertainment trillionaire. Just too bad it couldn’t happen over the Easter break. eimar on April 10, 2017 · at 1:05 pm EST/EDT If Israel goes the full Monty on Syria, neither Russia nor Iran will hesitate to take them down. Only a complete fool would think otherwise. Otoh, neither Lieberman nor Netanyahoo show any signs of grasping consequence… Anonymous on April 09, 2017 · at 6:57 pm EST/EDT Trump announces attack; watch the body language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XQZsyQKcGI He seems to be in a different state from all the times I’ve seen Clinton, Bushes, and Obomber lie when taking human life. So I am thinking maybe this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSxXiHRZTOY. As another comment suggested, often the most important stuff happens behind the scenes. Dr. Maharaja Hathiwala on April 10, 2017 · at 4:12 pm EST/EDT Maybe read Douglas Reed and then apply his findings to Kushner & Co. Every US president before him had this ‘special’ realization after a few weeks in office. That’s the most likely process going on behind the scenes. chimmy on April 09, 2017 · at 8:24 pm EST/EDT Do they, the Pentagon, think they can go into Syria, make Iran and Hezbollah get out, and come to some sort of rapprochement with Russia (with or without regime change) without things going awry? Sadly, chaos and population reduction always seem to be the results of their plans. blue on April 09, 2017 · at 7:09 pm EST/EDT Trump says he is a deal maker — and we know what they say about making a deal with the devil. But I don’t know what Trump, with his neurotic, delusional ideology, thinks, and I doubt even Trump really knows. I don’t think he is very rational or truly intelligent — else he would have handled matters much differently in many instances. Larchmonter Everything I have read – SST, Mercouris ect – is that Trump broke US law with the strike on Syria and can be impeached at any time. If that is the case, Trump is an owned man. Owned by whatever group has the numbers to impeach or block an impeachment. The group with the numbers is the war party. Natoist für Geld on April 10, 2017 · at 9:55 am EST/EDT Larchmonter445 I like to read your posts. I don’t understand what do you mean by this – You can’t control the ground from the air. Control of cities, government and infrastructure (society, the people) is always the task of boots on the ground. The US has overwhelming (especially with NATO) airpower. However, t does not control Iraq, and never did. It does not control Afghanistan, and never did. It does not control any nation it attacked or bombed. It can destroy a nation, and has, but it uses proxies (nazis and Wahhabis) to try to control the ground. Hell, the Israelis tried to control a piece of Lebanon with air power. It failed. Air power is used to attrit (to break things and kill massed formations). It can help shape battlezones (Russians do this brilliantly in Syria). But it does not control the facts on the ground. Infantry is necessary. Lumi on April 09, 2017 · at 9:07 pm EST/EDT I learnt only today that Trump was not just a pompous billionaire, but also a TV host. Many non-Usanians may not know that. The Apprentice U.S. – BEST FIRINGS (Part 1) – Youtube After seeing this video, it’s unclear how you could take Trump seriously. This is a sick, well, let’s call it “behaviour shaping” show. He (and all the other actors) against the sheeple in front of the TV sets. William Engdahl has had the right angle on Trump from the beginning. The Dangerous Deception Called The Trump Presidency – By F. William Engdahl – 25 November 2016 Michael Hudson says Trump is ‘ America’s Yeltsin’: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/04/running-government-like-business-bad-citizens.html There may be trouble ahead… https://youtu.be/gACCCmFKP80 Repost ( didn’t work first time) The most important point.. Point seven of the statement details how all US military are legitimate targets as they have crossed every red line possible and operate illegally in Syria. It then emphasizes that the joint military operations room will respond strongly to any aggression and any violation made by the US in Syria. White whale on April 10, 2017 · at 2:05 am EST/EDT Please read this rebuttal. http://theduran.com/exclusive-fake-news-story-in-mainstream-and-alt-media-slandering-russia-and-iran/ Fake news story in mainstream AND alt-media slanders Russia and Iran ADAM GARRIE 8 hours ago 14 1,650 The story says that Russia and Iran threatened to attack the US if a ‘red line’ was crossed. This is an outright lie. A fake news story has been circulating on both mainstream media and alt-media saying that Russia and Iran have issued a joint threat to ‘use force’ in the event of the US targeting Syrian forces again. It was also reported that the issue was quoted as being a ‘red line’, a term generally used by the US. There’s more, so please visit The Duran – a website that verifies facts, and is transparent about its “opinion” pieces. Quality journalism, not fake clicks and lies. Forget Garry. What is in the document matches closely what each country has already stated individually. See if more turns up in the near future of the authenticity or otherwise of this statement/document. I have posted a link to the translation above. Sorry to repeat myself but as this conversation has carried on here – the Kremlin has reported it is fake news today: So repeating it isn’t going to make it real. Veritas. , Can you point out where in the Sputnik article Russia says it is fake. As far as I can see, Russia is using words like unaware. I would certainly like to find the original site where the two screen shots were lifted from and try to determine if this fake news, or something put out by Hezbullah as an unofficial part of the Damascus joint ops room for plausible deniability while passing on the message. As yet I have seen no evidence that this is a total fake, but not being able to search in Arabic, I cannot trace it to its source. ioan on April 10, 2017 · at 4:00 pm EST/EDT I tell you where it has come from : from the Al-Jazeera news channel’s info-bar. Read it myself yesterday. I don’t remember where I saw it but but what I heard was that someone connected siad something like ‘Russia has it’s red lines too’ not being specific, however. Well, everyone has red lines, and if the empire shoots missiles into Russia that is definitely one of them and will elicit a definite reaction. A country may not state just what its red line are, but everyone has them, and it’s a warning not to push nations assuming they will never respond. But when such a general statement is made there are those who extrapolate, spin, or take statements out of context, and this happens all the time. I’ve heard several statements regarding US warnings to Russia about the cruise missile attack and don’t know surely or precisely what happened — whether it was a short term (1/2 hour) deconfliction channel message with no political level communication, all the way to US and Russia was talking about it for hours, which I also heard, as well as the whole thing was a joint project between US and RF. (The first version seems most likely to me). Most everybody has an axe to grind and/or says things not correct, and that’ becoming the norm. JJ on April 10, 2017 · at 2:34 pm EST/EDT also denied by Peskov http://theduran.com/confirmed-kremlin-is-unaware-about-suspicious-document-exposed-exclusively-by-the-duran/ J on April 09, 2017 · at 4:17 pm EST/EDT What is hot on twitter: Trump’s National Security Advisor Planning ‘Full-Scale War’ in Syria McMaster wants 150,000 boots on the ground in Syria, reports Mike Cernovich http://russia-insider.com/en/breaking-trumps-national-security-adviser-wants-full-scale-war-syria/ri19516 J.L.Seagull on April 09, 2017 · at 7:06 pm EST/EDT Meanwhile, Rex Tillotson says that Trump is cooperating with Putin and Assad against ISIS! Not sure what is going on at all. J on April 09, 2017 · at 11:01 pm EST/EDT No kidding. Now it is “Syrian people should decide Assad’s fate, Tillerson tells US media” https://www.rt.com/usa/384142-tillerson-syria-regime-change-isis/ A bipolar government. Who know what they will say or do tomorrow. White whale on April 10, 2017 · at 12:22 am EST/EDT Ok. This is a guess, and I will try to verify. (But my guess is based on some personal career experience) Tillerson made his “Syrian people must decide Assards fate” statement on a Sunday night (US) TV program. Mostly such Sunday night “magazine-format” TV programs are pre-recorded. So say he was interviewed Monday/Tuesday. That WAS the US policy at time of interview. Then Thursday night Trump sends out a 59-missile “tweet” and reverses US foreign policy 180 degrees. No TV station is going to waste the time it has invested in glamorous news anchors, film crews and editing – so it runs the original interview and perhaps “tops” and “tails” with updated info. They don’t care if Tillerson looks a fool. They filled their Sunday night slot and raked in advertising…. Remember: it is called TV “programming” for a reason. The 60hz waves entrain your brain into a semi-hypnotic state. You are then receptive to their messages and then also buy the sheesh their advertisers sell. J on April 10, 2017 · at 12:57 am EST/EDT I do see your point even the date of the post was April 9th. It could be from a few days before. However, I `would not be surprised if he made another U turn seeing his base crumbling. According Tillerson, Xi not only understood the air strike on Syria, but also agreed to strike on North Korea. I am sure Chinese is taking notes fast, and going through risk management options. SCMP is a somewhat neutral site, and has a piece about Korea. Beware of goons in comment section. They are almost every where on Chinese Engilsh sites: US and North Korea ‘closer to brink’ of accidental conflict http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2086239/us-and-north-korea-closer-brink-accidental-conflict?utm_content=buffer3745f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer#comments AlfaAlfalfa on April 10, 2017 · at 2:33 am EST/EDT You are correct. Transmitting contradictory messages. To pacify and confuse. J.L.Seagull on April 10, 2017 · at 8:52 am EST/EDT Well said, AlfaAlfalfa. Bannon taught Trump that the media is his rival. Trump is using that tactic to his advantage (and to our advantage in the past, but not now). He purposefully disseminates contradictory views, to confuse potential political opposition. Lumi on April 10, 2017 · at 12:40 pm EST/EDT » The 60hz waves entrain your brain into a semi-hypnotic state. « Precisely why PAL countries use benign 50 Hz instead of diabolic 60 Hz. :) Fedor on April 09, 2017 · at 4:55 pm EST/EDT The Iranian Tv channel (in arabic) Al Alam provide video of Tomahawk interception : http://www.presstv.com/DetailFr/2017/04/09/517371/Frappe-US–les-S400-ont-fonctionn Let’s face it. The US used a small force of kinetic weapons. And the shoot downs are probable, as are GPS spoofing the ones that went awry. All in all, the US gets to beat its chest. It scares none of its enemies and intended targets of their might. If anyone thinks this scares NK or China, they are very naive. Trump and his Wall Street bankers cannot sustain a collapse of the world economy and messing with China is a too-edged sword. You can hurt their rise, slow it by a decade or so. But to hurt them irrevocably, you have to destroy the East of China, Guangdong, Shenzhen, Shanghai. Do that and you have no world. These are threats and bitch-slaps. Trump cannot get a pyrrhic victory in the ME and have a domestic economic comeback. Hegemony and growth do not mix. That is an ironic consequence that is undeniable. We see the West over the last 25 years grow poorer and more chaotic as it rules over more people. Yet, it is sucking back inside itself the snakes that will devour its civilization. I feel personally more concern about Iran than China. Even if the today join statement is a strong sign, i feel quiet worry about how far can go the threat on Iran… http://russia-insider.com/en/breaking-russia-and-iran-say-they-will-respond-force-if-us-strikes-syria-again/ri19518 shoot downs probable.. See the fake news posted by Igor Bundy. They are inventing reality. You are enhancing the illusion. I call bovine scatology on that vid. The Tomahawk is a ground hugging missile, not flitting about in the stratosphere or anywhere near it. Reminds me of footage from Baghdad some many moons ago. Chill, folks, it’s always darkest before the dawn. Cosimo on April 09, 2017 · at 8:13 pm EST/EDT That’s not in Arabic. It’s in French. The video is hard to interpret, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s entirely fake. Truth is always the first victim of war, and that’s true on both sides. Yes, the article is in french, from the french version of the Iranian channel Presstv. But the video is from the “Iranian Tv channel (in arabic) Al Alam”. I just stress that it is an Iranian source… oldnik007 on April 14, 2017 · at 9:25 am EST/EDT the only english comment says it is a vid from 2006 in iraq. _smr on April 09, 2017 · at 5:48 pm EST/EDT Right in time for the centenary of the Russian Revolution Miles Mathis has updated his Lenin paper, adding game-changing, yet not unexpected material on Tsar Nicholas II. “The Russian Revolution makes no sense unless we assume his [Nicholas II] cooperation in the event. We saw exactly the same thing in the earlier French Revolution, where the event was run out of Versailles and the Tuileries, and where Louis not only lay down for the revolution, but abetted it. I have shown you one leading clue above, where we find that Nicholas was sent letters in Yiddish from Lenin’s Jewish grandfather. I asked if Nicholas could read these letters without translation, and I was not joking. Later, we saw many other indications Russia had been invaded by Jewish interests long before the Revolution itself. Which led me to look at the genealogy of Nicholas. Had the royal line in Russia been invaded, and if so, when and how? Well, as we have seen with the lines in England, France, Sweden, and other countries, the royal lines of Russia had likely been invaded many times, but with Nicholas finding the invader is very easy. We simply go to his mother, Maria Feodorovna. Although from Denmark, her mother was from Hesse-Kassel (Germany). And if we trace the female line directly back, we come to Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield. She was the 2g-grandmother of Maria. That name should look familiar to you, since the current Windsors are actually Saxe-Coburg-Gothas. I have shown in previous papers that they are Jewish in many lines, being descended from the Jagiellons of Poland. This Jagiellon/Vasa line intercepts the royal lines of many European countries, and has been – along with the Medici line – one of the most successful invaders. This is confirmed with the royal line in Russia at which we are looking. For if we keep going back in the female line, we hit Barbara Jagiellon once again. She is the 7g-grandmother of Charlotte. You can follow this line explicitly at Wikipedia, working back from Maria Feodorovna. Since the Jewish lines are matrilineal, this means Nicholas II was Jewish. This indicates the Russian Revolution was managed from both ends. You should take this knowledge back to the Wikipedia page on Jewish Bolshevism, where they tell us the theory is Nazi propaganda. It should give you a long chuckle, since we can now see that both sides in the Russian Revolution were Jewish, including the Tsar himself. It is clear the Russian Revolution was a total fake, used to cover the Jewish takeover of the government and country. ” http://mileswmathis.com/lenin.pdf This sniffing about for Jewish origin is bullsht. Doesn’t explain a thing, doesn’t mean a thing. A year ago or so, I read Mathis’ paper on Steve Jobs and found it fascinating. Because, come on, Steve Jobs is a fraud. Then I read the one on Bill Gates and was underwhelmed; it failed to convince me. Then I read the one on Dresden and it was pure nonsense. Miles Mathis is the latest evolution in Anglo information warfare. What he transmits, most of the time, is radical truth. What matters is not what he is telling you, but where it puts you psychologically when you accept you have been lied to every day of your life — and those lies were not small. Again, you are being pacified. _smr on April 10, 2017 · at 8:11 am EST/EDT It is the other way round. If you have the guts to realize that society conditions you with lies and lies only, and the guts to close the eyes and look in, what do you see? Vast emptiness, everything holy. AlfaAlfalfa on April 10, 2017 · at 12:50 pm EST/EDT I am trying Taugenichts but I don’t understand. I have been to the place you describe, not very often but I have definitely been. In your own self description I detect self flagellation, and mortification not of the flesh but of soul. Are you sure I am backwards? I didn’t like Miles take on Dresden either. But trying to navigate the millennia old layers of deceit & deception is only possible if one is ready to fall off the tightrope once in a while. Sure, it hurts and the ridicule of the onlookers is guaranteed. So what? Only walking the tightrope does one feel truly ecstatic, awake and alive. Hmm? I care little for how the author feels. And I don’t have a need for tightropes. My conclusion after a piece such as the one Mathis did on Dresden is that the author is a complete waste of time. The fact that a year later he is found sniffing about for Jewish origins confirms my conclusion. Trotsky Is Back on April 09, 2017 · at 6:08 pm EST/EDT Just like how Stalin masterfully purged the Trotskyites in the purges, Trump will purge the neocons and covert elements of the CIA after a big failure which Trump himself will set up. I was hoping it was something like that ….. until the last couple of days. After the missile strikes, I’m now convinced that Trump was just a liar in the last campaign. Like Obama before him, he said what he knew his audience wanted to hear. Polls have largely shown that since just a year or so into what I call the Fourth Iraq War, the American people have said they wanted these wars to end or at the least be scaled back. Trump played on that, a bit more so than Obama, but in a similar line. Now we’ve seen Trump was just anothe liar, like Obama ‘the antiwar candidate’ was. Interesting that it now seems that to be an American President, you have to tell the people that you are antiwar or in some ways show you want these wars to end. I’d like to think that Trump was setting a trap for the War Party. But Trump has ‘owned’ the Syria attack too much. He could have put it up for debate and let McCain and others show their colors. He could have let it be seen that he was being pushed into war. That would set up a comeback later. But Trump, being Trump, has been very outfront on this whole attack. He did it secretely, with no debate, so now Trump very much owns the Syrian War. Trump is now stuck to this like a tarbaby. Which is probably what the neocons wanted. If this turns out badly, it belongs wholely to Trump. When, not if, it turns out to be an expensive quagmire, the Syrian War is now Trump’s. vot tak on April 09, 2017 · at 9:12 pm EST/EDT The trump campaign was just as phony as the clinton one, just as zionazi with the same zionazi goals. plainsman on April 10, 2017 · at 12:28 am EST/EDT Guys who ran honest campaigns : Henry Wallace, Adlia Stevenson, George McGovern, Eugene McCarthy……. @ VT Yep. So extremely, double- down triple twist fake, it actually screwed with the NOOsphere and became real !!! Fact: Trump was NOT supposed to win. We don’t have to guess at this- the leaked DNC emails from campaign chief John Podesta are explicit. They state: Trump was a “pied piper” candidate. He was supposed to be so absurd, ridiculous and “never Trump” that he’d lead the sheeple to HRC. Somewhere along the campaign trail, the sheeple got lost and went astray. And somewhere on the campaign trail Trump began to believe HE could be the President of the United States of America !!!!!. The most powerful man on the planet.!!!!! Every little boy of Trumps vintage grew up wanting to be President. It was the American Dream. Somewhere along the line he assembled and attracted the right bunch of strategists and money to make it happen. THAT’s why there has been so much turmoil behind the screens in the US Deep State. Trump screwed “them” over and “stole” the election. Trump as president simply WASNT supposed to be. 100-days in, “they” have made deals and done some “stuff”* and the usurpers behind the scenes are coming to terms with the “rightful” owners of the presidency. Trump has made one of his famous “deals”…. He gets to live/ keep presidency (for now), and he does what he is told. Don’t “believe” any of what I write. Go to wiki leaks. There’s 20,000 or so emails. It’s all there.. Unvarnished. The DNC (and background players) constructed theatre so DJT would be the RNC candidate. Jeb Bush wanted to be Prez, but when he realised it just wasn’t to be – he got with the program. Also “they” detected another Bush was stirring/waking the sheep huh? Bush? What was that I read about 9/11? So they distracted with TV-showman and “joke” candidate, Trump. But he was supposed to lose. Then Hillary had that epic pass-out (karma!~ in NYC at the 9/11 memorial event!) and the sheep got skittish. Trump was healthy, Alpha and strong / she was ill, female and whiny. Murdered Seth Rich has been confirmed as the Wikileaks leaker. He leaked the DNC emails and was murdered. The investigation into his murder has seemingly not attracted energetic investigation. In a 2001 episode of The Simpsons, Donald Trump becomes President and predictably, chaos ensues. After the shstorm blows over, steady and dependable Lisa Simpson replaces Trump as President and solves everyone’s problem by doing the ‘obvious’ thing — raising your taxes. Lol. I’ve been using that expression a lot these last few days. Don’t let them move you into a condition of emotional terror. Everything has been invented. When you are calm you can easily spot the epic contradictions of their manufactured narratives. It is difficult to accept that our world is guided by the most ingenious people, when for most of your life you have been taught they are all monsters and idiots, like Killary Killington or Donald J. Trump. Remembers ladies and gentlemen, these are actors and petit billionaires, not the people in charge. SEJMON on April 10, 2017 · at 8:27 pm EST/EDT I would like and many, many others which supported and vote for DJT he will do massive purge of neocons ,warmongers, russophobes after TRex return from Moscow…. Stefan Ratkiewicz on April 09, 2017 · at 6:17 pm EST/EDT What can be deduced from the US missile strikes in Syria the strikes didn’t really hurt the Syrian Arab Army nor it’s Air force . While the Syrians did lose six aircraft they were older Mig 23’s that could well have been in a museum yet the US decided to strike them with 23 cruise missiles . Yes there were other targets struck at the air base ,but nothing really of strategic importance. The intriguing aspect of this strike is that apparently only 23 out of 59 missiles hit their targets .What happened to the other 36, no media source has been able to ascertain this question ,yet the Russian Defence spokesperson is adamant that indeed 36 did not strike their targets. Now if this is true then its obvious that something occurred that is beneficial for one side yet a detriment to the other ,if the Russians did jam or redirect the cruise missiles then the US must be seriously worried that their vaunted missile is highly vulnerable. We’ll just have to wait out on this until someone leaks some info. The US Government and the MSM were in a highly unsavoury position with the Hundreds of Iraqi Civilians massacred by US airstrikes in Mosul , their Teflon suits were having great difficulty deflecting the criticism’s mostly by the Russians and the alternative news sites. Mind you that the outrage was nothing comparable to the way that the Western MSM attacked the Syrian and Russian Governments with regards to the liberation of Aleppo. President Trump has been under constant attack not only by the Dems but also the GOP itself along with the FBI and CIA .He has been cornered stained and insulted by this pack of hyena’s complaining about Russian hacking and Trump being some kind of a Russian puppet. None of which has been proven up till now and probably never will be because its a Scam . Yet President Trump’s response has been very meagre and his right to exercise Presidential options meagre as well – that is his choice. Trump was handed the August 2013 Ghoutta gas attack ‘Red Line’ playbook and he took the bait ‘hook line and sinker’ perhaps thinking or incited to accept a trade off. Which would unite the opposition rallied against Him and spin it towards bipartisan support for his decision to strike Syria ,which is what happened .This places Trump in a precarious position where he will be further manipulated ,this bring into question his rhetoric about ‘draining the swamp’ which during the election campaign sounded genuine but was more than likely guile on his part. The Western backed Wahabbi Takfiri terrorists are now going to be emboldened to commit more ghastly Gas Attacks because their logic is going to be derived on the assumption that the US and her EU allies are going to demand more punitive strikes in support of the terrorist activities if and when they create more ‘false flag’ attacks against innocent civilians ,surely the Russians know this . The US warned the Russians of the impending cruise missile attack and the Russians warned the Syrians .The US didn’t have much choice in the matter because the Russian Navy would have considered the incoming missiles a direct threat against their ships .The Russian air defense batteries in Syria proper would also have considered this as a direct threat . The Russian decision to cancel sharing flight information with the US is a wise choice ,the US and the NATO types may have been hoping that this ‘flight info sharing’ would allow them to bomb Syria at their discretion as long as they gave the Russians a heads up. The Russian Government isn’t buying it at all ,they will strengthen their air defense capabilities and de facto set up their own no fly zone. As long as the Russians have no warning they will consider all incoming missiles and aircraft as a threat. This is going to change the game in Syria and there are no signs that the Russians ,Iranians or Hezbollah will back down .The Iranians know that if Syria falls they will be next and this will ultimately include the Caucasus Region . Hezbollah knows that if Syria falls the war will spill into Lebanon and the Russian Federation will suffer from this domino effect. Keep in mind that the American system is a bit different from other ‘democracies’. America is a two-party democracy, and not a multi-party democracy. An American Presidential election is 50 simultaneous state-wide elections. And all the states except two of the smaller states are state-wide, winner-take-all. This forces contenders to form alliances before the election. This is why there are two ‘major’ parties, and that only they can get elected. Each party has to form a coalition that can be victorious in state-wide, winner-take-all elections. You either have a large party with the power base to win or at least contend in winner-take-all elections, or you are completely powerless. The key is to realize that within these ‘big-tent’ major parties, there are always various factions. Within the Democrats, there is currently the Hillary faction and the Bernie/Warren faction. Within the Republicans, what was once the ‘Tea-Party’ faction has become the ‘Trump faction’, and there is also a strong wing called the ‘NeverTrumpers’. These are the neocons and supporters of the Bush faction that got their tails whipped by Trump in the Republican primaries. The Democrat Hillary faction and the Republican NeverTrump faction are the two that have been vicious since the election in attacking Trump. The Democrat Bernie/Warren faction has been strong against some of Trump’s policies, such as his immigration polices, but has been quieter about the Russian connection and the foreign policy. Interestingly, the Syrian Missile attack has brought them into foreign policy, as they represent also what’s left of the old anti-war Democratic faction. Even though Bernie consistently refused to say a single anti-war statement during the last election. So, the old Democrat antiwar left that didn’t support Trump, and the Republican Libertarian right that did vote for Trump (or against Hillary) are coming more into play as opposition to Trump after the missile attacks. But of course the Democrat Hillary faction and the Republican NeverTrump faction are now happier than they were before. The comment above is largely correct, its just not as simple as saying ‘the Democrats’ do this and the ‘Republicans’ do that. You start to realize its more complicated when you realize for instance that the “NeverTrump” faction is moving closer to Trump now that he’s proven himself to be a war criminal. yes, to imagine Hillary Clinton’s (and Bill’s) reactions when, after the election, Trump said “They’re nice people” Before the election and right after he won, the Clintons were probably scared…but then, ‘all is well’ would have signalled to them, that he is really of their kith and kin. But I wonder if Hillary had won, where would we be now ? Sweden and Egypt both had critical reactions to US strikes. And they both had terrorist attacks… What a surprise that was. I had not made the connection. The west is not in a hurry to condemn this terrorist attack on a Christian Church (Tanta – Saint George Church)… kinterra on April 09, 2017 · at 8:37 pm EST/EDT I am grateful for all this cafe dialog today. From the sidelines I offer some thera-poetry for Holy Week. It is Fulfilled. On humble colt He solemn rides, Into foreboding Palestine. From Him there shines triumphantly, Sun-crowned resplendent Majesty. Awakened all beholding eyes Respond with reverent hailing cries: Praise to the Son of God on high! Hosanna! Hosanna! Hosanna! A King from heaven bowed down low In darkened Earth, his blood to sow Seeds of Light and Love Divine, Eternity flowing into time. Obscured in shadow, the Pharisee’s dare Against God’s will, the world to snare. Their devil’s pact is to insure, The soul from Spirit Light they’ll lure. Silver coins in hand they trust, Power and money, greed and lust, Will lull the people from His wake. His Spirit Sun they’ll fast forsake. Poor people such the devil’s fool. Hear their cries turn cold and cruel? “Crucify Him,” they cry instead. “We would rather see Him dead.” From the Cross Christ’s Blood has flowed. Into Earth depths Sun force bestowed. Light Eternal and God’s power replete, That human souls may evil defeat. In the spiraling cycles of time, In the Mother’s vast embrace, Through strength of effort and rapport of grace. There shall arise a new Adamic race. The days of Holy Week proclaim From what false promise we must refrain, How when faithful to His Word remain, Our Divine noble nature we will regain. (A special thank-you to ioan and t13 for their responses in the last cafe.) Dear kinterra, this poem of yours is magnificent, one of the bests ! Thank you ! teranam13 on April 09, 2017 · at 10:07 pm EST/EDT Kinterra’s Thera poetry.. nice flow. The Kingdom of heaven is found within so heed not the roar of chaotic din Steady as she goes, chart the course Full speed ahead, soul power is our force. UB1 & L445 It is very clear now that trump said a lot of stuff during the election to get people on board his run that were lies from the start. Several people posted info about the political campaign strategy outfit he used which specialized in psywar manipulation of political demographics. Trump simply said what these specialists told him to say in order to get more people to vote for him. Once elected, they used the same strategy, made vague statements that didn’t gave away their true agenda. Kept their hand close to their chest. Once inaugurated, their true agenda began to show through the cloud of bs they spend a year laying down. Yet after each exposure of fraud, people keep making the same sorts of excuses for these zionazis they did for the obama regime. People are being steered to look at trumps betrayals from the wrong vantage point: “The deep state forced trump to fire flynn and bannon.” That being a good example of that nonsense. The tuppence regime used flynn and bannon to achieve certain political goals. Once their role became redundant, they were discarded. That’s how zionazis do things. Look at everything else this regime is doing. None of the intelligent things put forth during the campaign are being pursued, the sods are mostly doing the opposite. Examples: Their replacement for obamacare was even a worse corporate welfare scam that left out the token help for the poor that obamacare incorporated. Literally every tuppence foreign policy decision has been as dismally zionazi, fascist and repugnant as from the last regime. It’s obvious trump is willingly fulfilling the same sort of role just like obama. In fact, all this making excuses for trump is an almost exact replay of the excusing of obama’s duplicity. Trump is not being threatened by an illusionary “deep state”, nor out thunk, out fought, out maneuvered by said, or any of the other bs used to excuse his regime’s actions, the sod is a willing accomplice, anf has been all along. That was the plan. He’s another duplitious zionazi stealth candidate. It is a total waste of energy and time to continue making excuses for the guy. The horse is now very, very dead, stop flogging the rotting carcass. You won’t bring it back from the dead. In fact, all this hand wringing in defence of the zionazi quisling trump very much reminds of the pet shop owner’s role in the Monty Python Dead Parrot sketch: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4vuW6tQ0218 Larchmonter445 on April 09, 2017 · at 11:47 pm EST/EDT Vot Tak, You are very consistent and today, quite funny. You certainly have great argument about Trump turning out to be quite the slippery dick. However, the Deep State had him in the sniper scope and his family, too. Included in the inner group are Kellyanne Conway with enough death threats to require 24/7 SS coverage for her and her family. The neocons were driving for impeachment. The Congress held up his appointments, still delaying many. To ignore all the obstacles and dangers and threats to his Presidency as mere theater and feints, fakes and psyops is really telling tens of millions of Americans, some very astute, as astute as you, that they were fooled. No, nothing of the sort. Trump is making moves to win against Russia in the oil and gas business and to win against China in the trade war. Along the way, the logic of using missiles to send messages is pure Americana. We’ve been standing off and firing kinetic rounds at people for 30+ years. When America sends in troops, they get into deep trouble. The Pentagon wants to do that next. How else would he have acted in the ME? Fire some missiles and wag the dog. He’ll try something in 100 days with NK. The man is not ideological. He is practical and hard-nosed. He’s faced down mafia in NYC and Jews in the building industry and city government, hoodlums in New Jersey, Atlantic City. He knows hardball. He was trained for five years in military school, always a leader, and understands power and how to use it. We had hopes for Detente. That is gone. The follow on with Putin will be Cold War 2. Putin won’t negotiate with him on these terms. Trump’s weakness is he will walk from a deal. He won’t like the deal he will get with Putin. That leaves him with a war in the ME which he does not want and cannot accept. He will walk from that. He’s changing over his Oval Office team. Priebus will probably be shifted out. Gary Gould will have most of the domestic economic power. Trump has to produce results domestically. The military will take a shot at Iran. I described above it will be naval. Missiles. We know heavy stuff is moving from Russian into the region, into Syria and probably into Iran. China will be send tons of stuff. They have deep interests in Syria and Iraq. And though they have few PLA involved, there are plenty of material for war in Chinese ships that will port in Syria. The US may try to stop it later. But there will be no sanctions on China for arming Syria with whatever Russia tells them to send. Trump has the Pentagon, rigid with desire, putting into action their plan to sever pieces of Syria away from Assad. Imagine the UNSC discussing that. The moral authority of Egypt is already showing. Al Sisi has not stood with Trump on this Syrian thing. And he won’t walk away from the help he needs from Russia to deal with ISIS and Libya next door. Trump has had a good week. It’s been somewhat contrived. Calling him out for hypocrisy or turnabout is one level of criticism. He has gambled with his movement voters. He has to deliver victory over ISIS no matter what he attempts against Assad. If he continues to play the Kurdistan game in Syria, he will also have to overthrow and replace Erdogan. I’m not certain Russia will allow that. Turkey is as important to Russia as Ukraine right now. The Turkish Stream, the Straits, the border with Syria, and trade and tourism are huge for Russia-Turkey arrangements. Trump has proven he is no Obama. He still has to prove he is no Bush 43. Right now, most people think he looks a hell of a lot like “W”. And it will only get worse in the months ahead. I make no excuses. The minute Flynn was out, I dropped all hope for Detente. That was the key to every prayer of all the world that Trump would deliver on cooperation and peace. The Khazarians won. They killed General Flynn. So, from then on, all I’ve done is denote the subsequent intrigues. My expectations were tied to Flynn reforming the IC and MIC. Trump can’t find the pump much less the switch to drain the swamp. He will be covered in septic slush soon if he allows McMaster and Mattis to try to win a war in the ME against Russia, Turkey and Iran in behalf of the Realm. In your terms he went full Zio. His base now has to shift to get Dems voters who didn’t vote for him. I think he has miscalculated by assuming he will be acceptable to them because their neocon wing loves his missile attack. Trump has one foot on each side of tectonic plates moving apart. The RINOS want him out. The Liberals want him out. And he cannot fight a war and take the losses that are coming, even though the bodies will be not be counted. His secrecy over operations will only last a few months. The future is filled with despair for some. Trump started with a weak situation. He made it worse by not standing up to Pence, shutting him up about Flynn and protecting his wingman. Unintended consequences. They get the best of the Emperors and Khans and Kagans. My faith has always been on the other side. Putin. My hope on this side was Flynn working reforms. Trump, not being ideological, had potential. He still may beat some of the Tribe of neocons and Russophobes. But he has dug a crater for himself. And they may shovel over the dirt atop him before he climbs out. He’s not to be counted out yet. And we haven’t seen Putin’s moves. History is in his mind and hands. He will determine our next years, not Trump. Trump could have made it easy and joyous. It didn’t happen because he could not make it happen. They cut him off and backed him down. His bad. Looking at the picture at the top, we find ourselves in quite a shabby café today. Funny, how that doesn’t stop us from having the best chat ever. As we do every time when the opportunity presents itself. Making the best out of every situation. A vastly underrated skill, actually, beating black magic consistently without even making an effort. Ha ha. I call it everyday magic. Frankie on April 09, 2017 · at 10:06 pm EST/EDT Why Americans actually lost in Vietnam? The reason was simple. While having maximum 540 000 in early 1969, only 70 000 were ground force combat soldiers. And 1/3 of them were out of frontline combat duties. Yes – US had never more than 40 000 grunts to be sent to frontline combat. In 1968 over 16 000 US soldiers die in Vietnam ( over 45 000 wounded). Not sure the share of those frontline grunts but in case of Finnish military losses in 1941-44 combat soldiers took 94% of bloody shit. After Vietnam the techno warfare has cut the share of combat grunts to about 5%. 150 000 soldiers might sound impressive but in real life 90-95% are just Etappenschweinen, “rear area pigs” ( List Regiment Kameraden called young A. Hitler during WW1 with that name). You just can’t win a war with 7 500 combat frontline grunts in huge and complex area of Middle East. The whole thing is pure lie. Mathias on April 09, 2017 · at 10:15 pm EST/EDT Syria is good place to show those Americans. More firepower to Hezbollah, Iran and Syria now. Small and heavy weapons, millions of mines, mortars, etc… Unlike they think there in States war is not so fun at all. It’s just racket as Smedley Butler said before his death. Every bully will face his doomsday. SanctuaryOne on April 09, 2017 · at 11:06 pm EST/EDT Trump goes to Syria, Trump goes to N.Korea, Trump doubtless will escalate Ukraine on the way to Russia regime change. Who next? Yes, Iran, unless of course somebody else pops up. How about a war on Klugestan or Corteguay? Most Americans will be all for it. Wasn’t there a corporal who made the mistake of fighting on two fronts? Let’s not forget that a few years ago, the Pentagon has stated that the US is prepared for a multiple front war-scenario. It couldn’t be other way, even in the second world war, they fought battles on several fronts : Europe, Asia. Of course, the cream on the cake is that US always fought in coalition with others. This time will not be different, it won’t be difficult to find contributors. We even can name them very easily by geography. SanctuaryOne on April 10, 2017 · at 9:30 pm EST/EDT So you think the USA can prevail against Russia -perhaps with Iran and China backing the latter too? You may be right but history doesn’t bolster that theory and putting it to an empirical test may result in no history in the human context. Has the USA prevailed in Afghanistan even? As for those contributors, the ‘handmaidens to the barbarian’ hanging on its coattails, you may find they get sudden cold feet when faced with a bad-tempered bear. ioan on April 11, 2017 · at 8:55 am EST/EDT No, I’m not saying that US shall prevail in a multiple battlefield, I’m just saying that the Pentagon has such plans. What will be the outcome is pretty clear for everyone : devastation. There is no way that US wouldn’t be touched either. The question is, will the clear mind prevail or will the warmongers have the upper hand. SanctuaryOne on April 12, 2017 · at 5:14 am EST/EDT It’s anyone guess; commonsense or even sober military analysis and assessment are now superceded by jingoism, arrogance, supremacy ideology and the seduction of power. ‘Too big to fail’ mentallity blinds them -I think they have started to believe their own propaganda. It really is very depressing. Anonymous on April 10, 2017 · at 1:37 am EST/EDT Late but important. Is Assad gassing dolls or what is that around the kid’s neck? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6A-aCh8ltA Chemical Attack In Syria Kills About 100 People CBS Los Angeles. Published on Apr 4, 2017 Starting at 1:08. S-400 on April 10, 2017 · at 2:33 am EST/EDT Israel seeks Syria’s destruction for several reasons. Among them are: 1. To isolate Iran 2. To isolate Hezbollah 3.To steal the Golan Heights Syria is the only Arab country that has consistently refused abandon the Palestinians and kowtow to Israel. Syria lies at the heart of the Resistance against Zionist machinations in the region. Therefore, by deception they have sought to manipulate the US, Europe and others – more so the US, which is essentially ‘occupied Israeli territory’ to do Israel’s biddings vis-a-vis Syria. Trump is the latest in a long line of goyim fools. He has allowed arch-Zionists like Sheldon Adelson to innundate his administration with Israeli-firsters who are now actively imposing and implementing policies that he supposedly campaigned against. Why do you think the Jews were so vehemently opposed to his election? Trump’s ‘America first’ policy would compete with the ‘Israel first’ one that has been foisted on previous adminstrations and has been in operation for years to the obvious detriment of the US. @S400. What you say is correct. But it is a smaller piece of a larger “puzzle”. The US-UK and their dark force owners are resolutely implementing the Yinon Plan for the ME. It’s taking decades, but events and milestones are accelerating. Yinon Plan: Greater Israel = Biblical “Promised Land” Rabbi Fischmann, member of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared in his testimony to the U.N. Special Committee of Enquiry on 9 July 1947: “The Promised Land extends from the River of Egypt up to the Euphrates, it includes parts of Syria and Lebanon.” Oded Yinon’s “A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties” The plan operates on two essential premises. To survive, Israel must 1) become an imperial regional power, and 2) must effect the division of the whole area into small states by the dissolution of all existing Arab states. Small here will depend on the ethnic or sectarian composition of each state. Consequently, the Zionist hope is that sectarian-based states become Israel’s satellites and, ironically, its source of moral legitimation. Everything that is happening (and has happened) in the ME and the US+UK policy directing events is explained and obvious. This PLAN exists and is being implemented. Aligned with the Yinon Plan is the Intermarium plan for East Europe+Central Asia. This too is resolutely being implemented. Breaking up Yugoslavia was part of the start. Implementation is underway: http://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/?fa=63300 The position paper from this “think tank” outlines how to engineer geo-political events to deliver this objective. It’s not a solo voice. Here the powerful and influential US “think tank” and policy manipulator: Stratfor details how to contain and control Russia. (The included maps looks exactly like the Intermarium: https://www.stratfor.com/weekly/estonia-azerbaijan-american-strategy-after-ukraine Valdai discussion club: https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/geopolitics_of_intermarium_kiev_s_conduct_escalates_tensions_in_the_baltic_black_sea_region/ The formation of the renewed Baltic-Black Sea region or the Intermarium started in the 1990s. In 1993, US Presidential National Security Adviser Anthony Lake proclaimed the concept of expanding democracy. It provided for the involvement of former Eastern bloc countries and Soviet republics save Russia to Transatlantic institutions. The Clinton Administration launched NATO’s eastward expansion in 1994 with a view to its implementation. The Kremlin adamantly objected to this policy. Since then, Russia and NATO have been competing in the Baltic-Black Sea region. With these two plans understood, EVERYTHING that is happening geo-politically makes ~perfect~ sense blue on April 10, 2017 · at 2:35 am EST/EDT Link to this was dropped in a comment at Fort Russ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrCSInQJKMI The Truth About The Syrian Chemical Attack – A Timeline Of False Flags & Lies and next door on the youtube link list was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV_ggGIkZcU MUST WATCH! The Hidden Truth Behind the Horrible Chemical Attack in Syria (ReallyGraceful) Both are good short videos with info and summaries of the situation and background. thanks Blue, I watched the really graceful link – excellent – I’m impressed – not all the world sleepeth. Yep – good stuff, though few here don’t know about the Zionist/ Saudi (British Establishment Rothschild) string- pulling ( also explains the French involvement, ably documented by Thierry Meyssan). An American angle, supplied by Alex Jones ( can’t stand his preacher- style delivery usually, or his awful interviewing ‘ techniques’, but now and again his incandescent rants show a good heart, even if his economic views are diametrically opposed to.mine): The usa attack also gave time for false evidence to be planted and real truthful evidence to be removed or tampered with too. Geoff on April 10, 2017 · at 5:20 am EST/EDT Chris Hedges Dissects the Trump Machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLaoJrg80JQ A Nation of the Walking Dead By Chris Hedges Bro 93 on April 10, 2017 · at 6:03 am EST/EDT Next week Russia is to be accused of aiding ‘Syria’s war crimes”, by the British Empire war criminals and their stupidest American accomplices. At one point Trump realized they were his enemy, out to destroy him with tales of golden showers raining upon hookers in….where was that?? Maybe you should go set the record straight, and forget this Macbeth role, Donald. It’s raining Demorats and Repugnicans, It’s pouring lies and false flags. But the wise Old Man ain’t snoring: “Lyndon LaRouche today warned that there is a British-run coup d’etat in process against the Trump administration in the United States, which threatens to parlay the stupid and dangerous April 6 air strike against Syria, into a full-fledged thermonuclear confrontation with Russia and China. It’s the British bastards who duped President Trump into attacking Syria, with their lies and false intelligence, LaRouche charged. We have to destroy the British system and all their interests in the U.S., he stated. We have to rally the U.S. to get back on the trajectory that Trump had begun to chart for the country, of cooperation with Russia and China around American System economic policies, including a return the FDR’s 1933 Glass-Steagall principle. Trump and Putin should immediately hold a summit meeting to address the crisis, LaRouche said, and thereby short-circuit the whole British operation. LaRouche strongly endorsed the comments this weekend by veteran German statesman Willy Wimmer, former Secretary of State of the German Defense Ministry, who warned that “people are afraid of a global war, a Third World War,” and argued that “the current dramatic situation offers an opportunity for the Russian and U.S. heads of state to meet as soon as possible.” There can be no doubt that the British are behind last week’s shocking about-face of Trump’s policy. Top British officials are crowing openly over their achievement to date. For example, British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon published an op-ed in the April 9 Sunday Times of London, bragging that “the British and American governments have been in close contact at all levels before and after the strikes… U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis called me to share their assessment of the regime’s culpability. Together we reviewed the options they were considering.” On April 8, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson had also claimed that he was coordinating everything with his American counterpart, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, including Johnson’s theatrical cancellation of his scheduled trip to Moscow. “I discussed these plans in detail with Secretary Tillerson,” Johnson boasted. “He will visit Moscow as planned and, following the G7 meeting [in Lucca, Italy on April 10-11], will be able to deliver that clear and coordinated message to the Russians.” Today’s Sunday Times elaborated, in an article accompanying the Fallon op-ed, what that message would be: ,“Britain and America will this week directly accuse Russia of complicity in war crimes in Syria and demand that Vladimir Putin pull the rug from Bashar al-Assad’s blood-soaked regime.” Fallon further wrote: “By proxy, Russia is responsible for every civilian death last week,” adding that Putin must now get with the program, by agreeing to the overthrow of the Assad government. The chances of Putin going along with this British demand, are zero. The chances of the situation spiraling into a thermonuclear confrontation—either in the Middle East or around the Korean peninsula—are significantly greater than zero, so long as the British are calling the shots. Having induced Trump to attack Syria based upon their lies, the British are now also orchestrating a storm of opposition to President Trump in the Obama wing of the Democratic Party, calling for Trump’s impeachment because of the Syria caper. Trump’s actions this week have also weakened him politically among his own base of supporters, both in the U.S. and internationally, who are shocked and dismayed at what he did—which adds grist to the British mill. The current situation is extremely dangerous, LaRouche emphasized, and can lead to war in the short term. And it is being brought about entirely by the British, and nothing else. We have to destroy that British imperial system. The citizens of the United States must rally themselves against this British coup. No intelligent person will accept what the British are up to; the only people inside the United States who will back the British, LaRouche said, are brain-drained people who are traitors to the U.S. We have to come down like a hammer on this, in order to stop the British coup to take over the Trump administration, and the related drive to war. The Schiller Institute’s two-day conference this coming April 13-14, on “U.S.-China Cooperation on the Belt and Road Initiative and Corresponding Ideas in Chinese and Western Philosophy,” will present the policy alternative which is capable of destroying the British Empire, permanently.” Trump, get your head out of the guillotine MI-6’s Christopher Steele has been sharpening for the purpose of separating your head from your shoulders and confer with the other guy that can keep the world from going to hell: Putin. Or you can play MacBeth and tolerate a witches’ brew of more and more stupidity piled on to your April 6 mega-blunder. It’s the British, Stupid. https://larouchepac.com/20170409/larouche-calls-immediate-trump-putin-summit-stop-british-drive-world-war-iii JJ on April 10, 2017 · at 9:28 am EST/EDT interestingly enough, article in our usual alternate media last week , that the UN Representative of Uk Mathew Rycroft was a major instigator -participator in compilation and sexing up and persuance of the intelligence leading up to Iraq WMD claims………………….. “By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes” Boris the Buffoon goes up against Putin & Assad (&Iran, Hezbollah etc.): “Boris Johnson said the message from the meeting should be clear – that Russian President Vladimir Putin must be made to abandon his support for Mr Assad” From the bloviator: Syria war: G7 seeks united front on Assad and Russia So the Sarin theatre production directed by the White Helmets was used to ‘justify’ a ‘shock and awe’ cruise missile retaliation of no military consequence. Does anyone think Putin and Russia will be persuaded by this crude blackmail? Rest assured Putin has the matter in hand; I’d be taking out all the media space I could (or what the MSM allowed, plus non-corporate media) to discredit for once and all those Soros White Helmets. If that didn’t work perhaps a bounty on White Helmets and their local sponsors? Next I’d go after whoever cooked up the Sarin witches brew -assuming there actually was one and it wasn’t antacid tablets to foam the mouth and eye drops to shrink the pupils. After that I’d lean on Israel and tell them to put a stop to all this nonsense. Perhaps two can play at the blackmail game? Oscar on April 10, 2017 · at 6:14 am EST/EDT I have read a few days ago a very negative article on Medvedev in Russia insider, no need to to bring it here. But I am puzzled by him Medvedev? What is his role in Putins government? Is he an asset or a liability? Some opinions? While the USA and Europe are 100% assets of the Cartels, Russia managed to retain a tiny bit of sovereignty – just big enough for Putin’s desk. The rest, as they say, is history. What about Medvedev, you ask? Better forget him quickly. He is one of these ghouls the Politburo has positioned in a globe spanning grid at a 100 meter distance – put there to siphon of money, egg on the mafia to be more reckless, scare the elderly and the kids, talk grandiose nonsense on ZionTV – you get the picture. Medvedev, in other words, is a ticking time bomb. Hopefully hacked by the FSB. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbDi0WlpEQ8 Danil Pluzhnikov – Im Free \| Voice Kids (Also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMl-A1gTslQ ) http://lyricstranslate.com/en/Ya-svoboden-last-I%E2%80%99m-free.html At last I’m free Versions: #1#2#3#4 The silence is above me The sky full of rain and this rain is piercing me out but there’s no pain anymore At the time when stars had whisper We have burnt our last connection Suddenly everything falls down to hellhole And freedom I will gain Without evil and goodness My soul was like that blade runner I could be with you and forget about whole world I could be loving you but it’s just a game With help of noise of wind behind I’ll get over your (forget) voice I’ll get over those human love which burn’s us out to ashes and I was crazy about you… Now there’s no place for you in my soul Припев: Chorus At last I’m free – like that bird flies in the sky At last I’m free – I forgot the fear inside At last I’m free – like that wind-wildly At last I’m free – not in my dream but in realty The sky full of fire and this fire is piercing me out And here I’m free again I am free of love, of animosity and of that people talking Free of fate of that bondage which held me down of evil and goodness… Ya svoboden (Я свободен) Надо мною тишина, Небо, полное дождя. Дождь проходит сквозь меня, Но боли больше нет. Под холодный шепот звезд Мы сожгли последний мост, И все в бездну сорвалось. Свободным стану я От зла и от добра. Моя душа была на лезвии ножа. Я бы мог с тобою быть, Я бы мог про все забыть, Я бы мог тебя любить, Но это лишь игра. В шуме ветра за спиной Я забуду голос твой, И о той любви земной, Что нас сжигала в прах, И я сходил с ума. В моей душе нет больше места для тебя. Я свободен! Словно птица в небесах. Я свободен! Я забыл, что значит страх. Я свободен! С диким ветром наравне. Я свободен! Наяву, а не во сне. Небо, полное огня. Свет проходит сквозь меня, И я свободен вновь. Я свободен от любви, От вражды и от молвы, От предсказанной судьбы И от земных оков, Thanks for sharing this with us, you know, it’s heart breaking and warming (the singers) and also thanks for the lyrics ! vot tak on April 12, 2017 · at 12:10 am EST/EDT Wow, that guy is an amazing singer. The song itself is a very well known Russian rock song from Aria, one of the few Russian groups, very few, western audiences were allowed to know existed, thanks to zionazi (ie, in this case jewnazi and Jewish mafia: absolute control of western entertainment, for those who were unaware. Thank you for that information. I have only just heard of Aria — it’s tough to find out about contemporary Russia music without speaking the Language (and google/youtube doesn’t make it too easy of course, if one does not know what to look for). ‘Voice Kids of Russia’ has some amazingly talented people. Among British people I slightly know, I can certainly give Infowars’ Paul Joseph Watson quite the much, very much the nod in this debate with a very manic evil clownish looking character named Bill Mitchell was asserts maniacally that Trump has “established himself as the leader of the Free World”. Pardon me while I puck, Billy Boy ….and I wouldn’t trust you around children for 5 seconds. The way you “think” is simply perverted epistemology, and clinically so: https://youtu.be/n1zQQzZmuZk?t=300 Look at the guy’s psychotic facial twitches and grimaces for God’s sake. He’s like some kind of satanist creaming in his jeans over this evil, convoluted garbage. He’s a maniac. Too bad he shares the name with the Australian economist. I might guess he’s hyped up on some kind of drug. We are in a time that reminds me of one of those years when suddenly there are earwigs everywhere, or a plague of black flies, or that summer when I was a kid and hoards of Japanese beetles came and ate all the roses and other flowers. ‘Disturbances in the Force’. I guess Jung would have had something to say about it. Mathias on April 10, 2017 · at 8:04 am EST/EDT Michel Chossudovksy destroyed Noam Chomsky. Chomsky is now officially death fish on left. http://www.globalresearch.ca/when-americas-progressives-pay-lip-service-to-imperialism-the-anti-war-movement-is-dead/5584150 Meanwhile process continues and day by day USA is even officially becoming fascist in its core. It’s relatively easy to understand why China and Russia must be careful with that raving mad now because as we all known the cure for this disease is not reform and surely not any fake election democracy but – catastrophe and very real and very devastating. I guess it will be mostly economic though Pentagon might fool sacrifice few thousand its boys and gals in Middle Eastern desert. China and Russia should double check that pain is immense for that fascist rascal. Remember how Germans became (mostly) peace loving people? Thanks for posting that MC article, M. It is duplicitous Jewish Zionists and their leashed shabbas goy gofers who have corrupted destroyed the western left to the point that the few remnants left effectively serve the interests of israel and the fascist oligarchy associated with that psychopathically sick country and political/cultural movement. Uncle Bob 1 on April 10, 2017 · at 8:19 am EST/EDT There is “another” Moscow Conference on International Security coming up soon. And the Deputy Russian Defense Minister says international expects will “once again” discuss World terrorism. I’m not a fan of these conferences. Where “everyone” will bemoan terrorism. While at the same time “moving heaven and earth” to avoid calling out those countries actually funding,arming,causing,the very terrorism they complain about. It pretty much makes me want to vomit. If they would “actually” accuse,and name the guilty ones. Then “maybe” something would come from the conference. If nothing else,people would see which countries are behind this disaster.Of course we here know the guilty ones. But we aren’t officials,or experts on terrorism. So what we say is pretty much useless. But a speech at the conference saying “the US ,Britain,Israel,Saudi Arabia,Qatar. These are the sponsors of most terrorism in the ME today”. Would actually “mean something” and get down to “brass tacks”. Stop “beating around the bush,and tell the truth.The truth is “always the best policy”: https://www.rt.com/news/384151-terrorists-puppets-security-forum-fomin/ New Crosstalk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq8brFK-kRs Is Trump doing a one-eighty to please his political foes – it sure looks like it. Indeed, the mainstream media is now singing his praises. One has to ask – has the deep state and the neocons tamed Trump? CrossTalking with Joaquin Flores and Dmitry Babich. They are getting closer to the meme but still too hard to call, imo. Joaquin is a sharp analyst and his “Trump surrounded by …” is a plausible. Let’s look at some of the MSM images and themes in flow. 1. Trump has shown his true colors — the election run up was just a grand deceit. 2. Trump is an idiot (with small hands) and so weak willed that the swamp now owns him. 3. Trump is a genius and has double-crossed his own praetorian guard. 4. Trump plays too much golf and insults Chinese Premier with attack during visit. 5. Trump has shares in Raytheon. 7. Trumps is controlled by his son-in-law and Israel. 8. Hillary knew about the plan and tried to front run him. 9. Hillary would do the same or more. 10. The female naval Commander (Andria Slough) who just killed 5-6 Syrians by following orders not (yet) approved by the Congress — may as well be a proxy for Clinton. 11. Some old non-flying junk was destroyed in a Syrian backwater airfield. 12. A significant % of missiles did not arrive at target and are unaccounted for (duds or trolled?). 13. US MSM frenzy on the “beautiful killing machines” etc and they now have a ‘real’ POTUS (Yemen butchery does not count it seems – I guess Saudi $$$ can buy press silence). 14. Various vassal states (Canada/Aust) falling over themselves to get on board without knowing the facts — most of the normal world puzzled and scratching their heads. 15. Bannon is demoted and may be walking out — Flynn was the turning point. 16. Someone told the Russians who then warned the Syrians. 17. Now NK suddenly needs some US naval confrontation. 18. Tillerson heading to Moscow to chat with Lavrov (and learn how to dance). 19. The ‘deplorables’ on edge – is he or is he not a turncoat? (wait for the next episode in real-live ‘reality’ tv land…) 20. Real economy tanking at full steam ahead for the next Great Depression (with, or without, the Great Wall of Mexico). Binary alternatives: A. Trump is the 180-degree dupe and wave goodbye to any alternative to the neo-con-future … buy Raytheon shares and gold before WW3 breaks out. B. Trump is a shrewd cookie and may just be playing his own game with both sides of the table. On the “B” assumption — by way of outcomes: 1. US air force largely grounded from ‘no fly zone’ Syria after the Russian’s break the coordinating link. 2. Russia and Iran pledge to increase support for Syria and warn a red line exists — Belgium heads home before it’s called into take one for the team-USA. 3. Syrian defence is upgraded as response (and not provocation) — old Syrian planes likely to be replaced and the trained pilots keep up the attack pressure on terrorists. 4. The US domestic front is in chaos dribbling unproven hype and fact-free fake news while Clinton’s Democrats don’t know which way to jump and Obama is put to bed as the POTUS who couldn’t do it. 5. Tensions with Russia increased but manageable and now the US war machine has to decide what next — do they really want war with Russia, Iran and possibly China? Do they prosecute the man who just might give it to them? 6. Trump will likely continue to lay golf (on his own golf courses) and commute via taxpayer express. 7. Now the neo-con chickens in the coup will have to sit down and shut up, or take the BIG War Plan to Congress et al — and Trump is probably not going to support any of it, other than status quo foreign policy log jam. So, in between the flashing neon lights with “Assad Must Go” / “Assad Can Stay” / “Syrian People Can Decide” (but no elections in Bahrain or Saudi Arabia) / the “US Will Decide”, Turkey in/out of NATO depending on Kurdistan, and the Israelis still denying they lost an aircraft but have made no new flights (other than pushing the US to drop a few payback Tomahawks), we have rather ‘calm weather’ ahead in the region for some time ahead – ISIS excluded. There will be no boots on the ground in Syria most likely — the logistics alone would be impractical. ISIS is dead and when the Russians/Syrians/Iranians have cleaned them up Trump will tick it off his bucket list and get on with domestic policy. He’s basically, bitch-slapped ‘nice’ Hillary Clinton and her ballbusters with Commander Andria Slough who just killed 5-6 Syrians by following orders not (yet) approved by the Congress. He’s put his offensive team in gridlock and well aware that any major escalation to WW3 status would simply play into his hands — as the end point, before the big showdown, would be Putin and he (and a couple of others) sitting down face-to-face and working things out. They are forcing him to take the long hard road but at the end he holds the pen and barring a bullet may just prove that not using it (for once) may prove mightier than the neo-con sword. Only time will tell in this action research project. teranam13 on April 10, 2017 · at 3:52 pm EST/EDT in the meantime there is the reality of IS fighters massing in Mariupol and Gen Votel getting green lights to trample more red lines in the midEast and of course the elephant in the room, Israel, piping up ready to pay the piper by doing the neocon bidding. The time line is not long enough for there to be much play time: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/russia-threatens-apos-real-war-081245821.html We know the Russians only threaten once. “Trump is the 180-degree dupe and wave goodbye to any alternative to the neo-con-future …” Ahh — got it. It’s the remix: Trump is not DC (pun intended) but AC (alternating current), a sinusoidal wave form that first goes negative and positive, above and below the red line, periodically reversing direction, generating high tension — a transformer which induces crazyness in everyone around him, and, as Edison demonstrated, AC kills elephants. Currently in the negative phase, and will continue to make waves. Third string plug on April 11, 2017 · at 2:51 am EST/EDT Today is the seventh anniversary of the Kaczynski Katyn Krash in the immediate vicinity of the Smolensk airport. DLF had a short story commemorating the incident. There are apparently still factions in Poland pushing various conspiracy theories about Russian sabotage or in-flight destruction. Seems like a good moment to repost a pointer to former Lufthansa captain Peter Haisenko’s brief and matter-of-fact analysis of the event: Smolensk – Katyn: Ein Absturz wie aus dem Lehrbuch – Januar 14, 2011 – Peter Haisenko * There was no fire on impact, showing that the plane had run out of fuel. * The plane inexplicably didn’t have enough fuel to make a safe flight. * High ranking Polish military staff, under the influence of alcohol, was found in the cockpit telling the captain what to do. * Absolutely no reason whatsoever to blame Russia or anything or anybody Russian for anything. Even the first Polish investigation confirmed this, but also is being turned up side down to obtain a eu missive and dismissed Russia. Olaf on April 12, 2017 · at 1:24 pm EST/EDT Thank you for sharing, it is sure good to know that „even the first Polish investigation confirmed this“, where „this“ probably means that the Polish investigators also found that the crash occurred because of lack of fuel, that high ranking Polish military staff was found drunk in the cockpit telling the captain what to do and that there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to blame Russia or anything or anybody Russian for anything. I am confident everybody here will agree on that. However I did not understand the rest: …but also is being turned up side down to obtain a eu missive and dismissed Russia. Do you mean the plane was turned upside down? According to the pix it was, yes. Or the case has been turned down since then? Ok, but what for? To obtain a eu missive and dismissed Russia? –? Unfortunately, English is not my mother tongue so that I am not able to understand your argument. Could you please explain? The israelis tolerate zero dissent and no questioning of their policies in their pindo colonial establishment. Rep. Gabbard under fire after refusing to accept ‘Assad did chemical attack’ without proof https://www.rt.com/usa/384169-tulsi-gabbard-syria-strike-assad/ “Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has provoked a backlash from senior Democrats after refusing to take Syrian President Bashar Assad’s complicity in the Idlib chemical attack at face value and demanding proof. The remarks infuriated some “progressive” Democratic figures, including former Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair Howard Dean and former Hillary Clinton policy director Neera Tanden, now the President of the Center for American Progress, a pro-Democratic Party think tank. The two suggested on Twitter that Gabbard, who also famously visited Syria for a covert “fact-finding” mission, should be expelled from Congress for her doubt of Assad’s guilt. “Gabbard should not be in Congress,” he wrote on Twitter on Sunday. Asked by one of the users why the former Governor did not display a similar indignation over “Hillary Clinton’s mistakes,” Dean responded: “Engaging in dialogue isn’t the problem. It’s claiming there is doubt Assad uses chemical warfare.” The spanish inquisition has been resurrected as the israeli inquisition and it’s marching in full stride among israel’s colonies. The zionazi owned scum like dean and tanden should be treated as the traitors they are. Carmel by the Sea on April 10, 2017 · at 2:30 pm EST/EDT Philip Giraldi, former CIA officer and Director of the Council for the National Interest, says that “military and intelligence personnel,” “intimately familiar” with the intelligence, say that the narrative that Assad or Russia did it is a “sham,” instead endorsing the Russian narrative that Assad’s forces had bombed a storage facility. Giraldi’s intelligence sources are “astonished” about the government and media narrative and are considering going public out of concern over the danger of worse war there. Giraldi also observes that the Assad regime had no motive to do such a thing at this time. https://scotthorton.org/?powerpress_pinw=23774-podcast For those that do not know who Phil Giraldi is, this is what he said some years ago: “Americans can either confront the ugly realities of what has been going on for the past twelve years or they can pretend that what they are seeing is not really there. The reality is that if progressives (and the rest of us) really want to stop a proxy war against Syria followed by a catastrophic conflict with Iran we have to take the blinkers off and be willing to confront Jewish groups like AIPAC and the ADL directly and persistently.” — Phil Giraldi is a former counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer with the CIA and a columnist and television commentator who is the Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest. Katherine on April 10, 2017 · at 3:29 pm EST/EDT Off topic I am sure, but any one know what happened to the “Hezbollah Warns” page? Hmmmm. very suspicious as if the fog of info war is being created deliberately so that something can be staged in an unclear manner. Well, the Russians need to be very clear then with official statements on air from Russia. GrandmaR on April 10, 2017 · at 5:49 pm EST/EDT It was on my local TV news at noon — and now here: Fake News becomes the world’s new Reality in a matter of a few hours, maybe a few minutes. Anything can happen. Up to $73k per spy: Beijing offers hefty rewards for tip-offs on ‘foreign agents’ https://www.rt.com/news/384180-china-rewards-for-spies/ “Chinese security services are offering bounteous rewards – ranging from 10,000 to 500,000 yuan (US$1,450 to $72,440) – to citizens for providing vital information on suspected foreign espionage activities, state media reveal.” Damn! If only they made such an offer, to non citizens, back in the 90s. I met a Jewish american sayanim back then who worked with the Tinanim Square “color revs” and no doubt other things in China. Could have used a few extra grand back then. A few days ago I laid out the two (and only two) choices for Russia’s future survival (or not survival). While its certainly too early for definite conclusions. It appears so far from the Duma,they lean towards choice one (surrender to bullying). If anyone wonders how the US keeps hegemony,its really quite simple.Use equal amounts of bribery and force. If you can bribe people to obey you,do that. If not force them too. If and until,they meet an opponent able to refrain from selling out.And one not afraid of their threats.Then they will continue with World domination.Its just that simple.So far I don’t see signs of that opponent. Those few that I see resist the bribe.Don’t seem to be willing or able to resist the force.Here on RT is the perfect example of that.When you tell your enemy “up front” you won’t fight,you give the struggle away at the start : https://www.rt.com/politics/384175-russia-has-no-intention-to/ Dennis Leary on April 10, 2017 · at 5:15 pm EST/EDT A Swamp to Swan Story Drain the Swamp was first chanted by people at Trump rallies. At first Donald did not like it but grew to like it and then used it to get elected, or so the story goes. More likely, it was inserted by Intelligence to get him elected and to implant in the populace at large that they are indeed in a swamp which only the State can save them from, fake news which gives me the blues. I caught up on the news yesterday and charged up my batteries during the day by various means. I finished at 10:30 last night, went to bed and slept til 1:30 when I awoke and was sorting things out until 3 am when I came over here to the motorhome and caught up on the cafe conversation. I went back to bed outside at 6 am and got a couple hours of sleep. I had a dream about climbing up a snowy cliff with danger of falling backwards. I lay in bed pondering until coming over here again at 9 am. Last night there was a beautiful full moon overhead with Venus nearby. The winds were rather strong. Quite a contrast between Venus and Mars, women in heaven and wars on earth. Allow me to summarize where I’m at by means of this black swamp to white swan story. War is a swamp. General Smedley Butler called it a racket. Eisenhower called it the Military Industrial Complex. It is also called the AZ Empire. I call it Patriarchy or the Patrix for short. Anyway, war is its stomp in the swamp. I do not intend to be swamped. Fortunately, there is a swamp boat called The Love Government which takes me through the swamp to dry land which is now pretty much a wasteland of war. There the Love Army guides me through the land mines and clears my way by stopping war along the way. We are heading for the Love Bower which is also called paradise or a vineyard. I am debriefed in the war room and then briefed in the conversational cafe here and given food and drink. Then I am given wedding clothes and a pass to the Love Bower where I sleep and am reconnected to the life of reality. But the story is not over. To prove my new-found status as lover I return by the way I came back to the swamp to pick up those who wish to leave, and then as a member of the Love Army do to others what was done to me. This journey is repeated over and over until the swamp is drained. It’s a rather long process but each time the game is won successfully it gets easier. That’s the short version. Of course it’s much more complicated but I need to live an unswamped life so I must be short and sweet. I’ve got lovers to meet and promises to keep before I sleep. It’s now 10 am, the sky is clear and sunny, the winds are quiet with no swamp in sight. It’s a land of delight which proves to me that the swamp is a fake news story which I don’t have to buy. As long as I don’t get trapped in it, I can even enjoy its drama both as comedy and tragedy. This same story is being recapitulated by Orthodox Easter week where Jesus goes into Hades and picks up those in his lifeboat those who are ready to leave hell to cross the Styx swamp. I know it’s a mixed metaphor but quite apt in these mixed up times, a black swan event in world white with fright. Love to all and to all a good day. @Dennis I love your mixed metaphor because it is the picture exactly. Fog of confusion with Venus on Vacation and mercury retrograde with Mars at a kill or be killed position in Taurus–patience and appeal to higher power is in order here. here is from a source A-1 via the Saker scale in my book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu_kv-omEOw Great last sentence Dennis……intuitive, perceptive, instinctive, etc Franz on April 10, 2017 · at 7:13 pm EST/EDT When I reflect on these latest events I think ‘They have tried’ to murder Easter, the way Kissinger murdered that past Xmas with his saturation bombing of Hanoi. The only other group capable of such brutal, sacrilege is ISIS. They bombed Egyptian Copts on Palm Sunday. But then ISIS is US. ternam13 on April 10, 2017 · at 5:51 pm EST/EDT At least someone is standing on principle: I rate this source C-2 according to Saker scale in my opinion https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/hezbollah-issues-stern-warning-targeting-mid-east-christians/ It needs to be “always” remembered. And “never ever” forgotten at “any” time,that the US doesn’t ever keep to agreements that are equal. When they don’t favor the US,they “will” never keep that agreement.Those that deny or forget that are doomed to not survive. Some people who would “like” to believe that the US criminal attack on Syria was a one time crime. Are just plain wrong.The US will confuse the issue by making it appear that they aren’t continuing their attacks. But that is purely a “smoke screen” to deceive the World.Like a “dog with a bone” the US never will give up that bone. And the bone in question is the destruction of Syria’s government. And the humbling of Russia,leading to the future deconstruction of Russia. Once that “bone” is chewed. Then the next bone will be China.For anyone looking at the historical record of the US’s policies,its really easy to see.But the problem is that foreign leaders don’t seem to do that. And unlike with Americans they don’t understand the psyche of the US and its leaders.So they don’t recognize until too late the level of commitment to “exceptionalism” in the US system.A good example might be a serial killer. Once they have killed,there is no going back.They liked it,they were good at it.So any thinking that a serial killer will just stop their killing is foolish beyond words. Some will say (I hear that all the time),that Russia (or China) need to only protect themselves. And that sounds pretty reasonable at first. But once you examine it closer you discover the problems with that.Lets say Russia withdraws from Syria,gives up their friendship with Iran.They let the Ukrainian junta have Donbas.They let Georgia take South Ossetia,and Abkhazia. They give up on Transnistria’s protection.They let Belarus fall.They let jihadis overrun Central Asia.They give up on their friendship with China.They proclaim as some advocate,”we are only concerned with our own protection”. So where is the World (and Russia) then.Would that lead to peace,and “save” Russia.No,NATO and the US would move in to control all the World,”except Russia” herself. Russia is left with no support from any country on Earth. And at the whim of the US all trade with Russia can be cut off. Trying to strangle her economy. While at the same time funding terrorists and 5th column elements to attack Russia internally. Until at last they are hinally ready for the “great crusade” to finish Russia off.I’m reminded of a well known song from the past that those “Russia along” people need to listen to : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaWLBX5uvuw No matter what, Russia must be dismembered, demoralised,disembowelled , destroyed by any means possible….. This “One thin Soldier” you linked just hits the nail. Never heard before, and I am grateful for this. What you wrote about the negative probabilities, you’re right, the danger is still there, that could happen and Russia will stand alone. In such a scenario, the world could say “adieu” because the button will be pushed. Maybe Russia is testing and waiting to see who is standing behind her, with her, in the mounting pressure. Maybe Russia is playing with the time – having already established the real Red Line, the end of the timeline – on how will react those who call themselves friends at bad times not just good times. The times will worsen, the Red Lined one crossed, they will act probably in full force. The warnings have been given, not just one time, with friendly and kind words, not with arrogance but according and respecting the international law, which all the UN nations have signed. When there is no law more to be respected because the Empire and her allies have no respect for that and give no damn for the UN laws, what will be the consequences of this total disobedience ? the answer is chaos and War ! We are here to share the truth and we have a hope in Russia, that hope may have to resist till the last breath even if we feel the heat of the battle which is raging allover the world, including our souls. The justice must be done and it will be done. If we will die ? so what, Jesus has resurrected and He is the greatest Revolutionary, are we afraid when He did it ? Sanjin on April 10, 2017 · at 6:51 pm EST/EDT When i see Nikki H., T. Rex, Trump, Rycroft (?) speaking utter lies and insolence i wrapped up anger.on this blog I can not swear because moderator is waiting in ambush and i cannot send evil thoughts to ” partners” because of karma may strike back. I have to break something. anger overcomes me also when I see “good practically-nothing” answer from the Russian side. how some of you solve that anger, when and if you feel it? now russian said they will not shot at americans. very kind from them. why they shot at german army? then, who will shot at american mercenaries when time come? because they will not stop. smart or less smart, we know americans will not stop. there is only China and RF available on this planet. so, we have to wait chinese to say they will not shot at americans also. this planet is doomed. Sanjin, Of course Russia or China “has no interest fight US force”. But I doubt they will not protect themselves when the fights are brought to them. Here is the idiot reporter tweeted a few hours ago, it do not look like US is getting free lunch in Syria: DOD says US, coalition jets still getting painted by Syrian/Russia air defense systems & remains a concern— Tara Copp (@TaraCopp) April 10, 2017 People also need to remember that Russia is been surrounded with possibility of war on 3 sides. Syria, Ukraine and Far East. Of course China will need at Far East, but I doubt Russia will leave her own safety to others, even it is China. No rational country will charge to war without deliberate, long deliberation. Yes, Trump stroked disregard international or history normal, then now, America planes are “painted” by both Syrians and Russians when ever it go into Syria air base. No one will trust them any more. The situation has become much more dangerous, to American as well. I do not worry about this particular comments. If Trump think he has free hands in Syria, then it will be a tragic mistake. Same goes to North Korean. I’d be surprised if Kim V3 is not position his Sams, and the ever resourceful smugglers can not find stuff they need in time of conflict as what happened in NR. Both sides of Yalu river may have thoroughly studied the War in NR and has learns some tricks there. Also NK is not a flatland as in East Ukraine. TSP on April 11, 2017 · at 3:33 am EST/EDT Sanjin – Every time I see one of your comments I always read it aloud. Since the one about abrahamic religions. That really taught me something. Thank you for that. Maybe I can return the favor? I will try my best. The anger you describe, to release, in my view, please consider two ideas. 1. My favorite approach is to chop some firewood or move dirt or something physical and connected to the earth. Something of actual value to someone. 2. Consider that those in power have access to things we cannot see. Xi and Vlad know about deals we can’t ever see, and both seem pretty content lately. 3. American forces can’t fight without air conditioning. We are a pretty uninspired bunch. Philippa on April 10, 2017 · at 7:35 pm EST/EDT Nothing for it but to go down to the seas again. Here’s a beautiful version of the song with guitar accompaniment. https://youtu.be/MU-F45tR3Kk I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by; And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking, And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking. I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied; And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying, And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying. I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife; And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over. Lavrov and Tillerson meet tomorrow and rumors will fly . Discernment will be in order. And, remember, it is not only the US Death Star spokespersons who use “plausible deniability”. These power games of the Death Star are not just those of the low-lifes playing craps for the cloak of Christ, but rather are those of people who know very well what they are doing. I do not know in Christian terms what the terms of their “forgiveness” will be but in Buddhist terms it would probably be many lives spent learning the hard way in really unpleasant realms. Luni — quantum mechanics: That’s not how it work and it’s not a toy. http://www.materialsforengineering.co.uk/engineering-materials-features/quantum-tunnelling-composites/43072/ tunneling effect device and semiconductor composite substrate US 6320220 B1 A new switching element and a circuit device and the like using the same element are provided, which comprises semiconductor in which a channel region is formed at an interface with an insulating film, first and second terminals S, D, which are located in corresponding manner to both ends of the channel region, and through which a tunnel current is let to flow into the channel region, and a third terminal G giving a high frequency vibration to a potential barrier of the channel region through the insulating film, wherein the tunnel current flowing into the channel region is increased as a value of an exponential function is increased with a predetermined threshold vibration frequency as a boundary value. It’s quantum effect tunneling. There are also quantum computers now. https://phys.org/news/2007-03-quantum-effects-difference.html The atomic constituents of matter are never still, even at absolute zero. This consequence of quantum mechanics can result in continuous transition between different material states. Physicists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids have studied this phenomenon using ytterbium, rhodium and silicon at very low temperatures under the varying influence of a magnetic field. Until now, it has been assumed that the properties of a transition of this nature can be described completely with the fluctuations of one parameter, in this case, magnetic order. However, the experiments that have now been published reveal, completely unexpectedly, an additional change to the electronic properties of the transition. It confirms again that quantum effects can result in phenomena that are inconceivable in classical physics. … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tunnelling Quantum tunnelling or tunneling (see spelling differences) refers to the quantum mechanical phenomenon where a particle tunnels through a barrier that it classically could not surmount. http://science.jrank.org/pages/4554/Nanotechnology-Quantum-effect-nanoscale-devices.html to the laws of quantum mechanics, free carriers in a metal or semiconductor can only take on specific values of energy, as defined by the crystal structure; that is, the energy is quantized. For most practical purposes, there are so many closely spaced energy levels, it appears that the carriers have a continuum of possible energies, except for the well-defined gaps characteristic of semiconductors. When the carrier is confined to a region where one or more of the dimensions reach the range of less than 100 nm, the quantum energy levels begin to spread out and the quantum nature becomes detectable. Read more: Nanotechnology – Quantum-effect Nanoscale Devices – Energy, Carriers, Semiconductor, and Size – JRank Articles http://science.jrank.org/pages/4554/Nanotechnology-Quantum-effect-nanoscale-devices.html#ixzz4drYcA0dg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics https://www.forbes.com/sites/chadorzel/2015/08/13/what-has-quantum-mechanics-ever-done-for-us/#579aad2a4046 But just to make things a little clearer, here’s a quick look at some of the myriad everyday things that depend on quantum physics for their operation. … Quantum mechanics and physics, and effects, are quite real — not a marketing ploy. I even use LED lights. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blogs/physics/2014/10/how-blue-leds-work-and-why-they-deserve-the-physics-nobel/ are one of many useful spinoffs from the basic science of quantum mechanics. “ teranam13 on April 11, 2017 · at 3:28 am EST/EDT Rumor has it that Trump’s memoir of his Presidency is going to be titled, “Art of the Double-Deal, or how the American people got dealt out “ eimar on April 11, 2017 · at 10:07 am EST/EDT Trump is losing his base over the Syrian attack: http://nationalinterest.org/feature/donald-trumps-biggest-problem-20092 I agree with this: I was surprised at the numbers of deplorables condemning it, from Zerohedge to Breitbart. Also, the Bannon v Kuschner/Ivanka meme seems to be taking off…. Matsi on April 11, 2017 · at 10:40 am EST/EDT http://theduran.com/democrats-attack-tulsi-gabbard-want-her-removed-from-congress/ No room for free speech. No dissent. No skepticism. Neocons, Democrats, liberal leftists…all united to remove Assad, prop up ISIS and begin WW3. The warmonger knives are coming out for Gabbard in what is looking like Iraq WMDs all over again. Anonymous on April 12, 2017 · at 12:10 pm EST/EDT I dropped by my clubhouse yesterday to see what th’ fellas were sayin’ ‘bot the T-Man’s fiasco in Syria… An informal group of old guys in a small rural town by a river that drains into the Pacific, old motorcycles, old men – all veterans who have had time to think…about life. These guys all voted for Mr T, hoping for peace. All poor working class veterans… Downcast eyes, silence, glum. The consensus? He, the T Man, has ruined himself and made himself into a war criminal. Explicitly those words. “War criminal” – a this is the opinion and consensus among the ordinary men, men who are illiterate, but experienced in life. They pity T Man now… And leaders must never be pitied…because then they cannot be leaders… Their deciding matter was war or peace… Now they’re simply waiting to see the other shoe drop… Peace loving Japanese on April 11, 2017 · at 2:29 pm EST/EDT This is not an issue so serious, but something I think that should be mentioned. As I’m no English speaker at all, a native Japanese speaker just who’s self learning English, it is not easy to read up most of the Saker articles because…it’s too lengthy to do so. I can read more articles when each one has half a length. This is not my fault, for not to be born as someone more English capable. But I can’t have time to read up more articles that Saker writes. He writes a piece pretty lengthy, most of the times, so I need to pick one, not two. However, as far I understand, Saker is…not for a non English reader, or, not for a non alphabet handler. But the informations he sends to the world are, I guess, ones those must be exposed to more people’s eyes including non English speakers. So my little wish is that he’s going to make an article more short, in more easy wording, with no elaborate expression, to have more readers like me. Truth is worth exposure, but it has condition to spread wider. And Saker himself is…as far I see…too stubborn, actually has no ear to listen to anybody lol. This is not sarcasm, half a praise. Moderation is ridiculous, as I said before, and you better adopt Disqus so to make all of us more facilitated to have a grasp of our own comments and the replies provided. We can’t even set our own avatars in this system at all. This comment system uck. Vineyard Moderator - H.S. on April 11, 2017 · at 2:39 pm EST/EDT Please read our moderation policy … #2 “All comment have to be impeccably courteous to me, the blog’s author, moderators, any guest author and all the other commentators.” . Constructive comments are encouraged … but if you do not like the system … please move on to other sites that meet your standards …. mod-hs Wow wow relax man, take a deep breath, as I meant nothing offensive to “you” at all lol As I said, I’m no English speaker so not able to convey what I usually do in my first language. So any misunderstanding can happen in my text when it is written in English. BTW, I’m curious if you don’t like someone from Asia, or from east Asia, or you just don’t like Japanese? I guess your basic English doesn’t help on a site like this, which requires not just a competent grasp of the language but some degree of literacy in one’s native tongue. There are many commentators who do not speak English as a first language on this site. Nevertheless, they are able to comprehend the Saker’s articles and even critique them – the only ‘ giveaway’ is occasional grammar errors or unusual sentence- construction. All are obviously literate. So instead of expecting the Saker to ‘ dumb down’, work on your own skills. Better still, search for a competent Japanese- English bilingual to translate the site, maybe even start a Japanese Saker. For example, the situation in Onikawa is of interest to many, besides the Japanese. How much do you know about Japanese relations with the US? What are the implications for Sino- Japanese relations? Look on the limitations you complain of as an opportunity to bring a truthful approach to understanding what is driving our planet towards war. Kent on April 11, 2017 · at 4:57 pm EST/EDT Nice legs on this Boris?? Does not quite cut it though if you are trying to play Geo-Political Tennis. Small: http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/Boris_Johnsen_Faces_of_Evi_Tennisl_resize.jpg Large: http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/Boris_Johnsen_Faces_of_Evi_Tennisl.jpg Jeez Kent – that should come with a health warning!! Off to get some eye wash…. Yuk! Bro 93 on April 11, 2017 · at 5:18 pm EST/EDT Spartan German and Russian Saker using different Trivium “Grammar” (same words indicate nearly opposite meanings…fear, courage,etc)……. and spark the most participation and resonance from others than I have seen in weeks in the multi-level analysis Syria missile affair by Saker. My own heart, mind and gut winces at the waste of Trump cards on an overbid hand of Middle Eastern Bridge. If I were Putin and Xi facing Perfidious Albion and The Donald in a rubber match World Land Bridge Championship, here’s how I would respond to the Donald’s stupid 7 Spades to Bury World Peace Grand Slam Bid, raising his very odd bed partner Christopher Steele’s 5 Clubs (UK, USA, ZION, Otto Man Erdogan, KSA): I’d be tempted to outbid The Donald and go “Seven No-Trump” but when an opponent that should be making deals, ditching old “pissing partners” and making new ones is in a wrecking mode, being egged on by a perfidious “special” partner that wants nothing more than to topple and sodomize him on the Muammar Qaddaffi model, and have him eaten by the Dogs of War, maybe it’s best to simply “Double” the penalty for stupid bidding and let the odd couple piss all over each other after going down by about 3 too many tricks. Recklessness is not fearlessness, it is the incapacity to care, the stupidity of Hamlet sticking to what he knows will doom him, because he fears even more, changing and bravely entering the unknown that is his only exit from doom. Is The Donald that unconscious, or can he have the sense to upend the bridge table unto Steele and then jump on top of it, asking Vlad and Xi to pile on, crushing every British bone in Steele’s miserable pedo-sodomic carcass?? We will shortly discover the answer whether this moon is a good one or a bad one. https://youtu.be/zUQiUFZ5RDw Bad Moon on the Rise Cajun Care, Careful Now Cafe Coming down the Cajon Pass, early last night, Full moon low, in dusk’s cobalt steel grey light. The beauty above whispered, “Blessed, beware! Careful, as I am, of lies, death’s demons and fear.” Was that a bad moon risen in a threatening sky? I saw Care waxed fully, filling hearts to ask why They should close up in dark dread or despair, And shiver and shudder, like lambs in lions’ lair. Deceivers know only fear and control, never God. They just don’t “get” Daniel nor Bashar Al- Assad! The false pride of fear will its own courage devour, To die many deaths, before their appointed hour. A calm fear is called “care”, it bides its time well And is never tempted to plunge headlong to hell. It is wedded to courage and the firmest resolution That its being be spent in its own soul’s evolution. Russia’s a nation that knows what is War. And so, Sets a Universal Example, “As Above, so Below.” Others talk a tough talk while shirking their cross, Bravado’s bullshit, silver souls’ sickening dross. A Good Moon has risen, she is Courage,True Care. She moves all men to defend and lovers to share. For her sake husbands, and her daughters and sons, If they must, endure war’s bombs, bullets and wounds. Neither Russians nor Cajuns are cowards, but wary. Hurricane passes, then peace and bodies to bury. It’s not cold fear to know that you can’t live a slave, Or prepare for storms and what’s beyond the grave. If I could tell you how our souls see, You might like how beautiful our world could be, There are imperfections and raw beauty, That revolves around people like us and their glee, Maybe we’ve stopped loving the things that set us free, Or there’s just an invisible boundary, So just close your eyes and let the pain flee, I hope it sets off your heart from the cage of worry. by Noor Unnahar To quote Mr. Lavrov (sort of) “If it walks like a nitwit, talks like a nitwit and act like a nitwit, it’s a nitwit. right? Small: http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/Boris_Johnson_01_resize.jpg Large: http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/Boris_Johnson_01.jpg Not much enhancement on this one. Not necessary IMO. We are on it, like it or not, we truly are. Wings might help but how do you grow them?? Knowledge, infinite, as best you can, is the only way. Video is a repeat, But Chris Rea made this long before most people was aware of even the basic fuckup’s. He paid the price. The road to hell (long version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA1V7cI28hI It IS hard to feel things changing. However, like all pain, feel it, know it, and it just might just disappear (or change into something more comfortable (pun intended) ). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3VqpX3GVdo Vlad and Xi need to tell Rex and Trump a thing or two about the World Land Bridge OBOR High Speed Train boarding conditions: “This is cleeee-eean train, this train. This train don’t pull no liars, this train! This train don’t pull no liars, No false pretenders and no back biters, this train.” (You gots to get OFF!!) ‘Cause this train don’t pull no liars, this train. This train is bound for Glory,this train. This train is bound for Glory All on board got’s to be Holy, this train. Sister Rosetta Thorpe, explains the rest of the boarding conditions of the Glory Train: https://youtu.be/Z6L5grLqkA0?t=47 True Gem, one of my (many) favorites. Here is another (in color). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFKmNJ3kJIY Another legend. “Keep it to Yourself” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtRxJDb3vlw Dennis Leary on April 11, 2017 · at 10:28 pm EST/EDT Good afternoon. I just returned from my walk south down River Road; takes a half-hour each way to get to the public access and back without going through the hole in the fence. Looking north I see where the river cuts a “V” into the mountains. I live on the north end of the Ojai Valley. I am accompanied by the Love Army which takes me fro and towards the Love Bower “V.” I think love along the way, following said army’s injunction, and it leads me to you and the vineyard. In the river bottom there actually are the remnants of an old vineyard with the grape supports still standing. This morning I planted an avocado tree in the ground between my motorhome here and the outdoor kitchen there. Poor thing has been in a container perhaps all its life and it’s as tall as me. Talk about root bound. She did not look at all happy. Now she can stretch her legs and wiggle her toes. I find a lesson in this. I too am root bound and this vineyard is helping to get me free where “I shall be released.” I just listened to Kent’s link to Tal Wilkenfeld”s song about changing under the sun. Change can be scary but it helps to whistle in the dark. Kent is a genius at presenting moving pictures and sounds fit for the times and their errant moods. Talk about changing and shaking things up, Trump sure knows how to make waves; I hope not like Chris Rea’s Road to Hell (hat tip again to Kent). I like Trump because deep down I am like him although without his bully background among the thunderjacks. Here’s the reasons I like him: 1. He saved us from Hillary’s version of the road to hell who promised what has never been done: march on Moscow and live to tell about it. 2. Trump likes Putin but because of the rabid snakes hissing at Putin in our snake pit media, Trump has to dissemble his love for now. In other words, Trump aligns with vineyarders who carry the banner of stopping the war on Russia. Trump can’t wait to make deals with the largest land mass in the world. 3. Trump is backed by the good guys in the empire who want to send the globalist, neo-conmen back to the basement from which they slithered out with the JFK hit. The good ol’ boys of nationalism, many of whom are loaded and ready for the bear hunting Russophobes to bare their assets, are licking their chops to put the AZ crazies on the grill before they kill the goose that lays the golden eggs for the top of the food chain money farmers. 4. Trump loves women as any “he” man should. His wife and daughter are not only beautiful but command respect. I think “Womam” is the sine qua non of Love and Life. Patriarchy turned Womam into Woman and the good patriarchs now have to right what they wronged. Donald is an example of that. If you doubt that, remember what he did to Hillary and her hellions. 5. In this dog eat dog and survival of the fittest world of terror at the top, he has to project the strength of a man. If he does not he’ll be shark bait and an also-ran. Time and again he sets up the assassins paid to kill him by playing his weak cards while hiding his trump. He is also brilliant with chess, protecting King Man with Queen Womam. Look what he just did to the demoncrats in the person of Filibuster Schumer over the supreme court nominee Gorsuch. He set the globalists up and low-balled them with old balls strategy. He needed 60 senate votes but did not have that many to kill the filibuster and hundreds more down the road which would have smothered the trump agenda. He changed the rules to 50 votes with perfect timing when even the sheeple saw a dead end looming and had his back. The demons walked right into his trap and now his whole agenda can walk through like it was an angel parade. (I’m basing this analysis on Dick Morris’s which I just read). If it’s wrong, it still makes a good try story. Finally, on my walk I had the thought that this vineyard is like that tree I planted. It has done great in the pot of analysis but the time has come to get off the pot and into the higher ground of reality. Time to keep up all the fine war analyses and fine-art fineries; and move into the boots on the ground catalyses. This vineyard is set up to be a catalyst of stopping war by starting love in a new version of Jesusanity (Jesu-sanity) on this Holy Week of Orthodox Christianity as a kick-starter for Loveranity or Love knows what? I don’t know but I think this vineyard does and that means us if we’re not going to get thrown under the war fever forever bus. As part of my doing my bit to stop war, I think love and send love to Donald J. T. frequently as well as doing the other nine divisions of the 100,000 strong army of love. OK, OK, I hear you. “Get that fool off the pandora soap box.” With my feet on the ground, my seat on the couch and my eyes on the prize, I wish all of us to be full moons on the rise, as once more I reprise with words for the wise: “love, love and more love.” Vineyard Moderator - H.S. on April 12, 2017 · at 12:26 am EST/EDT Great post Dennis … my only question is why not ‘the hole in the fence’ its the act of the rebel. Love your visions … i look forward to your post … ps i’m off the clock now … mod-hs Dennis Leary on April 12, 2017 · at 4:51 am EST/EDT Hi hs. I don’t go through the hole in the fence (as a few young ladies who live or visit here do) because I’m not a rebel. I’m a lover who wants to re form what’s been de formed. While I’m on the line and as bedtime beckons, let me say I just listened to Mike Cernovich and a guests talking about memes and memetic warfare. I was thinking about this vineyard and how the Saker has long talked of the information war of 85, % that is. Here’s my thought. The saker vineyard is a great meme for us who know the backstory but for Joe Public, assuming we want to go more publc (whoops,I meant public) in this meme war, the word saker is incomprehensible with many thinking of a football player good at sacking the quarterback or perhaps a soccer player putting the ball in the net/sack. Here’s what turns me on in a meme sense. “Falcon Vineyard or Vineyard Falcon.” Most people will know what a falcon is but they would not know that a saker is a falcon. A falcon is a great image for strength, beauty and speed. Put that together with a vineyard which is an image as ancient as our oldest genes and you’ve got a powerful meme. I have played on that theme with the Love Army of falconers and the Love Bower of gentle vineyarders. Christianity’s meme of a gentle Jesus and strong Christ accomplishes the same, even converting the most powerful empire of the time. An idea whose time has come is awesome. It’s Orthodox Easter week with another powerhouse meme: Death and Resurrection. Our masthead shows a falcon (saker type) on a high perch overlooking a valley within which we can image our vineyard. That wily bird of the winds keeps the rat population down so rodents don’t eat up our vineyard. You can see where this is going which is pretty cool There are so many skilled info warriors here that if they play their genes and genius right the falcon vineyard could become a household word. “Did you hear what that falcon vineyard said now?” “No, what did you hear on that grapevine?” “What? A Russian living in Florida?” To quote Toby Belch, “Shall he live?” I’m not sure we want to go that route. As Dylan would say, we’d “step into the arena.” Could be like Daniel in the lion’s den or Christians in the coliseum or “we brave few” of Henry V. I’m just saying. And it’s getting late so maybe my brain is partly slain or asleep already. Consider the source. I love vineyards. I visited one on a group tour that included Jerusalem at the vineyard tomb where Jesus woke up alive on earth. Who on earth do you think found him first? Peter? No. John? No. It was Mary, who may have been his lover. I just love the story. She thinks he’s the gardener and approaching him from his back, says: “Sir, can you tell me where they have laid him?” Jesus turns and says “Mary.” She falls into his arms weeping with joy. What a story. Some say the greatest that changed the world. Jesus predicted it. Another vineyard would come that would change the world again. Like I said, I’m just saying. I’m half asleep so consider the source. Or consider what the Saker is considering during the long church services. I wonder if he gets distracted by thoughts of war in all that incense and candlelight. Good night. I hope to sleep tight. Now I lay me down to sleep; I pray for love my soul to keep. Anonymous on April 12, 2017 · at 10:21 am EST/EDT . . . Loveranity, but don’t you mean Lovereignity? Check the The New O’Leary Dictionary, should be there, along with all the best of the rest. I love it. Thanks. Not sure what’s in the backroom of your mind but let it be. I was just rereading the Count Khazar episodes of Love and War when I found this gem: a falcon is an ancient icon of the phoenix, a fire-bird that rises from ashes like Christ from death. A saker-falcon doubles down on the fire meme like a middle linebacker sacker on a halfback. Cheers. Let’s hear it for the Hole in the Wall Gang as long as we are doing memes here and claiming that the Love Bower is the ruling metaphor of the Vineyard. Oh vive la diferance! All folks are welcome to join up– those xx chromosomes and, oh, those xy ones too! Uncle Bob 1 on April 12, 2017 · at 12:34 am EST/EDT Israel trying to stir the pot in the ME,and “subtly” threaten Iran at the same time: ” Israeli defense chief ‘wouldn’t be surprised if somebody assassinates Iranian president” If I was in the Iranian government I’d comment it wouldn’t surprise me if “someone” assassinated Netanyahu as well.Its always best when dealing with Israel to remind them that two can play the same game when they need to. https://www.rt.com/news/384412-israel-lieberman-rouhani-assassination/ eimar on April 12, 2017 · at 6:14 am EST/EDT Breitbart carrying Putin’s announcement that the Syrian chemical ‘ attack’ was a false flag, and more were planned. The article elicited mostly agreement from the Deplorable commentariat, including this gem: Andrew Richards 5 hours ago My hope now is that President Kuchner and his assistant, Donald Trump, will be removed before we are driven into a catastrophic escalation with Russia and China. From the moment President Kuchner appointed his Goldman Sachs tribal buddies to key economic positions I realized we were in deep trouble. We had been conned. Then when Pres Kuchner appointed Tillerson, a crony corporate globalist (international fascist) to the Sec of State, the fix was confirmed. MAGA supporters must find a way to refocus their hopes and efforts on Jeff Sessions. As far as I can tell, he is the only man in this Administration who has the track-record of a genuine, non-Zionist, MAGA politician. We are in big trouble I fear. Three months in and the real President has now surfaced. President Kuchner and his criminal Zionist cabal want a war with Russia. Donald has been relegated to chief tea-maker.’ I’ve noticed the MSM had been calling the ‘ false flag’ claim a conspiracy theory, as well as characterising opposition to Trump’s missile attack as coming from the Alt/ Far right. Those memes are proven demonstrably false – again. Trump still pushing ‘ evil Assad’ meme, but backtracking on escalation: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/04/11/president-trump-eases-tensions-were-not-going-into-syria/ Tillerson says tonight he has special people looking at war crimes against Assad…..any pressure possible is still being brought.And Rectify at UN today…..why on earth does not Russia totally discredit him as he was major participant in the WMD Iraq farce. ‘ Special people’ = AIPAC / Zionists. I guess ‘ chosen ones’ is too obvious…. RT live at UN with Russ speaking reminds some of Litvinov at the League in the 1930’s… He speaks, no one listens… Then Russ gets tossed out of the UN? That’s what happened last time… White whale on April 12, 2017 · at 10:35 pm EST/EDT Vale Vitaly Churkin. Gettin’ on a jet plane….want to add to Sonny Boy and Rosetta ‘afore I go. How ’bout some more Robeson? https://youtu.be/AhsHzVNzxm4 GOIN’ HOME (Antonín Leopold Dvořák (m) 1893 / William Arms Fisher (l*) 1922) Deanna Durbin 1941 Also sung by: Paul Robeson 1958 David Phelps The first set of lyrics (following) are from the film (Deanna Durbin sings to Charles Laughton) I’m a goin’ home Quiet like, some still day I’m just goin’ home. It’s not far Just close by Through an open door Work all done, care laid by Goin’ to grieve no more. Mother’s there, ‘spectin’ me Father’s waitin’ there… (Durbin breaks down) In one of her studio recordings of Goin’ Home, Durbin sings the following last verse as: The second set of lyrics (following) are from 1922 and thought by some to be the original set of lyrics as published. Goin’ home, goin’ home, I’m a goin’ home; Quiet-like, some still day, I’m jes’ goin’ home. It’s not far, jes’ close by, Through an open door; Work all done, care laid by, Goin’ to fear no more. Mother’s there ‘spectin’ me, Father’s waitin’ too; Lots o’ folk gather’d there, All the friends I knew, All the friends I knew. Home, I’m goin’ home! Nothin lost, all’s gain, No more fret nor pain, No more stumblin’ on the way, No more longin’ for the day, Goin’ to roam no more! Mornin’ star lights the way, Res’less dream all done; Shadows gone, break o’ day, Real life jes’ begun. There’s no break, there’s no end, Jes’ a livin’ on; Wide awake, with a smile Goin’ on and on. Goin’ home, goin’ home, I’m jes’ goin’ home, goin’ home, goin’ home, goin’ home! The third set of lyrics (following) are widely available on the Internet, a hymn set to Dvořák’s Second movement. Going home, going home I’m just going home Quiet-like, slip away I’ll be going home. It’s not far, just close by Jesus is the Door Work all done, laid aside Fear and grief no more. Friends are there, waiting now He is waiting too See His smile, See His hand He will lead me through. Morning Star lights the way Restless dream all done Shadows gone, break of day Life has just begun. Every tear wiped away Pain and sickness gone Wide awake there with Him Peace goes on and on. I’ll be going home See the light See the sun I’m just going home. mundanomaniac on April 12, 2017 · at 7:47 pm EST/EDT It’s time for a ride through the week till Sunday night. The lights and planets are all on board and earth is waiting for heaven to reflect it. And on Friday it’s time for human origin: http://astromundanediary.blogspot.de/2017/04/center-and-periphery-are-marrying-on.html If you want to see what a psychpath Trump is, just watch this short interview with the money honey Maria Bartilomo. He chuckles over telling the Chinese Emperor over chocolate cake that he had just launched 50 something missiles at Syria. It’s too weird to be real, and yet it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eSz8GM5hvM That ‘ ten second pause’ from Xi before he responded to Trumpet’ s ‘ bombshell’ is telling. The kind of ‘ pause’ the sane make when the realization they are dealing with a ‘ crazy’ kicks in… The response was couched in carefully general terms, again, a tactic used to deflect the ‘ crazy’ s’ attention from the listener, and to let him believe he is ‘ right/ has ‘ won’. Clearly Trump has tasted the power and is revelling in it. Expect to hear a lot of ‘ God’ invocations a la George Bush in the future…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20483
__label__wiki	0.545528	0.545528	A research log and open newsroom for the award-winning exploration of international issues at Kootenay Co-operative Radio, Nelson, BC Canada. "...a modest thoughtfulness which, without pretending to solve everything, will constantly be prepared to give some human meaning to everyday life. --Albert Camus “Neither Victims nor Executioners” Masthead graphic based on a painting by Gudrun Thriemer. "Hamas's election victory," February 6, 2006. First let's begin with the Question of the Day: What percentage of the eligible voters turned out to vote in the Palestinian elections that saw Hamas win 76 of the 132 seats in Palestinian Legislative Council. Stay tuned for the answer to that and more. This week, events continued to follow from the Hamas victory while think tanks, policy shops, and news organizations around the world pumped out a glut of analysis and news--much of it repetitive and hidebound. According to the CBC, the victory "shocked" the world. But a week before on January 14, the Jersulam Post had cited unnamed "security sources in the American government" who threatened that the US would cut funding to the Palestinian Authority if Hamas representatives were elected to official positions in the new government. So someone wasn't all that surprised. And the US had plenty of money to spend hyping the Palestinian Authority, which was dominated at the time by the Fatah party, in the weeks before the election. The US Agency for International Development spent nearly $2 million--more than any of the parties spent on the campaign itself--for projects aimed at cleaning the streets, "distributing free food and water to Palestinians at border crossings, donating computers to community centers and sponsoring a national youth soccer tournament" all to the glory of the Palestinian Authority. In each case, USAID took the unusual step of insuring that its own logo did not appear on any of the materials associated with the projects. (Wilson and Kesler Washington Post) "According to documents from a planning presentation, ...US officials expected the project to become involved in party politics" (Wilson and Kesler Jan 22 06). A year ago, in January [2005], Fatah had sustained a heavy blow in the Gaza Strip's first-ever municipal elections, losing support to rival Hamas, which won 77 of the 118 seats up for grabs. "Fatah won only 26 seats" (Mass resignations Al Jazeera Mar 10 05). So anyone who was paying attention expected Hamas to do well in the legislative elections. Just not that well. Meeting on Monday in London, the diplomatic Quartet on Middle East peace, which consists of the US, EU, Russia and the UN, pledged to keep money flowing into the interim caretaker administration of Mamud Abbas. The Palestinian president is elected in separate elections (Al Jazeera Quartet Jan 30 06). Ghassan Khatib who is the Palestinian Authority minister of planning and coedits the bitterlemons family of internet publications with Yossi Alpher, a former senior adviser to PM Ehud Barak, believes quote "...If the international donor community stops aid, it is not Hamas but the Palestinian Authority that will collapse..." (Khatib Jan 30 06). "...the end of the PA... will return the occupied Palestinian territory and its people to the direct responsibility of the occupier..." (Khatib Jan 30 06), a vision perilously close to the single, bi-national secular state that Israelis equate with the end of Israel as a Jewish homeland. WHY HAMAS WON "Hamas won for a number of reasons. The Palestinian Authority failed to provide Palestinians with the basic services, especially jobs, that any government should be able to deliver....the leadership... was also unable to provide anything by way of a political horizon and hope, and Hamas' perceived role in resisting the Israeli occupation thus further swayed voters" (Khatib Jan 30 06). "Anger with the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Fatah had been mounting since the death of Yasser Arafat. Without his unifying presence, the Palestinian people became much more expressive in their criticism of PA corruption and cronyism. Hamas, which had been delivering efficient social, educational and health services to the Palestinian people for years, capitalized on this with wins in West Bank municipal elections. Add to this Fatah infighting between the grassroots 'young guard' and the 'old guard' clinging to power, and the stage was set for the stunning election results" (Dajani Jan 30 06). "In addition, the sweeping victory can be attributed to the policies of the Sharon government that systematically weakened the PA and directly or indirectly reinforced public sympathy for the opposition in Palestine" (Khatib Jan 30 06). US policies have had similar results in Iran, southern Lebanon, Egypt, and even Turkey. Both the US and Israel are deaf to arguments of this kind. But their refutations have the hollow ring of denial. Rafi Dajani of the American Task Force on Palestine, writes, quote "In the year since his election, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been steadily shut out by the Israelis and offered little more than verbal support by the Americans. The result was that he was not able to provide the Palestinian people with any tangible reason for electing him. In fact, the Palestinians' conditions had worsened, with a deteriorating security and economic situation, the encirclement of East Jerusalem with Israeli settlements and the separation barrier, and a unilateral Israeli approach that dimmed hopes for a Palestinian state" endquote (Dajani Jan 30 06). Probably also a factor and one contrary to the image flogged shamelessly by he Western media, Hamas supports the right of women to work. 15 of the representatives just elected were women. That's not great but it is a fraction of the total that compares favourably with that of any party in Canada. (Smith NYT Jan 18 06). Less than a week after his election, Stephen Harper responded to a question about the Hamas victory, saying that quote "for a nation to be truly democratic it must renounce any use of terrorism." He said "... if institutions committed to terrorism play a role in a Palestinian state quote 'whether elected or not, that is an indication to me that the road to democracy has not been travelled very far'" endquote (Sallot Jan 27 06). But MADRE, the international women's organization points out that quote "More than 78 percent of eligible voters turned out for a peaceful election despite difficult conditions created by Israel's occupation. Indeed, this election was closer to international standards for free and fair elections than either of the last two US presidential elections" endquote (MADRE Feb 1 06). The Canada-Israel Committee congratulated Mr. Harper for his statement on Hamas. Marc Gold, the committee's chairman said that Palestinians can elect their own leaders, but they have to accept the consequences if other countries won't deal with those leaders" (Sallot Jan 27 06). "Canada may have to confine its official dealings to the office of president Mahmoud Abbas, who heads the long-ruling Fatah party but whose own job was not at stake in the legislative election" (Sallot Jan 27 06). Canada's official designation of Hamas as a terrorist organization in 2002 "could make it illegal for Canadian diplomats and other officials to have direct dealings with newly elected members of the Palestinian legislature from Hamas" (Sallot Jan 27 06). The National Council on Canada-Arab Relations or "NCCAR calls upon the Government of Canada to resist calls for rejecting the results of the Palestinian democratic process and to respect the choice of the Palestinian people by adopting a policy of gradual, conditional engagement to encourage Hamas to choose the pursuit of political solutions over violence" (NCCAR Jan 27 06). BitterLemons Israeli editor, Yossi Alpher also advises a wait and see approach. quote "...The Olmert government had best 'keep its powder dry,' avoid interference in Palestinian affairs wherever possible, and wait for events to unfold....any Israeli initiative is liable to be counter-productive" endquote (Alpher Jan 30 06). [But having said this, Alpher cannot resist laying out what he sees as the rules for minimum intervention.] quote "Israel simply cannot grant freedom of movement to newly-elected Hamas parliamentarians who are terrorists or active supporters of terrorism. That would be a dangerous precedent. It should, on the other hand, find ways to 'reward' Hamas for maintaining the ceasefire and, conceivably, changing its political terms of reference. In this regard, and assuming Hamas displays a pragmatic approach, Jerusalem could continue to turn over to the Palestinian Authority taxes and customs levied on its behalf. There are three good reasons for such an approach. First, quite simply, this is not our money, it is theirs. Second, starving Palestinians will not make our lives more secure. Accordingly, we should also continue to supply electricity and water, as long as they are paid for. And third, this tax money is not the same as western and other aid funds, which constitute philanthropy. In this regard, Israel must take pains to explain the difference to the European Union and ask it to continue to withhold funds until Hamas demonstrates a readiness to abandon violence and recognize Israel" endquote (Alpher Jan 30 06). "One major problem facing the West is that oil-rich states in the region will continue and possibly increase their support to the Palestinians. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and other major donors have not said how they would respond to a Hamas victory" (Farrell and Beeston Jan 31 06). For the most part, the mainstream media will repeat the refrain that Hamas must give up violence and recognize Israel. Even the Quartet's requirement that Hamas must abide by the PA's previous agreements and obligations is seldom mentioned. What is the PA and how is it different from the PLO? Do the Palestinians have proportional representation? Is Hamas a branch of Al Qaeda? Does the election of Hamas mean the end of the peace process? We'll probably have to dig up the answers for ourselves, so tune in next week. 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__label__wiki	0.63327	0.63327	Nirvana and Slothrust Nirvana Image Credit: tonedefbrag Zoe Joy Before I even begin to scratch the surface of the similarities between Nirvana and Slothrust, I would like to say that Slothrust deserves a lot more love, attention, and appreciation. There are numerous comparisons I can make; the grunge-like guitar sound, the three-piece ensemble who’s music can fill the room, to the unique rough voices of the vocalists, it’s fair to say that Nirvana and Slothrust are a part of the same family tree. The atmosphere that both of these bands manage to create through eerily blunt lyrics and thumping drum patterns are strong and passionate, both bands create their unique moods. Nirvana, one of the best bands of all time (not an opinion, just a fact). Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, and ‎Krist Novoselic pioneered the genre of grunge rock and are a staple of 90’s culture and music. One of the most unique qualities of Nirvana was their ability to make even the most light-hearted and playful lyrics sound dark and meaningful when coupled with the raw guitar, bass, and drums. Up until this point, the stereotype that all rock music had a heavy, depressing lyrical component or only spoke of sex, drugs, and Rock-n-Roll was (generally) a reality. Cobain’s lyrics broke through this mold and ushered in an era of honesty. Contrary to many rock bands preceding Nirvana, Cobain and crew weren’t fans of the spotlight; their music was a form of catharsis, but the performances and press runs were not their motivating factor. On the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, Kurt famously wore a shirt adorned with the statement “Corporate Magazines Still Suck.” What an icon. Photo Credit: Rolling Stone If you haven’t heard of Slothrust do yourself a favor and give them a listen, now. I had the pleasure of seeing this band open for Highly Suspect, another underappreciated rock band, but that’s a story for another article. The lead singer, Leah Wellbaum, has such a unique appearance and voice, almost guttural and raw. It takes a minute to understand what you are hearing. Her guitar skills were incredible, she could bend the sound like some of our guitar heroes. This girl shreds! The bassist and drummer were perfectly in sync. I couldn’t stop myself from thinking “this is as close as it gets to seeing Nirvana live.” I realize that this is a bold claim, but the grunge influence is so potent that listening to Slothrust transports you back to the ’90s. Leah Wellbaum, Kyle Bann, and Will Gorin are a beautiful trifecta with plenty of variety interspersed throughout their very Nirvana-like riffs and lyrics. Just as Cobain broke the mold for stereotypical rockstar lyrics and lifestyle, Wellbaum surpasses the expectations that are placed on a female-lead rock band. She’s not provocative, in fact, she’s unapologetically and she never uses her femininity to garner support. To add to her amazing sense of self, she has also come out as queer, which is incredibly refreshing to see at the center of a grungey rock group, as there is not much representation for the LGBT community in the realm of heavy rock. Lyrical Comparison “Pennyroyal Tea” by Nirvana- “Sit and drink pennyroyal tea/I’m anemic royalty/I’m on warm milk and laxatives/Cherry-flavored antacids” “Juice” by Slothrust- “My name is Leah and I drink juice/Every morning when I wake up but it’s no use/I’m unwell/Can you tell that I’m sick in the brain?” Nirvana and Slothrust make listening to rock music a refreshingly and uninhibited experience. Their honesty and openness feel like the inner monologue of the listener channeled into an album. Listen to Nirvana as you wait for Slothrust to break into the limelight. Why? Because you have to respect your classics.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20495
__label__wiki	0.666435	0.666435	Accessibility News January 18,2020 Update January 18, 2020 Editor Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/acnewsca AbleDocs Inc. is excited to be joining the Accessibility News team to ensure all documents are made accessible and compliant. AbleDocs is the only organization to guarantee the compliance of the files we produce and back that up with a $10,000,000 guarantee. We look forward to working with you and Accessibility News for years to come. For more details, please come to https://www.abledocs.com for more information about our revolutionary approach to document accessibility. The AODA Clock is Ticking There are 4 years, 49 weeks, 6 days until a fully Accessible Ontario! Will you be compliant? http://www.accessibilitynews.ca/accessibility-news-january-182020-update/ Society Is Missing the True Definition of Inclusion My experiences writing this column over the past year have been fabulous. But it was daunting at first to put pen to paper to capture what so many people feel. http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/society-is-missing-the-true-definition-of-inclusion/ Sarnia This Week: Year In Review A new, accessible playground, the first of its kind in Sarnia, opened at Canatara Park in early December. More than a playground, the wheelchair-accessible play structure atop a poured-in-place rubber base, also features nearby benches with built-in games tables, a stage area for theatre beside the existing picnic pavilion, and exercise equipment. https://aoda.ca/sarnia-this-week-year-in-review/ MANITOBA SUPPORTS EDUCATION ON EMPLOYMENT ACCESSIBILITY The Manitoba government is investing $120,800 with the Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities (MLPD) to provide educational and outreach work that will help ensure organizations understand and comply with the accessible employment standard, Families Minister Heather Stefanson announced today. http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/manitoba-supports-education-on-employment-accessibility/ eSSENTIAL Accessibility Secures $16 Million in Growth Funding Accessibility is a business mandate that has arrived with tremendous force. The consequences of not offering accessible experiences are costly and brand debilitating. This new financing will provide eSSENTIAL Accessibility with resources to expand its software platform and pursue rapid geographic expansion to meet escalating demand. http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/essential-accessibility-secures-16-million-in-growth-funding/ AODA Standards Development Committees AODA standards mandate how organizations must make themselves accessible to people with disabilities. The standards outline organizations’ responsibilities, and the deadlines they must meet. AODA Standards development committees are responsible for creating and maintaining the standards. https://aoda.ca/aoda-standards-development-committees/ What are AODA Standards? The standards of the AODA mandate how organizations must remove and prevent barriers for people with disabilities. The AODA standards govern how organizations can offer services that meet the needs of all Ontarians, including citizens with disabilities. https://aoda.ca/what-are-aoda-standards/ AODA Alliance Sends an Open Letter to the Candidates for Leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party, Seeking Specific Commitments on Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Happy new year to one and all. Although the new year has scarcely begun, we’re already back at it, sleeves rolled up, plowing ahead with advocacy to tear down the barriers that people with disabilities too often still face. Here is the first news for you in 2020. https://aoda.ca/aoda-alliance-sends-an-open-letter-to-the-candidates-for-leadership-of-the-ontario-liberal-party-seeking-specific-commitments-on-accessibility-for-ontarians-with-disabilities/ http://www.accessibilitynews.ca/accessibility-news-january-112020-update-2/	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20498
__label__cc	0.541864	0.458136	Tenneco introduces an all-new Megabond Cylinder Liner By Padraic Deane On June 25, 2019 Tenneco’s Powertrain division will present its all-new Megabond cylinder liner technology at the 2019 IAA Frankfurt Motor Show Press and Trade Days only. It says that Megabond liners provide superior robustness for high performance and durability on engines with cast aluminum cylinder blocks. They offer twice the mechanical bond strength of existing state-of-the-art liners, combined with excellent thermal conductivity, to meet the increased mechanical and thermal loads of tomorrow’s high efficiency engines. The new technology is suitable for light vehicle applications of all types: gasoline, diesel and alternative fuels as well as hybridized versions. “The improved bonding and thermal conductivity provided by Megabond liners enable a broad range of benefits including reduced oil consumption, lower CO2 emissions, improved NVH and higher engine performance,” said Gian Maria Olivetti, Vice President Global Engineering, Tenneco Powertrain. “But most important of all, Megabond liners support outstanding durability and reliability because they are more resistant to the stresses that can cause debonding or delamination during manufacture or operation.” Tenneco´s Megabond liners use an evolution of the company´s proven Hybrid Liner technology which employs an Aluminum/Silicon alloy deposited around a cast iron liner by wire arc spray, prior to casting the aluminum block around it. The unique design creates an exceptionally strong intermetallic bond between the liner and the aluminum block. Megabond cylinder liners were initially developed to meet the requirements of next-generation engines with ultra-close bore spacing, which can place severe demands on liner stability and thermal performance but constrain liner thickness, as Volker Scherer, Director, Liners, Tenneco Powertrain, explained. “Many in our industry felt nothing could beat the strength of a mechanical interlock, such as our Aslock-type liner with its spined surface, but the space restriction meant we had to develop a thinner solution. In this respect, Megabond is an enabling technology because it allows our customers to produce more compact engine designs without compromising durability,” he said. The new technology offers important manufacturing benefits as well because Megabond liners are tolerant of a wider variation in the casting properties of the cylinder block. The improved robustness means the foundry is not limited to such a narrow window in the parameters of the casting process in order to ensure a successful finished product. “The Megabond liner complements our existing liner technologies, extending the range of solutions available to our customers,” said Scherer. “This means whatever the specific combination of loads, temperatures and engine architecture our customers require, we can deliver an optimum liner specification.” The new Megabond liner technology was developed at the company’s technical facilities in Friedberg and Burscheid, Germany. Production is planned to commence later this year in Germany and in China. Just to explain why this article is different from the usual aftermarket ones our readers would associate with Tenneco. Following their planned separation to form two new, independent companies, an ‘Aftermarket’ and ‘Ride Performance company (DRiV)’ as well as a new Powertrain Technology company, the new Tenneco targets being one of the world’s largest pure-play powertrain companies serving OE markets worldwide with engineered solutions addressing fuel economy, power output, and criteria pollution requirements for petrol, diesel and electrified powertrains. The new Tenneco would have 2018 pro-forma revenues of $11.4 billion, serving light vehicle, commercial truck, off-highway and industrial markets.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20504
__label__wiki	0.946907	0.946907	Netflix Orders ‘Daredevil’ Season Two By Clarence Moye @chmoye Apr 21, 2015 According to The Hollywood Reporter, hit series Daredevil has been picked up for a second season by Netflix after only 11 days of streaming availability. The second season of the Charlie Cox-starrer is something of a surprise given Netflix’s previously publicized Marvel release strategy of first seasons of Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, and Luke Cage to be followed by a mash-up of the series’ main characters in The Defenders. Marvel certainly seems to be on a roll with its television properties with ABC’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. queuing up for a third season, a spin-off starring characters introduced during Agents, a second season of Agent Carter, and a kept-under-wraps series to be developed by American Crime‘s John Ridley. Daredevil Season Two will return in 2016 with Doug Petrie (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and Marco Ramirez (Sons of Anarchy) taking over as showrunner from Drew Goddard and Steven DeKnight. Charlie CoxDaredevilMarvelNetflix Series Orders Drag Race: Two Are Better Than One Review: Broadchurch ‘Episode Eight’ ‘Foxcatcher’ Continues True Crime Trend Netflix: November’s New Arrivals FYC: The Cat and The Mouse for Netflix’s ‘The Fall’ Ben Mendelsohn Leaps From ‘Animal Kingdom’ To ‘Bloodline’ ‘The Crown’ Appears To Be a Jewel For Netflix October 13. Netflix. ‘Mascots.’ Be there.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20505
__label__wiki	0.769165	0.769165	‘No Social Cleansing in London’: Campaign Launch and Fundraising Gig for the Tidemill Campaign in Deptford at the DIY Space in Peckham, Fri. Oct. 12 Please support my work as a reader-funded investigative journalist, commentator and activist. If you’re in London and concerned about the unprecedented scale of London’s housing crisis, I hope you’ll come along this Friday to the launch of ‘No Social Cleansing in London’, a new campaign group that I’m setting up to provide a focal point for struggles against the destruction of social housing, via “regeneration” projects, involving the destruction of council estates, that are designed to socially cleanse poorer residents, and to provide largely unscrutinised profits for builders and developers, and an unfettered private rental market that, for the first time in London’s modern history, is pricing all manner of people out of the capital. The launch is taking place at the DIY Space for London, a volunteer-run social space at 96-108 Ormside Street, Peckham London SE15 1TF, on an industrial estate just off Ildeston Road, and close to the Old Kent Road, where evangelical churches, traditional industries and young creative types cluster in the shadow of the monstrous Old Kent Road re-development plans of Southwark Council, whose mania for unwanted and unnecessary high-rise housing developments betrays a complete lack of understanding about the nature of employment in 21st century London, and the tens of thousands of workers who can only survive in their businesses on an around the Old Kent Road because they are not exposed to the full greed of the corporate market. Friday’s event is intended to, in the first instance, provide an opportunity for housing campaigners to come together from across London’s 32 boroughs to meet and mingle and to come up with strategies of resistance. In the weeks to come, I’ll be setting up Facebook and Twitter pages for the campaign — and, hopefully, a website — so if anyone wants to be involved, please do get in touch. Friday’s event begins with an informal opportunity to socialise from 6pm, with music from 7-11pm, via performers who, in general, have been involved in the ‘No Social Cleansing in Lewisham’ gigs I’ve been organising since last November in my home borough — my band the Four Fathers, the Commie Faggots, Ukadelix, accordionist Flaky Jake and Southwark-based rapper Asher Baker. New additions are MeU, a kind of beatnik jazz ensemble led by Patrick Lyons, who I met through being involved in last month’s inspiring Party in the Park community festival in New Cross, and Anne E. Cooper, poet and activist, who is part of the resistance to the planned destruction of Cressingham Gardens Estate in Lambeth. The event is also, crucially, a fundraiser for the ongoing occupation — marking six weeks on Tuesday — of the Old Tidemill Garden in Deptford, a priceless community space and environmental asset, which Lewisham Council and the developer Peabody want to destroy, along wth Reginald House next door, a block of structurally sound council flats, for a new housing project — a typically unholy mix of properties for private sale and for shared ownership, and, via London’s disappointing Mayor, Sadiq Khan, for rent via ‘London Affordable Rent.’ The introduction of ‘London Affordable Rent’ is, fundamentally, a stealthy effort to eradicate social rents — those enjoyed by council and housing association tenants whose tenancies began before the Tories wiped out social rents for new tenants in 2011. The Tories’ intention was that all new tenancies would no longer be at social rents (typically, 30% of market rents), but at so-called “affordable” rents that were not actually affordable for most people, being, notoriously, set at 80% of market rents by Boris Johnson, during his execrable eight years as the capital’s Mayor. Some social housing providers complied with this new regime, while others implemented “affordable” rents that were less than 80% of market rents; at 50%, 60% or 65%, for example. When Sadiq Khan was elected as London’s Mayor in 2016, he responded to this horrendous mess by introducing new graduated rents that were intended to be fairer, but that have only ended up creating even more of a mess. What purports to be social housing provision now consists of social rents, ‘London Affordable Rent’, which in Lewisham is 63% higher than social rents, ‘London Living Rent’, which in Lewisham is 135% higher than social rents, and are designed for households earning up to £60,000 a year, with the intention that those tenants then save up money to buy the properties outright, and, of course, the shared ownership option, whose many pitfalls have been exposed by housing experts. In addition, some of the 80% “affordable” rents are still in place, and at the private end of the market tenants continue to be fleeced by landlords charging whatever they can get away with; typically, £400-£500 a week for a couple. In response, it is reassuring that organisations have started up to tackle the chronic injustice of the private rental market, like the recently established London Renters Union, and I hope that private renters will also attend Friday’s event, to work out how we can all collaborate to fulfil the founding demands of ‘No Social Cleansing in London’: 1. The refurbishment rather than the demolition of all existing social housing. 2. A massive social homebuilding programme, cutting out the profiteering of builders and developers (whether private companies or housing associations) and establishing a process whereby new homes can be built on a not-for-profit basis at social rent. At Tidemill it has become obvious that ‘London Affordable Rent’ is designed to replace social rents, because otherwise it makes no sense to demolish a structurally sound block of council flats at social rent to replace them with new properties at ‘London Affordable Rent.’ However, unless we can create a broad coalition to resist the new system implemented by Sadiq Khan, and the Tory-created funding-strangled nightmare behind it, which has led to the housing association sector becoming a horrendous public/private hybrid that is, essentially, a branch of the government (perhaps the Ministry for So-Called Social Housing would be a good name for it), estates will continue to be knocked down and “regenerated”, to provide significant profits for the builders and developers, while everyone involved hypocritically pretends that they are making a major contribution to solving London’s housing crisis. Andy Worthington is a freelance investigative journalist, activist, author, photographer, film-maker and singer-songwriter (the lead singer and main songwriter for the London-based band The Four Fathers, whose music is available via Bandcamp). He is the co-founder of the Close Guantánamo campaign (and see the latest photo campaign here) and the successful We Stand With Shaker campaign of 2014-15, and the author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison (click on the following for Amazon in the US and the UK) and of two other books: Stonehenge: Celebration and Subversion and The Battle of the Beanfield. He is also the co-director (with Polly Nash) of the documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (available on DVD here — or here for the US), and for his photo project ‘The State of London’ he publishes a photo a day from six years of bike rides around the 120 postcodes of the capital. In 2017, Andy became very involved in housing issues. He is the narrator of a new documentary film, ‘Concrete Soldiers UK’, about the destruction of council estates, and the inspiring resistance of residents, he wrote a song ‘Grenfell’, in the aftermath of the entirely preventable fire in June 2017 that killed over 70 people, and he also set up ‘No Social Cleansing in Lewisham’ as a focal point for resistance to estate destruction and the loss of community space in his home borough in south east London. Since August 2018 he has been part of the occupation of the Old Tidemill Wildlife Garden in Deptford, to prevent its destruction — and that of 16 structurally sound council flats next door — by Lewisham Council and Peabody. To receive new articles in your inbox, please subscribe to Andy’s RSS feed — and he can also be found on Facebook (and here), Twitter, Flickr and YouTube. Also see the six-part definitive Guantánamo prisoner list, The Complete Guantánamo Files, the definitive Guantánamo habeas list, the full military commissions list, and the chronological list of all Andy’s articles. Please also consider joining the Close Guantánamo campaign, and, if you appreciate Andy’s work, feel free to make a donation. Posted in Battle for Britain: Fighting the Tory Government's Vile Ideology, The Four Fathers, UK housing crisis, UK politics Tagged Anne E Cooper, Asher Baker, Commie Faggots, Council estates, Council housing, DIY Space for London, Environmental destruction, Flaky Jake, Four Fathers, Housing crisis, MeU, Music, No Social Cleansing in London, Old Tidemill Garden, Old Tidemill Wildlife Garden, Save Reginald Save Tidemill, Social cleansing, Social housing, The Four Fathers, Ukadelix Andy Worthington says... When I posted this on Facebook, I wrote: Here’s my latest article, promoting the launch on Friday, at the DIY Space for London in Peckham, of ‘No Social Cleansing in London’, a new campaign I’m setting up to bring together housing activists from across the capital’s 32 boroughs. The evening is also a fundraiser for the Save Reginald Save Tidemill campaign in Deptford, which I’m part of, and which, tomorrow, celebrates six weeks of the occupation of the Old Tidemill Wildlife Garden to prevent its destruction by Lewisham Council and Peabody. The evening is an opportunity to socialise and hopefully for new working relationships to be formed, and also features a full programme of live music, including The Four Fathers, the Commie Faggots, Ukadelix, Patrick Lyons’ MeU, Flaky Jake and rapper Asher Baker, as well as poet Anne E. Cooper, from Save Cressingham Gardens in Lambeth. ...on October 8th, 2018 at 7:27 pm Mail (Not published) (required) Investigative journalist, author, campaigner, commentator and public speaker. Recognized as an authority on Guantánamo and the “war on terror.” Co-founder, Close Guantánamo, co-director, We Stand With Shaker. Also, singer and songwriter (The Four Fathers) and photographer (The State of London). 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__label__cc	0.636322	0.363678	Anna in the News Other Prof. Qualif. Books Edited ELIAMEP launches a series of reports on the stage of migration policy in Greece Professor Anna Triandafyllidou, formerly Senior Fellow at ELIAMEP and currently member of its Scientific Board, participates in the OECD Network of International Migration Experts, drafting each year a report reviewing the size and features of the migrant population in Greece, its labour market and overall social and political integration, and the challenges of irregular migration [...] By admin\| 2014-10-24T10:26:19+00:00 October 24th, 2014\|Blog\|Comments Off on ELIAMEP launches a series of reports on the stage of migration policy in Greece What is a real “bond” with the Greek nation? and who decides if it exists? The Greek citizenship law reform of 2010 has been officially annulled by the Council of State as the law was considered unconstitutional. Being born in Greece of parents living in Greece for at least 5 years (both parents), having arrived in Greece at an early age and having studied at a Greek school for six [...] By admin\| 2014-09-09T19:11:13+00:00 February 6th, 2013\|Blog\|Comments Off on What is a real “bond” with the Greek nation? and who decides if it exists? Resolve the real Greek crisis FOR Greeks suffering from the wrenching pain of a long economic crisis, a youthful savior has emerged. Alexis Tsipras, the leader of the second-strongest party in Parliament, the Coalition of the Radical Left, or Syriza, is not yet 40, but his relentless attack on austerity has made him a favorite to head the next government. Continues here. [...] By admin\| 2014-09-09T19:29:11+00:00 February 4th, 2013\|Blog\|Comments Off on Resolve the real Greek crisis Racist murder in Athens What does it mean? to cross half of Asia and get to Greece (to "Europe") for a better life and then be murdered. Riding your bicycle at 4 am in the morning to get to work from one working class neighbourhood of Athens, to another, getting in the way of two young right wing extremists, [...] By admin\| 2014-09-09T19:32:25+00:00 January 21st, 2013\|Blog\|Comments Off on Racist murder in Athens Greece belongs to the Greeks but who are the Greeks it belongs to? Greece's citizenship law - reformed in 2010 to give more room for the jus soli principle, integrating into the citizenry the relatively large number of second generation migrants (children born in Greece of foreign parents) as well as immigrants who have been settled in Greece for a long time - has recently been judged anti-constitutional [...] By admin\| 2014-09-09T19:35:56+00:00 December 3rd, 2012\|Blog\|Comments Off on Greece belongs to the Greeks but who are the Greeks it belongs to? Gazmend Kaplani in TedX – a journey towards freedom and creativity By admin\| 2014-09-09T19:37:34+00:00 October 30th, 2012\|Blog\|Comments Off on Gazmend Kaplani in TedX – a journey towards freedom and creativity Why did the EU win the Nobel Peace Prize? Why did the EU get the Nobel Peace Prize last week, when it seems to have failed in most respects? Indeed precisely for this!! Read more: http://network.globalgovernanceprogramme.eu/europes-economic-and-cultural-downturn-and-the-nobel-peace-prize/ By admin\| 2014-09-09T19:38:26+00:00 October 23rd, 2012\|Blog\|Comments Off on Why did the EU win the Nobel Peace Prize? How much further can we go in being inhuman? A new video on the fate of Afghani asylum seekers in Greece. As the country is plummetting into dramatic economic depression, unemployment standing at 24% (among youth at 50%) and as the lines at soup kitchens become longer and longer, Greece is faced also with a humanitarian and refugee crisis. Afghani asylum seekers in particular [...] By admin\| 2014-09-09T19:40:35+00:00 October 9th, 2012\|Blog\|Comments Off on How much further can we go in being inhuman? Further testing of the democratic reflexes of Greek society In response to the Golden Dawn patrols threatening and beating up people looking foreign (where foreign stands for Asian or African), a new movement is rising. They call themselves anti-fascist and they are organising their own motorbike gatherings and occasionally patrol the streets of central neighbourhoods in Athens where migrants live and have shops. While [...] By admin\| 2014-09-09T19:39:32+00:00 October 9th, 2012\|Blog\|Comments Off on Further testing of the democratic reflexes of Greek society How to deal with irregular migration and labour market needs Irregular Immigration: Matching the Labor Market and Mobility Incentives Memo 42: Irregular immigration policy needs restructuring in a way that benefits both destination countries and the immigrants. The EU and the US should focus policy efforts on strengthening cooperation with sender countries, increasing the incentives for legal migration, and targeting the legalization of irregular immigrants. [...] By admin\| 2014-09-09T19:42:52+00:00 September 12th, 2012\|Blog\|Comments Off on How to deal with irregular migration and labour market needs Health care is a fundamental human right Watch this wonderful video made by Spanish doctors against the current reform of the health care policy towards (irregular) migrants. It explains very eloquently that providing health care is the obligation of each and every doctor - part of their oath to Ippocrates, indeed an ancient Greek legacy we can be proud of! - Health [...] By admin\| 2014-09-09T19:43:22+00:00 September 6th, 2012\|Blog\|Comments Off on Health care is a fundamental human right The island of Crete in Greece – see it to believe it! 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__label__cc	0.734654	0.265346	Masters Key Anniversaries Golf ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, MARCH 31-APRIL 1 - FILE - In this April 2, 1937 file photo, Byron Nelson of Reading, Pa., putts on the 18th green during the Augusta National Invitational golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga. At he 1937 Masters, Nelson won his first major championship with a stunning rally in the final round. He set the course record with a 66 in the opening round, but a 75 in the third round allowed Ralph Guldahl to take a four-shot lead into the last day. (AP Photo/File) Creation Date: April 02, 1937 03:00:00 AM Submission Date: March 28, 2012 06:12:26 PM Photographer: Anonymous Source: AP Special Instructions: AN APRIL 2, 1937 FILE PHOTO. ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, MARCH 31-APRIL 1 Subject: Golf, Sports Location: AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, United States Transmission Reference: NY201 Byline Title: STF Caption Writer: XNBG DDNY	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20516
__label__cc	0.695731	0.304269	Lines For The iPad Mini Are Much Shorter Than Previous Apple Product Debuts This is a discussion on Lines For The iPad Mini Are Much Shorter Than Previous Apple Product Debuts within the iPad Mini forums, part of the iPod, iPhone, iPad Forum category; The iPad mini is going to be a hit. It’s perfectly small, light and affordable which means that people should be flocking to the Apple ... Thread: Lines For The iPad Mini Are Much Shorter Than Previous Apple Product Debuts sparkyscott21 [OP] The iPad mini is going to be a hit. It’s perfectly small, light and affordable which means that people should be flocking to the Apple Store to buy it. But today, lines at the Apple Store have been reported to be a lot shorter than other product launches. Reuters reports that Apple Stores across the globe are seeing a much smaller turnout for the iPad mini than expected. A store in Amsterdam looked like it was just a regular day with no lines two hours after the iPad mini went on sale. Only 50 people lined up in Sydney when there were is usually a line stretching for several blocks for iPhone launches. Ditto in Tokyo and Seoul. If you’ve been stuck at work all day, worrying that there might not be any iPad minis available at the Apple Store once you get off, you can rest a little more easy that Apple Stores will probably still have units in stock later today. While the iPad mini will probably become a popular product, some analysts think it will take time to catch on. Gene Munster, an analyst with Piper Jaffray, told Reuters that they expect Apple to sell between 1 million and 1.5 million iPad minis in the first weekend, which is a lot fewer than the number of iPad 3 units sold in March. “The reason we expect fewer iPad minis compared to the 3rd Gen is because of the lack of the wireless option and newness of the smaller form factor for consumers,” Munster said in a note to clients. “We believe that over time that will change.” If Apple Doesn’t Sell 3 Million iPad Minis This Weekend, It’s A Failure [Analyst] The iPad mini lines have been nowhere near as big as expected. Apple is the only consumer electronics company in the world that consistently releases new gadgets that sell in their millions during the first few days of availability. During their respective launch weekends alone, Apple sold 3 million third-generation iPad units, 4 million iPhone 4S units, and 5 million iPhone 5 units. In fact, the company’s iOS devices have become so popular that they’re now considered a failure if they don’t sell several million within their first 72 hours on the market. According to one analyst, the iPad mini has to shift at least 3 million units this weekend for it to be considered a successful device. BTIG analyst Walter Piecyk believes that the iPad mini is a flop if it doesn’t hit that target. Anything less than 3 million units, and Apple has failed to prove that there is sufficient demand for a smaller tablet at the iPad mini’s price points, Piecyk says: We believe Apple’s first weekend sales of the iPad Mini needs, at a minimum, to top the 3 million first weekend sales of the iPad 3 in order to demonstrate that the management team can execute on ramping supply of new products and to provide some evidence that there is adequate demand for a smaller iPad at these price points. It’s understandable that our peers and perhaps some investors may have lower expectations given the string of disappointments and falling EPS estimates under the new and changing management team. However, we believe 3 million units is an appropriate bogey given that the Mini is being launched in nearly 3x the number of markets than the iPad 3, is at a much lower price point and sold out of pre-ordered product deliverable this weekend. The hurricane could impact first weekend in-store sales but all the pre-orders should be able to be booked as sales based on shipped date, not delivery date. As things currently stand, it doesn’t look like the iPad mini’s going to be anywhere near as successful as the iPhone 5 was just over a month ago. Not only did it remain available in the Apple online store a great deal longer, but the lines it has spawned outside of Apple retail stores are nowhere near as long as those for the company’s latest smartphone. Despite that, I think the iPad mini will do very well — particularly with the holiday season coming up. Maybe it won’t sell 3 million units during the first three days, but I’ll bet it won’t be a failure. Spotify's Long-Awaited iPad App Debuts in App Store By sparkyscott21 in forum Apple News Apple has ‘iPad Mini Smart Covers’ ready to go for the… iPad Mini By sparkyscott21 in forum iPad Mini Apple predicted to phase out iPad 2 to streamline product line for 'iPad mini' By sparkyscott21 in forum Apple Rumors ATTO debuts start of Thunderbolt product lineup By sparkyscott21 in forum Apple Product Reviews Apple to overhaul all product lines in 2012 By sparkyscott21 in forum Apple Forums Member News Depot	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20517
__label__wiki	0.508964	0.508964	Home Interviews Interview with Beau Sample Interview with Beau Sample Djordje Stijepovic Most of nowadays’ slap bass players are interested in a narrow range of music genres. That’s usually rockabilly, psychobilly or some sort of early American music. Luckily these days there are more and more players who realize that listening, understanding and playing different styles really helps developing music taste and creating individual sound. Beau Sample is one of rare players that play everything from jazz, blues and rockabilly to classical music. He was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, but has spent most of his music life in Austin, where he played and recorded with numerous bands (The T Jared Bonta Trio, The Dave Biller Combo, the Seth Walker Band, Whit Smith’s Hot Jazz Caravan, The Hot Club of Cowtown, Janis Martin etc) and attended Texas State University for Jazz and Orchestral studies. With Elana James and Cave Catt Sammy he toured US, Europe and some former USSR republics. A few years ago he moved to Chicago, where he plays mostly with the Modern Sounds and part time with Devil in a Woodpile and Alfonso Ponticelli. Last year he was touring with his Modern Sounds as the backup band for Deke Dickerson. After playing two sets at the Knockout in San Francisco, he recorded Limehouse Blues with guitarist Joel Paterson for our website. We had to wait for the club to close to shoot the video (although you can hear some background noise from the last men standing). And they did it in just one take! I’m proud to present to you here, on The Art of Slap Bass, for the first time ever: BEAU SAMPLE Djordje: Hi Beau! When did you start and what inspired you to play double bass? Beau: Hello Djordje! I started on the double bass when I was 16. That’s almost 14 years ago. One of my first inspirations was the great Ric Ramirez from San Antonio. I used to listen to him on the Wayne Hancock albums and then go out and see him play with a band called The Dead Crickets, now called Two Tons Of Steel. Djordje: How did you learn to play? Beau: I would try and imitate what I heard on old recordings by guys like Bill Black on Elvis tunes and Clayton Perkins on the Carl Perkins stuff and also recordings by High Noon and Wayne Hancock. I was also very interested in Django Reinhardt and Hank Williams when I was in High School, so I would try and learn all this music. I tried to get into the jazz program at my High School (MacArthur High School) but the band director was a big jerk, and he deterred me from getting in, so I joined the Orchestra which was nice because I could get my hands on a decent bass and also learn to read music a bit, but I did really annoy the teacher when she discovered I was trying to slap on the bass. I can understand her annoyance. I couldn’t afford an upright at the time and the bass I was using at the school was an old Kay (the only old bass they had) and nobody wanted to use it because it was all beat up, so the kids would just carve things in the side of it with a pen or knife. This really frustrated me, so I tried again and again to buy the bass from the department, but she refused to sell it to me, so bassless I was for a while. Maybe the folks in our public school music programs are paid to keep kids from becoming musicians. Anyway, I did start to study with a man named George Prado. I learned a lot from him about music and life. He remains one of my dearest friends and I love him like a father. His son, Aaron, is a fantastic piano player, and he was one of my first teachers too. He would hire me for jazz duo gigs around town even though I couldn’t play jazz worth a damn. I had to learn quickly. After Cave Catt, I went to Texas State University and studied jazz and classical bass with Howard Hudiburg. I miss him. I should give him a call. Man I could go on forever. I just try and learn from everybody I can, but the guys that I have gotten the honor to play with and who have really helped me, are: George Prado, Richard Davis, Henry Grimes, Buell Neidlinger and last but definitely not least, the great John Bany from right here in Chicago. I love John so much, and he has taught me plenty. I had the pleasure of hanging out with Rufus Reid last year at the Richard Davis bass conference. We were both clinicians and he was a deep cat with a lot of integrity. I don’t even have one recording of his, but just hanging with him for the weekend taught me so much that you can’t get in books. As far as books… yes, use books. I don’t know. I have a lot, and I have gone through most of the major classical bass method books. Most any book can be beneficial if you think about it critically. Too many books to name…. “The Bass Tradition” by Todd Coolman has some great transcriptions. Djordje: Musicians that are mostly oriented to roots music very rarely have any formal training. What would you say how much have those years that you’ve spent at the Texas State University where you studied Jazz and Orchestral studies, helped you in developing your playing style? Beau: I think it all helped. I like a holistic approach to bass. If you learn jazz it will help your rockabilly. If you learn blues it will help your classical. Everything effects how you play because you are projecting yourself through your instrument. Food, art, literature, sports, politics, poetry, machinery, whatever you are into, when you play it’s all there. Djordje: How many instruments have you owned, what are they and what do you currently use? Beau: My first bass was a Sri Lankan laminated bass. Then I bought a 51 Kay M-1. I still use that one a lot. I guess I have had it for 11 years. I have a Lowendall bass circa 1890. It’s great. It sounds great in the studio. I have owned others. I had an American Standard, a Blond Epiphone, another Kay. I don’t like having a bunch of stuff, so if I am not using something much, I normally get rid of it. Djordje: You’re one of the endorsers of Pirastro strings. You’ve been using their Eudoxa E & A and Chorda D & G for a long time now. What are the advantages of those strings over the others in your opinion? Beau: I just like the sound and feel of gut strings, but I don’t like the plain gut on E and A because of the lack of definition and sustain. Eudoxas are a good balance of sustain and a nice gut sound. I also like the new Chorda E and A. They have redesigned them and they are quite a bit better than they used to be. Most plain guts work well for the D and G, but I prefer the Efrano Brand. A set normally lasts me about a year. Djordje: Are you using the same string combination for all music styles you play? Beau: Mainly, I have the Chordas on my carved bass that I do mostly bowing on and the Eudoxas/Efrano on my Kay. But they all work well for everything. Djordje: What came first, pizzicato, arco or slap and how did you learn the slap technique? Beau: Slap came first for me because I wanted to play rockabilly. I would just listen to and watch Ric Ramirez and Kevin Smith and try and learn and then try to come up with my own bag. Djordje: I noticed that historically there is a lot of confusion about the names for different slap patterns (read more about it here). What are the names that you use and what kind of different slap patterns do you use in your playing? Beau: That all seems to make sense to me. I normally say triplet or quadruplet but it’s basically the same thing. Djordje: Who are your bass and more specifically slap influences? Beau: Steve Brown, Bill Johnson, Al Morgan, Pop Foster, Milt Hinton, Willie Dixon, Kevin Smith, Ric Ramirez, Jimmy Sutton those are the first ones off the top of my head. Djordje: Do you like any slap players nowadays? Beau: There are probably lots of people I haven’t heard but I like the guys I have mentioned and I like Viorel Vlad with Taraf De Haidouks. Djordje: On your myspace page you listed bass players from Bill Johnson to Bob Moore as your influences. Besides the more obvious ones, it would be interesting to hear how Charle Haden, Božo Paradžik, Vlad Viorel or François Rabbath influenced you? Beau: Anybody that plays from their heart and soul and sounds strong and beautiful will inspire me. Djordje: Who are you playing with these days besides the Modern Sounds (with the amazing Joel Paterson)? Beau: Alfonso Ponticelli and The Sanctified Grumblers (used to be Devil in a Woodpile). Djordje: You’ve been studying jazz at the conservatory and your band Modern Sounds was voted number 1 Chicago jazz band. How often do you play bebop or more contemporary jazz styles? Beau: We play some bebop with Alfonso. We play some bebop with the Modern Sounds but I don’t play much of the kind of Jazz most people are playing these days. Djordje: You also studied classical music. How often do you play something from that repertoire? Beau: Everyday, in my living room. Djordje: You’ve been involved in many music projects that expand over multiple styles. You’ve played rockabilly with Cave Catt Sammy, blues with Seth Walker, hot jazz with Whit Smith, Western swing with Elana James, jazz with your own Impressment Gang, boogie woogie with Carl Sonny Leyland, Gypsy jazz with Alfonso Ponticelli, ragtime with Devil in a Woodpile… How much do you have to adjust your playing when you perform with these guys? Beau: The Impressment Gang was a collage of various styles. I try to adjust my playing enough where I can gel with the group sound, but not so much that I don’t sound like me. Djordje: You also play bass guitar in an early 60’s style band Del Moroccos (where another great slap bassist Jimmy Sutton plays lead guitar). How much of your work involves bass guitar these days and what is your approach to it comparing to the upright bass? Beau: Not much at all. I am not playing with the Del Moroccos anymore. I have a love hate relationship with the electric bass. I really don’t give it the time it deserves. Djordje: What was your experience playing and recording with the legendary rockabilly singer Janis Martin? Beau: Unforgettable, she was an inspiration in the studio and everything felt good. I hope somebody releases that stuff someday. She sang great and the band played great. We had Dave Biller, Bobby Trimble, T Jarrod Bonta and me. Rosie Flores was the producer of the session. Djordje: You were born in San Antonio, spent a lot of time in Austin, and then you moved to Chicago. Both Austin and Chicago have long music traditions and they are among the most important cities in the history of American music. How would you compare roots music scenes in those cities these days? Beau: When I was living in Austin it was much easier to sit in with many bands. It seems to be more like a big family, and people are less competitive. Chicago has many clicks that don’t co-mingle. But the level of musicianship in both cities is high. Chicago has such a great vibe. It feels good to live and play here. I moved here to play more jazz and blues and I am doing that. Djordje: You were leading the rockabilly band Cave Catt Sammy for a long time and later on, the jazz group Beau Sample and the Impressment Gang. Are there any plans for leading your own band again? Beau: I don’t know. I would like to do a record under my own name sometime soon. Djordje: Most of slap bassists and rockabilly fans know you as the lead singer and bassist for Cave Catt Sammy. Are there any plans for reunion shows or records with Stephen, Dustin and Paul? Beau: No. We played a show in Texas at Gruene Hall last year, but we don’t have any plans to play together. Djordje: Is the name of your high school duo Slapdash connected with the fact that you use slap technique? Beau: No, we got the name from a word definition quiz in our English class. Djordje: How do you like to record your bass? Beau: Always, with a mic. I normally let the engineer try the mic he or she prefers and go from there. I have been lucky that a lot of my sessions in Chicago have been engineered by Alex Hall and he really knows how a big bass should sound, so I’m in good hands. Djordje: Knowing that you have great slap technique and that you’ve always played more complex solos like Turn Up The Joint, The C-Jack Jump with Cave Catt Sammy; or 12th St Rag, Jazz Me Blues, Muskrat Ramble, Whoa Babe and specially Slappin’ In Rhythm with Modern Sounds, it’s very unusual to hear that you decided to use just single slap for the solos you played on Carl Sonny Leylend’s album “A Chicago Session” (Rockin’ the House and Bernie’s Place). What is the reason for that? Beau: It just felt like the thing to play at the time. It fits that early Bluebird Records kind of vibe we had on the session. Djordje: What is your opinion about slap bass solos in jazz, rockabilly and country music? Beau: I think there is a time to slap and a time not to slap. There aren’t enough slap players today, but a lot of the ones who do slap, slap too much. And you don’t have to solo if you don’t have anything to say (I risk sounding like a hypocrite). Djordje: Which songs that you recorded would you recommend to bass players interested in your slap technique? Beau: Well, I like some of my more recent stuff on the new Modern Sounds double CD. “Slappin’ in Rhythm,” and the others you mentioned, are representative of my style. Djordje: In the past you’ve been touring all over the world and you’ve visited countries where most American roots musicians don’t go like Azerbaijan, Armenia, The Republic the Georgia etc. These days it seems that you don’t tour that much. Are there any touring plans outside of US? Beau: We went to Europe for a month in May/June 2010. Spain, Switzerland, Norway, Belgium and England. Djordje: What are your preferences for amps and pickups? Beau: I prefer not to use them, but if I have to, I use Underwood pickups and an Acoustic Image combo. For larger/louder shows I use a GK Heads and Bag End Cabinets. I also like to use a condenser mic on my double bass. Djordje: Do you use any other equipment when playing live? Beau: I use an MXR 10 Band EQ box from the 70’s. Djordje: Do you travel with your bass and where do you usually keep it? Beau: I never did, then I decided I wanted my bass everywhere I went so for about 3 ½ years with Elana James and The Hot Club of Cowtown I checked my bass on the planes in my David Gage flight case. Now I’m back to renting basses a lot of the time because I’m sick of being hassled by airlines. Djordje: Slap bass is a very intense way of playing. Do you do any wrist stretches or other type of warm ups before the show? Beau: No, but I should. Djordje: You did a slap bass workshop at Djangofest in Colorado two years ago (September 2009). After playing quite a few of those on the West Coast I noticed that nowadays Gypsy Jazz bass players never use slap technique. That’s pretty strange, since the first Django’s bassist Luis Vola and later on Tony Rovira were using slap bass pretty often. What do you think is the reason that bass players change their approach? Beau: Most of those guys are coming at the music from a different place than I did. I didn’t start off digging the fast, low action, amp and steel string players. I started off digging the players with that big acoustic sound. I think that a lot of guys consider slap bass to be “old timey” and then they turn around and use a bow and don’t see the irony of that. Djordje: Do you plan to do an instructional DVD and what do you usually teach at the workshops? Beau: I have no plans, but I guess if someone thinks they could sell any, I would consider it. I normally teach rudiments like you would play if you were a drummer. I also teach different styles of slap, and I teach improvising. If it’s not a “slap” workshop, what I teach can vary widely. Djordje: What do you suggest to younger players to practice on a daily basis? Beau: Everybody has their own needs, but I do think slap players should practice with and without a metronome. Djordje: Thank you for finding time to do this interview and hope to see you play sometime soon! Beau: Thanks Djordje for all the work you do for the bass. If you want to ask Beau Sample a question, you can do that on our forum here. modern sounds Previous articleHappy Birthday Marshall Lytle (plus new interview)! Next articleNew Interview with Beau Sample http://www.djordjestijepovic.com Interview with James Kirkland Interview with Marshall Lytle	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20520
__label__wiki	0.683706	0.683706	next character > next character (alphabetically) > < previous character < previous character (alphabetically) Ceci Ryder Religion: not determined yet Name: Ceci Ryder Classification: supporting character First Appearance: Howard the Duck (vol. 1) #32 (Jan. 1986) Creators: Steven Grant, Paul Smith, Ken Feduniewicz Number of Appearances: 1 Occupation: truck driver Note: briefly Howard the Duck's sidekick Suggested links for further research about this character: - http://www.marvunapp.com/master/rprz.htm - http://darkmark6.tripod.com/howard_the_duck_index.html - https://www.comics.org/issue/40996/ - http://comicbookdb.com/issue.php?ID=75857 - http://www.comicboards.com/marvelguide/r3.html	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20528
__label__cc	0.645454	0.354546	ARC Review \| When You're Ready by J.L.Berg { @authorjlberg } Can his love mend the pieces of her grieving heart? Years after suffering the tragic loss of her husband, Ethan, which left her alone to raise their young daughter, Clare Murray still holds the last letter he wrote with the words “When You’re Ready” written in his familiar messy handwriting, unable to break its weathered seal. Ready for what? He was her entire world, and Clare had accepted a life without him, without love. Until years later, fate brings her to an emergency room, and face to face with a stormy-eyed doctor intent on changing her mind. Logan Matthews is the son of a billionaire who has spent his entire life trying to make his absent father proud. Years of living up to a man who was more ghost than father, and a publicly failed marriage has left Logan cold and emotionless until he walks into an exam room and discovers a woman who can stop his heart, make his body burn with desire and leave his entire world altered. But how far are Clare and Logan willing to go for love? When their love is tested, is Clare ready to put her whole heart on the line again? Can Logan learn the true meaning of love, even if it means sacrificing his own happiness? When a second chance at love is given, Clare and Logan learn you never know if you are truly ready until you’re ready to risk it all. Find on Goodreads Buy Link: Amazon I LOVED this story! It is one of those goodies where you are hugging yourself, then you want to go and hug the author. Great debut. Makes me smile knowing I have another indie author to add to my ever growing list to follow. Love the indies, you just never know where your next great story will come from and When You're Ready proves that. This is a story that tells a story. I totally love that. The characterizations were perfect. The characters engaging. The secondary characters fit so well and helped drive the story. You believed the world that was created and joined in heart and soul. A true romance story with all the feels and emotions that kept me smiling and tearing up. The story starts out with some serious heart felt sadness with Ethan, Clare's husband knowing he is going to die, writing her his goodbye letter for "when she is ready" to read. Clare keeps the letter in her nightstand for 3 yrs as a soothing balm, unread. Clare is a single parent. Their daughter Maddie was a baby when Ethan passed away and she is an adorable 4 yr old. Very engaging. The fact that Clare still has a piece of Ethan helps her to move forward and continue to live. Their relationship is very real and you can feel the love and closeness that is there. Then there is Leah, Clare's best friend. This girl totally lacks a filter but has always been Clare's rock. She can been amazingly annoying at times but was a really nice balance to Clare's personality which was one of goodness, doing the right thing, and love. Clare oozes love. We meet Logan Matthews. Jaded, guilt ridden and weighed down by his past. He feels he is a failure in his father's eyes and life overall. He also truly believes he is incapable of love. Until he meets Clare. Logan is a Dr in the ER and meets Clare and Maddie the night Clare rushes her in after falling. There was a definite connection between the two, but of course neither one believe it and are confused by it. It isn't until a chance meeting again that these two take the tentative steps towards their blooming love. Again, written in a way that you believed it and felt the emotions between them. The story takes off from that point and just runs away with your heart. A wonderfully written, beautiful story. I am so in love with the characters. Heartbreaking, heart healing. Survival, acceptance, healing, moving forward, and grasping life and all it offers, good and bad. "I have so many things I want to say to you, so many words to write. But how do you fit a lifetime into a letter?" "I love you." I told her without hesitation, saying the words I've been holding inside of me for far too long. "I've loved you Clare, every minute of everyday, since the very first day." Absolutely loved this story and will forever be stalking the author! Review will also be posted on my Loved These shelf on Goodreads. I’m a California native, who lives in the South – Virginia to be exact. I still prefer sushi to fried chicken, avocados to okra, and I absolutely loathe humidity. I do love watching the seasons change though. My husband and I have been here for ten years, and I still get giddy like a school girl every time it snows. I’m married to my high school sweetheart. We were married young, barely out of high school. Everyone told us we were crazy and stupid. We’ll be celebrating 12 years of marriage this year, and I love him more every single day. We’re living proof that true love knows no age limit. We’ve been blessed with two beautiful daughters who continue to amaze and inspire me, and are probably making me go a bit insane. I’m obsessed with yoga and pilates and am a complete chocoholic. I apologize in advance for the amount of sweets in my book. I’m absolutely obsessed with romance novels (duh) and probably could have built a vacation home with the amount of money I've invested in them over the years. Romance novels take you to another place, making your heart race, emotions swell, passion run free. After so many years of meeting hundreds of fictional characters and discovering their worlds, I found myself creating my own. Website \| Twitter \| Goodreads \| Facebook ARC provided by the author in exchange for a fair review.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20533
__label__wiki	0.9013	0.9013	Top 12 Games to Look Out For in 2012 News Rumours Ramblings Roger Ma December 29, 2011 3 Comments As 2011 slowly comes to an end, we reflect on the great year of gaming it has been. A brand new year is set to begin just over the horizon, and with it comes a slew of great games set to be released not to long from now. So gear up and jump on board the hype wagon as we take a look at 12 of 2012’s most anticipated games. 12. Uncharted: Golden Abyss Developer: SCE Bend Studio Platforms: Playstation Vita Release Date: You might be lucky enough to be playing the game already if you’re in Japan right now, but for everyone else you’ll have to wait until February 22, 2012 So…what’s all the hype about? From what we saw at E3, Gamescom and TGS, Uncharted: Golden Abyss looks fantastic. A launch title for Sony’s latest handheld console Playstation Vita, the game really shows off what this new handheld console is capable of. Uncharted: Golden Abyss is defiantly shaping up to be one good looking game that you can fit into the palms of your hands, sporting incredible graphics (which look as if they have been taken straight out of their Playstation 3 counterparts) along with the same mix of platforming and combat goodness with an added bonus of new characters and story all thrown in. 11. The Darkness II Developer: Digital Extremes Publisher: 2K Games Platforms: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC Release Date: February 7, 2012 in North American and February 10, 2012 for Europe and Australia In 2007, a first person shooter with a twist called The Darkness was released. Combining the mafia revenge story with demonic mythology, the result proved to be a unique and fresh take on both genre and narrative story telling in gaming as a whole. Now a sequel has finally emerged, Jackie Estacado is back to face the demons he left from the first game along with a new foe, The Brotherhood and players can once again take control of the demonic entity known only as The Darkness. The Darkness II is ready to raise the bar in violence with gruesome execution moves set to take main stage. Along with this, the game includes a brand new co-op multiplayer mode complete with its own parallel campaign. 10. Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time Developer: Sanzaru Games The long-anticipated fourth game in the series marks a return after a six year absents for Sly Cooper. Sly 4 aka Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time was finally announced at E3 2011 and since then information has been slowly drip fed to fans. The first game in the series not to be developed by Sucker Punch Studios, Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time promises to be even bigger and better than its predecessors with emphasis on free roaming in much larger environments than in previous games. Sly 4 will be the series first game built for the Playstation 3 and it will be interesting to see how its developers, Sanzaru Games, will take the series into the new generation of gaming. 9. Borderlands 2 Developer: Gearbox Software Release Date: July 30, 2012 (According to Amazon.com…) The original Borderlands was a sleeper hit when it was released in 2010, mixing first person shooting with traditional role playing loot hunting. Now sure the game was not without its flaws and a general lack of story all round, but the fundamental core gameplay and art style was very solid. There was much to like about this game, and what better to have than a sequel set to improve on all the flaws of the original and improve on the parts that made the game so good. 8. Hitman: Absolution Developer: IO Interactive Hitman: Absolution the fifth game in the long running stealth action series is looking very good. We first got word of the new Hitman game with little more than a short teaser trailer back in May. But this gave us a clear indication that E3 would soon deliver the goods. Powered by IO Interactive’s Glacier 2 engine, this game pushes some very fancy graphics – just look at Agent 47’s bald head! Stealth games are always quite hard to get right but IO Interactive by the looks of things are on the money with this one, paying attention to what players want out of a stealth game along with bring in new innovations to keep the game fresh. Developer: Team Ico Originally announced at E3 2009, Team Ico’s long awaited follow up/spiritual successor to Ico and Shadow of the Colossus The Last Guardian was set to be released in late 2011 but was later on pushed back to 2012. So will we finally get to play The Last Guardian in 2012? Well we hope so. Just exactly how the game is actually going to be played is yet to be revealed. Will it be an action, puzzle or adventure game or a unique mix of all three? Well whatever it is, The last Guardian is sure looking like one incredibly unique game. 6. Max Payne 3 Developer: Rockstar Games Publisher: Rockstar Games Just have a look at the debut trailer for Max Payne 3, and oh wow you can just tell that this is going to be something. Rockstar Games have made some damn fine games over the years and Max Payne 3 will be no different. Set years after the events of Max Payne 2 and in a new tropical setting of Sao Paulo in Brazil, Max Payne 3 is set to bring back the bullet time action that we all know and love. Some serious tech is going into this game, with its Euphoria engine once again set to overdrive and once again set to exceed our expectations promising a third person shooter with the fluidity and precision of a first-person shooter. Roger Ma Currently a university student, it's sick as! Halo 4 Webseries Making Of Video Featuring Warthog Chase Say hello to Agent 47’s new handler in latest Hitman: Absolution character reveal	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20540
__label__cc	0.516738	0.483262	Tag: Death Is Birth (Venn/PIAS) www.gallows.co.uk So, your bicycle has been in the repair shop, getting a new front wheel fitted (the old one unexpectedly broke loose after six-odd years of loyal service). You’re excited, but slightly nervous, mainly because it’s an awesome bicycle, and you’re hoping that it’ll give you as much joy with the new wheel as it did with the old one. The guys at the shop say that this new wheel is pretty impressive, though, so you’re waiting with bated breath. You’ve probably figured out the analogy by now. Gallows are back with album number three; their first with former Alexisonfire guitarist Wade MacNeil at the helm, and probably as good a riposte to their critics and doubters as we could have hoped for. Make no mistake, this is a Gallows record through and through. From the moment ‘Victim Culture’ kicks in after a sinister spoken-word intro, those signature raw rock n’ roll riffs, squalling guitar solos and raucous gang vocals are all present in abundance, and sounding more muscular than ever. Frank Carter left large shoes to fill, but MacNeil proves himself more than capable; a hardcore screamer among the best of them, but able to hold a tune when it’s called for (most notably on the intro of the gloriously anthemic ‘Outsider Art’, which is sure to incite mayhem live). None of this would matter much if the songs were substandard, but among the eleven tracks on offer here are some of Gallows’ best songs to date. ‘Everybody Loves You (When You’re Dead)’ matches anything from ‘Grey Britain’ or ‘Orchestra Of Wolves’ in ferocity alone; a stinging indictment of the ‘don’t speak ill of the dead’ mentality. ‘Depraves’ surfs in on a jagged Laurent Barnard riff before exploding into a carpe diem chorus that will have you howling along with conviction. Elsewhere, ‘Vapid Adolescent Blues’ and ‘Cult Of Mary’ are hardcore belters shot through with shards of melody, seething and writhing exactly as they should. Long viewed as plucky underdogs who have survived (and prospered) through no little determination, it seems that the adversity of Carter’s departure has resulted in Gallows returning angrier and hungrier than ever. Mark my words: this bicycle has what it takes to go the distance. They’ll be playing the Lock-Up Stage at this year’s Reading/Leeds festivals, before embarking on a full UK tour in October. Words: Alex Gosman Posted on August 10, 2012 September 28, 2012 Author DaveCategories Album Reviews, Buzz Chart, Music, ReviewsTags album, alexisonfire, Death Is Birth, frank carter, gallows, leeds, punk, pure love, Reading, Reading & Leeds, review	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20545
__label__wiki	0.871994	0.871994	2015 NFL Drafts 2015 NFL Draft Scouting Reports 2014 NFL Draft Prospect Rankings 2014 NFL Draft Scouting Breakdowns 2014 NFL Mock Draft Hub 2013 College Football Season Scouting Notes Thread 2013 Mock Draft Hub 2013 NFL Draft Prospect Visits & Workouts 2013 NFL Draft: Positional Rankings 2013 NFL Draft: Scouting Notes Database Buffalo Bills State of the Roster: Defense and Special Teams buffalobillsdraft Published: Categories: NFL Draft BBD Staff Writer: Ryan Glaze The Buffalo Bills defense is currently in a state of flux as defensive coordinator Mike Pettine has left to become the head coach of the Cleveland Browns and subsequently, has pilfered three Bills assistant coaches from last year’s staff, one who had been hired by the Bills earlier this month (Jeff Hafley) and might be on the verge of hiring away defensive line coach Anthony Weaver. The Bills reacted quickly and hired former Detroit Lions head coach Jim Schwartz to replace Pettine. Though his staff isn’t completely solidified yet, it appears likely that Schwartz will bring his “Wide 9,” 4-3 based defense to Buffalo. The good news for Schwartz is that he’s entering a kitchen with a well-stocked pantry. Buffalo’s defense was its stronger side of the ball last season, and with only one glaring exception, returns all of its key contributors who, for the most part, look to be solid fits for Schwartz’ scheme. Defensive Line The Bills defensive line thrived in Pettine’s hybrid system, where the athleticism and versatility of Pro Bowlers Mario Williams, Kyle Williams and Marcell Dareus were put on display. A premium on pass-rushing ability and quickness off the snap should continue to be part of Schwartz’s defensive scheme. While we can’t know for sure how exactly Schwartz intends to use his players, both Dareus and Kyle Williams seem like solid fits as a defensive tackle duo in a four-man front, while it’s difficult to imagine any defensive scheme struggling to find a place for an athlete like Mario Williams. Two major developments on the defensive line from the 2013 season could play a big part in the Bills returning to relevance. The first was Jerry Hughes, a pass-rushing specialist acquired from the Indianapolis Colts in exchange for inside linebacker Kelvin Sheppard. Though not the star his defensive linemates are, Hughes provided a significant impact as a pass-rusher with 10 sacks, and should be a great fit for Schwartz’s defense, at least on passing downs. The biggest defensive line development of last season, however, was Dareus’ progress. After a frustrating 2012 season marred by injuries and the tragic death of his brother, many Bills fans were beginning to use the dreaded “b” word, comparing him to former first-round bust Aaron Maybin. The immediate success of many of the other top defensive players drafted in the 2011 draft class (J.J. Watt, Von Miller and Robert Quinn, to name a few) certainly didn’t help his case. In 2013, however, Dareus started to look like the dominant defensive lineman he was drafted to be, a tribute to the value of patience, mental and physical health, and development. Dareus led all NFL defensive tackles with 45 stops and was graded as a top-10 defensive tackle as both a pass and run defender, according to Pro Football Focus. Entering next season, the Bills will return all significant contributors from the 2013 defensive line after they smartly extended defensive tackle Alan Branch’s contract through the 2016 season. Branch’s extension is potentially significant for Buffalo’s lone free agent along the defensive line, Alex Carrington. Carrington looked to be coming into his own in Pettine’s defense before a Week 3 quadriceps injury ended his season. Entering free agency with questions about his health, production, and fit into Schwartz’s new scheme, it is uncertain whether Carrington will be back with the team next season. This may be compounded by the fact that he’s represented by Eugene Parker, who also represents free safety Jairus Byrd (more to come). If the negotiations with Byrd go south, expect both sides to walk away from any deal for Carrington. Look for the Bills to find a starter opposite Mario Williams and depth at defensive end this offseason. To allow Hughes to remain a pass-rushing specialist, adding a player capable of setting the edge and rushing the passer on running downs will be an important piece of the puzzle. At first blush, it seems as though Schwartz’s scheme is a terrific fit for Lawson and Alonso as both excel in coverage. That said, a position change to the weak side for Alonso to better leverage his playmaking abilities should’t be overlooked.The “Wide 9″ defense emphasizes linebackers’ ability to make plays against the run and defend the pass in coverage. With only four linebackers currently under contract, this is not the deepest group on the Bills roster, but should-be Defensive Rookie of the Year Kiko Alonso and 2013 free-agent signee Manny Lawson look to be solid positional fits at weak- and strong-side linebacker, respectively. Backups Nigel Bradham and Ty Powell are young, cheap and intriguing athletes who could be retained for development, depth and special teams purposes. Alonso’s ability to quickly pick up Pettine’s hybrid scheme likely stemmed from his experience with a very similar scheme in college. Though the transition to a new scheme, which often includes new techniques, new verbiage and new responsibilities, will be a stressor to the entire defense, a scheme and positional adjustment might impact the read-and-react ability that makes Alonso such a special linebacker. Look for Buffalo to make addressing the middle linebacker position a high priority this offseason. The University of Buffalo’s Khalil Mack is a versatile and talented linebacker who would make for an extremely intriguing choice if available with the Bills’ No. 9 overall pick in this year’s NFL draft. New England Patriots free-agent middle linebacker Brandon Spikes is another name that would seem to make sense. Spikes excels in stopping the run, and signing him would have a “two birds with one stone” effect by taking him from a division rival. Four-year veteran Arthur Moats, the team’s lone free-agent linebacker, is another potential candidate to fill the Mike role. Though he may be a bit undersized to be a truly natural fit as a middle linebacker in Schwartz’ scheme, he would likely to be cheaper to sign than Spikes and could make sense as a placeholder, should the Bills decide to take more of a developmental approach to the Mike position with a mid-late round pick. Much like their defensive counterparts in the front seven, the Bills defensive backfield became a strength by the end of the 2013 season, bolstered by several significant developments and an undrafted rookie gem. While talented even without him, this could be a truly special unit going forward if the Bills can come to an agreement on a reasonable contract extension with star safety Jairus Byrd. According to Patrick Moran of Buffalo Sports Daily, Byrd is looking to become the highest-paid safety in the league, a demand the team was unwilling to accommodate during last season’s negotiations. While Bills team president Russ Brandon said the Bills are working toward a long-term deal with Byrd according to a report by The Associated Press, the team made it clear last offseason that they weren’t willing to invest the type of money in a safety that Byrd is seeking. With Parker no stranger to holdouts, it appears this stalemate is likely to continue. If no long-term deal is struck, the Bills could use the franchise tag on Byrd for a second consecutive year. Should the tag be used again, the team might look more aggressively to trade him this time around. In 2013, Byrd held out until the end of the preseason, then missed the team’s first five games with plantar fasciitis. Many wondered how the Bills would be able to replace him. Though he wasn’t able to completely replicate Byrd’s impact on the field, Aaron Williams had a very nice season and looked far more comfortable at safety than he had at cornerback in his first two NFL seasons. This offseason will be a big one for Williams as he continues to familiarize himself with his new position, whether it be alongside Byrd or not. Behind Williams, Da’Norris Searcy is adequate enough to provide solid depth and 2013 rookies Jonathan Meeks and Duke Williams, neither of whom saw much action in their first years, might figure into the defensive rotation more in their second years. Any acquisitions at the safety position will almost certainly be driven by the outcome of the Byrd negotiations. If the team is forced to settle for trading or letting their star go, adding another veteran safety would seem a very realistic priority. If a long-term deal is worked out, the Bills look to be in great shape at the safety position heading into 2014. Cornerbacks Despite an up-and-down year, Gilmore looked like a quality starter as he became healthy toward the end of the saeson. He has the potential to be a true lockdown cornerback; a solid offseason of development will be big in determining whether or not he ever reaches that level.2013 was supposed to be Stephon Gilmore’s breakout year, but that quickly changed after he suffered a fractured wrist in the preseason. That kept him out of Buffalo’s first five games of the season, and forced to play with a club on his injured wrist for most of the rest of the season. Gilmore’s teammate, 2008 first-round pick Leodis McKelvin, ultimately came up with a breakout season. Like Dareus, many were beginning to use the “bust” label with McKelvin who, through his first five seasons, was a subpar starter. Despite many finding McKelvin’s four-year, $17 million contract extension last offseason to be surprising and perhaps unwarranted, the Bills were rewarded for taking a chance as McKelvin posted his best year to date and solidified himself as a quality starter. The emergence of Nickell Robey, an undrafted free agent rookie from USC, also strengthened the Bills cornerback roster. Though only 5’8”, Robey’s ball skills, agility and instincts made him an ideal nickel slot cornerback. If the defense continues to be successful in getting to the quarterback, Robey’s aggression should continue to lead to big plays. Behind Gilmore, McKelvin and Robey, the Bills have serious depth issues. 2012 fourth-round pick Ron Brooks doesn’t seem to be developing into the player the Bills thought he could be. Justin Rogers was a midseason cut by Buffalo after he started the season out disastrously playing in place of the injured Gilmore. With the injury history of McKelvin and Gilmore, expect the Bills to add depth by bringing in another veteran capable of playing on the outside if called upon. Defensive Summary Williams’ tweet says it all. Schwartz is the Bills’ fifth defensive coordinator in the past six years. With that much staff fluctuation, it’s a wonder guys like McKelvin and Dareus developed at all. The defensive roster has talent littered across the field and most importantly, in the trenches. A stout middle linebacker and dependable defensive end could make this a very good unit, but reaching an agreement with Byrd could make it special. Though they might be taking the prudent approach in not wanting to invest too much in one position, they’re toeing a dangerous line of getting too cute with their cap management. According to Football Outsiders metrics, the Bills had the third-worst special teams play in the league last season. While both kickoff coverage and kickoff return groups were rated as performing below average, they were, relatively speaking, far superior to the team’s punt coverage and punt return teams, the latter of which was ranked dead last by Football Outsiders. Special teams coordinator Danny Crossman was given a second year to correct those issues, but he will have to make some difficult personnel decisions to do so. The one strength of the Bills special teams was its field goal unit, as Dan Carpenter made 33 of 36 attempts in 2013. Signed just before the season, Carpenter enjoyed one of his most productive seasons as a pro. However, the Bills invested a sixth-round pick in Dustin Hopkins last season. With Hopkins coming off a groin injury that put him on injured reserve for the entire season, the team will have to decide whether to opt for the strong-legged young gun or resign its veteran special teams bright spot. The punter position will be another to watch. After netting only 35.2 yards per punt through his first five games in 2013, the Bills replaced punter Shawn Powell by bringing back longtime Bills veteran Brian Moorman. Though a fan favorite, Moorman only managed to marginally improve on Powell’s performance, netting 36.6 yards per punt, good for 30th in the NFL. The Bills have already resigned Moorman through the 2014 season, but given those paltry numbers, it would be a surprise if they didn’t at least bring in some competition for the spot. Don’t be surprised if the Bills look to acquire several special teams aces this offseason as well. With just under an estimated $20 million in cap space and only a handful of priority positions to fill, the Bills could look to quickly improve their special teams woes via free agency. With McKelvin entrenched as a starter at cornerback and depth concerns already an issue at the position, the team might ask its leading punt returner to focus on defense. Though they could ask receiver and kickoff return man Marquise Goodwin to take on punt return duties as well, signing a special teamer who could make an impact on kick and punt coverage as well as taking punt return duties could make a profound difference on the Bills’ special teams, while adding to the team’s overall depth and allowing Goodwin’s role on offense to continue to grow. Draft Stories Buffalo Bills Select Central Arkansas WR Dezmin Lewis with No. 234 Overall Selection 25 Standouts, 15 Disappointments from the 2015 Senior Bowl Buffalo Bills Pick-by-Pick 2014 NFL Draft Review What Will Pepper Johnson Bring to Buffalo? Q&A with NEPatriotsDraft’s Mike Loyko Nine Possible No. 9 Overall Picks for the Buffalo Bills What Will Fred Pagac Bring to Buffalo from Minnesota? 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__label__cc	0.50594	0.49406	Home NEWS BUSINESS & JOBS Free access for public to attend Burj Dubai opening Free access for public to attend Burj Dubai opening By Zaher Bitar, Staff Reporter, Gulf News, and Irish Eden Belleza, Web Coordinator—Business www.gulfnews.com Dubai: The public in the UAE can attend the opening of Burj Dubai on Monday, the fourth anniversary of the accession of His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum as Ruler of Dubai. Major General Mohammad Eid Al Mansouri, Director of the General Department of Protective Security and Emergency Department at Dubai Police, said: “His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum orders the opening of the gates for the public to the opening ceremony of Burj Dubai.” “Now we are going to open three gates for the guests and public – the north entrance of the Burj, the south entrance from Souk Al Bahar and one through Dubai Mall.” The schedule for the grand opening is: The opening ceremony is expected to start at 8pm Entertainment shows available in the vicinity from 7:30am Television coverage will be on local Dubai TV and Dubai One channels, starting from 1:30pm to 9pm, plus Sama Dubai, Dubai One and Noor Dubai Other TV stations including international broadcasters in Arabic, English and Indian amongst others will have coverage of the Burj Dubai opening. Entertainment program: Short documentary on Dubai’s development & construction of Burj Lights, water and music show 1st Show: ‘From desert flower to Burj Dubai’ – The inspiration of hymenocallis in designing the Burj 2nd Show: ‘Heartbeat’ – The stages of constructing the Burj 3rd Show:’From Dubai & the UAE to the world’ Public vantage points to watch the show: Burj Park Island The public will also be able to watch the opening programme from Burj Park Island, where there will be a stage set aside for the guests invited by Dubai Ruler Court, he added. The gate to Burj Park Island will be opened at 4pm and will be closed once the space is full. Meanwhile, It’s all systems go for the grandiose opening of the Burj Dubai. Finding a good location to watch the Burj Dubai opening festivities and the surprises that are in store can be a challenge. Image Credit: Javed Nawab/Gulf News As Dubai gears up for this historic event, security plans are already in place for the official opening ceremony of Burj Dubai on Monday. The inauguration will be open to the public. Around 6,000 visitors are expected to attend and parking space for more than 7,300 vehicles will be available as confirmed by Mohammad Eid Al Mansouri, Director of the Organisation Protective Security and Emergency Department at Dubai Police. More than 1,000 security personnel have also been deployed to secure the area. With a large number of people looking forward to witnessing this historic event, one of the biggest challenges will be to find a vantage point to watch the festivities and the surprises that are in store for the unveiling of Burj Dubai. With this in mind, Gulf News has scouted for vantage points where people can watch the opening, be it for free or for a fee. For those who don’t want to pay and are eager to witness the spectacular event, especially the fireworks, which is said to be the first of its kind, we have identified the places to go. Festival City Boulevard Located off Rabat Street in Dubai Festival City. Fashioned along the lines of a sailing yacht, the place cuts a striking silhouette rising from the south bank of Dubai Creek. The place will be an ideal place to watch the fireworks on January 4. Zabeel Park Located to the northeast of the Dubai World Trade Centre, it is located on three separate plots bounded by DWTC, Al Quta’eyat and Za’beel Road. The park is open from 8am to 11pm and is a perfect place to catch the fireworks display in the evening. Jumeirah open beach piers For beach lovers and those who want to witness the fireworks display, the Jumeirah open beach piers are a great viewing place. Open beach beside Jumeirah Beach Park Located on Jumeirah Beach Road, the open beach park offers a great location for watching fireworks. Situated between the second interchange on Shaikh Zayed Road and Al Wasl Road, near Metropolitan Hotel. It is open daily from 8am to 11pm. Those waiting for the fireworks display can enjoy the large green park that has been divided into sections and play areas. Desert area near Meydan While waiting or watching the fireworks display, one can enjoy the tranquility of the desert and even have some barbecues for those who want to party along with the historical opening. Promenade outside Burj Residences facing Towers 1, 3 and 5. People can station here before roads are closed for security reasons. This is also one of the better places to witness the opening. Burj Dubai Boulevard Is an open vantage point in front of the Burj Dubai and worth checking with police if the road is open to pedestrians. It’s between the Palace Hotel and the residences buildings. Boulevard Bridge Open to public on a first-come-first-serve basis. The bridge will be an access that will lead on to the Burj Island, where guest are allowed by invitation only. Burj Dubai Island The island can accommodate around 2,000 spectators and is open on a first-come-first-serve basis. The island will have one retail souvenir kiosk where one can buy Burj Dubai souvenir items. To fill in your empty stomach, the place also features five-restaurant kiosks. Al Quoz Park Those living in the area may head to Al Quoz Park. Al Khail Road For those who happen to be on the road and using the Al Khail Road, they may stop in a safe place and take a glimpse of the one-of-a-kind fireworks display. For those who are really excited and willing to spend some money to witness the opening, here are some of the places to head to. Neos Sky Lounge, The Address Hotel The striking sky lounge is a perfect destination on January 4. Located on the 63rd floor, Neos offers stunning city views. Pax Restaurant, Dusit Thani Hotel Overlooking the heart of Dubai, Pax is another place to be and have an enjoyable evening with families and friends celebrating another Dubai first. Try the Rooftop Pool Bar in the Fairmont Hotel on Shaikh Zayed Road. Saha Cafe, The Address Hotel A contemporary lakeside coffee shop of the The Address Downtown Burj Dubai. It offers picturesque views of Burj Dubai and The Dubai Fountain. Restaurants at Dubai Mall waterfront area One of the nearest areas to be during the opening. Aside from the fireworks display, one can view all the opening activities by broadcasts on a flat screen placed just outside the Burj Dubai. 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__label__wiki	0.586198	0.586198	Launch Pad to Be Set up in Oct. The South Korean government plans to assemble a flight model of the Nuri, a space rocket it has been developing with purely Korean technology, in the second half of this year and complete a launch pad, where the rocket will be lifted off, in October this year.The Ministry of Science and ICT and the Science/Tech \| Jung Min-hee \| January 20, 2020, 11:31 POSTECH Researchers Develop World’s First Smart Contact Lens Commercialization Sought with Stanford Medical School POSTECH announced on Jan. 9 that its researchers have developed the world’s first smart contact lens using light.A POSTECH research team led by Prof. Hahn Sei-kwang, a co-founder of biopharmaceutical startup Phi Biomed, has developed a smart photonic contact lens and wearable medical devices using l Science/Tech \| Choi Moon-hee \| January 10, 2020, 12:03 A New Cancer Treatment South Korean researchers have discovered a new protein that can restore cancer cells into normal cells by utilizing a technology of systems biology. As suppressing this protein can be effective in converting cancer cells into normal ones without anticancer treatments, the new technology is expected Science/Tech \| Kim Eun-jin \| January 10, 2020, 09:44 Korean Researchers Develop Technology to Overcome Resolution Limitations of Micro LED Displays A New Method to Enhance Resolutions of Micro LEDs A team of Korean researchers has come up with technology that can overcome the resolution limitations of micro LED displays, which are attracting much attention as a next-generation display. The new technology is expected to be used to produce high-resolution small displays for virtual reality (VR) Science/Tech \| Kim Eun-jin \| January 7, 2020, 13:30 Cheollian Satellite 2B on Its Way to Overseas Launch Site Launch Slated for Feb. 19 The Korean government has started transporting Cheollian Satellite 2B, a complex geostationary orbit satellite, to an overseas launch site for its liftoff on Feb. 19.Cheollian Satellite 2B has left the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) and will be transported in a vibration-free constant-tem Science/Tech \| Choi Moon-hee \| January 6, 2020, 13:55 KARI to Work on Basic Design of Personal Air Vehicle This Year A One-person Vertical-takeoff-and-landing Aircraft The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) has recently released a report on major research and development plans that it will carry out in 2020.According to the report, Korea is expected to make a big leap in the commercial, military and scientific satellite sectors this year. 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They said that the efficiency is 5-10 percentage points higher than that of Germany, which global scientists regard as a standard.The scientists are Science/Tech \| Kim Eun-jin \| December 11, 2019, 09:41 South Korea’s Lunar Exploration Program Stuck in the Mud Lunar Orbiter's Flight Path Changed The Ministry of Science and ICT recently said that the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are discussing various measures to address the impact of a change in orbit and NASA will continue to work with South Korea in the latter's Science/Tech \| Choi Moon-hee \| November 26, 2019, 09:04 South Korean Government Planning to Further Develop Radiation Industry To Create New Business Opportunities The Ministry of Science and ICT came up with plans to accelerate the growth of the radiation industry, develop innovative nuclear technologies such as small nuclear reactors and micro nuclear power systems, and build a nuclear research complex in Gyeongju. 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The technology is expected to be widely used in developing stem cell therapeutic treatments and forecasting their efficac Science/Tech \| Choi Mun-hee \| November 8, 2019, 10:05 Korean Researchers Develop New Anticancer Substance That Kills Only Cancer Cells A Substance That Hampers Growth of Cancer Cells Korean researchers have developed a new anticancer compound that selects only cancer cells and starves them to death. The compound does not affect normal cells so it can reduce the negative side effects of current anticancer drugs.A research team led by Shim Tae-bo, director of the Center for Chemic Science/Tech \| Choi Moon-hee \| November 6, 2019, 11:46 3D Printing Applied to Biomedical Materials Using Ink Made with Bacteria South Korean researchers have successfully developed a technology to apply 3D printing to high value-added biomedical materials that can be used for artificial joints and artificial blood vessels.The National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) announced on Oct. 28 that the research team led by Hyun Science/Tech \| Choi Moon-hee \| October 29, 2019, 08:49 Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute Localizes Two Radioactive Isotopes Local Production to Start in 2020 Two medical and industrial radioactive isotopes which can be used for cancer diagnosis and image diagnosis have been localized. So far South Korea has entirely relied on foreign suppliers for the two isotopes.A research team led by Dr. Park Jung-hoon and Dr. Heo Min-gu at the Advanced Radiation Tech Science/Tech \| Michael Herh \| October 25, 2019, 10:29 Korea Polar Research Institute to Participate in Largest Arctic Research Project in History To Study Environmental Change in Arctic Ocean The Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI) announced on Oct. 24 that it would take part in the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) project of 900 scientists and researchers from 19 countries around the world. A total budget of 140 million euros is schedule Korean Researchers Develop Technology for Transparent Electrodes New Technology Can Reduce Reliance of Japanese Electrodes A group of Korean researchers paved the way for the development of next-generation transparent electrodes that can overcome the shortcomings of indium tin oxide (ITO) electrodes used for flexible displays.The research team led by Yoon Chang-hoon at the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology announ Science/Tech \| Kim Eun-jin \| October 17, 2019, 11:58	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20556
__label__wiki	0.773076	0.773076	Caistor Citizen Community News Information and Events for Caistor Lincolnshire Contact Caistor Citizen Caistor Arts & Heritage Caistor events Caistor Town Council Caistor in Bloom Caistor News Costs of CCTV are spelled out Caistor Citizen > Caistor News > Costs of CCTV are spelled out Author: Shona Wall March 11, 2017 3 Comments Caistor News, Caistor Town Council, Uncategorized Caistor CCTV, Caistor Market Place, Caistor Sports Ground, Caistor Town Council, Grant White, West Lindsey District Council Detailed information about the proposals to install a new CCTV system in Caistor were presented to town councillors on Thursday night (March 10, 2017). Grant White, who is Enterprising Communities Team Manager at West Lindsey District Council, was addressing Caistor Town Council’s monthly meeting. Mr White has been overseeing the introduction of CCTV in other towns across the district, including Gainsborough and Market Rasen. Caistor Town Council has set aside £5,000 in next year’s budget for the cameras, but has not yet decided whether to have them – suggesting that councillors are still seeking the community’s views on the issue. Mr White said the proposal at present was for two cameras in Caistor’s town centre and three at the Sports Ground. The suggested sites for the cameras were in the Market Place near the corner of Boots, in the Town Hall car park, two at the Sports and Social Club and one near the skatepark. Mr White said all the cameras would be able to pan, tilt and zoom. They would be linked via a secure wireless internet connection to a control room in Gainsborough. The control room would be able to respond if alerted to an incident by police and work with them to secure valuable evidence. The cameras would be able to give good quality images over long distances. Mr White said the camera in the Town Hall car park could also cover the entrance to the Co-op, while the one near Boots would also give a view of some of Plough Hill and the approach to the bus stop. The cameras at the Sports and Social Club should be able to cover most of the sports ground, and the one at the skatepark would also cover the North Kelsey Road entrance. The two cameras in the town centre would cost £5,500, while the three at the sports ground would cost just under £7,000, said Mr White. They are likely to be operational for at least eight years. Caistor Town Council could pay for the installation if it wanted to limit a monitoring contract to one year. Alternatively, West Lindsey District Council would be prepared to pay all the installation costs but would seek a minimum four-year monitoring contract to recoup the costs. The cost of monitoring would be £1,000 per camera per year. Mr White said it might be possible to obtain grant funding for the cameras at the Sports Ground, but this was unlikely in the town centre. He suggested applying to a fund operated by the Police Commissioner. If West Lindsey bought the cameras, the ethics of using the system would be covered by its code of practice, described by Mr White as “quite a robust system”. The quality of footage would be much greater than those from most supermarkets, which tended to be “off the shelf systems”, he said. Town Clerk Helen Pitman asked if planning permission would be needed to fit the system? Mr Grant was not sure, He was aware of some fittings being painted elsewhere to make them blend in better with their surroundings. He added that a visit to the control room could be arranged so that councillors could see the system in operation. Councillors were reminded that they were not being asked to make a decision at Thursday’s meeting. Mayor Carol Mackenzie thanked Mr White for coming to talk to the councillors. “It was very useful,” she said. Mike Gooseman March 11, 2017 at 2:34 pm Big brother comes to Caistor. I thought Councils were finding it difficult to make ends meet. It appears not. Michael Stockwood March 12, 2017 at 1:54 pm Caistor Town Council and Caistor Development Ltd installed a CCTV system in 2007 at a cost to the rate or tax payer of thousands of pounds, it has NEVER worked since installation. Caistor Town Council has installed CCTV at the Sports field and the Town Hall. The question must be asked why did Grant White of WLDC think more was needed there? I have spoken to the Clerk of Gainsborough Town Council and I was assured that there is NO COST WHATSOEVER for CCTV in the town centre at Gainsborough, I rest my case. Jonathan Holt March 13, 2017 at 9:11 am I think WLDC are pushing a CCTV system onto the people of Caistor via the Town council in order to make money for WLDC. One has to ask the question: what crime is going to be stopped (if any) by installing these cameras? Have the police asked for them due to crime levels in Caistor? If the council go for option 2 it will cost £20,000 minimum – couldn’t the money be spent on something else such as sorting out the street lighting down Nettleton Road for a start? Free Subscription to Caistor Citizen Make sure you never miss a story. Receive an email when a new story is published. 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__label__wiki	0.658306	0.658306	Home > Military Chinese can double sink US aircraft carrier battle group? Users are given the answer so that people think The United States aircraft carrier [small various Ge penetrating military observation the 751] recently, the Chinese Navy assembled a fleet of three main, in a sea of China emergency muster launched a large-scale joint sea and air exercises, and almost at the same time, the United States also chose to send several warships to cruise, even the news, the U. S. Navy two aircraft carrier battle group will join the declaration of the so-called "freedom of navigation".So, we can't help wanting to ask, if in the United States in this area, misfires, China can sink us two aircraft carrier battle group? Usually case, a US aircraft carrier fleet battle compiled include: 1 Nimitz class Super nuclear aircraft carrier as the center, and is equipped with a carrier air wing, which usually consists of four squadrons of F / A-18E / F fighter, a squadron of the ea-18g aircraft, a squadron E-2C early warning unit. 1-2 Ticonderoga class guided missile cruiser, responsible for the air defense warning, 2-4 ship Burke class guided missile destroyer is responsible for air defense and anti submarine missions, 1-2 ships of Los Angeles class or Virginia class attack nuclear submarine for underwater surveillance and anti submarine. Figure for the Chinese Navy exercises screen In addition, the formation of rear usually have 1-2 boats fast supply ship, is responsible for the formation of ships providing supplies and ammunition and other military supplies. And two aircraft carrier battle groups troops at least twice single carrier battle group, the battle group has perfect air defense, anti submarine, anti-ship and land attack capabilities. In contrast to China's three major fleet battleship is destroyer. The destroyer to the newly commissioned the 052d missile destroyers were the most powerful fighting force, the ship is equipped with the latest modification of "Chinese aegis active phased array radar and 64 element vertical launch system. The Burke class destroyers equipped with more sophisticated aegis passive phased array radar and 90 unit vertical launch system. As for the predecessor of 052C 052D is only 48 units vertical launch system. In addition, China has purchased from Russia four Sovremenny class destroyers, equipped with 8 pieces of anti aircraft carrier dedicated the Moskit supersonic anti-ship missiles, but air defense capability. Overall, medium and large surface ships of the Chinese navy in the middle of the lineup, truly achieve the advanced western the expulsion of standard ship only: 6 052c destroyer, 4 052d destroyers, four Sovremenny class expulsion of ship and two aircraft 051C destroyer, vertical launch unit a total of 640. The picture of the Chinese ballistic missile aircraft carrier picture In contrast, the U. S. Navy aircraft carrier battle group ships installed 896 vertical launching unit can be mixed "standard" 3 theater anti missile missiles, "standard" 6 remote air defense missile, "O Slovenia grams" antisubmarine missile and Tomahawk cruise missiles. Also the two aircraft carrier battle group of carrier based fighter and about 100, and the Chinese Navy only 1 ship "Liaoning" aircraft carrier is only training ship, annihilate - 15 carrier borne fighter 30 aircraft. Some Chinese netizens said that the existing strength of the Chinese Navy, to just out of the surface ship to fight the United States double carrier battle group, is absolutely not desirable! Must use asymmetric warfare, namely, collaborative use anti-ship ballistic missiles to deter the U.S. aircraft carrier, shore based Aviation Flying Leopard, Bang has a fighter, emission of air to ship cruise missile, underwater but also a submarine shefu, so stereo killer fire can ensure that hit the United States aircraft carrier battle group. More exciting, please concern "small various Ge thoroughly" micro public: zhugexiaoche, small various Ge penetration has joined the knight of the rights, not authorized and prohibited any media outlets, and otherwise pursue legal responsibility, if must reprint, please pay attention to the micro channel public, contact me. This article is the author of the original. Without authorization, shall not be reproduced. 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__label__wiki	0.801166	0.801166	Matthew Gurewitsch biography articles blog media coverage spoken books mailing list Rule, Britannia! Catch of the Day #16 (June 25, 2017), revisited by Matthew Gurewitsch http://www.beyondcriticism.com/20007/rule-britannia By all means skip this boilerplate if you've seen it before. My hour-long program-within-a-program Catch of the Day presents tracks from new and imminent audio releases in many genres, with off-the-cuff intros plus on-the-spot evaluations. We air at 12:00 noon Hawaiian-Aleutian Standard Time under the umbrella of The Alpha and Omega Show, hosted by the redoubtable Paul Janes-Brown, actor, critic, and chorister. Officially, we compare notes for 60 minutes, but overtime is always a possibility. Please join us on Mana'o Radio 91.7 FM, Maui's leading noncommercial, 100%-listener-supported, 100%-volunteer-staff broadcaster, or live on the web at manaoradio.com. Our biggest chunks of airtime this week—ten minutes each—went to a brace of highly distilled instrumental soli by modernist mandarins from England. The violinist Miranda Cuckson led with Brian Ferneyhough's "Intermedio alla ciaccona," the concluding track from her album Invisible Colors (Urlicht-UAV-5979). Mistakenly announced as "Unsichtbare Farben," the scratchy, vaguely dissonant meditation dips, slips, slides, and jabs, and skitters its labyrinthine way from nowhere in particular to nowhere else in particular. A high priest of the so-called New Complexity, Ferneyhough (1943) provokes extreme reactions from those who take cognizance of him at all. In my ears, his writing here suggests some urgent warning encrypted in some alien code—an impression no doubt prompted by Cuckson's detached, methodical, yet oracular examination of the "text." Reportedly the favorite pupil of the Dumbledorian Olivier Messiaen, George Benjamin ( 1960) began bewitching the new-music crowd at a scandalously early age. A few seasons back, his grisly but exquisitely crafted magnum opus Written on Skin—a nightmare to set beside Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale—caused an international sensation. A new album, mostly under the composer's baton, couples Into the Little Hill, a Pied Piper opera in miniature to chill the blood, with the Dream of the Song, a concert piece redolent of Moorish Spain (Nimbus NI 5964). The monkey in the middle as it were—and our selection—is the self-standing flute solo Flight, lovingly executed by Michael Cox, a member of the crackerjack London Sinfonietta. Flight, of course, takes many forms. If, in your mind's eye, the title conjures up swallows in their arabesques or eagles riding the thermals, think again. Benjamin's winged creature mostly takes short hops from branch to branch, bursting into scraps of melody now and then or yielding to surrounding silence. For a more representative glimpse of Benjamin's diaphanous palette, we dropped in "My Heart Sings as the Sun Comes Up," the exquisitely layered finale of Dream of the Song, bathed in magic-hour radiance by the countertenor Bejun Mehta, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and the Nederlands Kamerkoor. For a change of pace between the British segments, we turned to an album of Opera Arias by Carl Heinrich Graun by the Russian soprano Julia Lezhneva (Decca 483 1518 dh). As Kapellmeister to Frederick the Great, Graun cranked out a slew of Italian operas in a florid style we today associate chiefly George Frideric Handel, Graun's senior by some twenty years. With a single exception, Lezhneva's program consists of material never previously recorded. For a first impression, I very deliberately picked "Il mar s'inalza e freme" ("The sea rises and shudders") from L'Orfeo: of all poetic conceits, none fired up a baroque composer's imagination like a storm at sea. Sure enough, the number simply bristles with trills and runs. None of this fazes Lezhneva, who dances through the steeplechase with a smile you actually hear. Each note chimes like a bell and blooms like a flower. Who could ask for anything more? Exhilarating as it is, I miss the razor's edge of tragic temperament a Cecilia Bartoli brings to such pyrotechnics. You will hear no reservations here about Aguas da Amazonia, by Philip Glass, on Kristjan Järvi's recording with the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Absolute Ensemble (Orange Mountain Music OMM 0115). In sections named mostly for tributaries of our planet's mightiest river system, the suite seems to owe its genesis to the Brazilian quintet Uakti, whose members played exotic instruments of their own, home-made of such materials as pipe, glasses, metal, rocks, rubber, and even water. "For Uakti," Glass has written, "everything can produce sound." From preexisting pieces, Uakti assembled Aguas da Amazonia, recorded in 2006, now orchestrated by Charles Coleman, at Järvi's request, for the full panoply of customary symphonic instruments. Against the flood of buzzy tremolando that sets "Madeira River" into flooding motion, a low-voiced brass solo (tuba? Wagner tuba?) launches into a minor-key anthem of stupendous majesty, modulating at the close to major in a blaze of still greater glory. For a chaser, we dropped in on the Vienna Philharmonic under the electric baton of Gustavo Dudamel on the occasion of the orchestra's New Year's Concert 2017 (Sony Classical 88985376182). Under the shield of a recent Supreme Court ruling, we gave Johann Strauss I's "Red Indian Gallop" a cautious spin, quickly to discover that "Stampede of the Cossacks" would have made a more plausible title. By tradition written in stone, these ritual New Year's bashes close with the "Radetzky March," from the same pen, and so did we, adding our dopey metronomic applause to that of the revelers in the hall. receive the latest by email: subscribe to matthew gurewitsch's free mailing list Previews of attractions, coming and gone Exhibit shows nature transformed by sophisticated ideas, craftsmanship MAPA version of 'The Nutcracker' provides glimpses of world peace Tom Sewell's Secret Garden No shortage of musical Advent performances this holiday season Where Marilyn Horne is at just now Travels with Dima In the wings with Jakub Józef Orliński, countertenor home \| biography \| articles \| blog \| media coverage \| spoken \| books \| mailing list \| mobile site	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20562
__label__wiki	0.844847	0.844847	BiteTheBuzz 20 Things You Can Only Appreciate If You Grew Up in the 90’s Brianna Cassella Love the 90s and all it has to offer? Check out our top 20 that takes us back down to memory lane… with a smile! 20. Dear Diary In the 90’s, the company Tiger Electronics reigned supreme. They were the makers of Dear Diary, an electronic diary that offers a horoscope, a calculator and much more. You could store wishes too and all of your information is pass-locked with your secret password. 19. Talkboy After seeing Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, every 90’s kid wanted a Talkboy. It was a voice changer and cassette player/recorder that would provide hours of fun for kids and hours of annoyance for their parents. 18. Game Gear Sega brought out their Game Gear, a Game Boy challenger in the 1990’s. Featuring a color screen, it was a step-up from the black-and-white screen offered by Nintendo. A full range of games made it worth purchasing, as did the TV Tuner and Game Genie accessories. 17. Mickey Mouse Club The 1990’s kid would often see this show on the Disney Channel, which featured several big stars before their time. Yes, that’s Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Ryan Gosling and Christina Aguilera. 16. Cereals Based on Movies In the 1990’s, cereal companies and movie studios would frequently collaborate on a new cereal based on the property. Besides TV show-based cereal Urkel-os, you would often see things like this Addams Family Cereal. 15. Mall Madness Strangely enough, Milton Bradley thought that making a board game to encourage financial instability was a genius move. The game was Mall Madness, and featured a mall layout, and players would go shopping. The game was introduced in the 1980’s, but underwent a redesign to be “electronic” in the 1990’s. 14. McDonalds Buddies McDonalds has had many notable mascots, but you might not remember the Buddies. The buddies were animated versions of the McNuggets, each with its own name and personality. They were repeatedly made into toys that came with interchangeable outfits. 13. HitClips HitClips were little memory cards that held a 1 minute song. 90’s kids could play them in little HitClip stereos or mini-players for …well, a minute. They were first used by McDonalds as a promotional item, and then they were popular in 1999. 12. Geocities Webpages Geocities was the website builder of the 1990’s. Most every website around looked much like this, with animated “under construction” GIFs, bright font, and animated cursors. 11. The Heart of the Ocean After many a 90’s girl fell in love with Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic, they all wanted the Heart of the Ocean necklace like in the film. The necklace was made by the J. Peterman Company, and many costume jewelry companies. 10. Grunge The 1990’s were a time of ripped jeans, plaid shirts, and leather, all that would add up to a fashion style known as “grunge.” Joey Lawrence from Blossom was popular TV icon who wore grunge. 9. HyperColor TV Shirts These shirts would change color when you touched them! The secret was that it responded to your body’s heat. After you washed the shirt, it would often get stuck in its color changing, so then it looked lame. 8. The Baby-Sitters Club Who can forget these group of friends who started a baby-sitting club, but ended up literally traveling the world? The books grew in popularity in the 1990’s, with a movie, a CD, and even dolls, available. 7. Crystal Pepsi Crystal Pepsi was a clear caffeine-free version of Pepsi that offered a fresh tangy taste, much like a Sprite. It only lasted a year in America, but fans still demand its return today. The soda was sold for a longer period overseas. Coca Cold tried to capitalize in on the Crystal Pepsi trend with their own, Tab Clear. 6. Gak GAK was a gooey slime made by Mattel and Nickelodeon. The toy came in all kinds of variations, such as Solar Gak, Gak in the Dark, and Smell-My-Gak. All of the Gak versions would make a flatulence sound when squeezed into the canister. 5. Nick VHS Nickelodeon released several of its shows on VHS in the 1990’s, and many of the tapes had a defining characteristic: They were orange! You’d often see bonus content on the VHS as well, as the studio would include music videos and other content. 4. Disney Adventures Disney shared news, comics, and behind-the-scene content 10 times a year with their now defunct Disney Adventures magazine. Each issue would feature an animated character and a celebrity of the time. A Disney fan in the 1990’s couldn’t wait to get the newest issue from the mailbox. 3. 90’s Screensavers As many households now owned a personal computer, the 1990’s technology revolution included screensavers that were cutting-edge for the time. These screensavers included a maze of brick walls, a motif that would be later repeated in the PC game title Doom. 2. Pogs Dogs were cardboard round discs that featured characters, illustrations, and other images. You would stack up the pogs, then throw your “slammer” (a heavier pog) to see what pogs would land face-up. 1. Clarissa Explains It All There were many 90’s shows on Nickelodeon, but one of the most beloved is Clarissa Explains It All. The show featured Clarissa, her amazing bedroom, her crazy family, and her friend, Sam. The show mainly took place in the household, and had Clarissa talking to the camera as she went through typical teen girl drama. 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__label__wiki	0.946857	0.946857	CyberPunkd More Than Just Comic Books Supermen Unite in New Crisis on Infinite Earths Set Photo By Rage Welling and Hoechlin’s Clarks on Crisis Set Marvel’s Stan Lee Has Passed Away At 95 Hellboy Gameplay Trailer for Injustice 2 Revealed! 27 Oct 2017 By Rage Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment have revealed the first gameplay trailer for the new Injustice 2 fighter – Hellboy! Check out the Hellboy gameplay in the player below. Mike Mignola’s iconic Dark Horse comic book character is the final Fighter Pack #2 character to be added to the Injustice 2 roster on the 14th November. Justice League: Final Trailer Spotlights Villain Composer Danny Elfman’s score for the upcoming Justice League “Hero’s Theme” has officially arrived online, check it out in the player above! The tracklist for the Justice League soundtrack includes: “Everybody Knows” — Sigrid The Justice League Theme — Logos Hero’s Theme Batman on the Roof Enter Cyborg Wonder Woman Rescue Hippolyta’s Arrow The Story of Steppenwolf The Amazon Mother Box Cyborg Meets Diana Aquaman in Atlantis The Tunnel Fight The World Needs Superman Spark of The Flash Justice League United The Tunnel Fight (Full Length Bonus Track) The Final Battle (Full Length Bonus Track) Mother Russia (Bonus Track) Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice director Zack Snyder has wrapped filming on Justice League (with an assist from Joss Whedon), from a script by Batman v Superman‘s Chris Terrio, Justice League clocks in at a lean 121 minutes, making it the shortest DCEU movie so far! Justice League Trailers We get our best look yet at Steppenwolf in the new international trailer. Video of JUSTICE LEAGUE Official Final International Trailer (2017) DC Superhero Movie HD Check out all the footage from Justice League released so far… Video of JUSTICE LEAGUE – Official Heroes Trailer Video of Justice League – Comic-Con Sneak Peek [HD] Video of JUSTICE LEAGUE – Official Trailer 1 Video of Justice League Special Comic-Con Footage Justice League is scheduled for a November 17th, 2017 release. In order for the Justice League to form, they need a power that rivals their own, BvS: Dawn of Justice made it pretty explicit that Darkseid is on his way to this world, A deleted scene from Batman v Superman released online offered a look at a monstrous creature on a Kryptonian ship, who turned out to be another Fourth World related despot (and Jack Kirby creation), Steppenwolf. Steppenwolf is Darkseid’s cousin, a powerful warrior from Apokolips who wields an energy axe. Ciaran Hinds (Mance Rayder, Game of Thrones) will be playing Steppenwolf, he had this to say: “Basically they’re going to construct something, digitally, and then they will use my eyes and mouth, old, tired, still trying to get out of his own enslavement to Darkseid, he has to keep on this line to try and take over worlds.” Here’s what Steppenwolf looked like in that Batman v Superman deleted scene: Darkseid will probably be a presence in the Justice League Part One but DC might just hold him back for Justice League Part Two. Hellboy is Getting a Reboot The upcoming Hellboy movie won’t be directed by Guillermo del Toro. In fact, it will be a R-Rated reboot titled Hellboy directed by Neil Marshall (The Descent), and starring David Harbour (Stranger Things) Hellboy. The Cast: David Harbour (Stranger Things) has been cast as Hellboy. Ian McShane (Deadwood and American Gods) as Professor Broom, the scientist who adopts the young Hellboy. Milla Jovovich will play the main villain, the Blood Queen Sasha Lane (American Honey) as Alice Monaghan, a character who Hellboy rescued from fairies in the comics and later became his love interest. Daniel Dae Kim (Lost and Hawaii Five-O), as Major Ben Daimio, the character is described as “a rugged military member of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense who, due to a supernatural encounter, can turn into a jaguar when angered or in pain.” Penelope Mitchell (The Vampire Diaries) will play Ganeida, described as “an elder witch” who finally decides to take a stand against the millennia-spanning magical meddling of the Blood Queen (Milla Jovovich). Andrew Cosby told SilverScreenBeat the reboot will be much darker than the past adaptations: “I can’t really talk about specifics with regard to the story, which they’re keeping a pretty tight lid on at the moment, but I can say that this is a darker, more gruesome version of Hellboy. Neil said from the very beginning that he wanted to walk a razor’s edge between horror and comic book movie, which was music to my ears, because that’s what I was shooting for in the script, and precisely what Mignola does so well with the comics. Honestly, everyone has just been working overtime to bring that Mignola magic to the big screen. The script is done, but work will continue as we move forward, always trying to make it the best it can be.” We have our first look at David Harbour as Hellboy! Check out the first two photos below: Featurette on Jason Momoa’s Aquaman in Justice League Watch Jason Momoa’s Aquaman featurette: Justice League stars Ben Affleck as Batman, Henry Cavill as Superman, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, Jason Momoa as Aquaman, Ezra Miller as The Flash, Ray Fisher as Cyborg, Willem Dafoe as Nuidis Vulko, Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor, Jeremy Irons as Alfred Pennyworth, Diane Lane as Martha Kent, Connie Nielsen as Queen Hippolyta, Billy Crudup as Henry Allen, Amber Heard as Mera, with J.K. Simmons as Commissioner Gordon, and Amy Adams as Lois Lane. Justice League opens in theaters on November 17. New The Walking Dead Season 8 Teaser AMC has debuted a new The Walking Dead Season 8 teaser, which you can watch below! Based on the comic book series written by Robert Kirkman and published by Image Comics, The Walking Dead TV Series tells the story of the months and years that follow after a zombie apocalypse, and follows a group of survivors, led by police officer Rick Grimes, who travel in search of a safe and secure home. The series stars Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Lauren Cohan, Chandler Riggs, Danai Gurira, Melissa McBride, Lennie James, Alanna Masterson, Josh McDermitt, Christian Serratos, Seth Gilliam, Ross Marquand, Austin Amelio, Tom Payne, Xander Berkeley, Khary Payton, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. The Walking Dead Season 8 premieres on the 22 October. Copyright © All rights reserved. CyberPunkd \| StoreCommerce by AF themes.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20567

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