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With Unbreakable Love
by Jeanine Lunsford
by Timothy R. Baldwin
Snooker's Legacy
by Paul Shadinger
Don't Get Engaged
by Laura Nielson Denke
The Beeping Brothers' Road to Success
by Scott Leroy Chally
Shattered Treasure
by Cindy Patterson
by Fei Fei Chiam
My Time to Shine
by Glenn Leonard, Joe Coleman, Joe Blunt, J. Michael Willard
The Financially Independent Millennial
by Rick Orford
Naked Determination
41 Stories About Overcoming Fear
by Gisela Hausmann
Contact Author - Gisela Hausmann
Gisela Hausmann is the author of fifteen books, including award-winning "Naked Determination, 41 Stories About Overcoming Fear".
Her first book "Vienna - Aerial Panorama" was chosen to be the gift for President Clinton, when he visited her hometown Vienna.
Born to be an adventurer, Gisela has also co-piloted small planes, produced movies, and has been allowed to enter the cockpit of a Boeing 747 flying into NYC (1982).
A unique mixture out of wild risk-taker and careful planner, she has globe-trotted almost 100,000 kilometers on three continents, including to the locations of her favorite books: Doctor Zhivago's Russia, Heinrich Harrer's Tibet, and Genghis Khan's Mongolia.
Gisela Hausmann graduated with a master's degree from the University of Vienna. She now lives with her cats Artemis and Yin-Yang in Greenville, SC.
Reviewed by Mamta Madhavan for Readers' Favorite
A collection of 41 stories written on life will keep readers engaged in the book Naked Determination, 41 Stories About Overcoming Fear by Gisela Hausmann. It takes you on the most exhilarating trip with its diverse themes, exciting locales, and interesting characters. The author's perspective on life and her personal and professional experiences have been put together well and the essence has been captured as a line 'Lesson I had to Relearn' at the end of each chapter. The stories are wonderfully refreshing and they motivate readers on life and living. Simple but honest, this collection of short stories is an amazing read.
The author's life of travel and adventure is evident from the locations mentioned in the stories. All the stories are thought provoking and the truth hidden between the lines of the tales makes it plausible. Her personal experiences and the manner in which she has shared her personal lessons with readers connect her with readers in a better way. The book gives readers the strength to face obstacles in their own lives and make their lives successful. The stories are relatable, making the book more effective for readers. The style of writing also contributes to the depth and impact of the stories.
The lesson at the end of each chapter encapsulated into a sentence is thought provoking and motivating. The directness and honesty with which the stories have been put down is heartwarming and it throws a deeper light into the author's personal journey of triumph.
Philip J McQuillan
My review of "Naked Determination", 41 Stories About Overcoming Fear (Kindle Edition)
Seldom, in all my reading, have I found a book so immediately convincing that I wanted to copy/paste whole pages of it into an e-mail and send to a friend. There were passages that really grabbed me; instinctively, I knew they would grab others too and bring them déjà vu moments, guffaws of laughter or simply give them food for deep thought.
If there is a common thread running through all of her chapters it probably is, "These are the experiences that I had, different but not so much different from yours that you cannot identify with them. Here is what I took away from each experience." It then becomes a matter of reader's choice, if they want to apply the take away message to their own life, such as it is. Personally, I found plenty of wisdom in these messages -- much to digest and re-digest and to talk about later.
The author makes some very powerful points. When it comes to solving the problems life inevitably brings, she exhorts us to look within ourselves. If only we listen to and reflect on our personal stories, trusting ourselves completely, will the solutions (that we already know instinctively) appear like magic. We have but to look for them, find them, confide in their power to influence the present and the future, and then apply them with "naked determination!
I am sure I will return to this book from time to time, looking for the familiar yellow memorandums that highlight "Lessons to Be Worked on Every Day", "Lessons I Always Keep in Mind" and other similar Lessons.
Way to GO, Gisela. Have fun in Miami
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Canada’s Competition Bureau blocks Corus’ Historia, Series+ sale
Bell Media's bid for the Corus properties is still to be reviewed by the CRTC.
Canada’s Commissioner of Competition has rejected Corus Entertainment’s sale of French-language channels Historia and Séries+ to Bell Media.
“At this time, Corus Entertainment and Bell Media are reviewing the Commissioner’s decision, and considering the appropriate course of action,” read a statement issued by Corus on Monday (May 28). The media co said it will provide updates in due course.
Bell Media and Corus first announced the proposed transaction (valued at approximately $200 million) in October of 2017. At the time, the companies said they expected the deal to close in mid-2018.
In addition to Competition Act approval, the sale is also subject to the CRTC’s consent as well as a number of other standard closing conditions. The transaction is currently being reviewed by the CRTC. Any changes of control or ownership of licensed undertakings must comply with legislation administered by both the Competition Bureau and the CRTC.
This is not the first time that Bell Media’s attempts to buy Historia and Séries+ have hit a roadblock. Bell Media’s parent co BCE originally intended to acquire the channels in 2013 via its acquisition of Astral Media. However, the CRTC denied the acquisitions on competition grounds. In order to complete the deal, BCE had to divest itself of a number of Astral TV services including Historia and Séries+. Later that year Corus acquired Historia and Séries+, as well Teletoon.
In 2014, Historia signed an agreement with A+E Networks in the U.S. to acquire French-language rights to programming from A+E’s History in the U.S., and in early 2015 Historia rebranded itself with the History logo, while retaining its original name.
Bell Media currently operates 10 French-language TV channels in Québec, including Canal D, Canal Vie, Cinépop, Investigation, RDS, RDS Info, RDS2, Super Écran, Vrak, and Z.
(From Playback Daily)
Bell Media, Corus Entertainment, Historia
Realscreen opens call for MIPTV Picks submissions
By Realscreen Staff
SXSW unveils 2020 documentary lineup
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“Honeyland”, “For Sama” among 2020 Oscar doc noms
Website // Author Page
Former Corus programming exec Freeland moves to Rogers
Cassaday to step down as Corus Entertainment head
Corus Entertainment realigns executive ranks
Corus Entertainment’s fiscal ’16 revenues up 44%
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Property owners in Aurangabad
IT act
Aurangabad police
Aurangabad police yet to provide online submission system for tenant information
Property owners have been demanding an online submission system in order to save time and energy.TNN | November 18, 2019, 15:00 IST
AURANGABAD: Lagging behind the police departments in most of the metros, the Aurangabad city police is yet to provide an online facility for the submission of tenant information.
Property owners have been demanding an online submission system in order to save time and energy.
Asha Beedkar, a property owner, said the existing process of providing tenant information to the nearest police station must be made easier. “The police officers must make the best use of information technology and introduce the reform in the conventional process,” she said.
Manohar Rajhans, a landlord, said the online submission of tenant information would be a hassle-free process. “Before going after the landlords, the city police must evolve their system. Aurangabad is one of the metro cities in Maharashtra and attracts people from all over the the country. Online submission will benefit landlords who provides shelter to them,” he said.
As per the conventional procedure, landlords need to first visit the nearest police station to collect the forms to submit tenant information. He or she needs to visit the station again for submitting the form along with the necessary documents.
The online process includes a digitally signed document, as per IT Act 2008, which is generated after submitting the necessary details. The e-interface asks for details of landlords, tenants, and property along with identity proof, names and mobile number of two individuals knowing the tenant.
If required at all, owner or tenant can approach the police station concerned for police stamp or signature.
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While the city police did not have offhand information about the exact number of landlords who have submitted the details, the number of tenants in the city could be running into thousands.
Chhoturam Thube, police sub-inspector with Anti-Terrorism Cell of city police, said “We have devised an online platform for submission of customers’ details staying in city-based hotels. The collection of tenant information is also important. Hence, it will be converted in an online format in near future,” he said.
Mumbai, Thane and Pune, and Nashik are among a few other cities which facilitates online submission of tenant information.
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Open Carry of Guns Freaks Out Provincial BloombergView Editors
J.D. Tuccille | 5.8.2014 12:01 PM
DrunkDriver
Soon after I moved from New York City to Flagstaff, Arizona, I did a double-take in a fast food joint when I saw a man in line with a pistol on his hip. "Aren't undercover cops usually more undercover?" I thought. Then it occurred to me that he was just a regular guy carrying a gun.
Needless to say, nobody else waiting to order burgers and fries batted an eyelash. That's usually the way it is in places with long experience in what's called "open carry"—places like the entire state of Arizona.
To the editors at BloombergView, though, open carry is a looming peril that reveals gun rights advocates' extremism and terrorizes the cowering populace.
Employees of a Jack in the Box restaurant in Fort Worth, Texas, got a glimpse last week of an America where the more extreme element of the gun-rights movement has its way. Their reaction? They hid in the freezer. Parents in a public park in Georgia, confronted by another display of gun rights, called 911.
Both the employees and the parkgoers were reacting to the presence of armed men in their midst. Police, however, could do nothing to ease their anxiety: These hair-trigger scenarios are precisely what such open-carry states have written into law.
Aaaaagh!
Actually, that editorial reveals that the editors of BloombergView are pretty damned culturally provincial. Open carry is not a strange, new phenomenon. It's common throughout the West, and even in eastern states like New Hampshire. New Hampshire Public Radio reported last year that the practice is long legal and increasingly common in that state. Manchester police underwent extra training to make sure they understood and respected the right.
The Jack in the Box incident occurred because, as OpenCarry.org puts it, "Texas is not a traditional open carry state." The armed and hungry people were protesters trying to change matters. They were bounced from Open Carry Texas, a gun rights group, for being so damned clumsy about it.
Georgia, also, "is not a traditional open carry state. However, open carry IS legal with a Georgia permit." The incident there seemed to be the result of sheltered suburbanites unaccustomed to the practice running into a guy who was a bit abrasive about asserting his rights.
Then again, some people are just dead set on pissing themselves over nothing. I witnessed attendees at a Cambridge, Massachusetts, office birthday party flip out over the sight of a pocket knife after they'd asked if anybody had something with which to cut the cake.
I still own that knife. The blade is 2.5 inches long. I told them that next time, they could karate chop the fucking cake.
BloombergView editors insist that "social norms long discouraged open carry even where it was legal" and that "the more such acts of intimidation take place, the more they will make manifest the divide between responsible gun owners and zealots."
Maybe. But a growing number of states permit the practice, and if people in New Hampshire can grow accustomed to neighbors openly packing heat, Georgians and Texans will likely do the same.
When I first moved to Flagstaff, it wasn't the presence of the gun that surprised me, but the open display. After all, like others I know, I'd spent years illegally packing heat in New York City, to ward off predators in a way that restrictive laws can't.
Somebody tell the folks at BloombergView. That should really get them to moisten their knickers.
NEXT: San Fran Locals Hate Tourists, Frustrated That Bus Ban Doesn't Work
J.D. Tuccille is a contributing editor at Reason.
Guns Second Amendment Concealed Carry
May.8.2014 at 8:08 am
“they could karate chop the fucking cake.”
WuzYoungOnceToo
May.9.2014 at 10:16 am
Great. It will now be my life’s mission to find an opportunity to use that one.
b-b-b-but guns are sc-sc-sc-scary
I love how Tucille openly admits to breaking the law. We need more of this.
I also now have a deep hope to someday ruin a party with a knife. Hopefully with no stabbing, but I’ll do what I have to do.
“That’s not a knife…”
I see you’ve played Knifey-Spooney before.
“…it’s a space station!”
Vince aut Morire
+12 Parsecs
In most places blades of 2.5″ or less are not considered weapons. Where I come from every man used to carry a pocket knife for nail trimming, whittling, box-cutting, etc.
One of the funniest moments ever was when a (girl) cousin asked a yankee friend if she could “borrow his knife”. The realization that as an adult male that he was expected to have a knife was priceless.
It still amazes me (a real Yankee, not whatever you people from the south think that means) that everyone doesn’t carry a pocket knife now. How can you not have a knife with you? Except for air travel, I don’t think I’ve ever not had a knife in my pocket.
Mine’s in a drawer. I quit carrying it after 9/11 when the TSA made it impossible to travel with one, and my fortune 500 employer prohibited them at work.
All of my supervisees have switchblades now since they are legal in NH to carry and like to play with them at work. Not sure what the management out in CA would think of that.
LarryA
May.8.2014 at 2:40 pm
“yankee” = person who moves from Neew York or Calyfornia and wants to be a Texan.
“Welcome! Here’s your Wasn’t born in Texas but got here as fast as I could bumpersticker. Lemme buyou a drink.”
“damyankee” = person who moves here and wants Texas to become Neew York or Calyfornia.
“See this here little hole? It’s 0.457” but we round off to “forty-five.” If’n you don’t savvy inches we have them in 10mm and 12 gauge.”
Agreed on the subject of pocket knives. Texas just un-prohibited switchblades too.
Western Civilization is doomed to die, whimpering, when everything comes in plastic bubbles and you can’t possess anything sharp enough to open one.
ImanAzol
And when Texas grows up, it wants to be Indiana: Blades are not weapons and unrestricted (TX limits to 5.5″ blade). CCW is $125 for life and requires no training. Open carry has always been legal with license. Cops generally don’t ask for your license unless you’re doing something illegal to start with.
May.9.2014 at 12:38 pm
Idaho requires no license to open carry. In fact, many people (including many legislators) believe that the legislature actually does not have the power to regulate open carry, based on language in the Idaho Constitution. Legislation was also just passed in Idaho to allow concealed carry on state college campuses.
you have to have a knife all the time if you work construction, save maybe for a few trades (like a framer, I figure he’d save the belt space to keep other more important stuff, no need for a small knife when all you do is handle large lumbers)
I figure this is part of the reason for the 2.5″ rule in anti-gun states. You CAN’T outlaw knife carrying and have a functioning society. Though, I wouldn’t put it above the liberals to try.
Fr?ulein Nikki
That’s why Tucille is my hero…swoon…
One of the first rights of passage in my culture is when a woman or older girl asks to borrow your knife.
Double-entendre, intended or no?
[bleep] [bleep] 2.5″ [bleep] [bleep]
Back in the day, double points if you were at school and it was a teacher. We “open carried” our Cub Scout pocket knives in third grade.
[sigh]
Did you read his book? It’s fun.
No, but it’s sitting on my Kindle.
David Lango
I also openly admit it.
I do not believe in asking permission for exercising my rights.
The wife and I carry identical revolvers, mine is in my pocket right now. Hers is in her purse. I got off work before she did, I’m waiting for her to come home. I trust she won’t have to shoot her way out of the Valley to get back to LA. There are only five rounds in her gun.
Seriously folks, an armed society is a polite society. Arizona has “security” well in hand with good old fashioned LIBERTY. Liberty is what is important, not “security”.
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to surround him with honest heat. Horrid mischief happens in LA here because the population at large is more often than not, totally unarmed, which emboldens the criminal element.
I’m proud of my belt bucket knife. I use it all the time. Even when I have my skinning knife right there on my belt.
This was a great country before 9/11. We made toy guns when I was a kid back in the 60’s.
This queer celebrating nation has gone to hell in a hand basket, and a lot of my age group thinks this way. But when given an opportunity to dig themselves out of hell and end the Fed, they vote for establishment trolls like Boehner instead of the Tea Party candidate.
I’m am getting pretty embarrassed and disappointed.
I am really pissed off about Chemtrails.
http://lango.us
Ortzinator
*Cue creepy music*
Reverend Draco
I wonder what these perennial knicker-wetters would have done, had they been at my wedding and saw me cut the cake with a SWORD?
Probably had a full-blown panic attack, called 911, and shit kittens for an encore.
I really hate whinerbabies like them.
Dude you gotta send the pics.
BloombergView editors insist that “social norms long discouraged open carry even where it was legal” and that “the more such acts of intimidation take place, the more they will make manifest the divide between responsible gun owners and zealots.”
Is it intimidation when I carry these guns?
Mint Berry Crunch
Stop calling your arms “guns” Mr. Burgundy!
blcartwright
here’s “showing your guns” in Pennsylvania
sarcasmic
Open carry is legal where I live, though if you try it you can be sure the cops will come. That’s because someone will call 911, and instead of informing the caller that open carry is legal, the operator will send out the goons. The goons will use it as an opportunity to run you for warrants and search you, though that’s not legal since you’ve committed no crime. If you’re lucky they’ll let you go with a lecture. If you’re unlucky they’ll make up an excuse to arrest you.
There are several vids on YouTube that show the very thing you are talking about, and it is disgusting.
If you are a cop and you behave like this, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.
If you’re a cop and you behave like that you ought to get two to the back of the head like the fucking authoritarian coward you are.
/hyperbole (fuck you NSA)
That would require them to have the capacity to feel shame, which they don’t.
I see open carry all the time here. Not every single day, but generally once a week, most often in the supermarket. Nobody bats an eye, although I’m waiting for the day that some carpet-bagger pitches a fit.
In L.A., I would probably end up getting shot by the fuzz for such an act.
Me too. And when that happens, I’ll probably have a stronger reaction than the locals, kicking the guy in the balls and screaming “GO BACK TO MASSACHUSETTES!” Hehe, I think I’ll have earned my Texan-ness (I live in New Jersey, but I been thinking about moving to Texas eventually)
And if you’re exceedingly compliant and obsequious, they will claim you were resisting and kill you in order to get two weeks paid vacation.
jdfinct
You from Connecticut like me? You are describing my state to a T lol
If it weren’t for the zealots, the “responsible gun owners” would be screwed.
Guy la Guy
Why would you carry a gun if you weren’t planning on killing things with it?
It’s akin to wearing a football helmet all the time just in case a game breaks out.
“Why would you carry a gun”
Stop right there.
None of your business.
~Knarf Yenrab~
To be fair to the OP, I do intend to kill things when I carry a gun. But those things are malicious, pesty, and rare, so I don’t use it very often.
entropy_factor
This. People in this country need to shove their “trigger warnings” up their asses. MIND. YOUR. OWN. BUSINESS.
It doesn’t matter why someone has a gun. As long as they aren’t pointing it at you and asking for your wallet, that piece of metal has ZERO impact on your life. Move along, pleb.
Why would you wear a seat belt if you weren’t intending to crash your car?
Total pwnage. Thanks, Barney.
RECKT
Why would you keep a fire extinguisher and smoke alarms in your house if you weren’t planning on setting it on fire?
CampingInYourPark
Why would you put a bumper on a car if you weren’t planning on ramming things with it? Why would you buy health insurance if you weren’t planning to be sick? Why would you ask stupid questions on a blog if you weren’t planning on being a retarded dumb fuck?
Why would you carry a rubber if you weren’t planning on getting laid …EVER?
oh shit, I forgot about that. I wonder if I still have my backups in my car
Fuck you Guy.
Suthenboy
Guy la Dumb – Why would I carry a fire extinguisher in my car if I am not planning on setting something on fire?
Have you ever eaten at a Luby’s?
Congratulations. You managed to outderp even Alice Bowie.
I usually reserve this for PD or Tony, but you’ve earned, congrats:
Your new theme song. Enjoy.
Congratulations, youve won the Derp of the Day Badge, which comes with a clip instead of a pin, because you’re special.
AlmightyJB
Why have a brain if you never intend to use it.
Oh my god! I just realized, my father, who carried an oxyviver in the boot of his car planned to deprive someone of oxygen and revive them. He was obviously some sort of hideous Frankenstein-wannabe, not the respected country doctor I thought he was.
* not the trunk, trunks are on the front of elephants not the back of cars
Then again, some people are just dead set on pissing themselves over nothing. I witnessed attendees at a Cambridge, Massachusetts, office birthday party flip out over the sight of a pocket knife after they’d asked if anybody had something with which to cut the cake.
And henceforth JD was known as the sassy office libertarian. And knife-wielding psycho.
Is this actually true J.D.? You pulled out a pocket knife and people went apeshit?
I’m assuming it is true, I’m just having a hard time processing your story as I’m from Louisiana and have only ever lived here or Texas.
jdtuccille
It’s true. Not “call the cops” apeshit, but (big, staring eyes) “Whoah! Why do you have a knife?” Because…somebody might need to cut… a cake?
I’ve always carried a knife and I’ve had people ask me that too. “Are you gonna stab someone with that”? If you think I’m carrying a pocket knife to stab people, it says more about you than it does about me.
LiveFreeOrDiet
“Are you gonna stab someone with that”?
I got that bit from a girl who also called me a Neanderthal for carrying a 3 or 4″ knife. She asked to borrow it soon after. I told her “Hold on while Tarzan find Jane stab-stab flint chip.”
Mr. Soul
Don’t do what Donny Dont does.
http://i.imgur.com/6lrWlDO.jpg
Then what do these people think when they go to Wal Mart, Academy, Sears, K-Mart, REI and see all those knives? Isn’t this like the Sam Kinnison bit where he says “I don’t want to drink and drive, but how else am i gonna get my car home?” How else are you supposed to carry a POCKET knife?
yeah… I recently got a bit of a reaction to my knife on a HIKING trip. Who the hell DOESN’T bring a knife when hiking? That’s just ASKING to die in the woods. Not that I ever go hiking anywhere that remote (live in Jersey), but you never know.
The weird thing is that if you have a Leatherman with a 4″ blade in the handle, they think you’re just the humorous DIY guy who thinks he can fix his own car, but if you have a swiss army knife with a blade half the size, you’re a suspicious time bomb just waiting to blow.
And if you have a knife you can open with one hand (or better yet, a switchblade which is what i carry now), you are definitely about to murder someone.
gonna have to make a point on this one. A switchblade makes it much much faster to open the knife, which is a very significant factor. I’m not against guns for either in the home or carry in the streets, but SOME regulations are reasonable. A speed-open mechanism would have no advantage as a tool, and would probably have disadvantages. Not that knives have to be carred as a tool and can’t be for self-defense. But realistically in most self-defense situations (where you aren’t fucked because the other guy has again and where you’d immediately acquiesce) you’ll have time to do the two-handed flip open, as they’re likely to be escalating fistfights with irate people. You wouldn’t need to open up the knife in a split second. A switchblade seems more designed for an quick, unexpected attack at close quarters.
Furthermore, the kinfe thing is significant because kinfe atacks are actually way more deadly per attack than even gun attacks are; you easily completely cut through major arteries; a blade is much bigger than a bullet. So the whole thing is a significant issue.
It sounds stupid, but it isn’t. I’m all for shall-issue CCW permits, and even permit-less open carry, and I wouldn’t bat an eye to a guy open carrying like that guy was (assuming I’m in such a state). But I gotta side with anti-switchblade laws
Vulgar Madman
Fuck regulations of weapons. They have not done any good ever. They just make idiots feel better.
Restoring the Dream
Unless you’re a farmer with his arm caught in a machine and cutting what’s left of your arm off so you can get home for help and not bleed to death. I knew that guy at my church for 30 years. They grow them tough out on the farms.
A few yards of Gorilla tape had a cop giving me the hairy eyeball recently. A lady at Kroger had a broken radiator hose. I wrapped up the split, topped up the radiator and gave her the rest of the roll. The cop asked why I kept it in my car. I told him I travel a lot and showed him my Irwin 9-in-1 Screwdriver.
He was suspicious of somebody for carrying around gorilla tape? WTF.
It would be difficult to underestimate the average cops’ intellect.
Watches too many mafia movies, I’d guess.
Emmerson Biggins
I would have had a hard time resisting the urge to answer with “to make stuff stick together”
I believe the correct answer is “to silence the screams of nosy cops.”
Also acceptable: “to repair strangers’ radiator hoses before taking them back to my rape dungeon.”
If you’re twisted, you can leave him to ponder the antecedent.
R C Dean
The cop asked why I kept it in my car.
After watching you repair a car with it.
– “A few yards of Gorilla tape had a cop giving me the hairy eyeball recently.”
Are you sure it wasn’t the rag and bottle of chloroform? 😉
“Because…somebody might need to cut… a cake?”
I’ve gotten that reaction a few times from people and my response is always somethign along the lines of “why do you not have a knife?”
One should always have a knife and the means to make fire. I think the worst thing about the decline of cigarette smoking is that far fewer people carry lighters or matches.
DenverJay
See, I was going to post something very much like this. It is the year 2014; if you can’t make fire or cut something, then WTF have the last 600,000 years been about?
I second your guys’ thoughts
My grandfather always carried a pocketknife and he told me once that a good man always had a knife on him. It’s disturbing to me, in exactly the opposite way it is to the people you describe, that many urbanites have become so milquetoast that they’ve lost the ability to fend for themselves.
This. I’m 53, and recall when it was as standard for a man to carry a modest pocket knife as it was for him to wear socks…and in fact the socks were probably more optional. That cutting implements are the single most useful utilitarian item devised by man in the past 100,000 years or so, and yet so many people can’t fathom why you would want one with you at all time is mind-boggling.
Man, you pull out a pocket knife to cut a cake?? All I can think about is how much toe jam is piling up in that frosting. I’m passing on that cake. Maybe a cookie.
Same here Duke. It is somewhat annoying to me when I forget my knife. Doubly annoying if I need it, discover I forgot it at home, ask someone to borrow theirs and they don’t have one either.
“Guy” plugs quarters into a machine and gets a coke. (Okay, it was Diet Sprite, but around these parts fizz in a can is a coke.) He pulls on the tab and the key comes off. He stands there, dismayed.
I pull my churchkey out of my pocket and hand it to him. He looks at it.
“Ah, do you know how to open a can with one of those?”
He scratches at the lid. “Yeah, I think. But not a pop-top can.”
I take the churchkey and the can, rotate 90, and pop the lid open the old-fashioned way.
“Oh. Anybody could do that.”
Dang near bit my tongue in half.
I grew up in the middle of MA and think of people from Cambridge as fucking pussy liberals.
Well, that’s not very fair to the one’s who aren’t pussy liberals, few as they may be.
fredtyg
I live in California so this should be no surprise, but I had a checker at a grocery store almost scream once when I went to find change in my pocket.
I had a few live .38 rounds in my pocket along with the change. I dumped them out on the counter to sort through my coins and she freaked out.
A lot of people who don’t know anything about guns and stuff seem to think that cartridges could just blow up at any moment.
Curtisls87
And that they’ll actually have the velocity to kill someone, which is, of course, not even close to the truth.
dude, didn’t you guys know, guns kill people. They literally jump out of their holsters, walk up to people, and shoot them. Or they drive the carriers made with rage when they get even slightly angry, and cause him to shoot the person he’s angry at.
Guns kill people, period. Ignore all other considerations.
If you were in DC, you could get arrested just for having a spent cartridge. California sounds like a libertarian paradise by contrast.
– “I had a few live .38 rounds in my pocket along with the change. I dumped them out on the counter to sort through my coins and she freaked out.”
If you’d been here in TX you probably could have bartered them for your groceries. And if they’d been .22 LR you probably could have gotten change back.
You pulled out a pocket knife and people went apeshit?
No, he pulled out a pocket knife and massholes went apeshit. Massholes aren’t people.
wingnutx
I had a guy in my office freak out when I pulled out a knife to cut some food at an office party.
It was a Leatherman Wave. He was particularly rattled that I opened it with one hand, and thought it was a switchblade.
Parents in a public park in Georgia, confronted by another display of gun rights, called 911.
Too lazy to look up for confirmation but I heard the guy was being an asshole about it, actively drawing people’s attention to the fact that he had a gun so he could lecture them on his right to have it.
FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. ? Parents at a Forysth County park abruptly stopped a children’s baseball game after growing suspicions of the behavior of a man carrying a gun in a waist holster Tuesday night.
“He’s just walking around [saying] ‘See my gun? Look, I got a gun and there’s nothing you can do about it.’ He knew he was frightening people. He knew exactly what he was doing,” said parent Karen Rabb.
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news…..gam/nfhJS/
I’d have been concerned. You don’t help the Second Amendment by pissing off parents.
I told them that next time, they could karate chop the fucking cake.
I hear paper can cut, if not handled responsibly.
After all, like others I know, I’d spent years illegally packing heat in New York City, to ward off predators in a way that restrictive laws can’t.
I suspect there is no statute of limitations a crime this heinous. You had better stay out of New York.
No worries, De Blasio is working on the extradition paperwork now.
Will4Freedom
I can’t wait to get out of NJ. Sheltered Liberals here will scream bloody murder if anyone besides a uniformed city/state employee were to wear a weapon.
Come south, Will. We welcome outsiders like you.
Spoonman.
At least cross the Delaware. Hell, buy my house in Elkins Park.
Without realizing that the most dangerous person to handle a gun is the uniformed city/state employee.
Yeah, but only because it’s currently illegal.
I’ve found most people in NJ are actually pretty conservative, and definitely more conservative than they vote if they vote liberal/leftist. Don’t you find the same thing? I’ve yet to meet that many real liberals
Trigger warning – Threadjack ahead:
http://pjmedia.com/blog/author/jackdunphy/
What’s with cops and the name Dunphy?
Meh. Statistical, really. The predominance of the Irish in many police forces, most notably the NYPD whose numbers dwarf all others.
The Irish are notoriously slope-headed and brutal. No one is sure if it’s caused by their drunkenness, their gingerness, or their Popery, but it’s undeniable. I mean, Episiarch is a Mick, for fuck’s sake.
How DARE you call me a mick!!! You’re a mick! And a towel!
I’m a mic. A sarcas-mic.
EDG reppin' LBC
Epi’s not a Mick, he’s a WOP, right? Epi, when you said WOP I assumed without papers, but what you really mean was without pigment?
Epi’s a Mick all right. Haven’t you noticed how he’s always talking about the Virgin Mary and hunger strikes?
I’m drunk right now! And wearing green! And eating potatoes!
So you are not lace curtain Irish, you are shanty Irish?
My great-grandma used to tell my mom that she was lace Irish, not shanty Irish. I still don’t really know what that means, but I’m glad my surname is a fine Scottish name, not a trashy Irish one.
I grew up being told our name was Scots-Irish, but when we moved to Scotland for a few years I was corrected that it was very English.
lace Irish = middle class. Comes, I believe, from the lace curtains that were popular in Victorian times.
shanty Irish = working class.
hmmmmm. I thought he was talking about his mother.
I suspect Irish is a Mic, but I didn’t want to embarrass him by asking.
“Brendan|5.8.14 @ 12:50PM|#
AFAIK it was at one point an actual person whose name is now used by a variety of “Cops Online” as an avatar-thingy to indicate their copness without having to state it so obviously
Its possible that guy there was the original one. Our own Dunpher explained it all once. I wasn’t really paying attention. I have seen it used by others in different places, however.
Thats it. Dunphy is a cop who writes a column. Our Dunphy chose the name because he is a fanboy.
I see you have been commenting there, Suthen.
I wonder if he’s also a professional surfer, power lifter, bad ass guitar player, and married to Morgan Fairchild?
I think our former dunphy (who I think is dead) took his name from that dunphy who uses it as a pseudonym.
who I think is dead
Not sure if serious…
Not very serious, but that is my working theory. I don’t actually spend a lot of time thinking about dunphy.
He’s dead all right. Killed in a shootout with a MS-13 gang while defending a Washington convent on a rare sunny morning. His negotiating skills convinced 113 bangers to drop their weapons but the 52 remaining had to go the “hard way”.
Several Washington public schools have undergone name changes and a connecting Interstate and the Walla Walla International Airport will be renamed “Dunphy” in the coming months.
An unverified report that he was heart shot while holstering his weapon remains unclear.
He already said in one of these threads that that’s what he did.
robc
Ky is a traditional open carry state. Cops will harass you in Louisville and Lexington though.
Why are the editors of Bloomberg not alarmed by people in uniforms openly walking about heavily armed?
Of course, they probably don’t read Balko.
“Lalalalala….I can’t hear you.”
/Bloombergian
Spot on, Tonio, spot on…
Rhywun
My thought exactly. The only open carry I see here in NYC is done by cops and by criminals – and I steer clear of both.
You say “cops and criminals” like they are two separate groups.
Cops wear black uniforms and have badges. Criminals are elected to office.
I’m pretty sure I’d have a hard time getting a block down Main street in Bozeman with the .45 strapped to my leg.
derpules
Try strapping it to your hip instead.
Pussies.
That’s how they should be referred to. Goddamned, cowardly, fucking pussies. Perhaps they can be shamed into pretending to have a spine.
Last time I went to buy ammo there were a couple people carrying openly in the gun store, and my neighbor talks of seeing people carry openly at the convenience store up the street. Though it’s not something I would do, just because I try to avoid attention from the police.
Maine has open carry? I didn’t know that. Washington does too, but don’t try it in Seattle. SPD don’t really care whether it’s legal or not. Because fuck you that’s why.
Yeah, we got open carry. In my area we don’t have a police force. The town pays the state and the sheriff to answer calls. So the cops mostly leave people alone. But once you get into an area with a dedicated police force, carrying openly is asking for trouble. Even though it’s perfectly legal.
Epi, every time I read a story like this it further ensconces within my mind your discussion about the animism of anti-gun people. It really is naked primitive animism.
Absolutely, that’s why I keep repeating it. The gun has become a supernatural token of evil for them. It has a life of its own to these morons. They’re utterly irrational.
trshmnster the terrible
Of course, it’s scary looking, loud, and sometimes people just randomly die because of it. It’s like a grizzly bear that people keep in their houses!
These are the same people who think that cell phones work by magic, embarrassingly describe the noises their car makes to their mechanic, and treat their pets better than their family because “fluffy has such a vibrant personality and doesn’t judge me like people do!”
They’re barely beyond the intellectual level of a caveman. “Ook see magic piece of metal! Ook scared!”
Kaptious Kristen
It’s the same people who think government-run anything (such as healthcare) is somehow magically “free”.
Or magically efficient and nonviolent.
I’m seeing a guerrilla video project here.
A team of three, one open carrying in a state where it is explicitly legal, but in a city that harasses. Just for funsies, it might even be a non-firing gun, but I wouldn’t carry it loaded or have ammo on me – gotta set the cops up here. One following behind to video the cops (openly). And one following behind to video the cops more covertly, to catch them harassing the first video guy.
I’m guessing you could catch violations of at least 4 of the BOR in less than a minute.
That’s been done quite a bit.
Not enough, IMO.
Is a flap holster “open carry”?
If you have to carry concealed a flap holster is “open carry.”
If you have to carry openly a flap holster is “concealed carry.”
Did you have to ask?
In Jackson, WY, I once saw a dude walking down the sidewalk with his revolver in his hand. Since he unlocked and went into the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar at 6am, I assume he was the owner of the establishment and this was his usual commuting posture in case he ran into a burglar. Urban 20-something fraidy-cat that I was at the time, I actually thought it was pretty cool.
And now you’re married to that cowboy?
ehhh… I have a mix of reactions here.
In a lot, if not most places, where it’s far, far more urbanised, a person carrying is a big deal, and would seriously freak most people because they’d assume you are immediately intending on using it, either to commit a crime, or to prevent one that is occuring. So there’s a good reason for brandishing laws. I mean, I would immediately bolt, assuming the guy is going after someone robbing his store. Or I’d ask him if he wants me to call the cops.
But out in Wyoming, I guess that shit makes more sense. Out there, you have to carry all the time, since there’s so much god damned wildlife. I bet motherfuckers get eaten by the wolves there in the middle of Cheyenne. Fuck that, have you seen the wildlife out there? You need to carry a CANNON with you at all time. HUGE wolves, huge bison, probably wolverines, bears.
Alice Bowie
If one is a federalist and is OK with states having their own policies, then why not have a state like Arizona where people like to walk around with guns and have a state like NY where the citizens prefer that people not walk around with guns.
SCOTUS already said that the 2nd amendment can be limited.
By limited you mean ignored, right?
I believe that tis is the best part of the American justice system. Nothing is written in stone.
There’s the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Amendments, SCOTUS rulings, and the Executive can always instruct the Justice Department to enforce or not enforce.
It doesn’t just end with the Second Amendment.
This is not the Qur’an
Nothing is written in stone.
Yes, those rights you thought you had can be taken away at a whim. Great, ain’t it?
I think calling an executive order/constitutional amendments/SCOTUS rulings a whim to be a far stretch
I think people in black robes declaring that “shall not be infringed” means “can be freely limited or outright banned” qualifies as a whim.
fuck you tulpa
“I think calling an executive order”
See, I’d call ignoring your rights based on the mood of the President on a particular day the exact definfition of “on a whim”.
yes, it is. It is a whim, when they blatantly ignore what’s written. From the ban on private mail carriers, to the guy growing wheat on his property, to Pennsylvania’s ruling on the fracking law, judges have pretty much just started making shit up and pulling it out of their asses.
kbolino
If the people’s revolutionary truth demand it, then black is white and “shall be not infringed” is “may be infringed in whatever way we please”.
The Constitution has primacy as law above the acts of the legislature. There is an amendment process, but “a couple of judges decided to change the plain meaning after the fact because people had hurt feelings” is not part of it.
Actually Alice, the Constitution is the supreme law of the land. No law may contravene it.
The second is pretty explicit, and yes, it is written in stone.
“…shall not be infringed.” . That is pretty solid.
God you are a fucking idiot. Not to mention a fucking cowardly pussy.
Do you have the slightest grasp of why we have a constitution, moron?
It limits government power so the majority may not shit on the minority. 2A exists SPECIFICALLY so that 51% of the population MAY NOT take away ANYONE’S right to keep and bear arms. If that was not the intention, there would be no need for a constitution…we would simply pass whatever laws the democratically elected Congress chooses…
…Get it, dumbass?
there would be no need for a constitution…we would simply pass whatever laws the democratically elected Congress chooses…
Well, that’s basically what we have now. It’s it?
Perhaps I am an idiot to you people.
But from what i know, the constitution has been amended several times by a democratically elected congress.
It take a lot more than a vote of Congress to amend the Constitution, moron.
Congress doesn’t have the power to amend the constitution. You might know this had you ever actually read the thing.
Again. proof of your idiocy.
The Constitution isn’t amended by Congress you fucking moron.
Article 5 – Amendment
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress…
It requires 2/3 of congress (or 2/3 of the states) followed by ratification by 3/4 of the states. Is everyone in NYC as ignorant as you?
Restoras
Is everyone in NYC as ignorant as you?
Yes, and in many instances even moreso.
TopherB
Amended via a lengthy process as laid out in the constitution.
And there is no ‘perhaps’ about it.
Of course it doesn’t end with the second amendment. There are 8 more amendments in the Bill of Rights, and six other articles specifying the limited powers of each branch of government.
uhhhh…, no. SCOTUS specifically ruled that no gov can restrict at least the ownership aspect of the 2nd amendment. Even federalism has to follow the constitution, or else repeal the 14th. It’s only a matter of time before they rule carry has to always be legal
Fuck off, moronic sockpuppet.
mick.
Is that a racial slur ?
Yes. Epi is a mick. But at least he’s not Black Irish.
Dolly Parton is Irish?
If one is a federalist
Unverified assumption. Natural rights cannot be legitimately abridged by any government, no matter how small.
Government has imposed policies on bringing guns on to planes.
I direct you to ask your handler what the word legitimately means.
legitimately abridged
Someone no understand natural rights. Wikipedia is a good starting point.
A brain and the capacity for rational thought would be a better starting point. Sadly, some folks seem to be missing those.
Should states be allowed to ban abortion clinics?
Why not. At this point, having states rights is the best compromise with such diverse views on matters.
I would give to a charity to transport those people that couldn’t afford an abortion to a neighboring state that allows it.
You’re full of shit. So how about slavery then? Cool with you if some state decides to bring it back?
Jordan, I’ve posted on Slavery before.
Sometimes I feel that we should had never fought the Civil War. If you look at the South, those people fought to the DEATH and lost all of their wealth to keep Black people down. Not just in the 1800s but even today they are offended that blacks are given an even shake and sometimes given an edge.
But slavery involved personal liberty of human beings. This is different than a gun policy.
Beg that question!
“….even today they are offended that blacks are given an even shake…”
Where are you from Alice? I don’t think you know what you are talking about, again.
Is it 1950 there? No, I know it’s not because I live there and even I am not that ignorant of life in the US today.
Not just in the 1800s but even today they are offended that blacks are given an even shake and sometimes given an edge.
You’ve clearly never visited the south because if you had, you’d realize that the cartoonish image of the south being chocked full of redneck morons flying confederate flags from the back of their pickup trucks and trolling around looking for some “darkies” to beat up or kill is bullshit.
You’ve clearly never visited the south because if you had, you’d realize that the cartoonish image of the south
This is stunningly self-unaware coming from someone who on this very thread classified all people in Massachusetts as not being people. You might want to reflect on that.
Yup, the most cartoonish rednecks I’ve ever seen in my life (confederate flag on a white pickup with truck nuts) were in Ontario, Canada.
So where does ‘personal liberty’ begin, Alice? Where is the line, if the right to self defense is not personal liberty?
You may want to look at your own state of affairs before ridiculously accusing an entire region of out and out racism.
Fuck what is wrong with you people.
I have been through, and lived in, a large portion of this nation. The South has always struck me (admittedly a white guy), as friendly, and the further west you go the more tolerance you get.
The first time I ever ran into out and out white against black racism was in the far north of Iowa, maybe 20 miles south of Minnesota.
Now, black or Hispanic racism against whites or Asians is another story, but I have been assured that those incidents were not true racism, as only white people can be racist.
I could live with an open carry ban in certain cities if they had no license or true shall-issue for concealed carry.
And SCOTUS most certainly did not say that the 2nd amendment can be limited. That’s just silly. Only 3/4 of states or a constitutional convention has the power to limit a part of the constitution. What they ruled is that it does allow some regulation of gun rights. But not allowing people to carry at all (as is effectively the case in NYC and many places) seems to pretty clearly violate the “bear arms” part. I don’t see what else that can mean other than that people are allowed to carry weapons with them in public.
As long as AZ or NV residents can possess machineguns, short barrel rifles/shotguns, suppressors, etc. with only their state’s law mattering, you might be on to something.
Then we can move on to a state law being the only say in the matter of possession of firearms by people under 18, or manufacture, sales, etc.
The same people who resort to pleading for NYC to be able to have their own laws while other areas have theirs are the same exact people who lose their minds if the subject is abortion instead of guns.
Good ones, 2Chili. It’s becoming apparent that you and Elizabeth Nolan Brown are trying to best each other in the Snark-O-Drome. Right now, you’re getting whooped by Ms. Brown.
ENB the brainwashed statist idiot?
THAT ENB?
She’s fucking awful.
Can’t tell if serious.
You need to relax, bud.
Not anymore, I stopped reading her crappy “obvious statist poorly trying to write for libertarians” garbage and feel miles better.
Thanks for the concern though.
What in the world are you even talking about?
Wat.
No one else has said it so I will: Too Chilly, this column is a work of art my friend. The Alt-Text is among the best I’ve ever hovered my icon over, the admission of defying NYC laws by concealed carrying, and the karate chop the fucking cake line all combine to place this one into the Reason Hall of Fame.
In honor of NFL Draft Day, my first round draft pick in the Reason Editors draft is you.
I was just telling my wife, after reading this, that 2chilly is my new favorite Reason correspondent.
Well done JD.
Stossel has a sad.
“Moisten their knickers”
This is why I love you 2chili.
I remember when I first moved to AZ for college the first time I saw someone walking around with a gun strapped to their hip it was a little.. eyebrow raising(?) I suppose. I didn’t feel the need to cower in fear or call the cops though. I guess it’s the difference between realizing it’s just an inaninimate object and being a complete moron. Also, logically the guy openly packing heat isn’t really the one you have to worry about. If he was up to no good he’d be concealing it.
Devil’s advocate: if you come from a state where open carry isn’t legal/common, the only people openly carrying are cops.
Hence, discomfort and fear may be the effect of simple pavlovian conditioning.
Duelles
But why are they or would they be afraid of law enforcement? Personally I like concealed carry.
Hey, why are you dragging me into this?
I have been stopped by the police for open carrying. Basically got a throw away line about being a target. I think he was annoyed at having to respond to total nonsense.
Something to consider about open carry for those planning on going out to make a political statement:
Open carry of unloaded weapons used to be legal in California until not long ago. Then a bunch of gun rights folks went out trying to make a statement by getting together in public places openly wearing unloaded handguns. Naturally a bunch of people got upset at that. Newspapers picked up on it so the state legislature quickly banned the carry of even unloaded weapons.
Others then came up with the “We’ll show them” strategy of carrying unloaded long guns- rifles and shotguns. That quickly was made illegal, too.
The take away, while it might bother some of you, is sometimes it’s best to not advertise rights. That upsets people in some areas of the country and they’ll try and take those rights away. It’s often best to enjoy and take advantage of your rights privately.
What good is a right if you can’t exercise it?
My advice…escape.
That would probably have been good advice for the people in CA. But I think it will vary quite a bit depending on where you are.
The best response to the final abridgment would have been to show up to the state house with loaded firearms, in force.
Progs keep pushing because nobody pushes back.
IIRC, when the Black Panther Party did exactly that, back in 1967, they panicked the legislature and Governor Reagan into passing the law which bannen open carry. (Incidentally, I was brought around to my guns-rights position a few years later by reading what the Panthers had to say about the RTKBA and its importance as a bulwark for the defense of freedom.)
OldMexican
Re: fredtyg,
The take away, while it might bother some of you, is sometimes it’s best to not advertise rights.
We should show restraint and now publish things like “50 Shades Of Gray” lest we risk advertising our free speech right too much!
“Look, just do their goddam work for them, and save them some time.”
And that bullshit in California is how the Constitutional challenge to California’s permit laws got standing.
Where are you from Alice?
The moon, is my guess.
Well, you see due to the lack of oxygen on the moon, the combustion element of the firearm does not work. So it’s like a safety utopia for her there.
“On the moon, the weekend has advanced beyond your wildest dreams. Weekends now take up the entire week, and jobs have been phased out accordingly.”
Gunpowder contains an oxidizer so a gun would fire in space, just like a rocket engine.
You better hit your target with the first shot – the recoil will make you spin like a top.
Not so much of a problem on the Moon. Though the bullet could probably go into orbit and hit you in the back of the head (if you are a really good shot).
Auric Demonocles
Both the employees and the parkgoers were reacting to the presence of armed men in their midst.
Were these armed men threatening them, or telling them to get into the freezer? No? Then the problem with “this America” isn’t the guys with the guns, it’s the people who think they have a right to not feel anxious.
royalphoenix
I see it once a week in Maricopa County. So what ?
The hoplophobes should be afraid of open-carry. By acclimatizing people to guns in public and making them and their carriers completely normal, it will achieve final and total cultural victory for the forces of gun.
Pussies! Aargh!
Mr. Weebles
I open carry up here in NH occasionally in the summer since I’m usually wearing a t-shirt and shorts. I’ve gotten some looks at the grocery store and places like that but I continue to not give a fuck.
Quite frankly, I prefer to carry concealed but sometimes it’s not possible when you’re wearing less clothing.
i just read that wisconsin is open carry, i’ll have to give it a go sometime soon instead of just concealed carrying
In April 2009 the Milwaukee police chief said that, “”My message to my troops is if you see anybody carrying a gun on the streets of Milwaukee, we’ll put them on the ground, take the gun away and then decide whether you have a right to carry it.”
Wheeee! First commit the battery, then assess the situation. Got it.
So you might want to do a little research on the police policies in your area before you OC (and keep a camera rolling).
I call BS on this. When I lived in Texas–in AUSTIN, mind you–every single person I knew had a firearm, usually stashed in the glove box of their car.
So no true Texan would run and hide in a damn walk-in freezer at the sight of one, certainly not in Fort Worth.
prolefeed
I can believe it. Went on an open carry walk with some people through downtown Austin (camo Benelli shotgun — awesome!), and the reaction was a mixture of approval, so what, and urbanites looking like they might piss their shorts.
Gonna guess parts of Fort Worth are similar in demographics.
Excellent. If it irritates people, it should become more common. Perhaps we can arrange for a gay couple to sloppy kiss while carrying matching 1911s?
California Right To Carry
Charles Nichols ? President of California Right To Carry
http://CaliforniaRightToCarry.org
“[A] right to carry arms openly: “This is the right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, and which is calculated to incite men to a manly and noble defence of themselves, if necessary, and of their country, without any tendency to secret advantages and unmanly assassinations.”” District of Columbia v. Heller, 128 S. Ct. 2783 – Supreme Court (2008) at 2809.
“Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited. From Blackstone through the 19th-century cases, commentators and courts routinely explained that the right was not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose. For example, the majority of the 19th-century courts to consider the question held that prohibitions on carrying concealed weapons were lawful under the Second Amendment or state analogues.” District of Columbia v. Heller, 128 S. Ct. 2783 – Supreme Court (2008) at 2816.
jyd911
Open Carry Texas President, CJ Grisham, spoke directly with the head of corporate security for Jack In The Box who spoke personally with the employees at the restaurant in Fort Worth. The TRUTH is that NOT A SINGLE EMPLOYEE of Jack In The Box hid in a freezer nor did a single employee call 911 or the police. The 911 call was made by a couple in the restaurant. We are working to get the 911 call, the police report, and other recordings to find out where this information originated and expose those reporting false information to achieve their anti-gun agendas. Defamation of an organization in this fashion is serious business and we will not allow it to happen unchallenged. Fort Worth Police Department needs to correct their false statements immediately that painted open carry advocates unfairly in the media.
CPRM
Wisconsin was one of the latest states to adopt ‘Concealed Carry’; however, ‘Open Carry’ had been legal for many years, yet all of a sudden after the ‘Concealed Carry’ laws were passed, signs popped up in businesses that ‘weapons’ could not be carried on premises; even though in the days of ‘Open Carry’ there was no such thing. So, in the days that only ‘criminals’ concealed their weapons, it was cool to carry weapons in these businesses, but now that citizens can lawfully carry ‘concealed’ weapons, they think criminals will obey a sign? The logic escapes me.
I want to mention what a great place I work at. There are approximately two dozen signs all around the perimeter of the two buildings, the two parking lots, and the campus as a whole saying “Notice: concealed carry permit holders on property” with a picture of a gun with a big green circle around it. So cool.
ElevenOnly
Wait, JD lives in Flagstaff? We need to go grab a beer at Hops on Birch sometime!
It’s good to know there is at least one other libertarian in this town with me. Flagstaff is odd, you got your typical Boulder-ish college/mountain town hippies, you got your redneck cowboys, and a few normal folks.
My wife came from the Netherlands, so when she moved to Arizona with me she was understandably appalled the first time she saw a guy carry a gun, and we had to have a back and forth whether or not my pistol should be loaded in the house. Needless to say, I won that argument after taking her to the range!
I’m still amazed that Arizona is open-carry, I mean amazed in a positive way. People talk all kinds of shit about this state but we’re one of the few where rights don’t seem to be eroded as quickly as other states.
That is until the douchebags from California who are coming here in droves to escape their shitty economy get their way.
Yeah, watched it happen in CO. Nothing will ruin a state quicker than an influx of Californians! But Denver is still the best city IN THE WORLD, and I can’t wait to get back to it, which may happen pretty soon if Mrs. DenverJay don’t knock off her BS.
Very funny look at gun rights. I’m imagining the cute ironic ways “theNew Yorker” might do cartoons of theses scenarios you mention.
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Failure is the engine of change. How does evolution turn an amoeba into an armadillo? Through random mutation and ruthless selection. How do markets create new products or industries? Creative destruction: Old firms and ideas die, which clears the way for new ones. Failure is the most powerful creative force in the universe.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. I became a journalist because my management consulting job evaporated. If I'd still had my six-figure job, I probably wouldn't have dared the risky charms of freelance journalism. That's not a unique story. Colonel Sanders founded Kentucky Fried Chicken at the age of 65 after his truck stop failed. Losing something good can clear the decks for even better options you wouldn't have considered while you still had a sure thing.
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failure is the mother of success .don’t be afraid of failure .just be brave and you will learn more and more lessons from failure.
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Harry Reid May Be Done With Politics
He's old, he's tired, and his party is likely to be in the minority.
Reason Staff | 8.28.2014 3:12 PM
Questions about the 74-year-old's health, his recent move to be closer to his children and grandchildren and uncertainty about the Democratic majority in the Senate lead some knowledgeable insiders to speculate that Reid will retire rather than face a challenge in 2016.
"I don't think he will run again," said one insider with decades of experience in Nevada and D.C. politics. "He's not well. His wife isn't well. He has grandchildren. And he may not be in the majority after November."
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Ranter
August.28.2014 at 3:18 pm
“He’s not well. His wife isn’t well. He has grandchildren. And he may not be in the majority after November.”
Also – he’s a fucking moron.
Tell that to the people of Nevada.
They should know by now. It’s not like he hasn’t shown them at every. Single. Opportunity.
Simple, and to the point. +1 for your concise commentary.
Knarf Yenrab!
He’s not well.
Swiss Servator, Bern baby Bern
Evilmonger!
Yeah….but it’s evul in a good cause!
No. Please. Don’t.
So we lost Bush and got Obo as a worse replacement.
Who follows this twit?
LessIsMore
What at this point does it matter?
Dick Durbin has a lot of seniority and is just as odious. Look for him to become Senate Minority Leader if Reid takes his anti-asian slurs and goes home, which if he had an R after his name, would have happened already.
Teh Asian comments were way overblown. His “light skinned negro” comments about Obama should have had him run out on a rail. No way the media would ever have allowed an (R) to stay in office after those comments.
Johnny Fuckerfaster!
Isn’t Reid in the midst of transgendering?
Best news I have read all day!
Reid will retire with “dignity” just like Jay Rockefeller.
As an Asian American, I was greatly offended by Harry Reid’s hate speech. I demand his immediate incarceration. Obama says he doesn’t care about the first amendment, let’s see if he really meant that.
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2020 Election: Joe Biden's book Cory Booker's book Pete Buttigieg's book Kamala Harris' book Bernie Sanders' book Donald Trump's book 2018 Senate Debates
Books by and about 2020 presidential candidates
Crippled America,
by Donald J. Trump (2015)
United,
by Cory Booker (2016)
The Truths We Hold,
by Kamala Harris (2019)
Smart on Crime,
Guide to Political Revolution,
by Bernie Sanders (2017)
Where We Go From Here,
Promise Me, Dad ,
by Joe Biden (2017)
Conscience of a Conservative,
by Jeff Flake (2017)
Two Paths,
by Gov. John Kasich (2017)
Every Other Monday,
by Rep. John Kasich (2010)
Courage is Contagious,
by John Kasich (1998)
Shortest Way Home,
by Pete Buttigieg (2019)
The Book of Joe ,
by Jeff Wilser (2019; biography of Joe Biden)
Becoming,
by Michelle Obama (2018)
Our Revolution,
This Fight Is Our Fight,
by Elizabeth Warren (2017)
Higher Loyalty,
by James Comey (2018)
The Making of Donald Trump,
by David Cay Johnston (2017)
Trump vs. Hillary On The Issues ,
by Jesse Gordon (2016)
Outsider in the White House,
by Bernie Sanders (2015)
(from Amazon.com)
(click a book cover for a review or other books by or about the presidency from Amazon.com)
The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
by Andrew Yang
(Click for Amazon book review)
OR click on an issue category below for a subset.
BOOK REVIEW by OnTheIssues.org:
This is Andrew Yang's campaign book, published in April 2019, just around the time that his polling numbers qualified him for the early Democratic primary debates. Yang's credential to run for the presidency is that he's a self-made millionaire who made his fortune by doing good. We'll explore that credential in this book review, and how it relates to his unparalleled appeal to younger voters.
The 2020 election marks a turning point in American politics because business success is now considered a sufficient credential to run for president, due to Donald Trump's 2016 victory based on that credential alone. Every president elected before Trump was either an elected official, or a high-level government appointee. The 2020 campaign cycle features six candidates whose major credential is that they served as corporate CEOs:
Andrew Yang made his fortune at several startup companies, the most important of which were Manhattan Prep, a GMAT standardized test prep service, and Venture for America, which provided capital for non-profit start-ups. He was appointed as an honorary "Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship" by President Obama in 2015, but has no history of electoral campaigns nor high-level government appointments.
Howard Schultz, who briefly ran for president in 2019 as an independent, provides the best model for Yang: he made his fortune running Starbucks and portrayed himself as a CEO focused on social change. Schultz withdrew his candidacy after heavy harassment by liberals worried that he would be a "spoiler" in the 2020 race between Trump and the more liberal Democratic nominee. Yang overcomes that criticism by running as a Democrat.
Tom Steyer made his fortune in banking and finance, but also worked for several years on ballot initiatives in California, several of which passed. Steyer portrays himself as politically experienced due to those ballot initiatives, but like Yang, he has held no elective office nor government appointments. Steyer is NOT a model for Yang, however, because Yang explicitly opposes making one's fortune in banking and finance.
Mike Bloomberg also made his fortune in finance, but then got elected mayor of New York City. Bloomberg's campaign is declining all donations, which excludes him from the Democratic primary debates, but he plans to spend millions on TV ads to make up for it. Yang is merely a millionaire, not a billionaire like Bloomberg, so Yang relies on donations (and hence qualifies for most debates).
John Delaney made his fortune as a healthcare CEO, but then took a more traditional path of running successfully for Congress before running for President. Delaney made the cut for the early debates, but fell off the radar when the polling criteria got stricter (he's still in the running, as of this writing). So much for the traditional path of proving "electability" after a CEO stint.
Don Blankenship is another CEO whom most voters haven't heard of, even though he ran for Senate (in West Virginia in 2018). He switched to the Constitution Party after losing the Republican Party nomination in that race, and is seeking the Constitution Party's nomination for president. He calls himself "Trumpier than Trump" and obviously believes in the Trump CEO candidacy model (Trump DID run for office prior to 2016, twice!)
A lack of having won elective office has not disqualified candidates from seeking the presidency historically, either. Here are a few recent examples, and their relevance for 2020 politics:
Ross Perot ran for president twice against Bill Clinton, and made a name for himself by supporting the BBA Balanced Budget Amendment and opposing NAFTA, both of which remain staples of political discussion today. He pioneered creative TV ads (which cost millions) along the lines that Bloomberg is attempting in 2020.
Pat Buchanan is perhaps the most important model for Trump, and perhaps served as the source of Trump's agreement with Buchanan against trade, against immigration, and for prosecuting the Central Park Five, all of which were populist causes when Trump and Buchanan both ran for president in 2000. Buchanan did, however, serve in high-level appointments in both the Nixon and Reagan White Houses.
Ralph Nader ran as the Green Party nominee for president in 1996 and 2000. Nader worked for decades on ballot initiatives and class-action lawsuits, which may have inspired Tom Steyer to believe he was eligible for a presidential run.
Yang does not talk about any of those past candidates (or any present candidates, or any candidates at all) as models. He shares the iconoclasm of Ralph Nader, and both portray themselves as outside of the political mainstream. That "iconoclast/outsider" status is the best explanation we've got for Yang's appeal to young voters -- who consider themselves the future victims of past bad policy decisions of their elders, and yet are ignored by mainstream politics. I'm waiting for a Yang Gang member to dismiss that analysis with "Ok, Boomer," but that rationale is the source of attraction for numerous past candidates who appealed to young voters (Bernie Sanders (2015-16), Barack Obama (2008-12), Howard Dean (2003-4), Robert Reich (2002), and Ralph Nader too).
So what does Yang actually talk about? His young supporters all sport "MATH hats", an acronym for "Make America Think Harder," on blue hats, and Yang wears a "MATH" lapel pin during the debates. The "MATH" logo contrasts the red MAGA hats (Make America Great Again) that Trump supporters wear. But Yang doesn't talk about MATH at all in this book (it was made up afterward, we suppose). He does talk about "UBI" in this book, a LOT (pp.165-85), and also talks about it at every debate. That's the "Universal Basic Income" which Yang proposes as the solution to every problem from welfare dependency to homelessness and joblessness to higher education costs -- several of our excerpts provide details.
We think Yang's 2014 book, Smart People Should Build Things, is better for policy discussion and better for voters getting to know Yang, but Yang doesn't talk about ideas from that book on the campaign trail. Yang does talk about every idea in this book in the debates, incessantly, making it mandatory reading for prospective members of the Yang Gang. But they should read the earlier book to fully understand what wearing a "MATH hat" means. --JKAG Jan 2020
-- Jesse Gordon, editor-in-chief, jesse@OnTheIssues.org, January 2020
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The above quotations are from The War on Normal People
by Andrew Yang.
Books by and about 2020 Presidential hopefuls:
Is Today the Day, by Tulsi Gabbard (2019)
The War on Normal People, by Andrew Yang (2019)
The Mueller Report, with notes by the Washington Post (2019)
The Truths We Hold, by Kamala Harris (2019)
Shortest Way Home, by Pete Buttigieg (2019)
The Land of Flickering Lights, by Michael Bennet (2019)
Healing the Soul of America, by Marianne Williamson (2018)
Unlikely Journey, by Julian Castro (2018)
The Right Answer, by John Delaney (2018)
Healing America, by Rep. Tim Ryan (2018)
Where We Go From Here, by Bernie Sanders (2018)
This Fight Is Our Fight by Elizabeth Warren (2017)
Guide to Political Revolution, by Bernie Sanders (2017)
Promise Me, Dad, by Joe Biden (2017)
Our Revolution by Bernie Sanders (2016)
United, by Cory Booker (2016)
The Opposite of Woe, by John Hickenlooper (2016)
The Senator Next Door, by Amy Klobuchar (2015)
Crippled America, by Donald J. Trump (2015)
Off the Sidelines, by Kirsten Gillibrand (2014)
A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth Warren (2014)
Smart People Should Build Things, by Andrew Yang (2014)
Time to Get Tough, by Donald J. Trump (2011)
Dealing Death and Drugs, by Beto O'Rourke (2011)
Smart on Crime, by Kamala Harris (2010)
Apollo's Fire, by Jay Inslee (2009)
A Political Odyssey, by Mike Gravel (2008)
Citizen Power: A Mandate for Change, by Mike Gravel (2008)
The Two-Income Trap by Elizabeth Warren (2007)
Promises to Keep, by Joe Biden (2007)
All Your Worth, by Elizabeth Warren & Amelia Warren Tyagi (2006)
The America We Deserve, by Donald Trump (2000)
Pour Your Heart Into It, by Howard Schultz (1999)
2020 Presidential Hopefuls by OnTheIssues.org
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Supplemental State Budget Bills
Last week, the state Senate and House of Representatives passed two supplemental bills reinstating many previously vetoed budget line items. I was proud to vote yes on these bills to restore critical funding for public health, education — and to important programs like the Michigan Tuition Grant which I know many students from our district rely on as they pursue their college degrees.
In addition to these supplemental bills, we also voted on legislation requiring state budgets to be completed by July 1st instead of October 1st, something I’ve been advocating for throughout this process to ensure our schools are able to adequately plan for the coming school year. I’m hopeful the legislature will continue to work in a much more bipartisan fashion to keep Michigan moving forward on the things that are important to individuals and families throughout the state. If you are interested in learning more about what was included in these two supplemental budget bills, you can click here to find more information.
Senate Bill 543: Legislation to allow liquor purchases to operate similarly to the CLEAR systems within airports. Senate Bill 543, introduced by Senator Curtis VanderWall, permits liquor retailers to opt-in to a system allowing the use of biometrics for age verification for liquor purchases, similar to your ability to unlock your smartphone with your fingerprint if you utilize such a feature. This type of biometric system is safer when handling personal information, with more safeguards against the sale of personal information. The bill’s language is permissive, so no one is required to obtain and use this system.
Senate Bills 493- 494: A package of bills that extends the sunset of the Commercial Rehabilitation Act and Commercial Redevelopment Act, which authorizes cities, townships & villages to create commercial rehabilitation districts. These rehabilitation districts have helped redevelop and grow local economies in a number of communities and these bills will continue allowing local governments across the state the opportunity to continue growing and expanding.
Senate Bills 341-342: Bills to prohibit law enforcement from using real-time facial recognition technology or from obtaining location information or data of an electronic device without a warrant. These bills aim to protect citizen’s privacy, as these electronic devices can reveal personal and sensitive information, like a person’s location.
IN THE DISTRICT
December 2:
Joined Governor Whitmer and State Representative Padma Kuppa to celebrate small businesses in the community with the opening of Tribalfare in Clawson.
Met with Superintendents from Clawson and Troy to continue discussing the potential annexation/merger of the school districts.
Joined Representative Wittenberg at Berkley Public Library for a joint community conversation. It was a great opportunity to join my colleague from the House of Representatives to discuss topics like environmental issues, term limits, and auto-no fault insurance. Please look out for my next joint meetup with Representative Webber on February 28th from 9:30-10:30 am at the Rochester Hills Public Library.
We had an exciting day at the Capitol with visitors from the district. I caught up with several community advocates from Students Demand Action and talked to Royal Oak students about the projects they were here to present for the annual technology showcase.
I joined the Area Agency on Aging to celebrate their 45th Anniversary. Organizations like AAA have been a vital asset to our community’s families and seniors, and I feel incredibly proud to represent such an important resource that has helped so many people over the years.
We kicked off the holiday season with a reading of the Polar Express at the Rochester Public Library!
December 9: Meet Up with Mallory
Thank you all came out to our most recent Meet Up with Mallory. I enjoyed our conversation regarding budget updates, road funding, and issues with surprise medical billing. If you were not able to make it to this month’s meetup, no worries! Below in our “Upcoming Events” section of the newsletter, you can information on dates to attend for the upcoming year.
Meet Up with Mallory
Meet Up events are informal opportunities to ask questions and discuss topics regarding state issues, as well as receive an update on the Michigan Legislature. It’s also a chance to share your thoughts on district matters so I can better represent you at the Capitol.
January 13th — The Office Coffee Shop, Royal Oak from 8:00-9:00 am
February 10th — The Office Coffee Shop, Royal Oak from 8:00-9:00 am
February 28th (with Representative Webber) — Rochester Hills Public Library from 9:30-10:30 am
OTHER NOTES AND NEWS
Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission
As a reminder, applications for the Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission are now open! In 2018, voters overwhelmingly voted for Prop 2 (Voters Not Politicians) to create an Independent Redistricting Commission for residents to redraw Michigan’s legislative districts, not the legislature. If you are interested in applying for a position on the commission or have any questions regarding the process, you can find more information here.
On December 4th, I had the honor of giving the invocation for Senate Session, which serves as a time for reflection on the day ahead. You can watch the invocation I gave here.
Michigan’s 13th District State Senate Office is decorated and ready to wish you a Happy Holidays!
Year-end Recap Legislative Update & Upcoming District Events Meet Up with Mallory at the Rochester Hills Public Library with Representative Webber
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Setonian Online
The Student Voice of the Hill
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“Black Panther”: All hail the king
Partick Crossen, Contributor
Photo from imdb.com.
Patrick Crossen was awarded the Student Keystone Press Award for his previous article, “The cure to franchise fatigue,” which was published in the Setonian’s December 2017 graduation magazine.
It seems like only yesterday we were hurtling through space and helping Thor reclaim Asgard from the grips of his sister Hela. But it wasn’t yesterday. “Thor: Ragnarok” came out almost four months ago, which means that the world was ready for another Marvel movie. But even so, I don’t think any of us were ready for “Black Panther.”
The film smashed its way into the box office on Feb. 16, and hasn’t looked back since. Now the highest ranking Marvel movie of all time with a 97 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, “Black Panther” has made an impression on the world, and brought to the screen one of the most refreshingly original superhero films to date.
Set in the hidden country of Wakanda, “Black Panther” focuses on T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman), the newly crowned king of Wakanda after the murder of his father (a main plot point in “Captain America: Civil War”). But before T’Challa can take the throne, a mysterious villain named Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan) enlists the help of Ulysses S. Klaw (Andy Serkis) in an attempt to take over Wakanda.
But that’s not all. The amazing thing about “Black Panther” is that it is able to juggle an amazing cast of characters that never overshadow T’Challa (although Killmonger is a showstopper.) “Black Panther” allows these characters to be exceptionally secondary, but still amazingly fleshed out and human in their own right.
There’s Okoye (Danai Guirra), the stony-faced general of Wakanda’s army. Nakia (Lupita Nyong’o), who works as a spy for Wakanda. Shuri (Letitia Wright), T’Challa’s younger sister and technological genius. And that’s just the beginning! The film is also supported by all-star actors like Martin Freeman, Angela Bassett and Forest Whitaker.
“Black Panther” has the tough job of showing us someplace new, while still remaining grounded on Earth. Director Ryan Coogler was tasked with showing us exactly what a paradise-city would look like without going full alien on us. The result is beautiful.
“Black Panther” feels like the first earth-bound Marvel film that has its own personality. The usual skyscrapers and cities that we’re used to seeing our heroes leap from are replaced by lush green fields, a scorching desert sun and mountain landscapes that truly show the expanse of Wakanda.
Wakanda has snowy mountains, roaring waterfalls, underground mines and aquatic transportation that make us feel like we’re in another world. Flying ships and holographic arm plates remind us just how advanced this society is. Coogler presents an Africa untouched by colonialism. It is a celebration of what Africa could be, instead of what it is.
And that’s just Wakanda. Boseman, who stunned audiences in “Civil War,” continues to finds the perfect balance between regal and humble in his performance as T’Challa. He’s capable, an important characteristic for our heroes, but he respects the input of others, especially Okoye.
Not only is “Black Panther” the first Marvel film to star a black superhero, but also it’s the first Marvel film that gives women a chance to be heroes. Okoye is clearly the kingdom’s best fighter, Shuri is the brains of Wakanda and Nakia sees how the world outside Wakanda is hurting and longs to help them.
In this idealistic society of Wakanda, even gender equality is prevalent throughout their culture. Coogler creates a fantasy realm, one that we all might hope to stumble upon in our travels. A hidden city of paradise just like Cortez searched for.
But even Eden had the presence of the snake. Killmonger is the best Marvel villain to date because he hauntingly mirrors T’Challa, and the film reminds us of this over and over again. In two dreamlike trances to the “Ancestral Plane,” Killmonger and T’Challa each have the opportunity to speak to their deceased fathers. The dialogue in these two scenes is so strikingly similar that any viewer would have to be dull not to pick up on what Coogler is trying to do.
Coogler clearly loves Killmonger, and wants the audience to think twice about hating him. “Black Panther” wants us to realize the similarities between these characters. Not just in the dialogue, but even in the way the characters are filmed.
Coogler makes heavy use of back shots, following T’Challa from behind, so that the camera rolls steadily along behind him. In a scene where Killmonger enters the throne-room of Wakanda, the camera follows him from behind, but begins upside-down, slowly making its way up, showing the perversion of the scene. Where once we followed a good king, we now follow the evil one.
Small moments like this are what make “Black Panther” a magnificent triumph, and easily one of the best Marvel films yet. Thank god “Infinity War” isn’t until May, because the world isn’t nearly done basking in the glory of the King of Wakanda yet.
Published By: Stephen Dumnich
March 3, 2018 in March 2018 Magazine, Opinion. Tags: Black Panther, Patrick Crossen, Seton Hill University, SHU
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Sri Aurobindo as springboard and sounding board
From the psychological point of view, it can be said that admiring extraordinary men is a symptom of camouflaging one's own shortcomings and wishing away and whitewashing whatever blemishes they have. But when we look at Sri Aurobindo, his stature is of a different tenor, and we don't apply the same yardstick either to him or The Mother. However, their writings must be subjected to all kinds of examination, not only to understand them properly, but also to explore the sublime potentialities they hide.
Since understanding the world around us is a primary necessity to live, one relies upon diverse sources but, simultaneously, strives to check their genuineness. This critical faculty is an invaluable feature of human architecture the absence or lack of which turns him a caricature. Thus, preserving and cultivating this intellectual propensity should receive adequate encouragement and patronage from individuals and institutions alike. Pursuing this with Sri Aurobindo as springboard as well as sounding board is, certainly, a fascinating prospect.
Direct disciples, whose commentaries taught us to walk by holding their fingers, are no more. They, not only wrote in a different and devotional circumstances, but also lagged behind fierce theoretical epochs like postmodernism, technology, and the current Hindutva. So, one feels rudderless while trying to understand the vision of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo vis-à-vis present happenings. Though fraught with hazard, there is no other way, then, than to depend upon oneself and pray The Mother for guidance.
Sri Aurobindo came into limelight as a freedom fighter and his socio-political writings flowered from within the fire of those struggles but that whole context has lost much relevance today. The theme of human exploitation or freedom need not be seen through the lens of colonial history or imperial mentality, any more. Even, the confrontation with Hitler has receded into the past and present challenges seem to be substantially different. So, any literal dependence on Sri Aurobindo's words can't be free from the risk of misleading inferences.
Having said that, it would be in order to take a bird's eye view of the world since both 1984 and 2012 have passed. The ultimate lesson is, there is nothing much to catch hold of during life's short span. Gödel, on the one hand, and Dawkins, on the other, have had firm contributions in destabilising our sense of certainty while Sokal mocks our intellectuality. So, by clutching on to Pascal's wager, it suits us best to hold Sri Aurobindo as the central hypothesis for weaving as many and complex theories around it, as one deems fit.
Needless to mention that there is no better or more credible point of departure in the history of entire human adventure. This is a fact and Sri Aurobindo wins this on merit which one must come to realise by honest intellectual quest after exhausting priliminary affiliations and affections. But, this needs to be stated clearly and firmly as it helps to cut the clutter and saves from false detours. And, especially because various political and religious ideologies are systematically preventing people from studying Sri Aurobindo, earnestly. [TNM55]
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I see the moon, and the moon sees me...
According to folklore, October's full moon is called the "Hunter's Moon" or sometimes the "Blood Moon." It gets its name from hunters who tracked and killed their prey by autumn moonlight, stockpiling food for the winter ahead. You can picture them: silent figures padding through the forest, the moon overhead, pale as a corpse, its cold light betraying the creatures of the wood.
The Blood Moon rises this year on Wednesday, Oct. 27th. At first it will seem pale and cold, as usual. And then ... blood red.
It's a lunar eclipse. Beginning at 9:14 p.m. EDT (6:14 p.m. PDT), the moon will glide through Earth's shadow for more than three hours. Observers on every continent except Australia can see the event: The pale-white moon will turn pumpkin orange as it plunges into shadow, becoming eerie red during totality.
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More Faithful is No Joy’s third full-length, and first since joining Arts & Crafts. More Faithful bears the fruits of a band that redefined its work ethic in the gulf of time between recording sessions. The outcome – the juxtaposition of unrest and calm, beauty and chaos, truth and fantasy, in the throes of dimed amps and hair-whipping guitar goddess rock music – is as unwavering as ever. But where Wait To Pleasure balanced textural differences with the freewheeling novelty of the studio environment, More Faithful documents a much more rigorous creative process and performance, one in which the group, recording in NYC and Costa Rica, pushed themselves to new peaks of intensity. All of the record’s eleven songs, in whole or in part, jump at the listener with atypical tunings and key changes, tension from odd time signatures and an upfront rhythmic presence, and the force demonstrated in their live show. It’s the most forward, throttling record No Joy has made to date, taking their set of influences to the wall in a brazen display of beauty-laced power. Shoegaze and ethereal and alternative rock revivals be damned; More Faithful pushes No Joy to the breaking point. They’ve leveled themselves, turning a break-up record into a breakthrough.
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Why does Magneto not exhaust himself? Where does he get his energy from?
Magneto is one of the few hero/villains who has done things astronomical in proportion. I'm talking about things more incredible than lifting a 30,000 ton sub, such as creating a worm hole.
Yet, with all this "manipulation" of the Universe he never tires. He isn't seen absorbing huge quantities of energy so he can do all these things.
So where is he getting his power from and why doesn't he tire? Or is this an oversight of the writers/creators?
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I believe the Insane Clown Posse are interested in how magnets work as well – Monty129 Sep 17 '13 at 20:53
Magneto has been shown to tire. He was very noticeably weakened after using the machine that induces mutation. Also, why does creating a wormhole or manipulating anything have to make one tired? Magneto uses technology as well as his mutant abilities. He also uses his head. It's possible to get tired from pushing a car, but it's equally possible to move a building with a mere push of a button or level a city with a flip of a switch. This is a strange reason for calling "bull" on what's been written in the Marvel Universe. – Lèse majesté Sep 18 '13 at 0:52
A battery would eventually run out and require recharging, while an external source wouldn't run out but there would be overheating, wear and tear, or a breakdown of various parts. You couldn't, even as a mutant, continue doing any thing indefinitely. – Beach Bum Sep 19 '13 at 20:37
He gets his energy from the same place that Wolverine gets the matter and energy to regenerate. – KSmarts Feb 4 '15 at 18:24
If you didn't suspect something until now, you left real-world science behind a long time ago. – Adamant Jun 25 '18 at 6:04
When Magneto was originally created back in the 60's (alongside the X-Men), they gave but a brief description of his powers; the ambiguous Master of Magnetism. This would give one a good deal of leeway when it comes to concern of actual application. Magneto's abilities are astounding enough that the Government and a few others built quite a good deal of defensive measure just for Erik Lennsher, a few being plastic-and-porcelain Sentinels, a plastic prison, magnetic disrupters, nonreactive metals, to name a few. If you question is really about the few limitations and extreme abilities of Magneto, then yes, he is rather Godlike in his abilities and output.
But he isn't alone.
Erik Lensherr is an Omega Class Mutant, which is a designation of categories that rate the powers, output, and abilities of a neo-homo sapiens superior. While an Alpha is generally considered first tier in scope, the Omega designation is for Mutants that could quite literally kill the population of the planet, or deal enough devastation to cause so, regardless of circumstances or special instances. Phoenix (Jean Grey) is one such mutant, who is considerably more powerful, as she could conceivably drain a star, and possibly disrupt enough to destroy the galaxy under circumstantial conditions, thanks to the M'kran Crystal. Professor Charles Xavier and Scott Summers (Cyclops) are Alpha Class, which while still incredibly power, do not have the ability to do so under normal circumstances. Yes, Professor X could start a nuclear war with his telepathy, but his power itself could not do so; Magneto can affect the magneticsphere, which would increase solar radiation and genetic mutation. It is also wondered that he could slightly affect Earth's rotation, orbit, and position. Such a feat probably would kill him, but it might be under the scope of his powers.
When many superheroes were created, their powers were more or less limited to the Age they inhabited at the time. Superman and Green Lantern (the original one) had powers that were significantly lesser than they are today. The original Superman couldn't do a tenth of what he can today, specifically because a good many of his powers weren't even thought of or invented yet (such as lasers). The original Green Lantern couldn't affect wood with his ring (sonic screwdriver, anyone?). Nowadays, they're practically Godlike in what they can do, as are their enemies.
So, back to your question.
Several times in the comics (and I think once in the original animated series) Magneto has mentioned that his powers were failing (due to age) but to be revived by no less than the planet Earth itself. Magneto has been resurrected at least once because of such (sometime in the 90's) and if this is truth, then as long as he is within Earth's magneticsphere, it could be possible that his 'power' is boundless. Now Magneto has gotten tired many times, and has weakened as well from overuse, but generally he seems to be the Energizer battery. The only real limitation he seems to have is range; which has been inferred to be several miles (back when he owned an island in the late 70's) to hundreds of miles (when he owned Asteroid M).
I haven't kept up with Marvel in quite a while, but Magneto is a classical villain; goal-oriented, driven, sympathetic, but more than willing to step on toes. His dream of giving Mutants freedom and a place to enjoy it justifies his means of doing some, sometimes brutally. Yet despite his authoritative stance, he isn't an evil man, but I'd stay away from him if you got an electronic pacemaker if I were you (and you were a mutie-hatin' human).
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@SSummer I like your response. I believe that too many sources have lead me to believe that Magneto is beyond "mutant" status and they have ranked him with the Silver Surfer or Galactus. I haven't seen enough "newer" issues of him to know that he has tired. My views are based on my collection from pre-1985 and recent movies. – Beach Bum Sep 19 '13 at 18:49
Actually, Alan Scott (the original GL) could technically only affect metals. However, they strengthened his abilities to the point where that flipped to he couldn't affect wood. A helpful limitation on an otherwise powerful character - he can always get knocked out with a baseball bat, a fireplace log, a big stick.... – RDFozz Dec 6 '18 at 23:42
Most depictions of metahumans of which Magneto just happens to be an exceptional specimen of, have no scientifically plausible explanation for how or why they are able to perform such outstanding feats of energy gathering, manipulation or creation with no discernable machinery or applicable technology.
Most metahumans defy known laws of physics, creating matter and energy seemingly from nothing, often without appreciable side effects such as waste heat or excess light as a byproduct. Superman for example flies without a clearly defined power source, no exhaust, no energy byproducts, and he emits no radiation of any kind (unless he wants to). This is a common trope of the comic industry and is generally accepted without question.
Magneto's powers were originally explained as a connection and use of the Earth's magnetosphere magnifying his magnetic powers making him capable of doing things most metas simply couldn't imagine, because his powers were augmented by using the much greater magnetic capabilities of the Earth. It made him a fine foil to the X-men making him capable of tackling the entire team single-handedly.
Yes, this was a stretch, but since most mutant abilities already stretch the realm of plausibility, his was no worse than anyone else's and the explanation of why he was so much more powerful seemed perfectly plausible. Later, they would add to his resume, the fact his powers developed later, which in mutantkind is a kind of super-booster, and that he was an Omega-Level mutant (the unofficial designation of a mutant with the potential to alter or destroy all life on Earth with the use of their mutant power).
Highly relevant StackExchange article: Is Magneto officially an Omega Level Mutant?
As for why he doesn't tire, it would depend on the writers. Early writers would have him experience fatigue if he fought against a team of metahumans or if he performed a feat of incredible magnetic legerdemaine such as when he turned the Earth's magnetic field into a buffer to reduce Charles Xavier's magnetic powers, or when he stripped the adamantium from Wolverine's skeleton. During the period when he was believed to be dead, his Joseph persona did not have anywhere near the range and power he has today.
But the easiest answer for you is that the Marvel editorial edict paints Magneto with a broad and Magnificent Bastard brush, making him one of the most powerful, relentless and infatigable enemies of the Marvel Universe. Getting tired is for lesser villains. (obligatory TVTropes warning!)
Also See Stack Article answers to:
Is there a set limit on mutant abilities, where they're deemed too unrealistic?
Why are X-Men more realistic than Fantastic Four? [closed]
The X-Factor gene in Ultimate X-Men
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Random mutations that give humans incredibly specific yet diverse superpowers rather than tumors and debilitating illness, I can believe--and likewise with telekinesis, godlike aliens, a hidden prehistoric tropical rainforest in Antarctica, and mystical deities like Cyttorak. But Magneto's unexplained power source? That's a bridge too far... – Lèse majesté Sep 18 '13 at 1:10
Hey, I didn't create Magneto or Marvel's mutants in general. I would do my best to have more cogent explanations of their powers if I were creating them... – Thaddeus Howze♦ Sep 18 '13 at 1:12
No bold paragraph in a Thaddeus answer. Everything alright, dude!? Are you ill? – Kalissar Sep 18 '13 at 7:14
Working on a computer that wasn't mine so my resources were not at my command. Just wanted to put something out. I will improve it when I have a moment. – Thaddeus Howze♦ Sep 18 '13 at 18:06
@Thaddeus I like your response too. Very complete and covers a lot of information. I believe that the Superman gets his powers from our "yellow sun" but if you put him back on Krypton he is just a like a human (can bleed). – Beach Bum Sep 19 '13 at 18:54
Looking at Superman might be illustrative. With his solar powered energy derivation, what we're probably looking at is a rampantly efficient metabolic system, probably on a cellular level rather than a complete systemic level (hence regeneration after systemic death). And more than visible light, it probably runs off of the 'solar wind' and the amount of proton or neutron cast off from the sun's fusion (hence the differences in reaction under a yellow sun or a red sun due to differences in output ratios). So Superman is a hyperefficient solar battery (I can't take credit for that phrasing), using his human-like metabolic processes augmented by a secondary energy source.
I am going to postulate the same for Magneto (and the rest). With Magneto particularly, given his greater power when within the Earth's magnetosphere, it is very likely that he is either in some way absorbing electromagnetic energy at a constant rate, but able to release it with higher apparent efficiency upon concentration. And, much like like a single lightning strike contains about 6% of the energy the world needs in a year after a single strike (which seems like so much more energy when concentrated into appliances, etc.), Magneto could simply have access to such incredible amounts of energy due to the efficiency of his secondary (some may say primary) metabolism that he apparently has unlimited energy, but in actuality just needs so little of it to perform whatever task is at hand that it only seems unlimited (like taking a gulp out of the ocean instead of a sip).
And for the sake of completeness, this still allows people like him to starve, or get thirsty, or need to sleep. Your body creates vitamin D from sunlight - but a whole buttload of vitamin D doesn't compensate for the rest of the amino acids you needs, or for sleep, or for water. So just b/c a superhero has a hyperefficient metabolism in one regard doesn't mean that it compensates for the rest of his metabolism in any other way.
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Director Timur Bekmambetov has a little treat for fans. With his Tim Burton produced adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith's Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter hitting screens on June 22nd Bekmambetov is releasing a book of concept and storyboard art. On it's own this is not particularly unusual, there are lots of these things around these days. What makes this different is what justifies the Director's Cut tag: This isn't just art from the movie, it's also art for sequences that were dreamed up but could not be included for various reasons. The film hitting the big screen? That's Bekmambetov's film as it actually is. The film presented in this book? That's the film as it could have been.
I have a copy of the slim hardcover on my desk as I type this and it's a handsome bit of work. The artwork is beautiful, printed on glossy heavy stock paper, taking you start to finish through the story. How does it vary from the film? the biggest change is that the book tells the story entirely from the perspective of the vampire Adam, beyond that I'll have to check back in after seeing the finished product before weighing in on that but there is copious blood, violence and nudity on display here.
Also of interest: A few pages of art at the end of the book promoting what looks to be an original new graphic novel series from Bekmambetov's fledgling graphic novel imprint. Titled Warriors Of Oz it promises a kinetic, post apocalyptic hyper violent spin on the Frank Baum classic.
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The 7 biggest trends driving customer loyalty
According to 3Cinteractive, 64 percent of brands reported an increase in loyalty program membership over the last year. Loyalty programs are becoming more sophisticated, moving beyond the traditional spend-and-get model, to omnichannel and multichannel programs that recognize customers for every interaction they make with a brand. Smart marketers are capturing and leveraging loyalty data to […]
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According to 3Cinteractive, 64 percent of brands reported an increase in loyalty program membership over the last year. Loyalty programs are becoming more sophisticated, moving beyond the traditional spend-and-get model, to omnichannel and multichannel programs that recognize customers for every interaction they make with a brand. Smart marketers are capturing and leveraging loyalty data to understand their customers better and market effectively to them.
We’re seeing significant advancements in loyalty as brands seek new ways to add value for customers. Here are the seven biggest trends impacting the loyalty landscape currently.
1. Omnichannel and multichannel programs are replacing traditional programs
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3. Partnerships have increased
2016 saw brand partnerships take center stage as a strategy for growth. Now we’re seeing an increasing number of brands seek out strategic partners to stay ahead of the competition. Partnerships help brands extend additional value beyond what they provide alone. Whether for a loyalty campaign or an evergreen program, the right partnership provides new and exciting ways to reward customers which will drive sales and loyalty.
For example, Wyndham Rewards, a highly ranked hotel rewards program, recently partnered with Caesars Entertainment’s award-winning casino-based “Total Rewards” program. The partnership offers their combined membership of over 50 million access to industry-leading travel experiences and perks and benefits including complimentary status match and opportunities to redeem points for one-of-a-kind hotel, restaurant and entertainment experiences. The partnership extends the reach for both brands and connects them to potential new customers.
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A recent study found that 81 percent of millennials expect companies to go beyond generating profit and serve as drivers of change and become active in their communities. This can have a major impact on loyalty, as consumers are increasingly more likely to support brands with a purpose. Almost 66 percent of consumers are willing to pay extra for products and services that come from companies committed to positive social and environmental impact. Incorporating corporate social responsibility initiatives as part of your loyalty offering allows you to better meet customer expectations and maintain customer loyalty.
Loyalty Programs like TOMS Passport Rewards have pioneered the trend. They offer their loyalty members the option to redeem points on a donation to a charitable cause or initiative. For example, currently, members can redeem points for a $25 donation to help TOMS support US-based after-school groups and community development programs. This option creates goodwill and helps customers create more emotional connections to the brand.
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We’re seeing a wave of premium program launches. The reason why premium loyalty programs are gaining popularity is that members want the benefits that programs like Amazon Prime provide and are willing to pay for it. In a consumer study from last year, 62 percent of respondents said they’d consider joining a fee-based rewards program if their favorite retailer offered one. This number was even higher among millennials, with 75 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds and 77 percent of 25- to 34-year-olds saying they’d consider joining a fee-based rewards program. Nearly half (47 percent) said rewards in fee-based programs are better than rewards in free programs.
The PowerUp Rewards premium loyalty program boasts more than 50 million members and drives three times the sales of non-members. Last year, the brand introduced a new tier, an upgrade from the current highest level, Pro. The new PowerUp Rewards Elite Pro membership costs $29.99 USD per year (double what gamers pay for Pro), but it provides members with additional perks, including free two-day shipping, $50 in exclusive monthly offers and discounts on pre-owned games and software. The decision to introduce the new tier this year was based on feedback from reward members who wanted to earn more points and subsequently enjoy more rewards. The success and evolution of this program demonstrate that PowerUp Rewards members see the value in paying a fee for their status in the program. For gaming enthusiasts willing to pay up front, the brand incentivizes spend and encourages loyalty.
6. Emotional loyalty is key
Forrester recently published research that concludes that emotion is one of the strongest unique drivers of loyalty. This means companies must invest in measurement frameworks that help better understand what actions and emotions they must elicit across interaction points to engender true loyalty.
Forrester’s survey of loyalty marketers found that most are still fine-tuning their programs to establish and solidify relationships with consumers, as well as to build an emotional connection with their most frequent shoppers.
Research by Gallup has demonstrated that emotionally loyal customers are willing to spend with the brand even if meaningful and available alternatives are presented. They found that consumers with strong emotional connections to retailers will visit their stores 32 percent more often and spend 46 percent more money than those without emotional bonds.
To maintain their interest and help build deeper emotional connections, “The Walking Dead” rewards their fans for their dedication to the show with “money-can’t-buy” experiences and rewards. Leveraging a loyalty program, brands can incentivize fans to attain these unique rewards through further engagement. Members who accumulate the highest level of points as part of The Walking Dead Fan Rewards Club, launched earlier this year, can enjoy one-of-a-kind experiences, including VIP tickets to the “Talking Dead” aftershow, a set tour and meet-and-greets with the cast.
7. AI and chatbots are improving customer engagement
Chatbot technology is gaining a lot of interest, with plenty of companies making the investment. It’s expected that chatbots will soon become mainstream to maintain strong and efficient customer engagement. In fact, by 2020, customers are expected to manage 85 percent of their relationships with enterprises without interacting with a human. Though not a replacement for human interaction, chatbots are most effective in situations where a customer is trying to resolve common issues, such as placing an order. Chatbots relieve the need for customers to visit a company website, call or visit a store in person.
7-Eleven launched a chatbot on Facebook Messenger to enhance the customer experience. The chatbot not only converses with customers using artificial intelligence that powers automation, it also lets users sign up for the 7Rewards customer loyalty program and find a nearby store and available discounts and promotions. Upon program signup, members will immediately receive a digital card in Messenger and can scan to start earning points, check status or collect coupons.
Looking forward in 2018
Right now, brands are under pressure to meet customer expectations with exceptional customer experiences and are investing in trends from personalization to adding value. If brands want to beat out the competition in 2018, their loyalty programs, their strategy and their technology must continually evolve to keep customers at center focus and loyal.
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Deputies: Lawmaker Punched Wife For Not Undressing Quickly Enough For Sex
LUCEDALE, Miss. (CBS Local) — A Mississippi lawmaker allegedly punched his wife when she failed to get undressed quickly enough when he wanted to have sex, authorities said.
State Rep. Douglas McLeod was intoxicated when deputies responded to the McLeod home in Lucedale shortly before 9 p.m. Saturday, according to an investigative report filed with the George County Sheriff’s Department.
The 58-year-old Republican lawmaker had punched his wife in the face, bloodying her nose, the report said. Deputies said they found blood on the couple’s bed and on the floor.
McLeod’s wife declined to go to the hospital by ambulance, but assured authorities she would seek treatment so authorities would have a report of the injuries, the Biloxi Sun Herald reported.
His wife had a bloody face when she ran for help, according to the investigative report. https://t.co/bNT6rTVIct
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McLeod was arrested on a misdemeanor domestic violence charge and booked in the George County jail. He was released on a $1,000 “signature bond,” which means he did not have to post the money in order to be released.
Mississippi Speaker of the House Philip Gunn is calling on McLeod to resign if the domestic violence charge against him is true, CBS affiliate WJTV reported.
“I have attempted to contact Rep. McLeod to request his resignation if, in fact, these allegations are true,” said Gunn. “These actions are unacceptable for anyone.”
No comment yet from McLeod, who has represented parts of Jackson, George, Stone and Forrest counties since 2012. He is unopposed for re-election this year, according to the Mississippi Secretary of State’s office.
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Tower Hamlets, Lewisham and Croydon battle to become London’s first borough of culture
News and updates from London Borough of Culture 2018.
*This article originally appeared on EastLondonLines.co.uk
Lewisham, Croydon and Tower Hamlets are all bidding to become London’s first borough of culture, battling it out for a grand £1m prize.
The competition, introduced earlier this year by the mayor of London Sadiq Khan as part of a strategy to support the arts in the capital, hopes to bring “people and ideas together”.
Six runner-up boroughs will receive £600,000 to deliver bespoke cultural projects.
City Hall said the winning boroughs will be “chosen based on their artistic vision and ambition to deliver outstanding cultural initiatives in their local area, putting communities at the centre of the programme’s design and delivery”.
Several cultural institutions will be providing help to the winning boroughs, including the Museum of London, the Roundhouse, Film London and the National Trust.
Croydon has already begun preparations for the bid, with a new website and campaign, setting out five key aims they hope will help them secure the title – one being the improvement of young people’s lives.
Croydon has the largest and fastest youth population of any London borough- with 63,000 people between the ages of 10 and 23 living there.
If Croydon were to secure the bid, they hope to increase opportunities for young people in the area and provide more routes into employment, through new internship and apprenticeship schemes.
They also hope to create more workspaces for artists, as well as making nightlife in Croydon safer for everyone.
Similarly, Lewisham Council’s #LoveitLewisham campaign has already received a strong backing, with the council asking the public to submit their own ideas of what they would like to see happen in Lewisham.
With two months left to go, 170 ideas have already been submitted it to the ‘Love it Lewisham’ site. Ideas so far include a street food market, historical walking tours, a street festival and the building of a community pavilion.
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Tower Hamlets have already received over 540 supporters on their bid to become the winning borough– and public support is vital to success in the competition.
Kate Bloomer, 32, an accounts manager from Poplar, told EastLondonLines: “It’s got to be Tower Hamlets. We live in one of the most diverse areas in London, there’s people on both ends of the wealth scale, and this could really help a lot of people.”
Mayor of Tower Hamlets, John Biggs added: “When it comes to culture, Tower Hamlets offers the best of London in one borough.
“We have a unique story to tell and this is our opportunity to show our rich heritage, where we are now and where we want to be as a borough.
“From the Tower of London to Victoria Park, taking in the Boishakhi Mela in Weaver’s Fields and major London festivals such as the new All Points East, we have one of the most diverse cultural offers anywhere in the UK.”
Hackney has confirmed it will not be competing, with councillor Guy Nicholson, the culture lead at Hackney Council, telling the website Arts Professional that the authority was instead “developing its own arts and cultural sector” through a new audience participation and engagement programme.
The bids will close on December 1 and will then be submitted to the Mayor of London for the final decision. The winning bid will be announced in February next year.
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The damage done to Terronez’s classroom on Tuesday morning.
Evan Terronez
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On Tuesday morning multiple classrooms in the new tower were not in use due to the severe leaking from the ceilings of the building.
Students and staff were surprised to witness this kind of damage in the newest addition as it was just opened less than a year ago. Although there are not many classes in the new addition of the school, there were some affected by the damage.
The American Sign Language(ASL) room is one classroom which was affected by the leakage. Senior Madeline Schadler said students came to class on Tuesday and were shocked. “We had to switch rooms, which made it confusing for all students in the class because we didn’t know where to go,” she said.
Because the leakage happened so unexpectedly and suddenly, Evan Terronez, the ASL teacher, had all his classroom plans in the original room. “We didn’t have the projector, which made it hard, but I came up with plans for the class on the spot,” he said.
The damage done was extreme as the classroom floor was flooded, but Terronez was not affected by it because he came prepared on what to do in class. Even though he was not able to use the projector, he had review games and other things planned for his students to do.
This destruction to the classroom not only adjusted the scheduling of the students but also that of the teachers. “We didn’t have much to do in class because everything was in the other room,” Schadler said.
Faculty and students were told the cause of leaking from the ceiling was from the pipes of the building bursting. Even if the damage was severe, immediate help from the administration and the custodians allowed Terronez to get his room back on Wednesday.
This is one of the many up-keepings the school has faced this year. Other recent issues include the bells malfunctioning and issues with the men’s bathroom.
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Utilities Conceal Electrical Grid Vulnerability from the Public
Posted on February 12, 2014 by SkyVision Solutions
Shooters armed with assault rifles have prompted new worries regarding the vulnerability of the country’s vast electrical power grid.
On April 16, 2013, an attack on an electric substation near San Jose, California, nearly knocked out Silicon Valley’s power supply. This attack was initially downplayed as vandalism by Pacific Gas & Electric Co., the facility’s owner.
Nearly a year later, a former top power regulator offers a far more ominous interpretation: The attack was terrorism, he said, and if circumstances had been just a little different, it could have been disastrous. In an interview last week with the Wall Street Journal, former FERC chief Jon Wellinghoff called the attack “the most significant incident of domestic terrorism involving the grid that has ever occurred.”
Jon Wellinghoff, who was chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)when the shooting took place, said that attack was clearly executed by well-trained individuals seeking to do significant damage to the area, and he fears it was a test run for an even larger assault.
The attackers severed six AT&T fiber optic telecommunication lines in an underground vault, which was covered by a metal lid that was so heavy it would have taken at least two people to lift it. Besides more than 100 fingerprint-free shell casings littering the area, Wellinghoff said his military experts spotted small rock piles by the plant which the attackers might have placed there earlier to mark prime firing positions. Reportedly firing bullets like those used by AK-47s — an assault weapon favored by terrorists — they blasted 17 transformers and 6 circuit breakers and caused $15.4 million in damage.
This under-reported story deserved national attention when it happened nearly a year ago owing to major implications for electric-power grid vulnerability to a terrorist attack. However, the FBI must have read a White House memo that the war on terrorism is over. It says there is “no evidence” the attack was by terrorists. Never mind that a U.S. Navy SEAL team that investigated found it was highly professional, like a military operation. Never mind that the attackers also knew how to cut telephone cables, understood the importance and vulnerability of transformers, and sprayed them with AK-47 fire, the favorite assault rifle of rogue states and terrorists. The perpetrators, whoever they were, got away clean, and nearly a year later they have not been apprehended by the FBI.
Appearing on FOX News, Frank Gaffney, Jr., President of the Center for Security Policy, when questioned as to why we are just hearing about this attack now, indicated that: “I think a determined effort was made to conceal from the public what had happened. … This is I’m afraid, a cover-up.” More generally Gaffney indicated “as has been the case consistently for years, we’ve seen the electric utilities try to conceal from the public the vulnerability of their infrastructure.”
To gain a better understanding of just what occurred, a special edited video has been prepared based upon excerpts from recent broadcasts of KGO-TV in San Francisco, CA and the cable network of FOX News:
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Regarding the discrepancy between an FBI spokesperson and former FERC chairman Jon Wellinghoff calling the attack near San Jose, CA an act of terrorism, contemplate the words below where seemingly there exists a semantics issue on what the FBI will allow to be called “terrorism.” Which person has the best interests of the public in mind? The point here is that Mr. Wellinghoff likely came forward because he knew the attack was something that should not have been characterized or downplayed by the utility as “vandalism,” … which would generally fall into the category of malicious mischief.
Also refer to this news report for further background information:
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Subsequent to the article being posted at this website, an opinion piece was written for the Wall Street Journal that contains some relevant unbelievable words at http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304558804579376700294221162?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304558804579376700294221162.html.
Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. writes, “One agency that wasn’t overselling the terrorist threat was the FBI, perhaps because the FBI investigates so many such attacks. Until the Metcalf [transformer substation] incident is solved, any motive anyone cares to suggest will be plausible. PG&E has been a hate target of PARANOIACS who believe SMART METERS cause cancer. The substation serves Silicon Valley, which lately has been accruing class enemies from San Francisco ‘progressives.’ Eco-radicals have been quoting Ted Kaczynski for years on the need to attack the vital systems of industrial society. And, yes, the odd al Qaeda enthusiast exists in our midst. So do 15-year-old males with a surfeit of testosterone. Up the road from Metcalf is another PG&E substation that, in 1997, was blasted with 50 bullet holes by a man who carried a newspaper clipping about the conviction of Timothy McVeigh for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Who knows what he was thinking, one more contributor to the hail of gunfire that falls on our utility system.”
The person who wrote this opinion piece disgustingly talks about the substation attack, so-called SMART METER PARANOIACS, 15-year-old males, Ted Kaczynski, al Qaeda, and Timothy McVeigh all in the same paragraph as if they deserve equal treatment (or deference?). … And this person apparently doesn’t share the perspective of Jon Wellinghoff that our grid isn’t adequately protected … or maybe he just doesn’t care. In the end, it is unclear as to the purpose of the opinion piece other than to be a collection of unseemly metaphors, including “hail of gunfire” which in his “opinion” can evidently originate from all of the above named sources.
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Patricia Burke says:
[Other instances exist where the electrical grid is shown to be quite vulnerable whether it be due to terrorism or is considered to be vandalism, such as:]
Nearly 170 insulators were shot out in a transmission line capable of carrying 10 percent of the electricity used throughout New England.
CONCORD, Vt. — An official with the Vermont company that owns the state’s electrical transmission grid says vandalism to a line that runs from Quebec to Massachusetts cost New England ratepayers about $1 million.
Vermont Electric Power Company Vice President Kerrick Johnson says that cost was to buy replacement power while the line in the Northeast Kingdom town of Concord was shut down for repairs. Replacing the shot-out insulators cost about $250,000.
The transmission line is capable of carrying 10 percent of the electricity used throughout New England.
The damage was discovered last Friday and took two days to repair.
The Caledonian Record reports 167 insulators were shot out. The case was reviewed by state and federal authorities to determine if it was terrorist-related, but it’s being treated as vandalism.
Later 4 were charged….
CONCORD, Vt. (AP) — Two adults and two juveniles from New Hampshire have been charged with gunshot damage to Vermont insulators on a major electric transmission line that runs from Quebec to Massachusetts.
Vermont Electric Power company, which owns the state’s transmission grid, said it cost New England ratepayers about $1 million for replacement power. The company said it cost about $250,000 to replace the shot-out insulators.
A police investigation led to Littleton, N.H., where a search warrant at a residence turned up evidence.
The four were charged with felony unlawful mischief and reckless endangerment. The adults are 19-year-old Patrick Bummer of Bethlehem, N.H., and 18-year-old Jordan Hamel of Littleton. All are scheduled to be in Caledonia Superior Court on Dec. 13.
The damage was discovered last week.
Either way, the grid is vulnerable….
Sue Storm says:
Good Post. True and scary. I like how you did the video.
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PNEUMONIA - COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED
Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) is an acute infection of the pulmonary parenchyma accompanied by symptoms of acute illness and abnormal chest findings.
It is a lower respiratory tract infection acquired in the community within 24 hours to <2 weeks or occurring ≤48 hours of hospital admission in patients who do not meet the criteria for healthcare-associated pneumonia.
It occurs at the highest rates in the very young and the very old.
Potentially life-threatening especially in older adults and those with comorbid disease.
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Chou CC, Shen CF, Chen SJ, et al; Infectious Diseases Society of Taiwan; Taiwan Society of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine; Medical Foundation in Memory of Dr. Deh-Lin Cheng; Foundation of Professor Wei-Chuan Hsieh for Infectious Diseases Research and Education; CY Lee's Research Foundation for Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Vaccines; 4th Guidelines Recommendations for Evidence-based Antimicrobial agents use in Taiwan (GREAT) working group. Recommendations and guidelines for the treatment of pneumonia in Taiwan. J Microbiol Immunol Infect. 2019 Feb;52(1):172-199. doi: 10.1016/j.jmii.2018.11.004. PMID: 30612923
Metlay JP, Waterer GW, Long AC, et al. Diagnosis and treatment of adults with community-acquired pneumonia. An official clinical practice guideline of the American Thoracic Society and Infectious Diseases Society of America. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2019 Oct;200(7):e45-e67. doi: 10.1164/rccm.201908-1581ST. PMID: 31573350
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Bartlett JG. Diagnostic approach to community-acquired pneumonia in adults. UpToDate. https://www.uptodate.com/. Sep 2019.
Torres A, Lee N, Cilloniz C, Vila J, Van der Eerden M. Laboratory diagnosis of pneumonia in the molecular age. Eur Respir J. 2016 Dec;48(6):1764-1778. doi: 10.1183/13993003.01144-2016. PMID: 27811073
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FILE - Spain's Rafael Nadal celebrates after winning against France's Jo Wilfried Tsonga in a quarterfinal match of the Paris Masters tennis tournament Friday, Nov. 1, 2019 in Paris. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)
LONDON (AP) — Rafael Nadal won his second consecutive Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award and third overall Thursday, based on voting by other players, while Andy Murray was chosen as the ATP's 2019 comeback player of the year.
Murray, a three-time Grand Slam champion and former No. 1, said in January he thought he would retire this season because of a bad hip. But he wound up having a second operation and returned to the tour, winning a singles title and a doubles title.
Other honorees from the men's tour included U.S. Open semifinalist Matteo Berrettini, chosen as most improved player after rising to No. 8 in the rankings from No. 54; 18-year-old Jannik Sinner, picked as newcomer of the year; and Gilles Cervara, who earned coach of the year honors after helping Daniil Medvedev reach nine finals, including a runner-up finish to Nadal at Flushing Meadows.
Kevin Anderson received the Arthur Ashe Humanitarian Award.
The International Tennis Federation also announced its year-end awards Thursday, with year-end No. 1s Nadal and Ash Barty named ITF World Champions.
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Fantasy Football: Expert predictions for every AFC team
Dalton Del Don
September 1, 2019, 5:27 PM UTC
For my NFC predictions, go here.
1. New England Patriots 12-4
2. New York Jets 8-8
3. Buffalo Bills 6-10
4. Miami Dolphins 5-11
Comments/Fantasy Predictions: As usual, New England will benefit from a strong offensive line, terrific coaching and the softest division in football … Tom Brady has been surprisingly funny on social media and gets a nice fantasy boost with Josh Gordon’s return ... James White finished last among 56 qualified backs in elusive rating last season, while Rob Gronkowski eventually comes out of retirement but fails to make much of an impact in fantasy leagues … Sony Michel would be on the shortlist of favorites to lead the league in touchdowns if health cooperates, but the bet here is that his balky knee sidelines him, making Damien Harris one of the most important backups in football. The rookie is going to be a major difference-maker in the fantasy playoffs.
Sam Darnold was the youngest starting QB ever to open a season, and he finished by leading the NFL in QBR in December (he was also PFF’s highest-graded passer over the final month). The Jets’ franchise appears to be moving in the right direction thanks mostly to the 22 year old (adding Quinnen Williams helps as well) and despite new coach Adam Gase, whose offenses have been nothing short of a disaster whenever Peyton Manning hasn’t been his quarterback. He’s a problem ... Robby Anderson busts out and is a top-15 wide receiver, but Le’Veon Bell is a bust, resulting in Ty Montgomery providing the most fantasy value of his career.
Josh Allen finishes as a top-12 fantasy QB, while Devin Singletary wastes little time taking full control of Buffalo’s backfield ... Robert Foster rises from the dead and is a popular FAAB addition in the second half of the year.
Josh Rosen starts the most games for Miami, but that still results in the team using the first pick of the 2020 draft on Tua Tagovailoa … Kenyan Drake burned fantasy owners last year (Hate the Drake!), but that doesn’t mean you should draft Kalen Ballage this year … DeVante Parker is nearing a catatonic state of sleepiness, but I’m giving him one more chance.
1. Cleveland Browns 10-6
2. Pittsburgh Steelers 9-7 (Wild Card)
3. Baltimore Ravens 8-8
4. Cincinnati Bengals 5-11
Comments/Fantasy Predictions: Baker Mayfield will battle Patrick Mahomes for MVP awards for the next decade, and he’s good enough to have Cleveland as a legitimate Super Bowl threat in 2019 … Todd Monken just coached Ryan Fitzpatrick and Jameis Winston to combine as the fantasy QB2 behind only Mahomes last season, when TB finished with the fourth-most passing yards in NFL history. He’ll now be calling plays for Mayfield, who’s about to light up the league.
No other receiver in football can match Odell Beckham Jr.’s upside now that he’s undergone a drastic upgrade at quarterback, as he finishes as the No. 1 WR (a historic season is coming at some point), while Myles Garrett wins Defensive Player of the Year … Nick Chubb just set the record for YPC after contact while leading the league in elusive rating as a rookie, and he has a ton of touchdown potential in this offense, so he’s the top overall player on my board.
Mike Tomlin’s never had a losing season and historically bounces back strong after not making the playoffs, but losing Antonio Brown won’t make life easier on the field … James Conner has a much better fantasy season than Le’Veon Bell, while Vance McDonald is a top-five tight end … Donte Moncrief laps James Washington in production, while JuJu Smith-Schuster finishes with more fantasy value than Davante Adams and Michael Thomas.
Lamar Jackson just broke the record for most fantasy points per dropback while recording the most rushing attempts by a QB in NFL history (while starting just seven games). The 22 year old has shown improvement as a passer entering Year Two, has an OC in Greg Roman who knows how to utilize dual-threat QBs and has a developing star at tight end in Mark Andrews. I have Jackson as a top-five QB on my board … After Jackson became Baltimore’s starter last season, the team’s running backs led the NFL in rushing yards and YPC. Over the last five years, Mark Ingram leads football in YPC, and he gets another solid O-line and now a mobile QB at his disposal. He’s screaming RB1 production at a much lower cost.
The Bengals should be more innovative and run a bunch more play action with their new coaching staff, but A.J. Green and Jonah Williams suffered serious injuries in the preseason, and it’s not hard to squint and see this all go very badly for Cincinnati in 2019 … Joe Mixon looked like a completely different back in Year Two last season (not unlike Lev Bell’s transformation early in his career), but he's in a tough situation, especially given his team’s offensive line.
1. Houston Texans 10-6
2. Jacksonville Jaguars 8-8
3. Indianapolis Colts 7-9
4. Tennessee Titans 5-11
Comments/Fantasy Predictions: The Texans experienced some luck during their nine-game win streak last year (after starting 0-3), and their good fortune continued in the offseason when Andrew Luck stopped playing for their biggest threat in the division. It may be worth noting Houston goes from having the league’s easiest schedule last season (based on win/loss record) to having the hardest one in 2019 … Deshaun Watson wins the MVP award (I got him at 20/1).
Over the last three years, Duke Johnson ranks second in yards per touch and fourth in yards per route run, not to mention that he’s Miami’s all-time leading rusher in college, has never missed a game in the NFL, and has a higher BMI than Lamar Miller (whose injury saved potential future fantasy owners). Houston offers zero competition in the backfield (Carlos Hyde is the worst, so his addition as the team’s RB2 is further good news) and a couple of WRs in Will Fuller and Keke Coutee who are as injury-prone as they come, so Johnson is going to be plenty active. The Texans also traded for LT Laremy Tunsil, so I’m treating Johnson as a top-20 RB and someone to specifically target in fantasy drafts.
Nick Foles doesn’t have to be above average to be a big upgrade at QB for Jacksonville, who is planning to rely heavily on Leonard Fournette. Don’t count on his health being up to the task … Dede Westbrook finishes as a top-20 WR.
Andrew Luck announced the most shocking retirement since Michael Jordan, and the league became less fun to watch as a result … Marlon Mack is a poor blocker and was the most game script-dependent back in the league last year, so he’s a hard pass at ADP given the new QB situation in Indy … The Colts have a strong offensive line and system in place, and Jacoby Brissett is one of the best backups in football, but the loss of Luck moved Indy from legit Super Bowl contenders to hoping for a run at .500 (and provided an equally significant blow to their fantasy values).
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Marcus Mariota emphatically proves he’s not Tennessee’s long-term answer at QB, as the Titans move on from him … Corey Davis sees his targets take a big hit and is a fantasy bust, but Derrick Henry scores double-digit touchdowns running behind a talented offensive line … This is my favorite total to bet on this year, as I’d hammer the Titans UNDER (8) if the juice is right.
1. Kansas City Chiefs 12-4
2. Los Angeles Chargers 11-5 (Wild Card)
3. Denver Broncos 6-10
4. Oakland Raiders 6-10
Comments/Fantasy Predictions: Patrick Mahomes further establishes himself as the league’s best player, while Damien Williams finishes as a top-10 back despite LeSean McCoy’s addition ... Sammy Watkins’ ADP continues to perplex, and it’s going to be interesting to see if Kansas City’s revamped defense can close the gap on its offense (and special teams) … The Chiefs play overtime in the AFC Championship for the second straight season, only this time they win the coin toss and beat the Browns to advance to the Super Bowl.
Melvin Gordon gets hurt after returning from his holdout, resulting in a frustrating fantasy backfield in Los Angeles … Mike Williams finishes with more fantasy points than Keenan Allen, as the Chargers have to play in the wild card round despite winning 11 games … The Broncos have a strong defense, but with Joe Flacco at quarterback, they are an easy team to fade in fantasy drafts, especially given the weirdly optimistic ADPs of Emmanuel Sanders and Courtland Sutton.
Antonio Brown disappoints much like Hard Knocks, but Darren Waller finishes as a top-10 tight end … Josh Jacobs is going from never being a workhorse in college to having a pro coach who once rode his rookie back (Cadillac Williams) for 310 touches in just 14 games, so it’s going to be a big transition … The Raiders recorded 13 sacks last year (third-fewest in league history) — the next lowest finished with 30 (Khalil Mack had 12.5 in 14 games) … It’s going to be extremely awkward with Derek Carr buying a new house next door to Jon Gruden in Las Vegas once the coach is ready to move on to his next quarterback next season. Da Raiders!
MVP: Deshaun Watson
Rookie of the Year: Kyler Murray
Defensive Player of the Year: Myles Garrett
NFC Championship: Eagles over Rams
AFC Championship: Chiefs over Browns
Super Bowl: Eagles over Chiefs
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Kazuyoshi Miura Case: Pre-Trial Hearing May 9th
I apologize that it has taken this long to get a story up. Blogging has taken a back seat to RL priorities in the last few weeks.
I take the train today to save on expenses. Unleaded gas in Los Angeles is fluctuating somewhere between $3.85 to $3.95 a gallon. Mr. Sprocket drops me off at the train station in North Hollywood. He's on a bit of a forced work break having injured his arm just two weeks ago today.
The NH station is virtually empty and as I get down to the train platform there is a train just about ready to leave. I pick up my pace walking down the escalator and just make the train. I'll call donchais as soon as I get back above ground. Just passing the Universal City Station, there is a group of young teenage boys that, even though I'm terrible at judging ages, must still be in school. I wonder why they are all off today.
The car is about 3/4's of the way full and not very noisy at all. I can't help but listen in on the teens conversation and try to keep from rolling my eyes or laughing.
"Dude! If you had teleportation powers, you wouldn't have to pay for anything! Teleport on some's skateboard! They'd be like, WTF? Teleport into someones car..."
All this dialog is accompanied by sound effects to represent the teleportation and the astonished individuals faces when you would teleport next to them. Passing the Wilshire/Vermont station the car starts to fill up and I continue to wonder where the teens are headed. Right before I get off at Civic Station, I overhear that they are headed into Chinatown.
I finally get to the courthouse and through the first floor security. When I reach the 13th floor, I'm told that they will not be drawing tickets because they believe they will be able to get everyone in this time. In the large crowd, I see Miriam Hernandez from local ABC Ch 7. They public liaison clerks start calling out the accredited paper's names and the Japanese journalists line up.
Associated Press! GG Press! NHK! Sun K Shinbushin (sp?)! LA Times! Fuji TV! City News! Channel 7! KNX Radio! KTLA! CNN! Japanese Broadcasting! US Frontline News!
After most of the reporters are lined up, Alan Parachini speaks to the crowd. "We don't know if there will be a ruling today. If there is a decision, don't assume there will be a written decision along with it."
I see the cute Japanese reporter Mirei Sato again and we exchange greetings. This time, her paper US Frontline got on the reserved list for a seat and she joined the line when her paper was called. I also see Mary Plummer from The Yomiuri Shimbun and she introduces me to her associate, Caleb (sp?) who knows more about the Miura case.
Caleb and I chat about the types of stories that interest him the most and if he ever gets the opportunity to choose the stories he reports on. Caleb has an interest in anything science or medicine related and we discuss what he's followed in neuro-physics, black holes and the atom smashing machine (particle accelerator) on the border of France and Switzerland. The machine hasn't been turned online yet and there is fear that the machine could create a miniature black hole in the center of the earth. Apparently, the machine that was planned in Texas was abandoned and there is one planned for somewhere in California. I mentally shake my head at the thought of building one of these machines in a state rife with earthquakes.
We're finally let into the courtroom and I take a seat in the center back row. It's not a great seat, but I can see a bit more than I did at the previous hearing. It's 1:35 pm and court hasn't started yet. I see Sandi Gibbons is in the front on the very far right of the courtroom. She's wearing a really nice black suit and white blouse. I have a feeling she's going to be speaking to the cameras today after the hearing, and not Alan Jackson.
I see the AP photographer in the jury box along with the video camera and other photographer. We are just waiting for the judge, who just now takes the bench.
Judge Van Sicklen: "I've had a chance to review everything, and will give both sides (time) to respond. Mr. Geragos has the burden and the motion."
I don't know what it is, but I just have a hard time listening to Geragos. Geragos goes over the points in his motion saying something about "the tortured meaning about 656..." He goes onto say, "The second thing is the Mallord case. The Superior Court case said that the language shall not apply." (I'm lost here. I'm not getting what shouldn't apply.) He brings up another case. "Michael Conolly, (sp?) 1936 case, the Superior Court ha said, no prosecution can be made against this witness." Then he mentions something about 804 and 977 and that the people are somehow making it out that 977 "is the trump card" but Geragos also mentions that the California Supreme Court "...does not require the defendant's presence, it's called the Beardsley Analysis." People vs Beardsley is a 1991 case. "656 is implemented at trial. 793 is prior to trial," Geragos says. There are more rulings and cases quotes and I'm totally lost again.
"866 section specifically says that you can present a defense at preliminary hearing. If there is no preliminary hearing then why do we need Division 30?" Another case is mentioned but my notes on it are not clear.
Alan Jackson gets up to speak for the people. "Mr. Geragos misses the entire point. We are not trying to be creative as to what the statue states. Prosecutions will be prosecuted by indictment or an information (process). 682: The only way a felon can plead, specifically hold that there are five exceptions to that broad rule."
"Why do we have Division 30? Common sense. Because the prosecution has not begun until a prelim or exam. (There are) separation of powers. The judicial branch is examining evidence." And he goes on about the separation of powers between the various branches to support his point. Jackson mentions 1016, and something about "a plea of once in jeopardy, the prosecution (?) an indictment. Under 977, he has to come back. But let me say about the cases presented. Six cases. Valiant effort, but all the information (decisions?) was post indictment, or post trial."
"If you follow his (Geragos) reasoning, this would be the first time in California history that this would be done. (Not requiring an accused to be present.) There are many stages between now and then. There are many stages and arguments. 793 has to be litigated. What was he tried for. What was the conviction? Was there an acquittal? Are those the same acts he will be charged for here?"
I write in my notebook: Jackson is magnificent!
"These are all things that must be litigated. He can't phone in a defense." I look up at the right wall of the courtroom and there are photographs of 29 Criminal Supervising Judges up high on the wall.
The Judge finally speaks. "I want to resolve some of the glaring issues, and will prepare a tentative ruling. Bottom line, absolutely right on point. Geragos did not present anything of a legal nature to prove that Miura was convicted and the decision overturned. His motion would fail at least because of that. You (Geragos) have not shown that jeopardy would attach."
"Whether or not he can waive his appearance on 793....whether he is here or not, there's no reason that I could anticipate that I could ask him about....the people can not explain how the people are prejudiced by him not being here....." And Jackson gets up and apologizes for interrupting the Judge.
"No prejudice exists. There is a procedural prejudice," Jackson replies.
I agree if there was just 656. I would agree," the Judge responds, and then goes on to give an example of a person acquitted and then confesses. "The people, under our law could not convict. 973 says you are immune from doing that. We are dealing with constitutional question not just statue questions."
The Judge then says he's going to table the matter until May 23rd as to that issue, and it looks like Geragos is going to win Miura not having to come to the US just yet. The Judge asks Geragos if he can get Miura connected to the courtroom for the next appearance via a video feed. Geragos babbles something about getting a hook-up via his son's Apple computer.
I have a note here, but I'm not sure who said it; Geragos or the Judge. You arrange for a video screen. We can ask him for his waiver via the video feed.
The Judge goes onto say that, "Just dealing with 793 excludes 656." And then it's like he's pondering some things over in his mind. "When does a prosecution actually begin? The arrest warrant begins," and then he calls off cases to support his point. "(It) starts from complaint; not from information." Another case example is given. Hannon. Case starts one a complaint is filed. Immunity is granted long before a case is filed. Not an offense, an immunity.
Jackson steps up to speak again. "These are due process rights to that particular procedure. I don't know that we've had a case where we've...." The Judge and Jackson argue case points, and then Ric Ocampo also joins the banter, but I was scribbling so fast, I'm not exactly sure who said what.
If prosecution ignores defenses or immunity exists, they shouldn't be doing that. (Judge?)
If we don't like the law.... (?)
Ric Ocampo argues, "We disagree in the interpretation on the double jeopardy issue."
I don't know if we've ever seen this before... a person with extradition. (Judge?)
We have an immunity issue. It's a (?) of law and enormous expense. In the Judge's opinion, a prelim won't make a difference. (Judge)
Alan Jackson: "This is an important issue and I appeal that the court takes the time. How can we even make a determination if the acts are the same? How can we determine that?"
Judge: "You lay out in your complaint in great detail. We can determine that from the documents in Japan. I think we all know that we are all dealing with the same case."
There's lots of commentary by the Judge that the case has been heavily in the media, and the media has reported that this is the same case, however, we don't have any judicial documents to substantiate that.
And I write a note here that it now sounds like Geragos has won, well, at least has stopped the extradition in it's tracks.
Judge: "My ruling is against the people on whether he has to be here. My ruling is that we can proceed without him. On the issue of judicial notice, I think you (people) prevail." Then there is quite a bit of wrangling to try to get a date to come back that everyone can agree on. The Judge did state that he needs documents from Japan, translated, from three different court rulings. The arraignment, the trial court, and Japan's high court that over ruled. We're talking about thousands of pages of documents, translated. That's going to take a while.
Gerago's motion to quash the arrest warrant would fail because he did not include these documents in with his motion to show his client had legally been prosecuted before. A date is finally chosen to reappear. June 16th.
As I'm leaving the courtroom, I see over on the far left side of the courtroom in the almost the back row, Pat Dixon sitting by himself in casual clothes.
The press conference is held in the same place on the Temple Street plaza. It's not really a big "plaza" like one would think but just the small open space in front of the building.
Smiling, Geragos tells the dozens of Japanese reporters, "The judge ruled that Miura didn't have to be here. (At the next hearing) at that time, we are hopeful that the case will be thrown out. The judge decided that Miura didn't need to be here. We've won that we won't have to drag him here. I'm disappointed only in that he has to sit there for another five weeks. Miura will be on video for the next hearing."
Then Sandi speaks to the press, and I can't hear her over the street traffic. I'm too far back in the crowd.
"The Judge says that Miura doesn't have to be here for the double jeopardy ruling, but that he also needs to see the rulings from the Japanese court before he can rule ( on double jeopardy)."
Sandi goes onto say that these are hundreds of pages of documents and it will take some time to get them from Japan and translated. She sort of hinted that the date of June 16th will probably be delayed again depending on how long it takes to get these documents and get them translated.
And that's it. I give donchais a call to update her on today's proceedings and I take the train back home.
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Document history tree feature like in E-TextEditor with Visual history navigation.
Patrick Thurmond 8 years ago • updated by Eric West 8 years ago • 4
I would like to see a document history tree feature like the one used in E-TextEditor. It allows for an undo history with a visual tree you can navigate through including branches. Add this with a diff feature to compare them and that would rock.
If you look at the link I include below you will see that it has a visual panel that comes up and lets you click on the different changes and branches and see what you had where. This allows the user to easily pluck deleted code from the history and add it back in without all that undoing and saving a bunch of other snippets into open blank document windows that you might have to do now.
Also, being able to use a diff tool on this would be even better so that you can see the differences between two different points in history or between the current version and a different point in history.
Ref: http://e-texteditor.com/blog/2006/making-undo-usable
Vernon Kesner 8 years ago
I definitely second this one. The one hold that RubyMine/WebStorm has on me is the beautiful Local History feature.
http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/webhelp/local-history.html
I do use Git, but the local history is an awesome feature. Create an "I'm about to jack this up" label in RubyMine's local history and easily pull up a diff from when you knew it was right before any off-the-cuff "I've got an awesome idea" coding.
It's so nice to pull those things back from local history.
Jeff Deville 8 years ago
I also second this one. RubyMine's local history has saved me countless times.
Patrick Thurmond 8 years ago
I have never seen a visual revision history that allowed you to put in your own labels. I like that idea a lot. You know it is really too bad that e-texteditor has stagnated soo much.
I really wanted to support them and even bought a license. But the dev on it just doesn't seem to want to or be able to put in the time required to continually progress it. Further, it is not cross-platform compatible. So that is a big downer for me as well.
That is why I turned to Sublime though. It covers my needs and then some and it performs really well without getting in my way. Its fast and available in all the OSes I use (I uses the major three Windows, Ubuntu Linux, and Mac). Hopefully they can add this fancy feature. I would write a plugin but my programming skills are web-based. I don't have much in the way of desktop programming skills.
Eric West 8 years ago
+1 from me. This is one of the few features Sublime Text is sorely missing, and I'm hugely surprised it hasn't been created as a plug-in. Found this while searching for said plug-in, in fact.
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UN Headquarters New York, 6 June 2016
Remarks by John E. Scanlon
Secretary-General CITES
H.E. Mogens Lykketoft, President of the General Assembly
H. E. Ambassador Harald Braun, Permanent Representative of Germany to the UN
Mr. Yury Fedotov, Executive Director, UNODC
Mr. Edmond Mulet, Chef de Cabinet to the UN Secretary-General
Professor Lee White, Director Gabonese National Parks Service
Dr. Cristián Samper, President of the Wildlife Conservation Society
Ms. Famke Janssen, Actress and Humanitarian and UNODC Goodwill Ambassador for Integrity
Distinguished Delegates, ladies and gentlemen
Firstly, I would like to express my most sincere thanks to the President of the General Assembly and the Permanent Missions of Gabon and Germany, UNODC and the Wildlife Conservation Society for inviting me to join you today.
The UN Group of Friends on Poaching and Illicit Wildlife Trafficking established here in New York in December 2013 and co-chaired by Gabon and Germany was the driving force behind the preparation of the landmark resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly in July of last year on tackling illicit trafficking in wildlife, which mandated this first World Wildlife Crime Report.[i]
The World Wildlife Crime Report is the first report to compile and analyze the best available primary data and to provide a robust assessment of illicit wildlife trafficking. It is thoroughly researched, with a logical and well thought through analysis and it is written in an easy to read style.
We have seen a number reports on wildlife crime over the past few years but this Report demonstrates a heightened sense of rigour in reporting on illicit wildlife trafficking, including through the compilation and analysis of 164,000 seizure records sourced from CITES and the WCO and others.
It has sent the benchmark for any future reports on such crimes and it is the now the definitive report on Wildlife Crime, which will improve over time as the database is expanded and enhanced.
The Report shows that illicit wildlife trafficking affects all regions in different ways with countries across the globe being implicated as source, transit or destination States, affecting over 7,000 different species. It confirms the industrial scale and serious nature of this illicit trade, which is being driven by transnational organized criminal groups and is fueled by corruption.
In 2010 the UN General Assembly expressed its solemn commitment to an international order based on the rule of law and international law and emphasized the role of multilateral treaty processes in promoting and advancing the rule of law[ii]. The Report highlights the importance of CITES and the two UN Conventions against corruption and transnational organized crime working together, which was also highlighted in the UNGA Resolution.
CITES is described in the Report as “an agreement of remarkable scope and power” that “ allows countries to reciprocally protect one another’s’ species according to a common set of rules”. As stated in the Report, CITES defines the international rules that criminals try and circumvent and the two UN Conventions are the key international treaties for tackling the transnational organized criminal groups that are driving this industrial scale illicit trade and the pervasive corruption that enables it.
(Left to right) Mr. Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of UNODC,
Ms. Famke Janssen, Actress and UNODC Goodwill Ambassador,
John E. Scanlon, CITES Secretary-General
I am delighted to report to you today that the cooperation between CITES and the UNODC and the two UN Conventions against corruption and transnational organized crime is at an all time high and is only getting stronger – and I would like to express my sincere thanks to Executive Director Fedotov for his leadership and his good staff for their extraordinary support.
It has been my great personal honour to work closely and directly with Executive Director Fedotov since we signed the agreement for the creation of the International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime (ICCWC) in November 2010 at the Global Tiger Summit in Saint Petersburg.
The Report does not just address enforcement; it also highlights the importance of demand reduction. The Report finds that “illegal wildlife trade is a series of related but distinct illicit markets, each of which must be independently assessed for its unique characteristics.” As such, while mass public awareness campaigns clearly have an important role to play, we must also have well targeted demand reduction campaigns, as was called for in the UNGA Resolution, noting that to be effective public awareness raising must lead to behavioral change.
The good news is that there is today a global collective effort underway to combat illegal trade in wildlife – one that takes the three pronged approach of enhancing enforcement, including tackling corruption, addressing how local people can benefit from wildlife and demand reduction. This effort involves countries, the UN, treaties, international and national organizations, such as the WCS, philanthropists and individuals.
We must continue to enhance the efforts that are already underway – to fully capture the high level of political interest and additional financing, including from the GEF, that is now available.
Looking ahead, future Reports will be able to access enhanced data to further populate the World WISE seizures data base, noting that from 2017 CITES 182 Parties will provide annual reports on illicit trade as well as legal trade.
Speaking for CITES, we would love to see, and fully support, the World Wildlife Crime Report becoming an annual report just as we have an annual Drugs Report and we will offer the UNODC our full support in this regard.
Finally, the 182 Parties to CITES meet once every three years and they will next convene in Johannesburg, South Africa on 24 September where these issues and many more will be on the Agenda in what is shaping up to be one of the most critical meetings in the 43 year history of the Convention.
We hope to see you all in South Africa!
Thank you President.
[i] The 2015 UN General Assembly Resolution on tackling illicit wildlife trafficking reflects the level of international consensus that now exists around bringing these highly destructive crimes to an end.
[ii] 69/123. The rule of law at the national and international levels 10 December 2014
Secretary-General of CITES
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By Jamie Bulen , May 13, 2014 11:17 AM
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Dr. Bill Thomas, one of the most innovative and creative thinkers working in medicine today, is bringing a radical new approach to growth and aging through this national non-fiction theatrical tour produced in partnership with AARP’s Life Reimagined.
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How do I create an available shift?
Learn how admins and managers can create open shifts for employees
There are multiple ways to make a shift available in Sling.
To create a new available shift, hover your mouse over a date in the available shifts row and click on the plus sign (+) that appears.
A new window will pop up where you can enter the shift details. Available shifts can't be made recurring, so you will notice those options aren't shown. Premium and Business accounts will also see a field to designate how many slots need to be filled.
Once you have all your details entered, you'll want to choose which publishing option you want to apply. Leaving the switch on "No" will add the shift to the calendar, but it will be invisible to employees. Switching it to "Yes" will publish the individual shift when you click Save and will alert any employee assigned to the same position and location as the shift.
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Go to the Week or Month view of the Schedule page and click the options button (3 dots) at the top right of the page. Select Make all unassigned shifts available and you will see all the unassigned shifts moved to available shifts.
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E-STUDIO: List Object [22700]
List Object
The List object as it appears in the Toolbox.
The List object is vital to all experiments in E-Prime. The purpose of the List object is to organize the data to be used within the experiment. The List object is where the independent variables, and their levels are organized. In E-Prime, independent variables are referred to as attributes.
The term 'variable' has a more specific connotation for E-Prime, programmatically speaking (i.e., a variable is something within programming code). Variables are temporary, and are discarded after their use (e.g., a variable may be used as a counter), while attributes are logged in the data file.
To create a new List object, click the List object icon in the Toolbox and drag it to the Workspace, to a specific location within the Structure view, or to an existing Procedure. Double clicking an existing List in the Experiment Explorer Structure view will result in the window representation for that object being opened in the Workspace, and its properties will be displayed in the Properties window.
The List object interface is comprised of a title bar, toolbar, optional summary information and a spreadsheet-like representation of attributes.
The title bar indicates the name of the List object, along with the List icon. The toolbar features the available controls for the List object. The controls are also accessible by right clicking in the List object window. The controls available vary based upon the current state of the object. For instance, when an entire row is selected the delete row button becomes active.
Tool Button Description
Adds a new row to the bottom of the spreadsheet grid.
Add Multiple Levels
Adds multiple new rows to the spreadsheet at one time.
Add Attribute
Adds a new column to the right of the right-most column in the spreadsheet grid.
Add Multiple Attribute
Adds multiple attributes to the spreadsheet at one time.
Hide Summary
Reveals or hides the summary information from the window.
Property Pages
Opens the set of tabbed Property pages specific to the List object.
Remove Levels
Deletes the selected row or rows from the spreadsheet grid. The Delete Level button is activated only when at least one entire level/row is selected (highlighted). Verification from the user is required before the action is completed.
Removes Attributes
Deletes the selected column or columns from the spreadsheet grid. The Delete Attribute button is activated only when at least one entire column is selected (highlighted). Verification from the user is required before the action is completed.
The Summary displays the currently specified pertinent properties of the List object. Specifically, the number of samples, the definitions of samples and cycles for the List, and selection information are displayed here. The summary information can be hidden or displayed using the Show/Hide Summary button on the toolbar.
The spreadsheet grid features an ID value for each row/level by default. Additionally, the Weight, Procedure, and Nested attributes are also listed by default. These attributes are created by the system, and may not be deleted. They may, however, be hidden via the View tab (see View tab description below). A blue line separates the system attributes from the user-defined attributes.
Attribute Description
ID Located to the left of each row and may be used to select individual rows, for row-wise editing functions. Rows may also be re-ordered, but they retain their sequential numbering (e.g., if level 5 is moved to the 2nd position, it becomes item 2, and items 2, 3, and 4 become 3, 4, and 5,respectively).
Weight Indicates the number of times the level is to be counted in the full list (i.e., number of repetitions). For instance, if the Weight of a level is 2, it will be counted twice in the complete list. Rows with Weight 0 are grayed to indicate that they will not be used in the List. Additionally, an option can be set to hide these rows within the Property pages of the List object.
Procedure The Procedure value indicates the name of the object (typically a Procedure object) to be called/executed when thatp articular row is selected.
Nested The Nested column allows one list to reference other lists and their attributes. Nested lists are useful when different conditions include different sets of attributes and stimuli, or for sampling from more than one list on any single trial. The values in this cell indicate from which List(s) the attribute values are to be selected. For instance, to select from two lists independently, specify the names of both lists in the Nested column (separated by commas). An example of nested lists is provided in the sample experimentsas part of the E-Prime installation.
The List object also features the following controls and features:
Cut,Copy, Paste Allows easier editing within the spreadsheet. In general, these operations mimic those in Microsoft Excel (e.g., operates on cells, ranges, rows, columns and uses tab delimited text during clipboard operations).
Disjointed Row Selection Ability to select rows to allow operations to be enacted upon non-contiguous rows (e.g., set the Procedure to a common value for rows 2, 4 and 6).
AutoComplete Automatically complete the entry if the first few characters typed match another entry in the column.
AutoFill Ability to fill columns of a List quickly as in Microsoft Excel, by selecting cells and dragging fill handles.
In addition to the Properties window, a set of Property pages is provided for the purpose of setting the List object properties. To access the Property pages for the List object, press the Property Pages button in the List object toolbar.
The General tab permits the setting of the Load Method property, to determine how the List object will be populated. There are three Load Method options: Embedded, Script and File. By default, the LoadMethod property is set to Embedded.
Embedded Instructs the List to use a "DataSection" to store its values in the full script. With Embedded format, the last lines of the full script contain List defined format of the data.This reduces the size of the script and takes the InitObjects routine much less time to complete.
Script The levels of the List will be loaded into the E-Basic script (EBS) file according to the values entered into the List object.This tells the list to use List.AddLevel, List.AddAttrib, and List.SetAttrib calls to fill the List at run- time. The more attributes and levels a List has, the longer the InitObjects routine will take to run.
File Instructs the List to load its contents from the file specified by the List.Filename property. The file must be in tab-delimited, ASCII file format, and should contain the level data (i.e., attribute header data). If attributes exist in the file that are not defined in the GUI, these attributes are created. When this mode is selected, the levels in the List object are ignored (and are grayedout). This permits the user to fill in dummy values so that the structure of the experiment remains intact in the Structure view, and/or allows the user to bounce between Load Method values without having to re-enter all of the data.
Selection Tab
The Selection tab determines the order in which the levels (i.e., rows) within the List are sampled. A variety of ordering options are available through the Order field. Among the options are: Sequential, Random, Random with replacement, Counterbalance, Offset and Permutation.
Order Description Order By
Sequential Selection occurs in the order in which the levels appear in the List. Not Applicable
Random Selection is based on an internal random number generator. The levels are shuffled at run-time based upon a random number. Random selection occurs without replacement. Not Applicable
Random With Replacement Shuffles the levels in the current List object, but replaces each level as it is used. This option will result in the possibility of presenting the same level(s) more than once and other levels being entirely unused. Not Applicable
Counterbalance Presents a single level based on the specified option in the Order By field (e.g., Subject = 1 presents level 1). Counterbalancing can be based upon the subject number, session number or group number. If the OrderBy factor exceeds the number of levels, the modulus (the remainder of the subject number divided by the number of levels returned as a whole number) is used to determine the level. Subject, Session, Group
Offset Creates a sequential order that begins at a predetermined offset within the List, wrapping around when it reaches the end. The predetermined offset is based on the Order By factor (e.g., by subject, by session, by group). If the Order By factor exceeds the number of levels, the modulus (the remainder of the subject number divided by the number of levels returned as a whole number) is used to calculate the offset. Subject, Session, Group
Permutation Permutation calculates all possible combinations of the conditions using a mathematical algorithm. Then, ordering occurs like Offset, where one of the possible combinations is chosen based on a predetermined offset, and all conditions within that combination are run in sequential order. The predetermined offset is based on the Order By factor (e.g., by subject, session or group). Subject, Session, Group
Interactive gives the experimenter the ability to manipulate the order in real time while testing. Interactive order is especially useful when debugging and designing an experiment. If used with a participant, the display the Interactive List is shown on can be set by the Interactive Dialog Display Property. This setting shows any active display in the experiment. Furthermore, when used with a participant, a Cover Visual can appear on the particpant screen while the experimenter works in the Interactive List. For more information on Interactive Lists, please view GETTING STARTED: Interactive List [23589]. Not Applicable
Reset/Exit Tab
The Reset/Exit tab provides a method to set the run-time sample and cycle counts for the selected List.
Summary Summarizes the current property settings pertaining to selection and definitions of the cycle.
Reset Sampling (DefineCycle) After all samples Resets the list of samples (i.e., replaces exemplars) for re-selection after each has been selected once.
After (user defined) samples Resets the list of samples (i.e., replaces exemplars) for re-selection after the specified number of samples.
Reset at beginning of each Run Replaces exemplars for re-selection each time List.Run is called. This is helpful if the list is being used more than a single time within an experiment (e.g.,practice and experimental blocks).
Exit List After (user defined) cycles Terminates the List after the specified number of cycles is completed.
After (user defined) samples Terminates the List after the specified number of samples is completed.
After (user defined) seconds Examines the expired time before each sample.If the specifiedtime has elapsed, the List terminates.
View Tab
The View tab features a checklist of system items to be displayed in the spreadsheet grid of the List object window. The Weight, Procedure, and Nested attributes are created by the system, and may not be deleted. However, it is possible to remove one or all of them from the display of the List by unchecking them on the View tab.
Additionally, it is possible to hide levels (rows) with a weight value of “0”. If this option is checked, levels with a weight of “0” will not be displayed in the List. If this option is unchecked, levels with a weight of “0” will appear grayed out, but visible in the spreadsheet.
Logging Tab
The Logging tab allows the user to select specific attributes to log for each object. The Logging tab for the List object is somewhat different from the Logging tab for an object collecting input. The Logging tab for an object collecting input displays the possible dependent measures collected (e.g., RT, ACC) as well as time auditing measures for the object (e.g., OnsetDelay, DurationError). The primary purpose of the List is as the organization of the data used within the experiment. Therefore, the attributes available for logging on the Logging tab refer to the user-defined attributes entered on the List.
By default, all attributes are logged in the data file. However, it may be useful to turn off the logging for specific attributes if they are not of interest. Click the checkbox next to each attribute to set the logging status. In the image below, CorrectAnswer and Stimulus are attributes defined by the user in the List object. The Tag attribute is defined by the system, but because its value is set by the user, logging may be turned off for this attribute. According to the status of the checkboxes in the image below, CorrectAnswer and Stimulus will be logged in the data file, while Tag will not.
While the disabling of logging for some attributes allows the user to limit the number of attributes logged in the data file, it is highly recommended that all attributes be logged. Many researchers have forgotten or failed to log a measure that was later required by some analysis, or was crucial to some analysis not originally planned. The E-DataAid data handling application includes filtering and exporting capabilities to easily allow the user to display only those attributes that are desired in the data file. Thus, it is recommended that all attributes be logged, and that E-DataAid’s filtering capabilities be used to limit the display or export of the data to include only specific attributes.
Properties Window
The List object's properties may also be specified through the Properties window. The following are the properties associated with the List object:
Property Possible Values Description
(Name) String values Represents the name or label of the selected object.
(About) None Reveals version information for the List object.
(Property pages) None Reveals the property page interface to specify the properties of theselectedobject.
Filename String Designates the tab-delimited text file from which the List will be populated.
HideLevelsWithZeroWeight Yes, No Determines if levels with zero weights are displayed. "Yes" will hide the levels (rows) with the weight equal to zero. "No" still allows the levels (rows) with a zero weight to be displayed, but they will appear grayed out.
InteractiveCoverVisual Active E-Objects, [attribs] Shows a cover screen on another display while the Interactive list is on another active display.
InteractiveDisplayName Active Display devices Determines the screen the Interactive list is shown on.
LoadMethod Embedded, File, Script Determines the method by which the script relevant to the List will begenerated.
NoRepeatAfterReset N/A, Yes, No Determines if the first item selected after Reset is not the same Level as the last item chosen in the previous order.
Notes String values User-entered text useful for storing information or comments related to an object.
Order Sequential, Random, Random with Replacement, Counterbalance, Offset, Permutation Determines the selection order of the levels.
OrderBy N/A, Subject, Session, Group Determines counterbalancing details.
QuickStartInteractive Yes, No Determines a Quick Start for Interactive lists.
ResetEveryRun Yes, No Determines whether to reset the List after each run.
Tag Alphanumeric User-defined string useful for associating info with the object.
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E-STUDIO: Interactive List [23589]
INFO: Loading a Stimuli Text File Into a List Object [17986]
No Repeats on Consecutive Trials (Condition) [30025]
E-STUDIO: SoundOut Object [22708]
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The Scarborough Subway Fiasco
For the benefit of out-of-town readers who may not follow the moment-to-moment upheavals in Toronto politics, the lastest news about the Scarborough Subway is that it will cost $900 million more than originally forecast, and the Eglinton East LRT line has gone up by $600 million.
Updated 10:45pm June 17: The increase in the Eglinton LRT line’s cost may only be $100m, not $600m. Awaiting further details to confirm this.
No details of the components of these increases have been published yet, but here are the current (as of 6:45 pm on June 17) media reports:
The Star: Mayor John Tory accused of ‘political posturing’ as Scarborough transit plans balloon by $1 billion
The Globe & Mail: Scarborough subway cost rises by $900-million
Torontoist: The Bad Decision on the Scarborough Subway Extension Gets Worse
Earlier this year, the much-touted “optimized” plan for Scarborough changed the subway scheme from a Kennedy to Sheppard line stopping enroute at Lawrence and Scarborough Town Centre (STC), to a one stop extension whose terminus and only station was to be at STC. Money saved by shortening the subway would be directed to the Eglinton East LRT project linking Kennedy Station to University of Toronto Scarborough Campus. [See Scarborough Transit Planning Update]
At this point, the total project cost remained within the original 3-stop subway project’s estimate of $3.56 billion (as spent dollars including inflation) of which the City of Toronto’s share would be $910 million financed primarily by a 1.6% Scarborough Subway property tax over 30 years. The remainder would come from Queen’s Park and Ottawa, but their contributions are fixed and any overruns are on the City’s dime.
Material from this report reappeared in a March update on the overall transit network [see Developing Toronto’s Transit Network Plan: Phase 1] and in the May-June presentations to various public consultation meetings. At no time was the possibility of a cost overrun for the Scarborough network mentioned.
Meanwhile, ridership estimates for Scarborough were revised downward quite drastically with a projected AM peak hour demand of 7,300 inbound from STC station. About half of this would be existing SRT riders and the rest would be net new to the transit system. The May presentation makes a point of defending the lower numbers, but here is what City Planning staff said only a few months earlier in their March report:
Preliminary ridership forecasts … indicate:
The options are capable of capturing significant ridership. Daily users range from 115,000 to 147,000 in 2031. Morning peak hour, peak point, peak direction ridership ranges from 13,700 to 17,700.
Assuming the McCowan 3 option, the introduction of SmartTrack would reduce ridership on the subway extension to about 109,800 daily users and 12,600 peak hour, peak point, peak direction riders assuming 15-minute SmartTrack service in 2031. Assuming 5-minute SmartTrack service daily users would be about 88,200 and peak hour, peak direction, peak point ridership would be about 9,800 riders. In either case, the peak point ridership would be comparable or higher than that observed today near the terminal points of existing subway lines, with the exception of the Yonge line in the vicinity of Finch station. [p. 32]
During his election campaign, John Tory trumpeted SmartTrack as the one line that would solve every problem claiming very high peak and all day ridership based on service probably three times better than we will ever see. SmartTrack is now proposed with trains every 15 minutes, not every 5, and this has a huge effect on ridership both on ST and on neighbouring lines as the numbers above show.
Planners have been twisting themselves into pretzels trying to justify building a subway with the lower projected demand saying it wouldn’t really work at the higher level because there would be no capacity further downstream for existing riders (similar to the problem we now see south from Finch Station). That’s all very well, but the same planners sold Council with the subway concept by touting the much higher estimates that “justified” subway construction as ridership would be at the edge of what an LRT line could handle.
These two arguments cannot both be right, and it is quite clear that planning numbers either were gerrymandered or that they were simply the product of unreliable analysis. Either way, all future projections are suspect especially if they change conveniently to suit the political needs of the day.
Throughout all of this, there has been no change, until today, in the cost estimates, the other vital factor in deciding between transit options. To put this in context, other studies have turned on amounts in the low hundreds of millions to justify choice of a “cheaper” option, while other projects languish because they are “not affordable”. $1.5 billion is no small change.
Technical issues have now come to light that render the original cost estimates meaningless. According to the Globe:
An analysis in Scarborough showed that the topography would require deeper tunnels in some places. The stations themselves would have to be 45 to 90 per cent deeper than thought, raising their construction costs immensely. And the high water table of the area would require more concrete than expected.
This is not something that was discovered last week. Mayor Tory attempted to pirouette around the cost problems with the idea that somehow the “private sector and others” could find a better way to do things. However, the TTC’s CEO Andy Byford, in a restrained comment, demured. From the Star:
TTC CEO Andy Byford said a third-party already helped with the engineering estimates to look at creative solutions for tunnelling or station design.
“I welcome the suggestion of having a third party at least review our costs because we want to make sure that we’re being as efficient as possible,” Byford said, adding: “I want to deliver the Scarborough subway for the best possible price.”
But asked if it’s realistic to expect hundreds of millions of dollars could be shaved off the costs, Byford said: “I think that would be a challenge.”
Indeed, Byford is now in a difficult position because his political neutrality on the subway vs LRT question cannot survive. Any new money to build the more-expensive plan will have to come at the expense of something else. Already, the TTC Budget Committee meeting where a preliminary “wish list” of funding requests to Ottawa was to appear (Byford said as much during the announcement at Greenwood Yard of DRL funding) was cancelled, and we have no idea just what projects TTC management, let alone the Board, feel should vie for funds. At some point, Byford may have his “Gary Webster moment” at City Council where he should openly state a professional opinion. (The reference is to Byford’s predecessor who was sacked by Rob Ford for having the temerity to oppose the subway plan.)
Nothing has been published beyond the Mayor’s comments to the media, and if there was a prepared statement, it still is not available on his website.
The tunnelling issue noted above is one part of the cost, but there are likely to be others as I have already discussed on this site. The key point is that the TTC has many interlocking projects that must proceed before the Scarborough Subway can open.
There are five projects in the future on BD which have serious interdependencies:
T1 replacement
Scarborough extension
New storage facility
One-person train operation
Some are below the line and some are above the line. However, the dates and order of projects don’t align, so to minimize changes and maximize efficiencies the correct order should be:
New storage facility (ready for permanent 6 car consists)
New trains (ready for ATC)
ATC or OPTO (with ATC and OPTO ready trains)
ATC or OPTO
[Email from Mike Palmer (Deputy Chief Operating Officer, responsible for subway operations)]
The new storage facility will likely be near Kipling Station. It will be designed around the physical requirements of the new 6-car trainsets, and it will provide concurrent storage for the new and old fleets.
ATC (Automatic Train Control) is a prerequisite for the Scarborough extension which would be built using that technology. Conversion of the existing line to ATC would, strictly speaking, not be required before the SSE opens, but no T1 trains (the existing fleet) could operate on the extension without an expensive and short-lived retrofit. Hence the need for a new fleet sooner than might otherwise have occured.
OPTO is one person train operation. This cannot go into effect until the trains all have suitable cab equipment to allow an operator at the front of a train to monitor the entire train without assistance from a guard at the rear end.
That’s quite a shopping list as a pre-requisite to the SSE, and the TTC has yet to incorporate these projects fully in its capital budget “above the line” (ie: as funded projects). It is not clear whether the TTC Board or members of Council are aware in detail of these issues either, or how much they might contribute to the added cost for the extension.
As an historical note, in the days before the TTC contemplated a move to ATC, fleet planning was based on the premise that all cars for both lines were interchangeable. The result has been that because the YUS is now fully operated with TR trains and Sheppard is being converted, there is a surplus of the older T1 equipment whose only remaining use is on the BD line. With conventional signalling, the SSE could have opened using this equipment, but that’s not how it will be built, and the fleet plans are in disarray as a result.
Why the LRT line has grown in cost is a mystery. It is unclear whether this arises from design changes or estimating errors, although the scope for such error is much less with a surface route. Either way, the magnitude of the change is substantial, and as with the subway, threatens the credibility of a plan that was sold to Council only months ago. By extension, any other plan the City might put forward is also suspect.
Through all of the consultation, we have heard very little about SmartTrack beyond the probable location of its stations and the likely service level. What we do not know is how much it will cost to build the surviving chunk of the route from Mount Dennis to Unionville. Indeed, there is reason to question going beyond the Toronto border considering that the GO/RER plan will itself bring frequent service to the same area. What we do know about ST is that it will poach riders from parallel routes, and that service expansion beyond a basic 15-minute level involves expensive reconstruction of the rail corridor to provide more capacity. Contary to what Tory’s “experts” told us, the track is not just sitting there for the taking by his signature service.
Of the original $8-billion, some has been saved by discarding the Eglinton West segment, now proposed to be part of the Crosstown project, but we really do not know how much Toronto will have to pony up to implement the ST service.
If nothing else, this whole fiasco should be an object lesson to professional staff who tailor their plans and professional advice too closely to a political agenda. When that agenda is ill-advised, but pushed forward through sheer pig-headedness, the quality of planning cannot help but be tainted along with the credibility of the planner. This is a dangerous game.
Toronto, somehow, survived the Rob Ford era and there was some hope that a credible transit plan might be cobbled together under the new Tory regime. However, Mayor Tory has proved as intransigent about acknowledging he is wrong, that circumstances do not support his plan, as his predecessor. If Toronto had time and money to spare, we might say “this too shall pass”, but we have neither.
Propping up the egos of various politicians, including the notorious Scarborough crew at Council and Queen’s Park, is getting expensive. This is complicated by the fervour with which they exhort subway supporters to demand what Scarborough “deserves”. That too is a dangerous game as there are crazies out there with less than healthy wishes for those who advocate something other than a subway. It’s Trumpism on a local scale – giving license to treat subway critics as people who don’t matter.
During his election campaign, John Tory dismissed SmartTrack critics as naysayers who simply wanted to oppose things for the sake of it. That was bullshit then, and it is today with his comments about those who question his continued support for the subway plan.
On a personal note, I have been fighting for better rapid transit in Toronto suburbs, yes, with an LRT network, something all of the planners once supported, for over forty years. A lot got in the way including provincial interference in technology choice, and economic or political downturns that snuffed out hopes for good transit funding. A lot of Scarborough was farmland when this process started. They are still waiting.
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33 thoughts on “The Scarborough Subway Fiasco”
Ross Trusler | June 17, 2016 at 10:08 pm
The various newspaper reports do not jive when it comes to the additional cost of the Eglinton East LRT. Torontoist says $600 million, the Globe (in an earlier version of the article) $40 million. The Globe doesn’t say now.
The Torontoists’s own numbers don’t add up.
The Torontoist says the original cost of the one-stop Subway was $2B now $2.9B and LRT was $1B, updated costs $1.6B.
Yet they also report that the original budget was $3.56B and is now $4.5B, for a cost overrun of nearly $1B.
They both are relatively expensive. The LRT is only 11km long, so now nearly $150M/km, quite a bit higher than average for LRT. The subway at $2.9B and one station is nearly $500M/km. This is nuts.
Walter | June 17, 2016 at 11:13 pm
All sorts of criticism for John Tory, but strangely none for the Provincial Liberals.
Back in June 2012, Metrolinx found that the combined Eglinton / SRT line was the best in terms of benefit – cost ratio. Council gets a blame for cancelling the combined line (February 2012), without waiting for the report, although they likely should have been given a draft by the provincial Liberals. Then, Council made the final decision to abandon the LRT and support the subway (fall 2012), even though the report was complete and had a contradictory conclusion.
The Liberals decision to hide this report from Council was the key factor in the entire debacle that has unfolded over the past 4 years. And the way the 2014 election went, Torontonians have no one to blame but themselves.
Steve: If you were following me on Twitter, you would know that I have trashed the Liberals for their role in this mess. However, the current article was about recent events, not the history.
Drew | June 18, 2016 at 12:41 am
From the Star-ticle:
Councillor Anthony Perruzza, who backed the subway in 2013, says he would change his vote in favour of the LRT today. “We should have stuck to that. It made eminent sense — fully-funded, paid for by the province, moved riders,” he said. “I think that the Scarborough subway just simply morphed into political posturing . . . the more you go along with this, the worse it gets.”
ANTHONY PERRUZZA has been replaced by someone who can think!
Steve: Perruzza is one of those supposedly progressive members of Council who didn’t have the spine to stay in the LRT camp. It has taken a mess this big and obvious to give him cover to oppose the subway.
Let me guess the cost overruns for the Scarborough-Malvern LRT are because a new yard at Sheppard/Conlins is needed, originally intended for the now cancelled Sheppard LRT, and additional track is needed to connect with it. I presume that this expense was left out for some reason. The last proposal for this line didn’t go north of UTSC which doesn’t make sense.
In any case cost overruns happen with both subway and LRT so cost overruns are a bad excuse to not build subways. Toronto needs to build the Scarborough subway even if it costs somewhat more and it needs more funding for subways from the provincial and federal government.
I think that the case for the Scarborough subway is considerably better than the Spadina subway extension. The two subway stations in Vaughan are likely to have extremely low ridership. If the projections for the Scarborough subway went down this is obviously because of the reduction to one station. The station at Lawrence East needs to be restored and this ought to make ridership higher. The station at Sheppard/McCowan probably should be removed though to reduce cost and because it has the same problem as the Vaughan extension (lack of redevelopment potential due to proximity to a large railway yard).
Steve: No it’s not for a yard at Conlins. That would require substantially more than the projected cost increase. However, the magnitude of the overrun on the subway is huge, especially when we were told a much lower number only a few months ago when Council was convinced to support this plan.
The LRT increase I cited is, I believe, too big, and I have to correct the article. There is roughly a $1 billion increase in the total project, of which $900m is due to the subway. You cannot build track from the proposed LRT line to Conlins Carhouse, let alone build the carhouse, for $100m.
Gerry | June 18, 2016 at 9:20 am
This latest news just adds to the ‘Alice in Wonderland’ feel to Toronto transit politics. Despite the fact that all the evidence supports a Scarborough LRT, the majority of Toronto councillors and our Mayor (whose comments are becoming increasingly detached from evidence-based decision making) continue to support the Scarborough Stubway.
How can the TTC and Toronto Planning can expect anyone to trust their pronouncements? I can’t even begin to appreciate how frustrating this must be for you after watching this process for decades. I guess the silver lining is that at least transit is being built, even if it’s the wrong transit, in the wrong places, for the wrong amount. Oh wait, the other bonus is knowing that it’s no problem for the city to find an extra $900 million to get this done. And I thought we were facing some serious funding gaps.
Carl Harrison | June 18, 2016 at 9:29 am
I suppose this point has been made before, but it seems to me that Scarborough has it much better than northern Etobicoke and north western North York in terms of mass rapid transit of any kind. “The squeaky wheel” is alive and well in the east.
OgtheDim (@OgtheDim) | June 18, 2016 at 11:37 am
I fully expect the LRT project to slowly wither and die.
And all this because some people are upset at having to go up a couple flights of an escalator. I know these people don’t take transit because they are conveniently ignoring the fact that pretty much every station in the subway system requires you to go a concourse level and then up or down another level to get anywhere else.
I weep for this city because our current pols are going to hamstring transit for decades for the sake of a subway to a mall.
Jason | June 18, 2016 at 3:30 pm
But nobody complained when St Clair streetcar line costs went out of control not to mention additional costs still being incurred and months long construction ongoing yet again on this already new line. The Scarborough subway cost increases are proportionally minor compared to the St Clair fiasco.
Steve: St. Clair cost overruns were in the tens, not hundreds of millions, and the extra costs had nothing to do with the TTC. This has been well documented, but it suits some people to dredge this up as an excuse for every other project going over budget.
The construction this summer actually has less to do with the rebuild of the line for accessibility than it does with construction elsewhere (Bathurst/College closed for three weeks) and the need for significant pavement repairs at St. Clair Station which predates the right-of-way by several decades, and of course the bus level which has nothing to do with the streetcars at all. But if it makes you happy to think that this justifies $900m more for teh Scarborough Subway, I hope you won’t be too surprised when you get your tax bill in a few years, or discover what other projects you might like simply don’t exist in the budget any more because all of the money is going to the subway.
Jane | June 18, 2016 at 3:47 pm
Bigger issues include TTC operating the Eglinton LRT as a streetcar route.
Steve: Well, it won’t be a “streetcar”, but that argument has been done to death here already, and I am not going through all that again.
@Jane – The Scarborough portion of the Eglinton LRT should have been buried just like Rob Ford and the richer portions to the west but in the absence of that, they should at least have had the common sense to put it on the south side at/near Leslie but Scarborough always gets the short end of the stick.
Steve: Oh you poor darlings. It’s buried further west because the road is narrower and there is no room for expansion to accommodate a surface right-of-way. You keep trotting out that story, and it doesn’t fly.
Michael Greason | June 18, 2016 at 5:55 pm
It is disconcerting to hear John Tory trot out that tired and entirely without merit belief that the “Private Sector” is going to suddenly splash around some “fairy dust” (™Steve Munro) that will cover some of the costs and cost overruns that plague this fiasco. The private sector has an investment philosophy that is not going to change – only invest where there is a guaranteed return – or at least where the investor “believes” there is a guaranteed return. (This is not immoral by the way – that’s how I expect my RRSP and pension savings to be invested.)
Transit is a money loser and requires a subsidy – both for the capital cost (near or actually 100% subsidy) and operating cost (probably 35-50% for this unneeded white elephant). Any “participation” by the private sector will be nothing more than disguised debt borrowing by the City. There is no magic potion. The private sector will invest against guaranteed cash flows that result in full repayment – plus interest – whether it is called interest or any other name. There is nothing else available.
Whether the City issues traditional debentures or enters into a design/build/operate agreement with a private sector entity, the bottom line is that both require full payback and a positive or break even cash flow on operations – with any deficiency covered by a City subsidy. The only difference (as Bob Rae found out when the “private sector” was “efficiently” building the 407) is that the City likely has a lower borrowing cost than the private sector “investor”. The extra interest cost and the need for a profit for the investor would very likely make the private sector project more expensive than an internally funded version.
Finally, the “private sector investor” would not guarantee the project with the full financial strength of the well known name of the parent company. Rather, a special purpose subsidiary with limited capitalisation would be set up. If things go wrong the special purpose entity would fold up its tent and leave the City holding the bag. (See London Underground)
Rob Ford did not understand numbers. He thought he could build a subway from “efficiencies” such as cancelling sandwiches at council meetings. John Tory has headed up major businesses. He knows better and shame on him for pretending otherwise.
Nick L. | June 18, 2016 at 6:17 pm
Carl Harrison said:
I would wait a few years before saying that. With the Spadina extension opening soon and work on the Finch West LRT getting started this year, there’s a good chance that all of Scarborough’s whining will only result in them coming in last when it comes to new transit construction.
Erick | June 18, 2016 at 7:00 pm
Thanks Steve for the update.
Being from outside Toronto, it’s so difficult for me to understand how politicians who committed the cardinal sin (heck the capital political sin) of refusing money from higher orders of government still get respected in by some. Reading the links provided I read that it’s both capital AND operations that was fully paid for by the province for the LRT plan. And that is in politics a capital sin, that should have been the end of any politician who said no to “free money”. I don’t want to rehash history so much as understand as this has an impact today and tomorrow.
I am glad that in Ottawa we got funding for stage 2 because with that much money going after 7300 passengers a day it would have been really difficult to accept not getting funded. But as a citizen it scares me. It makes me think: How much will the province have to pay to silence anyone outside Toronto because of this? Because it’s not just the city of Toronto or the TTC’s credibility that is at stake, the province as well.
Any mayor can go to Queen’s Park and say: if you have the money for that one-stop in Scarborough I don’t want to hear any excuses, I expect the cheque pronto! And guess what it has started. So far it looks like much needed infrastructure spending. But eventually some dubious projects will be funded because of this. The province just can’t say no.
The consequences will be important and stay with us for a while. I hope this folly gets stopped and the LRT gets built in Scarborough.
Steve: To be clear, Queen’s Park and Ottawa are only putting into the subway what they would have put into the LRT. All of the extra comes from Toronto, mostly via a special property tax that will run for three decades. And that was just for the original cost estimate.
Kent | June 18, 2016 at 8:46 pm
Steve, regarding your response to Erick vis-a-vis money from the feds. Harper agreed to toss in 650 million for the subway that wasn’t earmarked for the lrt. Remember that makeshift press conference with Jim and Rob? Justin committed to maintaining this “investment” during the last election.
Steve: Ah yes. Thank you for the clarification. In any event, the value of the “investment” is capped unless City Council opts to make the Scarborough Subway the beneficiary of coming federal “stimulus” funding.
Jos Callinet | June 18, 2016 at 8:49 pm
Under these rapidly evolving circumstances, it’s looking more and more likely that there will be NO Scarborough Subway and NO Scarborough LRT.
Scarborough is going to get NOTHING. Why? Because there’s no more gold in the pot at the end of the rainbow. The Emperor Has No Clothes.
Everyone’s bullheadedness — starting with deceased Mayor Ford, now so “ably” being carried forward by current mayor Tory, added to the head-in-the-sand attitude evidenced by all the others contributing to this “Subways-or-Bust” debacle — has brought Toronto to this sorry point.
I confidently predict that the present life-expired Scarborough RT will soldier on until the day when it inevitably fails of its own accord. When that happens, the TTC will provide in its place a bus to serve those going to and from Scarborough Town Centre.
This is how everyone involved will be able to save face!
This is only practical solution to the Scarborough Subway Dilemma at this late date. The LRT option is too much “humble pie” for anyone to accept.
What a shameful embarrassment!
Thanks Kent and Steve for the clarifications. I forgot about those.
650 million will go a long way to ensure the project goes ahead.
What comes to my mind is opportunities missed. All that money could have been used to do good projects all over the GTA.
Mark Earley | June 18, 2016 at 9:39 pm
While all the tumultuous goings on go on, there is one truth that actually exists and carries passengers every single day. It’s running right now. It’s called the RT. Yes, it’s run down and noisy but that can be fixed.
Let’s fix it up and quiet it down, costing $m. Then the $b can go on a new and needed service somewhere else, such as the relief line, which just happens to benefit Scarboroughonians travelling downtown.
Repeat after me “RT”, or if you prefer “SRT”. Take a ride tomorrow if you have forgotten it.
Why replace something that does not need replacing?
Winterseeker | June 18, 2016 at 10:48 pm
Reblogged this on Greenpress and commented:
Political agendas given priority. Planning and policy, contaminated by false/tweaked data, changing costs, and ever-changing opinions. Expert advice, best practices, and even approved funding – cancelled and/or ignored.
This is Toronto – namely the TTC, the planners, and the politicians, today.
A $2-3 billion price tag, perhaps even more, for a 1-stop subway extension, that almost nobody sees of value, carrying passengers with LRT density levels, at best.
The world has a right to laugh. Even when we’re handed a silver platter of funds/plans/partners, to get transit right, we screw it up.
Metrolinx, please take over, end this political circus – and get us moving!
Bill Raim | June 19, 2016 at 10:00 am
Mark Earley said
While all the tumultuous goings on go on, there is one truth that actually exists and carries passengers every single day. It’s running right now. It’s called the RT. …
There is transit demand that the RT does not adequately serve. The 86, 116 bus lines are heavily used and longer but go directly into Kennedy Station. These bus routes are used because passengers vote with their feet. The RT offers spastic service, has a long arduous transfer at Kennedy station and makes useless stops where no one gets on or off.
Steve: For the record, “spastic service” is not a term that I endorse. You can describe the service as unreliable (or worse) without resorting to a term used derrogatively toward the disabled community.
Mark does raise a good point – is there any valid reason why the Scarborough RT could not be rehabilitated?
After all, is it not the first cousin, if not brother, of the Vancouver SkyTrain, which also uses the same technology? I know Vancouver doesn’t have to deal with snow and ice, but, even so …. Toronto’s setup has survived (perhaps not very well) many winters.
What’s your view of this possibility – if, in fact, I’m correct about the technology?
Steve: There are several problems with reviving the RT. First off, the Vancouver cars will not fit through the tunnel at Ellesmere nor around the curve at Kennedy Station. These would have to be redesigned/rebuilt. Second, the cost of extending the line to Malvern (as originally proposed for the Scarborough LRT about 50 years ago) would be much more expensive with RT technology than with LRT. Finally, I am not convinced that the idea of a Scarborough LRT network is entirely a dead issue. The only circumstance in which the RT would be rebuilt would be if the subway plan is abandoned, but if that’s the case, then all of the options should be back on the table. That’s why there was an LRT network proposed in the first place.
hamish wilson | June 19, 2016 at 4:22 pm
It’s a sad thing, but also somewhat appropriate, that the overall cost is up a near-billion even before any digging starts. Keep It Simply Surface is not a lesson any politician wants to embrace in buy-elections, obviously. And of course there’s a need for improved transit in that entire area, just this is a less-wise to Stupid Subway Extension. In terms of options, along with the rehab of the SRT, and LRTs and a Smart Spur option (which we should analyze to see how long things would be out of service), there’s also a Gatineau Hydro corridor which slides all through Scarborough, and could lead to the downtown core in a couple of ways, one being the Don Valley parkway, which we also already own. Busways could be a partial solution to make up for some lost years, and there are cleaner buses these days too. Curitiba in Brazil got the same capacity of a subway with busways for about 1% of the cost.
Thanks Steve for your ongoing analyses and presentings.
Steve: Curitiba got that capacity because they implemented it in an extremely wide road where taking four lanes for transit infrastructure was not much of a problem.
demosthenesmd | June 19, 2016 at 5:23 pm
For the advocates of the Scarborough Subway . . . I’m honestly curious as to what point this project would be come too expensive, in your estimation. If almost $3 billion is still worth the cost for a one-stop extension to STC serving a small number of customers when there are many other unmet funding needs, is there any point that you would consider the cost to great?
And if so, where would it be? $4 billion? $5 billion? $10 billion? How much more should we pay in taxes, and how much else should the city forfeit in order to fulfill this goal? Is there anyone in the pro-subway camp that can describe a concrete set of features/criteria that would have to be met to justify this project, beyond which it becomes untenable and we should consider switching modes or spending the money somewhere else? If there was a great case for a Scarbourgh subway (like there is for the DRL, say) I’d be all for it, but I haven’t seen one. Instead each time the costs are revised up and the estimates of the benefits revised down we hear new contortions for why it doesn’t matter, and it still should be built because Scarborough deserves it or because some other stations don’t have great ridership either (which of course is no justification for building new stations with poor cost/benefit ratios).
If no cost is too great . . . how can you expect your opinion to be taken seriously ? When Rob Ford tossed out his famous “subways subways subways” line, it followed a number of pointed criticisms and questions about the viability of his transit plan (or lack thereof) in the council debate. The absurdity of his statement was in its total lack of any substantial response to those questions and criticisms – there was no intelligent thought or reasoning to it, just a soundbite and dogmatism. If you can’t express why we should build this project beyond reasons like you feel like you deserve it somehow, or you feel spited by subway construction in some other part of town, or you like subways better than light rail because they look cooler or are bigger/faster/more like what they have in New York . . . I’m not sure how you can feel entitled to ask the rest of Toronto (and indeed Canada if the fed is pitching in) to pay for it.
Andre S. | June 19, 2016 at 8:58 pm
When I asked in another post why the RT can’t simply be upgraded, the answer basically boiled down to the fact that the new Innovia trains cannot fit on the existing infrastructure. Also, as I understood, the service presently is bad because there are not enough trains in good condition.
What kind of irks me with this explanation is that I don’t understand how Bombardier can build subway trains and streetcars that use the Toronto gauge – used nowhere else in the world – but can’t custom build some new Innovia trains that would be able to fit the existing SRT infrastructure (as is or with small or reasonable modifications to that infrastructure) – i.e. that would fit the stations, turning radii, etc.?
I bring this up again because to me it seems like the only politically feasible option that will allow Toronto to back down from the more and more unjustified humongous SSE expense will be an RT renovation. LRT won’t fly as it’s anathema to the Scarborough politicians, on the other the upgrade can be touted as providing “subway standard service for Scarborough” or something like that.
Yeah, it’s political posturing winning over hard engineering and economics evidence-based decision-making, but that’s the way if often ends up in politics and the public sector…
Steve: The number of cars involved would be quite small and the unit cost, allowing for the engineering and testing, would be enormous. We have been down this path already.
Nick L. | June 20, 2016 at 11:17 am
“The number of cars involved would be quite small and the unit cost, allowing for the engineering and testing, would be enormous. We have been down this path already.”
Isn’t the other problem McCowan yard in that it doesn’t have the capacity to handle the number of cars needed to “max out” service on the RT?
Steve: Yes, the yard would require expansion, but that’s not on the same scale as the more general issue that if we have to shut down the RT and rebuild it anyhow, we should rebuild it for a technology that will be common to the rest of the network.
Mapleson | June 20, 2016 at 11:17 am
Andre S. said:
There are three general ranges of track gauge: narrow, standard, and broad. TTC gauge (1495mm) is one of many similar broad gauges, especially the widely used Russian gauge (1520mm); Madrid uses 1445mm, Leipzig uses 1458mm, Columbus uses 1575mm and Philadelphia uses 1581mm. There are two main possible alterations necessary to fit a ‘custom gauge’: a wider wheel bogie and possible alterations to the vehicle body width to either provide greater internal space or better exterior protection from/to the wheels. Narrowing a vehicle requires more engineering, while widening a vehicle is normally very straight forward.
Otherwise, very little specific engineering goes into a ‘custom gauge’.
To have a vehicle that operates on the SRT, you are basically asking to reinvent the ICTS Mark I design, which Bombardier never produced, just inherited the general concepts/patents and developed a more practical solution.
Jcam | June 20, 2016 at 1:32 pm
I’ve heard there’s an ongoing live study (as of a couple months ago at least) about what it would take to put Mark 3s on the SRT – upgrade stations, curves, etc. You heard anything on that?
Steve: Would not be surprised at all. The question is whether they will also look at comparative LRT costs including the Malvern extension. In other words, how much can we build for what $? What are the implications of leaving the RT as an orphan technology?
Gordon | June 20, 2016 at 3:49 pm
The cost of St. Clair was estimated as $32m to replace asis or $64M for right-of-way. The eventual cost was $100M+, mainly due to project creep (Hydro, sewers, court challenges etc). The cost estimates for LRT appear to be running about 10 times these costs. The St. Clair right-of-way was a complete rebuild of the track and related structures which would be similar to the construction required for an LRT. Why the big difference?
Steve: The following items which would form part of any new LRT line were pre-existing for the St. Clair project:
Carhouse and central maintenance facility
Power supply (substations, feeders)
Subway interchange stations and loops
Collectively, that’s a substantial part of any LRT project cost, and St. Clair bore none of that. Also, there is a substantial bridge structure south of UTSC that must be created for the LRT line.
arcticredriver | June 20, 2016 at 4:06 pm
Walter wrote:
Adam Vaughan, my MP.. I don’t know his position on transit issues, from when he was a municipal politician. Because the Federal government is going to be called up on to ante up to a share. What I suspect his office would reply would be that different levels of government have different responsibilities. His office could argue that, as a Federal politician, trying to stay in his own lane, he shouldn’t joggle the elbows of municipal politicians, as laying out he details of local transit plans should be a local responsibility.
Provincial politicians could advance a similar argument — or perhaps they could have advanced a similar argument, until the Provincial government authorized MetroLinx to manage GTHA transit isues.
So, how much local transit planning should happen at the provincial level? I shudder to think what a mess the Mike Harris conservatives would have made of detailed transit planning.
What do we know of MetroLinx transit planning? Does MetroLinix have a staff of planning professionals? Do the poliiticial appointees who are in charge listen to them?
Steve: Metrolinx has professional planners, but they are as subject to political whim like those in any government. If anything Metrolinx suffers from conducting far more of its business behind closed doors and then we find out what is happening because there is a press conference. By that time, it’s too late to change anything.
Adam Vaughan has always been pro-transit. Ottawa’s stated position regarding new money coming to municipalities is that decisions on where to spend it would be made locally. That said, if Toronto chooses to blow every dollar they get on projects we don’t need, then don’t be surprised if Ottawa doesn’t listen the next time we ask.
Jason wrote:
…nobody complained when St Clair streetcar line costs went out of control ,
I remember a fair amount of reporting of local businesses being inconvenienced, during the laying of the right of way. I think some didn’t survive. But, it is my impression that the right of way is now seen as a great success.
So, this is the difference between the St Clair right of way and the SSE. The St Clair right of way was a good investment…
The Scarborough portion of the Eglinton LRT should have been buried just like Rob Ford and the richer portions to the west but in the absence of that, they should at least have had the common sense to put it on the south side at/near Leslie but Scarborough always gets the short end of the stick.
Jason, Steve has said here, and others have said here, that Eglinton is narrow in the west, and that there is more room to put it on the surface in the east. You are one of the respondents here who just don’t seem to believe this.
Well, believe it. I went to Mount Dennis on the day the first TBM was turned on, and took about 200 pictures. I then stopped at the site of every station from Mount Dennis to Yonge, to capture another 200 or so“before” images. A couple of weeks later I stopped at the site of every station from Yonge to Kennedy. When the line is complete I will return, and take “after” images.
Having spent two half days paying attention to the route, I assure you that if you followed our example, and rode the Eglinton buses today, you couldn’t help recognizing that the narrowness of Eglinton in the west required tunnelling, while in the east there was room for an exclusive right of way on the surface.
Go. See for yourself.
Steve: It is also worth pointing out that parts of the St. Clair strip were not in good shape, as a business community, before the project began. However, there has been something of a renaissance afterwards.
Bill Raim | June 20, 2016 at 7:44 pm
I wonder how many of you RT fans understand that Metrolinx has promised Electric Multiple Units (EMU).
I think a better alternative.
Walter | June 20, 2016 at 8:46 pm
demosthenesmd on June 19, 2016 at 5:23 pm asked
Is there anyone in the pro-subway camp that can describe a concrete set of features/criteria that would have to be met to justify this project.
The answer is quite simple. A continuous, reliable, fast, grade-separated transit line that connects to the Yonge spine of Toronto and doesn’t have an excessively long disruption to existing service during construction.
Steve: But are you prepared to pay for it?
Brent | June 20, 2016 at 10:04 pm
Let me see if I have this right.
Estimated cost of original LRT proposal: $1.48B
Latest cost of one-stop subway: $2.9B
Both offer sufficient capacity for anticipated ridership.
Both offer completely grade separated express service.
One has more stops and serves more types of trips.
One eliminates the transfer to B-D for those riders that board at STC.
To me, it looks like Tory is saying he is OK with paying $1.42B strictly for the benefit of eliminating a 5-minute transfer. On top of that, if the LRT goes farther than the subway, and serves more intermediate trips, it intercepts more trips earlier, likely saving those riders more than 5 minutes.
I have read people say “you could buy xx for Scarborough and still have money left over”. You could buy a few extra LRT trains for the SRT replacement and run them at the minimum feasible headway up until the middle of the night… and run the new LRT lines at the minimum headway too. No, it wouldn’t happen because it would be too tempting to just apply the crowding standards to save a few bucks on the operating budget… but reducing waiting times through a substantially higher-frequency network would arguably have more of a benefit than eliminating the 5-minute transfer..
Bill Raim said:
Sorry, but no. EMU have been implied, but not promised. If you look at the Electrification TPAP, it tacitly does not mention vehicle choice. It is an aspirational goal, but realistically not going to be realised in the next decade. Until I see provisions being taken to enable small/frequent EMUs to be operationally more efficient, I’m not doing to drink this lemonade.
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Being trans is not a mental disorder anymore: ICD-11 is officially released.
The World Health Organization has just announced the completion of the ICD-11 and released the official online version. The announcement does not mark the end of the ICD-11 process, but the beginning of a new phase focused on implementation and assessment at the country level. The new ICD version will be presented for final approval at World Health Assembly in May 2019.
As anticipated, all trans-related categories have been deleted from the ICD Chapter on Mental and Behavioral Disorders. At the same time, new trans-related categories have been introduced: Gender Incongruence of Adolescence and Adulthood and Gender Incongruence of Childhood. These categories have been included in a new ICD location, Chapter 17 on Conditions Related to Sexual Health. Therefore, WHO rules that being a trans or gender diverse person does not mean to suffer a mental disorder. Today, a shameful history of pathologization, institutionalization, “conversion” and sterilization begins to come to a close.
The work to depathologize trans and gender diverse lives is far from complete:
Committed and organized advocacy will be more needed than ever to ensure effective implementation at the country level, to remove pathologizing regulations while ensuring full access to legal gender recognition and to gender-affirming healthcare.
Gender Incongruence must be reviewed and replaced as soon as possible with a category that is both able to retain its utility while removing normative or othering content.
Gender Incongruence of Childhood must be removed from ICD-11, through national, regional and international mobilization in favor of depathologizing gender diversity in childhood entirely and for good.
Trans and gender diverse depathologization in ICD-11 must be accompanied by a bold reaffirmation of our ultimate goal: full depathologization grounded in human rights and, particularly, on universal access to healthcare.
Many people around the world have severely suffered the impact of pathologization. As any other victim of human rights violations, they have the right to truth, to rehabilitation and to reparation.
GATE, AKAHATA, TGEU, APTN, ILGA, Post-Soviet Trans* Coalition, Iranti.org, STP International Campaign Stop Trans Pathologization
Additional note from GATE on trans depathologization, mental health and stigma
The unfolding news of the World Health Organization removing trans-related categories from the chapter on mental health at the International Classification of Diseases, while a welcome step forward in depathologization of trans identities, makes necessary for us to express our disagreement and discomfort with a rationale made explicit by WHO.
According to the video explaining the introduction of “gender incongruence” in ICD-11 Chapter 17 on Conditions Related to Sexual Health, and also in the poster shared by WHO on its website, removing trans and gender diverse people from the realm of mental health will contribute to “reduce stigma” on the basis of mental disorder.
This affirmation is very problematic for three main reasons:
contributes to naturalize stigma associated with mental health issues,
it ignores the reality of trans and gender diverse people with mental disorders, and;
it erases the historical use of diagnoses to differentiate between “normal”, i.e non-pathologize, and “pathologized” gender identities and expressions.
Identifying with a gender identity that differs from the sex assigned at birth and/or expressing one’s gender in a way that contradicts social expectations and norms is not a mental disorder; however, many trans and gender diverse people suffer from different mental disorders, including those caused by systematic transphobic violence within structural cissexist societies. Furthermore, trans people are routinely denied access to gender legal recognition and/or gender-affirming healthcare on the basis of their mental capacity. Therefore, mental health issues are our issues too, and removing stigma associated with all forms of mental illness is a top priority for our movement.
We deeply regret WHO reverting to such damaging language, which contributes to stigmatization of mental health issues instead of leading the way in dismantling this stigma. Depathologizing trans and gender diverse issues is a matter of human rights, of justice and of subversion of the gender hierarchies coded in classification systems. We strongly recommend, to allies and journalists covering this historical moment, to frame it without making our communities unwilling accomplices further stigmatization and discrimination towards people with mental health issues.
To review the ICD-11 process and analyze its outcomes, to plan for next steps and articulate global strategies, partner organizations in the international ICD-11 initiative will be hosting a series of webinars, stay tuned!
Categoria: Around the world Tags: discrimination, gender identity, human rights, ICD reform, LGBTQ rights, sexual identity, sexual politics, sexual rights, trans rights, WHO
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WiFi Now on T3 Buses
T3 Transit Fleet Upgraded with Smart Bus Technology
T3 Transit, in partnership with the City of Charlottetown, Town of Stratford and Town of Cornwall, has completed upgrades that will improve the rider experience and make it easier for passengers to use the bus service.
Wi-Fi has been installed on the entire transit fleet in the three municipalities. It is free for passengers to use. Additionally, T3 Transit’s website has been updated to make it fully mobile friendly, rebranded with all the T3 colors and designed to be easier to navigate for users.
ReadyPass, a smart bus technology that provides data to operators for optimizing routes and schedules, is also in the final stages and should be ready to roll out over the coming months. Once launched, passengers will be able to download a free app onto their smart phone (iOS or Android) which allows them to plan trips online, track the location of their bus and get instant updates from the transit operators. A further announcement will be made once the app is available to the general public.
“T3 Transit feels the addition of the Wi-Fi and GPS features will only strengthen its reputation as one of the country’s most efficient small city transit systems,” said Mike Cassidy, T3 Transit.
T3 Transit began investigating the feasibility of GPS tracking and user-app systems in 2014. ReadyPass was identified early as a good fit for the Capital Area Transit System because of its ease of use and being designed for smaller transit systems. It’s expected the system will help T3 Transit find efficiencies and allow riders to plan their routes and schedules with ease, as well as see where their bus is along their transit route, eliminating some of the barriers that can be associated with bus travel.
“Together with T3 Transit and our funding partners, our three municipalities have been able to install new transit shelters, upgrade the overall fleet, and make infrastructure updates to improve this important service for our citizens,” said Charlottetown Mayor Clifford Lee. “There has been a lot of research and leg work to get to this point. T3 Transit should be very proud.”
“Improving the rider experience will allow our municipalities and T3 Transit to continue to grow. It is our belief that these investments will attract new riders to the system,” said Stratford Mayor David Dunphy. “By allowing riders to easily plan their route, track their bus and be able to then use their phone or laptop wirelessly during their commute greatly improves the overall experience.”
Funding was provided for these initiatives as part of the Public Transit Infrastructure Fund (PTIF). PTIF provided 75 percent of the funding for the transit upgrades – 50 percent from the Government of Canada and 25 percent from the Province of PEI. The municipal contribution to the upgrades was the remaining 25 percent, cost-shared between the City of Charlottetown, the Town of Stratford and the Town of Cornwall following their standard cost-sharing agreement of 75 percent, 15 percent and 10 percent respectively. It is anticipated that dedicated transit funding will continue to be offered in the years ahead which will make maintaining and upgrading transit assets more feasible for the three municipalities.
“The Town of Cornwall is very excited to be a part of the growth and development of transit in our area,” said Cornwall Councillor Peter Meggs. “New initiatives and innovations from T3 ensure that public transit will remain a viable transportation option for residents in the years to come.”
For more information on T3 Transit, including schedules and fares, visit: https://t3transit.ca/
For more information on ReadyPass, visit: www.readypass.ca
Mike Cassidy
Wendy Watts
Community Engagement Coordinator
wwatts@townofstratford.ca
Jennifer Gavin
City of Charlottetown
jgavin@charlottetown.ca
Tracey MacLean
Engagement Coordinator
Town of Cornwall
tmaclean@cornwallpe.ca
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Tag Archives: Lisa Hamilton
Dead Or Alive 5 (PS3 – 2012)
July 30, 2013 by joecarro in Fighting (Games), Video Game Reviews (All) and tagged 2010's, 2012, Akira Yuki, Alpha-152, Average JOE, Ayane, Bass Armstrong, Bayman, Bikini, Brad Wong, Christie, Dead Or Alive 5, Destructive Environment, DOA, DOA5, DOATEC, Eliot, Fighting, Gen Fu, Hayate, Helena Douglas, Hitomi, Jann Lee, Japanese, Joseph Carro, Kasumi, KOEI, Kokoro, La Mariposa, Leifang, Lisa Hamilton, martial arts, Mila, MMA, Ninja, Ninja Gaiden, Outfit, Pai Chan, PS3, Review, Rig, Ryu Hayabusa, Sarah Bryant, Sexy, Swimsuits, Team Ninja, Tecmo, Tina Armstrong, tournament, Video Game, Virtua Fighter, Zack | Leave a comment
The Dead or Alive crew is back in an all-new installment that features MMA fighting techniques blended with the same old Dead Or Alive style we’ve seen in the past. Take on the role of some of your old favorites like Lei Fang, Jann Lee or Gen Fu – or try out some of the newcomers from the Virtua Fighter series such as Brad Wong or Eliot.
Each level comes to life with interactive environments which you can use to your advantage in the right situations. Multiple unlockable outfits and some unlockable characters round out the replayablilty factor while online modes and a robust story mode should keep you entertained for a long while.
Everything I love about this game franchise was still there in this incarnation. The fighting system is still the same as the one found in Dead Or Alive 4, with the “paper, rock, scissors” style mechanics. Button mashers will have a tough time duking it out with more skilled gamers due to this, but the game doesn’t have a massive learning curve.
The graphics are amazing, as usual. Fabric flows, animals move around, sweat glistens as your characters exert themselves and hats fly off heads with strong blows. The music and sound effects were decent enough, too.
The only thing I didn’t really like about this was that the story mode was a little bit incoherent, but it’s in the same way that a lot of Japanese animation feels. It’s chaotic, you’re not QUITE sure what exactly is going on and then WHAMMO – you finally get it. It didn’t really detract a whole lot from my experience, however.
This installment focuses less on the T&A that first drew attention to the series, although that aspect is definitely still present in the form of constantly-jiggling boobage – and make no mistake, the updated facial models and graphics have the characters looking better than ever. And for ladies who appreciate some man-skin, there are also unlockable outfits for the male characters, as well.
All in all, this is a great title and probably one of the best entries into the Dead Or Alive franchise. Learning the game’s nuances is fun and never tedious. The fights and characters are flashy and likable, and the kinetic pace will have you coming back for more. Hands down my favorite fighting game, ever.
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Jeb Bush On Paris Attacks: ‘This Is The War Of Our Time’
By Catherine Thompson
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) reacted in real time to attacks in Paris late Friday on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show.
Bush called the attacks “the war of our time,” according to tweets from the conservative radio host. The presidential candidate also seized on the violence to criticize President Barack Obama’s policy in the Middle East, suggesting that withdrawing troops from Iraq “allowed the energy to form to create ISIS.”
A hostage situation at the site of one of the reported shootings was ongoing as Bush spoke with Hewitt and concrete information about exactly what happened was scarce. Officials were declining to speculate about who may be responsible for the violence.
View Hewitt’s tweets below:
@JebBush to me just now “This is the war of our time”
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) November 13, 2015
“When we pulled back we allowed the energy to form to create ISIS” @JebBush “Hopefully this will be a catalyst to the president to lead”
“We have this vulnerability for sure” @jebbush to me re #ParisAttacks
@JebBush “The best example of American leadership is Operation Desert Storm…it was awesome force, it was not tepid force”
Catherine Thompson (@kt_thomps) Catherine Thompson is a senior editor for Talking Points Memo in New York City. She came to the site in 2013 and reported on national affairs. Previously, she worked as a research assistant to investigative reporter Wayne Barrett. She can be reached at catherine@talkingpointsmemo.com.
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Let's DIY
David Royer: Another DIY tube mic project
by David Royer
ADK and Marshall Electronics have been selling small- capsule capacitor microphones for the last few years, and I have done a tube modification to a few of them. The performance of the modified microphones is good enough that it seemed reasonable to share this modification. Before discussing the modification, though, I would like to discuss capacitor microphones in general so that their operation will not be a mystery.
The capsule of a capacitor microphone consists of a very thin diaphragm, made of metallized plastic or a very thin metal foil, which is clamped around its edge under tension so that it can vibrate like a drum head when it is driven by a sound wave. It is spaced perhaps 1/1000 of an inch from a solid metal disc referred to as a backplate. The backplate and the diaphragm are electrically insulated from each other and they form the two plates of a capacitor, the exact capacitance of which will vary as the diaphragm is moved by the influence of a sound wave. With a suitable electrical circuit, the variation of the capacitance can be translated into a corresponding audio signal with excellent frequency response, low noise and low nonlinear distortion. The usual circuit arrangement using a tube is shown in Figure 1.
In this circuit, the diaphragm is grounded and the backplate connects to a fixed DC potential through a resistor of several hundred megaohms. This resistor is a biasing, or polarizing, resistor. The capacitor will charge in a time determined by the RC time constant of the capacitance and the resistance. However, since the capacitance of the microphone capsule is a variable quantity, the voltage across it will vary as the motion of the diaphragm changes the capacitance. The result will be an audio signal at the junction of the microphone's backplate and the polarizing resistor. This signal can then be fed to a vacuum tube (or FET) amplifier, which must be mounted inside the microphone's case. Otherwise, the signal would disappear into thin air due to the extremely high impedance of the circuit.
The tube circuit shown here is a generic, "common sense" circuit arrangement, with the capacitors, resistors and output transformer selected to provide low distortion, low noise and flat frequency response. In addition, the output transformer is chosen to provide a standard output impedance of around 200 ohms. Since the microphone capsule and the tube require DC operating voltages, tube microphones were sold with dedicated power supplies, which fed the DC supply voltages to the microphones through special multiple-conductor cables.
Tubes That Stand On Their Heads
The tube circuit shown in Figure 1 is referred to as a "plate- loaded" circuit. The signal goes in at the grid of the tube and the amplified signal comes out at the plate. Another tube circuit very useful for certain applications is a cathode follower, shown in Figure 2.
With a cathode follower, the signal is put in at the grid and the output is taken off at the cathode of the tube. The cathode resistor is tapped and the grid resistor (Rg) is brought to the tap to set the proper bias point for the tube. Depending on the circuit arrangement, there is often a capacitor in series with the cathode follower's grid to keep the DC potential there from going out into the outside world and causing havoc.
The cathode follower has a low output impedance, typically less than 1000 ohms, which is very useful. In contrast, the same tube in a plate-loaded circuit would have a much higher output impedance, perhaps tens of thousands of ohms. Because of the low output impedance of cathode followers, they were widely used as output buffer stages on preamps, tuners and tape decks, particularly those that were marketed for the home "hi-fi" market. Cathode followers also have very low distortion, low noise and excellent frequency response; they do not "get in the way," sonically. The only drawback to a cathode follower is that it does not have any gain. It just sits there and gives an output signal that is about 9/10 of the input signal, at a low impedance.
Several capacitor microphones have been made using cathode followers rather than plate loaded circuitry, notably the tube amplifier module for the new DPA microphone, as well as the Sony C-37, the Altec tube mics and the AKG C-60 and C-61. Cathode followers were used with all of these microphones, since the output impedance of a cathode follower is low enough to allow the output signal to be fed to a reasonable length of cable without using an audio transformer — very useful for designing a small microphone. Microphones like the AKG C-60 and the Altec had an output transformer in the power supply. Therefore, the cable between the power supply and the following preamp would be balanced and at a standard professional impedance.
The first microphones I built were small capsule mics, about 5/8 inch in diameter and 3 inches long. There was not enough room in the microphone for much of anything besides the tube, so a cathode follower circuit suggested itself. Furthermore, since I was a poor redneck in those days, I wanted to avoid using audio transformers, so cathode followers were my only option, circuit-wise.
A typical way to build a capacitor microphone using a cathode follower is to simply connect the backplate of the microphone capsule to the grid of the cathode follower in Figure 2, omitting the coupling capacitor, and then ground the capsule's diaphragm. The grid resistor Rg is made very large — say, 100 megaohms — and since the "grounded" end of it will "float" at some positive potential, the resistor serves double duty as a grid resistor and as the polarizing resistor for the capsule. To get the desired polarizing voltage for the capsule, you simply tinker the supply voltage and the value of the resistor Rk until you get a reasonable operating point for the tube and a reasonable voltage across Rk, which then becomes the voltage available for polarizing the microphone capsule. For example, in Figure 2, with the circuit constants shown, the voltage across the 47,000-ohm resistor selected for Rk will be around 60 VDC — a perfect polarizing voltage for a typical capacitor mic capsule of modern design with a metallized Mylar diaphragm. In my tube mod to the ADK A-51 SC mics, I am relying on the leakage resistance among the elements of the tube to form Rg and I am using grid leak bias (or contact-potential bias) rather than self- bias. This circuit has been proven to work very satisfactorilly, at least with single-diaphragm mic capsules. (I have found that the circuit needs to be modified to be satisfactory for a double diaphragm multi-pattern capsule, but this issue will have to wait for another time.)
Also, in the tube mod, I have physically located the cathode resistor and the coupling capacitor in the power supply to avoid having a hard-to-assemble mess in the microphone. At first glance, it may seem that the fact that the cathode follower doesn't amplify would rule it out in a capacitor microphone. However, since a plate- loaded circuit requires an output transformer with a high step-down ratio to get the impedance down to 200 ohms or so, the transformer "throws away" most of the tube's gain. With a cathode follower, even with an output transformer selected to give 100 to 200 ohms output impedance, the cathode follower mic would give, at worst, 10 dB less sensitivity than a plate-loaded design with a similar capsule — not bad, particularly when you consider that the cathode follower mic would be all but impossible to overload.
In any case, the cathode follower circuit arrangement seemed "made to order" for the ADK A-51 SC. I revisited it and checked out some audio transformers that seemed likely to provide a balanced, transformer-isolated output, as is standard in the professional world. If you are going to feed unbalanced inputs of medium to high impedance (10,000 ohms or more), the output transformer may be omitted and the signal taken from the cathode follower at the same point where the output transformer primary would connect to the circuit. Do note, though, that the audio signal at the cathode of a cathode follower microphone will be out of phase (the capsule flops the phase), so allowances will need to be made for this. If an output transformer is used, it can be wired to put the phase right. In this article, the output transformer is wired so the signal at the output is the modern standard "pin 2 hot" and the transformer provides an output of around 200 ohms, balanced, in keeping with professional practice.
As for the power supply, I am using the same voltage tripler supply as in the earlier Tape Op article ("One Tube Microphone From Berlin And One From Barstow," Sep/Oct 2001). I won't discuss the power supply further, except to mention that it is designed to put out 95 VDC and 6 VDC using a standard 24 VAC power transformer or 24 VAC "wall wart". The wall wart is a handy way to build a power supply without having to worry about going somewhere and being told that you can't plug your something in because it isn't UL-approved. I designed both this power supply and the one for the mod for the 2001 the way I did for this very reason.
Modifying The Microphone
With the ADK A-51 SC mic, the bottom 5/8 inch or so of the mic is fastened to the main part of the housing using three very small screws that turn up from inside the mic (like the screw that holds the insert on a Switchcraft XLR connector) and the capsule (the top 5/8 inch or so of the mic) unscrews from the main part of the housing. A spring-loaded contact in the main part of the housing presses against a contact in the center of the back of the capsule.
To start with the mod, disassemble the microphone, setting the capsule aside in a safe place. When the microphone is disassembled, you will find that there is a long, narrow printed circuit board and a plastic plug at the top of it that carries the spring-loaded contact mentioned above. Wires then lead down from the PCB to the contacts on the XLR connector. You will also find that there are two very small screws that clamp the circuit board to the bottom of the microphone and to the plastic plug, respectively. By loosening the two screws at the bottom and cutting the wires going to the XLR insert, the bottom end of the board can be freed from the microphone's base and the top of the board can be freed by unsoldering the lead going to the spring- loaded contact and loosening the two screws.
Note: The ADK A-51 SC was switchless until 2002, when a 10 dB pad and a bass cut were added (both on one switch). The switch is connected to the mic's circuit board and will come out with the circuit board, but the switch cap, which you see on the outside of the mic, will need to be pried off with a screwdriver before you can remove the mic's electronics. This will leave a hole in the side of the microphone, which will not interfere with the microphones operation.
The modification of the microphone is completed by simply replacing the original PCB with another one, laid out for the 5840 tube, and then running the connections from the new PCB down to the prongs on a 5-prong XLR insert that is substituted for the one in the microphone. A PCB is available that is plainly marked at one end for the correct tube elements and at the other with the numbers of the XLR plug prongs, in keeping with the prong assignments shown in Figure 3. Pin 3 of the XLR insert is "jumpered" to the ground lug of the XLR insert.
The tube's leads are soldered to the four traces on the PCB, except for the grid lead, Pin 1. The grid lead must be left its full length to reach to where it connects. The other leads are clipped to a length of about 3/4 of an inch and covered with pieces of Teflon sleeving cut to a length of about 1/2 inch. The tube is mounted so that it will sit upside down in the microphone and the grid lead, covered with a piece of Teflon sleeving, is run to the spring-loaded contact at the top of the microphone.
The power supply for this microphone may be assembled in an ammo box, as recommended in the earlier article, being careful about the polarities of the diodes and capacitors. The power transformer is mounted at the end of the box where the AC cord, switch, fuse and panel lamp are mounted. The output transformer is mounted at the opposite end of the box, adjacent to the 3-prong XLR connector for the main output of the microphone. The 2.2 uF coupling capacitor and the 39k cathode resistor are mounted on a terminal strip mounted next to the output transformer. Note well: Do not use the mounting (center) lug on the terminal strip for any circuit connections.
The 3-prong XLR plug for the output of the microphone is fed from either the cathode follower or from the output transformer secondary. Refer to the diagram in Figure 3 for the correct pin assignments. Remember that the pin numbering of a 3-pin XLR plug defies reason and double- check this. For an unbalanced feed, use Pin 2 as signal "hot" and leave Pin 3 empty.
Upon completion of the microphone, cable and power supply, connect it all together and connect the power supply to the AC power line. The voltages should measure as shown on the diagram in Figure 3. Voltage measures that are radically different indicate a fault. Be aware, though, that the voltage measurements will be radically wrong if the microphone is disconnected.
If you have worked carefully, the modified microphone should work very nicely. I have modified several of them and I have been impressed with the performance, particularly at the price.
I can be reached at ROYERGRIZZ@aol.com, and a kit may be ordered through me. The kit, excluding Jensen MB/D transformer, is available for $170 U.S., including shipping in the United States. This price is subject to change.
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Have you ever walked to the carpark with your keys in your hand for self-defence?
Decided to take the long way around a dark area at night because you don’t like the look of it?
Been harassed on the street or in a public area?
Decided not to walk or ride your bike somewhere because it feels too risky?
Women avoiding an area or changing how they move through a public space because they don’t feel safe is something we all know happens. It happens all over the world, including Canberra despite its reputation as a city of middle-class, safe, suburban professionals. And that’s a problem, because women should be able to feel safe everywhere.
The question is, how do we make an area feel safe?
There are some logical things we all know about: good lighting, and seeing that an area has people in it (and they’re not people who look like they might mean us harm). But for some areas, there might be more to it than that. And we need to know what areas to focus on for improvements.
This is where you can help! The Women’s Centre for Health Matters have a Safety Map where you can mark out areas in Canberra where you feel safe or unsafe, and tell us why you feel that way. You can pinpoint a specific location, or highlight an entire street or park where there are things you think we should know.
We’ve already gathered some data about the inner north area. People using the Safety Map reported on areas in Ainslie, ANU, Braddon, City, Dickson, Reid, and Turner. Of those reports, 87% of people were reporting places where they felt unsafe or very unsafe. 77% of the reports were from people who identified as female, and 74% of all reports were from people who identified as female and aged 18-34 years.
Many of the comments people made about areas where they felt unsafe identified poor lighting, poor quality footpaths, feeling isolated in an area, and seeing drunk men there as contributing to feeling unsafe. Some women reported being verbally abused in areas as a reason they don’t feel safe, while others commented on an area’s reputation for crime as a reason they avoid the area.
For example, “The path is on my walk home from work, so I can’t avoid it. It is badly lit and there are trees closely surrounding it. It often feels sketchy/dangerous.” This is a comment that was made about Haig Park by a woman aged 18-34 years old.
We’ll take what you tell us to the ACT’s Environment, Planning and Sustainable Development managers, so that it can be taken into consideration when they are looking at urban planning. They are currently looking at town plans for Woden and Mawson (closes 21 April), and Gungahlin Town Centre (closes 14 April). Later this year, we’ll also be looking at what’s happening around the Dickson and O’Connor areas.
Find out more and have your say.
Emma Davidson is the Deputy CEO of Women’s Centre for Health Matters in Canberra.
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Emma Davidson 5:53 pm 18 Apr 17
Hi dungfungus, the comments about “drunk men” were made by people who used the Safety Map to report areas where they felt unsafe.
dungfungus 2:31 pm 12 Apr 17
Why do you single out “drunk men”?
I’ve seen equal numbers of very drunk females too and some are threatening.
Women do attack other women, you know.
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AHL Morning Skate: Penguins hoping to pull even
by theahl
Every game day from now until the end of the Calder Cup Playoffs, the AHL Morning Skate takes a spin around the AHL ice with recaps and previews, news and notes, facts and figures, and the top headlines from around the American Hockey League.
SATURDAY’S SCORES:
HERSHEY 5, W-B/Scranton 3 (HER leads series, 1-0)
MILWAUKEE 4, Houston 1 (Series tied, 1-1)
MANITOBA 2, Grand Rapids 1 (MTB leads series, 2-0)
SATURDAY’S THREE STARS:
1. Ryan Jones scored a pair of goals as Milwaukee evened the West Division Finals with a 4-1 victory over Houston.
2. Cory Schneider backstopped Manitoba to a 2-0 series lead over Grand Rapids by making 28 saves on 29 shots in a 2-1 Game 2 win.
3. Andrew Gordon posted a goal and an assist to help Hershey past Wilkes-Barre/Scranton in Game 1 of the East Division Finals, 5-3.
SUNDAY’S SCHEDULE (all times ET):
Game 2 – Wilkes-Barre/Scranton at Hershey, 5:00 (HER leads series, 1-0)
2009 CALDER CUP PLAYOFFS:
Atlantic Division Finals – Series “I” (best-of-7)
A2-Providence Bruins vs. A4-Worcester Sharks || Preview
Game 1 – Tue., Apr. 28 – PROVIDENCE 3, Worcester 2 (OT)
Game 2 – Wed., May 6 – Providence at Worcester, 7:05
Game 3 – Fri., May 8 – Worcester at Providence, 7:05
Game 4 – Sat., May 9 – Providence at Worcester, 7:05
*Game 5 – Mon., May 11 – Worcester at Providence, 7:05
*Game 6 – Wed., May 13 – Providence at Worcester, 7:05
*Game 7 – Thu., May 14 – Worcester at Providence, 7:05
East Division Finals – Series “J” (best-of-7)
E1-Hershey Bears vs. E3-W-B/Scranton Penguins || Preview
Game 1 – Sat., May 2 – HERSHEY 5, W-B/Scranton 3
Game 2 – Sun., May 3 – W-B/Scranton at Hershey, 5:00
Game 3 – Wed., May 6 – Hershey at W-B/Scranton, 7:05
Game 4 – Fri., May 8 – Hershey at W-B/Scranton, 7:05
*Game 5 – Sat., May 9 – Hershey at W-B/Scranton, 7:05
*Game 6 – Sun., May 10 – W-B/Scranton at Hershey, 5:00
*Game 7 – Tue., May 12 – W-B/Scranton at Hershey, 7:00
North Division Finals – Series “K” (best-of-7)
N1-Manitoba Moose vs. N3-Grand Rapids Griffins || Preview
Game 1 – Fri., May 1 – MANITOBA 2, Grand Rapids 1
Game 2 – Sat., May 2 – MANITOBA 2, Grand Rapids 1
Game 3 – Mon., May 4 – Manitoba at Grand Rapids, 7:00
Game 4 – Wed., May 6 – Manitoba at Grand Rapids, 7:00
*Game 5 – Fri., May 8 – Manitoba at Grand Rapids, 7:00
*Game 6 – Sun., May 10 – Grand Rapids at Manitoba, 8:30
*Game 7 – Tue., May 12 – Grand Rapids at Manitoba, 8:30
West Division Finals – Series “L” (best-of-7)
W1-Milwaukee Admirals vs. W3-Houston Aeros || Preview
Game 1 – Thu., Apr. 30 – Houston 2, MILWAUKEE 1
Game 2 – Sat., May 2 – MILWAUKEE 4, Houston 1
Game 3 – Tue., May 5 – Milwaukee at Houston, 8:05
Game 4 – Thu., May 7 – Milwaukee at Houston, 8:05
Game 5 – Sat., May 9 – Milwaukee at Houston, 8:35
*Game 6 – Mon., May 11 – Houston at Milwaukee, 8:00
*Game 7 – Wed., May 13 – Houston at Milwaukee, 8:00
*if necessary… All times Eastern
GAME NOTES (all times ET):
Hershey and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton don’t have much time to dwell on their East Division Finals opener, as Game 2 of the series is set to face off this afternoon at Giant Center… The Bears received goals from five different players en route to a 5-3 triumph in Game 1 last night, their fifth consecutive win to open the postseason… Chris Bourque posted a goal and an assist and now has a point in all five playoff games (1-6-7) for Hershey… Andrew Gordon and Kyle Wilson also registered a goal and a helper in Game 1, while defenseman Staffan Kronwall and AHL MVP Alexandre Giroux both scored… Giroux (3-4-7) and Bourque are pacing the Bears with seven points in the playoffs thus far, and Kronwall has a goal in his last three games played… Bears goaltender Michal Neuvirth made 35 saves in net and now has 10 wins in his last 11 decisions going back to the regular season… Hershey converted two of three power plays and has been successful 30 percent of the time (9-for-30) in the postseason, second only to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton’s 40.7 percent (11-for-27)… The Bears’ run of 25 straight successful penalty kills to start the postseason ended with the first of Nick Johnson’s two power-play goals last night… Dustin Jeffrey assisting on both Johnson goals and Jean-Michel Daoust extended his scoring streak to five games (4-4-8) with Wilkes-Barre’s other marker… Chris Minard picked up an assist and now has a point in all six playoff games (5-3-8), but he was held without a goal for the first time… Hershey has won 10 consecutive series in which they won Game 1, dating back to a 1999 defeat to Kentucky… The Penguins are a solid 6-6 lifetime in postseason series when they drop the opener, but 0-2 against the Bears… Hershey is 7-1 at Giant Center in the playoffs against Wilkes-Barre/Scranton.
MORNING HEADLINES:
PENALTY-KILL STREAK ENDS, WINNING STREAK GOES ON
Tim Leone, Harrisburg Patriot-News
They’re no longer perfect on the penalty kill in the playoffs, but the Hershey Bears still have a perfect record. Though they surrendered two power-play goals to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins Saturday night at Giant Center, the Bears matched that with two of their own in a 5-3 Game 1 victory. Balanced scoring and answer-back goals gave Hershey a 1-0 lead in the best-of-seven East Division finals. In the four previous series between the clubs, the team that won Game 1 won the series. “I think we kept at it and kept answering them whenever they scored,” Chris Bourque said. “That’s a good sign. It was tough coming off that layoff, but I thought we played pretty well.”
http://www.pennlive.com/hersheybears/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/sports/1241323819182980.xml&coll=1
BEARS TAKE GAME 1 OVER PENS
Dan Sernoffsky, Lebanon Daily News
Their penalty kill is no longer perfect but last night, the power play nearly was, and that made all the difference in the world as the Hershey Bears skated to a 5-3 victory over the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins at Giant Center. The game was the series opener in the best-of-seven East Division final. The two teams play again tonight before the series heads to Wilkes-Barre for Game 3 on Wednesday. “We weathered a storm a little bit,” said Hershey’s Andrew Gordon, who scored a power-play goal with just 16.3 seconds left in the second period to break a 2-2 tie. “They were coming at us hard. Once we did that, I thought we played well.”
http://www.ldnews.com/sports/ci_12282172
BEARS DRAW FIRST BLOOD IN GAME 1
Tom Venesky, Wilkes-Barre Times Leader
Just when it appeared as if the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins were ready to get back on track, a seemingly harmless shot from the point sealed their fate. It looked as if the Penguins would close out the period tied 2-2 until Bears defenseman Bryan Helmer lofted a shot from the point with 16.3 seconds left. The shot deflected off several bodies and sticks in front and past goalie John Curry for a 3-2 lead. The goal took away the Penguins momentum to end the second period and allowed Hershey to go on to a 5-3 win in Game 1 of the AHL East Division Finals.
http://www.timesleader.com/sports/Bears_draw_first_blood_in_Game_1_05-03-2009.html
BEARS ROUGH UP PENS IN OPENER
Jonathan Bombulie, Citizens’ Voice
When Nick Johnson converted a pass from Luca Caputi with about three minutes left in the second period of Game 1 of the East Division finals Saturday night, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins had scaled a big mountain. With 16.3 seconds left in the period, Bryan Helmer and Andrew Gordon kicked them back down the hill again. Gordon’s tip-in of a Helmer power-play point shot gave the Hershey Bears a lead they never relinquished in a 5-3 victory over the Penguins at the Giant Center. The teams will play Game 2 tonight at the same venue.
http://www.citizensvoice.com/articles/2009/05/03/sports/wb_voice.20090503.b.pg1.cv03pegamer_s1.2495029_spo1.txt
DISPLAYING A LEVEL EFFORT
Dave Boehler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Ryan Jones scored two goals and goaltender Drew MacIntyre returned to near-perfect form as the Milwaukee Admirals defeated the Houston Aeros, 4-1, Saturday night at the Bradley Center. Jones’ first goal was the winner, as Milwaukee took a 2-1 lead when the left wing scored on a power play with 3:35 left in the second period. MacIntyre allowed just one goal for the fifth time in six playoff games, and he finished with 18 saves after suffering a 2-1 loss Thursday night. The best-of-seven American Hockey League West Division finals series is tied, 1-1, with the next three games in Houston beginning Tuesday night.
http://www.jsonline.com/sports/hockey/44238322.html
ADMIRALS FIND SUCCESS IN MARKETING ENTERTAINMENT VALUE
Don Walker, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Harris Turer, owner of the Milwaukee Admirals, says he doesn’t think the hockey team has ever made money. But economic challenges aside, the Admirals have found a way to market themselves in a family-friendly and entertaining way. “I think we’ve done a really good job of giving people a lot for their money,” Turer said. “We are proud of the fact that our staff has worked exceptionally hard so that when people leave an Admirals game, they can say, ‘That was a great experience.’” Turer and Jon Greenberg, the team’s president, readily concede that there isn’t enough of a market based on hockey interest alone to pay the bills. So the Admirals have to look beyond the rabid hockey fan who is interested only in a good night of checking, skating and scoring.
http://www.jsonline.com/business/44199797.html
MOOSE TAKE CONTROL
Ken Wiebe, Winnipeg Sun
Cory Schneider lost his mask, but didn’t lose his cool. At the end of the night, the Manitoba Moose goalie had stopped nearly everything that came his way in leading the home side to a 2-1 victory over the Grand Rapids Griffins last night before a crowd of 8,444 at the MTS Centre last night. The Moose lead the best-of-7 series 2-0, with Game 3 set for tomorrow night at the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Mich.
http://www.winnipegsun.com/sports/hockey/2009/05/03/9332031-sun.html
YOU JUST NEVER KNOW WHEN A MOOSE WILL TURN INTO A BUTTERFLY
Randy Turner, Winnipeg Free Press
At times, these days, watching the Manitoba Moose is kinda like witnessing metamorphosis at work. Call it biology on ice. Indeed, if Darwin had been a puckhead, he’d have those hand-drawn examples of evolution in a book called The Origin of an NHL Player. And at no time is this natural selection more prevalent than the ongoing post-season, the professional game’s version of the Galapagos Islands. You see, in watching the Canucks’ and Manitoba’s post-seasons unfold, you can actually see the threads of evolution running between the two organizations.
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/columnists/You-just-never-know-when-a-Moose-will-turn-into-a-butterfly-44229487.html
TOP TEAMS USUALLY WIN HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIPS
Garry Brown, Springfield Republican
At hockey playoff time, you can usually figure a first-place team to skate away with the championship cup, but every so often, along comes a surprise. Hartford had what it took to nail first place in a hectic Atlantic Division race, but after winning Games 1-2 of its first-round playoff series with Worcester, lost four in a row. See you later. Hockey history tells us that first-place teams generally do get what they deserve – a championship. And what of those surprises? Well, you won’t find a team in either league more surprising than the Springfield Kings of 1970-71.
http://www.masslive.com/sports/index.ssf/2009/05/top_teams_usually_win_hockey_c.html
ALUMNI REPORT:
2006 Calder Cup champions David Steckel and Tomas Fleischmann each scored a goal and Simeon Varlamov made 34 saves as Washington took a 3-2 win over Pittsburgh to open their Eastern Conference semifinal yesterday… 2005 Calder Cup champion Patrick Sharp netted a pair of goals as Chicago stormed back from a 2-0 deficit to take a 6-3 win over Vancouver, evening their Western Conference semifinal at one game apiece.
2006 Calder Cup champion Jakub Klepis posted three assists as the Czech Republic beat Slovakia, 8-0, yesterday at the IIHF World Championships in Switzerland.
BY THE NUMBERS:
100 – Career Calder Cup Playoff games played by Hershey captain Bryan Helmer, who last night became the 13th player ever to reach that milestone… Grand Rapids’ Darren Haydar hit the 100-game mark last round.
39-10 – Record this postseason for the team that scores the game’s first goal (.796), including 4-0 marks by both Hershey and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton… The team which draws first blood has won five of the six games played so far in the division finals round.
ON THIS DATE:
May 3, 2008 – Facing an 0-2 series deficit in the East Division Finals, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton rallies from three goals down in the third period and defeats Philadelphia, 5-4, on Chris Minard’s goal 2:07 into overtime.
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Ericsson steps right in for Red Wings
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== Competitions ==
=== (2015) [https://globalhack.org/globalhack-v/ Globalhack 5] ($15k) ===
=== (2015) [https://globalhack.org/globalhack-v/ Globalhack 5] (2nd place, $15k) ===
* I worked with a team of friends, and we just knocked it out of the park. We built a web, phone call, and sms solution to navigating the STL municipal court system. We were super proud of our solution - it earned us second place, along with a [http://www.civtechstl.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/GHV_2ndPlace-1500x1000.jpg $15k cash prize].
=== (2015) [https://globalhack.org/globalhack-announces-winners-for-fourth-event-globalhack-iv/ Globalhack 4] ($30k) ===
=== (2015) [https://globalhack.org/globalhack-announces-winners-for-fourth-event-globalhack-iv/ Globalhack 4] (1st place, $30k) ===
* I brought an 11 year old friend I was teaching to program to the competition, and teamed up with some colleagues from my work. We were a team of five, but only had two professional developers (including myself). We nabbed first place and [https://globalhack.org/hack-resources/uploads/2016/04/GlobalHack-IV-1st-Place_web.jpg won $30k of prize money].
=== (2014) [https://web.archive.org/web/20200104045301/https://globalhack.org/globalhack-ii/ Globalhack 2] ($50k) ===
=== (2014) [https://web.archive.org/web/20200104045301/https://globalhack.org/globalhack-ii/ Globalhack 2] (1st place, $50k) ===
* I joined a random team of people who came to the event without a team. On our team of six, we had only two developers (including myself), and one guy who knew some html/css. We pushed forward to first place and [https://web.archive.org/web/20200104045303im_/https://globalhack.org/hack-resources/uploads/2016/04/GlobalHack-II-Winning-Team_web.jpg won $50k of prize money].
=== (2014) OGSYSTEMS’ VIPER LABS - [https://web.archive.org/web/20200104041547/https://www.ogsystems.com/newspost/570691bf14b8faaaca9b11d7.html V1P3RTH0N CTF] (~$100) ===
=== (2014) OGSYSTEMS’ VIPER LABS - [https://web.archive.org/web/20200104041547/https://www.ogsystems.com/newspost/570691bf14b8faaaca9b11d7.html V1P3RTH0N CTF] (2nd place, ~$100) ===
* I came in [https://web.archive.org/web/20200104041640/https://0xdeadcode.se/archives/227 second place], won around $100 worth of gear
=== (2014) [https://web.archive.org/web/20140317104647/stlouis.cbslocal.com/2014/02/03/globalhack-gives-away-first-50000-prize/ Globalhack 1] ($10k) ===
=== (2014) [https://web.archive.org/web/20140317104647/stlouis.cbslocal.com/2014/02/03/globalhack-gives-away-first-50000-prize/ Globalhack 1] (~4th place, $10k) ===
* While my team technically didn't win, the event organizer was interested enough in the learning algorithm we wrote that they offered $10k to buy the source code off my team of two - we accepted.
1 Current Projects
2 Portfolio
2.1 (2014-Present) TopOPPS
2.2 (2013) eGood
2.3 (2011-2012) Retail Management Solutions Automation
2.4 (2010) Noah Transportation
3.1 (2015) Globalhack 5 (2nd place, $15k)
3.2 (2015) Globalhack 4 (1st place, $30k)
3.4 (2014) OGSYSTEMS’ VIPER LABS - V1P3RTH0N CTF (2nd place, ~$100)
3.5 (2014) Globalhack 1 (~4th place, $10k)
3.6 (2012) Symantec's Cyber Readiness Challenge - CTF (4th place, ~$400)
3.7 (2010) US Cyber Challenge, Cyber Quests CTF (1st place, $0)
6 Older Stuff
HackThe.Company, open internet capture-the-flag challenges based on real life hacks that occurred
TeachCraft.Net, learn python programming through Minecraft
E-Reveal, reveal email addresses on LinkedIn Profiles based on a LIVE search (Gmail enumeration bug, HaveIBeenPwned, DNS Records, Github commits)
The Tobias Project, experiencing flight as a bird
clipbox (Clipbox, a wxPython project that connects your computer clipboard to your Dropbox public
folder, allowing you to share something with a simple copy command (text, files, a screenshot of your monitor, etc))
quickftp
(2014-Present) TopOPPS
TopOPPS is a Sales Forecasting and Pipeline Management software solution, aimed to be a layer on top of a traditional CRM system (it integrates with Salesforce, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics, and Zoho). Its interfaces include a web application, a mobile web app (wrapped with Cordova to be in the App Store and Google Play), a Gmail Chrome Extension, an Outlook Add-in, and iframes/widgets in the various CRMs.
[Team of 5] The full web application was written in Python, utilizing the Django web framework, with a Postgres database (using both normal SQL tables, and also using it like a nosql database for unstructured custom field data which varied per client). We wrote business analytics software similar to Tableau, but serving a specific niche. We also wrote various forecasting algorithms, largely based on statistical history.
[Team of 2] We wrote the mobile application with basic features of the full web application. We wrote it as a web app so it did not require a special skillset, and the same devs maintaining the full web app could maintain the mobile app. The Cordova wrapper around the web app pretty much did not have to be updated for 5 years.
[Team of 2] We wrote a Chrome Extension to insert our widgets in Gmail and Google Calendar, using the InboxSDK javascript library. We also wrote an Outlook Add-in for Outlook Email/Calendar. Both used the same backend api within our app, supported interacting with live sales data embedded within your emails so you can rapidly update your CRM and see contextually relevant information, and included a custom email tracking and attachment tracking mechanism.
I led the dev team that built the product as a whole over several years and many, many iterations. I acted as a senior dev and a product manager. We had three backend devs, two frontend devs, and a dozen interns over the years. It's still ongoing.
(2013) eGood
eGood was a loyalty rewards iPad / website system that gave a portion of each purchase made in participating stores to a charity of the store's choice, in addition to providing customer tracking (and loyalty rewards to the customers). Its interface was a mobile app, an iPad kiosk in each store, and a website.
[Team of 5] Rewrote app from custom PHP code to CakePHP framework
[Team of 2] Wrote a new 'fundraiser' feature to their core app, re-purposing their donation scheme to work for popular fundraisers that many eating places support for local sports teams / etc.
[Solo] Wrote a prototype iPad POS system from scratch, utilizing Cordova (then called Phonegap) to make a 'native' web application that could control the hardware peripherals with javascript (a receipt printer, a cash drawer, and a credit card swiper)
[Solo] Built and certified a credit card processing flow with Worldpay
[Solo] Wrote a pivot of the app to make it function in eCommerce for FoxyCart and Shopify webstores.
When I joined eGood, it was a few years old and struggling. I worked there for a year, assisted the existing dev team, and worked solo with one of the founders on a few high risk / high reward pivots. Unfortunately the founder I was working with got forced out, which cancelled my pivot projects, and I left shortly thereafter. The company died about a year later.
(2011-2012) Retail Management Solutions Automation
Retail Management Solutions Automation (RMSA) was a forecasting solution that aided retail stores in knowing exactly how much inventory to stock on its shelves, every month of the year, to maximize sales and minimize rotting merchandise (out of fashion clothes, having surplus swimware in the winter, etc).
[Solo] Reverse engineered a 40 year old planning/forecast system written in Cobol, and rewrote it in Python.
[Solo] Improved the forecasting system, accounting for one-time events within the forecasting algorithm, adding arbitrary levels of hierarchy, and building additional integrations to point-of-sale systems for data inputs to the algorithms.
[Team of 2] Replaced the printed copies of the results of the planning algorithm with a dynamic, filterable web application using the Django web framework, with Postgres and MongoDB databases.
RMSA ran the new software for several years, then successfully was bought by a larger company. The larger company may still be running the same software I wrote, though it's possible they rewrote part or all of it - I simply do not know.
(2010) Noah Transportation
Noah Transportation was a company that hired a fleet of drivers (independent contractors) to transport utility vehicles (primarily bucket trucks) across the country for clients such as PG&E, Southern California Edison, and Global Rental.
[Solo] Created a custom PHP web app which tracked the orders, drivers, locations, etc (essentially all the logistics aspect of the company)
[Solo] Wrote an invoice system in the PHP web app and integrated it to Quickbooks
[Solo] Made integrations within the PHP web app to both fax and email services to facilitate driver/customer communication
[Solo] Put together a slick digital whiteboard system, cloning Noah's office whiteboard use-cases, that allowed them to support working from home/remote.
The company remained using the app for 10 years until 2020, then shut down due to a change in California's laws regarding independent contractors (which affected their drivers).
(2015) Globalhack 5 (2nd place, $15k)
I worked with a team of friends, and we just knocked it out of the park. We built a web, phone call, and sms solution to navigating the STL municipal court system. We were super proud of our solution - it earned us second place, along with a $15k cash prize.
(2015) Globalhack 4 (1st place, $30k)
I brought an 11 year old friend I was teaching to program to the competition, and teamed up with some colleagues from my work. We were a team of five, but only had two professional developers (including myself). We nabbed first place and won $30k of prize money.
I joined a random team of people who came to the event without a team. On our team of six, we had only two developers (including myself), and one guy who knew some html/css. We pushed forward to first place and won $50k of prize money.
(2014) OGSYSTEMS’ VIPER LABS - V1P3RTH0N CTF (2nd place, ~$100)
I came in second place, won around $100 worth of gear
(2014) Globalhack 1 (~4th place, $10k)
While my team technically didn't win, the event organizer was interested enough in the learning algorithm we wrote that they offered $10k to buy the source code off my team of two - we accepted.
(2012) Symantec's Cyber Readiness Challenge - CTF (4th place, ~$400)
In overall points, I came in fourth. However, I won $200 for being the first person to find a flag, then a Parrot AR Drone worth around $200 for being the first/only one to penetrate to level 3.
(2010) US Cyber Challenge, Cyber Quests CTF (1st place, $0)
I tied for first place in the online CTF competition, which made me eligible to go to their summer camp
My team of two won first place in the CTF competition at the summer camp, no prize money, just bragging rights. In the competition I found a way to upload a php shell by bypassing certain protections on a file upload form.
BS Computer Science: California State University, San Bernardino [2008-2011]
GIAC Web Application Penetration Tester (GWAPT) certification [2011]
Who were the Brothers of Christ?
Letters Between Augustine and Jerome
Fact-checking Protestant claims about the Old Testament Canon
Fact-checking Protestant claims about Baby Dedications and Infant Baptism
Older Stuff: Notes, References, Collections, etc.
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Splitmo’s Poker Night TV Offers A Perfect Use Case For Apple TV As A Gaming Device
The Apple TV is already a game console, in case you didn’t know, and a new app from independent developer and AirPlay-focused startup Splitmo shows why. The company has just released Poker Night TV, its second app and first game, which uses AirPlay and the Apple TV to let up to eight players join in for a virtual poker game on their TV set.
The free to play game displays the common cards from a game of Texas Hold’em on the Apple TV-connected display, while individual hands are shown on connected iOS devices. If you don’t have an Apple TV handy, an iPad can also substitute as the virtual “table” or main display, or just use their individual devices on their own, too.
Splitmo started out with a special focus on AirPlay, having created Air Show, as a slideshow creator and controller for Apple TV on iOS. The startup, which is built by a team of founders based in North Carolina that have previously worked on mobile apps built specifically for carrier customers, is going all-in on a strategy of promoting the capabilities of Apple’s cross-device ecosystem, and Poker Night TV is an exemplary use case of those special hooks that Apple offers for those customers who embrace their product lines across a range of hardware.
Poker Night TV also offers a number of other bells and whistles for poker aficionados, including the percentage likelihood specific hands have to win. And it offers in-game real world prizes for winners, such as pizza, as an incentive to keep playing. But the real trick is AirPlay, since it’s an execution of Apple’s secret gaming payload.
Others have been exploring the uses of this tech, including SketchParty TV and Sky Gamblers. It has lots of potential, most of which remains unexplored. It’s true that there’s massive upfront investment required to make it work; users need not only an Apple TV but various iOS devices to use with it. But the difference between it and traditional home consoles is that AirPlay gaming doesn’t require users to buy things just for gaming. In most cases, they’ll already have the devices required, minus maybe a $100 Apple TV unit.
Big consoles may still be attracting eyeballs and pre-order dollars, but the one to watch long-term is Apple, as it increases the interoperability between its mobile devices and other platforms including the Apple TV and OS X.
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Clear Ventures Launches New $180 Million VC Fund to Focus on Frontier Tech, Industry 4.0, AI, IoT, 5G, Big Data, and More
TechStartups Team Posted On April 26, 2019
Clear Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that helps startup teams win in frontier technology and services, has launched a new $180 million venture fund called Clear Ventures II, L.P. (“Clear II”) that focuses on frontier tech, industry 4.0, AI, IoT, 5G, Big Data, and more.
Founded by veteran company builders and venture investors Chris Rust and Rajeev Madhavan, formerly of Sequoia Capital and USVP and founders of four successful companies, Clear provides early capital, connections, and company-building insights to bold startup teams so their ideas can grow into market-leading companies. Clear’s current portfolio companies have already raised a collective $300 million in follow-on financing. Clear has funded over 50 companies, 90% as the first investors, with 34 exits produced $52 billion from 8 IPOs and 24 acquisitions.
Following Clear’s initial fund of $121 Million in 2016, this second fund has investment from an exceptional investor base of large pensions, university endowments, charitable foundations, children’s hospitals and other noble causes that have over $175 Billion of assets under management. The Clear II Limited Partners also includes many iconic technology industry leaders.
Clear II will invest in companies that are aligned with Industry 4.0 or the fourth industrial revolution (a combination of AI, IoT, Cloud, Big Data, 5G, AR/VR, robotics, autonomous vehicles, etc.) which is expected to create the biggest impact on the world to date by improving quality of life, reducing inequality of the world’s population and raising income levels.1
“The technology mega trends of the past decade such as cloud, mobile, data and analytics are now the toolkit for entrepreneurs to build tomorrow’s market leading technology companies,” said Chris Rust, General Partner and Founder of Clear Ventures. “We see a tremendous opportunity for the next generation of entrepreneurs. No industry will be immune to the transition from products to technology-enabled-services. The combination of this toolkit and deep vertical domain expertise can disrupt any incumbent. Clear II is dedicated to helping tomorrow’s technology leaders flourish.”
Before founding Clear Ventures, Rajeev was a co-founder of LogicVision (IPO), Ambit (acquired by Cadence), and Magma Design Automation (IPO). Rajeev served as Magma’s Chief Executive Officer through its IPO and entire tenure as a public company, during which time Magma made seminal contributions to the creation of the modern smartphone. Chris was a co-founder of broadband Internet pioneer Roadrunner, now known as Time Warner Cable Internet, which grew to 13 million subscribers.
“With the launch of Clear II, we’re pleased to offer an even greater range of support to founders as they work to bring their solutions to market,” said Rajeev Madhavan, General Partner and Founder of Clear Ventures. “We are now offering four new programs to support entrepreneurs.”
The four new programs are: The Clear Vision Fund, Clear Technology Partners, Clear Launchpad, and Clear Ecosystem Advantage, a unique system that uses data science and automation to aggregate data from many sources and take advantage of the amazing relationships we have with the right customers, talent and investors.
“If a founder wants to work with a firm that has a deep understanding of technology, and the kind of support that tech startups need, then they should look to Clear,” said Carlos Delatorre, CEO of Vera. “Clear has been with us from the beginning, from our earliest seed round to our current Series A round, leading us through not just the financing but mentoring us every step of the way, offering us access to customers, talent and follow-on financing. They have been a huge asset in helping us build a successful company and avoiding many of the pitfalls that can come with it.”
“Raising Clear II is a testament to the amazing teams, the hard work, and the tremendous progress made by Clear I portfolio companies such as Arrcus (internet-scale network operating system), Atmosic (battery-free IoT), Robin Systems (just announced a Google Partnership), Vera (protecting files everywhere) and others,” added Rajeev Madhavan. “We are fortunate to partner with these companies to create significant value for enterprise customers and our Limited Partners.”
Meet Soundesk, A Modern Table With Surround Sound Speaker
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Pierce Butler
We don't have a picture of this vessel at this time.
Name Pierce Butler
Type: Steam merchant (Liberty)
Completed 1942 - Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc, Baltimore MD
Owner Calmar SS Co Inc, New York
Homeport Baltimore
Date of attack 20 Nov 1942 Nationality: American
Fate Sunk by U-177 (Robert Gysae)
Position 29° 40'S, 36° 35'E - Grid KP 9910
Complement 62 (0 dead and 62 survivors).
Route New York - Capetown - Suez, Egypt
Cargo 8900 tons of general cargo
History Completed in August 1942
At 11.40 hours on 20 Nov 1942 the unescorted Pierce Butler (Master George Patullo Moodie) was hit by two torpedoes from U-177, while steaming on a nonevasive course at 11 knots. The torpedoes struck on the starboard side, one forward of the engine room and the other aft at the #5 hatch. Distress signals were sent, which were replied and the armed guards fired eight rounds from the forward 3in gun and seven from the 5in stern gun (the ship was also armed with four 20mm guns) in order to keep the U-boat submerged. After ten minutes the engines were secured and the eight officers, 33 crewmen and 21 armed guards abandoned ship 15 minutes after the hits in the four lifeboats. At 12.10 hours, the vessel sank by the stern. The Germans questioned the third mate and even offered to send a distress signal if none had been sent. All men were picked up about 20 hours later by HMS Fortune (H 70) (LtCdr R.D.H.S. Pankhurst, RN) and landed at Durban, South Africa.
The master George Patullo Moodie had already experienced another U-boat attack when Chilore had been torpedoed by U-576 (Heinicke) on 15 July 1942.
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Nintendo to Develop Smartphone Games Featuring Nintendo Characters
New online multi-device membership service will launch this year.
Updated: 7 Sep 2017 12:06 am
Posted: 17 Mar 2015 8:02 am
Nintendo is teaming up Japanese mobile gaming company DeNA to develop and operate new games specifically for smartphones starring Nintendo IP, along with a new multi-device online membership service.
"Nintendo has made this decision because we have concluded that the approach of making use of smart devices is a rational way for us to encourage even more people around the world to recognize the great value of the wonderful game software available on our dedicated game systems," Nintendo President Satoru Iwata said during the press briefing.
According to the announcement today, the partnership will only develop new original games for smart devices rather than porting Nintendo Wii U and 3DS games to smartphones.
"There are significant differences in the controls, strengths and weaknesses between the controllers for dedicated game systems and the touchscreens of smart devices," Iwata said. "We have no intention at all to port existing game titles for dedicated game platforms to smart devices because if we cannot provide our consumers with the best possible play experiences, it would just ruin the value of Nintendo’s IP."
Iwata explained that while Nintendo plans to "produce multiple hit titles at an early stage" when it begins to release smartphone games, it will continue doing its best to develop separate game titles for its hardware platforms. "For smart devices, even in the case where we utilize the same IP, we will create completely new game software that will perfectly match the play styles of smart devices," he said.
Adamant that Nintendo's step into the smartphone game market isn't a sign that it has lost its "passion or vision" for dedicated game systems, Iwata said the expansion has only increased an "even stronger passion and vision" for video game hardware. As proof, Iwata revealed that Nintendo is currently developing a "dedicated game platform with a brand-new concept" codenamed "NX."
Nintendo and DeNA will also together develop a new membership service that will support various platforms such as PCs, smartphones, tablets, Nintendo’s hardware devices, including its newly revealed hardware concept. The new membership service, overseen by Nintendo, is slated launch for the northern hemisphere’s fall of 2015. The company said it will share roll out windows for specific regions at a future date.
"Also, until now, when we said, 'platform,' it meant a specific video game platform," Iwata said. "Now that we are going to release games on smart devices and make use of globally widespread PCs and smart devices for our new membership service, we would like to offer more consumers with software that is suited to their tastes. In other words, we are challenging ourselves to redefine what 'Nintendo platforms' mean."
The new service will replace Nintendo's customer loyalty program Club Nintendo that the company is phasing out worldwide this year to prepare for the new membership program.
Iwata has long opposed Nintendo IP-centric games on smart devices, citing numerous reasons such as releasing key franchises like Mario, Zelda or Pokemon on smartphones may have a negative impact on 3DS sales. He said in the briefing today that he is aware of the speculation that dedicated video game hardware may be consumed by smart devices.
"... with the spread of smart devices, we have increasingly heard a variety of opinions on the future of the dedicated video game system business, and in particular relatively pessimistic ones," Iwata said today. "We lost the balance of revenue and expenses as the era of the super strong yen occurred during the transition periods from Nintendo DS to Nintendo 3DS and from Wii to Wii U, and we were not able to make these platform transitions as smoothly as we had expected."
"However, there is an obvious difference between Nintendo’s dedicated video game systems and other dedicated devices, which are said to have been displaced by smart devices: Nintendo is the biggest game software provider for its dedicated video game hardware," he added. "Even though 'who is providing applicable content' must be a very important factor, the pessimistic view on dedicated game systems neglects to acknowledge this difference."
While Iwata was cautious about moving into smartphone games in the past, he has previously shown interest in developing apps to supplement Nintendo's brand. He has previously discussed extending Nintendo Network ID to smart devices and explained how he wants Nintendo to take advantage of smart devices.
Iwata hinted in an interview last week that the company is developing a smartphone app for Mii characters. He explained at the time that the company is looking "to develop products that will allow customers to identify with Nintendo products and make people pay attention to Nintendo games."
Nintendo experimented with smartphone game-related content earlier this year. The company announced a partnership with GungHo Online Entertainment to give fans Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition, a Super Mario Bros. and popular mobile puzzle game Puzzle & Dragons mash-up for the Nintendo 3DS.
Through today's new partnership Nintendo will get 10 percent of DeNA’s shares for 22 billion yen (approximately US$181.4 million) and DeNA will acquire "Nintendo’s treasury shares, which corresponds to 1.24 percent of its outstanding stock."
Jenna Pitcher is a freelance journalist writing for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter.
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Tour De France 2016 Competition
by Matt Tempest | Jun 24, 2016
The 2016 edition of the Tour de France or le tour as it's commonly & affectionately known is due to kick off on Saturday 2nd of July. Chris Froome of Team Sky and Great Britain is looking to become the first Brit to win the tour 3 times and perhaps more impressively back to back. No rider has managed this feat since 1995 when Miguel Indurain won the tour for the 5th time in a row. (*excluding Lance Armstrong whose wins are no longer recognised)
To celebrate this years Tour de France we've teamed up with Chain Reaction Cycles and are offering one lucky Twitter follower the chance to get their hands on £250 vouchers for the cycling superstore! To enter simply head on over to our Twitter page and Tweet us a screenshot of the team that you think will contain the overall GC winner of the tour!
To enter please go to the following link and make sure you include #PYBtour in your answer!
https://twitter.com/PYB_Bike/status/746281886318727168
Good luck to all those that enter! Full T&Cs Below
Tour de France Giveaway Rules
3. The promotion begins at 11.00 on 24nd July 2016 and closes at 11.59 on Friday 1st July 2016 Daylight Saving Time (DST). Any entry received after the closing date and time will not be valid. Proof of sending is not proof of receipt.
6. Watch the video vine posted on the PYB_Bike Twitter feed entitled “Which Team will contain the GC winner of the TDF?” take a screenshot when you see the Team you think will contain the overall General Classification winner and post a reply tweet. Your reply tweet must contain the #PYBtourwinner hashtag.
12. There is one winner. The prize is £250 of Chain Reaction Cycles vouchers
15. All correct answers will be put into a draw and a winner will be randomly selected on the 30th July by the Promoter from all of the valid entries submitted during the promotional period in accordance with these rules.
16. The Promoter will contact the winner within one week of 30th July 2016 via private message on Twitter. In all matters, the random selection made by the Promoter shall be final and no correspondence or discussion shall be entered into.
22. The Twitter handle full name and county of residence of the prize winner will be available upon request by sending a stamped self-addressed envelope to; Tour De France Winner, Assurant House, 6-12 Victoria Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1EN after 30th April 2016
27. By participating, each entrant agrees to release, indemnify, discharge and hold harmless Promoter and Twitter, Inc.,and Chain Reaction Cycles and each of their respective parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, and advertising and promotion agencies, and the respective officers, directors, shareholders, employees, agents and representatives of the forgoing (collectively, “Released Parties”) from any and all injuries, liability, losses and damages of any kind to persons, including death, or property resulting, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from entrant’s participation in the Promotion or any Promotion -related activity, the acceptance, possession, use or misuse of any prize and/or Promoter’s use of the rights granted herein.
29. This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with Chain Reaction Cycles or Twitter. You understand that you are providing your information to Promoter and not to Chain Reaction Cycles or Twitter. Entrants to this promotion hereby release Chain Reaction Cycles and Twitter from any claim or liability suffered in connection with this promotion
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2010, Conspiracy - 111 min 64 Comments
Secret Space takes you deep inside the dark occult world of NAZI Germany, where Jews and ex-French Resistance fighters were used as slave labour to develop rocket-based weapons such as the V2 and the V1 'Doodlebug' - the forerunner of today's 'Cruise' missile. We explain how ex-SS Nazis were brought to America by the CIA under 'Project Paperclip' and given senior posts at NASA. We also see how NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasedena was set-up by Jack Parsons - a rocket engineer who was a disciple of Aleister Crowley.
From the late 1940s onwards, an unholy alliance of O.T.O devotees, NAZIs and senior 33rd degree Freemasons dupe the American taxpayer of billions of dollars and fake several moon missions in order to further their work on secret 'black budget' operations - a series of secret space programmes designing space vehicles and weapons systems to thwart attacks by alien craft... For the first time on film we see the 'Baby Shuttle' - a small space shuttle which fits inside the payload of the existing space shuttle and is then released into outer space for covert operations.
...It sounds incredible - but Secret Space contains a wealth of documents, photos and footage which proves that all this and more has come to pass. Secret Space exposes the fact that nearly all the first American astronauts into space were high ranking 32 and 33rd degree Freemasons. And that the brother of one of the Apollo Mission managers was appointed Sovereign Grand Commander of all Freemasons in America as a 'thankyou' for engineering the fake Apollo moon shots of 1969.
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All things about space and around our space and pertaining to the secret space program and the warden Program should be free by the American public because we already paid for it by taxes thank you for your - 12/15/2019 at 08:19
All things about space and around our space and pertaining to the secret space program and the warden Program should be free by the American public because we already paid for it by taxes thank you for your time
roxford - 01/31/2013 at 09:02
Fiercely disappointed by the embarrassing downward spiral this piece took precisely at the moment my screen began dancing with ominous flames and old photographs of deranged looking fellows who fancied themselves icons of devil worship. This isn't the first time I've watched a space conspiracy film that had some juvenile bias of this kind. "To Be Continued..." I did not bother watching the rest.
This film is oddly intriguing for its pseudo 2001-esque manner (the soundtrack) and it contains some interesting footage and interviews, if you are simply looking for conspiracy stuff to watch for a bit. However, I deem it a general failure for the reasons mentioned above and whole host of others. The inclusion of religious prophetic nonsense (the so-called "End Times" doctrines are the erroneous whims of John Darby, c. 1827, who was not educated on the literary styles of the writers of antiquity, let alone the writer of Revelations) almost 2 hours into the film, without any previous reference except ambiguous statements about membership within the Free Mason society, is evidence that those who wrote this piece might want to consider re-taking some low-level college courses. Particularly those ones which first teach good form and then teach good style.
Mandu Gogi - 05/06/2012 at 22:00
Conspiracy nutter is all the same. Too crazy to check any fact or hypocrisy. They want us to belief that man is too stupid to go on any moon mission, yet at same time we can hav secret mission in space to battle aliens, since even before moon travel era?
If we can't make a moon journey and must faked all, how can we travel beyond the moon and battle aliens in secret and not once any astronomer notice any of these nuclear weapon used in space battle? If we has secret outer space technology to battle alien since world war 2, how can moon travel be so much difficult it is fake?
Moon conspiracy person is stupidest conspiracy person of all!!!
Tushar Gaur - 10/02/2019 at 08:37
Ignorance is bliss! Lookout for Monalisa of the moon a 45 min documentary on YouTube and find for yourself!
jes m izaidin - 04/22/2012 at 10:12
what the Fxxx did i just watch?! one can entertain conspiracy theories if they're presented in a rational manner. although some topics presented were relevant and did bring into light certain issues, but this shit just keeps on getting worse and worse. what next? a colony of Nazi's on the dark side of the moon? the "whispering" soundtrack only added to the nonsense. i just wasted 2 hours.
Patrick Leonard - 01/17/2012 at 08:47
This makes my head hurt.
Now how is it possible for the aliens to survive for years floating around in cosmic radiation and we can't?
Oh, wait...I know...they have...uh...madgycal sheeelds....
I kind of lost the point of the whole film.
jamie biggs - 04/09/2012 at 22:24
A thin layer of gold is enough to protect life from radiation for a time. Also, I think beings who are millenia ahead of us technologically would devise multiple ways of shielding themselves from all radiation. Sarcasm really doesn't work when your r*tarded and wrong. Think before leaving st*pid comments. Ha, i'm not suprised you lost the point, if you ever had it, I bet the strain that breathing puts on your brain makes it hurt, Duhhhhhh.
Sam Haslam - 01/02/2012 at 17:10
"They" don't want you watching this particular documentary - it constantly freezes inexplicably, despite there being no drop in connection...!
talkingdeer61455 - 12/01/2011 at 08:29
regardless the word will be as is written. As to beings (critters) in space and ufos. Sould this be Angels, Demons, And the souls of man that unseen in earths air be seen in space? Every time a event happens that may or can lead to Revelation becoming fulfilled these spirits flock to observe it. 2021 will come like it or not. what will be will be. Thing is for now man rules nature and space. Soon nature and space will rule man. When water to drink cost more than Gas for cars, when food is worth more than Gold. When Governments own populations rather than the populations owning the government. Government will rule, or try to, but will fail. If you dont think so read news papers and watch tv and see it coming. If you cant see it coming your blind. When man did not see the wisdom of the native Americans he doomed his own self. When he did not except Gods simple rules as the way to live he sealed his fate. You cant take without giving back. If you do there will be a price to pay. If you take from earth and dont give back or replace you rape the earth. If you do it to man you rape man. DO it to GOD and GOD will wont strike you dead on the spot. He will let you go and live in your blind folly until you destroy yourself. If a government takes from the people until it has taken all. YOu have the United States And it Budget problems. You Cannot fis this with taxes or budget, you must change how the Government is structured. Freedom Becomes communism, and Communisum will be come freedom. The endless Cycle but never learning from it because of greed and power. Until Tribulation and In pitty GOD stops The tribulation. Only then Will Man see.. Even then some wont, Even after 1000 yrs of peace, Man...some men will defy GOD and Want power again.. then will the total End come the Year will be close to 3021. But before this around 2021 will tribulation come for 3 1/2 yrs then peace for 1000 yrs. then will come the end. 3 1/2 yrs pf peace and proffit then 3 1/2 yrs of tribulation. Then 1000 yrs with GODs chosen ruling the new kingdoms of earth. my Gift in life is to read people. one on one and in groups , I see past and future and it is not me But him that this gift belongs to. I am nothing but a speaker of what I am shown. I ask for nothing, I want for nothing, I expect nothing. I am here only because He wishes it. When he is done with me I am gone back unto him that sent me. Let him that have a mind read and understand what is said for their own sake.
Probably one of the most interesting comments I have read, ever. You have a deep understanding of you fellow man, and you sound like an interesting person. Imagine what we could accomplish in 1000 years of peace with good people in power. Way more than the greedy single minded powers that be have managed with the past 1000 years of war and suppresion.
Kat - 11/02/2012 at 18:19
There's this one thing in the Holy Bible, it's crazy. You should check it out. Mark 13:32. It will blow your mind. Nice time frame though.
First of all, governments don't own people and people don't governments. Governments are controlled by big companies and groups that have enough money to lobby politicians and create an illusion of politics. Any politicians is just a well-paid workhorse with a checklist and agenda to follow, they never make their own decisions.
You are referring to Judgement Day, justice, eternal life and all that, but in reality, in this world those who have money control everything. There might be the good stuff you are referring to in afterlife, but not in this life on Earth.
Do you REALLY care what happens 1000 years from now? Or do you care more about your daily life and what needs to be done for you and your family TODAY to survive and have a decent life IN THIS LIFE? Be honest with yourself first, then - with others.
Logan - 11/30/2011 at 02:38
open up your minds people, we are all living a lie, Do you really trust your government that much? the ones that only care about money, the ones that use YOUR money to do what THEY want to do? They make billions of dollars themselves they have enough money between them to do what they want to do but they use yours instead. They rob you and lie straight to your face. World domination has been the agenda from waay back as far as history can go, what makes you think its still not going on now? Greed, Power, Control Thats what it all comes down to and they will do anything and say anything to accomplish that. Highly paid professional liars.. We need to put all this energy we are using on mainstream things and put it towards finding ourselves and why we are all here on earth, not to be pushed around and controlled to be slaves
The Bhagavad -Gita (as it is) Tells the absolute truth and is spoken by the highest of all authorities ,Lord Sri Krishna.
The purpose of human life is to go back to the spiritual world . The moon is a heavenly planet but still another material world ,so we have no business to go there nor do we qualify to go there.
However for those who still want to go there Krishna explains a Yogic mystic process as the method needed to qualify to obtain the moon .This means you can not travel to the moon by any mechanical method .
Nobody can deny that for every living entity on earth there is birth ,disease ,old age and death. It is the same for the moon or any other material planet .The spiritual planets have no such suffering therefore it is much better to make this your goal.
Chant the holy names of the Lord .
HARE KRSNA HARE KRSNA
KRSNA KRNSA HARE HARE
HARE RAMA HARE RAMA
RAMA RAMA HARE HARE ...........and start heading in the right direction.
Mihai - 07/23/2011 at 15:25
And of course, sustaining the whole Apollo programe was fake is patent nonsense. It took place at the height of the Cold War and the Space Race when Americans and Russians were watching eachoters like hawks, hardly waiting for any proof of swindle and occasion of exposing the enemy as a fraud. Besides, since the mid-sixties, as Arthur Clarke put it, it was impossible to secretely launch (or fake for that matter) anything larger than a pen into space without instant confirmation from a dozen uncontrolled sources. No, in my opinion trouble was that 1. the footage was too short and of bad quality (I'm talking here about the orriginal Lunar footage) and/or 2. it recorded forbidden things. LIke artificial structures that had no place up there, since that was the first Lunar landing. So, surely some of the footage had to be remade, hence the impossible light sources and shadows direction.
Highly debatable the permanent demonization of german scientists as "nazis". Whoever did any scientific research in his or her life knows more about the scientist psychology than the producers of present documentary. A scientist has no stomach nor time for politics. He lives for one thing only: to see his project materialized. For this, he would make a pact with the devil, in a hearbeat, without hesitation. Which does not make him necessarily a devil worshiper, if the help would come from God, he would become very religious, very suddenly for the same reasons. Von Braun & Co became nazis out of necessity, not convinction. Should they have chosen to make dissidence instead of science, we would have today several hundred more dead heroes and no Space Program. Personally I prefer the Space Program.
Muhammad Ali - 06/23/2011 at 22:15
P.S. In case no one noticed...the copyright always says..*Your name and personal details are enclosed on this DVD*..thats against the law isnt it??
harry nutzack - 06/26/2011 at 04:56
it's from the dvd burning software... it shows the intent for it to be used as a "backup" copy of whatever media you might be "ripping" from a copyrighted source
Enigma tv says it all...Clicked away the instant I saw that...what a bunch of bull.
realchron - 06/12/2011 at 08:44
Seriously? so all the times we shoot lasers at the moon are fake? Anyone who believes this s*** must be religious aka delusional
Xbow - 06/20/2011 at 01:56
The Moon hoaxers and the lame jerks that feed their fantasies are a particularly brain dead species. Imagine that they believe that shadows from a single light source must be parallel even if the surface upon which they fall is not perfectly flat and featureless! That is their major source of evidence! The guy that did this idiotic video has also done videos on the reptilian race that he feels are now in control of planet earth.....seriously. I saw this same a**hole interview some broad that appeared to be drunk for an hour concerning her status as a priestess and sex slave for the reptilian master race!!!
Rorster - 04/16/2012 at 02:16
"Imagine one light source, shadows must be parallel. You dispute that? You'll have us believe the Xbow theory of light will cast many shadows in all directions! Does that occur on Earth. What's next the earth is flat. Brilliant!
tariqxl - 10/08/2011 at 18:51
Anyone who says they KNOW the truth is delusional... The religious nut job who says they KNOW god is real is delusional the conspiracy theorists who says he KNOWS its all lies is delusional as is the person who says he KNOWS what we're told is true is delusional. Accept that people have only one freedom and that's to form an opinion.
Lestat00 - 05/30/2011 at 00:24
Warning!!!!!!!!This documentary is JUST for idiots and a total waste of time.Even a retarded could have done a better job.The only thing remarcable about it,is the lenght(1:51:14),and the boldness calling it a documentary.Don't take my word for it.........just watch 1:51:14 seconds of c**** and then you will see what i mean :)
Pointless Question - 04/26/2011 at 23:13
What a load of half-baked bull. I'm so sick of so-called documentaries that use speculation and hear say to offer "proof" of their agenda. I watched about 10 minutes and I'm not getting those back... David Icke is an occult follower himself, and more often than not mixes lies, wild theories with no proof with real information. He's also an ego maniac.
Darksider, you're absolutely right and you managed more than I did (you fool lol)
BringMeTheHeadOfJarJarBinks, your first paragraph says exactly what I thought when I saw his name on the credits.
It's no secret that NASA routinely doctors photos of Mars to make it look redder to meet public expectations. So what? All this crap about the moon landings is not at all of interest to me. We'll soon know for sure when the telescope that's either just been completed or is being made takes pictures of the moon and we can see the flag, moon buggy etc.
Why are all the British conspiracy theorists wackos? David Icke started out of Jesus Christ and now David Shayler is a cross-dressing messiah... Bloody reptilian overlords... Where's the video evidence, Mr Icke and I'm not talking about frame by frame videos of people licking their lips. YOU PLANK!!!
Damn thats a nice ass
bloody reptilians.. i really laughed.
darksider - 01/28/2011 at 07:52
This has to be one of the most stupid documentaries ever i managed to watch about 20 minutes of this crap until i turned it off.About the moonlanding there is a Mythbusters episode about that watch it instead of this ! nazis,aliens,alien technology, is all a bit too much to swallow horrible !!!!
BringMeTheHeadOfJarJarBinks - 01/23/2011 at 10:54
The first name in the credits is David Icke. My Bullsh#t meter blew a fuse right there.
Then in the first 5-6 mins we have the typical "light-sources" claim of the photographs that can be debunked simply by going out on a (ironically) moonlit night and taking a few snaps.
And if we're going to have an evil conspiracy for Everything Nazi associated then get ready for the New World Order courtesy of Hugo Boss, Porsche and Volkswagen.
This isn't a documentary; it's a video Bedlam, laughing at the crazy people.
Otter Nonsense - 01/21/2011 at 07:48
What's not a laughing matter is that influential people either take this crap seriously, or play on the delusions of others for their own selfish and devious ends.
Uncritical acceptance of absurd ideas is the foundation for later abuse.
first they say the moonlanding was a fake, then that they did a freemanison ritual there …
soto - 01/16/2011 at 04:08
rodzimanos - 04/19/2011 at 08:42
It is a mixture of some achievements by Nasa and some fake pictures. The movie states that Nasa hides some facts so you could not find the real evidence of hidden information.
Soeren - 12/24/2010 at 13:49
Imo a strong reason to keep many things/technologies secret, is for a country like USA to have a secret last line of defense in some way. imagine if war broke out, like if the situation with north korea escalated, then they might pull out some crap that has been in the works since the 40s, stuff that prolly wasnt perfected back then, if now even.
if thats how it is, then its a pretty good reason to keep it a secret, nonetheless it pisses me off that i dont know.
Steveo - 12/18/2010 at 22:42
Google project bluebeam... aliens people... come off it now.
All sci-fi is predictive programming. The Government invented the theory of a UFO coverup at Roswell. After we finish fighting the phantom men with turbans, look out... because war of the worlds will be on - courtesy of the same elitist "corporation" that seeks to enslave us all in their neo-feudal global dictatorship.
Farren - 12/18/2010 at 18:07
This is so extremely fascinating.
So much credible evidence. I've heard about Philip J. Corso for years. The things that went on underground in Area 51 talked about by Bob Lazar (I know many, including Zecharia Stitchin, who claim his education records and yearbook appear to not match his story, so they discredit him; I've since learned more and his authenticity is even more verified, so he is not making things up), the Project Paperclip, the flying saucers back-engineered in Nazi Germany in a giant underground facility, etc., the moon photographs with two light sources, the Nazis at the head of the CIA, NASA, and the space program, Werner von Braun and things he has said about UFOs and the external threat out there...
it all starts to come together. very amazing. definitely saving for reference and reflection.
Heck the second moon landing saved the faith in religious belief, if they had showed our population evidence of others, alien ancient structures, UFO's etc., the religions were thought to not understand these new understandings, which would distroy churches beliefs, proving the dark age religion still practiced is simply then the untruth, man invented gods would be in greater question.
seth - 11/29/2010 at 22:37
The producer of this film is a known wack. Not to say there aren't government cover-ups and whatnot, but this is the type of trash that makes all conspiracy theorists look crazy....Anyhow, there is a market for this stuff, so i guess someone had to go so far and make a few bucks being the most "extreme", for lack of a better word. The security features on his videos are a complete lie too.
richyrich - 11/11/2010 at 16:20
This documentary hits almost every conspiracy theory out there. It contains a lot of very good information but uses it in a very bias way. It's also very scattered with its approach, taking one position then contradicting it later on. Example: It starts off eluding that the lunar landing was faked, but ends with the astronauts performing a satanic ritual on the moon. Which is it? Was it fake or real?
mycroft - 11/11/2010 at 06:43
Oh, and another thing. Anybody who did any serious science research knows more about the scientist's psychology than the producers of this movie will ever know. Nazis ? Von Braun and Herman Oberth and all the other Germans from the Paperclip list ? My 11 number foot ! A scientist, a true one, couldn't care less about politics ! He doesn't have time for such trash.
He often favors dictatorships, yes, because contrary to what happens in a democracy, namely endless debates for very little funding, if you convinced the dictator that your project is valid and the dictators says "Build it !" then it'll be built in no time. Hence the initial progress of the Russians in the Space race. To see his research funded and validated, any scientist would make (metaphorically only !) a pact with the devil. Otherwise said, with the dictator.
Best proof is, by the assessment of American colleagues, the loyal Germans became loyal Americans, once adopted and paid for their keeping like very few Americans ever did. It's downright idiotic to reproach people like von Braun and Oberth of having used the work of concentration camp prisoners and to label them as "nazis" just because they had the misfortune of being historically synchronized with a nazi regime.
Their science was a totally different compartment, providing the work force was the task of the administrators. Who, sadly, were recruited from the ranks of the SS sometimes. Just imagine what would have happened if von Braun would have refused to use slave work, for humanitarian reasons. It would have been labeled as treason, he would have been imprisoned and probably executed himself, another scientist would have been taken his place and the weapons project would have merrilly continued. And we would have no von Braun and no Oberth for the Appolo program. There are not many such brains per century.
Frankly, this is beyond pathetic, beyond ludicrous. Like you'd hear Torquemada talking in 21-th century. Dangerous though because the producers are trying very hard to get negative associations: NASA - satanism - nazi. Therefore implying that everything that's pertaining to Space exploration is also negative, tantamount to blasphemy.
For the record: given the intensity of the Cold War, such a scam was purely impossible, Russians and Americans were watching eachother like hawks, each would have immediately exposed any scam the others tried to pull. And every space mission, lunar or simply orbital was monitored to the millisecond. Besides, from almost 50 years now nobody could launch in Space (from Earth) an object of any visible dimensions without the opposition being instantly aware. This thanks to the terrestrial and space spies, human and technological.
A series of experiments were then conducted from Earth involving equipment left on the Moon by Appolo missions, e.g. a laser reflector which reflected a laser beam from Earth and so permitted to measure the distance Earth-Moon with unprecedented precision. A number of nations who had the necessary techology, some of them fierce competitors of US, were invited to repeat and validate the experiment.
What the spectator should ask himself is the old question "qui prodest ?" To whom such an interpretation is useful. Proabaly to the same lobby which manages to ground any serious (human crew) Space research for 38 years now, who's shutting down proissing Space research projects and who, for the last 30 years fires NASA specialists by the dozens. And what would be the only rational explanation ? When would humans abandon such a vital field as Space research ? Well, my guess is only when they are pursuing it successfully in secret. With technology and new propulsion system of incredible performance, of which we have no right of knowledge, although it is built with our money...
Btw, Mazlan Othman is about to be appointed the first UN (and Earth's) ambassador "for extraterrestrial contact affairs" :-). Ain't that fun
@ gero2006,
I think it was the sixth minute that was essential... Soooooo, your comment is basically irrelevant :-). Tough
BoB - 10/08/2010 at 22:18
sweet, looads of information.
but dont break your teath on the way it's presentad
gero2006 - 10/02/2010 at 02:35
I could not stand watching this doc for more than five minutes. Have they something to say? Maybe they should do so before the audience dies of old age!
Dean - 09/04/2010 at 03:43
Wow this is total propaganda lol! complete and utter garbage. dont waste your time with docs like these, they are simply a bunch of random images and quotes taken out of context and delivered in whatever fashion best serves the agenda of whatever group is behind them. oh and btw Paul McK is absolutely right about the Val Allen belts, it is scientific fact that the radiation is not anywhere near a lethal dose unless you have prolonged exposure, which you don't while passing through on your way to the moon. And if you think scientific fact is wrong and you are correct.. then, quite frankly, you are a self righteous m@#$%!
This one is for Paul Mc knowitall. "It simply isn't supported by any evidence". Thats right little man, no flesh has passed through these belts....Duh! Learn who you are and why your contained in a flesh cage and you will be on your way to understanding. I would suggest you start now, because the Warden is coming back to check on the inmates soon.
Good doc, shame about the stupid chimes played at every opportunity (first half hour)
and the terribly terribly cheesy editing, I really don't want an alien flashed up after every shot (second half hour)
ray - 07/31/2010 at 02:38
That's one mixed up video.
Paul McKenzie - 06/25/2010 at 03:34
These programs always cite the Van Allen Belts as a reason we never went to the moon. Im sick of hearing about them, they are indeed very radioactive, but the missions that have passed through them do not go through the most radioactive parts, and do not stay for a sufficient time to suffer any ill effects. In order for them to be "deadly" as these programs often say, you would have to stay for a long time to receive a deadly dose of radiation. This is scientific fact...its easy to find out on google or any other research you wish to conduct. Please stop using this as an example because it simply isnt supported by any evidence.
MD - 06/25/2010 at 00:17
i think they needed another 5 minutes of intro lol geeeez
dirty d - 05/18/2010 at 18:43
SO lemme get this straight, the same documentary claiming that space travel is impossible is also using nasa space footage to prove UFOs...
Dumbamerika - 05/18/2010 at 02:17
So cheap disaster scifi . Total bulshit brainwash i've ever seen..
Ching - 05/10/2010 at 22:41
oh my god the director & the editor of this documentary MUST DIE of shame... i love documentaries & this one is kinda silly but interesting... anyway i fell asleep 5 times... the sphere is like a horror movie but with space images instead of monsters... half the documentary are just unnessesary images that are down right boring...
DakkaDakkaDakka - 01/20/2010 at 17:22
I normally stay the hell away from anything to do with the moon, but this was pretty interesting. Lots of assumptions but delivered nicley. Didn't realize that so many nazi scientists etc ended up in nasa, the freemasonry thing is pretty bizzare aswell.
Deffo worth a watch
pete b - 12/16/2009 at 23:38
Stupidest documentary i have ever seen, are you people kidding me, space serpents....loll, there was no clear evidence for any of there theories, they see a blob of light and its an alien, dotn waste your time wiith this one, i got threw half of it and that was enough for me....
Kevin Jones - 11/21/2009 at 09:27
Wow is right. The summary had me foaming at the keyboard to check this out. I'm all about conspiracy theories, even ones I don't believe, I still find interesting. But combining Free Masons AND UFO's... goodness gracious this might be the mother load ha ha ha ha ha.
WOW is all I can say. Video makes fantastic claims.
Definitely worth a weekend of research time.
shad - 10/22/2009 at 19:39
I dont know why 'they'(whoever they really are)would hide these wonderful things from the general populace. I just hope that they dont use it for any bad things and also hope that one day they would share it. knowledge is power,depriving someone of knowledge...CONTROL
Charles B.
To get the full benefit from this, you must watch the full movie.
It is one hour and 51 minutes long.
Google-(google videos-secret space)
There is overwhelming evidence that we are not alone in the Universe!
It is a given, that it has always been a cover up!
There have been 6 Moon landings, my position is clear on the manned Moon landings, see my other threads.
Space serpents? It is so far fetched that it is hard not to believe!
Reality sometimes is stranger than fiction!
I believe the last 30 minutes of the movie are very informative of
how little, the average person actually knows about anything!
Charles B. - 10/22/2009 at 14:59
Not sure what to think of all this. Mr. Razor, what do you think? Is it all a bunch of puck? I'd like to believe that U.F.O.'s aren't real, but the moonlanding was. Space serpents? Now that would be an interesting discovery if it were so, wouldn't it?
Weston - 09/23/2009 at 10:38
anyone know the music in this documentary?
Lee Goodall - 07/28/2009 at 19:34
Very good, well worth the watch 8 out of 10
Nyax - 07/17/2009 at 18:39
just the summary is crazy.
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Daily Mail readers’ vile, racist attacks on Malala for winning the Nobel Peace Prize
Daily Mail, human rights, international, race
(not satire – it’s the Daily Mail!)
Sometimes Daily Mail readers show their true faces – and they’re as ugly and vile as you would expect them to be.
Here are just a few of the nasty and downright racist comments in the Daily Mail today after it was announced that Malala had won the Nobel Peace Prize:
“Send her back home.”
“How come she’s still here?”
“The UK taxpayer has been stumping up the bill for her to fly around the world.”
“Sick of hearing about her.”
“A joke. She has been awarded a Noble Prize for stopping a bullet?”
“I just find her annoying.”
“Why is she still here?”
“Living off the taxpayer.”
“Praise some British kids for a change.”
Remember, these comments are about a little girl who was shot at point blank range by the Taliban for wanting to go to school and – despite still being a target for assassination – is still willing to speak up for a girl’s right to education.
Sometimes I’m ashamed of my own country…….
Here are screen shots of just a few of the comments from the Daily Mail article – if you can bear to wade through them:
Related article by Tom Pride:
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166 thoughts on “Daily Mail readers’ vile, racist attacks on Malala for winning the Nobel Peace Prize”
I would agree Tom…you are hopelessly naïve!
Never mind just listen to the blues! 🙂
And I threatened FF I wld not be making any more comments..
The Blood Moon cut me up eva so bad ya see!
‘They’ have let me out now…..:)
Oppressed said:
Must we share the same air & sunlight as these trolls?
Freedom of speech has been replaced by freedom to speak ignorance & mindless hate.
That’s not political,
That’s mental illness……
Thanks Tom. Horrific read but so important to remind yourself what we are up against.
The comments under the Daily Mirror post on FB are even worse
ladyfreebird750 said:
The thought that we have to breathe the same air as some of the people who comment on stories in the Mail is depressing to say the least. They seem to be people with the smallest brains, least compassion and a total overdose of mean spirited inhumanity. And they have all turned to UKIP.. is there a form of correlation there do you think?
I happen to think some of the comments are quite justified, jumping on the politically correct wagon rather than think for yourselves is as bias as race hatred and xenophobia.
e.g. Mark 25 yorkshires comment hits the spot!
marsha atkins said:
And to think some people are under the illusion that UK is a tolerant place to live.
callie said:
I’m sat with my mother (84) who just said at least half of those comments. But last night she did ask why people are always killing over ‘different versions of a sky fairy’, so she’s not always wrong.
Bollards said:
Looks like the Kippers have been busy, at least they have some opposition on the Mirror site.
basstubes said:
I am ashamed today and appalled by this. I wonder what their politics are and how they justify their rancid attacks?
No, but you are trying to humiliate the elderly – see two can play at your game.
Elaine M said:
Whoa! The true putrid bile comes out now! This is what festers under the surface in the hearts and minds of many people in this country who are stuck in their narrow little worlds, filled with resentment and hatred of all people considered ‘other’. UKIP and the unprecedented amount of media coverage showered on this shameful excuse for a ‘political’ party gives credibility to these ugly views. Opinions like those spouted in the Daily Mail in response to a young woman’s recognition for her courage, for surviving and speak outing, are no different to those of the Taliban and ISIS. Shame on you people so lacking in compassion and imagination.
What is this ALL people considered ‘other’ about?
I have never heard such dramatical, over exaggeration in my life, I don’t care what party the commenters belong to, they have a right to question what is going on in their own country.
Shame on you for trying to deny them that right!
The reply was to Elaine M., who clearly has an over active imagination.
Susan Fairweather said:
I’m ashamed of the sheer illiteracy of those daft comments… very embarrassing but maybe it shows the calibre of those who made them
By howling at the Moon!
Wise old Dog.
Wot ,loike me?
I have done seen it all! 😦
Where is my knight? 🙂
Wot about my human rights?
Clive said:
Yes a lot of a Daily Mail readers seem to have bizarre, disgusting views.
victedy said:
they are Nazis the LOT of them, how many people would do what Malala did at her age and STILL DEFY THEM AFTER GETTING SHOT!
Horselover Fat said:
Reblogged this on My Little Underground and commented:
Daily Mail readers are scum. This is well known. Every now and then (or every week) they confirm this.
This is what Mail readers think of Malala winning a Nobel Peace Price . Forget about compassion or admiration about a girl who stood up to a fascistic regime and nearly died because of it. No, now we’re looking after her in the UK and we’re ‘better together’ you have bitter racists attacking her for being browner than they are.
Fuck the Mail. Fuck their readers. They’re scum. Malala has done more to help the world in her short life than any reader of the Daily Mail.
Reblogged this on markcatlin3695's Blog and commented:
Some people haven’t got the brains they were born with, these people are pathetic. …..
Poor Malala, there is no shortage of hate for her, she was being slagged off on Nihal’s programme on BBC Asian Network too. One caller said she hadn’t been shot in the face at all and that she was a stooge.
Others speculate she works for Teh West & Israel.
Dumbasses abound.
futureindoubt said:
Othering, differentiating people based on the perceived group they belong to in order to create imbalanced power structures emphasizing a superior and inferior between the groups. See for this example whatever Malala’s achievements are, is void to these people because she is part of or perceived to be in groups considered “the other” from the superior norm. She is in effect being dehumanized because she is an immigrant, a Muslim and perceived to be a benefit scrounger.
A6er said:
Reblogged this on Britain Isn't Eating and commented:
Absolutely appalling!
I never fail to be disgusted by the Daily Fail and its readers
Dan Delion said:
Sadly, standards have fallen since our politicians discovered the ‘benefits’ of deceitful spin (WMD) and allowed Bullingdon Club behaviour to become acceptable in the upper reaches of Westminster.as an exemplar for the rest of us (PMQ).
What an absolute shower they all are – exterminate the lot! Exterminate!… exterminate!…. exterminate!…..
uppitymonkey said:
Reblogged this on uppitymonkey and commented:
This kind of bile needs to be shown more. Disgusting views shared openly in the comments section of a disgusting paper.
Peter Coleman said:
When The Daily Mail is your window on the world. is it any wonder that the view from your window is warped? I pity these people who are too hard of thinking to come up with a view of their own and rely instead on the fear mongering and racist propaganda they have drip. drip, drip fed to them by Paul Dacre’s band of Muppets from hell. Ironically these people with their shiny white brainwashed minds probably all sing along to John Lennon’s “Imagine”, because it’s a lovely song. Well perhaps not sing, but at least “Baaaaaa”. tunefully.
What’s even more depressing is, those messages are now top of the ‘best rated’ list. All that’s worst about humanity on the internet is displayed there, sadistic trolls, warped politics, jealousy etc- as said, I’m ashamed to be part of the human race sometimes.
PressNotSorry said:
Reblogged this on Press Not Sorry and commented:
The Mail comments section is as toxic as ever. Disheartening.
mark25yorkshire said that Malala should be sent back to Pakistan. Do you agree with that?
Shameful Bigots!
John Lewis said:
Just about every day there is an article in the in the DM that screams something like. “Bloody thirsty, burqua wearing halal eating MUSLIM woman parks in disabled parking space at Tesco” When a young woman takes a courageous principled stand in very dangerous circumstances the DM mention that she a muslim in the final paragraph
That is a load of codswallop too, you have been swallowing too much political correctness text at university.
If she is the ‘other’ from the superior norm, why is she receivintg first class medical treatment and education in Britain?
‘others’ here in their own country are put on second class waiting lists, denied of benefits and perceived to be scroungers by their own media and politicians.
We don’t need the taliban, we have the establishment.
Next war venue INDIA!
That is how the Indian Psychiatrists in this country can cage and medicate anyone who has any opposition to what government is dictating we should swallow as facts in our own country.
Only daily mail readers swallow the crap about the colour of peoples skin or benefit scroungers, that is if it is not largely made up posts.
It’s about time we started listening to opposition to mainstream thinking, it’s mediocre,even the do gooders only spout what they are taught by university lecturers, they can’t think for themselves.
Georgina said:
Just a list of people who will never win the peace prize with clearly written statements as to why.
crabramblings said:
I’ve read this a couple of times now and have NO IDEA what you are trying to say.
Beautifully put 🙂
Sheenagh Pugh said:
If the elderly are wrong and racist they should be called on it, just as you would a young person. I’m 63, btw…
Louise Roe said:
Why Oh why are racist, bigoted, slap-able DM readers all so illiterate? The spelling in those horrific, scary comments is awful. They’re in dire need of educating, in so many senses of the word.
Marsha, apparently you can’t see the stupidity of your statement. In Pakistan Malala was shot in the head for her opinions, and in the UK she got some nasty online abuse. You’re a complete idiot (obviously!) but surely even you can see the difference……
Or perhaps they’re in dire need of “education”?
Arthur Foxake said:
Winter is coming (I’m from the north)
crabramblings – You are not alone in thinking that… and the final part of Ms Fawkes last sentence appropriately describes herself!
Alan Jones said:
Blame UKip and the Tories for this, because they have been fuelling this kind of nationalistic mind-set among those impressionable members of British society for a while now. Those Bastards(Politicians) have an agenda that benefits them, and certainly does NOT benefit the British people. Unfortunately the average man and women will be unable to see this blatant manipulation because they will be blinded by a contrived hatred for anything Non-British. WAKE UP BRITISH PEOPLE, YOU ARE BEING MANIPULATED BY THE WORST OF HUMAN TRASH. Remember the worst monsters hide behind a broad smile and an expensive suit.
true, but callie was implying that her elderly mother was away with the fairies of a religious kind.
She was therefore insulting and humiliating her mother and the religious.
Sky fairies would be much preferable to the athiest earth fairies dictats.
Celticrose said:
Not all the comments are like these despicable people. I see you haven’t included any of the positive comments from Daily Mail readers. As with all forms of reporting there is good and bad in every community. I read the DM and I think this young teenager is wonderfully inspiring and well deserving of the award. This is not the last we will be hearing of this very brave young lady.
crabramblings
Time you got some real education then!
Why do the so-called Taliban have a problem with education for illiterate youngsters in Pakistan? Just like, why do IS gangsters want to ban music, which is a world cultural asset to many races? It all beggars belief why such groups would be so bigoted and irrational. I think Malala is a brave girl and lucky to survive being shot in the head, but awarding her the Nobel Peace Prize seems somewhat bizarre, because on that rationale they should also have awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Ronald Reagan (who got shot) and before that to John F. Kennedy, posthumously, (who got shot and killed).
That is why I argued with most lecturers and was even called incorrigible.
If her life is not in danger, YES.
But I suppose you are going to argue that her life would still be in danger?
“It all beggars belief why such groups would be so bigoted and irrational.”
Tunefultony – Just wondering… do you believe in a god too? If so, which one?
Ms Fawkes – Please tell everybody what these “athiest earth fairies dictats” are……
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How would you know, you’re the most ignorant to the real world person on here.
I recall years back of an african doctor who received the nobel peace prize for his work and could have flogged both himself and his wares in the western world for a fortune, but decided to go back to his own poverty stricken country to save the sick and dying there for no financial reward.
No, I meant the “they can’t think for themselves” part!!!
If you think her life is NOT in danger in Pakistan then you are a complete f*cking idiot. So do you STILL agree with mark25yorkshire?
Ms Fawkes…… Whooosh!
…and what was his name?
You are more qualified than me to answer your own question on fairies, according to you I am bias.
Google nobel peace prize winners and find an African doctors name, I found this in a copy of a readers digest years ago, so obviously it must be true!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/11155900/Naomi-Campbell-congratulates-malaria-on-winning-2014-Nobel-Peace-Prize-twice-on-social-media.html
It seems her supporters are illiterate too!
Chris Berger said:
Let’s not let is pass either that these comments were moderated. For the avoidance of any doubt, that means they were looked at and deemed acceptable for publication.
That was the part I was answering dumb, dumb, you only argue with people you don’t agree with, therefore I was thinking for myself.
“you only argue with people you don’t agree with”
Of course!!!!!!! You really ARE a complete f*cking idiot, aren’t you?
Yet again the only argument you can come up with is your own pathetic homophobia!!!
Try again…… what does “athiest earth fairies dictats” mean? You said it but you don’t seem to have a clue what your own words mean!
“I found this in a copy of a readers digest”
Ha ha ha! – You really are a complete f*cking idiot, aren’t you?
I think this may be what you want…
http://graphics.occupydesign.org.uk/#1178/daily-mail-free-zone
We may rightly think that the selection of DM comments above are so wrong on so many levels. We must realise that this poison has been pumped out by the neo-cons in Westminster and their supporters, including the press and the BBC (sadly), and that the only losers are the masses. Even the BBC has given so much air time to UKIP that people often think they have loads of MPs (also highlighting the ignorance of the voters, too.) Ignorance is the friend of the neo-cons & fascists & eugenicists.
The 1920’s and 1930’s saw much the same, with much the same outcome, in Germany, and 1950’s Stalinism in the USSR. It’s text-book classic propagandist techniques of the fascists. My fear is what happens when these types have been wound up too much for their own incoherence to bear?
Wow said:
Yes, it was the doctors old copy which he had left on the table in his surgery’s waiting room.
You don’t let astonishing ignorance get in the way of your racism, homophobia and bigotry, do you?
tuneful
what about pope john paul the second, he got shot and should have at least been offered the award, even if he would have gracefully refused it.
No. Happy?
I’ll give you a clue, their dictats are enshrined in the politically correct manual.
Karen Mutch said:
What a load of moronic ill educated drivel Daily Mail readers come out with. Makes me ashamed to be British
Like the gutter press, you would have us believe that there are boagey men lurking in every country forever and a day.
She has been praised for her bravery, it’s time to show it again and see if there is still a threat.
Fink, tell your friend Florence, zebedee is waiting for her at the puppet stall.
Emigrate!
Answer the question plainly …… mark25yorkshire said that Malala should be sent back to Pakistan. Do you agree with that or not?
No. Sickened.
People who are confident in the morality and rationality of their views are always capable of expressing them plainly.
I’ll try again – What does “athiest earth fairies dictats” mean?
Ms Fawkes – Do you seriously think anybody who gets shot, even if they are directly responsible for the sexual abuse of countless children, should get an award?
Genghis said:
WOW, a blog post mocking the Daily Mail for the bigotry of its commenters and ending up with its own bigoted comments.
Guy fawkes go to bed!
You do not have to take medication for anxiety or depression, like a lot of kids do today ……
Just keep popping the pills 🙂
A lazy man’s guide to the universe.
My fave place 😦
Are you a cold man?
We fuking know Winter is f…. coming!
I saw the most divine bear at the market today and Well you know wot a woman finks about fuuurrrr! How much I asks the trader with a compliant look on me face. £20 to you….Yes!!! I am now warm at night 🙂 I got a good imagination…ain’t I ?
You again…ain’t ya gone to bed ?
Is that really true?
Or is it cooked?
I mean for fun if ya know wot I mean.
I simply have reached an age of not believing in any thing any more.
I prefer it that way 🙂
Cough,cough! ‘They’…….. are the backbone of this country! 🙂
How Sir…is the filthy lucre?
I have just wasted valuable time!
That’s advertising for you 🙂
For Gods sake Tom!
Do something please….
I need to go fly my kite 🙂
Mail readers are the dregs of this country.
I think a lot of people are sickened by your faux socialist compassion and insults.
Are we talking about the gay paedophile priests in the catholic church or are we talking about a mother who allowed her young daughter to front up to the taliban and get shot?
Bad enough these assholes were heard once, please don’t spread their stupidity before a larger audience.
Fair play to you. But have you thought of changing to a less vile newspaper?
I was replying to your sycophantic post about ‘Pope Saint’ John Paul II, and others with the same delusions.
Go back to your troll hole, Guy
Guy Fawkes – this may be hard for you to understand but they don’t offer Nobel Peace prizes to people because they’ve been shot. Though who knows? You keep shooting yourself in the foot so you may be in luck next time round.
And when you refer to Malala’s mother as <> is that really your idea of fair comment? Just asking.
i’m afraid there are a lot of delusional people out there and that is not counting those like you who think they are normal and qualified to call others idiots and delusional.
You’re a joke!
Hi Guy Fawkes. Earlier in this thread I questioned your belief that being shot is the qualification for getting the Nobel Peace prize and I also asked you whether you think your comment about Malala’s mother being in some way to blame for her getting shot was fair. Your response is to say that I’m a joke.
I don’t think you’ve really quite answered my point. 🙂 I look forward to your next irrational side-stepping reply as I could do with another laugh.
I accidentally “liked” you tunefultony – ooops. Is there an undo?
BTW – Did you accidentally “post” here. also? Your views are straight out the DM selection highlighted in the article
What are your views on the winners for medicine, astrophysics or mathematics, or literature? Perhaps you & Guy Fawkes could debate those with the (sledgehammer) insights you have brought to the Malala award……(elsewhere?)
Is it fair comment to accuse the pope of something gay paedophiles did, he did what you would do with gay people, defend and support those he thought were in the right until they were found guilty.
I can’t see an egotist like you shooting yourself in the foot, if you were doing a selfie you would make sure you hit your face, showing us all what a wrong thinking face as well as mind looks like.
There isn’t a reply button higher up to respond to your further comments on my post. But I must admit the power of your argument has completely convinced me. You suspected me of thinking I’m normal and you’re delusional and I now realise I had it completely the wrong way round and that its you that’s delusional and me that’s normal. Thanks Gay Fuwkes, the gift that just keeps giving. 🙂
PS Gay Fuwkes: You seem to be under the impression I said something about the pope and gay priests and you go on to tell me what my views on that would be. That was somebody else. There’s not just one person out there thinking you’re an idiot, you know. I think you may have shot yourself in the foot AGAIN. But then, that’s what you do.
Funk and his flunky crabtree if they don’t offer peace prizes to people who get shot then why did the Indian school girl get one.
How did she create peace?
Crabramblings if that is not a troll of the fink variety I don’t know what is?
I’m going nowhere, someone has to bring the likes of you down a peg or two, oops have I shot myself in the foot again by insulting Pegs.
Hi again Gay Fuwkes. You just wrote: Funk and his flunky crabtree if they don’t offer peace prizes to people who get shot then why did the Indian school girl get one.
Firstly, when you think I must be a flunky of someone else who disagrees with you, you’re just giving away glimpses of your essentially paranoid worldview, which I admit is quite entertaining for us all. Could I possibly be getting under your skin? 🙂
Secondly, I’m guessing here but I imagine that the Nobel prize committee didn’t think “Ooh, there’s an Indian girl who has been shot – let’s give her the Peace prize.” My hunch is that it’s something to do with risking her own life to campaign for the right to education for girls in societies and parts of the world that think that ignorance is preferable to education.
Based on my own experience, I suggest there is a connection between education and the generation of peace and tolerance, but I can understand how you might see that very differently.
And much as it’s been nice chatting to you, I notice that the sun is now up and I wouldn’t want your whole trollness being turned to stone. You had a lucky escape last time that it was just your brain that got shone upon.
So, reluctantly, byebye!
Ms Fawkes – “Is it fair comment to accuse the pope of something gay paedophiles did, he did what you would do with gay people, defend and support those he thought were in the right until they were found guilty.”
Come off it!!! The Pope knew perfectly well that countless priests and nuns had been abusing children for many decades. This was DELIBERATELY kept hidden and ALLOWED to continue.
Not only are you disgustingly racist and homophobic, you are defending institutional paedophilia now!
Someone else who disagrees with you Ha, Ha!
You have to invent these sock puppets to disagree with me. It’s funny but telling me to get back to my troll hole implies that I got under your skin, we trolls eat the likes of you for breakfast.
Malala wants education so she can emigrate to a good job in uk, or be used by the capitalists in her own country as cheap labour.
crabramblings – In case you don’t know, Ms Fawkes thinks that everybody who disagrees with her is actually Tom Pride using multiple ‘sock puppet’ names.
Fink you’re style of writing is like a footprint or a fingerprint, you couldn’t disguise it if you tried and I can see you have tried with you hi’s and yo’s ha! ha!
[Guy – I’ve warned you before about accusing commenters on this site of being my sock puppets. Carry on with this nonsense and you will be the first person I have banned from this site. Now please stick to discussing politics – criticise me by all means but leave other commenters out of your paranoid delusions and obsessions with me.] – TOM
Seems a bit rough. I doubt that Marsha was attempting to suggest that intolerance is as bad in the UK as it is in Pakistan.
Paul – I think that’s EXACTLY what Marsha was suggesting. Of course if I’m wrong then she can respond and explain what she did mean, but I bet she doesn’t…
You do realise, Guy, that all you’re doing here is giving everybody who reads the comments section the strong impression that you are a crazed, inarticulate moron, right?
Paul – Just a little correction… Ms Fawkes is a crazed, bigoted, racist, homophobic, inarticulate moron.
Well said Fink’s puppet master. You couldn’t ban a more REAL person from your site.
You want alternative lifestyles providing nobody has an alternative point of view!!
What can be more deluded than a right wing blogger pretending to be left wing.
“Stick to politics”, says Hans Christian Pride, with his red riding blood stories.
Stop cutting corners when talking about the deluded!
To stave off the winter freeze, bears need their thick fur coats much more than you need their fur coats …. QED…. This is not a matter of imagination, it’s ethical humane choices.
Roses are red, right? Violets are blue; If you don’t believe this, then I’ll put you in my stew….
Alnus: I find your comment to be rather… sticky!
Ms Fawkes – You have STILL not answered the question – Do you agree with mark25yorkshire that Malala should be deported from the UK and sent back to Pakistan?
It’s a simple yes or no answer, so even you should be able to manage that.
Fuk ethics if I need to eat I kill
If I need to be warm I wear fur
Called common sense.
In other words…do you want to be hunted or would you rather hunt?
Since I have answered the question, it stands to reason that you obviously cannot read. Yes or No answers are for morons like you!
LIAR – Like everybody else you wear fabrics and turn up the heating.
You seem to be the only poster Alnus who has sussed out that this was an international psy-op to discredit the Taliban so that Obama can perpetrate more drone strikes on innocent Pakistanis. Malala moved her feet and walked to the stretcher…try doing that if you been shot both in neck and head by a gun at close range!
I neither hunt, as a perfectly humane choice, nor do I fear being hunted; Because what comes around, goes around; If you maltreat someone (includes animals) they’re gonna maltreat you [see: Eric Clapton song: Further On Up The Road — check it out on Youtube]; if you kill bears and wear their fur, someone will come along and hunt you down and kill you and then wear your skin…. Every humane-choice person knows that there are a thousand ways of keeping warm, apart from killing bears, so I suggest you go to your market, buy a Persian carpet, wrap yourself inside it, and take a magic carpet ride while smoking your hallucinogenic drugs….. Good Luck.
No, you have not answered, but even if you had, why would you be so afraid to repeat it?
The answer IS a simple yes or no…… Deport Malala OR not deport Malala. It’s so f*cking simple that even you should be able to understand it.
You could also add an explanation if you like, but because your ‘explanation’ is simple racism then you don’t have the guts to say so.
Thanks, Florence, for accidentally liking me… I am indeed quite likeable when you really get to know me 🙂
Malala Yusufzai is an NWO stooge…. fancy getting a Peace Prize at age 17! — But then, the originator of the Peace Prize, Doctor Nobel, invented Dynamite and Barry Obama got one recently for mass murder in Pakistan’s Swat valley — where Malala comes from….you couldn’t make it up…
I am surprised frankly that that Albanian lady ‘Mother Teresa’ got her 1979 Peace Prize without having been shot in the head! — I am also surprised that Mahatma Gandhi missed out on HIS Peace Prize even though he properly qualified! 🙂
You too should be in the running, Florence, for your distinguished work in the filthy hospitals of the Crimea 🙂
Good bye T-Ff- et al
I am not coming out to play no more.
Am tired…..
Fink why don’t you go and play with Tom, because I’m sure he has better things to do with his hands.
He is so pissed off because someone has called him out as a puppeteer.
If I want to answer anytime it will be to the puppeteer not his puppets.
Pennie – Nobody becomes tired of saying what they really think to be true, until the day their mind finally fails and life itself becomes a burden. For some people it’s the compilation of their own lies and evasions which become an intolerable burden at an early age……
Hey Gay Fuwkes, you’ve already had it explained to you that there’s more than one person in this universe who can tell that you’re just a paranoid idiot. They are not all Tom Pride. I agree with a lot that he blogs but not everything and I have better things to do with my time than to be someone’s glove puppet. You really are a very silly person.
Bye bye now
Even if you are not worked by Tom you are still all fucking puppets for the political class, spouting political correctness parrot fashion.
Crabramblings – “You really are a very silly person”
You are SO wrong! That implies that Ms Fawkes is just a harmless idiot. I fundamentally disagree with you. Disgusting bigoted people like Ms Fawkes are FAR from harmless. If vicious morons like her had their way then people would be imprisoned for being homosexual or bisexual, and “coloured people” would be deported. We should all vehemently oppose such disgusting views EVERY time we see them. To dismiss them as “silly” is nearly as bad as supporting them.
Indeed, we are on the same page, but I include bigoted, racist, and homophobic under the crazed category. It’s less specific, but it saves time.
No Robert, I disagree. I think we should highlight their immorality and stupidity before the largest possible audience.
Paul – Ha ha! Agreed. I just like to be a little more descriptive!
It’s not one or the other. Malala has nothing to do with the mistreatment of the working class but the perception of her group identity has everything to do with the comments degrading her and relying on stereotypes. Her care is/was paid by the Pakistani government as their services are inadequate and she can’t go back home as the Pakistani state is very dangerous for anyone outspoken, their own security forces have been heavily infiltrated by fundamentalist extremists so any guard assigned to protect her could very well end up being the one to kill her. I think it’s very pathetic to be jealous of a teenage girl who was almost murdered. Stop falling for the divide and conquer bullshit. Everyone should be treated with respect as individuals and free from dehumanizing abuse, just because one group is treated badly is not a free pass to treat another group like dirt. If we send Malala and all the other immigrants home, it isn’t magically going create a new utopia and make the elites suddenly softhearted.
Lastly,I’ve “been swallowing too much political correctness text at university?” Oh really? Oh wait, yeah I remember, ‘Political Correctness’ class was lodged in between ‘Indoctrination to Cultural Marxism’ and ‘How to be a Do Gooding Bleeding Heart Liberal’.
Please inform me:
A) What, precisely, do you think is “mainstream thinking” as taught by university lecturers?
I would like you to site actual theories and studies and tell me your informed criticism of such research.
B) What oppositional thinking should “we” be listening to instead?
Please share examples or how else are “we” going to know. Please illustrate how those arguments hold up compared to what you consider “mediocre mainstream thinking”?
No matter which way you look at these puppets, they either have a hand or a foot up their arse, no wonder they are so anal retentive that the shit comes from their mouths!
Gay Fuwkes: There’s only one potty mouth I can see around here and that’s you.
angiew1943 said:
The Taliban has repeated that she will be killed if she returns……is that what you want to happen? If so, you truly are an ignorant jerk…..makes me ashamed to be classed as a British citizen with you.
Katherine said:
You don’t understand the right of freedom of speech at all unfortunately. The freedom to say something does not come with a right not to be criticised for it. I don’t see anyone calling for a ban on opinions; they are criticising the opinion.
They don’t have a problem with educating youngsters, they have a problem with educating girls. And they have a problem because they are vile and violent misogynists.
I bet the people of Andalucia wish they could force the idiot Melanie to go back where she came from.
terence said:
I couldn’t agree more – you are sensibly refusing to go along with MSM pc-driven conditioned thinking. I really believe there is a lot of good sense -particularly with bizarre way Nobel prizes are granted- as well as crap in opinions expressed by Daily Mail readers but the Left are conditioned to think anyone who doesn’t share their politically correct opinions is mentally defective – it’s quite horrifying what Leftwing feminist education has done to dumb down the public’s right to free expression. Please do continue to express your ideas fearlessly in the certain knowledge hey are shared with appreciably more people than the general media would have you believe.
Gary said:
I certainly agree that those are rather disparaging comments on the subject. But characterising that as racism is such an utter failure to understand the conservative mindset. Race has nothing to do with it. They’re being idiotic because they’re attacking something/someone who will actually help create the kind of world they’d prefer. But they’re really not being racist. And liberals need to try a lot harder to understand why reactionary conservatives have these kinds of views. The excuse of “racism” has become synonymous with “they’re just wrong, that’s all you need to know” and that’s just not good enough.
Language like yours is totally unhelpful and bigoted -what has any of this to do with Nazis?- it’s also absurd to claim as you do in capitals `and still defy them after getting shot’ when in truth she has lived within the safety of Britain since being shot which doesn’t take much courage to `defy them’ from there. By all means support the girl but base your support on soundly sensible statements.
She most certainly is defying them! She might be in England now, but she is still in danger from supporters of the Taliban, yet continues to tell them to put their ideology where “the sun don’t shine!
If we’re to believe the authorities we are all under threat from the Taliban in Britain and we all respond by telling them to get lost -should we all receive Nobel Prizes for that? The more likely explanation for all this artificial adoration is that the pc-riddled Western governments are seeking as many Madonnas as they can find to place on pedestals and expect the rest of us to worship at their feet, these Daily Mail comments are from people who can see through their game and resent being asked to play it.
Terence, you advised victedy to
“base your support on soundly sensible statements”
and then the next minute you are saying stuff like
“The more likely explanation for all this artificial adoration is that the pc-riddled Western governments are seeking as many Madonnas as they can find to place on pedestals and expect the rest of us to worship at their feet.”
Errm…. What?
Quite, it was more of a passing comment that serves to extend the discussion into areas not perhaps immediately relevant to this narrow subject so I’ll simply say that we live in an age that seeks to supplant the male as the dominant gender with the female -the all-pervasive instrument used being political correctness the effect of which is perversely to turn all our accepted social values topsy turvy- part of that process is to portray the female with grotesquely exaggerated positive gifts and virtues while depicting the male as extolling wretchedly negative qualities: note how the media invariably illustrate any positive subject with females and negative with males. They powers that be also endeavour to re-write history so anything of a positive constructive nature in the past must be seen as having a prominent female input, arguing the female has been deliberately written out of history by biased males, while at much the same time they depict the female as the perennial victim telling us that she was not allowed to participate in any positive activity by the dominant male: thereby seeking to derive benefit from simultaneously adopting both albeit contradictory claims. Regarding this discussion -a girl shot in Pakistan for campaigning for girls to have a right to schooling and thereafter settled in Britain being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize- I thus said might best be understood against that wider background.
Okay… Well, thanks for your courteous and extended reply, Terence. But as another bloke all I can say is that we must be living in different universes. I’m reluctant to generalise about the sexes but all I see is men [a lot of them millionaires from privileged backgrounds] in power, in government, running the media, editing and owning papers like the Mail, the Sun, the Times, the Telegraph, and perverting the truth to suit their own agendas, namely the pursuit of power, wealth and privilege.
Thanks also for your reply – as you see the discussion opens up and extends even further from the original core subject so I think it’s better to leave it here. Let’s agree that all are welcome to their own opinions of what gave rise to this situation.
Aha! The truth comes out! Terence is a woman-hater, pure and simple, LOL!
Yep, Terence, I agree I think we’d better agree to differ. Our perceptions of the world are so different that I’m quite mystified to be honest. But at least we didn’t descend into abuse (which I sometimes find tempting! 🙂 ). Just one comment though. I’ve noticed that PC seems to have become a right-of-centre term of general abuse, like ‘do-gooder’ before it (which also perplexes me when I consider the alternative).
I have difficulty with the equation ‘PC = a BAD THING’ as the alternative to PC seems to be ‘political incorrectness’ or the licence to bully, stigmatise, marginalise, abuse and suppress.
This is the sort of simplistic statement to be expected of females who by the nature are so subjective they see everything from a very personal view-point – in truth I own not to being overly fond of the female of the species although `hate’ is such a profound emotion that it gives my dislike of the gender far too much significance – sorry but my feelings are far more prosaic than that, they simply incline me to put distance between myself and the opposite gender and everyone is happy with the outcome.
Good for you Terence! Stay out of our way! LOL!
“This is the sort of simplistic statement to be expected of females who by the [sic] nature are so subjective they see everything from a very personal view-point”.
Good grief. Judging by that, it’s YOU who is the master of the simplistic statement, Terence! 🙂 But thanks for clarifying that you’re not a woman-hater, just a woman-disdainer and ignorer. As if that’s an OK position from which to pontificate on human nature.
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As Abjol Miah defects, Lutfur Rahman’s ‘Tower Hamlets First’ group on verge of bigger split
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged abjol miah, john biggs, ohid ahmed, oli rahman, rabina khan, shafiqul haque, shahed ali on June 25, 2015| 69 Comments »
In 2007, a balding George Galloway and a few other bald men fought over the comb that was the imploding Respect/SWP “the Unity coalition” party. Due to a spat with the SWP about who owned the rights to the precious Respect name, Galloway’s main rump called themselves Respect Renewal. Separately, a gang of four councillors, largely cheesed off with the way their group leader Abjol Miah was running the show, split off to form a new group called Respect (Independent).
Eight years later and history is (kinda) repeating, albeit with some different faces and the musical chairs moving in different directions.
Back then the gang of four comprised Oli Rahman, Lutfa Begum, her daughter Rania Khan and Ahmed Hussain. Not long afterwards, Ahmed joined the Tories, where he is still well regarded, while the other three were bought off/recruited by Labour.
This morning the group that used to be called Tower Hamlets First and which is now known as Independents suffered its first split. Abjol Miah, upset at not retaining his paid position as a member of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee (instead, and incredibly, the job of scrutinising council business falls to grants king Maium Miah and the Prince of Narcissism Mahbub Alam), texted a couple of colleagues and then emailed John Williams, the council’s head of democratic services, to say he was quitting the group.
His move took some by surprise, not because he was defecting but because he was doing it alone. In the background there had been discussions about a few of them forming a new group. These talks had been taking place not just in the wake of Rabina Khan’s defeat, but also before it. What the disgruntled councillors had in common was a shared frustration at the way Lutfur Rahman (yes, him) was still effectively controlling things.
Last week, according to an insider, the Deposed Dear Leader met his former THF councillors to declare that Rabina would remain his candidate for mayor in 2018. Apparently his word was final, just as it had been when he selected her after his Election Court humiliation in April. No discussion, nada.
This, I’m told, was too much to stomach for some. To them, he was the cause of their current predicament – so how dare he not suggest an open and transparent selection process (ie a vote).
So a number of them set about planning a split. I’m told that those planning to do so are the Independents’ group leader, Oli Rahman (the six day Acting Mayor and the Lady Jane Grey of Tower Hamlets politics); Shahed Ali; ex-deputy mayor Ohid Ahmed; Shafiqul Haque; and Mohammed Mufti Miah.
The first four were all Labour councillors. Whether Abjol would join them to make a group of six is not clear.
Were this to happen, their initial task would be to choose a name: Independents First? Independent (Independent)? Independent Renewal? Choices on the back of a postcard please.
More substantially (and I use that word advisedly), there would also be implications for the system of proportionality. The main Independents group would drop to 11 in number, while the new gang would have possibly six members. The former would lose entitlement to some committee positions, while the latter would gain some.
For the most part, and I think Abjol is the exception here, the possible defectors would like to return to Labour. Were that to happen, there would be so many dead bodies left in Labour the calls for a Tower Hamlets cemetery would become irresistible.
That said, it’s clear Lutfur is planning a long term comeback and that Rabina is working hard on strengthening her grassroots support. Labour is likely to have a fight on its hands in 2018, and by 2022 Lutfur will be eligible to stand as mayor again (in fact he could try for a vacated councillor position in 2019…if he’s not bankrupted by court costs, of course).
So the aim of the game for John Biggs (and at an iftar for the Labour group on Tuesday night, pictured left, he made clear he’d want to stand again, although some tell me they’d like to see Sirajul Islam given a chance) must be to secure re-election, as well as running a decent council.
His hand is strengthened by weakening those of his opponents. Oli et al, believe it or not, do carry some votes. Deals that fall short of re-admittance to Labour can always be made.
Murky, but that’s politics I suppose.
Tory cheers for Labour’s John Biggs as he declares: ‘I’ll be a speaking variety of mayor’
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged john biggs, lutfur rahman, oli rahman, peter gold, rabina khan, tower hamlets first on June 24, 2015| 28 Comments »
In his victory speech on June 12, John Biggs said he’d been elected as a Labour mayor, that he’d run the council as a Labour mayor, but he hinted strongly he’d also acknowledge the multicoloured coalition of voters who put him there. Very senior allies of his said that night that some kind of role would have to be found, for example, for Peter Golds. As I mentioned in an earlier post, the role of Speaker seemed to be the perfect fit but in the ensuing days the offer did not come about. Instead, the councillor who did more than any other elected member to bring down Lutfur Rahman has been made a senior member of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee with a special responsibility for probity and governance. I’m sure he’ll relish it and perhaps end up as Speaker next year… As it happens tonight’s full council meeting – the first with Biggs as mayor – was chaired by Cllr Moahmmed Adbul Mukit, or ‘MBE’ as he’s known among his colleagues – on account of his MBE of course. It’s his second successive term, as it is for his deputy Rajib Ahmed. I wasn’t there for the meeting but by all accounts it was a most sensible affair. Biggs was apparently cheered by Tory and Labour supporters alike in the public gallery when he announced he would be the ‘speaking variety of mayor’.
The New Mayor speaks https://t.co/PP1mPJMUTl
— Cllr Joshua Peck (@CllrJoshuaPeck) June 24, 2015
Missing from the proceedings was Rabina Khan. I don’t know why and I’m sure she has a good reason so please don’t judge. Ohid Ahmed was also missing (for the start), as was Mahbub Alam, who was posing by the Eiffel Tower earlier today according to his narcissistic Twitter feed. Tonight’s full council was to ratify the various appointments to cabinet and other committees. A Labour press release today said this:
Mayor John Biggs has announced his Cabinet. This leadership team draws on the knowledge, experience and dedication of Labour councillors in Tower Hamlets.
One of the key objectives of this Cabinet is to do away with the secrecy and opaque nature of decision making that plagued the previous administration.
Decisions will be taken transparently and openly, with cabinet meetings held around the borough; council meetings will no longer see the mayor sitting in silence; and councillors will be fully involved in the decision making process, ensuring that local ward knowledge is always fed into the process.
Mayor: John Biggs
Cllr Rachael Saunders: Deputy Mayor for Education & Children’s Services & the Third Sector
Cllr Shiria Khatun: Deputy Mayor for Community Affairs
Cllr Sirajul Islam: Statutory Deputy Mayor
Cllr Rachel Blake: Cabinet Member for Strategic Development
Cllr Joshua Peck: Cabinet Member for Work & Economic Growth
Cllr Amy Whitelock Gibbs: Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Services
Cllr Asma Begum: Cabinet Member for Culture
Cllr Ayas Miah: Cabinet Member for Environment
Cllr David Edgar: Cabinet Member for Resources
With forthcoming decisions such as the South Quay Masterplan, Rich Mix litigation and the upcoming report on the Medium Term Financial Plan, the Mayor and Cabinet will be diving straight in to the new culture of transparent and fair decision making.
And in early changes, the Mayor has got rid of the leased car used by his predecessor, agreed that the long-delayed report into the sale of poplar Town Hall be released to the Overview and Scrutiny Committee, as required by a Council resolution over a year ago, and instructed that there be a long-delayed settlement with the Rich Mix Centre in Bethnal Green and that legal action pursued under the previous Mayor whose effect would have threatened the existence of the centre be ended.
Mayor John Biggs commented: “I’m very pleased to announce the Cabinet and I know we will all do our utmost to serve the residents of Tower Hamlets. I am incredibly proud to serve all people of this borough, but this is no time for complacency: whilst I have already made some changes such as scrapping the mayoral car, we are fully focussed on the big challenges ahead. As there was a period of time with no mayor, there was a pause in decision making.
“We must act now in an efficient and fair manner to sort out these decisions for the benefit of residents. I am beginning to clear the backlog of decisions, and to reverse some actions of my predecessor which were in my view unhelpful for the Borough. I have already held one mayor’s surgery to listen to residents’ issues and there will be many more of these meetings. And I have pledged a regimen of greater transparency and openness.
“It is vitally important that we now press on: serving the residents of Tower Hamlets fairly, transparently and efficiently.”
The other major appointment is Marc Francis as chair of the development and strategic development committee. With his wife Rachel Blake as cabinet member for housing, they’re going to have some pretty solid Chinese Walls at home. In other developments, two senior council officers have also been recruited. Zena Cooke, formerly of Maidstone Borough Council, will become corporate director for resources on August 1. And Melanie Clay, from Central Bedfordshire Council, will become the new corporate director for law, probity and governance on September 17. Meic Sullivan Gould will have to find another way of financing a new car. An advert for a new chief executive is also due to be published this week. Slowly but surely, the directions laid out by the Government to the Commissioners and council are being ticked off. They could well be unemployed by the end of the year.. And speaking of the unemployed, there are now a few redundant ex-Tower Hamlets First councillors in need of work. Actually, we really shouldn’t call them THF councillors because that party has been dissolved and they’ve officially formed an Independent group on the council. But what’s this email which dropped at into my Inbox at 9.35pm tonight? Spot the subconscious mistake…? Anyway, here’s the substance:
#Part-time Labour Mayor for Tower Hamlets during second wave of Tory cuts
John Biggs, the newly elected Labour mayor of Tower Hamlets, will be continuing his position as London Assembly Member, whilst the Conservative government threatens more cuts to social security.
Despite gimmickry of pay cut and spin, the fact is that John Biggs will still be taking home nearly £85,000 from combined salary despite being a part time Mayor for the people of Tower Hamlets.
Tower Hamlets, one of the poorest areas in London, is at high risk of being hit the hardest with extended cuts to public services, of which the survival of many rely upon.
The Independent Group, formerly Tower Hamlets First, revived services such as; Education Maintenance Allowance, which gives expenses to school leavers to support them through college; introduced the London Living Wage, which sees that employees in Tower Hamlets are given fair wages; and reduced child poverty by more than 15% since 2010.
Concerned for the future of Tower Hamlets under a Labour mayor, the Independent Group has made a pledge to hold John Biggs to account, on any decisions that may threaten the current services that protect the vulnerable and support the prosperity of the public.
Tower Hamlets was ranked first last year by Grant Thornton on its high growth index, and is also one of the top performing London authorities for the delivery of affordable homes, with 3980 affordable homes delivered and 1262 affordable/social rented homes for families delivered.
Cllr Oli Rahman, Leader of Independent Group, said: “If John Biggs is committed to keeping the borough united, as he has said before, he needs to acknowledge the devastating effects that the Tory cuts can and will make to the poorest and most vulnerable members of our community, and make it his priority to ensure that our residents can live, learn and work with dignity.”
Cllr Rabina Khan, Independent runner up in the Mayoral election, said: “We will continue to fight for the people of Tower Hamlets, and we will do that by holding John Biggs and his Labour cabinet to account. We are a local grassroots political movement and our focus is very much on the welfare of the community, not on building our careers in Westminster politics.” “Despite operating under the full brunt of Tory cuts, we will be leaving behind a legacy of services, the fate of which, lies in the hands of John Biggs and his Labour cabinet.”
1. Cllr Rabina Khan, Independent candidate in June 2015 against Labour’s John Biggs secured 26,384 votes, against the backdrop of a most vicious and negative right wing campaign. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rabina-KHAN-for-MAYOR/792583084189426
2.Cllr Oli Rahman, preformed Acting Mayoral duties before election, is one of the youngest political Group Leaders in the United Kingdom – https://twitter.com/cllroliurrahman
When I used the word ‘substance’ above, I was being generous.
A peek inside the Lutfur Bunker and John Biggs’ brief account of first week at work
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged john biggs, lutfur rahman on June 20, 2015| 61 Comments »
I texted John Biggs this morning to ask how his first week as Tower Hamlets Mayor had been. He replied with a very workmanlike text and it suggests a breath of fresh air. Here it is:
Got rid of car. Unfroze rich mix money (subject to call in).
Moving out of the mausoleum into a far smaller space.
Restoring a space for the speaker to host guests.
Went on two visits – primary school, housing opening. Need to do more – aim to get out at least once a day.
Did first surgery. Did a tour of the building to meet staff. (Need to finish last floor next week).
Forgoing £36,000 of mayor’s salary while still at City hall.
However that is early stuff, if important. By end Monday will have a cabinet.
Try to walk to work each day. Meet interesting people.
The selfie-count is reducing as the number of people impressed by my momentary fame declines.
Meanwhile, here are some photos of the grand office Lutfur Rahman had built for himself. They were sent to me by council insider who tells me it was known as the Lutfur Bunker. John Biggs refers to it above as the ‘mausoleum’.
Guest post by Andy Erlam: Remember, Lutfur was a child of Labour – now Biggs must root out the cancer of corruption
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alibor choudhury, andy erlam, john biggs, lutfur rahman, peter golds, rabina khan, tower hamlets police on June 18, 2015| 52 Comments »
Election court petitioner Andy Erlam
John Biggs is to be congratulated for winning the re-run Tower Hamlets mayoral election. The result was a clear rejection of Rahmanism and of Rahman’s proxy candidate, Rabina Khan.
We now expect John Biggs to ruthlessly root out the rest of the corruption at the town hall within the three years left in his mandate. If he starts to do this, he can be sure of my and many others’ co-operation. But he and the Labour Party must also now reflect on the fact that it was Labour that created the crisis in the first place.
That is why Labour was so hostile towards the Election Petition initially and made various attempts to sink it. Biggs himself was a very reluctant witness who had to be coaxed for months to provide an adequate statement for the court. Almost all other local Labour “leaders” looked the other way. One allegedly actively dissuaded people from giving evidence. What is the point of leaders who lead from the back?
There remains a question hanging in the air. Everyone knew that election corruption was rife in Tower Hamlets. It’s been going on for years, so why didn’t anyone, apart from Ted Jeory, Andrew Gilligan and Mark Baynes, do anything about it? Remember, Rahman was, and in many ways still is, a Labour man. So the choice in the election was really between Labour and Labour. Return of the One Party State of Tower Hamlets.
Rahman claimed in the election court that senior Labour officials such as Keith Vaz, Ken Livingstone and Len McCluskey had met him and his deputy Alibor Chaodhury and that they had agreed a “pathway” with the party leadership for Rahman to get back into the Labour fold. The Labour leadership has never denied this dirty deal behind the backs of both the Labour Party membership and the electorate. In my view, the only thing that stopped it being implemented was a spanner in the works in the form of the Election Petition. My reading of Biggs’ victory speech last Thursday was a hint at some form of reconciliation with Tower Hamlets First group councillors. Too eager, too much, too early.
Mayor John Biggs with Labour supporters
Last year Labour decided not to take an Election Petition itself against Rahman, even though it suspected that he had, once again, committed industrial-scale fraud in the mayoral and local elections. Maybe it was because historically Labour has also been involved in similar tactics? Rahman learnt his skills from Labour.
It’s all very well to talk about “drawing a line”, as Biggs does, but the body will only stand a chance of recovery if all the cancer is cut from the ailing body and we now know that election corruption was and is only the tip of the iceberg as regards corruption within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The cancer of corruption is still there.
Intimidation and violence in local elections has not stopped in Tower Hamlets either. A few days before this election a Labour councillor was badly manhandled and bruised outside a mosque because he refused to support Khan. In typical style, he appears not to be pressing charges “on advice from the elders”. So supporters of Khan can get away with a potential crime? And you want these people back in the Labour Party?
It’s my belief that numerous fraudulent and invalid votes were also cast again in Tower Hamlets and the police are investigating. If Khan is seriously considering her own Election Petition, who will it be directed at? My advice to her is: save other people’s money. It will fail at the first hurdle and “be laughed out of court”.
The police have acceded to my request to extend their enquiries to include the local councillor elections and the courts have agreed that ballot papers must be preserved a further six months. Complaints can be made direct to the Met at: SETelections@met.police.uk as soon as possible and before November at the very latest. I hear that local Labour leaders are already advising disappointed 2014 Labour candidates to leave matters – i.e. not co-operate with the police. And we wonder why so many local police enquiries run into the sand?
If people are now being discouraged from making formal complaints to the police about last year’s local councillor election fraud, they will live with the terrible consequences for years to come. Incidentally, it has never been clear why Chris Weavers, Labour’s then election agent and local Party chair, failed to challenge any of the poll counts on May 22 2014 at the time. Looking back, was his inaction wise?
It will also be especially interesting to see whether Biggs will root out corruption connected with local land deals. Scotland Yard is actively examining allegations of very serious fraud and misfeasance in public office on this aspect. It will be interesting to see if the new mayor opens up all the books to a serious and robust police investigation or concentrates on “reputational” issues like a public affairs consultant for FIFA. There is also the small matter of the fraud issues coming out of the PriceWaterhouse Coopers’ investigation. Why is Scotland Yard turning a blind eye? There must be a reason.
The only aggravation I had on the streets was from a few self-styled Biggs aides who criticised me for ‘splitting the Labour vote’. No vote belongs to Labour. Like respect, every vote has to be earned. Such arrogance has destroyed the ethical power of the Labour Party. It is anti-democratic and indeed illegal to seek to pressurise voters and candidates. Don’t they know? I take it as a badge of honour. Remember Labour created Rahman.
Furthermore, the spectre in the election campaign of both Peter Golds openly boasting in public meetings that he would “lend” second preference votes to Labour, and of Biggs “lending” Labour’s second preferences to the Tories beggars belief. Have these people learnt nothing?
The voters have decided and that decision must be respected. I would like to thank the 1,768 people who voted for me, the many others who (I am told) wanted to but didn’t and the many more who put me down as their second preference. Many wish to keep in touch and can do so at: andy@redflagac.org
We will now see if Labour will clear up, or cover-up, the mess of its own making.
A Biggs conundrum
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged andy erlam, john biggs, peter golds, rabina khan on June 12, 2015| 59 Comments »
John Biggs delivered a far more generous victory speech last night to the Tower Hamlets First brigade than they perhaps deserved.
It wasn’t what he said precisely but the tone he used. I suppose it’s easy and better to be magnanimous in victory than to be crowing and churlish but he congratulated Rabina Khan for her campaign (who, by the way, didn’t reciprocate in her speech – she forgot to say well done and instead focused on the ‘me, me’ parts) and he promised to recognise the fact she polled so many votes. She won almost 26,000 votes on the first round, 1,500, or less than 2 per cent, behind John.
John Biggs making his winning speech, a year late, better late than never. Mayor Biggs pic.twitter.com/d72FkzyxNQ
— Tarik (@Tarikahmedkhan) June 12, 2015
He said we shouldn’t forget that “a lot of bad things have happened” but that we should now move on.
He said he would hold office as a Labour mayor but in also praising Peter Golds he hinted at possible cooperation to come.
Peter, in his speech, struck a more wary tone. He said John won by “borrowing” votes from the other parties. As he said this, John raised a somewhat surprised eyebrow, but given the comments on this blog and on Twitter during the past couple of days, as well as the feedback John’s opponents were getting on the doorstep, I think Peter was doing no more than stating the bleeding obvious.
Peter polled 5,940 votes, or 8.7 per cent of the first round total. This was almost the same as Chris Wilford achieved last year in percentage terms (he got 7,173 votes in total) but far below the 20 per cent the Tories achieved only last month in the general election for the borough’s two constituencies.
And in second preference votes, there were a huge number of Tories who put Labour second yesterday.
For sure, this was an election in which Labour found friends in other parties.
I know that had John won last year he’d been planning to create an administration reflective of the rainbow nature of his support. It would be very surprising were that not the case this time.
The Government commissioners (who like almost all senior council officers will have been relieved by the result) will surely leave once they see functional politics at play again.
This is why Peter was right in his speech at the ExCeL centre to warn about the consequences for THF of last night’s defeat. Where do their band of jokers go now? Labour and the Tories will need to watch their backs when it comes to future candidate selection for councillors. More about them in a future post.
But more immediately, John now has to create an administration. He has already appointed three deputy mayors in Rachael Saunders, Shiria Khatun and Sirajul Islam, but there will be others wanting some reward. It was noticeable that Abdal Ullah, no longer a councillor, was the man who escorted John into the count last night.
There’s now a cabinet and other appointments to be be made. Some in his Labour group will have to bide their time. Will John take a Sir Robin Wales approach and dish out special responsibility allowances like confetti?
And how will he thank the Tories and in particular Peter Golds? Not so long ago, I suggested he’d make an excellent council Speaker. I think he’d love wearing the civic chains and ensuing order in the council chamber. Offering that role to him for a year would seem a wise choice. After that, I’d put him in charge of transparency and anti-corruption: a mini-Eric Pickles.
And then there’s Rabina. Could John offer her something? Would he? Would she accept? A role to encourage more women into politics? It would certainly create a split in the group of 17 “independents”. Or would she prefer to lead their group as Opposition leader. If the latter, she will need to formally join them and then take on Oli Rahman who has assumed that role.
And there is some talk about Rabina’s team examining a possible election petition against John’s win but how serious that is and on what grounds, I’m not sure.
I took some videos of this morning’s speeches and I will publish them once they’ve finished uploading in two hours’ time…
Lastly, congratulations to Labour’s Sabina Akhtar for winning in Stepney and to Andy Erlam and the other petitioners. Andy polled 1,768 votes yesterday – less than 3% – but his fans are of a far, far higher number than that.
Meanwhile, here are some photos of last night’s fun.
The final push: has anything changed?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged andy burnham, andy erlam, dan jarvis, john biggs, mohammed jubair, rabina khan on June 10, 2015| 41 Comments »
A day to go and even Radio 4’s Today programme has got in on the act, having just given the Tower Hamlets election its second prime time slot just before the 8pm news.
The tenor of her report was plus ca change: John Biggs facing false allegations on the doorstep that he will close down mosques; accusations by Andy Erlam of possible vote fraud; returning officer John Williams again telling the world we can be confident in the process; Rabina Khan, who has promised to be more transparent than Lutfur, refusing to be interviewed; and every single Bangladeshi voter in the vox pop asserting that Lutfur had been stitched up and that he hadn’t been corruptly elected.
I’m sure Richard Mawrey QC would have been listening with exasperated but unsurprised sighs. Might he be put to work again?
It’s not just Rabina’s campaign which has courted controversy. Peter Golds has been thoroughly enjoying himself but has been let down by a supporter who appeared on one of his leaflets. Rabina’s supporters have unearthed a Facebook posting by a Glen McCarty last year when he felt the need to vent some racist poison after apparently fearing for his wallet walking through Whitechapel. Here’s the posting and and leaflet.
Perhaps he should have a word with Tory activists Ahmed Hussain and Dr Anwara Ali, who pays their taxes. Peter Golds says he’s appalled by it and has asked for an apology. If a Rabina supporter had written something equivalent there would be justifiable fury and that’s the case here as well.
Meanwhile, Rabina yet again failed to attend a hustings last night, this time on the Isle of Dogs. Here’s the seat that was reserved for her:
She has proved to be a crushing disappointment in this regard. She promised to be more accountable than her boss, Lutfur Rahman, to be more transparent, but she’s simply copied his tactics. This is, I suppose, not surprising when her campaign is being run and managed by Lutfur and his former advisers, including Mohamed Jubair of Channel S (remember his name, I think we’re going to hear a bit more about him soon, I reckon).
She claims she’s going to be her own woman if she’s elected. She hasn’t demonstrated anything like that thus far.
John Biggs has been successful getting out Labour’s big guns to campaign: Tessa Jowell has been a regular; Dan Jarvis came last night, Andy Burnham tonight. Less successful has been the party’s attempt getting out hordes of local activists and perhaps this is a reflection of rising rents in Tower Hamlets where there has traditionally been a flow of students to help at times like this.
One final thought for now: Rabina has just been on BBC London radio boasting about her housing record. But during her time as cabinet member for housing, service charges for Tower Hamlets Homes leaseholders in my old patch of Bow have risen by 30%. A significant reason for this has been the costs dumped on Tower Hamlets Homes by the council for various management services and contracts.
I’ve previously asked her about this, but guess what: no response.
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In less than a week our borough has a chance to draw a line under the controversy and division of recent years by electing a mayor whose sole focus will be on the things that matter most to local people.
For too long our borough has been dragged through the headlines for all the wrong reasons. A farcical election count, a damning auditor report, a Government intervention, a mayor removed for election offences.
The former Mayor Lutfur Rahman not only divided the community with his patronage based politics but his mismanagement of the Council led to Government interventions of the kind we rarely see in this day and age. In both respects it is the people of the borough who suffer.
None of this was about one community or another. Everybody in our borough lost out as their council and leadership was focused on itself and not delivering the things people expect of their council. But make no mistake that the consequences of his actions have been very divisive, creating mistrust that politicians are not there for the public good, but for some dodgier purpose. I get fed up with the public cynicism that says all politicians are ‘corrupt’. Thankfully it is only a very select few who are. But when we find them we must comprehensively work out how to stop it happening again.
And so this election is a chance to put the council back on residents’ side. It requires us to move forwards but to do this we must also admit that things were wrong. It therefore boggles my mind that the Lutfur Rahman candidate, Rabina Khan, is in almost complete denial that anything was wrong, or that she had anything to do with it. Her constant refrain is ‘we must look forwards’. We must, of course, but we cannot ignore recent events. To do so is a bit like a burglar selling you back your tv and accusing you of being backward looking in asking where it came from.
My manifesto, my contract with residents, focuses on policies which will benefit every corner of the Tower Hamlets. Building the first new social housing in years, cracking down on anti-social behaviour, creating new jobs and restoring the reputation of our borough. But to move forwards we must comprehensively deal with the last of these. The Mayor model can work – just because someone crashes a car it doesn’t mean nobody else can drive again – but we must introduce a culture of transparency, of bridge building and of checks and balances if we are to move forwards credibly.
On day one I will scrap the mayoral car and the army of advisors. I’ll end the biased coverage in East End Life and review how the council should best communicate with residents, and how the Mayor should be accountable to the Council as a whole. Maximum transparency, and a willingness to explain all decisions, will be the foundations. In the first months we’ll implement the recommendations in the PWC report to make the council more open and accountable, we’ll appoint a new Chief Executive and get cracking on making good on my manifesto commitments. I will redesign a Mayor’s office that is lean and I will develop a proposal for transparency, and regular meetings with the wider public. We want no more headlines about scandal and corruption, just ones about knuckling down to make things better, and then positive ones about the great things that local people achieve.
Whilst there are many candidates standing in this election last year showed us that the choice is between Labour or more of the same under Lutfur Rahman’s candidate. There will be many people reading this who are not natural Labour voters and who may not agree with everything I say or propose to do. Whether those people use their second preference or not may decide the result. To those voters I pledge a culture of openness and a good administration that listens, and explains, and does ot neglect the voices of any part of our community.
I am happy to write more at a later date about the challenges on housing, skills, employment, development, education, budgeting and so on. However, the simple fact is that this is an election like no other. It’s about getting our borough back on track and moving on from the divisive past we’ve seen under Lutfur Rahman. If elected, that is exactly what I intend to do.
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How PM Abbasi can rid Pakistan of load-shedding
The former energy minister’s move to add LNG to the national energy mix was a game changer.
By Hassan Rasheed
ISLAMABAD: It is almost writing on the wall now that the reasons behind the endemic power outages in Pakistan broadly fall into two categories: firstly, non-payment of dues to power houses which incapacitates them to procure fuel and secondly, the absence of a mechanism to finance these payments.
The reasons seem simple enough so the question remains: why hasn’t anyone been able to do anything about it? And why Prime Minister Khaqan Abbasi has what it takes to finally do something about it?
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In order to understand the debilitating inaction and ineffectiveness of governments in the last 10 years to address this chronic issue, we have to delve deep in to the psyche and motivation of the individuals tasked with the responsibility of curing this ill and investigate why they have not been able to identify underlying issues and take decisive and corrective action. First of all, a historical perspective can help lay a foundation for further enquiry.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who is famously known to have predicted the 2008 global financial crisis, in his bestselling book ‘The Black Swan’ suggests that the concept of accountability, or a sense of ‘skin in the game’ in his words, is central to ensure sincerity of the human endeavour especially while holding executive authority. Asymmetry in reward and risk is bound to invite the poorest of behaviours from men and invoke the lowliest of traits.
He goes on to say that the 2008 global financial crisis is a perfect example of this behaviour. Risky loans were rated as AAA by credit rating agencies that had nothing to lose if everything collapsed and CEOs of financial institutions were ready to turn their back on an increasing default rate and carry on as if it was business as usual. Once the dust settled on one of the biggest economic busts of the human era, the culprits mostly escaped scot free and tax payers were left holding the bill.
One can even find parallels to this phenomenon in ancient writings. According to the Code of Hammurabi, which is the Babylonian code of law of ancient Mesopotamia dating back to about 1754 BC, if a house was to suffer structural damage, decimate and kill its owner, the builder was put to death. May be that is a bit extreme, but it is fascinating how long we have known to hold people responsible when they have executive authority but somehow always fail to find ways to do so.
Expensive delays in mega projects (case in point Nandipur Power Project) and corrupt and fraudulent practices in the public sector (Metro Multan etcetera) are prime examples of such behaviour. Where the people involved in the decision making are driven by a misdirected set of incentives: often geared towards self-interest; and often at odds with the responsibilities they are expected to deliver on.
So now that we have a fair background of where it all goes wrong, it needs to be enquired as to how PM Abbasi would be able to achieve an almost impossible feat. Normally it is foolish to expect any political figure, most of whom have wealth parked in off-shore accounts and families residing in other countries, to exhibit a sense of ‘skin in the game’ and thus put sincere effort towards public welfare.
But at times, one encounters leaders who ever-so-subtly exhibit this valuable trait. Case in point: the LNG initiative that was pushed by the then Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources. The completion of the maiden LNG terminal in record time in a country like Pakistan, where almost every project of public welfare somehow gets tangled in red tape and marred by corruption, is a miracle by all means.
PM Abbasi took total responsibility of the project and put his own reputation on the line by pursuing the project with such vigour.
A similar approach is needed for getting rid of load-shedding. The power sector is made up of ailing utilities which are regulated by a paralysing regulator and governed by out-dated laws. Instead of addressing individual issues of power sector minutely, let us first examine what has been happening quietly in the gas sector under the leadership of PM Abbasi.
The journey of Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited (SNGPL) from a decaying public utility to a prospering business is not only remarkable, but highly understated and, therefore, needs to be prudently mapped and drawn inference from.
Under Arif Hameed’s leadership the organisation plummeted into the proverbial abyss as equity started shrinking and sales declined from over 260 billion to less than 170 billion rupees.
And as with any self-serving leader, when the opportunity for growth presented itself in the form of induction of LNG into the grid, SNGPL MD Arif Hameed did his utmost to avoid signing the tri-partite agreement that would hold SNGPL responsible for not only sale of LNG but also pay its cost on a timely basis.
Power outages continue to plague city
Paying dues on time was something the Hameed-led SNGPL was used to doing: playing merry go round with government-owned gas sellers was a common practice, neither of which had any real concern with demanding payments for their supplies.
For once, the gas was foreign; with a price tag to be paid in dollars, and not merely free candy to be distributed amongst friends.
It was at this juncture that PM Abbasi managed an overhauling of not only the senior management at SNGPL but the general culture of the organisation. It was made very clear that this time around, LNG was to be inducted in the grid for good and unlike local gas – which is considered a free for all- payments would have to be ensured, failing which there would be real consequences in the form of penalties backed by Stand-by LC(s).
This key structural change meant that the unimaginative and fixed mind-set prevalent in the SNGPL gave way to an attitude geared towards efficiency and growth. For the first time in 10 years, distribution losses which were at a debilitating 11-12% came down to a manageable 7%-8%. Share prices which averaged Rs20/share in 2014 rose seven-fold to more than Rs140/share.
Weather cools but power blackouts persist
Let us put this remarkable change into perspective. Organisations – be it public utilities or governments- are organic systems and work like gardens. There is a place called ‘Death Valley’ in the US. It is the hottest and driest place in the whole of North America and nothing grows there because there is no rain. In the winter of 2004, almost 7 inches of rain (which is a lot) fell in a very short period of time. In the following spring, the Death Valley sprung to life; the whole floor of the valley was carpeted with flowers for a short while.
The lesson from the story is this: the ‘death valley’ is not dead. It is dormant. Right beneath the surface are these seeds of possibility waiting for the right conditions to sprout. The actual role of leadership thus is not ‘command and control’ but ‘climate control’. If the conditions are right, the wheel of progress moves inevitably.
What PM Abbasi has demonstrated as the Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources is his unique set of skills: his ability to create the right ‘climate’ for a progressive and thriving gas sector in the country and a risk-taking attitude whereby he has put himself on the line whenever the progress of the projects under his supervision was at stake. It is thus inevitable that he will be able to cure the incorrigible state of the power sector.
The writer has been involved in the CNG business since 2006. He is also the Senior Vice President of the All Pakistan CNG Owners’ Association (APCOA)
Published in The Express Tribune, September 25th, 2017.
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Bush is afraid of horses.
Satyam Khanna Sep 21, 2007, 8:27 pm
In his new autobiography, former Mexican President Vincente Fox notes that President Bush seems to be afraid of horses, once turning down an offer to ride Fox’s horse. “He demurred, backing away from the big palomino. A horse lover can always tell when others don’t share our passion,” Fox said. In fact, Bush’s equestrian incompetence has been observed for years, as Laura Bush jokingly said in 2005:
George didn’t know much about ranches when we bought the place. Andover and Yale don’t have a real strong ranching program. But I’m proud of George. He’s learned a lot about ranching since that first year when he tried to milk the horse. What’s worse, it was a male horse.
Watch it:
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Fox also called Bush a “windshield cowboy,” or “a cowboy who prefers to drive.”
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Picatic has the DNA of Kickstarter, a ticket sales company, with a touch of airline ticket sales structure, taking the major pain points out of event organizing for an entire industry. Disruption appears to be the name of their game.
Marti Trewe
Kickstarting the event industry
The primary pain point for any event organizer is the risk of putting on an event and assuming all of the up front costs to secure a venue, advertise, procure speaking talent, bringing on event staff, and selling tickets. It appears easy, which is why so many jump into the space, but the risks do not always meet the rewards and companies often take a loss on their events.
Picatic.com was developed by a team of event talent that first created a traditional ticketing company that has done very well, but has expanded into an innovative new vertical to solve the problem of risk for event organizers by changing how people purchase tickets for events and the platform “guarantees successful events,” the company says.
Everything from a photography class to a large concert can be served through Picatic, and like Kickstarter.com, a certain goal of revenue is set by the event organizer, and if that goal is met, they are obligated to host the event, and if not enough tickets are sold, they are not obligated to go forward with the event, which is how the company seeks to eliminate the risk, as buyers know they may or may not get their desired event, which adds to the demand, as it encourages attendees to campaign for events they want to attend.
So let’s say you wanted to host a class on how to build tables. You get a customizable event page to promote across your social networks and email, and the system allows you to collect money and manage the event in real time. So you say you want to sell 25 tickets at $20 each, and your goal is to do so by the week prior to your class. If you hit your goal, you’ve made your sales and made the event worth it, and if you fail to hit your goal, you have the option to cancel the event and not take a loss on it, thus taking the guess work out of it.
Add in a layer of airline ticket sales flair, and you have magic
Picatic CEO, Jayesh Parmar tells AGBeat that the idea is to not only de-risk events, but to empower consumers who get to vote with their dollars. Additionally, the company creates urgency through price segmentation so that early sales are incentivized and prices increase as the event nears or as a certain amount of tickets have been sold, so it functions like airline ticket sales or even concert arena tickets, with the best deals going to the early buyers.
The company hinted that their next release could be a LinkedIn for event professionals to introduce relevancy to all of the connections the industry typically keeps private, opening opportunities for event organizers, especially when going into a new market.
Parmar notes that the Kickstarter plus airline ticket sales method improves the forecasting of any event host, and their commission is comparable to any ticket sales company (averaging 2.0 to 4.0 percent on a sliding scale). The San Francisco based company has been a bootstrapped organization that recently moved from Canada to the Valley – we expect they will be funded in the 2012 calendar year, as their overhead seems to be low and revenue high.
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(TECH NEWS) If you are tired of third party cookies trying to grab every bit of data about you, google has heard and responded with their new updates.
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Google has announced the end of third-party tracking cookies on its Chrome browser within the next two years in an effort to grant users better means of security and privacy. With third-party cookies having been relied upon by advertising and social media networks, this move will undoubtedly have ramifications on the digital ad sector.
Google’s announcement was made in a blog post by Chrome engineering director, Justin Schuh. This follows Google’s Privacy Sandbox launch back in August, an initiative meant to brainstorm ideas concerning behavioral advertising online without using third-party cookies.
Chrome is currently the most popular browser, comprising of 64% of the global browser market. Additionally, Google has staked out its role as the world’s largest online ad company with countless partners and intermediaries. This change and any others made by Google will affect this army of partnerships.
This comes in the wake of rising popularity for anti-tracking features on web browsers across the board. Safari and Firefox have both launched updates (Intelligent Tracking Prevention for Safari and the Enhanced Tracking Prevention for Firefox) with Microsoft having recently released the new Edge browser which automatically utilizes tracking prevention. These changes have rocked share prices for ad tech companies since last year.
The two-year grace period before Chrome goes cookie-less has given the ad and media industries time to absorb the shock and develop plans of action. The transition has soften the blow, demonstrating Google’s willingness to keep positive working relations with ad partnerships. Although users can look forward to better privacy protection and choice over how their data is used, Google has made it clear it’s trying to keep balance in the web ecosystems which will likely mean compromises for everyone involved.
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(TECH NEWS) It’s so hard to find the right recipe for that beautiful meal you saw on tv or online. Well computer vision helps AI recreate it from a picture!
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Ever seen at a photo of a delicious looking meal on Instagram and wondered how the heck to make that? Now there’s an AI for that, kind of.
Facebook’s AI research lab has been developing a system that can analyze a photo of food and then create a recipe. So, is Facebook trying to take on all the food bloggers of the world now too?
Well, not exactly, the AI is part of an ongoing effort to teach AI how to see and then understand the visual world. Food is just a fun and challenging training exercise. They have been referring to it as “inverse cooking.”
According to Facebook, “The “inverse cooking” system uses computer vision, technology that extracts information from digital images and videos to give computers a high level of understanding of the visual world,”
The concept of computer vision isn’t new. Computer vision is the guiding force behind mobile apps that can identify something just by snapping a picture. If you’ve ever taken a photo of your credit card on an app instead of typing out all the numbers, then you’ve seen computer vision in action.
Facebook researchers insist that this is no ordinary computer vision because their system uses two networks to arrive at the solution, therefore increasing accuracy. According to Facebook research scientist Michal Drozdzal, the system works by dividing the problem into two parts. A neutral network works to identify ingredients that are visible in the image, while the second network pulls a recipe from a kind of database.
These two networks have been the key to researcher’s success with more complicated dishes where you can’t necessarily see every ingredient. Of course, the tech team hasn’t stepped foot in the kitchen yet, so the jury is still out.
This sounds neat and all, but why should you care if the computer is learning how to cook?
Research projects like this one carry AI technology a long way. As the AI gets smarter and expands its limits, researchers are able to conceptualize new ways to put the technology to use in our everyday lives. For now, AI like this is saving you the trouble of typing out your entire credit card number, but someday it could analyze images on a much grander scale.
(TECH NEWS) Xiaomi finds out that while modern smart and security devices have helped us all, but there are still plenty of flaws and openings for security breeches.
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The reason for setting up security cameras around your home is so the photos can get streamed to your neighbor’s device, right?
Okay, that’s obviously not why most (if any) of us get security cameras, but unfortunately, that scenario of the leaked images isn’t a hypothetical. Xiaomi cameras have been streaming photos to the wrong Google Home devices. This was first reported on Reddit, with user Dio-V posting a video of it happening on their device.
Xiaomi is a Chinese electronics company that has only recently started to gain traction in the U.S. markets. While their smartphones still remain abroad, two of Xiaomi’s security cameras are sold through mainstream companies like Wal-Mart and Amazon for as low as $40. Their affordable prices have made the products even more popular and Xiaomi’s presence has grown, both nationally and abroad.
To be fair, when the leaked photos surfaced, both Google and Xiaomi responded quickly. Google cut off access to Xiaomi devices until the problem was resolved to ensure it wouldn’t happen again. Meanwhile, Xiaomi worked to identify and fix the issue, which was caused by a cache update, and has since been fixed.
But the incident still raises questions about smart security devices in the first place.
Any smart device is going to be inherently vulnerable due to the internet connection. Whether it’s hackers, governments, or the tech companies themselves, there are plenty of people who can fairly easily gain access to the very things that are supposed to keep your home secure.
Of course, unlike these risks, which involve people actively trying to access your data, this most recent incident with Xiaomi and Google shows that your intimate details might even be shared to strangers who aren’t even trying to break into your system. Unfortunately, bugs are inevitable when it comes to keeping technology up to date, so it’s fairly likely something like this could happen again in the future.
That’s right, your child’s room might be streamed to a total stranger by complete accident.
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MQ-25 will improve the performance, efficiency, and safety of the carrier air wing and provide longer range and greater persistence tanking capability to execute missions that otherwise could not be performed
Released by Boeing on Sep. 4, 2018 the video in this post is dedicated to the MQ-25 team.
As we have already reported the U.S. Navy awarded a contract to the company on Aug. 30 for the MQ-25A Stingray, the first operational carrier-based unmanned refueling aircraft.
This fixed-price-incentive-firm-target contract with a ceiling price of $805.3 million provides for the design, development, fabrication, test, delivery, and support of four MQ-25A unmanned air vehicles, including integration into the carrier air wing for an initial operational capability by 2024.
“MQ-25A is a hallmark acquisition program,” said Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development, and Acquisition James F. Geurts. “This program is a great example of how the acquisition and requirements communities work hand in hand to rapidly deliver capabilities to our Sailors and Marines in the fleet.”
When operational, MQ-25 will improve the performance, efficiency, and safety of the carrier air wing and provide longer range and greater persistence tanking capability to execute missions that otherwise could not be performed.
“This is an historic day,” said Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson. “We will look back on this day and recognize that this event represents a dramatic shift in the way we define warfighting requirements, work with industry, integrate unmanned and manned aircraft, and improve the lethality of the airwing — all at relevant speed. Everyone who helped achieve this milestone should be proud we’re here. But we have a lot more to do. It’s not the time to take our foot off the gas. Let’s keep charging.”
The award is the culmination of a competitive source selection process supported by personnel from Naval Air Systems Command and the Unmanned Carrier Aviation program office (PMA-268) at Patuxent River.
MQ-25 is an accelerated acquisition program that expedites decisions that will enable rapid actions with less overhead. The intent is to significantly reduce development timelines from contract award to initial operational capability by five to six years. By reducing the number of key performance parameters to mission tanking and carrier suitability, industry has increased flexibility to rapidly design a system that meets those requirements.
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January 5, 2017 · by The Thorn · in Film. ·
Synopsis: “The best of the best is back and better than ever” (WNYW-TV) in the latest installment of the pulse-pounding, thrill-a-minute Die Hard action films. New York City detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) delivers old-school justice to a new breed of terrorists when a massive computer attack on the U.S. infrastructure threatens to shut down the entire country over Independence Day weekend.
Locked and loaded with real stunts, genuine humor and nonstop excitement, Live Free Or Die Hard is “a slick piece of action entertainment” (Los Angeles Times). Yipee ki yay!
Live Free or Die Hard 7.0
eyelights: Bruce Willis. Jason Long. its core conceit.
eyesores: its stereotypes. its unrealistic action sequences. its scope.
“You’re a Timex watch in a digital age.”
You know what made the original ‘Die Hard‘ so good? It was the simplicity of it: it showed an everyday Joe persevering against a more skilled and deadly opponent in a confined space through sheer will and wile. Oh, sure, it had its outlandish moments, but, mostly, it was a dude trapped in a highrise with a bunch of deadly hostage-takers.
The first sequel expanded upon this concept a little bit, giving the series’ hero, John McClane, a little bit more room to maneuver in. But, essentially, it was an everyday dude trapped in an airport with a bunch of deadly hostage-takers. The third film is when the series derailed, throwing McClane on a silly wild goose chase all over Manhattan.
‘Live Free or Die Hard’ ratches it up a few notches further, pitting McClane against hackers who are systematically shutting down the U.S. – which he tears through over a couple of days. It’s basically a non-stop, over-the-top, large-scale action movie that could easily have starred Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Harrison Ford or Will Smith.
It’s not really a ‘Die Hard’.
Which doesn’t make it less exciting: ‘Die Hard 4.0’ (its actual title in international markets, and the preferred one of star Bruce Willis and director Len Wiseman) is over-stuffed with well-constructed, pulse-pounding sequences that entertain just long enough to be threaded together by small moments of plot or character development.
Is it implausible? Yes.
Does it get ridiculous? Yes.
Does it overstay its welcome? Yes.
But it can be fun. And Bruce Willis is back in form after his morose turn from ‘Die Hard with a Vengeance’. To top it off, he seems leaner and in better shape than he was even then – and that was twelve years prior. Add to this a decent interplay with Justin Long, who plays a New Jersey hacker that’s tied to McClane’s hip, and Willis shines.
It’s a good thing, too, because no one else in the cast makes a lasting impression. Though they’re all fine actors and they all deliver, none of them are Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson, William Atherton or even William Sadler. The only other notable turn is by Kevin Smith, as a master hacker who lives in his mom’s basement.
Of course, I may be a bit biased.
The action comes fast and furious: right at the onset, a hacker is blown up and then Matt, Justin Long’s character, is about to get gunned down by some French hitmen when McClane saves the day – in a machine-gun riddled sequence that made me wonder who would use such weapons if they’d rather not attract any attention to themselves.
But what can you say about a scene that finds McClane defending, with only one handgun, a small apartment from a handful of hitmen with machine guns? A scene that finds Matt’s apartment blown up because a Terminator statue falls on his PC’s DELETE button? A scene that has McClane and Matt hunted by a relentless parcour athlete?
And that’s just the opening salvo. It gets crazier.
And crazier.
The picture is so full of crazy action sequences that it belies its PG-13 rating, the first of its kind for a ‘Die Hard’ film. If you go in not knowing this, you could never tell. But it certainly says something about our ratings system (and our society!) when something as violent as ‘Die Hard 4.0’ can get a PG-13 rating; it wouldn’t have 20 years prior.
After taking Matt to Washington DC, McClane is ambushed by an enemy chopper that riddles their car with bullets. They escape to a nearby tunnel, so the baddies electronically redirect traffic in McClane’s direction. The subsequent series of car crashes was jaw-dropping: it had car flipping in the air above our duo, crashing down everywhere. No one gets hurt.
But get this: that’s the least of it! McClane then takes a car and launches it in the air at the helicopter. Launches. The. Car. In. The. Air. Like a missile. Even Matt is incredulous, blurting out “You just killed a helicopter with a car!”. McClane takes a massive tumble, having thrown himself from the speeding car. But he survives. So does parcour guy.
(For the record, the fact that the French dude is a parcour athlete and that the Asian girl is a martial artist, is pretty f-ing simple-minded, no? All that was missing was a Russian ex-KGB, an Italian gangster, an African-American gangsta and an Indian with a turban. !@#$)
McClane is pretty robust: in this picture, though he gets bruised and scraped, and is visibly achey, he suffers no broken bones, no nerve damage and no severe bloodloss. Of course, it goes both ways: when McClane has a brutal fight with Mai Linh, the miniscule woman takes a serious beating, recovers quickly and then tosses him two floors down.
But get this: He somehow drives an SUV up to where she and Long are, drives through the control room, hits her, and drives them into an elevator. Naturally, they’re both alive, and unharmed, even after the SUV drops into the elevator shaft. And despite the pummeling he took, he can still holds onto elevator cable as she falls down with the truck.
It actually gets worse: Later, as McClane is trying to catch Gabriel, the head hacker, an F35 is sent after him – which leads to the most deranged chase ever, as the U.S. Marine devastates the city’s infrastructure to terminate McClane. Interestingly, there is no one else around. Then McClane lands on the F35, falls off of it and he doesn’t get hurt.
Too much!
Whoever would have imagined that the series would take this turn back in 1988, huh?
Whatever sense of realism that made the original such a hit has been laid waste here. Though I can’t comment on the plausibility of a hacker instigating a “fire sale” shut down of the United States, it’s nonetheless an intriguing concept: can you imagine the state we’d be in if all transit, financial services, telecom and utilities were all shut down?
Madness!
Still, the picture was slipshod in many other areas: How did the chopper know to find McClane in DC, when they were first in Jersey? How could Matt, who complained of being hungry at the start last two days without eating? How could McClane take a phone from a stranger’s hand without protest? How can Gabriel send exploding gas lines at McClane?
Even on technical level there were things that were poorly-conceived. Though the CGI carnage was mostly rendered well enough that it neatly blended with the live action, there was really crap green-screening (and exposition) during the drive from Jersey to DC. And Maggie Q and Justin Long’s hair was often in different positions in various takes.
Though not Bruce Willis’.
Ultimately, ‘Live Free or Die Hard’ is a ride – no more, no less. An seemingly endless, and extremely convoluted, ride, but a ride nonetheless. If you allow it to take you along, then it serves as a decent way to kill two hours; it’s competently-constructed and Bruce Willis is on top of his game here. But make no mistake: it has very little in common with the original.
The spirit of ‘Die Hard’ has left us a long time ago. Mind you, death is not the worst of evils.
Date of viewing: December 14, 2016
Tags: Action, Crime, Family, Martial Arts, Politics, Suspense
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Coupling: Series 1 →
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How Did Hackers Who Stole $81 Million from Bangladesh Bank Go Undetected?
Investigators from British defense contractor BAE Systems discovered that hackers who stole $81 million from the Bangladesh Central Bank actually hacked into software from SWIFT financial platform, a key part of the global financial system.
The hackers used a custom-made malware to hide evidence and go undetected by erasing records of illicit transfers with the help of compromised SWIFT system.
The Bangladesh Bank hackers, who managed to steal $81 Million from the bank last month in one of the largest bank heists in history, actually made their tracks clear after hacking into SWIFT, the heart of the global financial system.
SWIFT, stands for the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications, is a global messaging network used for most international money and security transfers.
More than 11,000 Global Banks on HIGH ALERT!
Nearly 11,000 Banks and other financial institutions around the World use SWIFT system to send securely and receive payment instructions through a standardized system of codes.
Recently, Bangladesh police investigators uncovered evidence revealing that the Bank was using second-hand $10 network switches without a Firewall to run its network, which offered hackers access to the bank's entire infrastructure, including the SWIFT servers.
Now, researchers from British defense contractor BAE Systems reported Monday that the Bangladesh Bank hackers used a piece of sophisticated, custom-made malware to manipulate logs and erase the history of the fraudulent transactions, which even prevent printers from printing the fraudulent transactions.
The malware also has the capability to intercept and destroy incoming messages confirming the money transfers. These malware capabilities prevented hackers to remain undetected.
"This malware appears to be just part of a wider attack toolkit and would have been used to cover the attackers' tracks as they sent forged payment instructions to make the transfers," security researcher Sergei Shevchenko wrote in a blog post.
When and How Did They Get Detected?
The hackers had attempted to steal $951 Million in total from Bangladesh central bank account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York using fraudulent transactions, but a simple typo (spell error) by hackers halted the further transfers of the $850 Million funds.
The BAE researchers believe the malware used to target Alliance Access, a piece of software that allows banks to connect to the SWIFT network.
According to SWIFT's official website, Alliance Access has more than 2,000 installations worldwide. So even though the SWIFT financial system is used by around 11,000 banks and financial institutions, all of them are not affected by the notorious malware.
"By modifying the local instance of SWIFT Alliance Access software, the malware grants itself the ability to execute database transactions within the victim network," Shevchenko said.
SWIFT To Issue Emergency Security Update
Meanwhile, Brussels-based SWIFT confirmed to Reuters that the company was aware of the nasty malware used to target its client software and that it would roll out a security software update on Monday to fix the issue, along with a special warning to financial institutions.
SWIFT Spokeswoman Natasha Deteran said the software update was intended "to assist customers in enhancing their security and to spot inconsistencies in their local database records."
Bangladeshi hacker, bank hacking, bank security, hacking news, Malware, Money transaction, Swift
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Album Review – Judas Priest / Firepower (2018)
Posted on March 16, 2018 by Gustavo Scuderi
The Metal Gods are firing on all cylinders with their majestic new album of pure and highly inspired Heavy Metal.
When British Heavy Metal legends Judas Priest announced they were just about to release their 18th studio record, the magnificent Firepower, I already knew it was going to be an epic album. Not only it’s the first studio album since their 1988 release Ram It Down to be produced by Tom Allom and the first ever with the always precise and competent Andy Sneap as co-producer, but the entire band (Rob Halford on vocals, Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner on the guitars, Ian Hill on bass and Scott Travis on drums) is absolutely on fire throughout the album’s almost one hour of the purest form of “British steel” that will beautifully and powerfully pierce your ears and control your mind, compelling you to bang your head nonstop and raise your horns to the iconic Metal Gods. By the way, the amazing album art, created by Chilean artist Claudio Bergamin, breathes scorching fire like an enraged dragon, fully in line with the unparalleled history of one of the most formidable bands in heavy music.
Although their 2014 opus Redeemer of Souls was already fantastic, showcasing a veteran band at the top of their form, the metallic extravaganza found in Firepower is so majestic and inspiring that not even the terrible news of Glenn Tipton being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, which unfortunately for all lovers of true metal music won’t allow him to tour as much as before with the band (being replaced by Andy Sneap during the upcoming Firepower 2018 World Tour), could ruin the magic crafted by the band in Firepower, and Glenn in his most humble “the show must go on” mode had a few nice words to say about his situation, encouraging the band to continue with the tour. “I want everyone to know that it’s vital that the Judas Priest tour go ahead and that I am not leaving the band – it’s simply that my role has changed. I don’t rule out the chance to go on stage as and when I feel able to blast out some Priest! So at some point in the not too distant future I’m really looking forward to seeing all of our wonderful metal maniacs once again”, said one of the greatest guitarists in the history of Heavy Metal.
Getting back to the album, five seconds are all that the mighty Judas Priest need to explode our senses with their incomparable metal music in the title-track Firepower, where Glenn and Richie begin their flammable riff-fest before the Metal God Rob Halford comes crushing with his unique metallic vocals. Put differently, the band offers us a high-octane, electrifying and straightforward 80’s-style version of themselves for our absolute delectation. And without wasting a single second the Metal Gods fire another superb hymn titled Lightning Strike, a mid-tempo, rumbling composition led by the always precise Scott Travis, with the rip-roaring way Halford declaims the lyrics being beyond thrilling (“I’ll bring you the head of the demon / I’m peeling the skin from his face / The life that you lead is inhuman / Its cause and effects a disgrace / You’re sowing the seeds of a nightmare from hell / Your prayers and your demons are tolling the bell / Walking through fire, fate’s in my hands / Waiting for lightning to strike / Man on a wire, bearing the brand / Waiting for lightning to strike / Lightning to strike”). Then darker riffs by Glenn and Richie permeate the air while Halford tells a somber story in Evil Never Dies, a sonic masterpiece perfect for hitting the road that will urge you to bang your head and scream together with Halford every single time you listen to its flawless lines.
Slowing down the pace a bit, but still sounding vibrant and epic, Never the Heroes brings forward lyrics about the fortunes of war and all the darkness that fills the heart of a soldier (“We were fearless but so afraid / Though in our hearts we still felt pain / We’re on fire but on a leash / We only ever wanted peace”), with the solos by both Glenn and Richie being a thing of beauty. Needless to say, this battle hymn will sound stunningly powerful when played live. Following such touching song we have Necromancer, a solid display of Heavy Metal infused with Stygian elements and nuances (mainly due to the nature of the song), closer to the band’s sonority from the albums Angel of Retribution and Redeemer of Souls; and Children of the Sun, another song to sing along with Halford & Co., presenting a headbanging rhythm led by Scott with his steady beats and the simple but effective bass lines by Ian Hill. As usual, the band’s guitar duo does an amazing job with their crisp solos, enhancing the song’s punch considerably.
Their metal feast goes on with a gentle piano bridge named Guardians, warming our ears and minds up for the powerful Rising from Ruins, displaying an elegant sonority where Halford has a titanic performance, stealing the spotlight with his deep and passionate vocals, not to mention how Scott keeps the music flowing smoothly with his classic beats. And what to say about the next tune, aggressively titled Flame Thrower? When I first saw the name of the song I was more than sure it was going to be ass-kicking, and guess what? It is indeed a true rockin’ extravaganza ignited by the slashing guitars by Glenn and Richie, in a blend of their own music from albums like British Steel and Ram It Down mixed with Halford’s solo career. Also uniting old school and modern Judas Priest, the quintet delivers the gripping Spectre, where Richie adds a touch of modernity to the band’s trademark sound with his guitar while Halford once again impersonates a “dark poet of metal”. Then a melancholic intro quickly morphs into a flammable and adventurous metal hymn entitled Traitors Gate, showcasing all elements we learned to love from NWOBHM, and, as a consequence, being tailored for admirers of the more epic side of the band. Furthermore, the guitars by Glenn and Richie are in total sync with Scott’s beats and especially with Halford’s potent roars and high-pitched screams, making it a true exhibit of classic metal.
The last batch of songs in Firepower is quite interesting, as if the band decided not to release them as bonus tracks of a deluxe edition of the album despite their uniqueness, but instead they added them to the regular version of it as a gift to all metal maniacs who have been supporting the band since their inception. No Surrender is straightforward Rock N’ Roll infused with Heavy Metal nuances highly inspired by the band’s own 80’s musicality, or in other words, if this was part of British Steel, Defenders of the Faith or Screaming for Vengeance it would have been a metal classic today. Hence, can you feel their guitars penetrating deep inside your heart? Then the superb Lone Wolf feels like they wanted to pay a stylish tribute do Black Sabbath, Pantera and Down all at once in a fusion of top-notch Heavy Metal with the dementia and aggression of Stoner and Doom Metal. Even the usually quiet Ian Hill delivers some thunder through his bass, with Richie and Glenn stealing the spotlight with the heaviest riffs of the entire album while Halford is simply astounding on vocals. And last but not least, how about a touching and majestic ballad titled Sea of Red, closing this grandiose album in great fashion, with Halford’s voice sounding even more impactful together with the fiery guitars by Richie and Glenn? And don’t forget to pay very good attention to the lyrics as they’re simple but very potent.
In summary, Judas Priest are all fired up in Firepower, delivering everything we love and expect in their classic and always incendiary Heavy Metal, therefore proving once again they’re not called the Metal Gods in vain. There are several retailers where you can purchase this masterpiece of old school and contemporary metal perfectly united, such as iTunes, Amazon, Best Buy and Walmart, providing you the most exciting soundtrack for anything you need to do in life. After such brilliant job done in Firepower, let’s hope now that Glenn can somehow overcome Parkinson’s disease, and that we can see him sooner than anyone can expect on stage with the rest of the band, firing some of their biggest classic together with the new combustible songs from the new album, because that’s where a talented and hardworking guitar god like him should always be.
Best moments of the album: Firepower, Lightning Strike, Evil Never Dies, No Surrender and Lone Wolf.
Released in 2018 Epic Records
1. Firepower 3:27
2. Lightning Strike 3:29
3. Evil Never Dies 4:23
4. Never the Heroes 4:23
5. Necromancer 3:33
6. Children of the Sun 4:00
7. Guardians 1:06
8. Rising from Ruins 5:23
9. Flame Thrower 4:34
10. Spectre 4:24
11. Traitors Gate 5:34
12. No Surrender 2:54
13. Lone Wolf 5:09
14. Sea of Red 5:51
Rob Halford – vocals
Glenn Tipton – guitar
Richie Faulkner – guitar
Ian Hill – bass guitar
Scott Travis – drums
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Concert Review – Primal Fear & Luca Turilli’s Rhapsody (The Mod Club, Toronto, ON, 06/01/2016)
Posted on June 2, 2016 by Gustavo Scuderi
In metal we trust, for metal we live. And last night in Toronto was just another beautiful attestation of all that passion for heavy music, courtesy of the indomitable Primal Fear and the epic Luca Turilli’s Rhapsody.
OPENING ACT: Vesperia
Let me start this review by thanking Mother Nature for being so amazing to all Torontonians since the end of winter, providing us some beautiful sunny days, warmer-than-usual temperatures and almost no precipitation. And when the weather is as good as now, there’s nothing better than going out with your friends and loved ones for a beer and some good old Heavy Metal, right? If you’re a true metalhead, a true lover of old school Power Metal, last night was the perfect occasion for that to the sound of three excellent heavy bands at the cozy The Mod Club, starting with Canadian Epic/Progressive Death Metal band VESPERIA.
Promoting their latest installment, their 2015 EP entitled The Iron Tempests, which by the way helped them win the 2015 edition of Wacken Metal Battle Canada (and consequently play at the biggest metal festival on earth the same year), this talented quartet showcased all their refined abilities with their instruments during their entire performance, with this demolishing and intricate uproar made in Canada being masterfully led by lead singer and bassist Morgan Rider. Unfortunately I do not have the setlist for their presentation (I know they played songs like Iron Saga and In the Hall of the Mountain King), but I can assure you each and every song sounded just amazing on stage. If you’re searching for a new band that offers complex passages, blazing riffs and an endless amount of stamina in their music, Vesperia might be exactly what you’ve been craving for.
Morgan Rider – vocals, bass
Frankie Caracci – lead guitars
Casey Elliott – guitars
Dylan Gowan – drums
After Vesperia was over, all the metalheads at the venue had a short break to have another beer or quickly go to the washroom before German power metallers PRIMAL FEAR came crushing our ears with their thunderous and metallic music. When you’re a band like Primal Fear, all you have to do to hypnotize the audience right away is kicking off the concert with one of your best compositions to date, and last night not only they did that, but they chose my favorite tune of all to start their setlist, the flammable and thrilling Final Embrace. After that masterpiece, the unstoppable Ralf Scheepers, Mat Sinner & Co. kept firing some of their biggest classics blended with brand new songs from the awesome Rulebreaker, and the reaction of the fans to the new songs couldn’t have been better. Well, you know an album is goddamn amazing when fans really want to listen to new songs on the show, right?
From all new songs played, the ones that drew the most excited screams from the fans and made everyone at the venue raise their fists in the air were Rulebreaker and The End Is Near, not to mention their beautiful performance during the power ballad The Sky Is Burning. In regards to their top-notch metal classics, as a huge fan of the band I must say Angel in Black, Sign of Fear and Metal Is Forever drove the audience crazy while they were being played. Who doesn’t love to scream the words “There is blood there is pain / But my agony is not in vain / Cause there’s life after death / And I’m sure coming back to attack / As an angel in black” together with Ralf and the rest of the band?
The entire band was incredible as usual, with highlights to the explosive performances by Mat and the new drummer Francesco Jovino. Obviously, I don’t need to describe the perfection which Ralf sang all songs of the setlist, nor how guitarists Alex Beyrodt and Tom Naumann blasted some potent riffs and solos throughout the whole concert. The only issue during this entire North American tour was the absence of their third guitarist, Magnus Karlsson, despite having recorded the new album. Three guitarists live would have been awesome, but anyway, it was another exceptional performance by one of the best Power Metal acts in the world (just as good as their 2014 concert in Toronto), and after the encore was over with two more classics, Rollercoaster (another one of their songs I truly love) and Running In The Dust, the German troopers were gone and it was time to set the stage for the last concert of the night. I was expecting Primal Fear to headline the night, but that’s fine, we all got our share of their brilliant Power Metal. There was absolutely nothing to complain about that.
Countdown to Insanity/Jaws of Death
Final Embrace
Angel in Black
Rulebreaker
Sign of Fear
The Sky Is Burning
Nuclear Fire
Angels of Mercy
The End Is Near
Chainbreaker
Metal Is Forever
Running In The Dust
Ralf Scheepers – vocals
Mat Sinner – bass, backing vocals
Alex Beyrodt – guitars
Tom Naumann – guitars, backing vocals
Francesco Jovino – drums
LUCA TURILLI’S RHAPSODY
It was indeed a huge surprise for me that Italian Epic/Cinematic Metal band LUCA TURILLI’S RHAPSODY was the main attraction of the night. Nothing against them, but I believe Primal Fear are a lot more relevant to the world of heavy music than Luca and his crew, especially after all the countless changes the band has suffered through the years. Honestly, I lost count of how many times the band switched from one name to another, all the band members coming and going, and so on. I don’t know anymore if a song was originally recorded by Rhapsody, by Rhapsody of Fire, by Luca Turilli’s Rhapsody or by any other of those weird ramifications. If you’re a fan of any of those bands (or just a fan of one of them, who knows), please forgive me for my ignorance.
Anyway, what can I say about a band that claims to play “Cinematic Metal”? All fans were able to actually witness the soundtrack to an epic battle movie, one of those fantasy blockbusters full of dragons, knights, princesses and so on. The band itself looks very theatrical (and sometimes even cartoon-ish), and their performance was a lot better than what I was expecting, especially the idiosyncratic moves and facial expressions by the band’s leader, Mr. Luca Turilli. It was fun watching him firing his complex riffs while prancing around the stage with his stylish hair and a Guess T-shirt. Truly unique, I should say.
Although I got lost in time with all the changes that affected the original Rhapsody, it was a pleasure to see the band playing old classics like Unholy Warcry (my favorite of their setlist) and Emerald Sword, whereas at the same time their Game Of Thrones-themed drum solo was a very welcome surprise for all fans. My only complaint about their concert was the excessive usage of pre-recorded sounds used for all orchestrations and choir. I bet when they play at any European festivals that shouldn’t be a problem, but for smaller venues it sometimes sounds like a metal karaoke. That’s not the band’s fault, though, just a minor annoying detail in their decent performance. Now please excuse me, as I have to grab my sword, my shield and get ready for battle.
Nova Genesis (Ad Splendorem Angeli Triumphantis)
Knightrider of Doom
Rosenkreuz (The Rose and the Cross)
Land of Immortals
Unholy Warcry
Son of Pain
Drum Solo (Game Of Thrones Theme)
The Pride of the Tyrant
Demonheart
Bass Solo
Dawn of Victory
Quantum X
Emerald Sword
Alessandro Conti – vocals
Luca Turilli – guitars
Dominique Leurquin – guitars
Patrice Guers – bass
Alex Landenburg – drums
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Boeing CEO to testify before Congress on 737 Max
By Tal Axelrod - 09/27/19 04:00 PM EDT
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg will testify before Congress next month to provide further information on the company's 737 Max aircraft.
Muilenburg will speak before the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on Oct. 30. He will be accompanied by John Hamilton, chief engineer of Boeing’s Commercial Airplanes division, and Captain Jennifer Henderson, chief pilot for the 737, the committee announced in a statement.
737 Max aircraft have been under scrutiny after two fatal crashes in Ethiopia and Indonesia that left hundreds dead. The accidents prompted many countries, including the U.S., to ground 737 Max planes.
The National Transportation Safety Board said this week that Boeing did not test its planes thoroughly enough with pilots, including failing to conduct sufficient tests to detect sensor failures, which investigations indicate caused the crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia.
It was also reported earlier this month that the jets could remain grounded until the end of the year amid friction between the manufacturer and international air safety authorities. The news came after regulators reportedly complained that Boeing did not provide technical details about the jets and declined to answer specific questions about changes in the operation of their flight control computers.
"Our best current estimate continues to be a return to service of the MAX that begins early in the fourth quarter," a Boeing spokesperson told The Hill earlier this month. "Our focus is on safety and ensuring the trust and confidence of customers, regulators and the flying public. Timing on return to service will be driven by the [Federal Aviation Administration] and global regulators."
Boeing this week settled its first batch of lawsuits over the Indonesia accident that killed 189 people, giving each family at least $1.2 million. It still faces nearly 100 lawsuits over the Ethiopia crash that killed 157 people.
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More Pork Chop Theory: Nathalie Dupree’s Shrimp & Grits Monday, Sep 20 2010
Cooking celebrity chef, charleton, nathalie dupree, nathalie dupree's shrimp and grits, senate race, senator, shrimp and grits, south carolina, Southern Cooking, Virginia Willis Virginia Willis 6:39 pm
My first job cooking was on a TV cooking show hosted by Nathalie Dupree. I started with her as a scared, untrained, but hardworking, novice hungry for knowledge. She took me by the hand and showed how to cook. Nathalie took me out of my mother’s kitchen and showed me a world I did not know existed. I felt like I was tasting for the first time.
Without her I would have never found my way to this path, much less on it.
She has been my friend and guide all along the way. She’s a very complicated woman. All at once she is passionate yet carefree, strong yet vulnerable, and selfish yet giving. While apprenticing in her home, she used to drive me absolutely positively crazy, leaving her peanut butter covered knife on the counter after making a sandwich, or mixing her ladies garments into the laundry with my kitchen towels.
Several months after I left her apprenticeship she called me in DC to ask about how to work her microwave. (She’s going to call me vicious for telling you that.)
We have gone round and round, experienced the range of emotions from absolute joy, as it was dining together in France at the famed 3-star L’Esperance in Burgundy, to pure pain, each of us crying over hurtful words. When I am nice and she is being nice, she calls me her “little chicken.” When I tease her mercilessly, as now I am more apt to do, about her quirks and eccentricities I am deemed a “vicious woman.”
It is somehow wonderfully poetic she now lives on Queen Street in a historic home in Charleston, SC. She has a battalion of tea cups and a freezer in the guest bathroom. Her universe seems like utter chaos, but there she is at the center, calm as the eye in the storm. She is prone to working at her laptop in a wing-back chair, surrounded by towering mountains of books and magazines, ensconced in her own petite fortress.
Pat Conroy once wrote she was “more like a fictional character than a flesh and blood person.” That still makes me howl with laughter. But, it’s not because she putters about in myopic Mr. McGoo fashion, uttering epithets like “if I were the woman I wish I was” or when dropping a bowl/chicken/apple/you name it, on the floor, “Oops, I dropped my diamond.” It’s not because while taping one of her hundreds of TV shows the this or that wouldn’t go right and she’d say, “Do as I say, not as I do.”(See some of her clips on the Charleston Post & Courier.)
It’s because it’s impossible to imagine that anyone could actually, truly be that tender, generous, and loving and be a real live person.
She’s the originator of The Pork Chop Theory. Her flock includes Rebecca Lang, Shirley Corriher, and many many more.
I should write much, much more and one day I will. But for now, I felt compelled to share with you this week this recipe from her Shrimp and Grits Cookbook.
She’s one of my dearest friends ever, and I love her.
Thank you, sweet Nathalie.
CHEESE GRITS SOUFFLÉ WITH SHRIMP SAUCE
A soufflé is just a thick sauce to which egg yolks and beaten egg whites are added. Cheese grits make a sturdy base for the eggs, enabling the soufflé to be assembled in advance and cooked just before serving, or cooked and frozen. Top the servings with the Shrimp Sauce. This is an extraordinarily popular dish for a buffet.
The soufflé:
1 cup uncooked grits, quick or stone ground
4-5 cups milk
1 pound sharp Cheddar cheese, grated
½ cup (1 stick) butter
1/8 teaspoon mace
¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper
6 large eggs, separated
The shrimp sauce:
1 cup (1 stick) butter
1 ½ pounds small shrimp, peeled and deveined
2-3 tablespoons freshly chopped parsley and basil, mixed
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Generously butter an 8½ x 13-inch ovenproof serving dish. To make the soufflé: Cook the grits in 4 cups of the milk according to the package directions, stirring. The grits should have the consistency of a sauce. If they are very thick, add all or a portion of the fifth cup of milk and heat until absorbed. Stir in the cheese, butter, mustard, mace, salt, and cayenne pepper. Cool slightly. Taste for seasoning and add more salt if desired. Lightly beat the egg yolks in a small bowl. Stir a little of the grits into the yolks to heat them slightly, then add the yolks to the grits mixture and combine thoroughly. Beat the egg whites until soft peaks form and fold into the grits. Pour into the prepared pan. (The soufflé may be made several hours ahead to this point, covered and set aside or refrigerated. ) When ready to eat, return to room temperature. Bake the soufflé for 40 to 45 minutes, or until it is puffed and lightly browned. Remove from the oven and spoon onto plates. Ladle the shrimp and their sauce over each serving.
To make the shrimp sauce: Melt the butter in a large frying pan. Add the shrimp and cook for 3 to 4 minutes, or until they start to turn pink. Add the chopped herbs and spoon over soufflé.
Copyright © Virginia Willis Culinary Productions, LLC 2010
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Top American diplomat to travel to Maldives, Sri Lanka – Business Standard
Date: 11/11/2019 By Visit Sri Lanka Categories: Travel Tips Tags: Travel, Travel - Google News, VisitSriLanka.com No comments
In a significant development, the United States State Department announced that it is sending one of its top diplomats to Maldives and Sri Lanka.
During her three-day trip from October 9 to 11, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, Alice Wells, will reiterate the strong US commitment to its partnerships with Sri Lanka and Maldives and their shared interests in a prosperous and open Indo-Pacific region, an official statement said Sunday.
In Mal, Wells will meet with Maldivian government officials, the President-Elect, and civil society leaders.
“She will offer congratulations on the country’s successful national elections and convey US interest in expanding bilateral cooperation,” the State Department said in a statement.
In Colombo, Wells will meet with Sri Lankan officials and will emphasise the importance of the US-Sri Lanka relationship to shared Indo-Pacific goals, with the growing bilateral defense relationship as an area of particular promise.
“She will also urge continued progress on constitutional reform, human rights, reconciliation, and transitional justice and accountability,” the State Department said.
First Published: Mon, October 08 2018. 06:00 IST
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Hanoi becomes official member of UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network
Chief Representative of the UNESCO Office in Vietnam Michael Croft presented a certificate recognising Hanoi as an official member of the UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network to Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung at a a ceremony in the capital on December 13.
Chung said the participation in the network enables Hanoi to increase its competitiveness in investment attraction, stimulate urban regeneration, and develop education programmes and cultural events in association with sustainable development.
Hanoi is also ambitious to become an envoy and a bridge to connect other cities in Vietnam and regional countries to join the network, as well as a global intellectual and innovative destination, he added.
The network membership also demonstrates Hanoi’s responsibility to the region and the world in promoting creativity and increasing the participation of people in cultural life and integration, according to Chung.
Michael Croft said that Hanoi becoming a creative city has helped increase its position besides the title “City for Peace”.
He added that Hanoi will enhance cooperation with other creative cities in the world as well as relevant agencies, community, and the private sector to realise its innovative economy.
UNESCO launched the Creative Cities Network in 2004 to promote cooperation among cities that recognise creativity as a significant factor in their development.
The network recognises seven factors - craft and folk arts, media, film, design, gastronomy, literature, and music - as creative fields.
The capital city of Hanoi has a development history of over 1,000 years, and has been in the process of reform and integration, taking creativity and innovative economy as the core in its dynamic, comprehensive and sustainable development.
On October 30, 2019, Hanoi was honoured as one of the 246 cities joining the UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network in the field of design.
A folk cultural festival kicked off in Hanoi on the same day in response to the city’s participation in the network.
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Imported steel floods into Vietnam
Global steel capacity is forecast to be excessive so steel has been pouring into the Southeast Asia region.
Risk of excess supply along with difficulties in export markets has made it possible for domestic steel industry to experience a cutthroat competition for market share right on the home ground.
Chairman of the Vietnam Steel Association (VSA), Mr. Nghiem Xuan Da gave a warning that global steel market has continued to face excessive production capacity at a recently held conference.
According to forecast of the World Steel Association, global steel growth outlook this year is expected to reach 1.82 billion tons, up 0.8 percent over the previous year. In China’s market alone, in the first seven months of this year, raw steel production had reached 577 million tons, up 9 percent over the previous year and was expected to hit a production of 1 billion tons for the whole year, accounting for more than 50 percent of global steel production. Currently, steel production of Vietnam stood at the 17th place in the world with 14.5 million tons of steel in 2018.
‘In recent years, Chinese government has closed old and outdated furnaces to reduce excess production and protect the environment. However, nearly 70 percent of new furnaces will be put into operation between the middle of this year and next year with additional capacity of about 61 million tons of steel this year and 62 million tons of steel next year. Although production capacity has dropped, unlike old furnaces, newly-built furnaces are able to operate at full capacity, so there is possibility that actual steel production will be higher,’ said the representative of VSA.
Noticeably, globally, domestic steel consumption tends to slowdown, posing concerns about excessive steel supply to steel manufacturing industry. The same situation also occurred in the country which produces more than 50 percent of global steel production.
By August this year, steel sales for automobile manufacturing industry of China had been unable to achieve its target for 14 consecutive months. Sales of equipment made from steel also declined drastically. Therefore, the excess steel source caused by increasing production has been flooding into Southeast Asia and some other places, causing downward pressure on Asian steel market.
At this time, one of Vietnamese largest steel manufacturers located in Ha Tinh Province has to consider about halting its expansion plan due to concerns that the current situation might urge cheap steel products from China to Vietnam, causing the price of this material to plummet.
At the present, this steel plant are capable of producing 7.1 million tons of steel annually and has made a plan to build another furnace next year in order to raise capacity to above 10 million tons in the near future and 22.5 million tons in the future. For years, Vietnam imports more than 8 million tons of hot-rolled steel annually, of which 40 percent of steel comes from China. When steel is not being imposed tariffs, these cheap products will continue to land from China to Vietnam.
According VSA, steel manufacturing capacity has exceeded the demand of all kinds of steel, especially cold-rolled steel, corrugated galvanized iron and color coated roofing sheets and stainless steel. Currently, export of cold-rolled stainless steel has been facing difficulties because there are many large manufacturers in Southeast Asia and regional supply has already exceeded market demand.
In addition, export of steel to the US and the EU markets also encountered difficulties due to anti-dumping tax.
Domestic steel market, especially stainless steel, has been seriously affected by the landing of Chinese products. Therefore, in the near future, enterprises should not invest more into cold-rolled stainless steel projects because it will create fierce competition among manufacturers and lessen investment efficiency, the representative of VSA emphasized.
VSA recently also proposed authorities not to grant permission for new stainless steel projects in Vietnam so as to avoid imbalance between supply and demand as well as trade dispute among countries as steel manufacturers in the region tend to move production abroad, including Vietnam. They even agreed to sell their production at a loss to win more orders and cover fixed operating costs.
At the same time, VSA also recommended that the Government should only allow foreign investors to participate in high quality alloy and steel manufacturing projects which domestic market is short of.
Hot-rolled steel in Vietnam is listed at US$500 per ton, down 10 percent over the previous year. The price will decline further if steel imported from China increases. This will cause competition between domestic steel and imported one to escalate. SGGP
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Vietnamese companies filed complaints against Chinese steel products, accusing them of being sold at prices below the fair market value in Vietnam with dumping margin at 21.3%.
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Indonesia and Islamic terrorism
By Lee Jay Walker – THE SEOUL TIMES
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An Islamic school in Indonesia
The government of Indonesia faces many internal problems because of the geographical reality of this nation and ethnic and religious tension does engulf Indonesia from time to time. However, what is worrying is the possible collusion between radical Sunni Islamists and the security services of Indonesia. Therefore, is collusion happening in places like Sulawesi and West Papua (Irian Jaya) or is it a long-term goal of containing Christians and ethnic minorities?
If we turn the clock back to 2001 and focus on events in that year, then it is clear that either collusion was happening or events happened because it was a direct policy of the government of Indonesia?
This applies to Laskar Jihad because this brutal Sunni Islamic terrorist organization sent even more fighters to central Sulawesi in order to persecute Christians. Laskar Jihad, like other past or current Islamic terrorist organizations, is brutal, barbaric, and cowardly.
Laskar Jihad, just like other radical Sunni Islamic terrorist organizations, believe that it is their Koran-Hadith inspired duty to kill innocents and to install fear. Therefore, the region of Sulawesi was a paradise for them to cause mayhem and to create a major gulf between both communities. Given this, events spiralled out of control and inter-religious clashes erupted because these outsiders to Sulawesi desired to kill in the name of Islam.
However, much more disturbing is the role of the government of Indonesia or elements within the security services and military. After all, Laskar Jihad was given a free reign to enter the region and this radical Sunni Islamic terrorist network was not removed from this delicate region. Therefore, surely collusion was taking place, if so, then how can religious or ethnic minorities feel secure in Indonesia?
After all, it is noticeable that in Sulawesi and West Papua that Islamists and the government of Indonesia do have vested interests which overlap. Also the situation in East Timor in the past mirrored covert operations based on systematic terror and fear.
Yet East Timor belonged to the “old world” of nationalism and preserving the nation state of Indonesia. However, just like the Palestinian situation, it became clear that Islamic terrorism and militant organizations were on the rise. The secular nature of Palestinian resistance now lies in tatters because Hamas and others now have a clear Islamic agenda, therefore, Sulawesi and West Papua are seeing a “new world” whereby Islamists have an ideological motive in spreading hate and dhimmitude.
Zachary Abuza, the author of Militant Islam in Southeast Asia, Crucible of Terror, states “The government never prevented the Laskar Jihad militia from coming, nor did it try to expel them. Muslim paramilitaries were reportedly armed with machine guns (including M-16s) and rocket-propelled grenades, forcing thousands of Christians to flee.”
This raises serious issues because it appears that the government of Indonesia and various radical Islamic organizations do share a common ground. Of course, many Indonesian political leaders do not share the same theme but important elites within powerful institutions do share similar concerns, albeit from different perspectives.
Zachary Abuza comments that “First, Jafar Umar Thalib and the Laskar Jihad have considerable political support. Vice President Hamzah Haz has been a staunch defender of the organization and helped get Thalib acquitted in January 2003.” Zachary Abuza also states that “…while the military has at times had to employ force against the Laskar Jihad, the reality is that the two organizations have the same goal in preventing secessionist movements from succeeding, as happened with East Timor.”
However, the Indonesian government will clampdown when vested interests are threatened and this applies to Islamic terrorist attacks in Bali or against hotels, and other economic based attacks. Also, it appears that the government will take action against international Islamic jihadists rather than home-grown Islamists.
Once more, Zachary Abuza comments that “Until the Bali bombing, Indonesia took few constructive measures in the war on terrorism. The Singaporean, Malaysian, Philippine, and U.S. governments all expressed utter frustration with the Indonesian government, and despite many appeals, the Indonesians did not arrest any Indonesian suspects wanted abroad.”
Therefore, just like the government of Pakistan which manipulated radical Sunni Islamists to cause mayhem in Afghanistan and Kashmir; the government of Indonesia had similar vested interests when it applied to domestic issues.
However, the Pakistan government can no longer control elements within Pakistan because Islamists have been emboldened and they desire to enforce Islamic Sharia law and dhimmitude throughout the nation. Indonesia does not face this problem because the centre is much stronger but it is a dangerous game to play and it is clear that religious minorities and secularists in Indonesia are worried about this.
Also, Islamists will have ample opportunities to stir mayhem because various parts of Indonesia remain tense and another major incident could easily ignite tensions. The people of West Papua may also witness Islamization because of increasing Muslim migration and Islamic organizations which have a shared agenda with the government of Indonesia.
In an article published by Asia News in 2006 it stated that “Islamic extremist groups are entering West Papuan territory, with the consent of elements of the Indonesian army, to set up bases there.” Therefore, this part of Indonesia faces severe problems and Islamic radicals and government agencies have similar objectives. Given this, many Papuans are worried about religious persecution and state-sanctioned persecution.
Therefore, Christian areas of Indonesia face a frontal attack against them and this applies to Javanization, Islamization, direct government policies, and the threat of Islamic terrorism in sensitive parts of Indonesia is always possible.
This policy does not apply to the whole of Indonesia and it must be mentioned that this nation is very complex because Christians have much greater freedom in Indonesia than in the majority of mainly Muslim nations. Yet for Christians in sensitive areas of national interest or in areas of distinct divisions, then the situation is very different.
Despite this, it is clear that the implementation of Islamic Sharia law is a worry for all religious minorities, moderate Muslims and secularists. Therefore, radical Islamic organizations must not be given a free reign because if this happens, then the only victory will be for the dark forces of humanity and this means radical Sunni Islam and the implementation of Sharia Islamic law.
It is now vital that pressure is put on all nations which are colluding with radical Islamic terrorist organizations or with radical Islamic educational institutions because this is where the brainwashing begins. Therefore, more pressure must be put on Indonesia to clampdown against radical Islamic institutions and to stop the manipulation of these networks when it comes to secessionist problems within Indonesia.
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Feature: Defining Simplicity – Shoutarou’s Attack DC5
In the realm of time attack, most often than not, the phrase ‘less is more’ can be aptly applied in most circumstances (I think power and tire size being the exception). Even those competing in street cars forgo the extra amenities in favor of shedding overall weight in their car; a willing sacrifice if it means quicker times. More and more we see entries into the sport that push the boundaries of limited modifications; some even entering the circuit with untouched motors. Such is the case with Shoutarou and his Integra – a pair that push simplicity to it’s limit.
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Feature: Shinobu Matayoshi – TFR AHW FD3S
One of my favorite things to do on my down time is research time attack builds in Japan. It’s akin to that of a treasure hunt for me. I enjoy the prospect of being among the first to find out about certain aspects of the build, and to both share it through the website and take inspiration from them for my own builds. There is still a large gap between the publicization of builds in Japan versus that of builds in Western countries, and because of this, information can be very difficult to come across sometimes. I think that’s what makes it interesting for me though; and this same theme plays true in other aspects of life as well. The harder you work towards something, the more satisfaction it brings you.
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Automotive by Sean Jul 5, 201719:50 2017/07/06
Close-Up: Ready Go Next – 青木FD3S
Since things have been a bit slow during the off-season, I’ve been using the time to try and design a few new products for the site and make some progress on my own car as well. It’s been a long time coming, but just a few more things to wrap up and it’ll be ready for it’s first startup. Although the car won’t be completely done for another few months, I’m looking forward to the first shakedown with the new motor shortly after it’s tuned. I was browsing some shots from earlier this year to gain some inspiration for my own car and came across some shots that Matt took of Aoki’s FD.
Continue reading Close-Up: Ready Go Next – 青木FD3S
Automotive by Sean Jun 15, 201701:39
Feature: Hiroyoshi Shimada – The Soul of Kyushu Danji
The concept of forming an amateur race team is something that appeals to quite a few of us. Aside from the obvious attraction of building race cars with your friends, there’s the added benefits of friendly competition, commradery and support among teammates; turns out there’s more positives to emulating Initial D than just looking cool. As a result we see attempts of this springing up all over the world – some good, some not so good. While we may have a ways to go on this side of the Pacific in making names for ourselves, no one in Japan does it better than the boys from Kyushu – ‘Kyushu Danji’; quite possibly the most notable and dedicated, time attack team in Japan.
Continue reading Feature: Hiroyoshi Shimada – The Soul of Kyushu Danji
Automotive by Sean Jun 3, 201717:13
Feature: Hiroki Sakamoto – A Conservative Success
Hiroki Sakamoto may have possibly built, not only one of the fastest, but also the cleanest RX-7 in Japan to date. With a best time of 55.801 around Tsukuba, and a 2’14.399 around Suzuka it can definitely hold it’s own among the frontrunners of Japanese time attack.
Continue reading Feature: Hiroki Sakamoto – A Conservative Success
Automotive by Sean May 30, 201715:08 2017/05/30
Gallery: エスピーアール HURACÁN LP 620-2 Super Trofeo
While I wait to hear back from a few people in regards to pending articles, I thought I’d throw up some photos of a car that isn’t seen often in the Japanese Time Attack ring. This Huracan ST was at Suzuka a while back running in the Attack series. I’m so used to seeing Japanese builds that the owners have toiled over for so many years that seeing this new, untouched so to speak, Italian race car caught me off guard. It was really quite a treat to see it out on track putting in some impressive lap times.
Continue reading Gallery: エスピーアール HURACÁN LP 620-2 Super Trofeo
Feature: A Man And His Car(s) – Masao Otani
I first became acquainted with Masao Otani back in 2014 when he attended our Attack Meeting in Doitsu Mura, Chiba. He had brought his 180 to the gathering which, 3 years ago, looked much more tame than it does now. That was back when the Attack community felt a little tighter knit than it does today, given the recent popularity increase. Which isn’t to be taken as a negative; with growth comes sacrifice in some areas, and the truth is that there are a lot more people involved in the sport today. Later that year, Masao and I had the fortune of connecting again through some mutual friends, and actually began talking quite regularly.
Continue reading Feature: A Man And His Car(s) – Masao Otani
Automotive by Sean May 20, 201700:58
Encounter: Racing Service Takagi GTR33
RS-Takagi is a tuning shop that specializes in Nissan applications, namely the 180 and Skyline, that’s based in the Gifu Prefecture; just Northwest of Nagoya. Their demo cars range from extremely high powered drag cars, to very well-balanced time attack cars – they even assist in some drift events. The owner states that no customer request is too big or too small, and that they are able to tailor projects to meet any customer’s needs.
Continue reading Encounter: Racing Service Takagi GTR33
Event: バリドリ天国 Vol 6 – Golden Heaven
1990’s motoring in Japan, for a few people, has recently increased in popularity, becoming somewhat of an abstract study into a very unique culture. A lot of what we see today, especially in drifting, is an amalgamation of trends and lifestyle cues from that era; things that we aren’t necessarily privy to (unless of course you were a teenager in Tokyo in 1995). Yuji Hasunuma, owner of Pro Shop Wave, was a prominent figure in the peak times of ‘hashiriya‘; a time where the older generation today, was growing up and exploring the world of motorsports. Despite the change in trends, Yuji and his shop is still around today in Kanagawa, and as a ‘tip of the hat’ to the age his generation loved, he began the Bari Dori Heaven events.
Continue reading Event: バリドリ天国 Vol 6 – Golden Heaven
Automotive by Sean Apr 27, 201705:47
Close-Up: Carbon Junkie – Takumi Hayashi’s AE86
To say that Takumi Hayashi has an affinity for the Toyota AE86 would be a rather dramatic understatement. The peppy, 130ps 4A-GE motor combined with the car’s FR drivetrain became an instant hit with not only himself, but many other tuners in the mid-80’s for that matter. It didn’t take long for the Corolla to be a favorite worldwide, and Japan was no doubt leading the pack in motor sport development of the chassis.
Continue reading Close-Up: Carbon Junkie – Takumi Hayashi’s AE86
Encounter: Tadashi Nakamura’s Attack S14
I posted a picture of Tadashi’s S14 on our Instagram account yesterday afternoon and it got a lot of positive feedback. It may be the very interesting combination of exterior parts; what looks to be an M-Sports front, Vertex sides, and Car Modify rear. Or perhaps it’s just a great example of an s-chassis time attack build. Nakamura built the car in conjunction with No-Mark, and completed all the body work himself at his sheetmetal and paint shop. The 470 horsepower SR packs quite the punch on track. Check out a few pictures past the break.
Continue reading Encounter: Tadashi Nakamura’s Attack S14
Encounter: GNR Racing EK9
This 280ps K-powered EK9 from GNR traveled a long way from home to run at the Attack event at Tsukuba this year. The owner, Yasuko Asai, hails from the northern island of Hokkaido; needless to say he doesn’t get down to Ibaraki very often. At his local circuit, Tokachi International Speedway, the car clocks a 1’24.666 on the Clubman course configuration. An extremely respectable time when you consider that a Super Taikyu Porsche GT3 ran literally the same time.
Continue reading Encounter: GNR Racing EK9
Encounter: Highend Makers RUN-UP GTR33
Highend Makers isn’t exactly a household name in motorsports today, and, quite frankly, up until a year ago I wasn’t even aware of the outfit. The shop, located on the northern part of the island of Shikoku, has made a name for itself this past year at the Attack Suzuka events. Being located far from the epicenter of Japanese motor sport, the shop gets few opportunities to test their builds in comparison to shops in the Kanto, Kanagawa, and Kansai areas that we’re used to seeing. It’s a big production for them to have a good showing at time attack events, and a venue like Suzuka is well worth the trip.
Continue reading Encounter: Highend Makers RUN-UP GTR33
Feature: Masumoto Shoichiro – The Shorin GTR32
If you had the opportunity to meet Masumoto just once, then it would go without saying that he is the definition of someone who lives for circuit racing. The energy that he resonates around the track is that of true happiness and excitement to be doing what he does. Over the past few years he has helped the Attack series grow into something much more than just a private, invite only track event. The fact that Attack is now a recognized championship series throughout Japan is thanks in part to Masumoto-san’s hard work and dedication. His personal GTR build has paralleled his work with Attack, and provides him the outlet he needs to channel his energy.
Continue reading Feature: Masumoto Shoichiro – The Shorin GTR32
Automotive by Sean Apr 11, 201720:55 2017/04/13
Gallery: Shark Attack – Auto Select GTRs
For over 30 years now, Eiichiro Sawa and the Auto Select staff have been tuning and racing cars throughout Japan. Using the knowledge they gain from track events, they’ve been able to succeed in developing quality parts that work well alongside their OE companions. Over the years Auto Select has made a niche for themselves in the GTR market and, as a result, have several demo and customer cars that frequent time attack events regularly. This gives them the ability to collect a wide-range of data from cars built in varying degrees; from street cars to dedicated track cars. All of which they can take back to their headquarters in Osaka, and use in development of their future services.
Continue reading Gallery: Shark Attack – Auto Select GTRs
Automotive by Sean Mar 31, 201722:12
Feature: All In A Day’s Work – Chiba’s EK Frontrunners
Something happened last month that honestly didn’t get the recognition it deserved; at least from publications that I frequent. In hindsight I probably should have made it more of a priority to highlight the news on my end other than social media, but in my defense I was busy with work and part of me wanted to wait until I talked to a few people about it. When a guy like Suzuki Under breaks records it’s, because of his amassed following, it’s pretty easy to hear information about it. I remember when he clocked the 50.746 back in December everyone I knew was talking about it; and rightly so, it’s amazing. So when I heard that during last month’s Attack Tsukuba Championship, Yusuke had broken the 57 second barrier to clock a lap time of 56.748 I thought the internet would explode.
Continue reading Feature: All In A Day’s Work – Chiba’s EK Frontrunners
Automotive by Sean Mar 30, 201717:32 2017/03/31
Gallery: A Recipe For Suzuka – Esprit JZA80
Esprit has always been a shop that prides itself on building cars of all varieties. Regardless of the make or model, they will take a customers idea, or a demo car, and make it into something that excels in both performance and aesthetics. So when Sugimori Takuya propsoed the idea to build a JZA80 strictly to attack Suzuka Circuit, the shop embraced the challenge with open arms. The end result is a 2900 pound, 800 horsepower power house that runs 2’04.4’s at Mie’s home track.
Continue reading Gallery: A Recipe For Suzuka – Esprit JZA80
Close-Up: Step-Up Fairlady CBA-Z33
I almost didn’t recognize the Step-Up Z33 without it’s massive rear diffuser and front splitter attached to it’s exterior. The car in this state takes on an almost street car look, aside from the chassis mounted GT wing. It wasn’t running in the Attack event, but was there supporting other drivers. I would have liked to see how it performed around Suzuka in the wet compared to some of the other similarly powered RWD cars. I included a video of a hot lap around Suzuka below.
Continue reading Close-Up: Step-Up Fairlady CBA-Z33
Encounter: No-Mark Time Attack S15
No-Mark may not be a household name in the Japanese tuning industry, but they’ve been around long enough to hold their own against some of the best. Native to the Western area of Japan, it’s not uncommon to catch Maeda Yukio and his white S15 around tracks like Takasu Circuit, Suzuka CIrcuit, and Central Circuit every so often. The Silvia, a decade long build, has slowly grown from a lightly tuned street car, to a street car that pushes the boundary between comfort and performance.
Continue reading Encounter: No-Mark Time Attack S15
Encounter: ディサイドGTR33
I stumbled across this GTR33 built by Decide226 behind Suzuka’s pits. The notable shop, that’s based in Fukuoka, raised to fame years ago in Japan’s drag racing circuit. The RH9 accredited garage specialized in tuning high power, 400m focused builds. Concurrently they also prepped a range of cars for circuit racing; everything from GTR’s to EG6 Civics. This GTR is a great example of the street inspired builds the shop has become famous for.
Continue reading Encounter: ディサイドGTR33
Feature: Soaring Progression – AutoBahn’s Carbon JZZ30
Without a doubt the most interesting thing for me, in following Japanese Time Attack so closely, is getting to see the progression of builds over an extended period of time. We all know that building a race car isn’t a quick task, and for most people at the grassroots level it’s a trial and error procedure; you find out what works and what doesn’t from your initial base, and head back to the drawing board after each event. Everyone has their own method of going about this, but the common goal for everyone, however, is to go faster.
Continue reading Feature: Soaring Progression – AutoBahn’s Carbon JZZ30
Encounter: M-Technic Subaru Impreza
M’Technic Hyper Circuit Machine Producer is, well, a rather dramatic name for a tuning shop to say the least; but one glance into the type of cars they produce in-house, and the name suddenly doesn’t seem so theatrical. Mr. Tsuchida has had the support of M’Technic throughout the build of his GDBE Impreza, and while still a young build, contains many of the qualities that the shop holds in high regard.
Continue reading Encounter: M-Technic Subaru Impreza
Automotive by Sean Mar 1, 201720:41
Encounter: Auto Craft Evolution FD3S
About halfway between Kyoto and Osaka, there’s a stretch of road that houses a handful of ‘under the radar’ type automotive shops. Among the largest is Auto Craft; a rotary specialist shop, that’s slowly turned their focus to a larger population of cars, most notably Toyota’s new reiteration of the 86. While they may be playing to a larger audience these days, they certainly haven’t abandoned their dedication to developing the old Mazda chassis, and their flagship Attack FD is proof of this.
Continue reading Encounter: Auto Craft Evolution FD3S
Automotive by Sean Feb 28, 201701:02
Event: Attack Maximum Challenge 2017 – Suzuka Circuit
Mie Prefecture is a long way from Yokohama; a lot further than I expected anyway. Whenever I’m planning road trips through Japan I get this false sense of distance because I’m not accustomed to using the metric system. So my brain still equates 60 ‘x’ of a distance to roughly an hour. Because of that drives typically go by quicker than I expect. Well, not this time. Maybe I’m getting used to it, maybe I underestimated the distance, or maybe it was the weather, but Thursday evening when we set out to Suzuka Circuit I had no idea I’d be driving for over 6 hours…
Continue reading Event: Attack Maximum Challenge 2017 – Suzuka Circuit
Encounter: オートクラフト FD3S
When you think of car tuning in Japan, the last city that comes to mind is probably Kyoto. Well, ironically enough, that’s where Auto Craft Evolution is headquartered; Kyotabe City, Kyoto. Suzuka Circuit, in Mie Prefecture, is a much closer drive than Tsukuba or Fuji, so it’s no surprise to see them attend the Attack events at Suzuka. We spotted this shop car on the backside of the Suzuka paddock as we pulled up in the early morning.
Continue reading Encounter: オートクラフト FD3S
Automotive by Sean Feb 21, 201723:11 2017/02/21
Feature: Ryo Kaneko – Yellow Factory EG6
It’s always refreshing to me to see productivity in it’s most energetic form. I think their are many positive effects to being constructive and it seems to me that it is overlooked quite often. It’s an aspect of life that adds a great deal of meaning to what we choose to pursue. Instinctively knowing the difference between being busy and being productive gives us the ability to progress through life much more efficiently; ultimately allowing us to experience more, and get the most out of our time. Ryo Kaneko is a man who knows the benefits of productive living, and it shows through his work on the circuit.
Continue reading Feature: Ryo Kaneko – Yellow Factory EG6
Event: Battle Evome 2017 – Steadfast in Tradition
Given our illustrious ability to sleep in on the day of track events, I was surprised that when my alarm clock went off at 4:30am this past Sunday morning, I actually got out of bed. As our routine would have it, I met Sekinei downstairs and we set off for Ibaraki stopping only at the 711 right after the turn-off to Tsukuba. It’s been longer than I can remember that I arrived at the track before the sun came up, but we somehow managed to roll through that little narrow tunnel before daybreak. In fact, we were among the first to arrive meeting Under-san and the Evome staff as we entered. It didn’t take long for the flat beds to start rolling in though, and before I knew it the paddock was full of cars with drivers itching to get out on track before the weather took a turn for the worse.
Continue reading Event: Battle Evome 2017 – Steadfast in Tradition
Editorial by Sean Dec 31, 201605:41 2016/12/31
Editorial: Onward to The New Year
The past few weeks have felt like slow motion to me. If ever there were a time I’ve been caught up in the whirlwind of life, it’s been the last month of 2016. With a countless amount of social gatherings, the holidays, media works, preparing for next years attack events, managing work contracts, traveling across California to spend time with family, and my entirely unplanned for storefront issue, it’s been non-stop for me and honestly one of the most stressful months of my life. 2016 brought the site 78 new posts ranging from event coverage to car features from Japan and the US. I’m proud to say that despite a lower post count, we’ve continued to grow at an increasing pace.
Continue reading Editorial: Onward to The New Year
Automotive by Sean Dec 20, 201621:59
Encounter: Friends Power Silvia S15
Friends Racing and their re-purposed drift Silvia have made quite the comeback over the past year or so. Making the transformation from the GReddy backed D1 Grand Prix competitor, to a record chasing time attack build was no easy task for the small Tochigi-based outfit. It took the company a few years to get the car to where it’s at now; a journey that is paying off in blindingly fast lap times.
Continue reading Encounter: Friends Power Silvia S15
Event: Dora Festival – Zummy Racing Family
A couple weeks ago Zummy held one of the first open time attack events of the what is considered the ‘prime’ season at TC2000; temps have dropped, and track conditions are ideal for fast times. Many of the amateur drivers used this as an opportunity to shakedown their summer upgrades. We saw a lot of modifications to existing builds, as well as the debut of many newer entries to the ever-growing niche. It didn’t take long for the returning drivers to see the fruits of their labor, and within laps personal bests were being racked up across the board.
Continue reading Event: Dora Festival – Zummy Racing Family
Automotive by Sean Nov 26, 201616:59
Event: VTEC Club – Autumn Speed Festival
Even in sunny Southern California, the mid-day heat is giving way to brisk mornings and chilly evenings; a sign that Summer has finally, albeit very late, left us. The ushering in of the holidays reminds us we’re already well into the Fall season, and with that comes a time that everyone involved with this website is very excited for; Attack season. Japan kicked off with a rather casual shakedown/practice meeting at Tsukuba this past week, while here in the States, VTEC Club held their first all Honda Autumn Speed Festival. Two strikingly similar events where many personal bests were broken.
Continue reading Event: VTEC Club – Autumn Speed Festival
Automotive by Sean Nov 17, 201622:36 2016/11/19
Feature: Occupy Fuji – Morita’s Dominant CP9A
About two years ago I stumbled across Morita-san’s EVO browsing through Minkara; although at the time, I only knew him by his internet handle ‘Hanipon’. I had never seen an EVO 6 as aggressive as his, and after exploring his build a little further, instantly became a fan. Suffice to say I was a little shocked when he reached out to me randomly in an email at the beginning of the year. We exchanged a few words, I sent him some decals, and as some things happen to work out, he was able to make the drive down from Saitama to attend our FRSxNDF meeting last month. Never one to pass on opportunity, we scheduled a photo shoot at Fuji shortly after. I was already impressed with the presence of this build online, but it was nothing compared to what the car looks like in person.
Continue reading Feature: Occupy Fuji – Morita’s Dominant CP9A
Feature: Ito Atsushi’s Tamon Design FC3S
I feel that the aftermarket companies that support older chassis don’t get enough credit. To produce new parts for an application that is constantly diminishing in population isn’t something easily committed to. It takes a dedication, and a love for motor sport, to appeal to these cars. As time passes, because we’re so enthralled by the cars of the 80’s and 90’s, we don’t recognize just how old some of these cars are. The FC, for example, made it’s debut in 1985; celebrating it’s 30th birthday just last year. Appreciating the everlasting potential of these cars is something worth noting, and Atsushi-san of Shizuoka does just that with his Tamon Designs clad RX7.
Continue reading Feature: Ito Atsushi’s Tamon Design FC3S
Feature: The Semblance of GT – Jun Tanaka’s Silvia S15
Finding originality among the masses these days seems almost like a lost cause; difficult to say the least. It seems we’ve fallen into an echo-chamber, driven by internet popularity, that promotes the trendy favorable over imagination. Very few choose to forge their own path of innovation and ingenuity, and it’s left us with more ‘inspired by’ designs than one should have to endure. This sheep-like quality is absent in Mr. Jun Tanaka, however, and the S15 that he’s created is unlike any other.
Continue reading Feature: The Semblance of GT – Jun Tanaka’s Silvia S15
Automotive by Sean Nov 8, 201602:50
Archives: No Stone Unturned – K2 Racing RX8
There’s nothing quite like seeing a chassis pushed to it’s very limit. Regardless of make, model and drive-train, watching a car get transformed into a full fledged circuit machine is one of my favorite pleasures in this medium. It’s not something that happens often, and a lot of times (based on a plethora of factors) people end up settling; believe me when I tell you, I know all too well. So when a shop takes the gloves off on a build, it’s something I get excited about. In the case of this RX-8, K2 Racing takes Mazda’s last rendition of the Renesis to it’s peak, and maybe just a little bit further.
Continue reading Archives: No Stone Unturned – K2 Racing RX8
Locale: Tomisato, Chiba – ＲＥ雨宮
The amount of influence that Amemiya-san has in the field of tuning Mazdas, specifically the RX-7, is arguably untouchable. The popularity of his designs and the overall originality of his creations are known not just throughout Japan, but the entire world. Walking through the showroom of Isami’s flagship shop in Tomisato, Chiba, you’re given proof of how much weight the name carries. Trophies from race events, car shows, and manufactuer recognition are plastered from one wall to the other. Momentos of achievement past and present line the glass cases along the walls of the showroom, surrounding the beautiful blue, Super GReddy clad demo car sitting front and center.
Continue reading Locale: Tomisato, Chiba – ＲＥ雨宮
Automotive by Sean Oct 30, 201621:30
Event: Final Bout 2016 – Special Stage East V.1
This year, the collective minds behind Final Bout set out to unite a country over the sport of drifting; instilling in the nation a certain set of qualities they feel are necessary for the sport to thrive with it’s Japanese roots intact. Each carefully selected location of the Special Stage events provided their own unique characteristics in both venue and demographics that helped define what drifting is in each corner of the nation. Uncovering, and highlighting these places allowed others to experience different parts of the country, both first and second hand, that we wouldn’t have otherwise had the opportunity to. I think this alone is reason enough to undertake a project as massive as Final Bout has been in 2016. This time the crew headed to Canaan Motor Club in central New Hampshire to host the third, and final stage of the trio of special events.
Continue reading Event: Final Bout 2016 – Special Stage East V.1
JDM by Sean Oct 25, 201601:29 2016/10/25
Editorial: Inspiration vs. Influence
Thursday morning Kayla and I set off to Tokyo via the Tokaido line out of Yokohama Station. I really dislike going into the city with a car, especially to Tokyo. I mean, I’m not the biggest fan of Tokyo in general, and it’s just further compounded when I’m driving there; it’s not so much the driving, but the parking really. We were walking around Meiji Shrine when I got a message from Kubo at Garage Work. He was asking if I wanted to stop by the shop that afternoon. I was literally in Chiba the day before visiting Masao at Technical Motor, and from a fiscal standpoint wasn’t quite in the mood to be going back again, but honestly, I could never pass down a visit to the one shop that influences me in a way no others do.
Continue reading Editorial: Inspiration vs. Influence
Event: NDF x FRS Invite Meeting V.3
As the rain faded away, and the afternoon sun burned off the remaining clouds over the Speedway, some people hit the road to head back towards Tokyo. The little award ceremony we had towards the end went well. I’ve never really had to judge, or rank cars before (although we all do it silently), but despite the choices being difficult it was still pretty fun. Everyone was pretty stoked, and it was a good way to wrap up the meeting. Before everyone had left, we were able to gather some of the main FRS members and take some photos closer to the track. Hope you liked the coverage, and I look forward to holding a couple more of these in the next couple months. Enjoy the photos ~
Continue reading Event: NDF x FRS Invite Meeting V.3
Encounter: Naturally Aspirated S15 – Fuji
About halfway through our meeting, while I was across the lot taking some individual photos, I had heard an incredibly loud, distinct sound coming from off in the distance. As it grew closer, I got up and turned around to see a white S15 absolutely screaming down Fuji’s access road. I instantly knew it was a naturally aspirated SR because, well, there is really only one sound like that; it’s that perfect combination of awesome and obnoxious.
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Revolut launches Metal debit card that gives ‘cashback’ in cryptocurrency
David Canellis
Cryptocurrency users now have access to exclusive benefits and a shiny new way to make real-world purchases. Starting today, Revolut’s heavy-duty, solid metal card is available, and it literally pays you to spend cryptocurrency.
Revolut is a banking alternative that offers all the services of a regular bank, only digitally through its app. It’s grown to include trading and investment support, as well as quick, easy foreign exchange. Five cryptocurrencies are currently supported, alongside dozens of international fiat currencies.
Customers can already get themselves prepaid cards that enable purchases with cryptocurrency, but from today they can pay extra for the privilege, style, and class that comes with solid black metal.
Check out how Revolut describes it, don’t you just love marketing-speak?
The new metal card is fully contactless and has been designed with obsessive attention to detail. At three times the weight of a regular card, Revolut Metal is crafted from a single sheet of reinforced steel using a diamond drill bit. Paint particles have then been layered to the card using a physical vapour deposition, with customers’ details etched onto the card using a high precision laser.
Standard Revolut prepaid cards are essentially free, but don’t come with many benefits. For over a year, a monthly subscription fee of £6.99 ($8) has been charged to access Premium level perks, such as unlimited foreign exchange, free international money transfers and ATM withdrawals – even access to travel insurance. Now, there is a level above Premium: Metal.
Revolut Metal subscribers will get some extras. Besides the heavy metal card, they will receive a dedicated concierge service to facilitate purchases for things like travelling and festivals. So, Metal-tier customers won’t have to book their own tickets for things, they can just have someone else to do it.
What’s more, the new metal card gives cashback every time it’s used. Purchases made outside of Europe will receive one percent cashback, which can either paid in cryptocurrency or fiat. Purchase made inside Europe, though, attract just one-tenth of that.
When quizzed about how Revolut protect customer cryptocurrency ‘loaded’ onto its debit card, it remained tight-lipped. A spokesperson declared that all customer cryptocurrency is kept offline, in “cold storage.”
Even when pressed for further details, Revolut told us that it is “super tight on security in relation to cryptocurrency, so [it does] not give out any information.” Well played.
Customers looking to sign up for Revolut Metal will either pay £120 ($140) per year, or £12.99 ($15) monthly. That includes the new card and concierge services and free travel insurance, on top of the benefits currently enjoyed by Premium subscribers. Revolut has confirmed that its Premium service will continue unchanged.
If using this explicitly for cryptocurrency, as long as you spend more than £4,000 ($4,600) worth of it a year, outside Europe, I guess Revolut Metal pays for itself. If you just use cryptocurrency in Europe, though, you’ll have to spend way more.
“We see Revolut Metal as an essential lifestyle product for people of all ages and incomes, ranging from digital nomads to everyday working professionals,” Revolut told Hard Fork. ‘“We are absolutely convinced that Revolut Metal will be the exclusive card of the future, and an absolute must for travellers worldwide.”
Super cool, maybe. Essential, eh, debatable. Anyway, if you want one, now you can get one.
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This Israeli startup has a battery that can charge an electric car in 5 minutes
by Matthew Hughes — in Insider
Israel’s StoreDot has done a lot of interesting stuff with battery technology, but what it’s demonstrating today at CUBE Tech Fair in Berlin is for the history books.
The company is launching its new FlashBattery technology, which promises to allow you to charge an electric car in just five minutes.
The battery ditches the traditional Lithium Ion makeup in favor of one of its own design, which arranges layers of nano materials and proprietary organic compounds to support ultra-fast charges.
While current battery managers are focused on better mileage, Storedot’s FlashBattery emphasizes speed of charge above everything else.
This is something few other manufacturers are focusing on. Tesla’s SuperCharger stations, for example, take at least 75 minutes to go from zero-to-full.
In a statement, Dr. Doron Myersdorf, Co-Founder and CEO of StoreDot, said “Fast Charging is the critical missing link needed to make electric vehicles ubiquitous.”
“The currently available battery technology dictates long charging times which makes the EV form of transportation inadequate for the public at large. We’re exploring options with a few strategic partners in the auto space to help us boost the production process in Asia and reach mass production as soon as possible.”
StoreDot also promises that FlashBattery is safer than the current family of batteries used in electric cars, as they aren’t flammable and have a higher temperature of combustion.
If true, this is great news. In 2013, Tesla was rocked by news of several of its Model S cars catching fire, causing its share price to tumble, and forcing CEO Elon Musk to pen a contrite open letter to the public.
StoreDot, which has raised $66 million over four rounds, has already looked into using its technology in smartphones. That particular application was demonstrated at last year’s Mobile World Congress.
The company expects its batteries to hit the market within the next three years. So, don’t be too shocked if your next eco-friendly motor packs one.
Read next: Belgian researchers successfully test a device that turns air pollution into energy
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The Lazy Season is a plant pot unlike any other. It’s the first product collaboration we here at The Planthunter have undertaken, and boy are we proud! The Fortynine Studio and I decided a while back we wanted to do something together, so we did, and the Lazy Season was born. We’re all into plants, great design, and cheeky subversion, so it was a no brainer. Without any further ado, say hello to the Lazy Season….
I met Sarah and Ben from The Fortynine Studio around a year ago. We were all talking at a design event as part of Vivid Festival. I was blown away by their presentation of a body of work, The Bushfire, that The Fortynine Studio had just exhibited with The Other Hemisphere over at Milan Design Week, inspired by native flora and the Australian landscape. At the end of the day we naturally gravitated towards each other. Once we started we couldn’t stop talking…. Everyone else had gone home and we were still there chatting about plants. They practically had to kick us out. It was clearly love at first sight!
We exchanged contact details and caught up soon after. It seemed obvious for us to collaborate on a project together – we all share a passion for plants, good design, and creating unusual, beautiful and useful things.
It started over cups of tea and throwing ideas around in both The Fortynine Studios’ workshop and my backyard. We soon realised we share a similar approach – we believe in integrity, in highly resolved design solutions, but also in subversion…. We want to challenge the way people look at and interact with plants and design.
Our aim was to create a completely unique and highly resolved product, celebrating the beauty and whimsy found within the natural world. We wanted to elevate the humble plant pot, and consequently the plant in it, to the place we think it should occupy within our living environments; not as an afterthought but as one of the most important and soulful elements within an indoor or outdoor space.
From my perspective as a landscape designer and mad plant lady, I was really keen to see that whatever we produced was as practical as it was beautiful. Using their strengths in conceptual and object design, The Fortynine Studio wildly explored all kinds of fantastical ideas revolving around plants and pots. Working collaboratively, we each contributed knowledge to ultimately create a simple, considered, and highly resolved product designed for plants, to celebrate plants. It’s like nothing else in existence…. I reckon we nailed it!
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About The Pot
The Lazy Season is a hand-made, limited edition, design object. There will be just 49 of the pots made at The Fortynine Studio’s Sydney workshop. We decided to do a limited edition as a way of celebrating small run, local production, focusing on quality design and craftsmanship. Handwritten edition numbers along with The Fortynine Studio and The Planthunter makers marks feature on the wicking floor of each pot.
The Lazy Season is a hemispherical self-watering pot with a bronze prop to enable it to be placed at any angle. As the sun moves through the sky seasonally, the angle of the pot can be adapted so the plant can follow it. Circular coloured areas at the base of the pot reference the changes in the sun’s angle in the sky between summer and winter. The internal water reservoir is separated by a removable wicking floor, meaning there’s no need for a saucer.
The pots are made by hand using local Sydney terracotta clay and feature coloured slip applied to the base. While they’re unglazed they have been fired to 1200 degrees, meaning they are impervious. The wicking floor, made using the same clay as the pots, has been fired to a lower temperature allowing it to draw and retain moisture from the internal water reservoir below, helping to keep your plant happy. The bronze prop was hand carved in wax, molded, then sand cast in Sydney before being hand polished at The Fortynine Studio.
A highly resolved and very beautiful object, the Lazy Season is more than just a plant pot. It can be used indoors and out, placed on an angle or not, and turned like a lazy susan, hence the name. It can even be used as the perfect fruit bowl, paperweight and trivet set (if you happen to kill your plant!).
The Lazy Season is an extremely adaptable and wondrous thing.
The Lazy Season is available online at The Fortynine Studio Online Store, at Small Spaces in Sydney, and at Loose Leaf in Melbourne.
Georgina Reid is the founder & editor of The Planthunter. She has qualifications in journalism and design, and a very serious passion for plants. If she were a tree she'd be a lemon scented gum. VIEW GEORGINA'S FACEBOOK & INSTAGRAM
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Home Topics Society & Culture Divorced and remarried Catholics are not ‘excommunicated,’ says Pope Francis
Divorced and remarried Catholics are not ‘excommunicated,’ says Pope Francis
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Pope Francis delivers his message during his general audience this morning (PA)
5 August 2015, VATICAN (TSR) –
Catholics who have divorced and are civilly remarried “are not, in fact, excommunicated and they “absolutely must not be treated as if they were,” Pope Francis has said.
Resuming his Wednesday general audiences today after a month’s break, Pope Francis returned to the series of talks he has been giving on the family. It was the 100th general audience of his papacy.
At his last audience, June 24, he talked about the damage caused especially to children when couples fight and hurt each other. “Today,” he said, “I want to draw our attention to another reality: how to care for those who, after the irreversible failure of the matrimonial bond, have undertaken a new union.”
Without an annulment of the sacramental marriage, “such a situation contradicts the Christian sacrament,” which is meant to be an indissoluble bond, the Pope said.
According to Church teaching, in most cases such couples are not permitted to receive Communion. But bishops at the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family last October and preparing for the general synod in October have been studying and debating possibilities for allowing some couples in some situations to return to the sacraments.
The Church, Pope Francis said at the audience, must have “the heart of a mother, a heart that, animated by the Holy Spirit, always seeks the good and the salvation of persons.”
The children of such couples suffer most and deserve particular care, the Pope said.
“How can we tell these parents to do everything possible to raise their children in the Christian life, giving them the example of a convinced and lived faith, if we keep them at a distance from the life of the community as if they were excommunicated?” the Pope asked.
Particularly over the past few decades, he said, “the Church has not been insensitive or lazy” when it comes to providing pastoral care to the divorced and civilly remarried.
In his apostolic exhortation, “Familiaris Consortio,” St John Paul II saw an “obligation, ‘for love of the truth,’ to exercise a ‘careful discernment of situations,’” noting for example “the difference between one who has endured a separation and one who provoked it,” Pope Francis said.
Retired Pope Benedict XVI also studied the question, he said, “calling for an attentive discernment and wise pastoral accompaniment, knowing that no ‘simple recipes’ exist.”
As the studies and discernment continue, Pope Francis said, it is essential that Catholic pastors “openly and coherently demonstrate the willingness of the community to welcome and encourage” divorced and remarried couples and their families to participate in church life.
Prayer, listening to the word of God, attending Mass, educating their children in the faith, serving the poor and working for justice and peace should be part of their lives, he said.
Quoting his apostolic exhortation, “The Joy of the Gospel,” Pope Francis told those gathered for the audience, “The church is called to be the house of the Father, with doors always wide open … Everyone can share in some way in the life of the church; everyone can be part of the community.” – Catholic Herald
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Let’s Go Disco: Big Break Gets Down With MFSB’s “Universal Love”
August 13, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment
Big Break Records is letting the love come through – Universal Love, that is! – with its new reissue of the third album from Philadelphia International Records’ inimitable house band, MFSB. The only mystery about the 1975 album is how this No. 2 R&B smash (and respectable No. 44 Pop success, as well) has avoided compact disc release after all these years. Happily, it follows 1972’s MFSB and 1973’s Love is the Message into Big Break’s catalogue in a newly-expanded and remastered edition.
The talented, versatile musicians at the core of the original MFSB, including guitarists Bobby Eli and Norman Harris, vibraphonist Vince Montana, Jr., percussionist Larry Washington, drummer Earl Young, bassist Ron Baker and others, could play thrillingly in any style without ever losing their effortlessly elegant and deeply funky sound. With producer-arranger Bobby Martin primarily at the helm, Universal Love melded symphonic soul and disco as only MFSB could.
The Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff-written opening instrumental, “Sexy,” more than lives up to its name. One of three tracks co-written and produced by Gamble and Huff for Universal Love, its inviting, introductory guitar riff is anchor to the full-on swell of the entire orchestra as orchestrated by Martin. The track vividly showcases the glistening strings, powerfully charged horns (including Zach Zachary’s standout saxophone riff) and infectious dance rhythms that gave The Sound of Philadelphia its shine. Gamble and Huff also wrote the grandly cascading “MFSB” which echoes 1972’s landmark “TSOP” with its dynamic, driving groove and rich instrumentation. Like the earlier song, “MFSB” could only be the work of the titular orchestra.
Sans Gamble, Leon Huff composed two songs on Universal Love. His “Human Machine,” co-written with Ron Baker, fuses chunky rhythms, insinuating string lines and crisp electric licks. It underscores MFSB’s ability to bring melodic accessibility even to its funkiest cuts. “Let’s Go Disco” boasted an all-star songwriting line-up, with Huff joined by the team of Gene McFadden and John Whitehead (“Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now”) as well as Victor Carstarphen (“Wake Up Everybody”) and Cary Gilbert (“Me and Mrs. Jones”). Ironically, “Let’s Go Disco” is an atypical cut, with its primitive chanting and bold, blunt beats. Despite the title, it’s far from the most conducive track for dancing! Martin’s arrangement of “K-Jee,” however, makes up for it! Originally recorded by Kentucky group The Nite-Liters, it may be the most famous track on Universal Love thanks to its inclusion on the record-breaking soundtrack to 1977’s Saturday Night Fever.
Producer Bruce Hawes and arranger (and MFSB flautist) Jack Faith take the reins for just one track. “Love Has No Time or Place,” written by Hawes with Cynthia Biggs, has a sultry and futuristic vibe that complements “Human Machine.” Yvette Davis and Shirley Brewer of Wonderlove add a distinctive flavor as members of the song’s vocal quartet. Faith’s work as an arranger seamlessly blended in with Martin’s, and in the best jazz-informed style, allowed for spotlight turns and solos including for his own flute. (The members of MFSB were no strangers to the jazz idiom; one shouldn’t hesitate to seek out BBR’s reissue of bassist Monk Montgomery’s lone album for Philadelphia International, Reality. It, too, has Bobby Martin as producer, arranger and writer.)
Martin teamed with guitarist Norman Harris to pen “T.L.C. (Tender Loving Care).” Distinguished by its brief ballad introduction, its soaring strings mesh with smooth sax and funky percussion. Like “MFSB,” “T.L.C.” has a relaxed, irresistible swagger. Gamble and Huff’s “My Mood” closes Universal Love on a sweet and soft note on which to chill out, with the album’s lone spotlight on Vince Montana’s cool vibes.
Four single versions round out this first-ever expanded edition of Universal Love including “Sexy” (which nearly made the top of the R&B chart at No. 2 and barely missed cracking the Pop Top 40 at No. 42) and “T.L.C. (Tender Loving Care).” The short promotional version of “Let’s Go Disco” is also included as is the belatedly-released single of “K-Jee.” Both tracks made the Top 5 of the Disco chart. Produced by BBR’s Wayne A. Dickson, the reissue is housed in a deluxe Super Jewel Box and boasts a full-color 16-page booklet amply illustrated with various single sleeves, labels, and the original artwork. Christian John Wikane supplies the detailed liner notes in which he deftly puts the album into historical perspective and offers commentary on each track. Topping off this superb presentation, Nick Robbins has given Universal Love a fresh remaster.
This unparalleled group of musicians would only be responsible for two more MFSB albums (Philadelphia Freedom and Summertime). By the end of 1975, many core members – including Baker, Harris, Young and Montana – had left Philadelphia International for Salsoul Records where they would play as part of The Salsoul Orchestra with Montana as leader. (The Salsoul Orchestra’s albums have also been splendidly reissued by BBR, and are a must-have complement to the MFSB discography.) Universal Love captures the members of MFSB Mk. I at the height of their considerable powers, making inspiring, happy, and yes, “Sexy” grooves. All you need is Love!
Watch this space soon for more information on BBR’s other recent titles from Ashford and Simpson and more!
MFSB, Universal Love: Expanded Edition (Philadelphia International KZ 33158, 1975 – reissued Big Break CDBBRX 0312, 2015) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)
Human Machine
Love Has No Time or Place
T.L.C. (Tender Loving Care)
Let’s Go Disco
K-Jee
Sexy (Single Version) (Philadelphia International single ZS8 3567, 1975)
T.L.C. (Tender Loving Care) (Single Version) (Philadelphia International single ZS8 3576, 1975)
Let’s Go Disco (Promotional Single Version) (Philadelphia International S PIR 3635 (U.K.), 1975)
K-Jee (Single Version) (Philadelphia International single ZS8 3641, 1978)
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School of education awards Emily Ogden
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Success often comes after one has worked hard day in and day out. ULM alumna Emily Ogden found this to be true when she was recognized as the Louisiana High School Teacher of the Year for 2020 and then was awarded $500 by ULM’s school of education for her achievements.
Every year, the Louisiana Department of Education shows appreciation to teachers and school leaders by annually partnering with Dream Teachers and the Louisiana Association of Principals to participate in the Teacher and Principal of the Year program.
This year, over 67 Louisiana school systems nominated teachers and school leaders for the Teacher and Principal of the Year program. On July 19, finalists and semi-finalists were honored at the 13th Annual Cecil J. Picard Educator Excellence Awards Gala.
Ogden wasn’t expecting one of the professors that inspired her early in her career to present the $500 award to her, but that is exactly what Dr. Shalanda Stanely did.
“When Dr. Stanley walked to the podium at the Richland Parish General Assembly…I was completely surprised to be recognized by the ULM School of Education and to be given scholarship money to assist in furthering my education,” Ogden said.
Ogden was a student in Dr. Stanley’s literacy method course. There, Ogden was given a piece of advice that would later become her mantra, “Students are only going to rise to the expectation you set for them, so always set the bar high.”
“Emily was an outstanding student,” Dr. Stanley said. “She loves children and is motivated to help them reach their potential. She has made a tremendous positive impact on her students’ performances in the classroom.”
Ogden credits her growth and success to the many teachers she’s had throughout her life.
“I believe they helped me become the person I am today and the only way I could repay the debt was to give back to the students of my home, Richland Parish,” Ogden said.
Now, Ogden loves getting to be a part of these children’s lives and building relationships with her students like all of the teachers she had before did with her.
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India is just a substantial country with technology previous traditions and vivid cultures, in addition to the inexplicable elegance seen in its landscape. India is a fortunate land where folks of different religions live together and reveal happiness. Independent of the origin of four significant religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism), that country boasts tamilnadu selection of countries, from Punjabi, Bengali to Gujarati, Tamil and several more.
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Tamilnadu Arts and Social Tour
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Studio Visits: AlexFace & MUEBON | StreetArtNews
Aug 9, 2019 | Art | 0 comments
AlexFace and MUEBON recently gave us a rare look into their Bangkok studio to discuss their upcoming joint solo exhibition in Chicago at Vertical Gallery.
Alex Face is best known for his signature character Mardi, a three-eyed child often presented in a fuzzy rabbit costume. Inspired by the artist’s own young daughter, Mardi is by turns world-weary and wry, challenging viewers to consider the legacy that our children will inherit as well as what the future holds for successive generations.
In the recent years, his work has gained recognition across the globe: in 2018, he occupied the Bank of Thailand Learning Center during the first Bangkok Art Biennale, and the following year, he exhibited in the Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy.
MUEBON is renowned for biting social commentary on subjects spanning from wealth disparity to environmental activism to the pervasive influence of contemporary media — messages he delivers via his rotating cast of colorful characters, including a flightless cartoon bird named PUKRUK and Mr. TV, possessor of a television screen face. MUEBON is perhaps most synonymous with his Mickey Mouse-inspired skull stickers and wheatpastes, memento mori urging viewers to expel their feelings of anger, frustration and hopelessness in favor of embracing acceptance and finding inner peace.
Alex Face & MUEBON U.S. Debut Solo show will be opening on August 10th to 31st at Vertical Gallery, 1016 N. Western Ave., Chicago.
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Steph Curry Found His Swagger As The Warriors Lit Up The Rockets In Game 3
Robby KallandTwitterSenior Sports Writer
The Golden State Warriors looked flat in Game 2, playing a sloppy game while the Rockets put forth a monstrous offensive performance to even the series at 1-1. Draymond Green chalked that performance up to Golden State allowing themselves one game per series where they take their foot on the gas pedal, and vowed the team would be locked in for Game 3.
Green was correct in that assessment, as the Warriors pounced on the Rockets on their way to another conference finals blowout in a 126-85 final. Golden State took control in the mid-first quarter and slowly extended their lead to double digits by halftime, courtesy of the Rockets’ inability to make seemingly anything at the rim.
However, it wasn’t until the third quarter that the floodgates opened and the Warriors began running away from Houston. The catalyst for that run was Steph Curry, who finally came alive after a dismal first 2.5 games in the series. Curry struggled in the first half with nine points and was routinely targeted on defense once again (although he had much more success on that end in Game 3), but in the third quarter he found that vintage Curry swagger, lighting up the Rockets for 18 points in the quarter and effectively ending the game.
.@StephenCurry30 ERUPTS to drop 18 of his 27 PTS in the 3rd quarter alone! ?#NBAPlayoffs | #DubNation pic.twitter.com/wxNDXHMgR3
— NBA TV (@NBATV) May 21, 2018
There were two moments in particular that showed everyone that Steph was indeed back. First with a deep three-pointer over a good contest from James Harden that elicited the Curry shimmy, followed by a drive to the tin and him yelling to the Oracle crowd that “this is my f*cking house!”
Steph Curry DANCIN'! ??
18 PTS in the 3rd Q for Steph on @NBAonTNT #DubNation pic.twitter.com/PBeJ2hUU4w
— NBA (@NBA) May 21, 2018
Curry: This is my f***ing house pic.twitter.com/MDddt5ioey
— Dime on UPROXX (@DimeUPROXX) May 21, 2018
Curry finished with 35 points on 13-for-23 shooting, including 5-for-12 from distance, a marked improvement over his first two games. Kevin Durant had 25 points as he once again led the way in the first half, but happily deferred to Curry in the third quarter once everyone in the building realized he had found it again. Draymond Green had a ridiculous 17 boards on the night to go along with 10 points and six assists as he too found his groove in Game 3.
The Rockets simply weren’t good enough on Sunday night in Oakland as no one on Houston’s roster could get anything going offensively. James Harden was 7-for-16 from the field for 20 points and nine assists. Chris Paul was 5-for-16 for 13 points and 10 rebounds, while the trio of Eric Gordon, P.J. Tucker, and Trevor Ariza that caught fire in Game 2 combined for 23 points on 8-for-24 shooting and made only four three-pointers between them.
In the end, it was a romp for the Warriors, capped off by Shaun Livingston putting Harden on skates for the cherry on top of a dominant performance.
Shaun Livingston with the handle and slam!#DubNation 97 | #Rockets 75
?: @NBAonTNT pic.twitter.com/1n7JnJtSNA
Houston still can regain homecourt advantage with a win in Game 4 on Tuesday night, but they can’t have any of their core rotation have an off night if they’re going to do that, much less all of them struggle as happened in Game 3.
Topics: #2018 NBA Playoffs, #Golden State Warriors, #Stephen CurryTags: 2018 NBA Playoffs, GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS, Houston Rockets, STEPHEN CURRY
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Save Long Copse Lane
By Anna Tonkin | Neighbourhood Plan | No Comments
Long Copse Lane is at the centre of a planning proposal that will change its character forever. On the very edge of the South Downs National Park, Long Copse Lane and the surrounding Hollybank fields are home to a diverse range of wildlife, some of which are found in very few other locations in the UK. People call this area home, and as a committee we’re very concerned about the effect a development of 260 houses will have on its delicate balance.
We’ve come together to fight the proposed development and save Long Copse Lane for everyone.
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Westwood Close Planning Application
By Anna Tonkin | Village News | No Comments
Westwood Close residents are facing an unwelcome planning application which has been submitted by Hampshire Homes.
They would be pleased for our support. Follow this link to view their planning application leaflet. It gives all the details of where to write/email to and their major objection points.
The following is from the Portsmouth News article:
CAMPAIGNERS have called for a planning application to be deferred to the Environment Agency amid fears a development could lead to flooding. Residents have said Hampshire Homes’ plans for 46 homes east of Westwood Close, in Emsworth, could ‘pose a serious threat’ to the local water table after they were lodged with Havant Borough Council (HBC).
The build is pencilled for flood zone one land close to the River Ems – which according to the Environment Agency has less than a 0.1 per cent chance of flooding. However, areas surrounding the site fall into flood zones two and three – which face a one per cent chance or greater of flooding from rivers in any given year.
Chairman of Havant Friends of the Earth, Ray Cobbett, says the proposals must be deferred so a development’s full, potential impact on the River Ems can be assessed. ‘The potential consequences of dumping two acres of concrete beside the river are too horrifying to imagine,’ he said. ‘Apart from raising the water table to affect surrounding land there is the impact of pollution and its effect on the Brook Meadow Nature Reserve downstream of the housing site.’
The July application came in the same month the National Planning Policy Framework was updated to encourage development only where it will ‘enhance’ the environment. Mr Cobbett – along with Westwood Close resident Rosie Lefevre – both believe this proposal would fail to do that. ‘We know homes are needed, but we don’t believe this site can take it,’ Rosie said. ‘This land is not ploughed and it does flood – it’s a sponge. And I worry the developers are not aware of exactly what can happen there.’
Developers and locals clash over proposed Emsworth homes Despite fears, property consultant Bryan Jezeph, on behalf of Hampshire Homes, said he believes there is ‘no issue with flooding’ and the revised NPPF ‘has not changed anything in respect of development’. On the notion of an application referral, a spokesperson for HBC said it has consulted with 35 organisations on the plans – including ecologists, the Environment Agency and Natural England. It confirmed the plans would be assessed against the NPPF in its entirety and residents can comment on the application by August 22, by visiting bit.ly/2OH8NFM
Read more at: https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/our-region/havant/calls-to-defer-emsworth-homes-plan-to-environment-agency-amid-horrifying-flood-and-nature-risks-1-8591097
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The WARC Effective 100 (the successor to the WARC 100) tracks the performance of campaigns, brands and agencies in advertising effectiveness competitions around the world.
The rankings are a benchmark for advertising effectiveness, allowing marketers to compare their performance with that of their peers.
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#1 Carvaan: Let's make viral products instead!
A highly targeted campaign helped a struggling music company expand its audience and increase revenue.
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#2 Savlon: Healthy Hands Chalk Sticks
How people's inaction drove changes in hand hygiene
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#3 Harpic: India's New Status Symbol
A matrimonial ad raising the social status of the toilet
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2019 top creative agencies
McCann New Delhi
Ogilvy Mumbai
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MediaCom London
Carat London
Mindshare Istanbul
2019 top digital / specialist agencies
Tribeca Antartyca Lima
Salmon London
Ogilvy & SocialLab Brussels
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McCann Worldgroup
BBDO Worldwide
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Omnicom Group
Interpublic Group
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The WARC Effective 100 (formerly the WARC 100) is a ranking of effective advertising and marketing campaigns – and the companies behind them. In 2019, the WARC 100 became part of WARC Rankings, alongside the WARC Creative 100 and WARC Media 100 (formerly the Gunn Report rankings).
To compile the WARC Effective 100, WARC Rankings track different advertising competitions around the world – all of them require entrants to show the impact of a campaign. Campaigns (and the brands and agencies behind them) are awarded points based on the prizes they win in those competitions. Each competition is weighted based on how rigorous and prestigious it is.
The WARC Effective 100 methodology was developed in consultation with Douglas West, Professor of Marketing at Kings College, London.
For the 2019 report, WARC has surveyed senior planners and strategists around the world to determine the most important global and regional awards shows. Further to feedback from the industry, the shows included in this year’s rankings have been made known to provide transparency and proof of impartiality. They are:
Global: AME Awards, Cannes Lions, Effies (multiple shows), IPA Effectiveness Awards, Jay Chiat Awards, WARC Awards, ARF David Ogilvy Awards.
Regional: Loeries (effectiveness categories), Tangrams (effectiveness categories), WARC Prize for Asian Strategy, WARC Prize for MENA Strategy.
Each competition tracked for the Effective 100 is weighted based on how rigorous and prestigious it is – this is based on the same survey.
Selecting competitions
WARC tracks the following types of award for the WARC Effective 100:
Effectiveness award: Entries are judged primarily on the impact of a campaign.
Strategy award: Entries are judged on the strategic response to a client's business problem.
General marketing excellence award: A significant proportion of the scoring is based on effectiveness.
Assigning Award Points
The first step in building the rankings is to assign points to campaigns based on the awards they have won.
Most of the awards schemes under consideration have a single Best in Show (or Grand Prix) winner per category, as well as a broader group of Gold, Silver and Bronze winners. We assign points on a range from 10-2 (see table at right).
For schemes that do not run a Gold/Silver/Bronze scheme, we have adapted this points scheme to reflect their structure.
Award schemes under consideration vary greatly in terms of size. In order not to over-reward campaigns that have won many awards at a single scheme over those winning awards in multiple schemes, we have capped the number of Award Points a single campaign can win at a single awards scheme at 20. Grand Prix wins are exempt from this cap.
Non-campaign awards in these competitions (for example, 'Agency of the Year') are not included.
Points are assigned to campaigns as follows:
Grand Prix: 10
Gold: 6
Silver: 4
Bronze: 2
Assigning the Competition Weighting
Each competition in the WARC Effective 100 is assigned a score (the Competition Weighting) between 1 and 5 – this is an assessment of how 'hard' the competition is to win, and how prestigious the award is.
To produce this weighting, WARC Rankings has developed a calculation that takes into account a number of factors.
The exact calculation is proprietary to WARC Rankings and, to avoid prejudicing entries to future competitions, we cannot reveal the weightings assigned to competitions.
The calculation includes:
Industry perception
It is widely held within the industry that some competitions are harder or more prestigious than others.
To reflect this, WARC Rankings has conducted a survey of more than 100 senior agency planners and strategists. The results of this survey feed into the shows selected for inclusion in the ranking, and into the Competition Weighting.
The level of 'potential' competition
In theory, competitions or categories that are open to a wider 'pool' of campaigns will be harder to win than competitions that limit the size of the pool. So, for example, a global competition will usually be harder to win than a single-market competition. Or a category that is open to all types of marketing activity will be harder to win than a category that is only open to, say, digital marketing campaigns.
To reflect this, WARC Rankings takes into account how much of the global advertising market each competition represents. It is able to do this using WARC's comprehensive adspend data resources, which include analysis by channel and by geography.
Building the scores
For each competition in which a campaign wins, its Award Points are multiplied by the Competition Weighting to produce a score.
For example, if a campaign wins a Silver in a competition with a weighting of 3, it will score 12 (4 Award Points x 3 weighting).
Many campaigns win awards in multiple competitions. So, a campaign's final score in WARC 100 is the sum of all the scores it has achieved in different competitions. Where the same campaign has been awarded at different competitions under different campaign titles, a generic campaign name has been used for all of these entries.
Ranking agencies and brands
Once the scores for campaigns have been calculated, it is possible to assign points to the organisations behind them – both on the client and agency side.
The scores that have been generated for every campaign in the database are assigned to both an agency and a brand. This information is based on publicly released data, such as the winners' lists published by awards organisers.
This allows WARC Rankings to build rankings of individual agencies, agency networks, agency holding companies, brands and advertisers.
These rankings reflect the points generated from all campaigns in the database, not just the top 100 campaigns in the WARC 100.
As with campaign scores (see above), there is a cap of 10 Award Points (equivalent to two Grand Prix) that a brand or agency can win from a single campaign in a single competition.
In addition, the overall Award Points a single brand or agency can win from a single awards scheme (ie from all its winning entries in one competition) at 20. This is because a small number of competitions in the database award a very large number of prizes, making it possible for agencies or brands eligible for those competitions to pick up a lot of points from a single award scheme. This is unfair on agencies or brands ineligible to enter those competitions (for example, if the competition is in a local market and not open to entries from outside that market).
As with campaign scores, all Award Points are multiplied by the relevant Competition Weighting to produce the scores for agencies and brands.
Table builder
We have introduced a Table Builder feature to allow users to create their own rankings from the database. This feature is available only to WARC subscribers.
Users can build rankings of agencies, agency networks, agency holding companies, brands or advertisers, which they can download to an Excel file. They can filter these rankings by product category, geography, or (for agencies, networks or holding companies) agency type.
We have divided agencies in the database into one of three broad groups: Creative, Media and Digital/Specialist Agencies – a broad category that includes pure-play digital, specialists in PR, brand consultancy and other marketing services.
Because of the effects of the points cap (see above), there may be a very small number of minor discrepancies between custom-built filtered rankings from the Table Builder and the company's overall ranking as published by WARC.
Contributing agencies
Agencies listed as 'contributing agencies' for a campaign in the database are awarded half the Award Points assigned to 'primary agencies' for the same campaign (ie 1 for Bronze, 2 for Silver, 3 for Gold, 5 for Grand Prix, with a points cap of 5 for a single campaign in any competition).
WARC Rankings has used the information released by awards schemes to determine which agencies are classed as 'primary agencies' and which are classed as 'contributing agencies'.
Only those awards handed out during the previous calendar year, or those handed out at the beginning of the present calendar year that are explicitly labelled as awards from the previous year.
All awards information, including lists of winners and details of judging criteria, is based on data that is in the public domain, whether through public, free-to-access web pages, press releases or other information for the media.
Campaign locations
The location assigned to individual campaigns is based on the location in which the campaign ran. If global, the location is where the campaign originated. The location of the primary agency is assumed to be the location of the original idea behind the campaign.
Wherever possible, English versions of each campaign name have been obtained, whether by contacting the original awards scheme directly to obtain a translated version of results, or by using a translation service. Where the same campaign has been awarded at different competitions in different languages, the English version of the campaign title has been used.
Agency definitions
We have divided agencies in the database into three broad groups: Creative, Media and Digital/Specialist Agencies – a broad category that includes specialist digital, direct, PR, brand consultancy and other marketing services.
This year's data is currently being updated.
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Electronics 360 features Prof. Zhou's Light-Sensing System
Dartmouth researchers are “using the power of the light all around us to develop a light-sensing system that tracks a person’s behavior continuously in real-time, without being overbearing,” writes the website Electronics 360 in a feature about the system.
“The StarLight system has a variety of potential applications, including virtual reality without on-body controllers and real-time health monitoring. The new system builds upon the team’s previous work, called license, and reduces...
Fighting Online Extremism
Dartmouth College computer science professor Hany Farid — using funding from Microsoft Corp. — has developed technology to help scrub extremist content from the internet.
Working with the nonprofit think tank Counter Extremism Project, Farid built software capable of identifying and tracking photo, video and audio files, even if they’ve been altered. The software, unveiled Friday, would allow websites such as Facebook Inc. to automatically catch flagged content and remove it or...
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Gabe Weaver Named Inaugural Dieckamp Fellow
Dr. Gabe Weaver received his PhD from Dartmouth in 2013. During his research career, Gabe has had stints at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory and as a non-residential fellow at Harvard, where he designed an XML vocabulary to encode Ancient Greek Mathematical diagrams. He more recently worked as a research scientist in Illinois' Information Trust Institute.
For his dissertation at Dartmouth College, Gabe created eXtended Unix tools (XUTools) to process a broader class of languages in which...
Jacob Weiss '16 conducts wind ensemble
Jacob Weiss '16 kept a steady beat for three years in his high school marching band. At Dartmouth, he decided to major in computer science, but he never lost the urge to play his bass trombone, so he joined the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble. That's where his talents caught the attention of Matthew Marsit, director of bands at the Hop, who has asked Weiss to conduct a challenging composition for the ensemble's spring concert. Read more at...
Wall Street Journal features CS Prof's Research
The Wall Street Journal is featuring a both a written and video story about a research project from Dartmouth CS's Prof. Wojciech Jarosz and his colleagues at ETH Zurich, Disney Research Zurich, and Columbia University. The team created a computationally assisted spray paint can which "knows" what image it should paint, and the user just has to wave it around.
Dartmouth Now features CS student Kaya Thomas '17
Dartmouth Now is running a story about CS student Kaya Thomas '17 and her app for young readers. "Thomas developed 'We Read Too' as a mobile device app, one that now has over 4,000 users. It showcases more than 500 books written by authors of color and featuring characters of color."
Read the full story at Dartmouth Now.
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The Atlantic features CS Prof. and Neukom Study of Wikipedia
The Atlantic is running a story about research coming out of Dartmouth and Duke. The authors, including our very own Prof. Daniel Rockmore, studied the verifiability of information on Wikipedia. They were interested not in Wikipedia's accuracy, but rather how easy it is for someone to determine the accuracy of an article on...
"Science Cafe" Features Prof
Prof. Sean Smith discussed the risks of self-driving cars at a recent Science Cafe in Concord, NH.
Dartmouth Professor and Team Create "Smart" Spray Can
Dartmouth's Prof. Wojciech Jarosz, together with an international team of researchers, has developed a computationally-assisted spray painting system. The research appears in this month's Computers & Graphics journal.
The group wanted to create a way to allow untrained users to spray paint large graffiti murals. To accomplish this, they instrumented a physical spray paint can with an actuator to turn...
Kaya Thomas '17 Speaks at BookNet Tech Forum
Our very own Kaya Thomas '17 spoke recently at the BookNet Canada Tech Forum about her experience creating the app We Read Too. The app, which she developed in 2014, helps readers find children’s and YA books written by authors of color and featuring characters of non-white ethnicities.
Read more in the...
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These guidelines contain information for candidates who require a chaperone to be present in the exam. ABRSM uses the term chaperone to describe a person who is known to the candidate and is allowed to remain in the exam room with the candidate for the full duration of the exam.
We also publish the following guidelines which may also be relevant:
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Before reading these guidelines, we recommend you also read our Access Policy which can be found on the Specific Needs page of our website.
You should review the information in these guidelines before making an exam entry.
If you have questions or specific requirements that are not covered by these guidelines, please contact ABRSM’s Access Coordinator.
It is important to understand that while we are able to make provisions for the administration of the exam, for example allowing a chaperone into the exam, we are not able to make any concessions in the marking – all candidates will be treated equally.
Entering for the exam
Please ensure you select the most relevant access provision when making your exam entry.
It is important that you select the relevant access provision for each exam even if you have requested access arrangements or reasonable adjustments previously.
If none of the access provisions cover your specific needs or you have questions about the reasonable adjustments to which you are entitled, please contact ABRSM’s Access Coordinator as early as possible before the entry deadline.
If you wish to request a chaperone, please email [email protected] at the point of entry.
Please note that ABRSM is unable to provide reasonable adjustments where we are notified after the exam entry has been made.
In order to grant reasonable adjustments, ABRSM requires appropriate supporting evidence. Please refer to our Access Arrangements and Reasonable Adjustments Policy for further information.
The chaperone’s role in Practical exams
The chaperone’s key role is to provide support for the candidate in the exam room where there is a specific need for this. The exact role may vary from candidate to candidate depending on the circumstances. Often, being a visible presence and offering an encouraging smile will be all that is required.
Generally, chaperones should not speak in the exam unless requested by the examiner. They should not repeat questions, rephrase questions or provide any form of assistance in answering questions. However, some encouraging words or a prompt to maintain focus may be permitted.
Chaperones are not intended to act as interpreters or oral language modifiers. If specialist support of this nature is required, applicants should discuss exam arrangements with the Access Coordinator prior to making an exam entry.
Chaperones may not take any electronic equipment into the exam, and are not permitted to make notes.
Chaperones should remain present in the exam room for the duration of the exam.
Chaperones may provide practical assistance to the candidate where necessary, such as carrying instruments or music, adjusting the piano stool or music stand, though the examiner will be happy to help as well.
The chaperone’s role in Music Theory exams
A chaperone may not act as a prompter. If this is required, for example, for a candidate who has little or no sense of time, or loses concentration easily, or is affected by an obsessive-compulsive disorder which leads them to keep revising a question rather than moving onto other questions, please contact ABRSM’s Access Coordinator before making the exam entry.
At the beginning of the exam, it is helpful for the examiner/invigilator and chaperone to discuss where the chaperone should sit, and, if appropriate, what type of support the chaperone may provide during the exam.
Chaperones will not be permitted entry to the exam unless prior permission has been given and the examiner or invigilator has received notification.
How do I request a chaperone?
Permission must be requested from the Access Coordinator prior to the exam. Please contact the Access Coordinator in advance of making an exam entry to discuss candidate’s specific needs.
Once permission for a chaperone has been given, the applicant should make the exam entry as usual and then contact the Access Coordinator by email with details of the exam and the proposed chaperone. The Access Coordinator will then notify the examiner of this arrangement.
Who may request a chaperone?
Anyone with a specific need or health condition who would reasonably benefit from having a chaperone present in the exam may request this provision.
Examples of situations where a chaperone may be appropriate include:
For a candidate with severe anxiety to provide reassurance.
For a candidate who requires some prompting to stay on task or who may not respond to an unfamiliar person.
For a candidate unable to respond to instructions or demands from an unfamiliar person.
For a candidate who has suffered trauma who would not be comfortable alone with an unfamiliar adult.
For a candidate who requires a third party to be present for religious reasons.
For a candidate who requires supervision on account of a health condition or disability.
Who may act as a chaperone?
The chaperone should be familiar to the candidate and their presence in the exam should have been discussed with the candidate ahead of the exam entry.
Anyone may act as a chaperone with the following exceptions.
The chaperone must not be the candidate’s instrumental or vocal teacher.
The chaperone should not be a close relative.
However, ABRSM recognises that, in some instances, there may be very few people who are sufficiently familiar with the candidate to be able to support them appropriately in the exam.
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Anya Hindmarch for sale as turnaround drive continues
today Mar 4, 2019
Luxury brand owners may be keen to sweep up any good opportunities at the moment, but those opportunities need to make sure they really deliver. And if they don’t, they can find themselves back up for sale.
That's the case with Anya Hindmarch at the moment with the British luxury bags specialist having been put up for sale by Valentino owner Mayhoola for Investments.
The Qatari royal family's investment fund has owned a controlling stake, for which it is believed to have paid around £27 million, since 2012, although it has injected further funds into the business in recent years.
Reports suggested that the decision to sell was a mutual one and brand founder Anya Hindmarch will stay on as chief creative officer.
The brand has been loss-making for a while. There are no recent accounts available but in 2017, the company lost more than £28 million and saw its revenue falling 10% to £37.2 million. It’s believed to have reduced those losses since then as it focused more on e-commerce and cost controls, but it still isn't profitable.
Its potential remains huge, however, and it's highly unlikely that the auction process will be some kind of fire sale as a number of private equity companies and luxury specialists can be expected to show an interest.
The brand has a high profile and a retail network that includes more than 30 stores. It has been expanding in recent years in important markets such as the US, Asia and the Middle East, although it has also closed several stores and concessions as part of a restructuring drive.
Antoine Bejui, former CFO of another of Mayhoola’s investments, Balmain, is its CEO.
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Daphne Bramham: How Vancouver became a speculators' playground
There’s something almost pathetically naïve about the city of Vancouver’s plan to tax owners of vacant homes.
Daphne Bramham
'No vacancy' signs are a common sight throughout Metro Vancouver. JON MURRAY / PROVINCE
There’s something almost pathetically naive about the City of Vancouver’s plan to tax owners of vacant homes.
Forget its most obvious flaws. It would be hideously expensive to administer and police. It would be largely dependent on self-reporting, and despite Canadians’ Dudley Do-Right reputation, I expect few are all that willing to out themselves as empty home owners (and, if not self-reporting, the city hopes neighbours will snitch on neighbours — something normally relied on by only the most oppressive regimes).
The crucial problem? It won’t end speculation, which is something that municipalities along with the development industry and the provincial government were complicit in helping to create.
Less than a decade ago, municipalities lobbied hard to get the B.C. government to change the Strata Property Act so that all newly constructed strata-titled homes would be available for rentals. The 2010 amendment prevented newly formed strata corporations from passing bylaws that would either restrict the number of rental units or ban them entirely.
Rental restrictions and bans were popular among owners who live in their condos. Most viewed the restrictions as enhancing their property’s value and their quality of life because they promoted a more stable, shared community.
To be fair, exempting new condos from rental restrictions was likely done with the best of intentions, as a means of increasing the rental stock. But it backfired.
“It became an open playground for speculators,” says Tony Gioventu of the Condominium Home Owners’ Association.
By 2010, the population was growing and, increasingly, those with means began to regard Vancouver as a nice, safe place to have a condo as a second home or vacation property. Overseas “pre-sales” of condos had long been normalized. Interest and bond rates were at historic lows and have remained there. Stocks were only starting the long, slow (and ongoing) struggle to regain the values lost in the 2008 crash.
While condo prices haven’t risen at the pace of single-family houses, last year alone the average assessed value of a Coal Harbour condo increased 12 per cent. In West Vancouver, Delta and Coquitlam, average assessments went up between eight and 10 per cent.
For investors, the choice of where to plant money is simple. Condos provide a carefree investment, especially if you don’t need the bother of renters.
In a recent survey, CHOA found that in condos built since 2010 in high-end neighbourhoods like False Creek and Coal Harbour, anywhere from 17 to 34 per cent of the units are occupied for less than one month a year.
Because of the purchase cost, he says, investors would have to set rents somewhere in the range of $3,000 to $6,000 a month for the units to earn income. But with mortgage rates so low, who’s going to pay that kind of rent? Nobody, says Gioventu. So the buyers are mainly people able to carry the cost, holding onto the condo just as they would a speculative stock, until the price gets high enough that they decide to take their profits and run.
Close to 95 per cent of all new housing construction in Metro Vancouver is now strata-titled condos and townhouses. But demand is strong from local people cashing out of single-family homes, locals who can’t afford single-family homes, from non-residents, and, more recently, from Airbnb entrepreneurs with multiple units posted on the sharing economy website for daily and weekly rentals.
And while some strata corporations have managed to pass bylaws banning Airbnb rentals, Gioventu says he is aware of long-term renters being evicted from strata buildings to make way for more lucrative short-term stays.
So what’s the solution? Not the “vacancy tax” that the city is proposing.
Aside from the obvious problems cited above, there would still be the problem of older strata-titled units governed by bylaws that forbid rentals. Owners could end up facing the choice: Rent and pay a fine of up to $500 to the strata corporation, or declare their vacant home to the city and pay the tax.
Gioventu says an easier way would be for the provincial government to use homeowners’ grants as a means for municipalities to retain property taxes by creating two additional categories: one for homes that are always empty, and one for those used as vacation properties or seasonal rentals.
The conundrum of near-zero vacancy rates and a growing number of empty homes has frustrated citizens. It’s also got politicians itching to “solve” the housing affordability problem before the next election cycle.
Plenty of solutions are being booted about, from the city’s plan to others that include banning property ownership by foreigners, cracking down on money laundering, and quickly and dramatically increasing supply to force prices down.
But before politicians leap to any quick fixes, they should think about the 2010 Strata Property Act amendment as a cautionary tale of unintended consequences.
dbramham@postmedia.com
twitter.com/daphnebramham
Canada's missing women inquiry to benefit from B.C. experience, say feds Kelowna's 'Sugarplum Mayor' turns insult into opportunity to support LGBTQ community
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Caravan stolen from bushfire affected area
A man has been charged with stealing a $40,000 caravan from a bushfire hit area on the South Coast. Last Saturday a home owner returned to a property near Batemans Bay to find the caravan missing. Police have managed to track it down in Mogo along with three chainsaws and a generator...
Here comes the rain!!!!
Partly cloudy. Very high (90%) chance of showers.......this is for tomorrow and we have 80% chance of rain Friday.....at long last!!!
Milton Showground Distribution Centre to close this Friday
Grant Schultz, Bushfire Donations Coordinator for Milton Ulladulla Rotary, advises that the Milton Showground will cease distribution of all goods at 5pm this Friday the 17th January 2020.“We will be ceasing the distribution of non-perishable foods, toiletries and other basic items with effect from 5pm This Friday 17th January 2020” Mr. Schultz said...
Suspicious grass fire at Ulladulla
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BUSHFIRE SURVIVORS URGED TO BEWARE OF SHONKY BUILDERS DURING REBUILD
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Woman's ear lobe bitten off during alleged domestic violence incident
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Holiday homes needed for bushfire affected residents
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Calls for local businesses to be given preference during rebuild
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Immediate mental health support for bushfire-hit communities
An initial allocation of $76 million has been provided for mental health support in bushfire-hit communities. The extra services are available immediately to firefighters, emergency personnel and individuals facing the fires and recovering in the aftermath, as part of an all of government approach to the bushfire recovery The money will go towards...
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What Businesses Say They’re Doing About Their Employees’ Mental Health
By David Burda | May 16, 2019
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The National Institute of Mental Health says 46.6 million adults suffered from some form of mental illness in 2017. Of those, 57.4 percent didn’t receive any mental health treatment for their condition. You can bet that some of that 57.4 percent work across the aisle, on your floor or in your building.
That’s why the nation’s employers are in a great position to do something about the behavioral health crisis in the U.S. (Behavioral health includes both mental health and substance abuse problems.)
And, according to some recent reports and surveys, employers say they are doing something about it.
U.S. companies are expected to spend an average of $3.6 million each this year on employee well-being programs. That’s according to a survey of 164 large companies conducted by Fidelity Investments and the National Business Group on Health. Some 92 percent of the companies said they include emotional and mental health benefits and services in their overall well-being programs.
Ninety-nine percent of 113 U.S. employers surveyed by the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions “strongly agreed” or “agreed” that the mental health of their employees is directly related to the overall performance of their organization. (Makes you wonder about the 1 percent.) Seventy-eight percent said mental health was an important part of their employee health management strategy.
Fifty-seven percent of 554 U.S. employers surveyed by Willis Towers Watson said they intend to prioritize mental or behavioral health in their health plan decisions and strategies over the next three years. Twenty-four percent said they have a companywide behavioral health strategy or action plan in place today. Another 61 percent said they will within three years.
Non-elderly adults suffering from moderate or severe psychological distress have less trouble finding a provider, being accepted as a new patient and having their health insurance accepted by a provider if they have employer-sponsored health insurance than if they were covered by Medicaid or an ACA plan, according to a study in Health Affairs.
Why all the attention? Time and money, and time is money, so it’s money and money.
A recent report from the Integrated Benefits Institute estimated that lost employee productivity due to illness costs U.S. employers $530 billion per year. That figure includes sick days, short-term disability, long-term disability, medical leave and impaired performance.
A separate report from the Integrated Benefits Institute said 9 percent of long-term disability claims and 7 percent of short-term disability claims filed from 2011 through 2017 by employees were for mental or behavioral health conditions, the most common of which were diagnosed depression or other mood disorders. The average length of time that an employee was out on short-term disability leave for depression or another mood disorder was 81 days.
In short, behavioral health issues are costing employers more money, so employers are vowing to spend more money to minimize the problem and the hit to their businesses.
Exacerbating both sides of the above equation is the fact that six of the top 10 medical conditions having an adverse effect on the health of millennials are behavioral health conditions, according to an analysis by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. We commented on that analysis in a recent blog post, “Why Millennials May Be Pushing Us Off a Healthcare Cliff” on 4sighthealth.com.
With all the talk over Medicare for All proposals and the future of employer-sponsored health insurance, behavioral health is one area where companies can lead and demonstrate how they can use their health plans to improve the mental health of the nation’s workforce. Let’s hope they all follow through on their survey responses.
David Burda is a columnist for 4sight Health and news editor of 4sight Friday, our weekly newsletter. Follow Burda on Twitter @DavidRBurda and on LinkedIn. Read his bio here.
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Sen no Rikyū
Death of a Tea Master
Sen no Rikyū (千利休, 1522 – April 21, 1591), also known simply as Rikyū, is considered the historical figure with the most profound influence on chanoyu, the Japanese "Way of Tea", particularly the tradition of wabi-cha. He was also the first to emphasize several key aspects of the ceremony, including rustic simplicity, directness of approach and honesty of self. Originating from the Sengoku period and the Azuchi–Momoyama period, these aspects of the tea ceremony persist. Rikyū is known by many names; for convenience this article will refer to him as Rikyū throughout.
There are three iemoto (sōke), or "head houses", of the Japanese Way of Tea, that are directly descended from Rikyū: the Omotesenke, Urasenke, and Mushakōjisenke, all three of which are dedicated to passing forward the teachings of their mutual family founder, Rikyū.
Rikyū was born in Sakai, present-day Osaka prefecture. His father was a warehouse owner named Tanaka Yohei (田中与兵衛), who later in life also used the family name Sen, and his mother was Gesshin Myōchin (月岑妙珎). His childhood name was Yoshiro.
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Death of a Tea Master (Japanese: 千利休 本覺坊遺文, Sen no Rikyu: Honkakubô ibun also known as Sen no Rikyū: Honkakubo's Student Writings) is a 1989 Japanese biographical drama film directed by Kei Kumai. It is based on real life events of Sen no Rikyū, particularly the events surrounding his ritual suicide. It was entered into the main competition at the 43rd Venice International Film Festival, in which it won the Silver Lion.
Eiji Okuda as Honkakubo
Toshiro Mifune as Sen no Rikyū
Kinnosuke Yorozuya as Oda Urakusai
Go Kato as Furuta Oribe
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Death of a Tea Master at the Internet Movie Database
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Asia-Pacific or Asia Pacific (abbreviated as Asia-Pac, AsPac, APAC, APJ, JAPA or JAPAC) is the part of the world in or near the Western Pacific Ocean. The region varies in size depending on which context, but it typically includes much of East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania.
The term may also include Russia (on the North Pacific) and countries in the Americas which are on the coast of the Eastern Pacific Ocean; the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, for example, includes Canada, Chile, Russia, Mexico, Peru, and the United States.
Alternatively, the term sometimes comprises all of Asia and Australasia as well as small/medium/large Pacific island nations (Asia Pacific and Australasian Continent) - for example when dividing the world into large regions for commercial purposes (e.g. into Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific).
On the whole there appears to be no clear cut definition of "Asia Pacific" and the regions included change as per the context.
Though imprecise, the term has become popular since the late 1980s in commerce, finance and politics. In fact, despite the heterogeneity of the regions' economies, most individual nations within the zone are emerging markets experiencing rapid growth. (Compare the concept/acronym APEJ or APeJ - Asia-Pacific excluding Japan.)
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Mapping Metals Incorporation of a Single Catalyst Particle Using Element Specific X-ray Nanotomography
Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) is the refining process for converting large and/or heavy molecules of oil feedstock into smaller and lighter hydrocarbons, such as gasoline. The workhorse of the FCC process is a tiny catalyst particle of 50-150 µm diameter that consists of a complex mixture of amorphous silica-alumina, clay, and zeolite. An important factor in designing FCC catalyst particles is their pore-structure, which enables feedstock molecules to reach and enter the catalytically active particle domains and, after cracking, allows the product molecules to leave the catalyst. Any blockage of this pore structure is therefore detrimental in terms of catalyst efficiency.
Heavy metals, such as Fe, Ni, or V, that are present in the feedstock are known to accumulate in FCC particles and have negative effects on the conversion efficiency, summarized as ‘metal poisoning’. For example, it is known that Ni and V can decrease yield by catalyzing dehydrogenation of hydrocarbons present in the feedstock, leading to increased coking of the particle, which can lead to micro-pore plugging, while Fe is suspected to contaminate the particle, directly clogging pore space.
The design of improved, future catalysts therefore requires fundamental insight into the effects of metal poisoning and related changes in porosity and catalyst permeability which in turn demands for studies of catalyst structure and chemistry at multiple length scales: from the reactor (meters) down to the single particle level (nanometers).
In this study, researchers from Utrecht University (Netherlands) and SSRL investigated a whole single equilibrium catalyst (E-cat) particle, i.e. a catalyst that had undergone several cycles of the FCC process, using transmission hard X-ray microscopy (TXM) at beamline 6-2C of SSRL. Measurements were performed to obtain 3D information about Fe and Ni relative concentration distributions as well as morphology, porosity, and permeability of the E-cat particle. Here the unique capability of the instrument installed at BL6-2C to stitch together multiple fields-of-view (FOV) of 30 x 30 μm2 to obtain an even larger FOV was essential to image in 3D and at high spatial resolution (64 x 64 x 64 nm3 voxel size) the whole catalyst of about 50 µm diameter (fig. 1, a-d). Three-dimensional relative elemental distributions of Fe and Ni were generated by tuning the X-ray energy across the respective X-ray absorption edges (differential contrast imaging), allowing for an investigation of the effects of metal accumulation on the pore structure and permeability of the catalyst particle (fig. 1, e-g).
The novel experimental method developed in this study allows scientists to achieve in 3D chemical/elemental sensitivity, while maintaining high spatial resolution over a large field of view. Specifically for this study, the quantitative evaluation of the elemental concentration/correlation as a function of distance from the catalyst particle surface revealed that both Fe and Ni contaminate the particle from the outside, following the pathway of entering feedstock molecules through the macro-pores of the catalyst. The metal deposition in the pore space of the particle was correlated with a decreased porosity and permeability in the near surface region highlighting the pore-clogging effect of both Fe and Ni. Based on these promising results further investigations of fresh and E-cat samples will be performed to further understand and fully examine the effects of metal accumulation in single FCC catalyst particles.
Figure 1. The left panel shows the 3D representations of the ~50 µm diameter FCC E-cat particle based on TXM mosaic computed tomography with a voxel size of 64 x 64 x 64 nm3. a) Optical density (OD) as recorded at 7060 eV. b) - d) Visualization of Fe (orange) and Ni (blue) 3D relative distributions obtained from differences of tomography data: 7160-7060 eV and 8400-8300 eV, respectively. d) Cut through the tomography data showing the inner structure of the particle. The right panel shows the quantitative evaluation of the elemental concentrations/correlations as a function of distance from the particle surface. (Copyright J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, doi:10.1021/ja511503d)
F. Meirer, D. T. Morris, S. Kalirai, Y. Liu, J. C. Andrews and B. M. Weckhuysen, "Mapping Metals Incorporation of a Whole Single Catalyst Particle Using Element Specific X-ray Nanotomography", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 137, 102 (2015), DOI: 10.1021/ja511503d.
Joy C. Andrews, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
Florian Meirer, Utrecht University
Bert M. Weckhuysen, Utrecht University
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NHS 111 Triage GP
24,740 P.A. ?
Woosehill
What's special about this opportunity?
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust can provide you with a dynamic, people-centred environment, where you will be empowered to support patients with complex conditions, adopting a personalised approach to patient care that maximises independence, choice and control, following our philosophy of enabling people to reach and maintain their optimum level of health and wellbeing.
We value our employees and put people first. As a Global Digital Exemplar, we will provide you with an excellent working environment that has just been recognised as having a 'Good' rating overall, being an 'Outstanding', well-led, organisation, and having an 'Outstanding' Older Adults Mental Health Team in our latest CQC inspection, which found that: 'Managers across Berkshire Healthcare promoted a positive culture that supported and valued staff, creating a sense of common purpose based on shared values.'
Working in a passionate team, you will have access to our Trust-wide Learning and Development programme and be supported in your career and personal growth, with opportunities to help you build your Continuing Professional Development portfolio, enabling you to extend your skills and ensure that you excel.
We are pioneers in compassionate leadership and Quality Improvement, which is about creating a culture where everyone has a voice and where service users and staff collaborate to have a direct impact on the things that matter most.
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BHFT) provide a range of primary care services across various disciplines including the very well established and respected 'WestCall' out of hours service, provision of GP input to the Thames Valley 111 service, community ward bed cover
We are passionate about delivering Urgent Care in Berkshire and are looking for like-minded general practitioners to join our team in Wokingham on a substantive basis working 10.00 hours per week on a Saturday or Sunday to support Telephone Triage and the Thames Valley 111 Service
The Urgent Care Team within BHFT team is friendly, innovative, supportive and enthusiastic. Our WestCall OOH service has been established for over 20 years and has recently been shortlisted for "GP team of the year" by a well-recognised national publication.
As part of a large forward thinking NHS Foundation Trust rated Good by the CQC we are able to offer an outstanding package:
Attractive salary
Full Medical Indemnity Cover
Supportive team including a pro-active Medical Director
Vehicle and driver for home visits
Complimentary access to all mandatory training
All diagnostic equipment provided including access to the latest clinical software and point of care testing.
Regular clinical meetings and audit feedback provided for appraisal
In addition to this, we ask our doctors to focus on the delivery of high quality patient care and we take care of all non-clinical admin to ensure you don't have to worry about it.
If you think you would like to be part of our innovative team, we'd love to hear from you!
If you share our passion for people and the dedication to excel, we'd love to hear from you.
We are happy to answer any questions that you may have. Please don't hesitate to call Karen Kennedy on 0118 9781119 or email: [email protected] who'll be delighted to help.
In addition to a competitive salary, as a valued member of our team, you will receive generous annual leave, have access to a car salary sacrifice scheme (available to all permanent staff over the age of 21 and, as a respected member of the NHS, discounts from high street retailers and restaurants.
We'd love to welcome you to our warm, friendly team, who want to help you to make your career reflect your ambitions.
This advert closes on Monday 30 Dec 2019
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Retiree Appreciation Day
Luke Air Force Base Retiree Appreciation Day is 8 to
11:30 a.m. Oct. 20 in the Navy Operations Support Center. Flu, shingle, pneumonia and tetanus shots will be given. Displays and demonstrations include weapons, military working dogs and more. The commissary and exchange will also feature sidewalk sales. Participants must have an ID that will get them on base. Enter at the South Gate, take the first right and continue on the same road across to the north side of the base. The NOSC is on the right. For more information, call the retiree office at 623-935-3923.
Munitions storage area closure
The 56th Equipment Maintenance Squadron Munitions Storage Area will be closed Sept. 7 through 14 to conduct a 100-percent munitions inventory. Only emergency issues will be handled during this time. Normal operations will resume Sept. 15. For more information, call Tech. Sgt. Scott Van Scoyoc at 623- 856-5493 or Staff Sgt. Michael Woods at 623-856-8479.
Thrift Shop and Airman’s Attic
Thrift Shop hours are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. for sales and 9 a.m. to noon for consignments and donations Wednesday and Friday. An after-hours donation bin is available. The shop is also open the third Saturday of the month in conjunction with the Airman’s Attic. The location is Bldg. 750. For more information, call 623-935-5782.
October flightline feast
The October flightline feast is presented by the Luke Air Force Base Chaplain Corps at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 4 behind Hangar 914. The theme is Oktoberfest.
Arizona Winds Concerts
Music for a Darkened Theater is Oct. 21, Christmas Reflections is Dec. 9, A Bernstein Centennial Celebration is
Feb. 17, 2019, Water Works is April 7, 2019, and High Adventure is May 19. All concerts are at 3 p.m. at Cactus High Auditorium except Christmas Reflections is at 2:30 p.m. at Midwestern University. All concerts are free. The band is directed by retired Lt. Col. Rich Shelton, US Air Force Band conductor. For more information, call Scott Stowe at 602-377-4786 or email at scott.stowejr@cox.net.
Thunderbolt cup
The Thunderbolt Club is Sept. 27 and 28 and includes 30 events. Individuals and teams can register now through Sept. 17. For more information, contact the group POC at:
56th Mission Support Group – 623-856-7006
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Worklife live webinars
The Federal Occupational Health Behavioral Health Services is offering the following webinars at 11 a.m. To register, go to FOH4You.com. For more information, call 800-222-0364.
• Bullying Basics Sept. 12
Learn the signs of bullying among children, as well as the symptoms of a hostile work environment. Discussion on the importance of accepting others, mitigating bias, preventing harassment, and reporting abuse.
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Learn about opioid addiction and symptoms, the types of opioids, and the effects this drug is having on society. Learn the steps of rehabilitation and recovery, as well as ways to cope with a loved one who is going through addiction and recovery.
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Toastmasters meets noon to 1 p.m. Thursdays in the Quiet Study Room in the Luke Air Force Base Library. Improve communication and leadership skills through prepared and impromptu speaking. Materials are provided. The cost is $20 to join and semiannual dues of $45. For more information, call Lynne Nutter at 623-856-9838 or 602-740-6124.
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Odinga ally arrested by Kenya police following "symbolic inauguration"
Eric Oteng with reuters
Kenyan police on Friday arrested an opposition lawyer as the government defied a court order to lift a ban on three private television stations that had covered the symbolic presidential inauguration of opposition leader Raila Odinga.
Miguna Miguna has declared himself the “general” of Odinga’s National Resistance Movement, which was declared a “criminal group” because of its stated intent to establish a parallel government after last year’s disputed election.
The lawyer was detained in a dawn raid on his Nairobi home. Miguna had stood beside Odinga at Tuesday’s symbolic “swearing in”, a blatant challenge to the authority of President Uhuru Kenyatta.
We urge the Government and the opposition in Kenya to work towards resolving the current situation through dialogue, with full respect for the rule of law and the rights to freedom of expression, association, assembly and political participation.
Alongside its tweet about Miguna’s arrest, Odinga’s NASA coalition posted video online that showed shattered glass strewn across the front entrance of his house. Police spokesman Charles Owino did not answer his phone when called for comment.
Police did not try to break up the symbolic inauguration, attended by thousands of Odinga supporters, but the government condemned it as an “illegal act” and took three private television stations off-air for covering the event.
The broadcasters remained shut on Friday, despite a court order telling the government to lift its block. It was not clear if the government planned to appeal the order; government spokesman Eric Kiraithe said he had no immediate comment.
After last August’s presidential election was annulled, Odinga boycotted the re-run, saying the process was still rigged. As a result, Kenyatta won a massive victory, but one that Odinga’s camp says is illegitimate.
This week’s arrests and broadcast bans have marked a step up in the tensions that followed an already tumultuous election season, and are a shock to Kenyans who have grown used to the free-wheeling media and irreverent political culture that have taken root since the end of decades of autocratic rule in 2002.
The government’s failure to adhere to a court edict ordering it to lift its suspension of the broadcasters also raises questions about the rule of law in East Africa’s most vibrant and important economy.
Okiya Omtatah, an activist who secured the ruling, said the court order had not been served on Thursday afternoon because of a delay at the court registrar’s office.
Omtatah later told Reuters that the courier he had sent to deliver the papers to Kenya’s communications authority had been detained by men in dark suits who said they were police but refused to provide identification.
“They released him at 10 with a stern warning not to come back to serve the orders, so I have come here myself, but I am being been denied access,” he said by phone from outside the authority’s office.
The court order was also published in Friday’s edition of the Standard newspaper, one of Kenya’s largest dailies.
“I am insisting on delivering this order,” Omtatah said. “It’s an abuse of power. The laws are clear. That’s why the court ruled as they did.”
The office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva said it was concerned at the government’s “attempts to interfere with the rights to freedom of expression”.
“We urge the Government and the opposition in Kenya to work towards resolving the current situation through dialogue, with full respect for the rule of law and the rights to freedom of expression, association, assembly and political participation,” spokesman Rupert Colville said.
Elisha Otieno, a 50-year-old businessman in downtown Nairobi, said the stations should be allowed to reopen: “The government is not upholding its own laws. It’s a dictatorial style of leadership.”
But 28-year-old construction worker Edward Chege said some of the broadcasters were partisan. “The government has got its own reasons for shutting down these media houses for their own security.”
On Thursday, opposition lawmaker Tom Kajwang, who administered Odinga’s “oath”, was freed on bail a day after being arrested.
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New appointment at TG Concrete
Sales executive Paul Redmond joins ever-growing team at Tudor Griffiths Group in Shropshire
SHROPSHIRE-based concrete specialists TG Concrete have welcomed new sales executive to their team. Paul Redmond, who has more than 25 years’ industry experience, is the latest to join the ever-growing team at Tudor Griffiths Group, in Ellesmere, his appointment being a direct result of an expansion programme for the concrete division.
TG Concrete’s general manager, Dave Morris, said the additional appointment followed hot on the heels of a major investment in two new concrete plants to extend the firm’s geographical reach.
‘We already have concrete plants covering the majority of Shropshire, Cheshire and North and Mid Wales, and now we’ve acquired a plant from Hanson at Cemmaes Road, near Machynlleth, and we’re also building a brand-new plant in Bridgnorth.
‘The investment in new plants has been made to keep up with increased customer demand and to reach new customers in a wider geographical area.
‘As part of this expansion, we’re very pleased to welcome Paul to TG Concrete. He will be directly responsible for reaching new customers far and wide, and in particular, will be working hard to bring in business for our two new plants.’
Mr Redmond (right of photo) began his career in the construction industry in the mid-1980s and has worked for many major names, including ARC Premix, Hanson, Synthetic Industries, and Propex, during his 25 years in ready-mixed and fibre concrete.
‘I’m delighted to have joined TG Concrete at such an exciting time, with so many ambitious plans for expansion, and I can’t wait to meet customers both old and new, and to get out on the road to bring in new business,’ he said.
The Cemmaes Road plant is positioned midway between two other TG Group plants at Aberystwyth and Newtown and will help to boost the company’s presence in Mid Wales.
The second new plant is under construction next door to the TG Builders’ Merchants branch at Chartwell Park, in Bridgnorth.
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Hurricane Barbara Winds: 120 kt
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Advisory 16 / 2:00 PM PDT Wed July 3, 2019
Barbara remains a well-formed hurricane this afternoon, with a large and symmetric eye filled with mesovorticies. The central dense overcast remains round, with convection deeper than -60C wrapping around the center. As expected, dry air is having an influence on the intensity of the cyclone today, but the negative consequences of this dry air have been slow to destroy Barbara in the presence of warm ocean temperatures and low wind shear. A 1846z microwave pass indicated that the eyewall replacement cycle that started last night had regressed; the tightly-knit double eyewall structure on display then was reminiscent of Hurricane Irma in 2017, which also failed to complete its structural reconfiguration. This has also tempered weakening today. Satellite intensity estimates are T5.0/90kt from SAB and T5.5/102kt from TAFB, but current intensity values are higher at T6.0/115kt and T6.5/127kt, respectively. UW-CIMSS ADT has fallen to T5.7/107kt but it too has a higher CI value of T6.2/120kt. A blend of the current intensity values yields an advisory intensity of 120kt, but I would not be shocked if this was conservative given the organization on microwave imagery.
Barbara has been slow to weaken over the past 12 hours, and this trend is likely to continue a little longer while the hurricane remains over 27C ocean temperatures and in wind shear less than 5kt. However, in 12 to 18 hours, wind shear will begin a steady uptick, reaching 30kt by day 3. The SHIPS text output indicates Barbara will cross the 26C isotherm about a day from now. Meanwhile, mid-level relative humidity values are near 60 percent and should steadily decrease moving forward. The culmination of these factors should yield a weakening trend, increasing with time as the environment becomes ever hostile. Barbara should fall under hurricane strength within 48 hours and degenerate to a remnant low about 3 days from now. Dissipation is expected by day 5 as Barbara approaches the Hawaiian Islands, although feasibly this could occur sooner.
The hurricane has taken on a strict northwest motion today as mid-level ridging over northern Mexico remains weak. This trajectory should continue for about 48 more hours, until the area of high pressure extends west and restrengthens. This change, combined with Barbara's rapid weakening (therefore making it more susceptible to the low-level easterly trade wind flow across the East Pacific), should force the storm west by 72 hours and even south of west thereafter. On this path, Barbara is expected to pass close to the Big Island of Hawaii in about 5 days, although the consequences of this track are unlikely to be severe given the fact Barbara should be a remnant low or trough by that time.
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Puerto Galera is a town on the northeastern coast of Mindoro Island, Philippines. Among travelers it is commonly known as encompassing the region surrounding it. While a small town itself, other adjacent smaller towns, such as Sabang and White Beach, are the primary destinations; however, all are lumped together as Puerto Galera as it hosts the ferry terminal (to Batangas) through which most people arrive.
Puerto Galera is 3hrs away from Metro Manila. If you're already in Manila, getting there is pretty easy. Having a car is very convenient, all you need to do is drive through South Luzon Expressway turn right to Star Toll gate and then head to Batangas Pier. From there, you can either park your car and ride a ferry going to Puerto Galera or have your car ride a RORO (roll on, roll off) ship so you could take your car with you to Puerto Galera.
Most tourists prefer the ease and convenience of the 'Sikat' tourist service. The Sikat leaves at 0800 daily from the City State Tower Hotel on Mabini Street, Ermita, Manila. The round trip ticket costs about $25 and includes both bus and ferry to either Sabang Beach or Puerto Galera. For the adventurous traveler go to Buendia LRT station and from there you will see buses and shuttle services going to Batangas pier. It cost around P180 from Buendia to Batangas pier. Be careful with your bags as the buses are notorious for pick pockets. And when you get to Batangas pier all you need to do is to ride a ferry boat going to Sabang - Puerto Galera.
Scheduled ferries arrive at Puerto Galera mostly from Batangas but also from other islands. From there, most people immediately depart for Sabang (known for SCUBA diving) or White Beach (a stretch of white sand holding small restaurants and bars).
Most visitors to Puerto Galera are attracted by the excellent scuba diving provided by the protected marine sanctuary. There are a number of dive shops in the area (estimated at around 35) that provide access to a macro (i.e. small life) heaven. The dive sites that feature a large variety of small sea life with the occasional shark or turtle. Several sites are drift dives and often turn into (strong) current dives with the best diving (for coral and small life) being at 20m or 60 feet. Almost all of the dive sites are within a 10 minute boat ride of Sabang which allows you to spend your surface interval on the shore and it also allows most shops to offer as many as four dive trips (single tank) each day. Prices for a single dive are around $24~$30 for a single tank dive, including equipment rental, boat and dive guide, with discounts for more dives and if you have your own equipment.
Other activities that are available in the area are: Banana Boat, Jetski, Vinta (Local Sailboat), Island Hopping, Mountain Biking, Rent a Motorbike, Rent a Banka Boat and go snokeling
World Class Scuba Diving is available and easily accessible at nearby Sabang beach.
Philippine Adventures, email: [email protected], [1]. Provides tailor-made packages to Puerto Galera for international tourists wishing to experience world class diving and the Mangyan Hill Tribes of the island.
Stairway Foundation (at Brgy Aninuan) - international NGO working with street children and victims of child sexual abuse. Visitors can tour the centre and learn about the issue of child sexual abuse and how Stairway uses creative expressions in order to raise awareness.
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Foodtrip sa Galera, White Beach. Good food, clean and affordable.
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Willoughby Police Department has an Awards Committee comprised of several employees within the Department. The committee reviews the nomination and its supporting documentation and may issue an award or refer the nomination to the Lake County Chiefs of Police Association.
In 2012, Officer Charles Krejsa was chosen as the Officer of the Year. He received several nomination letters noting his exemplary work ethic, diligence, and compassion.
Special Officer Jason Gresko was awarded the 2012 Special Officer of the Year award posthumously. In addition, the Special Officer of the Year Award was renamed the Jason Gresko Memorial Award in his honor.
In 2009, a Civilian Employee of the Year was established. Communications Operator Gwen Thomas was given this award in 2012. She was nominated for her dedication and exemplary work ethic.
The Detective Bureau staff is comprised of a Detective Lieutenant, a Detective Sergeant, 4 Detectives and a Detective Bureau Secretary. All of the officers assigned to the Detective Bureau have secondary assignments in addition to their duties as detectives, including but not limited to, Evidence and Property Room Management, Crisis Negotiation Team member, Lake County Bomb Squad member, and Department Photography.
While the successful investigations usually begin with solid preliminary work from the Patrol Division, the Detective Bureau expends copious hours following through on the information provided.
The Willoughby Police Department Honor Guard was formed in 1994 and at its inception consisted of 9 officers. Today, the Honor Guard has 13 officers who donate their time to participate in parades, funerals, and civic duties.
The Honor Guard marches annually in the Greater Cleveland Police Officers’ Memorial Day Parade, the Willoughby Memorial Day Parade, and the Willoughby Frontier Days Parade. Additionally, the Unit gives military courtesy at funerals of deceased officers.
Members of the Honor Guard conducted a Flag Raising Ceremony at the Willoughby Police Station on May 15, 2009. An additional flag pole was erected so that the National Law Enforcement Memorial Flag can be displayed all year round and can be lowered to honor officers who are killed in the line of duty. In the spring of 2010, commemorative brick pavers and landscaping will be added.
The Patrol Division is the first responder to any request for police assistance. This Division must then coordinate with other divisions for conclusion.
There are several specialized units within the Department. These include the Bicycle Patrol, Motorcycle Unit, Canine Unit, Selective Enforcement, and Emergency Response Team.
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The Bicycle Patrol Unit consists of 26 full-time officers who have completed 40 hours of specialized training. This Unit is utilized in the warm weather months to supplement patrol of the Historic Downtown Area as well as neighborhoods and parks.
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Patrolman Daniel Pitts and Special Officer Gary Betzler are the Department’s motorcycle officers. Both officers ride city-owned, specially equipped Harley Davidson Police Edition Road Kings. They are primarily used for handling traffic complaints in residential neighborhoods, although they are still assigned a zone and handle routine calls.
Patrolman Burrington and K-9 Rebel continue to be an active team in the community, assisting with various arrests and playing important roles with tracking and suspect apprehensions. Additionally, they have continue to make public appearances at city functions and festivals.
The City of Willoughby would like to make notification of the passing of K-9 Kilo who provided 10 great years of service to the citizens of Willoughby. He was a true asset to the Willoughby Police Department and he will be missed. The department would also like to give a special thanks to Patrolman Negrea for his 10 years of serving in the Willoughby K-9 Unit and also offer their condolences for his loss.
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The Selective Enforcement Unit (Fourth Platoon) makes use of a variety of patrol options such as marked police cruisers, uniform foot patrols, bicycle patrols, and undercover operations. The Fourth Platoon has been temporarily disbanded for economic reasons. Adjustments have been made city wide in all departments while we move ahead in an uncertain economy.
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The Emergency Response Team is an all volunteer unit comprised of specially trained full-time officers from the cities of Eastlake, Waite Hill, Wickliffe, Willoughby, Willoughby Hills, and Willowick. Officers appointed to this team must complete a rigorous physical agility test and firearms proficiency test annually. The members are required to monitor a pager 24 hours a day to respond immediately to calls which range from hostage situations to search warrant service.
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Special Officers are assigned to a regular platoon, under the immediate supervision of the Officer-in-Charge, the Special Police Officer serves as a member of the Special Police Division of the City of Willoughby; assists any regular police patrol officer when performing his duties; performs related duties as required.
Examples of Duties: Patrols and observes assigned zone area on a rotating shift basis; familiarizes self with citizens, commercial establishments, and residential areas of the city; observes environmental conditions which are conducive to crime; observes persons who are behaving in definable suspicious ways and investigates; maintains contact with police station for backup, identification of persons approached and computer check of individuals or vehicles.
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The Records Division answers inquiries from the general public and assists them in obtaining copies of reports for insurance purposes. They can be reached at (440) 953-4212.
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Roots and blues slide guitar at Char’s Landing
Victoria-based singer-songwriter Sue Decker will perform in Port Alberni
Join Char’s Landing this Friday, Oct. 27 for a unique performance from Victoria-based singer-songwriter Sue Decker.
Decker’s soulful voice and slide guitar hold the audience gently while travelling through territory that is beautiful and expansive, sometimes dark, and always life-giving. Her songs embody the spirit of early blues, folk, bluegrass and country music.
She’s come a long way since learning her first chords on a rented guitar at the Northern Bluegrass Circle jam in Edmonton. Thus began Decker’s relentless pursuit of music. Or has the music been pursuing her?
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After giving birth to four biological children, God began leading the Mahlstadts to adopt, with Russia as their first thought. Nick facetiously suggested they name their son Vladimir. Yet, a mission trip to the rugged desert land of Morocco, Northern Africa―the Western Kingdom as some say in Arabic, most notable for cities like Casablanca―imprinted a deep love for that nation on the Mahlstadts’ hearts.
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Answerman - There's Bara Manga... Why Isn't There Bara Anime?
explosionforgov
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2018 12:10 pm
I'd love to see more anime with beefy male protagonists-- I admit that as a bisexual woman, I do kind of want to see beefy straight men protecting their tiny girlfriends (something in the vein of My Love Story!, but perhaps with more of a fighting aspect), but also baras who are gay and comfortable with themselves.
I think that's why I like JoJo's so much. The first three protagonists have beautiful eyes with long eyelashes, but also rippling muscles. You don't have to choose between bara and bishounen.
Lemonchest
Is much bara about underage/barely legal teenagers? Seems to be what you have to have in order to get animated - regardless of target audience.
DerekL1963
Location: Puget Sound
I'm trying to figure this out from context... But I seem to be missing something. Is "Bara" equivalent to "gay", or is it a subset (fetish?) of gay media? (In the same way "BBW" is over in the straight neighborhood, I.E. defined by body type.)
Lemonchest wrote:
Is much bara about underage/barely legal teenagers?
From my understanding, almost none of it is.
As a straight man, I too want to see more variation of the male body. Guys like Takeo from Ore Monogatari and Klaus from BBB look awesome, in my opinion. It can't hurt to have some variety.
Scalfin
DerekL1963 wrote:
I'm 80% sure it's a direct Japonization of "bear."
Chrno2
This was an interesting topic. Yep, definitely niche. I was thinking if there with the amount of internet porn could there be a way to market "bara" anime through a service similar to how Netflix is doing with original shows. Only difference is that you'd be bringing forth content for "said" demographic. Could it work? Are there enough that would support it?
While I'm not really into the extreme aspects of "bara", much of the visual artwork is very much in line with my artistic interests. What can I say, I'm a huge fan of the muscular athlete. For years I'd held a massive interest in the drawing of the male body. My shelf holds collections of 'Hogarth', 'Bridgman and some muscle fitness mags.
Bara holds that interest for those that hold that same admiration of the male form. You'll also see this in the furry" communities as well. And yep, there's a subgroup even for Japanese furries don't know if there is an actual term for their groups. But you'll come across the term "kemono" or "Kemono Community", referring to the term "beast". So yeah, there's a subgroup of "bara" artists and fans among them. And just like the artist that produce human "bara", well...you have what would be deemed "anthro" bara. And I'll say they can pump out some anatomy like nobody's business. So for me I enjoy the works from both of these "groups".
Scalfin wrote:
Wikipedia wrote:
The gay magazine Adonis was launched in 1952. The term bara in relation to gay material for men originated in the 1960s, possibly as a result of Bara kei (Ordeal by Roses, published in 1961), a collection of semi-nude photographs of the gay author Yukio Mishima by photographer Eikoh Hosoe,[3] and was reinforced by the early and influential gay men's magazine Barazoku (薔薇族, lit. "rose tribe"), founded in 1971 and the first gay magazine in Asia to be sold at mainstream bookshops.[4] Bara-eiga ("rose film") has been used since the 1980s to describe gay cinema.
Is much bara about underage/barely legal teenagers?.
There is some with teens (who could pass for adults) in it but the vast majority of the stuff is adults.
Zalis116
Location: Kazune City
Derek: It's content featuring gay males that's actually targeted at gay male audiences, as opposed to the yaoi/BL/Shounen-ai stuff that targets straight female audiences.
Scalfin: I always thought it was that bara = "rose." (Confirmed by [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bara_(genre)]Wiki.[/url]) "Bear" pronounced in Japanese fashion would be beaa.
Animechic420
Location: A Cave Filled With Riches
explosionforgov wrote:
Me, too. But I think the reason we don't see too much of those overly large, muscular characters is because the average Japan man doesn't resemble that body type on a daily bases.
Zalis116 wrote:
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Don't forget Alexander Louis Armstrong and Sig Curtis
Beefy legends.
xchampion
Location: Idaho Falls, Idaho
As a straight male I am definitely not the target audience, but hopefully it can be more assessable in the future. In the United States you find many shows with gay characters but very few where the MC is gay. With Japan still mostly being behind even more then the US I'm not surprised Bara isn't mainstream enough to get an anime. Maybe in the future tho.
Izu0
I’m interested to check out bara anime.
I tends to read BL manga but I have checked out some good bara manga. More realistic, more muscles and uke/seme dynamics don’t apply. Art style looks like seinen.
It would be great if bara gets an anime, good way to expand the anime genre. We need more participations and less criticism/hate toward gay.
The anime industry is a competition job trying to get money, many anime have gotten fanservice. I think they’ll make a bara anime if it’ll brings them more money, but most animation directors are straight males. Since gay men in japan are too afraid to buy bara manga in public then that depends on how Japan gay communities is going.
I have no info how far Japan is for the LGBT community.
As a straight guy, I would love some anime with some beefy female protagonists. I, for one, would love to see beefy women protecting their tiny boyfriends. I'm so tired of seeing the same ol story of the strong man having to protect and rescue the smaller woman.
I wanna see a complete 180 of that!
Lord Oink
xchampion wrote:
There's lot of gayness in anime, just not the kind you want. Like people said, it's aimed at men and women into cute yuri and yaoi, because that kind of stuff will sell way more than butch lesbians or bara gays. There's just no profitable interest or market for it. Same reason why most josei titles are adapted into live-action instead of anime, josei anime sells horribly compared to shounen, shoujo, and seinen, but live-action adaptions have a chance at profit. Stuff like bara would sell even worse, since we're talking like 1% of the population.
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Why do you count the change given to you?
To ensure you are getting the correct amount of change.
Asked in Grammar
Is it correct to write- i wanted to ensure you were aware of gregg's calendar for the next 3 weeks?
You just need to change the capitalisation: I wanted to ensure you were aware of Gregg's calendar for the next 3 weeks. You just need to change the capitalisation: I wanted to ensure you were aware of Gregg's calendar for the next 3 weeks. You just need to change the capitalisation: I wanted to ensure you were aware of Gregg's calendar for the next 3 weeks. You just need to change the capitalisation: I wanted to ensure you were aware of Gregg's calendar for the next 3 weeks. You just need to change the capitalisation: I wanted to ensure you were aware of Gregg's calendar for the next 3 weeks. You just need to change the capitalisation: I wanted to ensure you were aware of Gregg's calendar for the next 3 weeks. You just need to change the capitalisation: I wanted to ensure you were aware of Gregg's calendar for the next 3 weeks. You just need to change the capitalisation: I wanted to ensure you were aware of Gregg's calendar for the next 3 weeks. You just need to change the capitalisation: I wanted to ensure you were aware of Gregg's calendar for the next 3 weeks. You just need to change the capitalisation: I wanted to ensure you were aware of Gregg's calendar for the next 3 weeks. You just need to change the capitalisation: I wanted to ensure you were aware of Gregg's calendar for the next 3 weeks.
Asked in Pregnancy, Pregnancy Symptoms, Pregnancy Tests
When is the latest a pregnancy test can be done to ensure a positive result?
for a couple of weeks after birth
Asked in Job Training and Career Qualifications, Higher Secondary Certificate HSC
Nvq 3 health social care unit 335 question answers?
how do you examine your own behaviour and actions to ensure they do not contribute to situations actions andbehaviour that can be dangerous harmful and or abusive
Asked in Biology, Chemistry
What is the purpose of a control in an experiement?
A negative control is to ensure that there are no false positives. Likewise for a positive control.
Asked in Brake Fluid and Lubrication, Auto Parts and Repairs, DIY Projects, How To
How to service Hino truck?
Change the oil, change the oil and fuel filters, grease it, ensure the air filter is serviceable, make sure the brakes are in spec and the wheel seals are intact, ensure the lights work, ensure the tires are legal and inflated.
What Precautionary measures exact meaning?
¨Precautionary measures are steps/actions which are carried out to ensure that nothing bad happens, e.g. an accident in the laboratory. ¨Precautionary measures are steps/actions which are carried out to ensure that nothing bad happens, e.g. an accident in the laboratory. SNAN ACTION TAKEN TO AVOIDS DANGEROUS OR UNDESIRABLE EVENT
Asked in Business & Finance, Business and Industry, Management and Supervision
What does refreezing mean in organisational development?
Refreezing in a business and management context is in reference to the psychologist, Kurt Lewin and his theory of planned change. The theory has three steps; unfreezing, changing and refreezing. Refreezing is the final process after change has been initiated in an organisation. The change leaders job is to stabilise the change to ensure long-term effectiveness. The change leader can provide any support, guidence or resources to ensure the change remains, they can also provide rewardsand positive reinforcement. If the refreeze stage is done well, the intended change will last and become the normal for an organisation, but if it is done poorly, the organisation can revert back to the original very easily.
Asked in Goldfish
How long does a small fish tanks need to filter?
Every fish tank should be filtered for a whole day without introducing any more goldfish to ensure that it has done a full cycle
Asked in Crime
What elements of planned change must the justice administrator be familiar with in order to ensure that change is effected rationally and successfully?
The elements of planned change that a criminal justice administrator must be familiar with to ensure that change is effected rationally and successfully involves not cheating to get your criminal justice degree and reading the textbook.
Asked in Heart
How can I ensure the positive functioning of my heart valve?
Eating the core of the nectarine pit. It might be bitter but it is very good for your body.
Asked in Email and IM, Sharepoint
How do you receive automatic email notifications only when users remove files from a library on a sharepoint site how do you do this?
For any document library/list, in the 'Alert me' page (actions > alert me), you can set the 'change type' to 'items are deleted'. This would ensure that you receive alerts only when items are deleted.
Asked in Science, Chemistry
Why do scientists use controlled experiments to ensure that the responding variable does not change to ensure that hypotheses are proven correct to ensure that the data collected is related to one cha?
The purpose is to obtain sure, repetable and valuable experimental data.
Asked in Health
What actions take place to ensure that electrical equipment does not pose a risk to the workstation operator?
find the answer yourself you cheat that question is in it cert so stick it
Asked in Ovulation
What does a ovulation kit do?
An OPK detects LH in your urine and gives you a positive result when it detects this surge. A positive test does not ensure that you will in fact ovulate, your body may gear up to ovulate but not release an egg.
What change management processes have you used to ensure that change is introduced properly?
Sila ay nagsha-shabu shabu shabu in the shebu =)
Asked in Internet, Internet Security and Privacy
How can you ensure that the internet is safe?
Regularly change your password so that no one can hack your account !!
Asked in Drug Tests
You are going for an urine test and you use marijuana would you be test positive even if the main purpose of the test is not a drug test?
My answer would positive because marijuana is the main dangerous drug which can ensure other in the category .
Asked in Criminal Law, Criminal Justice Careers
Which type of defense is used when a defense attorney claims that the defendants actions were necessary to ensure his safety?
The question is unclear but you may be describing a "Self-Defense" defense.
Asked in History of Germany
What was the the night of the long knives?
It was a day that Hitler's regime murdered some military leaders in order to ensure their hold on power. They passed a law after the fact, legalizing the actions.
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