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Live from CTIA 2013 aka the Internet of Things Conference
This year at the Cellular Telephone Industry Association’s annual conference, the Internet of Things was the spotlight buzzword. NewAer sat on two panels along side huge companies like AT&T, Verizon and Cisco to give our take on the IoT topic. The first was with CTIA and the second with Fierce Wireless, a group that covers the industry.
After the question of “what are these things” we agreed they are sensors for heart rate monitors, wearable technology like the Nike Fuel Band and FitBit which collect data and exchange as low-bitrate devices. For communication, they can attach to the Internet themselves via WiFi or “leach” off of a companion device to mostly push data to a website or device where their data can be visualized. Some examples like Google Glass use WiFi when they are inside of a space to communicate directly, and use Bluetooth when they are only near a mobile phone. This got me thinking about all of the “things” on the Internet since the dawn of the commercialization of the network.
The first “Internet Things” in the early 90’s were computers boasting dial-up modems, requiring monthly recurring payment for text access. AOL and Compuserve then brought the masses online in a hosted format with text and pictures similar to what we understand the Internet to be today, albiet much slower and with low-resolution graphics and postage stamp video. There was no shortage of concepts to explore the power of the web, from Microsoft’s purchase of WebTV (making your TV an Internet Thing) to free PCs subsidized by virtual ads that plastered display frames while people surfed. The progeny of this work appear today as miniature devices, dubbed IoT. For the purpose of my life’s work, IoT is a small device that leeches onto a larger device via Bluetooth LE, WiFi or other low-power feeds like Zigbee to gain access to the Internet to push or pull data via a smartphone app or web database.
You may sense some deja vu, and you’re right; a big idea from a small Texas company explored the leeching gadget concept way back in 1997. (That’s pre-DVD, pre-flash drive and even pre-camera phone. The digital cowboys of Digital:Convergence worked with Forbes and Wired Magazine to launch the world’s first IoT device, the CueCat. This LED-glowing, feline-shaped, any-barcode-reading gadget was mailed to each publication’s subscribers, or could be picked up from any of the then-7,200 RadioShack locations. Its purpose: interactivate anything with a barcode, or geek speak for “scan the barcode on a magazine or product and be delivered to a website.” This was a truly magical experience then. Remember, Google was just a garage project that was helping you “feel lucky,” Yahoo was the primary method of online research as a human curated directory, and “web portals” were the big idea at the time. There were software applications that could achieve similar results with USB cameras, which were again accessories, but this was the first widely deployed device whose clear purpose was to bring instant Internet from any household good….as long as it retained its barcode.
Many stories have been written about this device as a failure, a has-been, a waste of a strategic investor’s $205 million dollars – however, not a single VC was harmed in the fundraising, as strategic partners found great value in driving further content from their physical product reach. In fact, it was more than a dozen years ahead of itself. Today, smart phone cameras decode the same barcodes that this device read – ISBN, UPC, EAN – plastered to products for the retail supply chain. NFC is still a dream, RFID is used only by the supply chain industry and the QR code is arguably a failed marketing attempt outside of Japan. And probably failed in Japan now. One bright spot: I’m addicted to the magical experience Shazam provides around music, partially because it reminds me of the NBC launch of CueTV, our attempt at audio decoding in the era of “Must See TV.” But I digress down a memory lane.
We attempted to build an operating system for the Internet with audio and visual codes that we called Cues, as the stimulus to enable the actions. Audacious as it seems, the technology and patents created are still being used today, albeit inside of Android and iOS phones as software vs. our hardware, feline approach.
So if the iPhone has rendered so many secondary gadgets like GPS receivers obsolete, and iPad or Android tablets have taken the retail steam out of portable DVD players and digital picture frames, why do so many IoT gadgets appear on crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter so often? Why do similar ‘relics’ continue to captivate consumers and investors when Wall Street believes they should catch dust in the garage?
The answer is two-fold. First, despite what marketing campaigns and current habits tell us, we do not want to, and will never want to carry a phone with us all the time, like when jogging or working around the house. Devices like the Nike Fuel Band or Fitbit collect data from our movement while awake and our patterns of restlessness as we sleep. They’re developed with design in mind, and they’re far sexier than strapping a smartphone to your wrist. Or putting Glass on your face.
Second, we technologists dream of a more-than-smart house like the Jetsons’. For me? I want the front door to unlock as I approach… my Nest thermostat knows I’m inside earlier than normal and turns the air conditioning down to a lower temperature without my body triggering a motion detector…and I want the convenience to extend outside of my house as I park my car at the airport for the fourth time in as many weeks. I don’t worry about remembering where I left my car, because my car will remind my smartphone where I parked it.
All of these devices have WiFi, Bluetooth or cellular radios, each of which depend on pairing and communication technologies. I believe the next evolution of the Internet of Things will be built upon a discovery, and our team has a framework to make it happen.
In 2010 our team at NewAer, built an open, hackable engine to power those automagic actions above. We make wireless devices aware of another device. Our SDK can reside in iPhone applications or on laptops or Android tablets, enabling them to become “IoT aware.” It’s a scripting language to empower applications, networks or devices to become intelligent with an easy framework for developers to code upon.
Our partners and investors are Alcatel-Lucent (the original Bell Labs), Deutsche Telekom (operating worldwide as T-Mobile) and Intel Capital, whose proceeds from their chip fabing company Intel likely powers the smattering of computing devices around you at this moment. These companies see us as a next generation network enabler to let devices reroute end points on networks…. like ringing your mobile phone calls on your conference room speakerphone when you’re mid-meeting, or beginning a movie on your television, then finishing it on your tablet as you leave the house thanks to WiFi or Bluetooth ‘fingerprints’ changing, and the devices reacting to the new environment.
Our team is building our own showcase of next generation applications to help share any content to a device nearby, automate actions in a smartphone and prevent people from losing their stuff. We believe devices should be truly smart when they become IoT aware.
For us, a day living among the Internet of Things looks like this:
I urge you to think about proximity over location- we’re a mobile society and someday soon, fixed geographies will be trounced by elastic location. Lets build the future of IoT today.
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← New Roots Newsletter- Thurs 31 Oct to Sat 9 Nov + Xmas Announcements
Sat 23 Nov: Ned Roberts with support from Martha St Arthur →
New Roots Newsletter- Mon 18 Nov to Tues 3 Dec
Great new gigs on the way! Mon 18 Nov to Tues 3 Dec – tickets, details, videos & more…!
Hiya folks – we’ve got five fantastic gigs for you between now and 3 Dec, stretching from the electronic soundscapes of Beg Friend and Faultress to the classic songwriting of Ned Roberts (with great support from Martha St Arthur), queens of indie-folk and alt-folk Piney Gir, Samantha Whates and Fiona Bevan to the mind-bending contemporary jazz and minimalist mix of Organelles, and finishing up with the world-folk tour de force of John Langan, Alastair Caplin and Dila Vardar. All killer, no filler. Ticket links, youtube videos and gig details below, with more for the Christmas run-up on the website- dive in!
Listen to New Roots Radio: https://www.mixcloud.com/RadioNewRoots/
Mon 18 Nov Beg Friend / Faultress
The Harrison,
28 Harrison Street, Kings Cross, WC1H 8JF.
8.50 adv BUY NOW / 10.00 door
Nearest tube Kings Cross, 5 mins walk DIRECTIONS
Doors open 7.30 pm. Music from 8.00 pm sharp.
Multi-instrumentalist Joe da Costa from South London is composer, singer and producer Beg Friend. Combining guitar led folk, intricate electronica and intimate vocal lines, his cinematic and alternative pop sound is underpinned with a lyrically poetic sensibility. The resulting songs can be found nestled stylistically between the emotional directness of Elliot Smith, the delicacy of Bon Iver and the electronic experimentation of Thom Yorke… Following on the heels of his debut single ‘For The Win’ this gig marks the release of his new EP ‘Make Shift’ ‘on Babylegs Records, home to Mesadorm.
“…like falling into a gorgeous dream from which you never want to wake.” Rick Pearson, Evening Standard
“Beg Friend’s sound is cinematic but also deeply pop – beautiful” Where The Music Meets
Faultress creates incisive and psychological songs that offer us a look into the complex fragmentation of feminine power, desire and mental health in a rapidly changing musical and cultural world. With a diverse set of influences that includes the likes of Kate Bush, James Blake, Aldous Harding, FKA Twigs and Joni Mitchell, Faultress plays both solo and in ensemble form (the full band show features an epic six-part girl choir replete with synths and drums). Playing solo at The Harrison tonight, she will perform with piano and loop stations.
Sat 23 Nov: Ned Roberts with support from Martha St Arthur
Signed to the Green Note affiliated Aveline label (home to Ruth Theodoreand Ani Di Franco) Ned Roberts was discovered by producer Luther Russell(Sarabeth Tucek, Richmond Fontaine, Noah & The Whale) and brought to Los Angeles to record. The pair have since developed a close creative partnership.
The first single culled from these sessions was “Red Sun”, which featured frequently on BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio Scotland. On the heels of this came the single “Blues #6”, featuring vocals by acclaimed songstress Sarabeth Tucek. The track was championed by Lauren Laverne, Jo Whiley, Gideon Coe, and Huey Morgan on BBC Radio. His debut self-titled album was released to great acclaim in 2014, garnering significant national press, notably from the Guardian and Uncut magazine. Live sessions for BBC Radio London and Bob Harris’ Radio 2 show soon followed.
No stranger to the road, Ned has toured the UK extensively. He attained a much sought after support tour with celebrated US songwriter Anais Mitchell, and has also supported the likes of Joe Pug, Micah P. Hinson, The Delines and Sarabeth Tucek. He has also toured the West Coast of the US, embarked on a 14-date tour of Germany, as well as gigs in France, Spain and Italy.
‘Absolutely gorgeous stuff…one to really get excited about’ – Lauren Laverne, BBC 6 Music
‘A warm treat…his melodies reminiscent of Leonard Cohen with lyrical nods to Bob Dylan, and his voice has echoes of Tim Hardin‘ ★★★★ The Guardian
‘…a beautiful record’ – Gideon Coe, BBC 6Music
‘so gifted, possessing a fine ear for a tune and a real knack for storytelling..stunning’. 8/10 – UNCUT
‘An understated gem’ – The Independent on Sunday
Martha St Arthur’s razor-sharp observations on modern life and how to survive it combine with a super-tight focus on what makes a great pop song to mark her out as one to watch. Armed with a set of all-killer-no-filler, superbly honed, fiercely intelligent songs that take their cues from Laura Marling, Regina Spektor, Margo Price and First Aid Kit, she comfortably goes beyond her influences to create something distinctly and defiantly her own.
“We were hooked on this from first listen…a beautiful slice of country and folk-infused pop” – Folk Radio UK
Thurs 27 Nov: Samantha Whates / Piney Gir / Fiona Bevan
The Green Note
106 Parkway, Camden Town, NW1 7AN
Ph 020 7485 9899
10.00 adv BUY NOW / 12.00 Door
Nearest tube Camden, 2 mins walk DIRECTIONS
Doors open 7.00 pm, music from 8.15 pm sharp.
Scottish singer-songwriter and Rough Trade Records recording artist Samantha Whates is a hugely respected figure on the London roots scene. Her beautifully crafted, poetic songs retain a strong affinity with her Scottish roots, cultivating a sound that is thoroughly contemporary, rooted in tradition, yet uniquely her own. She recently formed new Rough Trade Records signings Picapica with her long time friend and collaborator Josienne Clarke. She has just released her brilliant second album ‘Waiting Rooms’ to great acclaim.
Expertly combining folk, soul and and pop, singer-songwriter Fiona Bevan is noted for co-writing ‘Little Things’ with Ed Sheeran, reaching no 1 in 13 countries, for which she received a BMI Award. Her debut solo studio album Talk to Strangers was released on Navigator Records, and she has toured as support to Nick Mulvey, Ryan Keen, Ed Sheeran, Hawksley Workman, Ingrid Michaelson, Gwyneth Herbert, Luke Friend and Bill Bailey. She also runs a residency night at Servant Jazz Quarters, Dalston, called “Fiona Bevan Presents” which has featured acts including Mercury Prize-nominated Sam Leeand Ed Harcourt.
‘Startling odysseys that suggest Erykah Badu, Joanna Newsom and Kate Bush spine-tinglingly joined’ The Guardian
The inimitable Piney Gir has been described as a ‘musical chameleon’, and ‘the Indie Dolly Parton’. Hailing from Kansas in America, she has been a key player in trhe UK music scene since moving to London in 1998. Her long list of career credits includes six critically received solo albums, collaborations with Andy Ramsey (Stereolab), Rob Campanella (The Brian Jonestown Massacre), Eamon Hamilton (Brakes/ British Sea Power) and Simple Kid, and BBC radio sessions for Mark Radcliffe, Marc Riley, and Cerys Matthews. Her songs have appeared on Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice, Hit & Miss, Made in Chelsea, Misfits, Drifters, Waterloo Road, Being Human, Fried, Talking to the Dead, What Remains, Switch, and in feature films Nina Forever, You’re Not You (Hilary Swank), C’e Chi Dice No, and American Girl.
Fri 29 Nov: Organelles
‘Exquisite meta-pop hewn from crystalline shards of jazz ambience and whirled into prismatic splendour. The cure for all ills.’ (VENUE Magazine)
Doors open 7.30 pm, music from 8.15 pm. Organelles will play two sets with a thirty minute interval. Nearest tube Kings Cross, 5 mins walk.
The intricate and beautiful contemporary jazz and minimalist-inflected music of trumpet, guitar, bass and drums quartet Organelles defies categorisation. Playing a VERY rare London show, the Bristol four-piece features Paul Bradley of alt-folk pioneers Three Cane Whale and Pete Judge of jazz supergroup Get The Blessing (Jim Barr/ Portishead, Clive Deemer/ Radiohead). If you’re a fearless musical explorer you can’t afford to miss this in all its challenging, enthralling, masterful splendour. And all in the confines of the intimate Harrison basement- nights like this don’t come along very often, don’t miss it….
Tues 3 Dec: John Langan, Alastair Caplin & Dila Vardar
New Roots presents a very special trio performance from John Langan, Alastair Caplin and Dila Vardar.
Known for raucous abandon with trio The Langan Band (award winners at the prestigious Celtic Connections festival), this show sees something very different from John Langan and renowned fiddler Alastair Caplin. Joined by brilliant singer Dila Vardar (Dila and the Oddbeats), the trio will be performing a very special collection of traditional folk songs dear to their heart, honed at the festival campfires and after shows over the years.
Expect superb musicianship and a wonderful collection from across the global spectrum, with everything from Scottish and Irish to European, Turkish, American and South American folk in the mix. John, Alastair and Dila are key members of twelve-piece folk supergroup Band of Burns, also featuring Riognach Conolly (The Breath/ BBC Folk Awards Best Vocalist 2019), Mikey Kenney, Adam Beattie and Dominie Hooper.
LATER IN DECEMBER…..
Monday 9 December: The Magic Lantern at The Sebright Arms, Bethnal Green
‘The Life That I Have’ EP launch, full band show. ‘Extraordinary’ Tom Robinson, BBC Radio 6 Music / ‘Gorgeous, beautiful. This stopped me in my tracks.’ Jamie Cullum, BBC Radio 2 / ‘Dreamy, beautiful. Something very, very special’ Lauren Laverne, BBC6 Music . TICKETS & DETAILS HERE
Thurs 19 Dec: Paul Mosley, Jack Harris plus a very special guest TBA, at The Green Note, Camden
A cornucopia of Yuletide revelries and a feast of festive celebrations with Jack Harris and Paul Mosley (plus a very special guest addition to be announced soon!). Expect collaborations and Christmas songs alongside the artist’s own formidable repertoires. TICKETS & DETAILS HERE
Sun 22 Dec: Whiskey Moonface Christmas Special at The Harrison, Kings Cross
New Roots presents a Whiskey Moonface very special extended performance at The Harrison. The band will play two sets with a thirty minute interval inbetween. Doors open 7.30 pm, music from 8.00 pm TICKETS & DETAILS HERE
That’s all from New Roots for now– if there’s anything more you’d like to know please drop me an email to newrootsevents@gmail.com. Cheers! Rory.
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Isamaa sees decline in membership following Riigikogu election ({{contentCtrl.commentsTotal}})
Isamaa chairman Helir-Valdor Seeder (centre) with Prime Minister and Centre Party chairman Jüri Ratas (left). Source: Siim Lõvi/ERR
Changes in the membership numbers of Estonia's various political parties two weeks after the 2019 Riigikogu elections indicate that the call of a now-ex member of Isamaa to leave the party did not fall on deaf ears, daily Postimees reports.
In reviewing the numbers of people joining and leaving political parties since the beginning of 2018, the only parties successfully recruiting new members are the Conservative People's Party of Estonia (EKRE) and the Centre Party; the number of people joining all other parties fall manyfold short in comparison.
In a year and just over three months, more than 1,000 people have joined EKRE, while 760 have joined the Centre Party.
The numbers indicate that Centre lost members at exactly the same pace, however, one reason for which was events in Narva last autumn in connection with which more than 100 members quit the party within a short period of time.
600 members also quit EKRE within the same period of time. As new members are joining at a faster pace than previous members are leaving, it can be assumed that a change in membership is taking place within EKRE's ranks, with members of the former People's Union of Estonia (Eestimaa Rahvaliit) being replaced.
In both the short- and long-term perspective, Isamaa may have the most cause for concern. While its total membership is not decreasing at any more significant of a rate than that of any other party, unlike other parties, it is not attracting many new members either. Since the beginning of 2018, only 72 new members have joined Isamaa. In comparison, the Estonian United Left Party (EÜVP) attracted 92 new members during the same time period.
Last week, a now former member of Isamaa expressed their disappointment in the current potential Centre-Isamaa-EKRE government coalition and called on people to quit the party in protest of such coalition talks.
Altogether 48 people have quit Isamaa since the 3 March elections, 40 of whom abandoned the party over the past week.
Editor: Aili Vahtla
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Kallas: If this coalition doesn't happen, EKRE voters will be even angrier
Vote of no-confidence removes Narva mayor
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Centre Party expels 14 with criminal records
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Mongabay Series: Global Palm Oil, Indonesian Palm Oil
Palm oil giant Wilmar promises to take harder line with errant suppliers
by Mongabay.com on 14 December 2018
Wilmar International announced some changes to its sustainability policy this week.
Among the changes, Wilmar will no longer buy palm oil from suppliers found to be violating its policy, but will suspend purchases from them instead.
Wilmar also appeared to acknowledge the presence of “shadow companies” in Indoensia’s plantation sector.
The world’s biggest palm oil trader has updated its sustainability policy, as its self-imposed deadline to stop buying palm oil linked to a variety of environmental and social ills draws closer.
Beginning in January 2019, Wilmar International will freeze purchases from suppliers found to be in violation of its sustainability policy, which bars plantation companies from clearing rainforests and peatlands, grabbing land from rural communities and mistreating workers. Previously, Wimar would continue to buy palm oil from these firms while it “engaged” with them.
The Singapore-listed conglomerate also said it would require some suppliers that violate its policy to submit “recovery plans.”
“The Recovery Plans may include options to protect and restore forest, bare land and/or peat swamps and to assist local communities to secure social forestry rights,” Wilmar said in a statement announcing the changes.
It may be a while before any recovery plans are put into effect. The specifics have yet to be defined, a process Wilmar says will begin in January. The firm is giving suppliers until the end of 2019 to submit the plans. Those that fail to do so “will enter the Grievance Procedure,” an indefinite process that can take any amount of time, a spokesperson acknowledged.
“Engagement is essential to bring these suppliers up to compliance with our NDPE policy rather than drive them towards a growing leakage market of unsustainable palm oil,” the spokesperson said in an email. “However, we will suspend suppliers who refuse to comply or do not show any progress in moving towards compliancy with our NDPE policy.”
Wilmar first declared its “NDPE” — “No Deforestation, No Peatland, No Exploitation” — policy in 2013. It initially established a deadline of December 2015 to break the link between the palm oil it buys and practices like deforestation and land grabbing. But Wilmar has revised that deadline several times, and it now stands at end-2019.
Wilmar was the first palm oil giant to declare such a policy, and since then others have followed suit. None have actually managed to break the link between the palm oil they buy and the practices to which they have stated their opposition, with the others pushing deadlines back too.
Wilmar reiterated that corporate pledges would not be enough to rein in the plantation industry. “The strategic position of national governments over the palm oil industry is paramount,” it said.
Palm oil fresh fruit bunches in Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.
Indonesia, the world’s top palm oil producing country, has lost more rainforest than any nation but Brazil since the turn of the century, largely as a result of uncontrolled plantation expansion, and is consequently a leading greenhouse gas emitter.
Also notable about Wilmar’s statement was that it seemed to acknowledge the presence of “shadow companies” in Indonesia’s plantation sector, a growing issue as it comes to light that some conglomerates are hiding their connections to destructive business units through front shareholders and offshore companies.
Wilmar said in the statement that while it had achieved “significant progress…during the course of implementation of our policy, we are challenged by the opaque ownership structures some companies have in place. Therefore, we are putting in more effort to map out our suppliers’ operations to ensure transparency and compliance.”
Asked to elaborate, the Wilmar spokesperson said, “From our past experience in engaging and monitoring our suppliers at group-level, we learned that there are companies that share similar shareholder(s) and / or links between owners / shareholder(s), which possibly extends to familial ties. This makes our monitoring efforts for our suppliers at group-level challenging as they are not clear cut cases of parent / subsidiary company links. Hence, it is important to develop clear guidelines on the definition of ‘group level supplier’ for more meaningful and constructive engagement with our suppliers.”
Earlier this year, Wilmar’s billionaire co-founder Martua Sitorus was forced to resign after it came to light that he had been running a second firm, Gama, with his brother that had cleared an area of rainforest twice the size of Paris since 2013. Martua had been Wilmar’s non-executive chairman and a board member.
Wilmar also reiterated its commitment to map its supply chain. Since May 2018, the firm has been asking all new suppliers to provide “group-level” maps of their plantation land. The spokesperson said Wilmar expects to finish mapping the rest of its suppliers by end 2019. The maps will be entered into a subscriber-only database managed by sustainability consultancy Aidenvironment.
“However, maps related to Wilmar’s supply chain can be made accessible to key stakeholders that raise concerns over possible non-compliance by Wilmar-owned operations or by our suppliers at group-level,” the spokesperson said.
A Greenpeace campaigner welcomed the policy update with cautious optimism, calling it a “potential breakthrough.”
“If Wilmar keeps its word, by the end of 2019 it will be using satellites to monitor all of its palm oil suppliers, making it almost impossible for them to get away with forest destruction,” Kiki Taufik of Greenpeace Southeast Asia said in a statement. “Greenpeace will be watching closely to make sure Wilmar delivers.”
Christian Purba, head of the board of Forest Watch Indonesia, an NGO, was more skeptical.
“This isn’t the first time Wilmar has announced a policy to prevent deforestation as a result of oil palm plantation activities,” he said. “The first policy declared by Wilmar on zero-deforestation, peatlands and forest fires hasn’t been properly implemented.”
He said Wilmar should release its suppliers’ concession maps to the public rather than keep them in a private database.
“The question is whether this new policy is really serious,” he said.
Banner: A palm oil mill in Indonesia. Wilmar is the world’s largest palm oil refiner. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.
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Anasta, Patrombon in Davis Cup selection list
By: Mars G. Alison - @inquirerdotnet
Cebu Daily News / 07:00 AM July 23, 2013
Philippine top netters Elbert Anasta and Jeson Patrombon have been added to the pool for the selection of members for the Cebuana Lhuillier Philippine Davis Cup Team that will go up against New Zealand in the Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group 2 finals happening in September at the shell-clay court of the Plantation Bay Resort and Spa in Lapu-Lapu City.
Philippine Davis Cup administrator Randy Villanueva said Anasta and Patrombon have been added to the list that already includes Johnny Arcilla, Ruben Gonzales, Treat Conrad Huey and Francis “Casey” Alcantara, who manned the team which won against Thailand in the second round last April.
Alcantara, a native of Cagayan de Oro, said he is willing to represent the country again in the Davis Cup. He is on a scholarship program at the Pepperdine University in California, USA and played for the Cebuana Lhuillier Philippine Davis Cup Team last April.
Alcantara said he is back in the country for a vacation, so that means it won’t be a problem if he’d be tapped to represent the country again.
Villanueva said that it was a unanimous decision among the players to once again hold the Davis Cup back here in Plantation Bay for several reasons.
“First, they are on a roll here after winning against Syria and Thailand. Second, Treat and Ruben are comfortable with the shell-clay court here in Plantation. Si Johnny naman, favorite niya yong sa PCA but it is not like he is doing bad here either,” Villanueva said.
While the Philippines has the advantage of having won three of the five games it has played against New Zealand, the Kiwis still have something going on their side, especially after they blanked the Filipinos, 5-0, in their last encounter in 2011 while both were in Group 1.
The Pinoy netters, however, have homecourt advantage. The news of the retirement of one of New Zealand’s top Davis Cup players Dan King Turner will also be a huge boost for the Philippines.
Mortaflex retains lead in United Architects hoops
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Bloomberg Noncommittal On Trump Presidential Talk
Filed Under:2012 election, Donald Trump, GOP candidate, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York, Presidential Campaign, Presidential Election
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Donald Trump (Credit: Getty Images)
WASHINGTON (CBSNewYork/AP) — Mayor Bloomberg calls real estate tycoon Donald Trump a friend and says “anybody can run for president if you’re 35 and an American citizen.”
Bloomberg tells “Fox News Sunday” that Trump is “a New York icon.” But the mayor is shying away from talking up Trump’s flirtation with the presidency.
Bloomberg, an independent, also says President Barack Obama “was born here” and the mayor thinks Republicans “are making a terrible mistake in making this is a big issue.”
Trump, who’s deciding whether to run in 2012, and other potential contenders have raised questions about whether Obama was born in the United States.
Bloomberg says it’s time for the Republican Party to address issues that “the public cares about.”
Tell us about your thoughts of Donald Trump being involved in politics in our comments section below.
(TM and Copyright 2011 CBS Radio Inc. and its relevant subsidiaries. CBS RADIO and EYE Logo TM and Copyright 2011 CBS Broadcasting Inc. Used under license. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
The Facts says:
One must be a natural born citizen to run for president. The mayor, as quoted, is incorrect.
Donald Trump is a ruthless and less than honest human being, he is dishonest in his personal and probably business life. He is not to be trusted and I hope he gets what he deserves, a glaring spotlight on his personal and business life!
Vindicated says:
ELON MUSK for President! He’s the CEO of SpaceX, Tesla Motors, Paypal and Solar City.
HooDatIS? says:
DONALD DUMP IS A FOOL
WE DONT NEED NO MORE FOOLS IN THE WHITE HOUSE
GO EAT ROAD KILL DONALD DUMP
http://ethicalfutures.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/blastmode-deadbeat-dads-the-wheres-my-check-check-in/
Ken Hoang says:
i think the timeing is right for a strong pasonality like Trump to bring back jobs for america.
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Home » LARS JOURNEY REPORTS » 2017 impressions from INLANSO Hindi programmes in Varanasi and Mussorie
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INLANSO Hindi teachers Dr Roquiya Khatoon and Dr Vivek Kumar Jaiswal with Prof. Dipak Malik. In Mussoorie.
In late April-early May 2017, the NSAN editor Lars Eklund joined office for the Varanasi-based Centre for the Study of Indian Languages and Society (INLANSO), making a reconnaisance tour to visit the INLANSO study centres in Varanasi and Mussoorie.
During the period 25-29 April 2017, Lars spent time at INLANSO in Varanasi – the main centre located in the Ravindrapuri Colony area of the city – to discuss with Dr. Miriya Juntunen Malik (photo), Academic Director at INLANSO, and Dr. Dipak Malik, INLANSO Managing Director, his coming work to modernize the INLANSO web site and carry out other obligations connected to his new role as being Executive Director, Communications. A part-time position he was offered by INLANSO immediately after it became clear that Lars would quit Lund University and retire from his position as deputy director for the Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) on December 31st, 2016. The work is carried out both from Sweden and India, and is complimentary to his role as editor of the Nordic South Asia Network web site and newsletter.
Besides discussions with Miriya and Dipak, Lars followed the ongoing activities in Varanasi, at the time consisting of the closing part of a Hindi programme for students from Oslo and Uppsala Universities with a formal examination ceremony (see photo below).
Lars also met the entire INLANSO staff, including the administrator Dr. Reba Dey(photo to the left); the local Hindi language teachers Dr Roquiya Khatoon (also teching Urdu) and Dr Vivek Kumar Jaiswal; and the student coordinator, Armin Chiocchetti from Uppsala University, an advanced Hindi student who is also involved in teaching. It should also be noted that Miriya herself teaches not only Hindi but also Sanskrit.
Currently, INLANSO has partnership agreements with a number of Scandinavian and German universities, providing tailored short and long term programmes. Besides Uppsala and Oslo, mentioned above, INLANSO programmes have included students from Stockholm University in Sweden; Aarhus and Copenhagen in Denmark; and Würzburg and Göttingen in Germany, and discussions are under way to attract more universities.
Travelling to Mussoorie
Uppsala students Ramu and Ulrika on way from Varanasi to Mussoorie.
After four days in Varanasi Lars joined Armin, Roquiya, Vivek and two Uppsala students – Ramu Mudigonda and Ulrika, for a 22 hours train journey to Dehra Dun in Uttarakhand state travelling by Varanasi-Dehra Dun Janta Express. They arrived early morning in heavy rain, and from Dehra Dun railway station they continued by hired cars up the 35 km serpentine road to the extraordinary beautiful Himalayan hill station of Mussoorie, and even further uphill to Landour, on top of the mountain.
Here rooms were reserved at a nearby estate for INLANSO, to launch a summer programme from 2 May, and they immediately met with Rani Panwar, associated to INLANSO and also involved in teaching. Rani took the newcomers around the neighbourhood along lovely walking paths in a most picturesque environment with forests with majestic pine trees and fantastic views. She also pointed out the famous Landour Language School and the house where Mussoorie’s most well-known writer Ruskin Bondresides. It is also the location for the Institute of Technology Management (ITM), a premier training institute of the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), an institute where Dr. Abdul Kalam worked before becoming the President of India.
The area reminds strongly about Nepal, and Mussoorie was actually a part of Nepal till the British conquered it during the Gorkha wars of the 1820s. The British then built a military hospital in Landour and a church with a graveyard where many colonial soldiers were buried.
During the following days, Lars followed the work being launched, and on his final day in Mussoorie, Lars again met Miriya and Dipak for a concluding discussion on how the web site should be improved.
INLANSO activities
Since 2012 INLANSO, which is the educational unit of INLANSO Services Pvt. Ltd, a registered Indian company, successfully runs Hindi Study Programmes for Nordic and European students in Varanasi. The activities are however not restricted only to Hindi language studies but also includes courses on Indian society and culture. In recent years, it has also launched an Urdu programme in Lucknow, a Tamil programme in Pondicherry, and soon a Bengali programme will be set up in Kolkata. INLANSO is currently expanding its activities, teaching more languages, and attracting new groups of students.
It should also be mentioned that INLANSO offers composite study packages with 20 hours of indoor and outdoor activities per week. INLANSO finally invites research students and scholars to affiliate themselves with INLANSO while doing fieldwork anywhere in South Asia.
Onwards to Bhutan
From Mussoorie in western Himalayas, Lars travelled to the eastern end of Himalayas, more precisely to Bhutan. Via a short flight from Dehra Dun to Delhi, a short stay in Delhi 4-5 May, generously hosted by Delhi researcher Shalini Grover, and a flight to Bagdogra airport in West Bengal, he reached Samtse College of Education – part of the Royal University of Bhutan that had invited him to give a presentation on Swedish Research on South Asia and existing and possible collaboration fields between Sweden and Bhutan. Read Lars’ report from Samtse College of Education.
Lars spent alltogeter five days in Samtse before travelling to Thimphu and Paro and finally spent a few days in Kolkata till the 15th May, and arrived back in Sweden on Tuesday 16th May.
Small farewell function at INLANSO in Varanasi for students from Oslo and Uppsala, plus the staff minus Miriya and Deepak who happened to be at conference in Istanbul.
– Lars Eklund has visited Varanasi a number of times before. First time on a SASNET contact journey in 2002, read his detailed report from that tour.
– In 2012, Lars visited the language institute that became INLANSO, read his report from that Varanasi visit.
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It’s down to Atlantic and Cumberland
By wallye • 02/08/06 5:59pm
Seventeen of New Jersey’s 21 counties are controlled exclusively by one political party. Democrats occupy every Freeholder seat in Camden, Essex, Gloucester, Hudson, Mercer, Middlesex, Passaic, and Union counties and every countywide office in those eight counties. Republicans hold every Freeholder seat — and every constitutional office — in Burlington, Cape May, Hunterdon, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Somerset, Sussex and Warren counties. Only four counties — three within a short drive of Delaware — have two party government at the county level: Atlantic, Bergen, Cumberland and Salem. Control of county Freeholder Boards are at stake in only Atlantic and Cumberland in 2006. At the county level, Cumberland has emerged in recent years as the most politically competitive in the state — even though Democrats have controlled the Board of Freeholders for all but one year since 1972. Democrats now have a 4-3 majority and each party has one incumbent up for re-election in November: Democrat Louis Magazzu, and Republican James Rocco. Rocco, a retired Vineland Police Captain, won in 2003 by 124 votes over incumbent Donna Pearson; Pearson alleged that Magazzu cut a deal with Vineland Republicans to assure his own re-election at her expense — causing State Senator Stephen Sweeney and Assemblyman Douglas Fisher to call for Magazzu’s ouster as Democratic County Chairman. Governor James E. McGreevey later named Magazzu to the Delaware River Port Authority as a way of moving him out of the chairmanship, but with Sweeney exercising senatorial courtesy, Magazzu was never confirmed by the Senate. In 2005, three incunbent Freeholders, Democrats Bruce Peterson and Jane Christy Yetman and Republican Jeffrey Trout, won re-election. Trout’s margin of victory was 501 votes, and Republicans came within 2,370 votes of taking control. The GOP Sheriff, Michael Baruzza was re-elected to a third term by just 250 votes. Atlantic County has seen a resurgence by the Democrats — they won races for State Assembly, Surrogate and Freeholder in 2005 and the county Democratic organization backed Robert Levy for Mayor of Atlantic City in his successful primary against incumbent Lorenzo Langford. Republicans have a 6-3 majority on the Freeholder Board; three of their incumbents are up for election in 2006: Freeholder At-Large Frank Finnerty, District 2 Freeholder Thomas Russo, and District 5 Freeholder James Curcio. In Salem County, where control has been at stake every November in recent years, Democrats are assured to hold their 5-2 majority on the Freeholder Board. Republican David Sparks lost his seat by two votes in 2005. Democrat Beth Timberman and Republican Benjamin Simmermon are up for re-election this year. Democrats have six of the seven Freeholder seats in Bergen: the GOP will defend their lone Republican, Elizabeth Randall in 2006; another incumbent, Democrat Valerie Vainieri Huttle, who was elected to the State Assembly last year, is not seeking re-election.
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Two Moves to Make If Government Does the Unthinkable
by Dr. Kent Moors | published September 26th, 2013
It used to be the unthinkable that Uncle Sam would be unable to pay his bills.
Yet, thanks to the most dysfunctional political environment I’ve ever seen, the collapse of the full faith and credit of the United States is a possibility we’ve had to get used to.
And in what is now shaping up to be an annual political rite of passage, we’re plodding along again to another budget brawl.
According to the Treasury, if nothing is done to extend the debt ceiling, certain programs will begin to be shut down in as little as two weeks. Once that happens, the market will be faced with the prospect of a default-no matter how slim.
So, what would our approach to the energy sector be if the unthinkable actually happens?
Here’s my game plan for brewing crisis…
Is the Economy About to Get Derailed?
Of course, I still believe there will be an eleventh hour resolution. Not of the underlying fundamental issues mind you. No, it will be just enough to keep the government operating for a few more months.
Just a few years ago a “resolution” like this would have rattled investors even more. But this is the new reality we have come to face and the market has accepted it.
But make no mistake: A government shutdown would paralyze a wide swath of the economy, albeit some more immediately than others.
The good news for energy investor is that energy is a fundamental ingredient in just about everything we do, whether the central government is paying its bills or not. However, the return of recessionary pressures (certainly a result from any prolonged shutdown) will depress market sentiment across the economy.
That tends to reduce expectations for energy use, with oil and gas futures contract pricing taking the upfront hit. Much of this reaction will be hype, since the results from a slump won’t actually occur that quickly. There may be consternation, but the figures justifying any conclusion of downward pricing from genuine supply and demand factors take at least a quarter to develop. And even then they are preliminary.
The decline will come from a rush to short just about everything in sight and an overreaction to what it really means. Anecdotal knee-jerk reactions will just accentuate the move down.
And it is not possible to determine beforehand the real drop in oil and gas pricing, although oil will likely take the heavier hit. That is because we are moving into the winter heating season and a normal winter will tend to buttress gas prices.
Two Ways to Play the Budget Brawl
But that doesn’t mean investors will have to stand idly by. During a protracted budget impasse, there will still be two winning plays.
One involves a segment that almost always improves when the price of hydrocarbons moves south. It is a contrarian play of sorts. The other is the latest reflection of a change we have talked about here in OEI on several occasions.
Remember, both of these strategies merely reflect something that is true even during times of crisis. The demand for energy never goes away. The trick is to locate those areas where the volatility occurring across the markets will actually open up profitability.
This contrarian trend will occur in utilities, especially those that can make use of multiple fuel sourcing (natural gas, coal, solar, wind, geothermal, biofuel, nuclear). Utility profit margins always improve with a decline in the cost of generating electricity. The key is the ability to be able to swap fuel sources to maximize both efficiency and availability.
With the improvement of solar and wind to grid parity (a cost equivalent to traditional fuels), there will be a better mix of sources than in the past. Regional positioning and network access will also be factors. But increasing your weight in selected utility stocks – at the expense of positions in oil/gas holdings and assets – is one way to offset the uncertainty from a budgetary default.
As for the second strategy, it involves the changes taking place in the production of oil and gas itself. Here, we return to a theme I have addressed before. The size and positioning of operating companies will be decisive in identifying profit centers, even in an overall market decline.
Bigger Isn’t Always Better When it Comes to Oil
In this case, think “small oil”…not the big boys.
As we have discussed before, the rising threshold of field profitability for larger companies has opened up a range of new opportunities for well-focused, well-managed, smaller companies to post better profits than the big boys can.
These companies tend to emphasize only regions and basins in which they have considerable (and successful) experience. In the current climate of rising domestic U.S. production, that translates into increasing aggregate production at home with more of that coming from the well-positioned smaller producers.
There will always be demand for oil and gas, even if that demand is projected to decline due to a government shutdown. What will happen here is classic textbook: cheaper to produce oil and gas will replace that which is more expensive. That will allow selected niche operators to make a better profit– even during down times.
Should we ever actually get to the point of a shutdown, I will be going into more detail on how to approach both of these alternatives. At this point, there is still some time before the wheels begin to grind to halt.
By then, the odds are that another arrangement to kick another can down street will emerge.
Of course, I still hope that Congress and the White House will wake up and realize this is not junior high school.
But even if they don’t, we’ll still be able to post a good return in an unsteady market.
PS. Until then, here’s the scoop on an overseas deal that will rocket no matter what happens here the states. After five years, the “gag order” on a $175 trillion oil and gas deal I’ve been working has finally been lifted… now one stock is about to go ballistic. Go here for all of the details.
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Russian service provider upgrades network backbone and cuts costs
Juniper Networks has completed a major infrastructure upgrade to Russia’s digital services provider Rostelecom. Rostelecom has over 13 million broadband internet users and 10.3 million subscription television customers.
The contract was for a large scale modernisation programme using Juniper Networks’ MX Series 5G Universal Routing Platform and PTX Series Packet Transport Routers, to improve a key communication transport backbone across Russia.
The upgrade enables improvement to Rostelecom’s original network with the wider deployment of MX960 and PTX10008 systems, which were previously used to support peak demand during the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. Rostelecom says it has immediately saved over 5% on operational expenses due to lower power consumption and improved network efficiency, following the upgrade.
The “One Junos” operating system across both the original and new infrastructure enabled older T Series routers from Juniper to be “recycled”, with full backward and forward compatibility to other parts of the network with lower traffic loads. Rostelecom has also renewed its service agreement for three years with Juniper, which covers more than 14,000 network nodes.
Vadim Nikonov, director of the backbone networks department at Rostelecom, said, “Our main priority was to upgrade to equipment that is highly reliable under harsh operating conditions and a high traffic load. In the process, we experienced a lower incident rate, delivered new services and functions and reduced power and warranty support costs, while enabling us to repurpose the existing equipment to other parts of the network.”
Yarob Sakhnini, vice president in sales for EMEA emerging markets at Juniper Networks, said, “This was a major infrastructure project, resulting in a versatile modernisation upgrade that is already delivering positive results based on Rostelecom’s objectives.”
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Measurements on the vehicle-track interaction and the excitation of railway-induced ground vibration (2017)
Auersch, Lutz ; Said, Samir ; Müller, Roger
Two railway measurement campaigns have been performed in Germany and Switzerland which yield insight in the vehicle-track-soil interaction. The campaign in Germany has included simultaneous measurement of vehicle, track, and soil vibrations during train runs with 16, 25, 40, 63, 80, 100, 125, 140, 160 km/h, and impulse measurements of the passenger car, three track sections and the soil. Two ballast tracks, one on the soil surface and one on a concrete bridge, have been investigated as well as a slab track in a tunnel. Ten different sites in Switzerland have been measured for soil properties and train-induced ground vibrations, which allow to determine the excitation forces of the railway traffic. New axle-box measurements at some of the Swiss sites have been analysed to get further experimental evidence. All these measurements have been evaluated to characterize the excitation processes. Relations between vehicle vibration and ground vibration can be observed. The vehicle vibrations, namely the accelerations of the wheelsets, yield the dynamic forces due to the passage over the irregularities of the vehicle and the track. The ground vibrations are correlated to these dynamic forces to a certain extent. Some mid-frequency ground vibration amplitudes, however, are higher than expected from the dynamic excitation forces. The experimental observations can be explained by an irregular response to the passage of the static loads, that means the passage of the static loads over an irregular ballast or soil. This correct understanding of the excitation processes is important for the prediction as well as for the mitigation of railway induced ground vibrations.
Simultaneous measurements of the vehicle, track, and soil vibrations at a surface, bridge, and tunnel railway line (2017)
Auersch, Lutz
A complex measuring campaign has been performed including the simultaneous measurement of vehicle, track, and soil vibrations during train runs at 16, 25, 40, 63, 80, 100, 125, 140, 160 km/h, and impulse measurements of the passenger car, three track sections and the soil. A ballast track on the soil surface and on a concrete bridge have been investigated as well as a slab track in a tunnel. The evaluation and comparison of all these data shows a generally good agreement for all components if the strong low- and high-frequency cut-off characteristics of the layered and damped soil are incorporated. There is a strong causal correlation between the vehicle and the soil by the dynamic excitation forces and a weak relation between the track and the soil by the axle-sequence spectrum of the train. However, the similarity between the axle-impulse spectrum observed at the track and the spectra of the ground vibration lead to the special excitation component of “scattered axle impulses” which is pre-dominant at the far-field points of the soil.
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Viola: Cannabis for Good
Written by Natalia Hurt
Published in Brand Stories
Viola’s products range from flower to concentrates, with an expanded portfolio of offerings to come within the next year.
Brand Story: NBA alum Al Harrington grows economic prosperity in minority communities using the plant once blamed for weakening them.
As a kid growing up in New Jersey, Al Harrington was no stranger to the impacts of cannabis on the world around him. None were positive. He saw classmates arrested for possession, teenagers subjected to stop-and-frisks and families torn apart as their youth were jailed.
Those memories stuck as he navigated young adulthood. Society had made it clear that success and cannabis could not coexist. He stayed away from it, spending his time on the court in pursuit of a career with the National Basketball Association.
“The first time I saw people who were successful using cannabis was when I got to the NBA. Teammates were using it after practice, and then they were in there the next day dominating,” Harrington recalls. “I started to see that everything I’d heard was a lie.”
Al Harrington, co-founder and CEO of Viola
He began paying closer attention to the evidence. In 2012, while playing for the Denver Nuggets, his grandmother came to visit, her brimming pillbox in tow but her glaucoma as bad as ever. Harrington suggested she turn to cannabis for help. After initial resistance to dabbling with “reefer,” she acquiesced.
“Her eyes hurt so badly she could barely see, but one and a half hours later when I went to check on her, she was crying and said, ‘I’m healed. I haven’t been able to read the words in my bible for three years,” Harrington says.
That day solidified his view of this “magic plant” for good and inspired the name of his future company: Viola. According to Harrington, naming it after his grandmother speaks volumes about the quality of its cannabis products, which span concentrates made via butane extraction, vapes, pre-rolls and the flowers themselves.
“We want to give people quality products. If I’m going to have my grandma’s name and her legacy on a product, I want to think global and make the experience, from the packaging to the product, the best quality I can,” he adds.
Just as central as Viola’s products is its purpose: to uplift and empower the community with cannabis.
Harrington saw that the individuals who played an integral part in enabling the cannabis industry (many now incarcerated) might once again miss out on the rewards of its heyday, as was the case with tobacco and alcohol.
If he has anything to say about it, history will not repeat itself: “When you think about the history of cannabis, the people it affected in a negative manner are blacks and minorities. For us to not have any representation didn’t sit well with me. Being a black man, I didn’t know until later when I started winning awards that I’m the only person in the industry who looks like me. I’m part of the three percent.”
Viola aims to harness a plant once demonized and used as a destructive force within minority communities to fuel economic prosperity in those same communities.
Viola’s ultra-premium indoor flower comes from cultivators with over 10 years of experience, crossing a wide variety of smooth, aromatic strains.
The purpose-driven company plans to lead a lifestyle movement that results in more than 10,000 jobs, hundreds of new business owners and increased industry diversity through job opportunities, training programs, cannabis startup incubation and more. A recent educational program in California, for example, invited 30 individuals to learn the ins-and-outs of the industry.
“It takes time to really grow a business, but I think we’ve gotten to the point that we can start to bring other people up with us. That’s what I’m most excited about, empowering and changing people’s lives together,” Harrington explains.
To those considering a career in the industry, he recommends reading as much as possible, but more importantly, just getting into the game and figuring things out because, “It’s not rocket science.”
The numbers suggest a blindingly bright future for this industry, whether in terms of growth potential, job creation or initial public offerings. Consider that 50 million Americans suffer from chronic pain and that the prescription opioids used to treat them were involved in five times more deaths in 2017 than in 1999 without altering statistics on chronic pain, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.
Perhaps the industry’s biggest challenge is a lack of robust research to back up the effects that many have already witnessed in treating anxiety, insomnia, chronic pain and more.
This October, the company closed a $16 million investment round led by Gotham Green Investment, fueling the continued growth of their team and facilities across California, Michigan, Colorado and Oregon, where it runs a 40-acre farm.
Viola currently operates in Oregon, California, Colorado and Michigan, with plans to expand into Maryland, Nevada and Arizona in 2020.
“I’m happy I stuck with it,” Harrington says. “There were a lot of things that should’ve taken us out of the game but never did. I never got to the point where I was beaten down and broken. I took it all as a lesson.”
Intertwined with his hopes for society and his grandmother’s legacy, Harrington’s business vision amounts to more than a global brand.
Viola spreads the benefits of quality cannabis, but not without spreading its economic opportunities too.
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Saving Baby Mango: A pig's tale of kindness
Tom Spears
A baby pig likely fell out of a transport truck in Ottawa and was found lying on the side of the highway. gofundme.com/f/saving-baby-mango
A kind-hearted woman has saved a piglet named Mango from a lonely death at the edge of Highway 417 east of Ottawa.
Now donors are flooding a GoFundMe campaign with cash for the little pig’s veterinary bills, and Mango is recovering nicely.
But the rescue nearly didn’t happen. Dr. Lara Elizabeth Cohen of the Aylmer Veterinary Clinic in Gatineau explained on a GoFundMe page how a woman named Julia drove past the injured pig last Monday and almost didn’t notice him.
“She caught a glimpse of what she thought was a paper bag on the highway. She passed it quickly but could not get the image out of her mind,” Cohen wrote.
“About 5 minutes out, she realized that what she had thought was a paper bag, was actually a baby pig, lying on the side of the highway. He was clearly injured. She quickly turned around and ten minutes later, arrived to find a small piglet lying shivering and bloody on the ground.”
The little guy is eight or nine weeks old, weighs 20 pounds and probably fell off a transport truck.
“Not knowing what to do, Julia grabbed a towel, wrapped him up and brought him home.”
Baby pig found injured by the side of Highway 417.
Mango was clearly hurt, so Julia started to make phone calls and eventually connected with Cohen and another vet.
Mango “was not looking good.” On the car ride to the emergency clinic, the second vet thought she would be doing a humane euthanasia, Cohen wrote.
“Shortly before her arrival however, her eyes met his and he had a look of gratitude and hope that could not be ignored. It was then that she decided to take a chance.
“She was able to obtain pain medications from the emergency clinic and Mango started to show improvement almost immediately. Despite this, he remained largely listless and was unable to walk. One of his legs was extremely swollen and dangled from his hip. We tried to keep him as immobilized as we could while creating a sling for him to walk outside to do his business every few hours.”
Mango had surgery for broken bones in his upper and lower hind leg and is recovering well.
X-Ray of multiple fractures from Mango’s fall. gofundme.com/f/saving-baby-mango
Julia, the woman who found him, named him Hamlet at first. The vets vetoed this (too meat-like) and renamed him after he fell asleep with a piece of mango dangling out of his mouth.
“He’s doing phenomenally well,” Cohen said Monday. “He sleeps a lot, which is part of recovery for sure, but it’s also part of being a baby.
Mango in his sling. http://www.gofundme.com/f/saving-baby-mango
“He seems quite comfortable. We have been able to discontinue the harder pain medications and he is good on an anti-inflammatory.” He can’t put weight on the injured leg yet. But being a baby is on his side because his body is primed to build new bones and cells quickly.
“He is on rest for four to six weeks in a small cage and then we are going to open up the area he is allowed to walk about in,” she said.
“He is very playful. He loves his belly scratched. He loves to interact with people. The funny thing that we learned is that like a dog, he wags his tail when he’s happy. It is the cutest thing ever!
“When you feed him a meal that he is excited about he will wag his tail. So he’s very much like a dog.”
He is also house-trained, using a litter box.
The clinic has found a foster home for the near term, but will need someone to take him in the long term. “This will be a place where he can roam freely, burrow in the soil and be amongst other farm and domestic animals, enjoying the care and respect of humans who understand the value of all creatures — large and small — regardless of what this earth has deemed to be their destiny,” Cohen wrote.
She cautions that Mango will some day be very large. He is not a miniature pig.
As of 10 p.m. Monday, the campaign had raised $5,920 of the estimated $7,000 needed for surgery and follow-up care.
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Will Teacher Uprisings Change Democrats?
by Jeff Bryant | May 24, 2018 | Blog
Anyone wondering whether teacher uprisings this spring will influence party politics and elections in November should look at what’s happened in this year’s primaries so far.
Most prominent among primary contests involving education issues was an improbable win in Kentucky, where a first-time candidate, math teacher R. Travis Brenda, knocked off the state’s House Republican Majority Leader Jonathan Shell.
Brenda had joined with his colleagues earlier this year in staging sickouts that closed schools across the state to protest Kentucky lawmakers’ handling of state public employee pensions and inadequate school funding. Shell “was part of the legislature’s Republican leadership team that crafted and passed pension, tax, and budget bills,” a Louisville news outlet reports.
Elsewhere in the state, of the 16 Kentucky teachers involved in primary contests, seven were victorious and will join with other teacher-candidates who ran unopposed to field 32 candidates in total in November. Nearly all are Democrats.
“The thing to watch is whether this is the start of something broader,” says NPR’s Domenico Montanaro in reporting about Kentucky’s primary races.
Changing on Education
It’s going to be hard to tell where and if teacher uprisings will change electoral politics, especially in states where uprisings have yet to take place. But there are clear signs the dynamics of education politics are changing in the Democratic party, and those changes are taking place at the very same time progressive populist candidates are surging in Democratic primaries across the country. These insurgencies could result not only in a new Democratic party, but also a new vision for education policy in the party.
One of the clearest signs of the changing education politics in the Democratic party was when the Colorado branch of the party told an influential pressure group of charter school proponents, called Democrats for Education Reform, to stop using the word “Democrats” in its name.
The state party approved an amendment to its 2018 platform opposing any attempts to segregate Colorado schools or make public schools private institutions or “private corporations.”
This schism between defenders of the public-school system within the Democratic party and those in the party who don’t care if more school funding is siphoned to privately operated management businesses is becoming more obvious in primary electoral contests.
In Pennsylvania, two longshot candidates for the State House, Summer Lee and Sara Innamorato, who knocked off establishment incumbents in the primaries, based their platforms on a range of progressive issues including opposing “charter schools as a form of ‘privatization’ that drained public resources.”
Their opponents, the brothers Paul and Dom Costa, had both recently voted against legislation to prevent online charters from exploiting failing students and against a bill that would make all charters more accountable for how they spend public funds.
Another Pennsylvania House upset winner in the Democratic primary, Elizabeth Fiedler, campaigned for “a moratorium on new charters and cyber-charters until their effectiveness and long-term costs are evaluated and they are held to the same standards as traditional public schools.” Her party establishment-endorsed opponent, Jonathan Rowan, never made his views on charter schools a prominent message in his campaign.
In Nebraska, Kara Eastman’s surprising defeat of former Rep. Brad Ashford has been heralded as a sign of progressives making inroads into the Democratic party establishment and a worrying sign among Beltway Democrats of a surging left within the party.
Here again, the upstart Eastman called for continued investment in public schools and public-school educators and resistance to those “who advertise the benefits of expanding charter schools.” Her establishment opponent left the issue of charter schools unaddressed.
Wooing Teachers
This is not to say opposition to charter schools has become a progressive rallying cry, in the way that Medicare for All, a $15 minimum wage, and other issues already have.
In Idaho, for instance, Paulette Jordan’s win is being cast as a progressive plus in a deep red state, where her Democratic party primary contest could have gone to the more mainstream candidate.
Yet Jordan called charter schools “necessary,” while her opponent argued charters “have not lived up to their promise, they have been copycats of one another and they are a great deconsolidation of our school system, competing with traditional schools for funding… The best choice is the traditional public schools.”
Nevertheless, grassroots uprisings created by organized teachers are wooing more Democrats to support public schools. This is a noteworthy trend.
A Cool Embrace
For years, Democrats have not only been cool to embrace organized teachers; they’ve often been downright antagonistic. A sure sign that this relationship may be changing surfaced recently in North Carolina where Democratic Governor Roy Cooper joined teachers in the capital who had walked off the job and closed schools across the state to protest their poor pay and lack of resources in schools due to years of funding cuts.
Seeing an NC governor, of any party, standing with organized teachers during a strike action is unprecedented. The Tar Heel state is one of the most anti-labor states in the nation, not just because of recent Republican majorities in the legislature, but also because the state has been historically resistant to labor organizing regardless of which party is in control.
Cooper has also not always sided with workers. Yet, no former Democratic governor in recent memory – including education champion Jim Hunt – would have locked arms with organized teachers in union to close schools. The fact Cooper did sends an important message about where the Democratic party may be heading.
A Better Deal?
Similarly, in Washington, D.C., Democratic party leaders are pivoting from teacher walkouts across the nation to call for giving states and school districts $50 billion over a decade to fund teacher raises by canceling the recent tax cut for top 1 percent of earners.
The Democrats’ plan, called A Better Deal for Teachers and Students, calls for another $50 billion fund to pay for new school infrastructure.
During the unveiling of the plan, union presidents Lily Eskelsen García of the National Education Association and Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers joined Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on the podium.
The scene prompted longtime Washington Post education journalist Valerie Strauss to recall when Barack Obama’s was president, his education secretary, Arne Duncan, was so unpopular that the NEA called for his resignation.
So given that Democrats, under a Trump administration, have little chance of pushing their proposal through, she questions whether this an example of the party making “nice with the leaders of teachers’ union.”
Whether Strauss’s skepticism is warranted or not, political dynamics in the Democratic party are clearly changing, and teacher uprisings are adding to the volatility of the mix.
If the Democratic wave that’s anticipated for November “won’t crest without progressive insurgents,” as some have observed, then maybe it also won’t crest without a change in how the party addresses education.
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Some of the millions of poor people expected to lose out on Obamacare coverage next year because their states are not expanding Medicaid might have a way to get help, but the strategy carries risk.
Experts say the key is for them to project their 2014 income to at least the federal poverty level, about $11,500 per person or $23,500 for a family of four.
That would entitle them to federal subsidies that would cover nearly all the cost of private coverage sold on new online insurance marketplaces set up by the federal health law. The subsidies are available on a sliding scale to people making between the poverty level and four times that amount.
Everyone applying for subsidies must estimate their 2014 income. For the poor, the difference between qualifying -- or not -- could be $1,000 or less a year. Since many rely on hourly or seasonal work, their incomes often fluctuate by a few thousand dollars each year. That's one reason why people often lose eligibility for Medicaid, the state federal insurance program for the poor.
While there are steep fines for knowingly lying on a government application for financial assistance, if someone merely miscalculates their income above the poverty level in 2014, and is later found to have made less than the poverty level, they won't have to pay any money back, according to the Treasury Department.
"There's little risk because under the rules you don't have to pay anything back," said Richard Trembowicz, vice president for Celtic Insurance Co., a subsidiary of Centene Corp. which is offering plans on several exchanges, including Mississippi.
While most people are unaware of this option now, "I would be surprised if this is not commonly known before the end of March 2014," Trembowicz added, saying he expects advocates and others to advise people about the eligibility rules for subsidies when the exchanges open Oct. 1.
In addition, he said, people will have a new incentive to report income to the government that they might not have disclosed before, such as cash from babysitting and tips.
Under the Affordable Care Act, everyone under 138 percent of the federal poverty level, or $15,870 for an individual, was supposed to qualify for Medicaid. But after the Supreme Court last year made the Medicaid expansion optional, only 23 states and the District of Columbia opted to expand the program in 2014. Texas and Florida -- the two biggest states that are not expanding Medicaid -- have a total of about 3 million people under the poverty level who are currently uninsured.
Medicaid is a much more affordable option for people at or near the poverty level because of its limited out of pocket costs, but experts say qualifying for subsidies to get private insurance would be better than having no coverage.
Still, some consumer advocates are skeptical that many people will use the approach.
"It's conceivable that some people may do this, but I think it will be pretty limited," said Tim Jost, a law professor at Washington and Lee University.
He added there is a gray area between overestimating one's income and intentionally lying to the government.
Catherine E. Livingston, a tax attorney with Jones Day in Washington, said "I think it would be quite challenging to prove they intentionally lied."
But even if people with incomes at the poverty level qualify for subsidies for private insurance, the coverage might still be unaffordable, said Laura Goodhue, executive director of the consumer advocacy group Florida CHAIN.
That's because they would owe as much as 2 percent of their income towards the cost of the premium and could still have co-pays and deductibles. The health law does provide those under 250 percent of the poverty level with additional subsidies to lower these out-of-pocket costs.
Under regulations released in July, all the exchanges or marketplaces must first check the income level that an individual reports on his or her application against a federal database that contains data on the applicant's federal income tax returns as well as Social Security and current wage data.
But if an individual projects their income up to 10 percent higher than shown in electronically available data such as a prior tax return, there will be no questions asked. If there is more than a 10 percent discrepancy, the exchanges will ask for more information, such as a pay stub. If an applicant is unable to provide such data, the regulations allow the exchanges in 2014 to rely on the individual's "self-attestation" to determine the subsidy. This applies only when someone overestimates their income, according to a spokeswoman for Health and Human Services.
The reverse situation -- when someone underestimates their income to qualify for a larger subsidy -- would trigger requests for more documentation and in that case, the officials say they will rely on the electronic data. If they did receive a larger subsidy than their income warranted, they would have to pay money back on their following year's taxes.
Several advocates who are involved in educating their communities about the new health insurance exchanges say they would not encourage people to do anything that might appear fraudulent.
"The population tends to worry more about getting in trouble with the IRS than worrying about not having health insurance," said Moriba Karamoko, director of the Louisiana Consumer Healthcare Coalition. Louisiana is not expanding Medicaid. "For me to suggest to anyone that they estimate to be higher when there is no reasonable expectation of that would be irresponsible, if not criminal."
Most said they were unaware that people below the poverty level who overestimate their income would not have to repay the subsidy if later found ineligible.
Cindy Zeldin, executive director of Georgians for a Healthy Future, said she will refer people who are ineligible for Medicaid and can't afford subsidies on the exchange to community health centers and other programs.
"We will do what we can to help people find coverage that they are eligible for and meets their needs," she said.
Harold Pollack, a University of Chicago professor of social services administration, said he is troubled that some people whom the law was intended to help get coverage may have to resort to overestimating their income to get assistance. "This is a perverse situation where people may have to break rules to get health care coverage that the law intended to provide them," he said.
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"The one factor that could make this more important," he said, "is the activity of community organizers and other people who have no official role, but who will be out there trying to pump up enrollment."
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corset comparison
regular readers know nursemyra has a large collection of corsets. recently I conducted a search to see what else is out there in the world of corsetry and I discovered the Little Tailor. the site has some great images but the translation leaves a lot to be desired
“Model statement: there is a wave pattern of tights which claims to have a massage effect of fat push in order to allow the meat to squeeze in more than a lap to the waist but the figure can see completely useless. the only normal waist, he did not have any so called magic to do it.
In the 16th century corsets were made of iron or brass. they were beautifully intricate but must have been hell to wear. both sexes wore them for orthopedic support as well as for body shape manipulation
Mary Rouncefield makes amazing corset art. here are two of her metal creations
the freakiest corset wearer is this 70 year old pensioner who is in the guinness book of records for having the smallest waist. my corset photography days will be put to rest long before I reach her age.
what I want most to add to my collection is the mario brothers corset or this particularly lovely one at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
for extreme corsets of a totally different kind, check out Paddy Hartley’s face corsets. they make for confronting viewing but it’s art for a good cause…..
on October 27, 2008 at 8:06 am Comments (21)
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On October 27, 2008 at 8:19 am Alex L. said:
Kind of mixed message in the mario corset though dont you think. He doesnt scream sex to me… but thats just me.
On October 27, 2008 at 8:48 am kyknoord said:
As long as there are no Barney the Dinosaur corsets… there aren’t, are there?
On October 27, 2008 at 8:57 am nursemyra said:
not as far as I can tell…. yet…..
On October 27, 2008 at 9:08 am Lizza said:
The Mario Brothers corset is adorable, but the woman with the one-inch waist (looks like, haha) is scary.
the scariest thing is that she reminds me of babyjane – one of our patients who’s now moved on to that great nursing home in the sky.
On October 27, 2008 at 9:39 am tNb said:
I am in love with the corset at the Met … *sigh*
me too. isn’t it exquisite?
On October 27, 2008 at 11:07 am daisyfae said:
Creepy Wasp-Waist Barbie – now in the “Clearance” bins at Toys R Us…
On October 27, 2008 at 12:13 pm The Unbearable Banishment said:
Male corsets? Brass construction? Really? Oh, the pain! Oh, the vanity!
On October 27, 2008 at 1:05 pm Dolce said:
I like the properly boned ones. The others just make me look like an attractively wrapped sausage.
On October 27, 2008 at 2:32 pm silverstar98121 said:
OK, those metal corsets are scary. Corsets should be used as you use them, for allure. Half the women in the Victorian age had the vapors because their corsets were so tight they couldn’t breathe. Personally, I think the best thing that happened in my lifetime is that women abandoned girdles.
On October 27, 2008 at 2:37 pm twin said:
I was in a production of Cloud Nine during college. One of my characters was corset bound (properly boned & laced in). After the production was over….I threw out every corset I owned (at the time).
On October 27, 2008 at 5:43 pm Daddy Papersurfer said:
If you don’t buy that Mario corset I shall!
On October 27, 2008 at 7:12 pm 70steen said:
Another vote for the Met corset from me … simply gorgeous, elegant and way sexy…… unlike the freaky granny ‘shudder’
On October 27, 2008 at 8:07 pm Rassles said:
Whatever, that Mario corset turns me on.
On October 27, 2008 at 8:48 pm nursemyra said:
how do you feel about roadrunner, rassles?
On October 27, 2008 at 9:05 pm renalfailure said:
A woman in a Mario corset is a woman who can win my geeky heart. A woman in a Legend of Zelda corset, however, is a woman who WILL win my geeky heart.
On October 27, 2008 at 11:12 pm thegnukid said:
i saw that 15″ small-waisted wonder on Snopes recently. amazing.
are the cartoon corsets for kids?
On October 28, 2008 at 3:18 am Anita Marie said:
I adore the one under the Mario corset…actually I love them both.
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Your Guide to the Most Common Yoga Styles
There are many different yoga styles, and if you understand the differences, chances are you’re going to get way more out of the ancient practice than you would otherwise.
Just think: Say you try a class, find yourself suffering on your mat the whole time, and then swear off the practice for good. That’s like trying on a pair of jeans that just don’t work for you and declaring you’ll never wear jeans again. You wouldn’t do that. Instead, you’d try a different style. Maybe high-waisted is more your jam than the low-rise pair you first reached for.
So, to help you get a handle on all of the various ways to stand in tree pose and flow through sun salutations, we’re breaking down five common types of yoga and who they work best for.
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The important thing to understand is that many modern approaches to yoga incorporate elements from multiple styles. If your local class is all about flowing for the first half and then being still in deeper poses later on, the studio is probably borrowing from both vinyasa and Iyengar. So, once you have an understanding of some of these classic yoga styles, you’ll have to apply that knowledge to understanding what a studio offers.
Sounds a little complicated, we know. But don’t worry: It all ends in savasana.
Common Yoga Styles: The Basics
What it is: If you hear the word, “flow,” that usually signifies vinyasa. Vinyasa yoga involves moving through sequences of poses fluidly, along with the cadence of your breath. For example, it usually includes sun salutations, where you’re breathing in and out as you forward fold, chaturanga, up dog, and then down dog.
Where you’ll find it: Pretty much everywhere. It’s the most common yoga class offered at modern studios and gyms.
Who it’s for: Vinyasa is super accessible, so it’s great for beginners and more experienced yogis. (Many studios offer differing levels.) Because it involves a lot of steady movement, it can also be a great workout, and people who are looking to sweat and get some cardio in while doing yoga often choose it.
What it is: Ashtanga is like vinyasa with the volume turned up a few notches. Instead of flowing through poses as a group as a teacher cues you, you learn the sequences, memorize them, and then practice them on your own. It’s a particularly structured and physically rigorous practice, with several difficult poses that require a lot of strength.
Where you’ll find it: Some yoga studios that offer various styles will have ashtanga on the schedule, but there are also many studios that focus exclusively on ashtanga. “Power yoga” is also typically an outgrowth of ashtanga, although purists see it is a very different approach.
Who it’s for: You’ve got to be someone who is into self-discipline and self-motivation and be looking for serious physical challenges.
What it is: Iyengar is all about precision and props. Instead of flowing through poses, you get super set up in a single posture, often with props like blocks and straps to help you really nail the form. Then you hang out in a pose for a bit, breathing through it.
Where you’ll find it: There are many studios dedicated solely to Iyengar and some studios that have multiple styles also put it on the schedule.
Who it’s for: Iyengar is less of a “workout” practice and is more therapeutic. If you’re trying to work on flexibility and posture, it’s super helpful. It’s great for athletes who need to balance out intense training and people with issues like back pain, since teachers help you carefully execute poses in ways that work for your body.
What it is: Bikram yoga used to be interchangeable with “hot yoga.” Then everyone found out Bikram was an awful human (he’s been called “the Harvey Weinstein of yoga”). What ended up happening is that many studios dropped the name “Bikram” from their name and marketing but still offer the style, which is essentially moving through 26 poses, which you hold for a bit, in a room that’s heated to over 100 degrees.
Where you’ll find it: As mentioned, many studios have “hot yoga” in their name. While many of them offer a variation on Bikram’s style, others also have taken the heat part of the equation and applied to other styles. CorePower and Y7, for example, offer vinyasa style classes in heated rooms.
Who it’s for: If you like to sweat a lot, hot yoga is for you. (As in, you’ll look like you went swimming afterward.) Many people love the added challenge the heat brings, others hate how it feels.
What it is: Yin is for when you’re going to yoga to relax. Forget standing; you are basically sitting or laying down the whole time, holding restorative poses for long periods of time (like three to five minutes).
Where you’ll find it: A lot of studios offer one or two of these classes a week in addition to their regular programming, for yogis who need to take a break from the more physical stuff to slow down.
Who it’s for: If the period of any yoga class where you lay down in pigeon pose is your favorite part, you’ll love this. Yin is for chilling out on your mat and stretching in ways that don’t require exertion—and almost all of us need that sometimes.
What it is: Kundalini is what many mainstream people would call the most “woo woo.” Its founder had some seriously out-there theories related to the universe, and the practice involves repeating movements over and over (like, a million yogi squats in a row), lots of chanting, intense breathing techniques, and even singing.
Where you’ll find it: Usually at specific kundalini centers.
Who it’s for: If you are into crystals, astrology, and believe strongly in the power of “energy,” you’re going to love it. If chanting “om” once at the end of a vinyasa class makes you uncomfortable, skip this one.
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Ch 118 – Attending The Yearly Reunion
That day, there were also other bounty hunters that had completed their missions but just not as fast as Lei Yu. Even though he was only a First Rank Bounty Hunter, but how many people actually knew his true strength? Since Lei Yu had just applied to become a bounty hunter, then it was natural that he was assigned to the lowest rank.
Lei Yu didn’t go off to accept another mission, he just returned to his hotel. His purpose was to wait until the evening because Hu Jiong’s mission had to be handled at night. The guild was simply unable to find out where the target was during the day.
Since there was nothing to do but wait, Lei Yu started cultivating. Hu Jiong also followed and sat down cross-legged. Because Lei Yu no longer had the Spiritual Bead of Longevity to help him purify the spiritual energy he absorbs, there was no longer any need for him to take his clothes off. Not to mention there was someone with him here so Lei Yu definitely couldn’t do that.
But it wasn’t even a few minutes before Lei Yu’s cell phone started ringing. Looking at the caller ID, Lei Yu stood up and went inside the bedroom and over to the window before he answered it with a smile.
“My dear beloved, did you miss me?” After saying that, Lei Yu felt some goose bumps rise up; he had actually never said those words to Ai Er before.
“Did you do something against your conscience? To actually say such sweet words to me that is making me nauseous!” Said Ai Er jokingly in her beautiful voice.
“So that’s how it is, then I won’t call you that in the future.”
“No! I like being nauseous!”
“Okay, enough with the joking, I have some good news for you.”
Lei Yu scratched his head, “what sort of good news?”
“I’ll be attending my school’s reunion, are you going to meet with me? Where are you right now? You’re not together with some other girl right?” Asked Ai Er with a laugh.
“A girl?” Lei Yu looked over at the rough looking Hu Jiong whose face was filled with stubbles. He then lightly coughed, “if he was a girl, then the earth would probably stop moving.” Pausing for a bit, he then said: “Why didn’t you tell me in advance? I could have picked you up at the airport!”
“I was just waiting for those words; I’ll be waiting at the airport!” Hanging up the call, Lei Yu shook his head helplessly.
Ai Er said she came to attend her school’s reunion but in fact was using this as an excuse to see Lei Yu. Ever since Lei Yu encountered “that” situation in the Kou country, Ai Er’s heart was fearful of a repeat. She felt that staying by Lei Yu’s side would be a better move.
Putting on his coat in a hurry, Lei Yu gave Hu Jiong a brief explanation before leaving the hotel. The two agreed to contact each other during the evening.
Surprisingly, there weren’t a lot of people at the airport. Lei Yu had just arrived at the airport and observed Ai Er’s figure. The first thing they did was give each other a big hug before Lei Yu immediately drove Ai Er to her school.
When Ai Er went to school abroad, it was actually a famous New York University in the U.S. She had received the school’s invitation to attend their annual reunion in the past, but because Lei Yu was still in Tenglong country for the past two years, Ai Er did not fly back to attend. And since Lei Yu was coincidentally in the U.S. this time, Ai Er had found her ideal excuse.
The university campus in New York City was very pretty. The buildings were nice and the green grounds were beautiful. The school had a large number of wealthy students so when Lei Yu and Ai Er arrived, their car didn’t attract too much attention; some students only took an extra glance and whatnot.
“Are there any themes to the reunion?” Asked Lei Yu.
“There’s none, just a simple reception. But before going in, there are some fellow students I want to meet up with first, can we wait for them?” Said Ai Er as she looked around looking for them.
Lei Yu nodded before relaxing his hands on the steering wheel. Tapping the wheel in boredom, he casually checked out the surrounding landscape of the school.
“Hey! We’re over here!” Ai Er shouted loudly in English. Lei Yu didn’t not turn to look and already concluded the fellow student Ai Er was waiting for, was a westerner.
Two beautiful young Caucasian girls who gave off an exotic aura came over. The clothes they had on was a stark contrast to what Ai Er was wearing; Ai Er was only in a t-shirt and jeans.
As for the two pretty girls, they were both wearing mini-skirts. Their shirts were extra short which revealed their seductive navels. It seems they had prepared beforehand; apart from the difference in colors, their styles were exactly the same.
Lei Yu checked out the two exotic beauties; one had long brown wavy hair with healthy skin tone that showed off her wild nature. The other girl had blonde hair and blue eyes, and her snow white skin was the lethal killer which was the preference of Tenglong people. The two girls ran forth and gave Ai Er a passionate hug.
“This is my boyfriend.” Ai Er casually pointed at Lei Yu as an introduction.
Lei Yu dashingly jumped out of the car before smiling and shaking the hands of the two girls. But it appears the girls were more direct and enthusiastic; they gave Lei Yu a close contact hug and touched their smooth cheeks against his.
“Your boyfriend is really good looking!” The two girls smiled as they praised Ai Er.
In reality, it wasn’t that Lei Yu’s looks were outstanding; it’s just that when one was observing him up close, Lei Yu’s charming eyes gave off an aura that made many girls infatuated. Add his tall and chiseled body, and the toned muscular outlines of his arms, this total package was the key that seduced the girls.
Lei Yu gently curved his lips and gave his signature smile, “Hello, my name is Lei Yu.”
“Kelly.”
“Mona.”
“It’s nice to meet you.” The two girls said in unison.
Towards those two girls, Lei Yu wasn’t particularly friendly or cold. Following behind the three, Lei Yu watched them laughing and joking about while they reminisced. He was kind of ignored but Lei Yu didn’t care, he actually didn’t want anyone’s attention. Being in the spotlight of attention was what some people desired, but Lei Yu belonged to the type that was opposite of that and preferred to be low profile.
Fortunately, no one recognized the name “Lei Yu” as the young master that had caused a sensation online and throughout the world. If he were to be recognized, there’s a chance something sensational might happen.
The three walked under the shade of a tree. “If we only had a camera, we haven’t taken a group picture in a long time.” Ai Er said this somewhat disappointedly as she looked at the school scenery that hadn’t changed one bit.
Lei Yu scratched his head and then closed his eyes without anyone realizing it. A small black bag suddenly appeared in his hand which he passed it to Ai Er, “here’s a camera for you.”
Ai Er had a distracted look while a camera was suddenly thrust in front of her. She didn’t think too much and thought Lei Yu had the camera the whole time and she didn’t notice it. Not surprised, she took the camera and the three girls began to go crazy with selfies. They put up a whole bunch of different sexy poses that gave Lei Yu the goose bumps.
Sometimes following several girls around was kind of boring. Being alone with their girlfriends was the atmosphere guys preferred.
Time seemed to be going by very slowly. Lei Yu said in a bored tone: “Do you want me to get you girls a drink?”
Ai Er pointed to a convenience store in the distance so Lei Yu started walking towards it.
When he was about a dozen or so meters from the convenience store, Lei Yu slightly frowned. A young girl passed him which caused Lei Yu to suddenly wonder, “such a young age and she already has the strength of a Third Order Warrior?”
Looking at her hair and skin color, Lei Yu assumed this girl was an American girl. This was because the girl’s demeanor and attitude was of a typical American.
Lei Yu wanted to investigate this because the young girl did not have the spiritual aura of a mutant. But he couldn’t just follow along behind the girl’s ass right now right? Moreover, Ai Er and the two girls were still waiting for him back there so what should he do?
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Perri’s Coverage of SXSW 2014
Check out all of my reviews, interviews and event coverage from SXSW 2014 by clicking on the links below …
Ping Pong Summer
The Wilderness of James
Space Station 76
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Horror Round-Up with 13 Sins, The Guest, Honeymoon, Oculus, Stage Fright, Starry Eyes, Creep and Open Windows
Leigh Whannell & Angus Sampson on The Mule
Patrick Brice & Mark Duplass on Creep
Robert Rodriguez on From Dusk Till Dawn
Eiza Gonzalez, Wilmer Valderrama, D.J. Cotrona & Zane Holtz on From Dusk Till Dawn
Patrick Wilson, Matt Bomer & Jack Plotnick on Space Station 76
Jason Blum on Oculus
Karen Gillan on Oculus
Mike Flanagan on Oculus
Sophia Takal & Alia Shawkat on Wild Canaries
Nacho Vigalondo & Elijah Wood on Open Windows
Lenny Abrahamson on Frank
Kat Candler on Hellion
Jerome Sable & Eli Batalion on Stage Fright
Stephen Plunkett, John Magary & Josh Lucas on The Mend
Michael Johnson, Isabelle Fuhrman & Glenn Howerton on The Wilderness of James
Evan Goldberg on Neighbors
Riley Stearns, Leland Orser & Mary Elizabeth Winstead on Faults
Pat Healy, Travis Stevens, Alex Essoe, Dennis Widmyer & Kevin Kolsch on Starry Eyes
Jeremy Sisto on Break Point
Leigh Janiak on Honeymoon
Harry Lloyd & Bryan Reisberg on Big Significant Things
Jon Favreau on Chef
Gareth Edwards on Godzilla
Godzilla Footage
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Interview: The Cast and Crew of Insidious Chapter 2
First it secured a slew of positive reviews, then it snagged $13.3 million its opening weekend at the box office and after that, Insidious went on to spend a whopping five months in theaters and take a total of $97 million at the world wide box office – all on a $1.5 million budget! 2011’s Insidious absolutely earned its sequel.
Insidious Chapter 2 kicks off right where the first film left off. Josh Lambert (Patrick Wilson) has just returned from The Further with his astral projecting son, Dalton (Ty Simpkins), and the family gets a glimmer of hope that they no longer run the risk of losing another Lambert to the spirit world. However, almost immediately after relocating to Josh’s mother’s (Barbara Hershey) house, the bumps in the night and eerie baby monitor noises are back and it becomes apparent that Josh didn’t return from The Further alone.
Tagged as Insidious, Insidious Chapter 2, Interview, James Wan, Jason Blum, Leigh Whannell, Lin Shaye, Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne
Review: Paranormal Activity 3
With the Saw franchise over and done with, Paranormal Activity finally has the holiday all to itself. If you’re like me, you were rather used to Saw’s Halloween splash, spending the holiday watching helpless victims get ripped limb from limb, blood splattering everywhere and a puppet ride around on a tricycle. No, it wasn’t quality filmmaking, but it was tradition and holiday appropriate. Well, no more settling necessary. The Paranormal Activity franchise has not only continued to deliver quality material, but now, with three films under its belt, shows it has the potential at being a viable and worthy long standing tradition.
Round three picks up just before the events of the first two films, in 2005. Sisters Katie and Kristi (Katie Featherston and Sprague Grayden) are in incoming baby Hunter’s freshly painted room. While there, Katie also takes the opportunity to unload some unwanted keepsakes, an old box of VHS tapes. Next year, Kristi’s house is burglarized and the only item missing is that very box of tapes.
Jump back to 1988. Young Katie and Kristi (Chloe Csengery and Jessica Tyler Brown) are doing the usual for girls their age – having tea parties, celebrating birthdays and getting dressed up for picture day at school. However, little Kristi also has another hobby, talking to her invisible friend Toby. While her mother, Julie (Lauren Bittner) writes the behavior off as mere child’s play, Julie’s live-in boyfriend, Dennis (Christopher Nicholas Smith), becomes obsessed with Toby and the strange and inexplicable bumps in the night. In true Paranormal Activity form, he arms up with video cameras and sets them up around the house, determined to find out what’s going on while they sleep.
Tagged as Ariel Schulman, Chloe Csengery, Christopher Nicholas Smith, Dustin Ingram, Henry Joost, Jason Blum, Jessica Tyler Brown, Katie Featherston, Lauren Bittner, Oren Peli, Paranormal Activity, Paranormal Activity 3, Review, Sprague Grayden
Interview: Insidious’ Rose Byrne
Knowing was kind of creepy and 28 Weeks Laterpretty suspenseful, but you’ve never seen Rose Byrne handle horror as she does in Insidious. She stars as Renai, a loving mother and wife who moves into a brand new home with her family. While exploring their creepy new abode, their eldest son, Dalton (Ty Simpkins), falls off a ladder and winds up in an inexplicable coma. With no sound reason for Dalton’s condition, he’s sent home from the hospital and that’s when the truly horrifying events begin.
Not only is Renai bearing quite a bit of emotional baggage at the start of the film, but the pressure continues to build throughout. Look at this from Byrne’s prospective; not only does she have to take her character through an intense arc, but she also must envelop herself in this supernatural world all while under the pressure of having just 22 days to shoot the film. Tough stuff, right? Maybe, but not for Byrne.
Byrne only had the best to say about this project from working with stellar co-stars to her top-notch team of horror filmmakers which includes Saw vets James Wan and Leigh Whannell as well as Paranormal Activity’s Oren Peli and Jason Blum. For any actress looking to dive into the genre, Byrne certainly surrounded herself with the right people. The only downside to that? They’re quite eager to throw you into some pretty horrifying situations. Hear all about Byrne’s experience makingInsidious in the interview below and, if you don’t mind losing some sleep, be sure to check out the film’s bumps in the night firsthand when the film hits theaters on April 1st.
Tagged as Insidious, Interview, James Wan, Jason Blum, Leigh Whannell, Oren Peli, Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins
Review: Insidious
It’s taken three months, but we’ve finally got a 2011 horror film worth seeing; something overwhelmingly unnerving with the power to keep you up at night, Insidious. It’s got a little Nightmare on Elm Street, a part The Exorcist and a hint of Paranormal Activity, too and the results certainly honor genre expectations all while delivering an exhilarating, unique and horrifyingly unpredictable experience.
Josh and Renai (Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne) are a pretty happy couple. They’ve had their issues, but are leaving them behind by moving into a beautiful new home with their three children. All is well until their eldest son, Dalton (Ty Simpkins), opts to do some exploring and winds up falling off a ladder in the attic. The next morning, Dalton won’t wake up. Josh and Renai take him to the hospital, but only to find out that he’s inexplicably in a coma.
Three months pass and now, not only is Dalton still in his state, but Josh and Renai have a new problem on their hands, strange and downright terrifying bumps in the night. When Renai comes to the conclusion that their new abode is haunted, unlike in any other film of the genre, the family actually moves. However, house swapping doesn’t rid them of their ghostly guests, rather intensifies the situation.
Tagged as Andrew Astor, Angus Sampson, Barbara Hershey, Insidious, James Wan, Jason Blum, Leigh Whannell, Lin Shaye, Oren Peli, Patrick Wilson, Review, Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins
Interview: Insidious’ Patrick Wilson
After the success of the Saw franchise and Paranormal Activity, who passes up the opportunity to work with James Wan, Leigh Whannell, Jason Blum and Oren Peli on a horror flick? Certainly not Patrick Wilson and who teamed up not only with the best of the best in the horror genre, but a talented cast too, for Insidious.
In Insidious, Wilson stars alongside Rose Byrne as Josh and Renai Lambert, a generally happy couple with promising careers and three cute kids. Problems arise when one of their kids, Dalton (Ty Simpkins), falls off a ladder and winds up in a coma – or so the doctors think. You think that’s bad? Just wait until a little while later when Dalton’s still in this state and the bumps in the night begin.
After having done big budget action films like A-Team and Watchmen, this independently run experience was a nice change of pace for Wilson. The team may have had just 22 days to film the entire feature, but between Wilson’s natural chemistry with Byrne, his existing relationship with Simpkins and enthusiasm for the unique script, making Insidious was a wholly natural and successful process. Hear all about it straight from Patrick Wilson himself in the video interview below.
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For most Americans, persecution of Christians is happening only somewhere over there in other countries. Certainly it can’t be happening here, not in the United States of America! Christians in America assume they are safe from persecution.
But they are not safe.
Persecution begins gradually and accelerates stage by stage. Christians in America should recognize they are well into the third stage of persecution.
The first stage began with attempts to stereotype the Christian group. Our former president summed up the left’s views of people of faith when in 2008, he categorized working-class voters in the following way:
“[I]t’s not surprising, then, that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
For nearly all the left, people of faith were considered the inhibitors of “progress,” and they deserve being caricatured as Bible-thumpers, and therefore ignorant, uneducated, backward hicks and rednecks.
The second stage of persecution involved justifying hatred for Christianity. As the progressive religion accelerated and consolidated its agenda, it justified vilification of Christians who refused to embrace their radical views. Christians were portrayed as regressive barbarians who determined to resist the hope and change forced on them by the State. Those who opposed the fundamental transformation the left desires were described as close-minded, harmful to human dignity and freedom, intolerant, hateful, bigoted, unfair, homophobic, reactionary, and just plain mean and basically bad people.
In stage three Christians are marginalized and selectively persecuted. This stage involves criminalizing Christians and their churches, businesses, and educational institutions. This stage is well and alive in America today. It began with Christians like Kent Hovind, and is currently rapidly increasing in our society while Christians argue about trivial things.
An increasing amount of litigation is being directed against the Church and other Christians for daring to live out our faith[.] … It is clear that attempts to criminalize Christian behavior is a growth sector in this culture and it signals the beginning of the steady erosion of religious liberty. Many indeed feel quite righteous, quite politically correct in their work to separate the practice of the faith from the public square.
— Monsignor Pope
Most Christians are unaware about the selective and targeted persecution happening before their eyes today, in fact they often side with the persecutors not the persecuted deeming those cases as the fault of gullible Christians who either didn’t pay their taxes, or did not consider carefully all of the laws of the United States. This kind of thinking by-in-large by the Body of Christ allows proliferation of persecution here in America today. And if Christians do not wake up and push back against these targeted and strategic assaults by our Government and Corporations, we will enter a fourth stage of the persecution.
Stage five involves persecuting Christians outright. It may involve forcing Christians to go against their Biblical teachings by insisting that pastors marry gays, as Frank Bruni of the NY Times recently advocated. It then may move on to make religious institutions adhere to government “health” mandates, including provision of abortion services.
It may include the levying of heavy fines, such as the proposed $135,000 fine against bakers who refused to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding. The general idea is to force the person to perform acts against his Biblical beliefs and his rooted faith in God, much like the SS forcing Jews to eat pork on Yom Kippur.
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‘Lego Movie’ a stop-motion success
By Ian Flanagan / Staff Writer
Directed by: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
Starring: Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks
From afar, “The Lego Movie” may seem like a shameless cash-in on a recognizable toy brand in the vein of the recent G.I. Joe movies or “Battleship,” but upon proper examination, the film is far more of a nostalgia-driven comedy enriched by razor-sharp writing, light-speed pacing and wondrous animation.
But there was little reason to worry about the film’s potentially abysmal results, considering the talent behind it. Budding writer-director duo Phil Lord and Christopher Miller have swiftly and faultlessly marched to the throne of comedy kings in their short time together and haven’t missed a single step with their latest creation.
Following “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” — arguably the funniest animated film in recent memory — and the hilarious surprise that was “21 Jump Street,” directors Lord and Miller have kept their promising streak of success surging forward with “The Lego Movie,” which boasts a similarly infectious high-spiritedness and a number of self-referential jokes whizzing by so fast that multiple viewings will be necessary to catch the movie’s more subtle gags.
The unexpectedly complex story revolves around the definitively normal Emmet (Chris Pratt). His happy but empty existence is shaken up once he is presumed to be the “Special,” the most important master builder in the Lego universe, and prophesied to overthrow dystopian-esque dictator Lord Business (Will Ferrell) in his continued efforts to thwart creativity and incite strict order. Emmet, after stumbling upon the Piece of Resistance, which is key to defeating Business, is assisted by Vitruvius (Morgan Freeman), a sorcerer with knowledge of the prophecy, and the aggressive Wyldstyle (Elizabeth Banks). Along the way, many iconic and amusing supporting characters make appearances — including Batman, Superman and Abraham Lincoln. All are voiced by countless big-name actors such as Will Arnett, Jonah Hill and Charlie Day.
In addition to the pleasant irritation of guessing the many voice actors, “The Lego Movie” is truly a visual wonderland, wholly realized and astonishingly intricate. The film avoids any sense of artificiality by utilizing a disarmingly old-fashioned stop-motion style of animation, which looks far more unique and handcrafted than any other entirely computer-animated film. Sequences involving explosions or, in the most breathtaking shots of the film, water, are dazzling. This film feels alive.
Though the film’s vibrant energy at times does verge on the manic — the film doesn’t stay in one place for more than five minutes — the sure-handed direction of Lord and Miller thankfully breeds breathless beauty rather than numbing overkill.
Regardless of what is printed on a box of Legos, this movie is for everyone. The film is so few in flaws, so free of cutesiness and wearying pop-culture references and so effortlessly delightful that it is hard to imagine a depressing type of person who would be unmoved by “Lego’s” absolute blissfulness.
Be warned, however: The deliriously catchy song “Everything is Awesome” will rattle in your brain long after you’ve left the theater. This would be aggravating only if “The Lego Movie” was anything less than awesome.
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Secret of Mana – Whispers from a Verdant Grove [Mini-Tribute Album]
It’s been a while since our last Mini-Album, but it’s time to release a new one!
And for that we decided to make a tribute to the iconic OST of Secret of Mana, that was remade (for the best and worst).
And so “Whispers from a Verdant Grove” was born!
You can download our album for free by clicking on this picture =>
Or directly with this link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/u9279j7ujdtbdz4/Pixel+Mixers+-+Whispers+from+a+Verdant+Grove+%5BSecret+of+Mana%5D.zip
This Mini-Album features 14 songs from the soundtrack composed by Hiroki Hikuta for SquareSoft in 1993.
25 musicians worked on those rearrangements, the length of the album is a bit more than 49 minutes.
This is, I think, one of our most cohesive album since “Huntress“ (our Metroid 2D Games Album), music style speaking, with a lot of acoustic instruments, like woodwinds or acoustic guitars, for the majority of the songs. And then a kind of old-school prog/fusion-ish feeling for the others.
Even if the few songs with a different style there is always a little something that feels like the songs go well together!
If you want a taste of our album before downloading, here is a trailer:
You can vote for your favourite tracks with this poll: https://www.strawpoll.me/16171790
And a huge THANK YOU to every one of you who downloaded this album 😀
– Project Director: Hashel https://www.youtube.com/c/Hashel
– Artwork: Mind Waker https://www.artstation.com/mind_waker
– Album Mastering: Dacian Grada https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVDkhWI0arWWOzjKgVd3S2Q
Cool Links:
– Pixel Mixers FB https://www.facebook.com/PixelMixers/
– Pixel Mixers Twitter https://twitter.com/Pixel_Mixers
– Pixel Mixers Discord https://discord.gg/2YmK66G
Don’t hesitate to check our 18 previous free VGM Tribute Albums: https://pixel-mixers.com/2018/04/08/pixel-mixers-albums-list/
I hope you’ll like “Whispers from a Verdant Grove”
Stay tuned for our next projects:
– Castlevania Series Album (pre 1995 era)
– Shovel Knight Mini-Album
Pixel Mixers in 21 days of Video Game Music (Part 1)
July 1st to 21st took place the #21daysofVGM challenge launched by Video Game Music Academy. The challenge consists in writing a short piece of music every day for 21 days in a row, in order to make composition part of the daily routine of a musician.
Some brave Pixel Mixers embarked upon this exciting adventure, so we decided to interview them. But first, why not pushing the “play” button here below to listen to a selection of the entries while reading about our members’ experience.
We asked our members what motivated them to take on the challenge, what they feel were the major benefits and difficulties.
The first to answer these questions was Dacian Grada, the highly prolific synth-metal cover artist on YouTube. “I’m not really used to composing original music, so this was the perfect opportunity to hone my skills.” he said, “The real benefit for me was the sense of accomplishment from doing a new original composition every day, often really different from the previous one, making me realize I can in fact do some original stuff if I put my mind into it. Coming up with original melodies was (and still is) the biggest challenge, i still need to learn how to properly do one, but I feel I’ve definitely improved with this!”.
Listen to Dacian’s entries.
Mind Waker was already featured on this website, and didn’t disappoint in this challenge delivering as usual tracks of great variety. “I just made it for the challenge, but I’m happy to have some ideas to work on later – there were few tunes I definitely want to polish to full songs. The hardest part later on was just to come up with something interesting” he continues, “sometimes you just need to go with the uninspiring idea and work on it until it sounds interesting. The important part is just to finish and work on something and not to wait for the inspiration”.
Listen to Mind Waker’s entries
Relatively new in the Pixel Mixers community, Moonbike surely didn’t waste his chance to prove himself a skilled and eclectic composer.“I love participating in game jams, and I love composing original video game songs. It’s hard to finish these pieces sometimes, especially under tight deadlines, so I thought this challenge would be a great way to practice completing songs in a timely manner and build the habit of composing every day. This challenge also pushed me to grow as a composer and expand my repertoire of techniques – which is invaluable – and introduced me to many other talented composers! […] The hardest part was finding the time to work on a new piece every day. It was a time sink, and often took hours out of my day when I had other things to do. Sharing my completed tracks with other participants definitely motivated me to keep going.”.
Listen to Moonbike’s entries.
As the name suggests, Piano Game Knight is a pure pianist, mostly known for his Chrono Cross piano covers. He told us of his experience in the challenge too: “I mainly wanted to level up my piano improv skills by composing ideas from my head to the piano based on the prompts/challenges given to myself. Also to get out of my comfort zone by challenging myself to create something daily and sticking to that schedule to the end even if I’m busy with life and work. The biggest benefit for me, in the end, was having 21 ideas that we could build upon in the future for ourselves and maybe make an album! Also it was nice to see different people’s approaches to the challenge”.
Listen to Piano Game Knight’s entries.
Despite different motivations and obstacles, all these musicians agree on one thing: composing everyday is challenging, but a great learning experience, especially in a context like the #21daysofVGM, where plenty of people make this together and provide feedback and encouragement each other.
P.S. If you listened carefully to the playlist in the beginning, you have heard tracks from artists not in this list. Did we interview them? Stay tuned to find out!
Aliased Road by Alek Fleischer [EP]
Those who follow Pixel Mixers are surely familiar with Alek Fleischer‘s glitchy, granulous, intricately textured synth sounds and ambiences. Well, he just released his EP “Aliased Road”, where he surely delivers the electronic goodness you’d expect from him.
I live in Washington and I’m 18 years old, but I was born in Oregon and have been making electronic music in some capacity since I was only nine. (It understandably didn’t sound that good at the time). I think a lot of Pixel Mixers started with covers right off the bat and are only recently branching out into originals, but I went through the opposite process. Generally I see original music as my main musical focus and VGM covers as a side gig (albeit a very rewarding one!), so I’m excited to share it here.
I’ve done a couple tiny game soundtracks (including for my own solo development). These include “Quality Television”, an absurd puzzle game I made about hypnotizing guards with a TV, and “OVERFOWL”, an action-focused jam game by a collaborator about overflowing your stats. Early on, I spent a lot of time making bizarre little demos. You can find some of these in an earlier album, “Vertical Slice”. It only covers a fraction of that; you’ll likely see more of it in future releases. But over time, I’ve become a lot more focused and consistently happy with my production. These abandoned tracks become less and less common the more recent in the project file list you look.
That progression culminates in “Aliased Road”, which is entirely comprised of tracks made this year for specifically this purpose. It’s a glitchy synthwave EP. Even though it’s a short album, I tried to take the listener on a journey. It opens with a banger, but that first track unexpectedly ends with breaking down into glitchy breakbeats. The album gets wilder as it goes, and was a lot of fun to experiment with! That first track’s followed by pseudo-ambient pieces with modular percussion, melodies made from glitch sounds, and intense tracks reminiscent of French EDM. But however weird it gets, it never loses sight of its synthwave roots. I hope you enjoy it!
~Alek Fleischer~
You can listen to “Aliased Road” on Spotify or purchase it on Bandcamp or iTunes.
Alek’s Social Media:
Gravity by Danilo Ciaffi [EP]
Danilo Ciaffi, a regular Pixel Mixers‘ member, known for the quality of his arrangements and mixes, but also for his composer skills, has released his 1st EP “Gravity“!
I am 25 years old and, after many years around Europe, I settled to live in my home-town, Rome.
I just graduated in pure mathematics while being a part-time freelance composer, and I’m now trying to make these two passions of mine coexist in the world of sound technologies.
I started making music at the age of 15, when I picked up a cheap guitar with the intent of writing down some songs ideas I had in mind.
Through the years I played and composed in pretty much any genre, until at the age of 20 I started getting into narrative music and soundtracks. I am currently scoring a video game and working on my own concept album.
Inspiration can come from literally anything: a picture, a sound I like, a story I want to tell or I just wake up with a motif in mind.
In any case I tend to start with very small seeds and grow them until they become a full piece (or more). The most part of the process comes in fact after the sparkle, at the time to expand on your little fragment of music, to choose the sound you want and to work on making your idea into a finished track.
“Gravity” was born when some friends asked me to write the music for a side-scrolling game set in a space station.
The game got cancelled eventually, but I got really interested in the kind of sonority I was exploring and kept working on it. I took inspiration from the sound of 80’s synths, but I also wanted my tracks to feel modern and “digital”, which was a very instructive and fun challenge.
~Danilo Ciaffi~
You can listen to Gravity on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/4ZZG2uJ6KrK12dVugKB9uN#_=_
Or buy it on Bandcamp:
https://danilociaffi.bandcamp.com/album/gravity
Danilo’s Social Medias:
Pixel Mixers FAQ
Pixel Mixers in general:
– What gear or equipment do I need to make covers for Pixel Mixers?
All you need is something that allows you to record yourself with a decent sound quality, could be guitar interface, midi controller, mics… Or you can directly write midi into your DAW. Speaking of DAWs it’s what you need to “mix” your songs, the most used within PM community is Reaper for its free demo (or affordable full version) and user-friendly interface
– Does Pixel Mixers accept donations?
For now we haven’t set any donation system. The only costs for PM are the annual €99 for the wordpress premium account. For now the best you can do to help is to share our albums or website around you and make Pixel Mixers known.
– What makes this community different from others such as OCRemix, Materia Collective, etc..?
First of all, we make free albums, like OCR but unlike Materia Collective or GamelarkRemixes. Which also means we do not license our albums.
We are still new and we do not have the reputation of OCR or Materia Collective that benefits from a great number of active and “famous” members.
We also try to stay “beginner friendly” and help new members to learn to improve their mix and arrangements.
Finally we do organize monthly VGM contests where the people who might “not be ready for albums yet” can practice and improve and benefit from feedback from the other contestants.
Pixel Mixers Discord Server:
– What are the benefits of joining the Pixel Mixers Discord server?
The Discord server is the heart of PM’s community life. We use Discord to talk together, organize albums, discuss contests and covers, look for collab partners, and determine future projects with polls. So if you want to be at the core of what Pixel Mixers is, if you want your opinion to be heard, meet other people sharing the same passion and keep track of all the projects, that’s the place to be!
– What’s the best way to stay informed about Pixel Mixers albums and projects?
Join the Discord server and keep an eye to the #announcements room for all official news! We also have other places worth checking like this website, the Facebook, the Twitter, the Youtube Channel and the VGCover Subreddit.
– How do roles work, what are their purpose?
There are 2 kind of roles, the ones you can’t assign to yourself such as:
– Pixel Mixers: you’ll get this role after engaging a bit with the community (usually between 80 and 100 messages). This role will give you a custom colour based on your “instrument role” (see bellow) and access to post in the #shareyourcovers room on Discord.
– Quality Control Team: This team checks the quality of songs destined to be on PM albums and provides feedback and tips for improvement.
Only mods and admins can give this role. QCT members are volunteers who greatly help the community, anyone can volunteers as long as you have experience in mixing.
– Mods: they are the Pixel Mixers staff, they moderate the Discord and have some roles in the community life, like organizing contests, mastering the albums, making articles for the website, setting the Discord or the bot, finding ideas to improve the community life and PM in general, promote the albums, promote Pixel Mixers…
The second kind of roles are self-assignable roles that will represent the instruments you play or your skills. To do that go in the #beep-boop” room on Discord and write .iam X. You can replace the “X” by those roles:
– Vocals
– Keys
– Woodwinds
– Bass
The higher up the role is in the sidebar, the rarer it is within the community. For example, we have fewer strings players and more guitar players.
Your custom colour will be based on the rarest of your assigned roles.
There are 2 other self assignable roles:
– Artist: If you draw, paint, or make visual art. Visual artists are essential for our album artwork!
– Composers: if you compose original music, vgm inspired or not.
Pixel Mixers Albums organization:
– How can I be on a Pixel Mixers album?
For that you have to keep an eye on what’s happening in the PM community life, either on Discord, VGCover Reddit or our social media. There will be announcements of the next projects to come and other announcements when those projects start.
From then, just follow the guideline in the project announcement to join in.
– What is the difference between a mini-album and album?
Mini-Albums have a track limitation, the number of songs on those albums must be between 7 (minimum) and 15 (maximum). The goal of the mini-albums are to focus on lesser known games/series or shorter OSTs. You can only make one song for those.
Normal-Albums do not have any track limitation (except the actual number of songs in the OST, as we do not want duplicates) and you can make 1, 2 or even 3 songs for those.
There is a 3rd kind of album: the Full-OST-Albums. There are rare because we cover every song from the OST. These are more difficult to organize for our smaller community,
– Can I make games/themes suggestions for the next Pixel Mixers albums?
Yes! Usually when we start the making of an album, we will elect the theme of the project that will come after. First, we take a day or so to let people make themes/games/series suggestions, we collect them and put them into a large poll.
This poll will be shared inside and outside the community for the Normal-Albums, but only inside for the Mini-Albums. After few days, we’ll keep the top 5 of the huge poll and make a final poll that we’ll only share within the Discord. After few days, the suggestion with the most votes wins!
– How many songs can I submit for a Pixel Mixers album?
For the “Normal-Albums“, once the “V1” of the mix of your 1st song is sent to QCT you can claim an other song, as long as this song was not claimed by someone else. The maximum is 3 songs per main arranger. However you can be a “guest” on other people’s songs as much as you want!
For the “Mini-Albums” you can only do one song, but you still can be a “guest” on as many other songs as you want.
– Can I sell the covers I specifically did for a Pixel Mixers album?
Yes, you can sell that cover on a personal album or as a single track as long as, when you share it, you highlight the fact that the song was made for a PM Album and that it’s available for free + link to the PM album itself.
It must be clear and visible, so don’t hide it at the bottom of your video description!
– Can I use a song I made for a Pixel Mixers album in another community album?
No, this is strictly forbidden and can cause a temporary ban from any PM project for a significant amount of time.
However, using songs you did for PM in your own “compilation” album is totally fine, as long as it’s not labelled by another community.
Pixel Mixers Albums hosting:
– Why not use Bandcamp for Pixel Mixers Albums?
As you know, Pixel Mixers does free VGM Tribute Albums, we do not sell. The problem with Bandcamp is that the number of free downloads is really limited, even more so with a free account. We would likely reach that limit in less than one day after the release of a new album. And so, people would be forced to pay to download our Albums and we do not want that.
– Why does Pixel Mixers use Mediafire for hosting its albums?
Because, so far, Mediafire is the only website that have those following qualities:
completely free to use, unlimited free downloads, viewable download stats, ability to edit a file while keeping the same link, no file size restriction and storage restriction of 51GB (which is more than enough for our needs).
– Aren’t Mediafire links dangerous for my computer?
No, as long as the file is safe there is no danger at all. And we can guarantee you that we take great care of our album files and that since we started in early 2016 there was not a single complaint about our albums being corrupted or having viruses.
Electric Dreams by Mind Waker [EP]
You guys probably already know Mind Waker, a core member of the Pixel Mixers Community. He made artworks for bunch of our albums and he is one of the most respected and active musician in Pixel Mixers.
Well, he just released his new Original EP called “Electric Dreams“!
I’m a Finnish dude who is soon turning in to his 30‘s and likes Sci-fi stuff and fantasy. I like working on arts and moving images, so as a day job I freelance in Visual Effects and at nights I work on music and digital painting.
My project is called “Mind Waker” which started as a Progressive Metal band but slowly turned out to be my solo project for which I’m currently writing 3 albums worth of material and stories. Because coming up with whole worlds and story archs takes a damn long time I make covers and other type of music to keep me inspired.
My creative process is all over the place, but I guess the main thing I find to get “juiced up” is just to find a sound I like and build from there. What most inspires me to work on huge album concepts is the work of Arjen Lucassen whose story archs can span multiple albums. Inspiration sources for the smaller things like covers and singles I take inspiration from bands I like to listen from day to day, like Snarky Puppy, Vulfpeck, she, Bernhoft, meganeko, Major Parkinson and many more artists and bands…
The Electric Dreams EP was pretty much inspired by Deadmau5 and a handful of chiptune artists I mentioned earlier. Listening to Deadmau5 made me realize that I wanted to get back to composing electronic music which I actually did quite a lot when I first got my hands on my first DAW “Reason” back in 2006 or somewhere around that time.
~Mind Waker~
You can listen to Electric Dreams on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/4gn0AWFBLF0SB994rKPef8
And you can also get it on iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/electric-dreams-single/1319066422
Mind Waker’s Social Medias:
June’s Top 5 Up-Voted Covers
Here are the top 5 most upvoted covers on our VGCover /subreddit during June 2018.
We’re still trying to push for new artists to appear on these lists so please try to remember to upvote the covers that you’ve enjoyed on the subreddit.
1st) Eldon Reeves – Trailer Theme from Fire Emblem Three Houses
2nd) Gunderslam/Tremendouz – Ryoshima Coast from Okami
3rd) Ro Panuganti – Main Theme from Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
4th) Danilo Ciaffi(feat. Pixel Mixers Members) – Ballad of the Windfish from Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening
Danilo’s cover is also from our Legend of Zelda Tribute Album: Hylian Downfall
5th) PeyCa Ft. Kiaran, ChrisMan, and xMEIYIN- Schala’s Theme from Chrono Trigger
Thank you for voting this month and please remember top upvote newer covers on the subreddit so we can hopefully see you in the top 5 for July!
XenoGears – Shattered Memories [Tribute Album]
My dear friends, it’s time to release our newest project: “Shattered Memories” a tribute album to XenoGears music!
We made this tribute album to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the game, release in February 1998. We gathered more than 60 musicians and re-arranged 36 tracks from the OST!
Or directly with this link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/ukgcaijuhbms49f/Pixel+Mixers+-+Shattered+Memories+%5BXenoGears%5D.zip
The soundtrack was composed by Yasunori Mitsuda, the famous composer of Chrono Trigger & Chrono Cross. If XenoGears still has some of his musical signature, the global mood is more serious and dark than CT&CC, due to the main themes of game, being really mature.
The Length of this album is almost 2 hours and 20 minutes, we covered most of the tracks from the OST (36) and tried to give a new “life” to those VGM gems!
Once again we tried to bring as much as variety as possible, with: prog rock, metal, classical, jazz, folk, Celtic rock, fusion, EDM and more!
– Artwork Main Design: Michael Walker https://twitter.com/Solgabane?s=09
– Album Mastering: Ro Panuganti https://www.youtube.com/user/Swiggles1987
If you want to follow our future projects (Secret of Mana, Castlevania, Shovel Knight, Donkey Kong Country, Indie Games Vol. 2…) or even join them as a musician here are some nice places for you:
– Pixel Mixers Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/VGCovers/
Now some polls to elect your favourite songs per disk 😉
– Disc 1: Alpha => https://www.strawpoll.me/15999680
– Disc 2: Omega => https://www.strawpoll.me/15999705
Hope you guys will enjoy our XenoGears album 😀
Don’t hesitate to check all of our other albums: https://pixel-mixers.com/2018/04/08/pixel-mixers-albums-list/
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Historic Train Station in Paris To Become World´s Largest Start-Up Incubator
Paris has its answer to Silicon Valley, with plans to convert an historic train station into the world’s largest home for digital entrepreneurship. Architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte has been entrusted to rehabilitate the landmark building, situated on the southern bank of the river Seine, into a technological hub to accommodate 1,000 start-up companies by the year 2016.
The new Halle Freyssinet building will be structured around modular container-based architecture, a nod to the cargo train heritage of the building, and will provide a range of business functions including meeting rooms, spacious co-working areas, a large auditorium, a fab-lab (workshop to create digital prototypes) and a 24-hour restaurant and bar. The ambitious venture is made possible through the Municipality of Paris with joint financing by Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations and French entrepreneur, Xavier Nile.
If all goes to plan, the new digital incubator will strengthen France’s presence and competitiveness in the tech enterprise market by cultivating an open space for entrepreneurs to grow and share ideas.
“Paris is a magical city, a city that attracts people from around the world and where a real energy around digital is developing. But young companies that want to settle there are faced with a lack of affordable, practical and high-speed equipped places.” Xavier Niel told the newspaper Journal du Dimanche.
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Hot Tub Cinema Pops Up On East London Rooftop
At the Pop-Up City we always like new concepts. Talking cinemas, we’ve seen a lot of new stuff over the past years: a bike-in cinema in Amsterdam, a parasite cinema in an Auckland porch and a pedal-powered cinema in the city of Derby. This summer, however, Londoners could combine watching a movie with taking a hot bath in the so-called Hot Tub Cinema.
The Hot Tub Cinema is a traveling screening event that creates a unique experience for its visitors. Taking over the rooftop of Netil360 in East London, the Hot Tub Cinema was a huge success. Classic films like Top Gun and Anchorman were screened against the background of London’s inimitable skyline.
The initiative of the Hot Tub Cinema started slowly, but began to grow to serious proportions, as explained by one of the initiators:
“Hot Tub Cinema began privately about seven years ago. Since then it has grown in increments, reaching the stage of a handful of hot tubs in a garden in Stoke Newington about 18 months ago at which point we realised it was time to find some new & exciting venues for our expanding endeavors.”
Interesting about the concept of Hot Tub Cinema is that it creates a completely different setting compared to the usual cinema set-up. Normally people sit in rows watching a movie, all looking in the same direction without any invitation to interrelate with each other. The Hot Tub setting, to the contrary, sets a different atmosphere. It is intimate, social and stimulates conversation. When the weather is nice, London gets dark and beers are served, the hot tub setting must be a very special experience. I would not advise to go there on a first date, but when visiting East London you should definitely check it out.
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Warden of Lay Ministry
In December 2019 the Bishop’s Leadership Team committed to a new strategic framework for the lay majority as a key part of the implementation of the Growing Leaders strand of Vision 2026 and the Setting God’s People Free report. The framework commits the Diocese of Blackburn to nurturing four distinct and complementary forms of lay ministry:
Informal Local Lay Ministry
Authorised Lay Ministry (ALM)
Licensed Lay Ministry (LLM, formerly known as Reader ministry)
Church Army Ministry
The new role of Warden of Lay Ministry will hold the vision and enable the delivery of the new Lay Ministry Strategy. He/she will have oversight of those responsible for much of its implementation.
A core member of the Growing Leaders Team with a clear remit to grow all forms of lay ministry
The Director of Vocations, who will be the post holder’s line manager.
The Bishop of Burnley, who has episcopal oversight of the Growing Leaders Team.
The Lay Leadership Officer, who will lead the development of the ALM programme.
The Blackburn Director of Studies for All Saints training, who is responsible for training LLMs in the diocese.
Parish Clergy, Vision Champions and other local parish lay leaders.
The Deputy Wardens of Lay Ministry and Lay Ministry Chaplains.
Key Responsibilities will include:
Support the implementation of the new strategy in all areas of the life of the diocese, working across the full range of traditions and ministry contexts
Work with the Lay Leadership Officer to develop the new ALM programme, including developing the required teams and processes.
Ensure all ALM candidates are interviewed before and after formational training to appropriately assess development.
Support the M:Power urban leadership training programme(s), especially in recruitment.
Play a leading role in the refocusing of current Readers into LLMs around the three nationally agreed strands of:
Leading in church and society
Enabling mission
Lead the migration of inherited Pastoral assistants to Pastoral ALMs
Lead the development of a sustainable LLM CME programme.
Work with the Director of Vocations to establish a core team of Deputy Wardens of Lay Ministry and Lay Ministry Chaplains
Hold the responsibilities of the office of Warden of Readers, including:
the admission and licensing of LLMs
oversight of the triennial LLM relicensing preliminaries and service
Support the discernment of all lay vocations, under the leadership of the Director of Vocations, especially as part of LLM discernment days.
Support the promotion of all forms of lay and ordained vocations, under the leadership of the Director of Vocations.
Promote good relationships between all forms of lay ministry and parish incumbents, helping to facilitate the resolution of any difficult situations that may arise.
Relate to national initiatives on lay leadership (including the relevant parts of Renewal and Reform) and participate in relevant national and regional networks.
Other tasks in keeping with the ethos of the role as assigned and agreed.
Note that because this role is part time, it will be crucial for the post holder to recruit, motivate and oversee the work of volunteers who will need to do much of the front-line delivery of the responsibilities of this role.
A passionate commitment to enabling the ministry of the lay majority within the parishes of all traditions that make up the Diocese of Blackburn.
An inherently collaborative approach to ministry in which those of different traditions and views are valued.
Direct experience of lay ministry in a parochial setting.
Successfully completed a recognised theological education and formation programme.
Basic skills in basic administration and organisation, including the use of information technology.
A working knowledge of current lay majority ministry thinking and practice across the Church of England.
Vocational discernment experience.
Experience in Continuing Ministerial Development.
A sympathetic appreciation of the frustrations which can attend Lay Ministry, alongside an eagerness to foster reconciliation and a constructive attitude where necessary.
Familiarity with the development of promotional materials for the digital age.
This post is subject to an occupational requirement that the postholder be a practising Christian under Part 1 of Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010.
For an informal conversation regarding this post please contact: Rev`d Nick McKee at nick.mckee@blackburn.anglican.org.
Closing date:Tuesday 28 January 2020
Interview date:Wednesday 5 February 2020
This post is subject to an advanced DBS check
Warden of Lay Min JD Final
Team Rector
Kippington
Team Rector Designate, for the Cottesloe Benefice within Mursley Deanery in the Archdeaconry of Buckingham
Priest in Charge of The Benefice of the Wiske
East Cowton
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ABOUT PAUL LEVINE AND HIS LEGAL THRILLERS & MYSTERIES
Paul Levine Bio
Jake Lassiter–“More Charisma Than Perry Mason”
Solomon vs. Lord Legal Thrillers
Jimmy (Royal) Payne and Human Trafficking
Television: JAG and First Monday
Education: Author & Hero Both Penn State Alumni
Miscellaneous Mishegoss
Books by Paul Levine, Bestselling Crime Author
Paul is a graduate of Penn State University where he majored in journalism and the University of Miami Law School where he majored in the swimming pool.
Author and Hero Both Penn State Alumni
So both the author and his fictional hero Jake Lassiter are Penn State Alumni. (So is Paul’s son Michael).
Penn State Alumni Mike Levine and Paul Levine. Where’s Jake?
On its “Penn State People” page, Wikipedia lists Paul under “Entertainment and Media” and Jake under “Fictional Penn State Alumni.”
“Jake Lassiter, the hero of the series of legal thrillers written by Paul Levine, played linebacker for Coach Joe Paterno before attending night law school, passing the Bar exam on his fourth try, and becoming a hard-nosed Miami trial lawyer.”
Penn State Alumni Award…for Paul, not Jake
Paul is the recipient of Penn State’s Distinguished Alumnus Award and has served as an Alumni Fellow in the university’s College of Communications.
Penn State Library on a Spring Day…not that Paul or Jake could be found inside.
Both are Miami Grads, Too
Both author and hero also are graduates of the University of Miami Law School. One difference. Paul passed the bar exam on his first try, Jake on his fourth and that might have been a computer glitch.
At Miami, Paul also served on the national championship moot court team and was an editor of the Law Review.
Paul was a trial lawyer with the mammoth, filthy rich international law firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where he did not even pretend to know all his partners’ names. He specialized in “complex litigation,” cases so abstruse that even lawyers charging 500 bucks an hour didn’t fully understand them. Paul tried hundreds of cases and handled appeals at every level, including the Supreme Court. Along the way, he filed expense accounts nearly as creative as his legal briefs.
Paul says he enjoys writing more than lawyering because he no longer keeps time sheets and gets to work in his underwear. For 13 years, he lived in the hills of Southern California, which he claims are populated by rattlesnakes and coyotes, and those are just the Hollywood agents. Now, he resides in Miami, where the mosquitoes are biting, but the fish ain’t.
Levine Around the World
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Home » Special Coverage » 2013 Geneva Motor Show » Italdesign Parcour Concept – supercar, SUV, or both?
Italdesign Parcour Concept – supercar, SUV, or both?
In 2013 Geneva Motor Show, Cars, Concept Cars, International News / By Danny Tan / 8 March 2013 2:46 pm / 10 comments
You know parcour, the sport, or rather activity, that sees young people move freestyle across urban obstacles? That’s the inspiration behind the bizarre Italdesign Parcour Concept, which looks like a supercar on stilts.
“Parcour was devised as a new way of living and experiencing a metropolitan route creatively. Parcour enthusiasts, who are referred to as traceurs or plotters, adapt their body to the surrounding environment pursuing, through their movements, not just spectacle but instead mainly maximum efficiency,” explains Italdesign boss Fabrizio Giugiaro.
“The purpose of parcour is to move around as efficiently as possible. By efficiently I mean: simply, quickly and safely, which are characteristic features of our car,” he adds.
The Parcour driver can choose from four different settings, one designed for comfortable driving, one for off-road driving, one for winter conditions and, lastly, one for high-speed driving on a race track. The electronic system is triggered to modify the ride, the height above the ground and the engine setup.
The Parcour concept is a two-seater with four-wheel drive, fitted with a 550 hp Lamborghini 5.2 litre V10 mounted behind the seats. There’s also a roadster version of the concept, which is the white car in the pics.
Is there a market for such a car? Italdesign, which is celebrating 45 years in business this year, will be hoping that a car company thinks there is, and bites at this idea. Here’s a proposal from 2010 that you might remember!
Danny Tan loves driving as much as he loves a certain herbal meat soup, and sweet engine music as much as drum beats. He has been in the auto industry since 2006, previously filling the pages of two motoring magazines before joining this website. Enjoys detailing the experience more than the technical details.
b on Mar 08, 2013 at 3:17 pm
Yes, I believe.so. It looks stunning.
Sam Loo on Mar 09, 2013 at 11:17 am
Sounds like massage parlour where you can get urut and lebih.
AVH on Mar 08, 2013 at 3:22 pm
A 4WD, mid engine superSUV , why didn’t anyone bite that idea before. At least Lamborghini should make small number of this than that rediculous Veneno. This is mad, but it still looks good.
Still is a good reminder that the writer reminded us WHERE THE HACK is the Emas compact car? honestly is rather hard to trust proton’s word, even the whole Honda tied up seems to be fading in our memories, at least mine. I know Volkswagen acquisition of italdesign means that the EMAS could delayed or canceled but at least give us some news on your future product plan.
Oh and if the EMAS is delayed or canceled, that means I didn’t catch the news.
epul on Mar 08, 2013 at 3:44 pm
no,no and no, it looks like muscle car on steroid.
Kalun on Mar 08, 2013 at 4:55 pm
Look like Hot wheels
chimuss on Mar 08, 2013 at 6:09 pm
looks like lancia Stratos a bit.
tdci on Mar 10, 2013 at 4:17 pm
yup my impression too!
kington on Mar 08, 2013 at 6:09 pm
Hints of the old Stratos all over this concept.
Ben Ben on Mar 08, 2013 at 11:24 pm
Gallardo involved!
Gotta like this shit!
kadajawi on Mar 09, 2013 at 9:39 pm
Supercar on stilts? I thought that is the Ford Raptor/Velociraptor?
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Field researchers using the latest developments in nanotechnology to work on very small solar cells
by Annette Ostrand, Youris.com
In the solar energy field researchers are using the latest developments in nanotechnology to work on very small solar cells. Researchers are testing different ways to make them more efficient. Flexible sheets of organic solar cells have entered another niche than silicon-based solar cells.
A researcher who is using nanotechnology on the active layer of organic solar cells is Dr. Daniel Ayuk Mbi Egbe, a synthetic chemist at the Linz Institute for Organic Solar Cells at the Johannes Kepler University Linz in Austria and the Coordinator of African Network on Conducting Materials for Solar Energy (ANCMSE). He is working on a material called PPE-PPV [poly(p-phenylene-ethynylene)-alt-poly(p-phenylene-vinylene)s]. “The active layer of the solar cells is composed of the donor material, the polymer, and an acceptor which is fullerene. Through our recently published article we have shown that by using other fullerenes than the widely used PCBM we have obtained higher efficiency. I have changed the side chains of the polymer in the nanometer scale. Through our systematic approach we could explain why varying certain type of side chains show very good efficiency. The nano-morphology of the active layer is very important for the efficiency of solar cells. The majority of research groups worldwide working on solar cells is studying this active layer morphology and tries to improve it, “he said.
Egbe has achieved an efficiency of four percent and is trying to find out how to improve the efficiency in general. Not only for his system, but also for other systems researchers are working on. “The efficiency of organic solar cells has already reached eight percent and commercial products are on the market,” he said. In October 2010 the Germany-based company Helitek in collaboration with the Institute of Applied Photophysics (IAPP) at Dresden University announced that they had reached a world record efficiency of 8.3 percent for organic solar cells.
It is not Egbe’s present goal to compete with silicon solar cells; instead he sees a complementary aspect. “Organic solar cells are not as stable as silicon-based solar cells, but there is a market niche which is open for them. For instance, they can be used not only on bags, so you can charge your laptop and cell phone while walking, and in windows, but on clothes because these organic cells are flexible. It’s also possible to synthetically tune the color of the used photoactive material which cannot be done with silicon-based solar cells,” he said.
The advances in the field of nanotechnology for solar energy are changing the way we charge our electronic devices and are opening up new possibilities for people in areas without electricity.
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Bilderberg 2015: Implementation of the A.I. Grid
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By Jay Dyer
The plan to integrate nations into continental trading blocs is not a new idea. In Dr. Carroll Quigley’s Tragedy and Hope, reference is made to the plan of the Third Reich to create global trading blocs, which itself is an older British Royal Society plan. Daniel Estulin, in his The Bilderberg Group and Shadow Masters provides detailed investigations into both Bilderberg and its many-headed Hydra organization, exemplified in Captain America 2: Winter Soldier. Founded by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, as well as numerous other Atlanticist elites like David Rockefeller, Paul Van Zeeland and numerous other media barons, corporate heads, bankers, and countless other people better than us.
Bilderberg, operating under the guise of “free market capitalism,” represents instead the complete culmination of banking corporate world control. Presented as yet another debate forum, the secretive meetings instead have been revealed in numerous cases to have driven global policy. The most shining example is the 1955 Bilderberg meeting’s plans for the creation of the “European Common Market” and “European Union (Unity) shown below. It is important to recall that the European Common Market came into play some three years later in 1958, while the European Union itself was supposedly founded in 1993. With this in mind, we can see how the TTIP is simply a further extension of the same strategy of economic integration, from the EU to NAFTA.
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June 10, 2015 | Categories: audio/podcast/radio, conferences / expositions / seminars, consciousness, economy, EU, IMF, mind-control, NAFTA, news, police state, science, think tanks, transhumanism, true culprits, tyranny, videos, world government | Tags: Agenda 21, Aldous Huxley, Bilderberg Group, British Royal Society, DARPA, Forum for the Future, Google, Hollywood, Ray Kurzweil | Leave a comment
Middle East Turmoil Is Complete Theatre – War Is On The Horizon
Anthony Freda Art
By Brandon Turbeville
Considering the years of propaganda surrounding Iran and its nuclear program, it was clear to any informed observer that the recent US-Iran nuclear deal was nothing more than theatre. After all, the US/NATO imperialist machine has made its desire to wage war on the Persian nation explicit for some time. The only question is just how long this theatre will last before that goal is finally realized.
While the Western press and corporate media outlets have taken to presenting the Iran nuclear deal as either a tragic capitulation to the deadly warmongering Iranians or a brilliant lunge for peace with the deadly warmongering Iranians, the premise of their presentations are exactly the same – that Iran is dangerous, wants war, and is doing whatever it can to acquire a nuclear weapon.
This is, of course, despite the fact that there is no evidence that Iran is attempting to gain a nuclear weapon or has any aggressive intent in the region. In fact, the US and Israeli intelligence organizations have both determined that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon nor is it attempting to acquire one. Indeed, it has been admitted by military industrial complex firm, The RAND Corporation, that Iran’s military capabilities were largely defensive, not offensive. Even further, not only was Iran well within its rights to do everything it was doing in regards to nuclear energy and technology, the agreement signed with the West was an extraordinary act of conciliation and cooperation. Indeed, Iran bent over backwards to appease the West in its imperialists aims.
That being said, I have argued from the very beginning of the US-Iran nuclear talks that the diplomacy taking place was nothing more than theatre to be used later in the rush to war as evidence that the US did “everything in its power” to avoid confrontation. While the future is impossible to predict, one might reasonably believe that the US will soon sabotage the nuclear deal whose final touches and signatures are due at the end of June 2015.
June 4, 2015 | Categories: co-opting and/or destabilization, Iran, Israel, news, think tanks, tyranny, US, war | Tags: Brookings Institution | Leave a comment
PODCAST — ACR Boiler Room EP# 006
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Join ACR hosts Hesher, Spore, and 21WIRE’s Patrick Henningsen, along with special guests Daniel Spaulding from Soul of the East, Amir Alwani from Potent News, with possible appearances by ACR’s Ryan G, Jay Dyer from Jay’s Analysis, and Shawn Helton from 21WIRE, all listeners who want to participate on the lines or in the ACR chat room – as we hash out everything under the sun and then some. There’s only one rule: bring something interesting to throw into the Boiler…
This week’s topics: Garland TX Shooting, ISIS, foundations, think tanks, Baltimore, Chemtrails, JADE HELM 15 and more.
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[UPDATE/CORRECTION 21/06/2015 pertaining to a quote I mentioned in this discussion:
“To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism, and religious dogmas.”
Brock Adams, Director UN Health Organization (1945)
According to here, here, here, here, here, and here this quote was actually not from Brock Adams, but rather from a George Brock Chisholm, the first Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). According to here, this Chisholm quote was from “a Speech given at the, Conference on Education, Asilomar, California, September 11, 1954″. If anyone finds a copy of this speech, please send me the link through this contact form.]
[UPDATE 27/06/2015: I remain a voluntarist and do oppose statism – and this was roughly discussed in this Boiler Room episode – however to clarify some interesting points about anarchy and to do justice to the topic, in light of new information that I have recently come across I must say that Clint Richardson raises many good points about statism and sovereignty as he clears up misconceptions about anarchy, statism and voluntarism in this excellent podcast: Debate: Clint Richardson vs. Mark Stevens – “Anarchy: A Modern Fallacy?” – #231 – Gnostic Media]
May 15, 2015 | Categories: Amir Alwani, chemtrails, co-opting and/or destabilization, consciousness, news, think tanks, tyranny, US, war | Tags: Brookings Institution, Freddie Gray, Garland Shooting, ISIS, Jade Helm | 1 Comment
Bernanke Joins Elite Think Tank at The Brookings Institution
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by Stephen Lendman
On January 31, he stepped down as Fed chairman. Janet Yellen replaced him. He’s entering a new world of million-dollar book deals. He’ll make $100,000 a pop speeches.
Expect appointments to corporate boards. CEOs value his rainmaking services.
On February 3, Brookings headlined “Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to Join Economic Studies at Brookings.”
He’s a “Distinguished Fellow in Residence.” He’s affiliated with the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy (HCFMP). On January 16, Brookings launched it.
Its board of trustees vice chair Glenn Hutchins contributed $10 million in seed money. He co-founded the multi-billion dollar private equity firm Silver Lake Partners. Guess what type policies HCFMP will endorse.
“We are proud to welcome chairman Bernanke into the Brookings family,” said president Strobe Talbot. He’s Clinton’s former deputy secretary of state. He was directly involved in some of his worst policies.
Brookings’ agenda is brazenly imperial. It’s pro-corporate. It’s anti-populist. It feigns concern about inequality. It supports government of, by and for privileged elites alone. Expect Bernanke to fit right in.
His Fed tenure was deplorable. He betrayed the public trust. His record attests to his wickedness. His agenda was ruthlessly anti-populist. He did more to thirdworldize America for profit than any of his predecessors. He handed Wall Street crooks multi-trillions of dollars. He facilitated the greatest wealth transfer in history. He created a protracted Main Street Depression. No end in sight looms.
February 12, 2014 | Categories: economy, news, think tanks, tyranny | Leave a comment
Preempting The Next Round of Lies Against Syria
What the UN report on Syria will say & what the liars in the West will claim it says.
The bottom line regarding the UN’s upcoming report regarding the August 21, 2013 chemical weapons attack in Damascus, Syria is best summed up by the BBC’s article, “Syria crisis: UN report to confirm chemical arms attack” [emphasis added]:
Ban Ki-moon made no comment on who was to blame for the 21 August attack in the Ghouta area of Damascus, as that is not part of the report’s remit.
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Despite this, the United States and its axis of collaborators are already trying to spin the report as confirmation that the Syrian government was responsible.
Relying entirely on the momentum of its massive media networks and their ability to “will” reality into any shape they please, headlines such as “United Nations’ Syria chemical weapons report “overwhelming,” shamelessly attempt to link two out of context statements by UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon regarding the Syria government’s “crimes against humanity” and the confirmed use of chemical weapons in Damascus Syria, to place in the mind of readers assigned blame for the attacks.
In reality, the UN inspectors that were stampeded out of Damascus in the middle of their work, fearing an impending unilateral US military attack, were only attempting to determine how victims in eastern Damascus died, not who killed them. Independent assessments of who was responsible for the attack have not been carried out. The best the US has been able to do is suggest terrorists operating in Syria were incapable of such an attack, leaving only the Syrian government as a possible suspect.
Of course this single point of contention is dispelled by the US’ own policy in the region. CNN’s “Sources: U.S. helping underwrite Syrian rebel training on securing chemical weapons,” reported that:
The United States and some European allies are using defense contractors to train Syrian rebels on how to secure chemical weapons stockpiles in Syria, a senior U.S. official and several senior diplomats told CNN Sunday.
The training, which is taking place in Jordan and Turkey, involves how to monitor and secure stockpiles and handle weapons sites and materials, according to the sources. Some of the contractors are on the ground in Syria working with the rebels to monitor some of the sites, according to one of the officials.
Militant groups operating inside Syria with Western “contractors” (read: mercenaries, see: Blackwater) are more than capable of handling and deploying the weapons, and therefore more than capable of carrying out the attacks in question. The only argument left for the US is whether or not these militants, aligned with Al Qaeda, possess the will or motivation to do so. That doing so and framing the Syrian government would serve as impetus for direct US military intervention and therefore the salvation of the crumbling militant offensive, is more than motivation enough.
UN’s Complicity in Ongoing Syrian Bloodbath
And while Secretary General Ban Ki Moon’s comments were taken out of context, that he has seemingly failed to also call for accountability of Syria’s so-called “opposition” smacks of partiality – partiality exhibited by the UN throughout the Syrian conflict. Additionally, the UN’s failure to question who in fact is arming, funding, and logistically supporting verified terrorist organizations within and around Syria’s borders is equally troubling.
Al Qaeda has been active in Syria since the conflict began, and according to the US State Department’s own assessment titled, “Terrorist Designations of the al-Nusrah Front as an Alias for al-Qa’ida in Iraq:”
Since November 2011, al-Nusrah Front has claimed nearly 600 attacks – ranging from more than 40 suicide attacks to small arms and improvised explosive device operations – in major city centers including Damascus, Aleppo, Hamah, Dara, Homs, Idlib, and Dayr al-Zawr. During these attacks numerous innocent Syrians have been killed.
Could the UN be so out of touch with reality that it doesn’t realize an operation of this scale surely is state-sponsored, and that the question of who is funding, arming, and otherwise supporting such an extensive operation never seemed important enough to publicly ask?
Examining the UN’s role in the Syrian crisis must also include its 2011 UN Human Rights Council’s report (full text .pdf), and its most recent report published August of this year (.doc). These are nothing more than a collection of “interviews” conducted abroad with “witnesses” provided by Syrian “opposition groups” and alleged defectors, augmented with fabrications and biased spin provided by Western-funded “NGOs” openly working for armed militants inside Syria.
Image: Screenshot from the Washington D.C.-based Middle East Policy Council’s board of directors from which the UN has drawn Karen Koning AbuZayd as head of their recent “expert panel” on Syria. With fellow board members representing the collective interests of the American and Gulf State corporate-financier interests currently underwriting armed militants inside Syria, the conflict of interest resigns the legitimacy of the report – based entirely on “interviews” – as well as the legitimacy of the UN itself.
The UN panel for the 2011 report and the more recent 2013 report were co-headed by Karen Koning AbuZayd, a director of the US Washington-based corporate think-tank, Middle East Policy Council. Its board of directors includes Exxon men, CIA agents, representatives of the Saudi Binladin Group (Osama Bin Laden’s family business), former ambassadors to Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar, US military and government representatives, and even the president of the US-Qatar Business Council, which includes amongst its membership, AlJazeera, Chevron, Exxon, munitions manufacturer Raytheon (who supplied the opening salvos during NATO’s operations against Libya), and Boeing.
Image: Just some of the corporate members of the US-Qatar Business Council, whose president just so happens to sit on the same board of directors of the Middle East Policy Center as Karen AbuZayd, co-author of, now multiple, conveniently timed UN reports on Syria.
In other words, the very underwriters of the armed militancy that is consuming Syria, US, Saudi, Qatari, and Israeli interests, are sitting along side the head of the UN commission producing reports portraying the Syrian government as guilty of “war crimes and crimes against humanity.”
The UN is a diverse organization with both impartial and overtly biased interests busily at work. The utility of the UN’s statements, reports, and investigations must be determined not by the rhetoric that surrounds them, spun either by the Secretary General himself or by media organizations abroad, but rather by whatever solid, verifiable evidence that may be present, if it is indeed even present. The 2011 and 2013 UNHRC reports are throw-away propaganda based solely on biased hearsay. The most recent UN report regarding the August 21, 2013 chemical attacks in Damascus, according to the UN itself, DOES NOT ASSIGN BLAME, but merely confirms that chemical weapons were used – a point that is not contended by either side of the conflict.
This point above all else, must be kept in mind ahead of a predictable barrage of propaganda by faltering Western interests determined to use the UN report to “confirm” their wholly rejected conclusions and prescribed solutions regarding Syria.
Tony Cartalucci’s articles have appeared on many alternative media websites, including his own at Land Destroyer Report, Alternative Thai News Network and LocalOrg.
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September 15, 2013 | Categories: co-opting and/or destabilization, false-flag, news, sovereignty, Syria, think tanks, tyranny, UN, US, war | Leave a comment
MUST SEE — History: The Origins of the U.S. Intelligence Community (6 23 2013)
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August 4, 2013 | Categories: consciousness, news, police state, sovereignty, surveillance, think tanks, true culprits, tyranny, US, videos, war | Leave a comment
Hypocrisy: US Arms Al Qaeda in Syria, Mass-Slaughters Civilians in Afghanistan
by Tony Cartalucci
February 13, 2013 (LD) – AFP has reported that a recent NATO airstrike in Afghanistan has killed over 10 civilians in an all-too-familiar headline glossed over by the Western media in an exercise of both depravity and hypocrisy. RT’s article, “NATO airstrike kills 10 Afghan civilians, mostly women and children – officials,” notes in particular that up to 11,864 civilians were killed in Afghanistan between 2007 and 2011, and that civilian deaths before 2007 were not even tracked by the UN.
Such facts reveal alarming hypocrisy as the UN keeps almost daily, inflated tallies of civilian deaths elsewhere, in particular, in nations like Libya and Syria where Western interests have been heavily involved in regime change and in dire need of manipulating public perception worldwide. The United Nations had in fact pieced together a dubious report crafted from “witness accounts” compiled not in Syria, or even beyond its borders in a refugee camp, but instead, in Geneva by “witnesses” supplied by the so-called Syrian “opposition.”
Image: Just some of the corporate members of the US-Qatar Business Council, whose president just so happens to sit on the same board of directors of the Middle East Policy Center as Karen AbuZayd, co-author of one of many conveniently timed UN Human Rights Council reports on Syria.
Worse yet, that UN report was co-authored by Karen Koning AbuZayd, a director of the US Washington-based corporate think-tank, Middle East Policy Council. Its board of directors includes Exxon men, CIA agents, representatives of the Saudi Binladin Group (Osama Bin Laden’s family business), former ambassadors to Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar, US military and government representatives, and even the president of the US-Qatar Business Council, which includes amongst its membership, Al Jazeera, Chevron, Exxon, munitions manufacturer Raytheon (who supplied the opening salvos during NATO’s operations against Libya), and Boeing.
In other words, the very underwriters of the armed militancy that is consuming Syria are sitting along side the head of the UN commission producing reports portraying the Syrian government as guilty of “war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The hypocrisy does not end there. The pretense the US and NATO have used for over a decade to occupy, subjugate and slaughter the people of Afghanistan – in a conflict increasingly creeping over both Afghanistan’s borders with Pakistan and Iran – is supposedly to fight “terrorism.” Western interests have been allowed to fight this “war on terrorism” with impunity, and even without UN monitoring for years, while Syria was immediately condemned for fighting against Al Qaeda terrorists overtly flooding into their nation with NATO assistance.
Indeed, as NATO claims to fight terrorism in Afghanistan, it has already handed over the North African nation of Libya to Al Qaeda terrorists, specifically the the US State Department, United Nations, and the UK Home Office (page 5, .pdf)-listed terrorist organization, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG). The US in particular oversaw the rise of the Al Qaeda terror-emirate Benghazi, even having a US ambassador slain there by the very terrorists it had armed, funded, trained, provided air support for, and thrust into power.
These same terrorists have been documented extensively as spearheading the invasion of northern Syria via NATO-member Turkey, with NATO cash and weapons in cooperation with Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
The glaring hypocrisy of so-called “international law” and “international institutions” is on full display. Nations like Russia, China, Iran, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Brazil, and many others should give serious thought to peeling away from the United Nations, the compromised International Criminal Court, and other corrupt, Western-serving institutions that will, and in many cases already are, being turned against them, their interests, and national sovereignty.
For the people of the world, we must realize that these institutions were created for and by big-business special interests, and the legitimacy they are portrayed as having is a mere illusion created by the corporate media. We must begin identifying these special interests, boycotting and replacing them permanently at a local level. If it is peace we want, it is clear that the UN, NATO, and all institutions in between, sow only death and destruction amidst a myriad of hypocrisy, double standards, and immeasurable corruption, and we must move into the future without them.
February 17, 2013 | Categories: Afghanistan, co-opting and/or destabilization, NATO, news, Qatar, sovereignty, Syria, think tanks, tyranny, UN, US, war | Leave a comment
UN Defends NATO’s Premeditated Genocide in Syria
As long-planned sectarian bloodbath unfolds, UN deceitfully labels atrocities as “reprisals.”
December 21, 2012 (LD) – As early as 2007, it was reported that the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia, together were not only organizing, funding, training, and arming militants directly linked to Al Qaeda to be used against Syria and Iran, but knew well in advance that by doing so, they would trigger an unprecedented “cataclysmic conflict” driven by sectarian extremism. Not only was such sectarian violence expected, it was desired ahead of redrawing a new map for the Middle East – one that favored Western corporate-financier and geopolitical interests, while keeping the region weak, divided, and infighting.
Now, the UN is feigning indignation over the inevitable, increasingly overt sectarian nature of the so-called “Free Syrian Army” and its so-called “rebellion.” Entire communities of minorities face extermination. To blunt the impact this will have on public opinion, UN special adviser on the prevention of genocide, Adama Dieng has preemptively stated:
“I am deeply concerned that entire communities risk paying the price for crimes committed by the Syrian government.”
According to Reuters’ article, “U.N. anti-genocide envoy: Syria minorities face reprisal risk,” the genocide NATO and its allies are arming, funding, and willfully fueling is merely “reprisals.” What Reuters doesn’t report is that US, Saudi, and Lebanese officials had for years warned that US foreign policy, started under Bush and continued in earnest under Obama, would trigger this very sort of sectarian violence – driven by Al Qaeda-style fanaticism, not “reprisals.”
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Seymour Hersh writing for the New Yorker, wrote in his 2007 article, “The Redirection: Is the Administration’s new policy benefitting our enemies in the war on terrorism?” that:
“To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has coöperated with Saudi Arabia’s government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is backed by Iran. The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda.” –The Redirection, Seymour Hersh (2007)
Hersh’s report would continue by stating:
“the Saudi government, with Washington’s approval, would provide funds and logistical aid to weaken the government of President Bashir Assad, of Syria. The Israelis believe that putting such pressure on the Assad government will make it more conciliatory and open to negotiations.” –The Redirection, Seymour Hersh (2007)
Further admissions of a joint US-Israeli-Saudi conspiracy against Syria included:
“…[Saudi Arabia’s] Bandar and other Saudis have assured the White House that “they will keep a very close eye on the religious fundamentalists. Their message to us was ‘We’ve created this movement, and we can control it.’ It’s not that we don’t want the Salafis to throw bombs; it’s who they throw them at—Hezbollah, Moqtada al-Sadr, Iran, and at the Syrians, if they continue to work with Hezbollah and Iran.” –The Redirection, Seymour Hersh (2007)
In regards to sectarian extremism in particular it was forewarned that:
“Robert Baer, a former longtime C.I.A. agent in Lebanon, has been a severe critic of Hezbollah and has warned of its links to Iranian-sponsored terrorism. But now, he told me, “we’ve got Sunni Arabs preparing for cataclysmic conflict, and we will need somebody to protect the Christians in Lebanon. It used to be the French and the United States who would do it, and now it’s going to be Nasrallah and the Shiites” –The Redirection, Seymour Hersh (2007)
Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah was also featured in Hersh’s report and had also warned of imminent and spreading sectarian war purposefully stoked by the West:
Nasrallah said he believed that President Bush’s goal was “the drawing of a new map for the region. They want the partition of Iraq. Iraq is not on the edge of a civil war—there is a civil war. There is ethnic and sectarian cleansing. The daily killing and displacement which is taking place in Iraq aims at achieving three Iraqi parts, which will be sectarian and ethnically pure as a prelude to the partition of Iraq. Within one or two years at the most, there will be total Sunni areas, total Shiite areas, and total Kurdish areas. Even in Baghdad, there is a fear that it might be divided into two areas, one Sunni and one Shiite.”
He went on, “I can say that President Bush is lying when he says he does not want Iraq to be partitioned. All the facts occurring now on the ground make you swear he is dragging Iraq to partition. And a day will come when he will say, ‘I cannot do anything, since the Iraqis want the partition of their country and I honor the wishes of the people of Iraq.’ ”
Nasrallah said he believed that America also wanted to bring about the partition of Lebanon and of Syria. In Syria, he said, the result would be to push the country “into chaos and internal battles like in Iraq.” In Lebanon, “There will be a Sunni state, an Alawi state, a Christian state, and a Druze state.” But, he said, “I do not know if there will be a Shiite state.”
The UN once again is abusing its own self-appointed authority by excusing and spinning premeditated sectarian genocide designed to advance a documented conspiracy admitted to years ago. More recently, this conspiracy to destroy Syria through engineered and purposefully protracted violence was documented further by the very corporate-financiers themselves amongst the pages of reports turned out by their own policy think-tanks.
The Brookings Institution in their “Middle East Memo #21: Saving Syria: Assessing Options for Regime Change (.pdf),” openly stated they sought to “bleed” Syria in purposefully protracted violence:
“The United States might still arm the opposition even knowing they will probably never have sufficient power, on their own, to dislodge the Asad network. Washington might choose to do so simply in the belief that at least providing an oppressed people with some ability to resist their oppressors is better than doing nothing at all, even if the support provided has little chance of turning defeat into victory. Alternatively, the United States might calculate that it is still worthwhile to pin down the Asad regime and bleed it, keeping a regional adversary weak, while avoiding the costs of direct intervention.” –pages 8-9, Assessing Options for Regime Change, Brookings Institution.
Such documents completely contradict the public statements issued by the West, which attempt to portray their involvement in Syria as motivated by “humanitarian concerns,” “moral imperatives,” and the “promotion of democracy.” In reality, the goal is to prolong the violence as long as possible, expedite the loss of life, and to destroy the nation by fueling violent militants – just as it was the plan in 2007 when Hersh penned “The Redirection.” The sectarian component of the current conflict is not an unexpected result of violence that began only in 2011, it was an integral part of the West’s foreign policy since 2007.
The sectarian genocide in Syria was purposefully engineered by Western policy makers, and now is willfully covered up, spun, and excused by the UN and the Western mass media alike.
December 24, 2012 | Categories: co-opting and/or destabilization, Israel, NATO, news, Saudi Arabia, sovereignty, Syria, think tanks, tyranny, UN, US, war | Leave a comment
Lebanon Bombing is Impetus for West’s Planned Sunni-Shi’ia War
Repost: Saad Hariri Aides Western Syria Destabilization from Lebanon.
October 20, 2012 – It was, starting at least in 2007, the goal of the US, Saudis, and Israelis to trigger a region wide sectarian war with which to overrun the governments of Lebanon, Syria, and Iran. This was documented in detail in Seymour Hersh’s 2007 New Yorker article, “The Redirection” which was covered in depth in, “Syrian War: The Prequel.
A recent bombing in Beirut, Lebanon left high ranking security chief Brigadier General Wissam al-Hassan dead. Al-Hassan is described as “anti-Syrian.” Before Al-Hassan’s death was announced, and literally as bodies were still being pulled from the wreckage caused by the bombing, politicians from Saad Hariri’s faction began immediately blaming Syria for the attacks. Hariri himself also laid the blame on Syria, offering no other details or supporting evidence.
Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran have all condemned the bombing and cite it as a provocation to start a greater sectarian war, from which none will benefit. Each in turn suspect Israel and the West, as greater sectarian tension is expected to result, playing into long documented attempts by US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia to trigger a sectarian war they hope will be the downfall of Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran.
Suspicious op-eds in pro-Western “Lebanon Now” insist that Syria is responsible, and again without evidence, concludes that blaming Israel is inappropriate, and that the Wall Street-London militant beachhead is by far a lesser threat to Lebanon than what it calls “the most deadly virus” of President Bashar al-Assad’s Syria.
The blast has given impetus to Hariri’s mobs to flood into the streets, who will no doubt portray themselves to be as “spontaneous” and “independent” as US-engineered mobs were throughout the equally premeditated “Arab Spring.”
Hariri in 2007 was, according to US journalist Seymour Hersh, building an armed militant front in northern Lebanon, across the boarder from Homs, Syria. Many of these militants admittedly had direct ties to Al Qaeda, and with US, Israeli, and Saudi support, they were continuously armed, funded, and prepared for the sectarian bloodbath now unfolding. Homs to this day remains as one of the strongholds for terrorist militants operating in Syria.
While the Western media claims it is a shocking revelation that Al Qaeda is “amongst” the fighters attempting to overthrow the Syrian government, it is well documented that it was Al Qaeda from the very beginning who began armed operations against Syria, using Lebanon and Turkey as a base of operations, with explicit support from the West. The operations were carried out under the tenuous cover of “pro-democracy” protests and with a constant torrent of disinformation provided by the Western media.
While the current story in Lebanon develops, it will be useful to understand the role Hariri has so far played. The republished article below, originally posted in May, 2012, is by no means an exhaustive expose of Hariri and his role in executing the foreign agenda driven by Wall Street, London, Tel Aviv, Doha, and Riyadh, which starts well before 2007.
Originally posted May 21, 2012 -The United Nations has been inexplicably silent over revelations that the United States, Saudi Arabia, and other Persian Gulf states, are arming militants in Syria in direct violation of a UN brokered ceasefire. Additionally, the US has openly threatened to arm Kurd militants in Syria to “rise up” against the government. While in reality this constitutes a greater threat to neighboring Turkey, and perhaps an attempt to motivate Ankara to take a more aggressive stance against Syria, the threat of purposefully inciting more violence in a conflict that has allegedly claimed “10,000” lives, seems not only grossly irresponsible, but a violation of international peace.
Image: A bomb detonates in Syria, May 19, 2012, killing and maiming scores. This is the latest manifestation of overt US and Gulf State military support for terrorists attempting to destabilize and overthrow the Syrian government. The West has planned and prepared years in advance for implementing bloody regime change in Syria and Iran.
The West’s meddling in Syria does not end there. Recently, clashes have broken out in Lebanon, revealing a large base of operations supporting the destabilization in neighboring Syria, located along the Lebanese-Syrian border. The significance of this discovery, and extremist groups in Lebanon being directly involved, highlights the veracity of a 2007 New Yorker article by Seymour Hersh titled, “The Redirection,” which exposed a joint US-Israeli-Saudi operation to create a violent extremist front and direct it at Hezbollah in Lebanon, President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, and at the Iranian government.
In the article, the fact that these extremist forces had direct ties to Al Qaeda was noted, including the fact that many of these militants either participated in fighting US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, or were affiliated with groups that did:
“In 2005, according to a report by the U.S.-based International Crisis Group, Saad Hariri, the Sunni majority leader of the Lebanese parliament and the son of the slain former Prime Minister—Saad inherited more than four billion dollars after his father’s assassination—paid forty-eight thousand dollars in bail for four members of an Islamic militant group from Dinniyeh. The men had been arrested while trying to establish an Islamic mini-state in northern Lebanon. The Crisis Group noted that many of the militants “had trained in al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan.”
According to the Crisis Group report, Saad Hariri later used his parliamentary majority to obtain amnesty for twenty-two of the Dinniyeh Islamists, as well as for seven militants suspected of plotting to bomb the Italian and Ukrainian embassies in Beirut, the previous year. (He also arranged a pardon for Samir Geagea, a Maronite Christian militia leader, who had been convicted of four political murders, including the assassination, in 1987, of Prime Minister Rashid Karami.) Hariri described his actions to reporters as humanitarian.
In an interview in Beirut, a senior official in the Siniora government acknowledged that there were Sunni jihadists operating inside Lebanon. “We have a liberal attitude that allows Al Qaeda types to have a presence here,” he said. He related this to concerns that Iran or Syria might decide to turn Lebanon into a “theatre of conflict.”” -“The Redirection,” Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker 2007
The report also made mention of extensive US funding behind Hariri’s faction, led then by Fouad Siniora, augmenting the creation of this militant force:
“The United States has also given clandestine support to the Siniora government, according to the former senior intelligence official and the U.S. government consultant. “We are in a program to enhance the Sunni capability to resist Shiite influence, and we’re spreading the money around as much as we can,” the former senior intelligence official said. The problem was that such money “always gets in more pockets than you think it will,” he said. “In this process, we’re financing a lot of bad guys with some serious potential unintended consequences. We don’t have the ability to determine and get pay vouchers signed by the people we like and avoid the people we don’t like. It’s a very high-risk venture.”
American, European, and Arab officials I spoke to told me that the Siniora government and its allies had allowed some aid to end up in the hands of emerging Sunni radical groups in northern Lebanon, the Bekaa Valley, and around Palestinian refugee camps in the south. These groups, though small, are seen as a buffer to Hezbollah; at the same time, their ideological ties are with Al Qaeda.” -“The Redirection,” Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker 2007
It becomes clear then that Lebanon’s recent unrest is a result of a greater gambit targeting not just Syria, but the Hezbollah-Syrian-Iranian sphere of power, following the US-engineered “Arab Spring” installing proxy leaders across the Arab World to specifically support this last leg of geopolitical reordering. Such support has manifested itself as political support from US-proxy president Moncef Marzouki of Tunisia, and similar support from US-installed Libyan Prime Minister Abdurrahim el-Keib, who’s nation has also committed not only arms and cash to Syrian terrorists, but fighters as well.
Image: Saad Hariri, former prime minister of Lebanon, is admittedly a co-conspirator in US-Israeli-Saudi designs to destabilize with militant extremists and violently overthrow the Syrian government. While Hariri feigns anti-Israeli sentiment and makes public calls for Lebanese to refrain from sectarian violence, he is the primary facilitator of both extremists crossing over into Syria, and their creating of chaos in the streets of Lebanon. A 2010 Fortune 500-funded International Crisis Group report describes in detail Hariri’s deep ties, and indeed dependence, on the West.
Now, it is reported that “anti-Assad clerics” have been shot by Lebanese soldiers – and just as was seen during the assassination of Rafic Hariri, demagogues are attempting to draw Sunni Muslims into a conflict with Shi’ias. A strategy of tension is being used to divide the Lebanese people into a deadly conflict mirroring the sectarian, not “democracy,” driven unrest ravaging Syria. With Saad Hariri, the US, and Saudi Arabia overtly working to undermine Syrian stability, it appears that all of the characters described by Hersh in 2007 are now openly implementing their plans.
The purposefully nebulous coverage by the Western media over violence in Lebanon so far, and a disingenuous depiction of it being “spill over” from Syria is meant to portray a general sense of chaos consuming the region. In reality, it is a premeditated destabilization dependent on fostering violence between Sunni and Shi’ia Muslims, just as was purposefully done in Iraq to balk an effective Sunni-Shi’ia alliance that achieved initial success fighting a foreign occupation led by the US starting in 2003.
While exposing the premeditated nature of the destabilization consuming Lebanon and Syria is essential, as well as calling for international condemnation of the US for openly attempting to escalate violence in the middle of a mediated ceasefire, calling on people across the Islamic World to refrain from falling into this sectarian trap, and being used as tools of their own division and subjugation by the West is equally important.
Saad Hariri portends that his alliance with the US, Israel, and the Saudis is simply an attempt to protect “Sunnis” from a “Shi’ia threat.” In reality, as empires have done all throughout history, Hariri’s invitation to the West to meddle in his own nation’s affairs will open the door to the destruction and dismemberment of not only his enemies, but inevitably his own movement as well. A faction too weak to fight its rivals is certainly too weak to fight an invited foreign imperial power that decides to overstay its welcome. A strategy of tension is at play in the Islamic World, the trap set, hatred for Israel and rival ideologies the bait. Time will answer the question, “have the people of the world learned enough collectively to avoid it?”
[hat tip: Activist Post]
October 21, 2012 | Categories: co-opting and/or destabilization, Lebanon, news, sovereignty, think tanks, tyranny, war | Leave a comment
Mark Dice talks with Abby Martin, host of Breaking the Set on RT about Elite Think Tanks [video]
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October 16, 2012 | Categories: economy, news, think tanks, true culprits, tyranny, videos | Leave a comment
Brookings Institution’s “Which Path to Persia?” Report
US corporate-funded Brookings 2009 report conspires against the nation of Iran. Plot includes using terrorists, provoked war, economic warfare, and covert military and political subversion against the Iranian people.
Update: October 4, 2012 Brookings has moved around their documents, leaving dead links for anyone who cited them over the years. All documents cited by Land Destroyer will now be hosted online using Scribd, and linked to that way.
Editor’s Note: October 3, 2012 – Brookings has taken down their .pdf reports, leaving dead links. The “Which Path to Persia?” report has been so frequently referenced it would be impractical in the short term to fix all the dead links. Instead, the report is being presented in full below, via Scribd.
For a full analysis of the document please see “Which Path to Persia?” Part I and Part II.
“Which Path To Persia?” Report: http://www.scribd.com/doc/108902116/Brookings-Institution-s-Which-Path-to-Persia-Report
October 10, 2012 | Categories: co-opting and/or destabilization, economy, Iran, news, sovereignty, think tanks, tyranny, US, videos, war | Leave a comment
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The Devil only Knows
« The Mailer Review • Volume 1 Number 1 • 2007 • Inaugural Issue »
The Castle in the Forest
By Norman Mailer
New York: Random House, 2007
477 pp. Cloth $27.95.
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William Blake is one of the forerunners and one of the forefathers of Norman Mailer, another radical conservative who takes the greatest liberties and who seeks to liberate us from body-forged as well as “mind-forged manacles” (Blake, as it happened, deleted “german” from that line of his), seeks even to liberate us from such sentimental hopes of liberation as “the sexual revolution.” Blake, searching within one of his forefathers, famously and infamously averred that “The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil’s party without knowing it.” The proposition, as so often with Blake, is at once direct and equivocal. A true Poet is of the Devil’s party: fine, and now (as always) is the time for all bad men to come to the aid of the party. But is a true Poet of-the-Devil’s-party-without-knowing-it, or was it just that Milton was one who didn’t know it? Is not knowing it a condition of being it, or was it rather that, with Milton, etc.?
Milton’s aspiration was to “justify the ways of God to men.” Mailer’s latest ambition is to imagine how the Devil might justify to men his ways to men — and his ways to God. “An honest man’s the noblest work of God”: at least, such was Robert Burns’s hope. Samuel Butler’s was a tersely perverse reversal: “An honest God’s the noblest work of man.” As for Mailer, he sings along with Rowland Hill: “He did not see any reason why the devil should have all the good tunes.” Rowland Hill shares a column with Adolf Hitler in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
Without knowing it: Mailer is a great writer — a true novelist and more — partly because he knows that, for a man of his convictions, there is no substitute for knowledge. Self-knowledge, for the start. (Achieved at some pains to the man.) Knowledge of the world. (Achieved at some cost to the world.) Knowledge of the ways of God to men, and of the ways of men to God. (Achieved at some risk to the soul.)
Oh, and knowledge — including carnal knowledge — of the Devil or a devil, the traitor-narrator of this life of the young Hitler, The Sorrows of Young Adolf. (Of, being those sorrows that are inflicted on him and those that he inflicts.) All this sad variety of woeful knowledge, plus knowledge of other men’s knowledge. The five-page bibliography at the end of The Castle in the Forest precipitated some numbskull head-scratchings in the reviewers. Was Mr. Mailer showing off, reeling off all these Hitlerian sources? Was he ducking the charge of plagiarism, somehow pleading the Eighth Commandment? Was he being a bit of a tease? None of these impertinences, as the pertinent paragraph by Mailer makes clear:
Some of the books now listed in this bibliography have been given an asterisk for their historical or thematic relevance to The Castle in the Forest. It should be unnecessary to add that the other works cited also enriched many a fictional possibility. Those titles to which an asterisk was attached did provide me, however, with a bounty of factual and chronological references that a novel in this form can never ignore. With all else, character is sequence.
There is no substitute for knowledge, then, with this taking a different form when the novel is a historical novel, needing to explore the facts without being exploitative when it comes to what the abstraction-lovers may dub facticity. How factually responsible is such a book? Or, the prior question, what does such a book claim as to factual responsibility? Is the alternative the merely factitious? What exactly is it, to enrich a fictional possibility? How much store should we set by fidelity? Semper fidelis, really semper? Is that what we want of our translators, including those who translate veracity into verity, who realize — on our behalf — historical facts as the force of fiction? We readers can proliferate such questions with the blitheness that comes from our having no intention of answering them. The novelist stands differently to them. He might urge that there be less reading between the lines, more reading of the lines.
Knowledge, in its turn, is no substitute for countless other things, preeminent among them imagination and sympathy (unexpectedly bent where it might seem unbecoming), along with such an arching of one virtue against its complementary virtue — say, compassionate, dispassionate — as T.S. Eliot valued in one of his respected novelists. There were very few of these, but one of them was Charles-Louis Philippe (1874–1909), himself something of a proto-Mailer in the conjunction of valor and squalor. Eliot ended his preface to Bubu of Montparnasse in terms that Mailer might judge worthy of respect:
There have been many novels of low life, of metropolitan vice and degradation. Novels of sentimentality, novels of satire, novels of indignation, novels of social reform, novels of prurience. Bubu de Montparnasse succeeds in being none of these: emphatically not the last. Philippe certainly disturbs any lingering complacency that we may feel towards the world as it is; but he has no cure to advocate. He is both compassionate and dispassionate; in his book we blame no one, we blame not even a “social system”; and even the most virtuous, in reading it, may feel: I have sinned exceedingly in thought, word and deed.
The application of such praise to The Castle in the Forest would be a delicate matter, but then Mailer, for all the indelicacies that he refuses to avert our eyes from, is in certain respects a delicate writer. It would be perverse to claim that a book about the young Hitler blames no one, or to praise Mailer for having brought about such a thing. But this is a book that might give pause even with so heinous a monster. Robert Lowell, who reciprocated Mailer’s respectful wariness of him, could urge, with a certain kind of desperation, “Pity the monsters” — a desperation that derived in part from Lowell’s sometimes being diabolically possessed by Hitler. The Castle in the Forest does not suppose that it can explain Hitler; only that we may have to cry “After such knowledge, what forgiveness?” None, it may well be. For this is not — far from it — tout comprendre, c’est tout pardonner — a lavishness that G. K. Chesterton, for one, branded the Devil’s sentimentality. It was bad enough when Ron Rosenbaum published, in 1998, Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil (yes, it is in Mailer’s bibliography). Some of us judged this to be a responsible investigation, much of its sense of responsibility deriving from Rosenbaum’s explicit respect for all those who judged that even to think in terms of explaining Hitler was to collude with evil. But for many, the book was an affront, and the dustjacket photo of Hitler’s childhood innocence of face a disgrace.
One form that the charge of blasphemy might be prompted by, in our day, would be some such sense of outrage.
Blasphemy: Profane speaking of God or sacred things; b. figurative (against anything held ‘sacred’)
Explaining Hitler? Seeking to comprehend what his early years, his family fatalities, might have done to him?
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.
W.H. Auden didn’t suppose that this exonerated evildoers, and he didn’t suppose that the sole reason why people do evil is that evil has been done to them. But he wanted us to think seriously, even as Aeschylus had thought seriously, about in return.
In such an intersection of blasphemy and evil, Mailer has been anticipated (not last-trumped) by T.S. Eliot, whose After Strange Gods (1934), with its collaboration with anti-Semitism, became for Eliot himself something of a blasphemy (he was to bar its re-issue, and is said to have said that he was sick when he wrote it):
One can conceive of blasphemy as doing moral harm to feeble or perverse souls; at the same time one must recognise that the modern environment is so unfavourable to faith that it produces fewer and fewer individuals capable of being injured by blasphemy. One would expect, therefore, that (whatever it may have been at other times) blasphemy would be less employed by the Forces of Evil than at any other time in the last two thousand years. Where blasphemy might once have been a sign of spiritual corruption, it might now be taken rather as a symptom that the soul is still alive, or even that it is recovering animation: for the perception of Good and Evil — whatever choice we may make — is the first requisite of spiritual life. We should do well, therefore, to look elsewhere than to the blasphemer, in the traditional sense, for the most fruitful operations of the Evil Spirit today.
The Forces of Evil, the Evil Spirit today (1933): these capital charges of Eliot’s were contemporary with Hitler’s world, and would be at home in Mailer’s world. The Castle in the Forest is an appalled summoning of “the most fruitful operations of the Evil Spirit,” operating by, and with, and through, and (yes) upon Adolf Hitler.
Readers of The Mailer Review will not need to be told what The Castle in the Forest is about. Many of them will already have read the book; all of them will have read a great many reviews of it, with the reviewers taking very different sides when it comes to this many-sided book. It is, in its way, a family romance, with all the romance taken out of it. It brooks comparison with Buddenbrooks in its dire wealth of Germanic family circumstance, its evoking how hungry generations have trod, have trodden down, have been trodden down. Down from the grandfather, down to and through the father who is the uncle too, there is the young Adolf, “Adi,” seen through the coarse course of his deformative years, rising to and falling into an adolescence that promises so much more than — and so much that is more hideous than — trouble. The sibling hatreds, the corporeal cruelties, the sick and sickened and sickening fantasies: these are the purulent matter of the book. Yet purulence is not all. If there is a hideous arching of putrefaction against petrification, there are glimpses of something that might have been other, a world of which one would not have had to despair. Crucial to such hope, and then to the dashing of such hope, there is an extraordinary account — rightly thoroughgoing and thoroughly engrossing — of the attempt by the father, Alois, to become a beekeeper. He is the heart of the book, and what a black heart he mostly is. Yet here the narration has a love of detail, of due expatiation, that is at once visionary, horrific, politically far-reaching, and poignant — in short, that has the power of Virgil’s Georgics (hauntingly captured by the poet David Ferry, in his translation, The Georgics of Virgil, 2005, and — with a very different power — by Peter McDonald in his new book of poems, The House of Clay, “The Bees”).
Hear how Mailer evokes the currents and crosscurrents of feeling, of such different kinds of attention. He is in Alois’s head, and in reach of his heart, and this, oddly, by courtesy of the devil (and yet this consideration can be deferred for a while, rather like the great moment in Paradise Lost when Satan abstracted stood from his own evil). Alois has been at the tavern.
On his return, Alois may have been staggering now and again, but he was also feeling too alive to enter his house. Instead, he sat by the hive boxes and fished out a rubber tube he had been keeping in his pocket. Next, he placed one end of it against a wall of the Langstroth and thereby was able to listen to the thrumming of the tenement dwellers in his little city. A fine sound was there, almost a tune, rich little swells of contentment. But then, why should his bees not be content? Come morning, hundreds, then thousands would be in a cluster ready to suck on the mesh cloth of the wide-mouthed jar, gorging on honey-and-water. So, in this dark and nicely drunken hour, separate thoughts passed through Alois like horses on file, one large thought at a time. He tried to count how many bees might be inhabiting the box. No matter how drunk, he could still make an intelligent guess. Call it twenty thousand. That was bound to be the answer. Despite himself, knowing he should not really disturb the hive, he knocked sharply on the side. Because then, through the tube, he could listen to the shift in sound. Were they issuing alerts? The calls had gone up in pitch. Like the strings of a crazy violin. Then, quiet again. Soft. Like cats who sheathe their claws. Purring while asleep.
How lovely this sounds, how attentively it evokes what it is to hear, what it is (not the same) to listen, and how the shifts in sound can bring home how strange a home a hive is, intimate and alien all at once. In this novel Mailer continues to be what he has always been, a man who knows a smell when he smells one, but he is newly sensitive, or so it seems to me (perhaps not newly, only differently), when it comes to knowing something when he hears it, the versification that is diverse forms of life. He has always had Shakespearean aspirations — the widest possible constituency that can constitute his art — and when Alois meets Alois’s bees, we hear a Shakespearean music. “The singing masons building roofs of gold”: a singing line, it is to be remembered, not (as it might sound) from the Sonnets of Shakespeare but from “a fictional possibility” which is a work of European history and of European war: Henry V.
The frighteningly musical love that Alois bends upon his bees is not cancelled, though it is hideously scored and scored through, by what soon enters “by way of the rubber tube.” For half a dozen pages later, Alois is persuaded where his duty lies. The tube lets him hear a new sound, “a great deal of restless humming in this second colony.” Sulphur (the devil’s tang, unforcedly enough) enforces “necessity, the tyrant’s plea” as it had done for Milton’s Satan. “The entrance was plugged, the hive lid at the top was laid on again, and the gas did the job quickly.”
For this, “He chose a Saturday.” A Just So story.
But the bees themselves live along a diabolical axis. In Book I of Paradise Lost, the devils throng to Pandemonium, their new home, where they
Thick swarmed, both on the ground and in the air,
Brushed with the hiss of rustling wings. As bees
In spring time, when the sun with Taurus rides,
Pour forth their populous youth about the hive
In clusters: they among fresh dews and flowers
Fly to and fro, or on the smoothèd plank,
The suburb of their straw-built citadel,
New rubbed with balm, expatiate and confer
Their state affairs.
Mailer has the great works of literature not only in his head, in his ears, but in his blood and in his bones. The Castle in the Forest, though its final destination (off the end of the book), is “state affairs,” is a work, less of whither, than of whence. Of the young Hitler, and of his imaginer, it may be said “Still fled he forward, looking backward still.”
But then if the bees may be devilish albeit pitied, so may they be an intimation of something divine. Illusory, perhaps, but a rebuke to human fretfulness. Samuel Beckett, a novelist of a different color or a horse of a different collar, was tempted to expatiate even into joy when his man Molloy contemplated the dance of the bees:
And I said, with rapture, Here is something I can study all my life, and never understand. And all during this long journey home, when I racked my mind for a little joy in store, the thought of my bees and their dance was the nearest thing to comfort. For I was still eager for my little joy, from time to time) And I admitted with good grace the possibility that this dance was after all no better than the dances of the people of the West, frivolous and meaningless. But for me, sitting near my drenched hives, it would always be a noble thing to contemplate, too noble ever to be sullied by the cogitations of a man like me, exiled in his manhood. And I would never do my bees the wrong I had done my God, to whom I had been taught to ascribe my angers, fears, desires, and even my body.
The hive itself, in Beckett’s novel no less than in Mailer’s, is doomed.
The reviewers of Mailer have made too much of the devilry, as though the narration were throughout colored by its perpetrator. For Mailer, whose God is less than omnipotent and less than omniscient, doesn’t suppose that the Devil or the devils are any more so. The Prince of Darkness is a gentleman, or at any rate he isn’t always kicking up an ungentlemanly row, and one of the novel’s many wise decisions is to let the narrating devil recede into the story for long stretches of what happens. Every now and then, the devil can’t keep himself out of the goings-on, but a shrewd devil knows the appalling truth that even a devil’s company can pall. Moreover, a devil doesn’t know it all. The pages at the center of the book devoted to the Coronation of Nicholas II have been found by some reviewers to be wantonly off the point. But they have many a point, one being that we may need to ponder not only whence Hitler came but whence Stalin came, and another being that we would do well to remind ourselves not only that even a devil can’t always be in two places at once (chez Nicholas he hankers to know exactly what is going on chez Hitler), but that the devil only knows so much.
God only knows.
Or doesn’t, if you see what Mailer sees, the struggle as between potencies that are not omnipotent. Interview, Boston Globe. “Do you believe in God?” Mailer: “I believe God is a great artist, a great creator, and is doing the best that he or she can do against serious odds. And these odds are embodied by a concept or an element called the devil.” (Delicious, that “he or she,” Mailer revelling in not being true to type — while, a rogue gentleman, perfectly prepared not to insist that the devil, too, may be a he or she, the devil and all her works.) Mailer, who delighted in anagrammatizing the name “Marilyn Monroe” to lay bare that MAILER lurked within her, has long understood that his first name (his Christian name, one might almost say) lends itself less to such an epithet as Normal than to Normanic and Normaniacal, must be aware that the strongest claimant is increasingly becoming Normanichaean.
The architecture of this novel is high over-arched, its gargoyles gargantuan. Which is why the review of it that most intrigued me is the one in The Guardian by Beryl Bainbridge, whose Young Adolf (1978, all but thirty years ago) practiced those different virtues, of spareness, sparseness, and constraint. “Electrifying and peculiar,” “this unforgettable novel by a master of prose”: these were the handsome truthful terms in which she of the young Adolf praised Mailer of the even younger Adolf.
As for me, my praise of Mailer is the one that I never weary of, the application of Robert Browning’s exuberant astonishment. Yet once more: As long I dwell on some stupendous
And tremendous (Heaven defend us!)
Monstr’-inform’-ingens-horrend-ous
Demoniaco-seraphic
Penman’s latest piece of graphic…
As to “Heaven defend us!”, Abandon hope all ye who either enter or don’t enter here. But the monstr’ and the demoniaco-seraphic (the Angels as Cudgels) combine — yet once more, again — to create this penman’s latest piece of graphic, something long, and something long to dwell on.
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Corse Clienti
Ferrari Challenge Europe and Passione Ferrari take centre stage in Valencia
Maranello | 26 March 2019
The Ricardo Tormo circuit, a few kilometres outside Valencia, will host a weekend of thrills and excitement from 29 to 31 March. Marked by the exclusivity that only Ferrari can provide the event is dedicated to all Prancing Horse fans and enthusiasts. Set in a sort of natural amphitheatre, Valencia offers the public the chance to follow the cars around most of the circuit, courtesy of the long grandstands that can accommodate over 150,000 spectators.
The programme starts on Friday, but the highlights will be on Saturday and Sunday with the Ferrari Challenge Europe races, which count towards the Trofeo Pirelli and Coppa Shell. After making their debut at the Sakhir circuit in Bahrain, the 488 Challenges will once again battle it out along the 4km track that has hosted several editions of the Ferrari one-make championship.
However, there will also be other activities, including the first European stage of Passione Ferrari, an exclusive initiative that gives Prancing Horse customers and enthusiasts unique experiences on and off the track. These include a close up look at the Ferrari F8 Tributo, the new two-seater berlinetta with a central-rear engine, the Prancing Horse’s most advanced car of this type. Presented at the last Geneva Motor Show, the F8 Tributo offers unique features and, as the name suggests, pays homage to the most powerful Ferrari V8 engine ever.
The F8 Tributo incorporates the state of the art in terms of Ferrari’s aerodynamic solutions, innovations and know-how, also acquired in GT and Challenge championships, and perfects it to create a mid-rear-engined saloon production model. The car makes the highest l performance levels accessible to all types of drivers. In Valencia, there will be a chance to find out about this latest Maranello masterpiece in the new Passione Ferrari hospitality lounge where guests can take a break between one track activity and another with a spot of excellent Italian cuisine.
Professional Ferrari instructors will help customers and enthusiasts improve their driving techniques, while the new ‘Passion Ferrari Clinic’ will be on hand to give their cars a check-up.
During the week, in particular on 2 and 3 April, tests will take place behind closed doors featuring the cars of the XX Programmes and F1 Clienti. With the help of tutors Marc Gené and Olivier Beretta, more than 20 cars will take to the track, including some of the F1 single-seaters from the Schumacher era. There will also be appearances from the FXX-K Evo and other models, with which some exclusive customers will try their hand at the special role of driver-tester.
The 2020 calendars
Ferrari has released the 2019 calendars of the four Ferrari Challenge Series and the exclusive Corse Clienti activities of F1 Clienti and XX Programmes.
Maranello | 11 November 2019
An unprecedented 2020 calendar for the Ferrari Challenge UK
After turning out to be one of the surprise events of the 2019 racing world, the Ferrari Challenge UK will get its second season underway, this time with a calendar set to introduce nine new tracks compared to those in the recently-finished championship.
2020 Finali Mondiali in Abu Dhabi
The Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi will host the next edition of the Ferrari Finali Mondiali from 4 to 7 November 2020.
Mugello | 1 November 2019
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Rangeley Wallace
Read about “I Knew You When”
I Knew You When
Annie Fitzpatrick has the happy, stable life she’s craved since her life was turned upside down two decades earlier during Redwood Summer, a summer of radical logging protests led by Earth First. She loves her job as an environmental law professor in D.C., she has an adoring husband and two wonderful kids, and a passion for running the trails of her beloved Rock Creek Park in Washington DC. The icing on the cake is that she’s just been awarded a prestigious grant to stop fracking on public lands, a crowning career achievement and the chance to make a real impact with her work.
But just as she’s about to pop the bubbly, her husband John announces he has major career news of his own. He’s gotten an offer to be the President of the Alabama Southern University, which, much to Annie’s dismay, requires an immediate move to Carsonville, Alabama.
Annie is devastated to leave her friends, life and career behind but she understands it’s an opportunity that John can’t pass up. He offers assurances of great schools for the kids, beautiful running trails in the Muskogee National Forest near the stately mansion where they’ll live, and a job at the Law School. The job will be short-lived, however, if she can’t find a good environmental law case for her new students. Rescue comes with the sudden appearance of William Davidson, who was Billy Bolton when she knew him during Redwood Summer. Billy now runs an environmental organization determined to sue a gas company poised to frack in the Muskogee Forest. Few people know about her disastrous past with Billy—including her husband.
Annie knows getting involved with Billy again is playing with fire. She remembers all too well what happened that fateful summer when she was twenty. But taking the case means saving her job and saving the Forest she’s come to love. She and Billy are quickly united by their passions against a common cause, even as the shadows—and temptations—of the past linger. With the clock ticking and the Forest at imminent risk, she and Billy and her students begin the court fight of their lives. But as the secrets of her past come tumbling out, and the townspeople become more and more divided over the case and the activists invading their sleepy Southern town, tensions reach an explosive boiling point.
An engaging and engrossing exploration of the intensity of first love and the lengths we will go to follow our passions, I KNEW YOU WHEN was inspired by the events of Redwood Summer and the still unsolved bombing that nearly killed two Earth First activists. It represents Rangeley Wallace’s finest work yet.
Click here to read the first chapter from I KNEW YOU WHEN.
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punkSAVES > Social networks have been weaponized for the impeachment hearings
Social networks have been weaponized for the impeachment hearings
The Interface will be off next week as Zoe and I wrap up a couple big reports we’ve been working on for a while now. I’ll be interviewing Tristan Harris on stage Monday at the Techonomy conference in Half Moon Bay — if you’re in attendance, say hi! Later in the week, I’ll be speaking at Tufts University’s inaugural conference on New Media and Democracy. See you on the 25th.
Impeachment hearings got underway in the House of Representatives this week, as you likely noticed from the wall-to-wall coverage. The process involves the sort of high-stakes, highly partisan events that naturally dominate social feeds. What television was to impeachment in the 1970s and 1990s, Facebook and Twitter — and YouTube and maybe TikTok — will be to impeachment in 2019.
The hearings on President Donald Trump’s apparent attempted bribery of Ukraine won’t be the first time a president has had to contend with, or benefit from, a hyper-partisan media. Conservative talk radio and Fox News were in full swing when Bill Clinton was impeached in 1998, even if their rhetoric looks quaint by today’s standard. But the World Wide Web was in its infancy, and the world was then still innocent of algorithmically sorted news feeds, partisan bot armies, and state-sponsored meme warfare.
Not anymore. If the first day of hearings is any indication, social networks promise to play a powerful role in shaping the way that impeachment hearings are understood by Americans. They are also playing a powerful role in shaping the hearings themselves.
As Ryan Broderick documented at BuzzFeed, Republican lawmakers used their time during Wednesday’s hearing to promote discredited conspiracy theories that are popular on right-wing message boards:
There is one America that believes what was in former FBI director Robert Mueller’s report, that there was coordinated Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, which helped the Trump campaign. But there is a second America that believes that in the summer of 2016, the Democratic National Committee colluded with Ukrainian nationals to frame the Trump campaign for collusion with Russia, implicating a Ukrainian American DNC contractor, Alexandra Chalupa, in the collusion and the California-based cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike in the subsequent cover-up.
This unfounded theory has been propped up by a 2017 Politico story; reporting from right-wing political commentator John Solomon published earlier this year in the Hill; Attorney General Bill Barr’s summer travels; the yearlong personal investigation into Ukraine conducted by Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer working for Trump; and coverage from Fox News and conservative news sites. All of that came into play during Wednesday’s hearing, sometimes implicitly and sometimes explicitly.
After Republican members of Congress promoted these various smokescreens, right-wing media universally dismissed the hearing — either as an absurd exercise led by clowns, or as an outrageous abuse of power. Brian Stelter described the atmosphere on cable news:
Here’s what else I heard: Wednesday’s hearing was a bust. It was all just hearsay. It was a “disaster” for the Democrats and a “great day” for the Republicans. Impeachment is “stupid.” Impeachment is “fake.” There’s nothing impeachable here. There’s no reason to hold hearings. This inquiry needs to stop right now.
The message was one-sided and overwhelming. Every host and practically every guest said the Republican tribe is winning and the Democrat tribe is losing. I’m sure the president loved watching every minute of it. That’s one of the reasons why this right-wing rhetoric matters so much — because it is reassuring and emboldening Trump.
Meanwhile, if you’re reading the New York Times or watching CNN, you’re getting the sense that the case against Trump is a slam dunk, with multiple people having heard the president directly pressure his ambassador to the European Union to pursue a bribery plot. As Ezra Klein wrote recently, this impeachment is “the easiest possible test case for can our system hold a president accountable.” And yet with something like 40 percent of the country living in an alternate media universe, the basic, actual facts of the case may never penetrate into their reality.
Of course, that fear was one of the best reasons for Democrats to initiate impeachment proceedings in the first place: Show people real witnesses answering important questions over a long enough period of time — train everyone’s eyes on the same set of facts — and maybe a greater consensus will emerge.
Time will tell if they succeed. In the meantime, impeachment has proven to be big business on Facebook — where politicians are taking out highly partisan ads consistent with their respective worldviews. Emily Stewart and Rani Molla have a thorough walkthrough of how impeachment is playing out on Facebook, with Trump and Sen. Elizabeth Warren using ads to fire up their base and build their donor rolls; Tom Steyer using impeachment as a signature issue to promote his presidential candidacy; and a spice company buying tens of thousands of dollars worth of pro-impeachment advertising because they spread farther on Facebook than non-impeachment ads, resulting in a better return on investment.
Much of the debate about whether Facebook should allow political advertising noted that it represents a small fraction of the company’s business. But as the Vox writers note, that doesn’t mean it’s an insignificant business:
Facebook itself has grown into a formidable political platform in recent years, with campaigns and outside groups spending $284 million on the platform during the midterm elections, according to a report by Tech for Campaigns, a nonprofit that helps political campaigns with digital tools. While that’s just a small share of Facebook’s overall ad revenue, it’s a growing chunk of what campaigns are spending to reach constituents.
As impeachment hearings intensify, it seems likely politicians’ spending on Facebook ads will increase. And a good number of those ads, like so much about impeachment in 2019, will seem to have been created in a parallel world. In many ways, they were.
The Ratio
Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms.
Trending down: Facebook is sponsoring an event at the Federalist Society where Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is speaking. A new ad campaign targeting Facebook employees is urging them to fight back. (In the meantime, this was a truly great idea for a protest.)
Trending down: Anti-vaxx content is still thriving on Facebook. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) sent Mark Zuckerberg a letter denouncing the company’s “failure to stem the tide of dangerous myths about vaccinations.”
⭐US intelligence agencies confirmed they’ve stopped collecting location data from people’s phones without a warrant — at least for those inside the United States. But they stopped short of saying they will be legally barred from collecting this information when a provision of the Patriot Act expires next month (unless Congress renews it). Spencer Ackerman at The Daily Beast explains:
It’s the latest maneuver in a perennial clash between the intelligence agencies and their overseers over how tightly privacy laws constrain non-criminal surveillance, particularly as the ubiquity of surveillance-relevant technology advances.
Cell-phone location data effectively provides a map of a person’s whereabouts as their phone connects to nearby cellular towers. A landmark Supreme Court ruling last year, known as Carpenter v. U.S., held that cell-site location information, known as CSLI data, impacts privacy to the point where the government must obtain a warrant based on probable cause of wrongdoing to collect it.
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Joseph Simons called on Congress to pass new privacy legislation. The request came when Simons testified in a hearing on Capital Hill as part of the antitrust probe into Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google. (Kate Cox / Ars Technica)
Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang put out a sweeping new tech policy proposal with a number of controversial ideas, including taxing digital ads and launching a new department to regulate algorithms on social networks. (Makena Kelly / The Verge)
Independent “researchers” are sharing earthquake conspiracies on social media. They’ve fooled government agencies and have even made their way onto local news, spreading panic and confusion in the midst of national disasters. (Anna Merlan / Vice)
A private Facebook group is stoking anti-Muslim violence in Maine. The group is primarily made up of residents of a small city called Lewiston, which is home to about 6,000 former refugees. (Nathan Bernard and Andy O’Brien / Mainer)
Facebook should let juries review political ads on the platform, a Harvard law professor argues. A random group of people wouldn’t necessarily be better at fact-finding than, say, a third-party fact-checker, but it could lend legitimacy and credibility to the process. (Jonathan Zittrain / The Atlantic)
Starting in February, Google will no longer share information to participants in its ad auction about the type of content on a website or page where an ad could appear. The change comes as Google faces growing scrutiny from European Union watchdogs over privacy, among other issues. (Natalia Drozdiak and Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg)
Australia is among the countries that saw declining internet freedom last year, according to a report from the independent watchdog group Freedom House. The country adopted new restrictions on what online content people can access, as well as new laws around online expression. (Hannah Ryan and Cameron Wilson / BuzzFeed)
⭐ We’re in a period of deep distrust of Silicon Valley. People are more cynical about social media, privacy is a looming concern, and tech workers are suspicious about their own companies. This essay by Bill Wasik introduces a package in The New York Times Magazine that looks back at how we got here:
Perhaps the most profound force at work upon the internet right now is the simple passage of time. Everyone raised in a pre-internet era continues to age and disappear, while new generations grow up not merely as “digital natives” but as lifelong witnesses to the internet’s best and worst effects. In the naïve dreams of earlier days, many people joined Zuckerberg in imagining that connecting the world could bring about new social virtues at no social cost. But it’s now clear that interconnection by its very nature also brings about confounding new social situations, whether it’s the problem of disinformation seeded and spread by organized propagandists or the mind-bendingly obsessive culture of online fandom. For teenagers today, the internet is both a stage onto which to step boldly and a minefield through which to step gingerly — a double bind that has given rise to whole new habits of living online, in which self-expression and self-protection are inextricably linked.
Paying for internet services and subscriptions has gone from being a sign that you lack the technical skills to find a good workaround to being a status symbol. Personally, I’m still waiting for Superhuman to take me off its waiting list. (Kevin Roose / The New York Times)
China’s internet is thriving by integrating many different services on a single platform. It’s amazing what having the backing of an authoritarian government can do for an app like WeChat. (Yiren Lu / The New York Times)
Social media has allowed kids to have multiple, fluid identities, rather than having a fixed idea of who they are and how they have to act. That’s probably a good thing, as this fun profile of a popular YouTuber demonstrates. (Elizabeth Weil / The New York Times)
Scientists are taking to YouTube to debunk dangerous life-hack videos that go viral on the platform, sometimes with deadly results. Videos that promote fake hacks — whether in baking or beauty — don’t necessarily violate YouTube’s policies. (Emma Grey Ellis / Wired)
Teens are calling themselves “ugly” on TikTok. It’s a relatable skit that shows the deep contrast between the video sharing app and Instagram, which operates more like a beauty pageant. (Rebecca Jennings / Vox)
TikTok is thriving in India, even as it comes under scrutiny in the US. The viral video sharing app has four times as many downloads in India than in the US, with users often filming in public. (Eric Bellman / The Wall Street Journal)
Mark Zuckerberg created a TikTok account, where his follows include Ariana Grande, Loren Gray, and Jason Derulo. The CEO is keeping a close eye on the popular video sharing app, but we knew that already. (Isobel Asher Hamilton / Business Insider)
Influencers say they’re not stressed about Instagram testing hiding likes in the US, despite what some headlines would have you believe. Caroline Calloway, Elsie Larson and Emily Schuman weighed in. (Tanya Chen and Stephanie McNeal / BuzzFeed)
Some influencers said Instagram’s decision to hide like counts has made them more chill about posting photos. This seems to be a big part of the logic driving the move. (Cameron Wilson / BuzzFeed)
Also: Instagram is expanding its test to hide like counts globally. (Josh Constine / TechCrunch)
Facebook is considering leasing a much larger space at Manhattan’s Hudson Yards, giving the social media company offices across three buildings at the $25 billion mega-project. Google and Amazon are also looking to expand in New York. (Noah Buhayar and Natalie Wong / Bloomberg)
John Carmack, the chief technology officer of Facebook’s VR subsidiary Oculus, is stepping down to focus on artificial intelligence. Carmack, a legend from his id Software days, helped put Oculus on the map. (Jay Peters / The Verge)
Amazon needs prep centers to take products from third-party vendors and package them according to the company’s standards. That’s how a tiny town in Montana became a hub in Amazon’s supply chain. (Josh Dzieza / The Verge)
@lastmanstanley, TikTok’s Weirdest Creator, Explains His Process
Here’s a fun look at how one popular TikTok — involving a college junior, a dog, a bathroom, and some music from the horror film Hereditary — came together in a memorably strange way.
If you want to go viral on TikTok, I suggest following these steps exactly.
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A novel modeling approach to quantify the influence of nitrogen inputs on the oxygen dynamics of the North Sea
Fabian Große, Markus Kreus, Hermann-Josef Lenhart, Johannes Pätsch, Thomas Pohlmann
Oxygen (O2) deficiency, i.e., dissolved O2 concentrations below 6 mg O2 L-1, is a common feature in the southern North Sea. Its evolution is governed mainly by the presence of seasonal stratification and production of organic matter, which is subsequently degraded under O2 consumption. The latter is strongly influenced by riverine nutrient loads, i.e., nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P). As riverine P loads have been reduced significantly over the past decades, this study aims for the quantification of the influence of riverine and non-riverine N inputs on the O2 dynamics in the southern North Sea. For this purpose, we present an approach to expand a nutrient-tagging technique for physical-biogeochemical models - often referred to as 'trans-boundary nutrient transports' (TBNT) - by introducing a direct link to the O2 dynamics. We apply the expanded TBNT to the physical-biogeochemical model system HAMSOM-ECOHAM and focus our analysis on N-related O2 consumption in the southern North Sea during 2000-2014. The analysis reveals that near-bottom O2 consumption in the southern North Sea is strongly influenced by the N supply from the North Atlantic across the northern shelf edge. However, riverine N sources - especially the Dutch, German and British rivers - as well as the atmosphere also play an important role. In the region with lowest simulated O2 concentrations (around 56 °N, 6.5 °E), riverine N on average contributes 39% to overall near-bottom O2 consumption during seasonal stratification. Here, the German and the large Dutch rivers constitute the highest riverine contributions (11% and 10%, respectively). At a site in the Oyster Grounds (around 54.5 °N, 4 °E), the average riverine contribution adds up to 41%, even exceeding that of the North Atlantic. Here, highest riverine contributions can be attributed to the Dutch and British rivers adding up to almost 28% on average. The atmospheric contribution results in 13%. Our results emphasize the importance of anthropogenic N inputs and seasonal stratification for the O2 conditions in the southern North Sea. They further suggest that reductions in the riverine and atmospheric N inputs may have a relevant positive effect on the O2 levels in this region.
Frontiers in Marine Science
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2017.00383
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Große, F., Kreus, M., Lenhart, H-J., Pätsch, J., & Pohlmann, T. (2017). A novel modeling approach to quantify the influence of nitrogen inputs on the oxygen dynamics of the North Sea. Frontiers in Marine Science, 4(NOV), [383]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2017.00383
Große, Fabian ; Kreus, Markus ; Lenhart, Hermann-Josef ; Pätsch, Johannes ; Pohlmann, Thomas. / A novel modeling approach to quantify the influence of nitrogen inputs on the oxygen dynamics of the North Sea. In: Frontiers in Marine Science. 2017 ; Vol. 4, No. NOV.
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Labyrinth, Chapter 2 Tronklis 2018/02/01(Thu)19:48 No. 863922 ID: 12b116
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Kobolds have entered into a strange Magical Realm and leave chaos wherever they go!
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Tropical Cascade
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Suggestion 2019/01/03(Thu)17:46 No. 916142 ID: b1b4f3
>polybius
Uh maybe don't go in there or let Oubliss look, it's possible it only looks harmless to Tronklis right now. If there's no loot and the door's locked then it's a useless room, let's try the other direction of this intersection.
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Coconut Bubbles
Duke 2019/01/03(Thu)19:20 No. 916161 ID: e7848c
Trust no machine. Can you destroy it from here with the crossbow?
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Pink Jingling Sugar
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Serpens 2019/01/03(Thu)21:03 No. 916185 ID: 0c3c2c
Yeah let's just... Not use that. Remember the Machine Asshole.
Blue Evening Berry
kome 2019/01/03(Thu)21:17 No. 916189 ID: 094652
That machine has a clear set of inputs and outputs. It's a console, but you don't know what it does, only that it's supposed to tell you it's doing something when you do something to it.
Also, that cart. Should be useful for carrying heavy stuff around.
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Mystery Posh
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Suggestion 2019/01/04(Fri)20:19 No. 916260 ID: 7c90bc
Read the weird machine.
Suggestion 2019/01/05(Sat)19:10 No. 916407 ID: 12b116
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“I’m gonna look at it!”
I hip bounce Tronklis out of the way and slap ALL of the buttons and wiggle the handle on top of the thing for a bit but nothing really happens!
He just kind of sits on the floor and doesn’t say anything. Normally he would tell me not to do something but now I can do whatever I want! This thing doesn’t really do anything though, I can’t figure it out.
”Oubliss come on!”
I guess we should stick together, unless there’s something else I can try to make this thing do something. Hmm, maybe I should be in charge? I can pick up everybody else and only kloldril can pick me up. Slorsnis can’t pick up anybody at all! We should take this cart though so I don’t have to carry everything all the time.
If there’s nothing else to do in here where should we go?
Suggestion 2019/01/05(Sat)19:13 No. 916409 ID: b1b4f3
Hmmm nah can't figure it out, might as well go somewhere else. Hey maybe you can get that door open. What's the lock like? Maybe you can pick it!
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Duke 2019/01/06(Sun)01:28 No. 916439 ID: 83bf07
This machine sucks. Let's break it! Is there a doorway out of this place? Help everyone into this room and claim that cart. Throw Tronklis on top of it until he stops being dumb.
Suggestion 2019/01/06(Sun)17:53 No. 916548 ID: 12b116
I put Tronklis in the cart and he just sits there “Just sit there OK”
“you’re not breaking anything in there are you?”
”Not yet! I’m going to try the lock.” The lock is strange, when my pick goes into it it feels… gooey or something. Like there’s some kind of resistance in the air itself. There’s tumblers and stuff inside, but they don’t seem to move at all, normally there’s a little bit of wiggling, but this feels like it’s all frozen up. The door doesn’t move no matter how hard I kick it either. I push the machine over and the light goes out! Where should we go next? If we turn around and go back to the intersection from here we can either turn right or go straight unless we want to go back to where we came from. Or we could keep going down this hall, I think?
Take that weird nub shooting thing and shoot the handle of the door. If no progress is made, go back to intersection and go straight.
Serpens 2019/01/06(Sun)19:08 No. 916559 ID: 0c3c2c
Let's just go down the hall, I guess the door is magic or something.
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Suggestion 2019/01/06(Sun)19:19 No. 916565 ID: 2202fb
Actually, lets try to set up a makeshift camp for now until we are all back to 100% (or as close as we ever were).
Suggestion 2019/01/07(Mon)18:04 No. 916720 ID: 7c90bc
Oh simple silly kobolds, they haven't figured out there's no going backwards in a magical Labyrinth.
Suggestion 2019/01/08(Tue)17:37 No. 916820 ID: b1b4f3
Ok let's go back to the intersection, and go straight across it.
I drew a map though.
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Love Belle
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Suggestion 2019/01/08(Tue)17:41 No. 916821 ID: 7aff3e
Down the hall!
Suggestion 2019/01/08(Tue)18:15 No. 916829 ID: 12b116
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“tronklis shoot at that door!”
Hmm, that didn’t do anything. It must be magic.
“let’s check out what’s down this hall”
”OK, I’ll go first though.”
There’s not really enough room anywhere to make camp right now, we’d need to find somewhere that isn’t cluttered or crowded if we want to actually get some sleep.
The hallway keeps going, and wait, is this back where we were before? I turn around and look at where we came from, but it looks the same. There’s no entrance going the direction we would have been going to be facing this way, but everything else still looks like it’s in the same place…. I guess we have to choose a direction to go in that intersection next. We turned right to get here but there’s no entrance on the left? “Slornis did you see a door close or anything?”
”Hee hee! Snrrk! No, not really? “
What’s so funny?
”The cart! Hee hee”
Okay time to use that chalk. Mark the wall at the intersection to indicate what direction you're going next.
I vote to turn around and go back to look for the chalk mark and see if this really is the same location; maybe it just looks the same?
If it's really the same place then go the direction that doesn't loop around, because there's no other choice really.
Serpens 2019/01/08(Tue)19:29 No. 916834 ID: 0c3c2c
It is a cute cart. We should head down the passage on Oubliss's right.
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naileD 2019/01/09(Wed)11:09 No. 916922 ID: 8267be
What's that square thingy on the left?
Duke 2019/01/09(Wed)13:17 No. 916928 ID: e7848c
Chalk idea seems like a good start. Let's try going down any path we haven't been before.
Suggestion 2019/01/09(Wed)20:50 No. 916971 ID: 2202fb
You might be getting gassed by some sort of hallucinogen or mild neurotoxin. Keep a level head and try to move quickly. If that isnt possible, wet some cloth and cover your face. If that still doesnt work, use a wish to ask for a quartet of high field of vision gas masks (like the m50).
"Let's see if we can make a chalk line to keep track of where we've been. " The square on the left is where we got the food from.
We turn right twice and go back to the room with the beeping machine in it that Oubliss pushed over, and draw a line back into the hallway where we got the food. The hallway turns right, but when we turn around to look at where we came from the line stops and there's a solid wall where we should have just come through. It's like we can pass through it one way but can't go back through it. But it just goes back to where we were before.
"I think we might need to retrace our steps."
Kloldril 2019/01/12(Sat)17:21 No. 917437 ID: 12b116
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"hee hee hee lemme draw on the wall! lessee, uhh, firs' we wen here, where we got th' key. We went back there but the hall ends now instead of how we came in. I'ma draw a kobold where we are now. Firs there's th food, then th' room wif papers you said, then round the corner there's th' room tronklis looked in and I got ta poke him with the thing. Then we turnededed. Turnded. snrrk. Hee hee. and then Oubliss got the purple scarf, and then we wen-went to the room with the box and now we're back here."
I don't know what's wrong with Slorsnis, she's slurring her words and giggling a whole lot.. but that seems right.
Serpens 2019/01/12(Sat)17:25 No. 917438 ID: 0c3c2c
Did she drink too much wine? And let's see if we can navigate a course around any of the awful things that make people crazy in this maze....
kome 2019/01/12(Sat)17:28 No. 917439 ID: 094652
This place doesn't conform to normality. Try re-drawing the map with phases where things would shift or be replaced.
Ah, I see now. Let's return to that intersection and turn left instead of right.
It's just a one-way passage, dude.
She had too much of the fermented berry juice. Let's cut her off. Get to the intersection and take a right.
I'm telling you, you are getting gassed.
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naileD 2019/01/13(Sun)17:21 No. 917641 ID: fc458a
Go to the room with the box and close the door. Then see if you can use the key to lock and unlock it, and then enter the room. Or maybe do that from the inside.
If that doesn't work, then go to the intersection and go in the right (map-wise) direction.
Kloldril 2019/01/22(Tue)14:49 No. 918634 ID: 12b116
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It looks like we can only go down that hall one way, but there's no door or anything, it's just gone when you look back. Going right at the intersection goes to the room with the box in it, so we check out the left side. There's a couple of turns before we see anything, there's a dull reddish glow coming off one side and a round hole with warm air coming out of it. on the other side.
I don't smell anything gassy, and we haven't tried the key on the box room door either. Should we check the holes here or try that first?
Have Tronklis look in the holes first to make sure they're safe for other bolds to look at.
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naileD 2019/01/22(Tue)15:55 No. 918642 ID: ebd50b
Check these two holes first. Use a light if it's too dark to see into the round hole. Doesn't really matter who looks into them.
Duke 2019/01/25(Fri)02:09 No. 918969 ID: 83bf07
Check here first. Have Troknlis look first, as usual, through the opening with the light coming through.
Suggestion 2019/03/08(Fri)18:13 No. 925109 ID: 12b116
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"Tronklis have a look in there, what do you see?"
"The crack is just that place we saw earlier when we came out of the tunnels. Doesn't look like anything's there. Boring. The hole turns upward, can't see what's in it. Also boring."
"I bet somebody could fit their arm in the round hole! Well, I tried but my arm is TOO STRONG for it to fit. It's nice and warm in there! I bet Tronklis or Slorsnis's arm would fit!"
Suggestion 2019/03/08(Fri)18:15 No. 925111 ID: b1b4f3
A warm hole? Does it smell like anything? I'm a little hesitant to tell someone to just stick their arm in there and fumble around blindly.
Duke 2019/03/08(Fri)20:24 No. 925123 ID: e7848c
Have Slorsnis check the hole real quick. If she doesn't immediately find anything, move on ahead.
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naileD 2019/03/09(Sat)01:35 No. 925131 ID: 834378
Use the blowtorch on the hole first in case there's something in there.
And then... well, we'd need a mirror to look up in there. Should've broken some when we were in the bathrooms heh. Not sure if we got anything small and reflective with us. Hmm. Would hurling one of the slingshot ammo in there, and then looking into its history work?
"The hole is warm and smells good. "
"You're right, it kind of smells like flowers, let's see whats in there..."
"I feel something... it's a fresh warm sock!"
kome 2019/03/10(Sun)14:31 No. 925301 ID: 094652
Shake the sock!
...a laundry vent? Huh. Pocket sock. Move on
Suggestion 2019/03/10(Sun)14:47 No. 925303 ID: b1b4f3
So THAT'S how people lose socks.
Someone put it on and let's keep going.
naileD 2019/03/10(Sun)16:51 No. 925310 ID: 834378
Look inside the sock. Also, look into its history.
Suggestion 2019/03/11(Mon)18:37 No. 925415 ID: 12b116
There's nothing inside it! "Tronklis, hee hee, come here I need you to do something!"
"you gotta look at it"
"there's nothing."
That would have been funnier if he would have got upset about touching my toes!
Duke 2019/03/11(Mon)18:58 No. 925417 ID: e7848c
He's a little different right now.
Please be patient with him.
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Suggestion 2019/03/12(Tue)03:45 No. 925462 ID: 398bc4
Hopefully the drug wears off so you can mess with him again. Anyway, continue onwards!
naileD 2019/03/12(Tue)15:09 No. 925533 ID: 834378
That's strange. How can an item have no history? Or is it the injection that's temporarily disabling Tronklis' ability? Just to be sure, I'd try reading one of our items that we know has a history. Other than that, I'd go with >>917641, using the key on the box room door, before venturing further in this direction.
We could make him try something else, but I don't know what has history or what doesn't. He got lazy or something too. I don't know what kind of thing to make him look at?
"Let me try something!" I try the key on the door in the box room, it won't go in at all. I get that weird mushy hard feeling again.
There's a key hole on the box though, and it fits just fine in there! And there's treasure inside!
"AWESOM you found some tresher! I'mma grab this!"
Erupting Badger 2019/12/14(Sat)18:41 No. 951643 ID: e7848c
Oh sweet, what's the loot? Be sure no one wanders off though.
Nice! Treasure!
...is everything supposed to be sideways? We may have changed areas without even opening a door. See if you can go back out into the tunnels. If you can, let's try going further down the unexplored corridor that leads to the right of the map.
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naileD 2019/12/15(Sun)10:50 No. 951676 ID: 9e04c9
Which box? The machine with the lights?
Can you flip the machine back up the way it originally was? If it turns on, then you could try to put some of these coins in the slots... and play some games.
It's sideways because I pushed it over! I put it back right side up but it doesn't come on again.
"let'see whats past the sockhole."
"Me and Oubliss will stay at the front then." The passage beyond the sock hole has THREE doors in it and doesn't go any further. the closest one to us is just a stone archway that goes out to what looks like a cold night time scene, it seems familiar? The one past that looks like candle light is coming from it and has some doors we can just walk under if we wanted to, and the one way at the back looks like some kind of red metal door. Should we look in any of them or should we go try somewhere else first? I don't trust doors any more now, after all this mess.
Let's also check out the south path first. So, turn around and turn left at the intersection.
Yeah let's explore the other path for now.
Dook 2019/12/16(Mon)01:07 No. 951727 ID: 83bf07
Does that night time doorway lead to that forest you went through earlier?
The doorway doesn't go to the forested place. It looks like dunes of ash with some spires off in the distance..
"Let's check out the other path before going through any doors"
There's only one more path we haven't been down. There's a room on it that looks like an empty pit, and it keeps going after that. Should we check it out further, investigate the pit room, or do something else?
Check out the end of this corridor, it looks like it opens up?
Erupting Badger 2019/12/18(Wed)02:08 No. 951803 ID: 83bf07
You're bolds! You investigate! To the pit!
naileD 2019/12/18(Wed)13:24 No. 951816 ID: 9e04c9
Only have a look at the pit room, but otherwise keep going down the corridor.
Kloldril 2019/12/18(Wed)19:26 No. 951842 ID: 12b116
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The pit looks real deep. Our lights can't see the bottom of it
Suggestion 2019/12/18(Wed)20:45 No. 951846 ID: b1b4f3
*looks at inventory*
Hmm, how about lower a lantern on a rope to see what's down there? It will also double as a way to tell if climbing down is possible.
We have a flare gun for these purposes. But even if we saw something down there, we couldn't get to it - it looks too deep.
Continue in the corridor.
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Kloldril 2019/12/20(Fri)22:36 No. 951964 ID: 0a2444
we lower a light down there but it reaches the end of both ropes and still doesn't touch the bottom! Should we throw anything in it or go see what is down the hall?
naileD 2019/12/20(Fri)23:35 No. 951969 ID: 9e04c9
Throw one of the coins and listen in on the echo. The continue in the corridor.
Hmm, I see a dark spot within the lantern's light. Can you verify that?
Well that'd give us an indication of how deep it us, but I worry that there might be something dangerous at the bottom we don't want to disturb.
Also we could throw something less valuable/useful than coinage.
Dook 2019/12/21(Sat)00:34 No. 951974 ID: 83bf07
Let's go back. Nothing here for us here.
Kloldril 2019/12/22(Sun)16:37 No. 952063 ID: 0a2444
"Somebody come here and toss a coin down this hole, I wanna see if"
"DONE"
"SHH we need to see how long it takes to hit the bottom."
... we listen for a bit, but nobody hears it hit the bottom
Yeah why don't we just step away from the bottomless pit now.
Dook 2019/12/22(Sun)19:11 No. 952070 ID: e7848c
This is an excellent hole for throwing things down. Let's gather up our stuff and head back to the corridors.
...hmm it's actually a little tempting to throw in the things we have that are related to Mysterious Devices, but I also feel like we might want to keep those to use against him somehow later.
Shout into the pit, "How much is two plus two!"
Kloldril 2019/12/26(Thu)16:56 No. 952219 ID: 0a2444
We yell into it but there's no response, and I don't think we should throw more stuff into it now. There's only one way we haven't checked out yet. It turns left at the end, then goes a little way and turns left again. And again, and again.. Just as I think we've been going in a circle, it opens out into a big empty room. This looks like it might be a good place to rest, unless there's somewhere better through any of those doors
Yeah resting here could be a good idea, as this place seems empty of hostiles and you need to wait for two of your party to recover from mind-altering chemicals.
Are you tired though? How long has it been since you last rested?
naileD 2019/12/26(Thu)23:44 No. 952226 ID: 9e04c9
Camp. And have dreams about the newly born sock.
Maybe practice shooting or something as well.
Erupting Badger 2019/12/27(Fri)01:32 No. 952229 ID: 83bf07
Another round of target practice wouldn't hurt as long as you use stuff that you can retrieve ammo for.
Kloldril 2019/12/28(Sat)20:46 No. 952297 ID: 0a2444
We practice a bit with the weird crossbow. Well, me and Oubliss do anyway. Slorsnis takes off her clothes and goes immediately to sleep and Tronklis is still standing there.
"Don't you want to go to sleep"
"Why not? Don't you feel tired?"
He doesn't even care if I mess with his ear or anything, he's just standing there acting weird. Maybe we shouldn't have poked him with that thing? Hopefully it will wear off. He doesn't do anything no matter where I poke him!
Should anyone try to sleep with anything particular ? Do we have questions to try to ask?
"Do we still remember what home was like? Do you think we could conquer the world with what we have, or should we get some more books?"
I'm guessing "questions" refers to speaking to Ideations and asking them things.
Yes, there is something we need to ask: should we keep ahold of the objects affiliated with Mysterious Devices? The cog pendant and music box, specifically. Not sure the music box is as special as the pendant but it can't hurt to ask. Would it be better if we threw those things down the bottomless pit?
Also, we can try to get some information on where those doors lead. We have some information on the zones thanks to our darkness-lurking friend, so we can pick a benevolent or rewarding area to go to next instead of picking mostly blindly.
As for who to speak to... IIRC the only reasonable choices we have are Non Contiguous Connectiveness(the golden cutebold), and Things that Move In Darkness. Speaking to Mysterious Devices is a terrible idea since he's either lied or told half-truths to lead us astray.
I say talk to NCC again, and along with the other questions(though honestly we can ask any of the non-MD Ideations quesitons like these), tell her you know that you can't release her without releasing everything else, so you have to somehow deal with the abomination beforehand. Is it within your power to kill it? Can you do SOMETHING so that it's less of an absolutely awful idea to destroy the Labyrinth? And what about the other Ideations? Aren't the other ones a bit... hostile?
Oh right I just remembered we have to pick items to focus on while going to sleep to contact Ideations. I don't think we have any monster parts anymore that would work to contact TtMiD.
Hmm, maybe someone should focus on one of those items we got from the forge workers? That zone must've been associated with an Ideation due to its strong theme, and we know it's not MD.
Pretty sure Tronklis is the only one that can contact NCC without an item and I don't think we have anything associated with that Ideation... Maybe the weird coins?
Hmm, while Tronklis is drugged up and shielded from mental influence, maybe he can "read" more items? Maybe he could give us more options for contacting Ideations.
Oubliss should sleep with the golden cookie. Kloldril should sleep with the music box. And Slorsnis is already sleeping with the socks.
As for the questions, I dunno. Depends on who we meet I suppose. What's the golden cookie used for? Which way to The Old and Forgotten? What happened to Cmdr James Misjizdran Misfortune?
>Speaking to Mysterious Devices is a terrible idea
On the contrary. Don't you know the saying to keep your enemies closer?
Oh and, see how Tronklis reacts if you rub his nose.
Kloldril 2019/12/30(Mon)19:47 No. 952418 ID: 0a2444
Tronklis doesn't really care if his nose is squozen, I'll sleep next to the music box, what am I trying to do with it again? I don't want to talk to the machine thing.
I mess with the gold cookie, and it pops open? what exactly should I do with it, or should I try to use the monster tooth again?
Erupting Badger 2019/12/30(Mon)21:12 No. 952423 ID: e7848c
I'm going to assume that Tronklis isn't going to to sleep until way late. Is there anything we can make him do while he's under the effect of that syringe? I don't think we have any madness inducing objects to mess with.
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Raptie 2019/12/30(Mon)21:26 No. 952424 ID: e2e5d0
We should touch Slorsnis's butt. It's so extremely touchable. Also, take off one of her socks and put it on Tronklis's ear.
Suggestion 2019/12/30(Mon)22:48 No. 952433 ID: b1b4f3
Try sleeping with the crown.
naileD 2019/12/31(Tue)00:21 No. 952437 ID: 9e04c9
The music box helps with sleeping. Of course it only works if you turn off the lights. Like in that one game...
The dead adventurer had both the cogwheel necklace and the music box. If they only wanted to contact MD, then the cogwheel would've been enough. So maybe the music box is for something else. But if we get MD anyway, then hey, at least we can ask it what the music box is for.
Watch the watch. Point it in random directions. Shake it. Listen to it. Wound it up. See how well it balances on Slorsnis' butt...
Oh, we still have the teeth? I thought they were used up since they weren't in our inventory the last time we saw it. Anyway, I dunno if I'd want to use the teeth again. It was pretty scary the last time. It would probably be safe for Kloldril tho since he's already done it once.
Oubliss 2020/01/08(Wed)22:13 No. 953071 ID: 12b116
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Me and Kloldril go to sleep after messing with the gold clam thing, and making the music thingy play. I sleep next to the crown for good measure, listening to the plin-plin-plonks of the little music maker...
We are all a weird animal! We're on a rock floating in the sky, but there's way too many stars around! We can sniff and snuffle! There's a thing moving in the distance, reminds me of those things we saw in the tunnel. There's some kind of evil ball in the sky as well, I don't like to look at it!
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Suggestion 2020/01/08(Wed)22:17 No. 953072 ID: 1f2e83
Well first off better eat those mushrooms.
Weird place. Is there anywhere you can go or is the rock isolated?
Call out, ask if there's anyone around.
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naileD 2020/01/09(Thu)00:08 No. 953082 ID: 404f0f
Follow the train.
Raptie 2020/01/09(Thu)00:18 No. 953083 ID: e2e5d0
GRONK. As loud as you can.
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Suggestion 2020/01/09(Thu)11:08 No. 953101 ID: f2320a
GRONK also there is a ribbon? Is the shrooms good?
Erupting Badger 2020/01/09(Thu)13:00 No. 953109 ID: 83bf07
How often does that train pass through? Could you follow it? Would the others follow you?
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There is a ribbon, it is MINE! We gronk but mine comes out more of a "hornp!" The mushrooms don't taste like anything because this isn't real. The machines come out of the hole, go through the sky up to a magic castle where they stop, but then they go down the rails some more and CRASH into a floating rock! There's a moon there too...
... Everyone wakes up after a good sleep.
"Are you asleep?"
He is still acting weird. Either way, we need to decide on what to do next.
Looks like we didn't manage to contact anyone.
Head to the hallway with the doors. Peek through the lit one.
naileD 2020/01/11(Sat)13:40 No. 953217 ID: 404f0f
First we dress up. Oubliss wear Tronklis around your neck.
Go back past the sockhole and enter the first door with the stone archway.
Erupting Badger 2020/01/12(Sun)12:53 No. 953289 ID: 83bf07
Let's eat something and head for the most welcoming path we got.
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Suggestion 2020/01/14(Tue)09:30 No. 953425 ID: 015bf2
Peekerbo, yeah.
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October 13 — 2018
Thursday — November 14th, 2019
ULTRA South Africa 2020 Announces Phase 2 Lineup
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Tag Archives: Oscar
The Dark Knight Rises: I Was Born In It…
Sorry I’m a bit late on the uptake with reviewing this movie, but I did see it, so I do need to review it. This movie, as the whole series does, holds a lot of mixed feelings with me. People moan and complain about the past Batmans (never had nipples, I get it), and rant and rave about how this series is the end all be all of Batman fandom. That’s great, neat-o. People have all different kinds of preferences when it comes to comic book
Hello there, Mr. Batman (in a Sean Connery voice).
heroes and the types of ways that they’re represented, but get off my back when I say I am a bit more nostalgic and partial to the original Tim Burton films. Jesus…
But, that doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy these movies. We all must remember that these are movies about fictionalized characters from comic books made mostly for the demographic of children to teenagers. Being in college, I can claim, just on the border, that it still applies to me. And hell, these movies only apply to people my age they’re so damn dark these days. I never read The Dark Knight series, and I don’t plan to (not a big comic person). Christopher Nolan can do what he wishes, but just because he made Memento that film kids orgasm over, doesn’t mean he’s the best director and visionary of all time.
A worthy, catlike foe.
And therein lies where my grudge starts. I enjoyed Batman Begins for its iconically classic cheesy action lines and origin story. For a lot of other fans, that movie is shit in comparison to The Dark Knight. Sure, in hindsight, any movie is better than its predecessor (very rarely). But please, respect the originators. The Dark Knight was good as well. Great story, not the best film of all time, because remember, only dramas and artsy films win Oscars, and as much as I would like that to be changed, it won’t. So stop pretending that this movie deserved Oscars, it ain’t gonna happen Nolan.
And then, it all started. Nolan made Inception. The stupid dream within a dream jokes started. This film may be visually pretty, but in lacks when all the hype built around its release left it wanting something. And then, as if to pay homage to a film that has nothing to do with the Batman series, to service the fans, Nolan does something I find strange and deplorable. He puts Marion
The Dark Inception Rises?
Cotillard, Tom Hardy, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt all into the Batman series. With plenty of other candidates out there to try out, he did that whole in-circle movie inclusion thing. All I’m saying is, if I were a director, I would want to work with lots of varying talent and not stick the same old actors into every movie. I wouldn’t have been surprised if Nolan replaced Christian Bale with DiCaprio…
Now that my rants over, let me start a conflicted review about The Dark Knight Rises that people probably won’t read because I’ve already forced out everyone who lives and dies for this series anyways…
So, I gotta say this movie was really hit or miss for me. I love Christian Bale. Plain and simple. His depiction of Batman is
Christian Bale, may you never change.
satisfactory, and one of the only things that keeps me watching these movies. Sure, he does the whole deep voice thing, but isn’t that to entirely mask his identity from other people? He messes up once in the movie by continuing to do the voice although Catwoman knew who he was. But maybe it’s just a mentality thing.
The other thing that made me watch this movie, an amazingly and surprisingly good performance from Anne Hathaway as Catwoman. I’ve loved her ever since The Princess Diaries, and this movie solidifies that she is an actress of all genres. She’s witty and sensual in a way I didn’t know she could be, but not a pushover or bimbo as some comic book villainesses are depicted. A perfect counterpart and conflicted villain of Robin Hood status for this movie.
The only other reason I liked this movie? My adoring nature for
She even makes the orange look classy.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt. I’m talking Brick, even throwbacks to when I used to watch 3rd Rock From The Sun occasionally. The Lookout, 50/50, his hits just keep rollin’ on. He was one of those sleeper actors that, once given the chance, showed he could do great things. And his twist reveal at the end of this movie was worth waiting for.
Now come the hang-ups I had about this film. First off, it was too long. I don’t know what makes Christopher Nolan pack so much material into a movie I felt could be 2 hrs tops, but he exhausts every single thing he can thing to put in a script and doesn’t understand the meaning of “edit”. Once it hits Batman in the prison of doom, I started to fall asleep. After the last battle, I woke up for the unnecessarily long wrap up ending.
Do you see the likeness, brother?
Bane. Plain and simple, the way Bane is represented in this movie. It’s a big step up from the poison addled Bane of the Clooney times, but it ends up amount to little better than a lackey. I had a friend tell me all about how Bane was so smart and could beat Batman physically as well as mentally in the Dark Knight Series. What do I find out? Bane is a pawn in a much bigger game. And what’s with that voice? Did Sean Connery get a Vader mask and forget to go through puberty? This comically funny voice ruined any chance at making him a legitimate contender for good villain in this movie. Cillian Murphy’s appearance again as Scarecrow in this movie was more entertaining and evil than Bane was. Sad.
Marion Cotillard. Her twist ending as yet another villain biatch in a Christopher Nolan film saddened me. It felt like an unnecessary cop out and exhaustive effort on the writer’s part to make this a cyclical film. Even if this is how the Dark Knight comics went, change it. It sucked.
Throw in a bunch of unnecessary explosions that would make Michael Bay proud and you have a fireworks ending to this
There’s a lot of debris in this movie…
film with a cliffhanger stuck on for good measure. (Seriously, people complain about how explosions take over substance in Bay’s films? Nolan should take a quick peek in the mirror.)
That’s not to say the movie wasn’t entertaining. As most action films for me (and this is nothing more than a “psychological” action film) there are good and bad parts. This was really divided down the middle for me. I would watch it again, and it would become one of those classic movies me and my roommate quote to pass the time. I don’t mean to over emotionally disrespect on anyone who really liked this movie. It may have just hit me at a bad time. Only time truly will tell. But, as for the overall delivery of this movie, in all its components, I’ll give it a 6.6 out of 10.
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‘Enough Is Enough’: Legal Advocates File Petition to Intervene in Family Detention Licensing Case
Advocates of Color Are Creating Alternatives to Detention for LGBTQ Migrants
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The petitioners do not understand why Pennsylvania officials haven't exercised their authority to close the facility "despite evidence of serious regulatory violations."
Pennsylvania is becoming a particularly volatile place for undocumented immigrants.
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For two years, a family detention center in Pennsylvania has operated in a legal gray area, and now legal advocates who work with people detained in the facility are saying, “Enough is enough.”
Aldea–The People’s Justice Center, along with a group of currently and formerly detained people at the Berks County Residential Center, have filed a petition to intervene in the litigation between the County of Berks and the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (PA DHS) over the facility’s license. That license has been under scrutiny since 2016.
As Rewire.News reported, the PA DHS Bureau of Human Services Licensing notified Berks County Commissioners and the detention center’s director in January 2016 that it would not renew Berks’ license, and would revoke its certificate of compliance. According to the bureau, Berks was “not operating as a child residential facility” and was instead “a residential center for the detention of immigrant families, including adults.” Berks County appealed, and an administrative judge sided with the county on April 20, 2017, ruling that DHS “did not provide substantial evidence” for its decision and had “acted arbitrarily and capriciously, responding to outside pressures … instead of regulatory violations.”
PA DHS’ counsel was able to petition for reconsideration because the order came from an administrative judge. Now, if PA DHS acting secretary Teresa Miller grants the request, which reportedly is still under review, she can uphold or overrule the decision.
The petitioners are arguing that PA DHS has done “an inadequate job of representing the interests of families detained at Berks.” Their statement announcing the action continues, “PA DHS not only has permitted but has stipulated to the continued operation of the facility throughout the licensing appeal despite evidence of serious regulatory violations that PA DHS failed to bring to the administrative judge’s attention.”
These include violations such as placing a father and his 3-year-old son in “medical isolation,” otherwise known as solitary confinement, for two weeks even after the child tested negative for tuberculosis. Berks has also denied children adequate sleep and medical care, according to Aldea attorney Carol Anne Donohoe.
“When Berks’ license expired and its certificate was revoked, there was hope that actually meant something, but sadly we found that was not the case,” Donohoe said in a phone interview with Rewire.News. “The major issue here is that PA DHS is not adequately representing the people detained, it does not have their best interest at heart. This has been going on for two years and we thought it was time, time to intervene and take action and make sure that the people who are detained in this place have a voice in how this is litigated.”
The petition is currently at an administrative court level. If a judge determines that Aldea and its co-counsel on the petition, the Free Migration Project and the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, can intervene, the advocates will request a new hearing and supply the evidence they have.
Donohoe pointed out that they are not short on evidence. Berks recently came under fire for detaining a teenage girl named Astrid, Donohoe’s client, in the mostly-male facility, catching the attention of human rights group Amnesty International USA. While Astrid was recently released from the facility with her father, Donohoe told Rewire.News it’s her “personal belief” that “the facility shouldn’t exist.”
“PA DHS has essentially said there is ‘nothing of grave concern’ that would require them to immediately take action to shut down Berks. Keep in mind, this is the only detention center—not just family detention, but in all of detention—with an [institutional sexual assault] conviction. There’s a civil case about it right now because a little girl walked in on a mother being assaulted, but this woman was repeatedly assaulted by the guard. When the little girl saw it happen, it was never reported [to ChildLine]. If that is not a serious violation, what is?” Donohoe said.
A representative with PA DHS told Rewire.News in an emailed statement that Berks “continues to operate while pending appeal, as is its right to due process.” When asked why the agency would continue to allow Berks to operate, given the growing number of allegations of human rights abuses, the representative would only say that PA DHS “has investigated every allegation presented and to date has not found cause that would warrant emergency closure.”
Pennsylvania is becoming a particularly volatile place for undocumented immigrants. As ProPublica reported this week, the state has declared “open season” on undocumented immigrants while law enforcement officials who want to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) target immigrants see it as a “free-for-all.”
Advocates do not understand why state officials haven’t exercised their authority to shut down Berks.
“The fact that the agency tasked with overseeing violations isn’t willing to cite some of the most egregious—like rape—as cause for concern is incredibly suspicious,” said Donohoe, who made a point of clarifying that she and other attorneys don’t seek out detained people to “ask them about horrible things”; rather, detained people seek out the attorneys to tell them about their experiences inside Berks and to ask for help.
“The million dollar question is why. Why are they afraid to acknowledge this is a bad place where bad stuff is happening to children? Is it about county jobs? Are they afraid to lose their contract with ICE? Why are they fighting at all costs to keep this dinky little 96-bed detention center in the middle of nowhere open when nearby, there are two other detention enters that detain 3,000 people?” Donohoe wondered.
“Whatever interests are keeping it open have nothing to do with the well-being and safety of the people inside. They’re the ones really paying the price to keep Berks open.”
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The Brazilian Grand Prix from a tyre point of view
Pirelli’s first season of Formula One after 20 years comes to an end at Interlagos: one of the shortest but most thrilling circuits on the calendar. Coming exactly eight months after the season started in Australia, this is the latest weekend of the year that the Formula One season has concluded since 1963. The 71-lap race in Brazil has several unusual features to it, such as an anti-clockwise layout, an uphill start-finish straight (which increases the risk of the anti-stall mechanism kicking in at the start) and varying elevation, making it a popular venue for road cycling races as well. Here are some of the key points of the Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace (as it is officially known) from a tyre point of view: The track The start-finish straight is the highest part of a circuit, leading quickly downhill into the Senna Esses: a complex of corners where the stability of the car is vital, providing a good overtaking opportunity. Under full acceleration at 250kph the drivers tackle the Curva do Sol, which generates a sideways acceleration of 4G. This places a heavy demand on the tyre structure and compound throughout the corner. On the Reto Opposta straight the top speed is 310kph, on a bumpy surface that tends to destabilise the cars. The structure of the tyre absorbs the bumps in the track and neutralises the vertical movement of the chassis, meaning that the car is perfectly planted to the ground for the braking area and the following corner. After the straight there is a complex of slower corners, taken in second and third gear, where the drivers use the kerbs. Here there is little downforce and traction is crucial, meaning that the tyres have to generate the entire grip required to take the car through this complicated series of bends. Afterwards the track climbs back uphill towards the start finish straight in a series of increasingly fast left-hand corners, putting plenty of energy through the tyres. The final corner is crucial to get the correct drive onto the start-finish straight, by getting on the power as early as possible. Again, it’s down to the tyres to translate the torque from the engine into effective grip as soon as possible. The track is less bumpy than it used to be since being resurfaced in 2005. Pit stop strategy will be helped by the short time that it takes to make a stop: less than 20 seconds from start to finish. Road car tyres and competition tyres The return of Pirelli to Formula One has placed the tyre at the centre of attention for sports’ lovers and drivers around the world. But how much do a P Zero Formula One tyre and its road-going equivalent really have in common? The P Zero racing tyre is wider than a normal road tyre with an extremely rigid internal structure and a high shoulder. The road tyre by contrast is characterised by a deep tread pattern and a hard compound in order to guarantee a long life. A P Zero road tyre will last for many thousands of kilometres, whereas a competition tyre will do around a hundred – but in the most dramatic way possible. The contact patch of a P Zero Formula One tyre can increase by up to three times under full aerodynamic loading at high speed, whereas the footprint of a road car tyre will always stay largely the same. The P Zero track tyre is instead designed for maximum performance, giving perfect grip at speeds that are enough to generate 4G of lateral acceleration through fast corners. This is four times as much grip as a road tyre will provide, thanks to an operating temperature of more than 100 degrees centigrade that maximises the F1 tyre’s adhesion to the road surface. A road P Zero tyre operates at up to 40 degrees centigrade, thanks to its harder compound. The superior grip of the P Zero F1 tyre is highlighted even more by braking performance. A road car generates 1G of deceleration under braking, but a Formula One car produces a figure of 5G, being able to slow from 330kph to 80kph in around three seconds. The difference is just as pronounced when it comes to the rain tyres. On a wet surface, Pirelli’s rain tyres will disperse around 60 litres of water per second. A soft compound and aerodynamic loading provides excellent road holding even at high speeds, with a dry contact patch and total control for the driver. A road car tyre will disperse around 13 litres of water per second; an amount that will ensure perfect safety for every type of car under normal driving conditions. But Formula One is far from normal driving conditions. The astonishing grip from tyres that have been specifically developed for racing allows the cars to make the most of all their power and acceleration. A road car will go from zero to 60kph in about two and a half seconds. In the same time a single-seater will have reached 100kph. Both cars will have doubled their speed in the next five seconds. The difference in performance, grip and lateral road holding is so pronounced, that only P Zero competition tyres are effective enough to cope with the demands that are placed on them. ***
Pirelli’s first season of Formula One after 20 years comes to an end at Interlagos: one of the shortest but most thrilling circuits on the calendar. Coming exactly eight months after the season started in Australia, this is the latest weekend of the year that the Formula One season has concluded since 1963.
The 71-lap race in Brazil has several unusual features to it, such as an anti-clockwise layout, an uphill start-finish straight (which increases the risk of the anti-stall mechanism kicking in at the start) and varying elevation, making it a popular venue for road cycling races as well. Here are some of the key points of the Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace (as it is officially known) from a tyre point of view:
The start-finish straight is the highest part of a circuit, leading quickly downhill into the Senna Esses: a complex of corners where the stability of the car is vital, providing a good overtaking opportunity.
Under full acceleration at 250kph the drivers tackle the Curva do Sol, which generates a sideways acceleration of 4G. This places a heavy demand on the tyre structure and compound throughout the corner.
On the Reto Opposta straight the top speed is 310kph, on a bumpy surface that tends to destabilise the cars. The structure of the tyre absorbs the bumps in the track and neutralises the vertical movement of the chassis, meaning that the car is perfectly planted to the ground for the braking area and the following corner.
After the straight there is a complex of slower corners, taken in second and third gear, where the drivers use the kerbs. Here there is little downforce and traction is crucial, meaning that the tyres have to generate the entire grip required to take the car through this complicated series of bends.
Afterwards the track climbs back uphill towards the start finish straight in a series of increasingly fast left-hand corners, putting plenty of energy through the tyres. The final corner is crucial to get the correct drive onto the start-finish straight, by getting on the power as early as possible. Again, it’s down to the tyres to translate the torque from the engine into effective grip as soon as possible. The track is less bumpy than it used to be since being resurfaced in 2005.
Pit stop strategy will be helped by the short time that it takes to make a stop: less than 20 seconds from start to finish.
Road car tyres and competition tyres
The return of Pirelli to Formula One has placed the tyre at the centre of attention for sports’ lovers and drivers around the world. But how much do a P Zero Formula One tyre and its road-going equivalent really have in common?
The P Zero racing tyre is wider than a normal road tyre with an extremely rigid internal structure and a high shoulder. The road tyre by contrast is characterised by a deep tread pattern and a hard compound in order to guarantee a long life.
A P Zero road tyre will last for many thousands of kilometres, whereas a competition tyre will do around a hundred – but in the most dramatic way possible. The contact patch of a P Zero Formula One tyre can increase by up to three times under full aerodynamic loading at high speed, whereas the footprint of a road car tyre will always stay largely the same.
The P Zero track tyre is instead designed for maximum performance, giving perfect grip at speeds that are enough to generate 4G of lateral acceleration through fast corners.
This is four times as much grip as a road tyre will provide, thanks to an operating temperature of more than 100 degrees centigrade that maximises the F1 tyre’s adhesion to the road surface. A road P Zero tyre operates at up to 40 degrees centigrade, thanks to its harder compound.
The superior grip of the P Zero F1 tyre is highlighted even more by braking performance. A road car generates 1G of deceleration under braking, but a Formula One car produces a figure of 5G, being able to slow from 330kph to 80kph in around three seconds.
The difference is just as pronounced when it comes to the rain tyres. On a wet surface, Pirelli’s rain tyres will disperse around 60 litres of water per second. A soft compound and aerodynamic loading provides excellent road holding even at high speeds, with a dry contact patch and total control for the driver.
A road car tyre will disperse around 13 litres of water per second; an amount that will ensure perfect safety for every type of car under normal driving conditions.
But Formula One is far from normal driving conditions. The astonishing grip from tyres that have been specifically developed for racing allows the cars to make the most of all their power and acceleration.
A road car will go from zero to 60kph in about two and a half seconds. In the same time a single-seater will have reached 100kph. Both cars will have doubled their speed in the next five seconds. The difference in performance, grip and lateral road holding is so pronounced, that only P Zero competition tyres are effective enough to cope with the demands that are placed on them. Follow us on Twitter @ Pirelli_Media or Facebook on www.facebook.com/Pirelli Please also visit the Pirelli F1 blog at www.pirellif1blog.com. For further information please contact: Alexandra Schieren +33 607 03 69 03 alexandra.schieren@pirelli.com Anthony Peacock +44 7765 896 930 anthony@mediatica.co.uk ** Francescopaolo Tarallo +39 334 684 4307 francescopaolo.tarallo@pirelli.com (Head of Product and Motorsport Media Relations) PDF Version (85 KB)
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Posted: July 8, 2016 in Features, Who,What,Where & When...?
Tags: Auto Union Streamliner Record-Breaker, Bernd Rosemeyer, Goldie Gardner, Land Speed Records Daytona 1952, Land Speed Records Dessau 1939, Land Speed Records Frankfurt 1938, MG EX135, MG K3 Magnette
(Imagno)
Gardner’s streamlined 1100cc Zoller-supercharged MG K3 Magnette. ‘Goldie’ storms along the Frankfurt Autobahn at nearly 150mph, 25 October 1937…
Lt-Col Alfred Thomas Goldie Gardner, born 31 May 1890, was one of the most versatile racers of the 1930s and 1940s as well as a pretty handy engineer.
After completion of his education he went to Colombo, Ceylon to take up a 3 year business contact, at its completion he travelled to Burma for business but returned to the UK for 6 months after contracting malaria in 1914. Upon the War’s outbreak he joined the army, he was commissioned as a second-Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery. He had a distinguished military career, becoming the youngest Major in the British Forces. In 1917 his reconnaisance plane was shot down by German fire, he copped leg and hip injuries which hospitalised him for 2 years, he was invalided out of the army as a result.
A Brooklands competitor, he started racing a Gordon England modified special Austin Seven in 1924 progressing through a Salmson and Amilcar to a C-type MG Montlhery Midget in 1931, a marque with which he is synonomous.
Cecil Kimber noticed him, he raced various MG’s with a lot of success from 1930. He was the first to lap Brooklands outer circuit at over 100 mph in a 750cc car in this period.
Gardner, MG K3, Brooklands date unknown (unattributed)
After a bad 1932 Tourist Trophy crash at Ards, Ireland when he rolled his MG J4 three times he ceased road racing, his leg and hip was not strong enough to cope with its rigours.
Gardner looks ok despite the wild ride which destroyed his MG J4, he crashed on lap 3 of the 1932 Tourist Trophy at Ards-Belfast. By the looks of the amazed spectators it was a ‘big one’, Gardner thrown out on one of three rollovers (Heritage Images)
He made the occasional Brooklands appearance, by 1934 he was ‘track racing fit’. He finished 3rd outright and first in the 1100cc class in the Brooklands 500 miles with co-driver ‘Bentley Boy’ Dr.J.D.Benjafield in an MG K3 Magnette.
Gardner travelled with Sir Malcolm Campbell’s World Land Speed expedition to Daytona Beach, Florida in 1935 and was inspired by it, concentrating on speed record attempts from then on setting over 100 National and International records between 1936 and 1952.
He bought the ex-Horton offset K3 single-seater for that purpose and was soon lapping Brooklands at over 120 mph. An improved streamlined body raised this to 124.4 mph, an 1100cc class record which remained unbroken until the tracks 1939 closure.
Gardner, Bernd Rosemeyer and Auto Union record-breaker Frankfurt 12 January 1938, this is 2 weeks before Bernd’s fatal accident on 28 January. 1938 AU ‘Stromlinienwagen’ 6.5 litre variant of the 6 litre V16, 560bhp@4800-4900rpm engine (RacingOne)
In record runs at Montlhery and Frankfurt in October 1937 Gardner clocked almost 150 mph, 148.8 to take a Class G record for the flying kilometre. Auto Union’s Eberan von Eberhorst took him aside during ‘SpeedWeek’ suggesting he would go much faster with a streamlined car. At the time Mercedes and Auto Union were not only waging battle in Grands’ Prix but also in Land Speed Record attempts and were learning much about aerodynamics.
Press shoot, not sure where, Gardner in MG EX135, photo dated 15 August 1949 (Harold Clements)
When he returned to the UK he sought to convince MG to build him a car. Lord Nuffield gave his support and rather than ‘re-invent the wheel’ it was decided to try and get hold of George Eyston’s K3 based EX135 record-breaker built 4 years before.
Donald Letts had the car which critically had the offset transmission specification which would be required and happily agreed to sell. EX135 originally had race and record breaking bodies was further modified by fitment at Abingdon of Reid Railton designed completely enclosed bodywork. John Thornley in his book describes the aerodynamic ‘K -factor’ of EX135 as 0.000400, the later EX279 was 0.000315. Suitably refurbished and rebuilt by ‘Jacko’ Jackson, Syd Enever and Robin Jackson, the beautiful car was used by Gardner in various forms, with a variety of engines for the rest of his career.
This ‘Modern Wonder’ contemporary article describes the 6 cylinder, 1086cc circa 195 bhp Vane type supercharged, twin-SU carbed engine as having magneto ignition, sodium filled exhaust valves and a bronze cylinder head, four speed ‘box. Dimensions are given as; 16’5″ long, width 5’3″, height 2’2″ and wheelbase 8’3″. The ‘beautifully streamlined body (was) built under Jaray (German) patents…’ ‘Design and construction of the car was headed by MG’s Cecil Kimber, while Reid Railton developed the streamlined bodywork’ (oldclassiccar.co.uk)
In the November 1938 German Speedweek outside Frankfurt the ‘new’ EX135 produced two way averages of 187.62 and 186.567mph for the flying mile and kilometre respectively. Showing its aerodynamic properties the car reputedly took 3 miles to stop, Gardner allowing it to coast to a halt!
Gardner and EX135, Frankfurt 1938 (unattributed)
The Nazi Government was improving the countries road network and created in the process a ‘record route’, the ‘Dessauer Rennstrecke’ (Dessau Racetrack) between AS Bitterfeld and Dessau South which opened in January 1939. No speed records could be set on existing closed circuits which were simply too short for the powerful high speed cars of the day.
The straight stretch of road was 10km long, 25 metres wide, had no median strip and pillarless bridges. It was also intended as a wartime auxiliary airfield and was designed around target speeds of 600kmh. In the short time before Poland was invaded on 1 September 1939, Rudy Carracciola did 399.6kmh over the measured mile with a flying start in a Mercedes W154 3 litre record car, amongst other records he set, in February 1939.
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At Dessau on 31 May 1939 with a higher top gear Gardner took the 750 to 1100cc records over 2 kilometres, 1 mile and 5 kilometres, at averages of 203.5 mph, 203.3 mph and 197.5 mph. His performances left those present in a state of disbelief, it was the first time an 1100cc car had gone anywhere close to the magic 200mph.
After an overnight engine rebore in situ! to1105.5cc, on 2 June 1939 at the same venue he bagged the 1100 to 1500cc class records over the same distances at averages of 204.3 mph, 203.9 mph and 200.6 mph. The achievements were rather lost given the imminence of WW2.
Dessau 1939 (J Dugdale)
EX135 before the off, Dessau 31 May 1939 before the successful 200mph attempt. Array of Smiths instruments, steering wheel shape pre-dates F1 practice by 70 years! (John Dugdale)
One of those remarkable souls who served in both wars, Goldie Gardner took EX135 with 750cc engine fitted to Belgium’s new Jabbeke motorway in 1946 achieving 159.15 mph.
In 1947 he returned to Jabbeke with the car converted to a 500cc four-cylinder by removal of two conrods and pistons and blanking off two pots! He set new records, reaching 118 mph.
Jaguar’s and later Coventry Climax’ designer Wally Hassan fettling his 2 litre, DOHC, cast iron block alloy head, twin SU fed engine, the performance of which clearly pleases Goldie! Jabbeke, Belgium September 1948. In the event Jaguar did not proceed to a production variant of this prototype engine, the 6 cylinder XK its primary engine on track and road for decades to come (unattributed)
In September 1948, he was back at Jabbeke, the streamlined MG powered by a prototype Jaguar XK100 DOHC 2litre 4 cylinder engine. In that ‘MG Jag’ hybrid he reached 176.6 mph for which he was awarded the second of three BRDC Gold Stars. He was also awarded the OBE.
Soon he was ‘back to his tricks’ playing about with MG engines and setting more records; a 1 litre six became a 500cc three-cylinder engine achieving over 154 mph. A 1 litre four-cylinder engine was transformed into a 500cc twin, this did 121 mph at Jabbeke, again in EX135. Gardner now had records in six out of ten international capacity classes, all taken with his famous MG.
Superb lines of the 1933 EX135 at Bonneville in 1952, the car had longevity amongst its many other attributes! (unattributed)
With a supercharged MG-TD 1.5 litre engine, the car did 137 mph at Bonneville in 1951,a year later 148.7 mph with a 2 litre Wolseley engine and 189.5 mph with a new MG TD engine despite wheelspin which reduced his speed somewhat.
Ex135 at Bonneville, 1952 (unattributed)
Gardner, at 63 and truly a ‘Boys Own’ character, retired from the sport he loved to his motor-trade businesses. He died in 1958, one of a breed which no longer exists
MG EX135 period cutaway drawing by Max Miller, K3 underpinnings inclusive of girder chassis, engine and gearbox all clear in this shot
Another view of Gardner and his J4 after its big shunt, Ards TT 1932 (Heritage)
Gardner and K3 at Montlhery in June 1937, records taken as per hand written annotation (unattributed)
Press shot after EX135 rebuild into its Reid Railton’s bodied form; Cecil Kimber, Lord Nuffield, Gardner, big, tall (6’2″) bugger isn’t he! and Reid Railton (unattributed)
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Tailpiece: Team MG, Bonneville 1952…
(unattributed)
R W K Gardiner says:
At school in the 60s I was known as Goldie Gardiner (slight spelling difference). I had golden auburn hair and someone knew of Gardner’s MG exploits and so the name was given to me. It didn’t stick after my schooldays.
markbisset says:
Great nickname! It was an interesting story to write as I didn’t know much about the guy before fossicking around about his history and achievements, mark
David Rees says:
Excellent article Mark. The Miller cutaway is spectacular.
It was a pleasure writing it and researching it- as all the stuff I know little about is.
I thought, when I started this primotipo thing I would mainly be writing about stuff I knew a bit about, in fact it’s the exact reverse!, a fun learning exercise although I do get tripped up by nuances only true subject matter experts are aware of every now and then!
Very mall point – I’ve seen the car designated as EX135, Ex135 and EX-135. Anyone know which is the “correct” nomenclature?
MG’s own records would be the only ‘definitive source’ I suspect!
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In fact, soon after the Chainalysis report, Ether dropped 10% within minutes — which some attributed to a PlusToken dump. The ETH price then went on to face even more selling pressure on Dec. 19 as several large transactions that were associated with PlusToken disturbed traders, as reported by Cointelegraph. The industry evidently needs more self-policing. “As a community, we need to do a better job in calling out the bad apples,” commented Arslanian.
According to Saponaro, the most disappointing thing for him in 2019 was the lack of integrity, “Exit scams, Ponzi schemes, pump and dumps, and extortionist tactics are still abundant throughout the space.”
The continued lack of integrity — or the perception of such — sullies the reputation of the crypto/blockchain community, said PwC’s Arslanian. “We are always as strong as the weakest member of our community.”
Cutting corners is a bad business strategy, too, according to Felix Hartmann, managing partner at Hartmann Capital, who said: “Whoever is willing to play the long game, both in terms of creating a community-first, integrity-driven business/network model, as well as putting technology and usability first, will see success.”
A lost year?
Instead of citing a single disappointment in 2019, or even a series of unfulfilled promises, Vinny Lingham, co-founder and CEO of Civic Inc., has opted to look at the year as a whole. As he told Cointelegraph:
“When the crypto community looks back at 2019, it will be remembered as the lost year. This is not unexpected because 2017 was such a milestone year. I like to say that the bigger the party, the bigger the hangover. We’re still dealing with the hangover.”
Sarumi also saw a year marked by unfulfilled potential:
“After the crypto winter, the general thinking was that the departure of the rent seekers and easy money worshippers would allow the true believers to roll up their sleeves and fulfill the true potential of blockchain/crypto. Well, the true believers probably have long arms and/or long sleeves because they are still rolling up.”
It’s possible, however, that one could be underestimating the amount of progress made this year. It’s like an iceberg, as one industry executive told Cointelegraph; the greatest volume is below the waterline, unseen. But once these blockchain network projects achieve a certain scale, those watching will begin to see the power that has been created — “in the next three to five years it will be huge.”
“Maybe it needs more time, but the sound of crickets in the realm of groundbreaking projects to me was the most disappointing,” concluded Sarumi. “Hopefully a few emerge in 2020.”
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Buffalo Bills Denver Broncos
Von Miller says he'll test out injured knee Sunday
By ARNIE STAPLETON - Dec. 06, 2019 05:54 PM EST
FILE - In this Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019 file photo, Denver Broncos outside linebacker Von Miller (58) lines up against the Chicago Bears during the second half of an NFL football game in Denver. Star linebacker Von Miller says his sprained left MCL that ended his 95-game starting streak might sideline him again Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019 when the Denver Broncos visit the Houston Texans. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey, File)
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) —
Von Miller said Friday he will test his injured left knee before the Denver Broncos' game at Houston to see if he'll be able to start a new streak.
He sat out last week against the Chargers, ending a 95-game starting streak that dated to the 2014 opener.
Miller said he's two weeks into what doctors said was a three-week recovery from a sprained left MCL. He had a similar injury last year but the bye week came right when it was at its worst, so he didn't miss any action.
Miller also said he won't need offseason surgery, just rest.
The injury occurred when teammate Jeremiah Attaochu ran into him just as he was about to sack Bills quarterback Josh Allen two weeks ago.
Miller practiced just one day last week but practiced all of this week, albeit on a limited basis. He's officially listed as 50-50 for the game Sunday in Houston (8-4) when rookie Drew Lock makes his first road start for the Broncos (4-8).
"I think he's much better than he was last week," coach Vic Fangio said of Miller, adding that he won't hold back his star linebacker as a precaution with the Broncos all but eliminated from playoff contention. "No, if he's good, he's going."
Ruled out for the game was Ron Leary, who is still in concussion protocol. He'll be replaced by Austin Schlottman, who subbed for Leary after he was knocked from last week's game.
Fangio also said right tackle Ja'Wuan James (knee) was questionable after a second week of full practices. James has only played 32 snaps this season after signing a free agent contract that included $32 million in guarantees.
Fangio has been cautious about playing James even though he's been cleared medically.
"I just don't want to put him out there if he's not going to play well," Fangio said. "We'll see how he shows up tomorrow and Sunday."
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Holiday Baskets 2019
Santa (AKA Fair Oaks Rotary) Arrives Early
For Some Northridge Families
Plans are made weeks in advance, and the day begins about 7:00 am. Boxes are delivered and food is gathered from food banks (Fair Oaks-Orangevale and Sacramento), Winco and private donations. Then the food has to be divvied up among the boxes, and it all has to get handed out at the end of the school day to about a hundred families that otherwise might have a skimpy holiday food-wise.
The only hitch in the whole day... whoever picked up the Rotary fuel (coffee and round baked goods with holes in the center) accidentally picked up bagels instead of the other round baked good with a hole in the center. But it served as a teachable moment. Was it fun? Well, I hope to shout... a resounding YES! So look for us again next year.
Holiday Baskets 2019 Fred Rowe 2019-12-19 08:00:00Z 0
2019 Caroling 1
Fair Oaks Rotary Carolers
Are At It Again... At Oakmont
There are no auditions or tryouts. There are no rehearsals. There are just three guitars and a harmonica valiantly struggling to keep them on key. But nineteen Fair Oaks Rotarians, one Bella Vista Interactor and one Rotarian's sister "invaded" Oakmont of Fair Oaks this afternoon and spread a lot of holiday cheer to the residents... singing-type cheer, not the beverage kind. It's a good thing the place is dog-friendly, because a couple of pooches came along also. Closing song... how about a Happy Birthday to 102 yo Bette, sitting next to the dog (above right). Now that they're all on key, look for them to do it again next week!
2019 Caroling 1 Fred Rowe 2019-12-10 08:00:00Z 0
Battle for Oak 2019
Same-Old, Same-Old
At Fair Oaks Rotary's
Battle for The Oak
Somewhere in that mass of Del Campo High School Cougars is Bev Purcell, widow of Jim Purcell, the Rotarian who many years ago dubbed the Bella Vista-Del Campo football game, which is essentially the Fair Oaks championship, the Battle for the Oak. Fair Oaks Rotary now gives to the winning school a perpetual trophy and a $1,000 graduation award to present to the student of their choice; in addition we pay for the entry of all who identify themselves as a military veteran. I've lost track of when Bella Vista last won the game, but at 34-13 it was closer than usual this year. Keep your hopes up, Broncos!
Battle for Oak 2019 Fred Rowe 2019-11-01 07:00:00Z 0
Meraki Mentoring 2019
Fair Oaks Rotary Begins
Leadership & Ethics Mentoring
At Meraki High School
Fair Oaks Rotary kicked off a year-long one-on-one mentoring program at Meraki High School with a day-long workshop to match mentors and mentees and get to know one another. This will be followed by monthly meetings between the twenty mentors and their students. Everyone seemed to have a good time and we're looking forward to a productive program.
Meraki Mentoring 2019 Fred Rowe 2019-10-15 07:00:00Z 0
Center Point Project
Fair Oaks Rotary
Landscapes Center Point Facility
On two nice Saturdays in early October, a bunch of Fair Oaks Rotarians, helped by a few Bella Vista Interactors and a Center Point resident or two, provided muscle (?) and landscaping expertise, and fancied up the area around Center Point, a facility for folks recently released from prison. This will make for a much nicer environment when their families and kids visit on weekends. Fortunately, after the second work day, there was adequate recovery time for all the aching backs before our next meeting.
Center Point Project Fred Rowe 2019-10-12 07:00:00Z 0
Best of Fair Oaks 2019
Rotary Wins 2019
Best of Fair Oaks Award
It's not clear who the competition was, but the Rotary Club of Fair Oaks was voted the best association or organization in Fair Oaks for this year; this means that we are almost certainly a pretty darn good club.
Best of Fair Oaks 2019 Fred Rowe 2019-10-10 07:00:00Z 0
RYLA Presentation 2019
RYLA Grads Tell All
About Their "Summer Camp" Experience
Well, we did it again. We sent six outstanding Bella Vista juniors to the Rotary Youth Leadership Awakening (RYLA) camp in the Sierras last summer, while only paying for three spots. How did we do that while meeting the 4-Way Test, you might ask? Well, by having alternates ready when other clubs failed to fill their spots, or had campers drop out, that's how.
Tonight, those six (L to R, Thida Mommaitri, Celene Aridin, Evan Manley, Tafari LaBrie, Jun Seo and Amanda Drew) told us how it went and what it meant. In the most personal way, they described challenges, teamwork, trust, vulnerability, deep friendships formed in a matter of six days, and, um... oh yeah, FUN! At the end of their presentation, they attempted to teach the audience a dance to the Justin Timberlake song "Can't Stop The Feeling" (a signature RYLA dance taught to all campers for years); although their efforts might be regarded objectively as largely unsuccessful, there was lots of laughter and applause when the music ended. It's always one of the best meetings of the year, and this was no exception.
RYLA Presentation 2019 Fred Rowe 2019-09-30 07:00:00Z 0
Chicken Festival 2019
Fair Oaks Rotary Hydrates the Masses
At the 2019 Chicken Festival
Temps in the high 80's and some great music makes for thirsty Fair Oaks Chicken Festival attendees. That sounds like a job for the Rotary Club of Fair Oaks, who once again arranged for plenty of beer and wine... and water too, just for the health of it. The money is still being counted, but it seems like we'll have some good funding for the many service projects we do. It's starting to look like this is an annual tradition, so look for us next year again.
Chicken Festival 2019 Fred Rowe 2019-09-21 07:00:00Z 0
Women's Empowerment Graduation 2019
Fair Oaks Rotary Sponsors
Women's Empowerment Graduation
That headline would make many wonder what Women's Empowerment is, and what exactly it means to "sponsor" a graduation. Well, the website of this 18 year-old program probably says it best: "The mission of Women’s Empowerment is to educate and empower women who are homeless with the skills and confidence necessary to get a job, maintain a healthy lifestyle, and regain a home for themselves and their children." As they graduated their 76th class, consisting of 21 women, what that "sponsor" business meant was that we bought, prepared and served the lunch following the ceremony. Of course, that also included setting up and cleaning up, and making sure that no left-over dessert went to waste. We've been doing this for several years and there's a good chance we'll be back next year, because it's a real feel-good experience... and the dessert is always yummy. For more pics of the crew in action (?), click "Read more..."
Women's Empowerment Graduation 2019 Fred Rowe 2019-09-13 07:00:00Z 0
Madison Ave 8-2019
Fair Oaks Rotary Continues
Madison Avenue Beautification Project
Nourished by Rotary fuel (click "Read more..." if interested) and attired quite nattily, the Rotarians from the Fair Oaks club, reinforced by one member of the Bella Vista High School Interact Club, sallied forth on to Madison Avenue between Kenneth and Chicago (the street, not the city) in their never-ending quarterly quest to keep Mad Ave looking good. For the end result, click "Read more..."
Madison Ave 8-2019 Fred Rowe 2019-08-31 07:00:00Z 0
Escape to Rotaryville
Going to Rotaryville?
Register soon or you'll be left behind!
Where is Rotaryville? It's that relaxed state of a Rotarian's mind when the projects are on hold, and Rotarians are connected and inspired. It occurs at irregular intervals, and another occurrence is about to happen, this coming October 25-27 at the Peppermill Resort and Casino in Reno. If you told me that the District 5180 Conference is happening on those same dates, you'd be absolutely correct. But time is running out, so find out more and register now by clicking here.
Escape to Rotaryville Fred Rowe 2019-08-02 07:00:00Z 0
Welcome, Lovisa!
Fair Oaks Rotarians
Welcome Lovisa!
I know you're asking yourself, WHO is Lovisa, and what are the blue and yellow flags all about? Well, she would be Lovisa Hansson, and if you guessed that was a Swedish flag, you'd be correct. She is the Rotary Youth Exchange student sponsored by our club; she will be spending the next nine months attending school here in Fair Oaks. We had a crew of 18 to welcome her to Sacramento; she would be the one standing between her first host mom, Jeanne Carr, and our outgoing student, Charlie Bingaman, who is off to Bolivia soon.
Welcome, Lovisa! Fred Rowe 2019-08-01 07:00:00Z 0
Dunbar Begins
Dunbar Takes the Reins of
The bell rings and the room empties... hey, it's tradition. Then the little kids lure the adults back in with... Transformers? Really? It all made sense when incoming club president Dennis Dunbar revealed the club theme for the year... Connect to Transform Lives. It was a good start to what looks like another great year for the Rotary Club of Fair Oaks.
Dunbar Begins Fred Rowe 2019-07-08 07:00:00Z 0
Hamburg Convention
Get Inspired in Hamburg
What's inspiring about Hamburg, you might ask. Well, it was the Rotary International Convention, which welcomed 25,000+ Rotarians from 170+ countries for five days of learning, inspiration and hanging out together. Eighteen members of the Fair Oaks club had so much fun attending this one, that it looks like next June in Honolulu may see even more going!
Hamburg Convention Fred Rowe 2019-06-12 07:00:00Z 0
Big Day of Service 2019
Big Day Of Service...
Isn't That Every Day at
Fair Oaks Rotary?
Well, this Big Day of Service was a special one, because a bunch of people besides Rotarians got to discover the joy of service. We did our gig with our good partner, the Fair Oaks Rec & Park District, as part of their annual It's My Park Day. Twenty of us turned out to drag previously cut tree branches to a chipper-shredder, a task for which most of us were eminently qualified.
We did so well that we had time to rest and eat. By the way, when lunch was served, it was obvious that a Rotarian had not planned it, since is was mostly "real" food, like sandwiches; fortunately, as we were finishing eating, someone came by with Rotary food (cookies, though anything sweet would do). All in all, a really nice day, and I'm guessing that we'll be back next year.
Big Day of Service 2019 Fred Rowe 2019-05-11 07:00:00Z 0
Photo Contest 2019
Fair Oaks Rotary Photo Contest
Enlarges
Well, first of all, the number of contestants doubled from last year. Next, there were entrants from more schools. And finally, photos larger than 8.5x11" were allowed. Thus, in many aspects, the contest (and photos) were bigger. So the headline isn't just an attempt to be punny. As is usual with these contests involving the future generation, club members were awed and thankful that they didn't have to determine winners. It's a relatively new project for the club, but it looks like it's here to stay.
Photo Contest 2019 Fred Rowe 2019-05-06 07:00:00Z 0
Fair Oaks Rotary Gets All Bubbly
At Fair Oaks Fiesta
No, it wasn't fine champagne. Instead, it was Bubble Master Quentin and his secret (?) formula for perfect bubbles. He made them, kids made them, even Rotarians made them. All in all, it was six hours of magical entertainment for a bunch of kids... of ALL ages.
Fiesta 2019 Fred Rowe 2019-05-05 07:00:00Z 0
Madison Ave (April) 2019
Spring Cleaning on Madison Avenue,
Fair Oaks Rotary Style
Powered by Rotary fuel (bottom center photo) and clothed in fashionable Rotary attire (instead of Sacramento County's drab orange vests) a crew of Fair Oaks Rotarians, along with a few Bella Vista Interactors and a Rotarian family member, headed out on Madison Avenue between Chicago (the avenue, not the city) and Kenneth on their quarterly beautification project, i.e., trash pickup. For more of the action, click Read More...
Madison Ave (April) 2019 Fred Rowe 2019-04-27 07:00:00Z 0
Baja Project 2019
Fair Oaks Rotarians Deliver
Water Filters to Baja
Somewhere in that huge crowd are nine Fair Oaks Rotarians who braved blue skies and sunshine at the southern tip of Baja last weekend to deliver water filtration systems to hundreds of rural families whose water is contaminated with pathogenic bacteria. They worked alongside Rotarians from the Los Barriles Rotary club, who surveyed the area to come up with the recipients. Rumor has it that some fishing occurred, but nobody's bragging; maybe they need another margarita. This trip is starting to take on an annual flavor.
Baja Project 2019 Fred Rowe 2019-04-09 07:00:00Z 0
Speech Contest 2019
Fair Oaks Rotary Speech Contestants
Wow the Crowd... As Usual
It happens every year. A handful of kids from local high schools come in and amaze the club... and 2019 was no exception. These five students, three from Bella Vista High School and two from Sacramento Waldorf School, shared their interpretations of this year's theme, "Be The Inspiration". All five were inspiring and most of the audience were happy not being judges and having to choose only one winner. Charlie Bingaman of SWS, who was the winner, will proceed on to the District semifinals on April 10. As usual, it was one of the best meetings of the year.
Speech Contest 2019 Fred Rowe 2019-03-11 07:00:00Z 0
Senior Luau 2019
Fair Oaks Rotary Takes Seniors
To Polynesia
Once they were inside the Fair Oaks Community Clubhouse, those attending the Fair Oaks Senior Luau must have wondered, "What rain?" Fair Oaks Rotary, along with partners Fair Oaks Inner Wheel and the Fair Oaks Recreation & Park District, provided smiles, leis, food from the islands (served by the ladies from Center Point), entertainment and, it looks like from the photos, dance lessons (!) for a crowd of appreciative local seniors. Anyone wanna learn the hukilau? Then keep an eye out for this event next year!
Senior Luau 2019 Fred Rowe 2019-03-06 08:00:00Z 0
Food Bank Project 2019
Fair Oaks Rotary Electrifies
FO-OV Food Bank
OK, to be honest, we had some help putting solar panels on the roof of the Fair Oaks-Orangevale Food Bank. Our buddies in the Rotary Club of Orangevale chipped in both money and sweat... sorry I didn't take any photos of you, guys. Grid Alternatives... what an amazing NGO... provided know-how for us solar panel neophytes (and made sure we all signed releases before climbing on the roof). And The Rotary Foundation provided funds in the form of a District 5180 Grant. All in all, a great project!
Food Bank Project 2019 Fred Rowe 2019-02-22 08:00:00Z 0
Crab Feed 2019
Fair Oaks Rotary Does It Again
At 2019 Mardi Gras Crab Feed
Even though the actual Mardi Gras is still a few weeks away, that didn't damper the spirits of attendees at Fair Oaks Rotary's 29th annual Crab Feed. Over 500 folks feasted on the best minestrone in Sacramento County, pasta with a yummy meat sauce, and ummm... oh, yeah, crab! With the Bella Vista Interact Club providing the waitstaff, both clubs (Interact and Rotary) ended the night with more bucks to fund their service projects. With next year being #30, it's probably a safe bet that we'll do it again.
Crab Feed 2019 Fred Rowe 2019-02-16 08:00:00Z 0
Mad Ave 2-19
Bella Vista Interactors Wonder
"Where's Rotary?"
This is Rotary's gig, right? That's what the sign says. And that's what four members of the Interact Club of Bella Vista High School were probably wondering one cold... by Fair Oaks standards... Thursday afternoon as they beautified Madison Avenue near the school. Since the Rotary Club of Fair Oaks sponsors the Interact Club, I suppose that counts for something. And it looks like Interactors are as fueled by sweets as Rotarians. Maybe they'll have a joint project next time.
Mad Ave 2-19 Fred Rowe 2019-02-07 08:00:00Z 0
Fair Oaks Rotary Planning 29th Annual
Mardi Gras Crab Feed
That's right, all you crab eaters! Widely recognized as one of the best in the area, the 2019 edition of the annual crab feed of the Rotary Club of Fair Oaks is scheduled for Saturday evening, February 16, at the Divine Savior Parish Hall on Greenback Lane in Orangevale. Tickets are available from your favorite Fair Oaks Rotarian, on Eventbrite (click here), or by emailing the club. Don't miss out on great food and a fun evening!
2019 Crab Feed Fred Rowe 2019-01-11 08:00:00Z 0
Fair Oaks Rotary Plays Santa
At Northridge Elementary School
We call it the Holiday Basket project because, well, Holiday Boxes doesn't sound very elegant. But 120+ families at Northridge Elementary School couldn't care less about the name; they only know that they will be eating a little better this holiday season because of the Rotary Club of Fair Oaks. Once again, Chief Elf Jim Erickson honchoed the project and Jacob Giorgi's moving company provided the boxes. It's likely we'll do it again next year, because we're hooked on that feel-good feeling. For some pictures of Rotarians having too much fun, click Read More...
Caroling-2 2018
Fair Oaks Rotary Caroling Finale
Wows Eskaton Residents
After two rehearsals performances at other senior facilities, you gotta figure that the Fair Oaks Rotary Caroling chorus would probably have it together... and they apparently did, if the reception they got at Eskaton Gold River was any measure. As usual, many of the residents didn't need songbooks to join in; they knew all the words of all the verses. Who the heck does that nowadays? Anyhow, it was so much fun that they'll probably be back in 2019.
Caroling-2 2018 Fred Rowe 2018-12-13 08:00:00Z 0
'Tis the Season,
So Fair Oaks Rotary Sounds Off
Oakmont of Fair Oaks senior center had the unfortunate distinction of being the first victim audience of the Fair Oaks Rotary's caroling efforts in 2018. Despite the club's limited rehearsing... none, actually... the residents were quite gracious and generous with their smiles. With two more gigs at other centers next week, keep your fingers crossed.
California International Marathon 2018
Fair Oaks Rotary Runs Marathon
Aid Station for CIM
Haha, you didn't think the club ran a marathon, did you? However, some 40+ club members reported to set up the aid station at 5:45 am... yes, you read that right. Witnesses reported that it seemed to be a lot of fun, so someone must have brought Rotary fuel (coffee and donuts for you neophytes). Since this is an annual event, does that portend something for 2019?
California International Marathon 2018 Fred Rowe 2018-12-02 08:00:00Z 0
Santa Parade 2018
Fair Oaks Rotary Has Cutest Kids
On Float in Santa Parade
The addition of a (faux) gingerbread house and some super-cute kids made it highly likely that the Fair Oaks Rotary float in this year's Fair Oaks Santa Parade would blow the competition out of the water... if they still gave prizes for best float. Of course, Santa is always the main winner, hands down. Lighting the tree in Village Park and a few carols is a great close to the evening.
Santa Parade 2018 Fred Rowe 2018-12-01 08:00:00Z 0
Soup Night 2018
Bella Vista Interact Club Shines at
Fair Oaks Historical Society Soup Night
From setup to waiting tables, to ladling soup, to hawking raffle tickets, students from the Interact Club at Bella Vista High School and two from the Fair Oaks Un-school raised the bar in the local food service industry when they provided the help at the annual Soup Night of the Fair Oaks Historical Society. The club is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Fair Oaks.
Soup Night 2018 Fred Rowe 2018-11-02 07:00:00Z 0
Safe Halloween 2018
Fair Oaks Rotary Doesn't Scare Anyone
On Safe Halloween
OK, maybe one of those big bubbles scared someone... but only till it popped. Safe Halloween is one of those feel-good traditions in Fair Oaks Village, and the Rotary Club of Fair Oaks is always a big part of it, whether it's running a bubble station, supervising games, reading to the kids or handing out books. And as usual, we were ably assisted by the Fair Oaks Inner Wheel and local high schoolers. Look for us again next year.
Safe Halloween 2018 Keith Walter 2018-10-31 07:00:00Z 0
At 2018 Chicken Festival
Continuing a long-standing tradition of many a number of years, the Fair Oaks Rotary ran a microbrew tasting venue at this year's Fair Oaks Chicken Festival, and as usual, it was a major attraction. The weather cooperated and the result was substantial funding for the club's service projects. Having a couple of great bands didn't hurt, either. Look for the same thing next year.
Interact Signup
Bella Vista Interact
Off to a Great Start for 2018-19
The Interact Club at Bella Vista High School, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Fair Oaks, got off to a great start for 2018-19 on Club Sign-up Day. There was a lot of enthusiasm, which led to a lot of new members. They'll get opportunities for service and leadership, and the chance to apply for Rotary's youth programs like the Rotary Youth Leadership Awakening camp and Rotary Youth Exchange.
Interact Signup Fred Rowe 2018-09-07 07:00:00Z 0
Slocum Cleanup
Fair Oaks Rotary Begins Renovation
Of Slocum House
Is the Slocum House Restaurant on its way to a glorious comeback? Well, it's too early to tell, but with the promise of the use of the patio for an event, the Fair Oaks Rotary chipped in and made the place presentable. Hey, it was all in a day's work... well, maybe two.
Slocum Cleanup Fred Rowe 2018-08-18 07:00:00Z 0
RYE 2018
Posted by Fred Rowe on Aug 07, 2018
Fair Oaks Rotary Says
"Farewell, Naja! Hello, Charly!"
This summer the Fair Oaks Rotary made their annual switch of Rotary Youth Exchange students, as Naja Jorgensen headed back to Denmark after a wonderful year with us, and Charlotte "Charly" Ahrens arrived from Germany to begin what we all expect to be a great year.
RYE 2018 Fred Rowe 2018-08-07 07:00:00Z 0
Looking for a Few Good Rotarians
At Concerts in the Park
The annual Concerts in the Park series has proved to be a good venue over the past few years for finding some great Rotarians, so the Membership folks are working hard again this summer. I've heard that they hand out really good lollipops. Hey, it works!
Concerts 2018 Fred Rowe 2018-07-05 07:00:00Z 0
Posted by Fred Rowe on Jun 27, 2018
Overwhelm Toronto Convention
The planners of this year's Rotary International Convention in Toronto probably never saw it coming. The Fair Oaks Rotary's contingent of fourteen painted the town... well, whatever color the Canadians paint towns when they're having a good time. Lots of camaraderie, lots of inspiration, lots of learning, lots of fun. Next year... look out, Hamburg!
Convention 2018 Fred Rowe 2018-06-27 07:00:00Z 0
Center Point Work 2018
Fair Oaks Rotary Cleans Up
Center Point Facility
Center Point is a rehab facility located in Fair Oaks, and it came to our attention that some of their physical plant, especially furniture, could use a little spiffing up. Well, at Fair Oaks Rotary, that's the kind of thing we do, so on a nice Saturday in May, that's what this crew did. It was much appreciated.
Center Point Work 2018 Fred Rowe 2018-05-19 07:00:00Z 0
Posted by Fred Rowe on Apr 30, 2018
High School Photographers
Amaze Fair Oaks Rotary... Again
It may be hard to see their photos in this picture, but these young women, the top four in this year's high school photo contest, held the club's interest with their discussion of the how's and why's of their choice of subject and technique. It's just more proof that kids today are giving us good reason to be hopeful for the future.
Los Barriles #2 2018
Los Barriles... It Wasn't All Work
Hey, you're in Baja and the work is done. Rotarians know what to do till your plane for home leaves.
Los Barriles #2 2018 Fred Rowe 2018-04-25 07:00:00Z 0
Los Barriles 2018
Fair Oaks Rotarians Head for
Los Barriles
You might be tempted to ask, "Where the heck is Los Barriles? And what were Fair Oaks Rotarians doing there?" Well, if you check the map of the south part of the Baja California peninsula, you'll see that it's on the east coast between La Paz and Cabo San Lucas. And if you're an avid reader of this website, you'll recall that this is an annual trip to help the Rotary Club down there with various projects. This year's project was screening for various health conditions... blood pressure, vision, diabetes and dental problems. Between our four, eight from the Rotary Club of Nevada city, and the local Rotarians, we saw more than 300 people, mostly students, in a weekend. Was there a follow-on fishing trip? You won't see the answer here. For more of the action, click Read More...
Los Barriles 2018 Fred Rowe 2018-04-25 07:00:00Z 0
Rise Against Hunger 2018
Posted by Fred Rowe on Mar 28, 2018
Rises Against Hunger
It was a Citrus Heights Rotary project that we were just helping on, but the seventeen Fair Oaks Rotarians were the most from any club there. What did we do? Well, in about two hours we packaged 17,000 nutritious meals for shipment overseas to feed the hungry. So we did good and had a lot of fun... in addition to making a fashion statement with our cute little red hair covers. For more shots of the action, click Read More...
Rise Against Hunger 2018 Fred Rowe 2018-03-28 07:00:00Z 0
Fair Oaks Rotary Brings Polynesia
To The Clubhouse
Once a year, the Fair Oaks Rotary, in conjunction with the Fair Oaks Recreation and Park District and the Fair Oaks Inner Wheel, brings local seniors to "Polynesia in the Village". There is no pig cooking underground in an imu, but it doesn't seem to make a difference to the attendees. The food is yummy and the entertainment is... well, participatory, and everyone seems to go home happy.
Speech Contestants Wow
Fair Oaks Rotary... As Usual
It's always one of our best meetings, and 2018 was no exception. Natalie Fulton, a senior at Bella Vista, won this year's club level speech contest, speaking on the theme "Making a Difference". She will now move to the regional semifinals in early April.
Posted by Fred Rowe on Feb 17, 2018
Fair Oaks Rotary Crab Feed Brings
The Big Easy to Orangevale
It started out looking like a basketball court, but a day's effort by the Rotary Club of Fair Oaks turned it into Mardi Gras in The Big Easy. For the 28th straight year, this event sent the 500+ attendees home with tummies full of minestrone, pasta and, of course, Dungeness crab. Add one of the 48 desserts in that auction and the great prizes in the silent auction and raffle, and you've got the makings of a great evening. Oh, did I mention that the funds raised will pay for the club's projects, both in Fair Oaks and around the world, for most of the next year. Look for us next year for #29!
We would like to thank Oakmont of Fair Oaks for being a Gold Sponsor at our Mardi Gras Crab Feed.
Interact Donation 2018
Posted by Fred Rowe on Jan 17, 2018
Bella Vista Interact Club
Donates for Santa Rosa Fire Victims
Members of the Interact Club at Bella Vista High School, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Fair Oaks, gathered school supplies over the past several months for students at Santa Rosa area schools impacted by the fires of last fall, and they were delivered to the grateful schools today. When you wonder about the generosity and compassion of this generation (whatever they are called), think of this episode.
Interact Donation 2018 Fred Rowe 2018-01-17 08:00:00Z 0
Flash Mob 2017
Posted by Fred Rowe on Dec 30, 2017
Fair Oaks Rotary Flash Mob
Wows Folsom Onlookers
The crowds at the downtown Folsom ice rink didn't know what to expect when the song with the cha-cha beat started up, but the dancers from the Fair Oaks Rotary soon showed them. The blame credit for the original concept goes to club member and District Governor Nominee Ray Ward, and choreographer Richard Kowaleski gets the credit for whatever degree of organization the troupe showed. A few people clapped loud enough that two encores were performed. Who says that you can't teach a Rotarian to dance?
Flash Mob 2017 Fred Rowe 2017-12-30 08:00:00Z 0
Fair Oaks Rotarians Play Santa
For Needy Students
We had a new chief elf this year... really new! Jim Erickson, brand new in the club, took the reins of Santa's sleigh like an old pro. Wielding his trusty clipboard, he provided organization, while his fellow newbie Jacob Giorgi provided boxes and a truck. Donated turkeys and other food items filled the boxes that provided some extra holiday nourishment for needy families of students at Northridge and Legette elementary schools. For more of the action, click Read More...
Caroling 2017
Hark, the Fair Oaks
Rotarians Sing!
'Tis the season, so once again, the Fair Oaks Rotary, after hours of diligent rehearsal, invaded the serenity of Eskaton Gold River and subjected treated the residents to an hour of holiday favorites. Attempting to keep us on key were guitarists Pete Schroeder and Jake Kurtz, while one year old Mary Louise Gustafson provided vocal syncopation. And once again, resident Bill embarrassed us all by knowing virtually every verse to every song we sang BY HEART! Before our performance, we treated (that may not be the correct word) ailing member Charley Blatchford to a briefer ensemble at his home. As is usual with Rotary stuff, it was more fun than should be allowed.
Caroling 2017 Fred Rowe 2017-12-19 08:00:00Z 0
Tree Planting Dec 2017
Fair Oaks Rotary Plants 100 Trees
(With a Little Help From Our Friends)
It all started with Rotary International President Ian Riseley's challenge to all clubs around the world to plant one tree per member this year. So Community Services Director John Paul Jones rounded up 100 trees from the Sacramento Tree Foundation, got the cooperation of the Fair Oaks Recreation and Park District, and arranged for three busloads of really nice people with strong backs and wearing orange vests (supervised by a few county sheriff deputies), and we all planted those trees around Phoenix Park in a couple of hours. As someone said, "Many hands make light work"; it's true! For more photos of the action, click Read More...
Tree Planting Dec 2017 Fred Rowe 2017-12-16 08:00:00Z 0
Madison Avenue Dec 2017
Fair Oaks Rotary Activates
Madison Avenue Boulevard Brigade
Armed with grabbers (the technical term for those things that pick up trash without getting your hands dirty), and fueled with Rotary fuel (donut holes and coffee, for the uninitiated), the Fair Oaks Rotary sallied forth on a crisp December Saturday on their quarterly mission to make Madison Avenue between Kenneth and Chicago (the street, not the city) as pristine as a really clean street can be. It's unclear who brought the fuel, but it wasn't the brigade commander, Field Marshal Shepherd, who may be looking at a demotion to Colonel if he doesn't start looking out for the troops. We'll do this again in Spring 2018.
Madison Avenue Dec 2017 Fred Rowe 2017-12-09 08:00:00Z 0
Xmas Parade 2017
Rotary Float Shines in
Fair Oaks Holiday Parade
Although the Fair Oaks Rotary's float in the annual Holiday Parade truly glistened, it didn't glisten enough to win any trophies this year. Apparently, the decorating crew wasn't able to turn that big rectangular thing into a believable tree, and even loading the float with really cute kids and signs touting all the great things they do couldn't turn the tide. But it was all so much fun that they'll be back next year for sure.
Xmas Parade 2017 Fred Rowe 2017-12-02 08:00:00Z 0
Rotary People of Action
Rotary People of Action 2017-11-21 08:00:00Z 0
Oak Battle 2017
Posted by Fred Rowe on Nov 03, 2017
It's Del Campo Again in
The Battle for The Oak
It's starting to sound routine, but once again, the Battle for The Oak (the Fair Oaks High School football champioinship) was won convincingly by Del Campo High School and they were presented the Jim Purcell Memorial Trophy. As usual, the Fair Oaks Rotary paid the admission of all military veterans to the game.
Oak Battle 2017 Fred Rowe 2017-11-03 07:00:00Z 0
Leadership Mentoring 2017
Fair Oaks Rotary Participates in
Youth Leadership Mentoring Program
Fair Oaks and Point West Rotary's joined their talents to plan a Leadership Conference for students at Encina and Bella Vista High Schools. Combining lecture with one-on-one mentoring and small group discussions about leadership, ethics and the Four Way Test, the conference was well received. Both clubs plan on working together in the future.
Leadership Mentoring 2017 Fred Rowe 2017-11-02 07:00:00Z 0
Posted by Fred Rowe on Oct 31, 2017
Safe Halloween
Safe Halloween... that doesn't sound too exciting. But when it's the Fair Oaks Rotary (and a few partners, to be honest) putting it on, it's a different story. Games, books, reading stories, and... oh,yeah... candy made for an exciting (and safe) day for kids in Fair Oaks this October 31. Every year it's more fun, making it likely we'll be back next year.
Halloween 2017 Fred Rowe 2017-10-31 07:00:00Z 0
Uncorked 2017
Fair Oaks Uncorked:
A Great Rotary Fun(d)raiser
For the ninth time in as many years, the Fair Oaks Rotary hosted 300+ guests at the premier autumn tasting event in the Fair Oaks area. More than a dozen local restaurants and foothill wineries and two local breweries presented their wares, and a "Wine Wall" and silent auction rounded out the evening. It was a rousing success, both in the enjoyment of the guests and in the funds raised for the club's many projects in the coming year
Uncorked 2017 Fred Rowe 2017-10-20 07:00:00Z 0
Posted by Fred Rowe on Sep 16, 2017
Craft Beer Hydration Program
Is Huge Success!
Contrary to what you might expect from the photo at the top, the Fair Oaks Rotary had a successful day at the 2017 Fair Oaks Chicken Festival, making a bundle of money for the great projects they do throughout the year by selling sample tastes from the dozen or so breweries who donated their product. For more photos of the frivolity, click Read More.
Co-Sponsors Family Fun Night
Although the Folsom Cordova Community Partnership called it Family Fun Night, in truth it looked a lot more like Fair Oaks Rotary Fun Night. Rotarians had pre-packed bags for the kids to take home and provided some of the "entertainment" for the night, reading to the kids and introducing them to the mysteries of acoustic guitar. Some of the materials for this project were paid for by a grant from The Rotary Foundation.
Family Fun Night Fred Rowe 2017-09-15 07:00:00Z 0
Women's Empowerment Graduation 9-17
Fair Oaks Rotary Assists
Women's Empowerment is a program that teaches job skills to homeless women. Recently, the Fair Oaks Rotary has been priveleged to help with the refreshments at the graduation from the program, and we did it again on September 15. As you can see, taking part in this puts smiles on the faces of out volunteers.
Women's Empowerment Graduation 9-17 Fred Rowe 2017-09-15 07:00:00Z 0
Chicken Festival
Join Us at the Fair Oaks Chicken Festival's Craft Beer Garden!
The Rotary Club of Fair Oaks is again proud to be hosting the Craft Beer Garden on September 16th from 11 am to 5:30 pm. We will be located at 10123 Fair Oaks Blvd. next to Central Valley Community Bank and in front of Honeymoon Tatoo.
We will be serving a selection of beers from 12 different Craft Beer Breweries. In addition, we are providing Live Music by J's House Band and Acoustic Space Travelers.
Chicken Festival 2017-09-06 07:00:00Z 0
Posted by Fred Rowe on Jul 15, 2017
Fair Oaks Rotary Boulevard Brigade
Assaults Trash on Madison Avenue
Under the command of Field Marshal (Hon.) Neil Shepherd, the Fair Oaks Rotary assembled a contingent of road warriors armed with grabbers and orange bags for our quarterly removal of trash on Madison Avenue between Kenneth and Chicago (Ave., not the city). Despite the apparent lack of Rotary rations (donuts and coffee), the task was accomplished in fine order. For a look at some of the individual action, click Read More.
Demotion 2017
Romines Out; Browning In!
For the first time in its 71 year history, the Fair Oaks Rotary saw the handoff off the presidency from one female to another at the annual Demotion of the President. Despite leading the club to the Best Club in the District title, Karen Romines was subjected to the usual roast before handing the gavel to Anne Browning. And despite their "not-ready-for-prime-time" status, the Rotarettes made another appearance and once again wowed the crowd, convulsing most of them in laughter. It was a great end to a great year, and we're all set for next year.
Demotion 2017 Fred Rowe 2017-06-24 07:00:00Z 0
Rotary River Dogs
Rotarians Turn Out For
River Dogs Season Finale
The mighty River Dogs of the coach-pitch (7-8 year-old) division of the Fair Oaks-Orangevale Little League wound up the 2017 season with a rousing... um, game. Since no one keeps score, it was hard to tell who won, not that it really mattered to anyone. Both sponsoring clubs showed up in force. For more of the action, click Read More.
Rotary River Dogs Fred Rowe 2017-06-01 07:00:00Z 0
Park Day 2017
Posted by Fred Rowe on May 13, 2017
Beautify Fair Oaks Library Park
Fair Oaks Rotary once again had a great turnout for the annual It's My Park Day, sponsored by the Fair Oaks Recreation and Park District (FORPD), and we really showed that we know how to spread wood chips. Seriously, folks, somebody's got to do it, and who better than a group of business professional and community leaders. Besides being fun and useful, projects like this make our partnership with FORPD even closer. For pictures of the action, click Read More.
Park Day 2017 Fred Rowe 2017-05-13 07:00:00Z 0
Rotary Arbor II
Fair Oaks Rotary Does
More Arbor Beautification
As predicted in the story from two weeks ago, the Rotary Club of Fair Oaks continued the maintenance and beautification of their arbor in Plaza Park in beautiful downtown Fair Oaks Village, this time adding some plants along the wall in back of the arbor. Considering that three Rotarians escaped prior to the press (that would be me) arriving for the culmination photo, it looks like there may have been more than one Rotarian assigned to each plant. Needless to say, they were done so fast that the lack of Rotary fuel (i.e., coffee and donuts) didn't affect the outcome.
Rotary Arbor II Fred Rowe 2017-04-22 07:00:00Z 0
Rotary Arbor 04-17
Fair Oaks Rotary Arbor
Gets Needed Maintenance
The Rotary Arbor in Plaza Park got some well-deserved maintenance today by some Fair Oaks Rotarians and friends, and from the photos, it looks like they were well-supervised. With no evidence of Rotary fuel in sight (that would be coffee and donuts), it's not clear how they got through the morning. Look for another work detail in a few weeks.
Rotary Arbor 04-17 Fred Rowe 2017-04-08 07:00:00Z 0
What Were Ten Fair Oaks Rotarians
Doing in Baja?
Well, it was a club service project in conjunction with the Rotary Club of Cabo Del Este in Los Barriles (between La Paz and Cabo San Lucas) and two other northern California clubs, Nevada City and Quincy. The goals were threefold: spiff up a dormitory at a school for kids from the surrounding mountain ranchos, distribute fleece blankets with edges crocheted by Rotarians and Fair Oaks Inner Wheel, and do some scouting in preparation for a future water project. All were achieved, as was the hallmark Rotary goal of having fun. It was all so successful that something similar is likely to happen again next year.
Baja 03-17 Fred Rowe 2017-03-24 07:00:00Z 0
As Usual, Speech Contestants
Wow Fair Oaks Rotary Meeting
Four high school students spoke on the topic of "Serving Humanity" at our club level speech contest at the meeting on March 6, and most in attendance were glad that they weren't judging the contest. Our winner, Bella Vista senior Sara Ostad Rahimi, now proceeds to the regional semifinal contest on March 30.
Madison Avenue March 2017
Fair Oaks Rotary Road Warriors
Spiff Up Madison Avenue
Accompanied by #100ActsOfGood mascot Rooty the Rooster, nine stalwart members of the Rotary Club of Fair Oaks braved some pre-storm wind chill and a dearth of Rotary fuel (that would be coffee and donuts to the uninitiated) to perform their magic on Madison Avenue from Chicago to Kenneth by picking up several months worth of trash. Rooty, as usual, simply tagged along doing nothing but watching and then hogged the post-work photo, for which he almost ended up in an orange bag himself. Look for us out there again in a few months.
Madison Avenue March 2017 Fred Rowe 2017-03-04 08:00:00Z 0
2017 Mardi Gras Crab Feed
27th Annual Mardi Gras Crab Feed
Is Usual Roaring Success
Fair Oaks Rotary turned a basketball court into NOLA Party Central and used their usual formula of delicious crab and minestrone, wonderful auction and raffle items, and a great crowd to raise funds for their many projects in the coming year. They hosted 560 enthusiastic partygoers and initial reports of a great time make it likely that they'll put on #28 this time next year.
2017 Mardi Gras Crab Feed Fred Rowe 2017-02-18 08:00:00Z 0
Northridge Dictionaries 2017
Are Fair Oaks Kids Smarter
Because of Rotary Dictionaries?
As they do every year about this time, a crew from the Fair Oaks Rotary barged in on two third grades at Northridge Elementary School and gave every child his or her own dictionary. And as they always do, the kids appeared thankful and excited. Will it produce a Pulitzer Prize winner for Fair Oaks in the next generation? Only time will tell. But it's a pretty good bet we'll be back next year.
Northridge Dictionaries 2017 Fred Rowe 2017-01-31 08:00:00Z 0
Fair Oaks Rotary's Senior Luau
Not Hindered by Soggy Weather
They had to be escorted in by the umbrella platoon, but once inside, the weather was fantastic, the food was yummy, and the entertainment was great. Fair Oaks Rotary, in partnership with the Recreation and Park District and the Fair Oaks Inner Wheel, once again brought Polynesia to the Community Center for a sold-out room of senior citizens.
Rotary Ray DGD
Rotary Ray Chosen DGD!
OK, who's Rotary Ray, and what's a DGD? Well, that would be Ray Ward... yeah, the one in OUR club... and he was chosen to be the District 5180... yeah, that's OUR district... Governor in 2019-20, making him the District Governor Designate. How's that for a mouthful? And making it even more special, he will become the first District Governor from the Fair Oaks club in our 71 year history! Congratulations, Ray! We should have realized something was up when all those Past (and current and future) District Governors showed up at our meeting, which is the usual custom to announce the DGD in our district.
Rotary Ray DGD Fred Rowe 2017-01-09 08:00:00Z 0
Posted by Fred Rowe
Fair Oaks Rotary Plays Santa and
Fair Oaks Families Eat Better
As is their custom this time of year, the Fair Oaks Rotary, led by Chief Elf Cliff Straehely, with assistance from Chief Elf Emeritus Tom Rains, using financial assistance from a bunch of places and muscle (believe it or not) from club members, packed and distributed over 100 boxes of holiday-related food for low income families at Northridge and Legette Elementary schools.
Fair Oaks Rotary Sings,
"Tis the Season..."
Fair Oaks Rotary's acclaimed renowned hastily-assembled but energetic (that's the phrase I was looking for) Holiday Chorus ventured across the American River today to Eskaton Gold River, where they provided singing and merriment galore for the residents as they performed some Christmas favorites to the guitar accompaniment of Pete Schroeder, who organized the whole thing and claims to be the one responsible for the group's musical direction. They were joined for the last few numbers by resident Bill (left end of lower right photo), who definitely added some oomph to the group and who actually knew verses 2, 3 and 4 to Jingle Bells by heart. The group's next performance is being negotiated.
100 Acts of Good
#100ActsOfGood? Centennial?
Well, it's The Rotary Foundation's 100th birthday in June, and what better way to celebrate than by doing something good for someone. Rotary International is encouraging all Rotarians worldwide to "get caught in the act of doing good", then posting what they do on social media and tagging it with the hashtag #100actsofgood. For a look at what our club is doing, click here.
100 Acts of Good Fred Rowe 2016-12-05 08:00:00Z 0
Holiday Parade 2016
Rotary Welcomes the Season
in Fair Oaks Holiday Parade
Showing off Rotary's 100 Acts of Good theme, the Fair Oaks club did a little bragging about all the good things we do here and around the world as we participated in this year's parade through the Village opening the holiday season. The festivities concluded with the lighting of the new Village Christmas tree... that's the conical one, not the palm trees. Happy Holidays! (For a look at the decorating of our "float", click Read More)
Holiday Parade 2016 Fred Rowe 2016-12-03 08:00:00Z 0
Fair Oaks Rotary's
"Battle for The Oak"
Not Much of a Battle
The 2016 football game between Del Campo and Bella Vista High Schools, AKA the Battle for The Oak, had an outcome pretty similar to the last ten or so games, and it wasn't pretty. Del Campo's Cougars kept the Jim Purcell Memorial Trophy by beating Bella Vista's Broncos 69-0. As usual, the Fair Oaks Rotary had a crew there passing out flag lapel pins to all military veterans (and paying for their admission to the game), and President Karen Romines and Jim's widow Bev Purcell were there at the end for the presentation of the trophy. Del Campo HS will also be presented with $1,000 to award to a graduating senior next spring. We sports fans know that the Cubs were proof that all streaks end, but hopefully this game will become competitive again before 108 years.
Rotary Makes Halloween
Scary Fun & Safe
For Fair Oaks Kids
Fair Oaks Rotarians, with help from Inner Wheel and some great high school helpers, once again made Halloween safe... AND FUN... for kids and parents who came to Fair Oaks Village for a little early trick-or-treating. Games, three reading stations, free children's books and, of course, candy made for a great day for the kids, and another great year for their dentists.
Safe Halloween 2016 Fred Rowe 2016-10-31 07:00:00Z 0
Craft Beer Coop- 2016
Hydrates the Masses at
Fair Oaks Chicken Festival
They may not get credit for saving lives, but Fair Oaks Rotarians (and some friends and family) poured craft brew samples from almost a dozen local breweries to raise funds for the many service projects they do here and around the world. It was hot, it was work, it was fun, and it was profitable, so I suppose we'll probably do it again next year. NOTE: apologies to the many who worked but whose photos aren't here.
Craft Beer Coop- 2016 Fred Rowe 2016-09-17 07:00:00Z 0
Madison Ave- Aug 2016
Madison Avenue Spotless After
Fair Oaks Rotary Cleanup
Neil Shepherd and his crew of members with nothing better to do on a Saturday morning in August performed our quarterly duty of beautification (trash collection) on Madison Avenue between Chicago and Kenneth, right in front of Bella Vista High School. Without the usual help from our high school affiliate, the Bella Vista Interact Club, it took a few more Rotarians than usual to get the job done. Rumor has it that Rotary fuel (coffee and donuts) were provided.
Madison Ave- Aug 2016 Fred Rowe 2016-08-27 07:00:00Z 0
Welcome to the US, Joao!
Welcomes Joao Vitor Veri!
The usual suspects were on hand when Rotary Youth Exchange student Joao Veri arrived at Sacramento International from his home in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on August 9 for his year (well, school year) in the United States. His first American "mom" and "brother" joined Youth Services Chair Maggie Hoy in welcoming him. We're looking forward to a great year!
Welcome to the US, Joao! Fred Rowe 2016-08-09 07:00:00Z 0
Family Promise 2016
Fair Oaks Rotary Helps
Family Promise Become More Tech Savvy
Family Promise is a Sacramento program to assist homeless families with finding housing and improving the chances that this will be a permanent solution, by improving job skills and taking other steps leading to employment. When Fair Oaks Rotarian Geri Beck made our board aware of the lack of tech hardware at their headquarters, the board and its tech guru Keith Walter stepped up. We purchased, delivered, set up and provided instruction on three Chromebooks and a wireless printer for families currently in the program, with plans to follow up as needed. For a look at the typical day of Rotarian Geri Beck as she volunteers there. click Read More.
Family Promise 2016 Fred Rowe 2016-07-20 07:00:00Z 0
Schroeder Out, Romines In
In a tradition dating back as far as anyone in the club can remember, 2015-16 president Pete Schroeder was unceremoniously demoted from on high back into the ranks, while Karen Romines was given the title Madame President, making her the fourth female to head this illustrious organization and its 71st president. Before he felt the love of all the club members, Cubs-Bears-Bulls fan Schroeder was decked out in a White Sox T-shirt, Giants hat, and 49er boxers. Poor guy. Stay tuned for a great year in 2016-17.
Community Grants Available
Our club is pleased to announce grant funding for up to $1,000 per project for charitable and educational activities to benefit children and senior citizens in the local community.
Application deadlines are October 1, January 1, and April 1.
Funding is budgeted annually July 1 to June 30 and is available until funds are depleted. Click Here to Download the application.
Community Grants Available Fred Rowe 2016-06-23 07:00:00Z 0
River Cats 2016
Quite a Day for Fair Oaks Rotary
at the Annual River Cats Game
It was 98 degrees, the Cats lost, and the bus broke down on the way home. Did that make the annual outing to Raley Field for Rotary District 5180 (which includes the Fair Oaks club) a bust? Not according to President Pete and the folks who collected the donations for polio eradication. Maybe it had something to do with the contents of the coolers on board the bus. For a few more photos of the "action" (or lack thereof), click here.
River Cats 2016 Fred Rowe 2016-06-06 07:00:00Z 0
Adopt-a-Nest
Adopts A Nest
What the heck does that mean? Well, on a nice Saturday in April, a bunch of Fair Oaks Rotarians (and a pint-sized supervisor) with your basic gardening implements went out to River Bend Park and cleaned the overgrowth from a campsite, making it usable for children's programs this upcoming summer. The before and after photos (they would be #1 and #3, above) show what a great job they did. For a look at even more photos of the work that went into this, click here.
Adopt-a-Nest Fred Rowe 2016-04-30 07:00:00Z 0
Mad Ave 04-16
Fair Oaks Rotary Makes
Madison Avenue Sparkle
OK, we had a little lot of help from our high school affiliate, the Interact Club of Bella Vista High School. And once again, we were forced to work without the usual Rotary fuel, coffee and donuts. But the weather was good, the kids were great, and Madison Avenue between Chicago and Kenneth looked great afterward. I think Sacramento County will let us keep participating in their Adopt-A-Street program, as we have for about ten years now.
Mad Ave 04-16 Fred Rowe 2016-04-17 07:00:00Z 0
First Little Free Library
First Little Free Library "Planted" and Stocked...
AND USED!
No sooner had the Fair Oaks Rotary's first little free library been planted on Pennsylvania Ave just north of Sunset, than a young local resident was seen inspecting it and availing himself of some reading material. Now we've got about nine more to "plant" so that literacy can grow in Fair Oaks. That's the plan, anyway. For more of the fun, click Read more...
First Little Free Library Fred Rowe 2016-04-04 07:00:00Z 0
Stop Hunger Now 2016
Fair Oaks Rotary Helps Stop Hunger Now
(with a little help from Citrus Heights Rotary)
Alright, alright! It was their project, and we helped, with some funding and nine semi-able bodied volunteers. In 90 minutes, we (that would be everyone there) filled over 17,000 14-oz. bags with a nutritious rice-soy-vegetable mixture, with each bag providing a meal for six people, which will be shipped to places in the world where the need is greatest. It provided camaraderie, the satisfaction of service, and a good laugh from looking at each other with hair covers on.
Stop Hunger Now 2016 Fred Rowe 2016-03-30 07:00:00Z 0
Little Libraries 2016
Fair Oaks Rotary Builds
After a couple of projects with the "big" Fair Oaks Library, club literacy-meister Bruce Hagel found a "little" library project to work on this year. After getting the wood shop kids at Del Campo High School to do the woodwork, he talked new-ish member Reid Gustafson into using his garage and driveway for the work parties to prime, paint and shingle the things. I guess that's what happens when you put an attorney in charge of a work project. For lots of photos of all the "work", click here.
Little Libraries 2016 Fred Rowe 2016-03-26 07:00:00Z 0
Feeds the Masses at
26th Annual Crab Feed
February in Fair Oaks means the Rotary will feed 500+ at their biggest fundraiser of the year, the Mardi Gras Crab Feed, and 2016 was no exception. From Caesar salad to minestrone to that tasty crab, attendees left with a satisfied palate, as usual. A silent auction and several raffles attracted the usual generous crowd, enabling the club to finance the myriad of projects for the next year. Thanks to all who helped and attended. For lots of photos of all the fun, click here.
A Luau in January?
Fair Oaks Rotary says, "Why Not?"
What better way to warm up 100+ Fair Oaks seniors than some pulled pork and Polynesian music? The luau's sponsors (Fair Oaks Rec & Park, Rotary and Inner Wheel, and the Bella Vista Interact Club) decided to move the luau from its customary September date (too close to that Chicken Festival) to January, where the only conflict was the Rotary's distribution of dictionaries to LeGette third-graders. Hey, no problem... youth service in the morning, seniors at lunch. For more of the action, click "Read more..."
Dictionary Project 2016
Are Fair Oaks Third-Graders Smarter
Because of Rotary?
The answer to that question is that they likely will be smarter in the future, and at least partly because of Fair Oaks Rotary. As they do about this time every year, Fair Oaks Rotarians visited Northridge and LeGette Elementary schools and gave every third-grader their own personal dictionary. Even in the age of iPads and Google, the kids looked pretty pleased about their new acquisition. For more photos, click "Read more..."
Dictionary Project 2016 Fred Rowe 2016-01-19 08:00:00Z 0
Battle for The Oak 2015
It's Del Campo Again in the
Almost buried in that mass of young, sweaty testosterone is Rotary Club of Fair Oaks honorary member Bev Purcell, on hand to present the trophy named after her deceased husband, past president Jim Purcell, to the winner of the Del Campo-Bella Vista football game, AKA the Battle For The Oak, so named because it decides the Fair Oaks high school football champion for the year. By a 49-26 margin, and for consecutive years that are getting hard to count, Del Campo won the game.
In addition to the trophy, a $1,000 graduation award is presented to a senior at the winning school by the Rotary club, and since the game usually occurs in close proximity to Veterans Day, the club also pays for the admission to the game of anyone who identifies themselves as a military veteran. For a look at the trophy and the crew at the gate, click the link...
Battle for The Oak 2015 Fred Rowe 2015-11-06 08:00:00Z 0
Who Had the Most Fun
at Fair Oaks Safe Halloween?
Books and games and... oh,yeah, candy... made for another great Safe Halloween in Fair Oaks Village. As usual, the Rotary Club of Fair Oaks was among the organizations having fun working hard to make the day a success. For a further look at the frolicking, click the link...
FO Uncorked 2015
Fair Oaks Uncorked 2015:
A Success by Any Measure
With a lineup of about a dozen wineries and restaurants, and a few brewers thrown in for good measure, this year's edition of Fair Oaks Uncorked provided the over 270 attendees with the usual high quality food and drink, making it a stunning success. Oh, and that's not even considering the funds raised for the community projects of the Fair Oaks Rotary. A big thanks goes to Marlow Simonetto and her crew, and to volunteers from the District 5180 Passport Club, whose work allowed more Fair Oaks Rotarians to actually nosh and imbibe a little.
For those of you who care, the dessert police reported that 37% of attendees were seen eating dessert before "real food".
FO Uncorked 2015 Fred Rowe 2015-10-16 07:00:00Z 0
Madison Avenue Cleanup-Oct 2015
Fair Oaks Rotarians Fight Thru Lack of Coffee and Donuts
To Beautify Madison Avenue
Despite a glaring lack of the usual morning project fuel, a valiant crew of Fair Oaks Rotarians and Bella Vista High School Interactors, led by the intrepid Cliff Straehely, were on duty today restoring Madison Avenue from Chicago (Avenue, not the city) to Kenneth to its usual pristine shape. In an unusual development, the Rotarians actually outnumbered the high schoolers. The name of the person who neglected to bring coffee will remain confidential. For more details, click the link.
Madison Avenue Cleanup-Oct 2015 Fred Rowe 2015-10-10 07:00:00Z 0
Fair Oaks Rotary and Bella Vista Faculty
Team Up for Another Great Career Day!
Who are all these folks lounging around the Bella Vista High School library on an October Tuesday morning? Well, they are among the 70 or so speakers from diverse occupations recruited by the Fair Oaks Rotary and Bella Vista faculty to speak to the students about their vocations at Bella Vista's second biannual Career Day. The students were polled about their preferences, and each speaker spoke to three groups of about 30 students in the course of the morning. The consensus of all involved: let's do it again in 2017! For more, click the link...
Career Day 2015 Fred Rowe 2015-10-06 07:00:00Z 0
The Craft Beer Coop
Posted by Cliff Straehley 3
Craft Beer Booth Fundraiser At The Fair Oaks Chicken Festival
If you didn't make the chicken festival this year, you missed a beautiful day and a lot of fun. Although a number of us weren't exactly up with the chickens, it felt close enough that early Saturday morning. Setting up the area for microbrew tasting is an exercise in teamwork. If you have not experienced the joy and challenge of setting up the various awnings we use, you are missing out. It's necessary and fun to duct tape and otherwise do "orthopedic repairs" on some of the old awnings we utilize. Even one of our mascot, metal chickens needed some "medical attention" in ord be able to er to stand up. Perhaps it had had a rough night, the night before. It all came together and we sold a lot of beer to a lot of happy and satisfied customers. I thought the band was great. Apparently, they also play heavy metal, but I was happy that they chose to use their acoustic instruments for the chicken festival.
The Craft Beer Coop Cliff Straehley 3 2015-09-19 07:00:00Z 0
Camping Fair Oaks Rotary Style
Over the weekend of August 7-9, a hardy group of Fair Oaks Rotarians, along with family, wannabes and other assorted folks, headed for Lake Francis Resort near beautiful Dobbins, CA, for our club's fourth annual "camping" trip, organized by the irrepressible Maggie Hoy. Our Danish exchange student Stine was introduced to the Fair Oaks Rotary version of roughing it; I think she liked it.
We ate and drank too much, but we solved a lot of world problems and we worked off many of the calories playing Maggie's dumb sophisticated games on Saturday afternoon. Did we have fun? Hey, it was a Fair Oaks Rotary event... of course we did. There are more pictures if you click the link.
Camping 2015 Fred Rowe 2015-08-10 07:00:00Z 0
July 20th Meeting
What's Happening At Blood Source
Fred Rowe took the microphone to introduce a mighty nice speaker, our own Elaine Roc. After being successful at an earlier career for about 20 years, she resigned to do something else that touched her heart. She has been working for Blood Source, in which she was rapidly promoted. Currently she is the director of automated recruitment, at which post she uses her considerable people skills to raise awareness about donating to Blood Source. She also serves with the central California hemophilia foundation.
Blood Source was initially founded in 1948 as a nonprofit, at the impetus of some physicians at Sutter Hospital who needed more blood to do their work. Elaine decided to focus mainly on one aspect of the wonderful work done by Blood Source, namely "Source Plasma". Plasma is the liquid part of blood. Both whole plasma and its components are vital to the treatment of at least 80 different diseases. The number of uses for plasma and its components is sure to increase because there are numerous on-going research projects on plasma.
There is a worldwide need for the Blood Source products. Blood banks around the world need plasma and its components because these are scarce commodities in many foreign countries. About 65% of the source plasma obtained in the United States is sent to other locations around the world.
To prepare for a plasma donation, a person should avoid caffeine during the day before, eat a good meal, and drink a lot of water. Although it takes only about five or 10 minutes to donate whole blood (depending on the size of your veins), it takes about 45 minutes to donate for "source plasma". During this process, the donor is entertained by recent movies and delightful company. Temporarily some of the donor’s blood leaves the donor, while it is being subdivided into components, and then it is returned, minus "the goodies". Theoretically one could donate source plasma every other day but to be more conservative, plasma donations are limited to twice a week.
One of the most important products is Immunoglobulin. These are a variety of antibodies in immunoglobulin which can be utilized to combat diseases. Since different people have been exposed to different diseases, these different diseases stimulate the production of various different antibodies, making immunoglobulin products very versatile and valuable. The Common denominator of these various diseases is that the patient has an impaired immune system. Some people are genetically unable to form any antibodies at all, and infusion of these immunoglobulins, beginning shortly after birth, prevents the death of these babies, although we don't know how long these patients will ultimately live. However, one recipient mentioned by Elaine has completed medical school and is the oldest living recipient of this treatment, so far.
Our club now is categorized as one of the "big clubs" in our district and records have been kept about the frequency of blood donations in the various clubs in the District. We rank sixth among the big clubs which is not anything to brag about. Elaine distributed cards which can be utilized, so that our friends and relatives can also donate and credit our club. Some people (about 38% of the population of the United States) are unable to donate because of various FDA restrictions. For example, there is a weight minimum of 110 pounds. Women are not allowed to donate. Elaine ended early but remained afterwards to answer the many questions.
Reporter: Cliff Straehley
July 20th Meeting Cliff Straehley 3 2015-07-20 07:00:00Z 0
July 13, 2015 Meeting
Posted by Bruce Vincent
Lester Snow Talks Water!
July 13, 2015 Meeting Bruce Vincent 2015-07-15 07:00:00Z 0
Lester Snow Talks Water
Lester Snow spoke on the California water system, its history, the drought and other potential problems with our water delivery system. Lester is Executive Director of the California Water Foundation. He has been the Director of the California Department of Water Resources and our region’s Director for the Bureau of Reclamation.
Lester began his talk with a brief description of the statewide interconnected water storage and delivery system which serves 30 million people and irrigates over 5 million acres of farmland. The system includes the State Water Project, the Central Valley Project, and several major aqueducts. Wikipedia is recommended for an excellent overview of the system.
The water system in California is faced with several severe challenges:
* Aging infrastructure, designed when California’s population was less than half of today’s population.
* Overdrawn and, until recently, completely unregulated groundwater supplies
* Climate change.
At this moment, California is in the midst of the worst drought in its history. Snowpack is nonexistent. Reservoirs are very low and there will be little runoff from the mountains into the reservoirs. Up to 80% of the water the state uses this year will be groundwater, which is being depleted too fast. (Some areas in the Central Valley are sinking one foot per year as water is pumped from the underlying aquifers and San Jose is now 14 feet lower than it was years ago.) Locally, the Folsom reservoir will probably be drawn down to the lowest level in its history because the Bureau of Reclamation is withholding releases from Shasta to reduce water temperatures and protect salmon – and increasing releases from Folsom to compensate.
As an example of aging infrastructure, Lester cited the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta. The Delta has existed since the end of the last ice age and was originally a large freshwater marsh. Beginning in the late 1800s, Chinese labor and then dredgers were used to create levees, channel the flow of water through the Delta and convert most of the Delta for agriculture. The Delta now produces about $500 million in crops. The levees are not completely adequate and it is feared that a combination of high water and an earthquake could break the levees and flood much of the Delta, rendering it useless (Ed note: supposedly) for agriculture.
Lester briefly discussed the Delta tunnel project, which has been proposed by the Jerry Brown administration. He cited reasons for building the tunnels but, in general, did not mention the many objections raised by opponents of the Delta tunnels.
Ray Ward is recognized by Membership Director Alice Rowe. Ray brought six new members to the club during the past year and half.
Emeritus member Charley Blatchford celebrated his 80th birthday. In the photo, Charley is paying a generous birthday fine.
James Mann, who has been undergoing dialysis, was able to attend the meeting. James reports that he is doing better.
New members Shelley Weisman and Gus Ballis had their red ribbons removed and became full-fledged members. They are shown with their sponsor, Ray Ward, and their mentors, Peter and Karen Romines.
Pete Schroeder reported on Camp Winning Hands, where Pete was a counselor last week. The photo is from the Shriner’s website. It shows Pete teaching a youngster with hand differences to play guitar. Pete spent five days working with the kids at this camp. The Shriner Hospitals for Children of Northern California sponsored the camp and paid for everything. Pete reported that Rotary made the camp possible.
The kids camped overnight and Pete was housed in a cabin full of 7 – 11 year old boys. Pete reports that he is now, as a result, an expert on zombies and possible the health hazards that can result when a normal person is touched by a zombie, with urinary contamination of the blood being number one on the list.
Our club was chartered on March 7, 1946 and will celebrate its 70th anniversary this fiscal year. With that in mind, Club Historian, Ralph Carhart, provided a brief history of the club’s first 40 years of existence.
Details below.
It is difficult to determine meeting attendance in advance, which makes it difficult to buy and serve the right amount of food. Diana Cralle asked that all members RSVP at least two days before a meeting. Suggested mechanisms for RSVPing were contacting Ray Ward via Facebook or Nancy Regan by email.
Perhaps the easiest method might be to RSVP to the weekly meeting notice sent out by Ray Ward every week.
Bob Walters announced that Club Foundation will be holding its annual election of members at its next meeting on August 15. Anyone interested in being on the Foundation Board should submit a short written application, in the form of a letter or email to Bob. The application should summarize, along with anything deemed pertinent by the applicant, experience with 501(c)3 organizations. Campaign speeches will not be allowed.
Club Services Director, Dawn Abatamarco, asked for volunteers to serve food at each meeting (2 per meeting) and others to do the center pieces at each table.
Marlow Simonetto is managing this year’s Fair Oaks Uncorked. We still need wineries and restaurants. Please help Marlow and her committee recruit them.
Also, tickets are now available. Please start selling them.
Maggie Hoy is the organizer for Saturday’s Mystery Trip. Maggie revealed three clues:
This will be an outdoor event.
It may be cold (the weather, that is)
Bring a camp chair so you have something to sit on.
July 13th Meeting Bruce Vincent 2015-07-14 07:00:00Z 0
May 2015 Madison Ave Cleanup
Fair Oaks Rotary + Bella Vista Interact =
A Sparkling Madison Avenue
As good stewards of Madison Avenue from Chicago (the street, that is) to Kenneth, May 9 found the Fair Oaks Rotary Club out in force, along with the Interact Club from Bella Vista High School, to rid the avenue of several months of accumulated litter. The unusual thing about this particular day was that Rotarians outnumbered Interactors, perhaps due to the availability of donuts procured by Dino Sammakieh, the honcho of the trash patrol.
May 2015 Madison Ave Cleanup Fred Rowe 2015-05-09 00:00:00Z 0
2015 Sailor Bar Project
Sailor Bar Access More Accessible,
Thanks to Fair Oaks Rotary (and a little help)
It's rumored that President Jim Cralle was upset by the potential dangers of the pedestrian access to the area around his favorite fishing hole, prompting him to arrange a project of the club, its Interact affiliate at Bella Vista High School, and some folks from the local Americorps on a sunny Saturday morning in April. I'm sure there were donuts involved somewhere, but no one took a picture of them.
2015 Sailor Bar Project Fred Rowe 2015-04-18 00:00:00Z 0
2015 Park Project
Phoenix Park - More Usable
Thanks to Fair Oaks Rotary
Valentine weekend saw President Jim Cralle and the Fair Oaks Rotary working hard on their joint project with the Fair Oaks Recreation and Park District and Honorary Mayor Bob Clouse to lengthen walking trails at Phoenix Park, making them more usable for baby strollers, wheelchairs and other conveyances that may not perform well on grass. The project was partially funded by a matching grant from The Rotary Foundation.
2015 Park Project Fred Rowe 2015-02-14 00:00:00Z 0
2015 Annual Mardi Gras Crab Feed
As usual, we sold this event out... 550 crab lovers feasting on minestrone, pasta, and scrumptious crab, washed down by margaritas, hurricanes, fine wine and other assorted beverages, playing heads-or-tails, taking a chance on the FunDraw and MegaDraw and bidding in the silent auction. A big thanks to our sponsors and donors and everyone who spent the money that allows us to do all the good stuff we do in Fair Oaks and around the world.
Active Sponsors:
Thanks for the support, we had another successful year.
Check out our video of the event and our pictures.
2015 Annual Mardi Gras Crab Feed Beth Wilcoxen 2015-01-28 00:00:00Z 0
2015 Dictionary Project
Dealing in Dictionaries the Fair Oaks Rotary Way
As is their custom about this time of year, Rotarians from the Fair Oaks club distributed brand new dictionaries purchased by the club to every third-grader at Northridge Elementary School, after doing the same at Legette Elementary last week. The Legette crew were either shy or left their cameras at home, because no photos could be found. For more pictures of happy kids, click "Read more".
2015 Dictionary Project 2015-01-28 00:00:00Z 0
Dec 2014 Mad Ave Cleanup
Rotary and Interact Beautify Madison Avenue
If Madison Avenue from Chicago Avenue to Kenneth Avenue was looking a little cleaner recently, thank the Rotary Club of Fair Oaks and the Bella Vista High School Interact Club, under the supervision of Karen Romines and John White. The two organizations cooperate on this quarterly project as part of the county's Adopt-A-Street program. The big find this time: a car bumper!
Dec 2014 Mad Ave Cleanup Fred Rowe 2014-12-06 00:00:00Z 0
Rotary's 2014 Fair Oaks Uncorked Sparkles Again
Posted by Raymond Ward on Sep 21, 2014
For the sixth consecutive year, the Fair Oaks Rotary hosted the premier autumn wine-and-food tasting event in the area, Fair Oaks Uncorked, at St. Mel's Parish Hall. Attendees were treated to vintages from ten wineries and delicacies from ten local restaurants. If you missed it, make a note to check next October's calendar for the seventh edition.
Rotary's 2014 Fair Oaks Uncorked Sparkles Again Raymond Ward 2014-09-22 00:00:00Z 0
Even the Chickens Enjoyed Our Craft Beer Booth
On a beautiful Saturday, the Fair Oaks Village celebrated local businesses with food, music, and beer. The Rotary Club of Fair Oaks helped by providing thirsty patrons at the beer wagon and at the craft beer booth. The proceeds from this event will be used for local schools and other local projects.
Check Here to see more pictures.
Even the Chickens Enjoyed Our Craft Beer Booth Raymond Ward 2014-09-22 00:00:00Z 0
Senior Luau
Fair Oaks Seniors Whoop It Up at the 2014 Rotary Luau
Last year, the Interact Club learned the Hukilau; this year, it was a half dozen or so spry seniors... all women... what does that mean?... who jumped at the chance. And once again, for the 11th straight year, the Rotary Club, the Inner Wheel, and the Recreation and Park Department of Fair Oaks put on a great luau for the seniors in the community. If you're wondering who all the really young looking people in the linked album are, that's the Bella Vista Interact Club, without whom we'd probably still be passing out the lunch trays. For a closer look at the festivities, click here.
Senior Luau Fred Rowe 2014-09-17 00:00:00Z 0
NEW Club Video
Hold your hat... here's the Fair Oaks Rotary story in two minutes!
Updated stuff, quicker pace and new music, but I still get tired just watching it. Do we really do all that? Enjoy!
NEW Club Video Fred Rowe 2014-09-15 00:00:00Z 0
Rotarian House Painters
How Many Rotarians Does It Take To Paint a House?
Last Rotary year, we fixed a lot of the insides of this house on Winding Way, which was occupied by a disabled senior citizen with a long history of volunteering in the Fair Oaks community, and now we returned to make it look as nice outside as it is inside. Our own Geri Beck was the driving force on this one. The answer to the question in the title would seem to be seven... or was it eight? In case you haven't figured it out, the photo on top is BEFORE.
Rotarian House Painters Fred Rowe 2014-09-13 00:00:00Z 0
Rotary Style Camping
Fair Oaks Rotary Roughs It Again
If you don't see any tents, there's a reason for that. We didn't bring any... well, at least the adults didn't. For the third year in a row, in spite of prior violations of the campground noise curfew, Lake Francis Resort in Dobbins allowed the Fair Oaks Rotary to spend a weekend there. If you're dying to see people having too much fun, go to our Facebook posting of August 17. Just don't say you weren't warned.
Rotary Style Camping Fred Rowe 2014-08-16 00:00:00Z 0
Bella Vista Career Day
Bella Vista Faculty + Fair Oaks Rotary + 6 months planning =
BV Career Day
Presenters meet in the library to take attendance... after all, this is school.
On October 11, from 9 am to noon, the 2,000+ students at Bella Vista High School attended the first Career Day at BV in over a decade. Each student attended three successive small group sessions of 30-40 students presented by over 70 presenters representing a wide variety of professions and jobs. It was a massive undertaking and by all accounts, it came off pretty well at all levels.
Bella Vista Career Day Fred Rowe 2013-10-11 00:00:00Z 0
Fair Oaks Rotarians provide hydration...
then the rains came.
President Mike Delivers
(looks like he's participating also)
Some times, the best laid plans... you know the rest. And Chicken Festival 2013 was one of them. At first the cool refreshments offered by Fair Oaks Rotary's beer booth and micro-brew tasting area were well appreciated, but just about the time that sales usually pick up, the skies opened up, and in spite of the "fun" reported by those on scene, the bottom line looked like it was going to be affected. For a complete look at developments, click here.
10th Annual Senior Luau
Fair Oaks Rotary Takes 140 Seniors To Polynesia
For the tenth year in a row, the Fair Oaks Rotary co-sponsored the Fair Oaks Senior Luau, in conjunction with the Fair Oaks Rec & Parks Dept, Fair Oaks Inner Wheel and Fair Oaks Foundation for Leisure and Arts. The Bella Vista High School Interact Club provided the table servers, and 140+ seniors were treated to Polynesian cuisine and entertainment, some of it by Rotarians and Interactors. For the full monty, click here. To see our Bella Vista Interactors dance the Hukilau, click here. To see President Mike shake his thing, click here.
10th Annual Senior Luau Fred Rowe 2013-09-18 00:00:00Z 0
Amador Cellars Bus Trip
We Took the Bus to Amador Cellars
On September 7, the "Fair Oaks Rotary" bus... actually, we rented it... took us, along with members from a few adjoining clubs, to Amador Cellars for some tasting and a BBQ dinner in their new barn. For a full report and photos, click here.
Amador Cellars Bus Trip Fred Rowe 2013-09-07 00:00:00Z 0
Claugus Hikes to End Polio
HE MADE IT!!!
Fair Oaks Rotarian Dave Claugus at the top of Mt Whitney as he celebrates the completion of his 200+ mile trek along the John Muir trail to raise funds for Polio Plus. He just helped make us "this much closer" to polio eradication. Congratulations, Dave!
Claugus Hikes to End Polio Fred Rowe 2013-08-03 00:00:00Z 0
Engage Rotary... Change Yards
Yard Makeover by Rotary
Problem: falling down fence, overgrown yard, lack of resources. Solution: nine Fair Oaks Rotarians and an hour and a half, followed by a mighty construction job by our newest member. Just another example of Rotarian community service in action. To see Fair Oaks Rotary in action, click here.
Engage Rotary... Change Yards Fred Rowe 2013-07-20 00:00:00Z 0
It's My Park Day
Village Park is looking better, thanks to Rotary!
On Saturday, July 13, Fair Oaks Rotarians, relatives and friends were treated to a demonstration of proper watering technique by new club president Mike Maddox after several hours of beautifying Village Park as part of the Fair Oaks Recreation and Park District's It's My Park Day. For a FULL report, click here.
It's My Park Day Fred Rowe 2013-07-13 00:00:00Z 0
Madison Avenue Lookin' Good
So if you've noticed that Madison Avenue around Bella Vista High School looks pretty clean every three months or so, then thank the team of BV Interactors and Fair Oaks Rotarians that does the work. April 6 was the latest Beautification Day, aka trash pickup. Click here to see how it went.
Madison Avenue Beautification Project Fred Rowe 2013-04-06 00:00:00Z 0
Rotarian Quartet Wows Eskaton!
Encouraged by the sitting ovation our group of Rotarian warblers received at our Christmas performance at Eskaton Fountainwood, Pete Schroeder assembled a quartet and we did it again. To see a few photos of what it was like to be there, click here.
Rotarian Quartet Wows Eskaton! Fred Rowe 2013-04-04 00:00:00Z 0
Library Project Complete - Let's Celebrate!!!
Rotary Animals Invade Fair Oaks Library Prior to Celebration
Buddy (the Raccoon) and Bunny (the Energizer... well, bunny) made an appearance at the Fair Oaks Library on March 29, one day prior to the big celebration to open the new Families and Books Center, a joint project of the Rotary Club of Fair Oaks, Friends of the Library, and the library itself.
They even talked some kid into reading a book to them.
Join us on March 30 at noon as we dedicate the place.
Library Project Complete - Let's Celebrate!!! Fred Rowe 2013-03-29 00:00:00Z 0
Russian Consul Helps Warren Turn 80! Say What??!!
Our meeting on Monday, March 25, was special for several reasons. Past President Warren McWilliams celebrated a special birthday; contrary to popular opinion, he was NOT one of the founders of Rotary International in 1905... after all, he's just a kid at 80 years young! And our program was brought to us by our newest member, Natasha Owen, who described the development of the Russian consular system and her role as the first ever Russian consul in Sacramento. Following this, we were treated to four traditional Russian songs by two members of the Russian community. So our club's immersion into local cultural diversity continues!
Russian Consul Helps Warren Turn 80! Say What??!! Fred Rowe 2013-03-25 00:00:00Z 0
We finished our library project!!!
We're Done! Let's Celebrate!
On Saturday, March 23, the finishing touches were put on our Family and Children's Center project at the Fair Oaks Library, just in time for the celebration scheduled for Saturday, March 30. Lots of hands-on work and $6,000... half of that as a grant from The Rotary Foundation... went into creating an area specifically for kids under 5 and their parents. We partnered with Friends of the Library on the project. The final work crew members couldn't resist being the first to actually use the area.
We finished our library project!!! Fred Rowe 2013-03-23 00:00:00Z 0
FO Rotarians Attend GSVACC Gala! What??!!
On March 15, a group of Fair Oaks Rotarians and spouses ventured to the Little Saigon area of South Sacramento for the 2nd annual Gala Dinner of the Greater Sacramento Vietnamese American Chamber of Commerce. That's a mouthful of initials, and the Rotarians enjoyed many mouthfuls of delicious ethnic food served at the New Happy Garden Restaurant. What were they doing there besides eating? Well, it was the kickoff of new member Dave Barr's program of experiencing diverse cultures without the cost of international airfare. Where will it lead? Hey... come along for the ride and find out!
FO Rotarians Attend GSVACC Gala! What??!! Fred Rowe 2013-03-15 00:00:00Z 0
Rotarians Ponder the Search for Life in the Universe
Posted by Keith Walter on Mar 10, 2013
On March 11, astrophysicist and NASA scientist Tobias (Toby) Owen, who is also the spouse of newly inducted member Natasha Owen, presented a dryly witty summary of the search for life in the universe, especially intelligent life, and showed us remarkable photos from the recent Mars rover Discovery. One of the questions he posed was why another intelligent life form would identify themselves to us Earthlings if they were able to observe the current state of affairs on this planet. All in all, a remarkable presentation!
Rotarians Ponder the Search for Life in the Universe Keith Walter 2013-03-11 00:00:00Z 0
A New Banner for All Our Banners!
With well over a hundred Rotary club banners, collected during our members travels, sitting in storage, it was time to hang them on the wall! And who made the display for us?
Vicki Walter!
A New Banner for All Our Banners! Keith Walter 2013-03-11 00:00:00Z 0
We packed 'em in for the Inner Wheel Spaghetti Feed!
As usual, our annual Spaghetti Feed with our Fair Oaks Inner Wheel affiliate was packed and energetic. IW President Janet McWilliams described the great work IW does locally and internationally, and the members lightened our wallets bidding on an assortment of items in a fun raffle. Check out the rest of the details in this weeks ACORN.
We packed 'em in for the Inner Wheel Spaghetti Feed! Fred Rowe 2013-03-04 00:00:00Z 0
Fair Oaks Rotarians Read Across America
In an amazing display of literary prowess, ten Fair Oaks Rotarians participated in the annual Read Across America Day at Northridge Elementary School by actually reading to students in their classrooms. Read Across America Day is celebrated nationwide on or near the birthday of the late Dr. Seuss and was established to promote the joy of reading. Member Bruce Vincent recorded this reaction to his efforts, later reporting that he set it up.
Fair Oaks Rotarians Read Across America Fred Rowe 2013-02-26 00:00:00Z 0
Five Great Contestants in Our Club Speech Contest
Five BV Seniors Give Five Great Speeches
Five seniors from Bella Vista High School... in the picture above, Dustin Mueller, Tim O'Shea, Anna Ustinova, Jessica Terry and Kara Zeman, along with club president Beth Wilcoxen and speech contest chairs Bill Wagner and Karen Romines... each gave their interpretation of the theme "Peace Through Service" at the annual speech contest of the Rotary Club of Fair Oaks on Monday, February 25. The annual speech contest is always one of the most enjoyable programs of the Rotary year and this year was no exception. The contest was won by Kara Zeman, who will now compete in a regional semifinal against eight other club level winners on Monday, April 8 at 6:00 at the Roseville Theater on Vernon Street in Roseville, with the eventual goal of competing in the District Finals on Saturday, May 11 at the District Conference at the Hyatt Lake Tahoe in Incline Village.
Five Great Contestants in Our Club Speech Contest Fred Rowe 2013-02-25 00:00:00Z 0
Did Our Crab Feed Sellout Catch You By Surprise?
If you missed this year's Fair Oaks Rotary Crab Feed because it sold out and caught you by surprise, click here or scan the QR code at the top left, then fill out the form and we'll contact you next year before the ticket sales open to the general public. Here's a little picture of the party we threw on February 9.
Did Our Crab Feed Sellout Catch You By Surprise? Fred Rowe 2013-02-19 00:00:00Z 0
Peru Team Returns from the Jungle
A team of ten departed for Iquitos, Peru on December 1-2 and returned on December 9-10. Who were they? Three from our club, two from Rancho Cordova (plus one spouse), two from Whirlwind Wheelchair, designer of the RoughRider, one physical therapist and one Spanish interpreter. What did they do? In conjunction with the Rotary Club of Iquitos, they brought the gift of mobility to 176 people in the Amazon basin in the form of RoughRider wheelchairs.
To save reading another 100,000 words, click here for about 100 photos of their adventure.
Peru Team Returns from the Jungle Fred Rowe 2012-12-17 00:00:00Z 0
Caroling at Eskaton
On December 17, ten Fair Oaks Rotarians, led by the intrepid Pete Schroeder, warbled our way through a half dozen or so Christmas carols at the Eskaton facility where long-time member John Yetto resides.
Two more members, who shall remain nameless, arrived just as we finished singing.
Caroling at Eskaton Fred Rowe 2012-12-17 00:00:00Z 0
FAIR OAKS-STYLE
When the Rotary Club, Inner Wheel, Women's Thursday Club, Merchants' Association and Theatre Festival of Fair Oaks combine with the Bella Vista Interact Club to put on Halloween festivities for the village's kids, you can figure that it will be quite an event. It was. Check it out by clicking here. And check our Facebook Page for even more.
Safe Halloween Fred Rowe 2012-10-31 00:00:00Z 0
Ghouls Take Over Fair Oaks Rotary
But it was only for a night (October 29) so not to worry. Ms. Energizer kept us all safe, and we heard our outbound RYE student, Isabel Jacobson, tell us about her year in Denmark. Click here for the hard photo evidence, but it's not for the faint of heart. Look for details in this week's ACORN.
Ghouls Take Over Fair Oaks Rotary Fred Rowe 2012-10-29 00:00:00Z 0
Del Campo Again in the Battle for the Oak
For the tenth year in a row, Del Campo High School was victorious over Bella Vista High School in this game, the Fair Oaks high school football championship. The Rotary Club of Fair Oaks gives a perpetual trophy named after the Rotarian who started this tradition, Jim Purcell, and also a $1,000 graduation award to a senior at the winning school, as well as paying the admission of all military veterans to the game. For a look at this year's fun, click here.
Del Campo Again in the Battle for the Oak Fred Rowe 2012-10-26 00:00:00Z 0
Fair Oaks Uncorked
What could be better on an autumn evening than great food accompanied by great wines? That's what the Rotary Club of Fair Oaks delivered on Friday, October 12, to the delight of the 200+ in attendance at the Fair Oaks Community Clubhouse.
Fair Oaks Uncorked Fred Rowe 2012-10-12 00:00:00Z 0
Fair Oaks Senior Luau
If it's mid-September, it's Luau time in Fair Oaks as the Rotary Club of Fair Oaks, Fair Oaks Rec & Park Dept., the Fair Oaks Inner Wheel and the Bella Vista Interact Club all combine to treat our local seniors to an afternoon of island culinary delights and entertainment.
Fair Oaks Senior Luau Fred Rowe 2012-09-19 00:00:00Z 0
Posted by Keith Walter on Sep 14, 2012
By almost any measure the 7th Annual Chicken Festival on Saturday was a huge success with over 12,000 people estimated to have attended. Many Rotarians contributed to this years' festival including Shelley Mathews, Bob Walters, and Dan Smallhouse. Dan reported that gross sales at both Rotary booths exceeded $5,000 this year - congratulations and thanks to the many volunteers who made this possible.
Fair Oaks Chicken Festival Keith Walter 2012-09-15 00:00:00Z 0
One Rotarian in a Tent Equals Camping
Steve Hoverman, celebrating a birthday, put up a tent. The rest of us were in other structures. But if Maggie says it's camping, then it's camping. We swam, played "games" of Maggie's devising, made s'mores, and violated the 10 pm quiet time. To see all the ugly details, click here.
One Rotarian in a Tent Equals Camping Fred Rowe 2012-08-19 00:00:00Z 0
Relay For Life--- We Did It!
For those of you who missed it, the Fair Oaks Rotary achieved its fundraising goal of $3,000 for this years Relay For Life. As usual, we made our fun-raising goal also. And I think we were one of the few teams to keep someone on the track for all 24 hours... did someone check those Interactors between midnight and 3 am? For photographic proof, click here.
Relay For Life--- We Did It! Fred Rowe 2012-08-12 00:00:00Z 0
Rotarians At Work in Phoenix Park
On Saturday, July 14, Rotarians from the Rotary Club of Fair Oaks worked at Phoenix Park as part of the Fair Oaks Rec and Park Dept's My Park Day. If you don't think the park looks more spiffy as a result, click here to check out actual photographic proof.
Rotarians At Work in Phoenix Park Fred Rowe 2012-07-14 00:00:00Z 0
Latest from the Literacy Project
Posted by Debra Price on Jul 11, 2012
Donations of children's books needed...
Latest from the Literacy Project Debra Price 2012-07-12 00:00:00Z 0
Madison Avenue - Clean Again
Bella Vista Interactors
(and a few Rotarians)
Beautify Madison Avenue... again
Just like every three months, Madison Avenue in front of Bella Vista High School is CLEAN, thanks to the Bella Vista Interact Club and the Rotary Club of Fair Oaks. Usually the trash is on the ground, but these two seem to have located some in a tree. For a look at the whole crew and a more standard trash pick-up technique, click the little blue "More..."
Madison Avenue - Clean Again Fred Rowe 0
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Shakespeare goes open air at Sheffield’s new Amphitheatre
Sheffield’s newest open-air events space is set to welcome Shakespeare in a series of performances this summer.
GB Theatre Company will take to the stage, or rather the grass, this August at the new Amphitheatre, Sheffield’s South Street Park.
The touring company will perform two epic pieces of Shakespeare’s work – The Tempest and The Taming of The Shrew, with a series of performances between Wednesday 1 and Saturday 4 August.
These will be the first performances at the open–air Amphitheatre which overlooks Sheffield. The Amphitheatre is a stunning theatrical location cut into the hillside above Sheffield’s main station. It has echoes of Ancient Greece overlooking the Steel City.
Barrie Palmer, company director at GB Theatre Company said:
“We are delighted to be performing William Shakespeare’s epic play The Tempest and the hilarious comedy The Taming of the Shrew in such wonderful surroundings. The amphitheatre is a glorious new venue overlooking the Steel City and a treat for us to perform here. What better way to experience live theatre than in this fabulous setting with the city lights as a backdrop.”
The cast of outstanding professional actors are directed by Jenny Stephens (director of BBC Radio 4’s The Archers) and Jack Shepherd (of ITV’s Wycliffe fame).
The performances in Sheffield are part of a wider GB Theatre Company tour of the UK, visiting Reading, Bristol, Norwich, Chepstow, Suffolk, Warwick, Cornwall, London and West Sussex as well as Sheffield.
Tickets are £15 each or £12 for concessions. Tickets are available online from the GB Theatre Company at http://gbtheatrecompany.com/bookings/ Sheffield Theatres at www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk, or the Sheffield Theatres Ticket Office: Crucible Theatre Box Office, 55 Norfolk Street, Sheffield S1 1DA. Telephone: 0114 249 6000.
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‘Hospitals would eliminate variations in care if they worked more like supermarkets’
Petra Kendall-Raynor
Posted 29 August 2018 - 12:21
Salford Royal chief executive believes group working would help standardise care
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A supermarket-style operational model could be the key to improving failing hospitals, said the head of one of England’s highest-rated trusts.
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust chief executive Sir David Dalton said hospitals should work in groups to implement best practice – much like supermarket chains.
'Too much variation'
He said care standards vary 'dramatically' across the NHS because organisations have ‘different ways of doing things’.
Writing in The Times, Sir David said: ‘We tolerate too much unwarranted variation in our health services and as a consequence the NHS spends huge sums on management consultants and expensive 'turnaround directors' in troubled hospitals.
‘Surely it would be better to encourage trusts in difficulties to join a chain, so they can learn and implement best practice.’
The idea of standardising care in the NHS is not a new one, with one initiative, the CapitalNurse programme, working to reduce variability of nursing training and care across London since 2015.
CapitalNurse programme
CapitalNurse director Chris Caldwell, said: ‘One of the core objectives of the programme is to reduce unnecessary variation in training for nurses beyond registration so that all patients continue to receive the same high-quality, evidence-based, patient-centred care wherever they are across the capital.
‘A good example of this is the 'systemic anti-cancer training' passport, which is provides a single approach to training nurses to give specialist medicines to people with cancer. This approach was developed and tested in London in collaboration with the UK Oncology Nursing Society and has now been rolled out nationally.
‘We have also launched a standard approach to training nurses in emergency care and a number of other clinical specialism are similarly in process.’
CapitalNurse was extended for a further two years in April.
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Charting a New Course
Converting this college campus to a Windows 2000 network has definitely been a learning experience.
By Melissa E. Lamoureux
It has taken Windows 2000 well over a year to arrive in the Office of Information Technologies' (OIT) Personal Computing Classroom Operations' (PCCO) computing classrooms and labs here at University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The delay didn't exist because we didn't think Win2K was neat or that we were blissfully contented with the features of Windows NT 4.0-far from it. Until this summer, we just had a lot of legacy applications and hardware to contend with that made Win2K Professional and Server's chances of being implemented in our public areas prior to now about equal to a snowball's chance in hell.
PCCO has been using Win2K Professional on our staff machines since the early summer of 2000 and so far, we've generally been impressed by its overall stability and compatibility with the myriad applications we're using. From the day of its release, however, it was apparent that experimenting with Win2K Server live (on the network) in any of our labs would be out of the question due to the Unix-based Kerberos, DHCP, and DNS infrastructure we had on campus. Until all the bugs were worked out and an Active Directory infrastructure set up to co-exist with existing Unix-based services, no group on campus would be able to randomly test a Win2K domain controller. Despite our enthusiasm, that also included PCCO. Other groups within OIT were working closely to integrate an ADS domain structure with the preexisting Unix DNS system. PCCO and I would have to wait until that was in place before we could begin to even consider migrating our Windows NT 4.0 network to Win2K.
By January 2001, OIT's LAN Support division had finally installed and configured a Compaq Proliant 8000 server as the ADS root server for the campus' ADS infrastructure. It now runs a new zone called ads.umass.edu, separate from the campus' Unix DNS-served umass.edu. This was done so the Win2K dynamic DNS wouldn't interfere with the preexisting and long-stable Unix DNS. LAN Support migrated the OIT Windows NT 4.0 domain to Win2K shortly thereafter and it became a child domain off ads, now called oit.ads.umass.edu. Once this was all in place, we were finally able to begin to think about Win2K in a more concrete and realistic environment.
The PCCO Win2K team is made up of Electronics Technician Benjamin Gagnon, PC Support Specialist Michael Friedman, and me. We started to work towards implementing Win2K in our classrooms and labs in earnest on May 14, 2001. It was only when the majority of the students went home for the summer and we were able to stop doing our usual firefighting that we finally had enough time to focus solely on our endeavor.
I installed Win2K Server on a DHCP-networked Pentium II/233 desktop machine before the semester officially ended. I updated it to SP1 and applied the necessary patches from windowsupdate.com. Once it was up to snuff, I disconnected the server from the network and gave the machine the static IP address 192.168.1.2. I proceeded to run Dcpromo, install and configure DNS and DHCP and configure RIS with Win2K Professional (in case we wanted to experiment with IntelliMirror later on). We've isolated our little test domain from the rest of the world so there's no worry about affecting the live campus AD infrastructure. The server is currently disconnected from the campus network and connected to a Pentium/166 desktop system via a 10 Mbps hub.
Week One, May 14-18
I began the application-testing phase this week by installing vanilla, plain-Jane copies of Win2K Professional and all our applications to test for compatibility with Win2K on the desktop connected to the server. It's not exactly a perfect setup: I'm using one of our old legacy Pentium/166 Compaq Deskpro 4000s. The idea here is to see if the applications run at all, not determine how well they run. That's for later in the summer when the new equipment comes in.
I've run into some small snags along the way, namely WordPerfect Office 2000. The product's Web site says there are service packs to remedy some of the issues, but it didn't take long once I discovered its problems for PCCO to decide to upgrade to WordPerfect Office 2002 for the fall so we wouldn't have to mess with service packs and patching issues. I'll be the last one to complain. AI Squared's ZoomText Xtra 7.06 also has one particular hang up: it takes out the system's video driver once any of the upgrade patches for 7.0 are applied and renders the system unbootable. That's always a nice feature to have in an application. These two packages notwithstanding, it appears as though the rest of our applications, including some critical legacy DOS-based apps, will work under Win2K. Whew.
Week Two, May 21-25
When our users log into our current NT 4.0 classrooms and labs, their user accounts authenticate against a Unix-based MIT Kerberos realm maintained by OIT's Network Support Services division (OIT has a lot of divisions) via an in-house add-on login program called UMAccess. We use UMAccess to overlap the Windows login dialog box. Once they're authenticated, the system then logs them in using a default Windows account with a roaming mandatory profile. (In other words, all users in a lab physically use one account to access our resources once authenticated by Kerberos with their own personal usernames and passwords.) This summer we're hoping to implement true roaming profiles for all 30,000 users on campus. To do this, we must try to get our Win2K AD to coexist comfortably with our campus Kerberos realm. This week we're trying to follow Microsoft's Step-by-Step Interoperability Guide on our little test network. We've set up a FreeBSD system running Kerberos v5 on another Compaq Deskpro 4000 and have begun our attempts at setting up a trust between the Kerberos realm and our Win2K AD domain.
By the end of the week, despite following the interoperability guide, we haven't been able to get it working yet. One possible problem is that our domain and realm aren't of the same domain name structure (the AD domain is called ferrettech.edu and the realm is called pcco.umass.edu). We've got calls into Microsoft and newsgroup posts to microsoft.public.win2000.security. So far, it feels like we're chasing our tails.
Week Three, May 28-June 1
We have yet to get the Kerberos interoperability working yet, despite renaming the Kerberos realm kerberos.ferrettech.edu. We have a call into Microsoft Premier Support and even they are stumped as to why we can't get it all working. According to the logs, the encryption type being used isn't supported. We've sent them our krb5.conf and kdc.conf and everything looks fine to them. We've attempted to set the default encryption type to DES-CDC-MD5 as suggested, but somewhere DES-CDC-CRC is slipping in through the cracks and the Win2K Server keeps spitting it back at us saying the encryption type isn't supported. We're chalking it up to unreliable installations of FreeBSD and Kerberos v5 since we've fiddled with several of the settings, renamed the realm (twice), and none of us are Kerberos experts. The situation is almost akin to the three of us driving to Bradley International Airport, hopping into the cockpit of a Boeing 747, and trying to fly it to Redmond after flying around in Microsoft Flight Simulator for a few hours. I'm sure we could figure out how to get the bird into the air, but landing it might be a little tricky. A little information may get you started on something, but it by no means certifies you as an expert.
We've figured out a workaround to our Kerberos dilemma. We'll import all the campus usernames from our Oracle database into our AD. From there, UMAccess will do as it's always done (authenticate the user's username and password against the Kerberos realm). Now, instead of logging in as one specific user for the whole lab (via the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\DefaultUserName registry key), it will pass into that registry key the username entered by the user. The program will then create a password based on the username, using a hash algorithm. Once it has both, the user will log into the Win2K domain and we'll have what we hope will be fully functional roaming profiles. Essentially, the users will never know their Win2K domain passwords. Michael is taking on the task of getting this to work. (I wish him luck; my idea of hash has corned beef in it.)
Week Four, June 4-8
Now that we've stopped playing around with Kerberos, the main focus of our attention has been forcibly wrenched from Win2K to deal with another mini-project: building images for student staff machines. No matter how big or important the summer project, there's usually a smaller one that needed to be finished yesterday waiting in the wings to pounce on you. We've taken this opportunity to explore some of Norton Ghost's remote capabilities to see if it might be of use to us in our computer labs this fall. We like what we see so far with the use of the Ghost remote boot partition. The term Cushy Chair Administration flows freely...
Week Five, June 11-15
I've been out sick most of this week. Mike and Ben devoted most of their time to other ongoing projects within PCCO while I was out, most notably dealing with the imaging of the student staff machines and firefighting other miscellaneous problems as they cropped up.
Week Six, June 18—22
Yet another week out sick again for me. Once again, Mike and Ben devoted most of their time to other ongoing projects within PCCO. It always seems like you get sick at the least convenient time. I don't get sick all winter and now I have to get sick in the middle of summer when we have probably our biggest project of the year on our hands.
Additionally, the enterprise admins are all in Atlanta at a tech conference this week, so we have to wait for them to return to discuss our plans for our AD setup. For the most part, weeks five and six are a wash.
Week Seven, June 25-29
This week Mike, Ben, and I are in a weeklong Win2K course sponsored by Microsoft University Relations. We've been able to throw a lot of questions at the instructor in regards to our plans for our labs and how to implement certain features of Win2K. Although we haven't gotten any hands-on work done in our labs, this week has been wonderfully beneficial in cramming our little heads with lots of information about group policies and domain replication.
We were finally able to pin down LAN Support to discuss our plans for AD. Initially, their plan was to have us exist in the OIT Win2K domain within our own OU called PCCO. However, that was before they knew we were considering having 30,000 user accounts in that OU. It's been agreed that we'll have our own domain, a child domain of OIT. Mike, Ben, and I are hoping we can really make this work. Other groups on campus are watching our lead to see if we can implement roaming profiles for all of our users. No pressure.
Week Eight, July 2-6
Week eight has been spent mainly hashing out our plans down to the finest detail. By the end of week eight, we're now the proud administrators of four bouncing Compaq Proliant ML370s running Win2K Server. We saved ourselves a HUGE chunk of time by looking into unattended installations using Setup Manager. This was the first hands-on work any of us have had on unattended installations outside a Microsoft class environment. None of the servers are DCs yet; although we've hashed out our plans with the enterprise admins, we need to schedule a time for them to come over and add our domain to the campus AD. In the meantime, we'll keep planning and making sure we have something concrete to go on before we dive into the wonderful world of AD.
Week Nine, July 9-13
One of the enterprise admins from LAN Support joined us at the beginning of the week and added one of our servers as the first DC for a new domain called classrooms.oit.ads.umass.edu (thank you, Microsoft, for adopting the FQDN naming scheme for domains. Really.) The campus AD is currently only using one DNS server running on umaadsroot.ads.umass.edu. The guys from LAN Support discovered at the conference that this wasn't the most optimal setup for the campus, so eventually each domain will be running its own instance of DNS Server for its individual domain. Right now, however, we'll continue to use the single DNS server on umaadsroot.
Now that our domain is in place, we have started to install Win2K Professional on three flavors on Compaq Deskpro minitowers we have in our fleet. Each one has slightly different hardware. We have the DeskPro EP 450+ Pentium II/450 with 128 Megs of RAM and a six GB HDD, the DeskPro EP 600 Pentium III/600, also with 128 Megs of RAM and an eight GB HDD, and finally our newest DeskPro EN 733 Pentium III/733 with 256 Megs of RAM and a 10 GB HDD. We've used unattended installation scripts to install Win2K on each type of machine. Then I took a sysdiff snapshot of each machine and created a Ghost image for each machine. (Over the years, we've learned to cover all bases when it comes to building images. The one time you think everything's working is the one time everything blows up and you didn't make an image, so you have to start again from scratch.) We're planning to install most of our applications on only one machine and then sysdiff the changes to the other two machine types. Some applications won't sysdiff properly so we'll have to install them separately three times, but that's ok. If we can get the biggest packages out of the way, like Adobe Photoshop 6, SAS 8.2, and Microsoft Office 2000 in this manner, we'll have saved ourselves a lot of time.
Week 10, July 16-20
Most of the morning of Monday, July 16th was spent catering to the needs of our departmental NT 4.0 servers. Apparently over the course of the weekend, the SunOS/BoxPoison worm hit several of them. This, of course, sent us into a flurry of virus scanning and file deletion to solve the problem. It turned out to be a campus-wide issue. No rest for the weary.
By the end of the week, we'd managed to install 13 application packages onto the Deskpro K450+ imaging machine. We only have a mere 35 to go. We've installed most of them to a Dfs share called \\classrooms\apps. I sure hope sysdiff works properly because I don't want to have to spend another week reinstalling those 13 applications twice (one for each additional system type). At least the biggest applications are now out of the way.
As of this writing, we're about to start week 11. We still have a ways to go. We have plenty more applications to install and we haven't even finalized how we're going to implement our Group Policy Objects. Assuming nothing catastrophic happens (the campus fiber network goes down, UMass/Amherst gets mistaken for NORAD as a primary missile target by some agitated Third-World country, junk food gets outlawed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,) we're hoping to have all the applications done by mid-week. Mike has started working on implementing the hash algorithm into our login program so it will be ready to test soon. Our servers seem to be running smoothly, even if the 10BaseT connection between most of them (they're all in one lab connected together via a switch) is frustrating at some times. (Note to the misguided: don't change file permissions on a 2 GB Dfs share while you're installing applications. If you're replicating out to six servers all at the same time, you might as well call it a day.)
With any luck, everything will go smoothly and all the labs will open on time, all the computers will work, and Microsoft won't release a service pack that will render a large portion of our computers paperweights. This fall we're looking into playing with Systems Management Server 2.0. We've got more projects to keep us busy than we know what to do with.
Hopefully, the three of us won't go batty in the process. Wish us luck.
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Topic Remote backup
Cloud backup strategy
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Off-site backup is a method of backing up data to a remote server or to media that is transported off site. The two most common forms of off-site backup are cloud backup and tape backup. During cloud backup, also referred to as online backup, a copy of the data is sent over a network to an off-site server. A third-party cloud service provider typically hosts that server, but an enterprise can also own it.
To start the cloud backup process, an organization can either send its data over a network or use cloud seeding to send a disk drive or tape with data to a cloud service provider. The organization then schedules and runs regular backups, typically through a web browser. The remote files and folders appear as they are stored off site.
During the tape backup process, data is copied from primary storage to a tape cartridge. For off-site data protection, an organization would then transport the tape cartridges to another location.
Disk is a preferred medium for backup because of its greater speed and access than tape. Tapes are now used more often for long-term archiving or disaster recovery (DR). Disk could be an option for off-site backup, but it is much less durable than tape and prone to damage in the transport process.
The historical "3-2-1 Rule of Backup" states that an organization should have three copies of data on two different media, with one copy of the media placed off site. Off-site backup is important in the event of a disaster, ransomware attack or other incident at the main data center. When such an incident occurs, an organization will recover by retrieving the backed up data from the cloud or tape cartridges. While local backup offers quicker access, off-site backup serves as a critical safety net.
The cloud is a prime target for SMBs to back up data in a cheaper and easier way. An SMB might also use an external hard disk drive (HDD) for its off-site backup. While it's easier to back up to an HDD, it's not as portable or durable as tape. Tape is usually more of a target for enterprises and industries such as media, entertainment and life sciences that need to store large amounts of data. In addition, an SMB usually has fewer resources than an enterprise to move tapes offsite.
Keys to implementation
In implementing off-site backup, an organization needs to be wary of cost, more so with the cloud than with tapes. Cloud-based backup costs -- which typically involve capacity, frequency, bandwidth and the number of users -- can escalate quickly. Organizations should conduct a long-term cost projection to avoid a surprise years down the line when the amount of data stored in the cloud grows.
A retention plan to delete backup data that's no longer needed should also be implemented. For example, pricing for Amazon Glacier, one of the cheapest cloud-based options and a common archiving platform, started at .4 cents per gigabyte per month as of September 2018. While that might sound cheap, it will cost nearly $5,000 per year to store 100 TB of data off site. In addition, costs associated with getting data out of the cloud can be high.
Tape backup costs increase over time as well, due to the price of additional media and the off-site storage.
Security is another consideration. For cloud off-site backup, data moving across the public internet to a cloud provider's server should be encrypted at the original location, in transit and at rest on the provider's server. Users must then verify that the data is the same as it was previously and not corrupted, and that it will be available for DR.
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Tape security is mainly referred to in terms of the physical. To limit the chance of tapes being stolen, an organization should ship them as soon as they're done writing to them, and then ensure that the off-site storage location is secure. A service-level agreement (SLA) will state who has access to the tapes and how long the recovery time should take. Like with the cloud, encryption is important. Linear Tape-Open 8 (LTO-8), released in late 2017, features the 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard as well as the write once, read many (WORM) capability.
Magnetic tapes are used to back up data.
Unlike with the cloud, drive maintenance is a challenge with tapes. An organization using tape for off-site backup must ensure the equipment undergoes proper, consistent maintenance or risk issues with performance.
One common approach to off-site backup is disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T), which writes a backup to disk, copies it to tape and then ships the backup off site. This process ensures a local backup with a quick restore time in the disk, plus a cheaper off-site backup copy on tape.
The distance from the primary data center to the off-site backup data center can vary by region. If an organization is in an area where hurricanes often hit, for example, the off-site storage -- on tape or in the cloud -- should reside outside the hurricane zone. If an organization is not in an area where natural disasters often occur, the off-site backup location can be closer but still far enough away that any incident at the primary location won't affect the secondary site.
Off-site vs. on-site
On-site backup, or local backup, provides quicker recovery points than off-site backup. If an employee deletes a file, for example, an organization can get it back in moments from a local disk backup. In addition to being on site, disk also offers random access for quicker recovery.
Retrieving data from the cloud or getting tapes back from an off-site location, on the other hand, can take a long time. Cloud recovery times can be highly variable. If numerous organizations are trying to get data from the cloud during a regional disaster and bandwidth is limited, the process slows down dramatically.
However, a local backup won't work for recovery in all scenarios. For example, a natural disaster that destroys a primary data center or a ransomware attack that spreads across a network will render most local backups useless. In those cases, off-site backup becomes critical to a business' recovery. If an organization has backup data in the cloud, it can access that information from essentially anywhere. However, in the case of a virus, it will need to verify that the backups are clean. Off-site tape backups are the most secure retrieval option in a ransomware attack because they are offline.
Tape is more durable and lasts longer than disk. The cloud can last the longest of the three, as long as the service provider remains in business and doesn't suffer an outage during the recovery time.
Common features to look for
There are many cloud backup providers in the market. Feature sets vary, so it's important to carefully analyze products, set up a comprehensive SLA and understand the cost structure.
Hybrid cloud backup, which includes cloud-based backup and local backup.
Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) that enables an organization to fail over into the cloud.
Data management. Many vendors are moving in this direction, offering more than just data protection.
File sync and share
Tape backup offers data protection features such as encryption, partitioning through the Linear Tape File System and WORM.
There are also several different methods for off-site backup:
Backing up data to the public cloud, such as AWS or Microsoft Azure.
Backing up to a service provider's private cloud, with online backup services in a managed data center.
Cloud-to-cloud backup for data created in the cloud that needs backup.
Taking physical media off-site; the most common option is tape backup, but disk drives are a possibility as well.
Off-site backup features a range of capacity, frequency, speed and cost.
LTO-8 tapes provide up to 12 TB of uncompressed data storage and 30 TB compressed. Tape is a good platform for unstructured data backup and today's massive data growth, as well as off-line protection from cyberattacks. The cloud can provide a seemingly unlimited amount of capacity, but costs rise dramatically as storage use increases.
Disk backup on site and cloud-based backup off site offer a higher frequency of backups than off-site tapes. Often, tape backup is a nightly process. In addition, transporting tape to an off-site location comes with its own risks, such as transportation issues.
Speed of recovery varies significantly. Disk is the fastest for restores. The cloud can be quick for a small amount of data, but retrieving a large volume of data can take longer than desired, especially if bandwidth is limited. It also takes a long time to access data on off-site tapes, but those are often only used in the most extreme DR situations.
Cost also fluctuates, especially within cloud backup. The cloud is cheap, sometimes even free, for a small amount of data. In addition, providers offer managed online backup services, taking some of the grunt work out of the process. Tapes require more responsibility on the part of an organization. However, cloud costs rise with time, and additional users, workstations and capacity.
An organization needs to test its backups to ensure they will work in the event of an unplanned incident. The cloud makes it easy to test backups, as a user can log in and open up a backup file. The tape backup testing process requires more manual, physical work.
This was last updated in September 2018
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From Michael Schur, executive producer of “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” “Parks and Recreation” and “The Office,” comes a smart, unique new comedy that follows Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell, “House of Lies,” “Veronica Mars”), an ordinary woman who, through an extraordinary string of events, enters the afterlife where she comes to realize that she hasn’t been a very good person. With the help of her wise newfound afterlife mentor (Ted Danson, “Bored to Death,” “Cheers”), she’s determined to shed her old way of living and discover the awesome (or at least the pretty good) person within. Directed by Drew Goddard, the Oscar-nominated writer of “The Martian.”
The cast includes Kristen Bell, Ted Danson, William Jackson Harper, Jameela Jamil, Manny Jacinto and D’Arcy Carden.
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Leveraging the System
How agencies can ensure the protection of people and property
By Troy Harper
For decades, public alerting systems have served as a critical notification tool for sending alerts to citizens’ smartphones, landlines and through broadcast channels. These systems have assumed even greater importance in recent years, due to more intense and frequent severe/extreme weather events, as well as more diverse non-weather emergency threats. From hurricanes and wildfires to active shooters, missing children and biological attack warnings, the need to keep citizens informed with accurate, realtime information is critical to protecting people and property.
On the heels of the Hawaii ballistic missile emergency alert “false alarm” and other incidents, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last year announced changes designed to improve the integrity, efficacy and reliability of the nation’s alerting systems. The updated FCC requirements for Emergency Alert Systems adopts revisions to the Emergency Alert System (EAS) rules and sought comment on further measures to improve the effectiveness of both the EAS and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA). Primarily, the items the FCC want to see in the Integrated Public Alert & Warning System (IPAWS) is secured logins, alert launch safeguards and a clear separation of the test environment from the live environment, including color codes for distinction.
WEA, as many readers know, is a public safety system that allows citizens to receive geographically-targeted, text messages alerting them of safety threats in their area. It was established in 2008 as a result of the Warning, Alert and Response Network (WARN) Act and was launched in 2012 and according to the FCC, the system been used more than 40,000 times to warn the public about impending weather, missing children and other emergencies, all through cell phone alerts.
The WEA alerts are sent through FEMA’s Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) to participating wireless carriers, who then push the alerts to mobile devices in the affected areas. Federal, state and local authorities have the ability to leverage IPAWS alerts to send messages within their own jurisdictions as well. IPAWS was created by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in 2006 to provide public safety officials with an effective way to alert and warn the public about serious emergencies and provide the public with life-saving information quickly. IPAWS is a modernization and integration of the nation’s alert and warning infrastructure.
For all of the benefits that IPAWS, WEA and public alerting systems can deliver, usage rates at the county/local level remain low. There are roughly 3,000 counties across the U.S., yet for a variety of reasons less than 1,100 of them utilize IPAWS. Given that IPAWS can reach the mobile phone of every citizen (who owns one), increasing the number of counties using public alerting systems will go hand-inhand with keeping more people safe.
Public alerting systems represent another tool in the toolkit that public safety officials should be using to protect citizens, alongside phone, text, social media, emergency sirens, etc. That said, the ability of agencies to better leverage public alerting systems and drive broader citizen participation comes down to acknowledging current challenges and following a set of best practices.
Public Alerting System Best Practices
As noted, county-level participation in IPAWS, in particular, is a work in progress. Fear of the “oops” factor if an alert is distributed (or not distributed) in error, the need for self-administered classes and training and commonly-held misperceptions about public alerting systems, in general, have slowed county uptake.
Extending the availability of public alerting systems to more citizens and maximizing the benefits these systems can deliver can be aided by following several best practices.
Complete IPAWS Accreditation Process
Emergencies take their heaviest toll on property and life when there aren’t effective communications that reach all audiences. The federal government released its strategic plan for IPAWS in 2010, and all government agencies can use the system for public messages in emergencies.
While qualified government entities can use IPAWS, they must first get accredited. To start, select an origination software provider that has an IPAWS Developer Memorandum of Agreement (MOA). Be sure your provider can launch alerts to employees and residents through voice, text, email, RSS feeds, website widgets, social media, and more, all from one interface.
Focus on growing citizen participation rate. IPAWS is a core but not the sole component of an effective emergency notification plan. The power and limitations of IPAWS demonstrate the need for a single initiation tool for all alert delivery channels as there will be circumstances when not all residents receive an IPAWS alert messages and no one solution hits every recipient on every device, every time.
By running ongoing campaigns to get citizens and government employees to sign up for alerts, you can increase the ability to reach more people during emergencies and severe weather. This is especially important in areas that have seasonal populations and higher rates of extreme weather events.
While IPAWS and FEMA’s Wireless Emergency Alerts are federally managed national notification systems that local communities can use, many also choose their own notification systems or those offered by third parties.
Use FEMA Test Lab. FEMA has put forth tremendous effort to work with local jurisdictions and the emergency notification vendor community to grow enrollment. FEMA outreach and support efforts have contributed greatly to the success of IPAWS and growth in system use. Counties and other local jurisdictions should leverage FEMA’s enhanced test lab program, where they can log-in and send thousands of test messages to the lab to ensure the Emergency Mass Notification System they use works correctly. The test lab is essential because jurisdictions don’t want the first time they use IPAWS or a new feature to be during an actual emergency.
Ensure integration with vendor tools. Even as the use of public alerting systems is trending in the right direction, many public safety officials are still unclear about how effective IPAWS can be when used in combination with their existing mass notification systems. There is uncertainty about what constitutes an imminent threat for a WEA alert and several other questions about the way IPAWS works.
Public officials struggle in how to best manage multiple alerting systems and the various methods of disseminating alerts. By integrating with the right EMNS vendor, localities can reduce the complexity with a single source tool that can provide for all five avenues of dissemination through IPAWS: the Emergency Alert System (EAS), Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), Non-Weather Emergency Messages (NWEM), COG to COG, and public alert feeds.
We are also starting to see increased innovation to enhance system capabilities. First, by incorporating the IPAWS tool as an embedded workflow in an existing mass notification system build, IPAWS becomes a delivery endpoint rather than a standalone notification - which means that IPAWS users could simultaneously launch single emergency messages without having to duplicate the process for both IPAWS and the vendor notifications. Vendors are also adding new mapping features that can show users anywhere in the country an active IPAWS alert has been issued and where it was. By doing so, counties and other localities can see how peers are using the system and become more educated on best practices.
Make sure vendor meets updated FCC guidance. In May of 2019, FEMA - IPAWS in collaboration with the FCC and broadcast/ cellular providers will be incorporating several new enhancements to the current IPAWS system. These new broader capabilities will allow public safety officials to reach more citizens with longer messages and in multiple languages. Several new event codes and new alert types for Blue Alert and Live WEA Testing will be added as well.
With all of these new enhancements coming to IPAWS, it is imperative to make sure that your IPAWS provider is one that will be incorporating all of these new capabilities into their IPAWS Alert Origination tool for your expanded use. Many of the IPAWS tools currently available to public safety officials across the nation are not in compliance with the IPAWS functionality requirements that are in place today. Whether or not they will become compliant with the current standards and/or incorporate the new enhancements should not be assumed, and investigated thoroughly. One should use caution when determining the best tool to secure that will allow you to make the full use of IPAWS and more importantly, one that will be your responsible partner in saving lives.
Test regularly after implementation. Once an emergency notification system is implemented, it’s important to make ongoing testing a part of the regular schedule as it provides organizations with insight on vulnerabilities and risks associated with emergency communications. This will help teams identify and try new methods to streamline message transmissions. Testing can also help the community maintain its awareness about how they can expect to receive emergency messaging in case of an emergency. Not only is it important for administrators and recipients to understand the system and the technology, but this is also about building their confidence in interacting with it.
Preparedness is key. Preparedness is perhaps the most important element of having a successful public alerting system because having a good plan in place is the best way to combat unexpected emergency events. This includes determining who has permission to send out different messages and having outlines prepared that include the purpose of the notification, succinct information and an outline for response options. A part of being prepared, ironically, is understanding that not every situation can be prepared for. Even when there isn’t enough the optimum amount of information available, it’s important to still send out notifications telling citizens to protect themselves but lets them decide on the best plan of action based on their individual situation.
Time is of the essence when alerting the public rapidly and accurately. Social media can be a valuable channel for reaching citizens, but it is also the source of misinformation that can derail public safety and emergency response efforts.
This article originally appeared in the May/June 2019 issue of Security Today.
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17th August 2018 17th August 2018
Richie McCaw has shocked the sporting community after an announcement from the All Blacks camp that he will be wearing the number 8 jersey in this weekend’s game against Australia.
After going into retirement in 2015, McCaw has had a lot of time on the sidelines, after speaking with his wife Gemma she has told Stuffed “He get’s bloody bored on the farm, rugby is his passion not milking cows and quite frankly with Fonterra’s milk prices at the moment, he needs to get back on the field!”
This will be McCaw’s first test for the AB’s after helping the All Blacks claim victory in the 2015 Rugby World
The All Blacks team has been named to play Australia in the opening Bledisloe Cup Test of the Investec Rugby Championship in Sydney on Saturday with Sam Whitelock to bring up his century of Tests.
1. Joe Moody (34)
2. Codie Taylor (32)
3. Owen Franks (98)
4. Brodie Retallick (68)
5. Samuel Whitelock (99)
6. Liam Squire (17)
7. Sam Cane (55)
8. Richie McCaw– captain (148)
9. Aaron Smith (74)
10. Beauden Barrett (64)
11. Rieko Ioane (16)
12. Ryan Crotty (37)
13. Jack Goodhue (1)
14. Waisake Naholo (19)
15. Ben Smith (67)
16. Nathan Harris (13)
17. Karl Tu’inukuafe (3)
18. Tim Perry (0)
19. Scott Barrett (19)
20. Ardie Savea (25)
21. TJ Perenara (45)
22. Damian McKenzie (15)
23. Anton Lienert-Brown (24)
Coach Steve Hansen said the All Blacks needed to step up to start well in this series.
“We’re all excited at what is shaping up to be another classic Bledisloe Cup encounter here in Sydney on Saturday night, I am glad to old mate Richie 1000 jumping back on the field” he said.
“We know that we have to earn the right to perform by preparing well and taking each moment that arises, and that mindset has been reflected in our preparation this week, which has been very good.
Hansen further added: “On behalf of the team, we want to congratulate Sammy on what will be a very special night for him and his family. We’re all very proud of him. He’s been an outstanding contributor to this team for a long time, both on and off the field. To play one Test for the All Blacks is an achievement in itself but to be good enough to be selected and play 100 Tests is a remarkable feat. In doing so, he will join what is a small group of very special All Blacks.”
Hansen also added: “It’s also great to have Brodie and Richie back after their lengthy absences. They both bring special qualities to the team and we look forward to seeing them produce that again in the black jersey.”
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Banko Cantina Opens in Historic Bank Building in West Palm Beach
Posted By : denise/ 672
New tri level Northern Mexican Cantina, Bar and Lounge opens in a former 1920’s Bank Building. Photo courtesy of Banko Cantina
Banko Cantina, a Mexican restaurant and tequila bar, proudly opened its doors this month at 114 S. Olive Ave. in West Palm Beach, FL. Originally home to the American National Bank, this 1921 landmark building was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1997. An era remembered for its unprecedented prosperity, glamour and fanfare, the Roaring 20s were also marked by prohibition, underground speakeasies, notorious gangsters and glorified outlaws – during which time tequila trade became a lucrative business. Banko Cantina and the second floor club, La Terraza, will restore the fervor that once resided inside the very same walls through its delicious food, creative specialty cocktails, hand painted walls and reclaimed wood used throughout the establishment – writing a story for the next generation to tell!
Chicago restaurateur Sam Sanchez co-owns Banko Cantina and is closely involved in its management. Sam moved to Chicago in the mid-1980s and oversees all facets of his restaurant business, including both operations and business development for John Barleycorn, Moe’s Cantina, and Old Crow Smokehouse. Sanchez was recently awarded Restaurateur of the Year 2015 from the Illinois Restaurant Association.
Eddie Estevez is serving as Banko Cantina’s General Manager. Estevez, a Miami native and son of Cuban exiles, joins Banko Cantina after serving for the last eight years as Executive Chef and General Manager of Cantina Laredo in Palm Beach Gardens and Hallandale. As a child Eddie lived in San Juan, Puerto Rico and Caracas, Venezuela and has also lived in New York and the Bahamas. He has his Associate of Fine Arts degree from Miami-Dade College and an Associate of Science from the Art Institute in Ft. Lauderdale.
I was invited to attend one of the pre-opening events in which we received a grand tour of the place and an awesome tasting of some of their signature dishes and cocktails.
The three level 13,000 square foot restaurant features a 3,000 square foot partially-covered rooftop bar on the third floor, with a 90-foot bar in the center, 14 foot ceiling, seating for 150, along with a kitchen serving lunch and dinner from a select menu. The restaurant’s second floor was designed especially for special events, including corporate events and private parties. A lounge, private dining space and 130 seats can be found in the main dining room. The restaurant also features 14 60-inch televisions throughout for sporting events. Banko Cantina’s interior includes elements of the historical building, including the original wood, used for the tabletops, as well as the chandeliers and tiles. Chicago artist David Bozic, who blends fine art with street-style, has begun hand painting his work onto the walls with further commissions to come where guests will be privy to watching the artist at work.
The restaurant features Northern style Mexican cooking and is inspired by Mr. Sanchez’ childhood in Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Mexican cuisine consists of many different regional styles, depending on the climate of the area. Northern Mexico’s desert climate supports a large livestock population that led to the region’s meat-based dishes. The ranching culture’s historical use of wood fire and outdoor cooking is what developed the distinct smoky flavors that are the foundation of Banko Cantina’s extensive list of locally inspired tacos, steak and mesquite-grilled skewers. And speaking of mesquite flavors, the cantina offers an impressive array of handcrafted specialty cocktails created by the restaurant’s corporate mixologist Enrique Cobos, who creatively infuses mesquite and serrano chili peppers into a number of their craft cocktails including two of the signature cocktails that I got to try: the Passion Fruit Sangria and the Adelita.
The beverage menu also features more than 30 varieties of tequila and over a dozen Mexican-themed drinks. Sanchez himself plans to host tequila chef tasting dinners as well as “tequila tasting 101” classes to share his knowledge of his favorite spirit.
Roof top bar and dining space. Photo courtesy of Banko Cantina
Banko Cantina’s second floor club, La Terraza, available for private events and corporate meetings as well as to the public on Friday & Saturday nights. Photo courtesy of Banko Cantina
Sam Sanchez, Co-Owner of Banko Cantina
Banko Cantino’s visiting Corporate Chef Manual Briseno
Visiting mixologist Enrique Cobos came down from Chicago to implement the craft cocktail program at Banko Cantina
Passion Fruit Sangria
I can’t even begin to tell you how impressed I was with the thought that went into the making of Banko Cantina’s interactive cocktail list. (Kudos to Enrique Cobos) Take for instance the Passion Fruit Sangria. Our server delivered the following instructions on how to partake in this cocktail, ” shoot it, lick it & sip it.” In other words, there was a tequila shooter resting on top in the jalapeño boat which we were to first shoot back, followed by the licking of the salt and chili-spiced rim, and then take a quick sip of the habanero-infused tequila and Pinot grigio sangria made with fresh passion fruit puree. It was genius. I could have shot, licked and sipped on these all night long!
House made guacamole made with just three ingredients: avocado, salt, and the juice from Serrano chili peppers.
Mesquite-grilled skewers Photo Courtesy of Banko Cantina
The mesquite-grilled skewers were quite impressive and were delivered to the table hanging from specialty metal stands suspended over a plate with a single slice of charred pineapple. Options include carne asada ($14); bacon-wrapped shrimp and chicken ($12); and vegetales ($10).
Adelita cocktail
Another interactive cocktail, the Adelita is made with Herradura Resposado, fresh lime juice, sour mix, Cointreau, Vida Mezcal float, salt and chili pepper rim. By this time, we were all pros on how to “shoot, lick and sip”.
Lobster tacos
The lobster tacos include a whole Maine lobster tail and were topped with Chef Manual Briseno’s own “secret” sauce. The lobster meat was wrapped in the most delicious char-grilled flour tortillas I have ever tasted in my life, I’m not kidding. I just couldn’t stop eating them! Sam has these tortillas specially imported from his hometown in Salinas Victoria, a municipality located in the state of Nuevo León.
Under the Traditional Plates section of the menu, you will find this seafood paella ($24) made with shrimp, clams, mussels, Andouille sausage, chicken breast, rice,and saffron broth. The flavors came together perfectly and was a lovely and tasty dish.
Pan de Elote
For dessert I was told we were going to have a corn bread cake. I thought to myself, corn bread for dessert? Oh boy were my taste buds in for a real treat! The Pan de Elote ($10) is made fresh daily in house and is a moist corn cake baked in a scalding hot cast iron pan for charred edges that deliver a smokey-sweet note. It was served with a house made caramel and topped with a little vanilla ice cream. It was really a unique and delicious dessert and one I would definitely recommend you try.
El Sueno
The El Sueno is actually accredited to Sam – something he concocted in his dream one night and hence the inspiration behind this cocktail’s name. Made with pineapple-infused 4 Rebels Premium Vodka, coconut cream, coconut water, lime juice and toasted coconut rim.
Banko Cantina is located at 114 South Olive St., West Palm Beach. Hours are 4 p.m. to close daily. Call 773-348-8899, or visit bankocantina.com.
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I send you delicious wishes, xo
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Confusion as Obasanjo is spotted at PDP event venue
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There was a mild drama on Friday at the Shehu Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja, the venue of the inauguration of the Peoples Democratic Party national convention committee, as former President Olusegun Obasanjo was sighted on the premises.
The former President was at centre to attend a programme on Agriculture while the PDP leaders were also at the same premises to attend their party’s event.
Obasanjo had on February 16, 2015, torn his PDP membership card, saying he was leaving the party for good.
Interestingly, leaders of the PDP rushed to pay homage to the former President when he was sighted at the venue.
The PDP convention holds in Port Harcourt on August 17.
Our correspondent gathered that one of the administrators of the building had alerted the PDP leaders of the presence of Obasanjo in the building.
It was gathered that as soon as the party leaders were informed about Obasanjo’s presence, they rushed out to greet him.
Among those that were said to have rushed out to pay homage to the leader of the party included its National Chairman in charge of the National Caretaker Committee, Sen. Ahmed Makarfi; the Secretary of the committee, Sen. Ben Obi and a former Deputy President of the Senate, Ibrahim Mantu.
The former President greeted them briefly and proceeded to attend the programme he had come for.
Leaders of the party had been visiting its aggrieved members with the aim of reconciling them with the now factionalised party but they had yet to visit the former President.
Members of the Board of Trustees of the party visited former President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja two days ago.
They had earlier visited the home of a former Minister of Finance, Adamu Ciroma.
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Review: Cross & Crown (Sidewinder #2) by Abigail Roux
Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5
After a leave of absence, Nick O’Flaherty is back at his job as a detective for the Boston PD. When he is called to the scene of a double homicide, Nick learns that there is a witness to the crime in custody which should make this an easy investigation. Instead, Nick finds that the witness’ injuries have resulted in a case of amnesia. The witness doesn’t know who he is and he is not carrying any identification. That the witness happens to be extremely good looking and drawn to Nick both helps and hurts in Nick’s attempts to manage the case and provide protection for the nameless man.
Adding to the stress of the situation, Nick’s boyfriend and ex recon partner, Kelly Abbott is visiting him for some necessary “vacation” time together. Living in two different states is harder on them then they had anticipated and their alone time is precious to them both. Kelly Abbott is in Boston to spend needed time with his lover, Nick. Kelly was responsible for Nick returning to work but he never realized how much they would miss each other or how hard it would be to coordinate their schedules to visit each other.
When Kelly arrives in Boston, Nick’s investigation has already become far more complicated than anyone expected and soon Kelly finds himself pulled into the search for the mystery man’s identification and something more ominous. Because shadowing their operation is none other than Julian Cross, a retired CIA hitman on a desperate mission of his own. Julian too needs their help and intends to get it any way he can.
All the clues point into the past…the United States Revolutionary War, Boston’s history and their own. As the situation threatens to ignite, all their lives are put in danger as various groups clash on the same mission. The hunt is on for the crown jewels and more. With the situation precarious, their future in jeopardy, and alliances uncertain, Nick and Kelly must solve the mystery of the missing crown jewels quickly before more people are killed, including themselves.
Cross & Crown is the second in the Sidewinder series from Abigail Roux. This series emerged from the popular Cut & Run series and Ty Grady’s band of brothers from his Recon unit. Over the last several stories, Nick O’Flaherty and Kelly Abbott have gone from the closest of friends to lovers to committed partners. It has been a wondrous journey for both the men and the readers who have been following the course of their relationship. Now in Cross & Crown, we get to see the men in the first stages of their new committed relationship, juggling their different work and living situations while in the middle of a murder investigation that turns into more.
One of the joys of the combined series is the growth and change the reader is able to chart in all the characters involved in these stories. Roux’s ability to maintain continuity between series and novels is amazing as her gift for characterization. While the details of the Sidewinders last mission is unknown, its long term effects upon the men we have gotten to know is not. The author builds upon the tragedies and personal implosions of Touch & Geaux (Cut & Run, #7) in New Orleans where Kelly almost died. Then continuing on through Shock & Awe (Sidewinders #1) and Ball & Chain (Cut & Run, #8), Abigail Roux has each story doubling the stress and strain upon these men and their lovers.
The first in the Sidewinder series, Shock & Awe focused on Kelly’s recuperation under Nick’s supervision and the beginnings of their love affair. Then the remaining Sidewinders, with the exception of Kelly “Doc” Abbott, are pulled away for one last mission, one that changes them all permanently. This thread of change flows through all the stories, no matter the series. Interpersonal relationships are shattered, others are formed, and everyone is in a state of flux. Some are those alterations in personality and behavior is revealed in Ball & Chain where PTSD and other issues start to reveal themselves.
Abigail Roux makes this time of disillusion and unbearable strain feel authentic and painful. Over time, the author has brought the reader into the intimacy and close knit ties of these men and it hurts to watch them flounder in the aftermath of a mission they can’t and won’t talk about. As Cross & Crown begins, O’Flaherty is still suffering from the effects of the team’s last mission (as is all the other team members). With the reader already heavily invested in Nick and Kelly’s romance (yes, I am making that assumption), their early relationship struggles will resonate with many readers as they try to manager a long distance romance along with Kelly’s adjustment to Nick’s easy PDA’s. Big issues and small, Nick and Kelly seem more and more like a permanent couple than men in the first stages of attraction and affection. Their ease with each other, their balance and equality of their relationship is wonderful. I love these two and here their partnership deepens as they work through their disagreements and insecurities that still remain.
Another marvelous element in Cross & Crown was the reappearance of Julian Cross. I have obsessed over that character since his story, Warrior’s Cross. Afterward Julian and his lover, Cameron, made other appearances in the Cut & Run series, always to marked explosions amidst tumultuous events. To have Julian and Cameron back is something to be celebrated! I can never get enough of these two and although this might be the last we see of them, I love that we got them in one last story.
There is never a dearth of ingratiating or intriguing characters in an Abigail Roux stories and Cross & Crown is chock full of them. This includes the dubious characters from O’Flaherty’s upbringing and those of the archaeological and pharmaceutical factions in Boston. Each character was built with care and attention to detail with regard to their profession, nationality and background. With layers upon layers for each person,they all came across as genuine and quite alive, from dialog to their backgrounds and even locale. This author does this sort of thing so easily that you can take it for granted as you read through the stories. Only through meticulous research and organization does the hard look behind a story depth and cohesion seem as easy as it does here. If you don’t want to take my word for it, visit the author’s blog sometime for her visits to various story locations and background workups to see what it takes to bring the whole picture to life.
Am I a fan of Abigail Roux? Yes, I am and these two series are ample reasons why. So many pluses inherent in this story. The historical workup and investigation is absorbing and terrific. I loved the growth in the love and deepening relationship between Nick and Kelly as well as the painful loss of closeness between Ty and Nick. It’s a neat development to see the Ty Grady/Nick O’Flaherty relationship from Nick’s viewpoint instead of Ty’s. And yes, Zane makes a fleeting yet important appearance here, even if it is over the phone. As with all the stories recently, there are big changes in store for all the characters at the end of the book. Nothing is settled except their love for each other, that is the given and the constant.
I will admit it is hard for me as a reviewer to remain objective about this and it’s connected series, Cut & Run. I have read and followed these men and their stories from the beginning and have invested so much emotion in their love and relationship growth. How will someone new to the series and lacking any sense of context feel about the Sidewinders if they haven’t read the other stories? That is a question much harder to answer. I bring all the knowledge and background of Cut & Run with me unthinkingly to this story and the Sidewinder series. But if you are new to Nick and Kelly, you are lacking a wealth of information and an almost collective group of affections built up over time and stories.
To you, the new reader, this might seem a little confusing in some of the character histories and lacking in the mens backstory. How these men are connected, what their interpersonal relationships and backgrounds mean to the reader and each other might be hard to grasp here. I get that too. But it doesn’t need to be. There is a whole shelf of books waiting for you to discover them and the men inside the covers. Start with the first of the Cut & Run stories written, include Warrior’s Cross among them. Then continue on to the Sidewinder books listed below. I recommend them all along with Cross & Crown. You will fall in love with these complicated sexy men and their stories. Don’t miss out on a single one.
Cover artist for Cross & Crown is the amazing L.C. Chase
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Book Details: ebook, 225 pages
Published June 9th 2014 by Riptide Publishing (first published June 7th 2014)
original titleCross & Crown
edition languageEnglish
url http://www.riptidepublishing.com/titles/cross-and-crown seriesSidewinder #2
Books in the Sidewinder Series to date in the order they should be read:
Shock & Awe (Sidewinder, #1)
Cross & Crown (Sidewinder, #2)
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On the Trail of Crown & Cross with Abigail Roux and her Sidewinders (contest)
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It’s that time! Nick O’Flaherty and his boyfriend and recon partner, Kelly Abbott, in an action packed adventure full of twists and turns and gunfire and perhaps, some even more surprising old acquaintances that need their help. Abigail Roux has done it again in bringing this fantastic duo to life and love in this latest Sidewinder story, Cross & Crown. To help celebrate, the author and Riptide Publishing has a huge contest in store for all as well as a scene cut from the novel.
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Cross & Crown (Sidewinder #2) Blurb and Cut Scene:
When Nick O’Flaherty arrives at the scene of a double homicide to find he has a witness to the crime, he thinks it’s his lucky day. But when he realizes his witness is suffering from amnesia and can’t even remember his own name, Nick wishes he’d gone with his gut and put in for vacation time.
Then Nick’s boyfriend and former Recon teammate, Kelly Abbott, joins him in Boston, and Nick finds his hands a little too full as the case and his personal life collide. The witness he’s dubbed “JD” is being tailed by Julian Cross, a retired CIA hitman. To complicate matters further, JD forms an attachment to Nick that Nick struggles not to respond to as they search for the key to JD’s identity.
Trying to determine whether JD is friend or foe as they investigate the crime puts them on the trail of a much older mystery. When multiple attempts are made on their lives, Nick is forced to turn to old enemies and new allies to solve a centuries-old crime before he and Kelly get added to the history books.
You can order Cross & Crown directly from Riptide.
Cut scene from the book:
Nick was silent as he looked out on the moonlit fields. They were peaceful now, but it seemed there were echoes of gunfire and cannon blasting, bayonets clashing, men and horses screaming in fear and pain.
“It doesn’t really matter why, or how history writes it down,” Nick said. “The only thing that matters is that every man out there believed in what he was doing. He was standing on this ground, willing to take a bullet fired by his brother, to protect something he thought was worth dying for. That country. That king. That ideal. That land back home. That flag. That man leading him. That man standing beside him.” Nick’s voice filled with emotion and he lowered his head. “The burden of death and bravery in places like this is heavy. I’ve always been able to feel it. Someone should feel it.”
Even if Kelly hadn’t already felt the power of this place, it came through clearly in Nick’s voice. It was holy ground, in its own way, bearing the gravity of the past up in what were now wild green pastures dotted with stone and tourists. The agony of it. The struggle. And Nick believed the same as those men, felt it down to his bones. Call it patriotism. Heroism. Integrity. Honor. That indefinable something that had driven so many men to die for something they felt more important than life also lived inside Nick. It had lived inside their team. And if what he believed in was threatened, he’d do the same as they had done; die defending it.
Kelly’s chest constricted as he looked at Nick’s profile in the moonlight. He had never believed that men like this still existed, not until he’d met Sidewinder.
Nick’s breath billowed in front of him in the cold. His eyes were taking in the battlefield, seeing things Kelly couldn’t see, remembering things Kelly had lived with him. Kelly swallowed hard and set one hand lightly on Nick’s shoulder. He couldn’t think of anything to say, so he didn’t speak at all.
Abigail Roux was born and raised in North Carolina. A past volleyball star who specializes in sarcasm and painful historical accuracy, she currently spends her time coaching high school volleyball and investigating the mysteries of single motherhood. Any spare time is spent living and dying with every Atlanta Braves and Carolina Panthers game of the year.
Abigail has a daughter, Little Roux, who is the light of her life, a boxer, four rescued cats who play an ongoing live-action variation of Call of Duty throughout the house, a certifiable extended family down the road, and a cast of thousands in her head.
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ebook, 225 pages
urlhttp://www.riptidepublishing.com/titles/cross-and-crown
seriesSidewinder #2
Cover art by L.C. Chase
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ScatteredThoughts Summary of Reviews for November 2013
November really was such an extraordinary month for books. It almost makes me giddy with joy. I can’t remember when I last had more 5 and 4 star rated books as I have had this month. And their genres and plots ran the spectrum, from contemporary fiction to what I might best describe as fantasy horror, making this truly a rainbow month of great books by outstanding authors.
There are quite a few books that are a part of a series and should best be read in order, while others are stand alone pieces of fiction, with one or two in between in that they are a part of a series but could be read by themselves. It’s all in the reviews which I have linked to each title.
The holidays are upon us and ebook gift cards are a wonderful way of sharing books with those we love. Make a list, check it twice to make sure you have the titles listed below on yours:
November 2013 Review Summary
*part of a series
5 Star Rating:
Corruption by Eden Winters*, contemporary
Encore by Shira Anthony*, contemporary
Lessons for Suspicious Minds by Charlie Cochrane*,historical
Shock & Awe by Abigail Roux*, contemporary
Sweet and Sour by Astrid Amara, contemporary
The Mingled Destinies of Crocodiles and Men by Eric Arvin*, horror, fantasy
Too Many Fairy Princes by Alex Beecroft, fantasy
4 to 4.75 Star Rating:
After The Fall by L.A. Witt* (4 stars), contemporary
Bar None Anthology (4.5 stars) mix of contemporary, scifi
Close Quarter by Anna Zabo*(4.75 stars), supernatural
Family Texas by R.J. Scott*, (4.5 stars), contemporary
Good Boy by Anne Tenino*, (4.5 stars),contemporary
How I Met Your Father by LB Gregg (4.25 stars), contemporary
Illumination by Rowan Speedwell (4.5 stars), contemporary
Long the Mile by Ally Blue (4.25 stars), contemporary
The Retreat by BA Tortuga*, (4 stars), contemporary
The Stars that Tremble by Kate McMurray, (4 stars), contemporary
Captive Magic by Angela Benedetti* (3.75 stars), paranormal
Hat Trick by Chelle Dugan (3 stars), contemporary
The Blight by Missouri Dalton (3.75 stars), fantasy
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Review: Shock & Awe (Sidewinder #1) by Abigail Roux
Rating: 5 stars out of 5
After being shot in New Orleans, Sidewinder medic Kelly Abbott has returned home to his cabin in Colorado with fellow Sidewinder Nick O’Flaherty joining him to help him in his recovery. Kelly and Nick, bonded through their years together as part of a Marine Force Recon team, have always loved each other like brothers but past confessions and the recent events in New Orleans has Kelly thinking past brotherly bonds into something far more intimate and sexual. During a quiet moment at the cabin Kelly asks Nick to kiss him and is surprised when Nick does. But the kiss turns into something unexpected for each man…its deep, and warm and overwhelmingly sexual, and leaves Nick and Kelly wanting more.
That one kiss leads to others and only the reality of Kelly’s wounds keep the men from more. Confused, Kelly and Nick try to examine their feelings not only towards each other but about a deeper commitment outside their band of brothers. But the past has a way of intruding on the Sidewinders, pulling them towards danger and an uncertain future. Can Nick and Kelly find their way through their confusion and doubts before they are called to duty once more?
Abigail Roux is killing me here. I am still trying to recover from the events of Touch & Geaux (Cut & Run #7) when Roux starts a new series about the Sidewinders, the Marine Recon group that Ty Grady is a part of, and has me in tears all over again. But I am getting ahead of myself and this review.
Shock & Awe, the titles continuing in the tradition the author started in the Cut & Run series, is an expansion series into the tight band of brothers Abigail Roux introduced in the Cut & Run series. We met the various members of the Sidewinders as they came to visit Ty Grady in Baltimore and through appearances made in several of the Cut & Run stories. Nick, especially, was an important character in helping to understand Ty’s past and the close bonds of the Sidewinder Marine Force Recon Unit. Going too much into Nick O’Flaherty’s background would offer up spoilers for past stories but suffice it to say he and Ty have an unusual past history that is referenced here in Shock & Awe acting as an impetus for Kelly’s musings and startling request. And while the others members of the unit (Digger, Owen, and yes Ty) make an appearance, Shock & Awe is focused on Kelly and Nick. It starts shortly after the events of Touch & Geaux (Cut & Run #7) where Kelly was shot in New Orleans when all the Sidewinders gathered to celebrate a birthday.
The smaller, more intimate setting of Kelly’s cabin is perfect for the introspection and actions that follow an unusual request from Kelly for a less than brotherly kiss from Nick. Normally, Roux has a much larger canvas on which to place her characters and storyline but having one location lets the author (and readers) concentrate on the developing relationship and emerging emotions of Nick and Kelly. I loved this aspect of the story. The author had previously given the readers only a cursory introduction to Kelly while past stories made Nick an unwelcome intrusion into Ty and Zane’s relationship. Now both characters get to stand on their own and this story turns them into the remarkable men that Roux had always intended us to see them as. I had no trouble at all falling in love with both of them. Here is a little window into their close relationship. They have just arrived at Kelly’s cabin and are getting settled:
Kelly made a derogatory sound and closed his eyes again. Nick pulled away, then gently covered him with the sheet.
Kelly may have been the corpsman, but Nick had always been the caretaker of the group. He’d been a wingman, fall guy, sounding board, and alibi. He’d been mother, father, big brother, and crazy uncle. Whatever they’d needed. He’d always been the one who’d made sure all the Sidewinder ducks were in a row, and he was probably the sole reason the house they’d all shared in Jacksonville hadn’t burned down.
It was so odd to think back on all those years and know that Nick had been hiding part of himself he thought he couldn’t share. It almost broke Kelly’s heart to think of all the secrets he’d spilled to Nick, all the things he’d gotten off his chest, but Nick had never been able to do the same.
And when Kelly’s heart breaks so does ours.
There is so much emotion, so many feelings packed into this story that I found it hard to believe it was only 92 pages long. It was just long enough for me to fall completely in love with these two and time enough for Abigail Roux to break my heart not once but twice before the story ends.
Abigail Roux has proven over and over in each of her stories that she has the ability to make us believe in her characters, their passions and relationships. She is also a proven master of the hidden agenda, cliffhangers and heartbreak. You will find all of those here too. Grab this book up and fall in love with Nick and Kelly. The second story in the series, Bait & Switch (A Sidewinder story) is located after this one and will have you gnashing your teeth as well as crying quite a few tears, especially as it features Zane and Ty as well as Nick and Kelly. This is a 2 tissue box affair from start to well…..just pick it up and starting reading.
If you are new to Abigail Roux and her connected series (Cut & Run and Sidewinder), it would be best to start at the beginning to understand all the relationships of the men mentioned. Plus you will find yourself with two new addictions. One is winding down. There are only two more stories to go in the Cut & Run series. I hope that Sidewinder enjoys just as long a run. Don’t miss out on these remarkable men and this terrific author.
Cover by LC Chase. I loved this. The green cover sets it apart from the Cut & Run series while the shamrock continues the tradition of a single object helping to tie the series together. Perfection.
Sidewinder series to date:
Shock & Awe (Sidewinder #2)
Bait & Switch (A Sidewinder story)
Cut & Run Series:
Ball & Chain (Cut & Run #8) Expected publication: March 15th 2014 by Riptide Publishing
Touch & Geaux (Cut & Run #7)
Stars & Stripes (Cut & Run #6)
Dine and Dash(Cut & Run #5.5)
Armed & Dangerous (Cut & Run #5) – by Abigail Roux
Divide & Conquer #4, Fish & Chips #3, Sticks & Stones #2, Cut & Run #1 – all of these written by Madeleine Urban and Abigail Roux
ebook, 92 pages
Expected publication: November 11th 2013 by Riptide Publishing
original title Shock & Awe
edition language English
url http://www.riptidepublishing.com/titles/shock-awe
series Sidewinder #1
characters Ty Grady, Zane Garrett, Nick O’Flaherty, Kelly Abbott
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Not What I Expected and This Week’s Reviews
So, there I was lying on the hospital table waiting for the fluoroscope to start up and the doctor to appear to give me an injection. With a very long needle. One the size of the Empire State Building. And of course, the first words out of his mouth are “well, this shouldn’t hurt very much” and my heart sinks. Because between you and me, I have a long history with that phrase (as I am sure most of you do as well) and it isn’t a good one.
I can remember various dentist offices and dentists themselves saying that just before annihilating my mouth in a frenzy of drills and numbing injections that never seemed to work. I remember vaccines and pops of cotton that, yes indeedy, hurt, even though the doctors swore up and down they wouldn’t.
And then there were the injections I received for rabies (8 of them at the time) that alternated sites, left, cheek, right cheek (not the face mind you), left arm, right arm, stomach…well you get the drift. Oh the perils of being a park naturalist. There have been ones for the flu, tetanus, and during anaphylactic shock, epinephrine. I have had ones for antibiotics and ones for steroids. Lots and lots of shots over time and always with the same result. Shot then pain.
And you know what? Each time, the doctor assured me it shouldn’t hurt very much. And each time it most certainly did.
Now I don’t have a problem with needles themselves. I even adore certain needles, like my mahogany knitting needles or knitting needles of any type. I also think the drag queen Sharon Needles is pretty darn awesome. I even have a certain fondness for sewing needles even though I am hardly proficient with them. They have repaired many a beloved teddy or tiger and for that I am grateful.
But medical needles, long, long medical needles? I think not. True they are necessary but I don’t have to like them and once more here I was waiting to be injected. But first they had to find the right spot….yeah, topical anesthesia doesn’t help there. And yes, I felt that needle going in…and in… and the doctor asked me…wait for it…did I feel it and did it hurt? He’s lucky all I shot him was a glare. Cause yes I did feel it and yes, it hurt. Argh. And I am not, repeat not a baby about these things and I have a high tolerance for pain. But yeesh….they need to find something different to say…cause I am telling you that has truly gotten old.
So here I am, my hip is throbbing. The doctor said I should feel better in a day…if the shot works. Sigh. Sometimes life is a crap shoot. Sometimes you role doubles and sometimes snake eyes. And by now I really should know to stick to the needles I like when given a choice, and leave the others alone. Because here is something I have learned over the years….when someone tells you its not going to hurt, run, run like the wind in the opposite direction, it’s going to hurt like hell.
Now for the week ahead in reviews. It’s one terrific book after another this week. There are two guest blogs on our schedule. One by the fabulous Abigail Roux for the release Shock & Awe. And the other by an author whose books have always appeared on my must read list, L.B. Gregg and her latest release How I Met Your Father. Added to that are two new books in series I just love, R.J. Scott’s Texas Family and Kate McMurray’s The Stars That Tremble and this will be a stellar week indeed!
Twas the week before the week of Thanksgiving…..
Monday, Nov. 17: Texas Family by R.J. Scott
Tuesday, Nov. 18: The Stars That Tremble by Kate McMurray
Wed., Nov. 19: Guest Blog by L.B. Gregg for How I Met Your Father
Thurs., Nov.20: Guest Blog and Contest by Abigail Roux and Shock & Awe release
Friday, Nov. 21: Shock & Awe by Abigail Roux
Sat., Nov. 22: How I Met Your Father by L.B. Gregg
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The Wonderful Mr Willughby quantity
Categories: Birds, Books
Tim Birkhead | 368 pages | 2018 | hardcover
Francis Willughby lived and thrived in the midst of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. Along with his Cambridge tutor John Ray, Willughby was determined to overhaul the whole of natural history and impose order on its complexity. It was exhilarating, exacting, and exhausting work. Yet before Willughby and Ray’s first book, the monumental encyclopedia of birds, Ornithology, could be completed, Willughby died. Now, for the first time, Willughby’s story and genius are given the attention they deserve.
In his short life, Willughby – and original member of the Royal Society – finessed the differentiation of birds through identification of their distinguishing features and asked questions that were centuries ahead of their time. His discoveries and his approach to natural history continue to be relevant – and revelatory – today.
With a fellow expert’s understanding and passion, Tim Birkhead celebrates how Willughby’s endeavors set a standard for the way birds and natural history should be studied. Rich with glorious detail, The Wonderful Mr Willughby is a fascinating insight into a thrilling period of scientific history and a lively biography of a man who lived at its heart.
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What are club drugs?
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Club drugs (also sometimes called Dance Drugs or Designer Drugs) are drugs which at one time were found most frequently in night clubs and at raves, but have since become some of the fastest growing drugs used by college students. These drugs include MDMA (Ecstasy, E, or X), ketamine (special K), GHB, and crystal methamphetamine(speed, crank, crystal, tina).
Ecstasy is the name for MDMA (3-4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine). MDMA (and its close relation MDA) are classified as enactogens, drugs that have stimulant, hallucinogenic and mood-improving qualities. It was originally developed as a diet aid. Before it was made illegal in 1985, it was used experimentally by mental health professionals in controlled settings to help people in couple's counseling. It began to be used illicitly in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Though Ecstasy use remains rare, its use among teenagers almost doubled between 1998 and 2001 and it is the only drug which has shown a marked increase in consumption in the college population with a 69% increase between 1997 and 1999.
Ecstasy is almost always swallowed in 60 to 120 mg pills. It is very infrequently snorted or taken in a liquid form through injection. The strength and contents of Ecstasy tablets cannot be known accurately. Sometimes these pills are stamped with symbols (like clover leafs, horseshoes, or smiley faces) as underground brand names or identifying markers. However, these symbols do not mean that a pill is pure or safe. All Ecstasy available on the street is produced in unregulated black market laboratories.
Ecstasy produces a euphoric high that lasts from 3 to 4 hours by generating a rush of serotonin and a smaller amount of dopamine, the brain messenger molecules that help to regulate mood. Serotonin is the brain chemical that many antidepressants regulate. Users describe Ecstasy as making them empathic, producing a temporary state of openness. Depending on its contents, Ecstasy can also cause mild hallucinogenic effects. Users report that the rush of serotonin is pleasurable and produces both an emotionally relaxed and physically exhilarated state. However, this extremely fast deployment of serotonin can deplete normal serotonin levels and produce depression or malaise after the drug wears off.
Are there short-term dangers of taking Ecstasy?
Pills sold as Ecstasy may not be Ecstasy at all. MDMA purchased on the street is frequently laced with other drugs like cocaine, heroine, PCP, or toxic chemicals like PMA and DXM, atropine, and rat poison. In a 1996 study of Ecstasy content, 19 out of 33 pills (58%) were found to contain less than 25% MDMA. Only 5 pills (15%) were more than 75% MDMA.
Second, users report a number of side effects, including:
Heatstroke (also known as hyperthermia)
Faintness
Teeth clenching
Day-after depression
Ecstasy raises your body temperature and heart rate. Combine this with hot conditions, the physical activity of dancing in a party or club, and not drinking water, and the greatest immediate danger of MDMA is heatstroke. Heatstroke (or hyperthermia) is the primary cause of death from Ecstasy. Someone taking Ecstasy should make sure to drink about a pint of water every hour while on Ecstasy, sipping, rather than drinking it all at once. Also, taking breaks from dancing on a hot dance floor to cool off is an important way to reduce the risk of heatstroke. Ecstasy-related deaths are relatively rare (there were 27 nationwide from 1994 to 1999). However, emergency room hospital visits are on the rise.
Ecstasy causes the release of norepinephrine, which increases your heart rate dramatically and can be dangerous for people with cardiovascular disease or weakness. Dehydration can also lead to liver or kidney failure. Some people report bad emotional reactions to Ecstasy including confusion, depression, sleep problems, drug craving, severe anxiety, and paranoia, sometimes lasting long after taking the drug. Using Ecstasy with alcohol and/or other drugs can increase the risk of adverse effects. Alcohol is dehydrating, too, and its depressant effects can mask the stimulant properties of Ecstasy misleading the user about how intoxicated they really are.
Finally, some studies have shown that people who use Ecstasy are more likely to engage in other risky behaviors such as binge drinking, cigarette smoking, and having multiple sexual partners. The use of Ecstasy and other club drugs can also lead to unsafe sex, the spread of HIV and sexually transmitted infections, and unwanted pregnancy.
Are there long-term consequences to taking Ecstasy?
Although further studies are needed, more and more research suggests that Ecstasy causes serotonin levels to drop below normal, which impairs the brain's ability to learn, retain information and regulate mood. It appears that Ecstasy causes serotonin receptors, which allow the serotonin to fire in the brain, to shrink from overuse. Some evidence shows that restoration of serotonin receptors is possible with continued abstinence from the drug, but that people who have never taken Ecstasy have more functioning serotonin receptors than those who have.
Other studies suggest that regular or heavy Ecstasy use has long-term negative effects on memory and brain function which go well beyond the last pill taken (and seem to continue to increase in spite of long-term abstinence from the drug). One study found that women are particularly vulnerable to damage to the serotonin system by MDMA.
How do I recognize a problem with Ecstasy?
Some danger signs are:
More frequent use
Needing more and more to get the same effect
Spending time thinking about using the drug
Spending more money than you have on it
Missing class or failing to finish assignments because of Ecstasy.
Making new friends who do it and neglecting old friends who don't
Finding it's hard to be happy without it.
If you find that you can't stop using Ecstasy, then remember, there's help available.
Is Ecstasy addictive?
Heavy users whose serotonin system is regularly depleted by the drug rely on greater quantities of the drug to produce smaller and smaller effects. Because your serotonin supply is finite, repeated dosing cannot provide a stronger or lengthened high after all your serotonin has been released. A study of young adult and adolescent ecstasy users found that 43% were dependent, and 34% met the criteria for drug abuse. Almost 60% of users reported both physical and emotional withdrawal symptoms. Frequently, though, Ecstasy users also use other drugs and alcohol and may be addicted to more than one drug simultaneously.
Is Ecstasy illegal?
Yes, Ecstasy is illegal and its possession, use, and sale carry heavy prison sentences and fines and disciplinary consequences at UCSC. See the UCSC University Policy on Drugs on the Student Judicial Affairs website.
How do I help a friend who's having trouble with drugs?
If you are concerned about a friend's drug or alcohol use, this page contains information about different ways to help them.
Resources at UCSC
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CAPS staff provides the UCSC community with a wide range of mental health services, including short-term individual and couples counseling, group counseling, crisis assessment and intervention, and referral services.
Resources in Santa Cruz
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Santa Cruz County's Alcohol and Drug Abuse help pages. If you think that you, a family member, or a friend has an alcohol or drug problem, you've come to the right place.
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The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. There are no dues or fees for A.A. membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions. A.A. is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy, neither endorses nor opposes any causes. Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.
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Self-help (non-religious) fellowship group for those who cannot control their marijuana use and are experiencing adverse effects in other areas of their life. No fee is charged.
Dance Safe
http://www.dancesafe.org/
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A Glossary Of Bread by Elizabeth Baines
A Glossary Of Bread
A story that explores a woman's restless childhood through the various types of bread she encountered.
Elizabeth Baines
BREAD: From Old English, in turn from Old Frisian, bread (OED), originally meaning morsel, or crumb (Clark Hall's Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 1966).
ROLL: A small individual loaf of bread, properly one rolled or doubled over before baking (OED).
Rolls. This is what we call them nowadays, any miniature loaf of any consistency or shape - a generic label on supermarket shelves everywhere in an age of mass distribution and multinational food corporations, the old specific local names deleted or displaced as national retail specialities. It's what Janey and I now call the soft round ones we are buttering for our father's funeral.
Time dissipates the meanings.
I lever them open and smear their yielding white insides. Janey folds them closed again on ham, which throughout our childhood our father banned from the house, but gave in and ate in the end.
The clock ticks on the wall, time catching in the throat.
We used to call them baps, says Janey, but we can neither of us remember where this was or when.
BAP: First recorded use late 16th century, origin unknown. A small loaf or roll of baker's bread of various sizes and shapes in different areas (OED, 1933); a large soft bread roll (Shorter OED, 1993)
Was it Rhyl? Where we landed up in the early fifties, too young at the time to think of them as the post-war years? We had left a world of green where the past looked out of framed photos with faces that were familiar and which people told us were like our own. The place of our grandparents, our mother's parents. Our mother's world.
Here where our father had brought us, there was concrete and neon. Here we didn't know a soul. Here was being adrift and knowing not just the strangeness of everything around you, but that of your own. Our father's world.
Here our mummy didn't go to church any more, not simply because she didn't want to, we guessed. Her smile was brittle. Daddy was brooding and silent. There was darkness, brown paint and shadow in our flat above the baker's, and harsh buffeting light on the flat breathless prom. A scary height from our window to iron pavement below.
This was the place where we started to cringe.
We waited with our baby brother's pram while Mummy went into the baker's. Piled up in the window were baps, if that was what we called them then: forbidden, too expensive for us, for people like us (though there weren't any other people adrift and inexplicably uneasy like us). Nothing for what they cost, mere crumbs. But not nothing: delicate drops, golden, dusted with flour, promising softness and warmth. Our mouths watered. We leaned our foreheads on the glass.
And then Mummy came out again carrying the loaf in its bag of cellophane with its ready-cut slices which tasted rubbery and cold, her smile too bright. 'Come on!' she cried, too brightly, and stuffed the loaf in the pram where it squashed and then bounced back again into shape, 'Let's go for a walk on the prom!'
And set off, and we followed, and her blue silk dress, handed down from a better-off aunt, lifted up and shivered in the agitated air, then flapped around my legs as I kept up at the side.
Bap. A plump word, a word with softness, but also the sound of something tapping. Did we take it there with us from the safer place we had left, an old English word from a comfortably anglicised vale of Wales, or did we pick it up then, like one of the pebbles thrown up by the storms onto that concrete-strangled Celtic shore?
BARA. The Welsh word for bread. We never took it on our tongues, which we'd stopped with our thumbs. We sat dumb in the lessons. In the evenings we were speechless and stilled as music outside sobbed from the arcades and we waited in fear for Daddy to come home.
And then suddenly, unexpectedly, we moved again, to a town in the English Midlands where the bread rolls went by a different name. Was this the place where they called them buns?
BUN: Late Middle English, origin unknown. A small soft round sweet bread or cake with currants (Shorter OED, 1993). Possibly from the Old French bugne, meaning a swelling produced by a blow (OED, 1933).
There were boys who threw stones because of how we spoke. We ducked the stones, we learnt to hear our own accents as strange, our names for things as alien and archaic, and quickly spat them out, forgot them, as no longer our own.
We were as foreign to our father as he was to us, with his silence, the mere crumbs of his history, the distant land of his birth he hardly ever mentioned, his failure to bequeath us a sense of continuity or belonging.
His eyes would glitter at us blankly. He would stay away for days and then the lights of his car returning up the drive would throw shadows like swooning bodies down the hall wall.
In the sparse cold house, we would come into the kitchen and find our mother bent over at the table weeping.
Somewhere else we lived, they called them cobs.
COB: Late Middle English, implying 'rounded' or 'head'. Origin unknown. A round-headed loaf (Shorter OED, 1993).
He hit me on the head, caught me a stinging blow on the ear. He was lashing out now, unpredictable, uncontrolled.
We kept away. We ran the streets, the blackened terraces of ports and mining towns, the tumbling tenements of a Scottish city; we joined the gangs, learnt the street games, sucked on sweets in the insular raucous haven of street-light glow, gobbled up the catchwords of each new place like chameleons snatching flies. Stayed out as long as possible, knowing that the longer we did, though, the more likely we'd be to get the stinging slipper or the biting cane or the burning snapping belt.
COB: Meaning also to strike on the buttocks with an instrument, as a punishment. Nautical, mid-eighteenth century.
To crush or bruise. Industrial, late eighteenth century.
Also: to get a cob on: to become angry. Slang, mid-twentieth century, origin unknown. (Shorter OED, 1993).
Whichever place it was we lived where they used the word cob, the term was specific, meaning precisely not a soft but a hard-crusted roll.
We got hardened. We got clever.
Muffins they called them in Glasgow. 'Do you want a muffin?' a new friend's mother asked me, and though I expected something like a crumpet (Shorter OED 1993: MUFFIN: a flat circular spongy cake of bread often eaten toasted), I didn't miss a beat when she handed me a plain bread roll. I was coming to revel in overturnings of the standard definitions, in the interchangeability of terms: the word bap turning up again, not this time as a name for small rolls but for the large flat breads which in yet another place were called oven bottoms. I loved the subversion of generic confusions, the fact that in some places bread rolls were called cakes.
Barmcakes, they called them, in that flat Midlands town where I finally rebelled.
BARM: from Old English, probably in turn from Low German, beorma: the froth on the top of fermenting malt liquor; yeast (Shorter OED, 1993).
BARMY: full of ferment (OED, 1933).
I was twelve and full of ferment, fizzing with possibilities, with a sense that no definition or state of affairs was ever set in stone, that all realities could shift, be challenged. I challenged him: jumped like a lizard out of the way so he flailed the air, answered back from a safer distance while he stood there wild, barmy, and though it meant I'd get a worse beating in the end, I was high with a sense of reality new-coined.
I said (hardly flinching) that I wanted to go to chapel. I didn't really, but a boy I fancied had invited me, and I was challenging all of my father's hegemony, which included, I had always thought, a ban on our mother's religion.
He didn't snap. He scowled, but he didn't bristle or glare.
Time dissipates the meanings. No definition or state of affairs is ever set in stone.
He said he wouldn't stop me.
I felt triumphant. I knew I looked it, and contemptuous. I saw him see it, and look away. His shoulders slumped.
He looked back up, his eyes white-hot. He said carefully, bitterly, almost sarcastically, that the last thing he'd ever wanted to do to me was blight my life over religion, the thing that had once been done to him.
Yiddish: broyt, from Old High German brot.
BREAD: a word which has passed from its original meaning broken piece or pieces through the sense of 'piece of bread' into that of bread as a substance (OED, 1933).
BREAD: The means of subsistence (OED 1993).
The Dog and the Sparrow
Children's, Age 7-12, Fairy tale by Brothers Grimm
A sparrow avenges her friend a dog, who is cruelly killed by a man.
This Is and Probably Will Be the History of the World
Fiction by Steve Finbow
* Story contains bad language
A man returns to a city from his past.
Fiction by Katherine Mansfield
A literary sketch of a bank holiday fair.
The Cubelli Lagoon
Fiction, Science Fiction, Humour by Fernando Sorrentino
In the southeast region of the plains of Buenos Aires, you might come across the Cubelli Lagoon, known as the "Lake of the Dancing Alligator
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The Seven Ages of an Entomologist – Happy 60th Birthday to Me
Today I turned 60 – an event which has come as a bit of a surprise to me as inside I still feel about 17 😉 I thought, given the occasion and the fine example set by Jeff Ollerton‘s recent birthday blog post that it seems a good time to reflect on my career in particular and academic careers in general. Despite there already being at least two other excellent articles about the “Seven Ages”, Jerry Coyne’s, The Seven Ages of the Scientist and Athene Donald’s The Seven Ages of an Academic Scientist, I felt no qualms in adding my own modest contribution to the genre 😉
Given my own career trajectory it turns out that I need more than seven ages, so as an entomologist I feel justified in adding five larval or nymphal instars to the traditional progression.
The Larval Stages
The Infant (first instar)
According to Shakespeare “mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms”, which spending the early part of my childhood in colonial Ghana is actually very apt,
although the photograph below shows a very contented baby indeed.
I have no entomological memories from this time, although given that then it was normal practice to leave babies outside in their prams, I am sure that I was exposed to the whole range of flying Ghanaian insects. There is some evidence of an early interest in nature and entomology in the picture below where I seem to be investigating a small white butterfly whilst indulging in some early forestry work.
My first real biological memory, is however, non-entomological, the blue whale skeleton in the Natural History Museum London in 1958 when my parents were on home leave.
The Schoolboy (second instar)
In 1960 my father was moved to Jamaica to work in the Department of Agriculture as a Plant Pathologist and this is where I started my formal education. Shakespeare describes the schoolboy as “whining schoolboy with his satchel, and shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school”.
I certainly had a satchel and it is from this period of my life that I have my first definite entomological memories. We lived in a suburb of Kingston, 32 Gardenia Avenue in Mona Heights. My father kept bees and I spent a lot of time playing with ants, conducting behavioural experiments with crab spiders and having close encounters with wasps and apparently in this picture from 1961, helping with my father’s very luxuriant garden; he grew a great variety of ornamental plants as well as fruit and
vegetables, including grapes, bananas, passion fruit, papayas, peanuts and breadfruit as well as coffee and more traditional vegetables. My final school report from my time in Jamaica shows a prescient comment from my biology teacher;
Secondary school (third instar)
My father’s next posting was to Hong Kong to work for the Ministry of Agriculture; his office was in the New Territories but we lived in Kowloon (Wylie Gardens) where I attended King George V School. Biology was again my favourite subject but apart from cockroaches and ants my entomological experiences were very limited.
Before braces – 1966
Keeping my mouth shut to hide my orthodontic appliances 1968.
Boarding school (fourth instar)
In 1968 my father returned briefly to the UK before his next posting to Fiji and I was sent to a state school, Ripon Grammar School, which had a boarding section. I was to spend five relatively happy years there and despite the competing interests of girls and sports, further developed my interest in invertebrate zoology, due in the main part to my zoology teacher ‘Brian’ Ford. I have many happy memories of pond dipping, searching for Cepea nemoralis and generally fossicking around in hedgerows.
When on school holidays in Fiji I found time to investigate the local insect and amphibian fauna; our house seemed to attract toads in huge numbers which my brothers and I used to competitively collect in buckets for later release.
Sixth form (final instar)
In my two final years at school sport and girls continued to play a larger part in my life than entomology although I see from the fly-leaf of my books from that time that I owned and had read both volumes of Ralph Bucshbaum’s Life of the Invertebrates and also Darwin’s Origins.
Ripon Grammar School 2nd XV – I am third from the left on the front row.
Careers advice when I was at school was not very sophisticated and if you did Biology ‘A’ Level and were a school prefect, it was automatically taken that you were either destined to be a Doctor, a Vet or a Dentist.
I was no different and despite my misgivings, duly applied for and was accepted at Birmingham University to read Medicine. As luck would have it, things did not work out as planned and after a less than happy year at Aston University in Birmingham, in 1974 I left Birmingham and moulted into a proto-entomologist at the University of Leeds.
The Undergraduate
The discovery that learning can be fun and that there might actually be a career in doing something that you enjoy.
I did a now extinct degree (although I have plans to exhume it), Agricultural Zoology, essentially a year of vertebrate zoology, with two years of invertebrate zoology, essentially applied entomology, parasitology and nematology. I loved it and thrived on it and grew my hair even longer.
I decided to become an entomologist in my second year and discovered the wonders of aphids at the same time. It was also round about this time that I decided I was going to become a university academic and started to work a lot harder; the logical end point of someone with a mother who was a secondary school biology teacher and a father who was a research scientist.
The Postgraduate
Discovering that being on “the road to find out” (Cat Stevens) is exhilarating
I did my PhD at the University of East Anglia in Norwich – Aspects of the Ecology of the Ecology of the Bird Cherry Aphid, under the supervision of Professor Tony Dixon. A totally fantastic time, despite the ‘second year blues’ which all PhD students seem to go through when they think that they don’t have enough data. I was lucky enough to be in a large research group, at one stage there were thirteen of us in the lab, so there was always plenty of help and advice available. In addition we had the excitement of conferences and the first unsteady steps towards learning to lecture, mainly demonstrating in undergraduate practicals; I spent a lot of time pithing frogs for physiology classes (don’t ask) and also tutoring first year students in mathematics. We also played a lot of squash and enjoyed our social life; for those of you who know Norwich, The Mitre pub on Earlham Road, was our regular haunt.
The post-doc
Discovering how to run a research lab
I did two brief post-docs, the first in Finland, under the auspices of the Royal Society and the
second back at the University of East Anglia funded by the Agriculture and Food Research Council, both working on cereal aphids. At this stage of my career I started to learn how to supervise postgraduate students; the first port of call in a busy lab after the senior PhD student has failed to supply an answer is always the post-doc as the lab head is inevitably very busy. I also got my first real opportunity to lecture undergraduates, which turned out to be a lot harder than I had thought it would be even when talking about my own research.
Interlude or host alternation
The Research Scientist
Discovering that directed research on its own is not enough
In a normal academic career, the next stage after post-doc is an appointment as a University Lecturer. In the early 1980s university lectureships were in short supply and many of us who would normally have gone into an academic career found ourselves either having to go abroad as lecturers at Commonwealth universities (I was offered but turned down a lectureship at Kano University in Nigeria) or joining research institutes. In 1982 I joined the UK Forestry Commission’s Northern Research Station where I spent ten years as a forest entomologist, answering enquiries, conducting directed research and giving the occasional guest lecture. I was however, lucky enough to be able to gain some PhD supervisory experience and after ten years, the last five which were increasingly frustrating, was lucky enough in 1992 to be appointed to a Lectureship at the Silwood Park campus of Imperial College. In retrospect this was the last time I was able to spend about 90% of my time at the bench and in the field doing ‘hands on’ research, but I have never regretted moving into academia – the opportunity of being able to pass on what you have discovered and hopefully enthuse and motivate a new generation more than makes up for the loss.
Back to the primary host
The Lecturer
When I discover that I love teaching
You may have noticed that I have had a haircut; it was a source of some amusement to me that on joining the university sector I was expected to get my hair cut.
I was appointed as a Lecturer in Pest Management to teach on the world-renowned MSc Entomology course at Silwood Park, and as I was replacing a specific person (Geoff Norton), although not in exactly the same subject area, my ‘grace’ period was shorter that it might have been. Normally at research intensive institutions like Imperial College, new appointments are given two to three years to apply for grants and get their research groups started before being given teaching and departmental jobs. I had a year, but as I discovered that I very much enjoyed teaching (something that many of my colleagues then and later found very strange) I was not dismayed. Unlike some of my colleagues I had read the dictionary definition of the word lecturer: noun. One who delivers lectures, especially professionally. I have never really understood the mentality of those who aspire to university positions and yet find the idea of having to teach students not only a distraction but in some cases abhorrent and to be avoided at all costs and strive to obtain funding to buy them out of teaching as soon as possible. Some of my senior colleagues at Imperial College (and elsewhere) had and have almost no experience of teaching at all and so have no idea of what is involved in delivering a decent course, a state of affairs that explains some of the very strange decisions that are made at some of the research intensive universities in the UK. I often felt that they would be much happier in a research institute.
I also discovered that if you take teaching seriously then your ‘bench time’ is much reduced and you begin your career as a research manager, appointing PhD students and post-docs to carry your research ideas forward. I made a decision early on that I would attempt to keep some of my skills extant and set up a long-term field project looking at the insect communities living on sycamores at Silwood Park, especially the aphids. This meant that I had to set a day a week aside to collect data. By doing this it meant that I had a reality check on what was actually possible. I have seen too many colleagues who because of the time they had spent away from the bench or the field, had totally unrealistic expectations of what was actually possible to be achieved by their students and research assistants.
The Senior Lecturer
When the Department discovers that I love teaching
In 1996 I was promoted to Senior Lecturer (I think that it is a real shame that some UK universities have decided to adopt North American terminology and introduce the title of Associate Professor, apparently to avoid confusing the rest of the World. At Imperial College promotion to Senior Lecturer was to reward teaching excellence and was usually the kiss of death for any further promotion.
Senior Lecturer in Applied Ecology
I was as well as teaching on the MSc Entomology course doing an increasing amount of undergraduate teaching including a final year course in Applied Ecology of which I was very proud, hence the decision to retitle myself. I was also very busy with external activities, being on the Editorial Board of the Bulletin of Entomological Research and just been appointed as Editor-in-Chief of Ecological Entomology, just finished a term on the council of the Royal Entomological Society and been appointed to a slew of Departmental and University committees. My research group was really starting to take off, I was supervising 8 PhD students at the time; given the poor return rate on major grant applications in the UK, I decided early on that going for PhDs was a better use of my limited time and this is a strategy that I have mainly followed to the present day.
This does not include MSc or BSc students – they would add about 10 to each yearly figure from 1995 onwards
When I discover that it is possible to get even busier
In 2002 I was promoted to Reader one of the definitions of which according to Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary is defined as follows; Old English rǣdere ‘interpreter of dreams, reader’. In the UK university system, it is the rank below full Professor and comes with an endowed title, in my case I chose to become Reader in Applied Ecology to reflect the
myriad teaching roles I had accumulated and also to encompass the fact that my research group no longer dealt solely with arthropods, vertebrates had somehow sneaked their way in. Looking at Athene Donald’s list I see that I was pretty much doing a professorial role, serving on external committees, validating degrees for other universities and acting as an external examiner. I was also appointed as Editor-in-Chief of Insect Conservation and Diversity, a new journal for the Royal Entomological Society. My administrative duties had also continued to increase. It was no wonder that my beard was getting greyer! I was however still preparing my own talks, although I will confess that a lot of my data analysis was being passed on to members of the group, duly acknowledged of course. I am extremely grateful that I have always had a loyal and very supportive research group, without their help life would have been impossible. My thanks to you all (if any of you are reading this).
Discovering the joys of being pretty much able to do what I want (with certain restrictions)
It became increasingly obvious that things could not carry on as they were, my teaching and administrative loads were becoming ridiculous; our Director of Teaching calculated that I was actually doing more teaching than anyone else in the Department including the Teaching Fellows. I was seriously considering early retirement although I was reluctant to do this as I was sure that with my retirement the last entomology degree in the UK would quickly disappear. Luckily in 2012 my team and I were miraculously offered the chance to move to a new more supportive location, Harper Adams University in Shropshire.
So now I have become a Senior Professor, with a new entomology building, with less undergraduate teaching, which I miss, and a role that requires me to sit on more external and internal committees, to meet the great and the good and to make solemn pronouncements. At the same time however, it does allow me to plough my own furrow and to influence university policy. Most importantly I no longer feel that I am beating my head against a brick wall and that the future of entomology as a degree course in the UK is much safer than it was five years ago. I think I am at Stage 4 in Jerry Coyne’s list as I now find that I am much more interested in synthesizing and disseminating what I have learnt rather than doing original research – I can feel a book coming on 😉
My hope is that in five years time when I become a retired Professor and my hair and beard colour are the same, that entomology will be taught at more than one university in the UK and not just at postgraduate level.
A small point of personal satisfaction, is that, despite my elevation, I still do not own a suit 😉
For reference
Jerry A. Coyne’s summary, reproduced from his blog
As student, listens to advisor give talk on student’s own work
As postdoc, gives talks about his/her own work
As professor, gives talks about his/her students’ work
Talks and writes about “the state of the field”
Talks and writes about “the state of the field” eccentrically and incorrectly—always in a self-aggrandizing way.
Gives after-dinner speeches and writes about society and the history of the field
Writes articles about science and religion
And the famous original from which the title is borrowed and adapted.
Seven Ages Of Man
(from As You Like It by William Shakespeare)
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players,
They have their exits and entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
Then, the whining schoolboy with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden, and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice
In fair round belly, with good capon lin’d,
With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws, and modern instances,
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper’d pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side,
His youthful hose well sav’d, a world too wide,
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again towards childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
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Kansas State Cabinet
The Kansas State Cabinet is part of the executive branch of the government of the U.S. state of Kansas. It has the appointed leaders of the Kansas state executive departments.
1 Current cabinet departments
2 Current cabinet members
Current cabinet departments[change | change source]
This article is part of a series on the
politics and government of
Governor: Laura Kelly
Lieutenant Governor: Lynn Rogers
Secretary of State:
Attorney General:
State Treasurer:
Insurance Commissioner:
Corporation Commission
State Cabinet
Legislature: Kansas Legislature
President of the Senate: Susan Wagle
Speaker of the House: Ray Merrick
Courts of Kansas
Court of Impeachment
Political party strength
Federal Relations
Federal representation
Jerry Moran (R)
Pat Roberts (R)
1: Roger Marshall (R)
2: Steve Watkins (R)
3: Sharice Davids (D)
4: Ron Estes (R)
The Kansas State Cabinet, under current Governor Laura Kelly, consists of the Lieutenant Governor of Kansas, the Adjutant General, the Superintendent of Highway Patrol, and eleven departments each headed by a Secretary.
Lieutenant Governor – chief deputy to the Governor, responsible for acting as Governor during the Governor's absence.
The Adjutant General – runs the day-to-day administration of the Kansas National Guard, including the organization, training, and preparation of the Guard.
Secretary of Administration – manages the Kansas Department of Administration, oversees many of the administrative areas of the state's bureaus and departments, including payroll, maintenance of public buildings, and information technology.
Secretary for Aging and Disability Services – manages the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services, and is responsible for programs affecting the elderly and people with physical and developmental disabilities, as well as addiction and mental health programs. It has oversight of the five state hospitals.[1]
Secretary of Agriculture – manages the Kansas Department of Agriculture, mainly a regulatory agency, oversees departments that protect and educate consumers about Kansas's agricultural and livestock productions.
Secretary of Commerce – manages the Kansas Department of Commerce, charged with the creation and retention of jobs, the growth of investment, the development of communities, the increase of per capita income within the State
Secretary of Corrections – responsible for corrections in Kansas, including state prisons.
Secretary of Health and Environment – the largest state department with two divisions Health and Environment.
Superintendent of Highway Patrol – oversees the Highway Patrol, which ensures safety on the state's highways.
Secretary of Labor – responsible for enforcing the state's labor laws, and for educating the public about these laws.
Secretary of Revenue – oversees the collection of taxes and administers the state treasury.
Secretary for Children and Families – oversees child care, child abuse prevention and welfare programs.[1]
Secretary of Transportation – charged with providing a safe, economical, and effective transportation network for the people, commerce and communities of Kansas.
Secretary of Wildlife and Parks – oversees the state's game and fish industry, regulates hunting and fishing licenses, and educates the public on safety relating to the outdoors.
Current cabinet members[change | change source]
The current Kansas State Cabinet, serving under Governor of Kansas Laura Kelly, is:[2]
Lieutenant Governor Lynn Rogers
Adjutant General Lee Tafanelli
Secretary of Administration Duane Goossen
Secretary of Aging and Disability Services Laura Howard (interim)
Secretary of Agriculture Mike Beam
Secretary of Children and Families Laura Howard (interim)
Secretary of Commerce David Toland
Secretary of Corrections Roger Werholtz (interim)
Secretary of Health and Environment Lee Norman (interim)
Superintendent of the Highway Patrol Herman Jones
Secretary of Labor Delia Garcia
Secretary of Revenue Mark Beshears (interim)
Secretary of Transportation Julie Lorenz (interim)
Secretary of Wildlife and Parks Brad Loveless
↑ 1.0 1.1 Campbell, Matt. "Kansas shakes up its social services system". Kansas Political News. Kansas City Star. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
↑ "Governor's Cabinet | governor.kansas.gov". Kansas Office of the Governor. Retrieved February 3, 2018.
http://www.kansas.gov
Kansas State Cabinet agencies
Adjutant General
Wildlife and Parks
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Jet Airways Bid Deadline To End In 5 Days
The deadline for Jet Airways’ financial future is only five days away, as various firms mill around with proposed bids for the wounded Indian airline, as reported by First Post.
The deadline for Jet Airways has been extended by seven days. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Jet Airways, once of the biggest airlines in India, has been on the financial backfoot since shutting down in April this year. It has had to dismiss most of its staff, cancel routes and let go of many of its mainline aircraft. Whilst many factors are at work, the key problem can be summed up as brutal competition with low-cost-carriers in the local Indian market place.
To put this in perspective, Jet Airways at its peak had 124 aircraft (ranging from small ATR 72-500s to large Boeing 777s), controlled 21.2% passenger-market share of India (after rival IndiGo) and even had landing slots at Heathrow Airport (which readers will know can cost well over a million dollars a pair). Now, it has only its smaller ATR aircraft remaining and has had to sell off its landing slots to debtors.
Since April, Jet has been looking for a new financial partner (or partners) to join it in rebuilding its empire.
The real victims of the airline are thousands of unpaid employees. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Who is interested in Jet Airways?
So far, Jet Airways has revealed that four parties have expressed interest in the carrier.
Whilst the exact list is not yet confirmed, Etihad Airways and Hinduja Group have been rumored to be interested. Neither has submitted a concrete offer yet.
And it would have to be quite a big offer, as the airline is in debt to the tune of $1.2 Billion USD. The majority of this money is loan interest to banks (who could be convinced to settle the outstanding debts rather than the company go completely bankrupt), unpaid leases for aircraft (which have been repossessed) and the most critical of all, unpaid wages.
The bankers who are managing the companies bankruptcy have made a point that their first priority is to release a month’s wages to all staff members affected by the crisis.
“On 23 July, NCLT judges VP Singh and Ravikumar Duraisamy, had asked Chhawchharia to discuss the salary concerns with the lenders. The tribunal said even if 100% cannot be paid some amount of the salaries have to be given as it is important for the survival of the employees.” – First Post.
Jet Airways Boeing 777-300ER. Photo: Jet Airways
Why was the original bid deadline extended?
Originally, the deadline for any bids (or expressions of interest for stake sales) was by August 3rd, but Jet Airways has reported that multiple possible bidders have asked for additional time to perform due diligence and to submit bids at the last possible moment (to confuse any competition). Thus the deadline has been extended for another seven days to the 10th of August.
What do you think? Will one of these firms make a real bid for the airline?
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ALBUM REVIEW: Little Dark Age reimagines MGMT at its most moody and best
Kyle Kohner
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It’s been five years since pioneering Brooklyn synth-pop darling MGMT released its snoozefest self-titled album. Considering the sound of Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser has deteriorated since their stunning debut, Oracular Spectacular, expecting a revelatory follow up to 2013’s album seemed farfetched. While I was pleasantly surprised by the first three singles off MGMT’s latest, Little Dark Age, I remained hesitant as I delved into the entire album.
Little Dark Age
Feb. 9
But the duo’s latest installment is the delightfully brooding apex of a polarizing music career. MGMT has finally toned down the dated sensibilities of psych-pop (with the exception of a couple tracks) and instead zeroes in on a moody atmosphere that was only briefly examined in the duo’s last album. MGMT manages to pave a harmonious road where Oracular Spectacular and the self-titled album meet—a balance that embraces the outfit’s early-career psychedelia and its expanding grip of darkness.
While pinnings of hopelessness, sorrow and grief were explored hesitantly in MGMT’s past, gothic and nihilistic undertones on Little Dark Age are made obvious simply by scanning over some of the depressive album’s track titles: “When You Die,” “Days That Got Away,” “One Thing Left To Try” and “When You’re Small.” Given the focus on primeval romanticism with the title track and its equally foreboding video, existential pessimism bursts forth from Little Dark Age without any hesitancy this time around.
With the 10 songs that comprise Little Dark Age, MGMT has devised a genius display of pop music that is accessible but at the same time complex upon closer examination. These songs are made to surprise the most critical and also the most casual of listeners. Yes, Little Dark Age does tend to relieve some of the best of ‘80s synth-pop (“Me and Michael” and “James”), but it does so with a darkly invigorating twist.
The production of Little Dark Age doesn’t stray very far from the bombastic synths in the style of a Gary Numan or a Depeche Mode, but combined with MGMT’s typically ironic lyricism and usually zany vocal work, the duo’s latest offering and triumphant return proves to be a refreshing approach that is hopefully here to stay for the Brooklyn artists.
With all the hype surrounding MGMT containing its moodier side, the latest album manages to not slump into the ubiquity of dark, gothic EBM or Darkwave that define the likes of The Soft Moon, Soft Kill or Tropic of Cancer. It’s nice to hear MGMT maintain its inherent playfulness while incorporating variant modes of synth-pop that range from hypnagogic in the vain of Ariel Pink to the shimmering sensibilities of chillwave that recalls Toro y Moi. No domain of pop music is off limits for MGMT, yet Little Dark Age manages to package each sonic endeavor into something that in the end, wondrously refined and darkly redefined.
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TIFF19 Review: Military Wives delivers a soothing tune
Posted by Arti in entertainment, life, Movie Reviews, movies, music, TIFF 2019
Film Festivals, films, Kristin Scott Thomas, Military Wives, movie reviews, movies, TIFF19, Toronto International Film Festival
If being called a ‘feel good movie’ would right away make you think of a thoughtless and syrupy offering aiming just to please, Military Wives would shatter that myth. The reason for the ‘feel good’ effect in this case is largely because it is based on inspiring, real-life events. The spouses and partners of a British military base band together for mutual support and socializing when their loved ones are deployed to Afghanistan on a 6-month tour. At first just for coffee and a sip of wine, later they discover the joy of singing together as a choir. The subsequent events lead them to the Festival of Remembrance at Royal Albert Hall, deep friendship, and healing beyond their expectations.
Kristin Scott Thomas in Military Wives. Image Credit: Courtesy of TIFF.
The Military Wives Choir phenomenon had inspired the development of the BBC TV series The Choir. And now its movie version Military Wives has just world premiered at the 44th Toronto International Film Festival. According to their website: There are over 2,000 women with a military connection in 74 choirs based across the UK and in British military bases abroad, including Cyprus, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. As well, other countries’ military wives have followed suit, organizing their own choirs. Those with no prior knowledge of this global movement would find this a fresh and interesting subject to put on screen.
Directed by Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty, 1997) and written by Rosanne Flynn and Rachel Tunnard, Military Wives touts an effective cast to augment their singing. Kristin Scott Thomas is perfect as Kate, the Chair of the social committee on the fictional Flitcroft military base. As the wife of a Colonel, she comes with certain prescribed authority but her bossy personality denies her genuine friendship. Kate has to work together with the leader of the women’s social group, the casual and congenial Lisa (Sharon Horgan). During a brainstorming session, the idea of a choir comes up, something which neither of them has the expertise, or that the group is particularly well-tuned for the task. But living in an isolated military base, the two leaders have to take up the challenge on their own.
Scott Thomas and Horgan are lively foils playing off each other with spot-on comedic timing, both trying to lead the choir in their own way at the same time. Kate is formal and traditional; Lisa is spontaneous and contemporary. While hymns are Kate’s choice for their repertoire, Lisa has no trouble getting the group to belt out pop songs and spark up camaraderie.
Their story however, is deeper than just the catchy tunes. Kate’s son was killed in a previous deployment. Despite her gung-ho and cheery surface, deep down she is still grappling with her loss, and now her husband has gone off to a war zone yet again. Scott Thomas has no trouble bringing out the complexity of her character.
While Kate has to deal with personal loss, Lisa has to raise a rebellious teenaged daughter at the brink of endangering herself. Clashes between Kate and Lisa are inevitable. But instead of telling a mundane, formulaic story, Military Wives succeeds in eliciting genuine emotions and poignancy. These words from a young wife well express their precarious daily life: “every time the phone rings and the doorbell goes, I feel sick.” So, when one of them does meet such a tragic fate, the story gets especially real and poignant.
The ‘feel good’ element is how the women deal with their own personal issue and accept each others’ foibles to work together in harmony, reaping mutual support and deep friendship. The motto of the Military Wives Choir is ‘Stronger Together’. The movie brings out this credo movingly.
~ ~ ~ Ripples
Read my other TIFF19 Reviews:
Coming Home Again directed by Wayne Wang
Interview with director Wayne Wang
Parasite directed by Bong Joon-ho
A Girl Missing directed by Kôji Fukada
12 thoughts on “TIFF19 Review: Military Wives delivers a soothing tune”
This one sounds good, one that I would bring my daughter’s attention to for she’s a military wife.
Then she must see this one.
This sounds absolutely wonderful. I’d never heard of the BBC program — it’s all very interesting. For some reason, your review brought to mind the various flash mobs we’ve shared. It seems as though this choir (and no doubt others like it) have taken that flash mob dynamic, “institutionalized” it, and turned it into something that energizes over time.
It’s a BBC TV series. This is the movie version. No, not the flash mobs. Do they have Military Wives Choirs in the U.S.? Just found out we have them in Canada too.
I don’t know if we have such choirs here. The reason I mentioned the flash mobs wasn’t necessarily to equate the two, but to point out the kind of pleasure people who participate in flash mobs seem to enjoy. There’s something about singing in a group that’s qualitatively different than singing alone!
You’re absolutely right. Hope this film will make its way to your area or close by.
Di said:
Thanks for the review! I would definitely watch this movie. ^_^
I sure hope it will come to your city.
This sounds exactly like my kind of movie. AND it has Kristin Scott Thomas. I long to see films like this — feel good in a really fulfilling kind of way. And England, THomas and music make a perfect combo.
Yes, I know you’ll enjoy this one. Just hope you’ll get the chance to see it. Not that it’s perfect, but that it’s uplifting and quite moving.
This sounds good. I’ve sung with the Military wives on a couple of occasions a great bunch of women in real life.
That’s wonderful, Charlotte! Great to know someone who has sung with them, and an opera singer too! Do check it out if it comes to your area, and possibly via streaming platforms in the future.
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A Zen counselor helps patients face death
Posted Thursday, April 2, 2009 12:00 am
Mission of compassion
By Kate Pastor
Rev. Issan Koyama’s most intimate experience with death occurred at his father’s bedside.
The two were not very close, but his father requested the 15-year-old come to his hospital room to shave his face just days before he died.
“I didn’t know how to give care,” said Rev. Koyama, now a Buddhist monk. “I never even touched his hand before. Looking right into my eyes, he took last three breaths and he died.”
He continued to hold his father’s hand for 45 minutes until a thought finally jarred him: Would the doctors blame him for not calling them sooner?
To his surprise, “There was nothing scary,” about watching his father die, he said.
Now he holds the hands of the dying as part of his life’s work.
A Riverdale resident and pastoral counselor for Continuum Hospice Care, he counsels those close to death both in the Bronx (including Riverdale) and Manhattan.
Rev. Koyama grew up a Zen Buddhist in a large, traditional family in Kamakura, Japan. Long after his father died, he worked as a journalist for an American fashion magazine in Japan, and later as a correspondent in Europe and America.
His career brought him to downtown Manhattan in the mid 1980s, where death once again confronted him as the AIDS scourge spread.
Each year, he sorted through his day planner, erasing contact information for people who had died. On one day, in 1988, he found himself crossing out information for almost 20 percent of his contacts who died that year.
Immersed in a world of youth, fashion and beauty, he watched as many of the glittering people were “quickly deteriorating in front me and dying,” he said. “This is the 1980s, about the height of the misinformation, paranoia, anger [about HIV].”
Death was everywhere.
In 1991, as HIV and AIDS became increasingly more visible, Rev. Koyama began working with the Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) in New York, one of the first HIV/AIDS organizations.
Meditation was quickly incorporated into the care.
“So with this strange buzzing sound in the room we started to give meditation practice,” said Rev. Koyama.
In those years, working with HIV and AIDS patients was synonymous with hospice care.
“Everyone was dying. There was absolutely no therapy at that point,” he said.
One patient asked Rev. Koyama if it was okay to bring a plastic bucket with him to meditation, in case he got sick. He walked in and vomited on the floor. Another patient couldn’t sit up to meditate, but lay down on the floor as Rev. Koyama placed his hands on the patient’s belly to help him feel his breath.
A regular group began to develop. When somebody didn’t show up, it was often because they had died between sessions.
“It was really rapid,” said Rev. Koyama, adding, “It expanded my sense of what meditation practice does.”
The affects, he said, were not purely spiritual and esoteric. They were “Powerful. Immediate. Pragmatic. Part of the medical practice.”
He traveled to San Francisco the same year and continued to connect death and Buddhist practice.
Issan Dorsey, author of Street Zen, who Rev. Koyama called a “hippy,” a “druggy” and a “drag queen,” before he had discovered the Buddhist teacher Suzuki Roshi, became a monk and established the Hartford Street Zen Center.
Located about a block from the Castro Street — a part of the city known for its large gay population — Rev. Dorsey would pick up men who were literally dying on the streets of AIDS and bring them back to the temple. Rev. Koyama said it became the first AIDS hospital and hospice in the nation.
One day Rev. Koyama found himself rapping on the door. A man with a shaved head and Buddhist robe opened it and Rev. Koyama froze.
“I broke down immediately and I just couldn’t explain why I came,” he said.
Rev. Dorsey, it turned out, had died of AIDS and Philip Whalen, a Buddhist and famous beat poet, offered Rev. Koyama the empty room of a deceased resident. Rev. Koyama undertook volunteer training while practicing at the San Francisco Zen Center and worked at the Zen Hospice Project under teacher and Executive Director Frank Ostaseski, until he decided to return to New York for chaplaincy work.
He left New York in 2004, returning to Japan for two years to establish a private medical facility. Staff continues to care for eight patients there.
But the diversity and energy of New York, called him back.
Today he lives on Johnson Avenue, and spends his days at the bedsides of the city’s dying. He carries with him the four-noble truths of the Buddha.
He explains the Buddha’s teachings this way: suffering exists, causes of suffering exist and ways to alleviate suffering exist through practice.
“In a way, it’s very clinical,” he said of how the Buddha’s teachings relate to hospice work.
While some Buddhists focus on death counseling as a way to experience “being present” or “bearing witness” to suffering, Rev. Koyama sees his role as one part of a holistic healthcare regimen that takes a patient’s physical, psychological and spiritual well-being into account.
“I feel like a prayer delivery boy,” he said.
As with mediation, he says, “We develop this fearless sense of presence. We watch whatever comes out,” but he is also compelled to intervene.
“You cannot go there and come back and say, I offered presence,” he said.
Instead, he says sees his job as providing “calming, peaceful, stabilizing, safe energy to the people here who are imminently dying.”
Sometimes, though, even a Zen monk can fall into the grind of quotidian life. He finds himself forgetting about the importance of what’s in front of him. In that way, he says, his work is the same as mediation practice.
Thoughts come up, you get lost in them and then you bring yourself back to what’s in front of you.
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Robin Hood Foundation Launches Mobility LABs
Spotlight Staff, posted on February 5, 2019
The Robin Hood Foundation Monday announced an ambitious new four-year $25 million initiative to develop sustainable paths to opportunity for low-income families in five U.S. communities: New York, Chicago, Baltimore, the San Francisco Bay area and Northeast Pennsylvania.
The program, called Mobility Learning and Action Bets, or Mobility LABs, will be carried out in partnership with the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Tipping Point Community, and an anonymous donor, with additional support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The project, unveiled at Robin Hood’s No City Limits: Reimagining the Poverty Fight 2019 conference in Manhattan, marks a new strategic pivot for the philanthropy, which previously has been focused on New York.
“This is a really important evolution,” said Robin Hood CEO Wes Moore. “Robin Hood is very proud to be New York born . . . but we also understand that poverty is not a New York issue.”
WATCH: Wes Moore Outlines New Mobility LABs Project:
Nisha Patel, Managing Director for Narrative Change and National Initiatives at Robin Hood, stressed that Mobility LABs will rely on a heavy use of data and community engagement to find scalable solutions that can produce real results. “We want a springboard up for communities, not just a safety net,” she said.
Rachel Garbow Monroe, President and CEO of the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, said the test for Mobility LABs would be its ability to tell a resident in any of the five communities targeted “how this work is going to affect me and how my life is going to be better. The narrative has to be driven by the men and women we’re going to meet.”
By the end of this four-year initiative, Mobility LABs and its partners hope to:
Increase learning about effective short-term predictors of mobility from poverty and identify new metrics to guide future investments.
Measurably increase short-term predictors of mobility from poverty in diverse demonstration communities.
Create an active cohort of leaders who understand, embrace, and promote new narratives about mobility from poverty.
The day-long conference featured a deep dive into cutting-edge data from Harvard University researcher Raj Chetty and his Opportunity Insights program, which tracks mobility patterns down to the most granular neighborhood level.
“The path forward from the academic, evidence-based perspective is to use historical data to see which place-based policies are, in fact, incredibly effective,” Chetty said.
“We have to use this kind of data to show folks in philanthropy, business, and politics that we have to come up with solutions that match the scale of the problem,” said Geoff Canada, President of Harlem Children’s Zone.
Another use for that data within Mobility LABs will be intensive attention to ways to change the negative narratives that persist about poverty and mobility – including the notion that the poor only need to strive harder to pull themselves up “by their bootstraps.”
“There are so many myths out there,” said Tipping Point Community founder and CEO Daniel Lurie. “We need to shatter these myths because they are holding us back.”
New York Times columnist Nick Kristof, interviewed by Robin Hood board member and fellow journalist Katie Couric, said one of the major obstacles to progress in building pathways to mobility is the excessive American emphasis on self-reliance in recent decades.
“This narrative of personal responsibility became excessive,” Kristof said. “There is something real to that … as long as we also have the conversation about collective societal irresponsibility when we fail to even invest in children.”
Participants also highlighted the need for a real dialogue with the communities Mobility LABs will be serving. “When I think about community engagement, we define it as ‘did you listen to the community?’ But to me, real partnership is about serving that community,” said Kaya Henderson, Head of Community Impact at Teach For All’s Global Learning Lab. “You might have expertise and data but the community has expertise and data as well.”
“Changing the narrative, fixing the narrative, those things are important. But making sure we provide space for people to tell their own stories if they so choose, that’s the most important thing,” said Oscar-winning writer and director John Ridley.
For Robin Hood, the enlarged geographical focus of Mobility LABs is daunting but exciting.
“We’re treading into new waters, and that’s ok,” said Moore. “We’re doing it with a fundamental understanding that even if it’s risky, if it works, that can bring a fundamental change.”
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Iranian Navy warns U.S. ship off sinking fishing boat in Persian Gulf
Updated: 11 Sep 2017 06:05 AM
Moscow [Russia], September 11 (ANI): An Iranian missile boat sent a warning signal to a U.S. Navy ship that closed on a fishing boat in the Persian Gulf.
According to a press statement by the Iranian Navy, Iranian fishing boat Shams was travelling 45 nautical miles off the Jask port in the Hormozgan province testing its engine, when it started to sink. Upon receiving a distress signal from Shams, Iranian Navy missile boat Falahen set off to rescue the sinking boat.
"It is reported that a U.S. Navy ship with the vessel number 02 approached the mentioned [fishing boat] when the missile boat 'Falahen' sent a warning signal and forced the ship to leave the area," Sputnik International quoted the statement, as saying.
The crew of the boat in distress was rescued.
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The incident is one of many times when US' and Iranian maritime forces have come dangerously near conflict and likely will not be the last.
In a similar incident in August, Pentagon officials had said that the Iranian speedboats had "harassed" US warships in the Strait of Hormuz. (ANI)
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Govt to review all agreements of supplying gas to CPP
Ahmad Ahmadani
ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Friday made it loud and clear that the government has decided to review all the agreements earlier made to supply natural gas to the Captive Power Plants (CPP).
This, he said, while addressing a press conference, which was held here in the premises of the ministry of petroleum and natural resources on Friday. He also said that the government is leaving no stone unturned to resolve the on-going gas crisis but import of additional gas is the only viable solution of gas shortage. “To some extent gas loadshedding in the country would be controlled during the upcoming winter while masses would witness a major relief in gas loadshedding after passing two years and there would be surplus gas at the end of constitutional tenure of the incumbent government,” Shahihd said. “Presence of 60 to 70pc CNG filling stations in the residential areas has caused decrease in the gas supply to domestic consumers and gap between demand and supply is of 30pc,” he also said.
He further deplored that during last twelve years, no gas was imported to and the masses are bearing heavy brunt of this failure of the government. However, now the government is seriously striving to bring imported gas.
The government is busy in negotiations with various countries including Qatar for the import of LNG immediately to the country to get rid from the on-going gas crisis. LNG would be expansive in comparison with the cost of locally produced gas and domestic consumers would be affected due to its impact. Besides, government is trying its level best to get additional gas from old gas fields and from tight gas fields. “17 to 18pc Pakistani utilize natural gas “.
He said gas situation would be improved during next March as gas demand was increased with the start of winter season and increase in demand has caused reduction in the supply of gas to domestic consumers. Similarly, situation is worsened in Rawalpindi, Islamabad and those areas of Punjab where fertilzer and industry was scheduled to close.
Federal Minister has also made it clear that gas crisis would persist in Punjab province for next two months and there would be no gas tariff hike for domestic consumers of natural gas. He also said that at present natural gas is being supplied to the industry to maximise the benefit of GSP plus. Petroleum Policy 2012 has been imposed under which concessions have been given for exploration. “A special package of benefits would be given to the companies that would successfully manage exploration of first three gas wells from the reservoirs of shale gas.
Reiterating PML-N government’s stance on much awaited Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project to meet the energy demands of the country, Shahid said that efforts are underway to meet energy requirement. To expedite work on the IP gasline project, both countries (Iran-Pakistan) would sit together to review the gas import project and a time frame for the gas pipeline project would also be finalised, he added.
About a decision of Islamabad high Court in the favour of CNG filling stations, the minister said that the government has approached the SC.
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Pub Meet Up November 2017
In November 2017, Stargardt’s Connected organised a pub meet up in London for the Stargardt’s community after the Sight Village Exhibition in Kensington. Again, this was an opportunity to meet other people with Stargardt’s, network and share tips and advice.
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Today marks World Braille Day celebrating the birthday of Louis Braille. Louis Braille invented Braille, a tactile reading and writing system for those who are visually impaired.
World Braille Day not only raises awareness of Braille, but also the importance of creating accessible communications.
Thank you to @RNIB for generating Stargardt’s Connected in Braille.
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What a fantastic year it has been for Stargardt’s Connected! 😀
We are extremely proud of our achievements this year. We started off with a relaunch of our website Stargardtsconnected.org.uk in February and want to thank James Burden from Perfectly Digital for his superb work in designing and upkeep of the website. 🙏
In May, we became a Registered Charity 🙌- the first and only Stargardt’s Charity in the U.K.! We were over the moon as this marks a huge step in terms of raising awareness and funds for support and research.
We have continued to raise awareness of Stargardt’s 👁️🗨️. From being invited to Parliament on Rare Disease Day in February, speaking to the Local MP who raised awareness of Stargardt’s in the House of Commons, to doing school assemblies, presentations, having a stand at different Charity events and even making a film with RSBC, we have been committed to raising the profile of Stargardt’s.
We have loved holding events and meet ups 🤝 from art sessions, our annual Picnic in the Park, cooking sessions and our Christmas Meet up. It has been wonderful meeting some of the Stargardt’s community but also understanding the importance of support, sharing stories and knowing that you are not alone. 🧺
🙏As we are growing, we are building our team and as well as our wonderful Board of Trustees, we are very excited to have Sarah Stiffin, Catherine Thornley and Alice Cadman joining us on board. Thanks also to Professor Michaelides for taking on the role as our Medical Advisor. We are extremely grateful for their excellent work, time and effort in supporting the cause. 😃
Nutrition is a big topic around Stargardt’s and therefore for National Eye Health Week, we launched our Vitamin A and Stargardt’s Disease booklet. The objective was to provide clarity around the subject of nutrition and Stargardt’s Disease. We have paper copies of the booklet available and it is also downloadable on our website! 🍏🥗
Fundraising is a crucial part of Stargardt’s Connected as part of our commitment to raising money for research and support. A huge thank to those who have donated and fundraised for us – we are extremely grateful as every bit counts. 🏃♀️
And last but not least, THANK YOU ALL so much for your continuous support. We couldn’t do this without you! 💓
We have big ambitions for 2020 💪 and are looking forward to building on our work and reaching out further. We are passionate about raising awareness, raising funds for support and research and growing our community. 😃
Since Ethan’s diagnosis of Stargardt’s 4 years ago, we have faced many challenges but I can confidently say, we haven’t stopped him living life to the fullest. A positive and can-do mindset has helped us champion through those tricky times.
In Ethan's own words, “The limit is what you choose” ✨
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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Merry Christmas to you and Ethan, Bhavna. I never cease to be amazed by Ethan’s positive attitude and your tireless work to promote the charity. Congratulations on everything you have achieved in 2019 xxx
Thanks Bhavna and Ethan for being so inspirational and for raising awareness of SD.Hope you and the family have a wonderful Christmas and New Year xx
Wow amazing work and team work makes the dream work they say! 😜. Really proud of you Bhavna and family. X
Congratulations on this year’s achievements, it’s fantastic what your doing for all of us associated to SD, and gives us hope raising awareness which in turn can make new possibilities with the push for research etc, so thank you for that Bhavna, best wishes for you Ethan and your family ❤️ xxx
Well done Bhavna you are a truly devoted mama 💗💗💗
You've achieved so much in just this year which is amazing and admirable!! Well done for everything and best of luck for the year ahead with many further developments xx
Amazing work Bhavna. You and Ethan are truly inspirational ❤
Congratulations and keep up the great work! 👏👏👏👏 We are following you all the way from Turkey! 😍
Fantastic work. Keep fighting
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Known ForBalu Mahi
Nickname:Sadaf
Full Name:Sadaf Kanwal
Profession:Actress, Model
Nationality:Pakistani
Age:26 years old (in 2020)
Date of Birth:August 29, 1993
Birthplace:Karachi
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Height:5 feet 4 inches (1.70 m)
Weight:54 kg (119 lbs)
Body Measurements:34-26-35 inches
Bra Size/Breast:34B
Waist:26 inches
Hips:35 inches
Bodytype:Hourglass
Hair Color:Black
Eye Color:Brown
Sadaf Kanwal is a Pakistani talented television and film model turned actress. She was born on 29th August 1991, Karachi and raise up in the same city. She has an artistic background. Her grandmother was a well-known Pakistani senior actress Salma Mumtaz whereas her aunt is also a famous actress, Nida Mumtaz. Currently, Sadaf Kanwal is unmarried.
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Sadaf started her career journey as a model since her college days, until now, she has walked on the runway as a bold and finest model for a number of famous Pakistani designers. She has also worked as a model for the top brands, such as Sheep, Khaadi, Sapphire, Maria. B, Shariq Textiles, Umsha by Uzma Babar, etc. Kanwal also featured the fronts of numerous top design magazines, including Sunday Plus, SHE, Good Times, Visage, Paparazzi, etc.
Kanwal is also the brand ambassador of Zong 4G Pakistan. In 2014, she portrayed in the ARY Zindagi drama family serial “Meka Aur Sasural”. This drama gives a massage that “Marriage is not just matrimony between two people but it brings two families together where a delicate balance is required from both sides”.
After making her name as a superb model, Kanwal started her acting career on the big screen by playing the role of Sharmeen Mukhtiyar in a 2017 Pakistani romantic comedy film “Balu Mahi” opposite Osman Khalid Butt who plays the title role of Balu. Balu wants to stop the marriage because mistakenly he believes that the bride is his ex-girlfriend, whom he still loves. She played as a special appearance in the song “Kaif o Suroor” of 2017 “Na Maloom Afraad 2”. This film is a sequel to the 2014 Pakistani film “Na Maloom Afraad”. She played the role of Cameo opposite actor Fahad Mustafa.
Kanwal is the winner of two Lux Style Awards and a Hum TV award. In 2015, she got the Lux Style Award for the Best Model of the Year (Female). In the next year, in 2016, she was nominated for the Best Model Female at Lux Style Award as well as at the Hum TV Award.
In 2017, her career remained in the peak, and she won the Hum TV Award for the Most Stylish Model Female. Additionally, got the nomination on the Lux Style Award for the Best Model of the Year.
In 2018, she was nominated by two times on the Lux Style Ceremony for the Best Supporting Actress Film for her performance in the “Balu Mahi”, and another for the Model of the Year.
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Tax justice: New Greens/EFA report on the tax race to attract the wealthiest
On the third anniversary of the Panama Papers (Wednesday April 3rd) the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament is launching a new study “Competing for the rich: Tax exemptions and special schemes for the rich“, revealing how governments in the European Union compete to attract the super-rich through tax breaks and other preferential treatment.
More than 160,000 people in ten EU countries currently benefit from completely legal tax dumping and avoid their fair share of income tax in their country. The frontrunners of tax injustice are the Netherlands and Great Britain, each with more than 50,000 beneficiaries of dubious residence rules. The Greens/EFA call on the European Commission to present an action plan to put an end to harmful tax competition, in particular by drawing up an plans against double non-taxation and tax evasion.
Sven Giegold, economics affairs spokesperson for the Greens/EFA group comments:
“Three years on and it seems that EU countries have learnt the opposite lesson of the Panama Papers and are desperate to model themselves on far flung island tax havens to attract the super-rich.
“While citizens have spent the last three years demanding tax justice, EU Member States have been increasing inequality by competing to give preferential treatment to the wealthiest one percent. The very notion of European solidarity, which forms the basis of the EU’s treaties, is completely undermined by different governments encouraging tax evasion to out manoeuvre each other.
“European tax competition has entered a new phase: After juggling for tax fraudsters and large multinationals, Member States are competing for the super-rich. The Commission must present an action plan on how to end the tax avoidance of the super-rich. Governments can no longer stand by and watch the tax dodging, but must demand this action plan.”
Molly Scott Cato, tax spokesperson for the Greens/EFA group comments:
“The social contract in the European Union is broken, this race to attract the very rich is a really a race to the bottom for public finances and services as the rest of the population foots the bill.
“It is clear that Brexit is fuelling the race to the bottom on tax rates in the UK and it’s encouraging countries in the EU27 will be to entice financiers and other wealthy elites, while the UK will try to stem this through tax regimes which further undercut EU rates. Brexit stands in the way of putting a stop to tax injustice. The way to avoid this is for the UK to remain in the EU and to work collectively and cooperatively with other European countries to end unfair tax competition across the EU.”
“The lessons of the last few years is that EU Member States alone cannot be trusted to bring about tax justice, we need to end the veto over division making on tax issues in the European Council. European citizens expect the EU to take the lead in putting a stop to tax injustice.”
Fifteen EU countries plus several countries or territories within the European Economic Area (EEA), such as Switzerland or Gibraltar, offer special tax schemes to more than 160,000 beneficiaries. With approximately 50,000 beneficiaries each, the UK and the Netherlands offer the biggest such schemes, and both countries have a long and controversial history in this area.
Although the UK has very reluctantly and gradually restricted its famous ‘non-dom’ schemes, combined these still equate to a total UK income of roughly £120 billion a year.
The EU member states are inviting not only Apple, Facebook and Amazon, but also super-rich people like Christiano Ronaldo to reduce their tax burden.
19 EU Member States tax capital less than labour.
Most recently, Cyprus and Italy have introduced very aggressive schemes that combine many of the advantages from other EU countries and lower the taxes due to a minimum.
The study “Competing for the rich: Tax exemptions and special schemes for the rich” can be found here: http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/public/media/file/1/5920
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Posted By: Jason J. Baker July 12, 2018
On July 3, Samara based aircraft manufacturer AeroVolga who manufactures the single engine Borey and twin engine LA-8 amphibious plane departed on a 1.5 month circumpolar flight. The two twins and the Borey will be traveling across 9 countries. So far the trip has gone incredibly well and the team is embarking on crossing Alaska at the time of this writing!
The route through Alaska is PAOM, PAOT, PAUM, PABA and they plan for that around July 15-20. Then its off to Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Scotland and back home to Russia through Norway and Finland.
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The AeroVolga LA-8 amphibian airplanes is designed to operate in all latitudes and climatic zones, in fresh and salt water. Currently, the aircraft is in serial production, about 20 aircraft have been built and put into operation. The aircraft’s landing gear allows operating from paved and unpaved runways. The LA-8 is designed and produced in accordance with the FAR-23 (CS-23). It can be operated with one or two pilots and carry six to seven passengers. It is a monoplane with high fixed wing and three-point chassis with a forward support. The aircraft has a composite air frame. It can be powered by Lom Praha M337C-A V (take off power 235 HP) or Lycoming IO-540 (take off power 260 HP). With a MTOW of nearly 6000 pounds and cruising at 140 KTAS the aircraft is pretty impressive.
Image: Valery Tokarev (left) and Andrey Ivanov(right) on the board of the Borey amphibian. Photo: Andrey Ivanov
We’ll keep the readers updated on further trip reports. The company has invited Seaplanemagazine.com to Samara Russia for flights with their lineup of aircraft later this year. We look forward to the trip!
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I’m fortunate to count myself among Andrey Ivanov’s many friends and enjoyed his superb hospitality in Moscow this past January. Although he’s just one member of a large team, Andrey has devoted himself to preserving and protecting general aviation in Russia. Pursuant to these activities, he and his team have restored to flying condition to Ilyushin Il-14 aircraft (similar to the Convair 240) and engage on long flying expeditions throughout Russia every year.
I have tried unsuccessfully to get AOPA in the United States to write a story about Andrey, his team, AOPA Russia, and the plight of Russian general aviation. But for those who are interested in how our aviation neighbors in Russia live and fly, I would urge you to check out Andrey’s Facebook page and the Facebook page of the Ilyushin Il-14 Restoring team. Both pages are in Russian, but thanks to modern technology, translation is just a mouse click away.
To Vladimir, Andrey, and the rest of the team – your friends in the US wish you a safe and successful journey.
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Chennaiyil Oru Naal 2 – Tamil Movie Review
November 4th, 2017 | Tamil Movie Reviews | Tags: Chennaiyil Oru Naal
CHENNAIYIL ORU NAAL 2 STORY: A cop has to investigate the motive behind sinister posters that have been put up in the city and track down the person who sends a threat letter to his adopted daughter.CHENNAIYIL ORU NAAL 2 REVIEW: Don’t be fooled by the title. This film isn’t a sequel to the warmly received 2013-thriller Chennaiyil Oru Naal. Even though Sarath Kumar is part of it, he doesn’t play the character he played in that film. It isn’t thematically similar as well. Heck, the film isn’t even set in Chennai! It takes place entirely in Coimbatore. So, how can it be Chennaiyil Oru Naal, then? Go figure!
This one plays out more like a whodunit. Sarath Kumar plays Soundarapandian, a cop who has been transferred to Coimbatore. On his first day on the job in the city, he gets an intriguing case. Posters sinister in tone — Will Angel’s death be today or tomorrow — have been pasted all over the city, and the police department is concerned. Is it a publicity gimmick or an actual threat? Even as Pandian starts investigating, his adopted daughter receives a threatening letter signed by the mysterious Angel!
Chennaiyil Oru Naal 2 is inspired from a novel by crime novelist Rajesh Kumar, and the pulpy elements of its source are all too evident in the film’s plot. Mysterious posters, anonymous letters, highly harmful inmate in an asylum, unexpected death, a killer for hire, a drug that enhances memory power… the plot has it all. But the writing never manages to bring all these elements into a satisfactory narrative.
The dialogue is stilted and the characters are just functional with no real presence. The investigation part is also amateurish, with Pandian hardly shown as someone who is making actual deductions. The direction is also off, with the actors (including the veterans — Sarath Kumar, Suhasini and Napoleon) performing in an artificial manner, moving and talking slower than people do in real life.
There is some flair when it comes to the visuals. A sequence inside an asylum is well shot, with cinematographer Vijay Deepak experimenting with lights and shadows. Much of the film’s vigour comes from the music, by Jakes Bejoy, who tries to make every scene seem important.
But Bejoy, who also composed the music for another Coimbatore-set thriller, Dhurvangal Pathinaaru, overdoes this, and often the score is overpowering. In fact, the entire project has the feel of a wannabe Dhurvangal Pathinaaru. It is a pity that the film doesn’t really succeed despite this worthy ambition.
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From the author of the runaway bestselling novel Best Friends comes a smart, touching novel about the intimate yet fragile relationships among five very different people, thrown together in a small medical office, and how each life affects the others.
Alicia, Brice, and Caroline are the ABCs—three close friends who have been brought together while working at the cozy medical practice of Drs. Markowitz and Strub in Midburg, Ohio. But when Alicia and Dr. Strub begin an affair, a dramatic chain of events ensues that gradually but drastically alters the office environment—ultimately requiring all five coworkers to redefine their relationships to one another. As Dr. Strub's romantic life is thrown into turmoil, Dr. Markowitz is faced with the dire illness of his own wife and the secret life she has kept from him. Nurse Alicia withdraws to focus on her prodigy son; receptionist Caroline enters into a strange romance she previously would have dismissed; and office manager Brice, his once-ordered world disintegrating, is set dangerously adrift. Finally, a questionable business venture that evolves into financial scandal precipitates a monstrous tragedy that threatens to destroy everyone involved. Warm, moving, and witty, The Office of Desire offers an insightful look at human nature that will appeal to those who loved Moody's previous novel and anyone else who has worked in an office.
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Grimspound & Inhabiting Art by Rod Mengham (Carcanet Press)
Posted on July 13, 2019 by tearsinthefence
Referring to the photography of Marc Atkins whose contributions are central to the whole narrative of disappearances in two of Iain Sinclair’s books Rod Mengham writes:
“Photography is often thought of as a medium that fixes the moment, cryogenising it for future generations, but it can also become the means of showing how nothing is ever fixed, how the moment will always elude us, how all that can be recorded is irrevocable loss.”
Grimspound and Inhabiting Art is divided into two separate sections but as one reads more of the second half one realises how connected they really are. The first section looks closely at Conan Doyle’s novella from 1901, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and the second larger section is comprised of twenty-nine short essays on different cultural habitats. Both sections focus on the elusiveness of reality and I am put in mind of Lewis Carroll’s 1872 publication, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There:
“The shop seemed to be full of all manner of curious things – but the oddest part of it all was, that whenever she looked hard at any shelf, to make out exactly what it had on it, that particular shelf was always quite empty: though the others round it were crowded as full as they could hold. ‘Things flow about so here!’ she said at last in a plaintive tone, after she had spent a minute or so in vainly pursuing a large bright thing, that looked sometimes like a doll and sometimes like a workbox, and was always in the shelf next above the one she was looking at.”
In writing about the Sherlock Holmes story, much of which takes place on Dartmoor, Mengham writes convincingly about the satisfactory nature of the detective tale by suggesting that its allure is the “harmony” it gives “to seemingly discordant elements; the underlying pattern that Watson gives voice to”. In a way this “harmony” is a piecing together of language in which its reconstruction “is what loosens the story’s tongue”. Language becomes a souvenir of a specific history. With a close examination of Conan Doyle’s story Mengham identifies some of the roots of this form of communication by alerting us to the fact that the murderer’s wife, Mrs Stapleton, is discovered bound round the throat and the hound itself attacks the throats of its prey:
“The legend reaches its climax with the spectacle of the giant hound standing over Sir Hugo Baskerville and ‘plucking at his throat; the Sherlock Holmes story leads to the same point: ‘I was in time to see the beast spring upon its victim, hurl him to the ground and worry at his throat’. Up until now, the hound has been heard but not seen, with its ‘muttered rumble’ seemingly dislocated from its source in the animal’s throat. Both in the legend and in Watson’s case history, the immediate object of the hound’s attack is the victim’s throat and the root of the tongue; which is where the voice originates; where language is housed.”
Given this context it is highly appropriate that in the old stone hut which is used by Holmes as a hidden lair there are a few items on the flat stone which serves as a table and they include a loaf of bread, two tins of preserved peaches and, notably, “a tinned tongue”. For the detective as things take shape they become coherent and the historian pieces together a version of the truth. However, as Julian Barnes pointed out “History isn’t what happened, history is just what historians tell us” and in his novel Flaubert’s Parrot Barnes’s narrator recalls the difficulties of seizing the past when he tells us of his experience as a medical student when “some pranksters at an end-of-term dance” released into the hall a piglet which had been smeared with grease:
It squirmed between legs, evaded capture, squealed a lot. People fell over trying to grasp it, and were made to look ridiculous in the process. The past often seems to behave like that piglet.”
When he writes a short essay about the photography of Marc Atkins in 2003 Rod Mengham brings to our attention the artist’s focus upon urban iconography. The photographs of Warsaw record a “city of disappearances” which also brings to mind the terrifying dystopia revealed in Paul Auster’s novel In the Country of Last Things. For Mengham the city brought to light by Atkins reveals a history “leaching out through the stone and brick of a fabric that could not be more distressed, whose patched and stained facades offer maximum resistance to the wipe-clean surfaces of modernity”. This is a city “whose foundations lie in sands and gravels” where the archaeology is all “above ground” and the record of past conflicts appear “only skin-deep beneath a thin layer of badly mixed plaster, apparently designed to fall away in time for each generation to have to rehearse its own strategies for oblivion”.
Grimspound and Inhabiting Art is a fascinating read that invites one to return to it time and time again as the roots of language feel out towards the conversation which had been “begun in the primeval forests and extended and made more articulate in the course of centuries” (Michael Oakeshott, ‘The Voice of Poetry in the Conversation of Mankind’).
Ian Brinton, 13th July 2019
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Bloodlines by Andy Brown (Worple Press)
Posted on August 26, 2018 by tearsinthefence
The title of these poems suggests two different things to my mind. The bloodlines that flow through our bodies are those veins and arteries that pump our sense of immediacy: they keep the ‘here’ and ‘now’ moving. The bloodlines that connect us to our past remind us of the more established patterns that might be traceable over centuries. One of the more extreme versions of the possible connections between past and present is a belief in cryonic preservation and Andy Brown’s quietly humane poem ‘Committal’ opens by contemplating this:
“Today a teenage girl secured her right
to have herself cryonically preserved
so maybe in five hundred years, or more,
once mutation’s mystery has been solved,
her body may be warmed to stir again
and she can live the life she’s barely led.”
There is a moving tone to this picture as we are confronted with youth’s clutch at a straw and it is given a greater emotional emphasis by being juxtaposed with a mature awareness of what one might be able to pass on to future generations if one did not have life taken away so young. The poet’s own wish for commitment to the ground involves being interred “deep in loamy woodland soil” and having a sapling oak planted above his head:
“so hair and skin and bone may be reborn
in twig and leaf, in xylem, riddled bark;
so the seep of muscle and marrow may
replenish soil, feed worm and ant and moth…”
There is perhaps enormous comfort in thinking that what we do feeds the life that goes on after our death although, as Hamlet recognized, the idea is threaded with ironies because after all “A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm”. When Claudius asks the meaning of this he is told that it reveals “how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar”. In ‘Committal’ the word “feed” occurs three times and the important emphasis is on how the present feeds the future and, of course, how the past feeds the present. The last couplet of the poem has a fine echo to it and we are made aware of the tentative connections between ‘now’ and ‘then’:
“just let the faintest hints of musk remain:
that trace and pulse of what we must become.”
The trace and pulse, both aspects of a bloodline, present us with the hints of a past that bodies forth into a present as with Hardy’s ‘The Voice’ where he can almost see again his young girlfriend standing outside the town where they used to meet some forty years ago “where you would wait for me”. The memory is held in the air, like a scent, and he is almost seeing the way she was dressed “even to the original air-blue gown”. This is a history that offers those “faintest hints”, or what Hardy recalled about returning from a walk after Emma’s death, “that underlying sense / Of the look of a room on returning thence”. In Julian Barnes’s novel, Flaubert’s Parrot, the narrator wonders about how we can seize the past and recalls an anecdote from his college-days in which a piglet smeared with grease was let loose at the end of term dance:
There is of course that less immediately personal bloodline that connects us with a common past: our inheritance of central feelings such as greed and violence. Reading Brown’s two-part poem ‘The Pardoner’s Tale’ one is drawn into that world of Chaucer’s bleak humour as the three thieves murder each other and the Pardoner watches the bodies disappear “like runoff down the drain”. However, a more pensive tone informs ‘Homo naledi’, the epigraph of which refers to a new species of hominid that was unearthed in South Africa in 2013 after having been given a ritual burial some two million years before:
“In Gauteng’s caves the dons are asking how
the branches of our past converge; if much
connects these buried bones with the longer
lines that lead out from the trees. They will
in time shed light.”
These are thoughtful, quiet poems and, as befits elegies, they linger in the mind.
Ian Brinton 26th August 2018
Posted in Books, English Poetry and tagged Andy Brown, Chaucer, Julian Barnes, Thomas Hardy. Bookmark the permalink.
Melancholy Occurrence by John Seed (Shearsman Books)
Posted on June 24, 2018 by tearsinthefence
“body partly on the
pavement partly on the road blood
streaming from the back of his head
Cornelius Grinnell of New York
owner of the steam yacht Hawk
lodging at the Royal Victoria Yacht Club
on Pier Street in Ryde
returning to his rooms after midnight
drew up the Venetian blinds
opened the window and stepped out
onto a balcony that wasn’t there
and disappeared”
John Seed opens his new book of poetic vignettes, his windows into another world, with the clear assertion that they are appropriated from mostly nineteenth-century English newspapers or inquest reports and rewritten. As Julian Barnes reminded us some years ago History isn’t what happened it’s what historians tell us happened and when contemplating the enormous canvas of Gericault’s ‘Le Radeau de la Méduse’ in the Louvre he enquired “How do you turn catastrophe into art?” John Seed’s “rewritten” transforms these pieces of news into what could be the frame for the nouveau roman or, more closely perhaps, le nouveau conte. The margin between historical reconstruction and the world of fiction was tested in 1979 by Milan Kundera in the opening four paragraphs of The Book of Laughter and Forgetting:
“In February 1948, Communist leader Klement Gottwald stepped out on the balcony of a Baroque palace in Prague to address the hundreds of thousands of his fellow citizens packed into Old Town Square. It was a crucial moment in Czech history—a fateful moment of the kind that occurs once or twice in a millennium.
Gottwald was flanked by his comrades, with Clementis standing next to him. There were snow flurries, it was cold, and Gottwald was bareheaded. The solicitious Clementis took off his own fur cap and set it on Gottwald’s head.
The Party propaganda section put out hundreds of thousands of copies of a photograph of that balcony with Gottwald, a fur cap on his head and comrades at his side, speaking to the nation. On that balcony the history of Communist Czechoslovakia was born. Every child knew the photograph from posters, schoolbooks, and museums.
Four years later Clementis was charged with treason and hanged. The propaganda section immediately airbrushed him out of history and, obviously, out of all the photographs as well. Ever since, Gottwald has stood on that balcony alone. Where Clementis once stood, there is only bare palace wall. All that remains of Clementis is the cap on Gottwald’s head.”
The famous photograph was taken on February 21st 1948 and when Vladimir Clementis was executed in 1952 he was indeed erased from the photograph. But it acts as the opening scene for a novel which Salman Rushdie referred to as being full of angels, terror, ostriches and love!
John Seed’s glimpses and glimmerings taken from those nineteenth-century newspapers raise the curtain upon a moment of dramatic intensity. In the poem I quoted at the beginning we are confronted with a conclusion: a body, partly on the road and partly on the pavement. The opening word offers us no description but its bald assertion makes it clear that this is a dead person and the most immediate cause of death may well be the blood that is “streaming” from the head. We are then taken back in time to discover the name of the dead person, his place of origin, his possession of a steam yacht and the place at which he was residing. The deft artistic quality of this little picture is then caught in the last stanza as we are invited into the room from which he fell. We are caught between the historical fact of him stepping out of the window and the immediate awareness of the moment of realisation that is followed by the fall to his death: historical information has taken on a moment of individual and personal vividness. This is very powerful writing indeed.
On the back cover of this remarkable collection of poems there is a quotation from Empire of Signs by Roland Barthes:
“The haiku’s task is to achieve exemption from meaning within a perfectly readerly discourse (a contradiction denied to Western art, which can contest meaning only by rendering its discourse incomprehensible”.
Haiku resists interpretation: it is intelligible and means nothing. Robert Duncan was haunted by this sense of what lurks behind meaning, what he referred to as a “ground of man’s imaginations”, and recalled sitting with his sister, “my mother between us”, looking at pictures as he was read to. The picture that stayed with him was of three young men sleeping on a mat one of whom was Bashō, the seventeenth-century Japanese writer of Haiku who had just woken up: the seventeen syllables of a frog jumping into an ancient pond reverberates down the years. It doesn’t mean anything but it is! And so, on Sunday 26th December 1820 in “French-alley Goswell-street” a watchman going his rounds and calling out the hour of one
“discovered a new-born infant
lying in a corner entirely naked
a few old rags around his head”
Ian Brinton 24th June 2018
Posted in Books, English Poetry and tagged John Seed, Julian Barnes, Milan Kundera, Robert Duncan, Roland Barthes. Bookmark the permalink.
Baby Patricia Debney Liquorice Fish Books (Cinnamon Press; www.inpressbooks.co.uk)
Posted on October 6, 2016 by tearsinthefence
In Julian Barnes’s novel Flaubert’s Parrot the narrator, Geoffrey Braithwaite, refutes the role of historiographer and explodes what could have been a singular history into infinite fragments, interminable possibilities. Even where there are well-documented sources such as the Greek journeys of Flaubert and Maxime Du Camp the story-teller presents the reader with contradictions as accounts differ, journals disagree and, in conclusion, Braithwaite tells us “What happened to the truth is not recorded”.
Patricia Debney’s new collection of poems and prose focuses upon the edge of vision, that which can be detected out of the side of the eye, and the often quite imperative tone confronts us with a sense of responsibility for what seems to be hiding there:
Things Which Had I Stopped to Consider –
Really Consider – Or If I’d Been Older –
Might Have Been Clues
‘That time we took Violet the cat – who had six toes on each front
paw – up to the Blue Ridge Parkway. You said she would like to
get out of the city. We opened the car door and she ran away, right
into the rhododendron up the side of the mountain. We called and
called – Violet! Violet! – but she never came back.
The time you locked yourself in the bedroom. I screamed – don’t
do it, don’t do it – but you still didn’t come out.’
On the back cover of this remarkably disturbing volume of memory’s fragments Simon Smith mentions the ‘desolation of Hopper’ and there is an eerie exactness about this reference. In the 1939 painting ‘Cape Cod Evening’ (National Gallery of Art, Washington) a man sits on the doorstep in front of a house and a woman stands with folded arms looking downwards at his hand which is offered out with something in it held there to attract a dog. There is a kind of serenity in the scene except that the dog is peering alertly away from the man and, with ears pointed and tail sticking out horizontally, is staring at something (some thing) off stage. It is a very unsettling painting as one becomes aware of the importance of whatever is there, just out of sight!
Carrie Etter’s comment raises to my mind another source for this collection of ‘fragments, prose poetry, and white space’ (Jane Monson):
‘In her compelling new collection, Patricia Debney deftly fractures narratives, lines, and syntax to evoke a daughter’s struggle with an unstable mother. Baby intelligently renders their fraught relationship in all its emotional complexity.’
I am drawn back here to Toni Morrison’s 1987 novel Beloved which opens with the uncompromising statement ‘124 WAS SPITEFUL. Full of a baby’s venom. The women in the house knew it and so did the children.’ The epigraph Toni Morrison chose for her novel was from the letter Paul the Apostle wrote to the Romans and the nine sections of Debney’s poem ‘Armour of Light’ take their title from a reference to Romans 13:12. Whereas Morrison’s reference presents us with a contradiction concerning who is beloved Debney’s has a positive assertion of the day being at hand as the night is far spent. In these fragmentary shards of writing the poet sifts through ashes, picks ‘through remnants / of fires / in which not everything / burned’:
‘fragments
of bone
mostly yours
of kindling
not caught
and horded
secret hopes’
Just as History isn’t what happened but is instead what Historians tell us happened, the story of our selves is an accumulation of fragments upon which we place narrative sequence. Patricia Debney’s eerie and moving collection presents us with characters whose story is made up of what happens between the lines and just off the stage.
Ian Brinton 6th October 2016
Posted in Books, English Poetry and tagged Carrie Etter, Jane Monson, Julian Barnes, Patricia Debney, Simon Smith, Toni Morrison. Bookmark the permalink.
Country Life by Ken Edwards (Unthank Books)
Posted on February 16, 2016 by tearsinthefence
This is a strange journey into a twilight world of sea and land and ‘We may observe two figures moving in this landscape of cold, dark matter’. The friendship between two young men, based upon mutual dependence and then betrayal, placed against a socio-political background of unrest, dominates Flaubert’s great novel L’Éducation Sentimental. Having found its first contemporary counterpart in Julian Barnes’s Metroland it now finds its second in Ken Edwards’ humorous and moving account of youthful idealism in Country Life. The geographical landscape shifts between a coastal country which has echoes of Dungeness and city life, as Flaubert’s contrasted the world of the upper Seine and the Paris of the 1848 revolution.
In Ken Edwards’ narrative one dominant image is that of the nuclear power station:
‘South of the glory that is the illuminated nuclear power station, lies the Peninsula, a tiny settlement beginning to glow in the shadow of a Sunday evening, under the cold, dark mass of the sea.’
That little word ‘glow’ is mischievously uncomfortable as the world of nuclear power is juxtaposed with the homing sense of lighted rooms with their illusive hint of safety. As the two figures, Dennis and Tarquin, move towards the aptly-named pub ‘The World Turned Upside Down’ they discuss relative positions:
‘The question is, says the big lad with the spiky hair and glittering glasses, where are you in the human food chain? It’s that savage.
He has been talking non-stop since they came out to walk on the strand, here at the end of the world. The talk has been of human handwidth, negative space, power structures.’
Tarquin, the non-stop talker, gives the younger Dennis (a budding musician who is working on World Music Parts 1-25, ‘based on rhythmic patterns’ given off by the surroundings) a lesson in political hierarchies. After all, Tarquin has just finished a 550-page book on Neo-Marxist Aesthetics and the Marketing of the Moment:
‘Like, in the human food chain you might say, the fucking bosses, captains of industry as they used to call them—these days, CEOs of mega-corporations, or chairmen or persons or big-shot shareholders or hedge fund investors, you know what I mean, the Great White Sharks…’.
At the bottom of the food chain, according to the political wisdom of Tarquin, are the tiny ones which are eaten by everything else: krill.
‘Yeah, that’s right, krill. Food for everything else. you understand what I’m saying? that’s the kind of capitalist society we have. At the bottom of the food chain.
Right, says Dennis.
At the bottom. Then you’re fucking krill, man!’
This is an eerie world where the style of Paul Auster meets that of Douglas Woolf: the landscape, brutality and barely submerged violence conjures up the world of Auster’s The Country of Last Things while the quiet but determined humour of domestic engagement brings to mind Doug Woolf’s Ya! in which a father finds his daughter and they both roll out into the darkness. As his daughter, Joan, says “This is wild”, Al replies with a clear sense of what is important, “Yes, it is”. In Country Life an elderly woman clutching a plastic supermarket bag carrying the hopeful logo SAVERS PARADISE weeps quietly because she doesn’t know where she is. When asked by Tarquin and Dennis if she is from round here she nods “Yes, I…don’t know where. I am.” That full-stop after ‘where’ is something to hang on to. She thinks that she lives on the mainland, on an estate, and she thinks that she went to a hospital last week to see her dying husband who has ‘been resting in his grave all these years, the poor dear’. With that glimmer of recognition known only perhaps to the lost she says of her ‘home’ “I’ll know it when I see it…I came out too far.”
This is a world turned upside down with an amphibious life drifting along, a world in which the nuclear reactor ‘will produce enough controlled energy to satisfy the electricity needs of the entire region’:
‘Large magnetised rotors turn inside thick copper coils to generate the electricity that is fed to the grid. Turning each rotor is a large turbine. High pressure steam drives its blades and the rotor revolves inside the copper coils to produce the electricity. Each morning, central heating system boilers will be triggered by time-switches, kettles will be plugged in, radios and TVs will be switched on. The people will wake from their individual dreams, and re-enter a collective dream.’
Country Life has echoes of J.H. Prynne’s Kitchen Poems in which ‘we all share the same head, our shoulders / are denied by the nuptial joys of television, so that what I am is a special case of / what we want, the twist point missed exactly / at the nation’s scrawny neck’. And it draws to a close with a poetry reading given by Tom Raworth in a venue that one could be forgiven for thinking resembles the Lamb in Lamb’s Conduit.
This novel is wonderfully funny in places and it allows the reader to produce his or her own key to characters that play out their roles on a stage of such poignant shifting moments.
Ian Brinton 16th February 2016
Posted in Uncategorized and tagged Country Life, Douglas Woolf, Gustave Flaubert, Julian Barnes, Ken Edwards, Paul Auster. Bookmark the permalink.
CLASP: late modernist poetry in London in the 1970s Edited by Robert Hampson & Ken Edwards, Shearsman Books 2016
In Tears in the Fence 57 (summer 2013) the Australian poet Laurie Duggan reviewed Cusp, Geraldine Monk’s terrific piece of history and recollections which looked back at ‘British poetry in that age located generally between the bomb and the world-wide web’. The review concluded with the statement that ‘This history is of its nature a ragged one though the work produced has by now equalled, perhaps exceeded, the hopes of its authors’. Geraldine Monk’s book was published by Shearsman in 2012 and now, four years on, this new history of late modernist poetry in London in the 1970s seems like a sequel. It has an intriguing name which almost suggests that one can hold the past close to one. That said, I am reminded of an early paragraph in Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot:
How do we seize the past? Can we ever do so? When I was a medical student some pranksters at an end-of-term dance released into the hall a piglet which had been smeared with grease. It squirmed between legs, evaded capture, squealed a lot. People fell over trying to grasp it, and were made to look ridiculous in the process. The past often seems to behave like that piglet.
As Robert Hampson puts it in his introduction to this eminently readable burst of flame which sheds light onto an otherwise darkened area (darkened that is by the Poetry Police who seem to tell us that nothing has really changed since the world of New Lines more than half a century ago!):
CLASP is an exercise in collective remembering—with, as Lawrence Upton’s essay suggests, a consciousness of memory work as also a process of selecting, forgetting and inventing.
Hampson refers to a counter-culture in the 1960s which revolved around institutions such as the Institute for Contemporary Arts in Dover Street, the Arts Lab in Drury Lane, and the independent bookshops such as Indica Books on Kingsway, Better Books in Charing Cross Road, Bernard Stone’s Turret Books in Kensington and Compendium in Camden Town. These venues ‘not only provided access to books and magazines, but also acted as centres for information-exchange and making contacts.’ This was after all the world and time of Andrew Crozier’s The English Intelligencer so intelligently written about in Alex Latter’s recent account from Bloomsbury, Late Modernism and The English Intelligencer.
One comes away from reading this new collection of reminiscences reeling with the excitement and energy of a world brought back into focus; this is all heady stuff! It reminds me of a series of History books put out by Blackwells in the 1970s, They Saw It Happen. A flavour might be given here by mentioning Iain Sinclair’s account of his journey from London to Wales to search of the émigré member of the Carshalton Chapter, Chris Torrance. After reading J.H. Prynne’s short review of Green Orange Purple Red, published by Crozier’s Ferry Press (taking its name from the Woolwich mode of river-crossing), Sinclair ‘was out of the door, on the road, back home to Wales’:
‘I walked over the hills, through decommissioned mines, conifer plantations, midge clouds, sunburn, blisters, rusty streams, bubbling tarmac, to Torrance’s Neath Valley farmhouse. It was an excitement to make contact with what was already a very active network, the magazines and contributors with whom Chris had been involved, his transmigrations from Carshalton to Bristol to Wales.’
A brief list of some of the short accounts given in CLASP will tease you into getting a copy without delay: Robert Sheppard ‘Took chances in London traffic’, Elaine Randell was ‘Tangled up in politics’, Paula Claire was ‘Working with Bob Cobbing through the 1970s’ while Tony Lopez was moving from Brixton to Wivenhoe to Gonville & Caius. John Muckle’s ‘Inklings’ contrast with Peter Barry ‘Climbing the twisty staircase’ and David Miller reckoned it was ‘A good decade for getting lost’.
Posted in Books, Essays and tagged Alex Latter, Geraldine Monk, Julian Barnes, Ken Edwards, Laurie Duggan, Robert Hampson. Bookmark the permalink.
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LG X2 (2019) Quick Review
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Moderate performance
Camera features are not that impressive
No fingerprint sensor
If you were looking for the LG X2, this isn’t it. That one was released in 2018 but this one has just been released in the month of August 2019. In some respects it looks like a mid-range but when you look at the performance, you get to know that it is an entry level smartphone.
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Ancient Macedonia: Facts & History
Chapter 18 / Lesson 3
Quiz & Worksheet - Ancient Macedonia Summary Quiz
Instructor: Erin Carroll
Erin has taught English and History. She has a bachelor's degree in History, and a master's degree in International Relations
In this lesson you will learn about Ancient Macedonia. First, we will look at some of the basics like its political, economic, and social characteristics. Then, we will go into some detail on the rule of Philip II, and see how he transformed Macedonia.
Located just north of Ancient Greece and its city-states, Ancient Macedonia existed from about 808 BC until 146 BC when Macedonia was officially conquered and absorbed by Romans. For a long time, Greece considered Macedonia a backwater, but the kingdom of Macedonia was eventually able to rise up and conquer Greece, and then much of the known world!
Ancient Macedonia is a bit tricky to point it out on a modern map. Today, there is a region in Northern Greece called Macedonia, where you'll find the great city of Thessaloniki. Just over the northern Greek border, you'll find a country called the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Both claim some Ancient Macedonian heritage.
Red Border Showing Ancient Macedonia Location
Unlike Greek city-states that had a kind of democratic government, Macedonia was a hereditary monarchy. That means that the kingship was handed down to another member of the family. Kings were often polygamous, meaning they had many wives, and succession was sometimes controversial, with various children from various mothers all rivals to be the heir.
The king was the head of state, the commander of the armed forces, and also the head of the religion. He also had the power to mint coins and circulate money. Even though the king had ultimate power, he did convene a council called the synedrion. The synedrion was made up of high-ranking Macedonian men, and they would meet to discuss issues and give the king advice. The king didn't get to choose the members of the synedrion because some of them had been guaranteed a spot by birthright.
The first known Macedonian king is Caranus, and King Amyntas III was the first to really unify all of the regions of Macedonia. The major ruling dynasty of Macedonia was the Argeads, who gave us King Philip II and Alexander the Great, who expanded and strengthened Macedonia.
Early on, the Macedonian economy relied on its timber resources. Then, they began to acquire some gold and silver mines, and charge port duties.
There was a big gap between the rich elites and the poor, but as Philip II expanded Macedonian lands, the economy grew. Under Philip II and Alexander the economy became monetary, which means that coins were issued and used everywhere as money. That's a sign of a much more prosperous economy because coins make business transactions go much faster than negotiating and bartering a stack of timber for some sheep.
Most of the information we have about Macedonian society is focused on the elites and upper classes. The Macedonian elite were called hetairoi, or companions. The hetairoi met at symposia, or big meetings, where they would come together and compete for influence and the king's favor. These symposia were notorious for drunken brawls, orgies, and other debauchery. A murder or two may have happened at a symposium!
Macedonian women had limited rights. But they were a little better off than women in Greek city-states like Athens, who were almost always secluded at home. Macedonians also tended to own fewer slaves than the Greeks.
Rule of Philip II
Bust of Philip II
Philip II ruled from 360 until 336 BC, and his reign was a major turning point for Macedonia. He was the third son of King Amyntas III and grew up as a captive in Thebes where he actually got a great education. When his two older brothers died, he became the heir, and eventually took the throne.
Army reform
One of Philip's most important achievements was reforming the Macedonian army. He introduced lighter weaponry and an extra long pike or spear called a sarissa.
Philip took the soldiers on forced marches carrying their gear to get them in battle shape. He improved some tactics he learned in Greece like the phalanx, in which soldiers marched together in a tight formation like a finger. He improved siege warfare with better catapults and used cavalry forces together with ground troops in a revolutionary way.
Macedonian Phalanx with Sarissas
Diplomacy and war
King Philip II had grand visions of taking over all of Greece and parts of Asia, but he knew that he would have to be clever and patient. He used all sorts of diplomatic strategies, and even bribes, to placate and conquer Greek city-states. You may have heard the expression divide and conquer--this comes from our man, Philip! He was brilliant at playing city-states against one another, inflaming their rivalries so that they would not unite against him. When the time was right, he would strike with his elite military.
Opposition from Demosthenes
One of the loudest voices of warning and opposition to Philip II was Demosthenes of Athens. He clearly saw that Philip wanted to conquer all of Greece. One of the greatest orators of history, Demosthenes delivered scathing speeches against Philip called the Philippics. In the Philippics, he told Athenians to wake up, and join with other city-states to stop Philip. But Philip was clever, and he charmed other Athenians while waiting patiently for the right moment to conquer. By the time Athenians took Demosthenes seriously, it was too late. Athens allied with Thebes to try and stop Philip in 338 BC at the Battle of Chaeronea. However, the Macedonians crushed the Greek forces, and Philip became the ruler of all of Greece.
After Philip conquered Greece, he turned his sights on Asia, but he was murdered in 336 BC when he was just 45 years old. We know that the assassin was one of his bodyguards, Pausanias of Orestis, but his reason why is debated among historians. Philip's death meant that his son Alexander would inherit the throne, and the military his father had made into one of the finest in history. He would complete his father's dream by conquering the Persian Empire, and ruling over most of the known world as Alexander the Great.
Ancient Macedonia, which existed from about 808 BC until 146 BC, was located in modern-day Northern Greece. Macedonia's greatest dynasty, the Argeads, gave us Philip II and Alexander the Great. Macedonia was a hereditary monarchy. The king was the head of state, of the armed forces, and of the religion, but consulted the synedrion for advice and counsel. The Macedonian economy utilized timber and mining resources; as it grew bigger and stronger, it became a monetary economy under Philip II. Elites were called hetairoi and at symposia they competed for influence and power. Under King Philip II, Macedonia was transformed. He reformed the armed forces, introducing new weapons like the sarissa and new tactics. He was clever at diplomacy and was able to divide and conquer the Greek city-states. Even with Demosthenes speaking against him in his Philippics, Philip was able to conquer Athens and become the ruler of Greece. He was suddenly assassinated by one of his own bodyguards in 336 BC, which handed the throne to his son Alexander.
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MIXED UP With the Disintegration album and its accompanying global Prayer Tour, 1989 had delivered a triumphant end to the 80s, but the first year of the 90s found The Cure unexpectedly unsettled.
Determined to keep up the momentum of the band’s ongoing success, but knowing there were internal tensions to address before heading back into the studio, Robert Smith decided on a different course of action; curating an album of the band’s rarer 12” mixes. As work on Mixed Up progressed, Smith realised that some of The Cure’s earlier remixes didn’t stand up to the newer ones.
Robert singles out Brian 'Chuck’ New’s dub style remix of Pictures Of You as the one that inspired him to take a more adventurous path. "That mix turned the music on its head, but at the same time left the essential heart of the song intact. As soon as I heard it, I updated the entire Mixed Up plan. My revised ambition was to compile an album that was contemporary without being dated, immediate without being obvious, musically inspiring, rhythmically exciting and sonically great!"
Two tracks on the album, A Forest and The Walk, were not just remixed but entirely re-recorded, as the multi-track tapes for both songs had long been lost. Both songs were reconstructed in the studio with producer Mark Saunders, using original instruments and gear.
The band convened over five days in June 1990 to record a new track for Mixed Up. After a certain amount of fraught experimenting with beats, loops and sequenced bass lines, Smith decided to change the vibe. A demo entitled PhaseAGE that had previously been deemed ‘too rock' was committed to tape as Never Enough and was released as a single in September 1990. The ‘Closer Mix’ of Close To Me soon followed this and both songs were accompanied by customarily deranged Tim Pope videos.
With Mixed Up finally released, Smith felt he could at last move on, confident in a re-energised and re-integrated band. "The whole of 1990 was essentially spent emerging from the shadow of Disintegration, and we managed to do it in a creatively satisfying way; by the end of the year, I couldn't wait to start work on new songs for the next record".
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Gutsy Strabane lads suffer narrow defeat in opener
Posted: 5:39 pm October 25, 2019
By Chris Caldwell
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Strabane Academy………………5
Grosvenor…………………………22
STRABANE Academy’s rugby first team may have suffered a 17 point defeat to Grosvenor at Liskey Road in their opening Danske Bank Schools’ Cup Group D fixture of the season on Saturday, but their performance warranted a much closer final score.
Several individual errors from the understrength and very young home side came back to haunt them in the end, as the physically more robust Grosvenor side punished their Strabane counterparts to the fullest.
With only 17 players available at kick-off, Strabane coach Niall McDonnelly knew his side would be up against it when facing a school twice the size of the Academy, but he was delighted with the effort from his players.
“They scored with the last play to leave it 22-5 and to be honest, if we had kept it at 17-5 and denied them a bonus point it would have been like a victory to me, but they couldn’t have played any better,” he explained.
“We were a massive banana skin for them and it showed when they scored that fourth try. The relief, the celebrations were wild and our boys were gutted because we gifted them three of their four tries.
“In terms of physicality, their pack was bigger than ours. We have one upper sixth in our squad, our front row is all 16, our second row we have one 15-year-old and in the backrow, again, they are all 16 or 17, so this is a young side and that year makes a big difference.
“They had another year on us and it just told, but I thought defensively we were tremendous.
“They had great strike runners and you could see we lacked that little bit of experience but in the second half there were periods where we put phases together and got good go forward ball.
“It was just a bit disappointing not to register one more score but it’s very difficult to find fault. Yes, we made mistakes and we lost but I couldn’t have asked for anything more from the boys.”
Grosvenor scored two tries in the first half. One came with a missed kick to touch that was run back with interest and the second saw Strabane turn the ball over through Harry Prue in their own 22 but because no-one was alert to the situation, the visitors walked over the ruck, picked up the ball and ran through to score.
Those tries from the visitors came either side of a Strabane touchdown from the impressive Eoin McSorley, who only started playing properly this year.
He received possession after Jack Kee’s crunching tackle led to the ball going loose. McSorley pounced on it and sprinted 70 yards for a great finish in the corner to make it 7-5.
After the interval, with Strabane 12-5 down, they upped their performance level again. Defensively, the home side were superb, keeping Grosvenor at bay despite the Belfast boys having six lineouts and five scrums inside the Academy 22.
Jason Henderson, John Cummings, Finn Hampton and Reuben Orr were the most regular line breakers for Strabane, but despite countless forages into the opponents 22 they left empty handed.
Defensively the pack matched their visitors blow for blow, with Mark Miller, Adam McKittrick and Brandon McGuigan relentlessly chopping down the opponents to allow captain Matthew Kelly scavenge for any turnover opportunities.
Ironically, again, to was inadvertently the Academy’s ability to turn over possession which cost them.
Tom Harper, who along with his half back partner Dylan Hampton, produced their best display at this level, bravely kicked twice for the corner in the final 10 minutes. Unfortunately, neither penalty attempt found touch, the first saw a rapid counter attack.
The second an uncharacteristic penalty for off side lead to Grosvenor launching their own set piece attack, which was initially quelled, until a fine piece of skill released the right winger to score in the corner with the final play of the game.
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The 1902 classic 3-masted sailing yacht
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A rather bleak morning, the chef, Nick the cold water diver and I slipped ashore to visit the Wreck of the Brutus lying half sunk off the whaling station. Built in Glasgow by J Reid in 1883, she had been used as a store ship for many years before sinking. The Prince Olav Whaling Station had an attractive look to it and seemed to be well sheltered from the West Winds, however staying around was not on the schedule. The only gear that the guests brought that had not been used was the camping gear and they seem determined to use it. Fortunately after a lot of indecision the decision was made to return to Grytviken where we would drop off Tim Carr and take Gavin to see the base doctor for the British Antarctic Survey as she had more dentistry kit than we did. We got under way immediately and once clear of the bay found a heavy swell and a West wind that rose rapidly to Gale 8. Conditions became very rough as we went down the coast and Shenandoah became quite hard to handle at one point as we ran down into Cumberland Bay.
“…we off loaded Gavin into the arms, metaphorically speaking, of Jenny, the base doctor.”
Safe once more in King Edward Cove, we off loaded Gavin into the arms, metaphorically speaking, of Jenny, the base doctor. Tim jumped into the arms of his wife and with him Went Shackleton’s bath and the harpoon with the live head from Larsen Harbour. Grytviken was changed completely as a huge ex Smit Tug had arrived from Chile to lift both of the half sunk Sealers and empty them of fuel oil. They will be put back, half sunk as they were, but not in the same place. Also a lot of the scrap will probably be removed when the tug and its barge return to Chile. A decision about when to depart was being forced upon us by the weather. A weather window was coming up in the next day or so that would give us mostly Northerly winds back to the Falklands after which it was predicted to turn westerly.
There were not really a lot of options open to us and the doctors both preferred to get back to the Falklands and maybe go for a cruise there, rather than miss the once a week flight back to Santiago. Both had long lists of patients waiting for operations once they were back in Milan.
Stromness, bleak but beautiful
Bright clear and warm the plan is to head to the West and try and stop in Elsehul and from there make our departure to Stanley. Gavin has been with the doctor all morning and there is a lot of pressure for him to stay another day and get fixed up by the dentist on HMS Shackleton who reckons he can sort his mouth out in a six-hour session. I am not very keen on this idea as apart from the lost time I have serious doubts about going under the knife with a surgeon, regardless of how good he is, who may never see you again. The doctors on board can feed Gavin morphine if the pain gets too bad and they can certainly give him enough antibiotics to cut any risk of infection. Against the shore side medical advice we took our clearance and headed for the open ocean.
“The problem turned out to be not dirty but frozen fuel.”
Clear of Cumberland Bay, we started to have problems with the fuel system. Chief thought the problem was contamination and the engines were brought to a stop for a while. The problem turned out to be not dirty but frozen fuel. The fuel had the appearance of liquid candle wax just before it starts to set. I had been asked in the Falklands as we were taking fuel if I wanted an antifreeze additive an my reply was, “What is your recommendation?” The supplier asked where we were going and I said, “South Georgia” and the reply was, “ that if I was not going down to the ice, for this read Antarctica, then I wouldn’t need it”. Turns out he or I was wrong. I was extremely worried for the first time on the trip, as I had no idea how long it takes for diesel to melt once it is frozen and we still had quite a long way to go before the sea temperature started to rise. Chief solved the problem in the end by removing the filter to the fuel pump, as the pump itself was quite happy to move the wax. We shut down all the ventilation to the engine room and keeping the day tank topped up the whole time so that the wax had a chance to melt before going to the main engines.
At the end of the day we made Right Whale Bay. Great looking harbour on the chart, but the reality was that the winds screeched down the mountains and out over the water in ferocious gusts. The gusts never went over 50 knots but the trouble was between them the wind would drop down to ten or fifteen knots, the yacht would then ride forward on her anchors only to be met by the next blast that would send her off on one tack or the other until she fetched up on her chains with a terrible wrench. It was about as miserable an anchorage as I have ever had the luck to be anchored in. When the wind dropped down, the smell and the sound of the seals came clearly across the water. With both anchors down and five shackles aside out we were probably safe enough but the thought of having to leave in the dark was not appealing as there were various rocks below the surface astern of us.
THURSDAY 22ND JANUARY
At 0400 I gave up any pretence of getting some sleep and went forward to make tea and toast. Roused the crew at five and we got under way for Elsehul. Very glad to be shot of Right Whale Bay and I won’t be too bothered not to see the place again. We reached Elsehul in moderating weather and blue skies. The entrance to the harbour appeared to be completely blocked by ice and there was no question of trying to wriggle our way in. The decision was made to take advantage of the weather window and head back to PortStanley. As there was a swell still running in from the West we had to batten down the deck which meant double lashings on the Fisherman anchor on the rail, caulking the hatches to the anchor lockers and generally lashing down anything that might come loose on deck. There was a lot of ice about and a lot of brash, fizzing away to itself as we pushed through it. My concern now was to get clear of the ice off the North West corner of South Georgia as soon as possible and if all goes well we should clear the majority of the icebergs by nightfall. Gavin was up and about but would be better off in his bunk as he looked miserable.
“Very glad to be shot of Right Whale Bay and I won’t be too bothered not to see the place again.”
Tom was on deck but the arm that was dislocated was painful and not of much use. Romy, the chief had a bout of sinusitis and Nick had got sore ribs for some reason that has now been forgotten. In contrast all the guests seem to be remarkably fit and Well.
Our departure from South Georgia was made in weather with a Westerly wind that kept us on a Northerly course. The forecast was for the wind to veer northerly so that we should end up reaching into Stanley. By the end of the day I thought we were clear of the ice. We had seen the occasional big iceberg in the distance but no sign of growlers. At midnight however the radar picked up some icebergs on our track. The visibility was very poor at the time so we slowed down for a while and altered course to stay clear. The rest of the passage to Stanley was made in mostly poor visibility and sometimes, thick fog.
The apparent wind was always forward of the beam which made standing the watch a fairly miserable experience. The consolation was that we were making good speed over the ground and in the right direction. On Sunday the 25th the log records fog and a fresh North Westerly breeze with a very lumpy beam sea that would throw the yacht onto her beam-ends. No problem with this except that it would bring the gimbaled table in the fo’c’sle to the end of its swing with a mighty crash. Part of the problem was my fault, as I should never have allowed the yard to install roller bearings. These were far too efficient, causing the table to gather speed and swing like a bell in a belfry.
A King Penguin colony
We picked up the light on Cape Pembroke just after midnight and at 0300 we had rounded up into Sparrow Cove to hand sail. With all sail stowed, we bore off and headed for the Narrows and the entrance to Port Stanley, by this time it was blowing hard out of the North West. By morning the wind had backed into the West and was blowing a steady 35 knots. After a month or so of dealing with strong winds I found that we just took them in our stride and got on with the cruise except if they were blowing from the direction in which we wanted to go. We sent both Gavin and Tom ashore in Stanley. Gavin made two trips a day to the dentist to have some teeth extracted and the others fitted with temporary crowns. It took a week to get him ready to depart for the sea once more. Maybe we should have sent him home to Australia? But Gavin himself was determined not to miss out on the voyage to Antigua.
“…presented each of the four ladies on board with a scrimshawed seal tooth as a souvenir of their time in South Georgia.”
Tom was examined and X-rayed and pronounced fit – and there was no way that he was going to miss out on the voyage to Antigua either. We had other adventures in the Falkland Islands that are part of another story. On the guests’ last night we found a local lad to mind the yacht and we all went out to dinner. My recollection of the dinner is now a little vague but before the haze came down I made a short speech and presented each of the four ladies on board with a scrimshawed seal tooth as a souvenir of their time in South Georgia. The guests all caught their plane the next day and we were left to clear up the yacht and make her ready for the voyage North. It took a month to sail to Antigua from the Falklands, an easy passage with a fair bit of motoring and a lot of sailing. We finally came to anchor in Falmouth in the late afternoon of the 4th March.
Was the voyage a success? I think that it was, though admittedly, we were very lucky with the weather. It might have been horrible at times but it was never more than we could deal with.The members of the crew were all great. We all got on well together and most of them stayed with the yacht when she sailed for the Pacific. Sarah left to tour South America and Nick Went off cruising somewhere. It was a great regret to me that the owner was unable to sail with us, but he lived the adventure through the photographs that were taken. I wrote to the owner after we arrived in Antigua and thanked him, on behalf of all the crew, for giving us an opportunity to participate in such an extraordinary adventure. We brought the yacht back to the West Indies with no more damage after 16,000 miles than which could be regarded as normal wear and tear.
“It was gorgeous, exhilarating and a great way to finish.”
One of my responsibilities as master of Shenandoah was to bring on the mate to take over the command. After two years, of which at least one year was spent at sea, I felt he was ready to take over. Also, I needed to get back to my abandoned family and farm in Mallorca. As it was, I stayed with Shenandoah a bit longer than expected due to changes in the owner’s plans and because Gavin was held up in Australia having his teeth fixed.
My final sail on Shenandoah was in early May with the owner on board. We cleared the North end of St. Kitts and laid a course for St. Barts. The course was North and the wind was fresh from South of East and with all lowers set we were making 11 and 12 knots with the occasional tropical sea breaking over the ship in clouds of spray soaking whoever was in the way. It was gorgeous, exhilarating and a great way to finish.
For the future I hope to be able to spend more frequent intervals at home and to that end l have joined up with Malcolm Kelliher in Relief Captains (see www.reliefcaptains.com) with the object of putting the relief captaincy business on a more professional footing. The work is mostly with motor yachts so I won’t have the pleasure of standing on deck in the dark in pouring rain shortening sail and wondering if we are going to be a crew member short at the end of the watch. I suspect that most of my sailing in the future will be at the classic yacht regattas.
And of Shenandoah? Well she is now in the Pacific, cruising in the Islands.
Mission Accomplished: Captain John Bardon with Shackleton’s bath lashed safely to the deck
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Big Thinking
AdRatings
Battle of the Supermarket Love Stories
Fay Latham, Research Associate – System1 Research, reflects on how French supermarkets Intermarché and Monoprix used Feeling to create 4- and 5-Star adverts.
In a move away from product-pushing and pricing wars, French supermarket giants Intermarché and Monoprix have made the move into Feeling. Using the classic boy meets girl love story template, the brands’ new 3- and 4- minute spots are more short film than classic ad.
In Intermarché’s L’amour L’amour a boy falls in love with the supermarket cashier. The 3-minute ad shows him going back to the store daily, improving his cooking as he goes. Monoprix’s Lait Drôle la Vie (to celebrate their 80th Birthday) riffs off a similar love story. In this 4-minute spot, we see a young boy cutting out words of the Monoprix packaging to send as love notes to the girl he likes. In both ads we see a happy ever after ending – the boy and girl skip off into the sunset together, metaphorically speaking.
First and foremost, kudos to both brands, as these ads perform outstandingly in System1 Research’s testing. At 4- and 5-Stars respectively, Intermarché and Monoprix generate high levels of happiness, particularly contentment and amusement. Both use strong storytelling and create large emotional peaks throughout showing how well the two ads engage the audience. Indeed neither is product-centric: it’s not about the story serving the product but the product serving the story. The story is the hero not the product.
Intermarché Facetracing
Monoprix Facetracing
But why does the Monoprix commercial work better?
Intermarché’s 4-star ad L’amour L’amour is an engaging ad thanks to its touching story of love set to a nice soundtrack. It is strongly associated with healthy food and people remain emotionally engaged throughout. However some do complain that the ad is too long. Indeed all negatives towards the ad are driven by the duration of the film, suggesting that it doesn’t quite succeed in holding everyone’s attention until the end. While it does have a peak of Happiness at the end after some emotional resolution its emotional profile is quite flat for much of the ad.
Monoprix’s ad Lait Drôle la Vie is an exceptional 5 star ad. Much like Intermarché the touching love story of the ad drives positives. People really engage with the story and with a particularly dynamic emotional journey it succeeds in bringing the audience through the motions with the hero of the story. When he is sad so is the audience, creating a large peak in sadness. Monoprix successfully lingers on the separation enough for people to feel really involved in the story. Despite being 1 minute longer than L’amour L’amour, there are no complaints that the Monoprix ad is too long because they are fully engaged from start to finish. It underlines the fact that sadness can be an incredibly effective emotion to use in advertising – if it’s fully resolved, as it is here.
In terms of distinctiveness Monoprix also comes out on top. In 2010 the supermarket brand took the decision to change their branding from images to words, and with tongue in cheek slogans all over their packaging the brand has created a distinctive asset that is undeniably theirs. This ad cleverly puts this asset at the centre of the story without actually talking about the product. Whilst Intermarché does this to some extent their ad could be for any supermarket. You could easily put Monoprix’s logo on the Intermarché ad but not the other way round. But Intermarché was not to be defeated. One week after Monoprix released their ad, Intermarché came out with a shorter 1-minute version of their ad that was all over the TV.
Monoprix’s Lait Drôle la Vie has not had the same exposure as Intermarché’s L’amour L’amour, even though it’s a more emotionally effective ad. It was only screened 13 times, not surprising as a 4 minute TV spot undoubtedly costs an arm and a leg. They did follow up the ad with 13 alternative endings in mini-film form, which is a good start, but at the end of the day not enough people have seen it. So what’s next? Now we know they’re sitting on a goldmine we strongly advise they send out a short version to increase exposure and to ensure this blockbuster ad doesn’t go to waste.
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Classic Ice Boxes Information
Classic Ice Boxes - 40L to 200L
The Legendary Techniice Company have several ranges of ice boxes with the Classic range being the most popular. Robust , Tough , Heavy Duty Commercial Grade Icebox Coolers that are hand crafted and now built with a unique Dual Seal Feature designed to create airlock between two seals and enhance performance. The Box is designed with a DOUBLE THICKNESS LID to provide double insulation from the top where most radiant heat enters the Box . The boxes are constructed with HIGH DENSITY MULTI COMPOUND POLYURETHANE INSULATION injected under high pressure into the walls and double thickness lids for stunning performance.
These boxes also have a LID LIP HANDLE so you can easily lift the lid even when there is undue suction from the vacuum in the box. The UNIQUE QUAD LATCH SYSTEM comprises both stainless steel latches plus Constant Pressure Pull downs for increased performance and lid stability over 32 °C . They are built with COMFORTABLE FULL LENGTH GRAB RAILS so you don’t have to bend down so far to pick up. The Classic range also have a PAD LOCK OPTION so you can secure your food and drinks or for secure storage when used as storage box. They also have a LARGE BUNG WITH ‘O’ RING threaded to accept water tap for drinking water or garden hose fitting to drain water from ice. The Taps are available through most hardware stores.
These Boxes now come with FULLY MOULDED HINGES with corrosion resistant pins and they also have MARINE GRADE ROPE RESTRAINTS for additional support to self supporting hinges, Most companies don't offer these ropes in a view to cut costs. The Classic Range of ice coolers are built with a SEPARATE HIGH QUALITY FOOD GRADE INNER LINER to make your food safe from harmful chemicals. Costs more to make them like this but worth it. The ice boxes are cleverly designed to have TOUGH FULL LENGTH WHITE SKIDS on the bottom on all models up to 100L and additional side skids on 100Ltr models and above to prevent scuffing in trailers and marking boats, and also gives you the ability to Drag these Big Ice boxes without having to lift them on any Terrain. All 70L and above iceboxes are designed with ANCHOR POINTS so the body or the lid can be anchored to the boat or Ute .This way you can continue to open and close the lid when the box is still anchored. Overall The Classic Range are tough iceboxes which have all the features you can imagine.
The basis of these boxes are a true commercial ice box. They are the boxes that company built it's reputation on. And they've got double seal system now like the signature series. A little bit different type of seals than what the signature series runs. The signature series is a premier box above this range. But it's something that's been added to the box in the last year. This same box has pretty much been modified over the years. So wherever there's been improvements made, the company's added them to increase it's performance and this was just one of those improvements. It was one of the first boxes to come out with dual seals and still has them.
It's got a rope to support its hinges. All of the classic series has these. And keeping in mind these boxes have a lifetime guarantee on them. And I think when you look at the fact that these ropes can pretty much take the weight of the entire contents of the box. If it was pushed backwards by the lid, the rope would support the hinges, so they're very strong. And they do protect, despite the hinges already being very strong. These will give it ultimate protection if someone comes along and pushes the whole box backward or tries to move the entire box. And you can imagine if they're trying to move an 1100 liter, they're actually trying to push a ton, and pull it by the lid. So it's something we've always put on them. And it's actually more expensive to build a box like this and have them on. And the only boxes we have that don't have these on are boxes such as the signature series where they use a hinge that's built into the body of the lid and the base of the box rather than a separate add on hinge like these have.
It's got a lot of the features like being able to use the padlocks and such on the front. And so you can lock things up. It's got also anchor points on the sides. These goes right through the lid and right through the body of the box. So, you can actually anchor the base down independently, or you can put the ratchets straight over the top like this or under there and make it so you can still open the lid.
The other thing with this series is they've got two lots of latches. And the reason that was done really is it just gives you a little bit more stability on the lid on these particular models. But also, when you have a situation where the box is going to be locked up for a very long time, the original thought process behind this was you could actually keep the lid locked with these bungee cords.
The idea of that is it puts minimum pressure on your seals over a long period. If you were using it to store things and you just wanted to keep dust out of the box and things like that, you could use these rather than compressing your seals down completely and hard with these types of stainless latches here.
A lot of boxes these days have these stainless locks and they are very good. But, you have to be mindful that if you're going to go and store something in it and then put it away somewhere, if you haven't got these on, you'd be better not to lock these down, because if you're going to store it for months or years on end somewhere to store some gear in, then just keep in mind you're better just to leave the lid closed if you can. Or use these if it's got them on it.
It does give the seals some chance to move; and that's about it. They've got thick walls, thick lids, and they use a high grade polyurethane insulation which is injected at high pressure into the lid and walls. And they've got a separate food grade liner in them. And of course they've got a bung lower than the base of the box for complete draining, like most of the Techni-Ice boxes. And again, the bungs on these are like the other boxes in the range. You can put taps on them, you can put hoses on them, and they're set up with a thread that can have those various options on them, for draining water out, or for putting a tap on it; or if you want to use it as a food grade or water grade for drinking vessel.
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Tennessee Attorney General Slatery Pushes Amnesty For Illegal Immigrants On Advice From Soros Funded Organization
September 12, 2017 September 12, 2017 Chris Alto
Prior to withdrawing Tennessee from the coalition of state Attorneys General challenging the 2012 DACA program Attorney General Herbert Slatery, III, met with Stephanie Teatro, a co-Director of the TN Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC), who convinced Slatery to ignore the Constitution and the entire body of U.S. immigration law and advocate instead for illegal aliens in Tennessee.
After meeting with Teatro, Slatery reneged on his commitment to the coalition of Attorneys General challenging DACA. Even though there was no statutory or Constitutional authority for Obama’s unilateral action on DACA, or the fact that DACA does not alter anyone’s illegal immigration status, Slatery chose instead, to join TIRRC’s push for passage of the “DREAM Act of 2017” which would grant amnesty and a path to citizenship for the DACA eligible.
Slatery’s push for amnesty is also in line with the campaign being led by the New American Economy. In 2013, this same organization then called the Partnership for a New American Economy (PNAE), was championing the “Gang of Eight” immigration reform bill which included amnesty and was supported by Sens. Alexander and Corker.
GOP gubernatorial candidate Randy Boyd is a named member of the PNAE.
In his letter to Sens. Alexander and Corker dated September 1, 2017, which Slatery wrote after meeting with Teatro, he encouraged the senators to support the DREAM Act. Teatro’s take on Slatery’s concession to TIRRC was quoted in a recent New Yorker article:
He did everything we hoped for, and at such a strategic moment.
We didn’t want our senators to feel uncomfortable challenging the Attorney General. If the state’s official position is against these kids, it will it make it harder for Senator Corker to support the DREAM Act. He’s up for election next year.
It was estimated that the 2012 DACA extended to over one million illegal aliens with approximately 8,300 having arrived illegally to Tennessee.
In 2014, Slatery joined Tennessee with twenty-five other states challenging the constitutionality of Obama’s efforts to expand the DACA program and add another amnesty program called DAPA for yet another group of illegal aliens. Taken together, the programs were estimated to offer amnesty and work permits for almost four million illegal aliens.
A federal judge granted the states’ request for an injunction, holding that there was no statutory authority for the executive branch to unilaterally confer lawful presence and work authorization on illegal aliens. In June 2017, the Secretary of Homeland Security revoked these two programs. The 2012 DACA program was not part of the lawsuit but is subject to the very same defects relied upon by the judge in the 2015 suit.
Slatery has chosen instead to be led by TIRRC’s agenda which includes amnesty, open borders, in-state college tuition for illegal alien students, and establishing sanctuary cities in Tennessee.
Teatro who came to the U.S. from Canada on a student visa and worked as a union organizer, now leads TIRRC with co-director Lindsey Harris whose husband is Metro Council member Colby Sledge. An ordinance drafted with TIRRC’s help, was co-sponsored by Sledge and would have made Nashville the most liberal sanctuary city in the U.S. The ordinance was withdrawn before a final vote.
TIRRC, an affiliate of the National Council of La Raza and a recipient of funding from a George Soros front group, has been agitating for Nashville to formalize its informal sanctuary city practices since the election of President Trump.
This may possibly be the second time that Slatery has followed the advice of TIRRC on an immigration issue.
Teatro was arguably the most vocal opponent of SJR467, the Tennessee General Assembly’s joint resolution seeking to challenge the federal refugee resettlement program for violating the Tenth Amendment. Slatery chose not to defend the the federal government’s commandeering of state revenues and usurping Tennessee’s sovereign interests under the Constitution.
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11 Thoughts to “Tennessee Attorney General Slatery Pushes Amnesty For Illegal Immigrants On Advice From Soros Funded Organization”
He was appointed and can be fired. Wait and see. To give amnesty and probably citizenship to an illegal alien is opening the door to any and all.
We do not want illegals here in our great state of Tennessee !!!!!!
Fire !!!!! The Attorney General cause we don’t want our families murdered and definitely tired of paying for these illegals aliens that are already here!!!!!!
Commentary: Tennessee Attorney General Abuses His Position to Offer Political and Not Legal Opinion – Tennessee Star
[…] came to this conclusion after meeting with Stephanie Teatro, co-director of the Soros-funded TN Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition […]
Nelda Smith
Read it and weep…get rid of this Tennessee Attorney General!
Wolf Woman
Yes, Corker is up for re-election this next year. And remember when you vote how he has given the middle finger to us, the legal residents of the state of Tennessee and the United States of America.
I call Corker a traitor and disgrace to his state and country. And the same is true for La Raza Randy Boyd. What a mistake it would be for him, with his socialist oligarchic positions, to be governor!
Stephanie Teatro is joined at the hip with our leftist Mayor Megan Barry and if they have their way, Nashville will be a magnet for illegal aliens that will strain the already strained resources of a city that can hardly keep up with its growth. The illegal aliens contribute very little in return as they wave their own country’s flag at protests against our nation of laws. It seems that Teatro and Barry and TIRRC want to put Nashville on the same trajectory as other “progressive” democrat failed cities like Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, etc. And that will happen if they aren’t stopped.
Jim Forsythe
How sick! It sounds like he has been bought by Mr. Evil, a/k/a George Soros.
This is just disgusting. Can I, a regular, normal, LEGAL American and citizen of TN just request a meeting with the AG and get it? The answer to that is NO–so how does Teatro keep getting these meetings?
All the more reason TN’s AG n eds to be elected and held accountable to TN Voters.
Mayor Barry
Constitution smonstitution. I’m in charge now!
Temporarily.
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Lady of the Well
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Kirsty sighed, repacking her trunk for at least the tenth time, pausing now and then to finger a book, or to unroll a parchment to rework her summer assignments. Looking around her room, she surveyed the warm colors and fretted over what extra things she needed to pack for her leisure time.
"Mistress? Is that enough blue yarn, and what about the purple? And did you remember your wool cards and spindle? Oh, here they are mistress. I shall wrap them safely... Now where did that bag go?"
A small form hopped about the room, passing in and out of visibility, and leaving a wet footprint here and there. Perhaps six inches, the little water imp rarely ever wore anything but leaves fashioned into crude clothing, save for special occasions when he preferred something that she had woven and sewn as a mark of honor.
"Yes Imp, I think I've packed what I will use of those colors, as well as the 'wool' from the furry hyppocampus herd in the North Sea. That ought to be interesting to work with."
The water imp, who had busily been doing exactly as he said he would, danced with glee.
"I had been hoping that you would get to that, mistress. Such strange stuff it is, Until Connor showed us a sample, I hadn't believed that they could actually appear woolly and not just... um..." The imp paused a moment and sat, pondering what descriptor he would be able to use without Kelpie ears overhearing and taking offense.
Kirsty chuckled quietly and patted the dark head lightly.
"Sea creatures so far north all have mechanisms to keep warm, like how what I do have of my pelt was so thick last winter. Also, different areas have different subspecies, like the plants I've been studying and experimenting with. Now, what's more interesting is the upsurge in trade between the Merclans, and how they are starting to be a little less harsh to those of us that are stuck on land for one reason or another."
The imp snorted. "Merchants and Traders definitely are your ancestors, mistress. I am only a simple water imp from the forest streams. I understand much more when you talk of fishing, sailing, and exploring waterways."
"Speaking of..." Kirsty got up, drifting out of her room and down the stairs, through the hall and to the mudroom, a curious imp scampering along behind her. "Byron, I'm too restless, I'm heading out to the well and stream."
A muffled answer came from the kitchen, from around what sounded like a pot.
"Are you sure you don't want any help in there with the washing?"
An annoyed whinny issued, what she had learned to take as a "no, don't ask again."
"Alright."
From the living room, Kirsty heard the portrait of the full Selkie, Marsali calling. "Don't forget your cloak little one. Convey my regards to her ladyship if you speak to her." The voice, though not raised, carried well, conveying with it intimate knowledge of the depths of the seas, distant rivers, and loss, which gave it a strange, violin-like quality.
"Yes ma'am. Getting it even now."
"You have your wand?"
"Always."
She took her white lambskin cloak from the peg by the door. For the millionth time, she wondered why it seemed more like seal than lamb, then swept out into the late evening. Above her, the stars began to peek through the purple spreading over the sky. The sound of sheep bleating in their field mixed with chirping crickets, the steady beat of the sea, calls of harbor seals on rocks, and, the closer she came, the trickling babble of the stream that danced down to the sea. She wandered idly up its banks to the source, breathing deeply the smell of the grasses and summer flowers that peeked through, and the way it mingled with the fresh and salt waters, and the trees that grew denser the farther out from the immediate precincts of the old village. Kirsty passed by an overgrown foundation thoughtfully, glancing at it only long enough to note that the fox family still used the den beneath.
Skirts swished around her legs, which she held out of the way when the path along the stream grew rougher. A quiet splash, and Kirsty knew that Imp had jumped in to swim upstream, though still nearby enough to come when called. Finally, she saw the rocks, exposed at the base of the hill, and the tiny pool left undisturbed for the animals of the area. In the growing darkness, the water bubbling up and filling the pool seemed to glow a light blue, though it lost that gradually on flowing out from the pool to form the stream. The water called to her, and she picked her way over to where the water came forth, slipping her hand into the pool.
Whispers of the depths below filled her senses, and she absorbed the information the water brought about the ground it had seeped through, and the current depth of the aquifer below. Kirsty noted with satisfaction and relief that the local water table, for now, was still untouched by the strange chemicals that she had felt in other waters, no laces of pain and illness to seep through her veins. Or at least least, was so when this water had seeped up from it.
A soft splash, and the feeling of The Presence, drew her attention to the top of the hill, her heart rate speeding back up to normal from the slow rhythm it had taken. Gradually, her eyes saw the glowing form at the top, her inner vision seeing it long before her eyes themselves. Above the rim of the well, the top just glimpsed from her spot, rose the form of a long haired woman, translucent and emanating that same blue light, though much more powerfully than the water at the base. Long hair flowed in cascades as she stood watching the girl.
Kirsty stood, curtsying respectfully and with a slightly higher flourish than usual, an apology for being observed unaware.
"Greetings, my Lady."
"Greetings Kirsten... and apology accepted. You still need to work on being able to maintain awareness around you, in addition to that of the water system though."
"Yes, Lady..."
"You are still troubled. Do you need more of the water for healing the injured Selkie? Her wound takes so long with her being less than cooperative."
Kirsty shook her head, more hair working out from the braids she'd put it in. The well spirit sighed, and gestured, taking a seat on the edge of the ancient stone well. Kirsty climbed up the hill, sat at the indicated spot, then turned to gaze into the depths.
"Something doesn't feel right. It hasn't for a while."
The well spirit watched the young one quietly for a few moments, seemingly impassively, as the half Selkie undid her hair and began to run her fingers through, unconsciously trying to groom out her worries, as so many of her kind did.
"There are many things wrong in the world. It is not unusual for your precognition to have you so restless. The Changeling," here, she sniffed in annoyance, "is rising back to power. Meddlesome, soulless near-human that he is, poking into areas that should only be taught by deity to mortal in order to preserve the balance of things. May the Lord of the Hunt bring his wrath upon him at the end, for the hunt will be a grand one. Especially for the persecution he incites toward my hidden children."
Kirsten took her gaze from the deep waters, which rippled in reaction to the spirit, or more accurately, ancient deity, and her disgust. With surprise, she noticed a fierceness that was usually not apparent to her.
"This must be why the local Selkies all bring their spears here for blessing. It's not so much as to have her permission to hunt her waters. It's a far more complex connection, and they wish to draw on her power for more than that..." She thought, careful to do her best not to voice it aloud, and to guard her mind. In reply, she murmured to the ageless one, "No. Though that troubles me as well, it is not the chief of them for now. I have this feeling that something happened to Mum, or is going to soon."
"Your mother will ultimately be fine. I have not felt her death, and for now I can still feel her. My water is still in her veins with that of my sister, and she still carries my vial in her pouch."
Kirsty continued to fidget with her hair, openly regarding the deity.
"But, what if her boat was wrecked in a storm? The weather is getting odd, and there are still those clans that attack any half-blood they smell."
"And all the reason for you to train hard, both in your classes in school, and for you to learn all you can from the Merfolk You won't be a youth forever. This is the year you prepare for womanhood among the Merfolk. And due to current circumstances, I want tradition broken for your clan. You will train with the spears." The spirit regarded her, Kirsty having flinched back a bit at the blaze and roar that had accompanied the godly frustration, and gentled once more. "You are the last in the Makay line that carries a significant and awakened trace of Marsali's blood. No matter where in the world you settle, you will be head of this village and clan when your parents die. And this village will be rebuilt, even if you link and reawaken my northern point of residence in order to be with the one you love."
"Don't worry Mistress Kirsty. Imp will help you! It is his honor to do whatever his mistress needs." A sudden pressure on her shoulder told her that the imp had leaped and climbed up to his favorite perch, and he patted her shoulder.
Kirsty's mood soured even more. "I am just a half-blood Selkie, and not even that, perhaps. Ally would go on about fractions and dilutions. And the village of the past started as a human settlement, what good am I for those that grew in the sea?"
"Marsali once said the same, regarding her children, wondering what good she was to those that must grow on land." The well spirit carefully put her arms around Kirsty, pulling her close and stroking her hair once the much younger head was settled against her shoulder.
"Tons. Without her teaching, our mariners wouldn't have been so skilled in sailing. Boats and ships would have remained unbuilt and unenchanted, Wizarding trading still in the Dark Ages, and our merchants would not have been so successful... Just as your and Mara's teachings contributed greatly. Marsali still teaches us to this day through the portrait. I wish I could be even half so wise, and my potions do as much good."
A bittersweet smile crossed the Lady's face. "Then train hard."
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The latest on forgotten Stoke City winger Ibrahim Afellay
By James O'Rourke on Nov 19, 2018 0 Comments
Speaking to the Stoke Sentinel, Stoke City manager Gary Rowett has informed club supporters that forgotten man Ibrahim Afellay is still continuing his rehabilitation from serious injury. The ex-Barcelona man is back in Spain receiving treatment, having been granted permission by the club to do so.
However, Rowett admits that there has virtually been no contact between player and club since then. He is out of contract at the bet365 Stadium at the end of this current campaign. He will indeed be moving on afterwards, unless a dramatic turn of events leads to him winning an extension. His last competitive appearance in a Stoke shirt came in December 2017.
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He did feature in pre-season ahead of the current campaign when scoring against Walsall. Rowett was then prepared to give the player a chance to prove himself. Since then, he suffered an injury and is now back in Spain. The former Derby County boss did keep the channel open for him returning and proving himself again,
“He’s a long way from playing and he’s in the last year of his contract as well, having had some serious injuries.
“He had a serious injury that the club medical team and Ibi felt would be better to get treatment from people who have treated him before.
“The reality is, he hasn’t been around the club since his injury and there hasn’t been too much contact either.”
The former Dutch international has been on the books with the club since 2015. Last season, then boss Paul Lambert froze the player out after questioning his attitude.
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Freshmen impact religious groups
Despite their respective differences, Butler University’s religious clubs have in common one thing beyond coexistance: The phrase “Holy freshmen.”
Butler’s religious organizations felt the impact of the class of 2017. Membership increased more than usual this year.
Matt O’Brien, a junior and member of Cru, a Christian organization on campus, said he saw an increase in the number of people attending religious services.
“A lot more people come to Sunday Mass and Cru meetings than they have in my previous years,” O’Brien said. “I think that a lot of freshmen have helped to make that number bigger.”
Needa Malik, senior and vice president of Butler’s Muslim Student Association, said the number of active MSA members doubled in size when freshmen joined.
“You’d be surprised at the amount of students who don’t stray from their religion when they go to college,” Malik said. “Students here have so many religious organizations and events to get involved with that they find a community in it and stay.”
Leah Dagen, a junior, said she noticed the same about Hillel, the Jewish organization.
O’Brien sees religion as a form of identity for students who come to Butler.
“I definitely wouldn’t have come to Butler if it didn’t have all the opportunities for Catholics that it does,” O’Brien said. “A lot of students’ identity is their religion.”
However, even with the new members’ arrival, in some students’ eyes, religious presence on campus has stayed relatively the same.
“Religious presence is in the middle at Butler,” O’Brien said. “It’s not full-force where everyone has to give you their view, but it’s not behind closed doors either. It’s a happy medium.”
Some students believe the Center for Faith and Vocation does its job of getting all students’ beliefs represented on campus.
The CFV has 11 religious clubs that call it home. It aims to keep all groups connected to each other to foster a sense of religious community.
“We all share the CFV, which immediately sends the message that we all want to coexist,” Dagen said.
Some students said they feel a more Christian presence on campus than any other religion.
“While the biggest influence on campus is definitely Christian, MSA and other small groups do things to give ourselves a presence on campus,” Malik said.
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The Wastes: Act III
Hunter's Outpost
Peter stared at the ceiling: a flat slab sitting atop walls of drab rock and sloppy mortar. The ceiling was dancing. Or was it? Ceilings didn't move. Perhaps it was standing still and he was the one in motion. But no ... he was lying in a bed.
He blinked hard, and his eyes remembered their ache. The sting of dust. The dance of the endless, flat wasteland. The stumbling, sprawling, choking, staggering --
No. He wasn't out there any more. He was lying in a bed, staring at a stone ceiling. Smooth, flat, endless --
Dust --
No! He wasn't in the wasteland! ... But then, where was he?
He wasn't in the elevator. Peter remembered leaving the elevator. He remembered his shock as the doors opened up. The fourth-floor light had been on, but the fourth floor had always been a stately hallway with a window overlooking Interstate 395's tangle of offramps. The fourth floor had always been filled with the chatter of aides and lobbyists, deals and persuasion. The fourth floor had always been inside.
Yes -- inside. Memory sharpened his vision. He was staring at a ceiling. Underneath it was a windowless stone cabin. His mind's eye saw the single wooden door that held back the wastelands, opposite the fireplace that had earlier burned with a thin, cheerless blaze but was now empty and smelled vaguely of charred meat. There was a table, too, a long one against the opposite wall, full of implements that looked like a craftsman had sneezed and scrambled his toolset together into hammerdrivers and plierdrills and wrenchsaws. Then there was a bed, wooden-framed, with a comfortingly lumpy mattress and pillow; a set of bland wool blankets soothing in their subtle scratchiness; and a human-sized, human-shaped cat staring nervously at the ceiling.
It couldn't have been a coincidence that everything had happened the first day Peter had worked up the courage to accept that he was a therianthrope. He didn't remember the dream, but he remembered waking up from it for the thirteenth night in a row. He remembered, sleep-drunk, the floating sensation of not being in his proper shape -- but being in his right shape, undeniably, somehow -- the feeling of it pulling back away, and finally, the cold realization that in his inner heart of hearts he didn't actually want to let it go, he couldn't, not again. He remembered the rush of adrenaline, the explosion of physical sensations as his brain scrambled to life, the feeling of absolute certainty and secret relief. He remembered shouting, physically shouting, in affirmation: "This is me!"
He remembered being awfully embarrassed in hindsight. And relieved he lived alone.
He was alone now, of course. There was nothing around him but the stone ceiling, its elusive, illusive flatness, the dust, dust -- No! He silently screamed. I'm in the cabin! Focus, Peter! Focus!
Alone? No. This wasn't his cabin. He had been brought here. He remembered warm hands rolling him over, strange and beautiful darkness dancing through his vision. He remembered the vertigo of being picked up, the fragmentary peace of allowing himself to give in to exhaustion.
Then: Hope.
There was Hope, leaning over the bed, prying open his mouth with one black hand, other clutching a fragile glass tube of liquid, light blue and fizzing. "Must drink, Peter-cat," Hope said --
-- No, he wasn't there. Peter blinked. Another memory. He had to sort it all out. That had been when they first arrived at the cabin ...
No, not right away. There had been introductions first: "Hope? Is that your name? My name's Peter."
What had Hope said before that? Ah, right, answering his question: "Is Hope-cat cabin. On edge of Shadowlands."
Peter squinted. He'd asked where he was. A basic enough question, but it was because what Hope had said first seemed so bizarre ...
Ah, yes. "Is silly for colorless to come back. What for is doing here?"
"Colorless." It was a funny choice of words, given that underneath his drab clothes, Hope's body looked like Peter's feline form was casting a three-dimensional, white-eyed shadow out into space.
Shadows. Hope called himself a shadowcat. He was the only hint of blackness Peter had seen since stepping into the elevator --
Yea, though I walk through the valley of shadowless death --
Peter stifled panic with an effort. That psalm -- that misquoted line -- had ran through his head for a terrorizing eternity out in the Wastes. (The wastelands. No -- Hope had called them the Wastes. That was their name.) He had finally broken down, screamed, and thrown away his cross. Had he really? He touched his neck to be certain: only fur. He remembered thinking: What good was it going to do him here? His faith no longer had any power ... not in Hell.
Hell ... wait. Hadn't Hope said that was wrong? They were in the Shadowlands, and that was different. Why? Peter racked his memory, and a chill passed through him: Hope had never heard of God or the Bible.
They'd argued about it after Peter had recuperated enough to stand and move around. (Wait -- he'd gotten out of bed? Yes. Peter remembered talking, being offered food, huddling by the fire, looking back out into the Wastes. The vial of liquid had healed him and given him a short burst of energy, but then his backlog of fatigue had overcome him. Ah, yes: He had collapsed back into bed when Hope left to hunt.) Well, Peter had argued -- and explained, and interrogated, and struggled. Hope had just asked a few simple questions and left Peter devastated.
Like: "Why Peter-cat want apologize to lord? What Peter-cat do wrong?"
Peter didn't know. He had a short list of near-certain guesses -- but he'd always intuitively figured that being tossed into Hell was accompanied by Saint Peter reading the riot act and specifying a list of unforgivable acts to regret during the endless tortures. The sudden desolation of his punishment felt like it threw everything into question.
Changing into an anthrolynx was the obvious sin. Even when he first changed, there had been the second thoughts. He had stared for fully half an hour at the changes in the mirror -- the golden body fur, the upright ears with delicate black tufts, the ruff of white and black fur under his chin, the yellow eyes and snub muzzle, the lashing tail, the clawed fingers and pawpadded feet -- fighting fear, admiring his own beauty, struggling with the fierce argument between the evil part of his brain that whispered God must have willed it so and the good part that knew the dragon and his beastmen soldiers were going to be God's opponents in the Final Battle.
Walking out of the elevator had settled that argument. It was instant retribution, direct from God, for the hubris to think that such an earnest Christian could get away with joining the Other Side. He had been sent straight to Hell, do not pass Go, do not collect $200.
Or so Peter had thought. Then Hope had found him, nursed him back to health, shared his home, offered up his bed and clothing. If this was Hell, how was it possible to find such kindness?
Hope had shrugged. "Peter-cat need help. Should help."
Peter stared at the ceiling, mind racing. That hadn't answered the question that mattered. Where had God sent him, and why? And was there an answer to that question that didn't lead to Satanism, heresy, or madness?
He didn't know. The ceiling was dancing. He needed some sleep.
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With the serial moving into its third chapter, I'm going to scale it back to a more sustainable update schedule -- two updates a week instead of three. I'm ending up doing a lot more editing than I had anticipated, so being less ambitious with posting the already-written material will hopefully give me a chance to spend more time on the actual writing.
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‘Anna’ sails on emotionally turbulent seas
by David Dixon
The small cast deals with intense emotions in a compelling way. | Courtesy of Henry Dirocco
The Christopherson’s sure are an interesting family. Chris Christopherson (Bill Buell) and his daughter Anna (Jessica Love) both want to protect each other for completely different reasons. Ironically, their good intentions lead them to suffer the consequences of their own actions.
The Old Globe’s production of “Anna Christie” is set during Fall 1910 when the alcohol-loving coal barge captain, Chris, is reunited with Anna. He abandoned her as a child because he did not want to expose her to the dangers of the sea. Chris allows the emotionally distant Anna to join him on his barge. Soon after, she falls in love with an easily angered sailor, Mat Burke (Austin Durant). Once Anna tells her father and Mat a secret she has been hiding, they both react in shocking ways that will affect all of their lives.
Eugene O’Neill’s dialogue is a big selling point in this revival. His words can be gloomy, yet there are beautiful, poetic moments of hope in which he shows empathy from the main characters.
At its heart, “Anna Christie” is a three-person play, though there is a total of nine performers. The second half of the production is comprised of lengthy intimate conversations, which is when “Anna Christie” is at its best.
As individual performers, Love, Buell and Durant can be great, but together they fuse metaphorical fireworks with the almost overwhelmingly disturbing scene when Anna reveals her hidden past. It comes as a shock because there are very few indications that the plot will take such a grim turn.
Director Daniel Goldstein’s vision is perfect for O’Neill’s melancholy prose, though he also includes personal touches such as when Anna is trying to make a crucial decision for her future as Joni Mitchell’s song “Blue” plays in the background. It is risky incorporating the 1970s single into something that was written more than 50 years prior, but it pays off as Mitchell’s voice along with Love’s sad silence adds a surprising amount of pathos.
Goldstein’s direction stands out the most in a transition from Act 1 to Act 2. The unforgettable moment occurs when a saloon is suddenly transformed into Chris’ barge. This sequence is a wonderful couple of minutes that cannot be done justice in a review and should be experienced as a live stage performance.
“Anna Christie” is surprisingly timeless in its themes. The issues involve abandonment, forgiveness and redemption that all factor into the decisions the flawed characters face. These characters are so emotionally damaged they should not earn sympathy from the audience. Fortunately, O’Neill’s writing along with the amazing central actors make them full of humanity.
Without aging a bit, “Anna Christie” is still a beautiful small-scale story with individuals who are not necessarily superior to anyone else in real life. They are only trying to do what every decent person should, attempting to make up for crucial mistakes they have committed in the past.
Tickets and information about “Anna Christie” can be found at theoldglobe.org.
David Dixon, Staff Writer
Since, 2005, when he became a writer for the now defunct Rated G column at the San Diego Union Tribune, David Dixon has been writing theatre and film reviews,...
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The original Broadway Jasmine will return to Aladdin for special performance run
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The original Broadway Jasmine will return to Disney’s hit Broadway musical Aladdin for a limited time later this month. Courtney Reed will step back into Jasmine’s slippers beginning Wednesday, October 16th through Sunday, October 27th.
Reed previously held the role on Broadway, opening March 2014 to warm reviews, including The New York Times which declared “Jasmine is played with a likeable touch by Courtney Reed,” and USA Today said “Courtney Reed is a charming Princess Jasmine.” She played the role until January 2018. Since then Reed went on to reprise her role in the North American Tour and was recently part of the closing cast for the West End production.
Aladdin, Toronto 2013
Some lucky fans have also seen Reed as part of the Broadway Princess Party tour featuring many performers from Disney on Broadway’s musicals.
When your magic carpet ride is actually a boomerang 😝 Guess who’s back…. back UHHgain! Oct 16-27th! It’s onnnnn Bway!!!!
A post shared by Courtney Reed (@rhodesreed) on Oct 9, 2019 at 7:36am PDT
Here’s Reed’s updated bio for the show Playbill:
Courtney Reed (Jasmine) is pumped to be back in “The New Am,” where she originated the role of ‘Princess Jasmine.’ Her previous Broadway credits include In The Heights (‘Carla,’ u/s ‘Nina’ and ‘Vanessa)’ and Mamma Mia! Her favorite regional credit is ‘Andrea’ in Once on This Island at Papermill Playhouse directed by Thomas Kail. Television and film credits include “The Affair,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Search Party,” “White Collar,” “NYC 22,” “CSI: NY,” “Liza On Demand,” and Drake Doremus’ upcoming film Endings, beginnings starring Shailene Woodley.
Arielle Jacobs who currently plays the role, will return on Monday, October 28, 2019.
Performance Photo of Courtney Reed courtesy Disney and photographer Cylla von Tiedemanna
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Calls for International Food Safety Standards
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16 November 2009, at 12:00am
CANADA - A professor with the University of Manitoba is calling for international standards for the approval of health claims on food product labels, writes Bruce Cochrane.
The Global Health Claim Environment was discussed last month as the University of Manitoba's Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals hosted the Health Claim Seminar.
In 2008 the Centre compared the number of approved health claims within different countries and the evidence to support those claims.
Dr. Peter Jones, a professor of food science and human nutritional sciences and the centre's director, observes there's a significantly uneven playing field when it comes to health claims.
Dr. Peter Jones-University of Manitoba
China has over eight thousand products with approved claims, Japan has over 700, the US has something like 25 different disease and structure function claims and in Canada we have only five disease risk reduction health claims which have been approved.
The countries that are more liberal are those that require less evidence in terms of the amount of material submitted to have a claim approved.
Industry gains and profits because they have better marketing strategies when they have a health claim on their product but does the consumer benefit?
Are all of those claims valid, how valid are they?
One can launch arguments of that nature at countries that are more permissive but, on the other side of the coin, are we doing ourselves a disjustice to the population in Canada by not allowing claims here in this country by perhaps creating a disadvantage to the consumer in that we're not able to inform them of important diet disease relationships on food products.
Dr. Jones suggests we need consistent international standards to ensure everyone adheres to the same requirements and we are seeing that as standards of evidence to support health claims are being harmonized in Europe while regions such as southeast Asia are assembling panels to look at the issue.
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Police Chiefs Across the US Admit Armed Citizens, Not Cops, Best Deterrent Against Terrorism
William N. Grigg December 4, 2015
If you want to be protected from potential terrorist attacks like the recent massacre in Paris, and suspected domestic terrorist incidents such as the murder of three people at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood facility and fourteen more at an office party in San Bernardino, you cannot trust the police to protect you. Get a gun and learn how to use it.
That familiar advice is now being offered by law enforcement officers themselves.
“In light of recent events that have occurred in the United States and around the world I want to encourage citizens of Ulster County who are licensed to carry a firearm to PLEASE DO SO,” urged Sheriff Paul Van Blarcum of New York’s Ulster County in a Facebook post. Van Blarcum is not the stereotypical “Tea Party Republican”: He is an elected Democrat who has been in his present office for nine years.
“I think it’s important to remind everybody with the way things are, you’ve got people coming in with long rifles just slaughtering people,” Van Blarcum told the Daily Freeman newspaper. He is hoping that next time an incident of that kind occurs, “there is an armed citizen around” to respond.
As is generally the case, the public at large is well ahead of its supposed protectors on this issue: A record 185,000 background checks for firearms transactions were performed on Black Friday.
Detroit Police Chief James Craig, who is already on record urging city residents to buy firearms and use them when threatened by criminal violence, reiterated that advice on December 1.
“If you’re a terrorist, or a car-jacker, you want unarmed citizens,” Craig points out.
For the estimated 30,000 Detroit citizens who legally carry firearms, “the same rules apply to terrorists as they do to some gun-toting thug,” Craig told Detroit’s CBS affiliate.
D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier corroborates the sentiment from the other police department heads. Just after the attacks in Paris, Lanier went on record urging citizens to bring down any attacker.
“Your options are run, hide or fight,” Lanier said in an interview on 60-minutes. “I always say if you can get out, getting out’s your first option, your best option. If you’re in a position to try and take the gunman down, to take the gunman out, it’s the best option for saving lives before police can get there.”
“That’s kind of counterintuitive to what cops always tell people, right? We always tell people, ‘Don’t … don’t take action. Call 911. Don’t intervene in the robbery’ … We’ve never told people, ‘Take action.’ It’s a different … scenario,” Lanier told CBS.
Similar advice was offered by Joe Arpaio, the long-entrenched and highly controversial sheriff of Arizona’s Maricopa County. On December 1, one day prior to the rampage in San Bernardino, Arpaio declared: “I’m asking the citizens that have concealed weapons, which is over a quarter of a million, to take any action appropriate before law enforcement shows up” in the event of a mass shooting or similar incident.
However, armed residents of Maricopa County could face an additional lethal threat once law enforcement does respond. Glendale resident Richard Malley, a member of a Minuteman-style border vigilante group, was nearly killed by Maricopa County Deputy Pat Arend during an August 2013 nighttime confrontation in a suspected narcotics-trafficking corridor. Malley mistook Arend – who was working undercover — for a smuggler, and pointed his rifle at the deputy; Arend mistook the vigilante for a fellow law enforcement officer, which, he explained later, was the only reason he didn’t open fire: “The last thing I’m going to do is shoot a cop.”
When Arend demanded that Malley disarm, the citizen-enforcer exclaimed, “You aren’t taking my weapons!” After the two spent some time “shouting commands” at each other, Arend produced sufficient credentials to establish that he was a deputy, not a drug lord.
After pleading guilty to a charge of “disorderly conduct with a weapon,” Malley was given a sixty-day jail sentence and 18 months of probation last January. He also received what the Arizona Republic called a “courtroom lecture” from both Superior Court Judge Bruce Cohen and his own defense attorney.
“He thought he was one of the good guys,” said defense attorney Jason Squires explained. Nonetheless, “There is no excuse for ever putting somebody whose job is to be law enforcement in danger. Even if they’re wearing weird clothes, pretending to be a drug dealer, that’s their job.”
Rather than commending Malley for his vigilance – after all, he was helping to “secure” the border, which Arpaio has made a signature issue – the sheriff growled that he should be thankful that he didn’t wind up taking “thirty rounds” from the deputy.
“If they continue this there could be some dead militia out there,” Arpaio predicted. Reasonable people might wonder if Arpaio’s SWAT operators would display discrimination and restraint in the event they were to respond to an active shooter situation involving both criminals and armed citizens acting in self-defense.
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Expand Your Horizons With The LET IT DIE Soundtrack: An Interview With The Composer
By: Matt Dolby
Filed in: Gaming News, Interviews, Music
Akira Yamaoka is a master of horror composition. His legacy was forged with his work on the Silent Hill series, mastering sound design and atmosphere to make the already terrifying world feel that much more real and unnerving – read on for our interview with him over his newest work, in Grasshopper Manufacture’s LET IT DIE.
He cemented his genius with his work on Grasshopper Manufacture games like Shadow of the Damned, Lollipop Chainsaw, and Killer is Dead. He expanded his scope to include an executive producer and composer role for the live action Silent Hill movie as well as projects outside of the gaming circle. His newest collaboration with Grasshopper Manufacture, LET IT DIE, was released recently and features an absolutely jaw-dropping soundtrack with over 100 musicians from Japan who created original works designed specifically for the game. We sat down for an interview with him to discuss his process of creating such an amazing collection of artists as well as touching on his past works.
Matt: Can you tell us how your musical journey began? I know that you have mentioned previously musical influences that showed off the combination of Art and Music; was composing games always in the plan or did that influence, and the desire to combine the two direct you down that path?
Akira Yamaoka: I simply enjoy creating/building something from the scratch, and see how my creations spread to the world and become some sort of influences in a society. It does not need to be always a music, and it can be anything such as video images, games, or even cooking.
I was originally interested in art and majored art in college. When I began to study computer graphics, I found out that I can create music by using a computer. I learned how to use software tools, created music by myself and submitted some of my works to the contests. I happened to receive lots of awards with my works, and that’s how I started to enjoy creating music. The reason why I am making music for video game is that I simply likes playing video games, so that was a perfect fit for me.
Matt: LET IT DIE is your fourth title for Grasshopper Manufacture. How did you begin working together, and how has the creative relationship evolved with each subsequent game?
Akira Yamaoka: I can say that I was assigned to be a music composer for LET IT DIE simply because I am currently employed at Grasshopper Manufacture.
I, as individual, and Grasshopper Manufacture, as a company, do not rely on each other for any works nor career, however, I can see we both are growing together through each titles we work together.
Matt: LET IT DIE uniquely features over 100 Japanese musicians from a vast array of genres. How did you arrive at this choice for the game? Was the concept something you had been wanting to do or did the game influence the decision?
Akira Yamaoka: I came up with this idea of this campaign to feature over 100 Japanese bands and I have personally met all of them and led the project by myself.
There are 3 themes in this project.
1. “Video Game as a Media Platform”
I came up with an idea that I don’t see the video game console as a platform to play video games, but a platform to listen and discover new music.
Players listen the soundtrack/music in the video game while they play the video game, follow the game story, be immersed in the game world, and then grow attached to those music and sounds. In this theme, the video game console could be seen as a platform to discover new music you never heard before. I thought players might enjoy finding new songs and listening diverse music in LET IT DIE.
I am trying to build a new form of how the music is supposed to be, and how to listen music through this project.
2. “Breaking the Wall Between Video Game and Music Industries”
It might not be widely known, however, there are so many rules and restrictions on how to create and use music in a video game, as well as how to promote a video game with music. Video game and music seems so close each other, however there has been a hidden wall between those two.
I could not understand how those two major entertainment industries cannot interact and promote each other for a while. Especially in Japan, soundtracks of video game are almost always created by “video game music composer”. In my opinion, there should be no such limitation that only video game music composers can compose the soundtrack for video games, but any other great artists in music industry from any genres should be able to contribute their works to the music in video game industry. With this in mind, I have gathered talented Japanese bands who are creating a new music scene today in Japan to join this project.
I do hope that those bands who joined the LET IT DIE project got the idea that promoting their music in the video game industry is not that difficult as we imagined before,
and I do also hope that this project will be the starting point where video game and music industries together will create something new in the entertainment industry.
3. “Creating New Global Contents”
Video game contents can be widely distributed to the world and its power is more than what the movie industry has in my opinion. Video games have achieved their globalization since way before the term “globalization” got popular. I believe that we can spread the Japanese music through the video game and even get their interests in Japanese culture and our movements. There is a fact that people all over the world still enjoy the music in video games even with the different language used in the lyrics.
The music won’t be just music when it gets integrated with a video game or story. I want to let people among the world know that there is something more than just a video game soundtrack in LET IT DIE,. I want them to know there are new Japanese music you never heard of, Japanese music is more than anime songs, and I hope to see more new Japanese artists to be recognized worldwide, through this project.
Matt: How was the process of curating the musicians to include in the game? How did the game influence the approach of what to include?
Arika Yamaoka: I have personally selected all the musicians with my own taste, regardless of their genres and popularities. All I gave them was a phrase “LET IT DIE” and did not show them any game footage nor explain the game concept, so they can develop their song with their own theme, inspiration, and imagination they get from the phrase “LET IT DIE”. All songs are their original pieces and titled as “LET IT DIE”.
There are 100 songs called LET IT DIE, and there are 100 different patterns of LET IT DIE. All songs have different lyrics with different themes under the same title of LET IT DIE. I might should say that there are 101 LET IT DIE themes including the actual game story.
Matt: Given the contrast between a more traditional soundtrack and LET IT DIE’s high concept approach to the soundtrack, what did you find to be the most challenging with the different approach?
Akira Yamaoka: I have never featured more than 100 bands in a video game soundtrack before, however, I have been trying something new which users never experienced before and get surprised in my every work, and that’s my style. Thus, I don’t consider any projects as challenging.
Matt: Do you feel by expanding the exposure of these Japanese musicians to audiences who may not be familiar, it is bringing a much needed light to not only these individuals but also the Japanese music scene to a global level?
Akira Yamaoka: That is possible. I can say that from my own experience.
Matt: Is there any plans to release the LET IT DIE soundtrack to those of us who can’t wait to get the amazing collection of music onto heavy rotation of our personal playlists?
Akira Yamaoka: We do not have such a plan yet, but I am willing to consider.
Matt: As fans of Silent Hill we have you to thank for the sounds that many of us still hear in our nightmares to this very day! How do you feel about your time with the franchise now that you can look back on it and everything you accomplished with it?
Akira Yamaoka: Because of that opportunity and experience I had with Silent Hill, I am able to be here to have an interview with you today. I am truly thankful that I could work on that title and discovered lots of new things, as well as discovering myself.
Matt: What are your preferred tools in your own studio to create your unique compositions for either games or your outside musical endeavors?
Akira Yamaoka: I use my mouse and keyboard attached on my computer. I usually do not use any musical instruments.
We appreciate the opportunity to discuss LET IT DIE with Akira Yamaoka, his work on the soundtrack is truly inspired. You can listen to the phenomenal bands curated for the soundtrack by checking out LET IT DIE right now, available for download free for PlayStation 4.
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Monthly European review on geopolitical & human rights issues
Swedish Professors & Doctors for Human Rights
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Analysis: Trump, WikiLeaks, Assange and Sweden
November 2016 issue
By The Indicter 3 years ago
By Professor Marcello Ferrada de Noli,
Chair, Swedish Professors and Doctors for Human Rights.
The role of Julian Assange’s organization WikiLeaks in the recent US election process has been widely recognized. For instance, prominent Dr Ron Paul stated in a videoed interview that WikiLeaks’ output was the factor explaining the victory of Donald Trump in the US election. This is the exact wording used by Ron Paul, as seen in the video uploaded by The Indicter Channel in YouTube [Click on image below for the video]:
Ron Paul: “Greatest thing happened in this campaign is the evidence and the information we got from WikiLeaks. I think this is why Trump won and the media looks silly”. [1]
Personally, I would like to emphasize that WikiLeaks’ publication did not intend to favour a particular candidate, but to strengthen the democratic process as a whole. In times of political confusion in which the rulers arrogate for themselves secret prerogatives on secrecy, corruption or usurping power given to them by popular mandates, to pursue other than public good objectives, the opening by WikiLeaks of government’s Pandora box has been a lifeboat sent to Democracy. [2]
I have recently answered a questionnaire sent by journalist Anna Khalitova on behalf of Russian newspaper Izvestia regarding the issue. Some of my statements were quoted in this Izvestia article, [3] and after appeals for a translation I received on Twitter, I decided to publish here the full text of my replies to Izvestia; putting it in context and adding the sources I used. The questions of the Izvestia interview dealt with the interrogation of Assange in London done by a Swedish prosecutor on Monday 14 November 2016, Julian Assange’s health status, and the prospect of the case in Sweden against the backdrop of Donald Trump’s election in the US.
Would you know of any possible violations to Mr Assange’s rights during the interrogation?
Izvestia, 17 November 2016
There is a variety of infringements perpetrated by Sweden not only in this interrogation, but all along the process leading to it. To begin with, it took six years for the “new” Swedish prosecutor to decide to take Julian Assange’s testimony, rearding the allegations put forward against him in Sweden, in a case that is primarily political, and not strictly “legal”. [4] Furthermore, this is an interrogation that prosecutor Ny neglected to perform in Sweden after she reopened the case, while Julian Assange was still there and made himself available. Thirdly, Assange has in fact already been interrogated on the case in Sweden, [5] and subsequently Chief Prosecutor Eva Finné dismissed the case against him. Lastly, the allegations against Assange –as presented by prosecutor Marianne Ny– were worded/formulated by the Swedish police; they do not correspond to the actual declarations of the ‘complainant’ woman; to be precise, as it raised in the press conference of Marianne Ny of 7 September 2016, “the alleged victim said the police had railroaded her, and did not sign the police statement”. [6]
Let’s examine now the interrogation conducted in London by the Swedish prosecutor. Mr Per E Samuelsson, Julian Assange’s lawyer, was not permitted to be present in the interrogation. A Swedish police officer was present, though. Per E Samuelsson stated to the press the same day, “It is a prerequisite that I, as Swedish defence lawyer, am present at the side of my client”. [7]
According to both European Union and Swedish legislation, Mr Assange was entitled to refuse to be interrogated if his defence lawyer was not present. [8] Whether this was communicated to him, I don’t exactly know. What I am certain about is, that Julian Assange strongly wants the conclusion of this ‘case’, and that he has repeatedly requested the Swedish prosecutor receives his testimony.
We must, in any case, not forget that the detention of Julian Assange has been declared arbitrary by the United Nations Group of Experts on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD); [9] a ruling that Sweden has completely ignored – in my opinion, well in line with a various other violations of human rights done by Sweden and that have been highlighted by UN. With regard to these violations and other peculiarities in the affair Assange, see in Notes and References (down below) a list of facts I have already presented as evidence in my book “Sweden vs. Assange. Human Rights Issues” and other publications. [10]
What about the health-status of Mr Assange?
As treated in the media, principally in the Swedish media, the theme of Julian Assange’s health status suffers of a chronic paradox: On the one hand, it systematically ascribes to Mr Assange personality traits that he has never had; but on the other hand, it systematically omits mentioning the health-consequences of having him arbitrarily detained, and confined, year after year.
Sweden’s stream media and TV, as well as some prominent Swedish politicians (and even one scholar, once) have tried in countless opportunities to depict the ‘health’ of Mr Assange with an ad-hominem ‘psychiatric’ characterization, accusing him of being ‘paranoid’ and suggestions of the like. This vilification has been also echoed in some UK media. Evidently, the purpose of the libel has been to counteract the real prospect of a Swedish extradition of Mr Assange to the US.
By fabricating the notion that a person is being “paranoid”, the real danger surrounding that individual is trivialized or annulated. The real, objective risk for extradition –which was politically assessed by the Ecuadorian government as the reason for granting Assange asylum– is converted by the Swedish smear into a subjective “fear” Assange would have of being extradited. Add the “paranoid” element to this manufactured distortion of a presumptive mind, and by implication the real risk of extradition is transformed into an imagined risk, that is to say an “non-existed” one. In reality, is the opposite: the extradition risk is definite and specific.
In 2011 I had personally met Julian Assange in London. Although the aim of our meeting had nothing to do with studying his health status, I had enough time with him that day –more time than a ‘clinical-interview series’ would require – to perform a valid assessment. One conclusion, which I published in Doctoral assessment of Julian Assange quite different from a layman’s opinion, was that the allegedly notion of Assange having a ‘fearfull’ or ‘paranoid’ personality is absolutely a falsehood. I added that I put at stake my entire academic qualifications in the field, to this assertion. [11]
In confirmation of my thesis, Julian Assange’s health status as a ‘paranoid’ was halted magically and abruptly a few months ago, when Sweden acknowledged that an extradition to the US could not be excluded. [12]
In September 2016 – six years after the issuing of the arbitrary detention order– it became known that experts’ assessments of Mr Assange health status had given a worrisome picture. Any normal person subjected to arbitrary detention without been charged of any crime during such an extreme long period; confined; no sun; with visits to hospital facilities denied; no dental care; and lately, even with internet-communication facilities curbed down, would experience his or her health deteriorating. Mr Assange’s health status is described with some detail in the document “Medical and psycho-social report on Mr Assange.” [13]
The Board of Director at Swedish Professors and Doctors for Human Rights, after a conference called to treat this issue, unanimously decided to back the conclusions of the above-mentioned report. We published, “Our research and clinical experience in working with similar cases suffering arbitrary detention and violations of their human rights, and the medical literature on the subject, indicate that the clinical points raised in the psycho-social assessment of Mr Assange are real.” [14]
Human Rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson stated in an interview she gave after the interrogation of Assange in London, that medical experts had advised Julian Assange not to give his testimony due to his seriously deteriorated health. [15] Lawyer Jennifer Robinson adds that Julian Assange complied with giving his testimony nonetheless. “(Julian Assange) is so keen for this process to be over; he felt compelled to cooperate and to give the testimony he has been offering for the past six years,” she said. [15] Which would explain why Mr Assange decided to endure this interrogation despite the health-issues and legal circumstances I described above.
Donald Trump won in the US election, how this fact would influence on the situation of Mr Assange in Sweden?
Click on the image above for the video
Despite the declared sympathies from Donald Trump towards WikiLeaks [see below], it is not at all certain that this will signify an easing of the conditions Sweden imposes on Assange. I see here two alternative scenarios.
In the first scenario I take into account the hesitation, or franc opposition, of Sweden’s elites towards the Trump soon-to-be administration. Sweden’s establishment has made no secrets that they have no sympathies for Trump. The Swedish PM Stefan Löfven was very explicit in declarations to the Swedish TV: [16]
“I would have preferred Hillary Clinton”.
This stance has partly to do with the profound Russophobe consensus of the Swedish political establishment inspired by Carl Bildt’s doctrine –which, in my opinion, regarding matters of foreign policy has contaminated the full Swedish political spectra, included the so-called Left. I think that Carl Bildt sees in a normalization of US/Russia relations a backlash for the warmongering interests he represents.
This concern was clearly expressed by the reaction of Sweden’s Defence minister Peter Hultqvist, who announced that Sweden will seek assurances from Trump on whether he would honour the “defence cooperation agreement” signed in June this year between Sweden and the US. [17] Furthermore, Minister Hultqvist wonders about the commitment that Trump would have towards NATO. [17] This is a peculiar concern, one might argue, from a country that publicly declares – and profits from – a nonalignment geopolitical stance.
Secondly, a likely deterioration rather than improvement of the Sweden/US relations in the future also has to do with the possibility for Sweden to pursue its worldwide ‘radical feminization’ campaign; for that end, Hillary Clinton was considered by Sweden a potential powerful ally; politicians of all the Swedish political spectra, except from the Sweden democrats, had openly manifested their support for Clinton’s bid. When the results began to arise, Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström twittered, [18]
“Dear Hillary Clinton – as we both know it’s not a glass ceiling but a thick layer of men. Keep up the fight for women, onwards!”
Against the backdrop described above, the fact that Donald Trump sympathised with the role WikiLeaks played during the US presidential campaign could have a very positive or a negative consequence in Sweden. I’ll explain why; but let me first anticipate that since the Swedish authorities’ stance vs. Assange is already negative, and it cannot be more negative, arbitrary and unjustified, it is reasonable to assume that they will keep it that way. On the other hand it is assumed that Donald Trump will actively intervene in accordance with expressions he voiced during his campaign.
Donald Trump even stated, “I love WikiLeaks”, as seen in the video uploaded by The Indicter Channel in YouTube [Click on the image in the beginning of the chapter to see the video]. [19]
The Swedish media though has never recognized the role of WikiLeaks in the US presidential campaign. This, is true to the extreme. Even when Swedish Radio, during one program aired in October, expended much time in describing the revelations regarding the Hilary Clinton affair, it never mentioned WikiLeaks as the source of the revelations.
It is also likely that the prestige-prone Swedish establishment will consider the issue of freeing Assange as a tool in its bargain with the new US administration to be led by Mr Donald Trump. This scenario supposes that Trump would have the intention of issuing an executive pardon or likewise juridical measure to favour Assange; which is not at all clear (Obama has recently ruled out the While House would be issuing ‘pardon’ in cases where no trial has been yet set). So far, the risk of an extradition of Assange to the US is overwhelming .
A second scenario is given in a normalization of the relations Sweden/USA. Sweden needs that normalisation badly, due to its miscalculation of June 2016, when it signed a defence agreement with the US (NATO) against Russia. The election of Donald Trump –and its suspicion towards NATO’s role with regard to EU– has hence left Sweden in a rather precarious situation. Ergo, a possible favourable stance of Trump towards Assange’s situation could come into benefit for Assange at least in obtaining by Sweden acceptance of the UNWGAD resolution demanding Mr Assange’s freedom.
In other words, it is likely that the ‘Assange affair’ will continue being – as it has always been – a geopolitical instrument used by the Swedish government, in pursuing favours or consolidating positions in the international arena.
In my personal opinion, the grassroots movement behind Julian Assange should concentrate in a step-by-step campaign. First step, to request upon the new US-administration, and upon all governments, an initiative towards Sweden; an international action to make Sweden abide with UNGWAD in the respect of the Human Rights in general, and of those of Sweden’s political prisoner Julian Assange in particular.
Notes & References
[1] Ron Paul on U.S. election: “Greatest thing happened is the evidence & info we got from WikiLeaks”. The Indicter Channel, 13 November 2016.
[2] U.S. election: “WikiLeaks has sent a lifeboat to Democracy“. The Indicter Channel, 13 November 2016.
[3] Ассанж оказался без права на адвоката. Izvestia [], 19 November 2016.
[4] ‘MSM blacks Assange as US seeks Manning link’. RT interview with Prof. Marcello Ferrada de Noli.
[5] Dick Sundevall, “Assange has already been interrogated”. SWEDHR Research & Reports, Vol 2., N° 49, 17 August 2016.
[6] Form the transcript of the press conference of Marianne Ny of 7 September 2016.
Question: Who actually has made this accusation? Because the alleged victim said the police had railroaded her, didn’t sign the police statement and in fact the first prosecutor on the case dropped it saying that no crime had been committed? That was the prosecutor of Stockholm, and then you took it up again.
Answer: But I am her superior, in fact, I am the Senior Prosecutor. I can in fact reverse the decision of one of my subordinates. I came to the conclusion that her decision in fact was erroneous. When it comes to the question of who made the accusation, I have already said this, rape is subject to obligatory prosecution in Sweden. You don’t need a complainant to sign a complaint or make a charge.
In, “Justice for Assange publishes revealing press conference on Marianne Ny’s case against Julian Assange. Full transcript“, The Indicter magazine, 16 September 2016.
[7] Assange förhörd – utan svensk advokat, Sydsvenkan, 14 November 2016.
[8] According to Swedish Police regulations, all suspected which are going to be interrogated are to be asked if they wish to have assistance of a lawyer. See Swedish Police Authority own description at Misstänkt för brott [Suspected of crime].
[9] Swedish Doctors & Professors for Human Rights, “Sweden’s six years arbitrary detention of Julian Assange”. The Indicter magazine, 14 November 2016.
[10] A list of facts I have already presented as evidence in my book “Sweden VS. Assange” and other publications:
a) No woman has ever accused Mr Assange of rape; rather, “rape” was a characterization constructed by the Swedish police (in Sweden, an institution under the Ministry of Justice). The women declared their reason for going to the police was to seek help to compel Mr Assange to undergo a HIV test.
b) Simultaneously, the Swedish media – contrary to a principled rule in Sweden – rushed to cable to the world that “The founder of WikiLeaks (with name) Julian Assange” was arrested, charged of rape in Sweden”. This claim was not accurate. Despite it being forbidden in Sweden to publish the name of a person who has not been yet convicted, the Swedish media involved in this transgression was never disciplined.
c) Chief-prosecutor Eva Finné immediately dismissed the accusations put forward in the police report after she examined the case.
d) The leading woman (of the two scheduled to visit to the police station) was a personal friend of the police officer, Irmeli Krans, who performed the interviews and interrogations. Irmeli Krans – also a member of the social democratic party the complainant belongs to – was in turn a public supporter of the lawyer-politician Claes Borgström, of the law-firm Bodström & Börgström (both at the time members of the same Social Democratic Party).
e) The case was reopened at the initiative of the said law-firm Bordström & Börgström, the law-firm that also “defended” the women – as declared by the main partner, Tomas Bodström, at that time a resident of Virginia, USA.
f) The ‘woman accuser’, a former Swedish embassy employee elsewhere, had been expelled from Cuba on charges of activities on behalf of the CIA. WikiLeaks has never insisted on this issue; but in my personal opinion I would consider it relevant.
g) The same ‘leading woman’ was at the time political secretary of the “Brotherhood” (a small organization within the Swedish Social Democratic Party) where Justice Thomas Bodström was a principal member.
h) As Justice Minister, Bodström was a principal actor from the Swedish government in implementing CIA operations in Sweden – done in secret and against Swedish law (e.g. the secret rendition to CIA of refugees in Sweden, where Bodström has been indicated as the responsible official from the part of the Swedish government).
i) The initiative to open the case was taken by a selected prosecutor, Ms Marianne Ny, at the behest of the same Bodström & Borgström law-firm. Ny, Bodström and Borgström had previously shared governmental committees to study further enhancing of the radical-feminist legislation on sex offenses.
[11] From: M Ferrada de Noli, “Doctoral assessment of Julian Assange quite different from a layman’s opinion”. The Professors’ Blog, 27 February 2014.
“Another myth is centred in supposedly negative features of the personality of Julian Assange, as they have been invented by his detractors and repeated in the tabloid press and even by the Swedish National Television, as it was the case recently in the program Agenda of 23 October 2011 which repeated without further qualification Assange is “much paranoid in his behaviour” and authoritarian towards his collaborators. [6]
Previously, a notable columnist of Aftonbladet, Johanne Hildebrant, had written on Assange, he is “a paranoid idiot who refuses to come to Sweden to stand trial”. [8]. Parallel, the tabloid Expressen described in detail Julian Assange supposedly “severe compulsive needs. . .” [9]. And the list is long. My research shown among other (See Newsmill article “Medierapporteringen om Assange är osaklig och likriktad“) that the articles with hostile content published in the study period by the Swedish press exceeded significantly the articles with positive or objective/neutral content. And that among the articles referring to his personality features 72 per cent did so by using hostile, aggressive or detrimental terms.
Needles to say that no professionals have ever been quoted of having such assessments, that, astonishingly, are freely reproduced in the Swedish mainstream media.”
[12] In a main investigative program of Swedish TV, Uppdraggranskning (aired 7 September 2016), the State-owned TV recognized for the first time that Julian Assange could be extradited to the US. In: M Ferrada de Noli, ‘Affair Assange’ – Malicious handling of a political case”. The Indicter magazine, 14 September 2016.
See also, M Ferrada de Noli: “Mainstream media in US and Sweden admit now Assange risks to be extradited to the US by the Swedish government. The Indicter magazine, 11 August 2016.
[13] RT, Assange’s mental, physical health deteriorating under embassy confinement – medical records. 15 September 2016.
[14] “Statement by Swedish Doctors of Human Rights on the recent Swedish court decision ref. the illegitimate case against Mr Julian Assange.”
[15] HR lawyer Jennifer Robinson: Assange going through interrogation amid deteriorated health. The Indicter Channel, 15 November 2016.
[16] Prof Ferrada de Noli @Professorsblogg on Twitter “I would have preferred Hillary Clinton”.
[17] “Sweden seek assurances from Trump regarding defense agreement”. Reuters, 11 November 2016.
[18] Twicopy, https://twicopy.org/margotwallstrom/
[19] “Donald Trump, ‘I love WikiLeaks…Oh, WikiLeaks’ infuriates Sweden’s political establishment & media.” The Indicter Channel, 9 November 2016.
The author:
Professor Dr med Marcello Ferrada de Noli is the founder and chairman of Swedish Doctors for Human Rights and Editor-in-Chief of The Indicter. Also publisher of The Professors’ Blog, and CEO of Libertarian Books – Sweden. Author of Sweden VS. Assange – Human Rights Issues. His op-ed articles have been published in Dagens Nyheter (DN), Svenska Dagbladet (Svd), Aftonbladet, Västerbotten Kuriren, Dagens Medicin, Läkartidningen and other Swedish media. He also have had exclusive interviews in DN, Expressen, SvD and Aftonbladet, and in Swedish TV channels (Svt 2, TV4, TV5) as well as international TV and media.
Reachable via email at editors@theindicter.com, chair@swedhr.org
Follow the professor on Twitter at @Professorsblogg
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