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The Theft of the Tradition of Music in OUR Public Schools
May 28, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 18 Comments
How do politicians eliminate a school orchestra in this country and still sleep at night? How does a community adjust to such a theft when they tried so hard to keep the music playing?
The Loss of the Lafayette Elementary School String Orchestra
In 2013, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago politicians put an end to the popular Lafayette Elementary School String Orchestra. Little thought seemed to be given about the orchestra they shut down along with the school. Lafayette also had a respected program for students with autism.
Former Chicago Public School’s CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett stated:
As we end this school year, it is time for us as a city to begin the work of creating a deep and lasting change in our schools to ensure a better life for our children, a better Chicago workforce and a better future for our city. Everyone has a shared responsibility to ensure students have a safe and smooth transition to their new school in the fall and are on a path to a bright future. We owe them our very best.
A better life with no music? Who was she kidding? Not the community which came together to protest with a school sit-in.
Lafayette is in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. Ninety percent of the children there come from poverty. Gangs have been a problem.
So why shut down a school and a music program that works? Why would city leaders demolish joy in a neighborhood?
A video of the Lafayette students playing beautiful music was brought to my attention today. I especially noticed the violinist at the beginning.
How Music Gets Passed Down Through Generations
I recently came across my dad’s violin. As a child, I remember when he’d surprise us, take the instrument out and play. My favorite was the Flight of the Bumble Bee. Probably he made mistakes, but I never noticed.
He played in the public school orchestra in Gary, Indiana. He did well. I found this picture. It’s a bit blurry but he is in the middle with the arrow. He has a big smile on his face.
Emerson Orchestra 1936
My dad and his family lived through the Great Depression. Yet, they still had music in the public school. Even during such a dark time in our country’s history, America kept the music alive.
He spoke once about when he first got that violin and how thrilled he was when my grandparents took him to see violinist Fritz Kreisler at Orchestra Hall in Chicago.
My dad steered me into music. He didn’t care what instrument I played. I chose the flute.
Why Do Schools Shut Down their Music Programs?
So, how does Chicago get rid of a school orchestra? How does a country as great as America deny its children music? How will those children face the future without playing music? What kind of music will they pass down to their children?
It is not that we are a poor country and cannot afford it. That’s a bogus excuse when it comes to schools. Politicians in this country find money for what they want.
They found $4 to $6 trillion for the Iraq, Afghan wars—wars that half the country rejected. That’s supposed to include medical care for those who were injured. Music doesn’t hurt anyone.
This country also spent $700 billion in tax dollars to bail out the banks after the financial crisis.
So eliminating music programs for children isn’t about money. It’s about privatizing public schools. It is about making public schools so terrible that people will flee to charter schools. Chicago has steered their dollars into charter schools.
Chicago is not alone. I bet most who read this know of schools that have lost marching bands and orchestras. Many of us can name dozens of public schools that have been sacrificed for privatization.
The Social Impact of Losing Music
Removing music from our public schools does more than steal music. It takes away a place for children to get to know one another. Music is important for socialization.
When my daughter chose to play the French horn in her middle school band, I was delighted to see an orchestra made up of students from many ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
Music is also important for preparing students for future jobs in the music industry. Stealing music instruction from a student could possibly steal their future employment—their passion.
After Lafayette was closed, along with many other public schools, a Truthout report described a changed Chicago. Rosemary Vega, whose children attended Lafayette, said the decision to close Lafayette was devastating.
“It was like receiving news that a family member has passed,” she says. Vega herself graduated from Lafayette, as did her father. “Removing Lafayette displaces our communities. It’s like yanking someone from their roots [and] erasing their memories.”
Her 8-year-old son has had trouble adjusting to his new school, Vega says, and his grades have dropped. Her 12-year-old daughter is doing better, but said she still misses Lafayette’s string orchestra program—prior to the closings, the only CPS children’s string orchestra in Chicago.
Music should be a part of every child’s schooling. Schools should continue to help make music a family tradition.
Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: charter schools, Lafayette School String Orchestra, Loss of Music in Public Schools, music, Privaization of Public Schools
Sheila Resseger says
Who could read this post and listen to the incredibly beautiful music of this young orchestra, brimming with talent and sharing their joy of music with their families, and not weep? (answer–those who perpetrated this travesty)
As always, thank you, Sheila.
Nancy Flanagan says
Fellow flutist here. Thanks for a beautiful piece. I saw the clip on Facebook yesterday and had an identical reaction. Thanks for expressing it so eloquently.
Thanks, Nancy!
Wes Zimmerman says
Schools are being closed because white people are afraid of losing the power to control everyone else. It is white male Supremes driven by fear.
Typical urban (i.e., Progressive Liberal or low-information voter) response.
Perry says
I wonder for what else “urban” is a code word.
Well I agree with the spirit of the article, I would also point out that it’s factually Incorrect and incomplete, so readers should take it with a grain of salt.
It’s incomplete that you provide a veiled criticism without telling me why you think it is incorrect and incomplete!
Kerry Craig says
I will take your reply with a grain of salt. It would take an entire book to be close to being all inclusive….If something is incorrect, address it.. Otherwise keep it to yourself. That is the difference between criticism and constructive criticism.
Nothing stregthens the brain and its connectivity across both hemispheres more than playing a musical instrument….NOTHING.
Thank you, Kerry. I think you are on the side of much research that agrees!
Les Rowsey says
…or singing!! (A Choral Director in the Public Schools for 39 years, and had students who excelled in Math, English, Social Studies and the Sciences, too!). Ever hear of “The Mozart Effect” and the impact upon a student’s other grades? #teacherofaValedictorianattheUniversityOfMichigan
Steve Gibons says
The missing info is this- The Lafayette program was not run by CPS, but by the Merit School of Music.. Funding was provided largely by Merit, along with some CPS funds. It was not the only string orchestra in a CPS school.
The program was merged with another excellent Merit orchestra program at Chopin Elementary, they continue to make wonderful music, and they performed May 17th 2016 at the yearly Meritfest at Symphony Center.
Additionally, there is an incredible orchestra program going on at Hibbard Elementary, anpther CPS school in Albany Park, run by the People’s Music School.
It was not brought to light a few days ago on social media-, it was discussed 3 years ago when the closings took place.
The author did not note that Barbara Byrd Bennet is a now a convicted felon.
The point in my posting is to say that it does not help the cause to blog without doing some fact-checking. These errors could all have been avoided through fifteen minutes of internet research.
You imply that the closure of Lafayette and its outstanding music program should be “taken with a grain of salt.”
That Merit helped fund the program only illustrates the problem of partnerships. Again, CPS pulled their funds and they shut down the whole school.
I was not aware of the one other school, Hibbard, which has a partnership and is luckily still doing well. While that is nice for those children, it does not solve the problem that most young students are going without music in Chicago. It also doesn’t bring back Lafayette’s fine orchestra.
As far as Chopin…what I read was that the teacher from Chopin was struggling to start a program there after the program at Lafayette was shut down. Music teachers should not have to struggle to start a music program or keep it afloat. They should not have to rely on outside funding that isn’t always there.
Note. He doesn’t even have a music room!
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-chopin-teacher-raising-money-met-0919-20150918-story.html
Do students and parents at Chopin still have to live in fear that their program will be closed? That isn’t any way to run a public school. The program at Chopin also sounds crowded.
As far as the Barbara Byrd Bennet quote–she was not the only person who shut down Lafayette. Most of my readers know about her conviction and I didn’t see it as relevant to this post.
My comment was only about the thoroughness of your article. I don’t dispute the facts of the situation.
You can infer what you wish.
I am glad of that.
And I don’t mind being pushed to add more facts or make a topic clearer…or to be corrected.
Thank you. Thanks for elaborating.
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It's week 9 and the upsets are wearing thinner than they have done all season. Can the Bucs beat a 7 point spread in Carolina? How about Nathan Petermanoverin 10 in Chicago? Find out who is ranked at the top of the upset tree this week...
Upset Watch 1 Nov, 2018
Welcome to another edition of Upset Watch, where we rank the games of the week in order of the chance that the underdog will cover the spread.
My favourite part of our upset watch methodology is watching how close the average upsets each week gets to the real number, and conversely, how our public consensus % differs from that. As an example:
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3 9.3 3 7
9 5.4 2 ?
As you can see, our methodology, while not always perfect, has been closer than the public consensus every week except week 4, when we were both out by one. This isn't a brag, it's something I shout about almost every week - you have to understand why you'd be picking more underdogs at the start of a season than at the end.
Think about how a team becomes an underdog in Vegas. This is ultimately dictated by whether the fans betting on the game believe one team will win or lose. If Vegas sets an opening spread of +3 on a team, but the public money is 90/10 in favor of the underdog, then that spread comes in until the percentage of cash wagered on the game is more even. By the end of the week, Vegas wants public money to be close to 50/50 between the underdog and the favorite.
So every spread is a reflection of the public's collective knowledge and understanding of the two teams, hence why at the start of the season, we see a pattern of knee-jerk big spreads and misconceptions of teams that are subsequently proven to have been incorrect. As the season wears on, we start to get a good idea of who is who in the NFL, and we can more rationally assess the spread.
With that in mind, here's our five week 9 Upsets, and the rest of the picks below:
Upset of the week: Pittsburgh (+3) @ Baltimore
The Ravens are just not all that. I have said it all year, but something is really weird about how quickly people jumped on their bandwagon, given the calibre of team they have defeated and some of the huge red falgs (scoring single digits against Cleveland, failing to capitalize on a huge advantage vs Tennessee).
They don't score enough points for my liking, and again, last week, they hit their '3 touchdown average' score. Discount the Buffalo game with Nathan Peterman, and that's how many points they were averaging headed into the Panthers game. Lo and behold, that's exactly what they hit...
The Ravens rank quite high in defensive passing yards allowed (2nd, 195ypg) but I think this is skewed by the Tennessee (Mariota injured and barely able to throw) and Buffalo games they've played this year, where they gave up just 51 and 70 yards, respectively. Discount those games, and the average is actually 288 yards per game, good for 27th in the league and making their pass D look more like that of the Chiefs...
This is a perfect spot to question 'season stats' - a big part of what we're doing at Pickwatch over the next 12 months.
2: Houston (+1) @ Denver
The Texans have won 5 straight, while the Broncos have won just 1 of their last 6 games. Their last home win was in week 2 and since then, they've struggled against the high tempo offenses of the Chiefs (twice) and the Rams. In fact, their only win came against the anaemic Cardinals on the road.
I don't know if the Texans are completely legit yet, but they improved at the trade deadline with the acquisition of Demariyus Thomas (an interesting wrinkle to this game) and despite being relatively similar to the Broncos in their statistical makeup, the two teams are heading in polar opposite directions. The Texans can take a big step towards the playoffs on Sunday, the Broncos need a win just to keep their hopes alive at the midseason point.
3: Green Bay (+5.5) @ New England
This one falls into the 'there might be a sweet spot...' category. The Packers are not a terrible team, in fact they are statistically and actually playing well without winning, but most importantly, they haven't been blown out against some opponents that are relevant to this game. The Rams, Lions and Vikings all won (or tied) but the Packers arguably could (and should) have won all of those games. Put another way, do you think this spread is 5.5 if Ty Montgomery doesn't make a stupid decision last week and the Packers nab a 1 point win in LA?
The Patriots' pass defense is terrible and the Packers look like getting Randall Cobb and Geronimo Allison into the lineup this week. I like the chances of them keeping this one close, and if any team knows how to play in those chilly, primetime games on a Sunday night, it's the Packers.
4: Kansas City @ Cleveland (+8.5)
The Browns are bad, but they not only have a new head coach, but they also have a habit of winning vs the spread. They're 5-3 this season despite winning just two games, but again, I think Gregg Williams - for all his flaws - is the type of kick up the backside that the Browns need. Personally, I'm of the opinion that the Browns have a talented enough roster to win games, and I think they have an opportunity to shock a couple of teams in the next few months.
Don't be surprised if the Browns keep this one closer than expected.
5: Tampa Bay (+7) @ Carolina
The lure of a touchdown or more! This one comes down to the Panthers being a little hit and miss, while the Bucs continue to be the most bizarrely lopsided team in the game today. Tampa Bay is 1st in passing yards and 31st in passing yards allowed, but it's worth considering that the Panthers are not a pass-first tupe of team. Their strength is rushing (2nd in the NFL) but that is where the Bucs defense is also decent, stopping the Saints, Steelers, Eagles and Falcons from running on them. The fact that they gave up 300+ yards in all of those games is irrelevant...
In all seriousness, the Panthers have had just one 300yd passing day this season, and aren't amazing vs the pass (17th). I think there are some interesting dynamics to this one that make the 7pt spread too difficult to call in favor of the Panthers.
The rest of this week's slate (ranked by chances of an upset)
LA Rams @ New Orleans (-1.5) Tennessee @ Dallas (-6.5) Detroit @ Minnesota (-4.5) Atlanta @ Washington (-1.5) LA Chargers @ Seattle (-1.5) NY Jets @ Miami (-3) Oakland @ San Francisco (-2.5) Chicago (-10) @ Buffalo
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Niemans @ Work
Nieman Reports Winter 2019
The five-hour work day? She’s got it covered: Financial Times columnist Pilita Clark, NF ’97, takes on the modern workplace
Pilita Clark
@pilitaclark
Niemans@Work Pilita Clark
Did you know it sometimes helps to work when slightly drunk?
What about the companies asking their staff to work five-hour days for the same pay? Or the idea that office smokers are the original smart networkers?
I knew about precisely none of this until last year, when I stopped being the Financial Times’ environment correspondent and started writing a weekly column on modern corporate life.
It was a slightly odd transition.
After six years on the environment beat, I had just about mastered the intricacies of the Paris agreement and the workings of a solar panel.
Before that, I had reported on airlines and politics, been a foreign correspondent and an editor, but I had never been paid to be a full-time columnist and I had barely written a word about working life.
I have always been interested in the foibles and frustrations of working life though and suddenly, it was my job to write about them. Every week. Brilliantly.
Judging by readers’ comments, the column is a work in progress.
“Right on!” they said when I wrote about the lost art of drinking on the job, a practice US researchers think dulls one’s focus enough to boost creativity.
“Bravo,” said one, when I reported on the companies switching to five-hour days to boost productivity.
“Sad to see you have to write such trivia,” said another when I hit on the idea that the old smoking room was one of the cheapest and most effective ways to spur internal office communication.
It has become clear why some columnists say it’s best to ignore all reader comments. Yet I am mostly grateful for mine, especially those that alert me to something I’d never considered before or, better yet, make me smile.
The field of workplace reporting has grown more crowded since I stumbled into it.
News sites such as Quartz have set up entire sections devoted to management, leadership, productivity, and whatnot. Podcasts on these topics have bloomed around the world.
Every other day seems to bring a new book on the world of work in my mailbag, often bearing disturbing news.
Technological disruption, the gig economy, job-killing robots, and a slew of other woes feed into a spreading sense of workplace insecurity.
As someone who has had a career in the newspaper industry, job insecurity is hardly unfamiliar.
Yet the more I write about the modern workplace, the more I realize that my own, fortunate position as a full-time employee at a relatively prosperous and humane company sets me apart.
“I can’t imagine our community without the Advocate”: Editor and publisher Chris Cobler, NF ’06, prioritizes holding local officials accountable while pushing to keep 172-year-old paper on sound financial footing
By Chris Cobler
“An Orgy of Mass Murder”: In a new book, James M. Scott, NF ’07, investigates World War II atrocities in the Philippines
By James M. Scott
Investing in the Next Crop of Promising Media Companies: Maya Baratz Jordan, a 2016 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow, on key ingredients for success and openings in a new accelerator program
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What day was my birthday Mar 28, 1976?
March 28, 1976 was a Sunday and it was the 88th day of the year 1976. It was the 13th Sunday of that year. The next time you can reuse your old 1976 calendar will be in 2032. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a lunisolar calendar.
What day is March 28 this year?
The day of the week of your birthday this year is Saturday. Next year it will be Sunday and two years from now it will be Monday. You can check the calendars below if you’re planning what to do on your birthday.
How many days until my next birthday?
There are 67 days left before your next birthday. You will be 44 years old when that day comes. There have been 16,004 days from the day you were born up to today. If you’ve been sleeping 8 hours daily since birth, then you have slept a total of 5,335 days or 14.61 years. You spent 33% of your life sleeping. Since night and day always follow each other, there were precisely 542 full moons after you were born up to this day. How many of them did you see? The next full moon that you can see will be on February 9 at 07:35:00 GMT – Sunday.
Fun stat: Your first one billion seconds (1,000,000,000) happened sometime on December 5, 2007.
How old are you in dog years?
If a dog named Rux - a Neapolitan Mastiff breed, was born on the same date as you then it will be 243 dog years old today. A dog’s first human year is equal to 15 dog years. Dogs age differently depending on breed and size. When you reach the age of 6 Rux will be 45 dog years old. From that point forward a large-sized dog like Rux will age 5-6 dog years for every human year.
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Which celebrity shares my birthday?
You might be happy to know that the following celebrities share your birthday. The list was randomly chosen and arranged in chronological order.
Rosemary Ashe
Scott Mills
Vaidas Baumila
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Who are the famous March 28 birthdays?
Here’s a short list of famous people in history who were born on Mar 28.
Willem Mengelberg, Dutch-Swiss conductor (d. 1951)
Spencer W. Kimball, American religious leader, 12th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1985)
Elizabeth Bainbridge, English soprano
Henry Paulson, American banker and politician, 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury
Paul Eiding, American actor
Brickhouse Brown, American wrestler
Valerie Zimring, American rhythmic gymnast
Nick Frost, English actor and screenwriter
Iván Helguera, Spanish footballer
Patrick Mayer, German footballer
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What happened on my birthday – Mar 28th?
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Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate.
Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sell the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.
The foundation stone of Valletta, Malta’s capital city, is laid by Jean Parisot de Valette, Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
First Indochina War: In the Battle of Mạo Khê, French Union forces, led by World War II hero Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, inflict a defeat on Việt Minh forces commanded by General Võ Nguyên Giáp.
Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is shot by the police in a protest for cheaper meals at a restaurant for low-income students. The aftermath of his death is one of the first major events against the military dictatorship.
In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths.
Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill 146 Kosovo Albanians in the Izbica massacre.
Three children are killed when a Murray County, Georgia, school bus is hit by a CSX freight train.
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What does my birthday March 28, 1976 mean?
Your birthday numbers 3, 28, and 1976 reveal that your Life Path number is 9. It represents selflessness, forgiveness and creativity. You are the philanthropist, humanitarian, socially conscious, and are deeply concerned about the state of the world.
The following celebrities also have the same life path number: Veronica Hurst, İdil Üner, Shalim Ortiz, Lady Sovereign, Angélica Aragón, Edythe Chapman, Tom Dice, Yohana Cobo, Diamond Rings, Nikki Osborne.
What is the birthday horoscope for Mar 28, 1976?
The Western zodiac or sun sign of a person born on March 28 is Aries ♈ (The Ram) – a cardinal sign with Fire as Western element. The ruling planet is Mars – the planet of war and ambition. According to the ancient art of Chinese astrology (or Eastern zodiac), Dragon is the mythical animal and Fire is the Eastern element of a person born on March 28, 1976.
What is the birthstone for March 28?
Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for the month of March while Jade is the mystical birth stone (based on Tibetan origin). The zodiac gemstone for Aries is bloodstone. Lastly, the birthday stone for the day of the week ‘Sunday’ is topaz.
Fun fact: The birth flower for 28th March 1976 is Jonquil for affection.
What is the Birthday Compatibility for Mar 28, 1976?
When it comes to love and relationship, you are most compatible with a person born on November 27, 1962. You have a Birthday Compatibility score of +155. Imagine being in love with your soul mate. On the negative side, you are most incompatible with a person born on January 19, 1997. Your score is -160. You’ll be like a cat and a dog on a love-hate relationship. Arf-arf, I want to bite you. Meow-meow, stay away from me!
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What is a good birthday trivia for March 28?
Q: What do you call a person who shares the same birthday?
A: Birthday twins – easy!
Fun stat: The world population in the year of your birth is 4,160,185,010. (U.S. Census Bureau)
What was the number one song on my birthday?
The number-one hit song in the U.S. at the day of your birth was Disco Lady by Johnnie Taylor as compiled by Billboard Hot 100 (April 3, 1976). Ask your parents if they know this popular song.
Disco Lady (Extended Disco Version With Johnnie's Rap)
Johnnie Taylor
Eargasm
What were you in your past life?
I do not know how you feel about this, but you were a female ♀ in your last earthly incarnation. You were born somewhere around the territory of Central Russia approximately on 1800. Your profession was dramatist, director, musician, bard.
Your brief psychological profile in that past life: You were sane, practical person, materialist with no spiritual consciousness. Your simple wisdom helped the weak and the poor.
Lessons that your last past life brought to present: Your lesson – to conquer jealousy and anger in yourself and then in those, who will select you as their guide. You should understand that these weaknesses are caused by fear and self-regret.
Can you remember who you were?
How many babies were born on March 28, 1976?
Base on the data published by the United Nations Population Division, an estimated 121,620,578 babies were born throughout the world in the year 1976. The estimated number of babies born on 28th March 1976 is 332,297. That’s equivalent to 231 babies every minute. Try to imagine if all of them are crying at the same time.
What is the popular baby name on 28 Mar 1976?
In the United States, the most popular baby name is Jennifer. This name was given to 59,474 baby girls. For the boys it’s Michael. This name was recorded 66,964 times in the year 1976. Any chance you are Jennifer or Michael? (Source: ssa.gov)
News headline for Florida Man March 28
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Roman Numerals for March 28, 1976
Your birthday in Roman numerals using DD.MM.YYYY notation is:
XXVIII.III.MCMLXXVI
March 28, 1976 Birthday Facts Summary
Here’s a quick list of all the fun birthday facts about March 28, 1976. Celebrities, famous birthdays, historical events, and past life were excluded.
Day index: 88th day of 1976
Day of week: Sunday
Day of week birthstone: Topaz
Week index: 13th Sunday of 1976
Next same calendar year: 2032
Day of week this year: Saturday
Day of week next year: Sunday
Day of week in 2022: Monday
Days until next birthday: 67 days
Age on next birthday: 44 years old
Days since birth: 16,004 days
Days spent sleeping: 5,335 days
Years spent sleeping: 14.61 years
Part of life spent sleeping: 33%
Full moons since birth: 542
Next full moon: February 9 at 07:35:00 GMT – Sunday
First one billion seconds: Sometime on December 5, 2007
Age in dog years: 243 dog years old using a Neapolitan Mastiff breed
Life path number and meaning: 9 – It represents selflessness, forgiveness and creativity. You are the philanthropist, humanitarian, socially conscious, and are deeply concerned about the state of the world.
Western zodiac sign: Aries ♈ (The Ram)
Western zodiac element: Fire
Western zodiac sign quality: Cardinal
Western zodiac ruling planet: Mars – the planet of war and ambition
Western zodiac gemstone: Bloodstone
Eastern zodiac animal: Dragon
Eastern zodiac element: Fire
Modern birthstone: Aquamarine
Mystical birthstone: Jade (based on Tibetan origin)
Birth flower: Jonquil for affection
Best compatible birthday: November 27, 1962 (+155)
Worst compatible birthday: January 19, 1997 (-160)
1976 world population: 4,160,185,010
Number one song: Disco Lady by Johnnie Taylor (April 3, 1976)
Babies born in 1976: 121,620,578
Babies born in 1976 every day: 332,297
Babies born in 1976 every minute: 231
Popular girl’s name: Jennifer – 59,474 babies
Popular boy’s name: Michael – 66,964 babies
Roman numerals: XXVIII.III.MCMLXXVI
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“The Right’s Ugly Food-Stamp Obsession Is Back!”: Why Lying Dog-Whistle Politics Returned
“Welcome to Obama’s America,” Fox’s Eric Bolling told his audience Tuesday – a dystopia where people now use food stamps to patronize “strip clubs, liquor stores, pot dispensaries.” Following up on its rubbishy August 2013 faux-exposé “The Great Food Stamp Binge,” Fox again profiled “surfing freeloader” Jason Greenslate, who is allegedly “livin’ large” in San Diego, thanks to the SNAP program, commonly known as food stamps. After Bill O’Reilly’s errand boy Jesse Watters caught up with Greenslate again Monday night, “The Five” used the lazy surfer as “the representative of literally millions of Americans,” in Bolling’s words. It was epic.
“He’s playing the system, he’s stretching the rules to their limits,” Bolling told Fox’s angry, fearful, mostly elderly viewers. “But what would you expect with a $105 billion program that’s almost tripled under Obamanomics? That’s what you would expect, right there, take a look at it. But what’s next? Strip clubs, liquor stores, pot dispensaries? Oh, that’s already going on, folks. Welcome to Obama’s America.”
Bolling’s rant came a day after Dick Cheney visited Fox and attacked Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s military cuts, telling Sean Hannity, bizarrely, that Obama “would much rather spend the money on food stamps than he would on a strong military or support for our troops.”
The right just can’t leave that old dog-whistle alone. It’s 2012 all over again – Newt Gingrich will be reviving his claim that Obama’s “the food stamp president” any minute now. In “Obama’s America,” the right is determined to make the president the tribune of a moocher-rewarding, ever-expanding welfare state, even if they have to lie to do so.
Of course in Obama’s America (and everyone else’s) SNAP regulations prohibit buying alcohol or tobacco with food stamps, let alone drugs, and they can’t be used at restaurants or bars, let alone strip clubs. But Bolling wants Fox viewers in a perpetual state of moral panic, and the notion that slackers like Greenslate are “livin’ large” – Fox’s term — on the public dime just works, the facts be damned.
Cheney’s rant was in some ways more offensive. Charging that the cuts proposed by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel are “really devastating,” Cheney went on: “It does enormous long-term damage to our military. They act as though it is like highway spending and you can turn it on and off. The fact of the matter is he is having a huge impact on the ability of future presidents to deal with future crises that are bound to arise.”
Of course, as Think Progress noted back when Cheney began lobbying against defense cuts in 2012, the former vice president himself presided over a 25 percent cut to the defense budget back when he was defense secretary under George H.W. Bush. The fighting force was reduced by 500,000 active-duty soldiers, a move that was blessed by Joint Chiefs of Staff chair Colin Powell.
That was then. These cuts are the work of Obama’s team. So not only must they be attacked as dangerous, they’ve got to be framed as something the corrupt Chicago “gangster” is doing to reward his coalition of slackers, moochers and lazy white surfers.
Now, maybe it’s progress that Fox is making a white surfer the poster boy for food stamp abuse – but it’s the link to “Obama’s America” that updates Reagan’s old imagery about Cadillac-driving welfare queens and “young bucks” using food stamps to buy “T-bone steaks.”
In fact only 1 percent of SNAP funds are wasted in fraud. Three-quarters of SNAP households include an elderly or disabled person or a child, and fully 42 percent of adult recipients are also working, but making too little to feed themselves and their families. Among the nation’s food stamp recipients are almost a million military veterans, who were slurred by Cheney, and thousands of active duty military too. Military families spent $100 million in food stamp funds at military grocery stores in 2013.
Fox and Cheney don’t want you to think about the veteran or the soldier or the single mother or the disabled senior on food stamps. They don’t want Fox viewers to ask why 42 percent of recipients make such low wages that they qualify for food assistance, or why so many veterans and even active-duty soldiers need help. To distract from an economy that’s increasingly hoarding rewards at the top, they point to a cartoonish moocher and blame Obama.
By: Joan Walsh, Editor at Large, Salon, February 26, 2014
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Walt Hammond & SK Bean to chase Claremont NHSTRA Modified Championship!
December 7, 2019 Myracenews Leave a comment
Claremont NH – Walt Hammond from Enfield NH will find a new home on Friday nights in 2020, Walt along with Stuart bean will bring the #77 Modified to Claremont Motorsports Park for the 2020 season. Hammond has been racing a DIRT Modified over the last few seasons but is not a stranger to the pavement formally competing in an ACT style Late Model in the past. “I grew up at Claremont watching my Dad, Donnie Lashua, Dwight Jarvis & Punky Caron race at Claremont. It’s kind of cool to get a chance to race at the same track as they all did”
Car owner SK Bean feels the timing is right, “After fielding Dirt Modifieds and Late Models for the past 48years we feel the time is right, the 604 motor package they have come up with fits our budget to race this type of car, I believe with Mike Parks and his newly assembled staff is leading Claremont speedway into a new era and were excited to be a part of it!! The SK Bean 77 team is also thinking of some events at the sister tracks of the NHSTRA as well during 2020. You can catch the 77 at Claremont Speedway for the Modified opener on Friday night May 1st.
Mike Willis Jr returning home to Claremont Motorsports Park in 2020
November 29, 2019 Myracenews Leave a comment
Claremont NH – Mike Willis Jr is planning on returning home for the 2020 race season. Willis will compete for the NHSTRA Modified track championship at Claremont Motorsports. Willis is no stranger to the Modified division at the speedway winning both the 2010 and 2011 track championship and has visited victory lane with both the Modified Racing Series and the Tri Track Modifieds at the Thrasher Rd Speed plant. Over the last five years Willis has competed mainly on the Modified Racing series where he was the 2019 series champion.
When asked why the change Willis stated it was time to race at home and support his local race track and help build the NHSTRA Modified division. Willis stated he believes in the 604 program and he really likes the way things are moving at the speedway. ‘With Mike Parks and his staff taking the reins that was the deciding factor, with what they have been able to do with the Granite State Pro Stock Series hopefully they can bring that type of professionalism to Claremont on a regular basis’. The class will be stout we have no illusions as Brian Robie, Dana Smith & Kyle Welch will offer strong competition stated Willis.
Willis will compete on a regular basis at Claremont as well as selected event with the NHSTRA at Monadnock, Hudson and Lee, as well as selected Tour Type Modified events beginning at New Smyrna Speedway in Fla. for the World Series of Asphalt Racing in February.
You can catch all the action at Claremont Motorsports Park beginning on Saturday April 25th at 5pm, you can also follow us in Facebook and www.claremontmotorsportspark.com
MDP Motorsports Promotions LLC enters into a lease agreement with Claremont Motorsports Park
November 3, 2019 Myracenews Leave a comment
During the recently revived Fall Challenge at Claremont Motorsports Park, it was announced that Mike Parks and MDP Motorsports promotions had entered into an agreement to lease the Thrasher Road speed plant. Starting in April of 2020, Parks and his team will have complete control of all motor sports operations at the track.
The historic NH facility was purchased during the winter of 2018 and 2019 by Ben Bosowski and Norman Wrenn. The duo ran the track for the 2019 race season with the help of general manager Phil Hayes but have made the decision to go another direction in 2020.
Granite State Pro Stock Series founder and promoter Parks along with Wrenn and Bosowski have reached an agreement that will allow the two southern NH race track owners to concentrate on their other tracks and allow Parks to live out a life long dream.
“I have to thank Norm and Ben for giving us this opportunity” stated Parks. “We have held several one off events over the last couple of years and this is the next step in the progression.” “This is my home track”, continued the Walpole NH resident. “To have the opportunity to actually run the place is a dream come true!”
For 2020 there will be a combination of old and new on several fronts. The track will continue to be a Friday night track, racing under the NHSTRA and NASCAR banners featuring the ultra competitive sportsman modified division racing biweekly. Alternating with the modifieds will be the mini stocks as they return as a points paying division for 2020. Also returning will be the late model sportsmen, six shooters, pure stocks and what has become the most popular division in the region, the street stocks.
When asked about operational changes Parks said, “we will be backing up the start time to 7:30pm with a goal of having people out by 10:30. We want to run an efficient fast paced program that fans look forward to watching week in and week out.”
When asked about personnel Parks said, “We have started to assemble a staff that will have some old and some new faces. There are still some holes to be filled but the key positions are filled and we are excited about the team we are assembling.”
For 2020 the speedway will host several of the regions finest racing series. The Granite State Pro Stock Series will open the the facility on Saturday April 25 with the track kicking off its Friday night schedule on May first. “The GSPSS opening both the tracks season and the series season has become a tradition”, stated Parks. “We look forward to kicking off both seasons with a bang”
When asked about other visiting tours Parks said, “we are in talks with numerous other groups about the possibilities for next season. We will also be participating in the NHSTRA battle for the belt series for all divisions involved”.
Also in discussion for 2020 are the memorial races that have become a staple of the Claremont Motorsports Park schedule. These races memorialize people from the tracks past and provide for unique events for the competitors.
When asked about the 2020 schedule Parks responded, “we are really close to having it ready for release. We have a few I’s to dot and T’s to cross but it is close and will be released in the not to distant future.”
The property not only contains the popular third mile oval but also a go kart track, mud bog pit and sand drag track. All of these venues will be under the control of Parks and his team and announcements will be made about there operation in the weeks and months to come.
For more information about all the happenings at the track follow Claremont Motorsports Park at www.claremontmotorsportspark.com or find them on facebook.
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OCAP | Shelter Crisis
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February 6, 2017 In Homelessness, Public Housing, Shelter Crisis
John Tory’s Lies Cost Lives
80 people have died in the last two years as a direct result of homelessness in Toronto. That’s one homeless person dying every 10 days. In 1985, people fighting homelessness started keeping track of these senseless, and entirely preventable deaths. Since that time, they’ve recorded over 800 deaths—lives sacrificed in service of a perverse economic logic that demands ever more cuts from the destitute and grants ever more comforts to the rich. Talk to anyone who has used the City’s emergency shelter system, or anyone who works with people using shelters, and a grim picture emerges of chronic overcrowding, bug infested dormitories, the recurrent spread of contagious diseases, and the perpetual lack of sufficient beds.
February 1, 2017 In #HSFJustice, Homelessness, Housing Stabilization Fund, Public Housing, Shelter Crisis
Open Letter to Mayor John Tory
From the Members of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty: February 1, 2017
Mayor Tory:
We have learned that, in the lead up to the austerity Budget that you and your co-thinkers on the City Council are working on, you will be speaking at the pro-business C.D. Howe Institute on February 9. We intend to be there as well to deliver a clear message.
Toronto is a City of huge wealth. There are whole neighbourhoods of very rich people and banking and corporate interests are headquartered here. Yet, the revenue that could be obtained from the properties of such people is scandalously disregarded. Now, you embark on a course that will cut vital services across the board.
In the face of your impending attack, we demand:
No cuts to Toronto Community Housing. No more homes can be boarded up when the waiting list for housing is so vast. Increase funding to the vital Housing Stabilization Fund (HSF) to prevent people losing their housing and enable them to obtain it.
No cuts to the homeless shelter system and related supports. Expand life saving warming centre and drop in services.
Enforce the 90% maximum occupancy shelter policy, stop closing facilities in the central area of the City and, as an immediate emergency measure to deal with the appalling crisis of overcrowding in the shelters, open the federal armouries to the homeless.
The unprecedented austerity measures you are imposing on communities in this City make a farce of your claim function in an ‘inclusive’ fashion. You are conducting a war on the poor that is harsh and brutal and we intend to give a lead on the 9th in terms of building resistance to your attacks.
The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP)
January 26, 2017 In Homelessness, Public Housing, Shelter Crisis
No Cuts to Shelters & Housing
Rally and Picket to Fight Tory’s Hypocrisy: Thursday, February 9 | 11am | 67 Yonge Street [Just south of King St] [Food Provided]
Facebook Event | Stop Tory’s Hypocrisy! | Download Poster | Download Flyer
Read our open letter to Mayor Tory | John Tory’s Lies Cost Lives
On February 9, John Tory will be speaking at the C.D Howe Institute, a right-wing think-tank dedicated to the needs of the rich. He will be assuring Toronto’s wealthy that the budget he has in store for 2017 will benefit them.
We don’t doubt it will be, and we know full well what it will do to the poor and working class people of this city. Built within his austerity budget is a devastating cut to the already failing Shelter, Support and Housing administration. This in a context where homeless shelters are bursting at the seams, rents are sky high, it takes more than 10 years to get public housing, and rooming houses are being sold off to greedy developers.
Tory won’t stop until we make him.
On February 9, join us to make sure Budget 2017 isn’t a death sentence for people on the streets, and a push onto the streets for the thousands of other desperately holding onto housing with their fingernails. #FightToWin
November 17, 2016 In Homelessness, Shelter Crisis
Rally & March for Homeless Shelters
Thursday, December 15 | 4:00pm | Toronto City Hall Square
[Meal Provided] [Queen & Bay, near Osgoode or Queen station]
Note: Please let us know if you need ASL translation by December 10 by emailing or calling us.
Toronto’s homeless shelter system is bursting at the seams. This is a city that drips with wealth yet abandons homeless people to die on the streets or face conditions of brutal overcrowding that denies them basic dignity and jeopardizes their health.
All summer long homeless shelters have been packed, and now as we head into winter, there is real risk that even survival spaces like the Warming Centres and Out of the Cold facilities won’t be able to handle the overflow.
The City must stop cutting shelter beds in the central core, and open new space now if are to avoid tragedies this winter.
Join us for a rally & march to make sure the City opens desperately needed shelter space now.
Bursting at the Seams: Released
The Gala Premiere Screening of our new short film outside Mayor John Tory’s luxury condominium last night was a success. See media coverage on CityNews, Toronto Sun, Now Magazine, and CP24. Also, some pictures from last night are available here and here.
The full video is also now online, please share it far and wide and join us in the streets to demand the City stop cutting shelter beds and open desperately needed new spaces.
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November 17, 2016 In Homelessness, Shelter Crisis, Solidarity Actions
Toronto’s Poor: A Rebellious History
Book Launch: Thursday, December 8 | 6:30 pm | St. Luke’s Church (353 Sherbourne)
Website | Facebook | Wheelchair accessible venue, Childcare available
Join us for the launch of long-time OCAP member, Gaetan Heroux, and labour historian Bryan Palmer’s new book, Toronto’s Poor: A Rebellious History, documenting more than 180 years of poor people’s resistance in this City.
The book reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how the homeless, the unemployed, and the destitute have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present. It is about men, women, and children relegated to lives of desperation by an uncaring system, and how they have refused to be defeated. In that refusal, and in winning better conditions for themselves, Toronto’s poor create the possibility of a new kind of society, one ordered not by acquisition and individual advance, but by appreciations of collective rights and responsibilities.
Written by a historian of the working-class and an anti-poverty activist, this rebellious history links past and present in an almost two-hundred year story of struggle and resistance, inspiring a sense of what can be accomplished when poor people fight to win.
October 28, 2016 In #HSFJustice, Homelessness, Shelter Crisis
The Persistence of Poverty
Now Magazine featured an article today about OCAP’s work in resisting the agenda of Liberal austerity that has moved from a question of reduced entitlement to that of lethal abandonment.
Read the article: The Persistence of Poverty
October 28, 2016 In Homelessness, Shelter Crisis
Bursting at the Seams: Premiere
Everyone’s Invited to the Gala Screening & Premiere of our New Short Film
Thursday, November 10 | Mayor John Tory’s Condo | 6:30pm
[Bedford & Bloor, Outside St. George Subway Station]
Food will be served before the screening
In collaboration with a few key allies, OCAP has made a short film on conditions of brutal overcrowding within Toronto’s homeless shelter system. We are going to show it outside the building where Mayor John Tory lives in somewhat better circumstances.
Watch the Film Trailer:
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As we move into winter, the homeless are being crammed into facilities where they face the most appalling conditions or are dumped onto the streets. The crisis is being compounded by a concerted drive by City Hall to move shelters out of the City core to make way for more upscale redevelopment.
Come out, see the film and support the fight for the right to shelter.
Note: One Bedford is just outside St. George subway station (accessible subway station).
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R. I. P. Cousin Tony
May 3, 2012 By catenacci in Personal 4 Comments
On Saturday last I learned that my dad’s cousin, Donald Anthony Cornacchio had passed away. It’s never easy to put in words how we feel about someone we’re close to and Tony (I always called him Tony—no one called him “Donald” that I know of and I think he hated to be called “Donald”) was more like an uncle to me than a distant cousin.
I’m not exactly sure what happened to him but I get the notion that he was suffering from cancer and it finally got him. I know that must sound strange—saying I was close to my dad’s cousin and then saying “but I don’t know exactly how he died.” It’s because for the last several years he’d lived in Indiana far away from the rest of my extended family. Life has a way of drifting people apart I guess.
I’ve only had a few people hang a nickname on me in my life. My uncle Giovanni and my cousin Louie Sardy used to call me “Onion”. I liked that because it made me feel a bit less awkward at a time in my life when I often felt like I was on the outside looking in. In college my roommates called me “The Latin Lover” which was a joke because I never had any dates. But I laughed along with them because I knew they weren’t trying to be mean but rather it was the kind of good-spirited teasing that friends do to each other. My cousin Ann-Marie calls me “Frau” after “Frau Blucher” in Young Frankenstein. We both find that movie immensely funny even after having probably watched it 40 times between the two of us.
A good nickname is sort of a special friendship between people; let the rest of the world call you what they like—to me you’re . . . the nickname. We’ve got a nice safe friendly space here and that nickname is the password for you and me. I think I heard Smokey Robinson (whose real name is William) relating how his favorite uncle had given him the nickname “Smokey” because he was self-conscious about the light tone of his skin. A nickname can help to smooth the rough road of life sometimes.
Cousin Tony had a nickname for everyone he liked. My dad was “Bounce”—I always thought that Tony had given dad that nickname but I learned a few years ago that my dad got that nickname when he was in high school. And he called me “perfesser” (I know that’s not spelled right but that’s how Tony pronounced it.) For some reason Tony always thought that I was a smart guy. If I live to 100 I will always smile when I think of Tony calling me “perfesser” because Tony didn’t put on airs and he didn’t pretend to like people if he didn’t like them so when Tony gave you a nickname it was a sign of genuine affection.
The other thing that I will always remember about Tony was his given name. I was complaining, as I often did when I was younger, about how annoying it was to be named with such an odd name as “Onorio”—how much teasing I took. Tony said something to me like “Do you think you’re the only one who ever had anyone make fun of his name?” and he proceeded to relate to me that kids had cruelly called him Donald Duck and other names not quite so nice. As an adult it’s hard to imagine being hurt by that kind of name calling but as a kid that kind of thing really hurts And knowing that my cousin Tony had suffered that too made it hurt just a little less—I felt just a little less excluded.
I am going to miss Tony because rather than seeing a little know-it-all and telling me (as he rightly might have) to stop being such a know-it-all, he gave me a great nickname and he made me feel pretty special.
I could go on and on about Tony because even though he may have told you otherwise, Tony was a great person. At some point it seems that trying to reduce a person’s life to a few sentences maybe cheapens things. I hope that we’ll all be together again someday and I can tell Tony thank you in person.
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Angela Dudgeon says:
Onorio that was beautiful. I also had a nickname from Tony and also bob. They called me baccia baby because of my father. Lol always got a kick out of that:) will miss him so much.
I wrote this once but not sure if it got through. That was so nice. I also have a nickname from Tony and Bob calls me it to. Baccia baby cause of my father. Kind if funny. Will miss him so much. Tony had a funny way of showing his love but you knew how much he loved you. Though to my surprise he did say it a couple of times. I would always kiss his face over and over again he would push me away and say stop but I knew he loved it. He will be missed so much.
catenacci says:
You know I had forgotten about Tony and Bob giving you that nickname. Oh that does bring back some nice memories. How’s Levi?
By the way, the comments on this blog are moderated to help keep the spam down. Once I’ve approved a comment from a person you shouldn’t need to be approved again so feel free to comment away.
Mary Catenacci says:
beautiful, Son, beautiful, Maryann, Barbara, Bettyann, Bob and I have so many memories some are hillarious, some are melancholy. Tony in spite of his personality loved very deeply as do Italians in general. Maryann, Barbara and those mentioned above all recall family having to be literally dragged off the body of a deceased family member because they were loved so deeply.
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Football opera
Hér og þar · 2. jun
"NONONONONOAt the last second of the second half the opponents score a tie with a header after a freekick... and I really don't care who it was... can't stand him... whoever he was and can't stand him!The ugliest goal I have ever seen......and at the same moment the whistle is blown for half time. It's a tie.We will win, in the second half. This isn't complicated"What does football have in common with opera?People get their kicks out of music as well as sport, and in both cases this outlet of emotions can be exhibited with various sounds; shouts, singing, drumming, jubilant whoops. Music is often at it's best when it tries to convey a clear and distinct emotion and in football their is always a clear direction, a clear goal. Everything or nothing. Victory! And a passion for that goal. With a light and comic touch the Football Opera explores the coming together of these two worlds; the excitement, thrill and joy along with the disappointments.
Children's Opera Walk
Gerðarsafn, Gerðarsafn, Gerðarsafn · 3. jun / 4. jun / 5. jun
The Children's Opera Walk is an operatic stroll for kids, 12 years and younger, and their guardians. It start outside of Gerðarsafn and from there the group will be led between places in the heart of Kópavogur. One can expect various delights from the sheets of operatic history.The walk takes about an hour.All events on Kópavogur Opera Days will have free admission, excluding the Lunch Concerts, but because of limited seating, we recommend securing a ticket by sending a mail to operudagar@operudagar.is with a name, telephone number and number of tickets needed.Everyone is free to show up without a ticket but admission can then not be guaranteed.
Kopavogur City Theatre · 1. jun / 2. jun
It is easier said than done to be content with one self, even if you are a seal. Aron is preparing the perfect dinner for Elísabet, his fiancé. They have an apartment in a block of flats overlooking Kópavogur. In their stairwell a poorly dressed man is reading the newspaper. The sealskin is drying on the radiator. This is a stranger, and possibly not a man. Aron is the overseer of the flats and cannot stand careless conduct in the building but Elísabet sees things differently and invites the strange creature in to the home. The Sealskin is a new comic opera script by Árni Kristjánsson, musically directed by Matthildur Anna Gísladóttir. Famous arias from works such as The Marriage of Figaro, La Traviata and The Flying Dutchmen will be performed.
Horrible Händel
2. jun
I have so many troubles in my breast that I cannot say which is the most oppressive. George Frideric Händel (1685-1759) composed a myriad of music and in particular operas, oratorios and cantatas. Characters in his works often end up in horrible situations as the above text fragment from the cantata Mi pal pita il cor shows. The cantata will be performed in full length during the concert. Also performed will be horribly good arias and one (horribly) dramatic duet. From the 1st to the 5th of June there will be lunchtime concert in Salurinn every day from 12:15 -12:50. Tickets can be gotten at Karolina Fund or by contacting operudagar@operudagar.is.
Final concert
Salurinn, Kópavogur · 5. jun
The Closing Concert of Kópavogur Opera Days will be held in Salurinn, Kópavogur. There highlights of the festival will be on show and people are encouraged to show up in force!All events on Kópavogur Opera Days will have free admission, excluding the Lunch Concerts, but because of limited seating, we recommend securing a ticket by sending a mail to operudagar@operudagar.is with a name, telephone number and number of tickets needed.Everyone is free to show up without a ticket but admission can then not be guaranteed.
Brahms and Bel canto
This Lunch Concert's program blends together lieder and arias. First Aron Axel and Hrönn will perform Riccardo's romantic aria from I puritani from Vincenzo Bellini, followed by Belcore's comic aria from Gaetano Donizetti's The Elixir of Love culminating in the stupendous op. 32 Lieder and Songs by Johannes Brahms. Enjoy!Aron Axel Cortes, baritonHrönn Þráinsdóttir, piano.
Cabaret Evening at Garðskálinn
Garðskálinn at Gerðarsafn, Kópavogur · 3. jun
On The Cabaret Evening there will be an opportunity for singers to shine in the limelight. The stage will be open to any who wish to participate, the pianist ready and anyone wishing to entertain the crowd with cabaret music is heartily welcome.Just remember to bring your notes!Garðskálinn will be open and there you can buy drinks and light snacks. Is it not ideal evening, listening to wonderful music while sipping red wine?All events on Kópavogur Opera Days will have free admission, excluding the Lunch Concerts, but because of limited seating, we recommend securing a ticket by sending a mail to operudagar@operudagar.is with a name, telephone number and number of tickets needed.Everyone is free to show up without a ticket but admission can then not be guaranteed.
Leikfélagi Kópavogs · 3. jun / 4. jun
Poppea Remixed is based on the opera The Crowning of Poppea (L’incoronazione die Poppea) by the Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi, on of the oldest operas of musical history. It premiered in Venice in 1643 and is still to this day regularly performed in all the world's major opera houses. The setting is Rome in the year 60 and is based on true historical facts. In Poppea Remixed we concentrate on the three main characters of the opera; the cold emperor Nero, his wife, Ottavia and his mistress, the magnetic Poppea.Nero wants to make Poppea his empress and together they humiliate Ottavia, who is in the end banished from Rome. In her famous aria, Addio Roma, you can hear Ottavia saying farewell to her city.The relationship between Nero and Poppea is based on the greed for power and lust and is one of the most tempestuous of the operatic cannon. In between the opera scenes the Dutch pop duo Sommerhus will play their own songs and with them comment on the proceedings. Out of this emerges an interesting and novel conversation between pop and opera music where old meets new.
Living Room Concert with Anna Vala and Guðrún
At home · 1. jun
Two Living Room Concerts will be held on Kópavogur Opera Days in private houses around the town. For tickets, please send an email to operudagar@operudagar.is. Limited seating!In the Living Room Concert the 1st of June Anna Vala Ólafsdóttir, alto and Guðrún Dalía Salómonsdóttir, pianist, will perform songs by Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Debussy. Romanticism rules, blended with wit and mystic. Various characters will appear, among them the tomboy Mignon and the ancient Greek companion Bilitis.All events on Kópavogur Opera Days will have free admission, except the Lunch Concerts, but because of limited seating, we recommend securing a ticket by sending a mail to operudagar@operudagar.is with a name, telephone number and number of tickets needed.
Chat and questions for singing students
Bókasafni Kópavogs · 1. jun
Young professional singers talk about their experience of studying abroad. Singing students that are aiming for further studies are encouraged to attend to get a glimpse of what to expect!
Amerikanische Songs & German Lieder
Magnús Halldór, tenor, and Bjarni Frímann, pianist will perform 5 old American folk song arranged by Aaron Copland. The songs give a taste of the American folk song tradition, all the way from a Quaker hymn to a nonsense children's song.Also on the programme are three well known Lieder by Franz Schubert about bittersweet love; failed flirtation, unrequited love and love lost.Hugo Wolf ends the concert with two "wanderer" poems and a song about a critic that arrives uninvited and gets his comeuppance. Aaron Copland (1900-1990) - Old American Songs 1. The Boatman's Dance 2. The Dodger 3. Long Time Ago 4. Simple Gifts 5. I Bought Me a Cat Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Heidenröslein Die Forelle Im Frühling Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) Fußreise Der Musikant AbschiedFrom the 1st to the 5th of June there will be daily Lunch Concerts in Salurinn, Kópavogur from 12.15 - 12.50
Masterclass with Kristinn Sigmundsson
Salnum · 2. jun / 3. jun
Kristinn Sigmundsson is one of the nation's most cherished singers. At Kópavogur Opera Days he will teach a two day Masterclass for young singers at Salurinn in Kópavogur. Everyone is free to attend. Participants of the Kópavogur Opera Days will prepare music to perform and will enjoy his tutelage on Thursday the 2nd of June and Friday the 3rd.
Gezelligheit eftir frumsýningu
Garðskálanum í Gerðarsafni · 1. jun
Sommerhus is a duo from the Netherlands which will play their own songs on the evening of the first day of Operadays Kópavogur. Feel free to drop by, have a drink or two, mingle with other festival guests - and enjoy the beautiful music.
Living Room Concert with Sólborg and Elísabet
In a living room · 4. jun
Two Living Room Concerts will be held on Kópavogur Opera Days in private houses around the town. For tickets, please send an email to operudagar@operudagar.is. Limited seating!Elísabet Einarsdóttir, sopran and Sólborg Valdimarsdóttir, pianist, invite you on a breathtaking journey, right in the living room, through opera arias from Germany, France and Italy. The stark contrast that distinguishes these arias give the singer and pianist a chance to run the full gamut of emotion.All events on Kópavogur Opera Days will have free admission, excluding the Lunch Concerts, but because of limited seating, we recommend securing a ticket by sending a mail to operudagar@operudagar.is with a name, telephone number and number of tickets needed.
Opening of Operadays at Salurinn
Salurinn, Kópavogur · 28. may
The opening of Operadays Kopavogur takes place in Salurinn on the 28th of May. A brand new Football Opera by Helgi R. Ingvarsson will be premiered and afterwards, guests can explore the music hall under guidance - everyone is very welcome and there is no entrance fee.
Birds and Beach
Soprano Rannveig Káradóttir and pianist Birna Hallgrímsdóttir both graduated with a Masters degree from The Royal College of Music as well as being 6th cousins, descendants of Páll Jónsson from Strandir. In 2011 they toured around Iceland with a program of songs inspired by nature. This May they realized a five year old dream and recorded this program. The album is called Krot – Icelandic songs and the release concert will be on the 4th of September in Salurinn in Kópavogur. The program for this lunch-time concert will include songs from their album about birds and the beach with an addition of three foreign songs about the Swan. Beautiful bird paintings by Edda Heiðrún Backmann will accompany the music on the stage but Edda also made the artwork for the album’s cover. A fun fact is that the song Vetrarþoka or Winter Fog, that was commissioned for Krot was written by Árni Kristjánsson, the director of Selshamurinn, and Helgi Rafn Ingvarsson who wrote the Football Opera, but both of these shows are a part of the festival.
The Coffee Cantata
Hér og þar
Lisa cannot stop drinking coffee, her father is going grey because of hear ceaseless coffe drinking. Inhabitants of Kópavogur might bump into the father and daughter around to town a Kópavogur Opera Days.The Coffee Cantata by J.S.Bach was composed around the year 1732 and has been very popular ever since then. Europeans first acquired a taste for the bean in the end of the 17th Century and have ever since them been hooked - not without reason.The Coffee Cantata is ideal for performing in coffee shops around the town - companies are encouraged to contact the father and daughter to invite them over!
Opera Walk
Starts at Garðskálinn Café in Gerdarsafn Art Museum · 3. jun / 4. jun / 5. jun /
The audience at the Opera Walk will be lead through the heart of Kópavogur and can expect various happenings all the meanwhile. We won't give up exactly what will happen - but guests are encouraged to wear comfortable shoes - though the walk won't be too long!The walk takes about an hour and a half.There is also a Children's Walk for the younger generation, 12 years and younger and their guardians, which takes about an hour. Various characters from the sheets of operatic history will show up and entertain the crowd.All events on Kópavogur Opera Days will have free admission, excluding the Lunch Concerts, but because of limited seating, we recommend securing a ticket by sending a mail to operudagar@operudagar.is with a name, telephone number and number of tickets needed.Everyone is free to show up without a ticket but admission can then not be guaranteed.
Sheep Song Committee sings
Bright summer nights are central to The Sheep Song Committee's lunch concert. Bawdy renaissance madrigals appropriately describe the union of young lovers under the sunlit evening sky. The cry of solemn prayer echoes the intimate awe experienced in the stillness of the night. Also, there's one song that's kind of like an advice poem. The programme concludes with songs praising the night, the spirit it invokes in the heart of the poet and the reconciling that sleep begets. From the 1st to the 5th of June there will be lunchtime concert in Salurinn every day from 12:15 -12:50. Tickets can be gotten at Karolina Fund or by contacting operudagar@operudagar.is.
Elísabet and Sólborg
Salnum Kópavogi · 26. may
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Al destin che la minaccia úr MitridateFarnance wants to marry Aspasia Aspasia but she fears him. Aspasia then asks Sifare, Farnace's brother and enemy to protect her.G. Donizetti (1897-1848) Regnava nel silenzio from Lucia di Lammermoor In this famous aria Lucia tells Alisa her maid from the legend that she has seen a ghost at the place where they are now. She describes the ghost of a girl who has been killed by a jealous man from Ravenswood family. These two families - Lammermoor och Ravenswood - are great competitors. Lucia tells her maid that her love for Edgardo is stronger than this ominous sign that the ghost is.J. Strauss (1825-1899)Mein Herr Marquis from the operetta Die FledermausEisenstein is introduced to Adele, but he is not sure who she is, because she resembles his waitress. She laughs out loud by all this. This man Marquis is funny!A. Thomas (1811-1886)Oui, pour ce soir .. Je suis Titania la blonde from the MignonPhiline goes into another role and plays ”Titania, the blonde". Just tonight, she is magic goddess, surrounded by birds, flowers, butterflies and light.G. Donizetti (1897-1848)Par le rang et par l'opulence of the opera La fille du regimentMarie is left alone and abandoned. Her lover has left to go to the army. When she is almost accepted to be alone, she hears the military music and becomes be so happy when he comes.
Pre-programme
23. may / 24. may /
Participants of the festival will visit elementary schools and recreational centres for elderly people in the week before the festival starts in order to present it and perform.
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Lovecraft in Brighton
I’ve been reading a lot about Lovecraft recently (more than I’ve been reading Lovecraft himself — his prose is so dreary). I found a couple of references to a brief trip to Hampshire/Sussex, including an unpleasant few days spent in Brighton. Which got me thinking about Brighton and cosmic horror, which then got me scribbling little weird tales about Lovecraft coming back to life in Brighton, a city he loathed when he’d been there in life. Here’s one of them:
I am Brighton
Lovecraft and I stroll the Brighton promenade. We pass the skeleton of the West Pier, blackened iron bones left behind when it was torched. We come to the stone jetty a little further along and walk to the end. Once there, Howard puts his hands deep in his coat pockets and sags. I look toward the ruins. “Do you ever wonder what’s under the sea?”
“All the time,” he sighs, then turns to face the shore, his back to the water. “We should go inland.”
“Why are you here if you hate it so much?”
He has walked a few paces. He stops, turns a little but not enough to face me. “I had no choice. I was summoned.”
He’s told me that a few times but never elaborates. He is resentful, hates being here, marooned in Brighton three quarters of a century after he died. This is a man who was disappointed by his first life, where he sometimes had to go without food to have enough money for stamps, a life that was too lonely. I tell him he should come out with me to bars, to parties, try to let it go, but he never does. He makes no effort to do anything with his second life.
“The problem with the sea is this,” he declares, turning to face the shore once more. I move closer to hear properly. “You can never see what the depths hold. There might be hideous things in the dark waters. And most of our world is ocean, inhospitable to all life. It amazes me that any human tribe ever lived in sight of the ocean.”
He shudders and walks away. But I continue staring at the sea. Its strength and power captivate me. The water here is too cold and cloudy to see more than a few inches down. Howard sometimes claims that something monstrous lives in the waters off Brighton. I don’t know if he’s joking when he says this, but he may well be right. That’s the thing about the sea. At least outer space is open – nothing can hide there and we are tracking every object for millions of miles. The sea is so much closer yet we have no idea what it hides.
The thing sleeps. Occasionally people are drawn to this shore. Sometimes I feel its pull too, a gravity, as if Brighton is tilted, as if it inclines towards the shore. Not everyone can resist this force. August Bank Holiday 1973, the writer Ann Quin drowned herself near the pier, ‘given to the sliding of the water’. Once considered a giant of British literary fiction, her books now only rarely surface into print. I feel so sad for her, stepping into the cold water, nobody to call her back.
I wonder how long I could keep going in that cold water. Once you’re a certain distance from the beach, it doesn’t matter how deep the ocean is, it might as well go down forever. Once you can no longer dangle your toes down and touch the bottom, there could be anything below you.
I turn back and Lovecraft has vanished. I scan the shore and can’t see him, which means he probably went to buy a coffee at the Meeting Place Cafe. I always tell him to try the rock cake, but he declines. I’m tempted to leave him, to walk in the other direction, but I don’t. I’ll buy a coffee and we’ll walk further. Lovecraft and I, bound together, unable to escape one another.
While often loathesome, Lovecraft is a fascinating character to write about. Long before I knew about his time in Sussex, I wrote another HPL story, Eat at Lovecraft’s, which features Howard Philip reincarnated to run a greasy-spoon near Hastings. There is also an audio recording from when it was performed at Liar’s League.
Posted on June 20, 2014 Author orbificCategories Brighton, Lovecraft-in-Brighton, PsychogeographyLeave a comment on Lovecraft in Brighton
Two Towns
This was originally performed as a spoken word piece at the ArtistsModelsInk event Life Cycles, on October 3rd 2011.
There are, in fact, two Brightons, a summer town and a winter town. The streets might look the same, but everyone knows deep down that Brighton is a different place in summer than it is in winter.
The winter Brighton is cold and mean. The wind whips straight off the sea, cruel and unrelenting. Brighton becomes a place of buildings and rooms as people spend as little time as possible in the streets. Lives become smaller as the days grow shorter. In shared student houses, communal rooms are abandoned to the cold, and some people resort to evenings spent lying directly in front of their heaters. The winters’ nights can be so bitter that you feel alone, even when sharing your bed with another body.
Brighton began as a winter town. Even in its occasional prosperity, it was a town of mean, tumbly cottages, of fishermen whose fate was, most likely, to be claimed by storms at sea. Brighton’s fortunes ebbed and flowed until the Great Storm of 1703 “stript a great many houses, turn’d up the lead of the church, overthrew two wind-mills, and laid them flat on the ground, the town in general (at the approach of daylight) looking as though it had been bombarded.”
Two years later, the winter town drew down another storm. Brighton suffered greatly, its buildings destroyed and shingle flung over the wreckage. Few people responded to a national appeal to pay for sea defences. Daniel Defoe claimed that the cost of saving the town was more than the town was worth. It appeared that the winter town had destroyed itself.
But Brighton’s fortunes are ever-changing. In 1750, Dr. Richard Russell published his dissertation De Tabe Glandulari, promoting the healing powers of the Brighton waters. Patients were ordered to swim in the sea and drink its brine – for many years, the rooms in the Grand Hotel had a third tap for sea-water. With the seawater cures came the season, an act of magic that gave birth to Brighton’s summer town, pushing the winter town into retreat.
Winter is still hard here. The wind still howls and waves still crash against the shore. The staff at the pier’s pizza-stand huddle close to the oven, taking turns to lean against it, sometimes melting the plastic logos on the back of their uniforms. People can freeze to death on these streets. When it snows, ice makes the steep streets of Hanover treacherous. And more: a dark secret, known to only a few, there are hideous things in the waves near our town and, during the winter, they come closer to the surface.
But these days, no matter how deep the winter, it always ends. The watery daylight of winter’s days is replaced by something stronger. The Carousel is removed from its canvas wrappings and restored to the seafront. Brighton becomes a town of ice-cream alchemists and chance meetings, where plans are abandoned after finding old friends. Where entire days can be scattered on the pebbles, lying on the beach to watch far-off jets sketch contrails across blue skies.
The winter town can never last too long now.
But I want more than this. No more hiding in rattle-windowed rooms ever, wishing the wind would stop. No more lying against plug-in radiators, praying for warmth. I want a Brighton where it is summer forever, where the cold never gets a firm grip.
I want a New Brighton, and a New Hove, for the old Brighton and Hove to be passed away. A place where nobody is ever bored; where there is a Temple of the Sun, translucent concrete and Hotels of Strangers. Where timber is thrown off ships to make a wood slick every January, and people marvel at the piles of planks on the pebbles. A town where there is no sign banning sleeping in the pavilion gardens; where seagulls never shriek. A place where hangovers are outlawed and you can drink all night and never feel ill.
I want a new Brighton and a New Hove, to see the Winter town banished so that teeth never chatter and nobody shivers unless they want to. A town where summer lasts forever and never grows dull.
Posted on June 12, 2014 Author orbificCategories Brighton, PsychogeographyLeave a comment on Two Towns
Fuck Psychogeography
“…far from being the aimless, empty-headed drifting of the casual stroller, Debord’s principle is nearer to a military strategy and has its roots not in earlier avant-garde experimentation, but in military tactics, where drifting is defined as ‘a calculated action determined by the absence of a proper locus.’ In this light, the dérive becomes a strategic device for reconnoitring the city, ‘a reconnaissance for the day when the city would be seized for real.’”
– from Psychogeography by Merlin Coverley
The English have done terrible things to psychogeography.
In England, psychogeography is most often considered as a literary technique. This bookish reinvention can be traced back to Iain Sinclair’s book Lights Out for the Territory. Sinclair drew lines across London, reinventing the city as a place of maverick philosophy. Subsequent works such as Merlin Coverley’s excellent study, Psychogeography, explore Sincliar as part of an English tradition of psychogeography avant la lettre, taking in visionaries such as Blake, Defoe and de Quincey.
It was this stream of thought that introduced me to psychogeography. I came to understand it though personalities like JG Ballard and the comic-book writer Alan Moore. My only knowledge of Situationism was through the use of slogans in punk or references in works like Grant Morrison’s The Invisibles. For the music press, Situationism’s most significant thinker was Malcolm McClaren, who used detournement and Debord as the theoretical structure for his ‘rock and roll swindle‘.
When I returned to university in the mid-noughties, I took a course on Marxism which introduced me to psychogeography’s other tradition, original yet younger: a revolutionary art movement based on the philosophy of Hegel and Marx, emerging from ultra-left politics. I was exposed to the uncompromising force of Debord’s thought and became aware of his rage, even against his own attempts to escape capitalism’s confines.
The most obvious trace the Situationists left were their slogans. As great as the core texts are, they are incredibly difficult compared to the slogans’ Zen simplicity. What better statement of anti-capitalist revolution than “Never work”? Arguably the most famous statement from May 68 was the graffiti ‘Sous la pave, la plage’: Under the paving stones the beach. It’s seen as a cute moment of utopianism, perfect for putting on T-shirts.
Debord was not seeking a beach. The slogan came from a violent time, as de Gaulle struggled to maintain control. That slogan ‘sous la vide, la plage’, urged the enrages of 1968 to pull up the paving stones, the implication being that they could be broken up and hurled at the authorities. Psychogeography was intended as part of this revolutionary struggle, reconnaissance for a coming urban war.
With his writings on recuperation, Debord was aware that whatever he did would, in time, be sold. Nothing is so chaotic that one cannot make cash from it: Banksy’s rebellion advertises his role as a fine artist; Grant Morrison satirises royalty yet is happy to take an OBE; Iain Sinclair, the saint of walkers, did an advert for Audi. And TV panellist Will Self started his Psychogeography column, bankrolled by the British Airways in-flight magazine. Self and Sinclair were eager to hawk psychogeography and their reputations for advertising. Debord always knew his ideas would be stolen, turned into fuel for Capital. But that makes what has happened no less tawdry, shameful and treacherous.
There has long been a tension between French and English psychogeography. When Debord visited the English Situationists he was shocked at their shabbiness and lack of preparation. Later, punk stripped away Situationism’s the complex political theorising to leave a simpler call to action. From early on it was obvious that Debord’s ideas, as powerful as they were, would be diluted and recuperated.
Sometimes it feels like a tragedy that this English tradition has the same name as Debord’s discipline. Both are important, but English psychogeography seems a quivering, obedient thing in comparison to Debord’s spitting fury. This is a man so uncompromising that he bound his first book in sandpaper to destroy anything it was shelved besides. It’s a long way from the lettrists. It’s a long way from revolution. Psychogeography has become safe and cosy, no threat to anyone.
I’m not interested in car salesman Sinclair and his sesquipedilian prose. I want short, punchy phrases, ones that bruise. We live on the home front of a global war, deafened and blinded by the propaganda of marketing which leads to, say, a famous walker hawking himself for petrol-gulping car companies.
At the same time, the world is stolen from us. Take Jubilee square: once a derelict gap in the North Laine, with little in its favour other than some pleasant graffiti. The square in front of the library should be one of Brighton’s main town squares but it has no buskers, no community, just controlled PFI-funded private property. Sometimes the square is rented to corporations for advertising, or even the project of filling the space with a huge mat of fake grass. And we are supposed to be grateful.
Maybe it’s time to tear up the paving of Jubilee square and hurl the broken stones through the windows of the library. I’d like to see every sign that bicycles can’t be chained to a railing obscured. By bicycle welded in place over the fucking sign. I’d like to see Churchill Square and Jubilee Square reclaimed for the town, places to play hopscotch without being chased away by security guards. We need a more aggressive psychogeography. We need to beat the bounds, mark out what is ours.
If psychogeography is not revolutionary, it is dead. And if psychogeography is revolutionary it brings conflict. By all means, wander the city between greasy spoon cafes, chatting with artists, and recording your explorations for TV cameras. But remember that what you’re doing should be reconnaisance too. Psychogeography is about recapturing occupied territory.
Fuck psychogeography – it cannot exist without revolution. Guy Debord was a strategist. It’s about understanding how Paris was redesigned to allow the army to put down insurrections. It’s about breaking down the illusions of the spectacle in the hope of being free. It’s about territory.
Posted on June 11, 2014 Author orbificCategories Psychogeography2 Comments on Fuck Psychogeography
My friend Amy spent six days working as a tour guide before being fired. I sneaked onto a couple of her tours and loved them.
She’d passed the interview without knowing much local history. She made things up instead, pointing out the park where circus performers wintered; she would praise the annual cake-making competitions in the Pavilion. She told people bus conductors were first introduced in Brighton and were so-named because they led the passengers in communal sing-songs.
Amy didn’t last long. The night she was fired, I toasted her work, but it didn’t cheer her up. “Can’t they see that my version of the city was better?”
Posted on June 10, 2014 Author orbificCategories Brighton, Microfiction, PsychogeographyLeave a comment on Tour Guide
The slow, sad demolition of the West Pier
The West Pier trust continues to oversee the demolition of the West Pier with the removal of the pillars on the beach. As the Trust’s web pages point out, their aims no longer include any form of restoration of the pier. Instead their focus is “to preserve and enhance for the public benefit the area comprising the Pier” – which, for them, involves building the i360. The idea of a new pier is roundly rejected as impossible. The West Pier Trust is now, effectively, working for the area’s redevelopment, pushing for an expensive and unloved attraction in place of the pier.
This latest act of demolition was announced in the Argus on Friday 30th May, with the work due to start on the Monday – leaving no chance for people to respond or object. The columns on the beach are to be “removed, stored and reused as part of a landscaping project in conjunction with the area’s redevelopment alongside the i360”.
For me, the saddest thing about this is that the columns on the beach were loved just as they were. In particular, they were used to practise slack-lining. It was wonderful to sit in the sun and watch.
We seem to have major problems with Brighton seafront, with a whole section of raised promenade near the Concorde inaccessible and falling down. The reconstruction of the old Concorde club is a disaster, with most of the buildings left empty for years. And now, an aspect of the seafront that people loved and used is being removed. Sometimes I think the regeneration takes no account of how people actually enjoy and use the seafront.
Posted on June 9, 2014 Author orbificCategories Brighton, i360Leave a comment on The slow, sad demolition of the West Pier
Cultural Quarter
“How dare someone tell me where the cultural quarter is? How dare anybody decide where culture can be found, or what it is, or how it can be safely packaged in a sanctioned part of the city” – from Ragworts by Bill Drummond
Posted on June 8, 2014 Author orbificCategories Brighton, Psychogeography2 Comments on Cultural Quarter
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Mindless Diversions / TV and Movies
Oliver Reed, Now He Should Have Dipped His Big Toe in Prof. Wrestling
by Jon Rowe · August 2, 2015
Oliver Reed was a big guy. I think he was big enough to be a professional wrestler. He was also a hell-raiser and one of the greatest drunks of all time. With his lively personality, I think it would have been a wonderful “fit.”
I recently caused controversy here noting how I wasn’t “fit” for something which might pose a difficult challenge. Yes, I’m not “fit” for a bar fight with Oliver Reed (were he still alive and the two of us drinking in the same bar). I’d more likely play the role of David Letterman (make sure you watch for the handshake incident).
But there was one person who could get away with, metaphorically speaking, slapping his face with a white glove. And her name was Shelly Winters (check the third YouTube clip and wait till the end).
Outrageous Oliver Reed Interview on Late Night (1987)
Oliver Reed drunk and disruptive
Shelley Winters and Oliver Reed on the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, September 26 1975
Jon Rowe
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Father and Sonset
Why was this Officer Held Responsible for his Actions?
rethinking a strong national defense
I don’t think I ever knew anything about Reed’s off-camera life.
I find it somehow gratifying that his off-screen persona appears to be quite similar to my favorite of his on-screen personas: Porthos.Report
Mike Schilling in reply to Tod Kelly
Athos.
Not that the movies got Porthos exactly right; they made him a silly dandy instead of a lovably dim, unshakably loyal, well-nigh unstoppable force of nature. But they did make him comic relief, where Athos is a brooding, wounded, tragic figure.Report
Montaigne in reply to Tod Kelly
Except in the “(Three and Four) Musketeers” movies, he played Athos.* Frank Findlay portrayed Porthos.
* And did it with great sensitivity as the thoughtful, broken senior member of the group. He was a good actor.Report
Mike Schilling in reply to Montaigne
Also in The Return of the Musketeers, which was loosely based on Twenty Years After, and was pretty awful.Report
I’d have begged borrowed and stole any amount necessary to sneak on the set of Women in Love the day the wrestling scene between Reed and Alan Bates was filmed, had I been old enough at the time to have any sense.Report
SaulDegraw
Brilliant actor. He is also the nephew of Carrol Reed who directed the Third ManReport
El Muneco
I’d never thought of it this way, but I wonder how much of the character of Alan Swann in “My Favorite Year” was actually Peter O’Toole stealing from not just his own experiences but his relationships with contemporaries like Reed.Report
Tod Kelly in reply to El Muneco
That might be.
I had always heard that Alan Swann was modeled — both and script and by O’Toole — after Errol Flynn, and that for those who are insiders the movie is full of tiny jokes an anecdotes you wouldn’t get if you didn’t know Flynn (or his biography) really well.
This might well be apocryphal, for all I know.Report
SaulDegraw in reply to El Muneco
Old theatre joke:
Rex Harrison is doing a matinee performance. The woman calls out “Rex Harrison, you’re drunk.” Harrison replies “Madame, wait until you see Peter O’Toole”Report
“I am not an actor, I’m a movie star!!!”Report
El Muneco in reply to SaulDegraw
Exactly what I had been thinking – the character was based on Errol Flynn, but I can’t help but thinking that O’Toole brought into it a lot of personal history. Kind of like how basically every early heavy metal band thought that “This Is Spinal Tap” was about them because the creators had tapped into the zeitgeist.Report
The story that makes me laugh and shake my head is the story of his last bar tab.
From the article: Witnesses said Reed, 61, knocked them back at a bar in Valletta, the Maltese capital, for three hours during a break in filming.
As his wife, Josephine, and friends watched in amusement, Reed – as well-known for his tippling exploits as for his 53 movie roles – bought drinks for everyone at the bar.
Then he arm-wrestled sailors from the Royal Navy frigate HMS Cumberland and shared two bottles of rum with them.
“The sailors could not take the pace and left,” one bar employee told London’s Sun newspaper.
“When they’d gone, Oliver drank a couple of glasses of whiskey before his collapse.”
Awesome.Report
Jon Rowe in reply to Jaybird
What a way to go out. He was the second best drunk of all time. Second to only Andre the Giant.Report
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The “Powers’” Great Accolade – “Brand Pedo”
Imagine, if you will, there existed a world populated only by biological automatons that were solely allowed to survive at the behest of a vague commercial bureaucracy. Because of this uncertainty, imagine if none of these automatons realised they were abject properties of a brutal federal control program. If the slave masters, the “authorities”, decided they desired to stamp their immense power over will, to “once and for all” demonstrate their authority over the slave classes, could they outlaw or remove all fluid or solid sustenance resources without losing or graphically impairing their prized stock? Could they make the air unfit for consumption or destroy all known shelter to stress their despotic ambition? No, the only the true liberty they could possibly take away without permanently impairing labour is “unnecessary” sexuality. That world does exist. It is planet Earth and the ignorant, naive biological automatons are human slaves; fodders dedicated for a system that deliberately transcends spiritual logic and reason in order to complete and maintain its program,
By corporate commercial determination, per “the program”, paedophilia is the root of all evil, and for reasons that so firmly contradict erudite populism, truth has become obsolete. The term paedophilia itself is nonsensical was it not for the fact that just about everyone has been radicalised into believing trappings of propaganda. So, going back to basics, it would be correct to start by analysing authentic etymology of terms in order to corroborate any coherent meanings. Only by careful analysis of the cold, dry facts can sound “basis” encapsulating the mainstreamers’ obtuse view be deciphered.
Paedophilia is a combination of two Greek words. One (paidos) means child and this is topically self-explanatory. The other, philos, calculates rather more problematic interpretation. Yes it translates to mean “love” as would be expected within the cognitive frame of child love. Nevertheless, the Greeks had three words (eros, agape and philos) to represent the emotion. Eros is used to convey an earthy erotic, sexual passion or lust. Agape is an emotional spiritual bond that perhaps might signify symptoms such as pity, togetherness or other deep soul connections (shall we say). Philos proposes a brave new world, one that is generally estranged from the Western concept of love. It is the Greeks’ “intellectual love” evocation and this might be best appraised as “to be on the same wavelength” (with others). Respect of a peer would make an acceptable version of the same concept.
Therefore paedophilia literally means “respect for children”, so how on earth did it translate into the ugly mess that has embraced the greatest of all modern day hysterias?
It seems likely (though I find no evidence of historic accountability) that the term was originally sponsored by those that formed special liaisons with children. It was a way of justifying engagements that might have otherwise been frowned upon by wider society. Promiscuity is a revelation of modern times, awoken by the 1960’s flower power sexual revolution. Prior to that lust outside marriage was a profound negative and “age restriction” on unions had been superficially imposed by religious authorities for so long that physical adult child pairings would have seemed unconscionable. This is not to say rules were not broken behind closed doors. Suffice to say, prior to the 1960’s suspicious borderline adult relationships would have had to have been considered lust free but always either plausibly “working towards marriage” or “undeniably platonic” for seemly social tolerance.
It was only after sexual revolution, political authority saw value in promoting homosexuality as a crass attempt to pervert all sexual relationships (i.e. by reversing principled traditionalism that defines sexual intercourse as a procreation precaution and not as a recreational tool, cultural insanity was born. Of course, this merely acts as a stepping stone towards outright control of the human mind – “you will behave as we say anytime we lecture you”). Thus those rabid synthesised outcries at phantom paedophilia are backed off strategized and scoped political support aimed at positively accelerating homosexual causes. “Contradictory” pederasty was most recently (1600’s onwards) adopted by the French (pederastie) from the Latin paederastia (Greek – paiderastia) and popularly translates to mean “lover of boys”.
Remarkable French piano prodigy and composer Camille Saint-Saens, a covert gay of the high Victorian period, once famously reported, “I am not a homosexual. I am a pederast”. This ironically demonstrates how much values have changed. Homosexuality was stigmatised because it was deeply hated (though undoubtedly egged on by political shit-stirrers) throughout cosmopolitan society and, therefore, illegal. Underage sex was not illegal, but because sex outside marriage was so universally chastised, “decent” normal folks would have found the practice unthinkable.
Even so Saint-Saens innocently reveals evidence of two streams of social conditioning. To admit to have been homosexual would have enraged retribution to beyond the pale so it was denied. Yet to confirm his overt but ambiguous paedophilia was the best way of diffusing allegations against him and shutting up critics. Of course there is much more to this tale (which circulated around his regular trips to Algeria – a place renowned for egregious sexual tolerance at the time). Saint-Saens cast himself as the paternal spirit ever excited by the ambitions of youthful innocent exuberance and not as a lecherous molester of children.
Ancient sexual roots of pederasty were neither explored nor acknowledged as relationships were symbolised as paternally platonic per the cultural view. However, the stem “erasty” is a version of erasthai (Latin) for which eros (Greek sexual love) is a derivative. This should emphasise the nonsense of modern times’ furore. If sex between adults and children was to be intimated by a slur, then pederasty is the ideal term. In fact, though it is believed to have originally been used to describe adult/minor homosexual trysts, the etymology is actually formally gender neutral. Does the “substitution” of paedophilia (in place of pederasty) not aptly highlight the wilful arrogance/ignorance of mainstreamers?
Many well founded information sources have come to light that broach the rather obvious homosexual connection to global control networks after Gary Allen’s tantalising volume “None Dare Call It Conspiracy” was published in 1972 (only a year before the Trilateral Commission was formed by late David Rockefeller). Those behind the eugenics movement aiming to radically reduce global populations have been implicated as players in the “program” many times. Whether this is true or not is open to debate, but philosophic motives are beyond argument.
If all population units were strictly homosexual, then procreation would require external management, perhaps offering theoretical provisos such as medical intervention to save humankind. Younger more fertile parents produce stronger offspring that live longer and this corroborates (though statistics are “contradictory”) a matched conspiracy. Paedophilia (younger, more fertile) has been outlawed whereas homosexuality (guaranteed infertile) is now both legal and encouraged (with initiatives such as sex change development offered to “asexual” [sic] children as young as four years old). Clearly all measures improve the ongoing population control/reduction agenda. I should add that whereas some institutionalised heterosexuals may argue they have a right to abolish repulsive homosexual practices, any [even justifiable] overt or covert despotism still prepares undeniable infringements against sovereign liberties.
Eugenics’ attack on the people has been unyielding. Wars used to be the preferred vehicle. Yet, as I write, the American “health system” (for instance) debatably shows up ten to a hundred times more effective at disposing of populations than war, depending on which statistics are favoured. Several drugs (including dozens of branded opiates) administered under the banner of “healthcare” are known to kill or impair life. The best reference is “auto-immune deficiency” so-called AIDS. Harmless retrovirus HIV was blamed for [known] effects caused by previously shelved (1950’s) chemo drug AZT. Naturally symptoms have been by no means limited to HIV “sufferers”. Timothy McVeigh’s foolhardy quest to bring down a building in Oklahoma City in 1995 was masterminded by the same powers he was attacking in defence of the “program”. They were behind the (at least) 50,000 AIDS related deaths of First Gulf “War” veterans. Ignorant conscripts were killed by their supposedly “protective” medications.
To be honest I believe the 1960’s flower power movement was a corporate inspiration too. Either that or corporates rode the coattails of the general erosion of faith in traditionalism (also a reaction to the distrust that blew over into anti-war mass desertions from Vietnam?). When did “the people” ever make any sincere [group] initiatives for themselves? I believe the powers wanted to introduce contraception universally. By that token, temporarily encouraging promiscuity was the only rational lever against the [Catholic] Church. Even so, to this day Catholicism has not bowed to Zionism on that level. The sexual revolution was predictably short lived. Prominent film stars, HIV and AIDS put a huge damper on any free thinking after the 1980’s.
It is interesting that Oklahoma and Waco (which set the precedent for legitimised “law enforcement” murder of any American citizen) saved [then President] Clinton’s bacon. It shows me “the people” have no say or formal influence on what is “in the interest” of “wider society”. That is the “programmers’” exclusive right. A good example of elite manipulation of public opinion can be seen in analysis of the (ridiculous) “gay plague” branding campaign. Whereas an overburden of industrial pollution and chemical pesticides “caused” HIV in Africa, there has been barely a mention of it anywhere, ever. I shall focus on “Big Oil” in a future article provisionally titled “Coming Clean on Cancer”. To resoundingly dampen the free love heyday, throughout the early 1990’s British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ran regular government sponsored television adverts that symbolised promiscuous sex as guaranteeing participants’ “horrible deaths”. Presumably similar libellous techniques were used in other corners of the first world.
I haven’t personally referenced Jon Rappoport’s “AIDS Inc.” (1988) but I feel sure he will have delivered correct conclusions after reviewing his various websites. Paedophilia is also nothing short of a stagnant political move as are all other trappings designed to bolster the Eugenic movement’s determination to deny life. Forget the hotbed “abortion”. From the lofty position of purity, is not contraception the undeniable attempted murder of an unborn child? Given their Zionist-Bolshevik tactics, I would be very surprised if the visceral anti-abortion lobby is not another face of the same arbitrary plutocracy. When “they” decide they need to repopulate, anti-abortion will become the new flavour of the month. Currently abortion is a decoy that removes the sting from contraception.
Those demonstrably anti-paedophilia have been set up, applied more or less zero attention to the real issues. The shambles that is “organised” (a splintered, refracted mess) society is our testament. Rationalist Eckhart Tolle makes a surprising amount of sense in his claim that classical crusaders crusade merely for empowerment of their egos. I extend that philosophy somewhat and emphasise the bigger and more divisive the “cause” (sic), the greater the “individual” empowerment. There is no bigger cause than paedophilia currently. It is the mother of all causes today. Protesters, critics and complainers keep well clear of truth in order to preserve their egos. Maintaining the fantastical narrative line in deference to truth is the objective goal. Besides, if their “big issue” was to evaporate indefinitely, aimless lives would have nothing to bolster egos. Political spin, intricate make-believe dressed as truth has avowed the horrible “standards” that have cultured public infatuation.
Because the cultivation of biological automatons is the brainchild of the “program’s” covert marketing arm, Zionism (symbolising prison planet), there is almost absolute topical congruity between the mainstream and “alternative” press instruments. Alternatives also weave their own brands of make-believe and encourage that most foul of whimsical, plausible denials’ – “who to believe?” Indeed, as most independent or third party writers and journalists are incapable of doing much more than parroting or reacting against information issued by mainstream/alternative “authorities”, sanity has become wedged somewhere between a rock and a place beyond vital imagination. Even the great Jon Rappoport hasn’t ever dared offer paedophilia a fair birth from what I have read. Only an extraordinary journalistic genius with a death wish could and would religiously tackle this subject with unbiased sincerity. Like homosexuality in its wake, paedophilia now humbles the zealous.
Arguably everything political began with the collapse of Atlantis. After the Pharisees (the theoretical Atlantis “derelicts” Nicolai Levashov mentions in his illuminating book “Russian History Viewed through Distorted Mirrors”) conquered relative druidism 3,000 years ago, a globalist agenda has followed the uniform path towards the “program’s” unilateral attempt aimed at shaping all other creeds and cultures in its image. Permitting only Puritan adjusted worship is one of the many small steps aimed to configure that grand design. Sharia Law (a cauldron of intolerance; banning all manners of sexual expressions), incidentally, few seem to real realise, is iconic Zionist Law.
Political charades “for order” are exploited by puppeteers that use militant groups (deliberately formed for such purposes) such as “ISIS” and “Al Qaeda” to instil fear. Labelling of designate “children” (with 21 desired as the ideal age barrier) and applied sexual prohibition has been a long standing goal that heralds back to the Victorian era (and presumably prior). In some ways it surprises me that Gladstone did not realise the utopian objective back in the nineteenth century. Although with infant mortality prevalent and the need for fodder for wars to once and for all break the opposition in his time, outcomes and their contingencies have been predictable to say the least.
Maybe it was last year or perhaps the year before when I noticed a mainstream headline that poked me in the eye. It was significant enough to spur me to remove MSM as my default webpage. The article in question presented one of America’s provincial sheriffs’ who was voicing implausible concerns over a child rape trial. The “child”, at the time, had been seventeen years old. Two days before her eighteenth birthday, she had allegedly voluntarily engaged in penetrative sexual intercourse (statutory “rape”) with her [then] boyfriend. Only in America could a “trial” like that be “taken seriously”. But it does highlight the fact that the “program’s” zeal is all about fanatically vigilant oppressive power of order, bereft of sane judgement. Australia (where I live currently) handles these matters differently.
Over a decade ago a mature looking twelve year old, blonde haired girl produced a bouncing heir with her [also] underage boyfriend (if memory serves me right, he was fifteen). The sensational TV show “Current Affair” was all over the news like a baby’s rash. They “named and shamed” everyone they could collect until everyone associated turned bright purple and frothed at the mouth. Nothing was done about the couple because nothing could be done so, after the furore, everyone politely looked the way, except there was a sequel. The hapless girl dared produce a second sprog at age sixteen by the same father (this time presumably of father worthy age). Sacra-bleu!!!!! I hope the TV show paid her well. She deserved every cent. He was almost certainly jailed for twenty years or more.
There is actually quite a long history behind changing attitudes. Chronologies (were they to be read and digested) would go a long way to diffusing the sheer insanity that currently embroils the paedophilia “outrage”. Attitudes have, in some ways, remained the same but it is reflective contingences employed that have radically altered. Perhaps making the adolescent discovery tour “theoretical” has helped induce mesmerised masses. People’s inability to focus on anything in isolation (thus perpetually basing existence on generalities) appears to be the most devastating symptom of the “TV age”.
One could look back at the collapse of craft industries in favour of industrial commercialism as the beginning of the withering of independent mind [that worked off trial and error and, ultimately, questioned everything]. In the eighteen and nineteenth centuries there were occasional challengers. Disparate groups, such as the Luddites, did attempt to block imperial progress. Interestingly, prior to “industrialisation”, learning centres were almost exclusively used to prepare society’s elite classes. In fact, going much further back, I would argue it was only after the abolition of the mystery schools (run by the druids) in the Dark Ages that saw the shift from education to processed dogma learnt by rote as the staple for mainstream education.
Even those that complete a Master’s Degree today are given no marks for personal input beyond how it satisfies comprehension of “evidence”) (i.e. synthesised “worthy” information that has been rubber stamped by “credentialed” proscribed agents of globalism under the thumb). To which end eventually none dare question established “rules” which are actually beyond question. It is also duly noted that the precise same strategy has been used by political proponents that word laws governing paedophilia in ways to ensure any possible “right minded” intellectual protagonist’s challenge would be judged as spitefully ambiguous (at best). I find no evidence supporting rationale behind our current childhood threshold and can but assume the demonstrably baseless “18” figure was pulled out of thin air at the whim of some starched bureaucrat or other. Globalist hacks have been running “Holocaust style” attack campaigns against anyone that dare test viability ever since.
It was not that long ago when the age of [marital] consent was “12” (following ancient Roman tradition) in some US states and the European nation of Holland. America may be recognised as the modern day super power, but originally it was founded and developed as a formidable expansion of the Union of Jacob (or Great Britain), so the history of English law making plays extreme relevance to this debate. There was no legal age of consent until one of the British Middle Ages Kings decided to impose boundaries through fear that there would be no under limit to matrimonial alliances (or presumed sexual liaisons) with maidens. I am deliberately foggy on “which king” it was because I would like it to be Norman Jew William the Conqueror (who ushered in a “new age of [cloaked] Zionism”) as it does fit well with my overall patter. So if he’s the one, top marks for me.
Either way, for the best part of a millennium “the people” and their ruling powers had no objection to marital unions between de facto “adults” from age twelve. It was a king (the “contemporary” power) who had instigated radical new restrictions (be it conceived from ancient foundations) which also implies some marriages (prior to law) were made between parties (maidens specifically) aged less than twelve years. One would imagine that a small popular core would have always been against “young” marriages, whereas the majority must have been easy with whatever was the conventional norm. The perennial remainder (probably an equally distinct minority) are traditionally mostly shown as bloated cadaverous sorely vocal antagonists destined to bluster at first sight of illuminated “reasoning” by compilers of historic propagandas. Those that covet callous restrictions will do anything to preserve them.
In medieval times (as emphasised earlier) the age of consent strictly concerned marriage but did not place any focus on sexual activities outside matrimony. That was left to religion. Western religion is an adaptation of Roman paganism. Therefore when Christianity sprouted from the burning embers of Gnosticism, naturally austere (Pharisee promoted) rules were applied to marriages which ideally revered all lustful and licentious behaviours as “ungodly”. A functional allowance was made for purposes of procreation. Per this fashion, an adaptation of orthodox Jewish attire, the Christian bridal gown, attempted to limit “lustful” sexual intercourse between marital partners. Even so, for a great period (can anyone say with “authority” how long?) the proverbial line was drawn at age “12”.
So how has this ongoing “con operation” been run in a way to successfully beguile the madding masses? Today’s mental health institutions and asylums for the insane provide glimmers of insight. I determine that the profession’s handbook outlining three hundred or so “behavioural conditions” is simply an expansion of crass religious judgement as to what it is to be “good” or “evil”. Jon Rappoport regularly advises all behaviours classed as varied evidence of insanity are equally symptoms of normal behaviour. Evil (as termed) actions therefore are now indefinitely branded as manifest insanity. Modern society runs on adapted rules that are designed to obfuscate the truth, so while one could argue we are either “more” or “less” free than before, in principal only “terminologies” have changed and not the convictions that delivered them.
When the world was conquered in the 1650’s (capitalising on discoveries such as the United States of America), there was an uncomfortable transition from royal to civilian government power. The full changeover took about 300 years and today no royal wields any visible power. It was only after civilian government was firmly rooted that perceived social issues were targeted by the pariahs of control to facilitate their utopian dream agenda. Of course, the ideal policy (as far as they are concerned) is always eradication, but when (as is so often true) extreme measures fail, soft humanitarian ploys are stealthily drafted. Similar to current workings of political/legal administration, reasons behind tortured virtue offered as “grounds” rarely (if ever) matched true objectives behind schemes unveiled as “value solutions”.
High Victorian British politics eventually found a Prime Minister with the right measure of zealous hatred to tackle youth sex head on with a proverbial sledge hammer. Himself a reputed brothel crawler (and paedophile), William Gladstone first increased the age of consent to “15” in 1875. So foul was his hatred it inspired infection and; consequentially, he succeeded in raising “the bar” again to “16” by 1878. This did nothing to inhibit intimate relations with children, as evidenced in outpourings of diatribe over the plight of a pregnant provincial London prostitute aged ten in the early 1900’s. Whether the girl was anything more than a figment of the imagination remains to be proven. There are numerous other period artistic writings that might be sourced to highlight identical topical content.
Logic underpinning Gladstone’s reasoning behind the marital age of consent increases was null and void, more or less precisely equating to William the Conqueror’s war spoil “logic”. Age fifteen, and then sixteen, was simply deemed “young enough”. No science or consideration to individuals’ right to choose was applied or contemplated. Each was a corporate edict for the nonsense that is proscribed as the “greater good”. The same lack of basis was approximated in 2001 when Great Britain almost paved the way to the “program’s” supreme goal “21”. If legislation for the age of consent (now beyond marriage, of course) set at twenty one had passed, the rest of the world (an extension of Great Britain) would have been doomed to follow, eventually. In other words, legislations are arbitrary measures. Construction of a “group identity” model permitting only standardised values and behaviours for standardisation’s sake is the selfish result. Given the raft of evidence, even a slothful fool should determine this always has been (albeit in varied forms) the plan; though few “in power” would dare agree or admit to their repugnant deceitfulness.
The reason the powers have dimly promoted their numerous nurturing society “concepts” (even though society does anything but nurture) is messages are designed to make the opposite of truth “appear” truthful. In fact categorisation/classification of [designate] children supports a global social enslavement program (one of numbers of cultural adjustment frameworks that are currently processed simultaneously and connected via the World Wide Web and other international exchanges). In effect, each synthesised cycle is designed to break children into new gormless adult slaves as asset-worthy (“useful”) fodder to man the system. Per this design, children are instructed fantasy is more plausible than truth, though (thankfully) not every teacher plays dumb.
Nevertheless, those that deceive and act spitefully are rewarded for personal dishonour. That’s the “program” for all society; all societies. Scripted reality versions profit from denying conscience, of course, so true spirituality must be forbidden at all cost regardless of cultural persuasion. Frankly, this in consideration, it is impossible to function in society today without being unfaithful. Ancient, traditional rites of passage have gradually been replaced with risk/reward (I’ll call them) “holographs” supplied by the “goggle box” and other mechanisms of influence. Sexuality is now almost universally framed as something “obviously” (sic) illicit. Thus, most things sexual might arguably judgmentally parry with actions like smoking and the consumption of drugs/alcohol. For the young, relationships have been reduced to “intrigue” which opens the door to cruel, vindictive power plays. Consideration of blackmail as the first option in negotiation persists into adulthood.
Individuals (making up the majority) that are determined to be law abiding (patriotic) become effective prisoners in their own open society. Sexual repression invariably leads to differing communication problems between sexes and, to a certain degree, estranges relations. The miraculous presupposed instant transition from impertinent scripted childhood to “proficient” adulthood does not prepare the way for pretty society. Each new insolent, spoilt, self-centred, experience lacking generation of “adults” attempts to crudely push its way up the queue. Many have predictably abused their supposed “right” to say no and have been conditioned into thinking any (and all) natural sexual acts are “theoretical” forms of rape. Few adults will contend there are only determinations to be and no “rights” at all (a fact the “program” callously capitalises on).
Culturally male/female roles/mindsets have not kept pace with everything else that has been going on in the background (i.e. systemic shredding of individualistic natural sexual dignity). One consequence is men and women are still destined for classical marital unions (even if not in name). Men, per this profile, must seek sexual gratification and women should provide the opportunity (i.e. male hunters, female prey). However, because women now collaterally (i.e. “the great group”) envisage all sex acts as “potential” forms of rape, they have been given an enormous degrading power.
In their administrative capacity, they can permit undignified sexual acts with whomever they choose, when legitimate and “legal”. Downgraded social ethics have had the effect of dragging all women down to the realms of whoredom (or celibacy for dissenters). Any whore’s power is her “right” to administer sex “favours”. “Program” masters know this full well. Their “combobulation” child exploitation takes whoredom away from the spotlight. Thus, the modern day whore cannot traffic (an exploit variant) him or herself. He or she must traffic another or others. Prostitution, from the time it was labelled “the oldest profession”, has been effervescently legitimised. “Populist” anger has specifically shifted from attacking prostitution in general to the [predominantly phantom] child sex industry. This is not to say “decent society” is comfortable with prostitution, but affairs of the flesh do not antagonise in the way they used to.
Physiologically, the only morally valid justifications behind any prohibitions of sexual acts might be on grounds of “lack of fertility” or body “immaturity” (which would provide basis for the mother of debates if tackled sincerely). Those proven unfertile could be justifiably deemed sexually unaccountable and, providing “procreation” was seen as the only functional benchmark for that type of communication, it could be outlawed to satisfy the requirements range outlined. There is actually quite a big degree of variance in apt statistical data on this arena. The youngest “woman” (on record) ever to birth a child was aged six. Women, in general, may begin their menstrual cycles from about age nine. Men are late risers with the ability to ejaculate prevalent usually from about age thirteen. The youngest father (for my research) is listed as aged eleven.
According to “nature” (reflective of God), a sexual metamorphosis demonstrably takes place in women at age nine and men of age thirteen. Thus, an uncomfortable surplus of wilderness years in respect of current legal accountability should be duly noted. Wilderness years, in the case of women, number nine. For men there are five years. How is this legal accountability in any way, shape or form naturally legitimate? By the time an average woman turns eighteen half her life has been sexual. God’s blessing has been terrorised and abused by society’s ignorance and abject subservience to the “program”. Terrorist peers foist the consequences of their foul laws on the trembling masses producing barely a shudder of dissent. Yet all should be acutely aware that these measures are designed purely to degrade the majesty of sexual intercourse to further scope for the production of “efficient” human “automatons”. Killing off stagnant populations is a fringe benefit.
When a woman turns eighteen, psychologically, nothing changes. Her mindset is still the same as it was before. She had been sexual but to be sexual was to “sin” (a pharisaic Judaic preconception) and this was “forbidden” (fruit). She was sexual but, as nothing has actually changed, to be sexual now IS to “sin”. There is one difference and it’s a big one. It is the power of control. Before she could illegitimately offer sexual consent or forbidden fruit (opening the door to all sorts of nasty blackmail scenarios) and now she can legitimately grant sexual consent as the fruit is ripe (opening the door to all sorts of nasty “double standards”). This is how sexual women have been reduced to whoredom.
Men have paid the price too. The perverse game we call politics impinges on all male values. Those that are not avowed celibates are rapists-in-waiting. Under foul terms as these, any man that dares to succumb to sexual urges can and will be accused of theoretical rape. This is all courtesy of modern social-conditioning mechanisms geared to elevating fantasy. The average woman now believes she always has the “right” to determine which “rapes” are permissible. She can also change her mind. That is the modern woman’s “privilege”. Women that kowtow with the “program”, in deference to God, lampoon our most uncharitable, sacrilegious, sanctimonious system of order. It is a system that relies on the deceit, dishonesty and partisan biased judgement of its user base. Never forget, all laws polarise judgement.
The crux of the arguments (ever so rarely in plain sight) supporting age legislation tend to rely on [corrupt] academic standards as “justification” for categorisations in place. Never mentioned are the numerous early teens “prodigies” put through the university system early. These are the anomalies that frustrate the “program”. The maturity gap, when inspected in detail, is far larger than most would imagine. For example, in relatively recent times a six year old British boy was heralded as the new oils (painting) master. Back in the 1980’s a petulant pup became a self-made millionaire (when being a millionaire meant something) in computers before he had reached his tenth year.
Martha Argerich’s (a celebrated Argentine virtuoso) notorious 1949 first public performance of the piano solo of Beethoven’s first concerto when she was seven years old presents an interpretation that would put most adults to shame. There is an account of a nine year old girl who successful singlehandedly reared the surviving family for several weeks after her mother died. Only lack of money ultimately frustrated her course. Given these facts, age legislation is indisputably unfair. Why is it supported so widely and so staunchly by our trembling masses?
There is a simple answer sadly seemed beyond the lateral comprehension of ordinary folk. In fact the answer has already been substantively outlined. People are generally pathetically weak and lazy. The largest, most incessantly in focus voices always seem to grab the limelight, founding “opinions” as they go. Mass Medias, therefore, control the way people generally think. Yes there are occasional dissenters, but, generally speaking, mass Medias tend to push (control) the populist view. That is because supporting broadcasters employed by mass Medias are people too. Broadcasters are not significantly different to any average man on the street. They too are mostly weak and lazy and don’t like to think too deeply about “obvious” issues. Of course, on the other hand, if the majority mysteriously morphed into dissenters, mass Medias would disappear as fast as they appeared and the “program” would perhaps have to engage dogmatic religion to shore up cultural adjustments once more.
Weakness and laziness by themselves do not cement opinions that are used to back legislation, such as edicts supporting age restrictions. People act because they feel empowered by acting. There is a fundamental perceived payoff for parents that support the synthetic dividers separating proscribed “children” from “adults”. The payoff is controlling power. Being the boss or “king” must be regarded as the pinnacle of empowerment and, consequentially, families have been moulded into control hierarchies. Perhaps this has always been the case. For as long as historic memory records, periodic shifts to varied standards used to justify different age categorisations have been relatively seamless. That, by no stretch of the imagination, makes wrong “right”.
We must never underestimate conditioning mechanisms in the background geared to advancing false status-quo. Currently, each new crop of sexual children is deliberately immersed in cultures of facile restriction. Years long torment offers the vague promise of “freedom” (age eighteen “adulthood”). Developmental pressure builds from “terrible teens” to graduation. Many have willingly tried to believe in law and order to be patriotic (one of the group). They never rebelled. They never came to terms with what they had been denied. They never attempted to discover. Therefore, the majority of emerging and new adults bitterly support a terrorising system because they were “forced” into making sacrifice themselves.
In other words, pathetically weak adults will go to any lengths to wreak revenge on their kith and kin simply to appease their own failed ethical development. If you cannot honour yourself, how is it possible to behave responsibly to others? The great tragedy is [it seems] that people are incapable of recognising their sexuality or, to a greater degree, understanding how corporate interests stole their natural development. If age standards defining adulthood were radically shifted upwards to say forty years as the new age of consent, I do not believe there would be any major rebellion (after the first generation targeted was out of mind’s way). Old habits die hard, so I will concede the “powers” would have a hell of a marketing task ahead of them. How to convince all those marginalised people that merely want to behave naturally they are “wrong” to do so?
I have already outlined that British legislation tabled an increase to age twenty one in 2001, so why stop there? If the predominant cause behind age laws is nothing short of a population control/reduction measures, then (given the ever rising masses) logic suggests further increases are going to be ushered in. (Subtly ignoring the ethics nightmare exposing the true face of industrialism) China’s austere corporate experiment permitting only one child per family unit predictably failed dismally. Then again, if you can forbid sovereign adults “sexual license” by labelling them as “children” in legislation, the outlaw of procreation satisfies an expansion of the eugenics mantra. Ages twenty five and thirty marked traditional ancient Roman and Jewish commencement of maturity. Age fifty is of religious significance in Tibetan culture (and generally classed as the start of “middle age” in the west). Seventy five is another modern western classification milestone representing maturity or “old age”.
There potentially is no upper limit. Perhaps in the future sexual permits will be kept to octogenarians, the well-to-do that satisfy legal “exemptions” (loopholes) and “approved” (sanctioned) whores (to “service” the well-to-do)? Slavish automatons would do well to understand that each (fiendish) plan can only be stymied by the lack of faith of its designers. Confidence in communication is everything, but that is ultimately largely backed by compliance test initiatives. A sound pitch bolsters faith and the rest can be left to chance. What better target to exploit than “the family”? By turning corporate-political objectives into “family planning” advice, devious powers have cast a brilliant initiative. Families can now blame themselves for government issues and most will be oblivious to the fact. Admittedly a few have been waking up to the truth that “schooling” is actually social indoctrination in drag. But is this enough to spur momentum towards worldwide clear vision and outright revolution?
Times have changed greatly. In England years ago when attitudes were different, the age of consent was still sixteen. People could and did enter into marital unions at that age. These were normally sexual unions too. But that was trivial because teenagers (prevalently over twelve years old) also commonly interacted sexually. Legally underage pregnancies were unsurprisingly not particularly scarce. Ironically and sadly, the great “outrage” was against additional “family burden” as the young were obliged to be indoctrinated at school and few would have had the influence to earn “breadwinning money”. To me it shows just how pitifully inherently selfish people are. If only the vigour applied to blame and transference was directed at taking ownership of problems and compassionate dedication to delivery of lasting real solutions, then societies might be something to be proud of.
A long time ago, when I was fifteen, my mother asked my father to give me some sex advice. I vividly remember how he approached the cause. “You know all about it [sex], don’t you son?” He stammered, confidently. I nodded back wisely, as I had been the proud owner of a well-thumbed “hard core” adult magazine from age fourteen. Indeed, the pages were so well loved; they had come away from the staples in places. The point being is my father was too embarrassed to broach the subject of sex with me. It remained the unspoken understanding for as long as he lived. He used to use euphemisms like “it’s as easy as riding a bike” when he knew I kept damned well falling off. This is the norm, I’m told. Occasional controlling parents spew their ill-founded opinions. The rest offer silence when the silly puns run out.
Controlling parents aim to censor inappropriate behaviours. These might include masturbation in public. A Talmudic branch of Christianity called the Baptist Church (traditionally) labels masturbation a “sin”. Offspring of Baptist families are surely dealt all sorts of psychological blows unless they adjust to being exceptionally deceitful. When I was very young I remember all the local kids in my playgroup used to occasionally interact with [vaguely sexual] truth or dare games. My own junior sister was particularly prolific in her formative years. We lived in a rural Jacobean period farmhouse which had a winding spiral staircase to the upper floors. Between beams my father had lodged makeshift cream chipboard panels to form walls and these made as excellent “scribbling” white boards.
One day, after a rather heated discussion with my mother, my sister (then age six) drew a biro cartoon of a “matchstick” couple copulating to prove she knew about sex. I am not sure it was a masterpiece but it was technically sufficient for the purposes under scrutiny, earning an immediate deletion under a double layer of white paint. Interestingly my mother never punished my sister for that and said nothing more on the subject. What could she be “punished” for? Knowing the truth? It seems fitting to roll out Krishna’s immoral quote (a regular visitor to this website) once more, “Spirituality brings to freedom whereas forces of evil paralyse”. What would Krishna have said about modern day paedophilia hysterics?
Perhaps it is no accident that the powers behind their mischief “program” sometimes refer to themselves as the Annunaki Brotherhood. The Order’s iconography depicts a thick braided cross trapped by an unbroken wicker circle. Cosmically, a cross represents path choices but the circle closes off any avenue of inquisitive exploration. The icon, therefore, is the “prison planet” or Zionism symbol. It sets paralysis standards (put into motion by pharisaic usurpers); the ones Krishna described as “evil”. Social paralysis begins with restriction of will [of the child] to confuse the mind (spiritual centre) in order to produce broken, de-spiritualised adults (slaves by any other name). To socially outlaw sexuality is to remove the most fundamental of all birth rights. Bodies without minds are only capable of following orders.
But there is more. Few are aware of the true potence of sexual self-esteem. Potent life is contained in the chakra governing the erogenous zones from conception. Those that deliberately superficially attack sexual developmental behaviour aim to create literal zombies – walking dead!
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Home » News » New Search Engine: All Open Cord Blood Trials
As a community service, Parent’s Guide to Cord Blood Foundation has converted the trials page of our website into a search engine that enables readers to look up all clinical trials conducting cell therapy with cord blood that are currently open worldwide. The new portal of Open Cord Blood Trials is searchable by diagnosis. There is also an option to display a map of the hospitals where the trials are enrolling.
Our cord blood trials search makes it easier for patients and their families to find cord blood therapy options without having to learn how to navigate multi-function clinical trials registries in multiple countries.
The work that led to the creation of this search engine started over a year ago: In late 2015, our team began compiling a database of all clinical trials worldwide that conducted advanced cell therapy. That project led to the launch of CellTrials.org in January 2017. Using that database as a starting point, we realized that we had the ability to create a searchable portal dedicated specifically to clinical trials offering cord blood therapy.
However, there were several steps from the data in CellTrials.org to the portal of Open Cord Blood Trials. First, we had to narrow down our list of all international trials registered to conduct advanced cell therapy to only the cord blood trials that are currently open. Second, we had to expand our collection of cord blood trials beyond advanced cell therapy so that we also included traditional cell therapy (ordinary cord blood transplants for standard indications). Finally, our web developer had to build a search engine that is intuitively easy to use and returns answers fast.
We have warned that counting keywords is not compiling clinical trials. At the end of Feb. 2017, a keyword search of the US trials registry ClinicalTrials.gov found 209 open cord blood trials. It takes many hours of human effort to look at every entry returned by that keyword search and compile an accurate database of cell therapy trials. We found that only 118 of those 209 entries were actually cell therapy trials with cord blood. This is a cautionary tale which demonstrates that portals of open trials cannot be built by keyword search.
Our search engine of open cord blood trials has launched with 113 trials. We added trials from around the world that are not listed on ClinicalTrials.gov, and we removed trials that are follow up studies or were only registered to establish legal access to old inventory. Each year there are only a few dozen new trials that conduct cell therapy with cord blood, so we anticipate it will be sufficient to update this portal twice per year.
As a second community service, Parent’s Guide to Cord Blood Foundation has created a free web application that enables our trials search to be embedded in another website. The app version of the trials portal is visible on the left side of our trials page, and instructions to embed it in other websites are available at this link. We hope that this ground-breaking service will be of great value to the community we serve.
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Values based park management framework
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Declared fish habitat areas
Aboriginal freehold land and jointly managed parks on Cape York Peninsula
Nature Conservation Act 1992 amendment FAQ
Proposed North Harbour development
Harvesting native timber on State forests
Where grazing occurs on Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) estate the QPWS aims to ensure that the management of grazing authorities minimises impacts on these lands.
Grazing is an appropriate use of forestry land where it is compatible with existing forest values and where the activity does not compromise principles of ecologically sustainable forest management.
The Nature Conservation Act 1992 has provided for authorised cattle grazing activities on some protected areas including regional parks where it is consistent with the management principles for these areas.
Grazing is not normally allowed on national parks, however, where a new national park is declared on land used for grazing this activity can be allowed to continue for the unexpired term of the existing lease or permit.
Applicants under the SEQFA Grazing Program will be contacted directly and advised of the outcomes of their application.
Grazing of stock on QPWS estate currently occurs in one of the following ways:
under a special or term lease issued under the Land Act 1994;
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as a Stock Grazing Permit issued under the Nature Conservation Regulations 1994 or Forestry Act 1959.
Contact the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service for more information.
Application form: Stock Grazing Permit (Word, 201K)*
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The Journal Entries
Honest Impulses 24: Silver Bells
Anar, Yavar 08, 03262
The biting cold of a Plateau winter stirred outside Shandy’s apartment, but in her kitchen she wore only a t-shirt, dark orange as always, with her cargo shorts. Linia’s admired her as she prepared dinner, stirring, tasting, adding salt or herbs, while steam scented with cooking meat and vegetables, fresh laurel and rosemary, wafted through the apartment. Shandy moved in an element she understood.
Shandy turned and smiled at her. “What are you thinking?”
Linia grinned. “I was thinking about how good dinner smells. And how good you look.”
Shandy blushed, turning her face away slightly. “‘Tis still so strange, all that I’m learning and growing familiar. I’m taking it slowly. But, I’m taking it.” A chime went off behind her. “The bird’s done,” Shandy said.
They ate together. Linia felt unusually shy, arrays of inhibitions scored with maybes shepherding various conversational gambits away from her mouth. Shandy, for all her bravado, was still fragile. For Linia, even moreso now was her relationship with Shandy. They’d had only a few days to explore what each meant to the other before Geroma Moor had taken that high dive off his balcony and Shandy had stepped up to preserve Gazelle.
“And you are sure this is fine?” Shandy said.
“Yes, it’s fine,” Linia said. “Misuko’s going to be gone for a few weeks, and she knows we’ll be getting together, you and me. And me and Gazelle, but for other reasons.”
“Why did you no go with her?”
“I still have the Isabelle project, and… it’s a good idea for Misuko to learn to live without me. She’s self-reliant, but she needs to learn to trust me more than she already does. Moments of independence like this let me push her trust the other way: she needs to trust that my presence isn’t undermining her ability to fend for herself. And when she gets back it’ll shore up her trust that I’m not going to leave her.”
Shandy shook her head. “You make it sound so logical and easy when you say it like that. Do you do that with me? Push my trust one way or other?”
Linia paused. “Like I told you before, no moreso than couples do in purely organic relationships. It’s just that, like Nawazi said, I have a bigger collection of scenarios I can review to try and decide the one that creates the best outcome. I’m trying to help Misuko achieve her goals. Those decisions have to be made logically.”
Shandy looked away. “And me?”
“Shandy, I loved you when I first met you. I don’t know why. There was something there that made me want you. I could find out why. So can a lot of people, meat or otherwise. I don’t want to. That’s true of my love for Misuko.” She reached a hand across the table, and Shandy hesitantly took it. “That’s true of my love for you. I don’t have supernatural abilities to decide wisely. I’m trying just as hard as any person to be good, if someone is committed to being good. I don’t have to ‘push’ your trust. You’re already struggling with it. And you’re very different from Misuko. She wants to hear how I think about these details. I’m not sure you do.”
Shandy nodded. “I no ken I do either.”
“And that’s why, even more with you than with Misuko, I’m not going to put my feelings on a microscope and examine them in detail. If the day comes when I’m so far out of alignment that I’m making you, or Misuko, or anyone else I call a friend, distressed and miserable, then I’ll pull out the analyzers and figure out how my motives and choices got me there, and how I can make it right. I’ll even enlist the help of an AI or two I know.” She smiled.
“De Ette, right?”
Linia nodded. “And Santu, if I must. I have to trust him because he performed what passes for my Encompassment, so he knows more about me than just about anyone.” She shrugged. “I’m not comfortable with that, but neither he nor I had a choice in the matter.”
Shandy nodded, but Linia got the impression that a lot of that conversation had gone past her. If she asked, Linia would answer. Instead, Shandy pushed away from the table and walked around it. “Gazelle said you had something for her to do.”
Linia nodded. “Actually, I had someplace for her to be. She’s sleeping on my couch tonight. She thought it would be better if you and I had room to be ourselves. Are you and she…?”
Shandy sighed. “We’re no lovers yet. I wish to heaven we were, but ‘tis no right between us yet.” Linia nodded. “But we are learning. I promise. She’s no so good a cook as you.”
“Or you, then,” Linia said. “Are you teaching her?”
“As much as I can.” Shandy frowned. “She has no ever been asked what she liked. ‘Twas always assumed she liked what her owner liked. She did no like horses, she liked the hope she could give one to Moor. You ride your motorcycle for all the reasons you told me, but too you actually like riding it.
Linia nodded. “Another thing Misuko taught me about being my own person: I’d better have my own wants, desires, and likes.”
“Like me?” Shandy said, reaching out a hand.
“Like you,” Linia said, standing and taking Shandy’s hand. “Are you sure this is what you want?”
Shandy reached up and took Linia’s face in her hands, guided the two of them together into a slow, passionate kiss. When their tongues met, Linia moaned softly. The last time, she’d been thinking hard about how to do this, how not to break Shandy. This time, she wondered if Shandy was out to break her. “Aye,” Shandy said. “In the Landing, the world has two ways: either the straight and the narrow, or wrack and ruin. But ‘tis no straight line, is it? You can live the straight and narrow and be no good man or woman.” She looked up. “Or you can let your heart lead you and still be so decent and good it makes me cry.”
Linia smiled and said, “I’m not ready to make you cry. I’m ready for something else if you are.”
Shandy nodded and pulled on Linia’s hand. Linia eagerly followed her into the bedroom, a smaller space but still neat and tidy, with the two posters of robots from her old bedroom occupying the walls. “I’m glad you got those back.”
“Aye. Could no have done to leave them.” Shandy dropped Linia’s hand. “I’m no as sure as I’d like to what to do next.” She grinned. “I’ve been reading up on what ‘tis women do in bed, but ‘tis sure I either know I like what we did last time, or I no ken if I would be liking it.”
“One thing I know I like,” Linia said. She kissed Shandy. Shandy responded eagerly, and Linia let her hands freely roam Shandy’s back and butt as their tongues touched. She found the hem of Shandy’s shirt and slowly pulled it upwards until it bunched under Shandy’s breasts. Shandy raised her arms and Linia pulled away from the kiss only long enough to toss the shirt over Shandy’s head and onto the floor.
The kissing resumed, but this time Shandy had to unbutton Linia’s blouse. That had been a deliberate choice on Linia’s part, to make Shandy work for it. Shandy did. Her fingers trembled as she opened Linia’s outfit, pushing aside the cloth and letting her hands slip over Linia’s bra. “You’ll make me swoon,” Linia whispered.
“Aye, ‘tis good then,” Shandy said, and reached down for Linia’s skirt. With only two buttons that was easier and soon it slipped to the floor, leaving Linia wearing only a bra and underwear. More kisses let Linia open Shandy’s trousers and drop them down to the floor as well. They pooled around Shandy’s ankles and Linia felt Shandy perform the familiar dance of doffing her pants while still remaining in kissing distance. Hands found clasps and bras joined the growing pile of discarded clothes.
Linia reached for Shandy’s underwear, and Shandy’s voice whimpered with a mix of anticipation and apprehension. Linia let her lips slide over Shandy’s chest and belly as she slowly knelt. Shandy’s soft belly protruded just enough that she had to bend her neck a little further back than tolerances usually allowed, but she’d live with it. She inhaled the musky, almost spicy scent of Shandy’s arousal, and she sighed. “You make me happy,” she said softly, then kissed Shandy’s matted pubic hair. Shandy hissed, “Aye.”
Linia knelt before Shandy, almost in a worshipful position, her mouth pressing deeper and deeper into the cleft of Shandy’s cunt, seeking out the little spots. Shandy’s pussy was a complicated affair, with long inner labia that folded in on themselves. Linia loved those lips, so different from Misuko’s simple, almost perfectly geometrical lines. She dug in with a gusto. Shandy put her hands on Linia’s head, almost staggering as she parted her legs a little further. “Shandy,” Linia breathed, looking up. “I can’t… my neck.”
Shandy nodded. Linia stood, then took Shandy by the shoulders and pushed her down onto the high bed so that her hips were barely on the mattress. “Linia!” Shandy sputtered as the bells attached to Shandy’s head and baseboard chimed, but Linia only smiled and leaned over the shorter woman to kiss her neck. Linia’s mouth trailed down to the hollow of Shandy’s collarbones, then across her chest to her breasts. “You have such a beautiful body,” Linia murmured as she kissed one of Shandy’s breasts, her lips circling the nipple closer and closer. Shandy’s gasps grew louder. “I remember that,” Linia said. “I told you I’d get to them later.” Shandy’s nipple visibly hardened under Linia’s attention, and with her lips and teeth she teased it until Shandy’s whimpers grew loud enough Linia wondered if the neighbors might hear.
Linia kissed her way downward, Shandy’s soft stomach heaving for air with every buss and nibble, and when she reached Shandy’s pussy again she smelled Shandy’s wondrous arousal. She was amazed by her own reaction to it. It was similar to what she felt when she went down on Misuko, but she felt a strange tinge to her feelings, a wildness that couldn’t be explained logically. She was a robot, she wasn’t supposed to feel this feverish impatience for someone who wasn’t her companion. Shandy made her feel wonderful, and Linia knew at her core that when Shandy and she finally dropped the pace of their love down and down to almost nothing, when Gazelle finally stepped up and became as important to Shandy as Linia suspected she herself was, that she would feel the bitter and the sweet as strongly as Shandy.
That was in the future. Right now, there was Shandy’s beautiful cunt, now fully exposed under that tangle of thick, damp pubic hair, and Linia bent to kiss and lick at every exposed millimeter. She tasted the soft, milky fluids pooling in Shandy’s opening, the tangier residue over the tinier opening further up, and finally the complex texture where labia, hood, and clitoris all combined into an architecture of pleasure no bigger than a fingernail. “Linia…” Shandy gasped. “More.”
“More,” Linia promised, and licked at Shandy’s cunt, varying her pace, starting with quick, gentle flickers in a rotation around Shandy’s clit, slowing down as Shandy’s breathing grew faster and louder in Linia’s ears. Shandy didn’t use her voice but she didn’t have to as Linia’s fingers touched Shandy’s opening. “Can I go inside you?” Linia said.
“Uh-huh,” Shandy whimpered, and Linia slipped one finger, palm up, into Shandy’s warm body. The wetness around her finger was an affirmation of all the good she was achieving, and as she slipped that one finger out Shandy whimpered desperately, only to hiss with delight as Linia slipped two fingers into her. “Oh, yes, yes, please, harder…”
Linia was only too willing to do as she asked, but as she pressed in with her tongue Shandy only clenched her fists. “Not that. With your hand.”
Linia tried thrusting with her fingers and Shandy gasped, “Yes!” Linia smiled and bent to suckle her clit harder, her fingers thrusting in a hard, steady rhythm in and out of Shandy’s wet, hungry cunt. Linia pushed harder and harder, and she heard it: the bells. She thrust just a little bit harder, hard enough to make Shandy’s beautiful collection of musical chimes ring out and surround them. Shandy’s hands grabbed her own nipples and pinched them, hard, as Linia’s hand and tongue drove Shandy. Shandy suddenly went silent and almost rigid, but Linia didn’t stop her full-tilt ravishment of Shandy’s cunt, and the only sound in the room for a full ten seconds was the glorious music of the chimes. Shandy’s hips bounced on the bed, almost knocking Linia’s teeth as she came with a low, guttural moan, heaving and gasping for the air she’d denied herself the last few minutes.
She collapsed, her legs dropping downward, but Linia caught them. She eased her arm under Shandy’s back and with her extra strength turned Shandy so she was fully on the bed. She crawled over Shandy and took up the other side. “You okay?”
“Oh, god, god,” Shandy said, then put her hand over her mouth. “Sorry.”
“No, it’s good,” Linia murmured, her lips caressing Shandy’s ear. Shandy shivered.
“I should no blaspheme,” Shandy said, then giggled.
“If you don’t want to, don’t,” Linia said.
“I should say your name instead,” Shandy said, turning to give her a grin. She put her hands on her belly. “I was thinking I should cover up. But ‘tis silly.”
“Because I know what you look like naked?”
Shandy nodded. “Aye.”
“You look good naked.” Shandy was quiet, and tears filled her eyes. “Oh, no, what did I do this time?”
“‘Tis no sadness, Linia! ‘Tis joy.” She turned over and covered Linia’s body with her own, kissed the other woman. “‘Tis so good.”
Linia nodded. “Will you stay on Hiroshi?”
“I’m going no anywhere until I get my license.” She kissed Linia softly.
Linia looked up at her. “Good,” she said.
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Surface studies of the Medicus nickel matrix cathode
Carlo G. Pantano, T. N. Wittberg
It is shown that activation of the Medicus nickel matrix cathode results in the development of a surface microstructure consisting of alkaline earth oxide-rich regions, 20-40 μm in diameter, distributed over the nickel-rich cathode coating. An in situ correlation between thermionic emission current and surface composition indicates a primary dependence upon the relative Ba to Ni concentration. A time dependent increase in the average calcium concentration at the surface has also been observed; compositional analyses of material evaporating from the cathode revealed that this calcium may accumulate at the surface due to the preferential release of barium and strontium. The accumulation of calcium at the surface, as well as the loss of barium, are believed to contribute to emission degradation during cathode life. Ion sputtering studies suggest the dispensing of barium and the dependence of the surface microstructure upon the initial thermal/ electrolytic activation. Although barium concentrations in excess of the oxide stoichiometry are measured, the presence of elemental barium monolayers has not been verified. It is concluded that owing to these chemical, compositional and morphological effects, the nickel matrix cathode should not be viewed simply as an oxide cathode physically supported by a metal matrix.
Applications of Surface Science
Thermionic emission
Microstructure
Sputtering
Monolayers
Earth (planet)
Degradation
Pantano, C. G., & Wittberg, T. N. (1980). Surface studies of the Medicus nickel matrix cathode. Applications of Surface Science, 4(3-4), 385-400. https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-5963(80)90086-0
Pantano, Carlo G. ; Wittberg, T. N. / Surface studies of the Medicus nickel matrix cathode. In: Applications of Surface Science. 1980 ; Vol. 4, No. 3-4. pp. 385-400.
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ACC204 – Advanced Financial Accounting Assignment Help
Unit code: ACC204
Unit title: Advanced Financial Accounting
The following question includes two theoretical questions and 4 practical questions, please answer all of them. If needed please use Harvard referencing style. There is no word limit, but it is necessary that you provide answers with explanations.
Part A – THEORETICAL QUESTIONS
Theoretical Question One (2 marks):
Discuss your view of “True and Fair” in the financial statement. How would a company director try to ensure that the financial statements are true and fair before signing the directors’ declaration?
Theoretical Question Two (2 marks):
What is the difference between the recoverable amount and fair value? Where revaluations are undertaken, can a reporting entity use “value in use” as the basis for the revaluation?
Part B – PRACTICAL QUESTIONS
Practical Question 1 (4 marks)
Sunshine Ltd acquires an item of machinery on 1 July 2011 for $420000. When the asset is acquired, it is considered to have a useful life for the entity of six years. After this time, the machine will have no residual value. It is believed that the pattern of economic benefits would best be reflected by applying the sum-of-digits method of depreciation. However, contrary to expectations, on 30 June 2014 the asset is sold for $150000.
Calculate depreciation expense and gain or loss on disposal of the machinery and prepare all the journal entries necessary for Sunshine Ltd for the year ended 30 June 2012, 30 June 2013, 30 June 2014.
As of 1 July 2015, Top Ltd has an asset that has a cost of $100000 and accumulated depreciation of $20000. Top Ltd decided on 1 July 2015 that the asset should be revalued to $120000. The remaining useful life of the asset is eight years, after which time it will have no residual value. Top Ltd uses straight-line method to allocate depreciation for the asset.
Prepare journal entries to reflect the revaluation of the asset and the subsequent depreciation of the revalued asset using the net-amount method for the year ended 30 June 2016.
Tamarama Ltd acquires $100% of Bronte Ltd on 1 July 2013. Tamarama Ltd pays the shareholders of Bronte Ltd the following consideration:
Cash: $70000
Plant and equipment: fair value $250000; carrying amount in the books of Tamarama Ltd $17000
Land: fair value $300000; carrying amount in the books of Tamarama Ltd $200000
There are also legal fees of $35000 involved in acquiring Bronte Ltd.
On 1 July 2013 Bronte Ltd’s statement of financial position shows total assets of $700000 and liabilities of $300000. The fair value of the assets is $800000.
Has any goodwill been acquired and, if so, how much?
Can Tamarama Ltd revalue the goodwill upwards in a subsequent period?
Johnson Ltd has entered into a lease arrangement with ABC Ltd in which it has agreed to lease an item of machinery from ABC Ltd on the following terms:
Date of commencement of lease: 1 July 2015
Duration of lease: 8 years
The fair value of machine at lease inception: $871172
Initial up-front payment: $200000
Lease payments at the end of each year: $100000
Implicit rate of interest: 6%
The lease is considered to be non-cancellable. The economic life of the machinery is considered to be 10 years. However, Johnson Ltd will return the machinery to ABC Ltd at the end of the lease term. At this stage, it is expected that the machinery will have a residual(unguaranteed)value of $80000 at the end of the lease term.
Determine the present value of the minimum lease payments.
prove that the rate of interest implicit in the lease is 6%.
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ACC204 ACC204 Advanced Financial Accounting Advanced Financial Accounting Discuss your view of “True and Fair” in the financial statement. How would a company director try to ensure that the financial statements are true and fair before signing the directors’ declaration? What is the difference between the recoverable amount and fair value? Where revaluations are undertaken can a reporting entity use “value in use” as the basis for the revaluation?
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New York City Poll: Should Weiner run for mayor?
(CNN) - Disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner may seek political redemption by running this year for New York City mayor, but a new poll of city residents suggests many of them may not be ready to forgive him.
If he does run though, an NBC New York-Marist Poll released late Tuesday night indicates Weiner would shake up the battle for the Democratic mayoral nomination.
Filed under: Anthony Weiner • New York • Polls
Kelly says he’d work to defeat a friend, Sen. Flake, if need be
CNN's Ashley Killough
(CNN) - Mark Kelly, husband of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, said he might use their gun control advocacy group to work toward the ouster of Sen. Jeff Flake in 2018 if the Republican senator from Arizona votes against firearm legislation.
Flake, a former U.S. congressman, and Giffords are known as longtime friends, Kelly said.
Filed under: Gun control • Gun rights • Jeff Flake • Mark Kelly
Sanford accused of trespassing on ex-wife's property
CNN Political Reporter Peter Hamby
(CNN) - Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, who's now running as the Republican nominee in a special congressional election, has been ordered to appear in court two days after the May election over allegations that he trespassed at his ex-wife's home.
Jenny Sanford confirmed a report about court documents she filed claiming she saw her ex-husband leaving her Sullivan's Island home on Feb. 3, roughly three weeks after he announced his bid for Congress.
Filed under: House • Jenny Sanford • Mark Sanford • South Carolina
Senate to start votes on gun bill on Wednesday
CNN Senior Congressional Producer Ted Barrett
Washington (CNN) - The U.S. Senate will begin voting on amendments to gun legislation on Wednesday, including the leading proposals for tighter restrictions spurred by the Connecticut school massacre in December.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the list of first votes would include the bipartisan yet controversial agreement on expanding background checks proposed by Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, and Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pennsylvania.
Filed under: Gun control • Gun rights • Harry Reid • Senate
Who is Roger Wicker?
CNN Political Unit
(CNN) - The ricin-tainted envelope intercepted at a Washington mail facility was addressed to Republican Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi, CNN reported Tuesday night.
The senator has been assigned a protective detail following the discovery, according to a law enforcement source.
But who is Wicker?
Filed under: Roger Wicker • Senate
Breaking: Envelope tests positive for ricin at Washington mail facility
CNN's Mike Brooks and Dana Bash
Washington (CNN) - An envelope that tested positive for the deadly poison ricin was intercepted Tuesday afternoon at the U.S. Capitol's off-site mail facility in Washington, congressional and law enforcement sources tell CNN.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he was told the letter was addressed to the office of Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi. After the envelope tested positive in a first routine test, it was retested two more times, each time coming up positive, the law enforcement source said. The package was then sent to a Maryland lab for further testing.
Filed under: Congress
McCain, Schumer feeling 'very good' about immigration bill
(CNN) – Following meeting with President Barack Obama on Tuesday, two of the lead senators on a bipartisan effort to introduce immigration reform expressed confidence about their bill.
"We're feeling very good about this. Things are moving in a very, very good way and the president's support of our proposal, even though he wouldn't fully agree with it, is sort of just the right place to be," Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-New York, told reporters at the White House.
Filed under: Charles Schumer • Immigration • John McCain
Breaking: Obama going to Boston
(CNN) - President Barack Obama will travel to Boston Thursday to speak at an interfaith service dedicated to victims of Monday's bombing at the Boston Marathon, the White House announced in a statement.
Filed under: Massachusetts • President Obama
CNN's GUT CHECK for April 16, 2013
CNN Political Director Mark Preston and Dan Merica
CNN's GUT CHECK | for April 16, 2013 | 5 p.m.
– n. a pause to assess the state, progress or condition of the political news cycle
BOSTON BOMBING: WHO DID THIS? WHY? AND HOW? Monday's terror attack on the Boston Marathon killed an 8-year-old boy, a young woman nearly 12 years removed from her high school graduation in a Boston suburb, and one other person and left more than 180 others wounded. As Massachusetts and the rest of America mourned, a top FBI investigator vowed to travel "to the ends of the Earth," if need be, to find those responsible. – Michael Pearson
PRESSURE COOKER: The deadly bombs that turned the Boston Marathon into gruesome devastation were apparently placed inside pressure cookers hidden in backpacks, a federal law enforcement source told CNN. The blasts were likely detonated by timers - not by cell phones, a law enforcement official said. – Josh Levs
NO HARD INFORMATION: “We don't have any hard information yet, but I can assure we will find out who did it and bring them to justice,” Vice President Joe Biden told CNN’s Jim Acosta on Capitol Hill.
Filed under: CNN's Gut Check
Photo: Obama honors NASCAR champ
(CNN) - Taking a break from his briefings on the Boston terror attack, President Barack Obama honored last year's NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion Brad Keselowski during a ceremony at the White House Tuesday.
"Obviously we've had this event scheduled for some time and events have a way of intervening," Obama said during the event on the South Lawn.
"One of the things I firmly believe in is that America is strong and resilient and we don't let such cowardly acts get in the way of our lives," he added later.
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Democrats Can't Ignore Their Biden Problem Forever
Jacob Sugarman | truthdig.com | 2019-11-02
Earlier this week, in a vote that saw only two Democratic defections, the House of Representatives approved a package of ground rules for the impeachment of President Donald Trump. According to The Associated Press, the vote will allow Congress to "transition from weeks of closed-door interviews with witnesses to public hearings and ultimately to possible votes on whether to recommend Trump's removal from office." (Republicans, for their part, voted unanimously against, with White House Press Secretary Stephani…
truthdig.com/articles/democrats-cant-ignore-their-biden-problem-forever/
California Buffalo Soldier Project, building on a strong foundation
Khubaka, Michael Harris | indybay.org | 2019-11-02
2019 Veterans Day Celebrations will Honor US Army Colonel Charles Young, as the entrance Three Rivers, CA entrance into Sequoia National Park is dedicated as the Colonel Charles Young Memorial Highway and the men who served as Buffalo Soliers throughout California.
Bangladesh: Sixteen sentenced to death over brutal murder of student
The Bangladeshi government is exploiting outrage over the brutal murder of a young woman to step up its law-and-order attacks on democratic rights.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/02/bang-n02.html
Chicago Mayor Lightfoot's budget: Increased policing and austerity on behalf of the financial aristocracy
Lightfoot's first budget, containing large increases to the police department and higher fees affecting workers, is a continuation of the Democratic Party's right-wing assault on the working class.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/02/chib-n02.html
How an Occupy ICE Activist and DACA Recipient Was Deported for Tweeting
Ryan Devereaux | theintercept.com | 2019-11-02
Sergio Salazar awoke around 8 a.m. on a strip of grass outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in San Antonio. It had been a heady summer for the 18-year-old. President Donald Trump, as part of his ongoing border crackdown, had separated thousands of migrant children from their parents. Viewing the policy as the latest in a string of assaults on immigrant communities, Salazar and his friends organized an occupation outside the ICE office in the midsummer heat. | In the weeks that followed, Occupy ICE SATX was visited by both TV crews and a raiding party of masked neo-Nazis, who stormed through the t…
theintercept.com/2019/11/02/deportation-occupy-ice-daca/
Baghdadi Deception Exposed, Israel Bombs Gaza After Phantom Rocket & US Violates Own Syria Sanctions
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-11-02
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (11/119). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/baghdadi-deception-exposed-israel-bombs-gaza-after-phantom-rocket-us-violates-own-syria-sanctions/
Republicans Can't Break With Trump While They Invest in Voter Suppression
The first formal vote in the House impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump took place Thursday, and fell nearly universally along party lines: The House of Representatives voted 232-196 in favor of a resolution laying out the rules for the inquiry going forward, with only one Republican voting "Aye" and two Democrats voting "No." | Justin Amash, the Michigan Independent and former fire-b…
truthout.org/articles/republicans-cant-break-with-trump-while-they-invest-in-voter-suppression/
Ady Barkan: Elizabeth Warren's Plan Is a Massive Win for the Medicare for All Movement
Ady Barkan | theintercept.com | 2019-11-01
Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks to students and staff at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa, on Oct. 21, 2019. | Photo: Charlie Neibergall/AP | The movement for single-payer health care has taken some big strides forward in recent years. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., put the issue at the center of the Democratic Party's debate with his run for president in 2016. In partnership with the nurses union and other champions, he then got 19 senators to co-sponsor his bill in 2017. After Democrats took back the House of Representatives, we demanded and got hearings in multiple powerful committees on the fantastic b…
theintercept.com/2019/11/01/elizabeth-warren-medicare-for-all/
Robert Reich: Democrats Reject Oligarchy or Else
Robert Reich | truthdig.com | 2019-11-01
If the party fails to embrace the populist agenda of Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders, it could easily lose to Trump again in 2020.
truthdig.com/articles/robert-reich-democrats-must-reject-oligarchy-or-else/
Bernie Sanders Says Denying Aid Because of Hamas Is "Part of an Effort to Dehumanize Palestinians"
No other candidate in the U.S. presidential race comes close to Sanders in terms of his willingness to condition aid to Israel.
theintercept.com/2019/11/01/bernie-sanders-palestine-aid-hamas/
Impeachment Resolution Scam by House Dems
On Monday, anti-Trump Speaker Pelosi released the text of the undemocratic Dems' impeachment resolution, aiming to remove Trump from office for the wrong reasons, ignoring legitimate right ones. | For Dems and supportive media, it's the second time around against …
globalresearch.ca/impeachment-resolution-scam-house-dems/5693652
House Dems Pass Procedural Impeachment Resolution
Establishment media support for what's going on is all about wanting undemocratic Dems gaining a political advantage ahead of 2020 presidential, congressional, state, and local elections. | The impeachment inquiry scam is unrelated to legitimate wrongdoing by Trump and his regime …
globalresearch.ca/house-dems-pass-procedural-impeachment-resolution/5693749
Buffeting Boeing CEO's Rope-a-Dope in Congress
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-01
This past week, Boeing's deadly 737 MAX crashes were the focus of two back-to-back hearings — one in the Senate and one in the House. In the House Transportation Committee hearing, at least 50 Democrats and Republicans criticized Dennis Muilenburg's mismanagement and implied criminal negligence. Muilenburg's actions allowed Boeing's marketeers to overrule Boeing's engineers so…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/01/buffeting-boeing-ceos-rope-a-dope-in-congress/
Democrats Make a Huge Mistake If They Just Focus Impeachment on the Ukraine Scandal
Dave Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-01
The impeachment theater on display today in the House, bracketed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi's maudlin reading of Article I of the Constitution, and by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's ludicrous evocation of the Stalin purge trials to characterize the full House vote to establish impeachment rules and procedures, is increasingly looking like the first act…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/01/democrats-make-a-huge-mistake-if-they-just-focus-impeachment-on-the-ukraine-scandal/
The Baghdadi Scam
Margaret Kimberley | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-01
The Democrats and corporate media don't really oppose what Donald Trump is doing in Syria or anywhere else. | "In the end it doesn't matter if Baghdadi is dead or when or how he died." | Donald Trump says that Abu Bakr …
globalresearch.ca/baghdadi-scam/5693738
The Democratic Office Boy Machine
Kathleen Wallace | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-01
Of course the DNC will do it again. The fact that anyone considers that they will play fair is hopelessly out of touch with their history. They will try to thwart the will of their voters through continued reliance on 2nd vote superdelegates and the use of slanted support that will be extended to corporate…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/01/the-democratic-office-boy-machine/
Cuba: Anti-Imperialist Solidarity Meeting Kicks Off in Havana
Over a thousand delegates from 80 countries began on Friday the "Anti-Imperialist Solidarity Meeting for Democracy and Against Neoliberalism" at the Convention Center in Havana. | RELATED: | Cuba and Russia Plan New Joint Socio-Economic Ventures Ahead | During this three-day event, social activists, workers, peasants, women, indigenous peoples leaders, intellectuals and politicians will analyze the current offensive of the U.S. imperialism against the Latin American peoples. | A…
telesurenglish.net/news/Cuba-Anti-Imperialist-Solidarity-Meeting-Kicks-Off-in-Havana-20191101-0001.html
Latin America: Is Canada Trying to Create Another "Illegitimate" Government?
Nino Pagliccia | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-01
Bolivia has recently had a presidential election that without foreign interference would have passed without notice outside Latin America. President Evo Morales was re-elected democratically to a forth term without the need of a run-off election with incumbent Carlos Mesa…
globalresearch.ca/latin-america-canada-trying-create-another-illegitimate-government/5693718
Trump Slides an American Foot in the Door in Syria
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-01
At first glance, it would appear to be a businessman's plan to plunder the profits of Syria, and he has quoted profits expected and even ear-marked the profits to support the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) who are a Syrian Kurdish …
globalresearch.ca/trump-slides-american-foot-syria/5693684
Twitter's ban on political advertisement: A new move to censor the internet
The move by Twitter is a capitulation to demands by congressional Democrats and the media that technology companies more aggressively censor political statements, in the guise of "fact-checking."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/01/pers-n01.html
'Just the first step': House democrats approve Trump impeachment inquiry resolution
Common Dreams Staff | nationofchange.org | 2019-11-01
"This resolution ensures transparency, advancing public disclosure of deposition transcripts, and outlying the procedures for the transfer of evidence to the judiciary committee to use in its proceedings," said Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi ahead of the vote.
nationofchange.org/2019/11/01/just-the-first-step-house-democrats-approve-trump-impeachment-inquiry-resolution/
Two Theories of Democracy
Michael Welton | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-01
How ought democracy to be understood? These days this is certainly a weighty and urgent question because there is considerable empirical evidence of deep-seated dissatisfaction within the liberal constitutional democracies and dismay at the persistence of brutal authoritarian regimes throughout the world. In fact, if "democracy" means that citizens have a voice in decision-making affecting…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/01/two-theories-of-democracy/
Chile: 'Interference Accusation is US Dirty Game,' Russia says
Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov on Friday rejected U.S. accusations that Russia is trying to destabilize democracy in Chile. | RELATED: | Chile: Protestors March in Concepcion and Towards the Capital | "The U.S. administration is taking advantage of Chile's difficult internal situation to continue its attempts to denigrate our country's forei…
telesurenglish.net/news/Chile-Interference-Accusation-is-US-Dirty-Game-Russia-says-20191101-0003.html
A Lottery of Equality Dispenses Dystopia
John O'Kane | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-01
A common refrain in the Democratic Party debates has been support for more equality, the inclusion of those yet to access the American Dream. Most candidates even want to include migrants in their target group and make them eligible for free college and medical care. Expanding the base of successful citizens is what has defined…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/01/a-lottery-of-equality-dispenses-dystopia/
Labor, Ever So Gingerly, Tiptoes Into the Insurgency
Ever since 26-year-old Jessica Cisneros announced that she would be challenging Rep. Henry Cuellar in the primary for Texas's 28th District with the support of Justice Democrats, the primary unfolded about as well as Cisneros could have expected. The Cuellar campaign dismissed her as an out-of-touch leftist with few roots in her community. Cisneros plowed ahead, swore off corporate PAC and lobbyist money, and began putting together her volunteer operation. The national press, perpetually on the hunt…
theintercept.com/2019/11/01/jessica-cisneros-texas-labor-unions/
Elizabeth Warren Answers Critics by 'Paying for Medicare for All'
It won't be a burden. It will be a relief. And for the large majority of those living in the United States–a huge tax break. | Sen. Elizabeth Warren released a " Paying for Medicare for All" proposal on Friday morning, laying out her detailed approach to financing a federal health care plan that would provide comprehensive coverage to all Americans by demanding the top 1% and corporations take the brunt of the costs while promising "not one penny" more in taxes for working-class and middle-class families. | "
truthdig.com/articles/elizabeth-warren-answers-critics-by-paying-for-medicare-for-all/
How Health Insurance Industry Allies Are Going to Lie and Attack Elizabeth Warren's Medicare for All Plan
Wendell Potter | commondreams.org | 2019-11-01
Remember groups that are likely to come to the defense of the employer-based insurance system that Warren wants to dramatically reform, like the Chamber of Commerce, may (again) be receiving tens of millions of dollars from industry. (Photo: Astrid Riecken/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/warren_15.jpeg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/11/01/how-health-insurance-industry-allies-are-going-lie-and-attack-elizabeth-warrens?cd-origin=rss
CPD Action Reacts to Warren Medicare for All Payment Plan
commondreams.org/newswire/2019/11/01/cpd-action-reacts-warren-medicare-all-payment-plan?cd-origin=rss
Medicare for All Saves Money. Elizabeth Warren's Plan Ensures That Working Families Get The Savings
commondreams.org/newswire/2019/11/01/medicare-all-saves-money-elizabeth-warrens-plan-ensures-working-families-get?cd-origin=rss
The Far Right Is Tightening Its Grip on French Politics
Harrison Stetler | thenation.com | 2019-11-01
thenation.com/article/terrorism-france-macron-islam/
'Political Corruption in Real Time': Viral Video Shows North Carolina GOP Sabotaging Democracy in Effort to Secure Corporate Tax Cuts
A viral video shared by a Democratic state lawmaker in North Carolina displayed what he called "political corruption in real time," showing Republican state senators refusing to hold a vote to move the debate forward over state funding for healthcare and teachers' salaries versus corporate tax cuts. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/3114926871_506533978a_o2.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2019/11/01/political-corruption-real-time-viral-video-shows-north-carolina-gop-sabotaging?cd-origin=rss
FBI and San Francisco Police Have Been Lying About Scope of Joint Counterterrorism Investigations, Document Suggests
San Francisco police officers working on an FBI counterterrorism task force were routinely given low-level assignments that would invite violations of local San Francisco law and policy, according to an internal FBI legal analysis obtained by The Intercept. | The FBI's San Francisco office has long assured the public that its relationship to the city's police officers could be trusted, especially when it came to officers assigned to the bureau's secretive counterterrorism teams. In January, for example, John F. Bennett, the special…
theintercept.com/2019/11/01/fbi-joint-terrorism-san-francisco-civil-rights/
"It Was Necessary": Gambian Beauty Queen Returns Home to Testify About Rape By Former Dictator
In Gambia, a former beauty queen who says the president raped her when she was 18 years old has testified before a public truth and reconciliation commission that is investigating the atrocities of former president Yahya Jammeh. Fatou "Toufah" Jallow has become a leading voice against the former president, who ruled the West African country of 2 million people for 22 years before his regime ended in 2017. Two other women have also come forward to accuse the former president of rape and sexual assault. Survivors of the regime have also testified during the hearings, which have been live streamed across the country…
www.democracynow.org/2019/11/1/fatou_toufah_jallow_gambia_testimony
"This Is a Win for Our City": Chicago Teachers Celebrate End of Historic Strike After 11 Days
Teachers in Chicago are heading back to school Friday, marking the end of a historic 11-day strike that had shut down the country's third-largest school district. After weeks of tense negotiations, the city agreed to reduce class sizes, increase salaries by 16% over the next five years and bring on hundreds more social workers, nurses and librarians. The union demanded that teachers be able to make up the full eleven days of school before agreeing to return to work and eventually settled with the city on five days. Earlier this week, 7,500 public school workers with the Service Employees International Union, who…
www.democracynow.org/2019/11/1/chicago_teachers_strike_ends
Five Indigenous Leaders Massacred in Colombia; New Wave of Violence Feared as 2,500 Troops Deployed
The massacre of five Indigenous leaders in Colombia has shocked the country. The killings took place in the southwestern region of Cauca. Among the victims was Cristina Bautista, the leader of the semi-autonomous Indigenous reservation of Nasa Tacueyó. Four of the community's unarmed guards were also killed, while six others were wounded. A group of U.N. experts have denounced the massacre and demanded the Colombian government to take urgent measures in cooperation with Indigenous authorities to investigate the murders. Police have made no arrests and no suspects have been named in the massacre. Since the signing…
www.democracynow.org/2019/11/1/cristina_bautista_colombia_indigenous_leaders_killed
Chicago Teachers and UAW Members Show That Labor Movement Is Back After "Decades of Concessions"
The end of the Chicago teachers' strike comes amid a wave of labor movements, including the longest United Auto Workers strike in almost 50 years. We speak with labor journalist Sarah Jaffe about the historical importance of unions, the rise of worker participation in strike actions and the significance of the Labour Party's organizing in the United Kingdom. Jaffe says workers "are fighting back in the face of decades and decades of concessions, decades and decades of give-backs," and "understanding that unionizing is a way that they have power on the job." She is the author of _Necessary Trouble: Americans in Re…
www.democracynow.org/2019/11/1/uaw_strike_uk_labor_party_corbyn
Foreign Correspondent: Boris, Brexit, and the British Elections
Reese Erlich | progressive.org | 2019-11-01
Brexit presents a serious conundrum for left and progressive forces. Liberals and social democrats suddenly find themselves in bed with Britain's largest capitalist corporations.
progressive.org/dispatches/foreign-correspondent-boris-brexit-elections-erlich-191101/
Bernie Sanders Throws Support Behind Deadspin Staffers Who Quit in Protest of Management by 'Private Equity Vultures'
commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/deadspin_0.jpg …
'Not a Big Fan of Medicare for All': Pelosi Attacks Plan Backed by Leading 2020 Democrats, Majority of Party
The House Speaker's remarks came hours after Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a 2020 Democratic presidential contender, released her proposal to finance Medicare for All. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/nancy_pelosi_2.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2019/11/01/not-big-fan-medicare-all-pelosi-attacks-plan-backed-leading-2020-democrats-majority?cd-origin=rss
With Detailed Pay-For Plan, Warren Touts Medicare for All as 'Bigger Than the Biggest Tax Cut' in US History
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-11-01
"If you're not in the top 1%, Wall Street, or a big corporation — congratulations, you don't pay a penny more and you're fully covered." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/warren_medicare_for_all1.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2019/11/01/detailed-pay-plan-warren-touts-medicare-all-bigger-biggest-tax-cut-us-history?cd-origin=rss
Congress approves 'impeachment' resolution authorizing Schiff's secret probe of Trump
The US House of Representatives has approved a resolution authorizing the impeachment probe of President Donald Trump, despite Republican opposition arguing that the "Soviet-style" bill lacks transparency and due process. | The 232-196 vote ended up being almost entirely along party lines, with only two Democrats voting against and no Republicans voting for the resolution. | The White House has reacted to the outcome with a statement saying that "with today's vote, Speaker Pelosi and the Democrats have done nothing more than enshrine unacceptable violations of due process into House rules," adding that the "un…
rt.com/usa/472314-trump-impeachment-inquiry-vote/
Trump says Melania 'wouldn't cry her eyes out' if he were shot — joke explodes on Twitter
US President Donald Trump has, apparently, confirmed that his wife Melania would not be moved to tears if he happened to get shot — and Twitter has quickly taken it as a window into the first couple's much-discussed marriage. | Speaking to a Republican audience at a private fundraiser at the Trump Hotel in Washington on Tuesday, Trump brought up the 2017 shooting of House minority whip Steve Scalise. | Trump recalled that, when he visited Scalise in hospital, the politician's wife had "cried her eyes out" — a reaction he would not, apparently, expect from Melania — or most wives, for that matte…
rt.com/usa/472333-trump-shot-melania-cry-not/
Chile and Her History of Western Interference
Peter Koenig | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-10-31
Chile is experiencing the largest and most serious political crisis and public unrest throughout Santiago and the country's major cities since the return to 'democracy' in 1990. A week long of fire, tear-gas and police brutality left at least 20 people dead, thousands arrested and injured. More than 1.2 million people protested on Friday 25 …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/10/chile-and-her-history-of-western-interference/
PG&E Blackouts Spur Calls for Public Ownership
PG&E cut power to millions throughout California this month as fires blaze across the state. The move has prompted many to call to municipalize the company. Democracy Collaborative researcher Johanna Bozuwa explains.
therealnews.com/stories/california-pge-blackout-fires-public-ownership
New Study: 300 Million Face Severe Risk of Climate-Fueled Coastal Flooding by 2050
As a shocking new report finds that many coastal cities will be flooded by rising sea levels by 2050, Chile's President Sebastián Piñera announced Wednesday that the U.N. Climate Summit in Santiago has been canceled. Anti-inequality protests have entered their third week in the country with protesters calling for the Piñera government to resign. The U.N. said it is now looking for an alternative venue for the annual climate meetings. Meanwhile, a dire new report has warned 300 million people are at risk from rising sea levels, with the most vulnerable populations concentrated in the Global South. According to the…
www.democracynow.org/2019/10/31/chile_cancels_un_climate_summit_after
As Rich Hire Private Firefighters, Housekeepers Go to Work in Fire Zone & Prisoners Fight CA Blazes
As climate-fueled fires rage across California, we look at how the blazes are disproportionately affecting some of the state's most vulnerable communities. As a growing number of wealthy homeowners hire private firefighters to protect their properties for up to $3,000 per day, domestic workers and gardeners who tend to some of the most opulent homes in Los Angeles attended work despite the Getty Fire evacuation order earlier this week. Many of their employers failed to even tell them not to come in. Meanwhile, of the more than 4,000 firefighters currently working across the state, at least 700 are California pris…
www.democracynow.org/2019/10/31/california_fires_domestic_workers_prisoner_firefighters
As California Burns Again, Rep. Ro Khanna Calls for PG&E to Become Publicly Owned Utility
Extreme winds of up to 60 miles per hour caused new fires to erupt across southern California Wednesday, prompting tens of thousands to evacuate. The blazes are just the latest in a spate of climate change-fueled fires threatening the state. In Northern California, firefighters have finally beat back the Sonoma County Kincade Fire that had forced nearly 200,000 people to flee their homes over the weekend. Nearly all evacuees in the region have now been allowed to return to their homes and the utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric said Wednesday it would begin restoring power to the 365,000 customers who were plung…
www.democracynow.org/2019/10/31/ro_khanna_california_fires_gas_electric
Headlines for October 31, 2019
Tens of Thousands Evacuate as New Blazes Erupt in Fire-Ravaged California, Chile Calls Off U.N. Climate Talks Amid Massive Protests Against Inequality, Protesters Confront JPMorgan Chase CEO Over Fossil Fuel Investments, Youth Climate Activists Stage Sit-In at House Speaker Pelosi's Office, Keystone Pipeline Breach Spills Oil in North Dakota, House Readies Vote to Formalize Impeachment Process, Top Immigration Official Grilled Over Move to Deport Critically Ill Immigrants, "Not Qualified" Rating from Bar Association Draws Tears from Judicial Nominee, India to Split Jammu and Kashmir Into Two Territories Controlle…
www.democracynow.org/2019/10/31/headlines
Ro Khanna Condemns GOP For Attacking Civil Servants to Shield Trump As House Votes on Impeachment
The House of Representatives is holding a historic vote today to formalize the impeachment process against President Trump. The probe centers on whether Trump withheld military aid to Ukraine to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Trump's political rival Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, who served on the board of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company. As the House votes today, lawmakers are continuing to question key Trump administration behind closed doors, including the top Russia official on the National Security Council, Tim Morrison. On Wednesday, House Democrats also requeste…
www.democracynow.org/2019/10/31/house_votes_to_formalize_impeachment_process
US House passes sanctions bill against Turkey
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-10-31
Turkey's war on RojavaIssue 1243 United States sanctions against TurkeyNovember 1, 2019The United States House of Representatives approved a bill to impose sanctions on Turkey over its military operation in Northern and Eastern Syria on October 30. | The bill was passed by the Democrat-controlled house with 403 votes…
greenleft.org.au/content/us-house-passes-sanctions-bill-against-turkey
Turkish attacks continue during 'ceasefire' in Northern Syria
Turkey's war on Rojava Susan PriceIssue 1243 Rojava Syrian Democratic Forces YPG/YPJNovember 1, 2019Despite the agreement reached between Russia and Turkey on October 22 in the Russian city…
greenleft.org.au/content/turkish-attacks-continue-during-ceasefire-northern-syria
Haitians commemorate liberator Dessalines with huge mobilisations
democracyIssue 1243 Haiti national liberation fuel crisisNovember 1, 2019Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across Haiti on October 17 to commemorate the national revolutionary and liberator Jean-Jacques Dessalines and to demand the resignation of United States-…
greenleft.org.au/content/haitians-commemorate-liberator-dessalines-huge-mobilisations
Halloween Is a Gateway to Drug Addiction, Claimed Ministry Backed by Amy Klobuchar
Aída Chávez | theintercept.com | 2019-10-31
Klobuchar sought to earmark $500,000 in 2009 for the anti-LGBT ministry, which put out literature calling Halloween "a day set up totally for Satan."
theintercept.com/2019/10/31/amy-klobuchar-minnesota-teen-challenge-halloween/
To Fix Racial Gerrymander, North Carolina Republicans Considered a Map That Could Have Elected an All-White Slate
The draft maps, obtained by The Intercept, illustrate how Republican mapmakers can secretly calibrate maps to have a deep partisan bias, even when they follow the rules.
theintercept.com/2019/10/30/north-carolina-gerrymandering-maps-redistricting/
At This Year's J Street Conference, "Progressive" Pols Bow to Israel While Preaching Peace
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2019-10-30
Progressive politicians like Bernie Sanders should be credited for finally offering solutions to decades-old Israeli Human rights violations, but those solutions are often little more than talking points designed to placate their base and appease Israel.
mintpressnews.com/j-street-conference-progressive-pols-bow-israel-while-preaching-peace/262608/
Climate change denial is the new 'flat Earth' & causes WILDFIRES, California ex-governor testifies
Add California's wildfires to the list of problems caused by US President Donald Trump. The state's former governor has warned Trump and his fellow Republicans that "the blood is on your soul"… for denying climate change. | "California's burning while the deniers make a joke out of the standards that protect us all. The blood is on your soul here and I hope you wake up," former governor Jerry Brown snarled, during a House Oversight Committee hearing on the Trump administration's recent decision to bar California from setting its own auto emissions standards. "This is not politics, this is life, this is moral…
rt.com/usa/472242-california-climate-change-fires-trump/
'Rupublicans' should fight 'infair' impeachment: Trump tweet typos set Resistance tongues wagging again
US President Donald Trump has urged his party to push back on the "impeachment nonsense" — but his early morning typos are feeding the trolls and the online 'Resistance,' convinced that they will get him this time. | Tweeting on Wednesday morning, Trump repeated that the transcript of his July call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was "totally appropriate" and called the Democrat-led impeachment process "just a continuation of the Witch Hunt Hoax" — meaning the debunked Russian collusion conspiracy. | He managed to misspell a few things, however. | | In the sea of hostile responses ever…
rt.com/usa/472203-rupublicans-infair-trump-impeachment/
One statement from Jo Swinson shows why the Lib Dems can't be taken seriously
Emily Apple | thecanary.co | 2019-10-30
Just hours after MPs voted to hold a snap general election on 29 October, Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson appeared on ITV News. And she used her appearance to make a totally ridiculous statement. Swinson claimed that: I am standing in this election as candidate to be prime minister. | It seems that Swinson appears to have forgotten that the Lib Dems only have 19 MPs.
thecanary.co/trending/2019/10/30/one-statement-from-jo-swinson-shows-why-the-lib-dems-cant-be-taken-seriously/
The Presidential Town Hall on Mass Incarceration Was a Historic Moment and a Missed Opportunity
Alice Speri | theintercept.com | 2019-10-30
Collectively, the men and women in the room had hundreds of years of prison experience. The presidential town hall, the first ever to be hosted by formerly incarcerated people, was a unique opportunity for candidates to speak about the criminal justice system with those who know firsthand its devastating failures. But only three candidates showed up — and while the conversation delved into questions rarely tackled on the campaign trail, some of the candidates' answers left those in the audience disappointed. | The e…
theintercept.com/2019/10/30/criminal-justice-town-hall-democratic-candidates/
The Baghdadi "DNA Test" Was Done BEFORE The Raid By The SDF Using His Underwear
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (10/29/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/conspiracy/the-baghdadi-dna-test-was-done-before-raid-by-sdf-using-his-underwear/
A Male Politician Was Accused of Sexual Assault and Now a Woman Is Paying the Price
thenation.com/article/kelly-fowler-justin-fairfax-virginia-democrats/
Chesa Boudin, Son of 1960s Radicals, Runs for San Francisco DA on Criminal Justice Reform Platform
Chesa Boudin is running for San Francisco district attorney as the latest candidate in a wave of decarceral prosecutors running for office across the United States. Bernie Sanders and other leading progressives have endorsed Boudin, who is a public defender and the child of Weather Underground activists Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert. His parents were imprisoned when Boudin was a toddler. These experiences have given him a first-hand view of "how broken our criminal justice system is," he says. "My earliest memories are going through steel gates and metal detectors just to see my parents, just to give them a hug.
www.democracynow.org/2019/10/30/chesa_boudin_san_francisco_district_attorney
Vindman: White House Transcript of Trump Phone Call Omitted Key Words, Boeing CEO Grilled by Senate Lawmakers Over 737 MAX Failures, Lebanese Prime Minister Resigns Amid Massive Protests, Tens of Thousands Pour into Baghdad's Tahrir Square as Iraq Protests Continue, Anti-Government Protests in Haiti Enter their Seventh Week, Ceasefire Between Turkey and Syrian Kurds in Northern Syria Expires, House Votes for Resolution to Recognize Armenian Genocide, Journalist Max Blumenthal Says He Was Arrested on False Charges, National Weather Service Issues "Extreme Red Flag Warning" over Fires, Protesters Slam BlackRock for…
Lebanon's Prime Minister Hariri Resigns, But Protests and Demands For a New Government Continue
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri announced the resignation of his government on Tuesday following nearly two weeks of nationwide anti-government protests. In a televised address, al-Hariri said he had hit a "dead end" in resolving the crisis. Demonstrators "were congratulating each other while at the same time acknowledging that the struggle is very long," says Lebanese journalist, Lara Bitar, who joins us from Beirut for an update. She says protesters have promised to stay in the streets until all of their demands are met, including the resignation of all top government officials, early parliamentary election…
www.democracynow.org/2019/10/30/lebanon_protests_saad_hariri_resignation
Who Burned the Bronx? PBS Film "Decade of Fire" Investigates 1970s Fires That Displaced Thousands
The new documentary "Decade of Fire" looks back at the history of a crisis that unfolded in New York City in the 1970s, when the South Bronx faced a near-constant barrage of fires that displaced almost a quarter million people and devastated an entire community. Co-directors and producers Vivian Vázquez Irizarry and Gretchen Hildebran tell the story of the government mismanagement, landlord corruption and redlining that lit the Bronx ablaze. They also describe how the community fought back to save their neighborhoods. The film airs next week on PBS.
www.democracynow.org/2019/10/30/decade_of_fire_film_1970s_bronx
What Is Behind Mayor Pete's Corporate Pivot on Medicare?
Pete Buttigieg's sudden shift from supporting to opposing Medicare for All has been remarkable. It no doubt has something to do with his fundraising, says RootsAction.org's Norman Solomon.
therealnews.com/stories/pete-buttigieg-corporate-pivot-medicare
House Democrats release resolution to take Trump impeachment proceedings public — and legal
House Democrats have released a resolution outlining the sequence of impeachment procedures, and hope to silence Republicans' complaints that the process is unfair, secretive, or straight-up illegal, by subjecting it to a vote. | The resolution, released on Tuesday, authorizes members of both parties to subpoena and question witnesses, requisition evidence, and release transcripts (with appropriate redactions). Released by Rules Committee chair Jim McGovern (D-Massachusetts), it is expected to be put to a vote on Thursday. | The House has released the full text of our resolution setting out our procedures and…
rt.com/usa/472159-trump-impeachment-resolution-released/
Republicans Accuse Colonel Vindman, a Jew Who Fled Soviet Persecution, of Dual Loyalty
To attack Vindman, Republicans resorted to an old smear tactic: questioning the loyalty of a citizen who fled Soviet persecution of Jews as a child.
theintercept.com/2019/10/29/republicans-accuse-colonel-vindman-jew-fled-soviet-persecution-dual-loyalty/
House Dems After Meeting With Richard Trumka: No Vote on Trump's NAFTA if Worker Concerns Go Unaddressed
Akela Lacy | theintercept.com | 2019-10-29
After meeting with Reps. Nancy Pelosi and Richard Neal, Trumka assured the Congressional Progressive Caucus that he is on the same page as House leadership.
theintercept.com/2019/10/29/usmca-house-democrats-labor/
Tribute To A Persistent Progressive — Rep. John Conyers
Jacqueline Luqman pays tribute to John Conyers, the longest-serving Black Democrat in Congress and co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus, died over the weekend at age 90. His political career spanned more than 50 years, and included a remarkable legacy of civil rights activism, challenging the expanding US military global footprint, and consistent support for…
therealnews.com/stories/tribute-persistent-progressiev-john-conyers
Centrist Democrats Have a New Idea to Win Reelection: Ignore Labor and Give Trump a Major Trade Deal
The chair of DCCC, with help from Joe Crowley, has privately argued that approving Trump's free trade deal is important for vulnerable House Democrats.
theintercept.com/2019/10/29/usmca-deal-cheri-bustos-dccc/
Distracting With Baghdadi Psyop, US Sends "Withdrawn" Troops Back Into Syria, Along With MANY More
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/distracting-with-baghdadi-psyop-us-sends-withdrawn-troops-back-into-syria-along-with-many-more/
NYC solidarity with Chilean uprising
Bryan Carrillo | liberationnews.org | 2019-10-29
The crowd sang "El derecho de vivir en paz," a famous Victor Jara song that translates to "the right to live in peace."
liberationnews.org/nyc-solidarity-with-chilean-uprising/
As Death Toll Tops 220, Iraqi Protesters Stay in Streets Calling For End to Corrupt Government
In Iraq, masked gunmen shot dead 18 protesters overnight and injured more than 800 people in the Shiite holy city of Karbala on Monday. Nearly 225 Iraqis have been killed since a wave of anti-government protests swept the country last month. The protesters in Karbala were attacked while they camped out in the city's Education Square to protest corruption, lack of jobs and poor public services. Meanwhile in Baghdad, hospital officials said four people died during protests on Monday, while another 109 were injured. On Monday, the Iraqi Parliament met for the first time since the protests began. Lawmakers voted to d…
www.democracynow.org/2019/10/29/iraq_anti_government_protests_yanar_mohammed
Pentagon: U.S. Will Fight for Control of Oilfields in Syria, Ukraine Expert Who Listened to Trump Phone Call to Testify in Impeachment Hearings, Iraq: Death Toll from Month of Anti-Government Protests Tops 220, Trump Officials Join Industry Executives at Davos in Desert, Boeing CEO to Testify to Congressional Committees, Sanders Endorses Chesa Boudin for San Francisco District Attorney, Facebook Workers Call on Zuckerberg to Reverse Policy of Allowing Politicians to Lie in Ads, North Carolina Court Rules Against State's Gerrymandered Congressional Maps, U.S. Extends Deportation Relief to Salvadorans to 2021, Mexi…
Protests in Chile Were Sparked By a Subway Fare Hike, But Come After "30 Years of a Social Crisis"
In Chile, a new set of mass protests took place Monday as President Sebastián Piñera fulfilled the promise to appoint new members to his cabinet. As Piñera addressed the nation Monday, hundreds of protesters had already gathered outside the presidential palace in Santiago, waving flags, honking horns and demanding for Piñera's resignation. The reshuffling of his cabinet came after more than a million people flooded the streets last Friday in massive peaceful demonstrations over inequality, high cost of living and privatization. The protest drew more than 5% of Chile's population and followed days of widespread ci…
www.democracynow.org/2019/10/29/chile_protests_subway_fare_hike_neoliberalism
Fueled by Climate Change, California's Raging Wildfires Are Threatening Vulnerable Communities First
California is bracing for a day of strong winds as climate change-fueled wildfires continue to burn from Los Angeles to north of the Bay Area. After a chaotic weekend of mass evacuations and blackouts that left millions in the dark, firefighters in Sonoma, California, made headway Monday, containing 15% of the massive Kincade fire that has burned nearly 75,000 acres. But as high winds pick up again today, firefighters still face an uphill battle in combating the at least 10 blazes raging across the state, including the growing Getty fire, which erupted in one of Los Angeles's most opulent communities Monday. Fire…
www.democracynow.org/2019/10/29/california_fires_leah_stokes_ariel_kelley
Joe Biden's Acceptance of Super PAC Shows Campaign's Desperation
Joe Biden's presidential bid is in trouble. His polling numbers are dropping, and so is his fundraising, which is why he's no longer rejecting Super PAC support, says Norman Solomon.
therealnews.com/stories/biden-super-pac-campaign-desperate
Centrist Democrats, Led by Rep. Josh Gottheimer, to Fundraise With Corporate Lobby Group Seeking to Defeat Democratic Agenda
Lee Fang | theintercept.com | 2019-10-28
Gottheimer and Rep. Tom Reed, R-N.Y., are scheduled to appear at the fundraiser, hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce PAC for the Problem Solvers Caucus.
theintercept.com/2019/10/28/chamber-commerce-pac-centrist-democrats/
Biden to Host High-Dollar Fundraiser With Pittsburgh-Area Real Estate Moguls
A co-chair of the Nov. 5 event told The Intercept he's happy Biden is "finally" taking PAC money. "He has to, you know, you gotta raise some funds."
theintercept.com/2019/10/28/joe-biden-real-estate-fundraiser/
ISIS Leader al-Baghdadi Reportedly Dies in U.S. Raid in Syria, California Declares State of Emergency over Wildfires, Chile: Over One Million Take to Streets in Protest Against Inequality, Dozens Killed in Iraq Amid Latest Round of Anti-Government Protests, Lebanese Form Human Chain Across Country as Protests Continue, Alberto Fernandez Wins Argentine Election in Defeat for Right-Wing Incumbent, Brexit Deadline Extended Until Jan. 31, Trump Booed, Taunted at World Series Game, Pentagon Hands Microsoft a $10 Billion Contract, Chicago Teachers Strike Continues, While Support Staff Reach Tentative Deal, UAW and Gene…
The Death of al-Baghdadi: ISIS Grew Out of U.S. Invasion of Iraq. What Will Happen Next?
President Trump announced Sunday that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in a U.S. special forces raid on his compound in northwestern Syria. According to Trump, al-Baghdadi detonated an explosive vest he was wearing, killing himself and three of his children. The raid began early Sunday when eight U.S. military helicopters flew from a base near Erbil, Iraq, to northwestern Syria over airspace controlled by Syria and Russia. Baghdadi had led ISIS since 2010. In 2014, he proclaimed the creation of an Islamic State or caliphate during a speech in Mosul. At its peak, ISIS controlled a large swath of land ac…
www.democracynow.org/2019/10/28/isis_abu_bakr_al_baghdadi_death
"People Have Reached the Limit": Lebanon Joins Wave of Anti-Government Protests Across Middle East
Tens of thousands of people in Lebanon joined hands on Sunday to form a human chain spanning north to south across the entire country. It was a symbolic display of unity across regional and sectarian divisions amid mass protests that have rocked the country in recent days. The protests sweeping Lebanon come amid a wave of similar anti-government protests in Iraq, Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East. We speak with Rami Khouri, senior public policy fellow and journalist-in-residence at the American University of Beirut, and a columnist at The New Arab.
www.democracynow.org/2019/10/28/lebanon_human_chain_mass_protest
One Million Take to Streets of Chile in the "Largest Mobilization Since the End of Dictatorship"
Chilean President Sebastián Piñera has announced a major cabinet shuffle after more than one million people flooded the streets Friday in massive peaceful demonstrations over inequality, high cost of living and privatization. The protest drew more than 5% of Chile's population and followed days of widespread civil unrest that sparked a violent police and military crackdown across the country. At least 18 people have been killed and hundreds more have been shot and wounded since protests erupted Oct. 19. The protests in Chile began in response to a subway fare hike and have grown into a mass uprising against the g…
www.democracynow.org/2019/10/28/chile_massive_protests_sebastian_pinera
Russia Has 'Proof' US Is Smuggling Oil In Syria & Did Israel/US Create A Civil War In Lebanon?
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/russia-has-proof-us-smuggling-oil-syria-did-israel-us-create-civil-war-lebanon/
More Troops/Tanks To Syria Confirmed, OPCW Whistleblower, Barr's PreCrime & Mossad Clinton Blackmail
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/more-troops-tanks-to-syria-confirmed-opcw-whistleblower-barrs-precrime-mossad-clinton-blackmail/
Weekend Read: If your vote didn't matter, they wouldn't fight so hard to block it
splcenter.org | 2019-10-25
At the intersection of race and politics in the United States lies voter suppression — the array of laws and election practices intended to make it harder for people of color to vote.
splcenter.org/news/2019/10/26/weekend-read-if-your-vote-didnt-matter-they-wouldnt-fight-so-hard-block-it
Fretting About Progressives' 'Electability,' Establishment Dems Are Really Worried About Their Power in the Party
by Julie Hollar | With Joe Biden struggling as frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, a surging Elizabeth Warren has begun to emerge as the party establishment's new bogeyman–and corporate media are ready and willing to transmit insiders' panicked calls for new "moderate" entrants to the race. | On the same day earlier this week, the Washington Post and the New York Times ran twin articles:…
fair.org/home/fretting-about-progressives-electability-establishment-dems-are-really-worried-about-their-power-in-the-party/
Is Rikers Island Really Closing? Or is De Blasio Misrepresenting the NYC Council Vote?
Eddie Conway spoke with organizer Albert Saint-Jean from Just Immigration about the impact of the NYC Council borough-based jail vote, about nonprofits that are funding more incarceration, and the misreporting of Rikers Jail closing.
therealnews.com/stories/rikers-closing-misrepresented-de-blasio
Trump To Send Possibly Thousands Of Troops & Tanks To "Secure Syria's Oil" & Iraq Goes To UN Over US
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/trump-send-possibly-thousands-of-troops-tanks-to-secure-syrias-oil-iraq-goes-un-over-us/
Rashida Tlaib to Mark Zuckerberg: Why Haven't You Stopped Hate Groups From Organizing on Facebook?
We feature more highlights from the five-hour grilling of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg this week on Capitol Hill, where Michigan Congressmember Rashida Tlaib said she feared that far-right hate groups were using Facebook event pages to incite violence against Muslims and other minorities — including death threats directed at her office. Tlaib asked to be seen not only as a Congresswoman, but also as "a mother that is raising two Muslim boys in this pretty dark time in our world." Meanwhile, California Congressmember Katie Porter pinned Zuckerberg down on Facebook's privacy policies. "You are arguing in fede…
www.democracynow.org/2019/10/25/facebook_hearing_rashida_tlaib_katie_porter
"You Won't Take Down Lies or You Will?": AOC Grills Facebook's Zuckerberg on Lies in Political Ads
This week, as Facebook said it will not fact check political ads or hold politicians to its usual content standards, the social media giant's CEO Mark Zuckerberg was grilled for more than five hours by lawmakers on Capitol Hill on the company's policy of allowing politicians to lie in political advertisements, as well as its role in facilitating election interference and housing discrimination. We play highlights from New York Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Ohio Congressmember Joyce Beatty, who asked Zuckerberg about Facebook's record on civil rights, which she called "appalling and disgusting." Bea…
www.democracynow.org/2019/10/25/you_should_have_known_better_lawmakers
"State of Emergency": Special Report on California's Criminalization of Growing Homeless Encampments
In a _Democracy Now!_ special report, we look at the rise in homelessness in many major cities across the United States. California has become…
www.democracynow.org/2019/10/25/state_of_emergency_special_report_on
Jill Stein: Hillary Clinton is still sabotaging progressives
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2019-10-23
Former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein responds to Hillary Clinton calling her a "Russian asset" and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard…
thegrayzone.com/2019/10/23/jill-stein-hillary-clinton-is-still-sabotaging-progressives/
Trump Says US War With Iran May Be Soon, Putin/Erdogan Syria Deal & Iraq Says No US Troops Allowed
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/trump-says-us-war-with-iran-may-be-soon-putin-erdogan-syria-deal-iraq-says-no-us-troops-allowed/
US Stays In Syria, Kurds Call On Israel To Attack Turkey & US Says Israel Has 'Right' To Attack Iran
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/us-stays-syria-kurds-call-on-israel-attack-turkey-us-says-israel-has-right-attack-iran/
Right-wing enemy of Venezuela opens Sarasota lecture season
Bryan Ellis | liberationnews.org | 2019-10-21
On Wednesday, regime change advocate and former diplomat Diego Arria will be speaking in Sarasota. The talk, titled "Venezuela: A Real Threat in Our Backyard", is being held at Mildred Sainer Pavilion at New College of Florida. It will be the first lecture in this year's high-profile foreign affairs lecture series, which Sarasota World Affairs Council (SWAC) has hosted annually since 2014.
liberationnews.org/right-wing-enemy-of-venezuela-opens-sarasota-lecture-season/
Turkey Breaks Ceasefire, US "Secures Syria's Oil" & Assange's Torture & Violation Of Rights Exposed
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The 100 most influential LIVING people of all time (2019 edition)
(rough draft)
Here is the complete list ranked from most influential to least influential:
1.Tim Berners Lee: played the leading role in developing the internet; the most influential technology on the planet
2. George W. Bush: president of the United States during the 9/11 attacks and the start of the war on terror.
3. Barry Shein: played a key role in the development of the internet
4. James Watson: helped discover the structure of DNA, revolutionizing the fields of biology, anthropology and law.
5. Steve Wozniak: Helped launch the technology revolution
6. Paul Mockapetris: played a key role in the development of the internet
7. Bill Clinton: President of the World’s most influential country at the peak of its influence
8. Bob Kahn: played a major role in the development of the internet
9. Khalid Sheikh (Shaikh) Mohammed: considered a mastermind of the September 11th attacks which dramatically changed the World
10. Vint Cerf: played a key role in the development of the internet
11. Mikhail Gorbachev : played a key role in the fall of the Soviet Union
12. Leonard Kleinrock: played a key role in the development of the internet
13. David Ho: The man who saved us from AIDS
14. Bill Gates: played a key role in launching the computer revolution and saved millions of Third World lives
15. George Soros: Instrumental in advancing leftist policies in America and Europe
16. John Klensin: played a key role in developing the Internet
17. Michael Froman: the man who chose Obama’s cabinet
18. Oprah: Created confession culture & a more intimate form of media communication, paving the way for social media and reality TV. Broke the taboo over discussing sexual abuse, leading millions of victims to recovery. Even back in the 1980s, popularized a genre of talk show that’s been credited with mainstreaming LGBT people. Played the decisive role in electing the first black president and first black First Lady of the United States; a President who brought health care to millions of Americans. Her televised book club has been credited with making literature accessible to millions.
19. Yogen Dalal: played a key role in developing the internet
20. Xi Jinping: presiding over the rise of China with economic policies that turned the Iraq war to China’s advantage. The fear that China duped America in trade deals helped inspire Trump to run for President.
21. Bob Iger: helped shape American media for decades thus paving the way for a black president and gay rights.
22. Gerald Levin: consolidated mass media in America
23. Michael Eisner: influential media mogul
24. Vladimir Putin: Although his direct influence on the election of Trump has been greatly exaggerated, according to commenter Tenn he has changed the world’s geopolitical landscape more in recent years than has any other individual.
25. Jack Dorsey: the founder and CEO of twitter
26. Donald Trump: the man who ended political correctness.
27. Rupert Murdoch: his global right-wing media empire has changed the World
28. Mark Zuckerberg: created the most influential social networking forum
29. Robert Rubin: His advocacy for financial deregulation helped pave the way for the populist uprising that gave us Trump
30. Barack Obama [impact score 160]: First black in recorded history to ever be the most powerful human on the planet. Brought dignity and status to over a billion blacks. Brought healthcare to millions of working Americans. Saved America from a great depression and the world from an apocalyptic war with Iran, and achieved gay rights. Some foreign policy blunders combined with the controversy over his birth, helped pave the way for Trump.
31. Angela Merkel: played a major role in changing the demographics of Europe
32. Bashar Hafez al-Assad: in power during the Syrian refugee crisis
33. David Plouffe: played a key role in electing Barack Obama president
34. Katie Couric: The woman who destroyed Sarah Palin’s political ambitions, thus paving the way for Obama to get elected
35. Julian Assange: In spite of (or perhaps because) he is “autistic” according to a character in a Jonathan Franzen novel, the Nordic Assange advanced his ethnic genetic interests by helping Trump get elected.
36. Mohammed Mana Ahmed al-Qahtani: Accused of being one of the 9/11 co-conspirators
37-41. The Dancing Israelis: Their behavior on September 11th 2001 inspired countless conspiracy theories
42. Ramzi bin al-Shibh: accused of being a key facilitator in the 9/11 attacks
43. Efraim Halevy: served as director of Mossad during a period of great change
44. Colin Powell: Helped pave the way for the first black President by normalizing the idea of black military leadership. In 2003 he became the top salesman for transformative neocon foreign policy.
45. Phil Donahue: paved the way for Oprah, by pioneering the provocative daytime talk show, the most important counter-culture movement of the late 20th century
46. Ricki Lake: The Jewish Oprah; helped mainstream gays by hosting one of the more edgy Oprah style talk shows in the 1990s
47. Henry Kissinger: According to Wikipedia, “Kissinger played a prominent role in United States foreign policy between 1969 and 1977. During this period, he pioneered the policy of détente with the Soviet Union, orchestrated the opening of relations with the People’s Republic of China, and negotiated the Paris Peace Accords, ending American involvement in the Vietnam War.
48. Ian Wilmut: first person to clone an animal
[from Left to right]Poo Muming, director of the Institute of Neurosciences at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sun Qiang, the director of the Nonhuman Primate Facility of the Institute of Neurosciences, center, and Liu Zhen
49-51. The Primate cloners: first people to clone a primate, paving the way for human cloning
52.Svante Paabo: Sequenced Neanderthal DNA
53. Bradford Parkinson: The father of the Global Positioning System, which revolutionized how we navigate
54. Abe Karem: invented the predator drone, transforming the nature of warfare
55. Gloria Steinem: The mother of feminism; by paving the way for women, challenged gender roles, thus indirectly paving the way for gays too
56. Barbara Walters: trail blazer and iconic role model for women in media; helped make news more celebrity focused
57. Madonna: paved the way for an entire generation of provocative female performers such as Lady Gaga inflaming Muslim rage against America and helped make sexual deviance culturally acceptable, paving the way for gay marriage.
58. Howard Stern: revolutionized American radio and helped make American culture more vulgar and sexual
59. Tina Fey: her impersonation of Sarah Palin helped cost her the election, paving the way for the first black president
60-61. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein: brought down a U.S. president and inspired a generation of journalists
62. Bill Moyers: played a key role in the Vietnam war
63-80. The neocons: Largely the visionaries and intellectual influence behind the extremely transformative foreign policy of the Bush43 administration
81. Tang Jiaxun: By opposing the Iraq war, helped position China to be one of its biggest winners.
82. Howard Kohr: executive director of the AIPAC during a critical period of U.S. foreign policy
83. Steven J Rosen: One of the top officials at AIPAC during a critical period of U.S. foreign policy
84. Dick Cheney: powerful Vice President during the transformative Bush administration
85. George Tenet: CIA director during a critical period of U.S. history
86. Tony Blair: Dragged Britain into war with Iraq & brought Clinton style third way politics to the UK
88-90. chad hurley steve chen and jawed karim: created youtube which revolutionized media
91-92. Google guys: launched the World’s most powerful search engine
93. Jimmy Wales: Changed the way the World shares knowledge
94. Khieu Samphan: played a critical role in the Vietnam war
95. General Khamtai Siphandon: played a key role in the Vietnam war
96. Paul McCartney: the leading living member of the most influential rock band of all time
97. Yoko Ono: Advanced her ethnic genetic interests by inspiring the World’s most influential rock stars to inspire the hippies that ended the war in Asia.
98. DJ Clive “Kool Herc” Campbell: the father of hip hop
99. Reed Hastings: co-founder of Netflix. Revolutionized the way we watch movies and TV.
100. Bernard Munyagishari: accused of playing a key role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
91 thoughts on “The 100 most influential LIVING people of all time (2019 edition)”
The Philosopher said:
Puppy you posted something by mistake. You forgot to write any text. More evidence Puppy gets dumber every year.
pumpkinperson said:
Had I waited until the list was complete, the article would have been date stamped in 2020, which contradicts it being the 2019 edition.
most influential living woman "of all time" = ibm's CEO ginni rometty said:
what does the maxim “fail early and fail often” mean?
it’s just another way of saying that “tinkering” is what works and failing late and once is usually catastrophic.
Name redacted by pp, dec 31, 2019 said:
this wapo article (which i haven’t read) appeared first in my search of the quote in quotes “…”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/the-new-fail-fail-fast-fail-early-and-fail-often/2012/05/30/gJQAKA891U_blog.html
“tinkering” means trying lots of things…whether random or “theoretical”…
and when whatever fails you don’t bourdain yourself…
you just try something else.
ULTIMATELY IT’S THE THEORY THAT ALL THEORIES ARE FAKE AND GAY AND THAT…
CIVILIZATION ADVANCES IN THE SAME WAY THAT SPECIES ADVANCE…
THE EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM.
Once again puppy will list oprah in the top 10 making the entire list a laughing stock.
Billionaire David Rubenstein says why be president when you can be Oprah
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/billionaire-david-rubenstein-says-why-172217110.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAI1rvvbCy6BW58zNlJzMotuGCPi1zVSit1VbaMxFDV2kLmSwSYPiHuv_qjd8NwiYMlC95JBtrZxrM30LdBUMysImxIM_4o1QRTfAeqnRGWkgSr6GDJWnmu-s804Ol6MKP47Q8UTvryPkRAH73SFzDBs-vw2AZ86zKxFL9PU5MSnd
He was obviously being facetious. [redacted by pp, dec 31, 2019]
Yeah he was exaggerating, but his point flew over your head. As Lion noted, in the long run, the media is more powerful than politics because you change the way people think. And Oprah was not only the Queen of All Media for decades, she was the World’s most worshiped billionaire to boot. The whole reason people become president is to get the kind of money and status that Oprah already has. Look at how Obama is now giving speeches for money, recommending books and creating TV shows for Netflix. Even Rubenstein is trying to be a talk show host. Everyone wants to be the next Oprah. You don’t get America at all. It’s like talking to someone who just stepped out of the Kalahari Desert.
that’s the only reason peepee posts this topic at all.
but the topic is ‘tarded as it requires one be under the individualist ideology to even make sense.
so hitler and stalin and fdr were influential?
or they were just place holders in some doings of man in gereral?
caffeine withdrawals said:
Here’s a thought. If someone makes the top 10 for multiple events (i.e. Gates, Rumsfeld) you could account for this with:
100 – ( (100 – Product 1) + (100 – Product 2) + etc.)
=> P1 + P2 + … + Pn – 100 x (n-1)
The lower the better. You’ll get negatives though.
Eh. Now that I think about it you can argue that the #1 x #1 will have more influence outside his domain than lower-ranked people even if he doesn’t make the top 10 elsewhere, so that formula might be useless.
Alternatively, if someone makes the top 10 for multiple top ten events, I could just take their best score (i.e. #1 * #1 = #1) and then divide by the number of top ten events they made (lower is better) as a reward for being influential in multiple domains.
yeah, do that. that’s a lot better
the very notion of an individual being influential by himself is ‘tarded…
unless he’s a martian…
or other ET.
Influence = (how different the world would be had you never been born)/how long ago you were born
oprah is one bubble on the cap of the white cap that kelly slater surfs...so to say. said:
but how is that even possible to assess?
this is an example of how exact definition can still be 100% useless.
Ideally we’d have parallel universes where everything was identical except for the birth of one person. We’d take a random group of people from all over the world into each parallel universe & ask “on a scale of one to 10 how different is life in this universe compared to our own?”
The higher the average score, the more influential was the person who never lived in that universe.
You might say such a study is impossible but it’s also impossible to go back in time & ask the founding fathers what they think about gay marriage & yet the legal system largely rests on original intent
When experiments are impossible we rely on the judgement of our best & brightest to do thought experiments. If you asked the greatest historians in the world to rank the most influential people, their rankings would probably correlate 0.7+
when history is written…
50 years from now politicians, philosophers, economists, etc. and other entertainers will be most influential.
100 years from now technologists are most influential.
how many times do i have to say that maudslay and gutenberg are the most influential people of the last 500 years.
everyone else is just an actor on their stage.
people want, desire, are attached to…
so far as these things…
are a purchase in a world which guarantees nothing except their own annihilation.
mortality is grasping…everyone is finger strength away from falling from the empire state building…so they attach themselves to things.
there are no saves.
this is idolatry.
conclusion: my circumcised white hard on is gorgeous and irresistible to peepee and other women.
re the list of events, I’d scrap global warming and fall of USSR. I’d move 9/11 + Islam up—maybe just combine them bc they’re the same thing to most people. Culture wars should be at least #2; those literally affected everything (internet only like half of everything but some would argue in more significant ways).
– Global warming itself hasn’t been that impactful on its own yet. Give it 50 more years or so. Indirectly, yes. MSM has gotten people to believe insane things about it that are completely false.
– Culture wars changed the average developed-world person’s perspective on just about everything—people act completely differently than they used to. Most of my views were mainstream 50 years ago. They haven’t affected the developing world nearly as much though.
– I’d argue that the Soviet Union itself had much more influence on the last 50 years than its collapse. America wouldn’t be playing world police today if it hadn’t existed.
but the fall of the USSR is what made america the sole superpower. Too big a deal to scrap.
true, but most would say we were at the peak of our influence at the height of the cold war
Will said:
i apologize for my low IQ.
gutenburg died in 1468…
MORE than 500 years ago.
but fact remains that spain was the shit for 150 years and that dude who spied on assange looks like this:
i mean had there ever been or will there ever be folks like cortez and pizaro?
oprah is a good putter, a bad driver. said:
for certain: 100 years from now in the year 2120, oprah will be a footnote.
but there’ll be lots of books on heidegger and maudslay and gutenburg will appear in all new books on the history of technology.
this isn’t much of a prediction as more “secondary literatrure” has been devoted to heidegger than any other philosopher except aristotle already.
wittgenstein will be forgotten.
heidegger will never be forgotten.
buffett was right...once the female CEO is gone. said:
it’s retarded.
buffett picked IBM and reduced his stake…but not to zero.
there’s yuge not recognizing the obvious when it comes to IBM.
IBM market cap = 119b
GOOG………………923b
AMZN……………….916B
I thought Buffet never invested in tech companies. I think I remember reading that he only invested in General Electric after a conversation with the CEO. He thought even that was too high falutin beforehand.
IBM is like ford...it's for the long haul. said:
that reminds me i need to buy IBM.
the old carthusian mallory was asked "why?" he said "because it's there." said:
just like patanjali and shakyamuni buddha and averroes will have lots of commentaries published in 2120, but oprah will appear only in footnotes…
there will be no talmud of the oprah talk show.
there could be.
all her shows will be preserved…in quail and aspic tins, like mallory ate on his death march.
the great war is still the touch stone and the acid test…
the hellscape is the test.
looking at the pictures of the hellscape…
do you get it?
it was dandruff mud.
chinese guy says, WRONG! said:
because men are violent.
patriarchy is just men protecting women from…
other men.
(another reason not to make the world an idol)
i'm not into dudes either...i understand. said:
so some lesbian professor says…
“men are basically running a mafia on women.”
you’re right!
it would be totally cool if you weren’t into dudes…
but then when you start rubbing your lady penis and nether-lips against other girls’ junk yards i say…
what’s the point of that?
for one thing: man junk is way better at scissoring.
Personally this person you are relying on in quora I’ve never heard of before. I would suggest 9-11 and the internet as the 2 main ones. From a consumer perspective maybe the introduction of Apples’ Iphone. The rise of China is a slow burner but is going to be a more important thing as time passes by. Climate change effects things too slowly. I would suggest jewish control of the media starting in the 60s is also another touchstone.
Basically I think Franz Boaz had more influence on the West than any other individual if you believe Kevin McDonald, which I do, that he was the first intellectual to start undermining western cultural supremacy.
name redacted by pp, jan 1, 2020 said:
at least 99 out of 100 quora users are indians.
you haven’t noticed?
More evidence that indians are massively underachieving as a civilisation.
Theres a good chance well see people like Marianne Williamson and that woman that wrote the Secret in Puppys list.
party at jim nabors's house = turkey stuffing said:
pretty sure deepak ch-OPRAH will be in the top 10.
So lion has gone back to banning me once I started pointing out how his own people control the media he keeps lambasting.
party as jim nabors's house = turkey stuffing said:
as the late great homosexual jim nabors once said:
have you tried posting from your home ip in israel?
This list is dumb.
Instead of relying on some guy from quora you could have just looked up the Time most influential people lists from the past 10 or 20 years.
Why do you even have this ambition to name 100 people who are influential? This has almost nothing to do with the usual stuff you write about.
Why do you even have this ambition to name 100 people who are influential?
Because influence, like wealth, is an important measure of success & I don’t think anyone’s ever measured it well in living people. Time magazine’s lists are too politically correct and celebrity oriented. Michael hart had a good list of the 100 most influential people of all time, but I’d like an analogous list for living people.
I’m very hesitant to name inventors as influential. Its more that they effect, than affect people.
I define influential as anyone without whom the world would have been a substantially different place.
So Hitlers parents are just as influential as Hitler?
To sidestep the parents of influential people being considered influential, I define influence as:
(how different the world would have been had you never been born)/number of years since you were born.
The fall of the soviet union was also quite a major event in that it shifted politics in the western countries rightwards. There were a lot of reasons neoliberalism became popular and David Harvey has a book about it but a key one was the decline of the USSR. In the same way that the existence of the USSR probably was a catalyst to the creation of welfare states in western europe. The fall of the USSR and what it meant for the balkans and geopolitics isn’t a big deal though. Unless you want to entertain some conspiracy theories about how jews looted it and have created a white knight called Vladimir Putin.
Actually I was a bit skeptical an ‘old leftist’ movement could be popular again in the West following the Berlin Wall coming down. Most of the band aids that were attached to capitalism by Master in light of the existence of the USSR were ironically what kept the whole system sputtering along.
Chile today is a pretty good example of what happens when you have neoliberalism without a welfare state.
It almost makes me think jews should invent another ideology/survival strategy to make elites in the West nicer to their workers.
ian smith said:
indeed! this is why the effect of the soviet union on the world in general, not just on the former russian empire, was a yuge net plus.
when the commies are breathing down your neck you compromise.
central planning said:
and of course the much promoted idea that the soviet union was an economic failure is a straight out lie.
I will put money on the fact that elites will actually get harsher towards their workers the more of them that become brown/yellow/black etc.
You named Michael Froman but didn’t name his boss Robert Rubin. Hahahaha. Poor old puppy.
Rubin is lower on the list. Rubin might be his boss but I’m measuring influence not power. Poor old pill
Anyway it’s just a rough draft.
RaceRealist said:
No Rosalind Franklin?
only living people
Saying that he “helped discover the structure of DNA” is misleading as Watson and Crick did not credit Franklin’s seminal work that made their discovery possible.
George Bush II is arguably the least relevant living president alive. What gives? His brand of cuckold conservativsm for Mother Israel has had its time.
No he’s the most relevant. The world is still haunted by his decisions.
They weren’t even his decisions!!!!!! Thats my point!!!
They weren’t his ideas, but it was his low IQ decision to act on them. The neocons saw that a stupid person was in charge and knew they could take advantage.
George Bush wasn’t stupid. They never ‘convinced’ him to do anything in the way you put it.
a combination of convincing/lobbying
mendeleev was a russian invention captain. said:
one question for hereditists is “does economic system and politics even matter?”
so east germany was the richest of the soviet bloc…because german.
think about it. the russian empire in 1917 sans bolshies would never’ve been the first to launch a man into space. it’d have no soyuz.
russia had lots of geniuses prior to the october (november) revolution…but not enough.
I think it matters. Look at korea north v south.
I’d really appreciate it if some of pp’s happy, well-adjusted commenters could give me some advice on motivation and goal-setting.
I want to accomplish something, I’m creative, and I have good interpersonal skills. I’m just so fucking lazy. I can’t bring myself to do anything that I’m not required to.
break your goal into tiny manageable chunks that are so small, even a lazy person can do one a day.
that’s what i’ve been trying, but i’ll go really small. maybe start with 10-15 minutes per day.
Back to work tomorrow. I’ve spent the last 10 days playing video games non stop until I got sick of it and watched tv more towards the end. Is this it? I can’t decide whether I’d be more bored in work or at home.
maybe you’d have fun blogging again. there’d be a huge market for a 10-part series on your master conspiracy. you’re a much better writer than unz.
If you want influential people a lot of the people on the list are going to be people like Rihanna and Ariana Grande.
A more high IQ answer would be naming the record label presidents that create rihannas and grandes.
How is the world different because rihanna and ariana lived? Popular != influential.
rome always wins. said:
actually…a non-technologist can be influential if he establishes an institution which is immortal. this is why jesus is one of the most influential people ever.
but ideas by themselves and political decisions by themselves evaporate right quick.
as of now the roman church is the oldest institution on earth. makes you say hmmm.
And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
a funny thing happened on the way to the bathhouse said:
so you’d have to say that madison is the most influential american ever because constitution.
when america dies whitmey, ford, moore will still be in textbooks. said:
but in terms of techne you’d have to go with whitney, ford, moore.
"with au jus" is something seen in america because no quebecois? said:
so buddhism spread from india to chiner and korea and japan, replacing their indigenous religions of taoism, confucianism, shintoism…
but today sri lanka is the only buddhist au jus of south asians.
the ultimate reason why in 2120 there’ll be more south asian romans than roman hindus is…
christianity thematizes life after death and eternal life whereas hinduism and buddhism don’t thematize such and claim reincarnation. and hinduism and buddhism are not moralistic.
rome will continue to expand until only lesbian professors aren’t catholics.
kola peninsula inside me. said:
why russia? why ukraine?
the simplistic answer is because russian and ukrainian jews.
but why do they think their gate is even possibly believable?
what’s the big picture?
russia and the US have the largest white populations.
jews think little of china people.
they dismiss them.
so putin is hitler…
because he’s head of the largest white population outside the US…
and he’s not (((controlled)))…
and russia has more megatons than the US.
peepee thinks i’m a fag. but there’s one half jew girl who was born in the soviet union keeps appearing in my dreams.
i’m not obsessed. i don’t think about her when i’m awake…
just in my dreams.
Does mug of pee have the social IQ/general knowledge to know why they’re freaking out over trump’s cutting Ukraine’s aid?
illuminaticatblog said:
For general knowledge to be general, a common base pool is necessary.
I am no less aware of my base pool than mug is aware of his.
I do know Ukraine had a civil war and Russian annexed Crimea.
I don’t watch Television (it is not my common basepool)
why did the peruvian and bolivian cocaleros require colombian marketers? because popeye looks white-ish. said:
i mean sans bolshies gagarin would be a bolivian.
valery borzov's 1972 100 and 200 are still a crawfish shell fragment in the throats of hereditists. said:
that’s the whole point of that borzov vid i’ve posted 100 times.
a white man qua fastest man in the world is something only the soviet union could accomplish.
and he won the 200m TOO!
he is THE example of how the one sport which is MOST a matter of genes…
he was nicknamed “the mechanical man”.
there's no excuse. said:
i remember (standing by the wall) a news story about a soviet news story about america…
and how the soviet story highlighted homelessness.
and now i hate going downtown because i see so many tents…when did the homeless start camping in tents?
and i think…
i’m so lucky i’m not them….
the US is a shithole country.
standing by the wall said:
and women are attached to men because….
fear of death, babies protector…
but frivolous.
not as simple as corruption.
there’re lots of poor men who’d make great fathers.
i will be king and you will be queen and we will make our own people.
they are cowboy chaps! said:
why would you wanna be influential?
“phut!”
iirc this occurs in Brideshead in the “sit down” between blanche and ryder.
goog genes! said:
rr needs to have a “sit down” with mike franzese whose father is still alive at the age of 102.
peekachoo is a slavemaster said:
surprised peepee didn’t note the death of ken taylor…
a super high IQ (but obese) black guy died on dec 2 from MI.
Everyone on your list pumpkin is (with few exceptions) is over 50 yo.
My list of 100 people probably contributed little because I just picked the people I know whereas you picked people based on your research abilities.
PP – could you do an IQ list of these people you picked.
What is the coefficient of influence for each person?
Q: There is about one SD difference between you and me PP.
121 and 136. – You should I believe pumpkin, be able to create a scale of what people are like that you have met above and below you in terms of IQ. Maybe even a scale intervals of 5 what the are like. A person one SD above you is 151, or 3 intervals.
Philip Neal said:
I am new to this, but I have to ask, what on earth are the criteria, particularly if it is supposed to be “of all time”?
Barack Obama and James Watson are in different categories – the one important because his country is important and the other one of the reasons why his country is important. Obama is a likeable, competent man who kept the show on the road and made no big mistakes. I doubt if he ever influenced anyone to do anything. 100 years from now he will be thought as much or as little important as Grover Cleveland, while Watson will be named in the same breath as Darwin.
As for Oprah Winfrey and the fathers of the internet, nobody in China has ever heard of any of them. If she is influential, the creators of television would be more influential by orders of magnitude if they were still alive, and the creators of the information age will one day be influential for creating celebrities as yet unborn.
Kissinger also scrapes in by virtue of still being alive. In the year 2200 he will be one of those people you are supposed to have vaguely heard of, like Palmerston and Metternich.
And, finally, if it is about people who are alive now and famous for good reason, what about the surviving lunar astronauts? Something happened, and it happened to be their doing – and also of a great many influential people. What is the point of influence if nothing worth telling comes of it?
The sole criterion is influence: people who changed the World for better or worse.
Obama arguably influenced people to think more highly of blacks & influenced blacks to think more highly of themselves. He also brought health care to the masses and kept America from going to war with Iran. I agree he’s not as influential as Watson which is why I ranked Watson much higher.
As for Oprah Winfrey and the fathers of the internet, nobody in China has ever heard of any of them.
Influential != famous.
If she is influential, the creators of television would be more influential by orders of magnitude if they were still alive,
But they’re not still alive, which freed up room for Oprah to make the list
And, finally, if it is about people who are alive now and famous for good reason, what about the surviving lunar astronauts?
The list is still a rough draft so maybe I will add them. Any surviving architects behind the moon landing certainly belong on the list, but merely going along for the ride might not merit inclusion. If those astronauts hadn’t gone there were thousands of other qualified people waiting to take their place, I assume.
Rahul said:
Pumpkin, if you have a 14 Matrix Reasoning, 13 similarities score, and 12 figure weights score, and have a block design of 8 and visual puzzles of 5, will you ability to apply coding concepts to actual code be impaired, not because of coding ability, but because of the low spatial scores?
It seems like the spatial, verbal, and quantitative stuff not only measure those particular skills, but measure how your brain functions. Like, more spatially tuned people learn things as a whole, etc etc.
gda53 said:
Still feeling that thrill down your leg from the O-man I see.
“Saved America from a great depression and the world from an apocalyptic war with Iran….,” – Seriously, dude? Explain to us exactly how he personally did that?
You forgot “complicit in the greatest political hoax of all time, and first sitting POTUS to plot to overthrow an incoming President of the US”
At least you listed him below Trump, where he belongs
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Growthpoint Healthcare Property Holdings officially launched
N1 City Medical Chambers in Cape Town.
Growthpoint Properties has launched South Africa’s first unlisted healthcare REIT, Growthpoint Healthcare Property Holdings.
The introduction of Growthpoint Healthcare has received strong market interest with its first close attracting capital commitments of R285 million from third parties with the expectation of raising at least double this amount in the next twelve months.
The REIT will be managed by Growthpoint Management Services with a management team whose entrepreneurial vision and skills have made Growthpoint one of the leading international companies. It aims to increase the Growthpoint Healthcare scale for investors and to grow it towards R10 billion in assets and a stock exchange listing.
The new property holding vehicle invests exclusively in healthcare assets in South Africa occupied by licensed operators of hospitals, clinics, pharmacies and laboratories with its focused investment mandate differentiating it in the market.
The group already holds five assets in the defensive healthcare property sector valued at R2.4 billion. The portfolio has a weighted average lease length of about nine years, reflecting the defensive nature of investing in healthcare real estate. Two of the healthcare properties are operated by private healthcare provider, Busamed and one each by JSE-listed healthcare players, MediClinic and Netcare. In addition, Netcare rents 50% of the space in N1 City Medical Chambers, the medical suites adjacent to the N1 City Hospital.
Growthpoint Healthcare has a pipeline of R750 million hospital developments which will benefit from Growthpoint’s well-established property development expertise. The first being the new R450 million specialist hospital which will break ground this month. The second being the R300 million specialised facility which is in advanced discussions. Growthpoint has several acquisitions and development opportunities on the horizon, which are currently being evaluated.
Growthpoint provided R2.1 billion to acquire the Growthpoint Healthcare’s starting portfolio of which a portion has been converted into equity leaving Growthpoint as the anchor investor with an equity investment of R650 million on the first close date. The remaining funds is a R1.4 billion loan to Growthpoint Healthcare which will be settled over time as the company raised further capital.
Head of Corporate Finance at Growthpoint, George Muchanya, confirms that Growthpoint will remain a key strategic investor in the Growthpoint Healthcare:
“Growthpoint Healthcare is playing a leading role in promoting the growth of the healthcare sector by providing the capital that emerging operators and other new entrants to the sector require to establish themselves. It is often estimated that up to 70% of the capital required to start a new healthcare facility is spent on the property. Growthpoint Healthcare takes this burden off the operators and this will certainly help more projects to come on stream. Further, in the medium to long term, the creation of this healthcare focused property company gives established hospital operators a credible platform to which to sell and lease back some of their property assets as a means to more efficiently manage their balance sheet. This is consistent with models followed by other hospital groups globally.”
The launch of Growthpoint Healthcare coincides with a phase where many the incumbent players in the healthcare sector, particularly newer or smaller operators, are seeking to grow. This is expected to provide deal flow for the specialised investment vehicle.
Muchanya adds: “Investors, particularly pension funds have shown an initial keen interest in the investment opportunity as it provides them with the ability to match their long-term liabilities with long-dated assets. A further attraction to the investors is that Growthpoint Healthcare provides them an opportunity to invest in healthcare property assets exclusively.”
Growthpoint Healthcare provides a unique opportunity for investors to access the defensive SA healthcare property sector. The sector is distinguished by quality covenants from healthcare operators with licences linked to their operating addresses. It is also characterised by long leases, with many hospitals and clinics being longstanding landmarks in their communities. Growthpoint Healthcare’s portfolio has a weighted average lease expiry period of nine years.
The specialised healthcare property holding company furthers Growthpoint’s strategy to introduce new low-risk revenue streams that leverage its management strength. Growthpoint’s management business is now actively managing two investment vehicles, the other being Growthpoint Investec African Properties via Growthpoint Investec African Property Management.
Norbert Sasses, Group CEO of Growthpoint, says: “We’re pleased that Growthpoint’s funds management strategy is making real progress and successfully attracting third-party capital. We look forward to the positive contributions – both from management fees and property returns – that this will introduce for Growthpoint’s investors, as well as the additional new possibilities it represents for our property incomes streams.”
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How Rail Could Play a Role in Southern California Infrastructure Improvements
Gov. Newsom did Californians a huge favor by admitting the truth about the state's failed high-speed rail plan.
By Marc Joffe
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s decision to pause the most expensive portions of the state’s high-speed rail project offers an opportunity to reexamine the future of intercity passenger rail in California. Although the bullet train was poorly conceived and executed, targeted investments in passenger rail could play a role in reducing congestion and pollution. To get these benefits, however, California should set aside grandiose new projects, concentrate on large urban areas, and build upon existing infrastructure.
Train service already connects Merced, Madera, Fresno, and Bakersfield — the cities to be served by Gov. Newsom’s scaled back bullet train plan. Amtrak’s San Joacquins offers seven daily trains running between these cities. But rather than use the existing track in these areas, high-speed rail planners built a new right of way — destroying farms and businesses and forcing the relocation of a portion of Highway 99. This decision was dictated, in part, by the need for the straighter tracks required if high-speed trains are going to try to hit full 220-miles per hour speeds.
If, rather than a lavish San Diego to Sacramento high-speed rail system, state leaders had started with a more focused goal of better, faster intercity rail travel and given the flexibility to achieve this objective, the state might already be reaping rewards. So, as the California High-Speed Rail Authority considers what to do now, let’s hope they focus on a more realistic intercity train improvement program that emphasizes Southern California, where traffic congestion and emissions are greatest.
For example, San Diego’s Santa Fe Depot and Los Angeles Union Station are only 128 miles apart and are already served by passenger rail. But Amtrak’s Pacific Surfliner, which runs from San Diego to San Luis Obispo, has only 13 daily departures. The scheduled travel time from San Diego to Los Angeles is about three hours but riders frequently encounter delays and cancellations. If service was faster, more frequent, and more reliable, more travelers might be lured away from driving on clogged Interstate 405.
Major improvements are possible along this line without high-speed rail. The corridor could use additional parallel tracks to speed up trips and allow trains to pass each other. Also, grade level crossings could be replaced with overpasses and underpasses to reduce the need for trains to slow down. Grade separation projects allow faster and more frequent train service, and also improve safety and reduce disruption to communities through which trains pass. LOSSAN, the joint powers agency responsible for the Surfliner rail corridor, is working on grade separation projects in Santa Ana and Anaheim, but that will still leave dozens of grade level crossings in place.
Surfliner corridor improvements could provide far more benefits per dollar spent than high-speed rail would’ve delivered. If California shifts its focus to serving shorter distances and urban areas, it might also create opportunities for the private financing that never materialized for the statewide rail system. In Florida, a private company, Brightline, is already running trains from Miami to West Palm Beach and plans to extend service to Orlando. Between West Palm Beach and Orlando, Brightline’s maximum speed is expected to be 125 miles per hour (mph). Although this is far below the speeds — 220 mph — that bullet train supporters dreamed of here, it is faster than passenger cars are allowed to go and might offer competitive travel times over distances like San Diego to Los Angeles, especially if freeways are gridlocked. Private operators, who have incentives to improve service and control costs, could improve the LOSSAN corridor. And, ultimately, by focusing on shorter routes between largely populated cities, upgraded, privately-operated rail could deliver more benefits at a fraction of high-speed rail’s costs — even if the state considered subsidizing some of the expenses.
Gov. Newsom did Californians a huge favor by admitting the truth about the failed high-speed rail plan. Now if planners think rail should be part of our transportation future, they need to break out of the ill-conceived high-speed rail box they’ve been trapped in for a decade.
This column first appeared in the Orange County Register.
Marc Joffe is a senior policy analyst at Reason Foundation.
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California’s Free Community College Plan Collides With Skyrocketing Retirement Obligations
According to a Reason Foundation analysis of 2018 audited financial reports, California community college districts face total non-current liabilities of $36 billion, an average of roughly $500 million per district.
By Allan Wheeler
Florida’s Anti-Toll Legislation Threatens the State’s Economy
Florida has $10 billion in planned toll projects in the pipeline. These projects are now in peril unless the state’s recent anti-toll policies are reversed.
Market-Driven Water Pricing Could Help Solve Florida’s Water Problems
Privatization, improved water pricing, and innovative wastewater reuse technologies can help deal with rising demand and population growth.
By Vittorio Nastasi
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Green Municipal Bond Raises Questions About Pension Fund Borrowing
The California State Teachers Retirement System's use of innovative financing is notable for its environmental aspects and its implications for pension finance.
New York City’s Unfunded OPEB Liability Surpasses $100 Billion
The city’s unfunded other post-employment benefits liability exceeds that of any other local government in the country, as well as that of most states.
Financially-Distressed Local Governments Can Learn From Top Performing Cities and Counties
Best practices include funding infrastructure through the budget rather than borrowing via bonds and writing and abiding by strong financial reserve and rainy-day policies.
How a State Could Transition From Per-Gallon Gas Taxes to Per-Mile Charges
Examining how a state-led transition from per-gallon fuel taxes to per-mile charges (MBUFs) could come about.
Study Ranks Every State’s Highway System, Finds Road Conditions Worsening In Important Categories
North Dakota, Virginia and Missouri have the best performing, most cost-efficient state highway systems, while New Jersey, Rhode Island and Hawaii have the worst.
By Baruch Feigenbaum, Spence Purnell and M. Gregory Fields
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E. Kristin Anderson is a Pushcart-nominated poet and author who grew up in Westbrook, Maine and is a graduate of Connecticut College. She has a fancy diploma that says “B.A. in Classics,” which makes her sound smart but has not helped her get any jobs in Ancient Rome. Once upon a time she worked for the lovely folks at The New Yorker magazine, but she soon packed her bags and moved to Austin, Texas where she works as a freelance editor and writing coach. Wearer of many proverbial hats, Kristin an editor at NonBinary Review, helps make books at Lucky Bastard Press, and is a poetry editor at Found Poetry Review. Kristin is the co-editor of the DEAR TEEN ME anthology (Zest Books, 2012), based on the website of the same name. Her YA memoir THE SUMMER OF UNRAVELLING is forthcoming in 2017 from ELJ Publications. As a poet she has been published in many magazines including Juked, [PANK], Asimov’s Science Fiction, Hotel Amerika, Room and Cicada and she has work forthcoming in Plath Profiles and The Quotable. Kristin is the author of six chapbooks of poetry: A GUIDE FOR THE PRACTICAL ABDUCTEE (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014), A JAB OF DEEP URGENCY (Finishing Line Press, 2014), PRAY, PRAY, PRAY: Poems I wrote to Prince in the middle of the night (Porkbelly Press, 2015), ACOUSTIC BATTERY LIFE (forthcoming from ELJ Publications), FIRE IN THE SKY (forthcoming from Greybook Press), and SHE WITNESSES (forthcoming from dancing girl press). She hand-wrote her first trunk book at sixteen. It was about the band Hanson and may or may not still be in a notebook in her parents’ garage. She blogs at EKristinAnderson.com.
From A Guide for the Practical Abductee
A Guide for the Practical Abductee
It will be some time before sleep
returns to normal. Out there,
without the solar cycle
so regular, as it is on Earth,
you feel always somnambulant.
So it's not the nightmares that wake --
it's the clocks that once stopped,
the dark everywhere; humans thrive
on sunsets, sunrises.
Keep your stories. Or else write them
as fictions. Publishing is cruel
but your kin are crueler --
to them you were missing mere minutes
and your yarns woven with space travel
and days and days are anachronistic at best.
I have felt the soft walls of the institution;
you will not enjoy it.
On the nights when you swear you smell stars,
when the dark is too bright and, eyes shut,
you hear their voices warble down,
put the tablet on your tongue,
swallow, keep your eyes closed,
and call me.
In GUIDE FOR THE PRACTICAL ABDUCTEE, Anderson leaps into an array of narrative personas with an actor's gusto --even once writing from the point of view of an animal. These are special, biting poems, written with salty/sweet relatability; who hasn't felt that they are "a traffic light set on yellow forever"?
It may be no accident that the animal she chooses to inhabit is a unicorn.
-- Kirsten Smith, author of Trinkets and screenwriter of 10 Things I Hate About You.
This guide comes from the spirit in the Ouija board, the unseen voice in the haunted forest, the shapeshifter between worlds. E. Kristin Anderson takes on the role of the mysterious mentor who has "felt the soft walls of the institution", offering a roadmap to the reader. From the loneliness of the Sasquatch to the last traces of the wolfman, this is a collection "rife with would-be magic".
--Kirsten Irving, Editor of Fuselit magazine and Sidekick Books, and author of Never, Never, Never Come Back.
Otherworldly and addictively odd, the poems in A Guide for the Practical Abductee offer insight into the obsessive human need to rely on legends, magic, and mystery. Deftly switching between powerful narrative voices, E. Kristen Anderson reveals the truth behind the strong need for stories. Smart, peculiar, and devastatingly honest, Anderson’s poems celebrate the unexplainable dark and the desire that lurks there.
-- Ada Limón, author of Lucky Wreck and Sharks in the River
More about the author...
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Seen It
Released: 1999Rated: R
Action & Adventure, Science-Fiction
What it's about: Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (Netflix) & rent or buy from $3.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Prime Video & 3 others).
2. City of God
Crime, Drama
What it's about: Cidade de Deus is a shantytown that started during the 1960s and became one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous places in the beginning of the 1980s. To tell the story of this place, the movie describes the life of various characters, all seen by the point of view of the narrator, Buscapé. Buscapé was raised in a very violent environment. Despite the feeling that all odds were against him, he finds out that life can be seen with other eyes...
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (Netflix) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others).
Released: 2013Rated: PG
Animation, Action & Adventure
What it's about: Young princess Anna of Arendelle dreams about finding true love at her sister Elsa’s coronation. Fate takes her on a dangerous journey in an attempt to end the eternal winter that has fallen over the kingdom. She's accompanied by ice delivery man Kristoff, his reindeer Sven, and snowman Olaf. On an adventure where she will find out what friendship, courage, family, and true love really means.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Disney+) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 7 services (iTunes, Google Play & 5 others).
4. Shrek
What it's about: It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a gorgeous princess from the clutches of a fire-breathing dragon, Shrek teams up with an unlikely compatriot -- a wisecracking donkey.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (Hulu) & rent or buy from $3.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others).
5. Wonder Woman
Released: 2017Rated: PG-13
Action & Adventure, Fantasy
What it's about: An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the forces of evil and bring an end to human conflict.
Where to Watch: Available to rent or buy from $3.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Prime Video & 3 others).
What it's about: A California high school student plans to escape from her family and small town by going to college in New York, much to the disapproval of wildly loving, deeply opinionated and strong-willed mother.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video & Kanopy) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 7 services (iTunes, Google Play & 5 others).
7. The Hurt Locker
What it's about: Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (HBO), stream on a popular TV everywhere service (HBO & Epix) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 7 services (iTunes, Google Play & 5 others).
8. Free Solo
Documentary, Action & Adventure
What it's about: Follow Alex Honnold as he attempts to become the first person to ever free solo climb Yosemite's 3,000 foot high El Capitan wall. With no ropes or safety gear, this would arguably be the greatest feat in rock climbing history.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (Hulu & Disney+) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Prime Video & 3 others).
9. Little Miss Sunshine
What it's about: A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (Starz), stream on a popular TV everywhere service (Starz) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 7 services (iTunes, Google Play & 5 others).
10. Lost in Translation
What it's about: Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
What it's about: A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.
Where to Watch: Available to rent or buy from $4.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others).
12. American Psycho
Crime, Cult
What it's about: A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (Netflix), stream on a popular TV everywhere service (Epix) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 7 services (iTunes, Google Play & 5 others).
13. Booksmart
What it's about: Two academic teenage superstars realize, on the eve of their high school graduation, that they should have worked less and played more. Determined to never fall short of their peers, the girls set out on a mission to cram four years of fun into one night.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (Hulu) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Prime Video & 3 others).
14. Blackfish
What it's about: Notorious killer whale Tilikum is responsible for the deaths of three individuals, including a top killer whale trainer. Blackfish shows the sometimes devastating consequences of keeping such intelligent and sentient creatures in captivity.
15. To All the Boys I've Loved Before
What it's about: Lara Jean's love life goes from imaginary to out of control when her secret letters to every boy she's ever fallen for are mysteriously mailed out.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (Netflix).
16. Big
What it's about: When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown-ups including getting a job and having his first romantic encounter with a woman.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (HBO), stream on a popular TV everywhere service (HBO) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others).
17. Zero Dark Thirty
What it's about: A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.
Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Sony Crackle) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others).
18. A Silent Voice
Animation, Anime
What it's about: Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya do not speak to each other again... until an older, wiser Shouya, tormented by his past behaviour, decides he must see Shouko once more. He wants to atone for his sins, but is it already too late...?
19. Citizenfour
Documentary, Biography
What it's about: In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her.
Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others).
20. The Matrix Reloaded
What it's about: Six months after the events depicted in The Matrix, Neo has proved to be a good omen for the free humans, as more and more humans are being freed from the matrix and brought to Zion, the one and only stronghold of the Resistance. Neo himself has discovered his superpowers including super speed, ability to see the codes of the things inside the matrix and a certain degree of pre-cognition. But a nasty piece of news hits the human resistance: 250,000 machine sentinels are digging to Zion and would reach them in 72 hours. As Zion prepares for the ultimate war, Neo, Morpheus and Trinity are advised by the Oracle to find the Keymaker who would help them reach the Source. Meanwhile Neo's recurrent dreams depicting Trinity's death have got him worried and as if it was not enough, Agent Smith has somehow escaped deletion, has become more powerful than before and has fixed Neo as his next target.
21. Brave
What it's about: Brave is set in the mystical Scottish Highlands, where Mérida is the princess of a kingdom ruled by King Fergus and Queen Elinor. An unruly daughter and an accomplished archer, Mérida one day defies a sacred custom of the land and inadvertently brings turmoil to the kingdom. In an attempt to set things right, Mérida seeks out an eccentric old Wise Woman and is granted an ill-fated wish. Also figuring into Mérida’s quest — and serving as comic relief — are the kingdom’s three lords: the enormous Lord MacGuffin, the surly Lord Macintosh, and the disagreeable Lord Dingwall.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (Starz & Disney+), stream on a popular TV everywhere service (Starz) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 8 services (iTunes, Google Play & 6 others).
22. The Edge of Seventeen
What it's about: Two high school girls are best friends until one dates the other's older brother, who is totally his sister's nemesis.
23. 13th
Documentary, Crime
What it's about: An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
24. Leave No Trace
What it's about: A father and daughter live a perfect but mysterious existence in Forest Park, a beautiful nature reserve near Portland, Oregon, rarely making contact with the world. But when a small mistake tips them off to authorities, they are sent on an increasingly erratic journey in search of a place to call their own.
What it's about: "Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Civil Rights Act.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular TV everywhere service (FX & Epix) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).
26. Captain Marvel
What it's about: The story follows Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races. Set in the 1990s, Captain Marvel is an all-new adventure from a previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
27. Monster
Biography, Crime
What it's about: An emotionally scarred highway drifter shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her, and ultimately becomes America's first female serial killer.
Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (PopcornFlix, Tubi, Vudu & 1 other), stream on a subscription service (Sundance Now) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).
28. Winter's Bone
What it's about: 17 year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Tribeca Short List) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others).
29. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
What it's about: When a bestselling celebrity biographer is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (HBO), stream on a popular TV everywhere service (HBO) & rent or buy from $14.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Prime Video & 3 others).
30. Boys Don't Cry
Biography, LGBTQ
What it's about: Female born, Teena Brandon adopts his male identity of Brandon Teena and attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska.
31. Persepolis
Animation, Biography
What it's about: In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.
32. Cloud Atlas
Drama, LGBTQ
What it's about: A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.
33. The Babadook
What it's about: A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (Showtime), stream on a popular TV everywhere service (Showtime) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others).
34. We Need to Talk About Kevin
What it's about: After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.
Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Vudu), stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video, Sundance Now & Kanopy) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others).
35. Kung Fu Panda 3
What it's about: Continuing his "legendary adventures of awesomeness", Po must face two hugely epic, but different threats: one supernatural and the other a little closer to his home.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular TV everywhere service (FX) & rent or buy from $3.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others).
What it's about: Po is now living his dream as The Dragon Warrior, protecting the Valley of Peace alongside his friends and fellow kung fu masters, The Furious Five - Tigress, Crane, Mantis, Viper and Monkey. But Po’s new life of awesomeness is threatened by the emergence of a formidable villain, who plans to use a secret, unstoppable weapon to conquer China and destroy kung fu. It is up to Po and The Furious Five to journey across China to face this threat and vanquish it. But how can Po stop a weapon that can stop kung fu? He must look to his past and uncover the secrets of his mysterious origins; only then will he be able to unlock the strength he needs to succeed.
37. Paris Is Burning
Documentary, LGBTQ
What it's about: A chronicle of New York City's drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality.
38. Arthur Christmas
Animation, Comedy
What it's about: Each Christmas, Santa and his vast army of highly trained elves produce gifts and distribute them around the world in one night. However, when one of 600 million children to receive a gift from Santa on Christmas Eve is missed, it is deemed ‘acceptable’ to all but one – Arthur. Arthur Claus is Santa’s misfit son who executes an unauthorized rookie mission to get the last present half way around the globe before dawn on Christmas morning.
39. Clueless
What it's about: Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give hopelessly klutzy new student Tai a makeover. When Tai becomes more popular than she is, Cher realizes that her disapproving ex-stepbrother was right about how misguided she was -- and falls for him.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular TV everywhere service (Epix) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others).
40. Awakenings
What it's about: Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, proves a rebirth for Sayer too, as the exuberant patient reveals life's simple but unutterably sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (CBS All Access) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 7 services (iTunes, Google Play & 5 others).
41. The Virgin Suicides
What it's about: A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video & Kanopy), stream on a popular TV everywhere service (Epix) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).
42. Wayne's World
Comedy, Musical
What it's about: When a sleazy TV exec offers Wayne and Garth a fat contract to tape their late-night public access show at his network, they can't believe their good fortune. But they soon discover the road from basement to big-time is a gnarly one, fraught with danger, temptation and ragin' party opportunities.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (Showtime), stream on a popular TV everywhere service (Showtime & Epix) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others).
43. The Snowman
Released: 1982Rated: G
What it's about: A young boy makes a snowman one Christmas Eve, which comes to life at midnight and takes the boy on a magical adventure to the North Pole to meet Santa Claus.
Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Vudu), stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video & Ameba) & rent or buy from $1.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).
44. Bridget Jones's Diary
What it's about: A chaotic Bridget Jones meets a snobbish lawyer, and he soon enters her world of imperfections.
45. The Tale
What it's about: An investigation into one woman’s memory as she‘s forced to re-examine her first sexual relationship and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (HBO), stream on a popular TV everywhere service (HBO) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 6 services (Google Play, Prime Video & 4 others).
46. You Were Never Really Here
What it's about: A traumatised veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 7 services (iTunes, Google Play & 5 others).
47. Point Break
Action & Adventure, Crime
What it's about: In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. The F.B.I. believes that the members of the gang could be surfers and send young agent Johnny Utah undercover at the beach to mix with the surfers and gather information.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (Showtime) & rent or buy from $3.99 on 7 services (iTunes, Google Play & 5 others).
48. Mustang
What it's about: In a Turkish village, five orphaned sisters live under strict rule while members of their family prepare their arranged marriages.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Kanopy) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 3 services (Google Play, Prime Video & Vudu).
49. Paris, Je T'Aime
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AuthorAlam, Intikhab (1)Alzubaidy, Hanin S. (1)Andres-Barrao, Cristina (1)Bajic, Vladimir B. (1)Bokhari, Ameerah (1)View MoreDepartment
Applied Mathematics and Computational Science Program (1)
Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) Division (1)
Bioscience Program (1)Competitive Research Funds (1)Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC) (1)View MoreJournalFrontiers in Microbiology (1)KAUST Grant NumberBAS/1/1062-01-01 (1)FCS/1/2448-01 (1)
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PublisherFrontiers Media SA (1)SubjectIndigofera argentea (1)
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Complete Genome Sequence Analysis of Enterobacter sp. SA187, a Plant Multi-Stress Tolerance Promoting Endophytic Bacterium
Andres-Barrao, Cristina; Lafi, Feras Fawzi; Alam, Intikhab; Zélicourt, Axel de; Eida, Abdul Aziz; Bokhari, Ameerah; Alzubaidy, Hanin S.; Bajic, Vladimir B.; Hirt, Heribert; Saad, Maged (Frontiers in Microbiology, Frontiers Media SA, 2017-10-20) [Article]
Enterobacter sp. SA187 is an endophytic bacterium that has been isolated from root nodules of the indigenous desert plant Indigofera argentea. SA187 could survive in the rhizosphere as well as in association with different plant species, and was able to provide abiotic stress tolerance to Arabidopsis thaliana. The genome sequence of SA187 was obtained by using Pacific BioScience (PacBio) single-molecule sequencing technology, with average coverage of 275X. The genome of SA187 consists of one single 4,429,597 bp chromosome, with an average 56% GC content and 4,347 predicted protein coding DNA sequences (CDS), 153 ncRNA, 7 rRNA, and 84 tRNA. Functional analysis of the SA187 genome revealed a large number of genes involved in uptake and exchange of nutrients, chemotaxis, mobilization and plant colonization. A high number of genes were also found to be involved in survival, defense against oxidative stress and production of antimicrobial compounds and toxins. Moreover, different metabolic pathways were identified that potentially contribute to plant growth promotion. The information encoded in the genome of SA187 reveals the characteristics of a dualistic lifestyle of a bacterium that can adapt to different environments and promote the growth of plants. This information provides a better understanding of the mechanisms involved in plant-microbe interaction and could be further exploited to develop SA187 as a biological agent to improve agricultural practices in marginal and arid lands.
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Tag Archives: ghosts
I probably shouldn’t have watched this movie so late at night, but not for the reasons you’re thinking. I was falling asleep about 30 minutes in. I awoke for the more scary and chilling parts, but this movie really was your typical, “run of the mill” horror
A “dad” on a mission.
movies. It has the traditional elements (haunted house, ghosts and evil hags) you always see in films, but I think it attempts to rise above the others with one simple element. Daniel Radcliffe.
The Woman in Black is the story of Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe). Somehow a father at 22 (were they trying to pass him off as older with the facial hair?) but playing a 24 year old, I guess it’s not too far off to
The horrors pop up in places you wouldn’t expect…
assume this relationship was possible. A godfather to the son (Misha Handley) he has onscreen? That’s a bit weird… Anyways, Arthur is a lawyer sent to a small town out in the boonies (or British equivalent) in order to settle some business with an abandoned house that was recently vacated (or death-cated, wow, didn’t need to say that…).
While there, Arthur is shunned by the village folk, noticing a
Must… resist… eye…. twitch…
mysterious hint to the air around the town and what they’re trying to hide. With the help of an older gentleman, Mr. Daily (Ciaran Hinds), Arthur attempts to discover what’s wrong with the house and what The Woman in Black truly is. And, I’m telling you, it ain’t all pretty…
They killed Cedric! Wait…
As a whole, the movie isn’t that bad. It has it’s jumps and scares throughout in dark corners and at times you wouldn’t expect. In true haunted house fashion of the 1800’s, there are creepy old dolls (my favorite), squeaking chairs, and ancient vibes that make you feel unsettled because it is a time period so far removed from our own. I like that it chills in the traditional way. Doesn’t mean there aren’t its share of problems.
Daniel Radcliffe was picked, I feel, in order to raise buzz about the film. Plain and simple. It’s a damn shame that movies do this, but I don’t think this movie had anything else going for it anyways. In my opinion, I would’ve picked an older actor to portray a dad, because every fan of Harry Potter that went into this film was anticipating teenager Potter. I did too. And I was
One of the creepier parts of the film…
waiting for his lackluster acting and twitchy left eye to kick in as well… (Watch the HP series, you’ll see it all over every movie.)
The ending was sort of a dud of a twist, or a crappy cop-out. Arthur does what he needs to do. He sympathizes with the Woman in Black and lost his wife, all things that should’ve made him a worthwhile hero in this tale of horror. You were thinking man who conquers true life fairy tale. You get a relentless terror that doesn’t even know when the movie’s actually over. Arthur conveniently finds the clues he needs to solve the puzzle, moving quickly and not allowing any time to ruminate on the conundrum of the film. It’s a straight and away chiller with only a handful of good thrills. You know what’s going to happen
It’s not such a wonderful Wizarding world after all…
before it happens, leaving the plot as crap and the scary moments as the only things holding the film together. I don’t like to judge that harshly, but I have to put my foot down here.
So watch The Woman in Black if you’re not expecting much from a horror movie. If you are a horror fan, I would say steer clear of this one. You only feel disappointed by movie’s end. I give Daniel Radcliffe props for attempting to break the mold, but this wasn’t the movie to start it on. Better luck next time. 4.7 out of 10.
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The Others: A Childhood Nightmare
I have a great respect for Spanish directors and their films. J.A. Bayona and The Orphanage, Guillermo del Toro and Pan’s Labryinth, Jaume Balaguero/Paco Plaza and REC (U.S. version – Quarantine). And now I can say Alejandro Amenabar and The Others. This film has a chilling take on demons/poltergeists/ghosts and the like. Set back in a time period where ghosts would have been an issue (WWII), this movie artfully uses fog as an extension of ghosts and beings that are not of this world. Transported through this fog, we find an ethereal feel and place where ghosts would most likely dwell.
But I was afraid to watch this movie for a long time. Do you wanna know why?
That is exactly why. The last few seconds of that trailer frightened me back when I was 11. And I know I was a young ‘un, but this movie chilled me somehow. I hadn’t seen that many horror movies and I was naive in the horror department in general. That young girl’s voice and ancient figure beneath the veil haunted my dreams for years. And now, I sat down and forced myself to watch it. Conquering fears and writing blogs. I should mark that off my bucket list.
The Others is a story about a secluded English family and their hardships without a father figure during the end of WWII. Grace Stewart (Nicole Kidman) is a strict and God fearing mother who feels it is necessary for her children to strictly follow the word of God. But there’s a problem. Her children cannot be exposed to natural light. (If that’s a real disease… didn’t check.) Anne (Alakina Mann) and Nicholas (James Bentley) are
They’re like cute vampires. They can’t see light.
two sick children who have no hopes of seeing the outside world. But the otherworld has come to them. In the form of haunting ghosts.
With a new cleaning and housekeeping staff hired, Grace hopes to make things easier on the children with such a trying lifestyle. Bertha Mills (Fionnulla Flanagan) runs the house with her mute charge, Lydia (Elaine Cassidy), and the elderly garden keeper, Mr. Tuttle (Eric Sykes). With strange occurrences and Anne constantly seeing a young boy and old woman, Grace fears for her own children and wishes her husband were back and knew what to do.
A desperate mother.
What I found interesting that characterizes this movie is a sense/loss of innocence. The children are quite ignorant and innocent in their knowledge of the outside world, especially during a time of war. Their mother’s faith doesn’t waiver while their own teachings are questioned by themselves at all times. This movie seems to question God at the same time that it affirms ghosts and another plane of existence. The whole movie itself is an early 2000’s examination of religion and whether or not it is a viable means of explanation. It prodded it (to an exhausted point I found to be too overzealous) and wouldn’t leave it alone, even at the end.
Nicole Kidman gives a very mean and zealous performance as the mother in this film, a character who would do anything to protect her children from a heathen and sinful world. She escalates at quite a nice and even pace into hysteria (as I’m sure was intended) and leaves you questioning her merit and faith by the end. I also enjoyed Christopher Eccleston (the crazed military leader in 28 Days Later) and his role as the crestfallen husband returned from war. His haunting performance toned the film in a very depressing way that
Haunts. My. Dreams.
characterized a lot of soldier’s feelings after WWII. He wasn’t in it for much, but it was just enough. And Fionnula Flanagan was a fantastic caring/aloof housekeeper who comes off as creepy and nurturing at the same time.
I know you’re there…
After all was said and done in the film, and a lot was, I was overall impressed with the movie. It was done in a very minimal way with one location and a very haunting house. Old style houses like the one in the film from the early 1900’s (or earlier, I wasn’t sure) give me the creeps. The old pictures, the old furniture and dusty feel always have given me the creeps, just knowing someone had to have died in the house. That’s another thing. I really enjoyed the mention of photographing the dead and how that used to be a common practice in order to capture the soul of the person so they may live on. The overall old feel and simplistic nature of horror in the film came from a very human place. Dying and the afterlife, ghosts and hauntings in old houses in something we all are unsure about. And something we can’t explain. Very well done for a Spanish film with no Spanish spoken. 7.7 out of 10.
Jesus is always over your shoulder.
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Another: Ball Jointed Anime? Creepy…
Here’s another (different use) anime that I watched extremely quickly! (I have some free time on my hands and this is how I spend it. Time well spent.) Another is an anime based on a novel of the same title written by Yukito Ayatsuji. It’s a creepy story about ghosts and, what’s worse, ball jointed dolls. A popular thing in Japan and popular among people who like Japanese culture here, it is the freakiest thing to come out of Japan. Those things bleed evil and look like the devil himself. And that’s why this anime scared me, because they kept doing flash images of those creepy dolls…
So that’s where this story/anime is coming from. Another is the story of a death that happened wayyyy back in 1972. A high school kid died in some strange way and it was tragic. But as life moved on, people in the class said that they could see the student was still there. Even the teacher went along with it. They took the desk to
Those creepy dolls… Ugh.
graduation, and the student even showed up in the final class picture. Creepy, right? It’s another year and it’s been 26 to be exact. With a new transfer student coming in to Yomiyama North from Toyko, Koichi Sakakibara is about to discover what true horror is. In true Final Destination fashion people start dropping like flies from what appears to be the Class 3 curse.
The freaky students of Class 3.
When a show/anime/movie is based on a book, you hope it can be just as good as the original. Never having seen an anime based on anything other than a manga, I don’t have any basis for grading this anime. But I thought it was rather well done. Based around a small town with a secret, the whole story is about finding skeletons in the closet. There are a few twists and a supernatural element that isn’t too over the top as to believe in a situation like this. The animation style is creepy enough with all the characters drawn like human ball jointed dolls. It has plenty of shocking deaths and blood, and everything in the show (probably due to the dolls) has a frail quality feeling to it.
The Eye, anyone?
This anime deals a lot with conversations that happen between characters, and what is said is what matters. There isn’t a whole lot of action until the end, but that was okay with me. It seemed like a new change of pace to watch a show that didn’t focus all around motion, but took it slower and dealt more with the dialogue than what people actually did. It has its creepy elements and would do just fine if it was adapted into a horror movie. But that is what’s surprising seeing this as an anime. It takes a cartoon medium and turns it into something more adult, more Victorian (it’s the only word coming to mind). If you wanna watch an anime without all the bells and whistles, this is probably the show for you. A creepy look into dolls and the dead, this show gets a 6.5 out of 10.
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Home Beyond Richmond No injuries from Richmond house fire Monday night
No injuries from Richmond house fire Monday night
No one was injured when a fire broke out in a single-family home in Richmond, according to fire officials.
About 9:15 p.m., fire crews responding to the call could see smoke and flames a block away from the home in the 5200 block of Gately Avenue, which is east of Crescent Park and west of Interstate Highway 80, the Richmond Fire Department said.
The fire reached both the first and second floors, causing smoke and fire damage and displacing two people. The victims were set to be provided shelter by American Red Cross.
The residents were outside the home when fire crews arrived, officials said. The fire’s cause is under investigation.
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Sir Bradley Wiggins to start Classics campaign at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
Defending champion Ian Stannard also in line-up for Belgian semi-Classic
by Colin Henrys
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Sir Bradley Wiggins (Team Sky) will kick off his 2015 Classics campaign at the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad on Saturday alongside defending champion Ian Stannard.
Since finishing the Tour of Qatar, where he placed third in the individual time trial on stage three, Wiggins has been able to recon the key cobbled climbs in the area with team-mates Stannard and Luke Rowe.
Sir Bradley Wiggins will start his Classics campaign at the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (Pic: Sirotti)
And the three Brits will be joined by Andy Fenn, who signed from Etixx-QuickStep in the winter with the Classics firmly on his agenda, in a strong Team Sky line-up for the race.
Bernie Eisel, Christian Knees, Salvatore Puccio and Chris Sutton complete the squad as Sky bid for a third victory in the Belgian semi-Classic, following Stannard’s win last year and Juan Antonio Flecha’s 2010 triumph.
Last time out, Stannard beat Greg van Avermaet in a two-up sprint to ensure Sky kicked off the spring campaign in winning style but the 27-year-old later crashed out of Gent-Wevelgem with a fractured vertebrae.
Servais Knaven, who will serve as directeur sportif for both the Omloop and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne the following day, said: “After a good training period over the winter we have a strong group heading into the classics. We’re excited to get started with this key phase of the season.
“As we all know, anything can happen during Saturday’s race, so we will sit down on Saturday night and assess how things have gone before confirming our line-up for Kuurne.”
Ian Stannard won at the Omloop last year (Pic: Sirotti)
Team Sky have also achieved success at Kuurne in the past, with Chris Sutton (2011) and Mark Cavendish (2012) among the past winners.
Sprinter Elia Viviani, who opened his Team Sky account with a stage win at the Dubai Tour, has travelled with the team to Flanders and is expected to line-up for the race on Sunday.
Team Sky line-up for Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2015
Sir Bradley Wiggins (GBR)
Ian Stannard (GBR)
Luke Rowe (GBR)
Andy Fenn (GBR)
Bernie Eisel (AUT)
Christian Knees (GER)
Salvatore Puccio (ITA)
Chris Sutton (AUS)
Six things to take away from the 2015 Milan-San Remo
Thomas the brave, Degenkolb the Classics contender and Nibali the enigma
Milan-San Remo 2015: photo gallery
The pain and the glory as John Degenkolb wins La Primavera
Six symptoms of a bad bike fit and how to fix them
How to reduce the risk of injury caused by an ill-fitting bike
Six symptoms of a bad bike fit - and how to fix them
Classics 2015 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2015
Milan-San Remo 2015: Degenkolb fights back tears after maiden Monument win
German outsprints defending champion Alexander Kristoff to open Classics season in style
Milan-San Remo 2015: John Degenkolb fights back tears after maiden Monument win
The clothing of the Classics
The Castelli Gabba is the standard for weatherproof jerseys, but else is out there?
The clothing of the Classics: weatherproof kit from Castelli, Sportful, Endura, Santini, Vermarc, Moa and Rapha
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Located in the historic Mt. Pleasant neighborhood of Washington, DC, we are minutes from downtown, near Rock Creek Park and Columbia Heights.
We are located at 3253 Mt. Pleasant St. NW on the corner of Park Rd. and Mt. Pleasant St. — just a block from 16th St. and four blocks from the Columbia Heights Metro.
Parking: On-street parking is available, but can take some time to find on the weekends.
Bike: Bike racks are available right outside of the studio and Capital Bikeshare has a location across the street.
Metro: Columbia Heights on the Green/Yellow Line; Exit via left-side escalators. Walk west on Irving St to Mt Pleasant St. Right on Mt Pleasant St. to the corner of Mt. Pleasant and Park Rd. http://www.wmata.com/rail/maps/map.cfm
Buses: Directly to Mt Pleasant St: 42, H-2, H-3, H-4, H-8, & Circulator Green Route. On 16th St: S2 & S4 to Lamont. On 14th St at Columbia Heights Metro: H-1, 52, 53, 54. http://www.wmata.com/pdfs/bus/DC.pdf http://www.dccirculator.com
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Category Archives: Action Man
1:6 Fan Fiction, Action Man, Videos, DVDs & Podcasts
Action Man is “BACK IN BUSINESS” in the UK! (Video)
Bottom Line: When all hope seems to be lost, a forlorn Action Man jumps on his vintage motorcycle and rides off on a search to discover exactly WHY he and his mates appear to have been “abandoned.” Thankfully, instead of finding answers of misery, he discovers HOPE—hope that UK Action Man fans are not ready to give up on their indomitable childhood hero. Quite the contrary. This wonderful video contains a superb storyline, professional stop-action animation and surprisingly convincing voice characterizations from UK’s Rob Charles. Out-STANDING. Enjoy!
Rob Charles— Radio and Voice Talent Actor, UK
Tagged Action Man, Rob Charles
Action Man, GIjOE "Sightings" in TV & Movies, GIjOE TV Commercials, Videos, DVDs & Podcasts
Dance, Action Man, Dance—New Commercial for UK’s “Money Super Market” is Absolutely “EPIC!”
In yet another superb “sighting” of GIjOE and Action Man in the “mainstream media,” UK’s “MoneySuperMarket” website has just aired a brand-new TV commercial for its business—starring—the many and varied heroes of the vintage Action Man toy line-up. There’s even a ’60s Barbie “Action Girl” thrown in for good measure. According to an article over on the Campaign website:
“The latest ad in MoneySuperMarket.com’s epic campaign stars Action Man. The Hasbro action figure is so overcome by his savings from Moneysupermarket that he rallies the troops to dance in the desert, even stripping down to his blue underpants. The ad is set to ‘90s classic ‘Finally’ by CeCe Peniston. It was created by Mother, the brand’s outgoing agency – and the joyful creativity of the spot makes it even more bittersweet that the two are parting ways.”
Jazz Hands!— Instead of a “Kung-Fu Grip,” this Action Man soldier shows viewers what his computer-animated “jazz hands” can do, while striking a pose on the main contents page of the UK “MoneySuperMarket” website. Out-STANDING! (Photo: MSM) Click to enlarge.
“I’ll put you right through, sir!”—Characters from the TV commercial also appear throughout the MoneySuperMarket website, such as British Barbie (shown above) fielding incoming messages from prospective customers. Blimey, how great is THIS? (Photo: MSM) Click to enlarge.
Bottom Line: This new commercial is without a doubt the most advanced combination of stop-motion and computer animation since GIjOE’s last appearance in a superb (2016) TV commercial for Subaru (see HERE). Who knew Action Man was so good at dance choreography? It’s time to get out some of your figures and “Pump up the JAMS!” Enjoy!
Tagged Action Man, Barbie, MoneySuperMarket
Action Man, New Products, Scale Animals and Props
‘Ello, Guv’nuh! 1:6 Scale (All-Metal) Royal Mail Postbox Available First Quarter of 2018—Perfect Size and Detail For Fans of Action Man and GIjOE
Blimey, this ‘box is a BEAUT! The new 1:6 scale Royal Mail postbox from SOAR ART Workshop is constructed of all-metal and will be available at most 1:6 retailers sometime during the first quarter of 2018. (Photo size comparison by Mark Otnes) Click to enlarge.
This cool news just came in on over the wire…
According to respected wholesale product distributor, Alpha-C Group (located in Hong Kong), the modeling masters over at SOAR ART Workshop will soon be releasing an all-metal, 1:6 scale Royal Mail postbox, sometime during the first quarter of 2018. For fans of Action Man, GIjOE, and all things 1:6 scale, this is exciting news. Such a box would make a STUNNING addition to any (post WW2) neighborhood or downtown (i.e. urban) diorama. (Now you’ll need an Action Man Mailman!)
Three closeups for the price of ONE— Superb craftsmanship in the new SOAR ART postbox is apparent from all angles. And take a look at that middle pic. YES! It even opens up so you can remove all of Action Man’s mail. That is out-STANDING! (Photo: SOAR ART) Click to enlarge.
What time is pickup and drop-off?— Don’t worry, this pic (taken from about an inch away) shows that you can even read the tiny type in that RM plaque. WOW! (Photo: SOAR ART)
Bottom Line: Spec-wise, this RM postbox stands at a perfect 27cm tall (approximately 10.6″), is 10.5cm wide (4.1″) and weighs in at about 1kg (or 2.2 lbs). All told, this big boy looks to be a near perfect replica of the real thing. According to Alpha-C, you should probably expect a retail price somewhere around $62 plus s/h. Our advice? Start watching the usual 1:6 scale import/retail websites (Cots, Big Bad, etc.) for further information on price and availability. Happy Hunting!
Tagged 1:6 Scale Accessories
1:6 Fan Fiction, Action Man, Customizers, Falcon from Brazil, Famous Names in GIjOE, Fans & Collectors, Geyperman from Spain, GIjOE Films and Movies, Videos, DVDs & Podcasts
Roll ‘Em!——5th Annual “G.I. Joe Stop-Motion Film Festival” to Premiere All-New Movies Based on—and Utilizing—”America’s Movable Action Hero”
Submissions for 5th Annual “GIjOE Stop-Motion Film Festival” Now Being Accepted
Gio Toninelo, coordinator and distributor of the upcoming 5th Annual GIjOE Stop Motion Film Festival (Photo: Gio Toninelo)
Despite Hasbro having turned its corporate back on 12-inch GIjOE action figures and their worldwide array of fans, collectors and customizers, the “most beloved toy in the last 100 years” (see HERE) continues to make its presence known to the public in ever more unexpected ways. We’re speaking specifically now, about independent filmmaking—and stop-motion animation. Cinematographer, graphic designer and festival coordinator, Gio Toninelo (shown above, right) has just announced the opening of submissions for what will become the 5th Annual GIjOE Stop Motion Film Festival (GSMFF). The GSMFF is referred to as a “travelling” film festival, due to the fact that Toninelo will exhibit the winning entries in theaters and venues all across the country. This year’s festival premieres September 27th at the Bug Theater in Denver, Colorado and extends thereafter to LA, New York and Austin (TX).
Lisa and Tim Weedn, creators of superb 1:6 scale stop-motion animated videos, regularly premiere their work at Joelanta conventions in Atlanta, GA. (Photo: Tim Weedn)
Stop-motion animation, once championed by early effects wizards Ray Harryhausen (see bio video above) and animators Rankin & Bass (of 1964’s Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer fame), had almost become a lost and forgotten art form, but it seems to be back on the path to popularity once again. This will surprise many, because today’s CGI-dominated animators view the (much) more laborious and time-intensive stop-motion process as an unwieldy and (dare we say) “wasteful” practice from a bygone, pre-digital era. Fortunately, there are STILL some diehard (and VERY patient) individuals out there for whom stop-motion animation (and its unique results) remains a JOY to create and behold.
An Analog Technology For a 1:6 Digital World
You may already know of some fellow GIjOE fans who are also stop-motion animators. We certainly do. Two such patient practitioners of the technique (that come immediately to mind) are the talented filmmaking duo of Lisa and Tim Weedn (see above, right). The Weedns are regular attendees and popular presenters at each of the Toylanta (formerly Joelanta) GIjOE shows held annually in Atlanta, Georgia. Here’s a 2014 video they made in celebration of GIjOE’s 50th anniversary:
Is Stop-Motion Animation Merely a Fad—Or Making a Comeback?
Fortunately for stop-motion animation afficiandos, they don’t have to rely solely on the efforts of amateurs in order to get their “fix” of the technique. In fact, there are many influential showbiz pros out there who continue to utilize stop-motion in their projects. For example, Seth Rogen revived the technique for his standout animated TV series, Robot Chicken (see his HILAROUS GIjOE short below). Academy Award winner Nick Park too, used the process for his superb Wallace and Gromit shorts and features. Perhaps a sort of “tech-revolt” is underway, one that rages against the film and TV industry’s current overuse of CGI? If so, it appears that the nostalgic animation style is actually GROWING in popularity—with no end in sight!
We asked Mr. Toninelo to comment on the upcoming GIjOE film festival and he kindly replied:
Filmmaker and Festival Coordinator, Gio Toninelo (Photo: GT)
“Hi Mark, I’m so excited! Our GIjOE film festival is back for its 5th season! I’m not surprised that you haven’t heard about our festival. We started waaaay back when the internet was a sleepy teenager. Plus, we took a needed break since 2013. Put simply, we screen films that use G.I.JOE action figures as their main characters using the ‘stop-motion’ animation technique. We always read The Joe Report and I’ve bought some stuff from Patches of Pride (PoP) in the past as well. I’ve even listed PoP as one of our sponsors!
There are only TWO main rules for our Festival:1- Your film MUST be shot using stop-motion technique. Puppetry, wires and live action could also be used as long as it does not comprise 30% of the entire film. 2- Your main character MUST be an official G.I. Joe action figure, created by Hasbro, Inc. or an Action Man figure, created by Palitoy. Other licensed figures are also accepted, like “Comandos em Acao” and “Falcon” (BRAZIL) or “Commandos Heroicos” (MEXICO). Other action figures, dolls and toys can be used for supporting roles.
Finally, because we are a ‘travelling’ festival, I try not to put the videos up on the web, at least not on our social media channel. We always save the BEST ones for the tour. However, some of our old trailers can still be found over on YouTube HERE. Enjoy!
At Work in the World of 1:6 Scale— Gio Toninelo, shown here in his home office and/or art studio, carefully details one of his 1:6 scale custom GIjOE action figures. Will this Joe become a “star” in one of Toninelo’s future film productions? We’ll just have to wait and see! (Photo: Jeff Otte)
Fans of Films and GIjOEs— Is there anything better than watching “America’s Movable Fighting Man” up on the big screen? Here, fans gather at a past screening of Gio Toninelo’s GIjOE Stop-Motion Film Festival to watch the “Best of the Best.” (Photo: Gio Toninelo) Click to enlarge.
Bottom Line: This looks like yet another EXCELLENT opportunity for GIjOE fans and customizers, as well as all aspiring amateur and/or professional filmmakers. For complete details on festival submission requirements, entry deadlines, etc., go HERE. Our sincerest thanks go out to Gio Toninelo and to everyone else connected with these exciting shows. Go, Joe! And… Go, GIO!
Tagged GIjOE Film Festivals, Gio Toninelo, Stop-Motion Animation
Action Man, Customizers, GIjOE TV Commercials, Just When You Thought You'd Seen It All, Videos, DVDs & Podcasts
“Veterans for Peace” Hope “Battlefield Casualties” Parody Video Will Convince UK Government to Raise Minimum Military Recruitment Age to 18
Playing with Action Man was never like this (thankfully!)
We recently came across a VERY powerful Action Man (AM) television commercial parody video. It was created by the advocacy group, Veterans for Peace UK, (VFPUK) and first aired (on the internet, natch’) back in 2015. But before you watch it(!), you should be aware that its content is somewhat startling, even bordering on adult-content. Yes, its creators clearly WANT children to see this video, but we think you should exercise due caution (see graphic freeze-frame image above) depending on your little ones’ ages and sensitivities.
The video contains three separate commercials. Each focuses on a different (and imaginary) Action Man figure play set. The three spots may feature fake products, but the heart-breaking scenarios depicted are all too possible, graphic and (regrettably)—realistic. The first introduces viewers to a psychologically damaged and emotionally traumatized “P.T.S.D. Action Man.” Rather than utilizing AM’s traditional “Eagle Eyes,” this sad fellow possesses instead, a “thousand yard stare,” and comes equipped with booze, drugs, and even a noose—to hang himself with.
The second spot features “Paralysed Action Man” in his wheel chair, wearing a hospital gown and carrying around his 1:6 scale colostomy bag (oh, what fun). The third spot, rather than “playing around” with any other physical or mental conditions, simply jumps straight to death, presenting viewers with a bombed-n-bloody corpse figure appropriately named, “Dead Action Man.” Don’t expect much “action” out of this (in)Action Man, as he is already completely, utterly and 100%—DEAD. The commercial gamely shows that you can zip him up in a body bag and bury him (with full honors, of course) out in your backyard. But after that…<well, sigh>
If you still didn’t get the message—War is Hell—and this Action Man parody drives that point home exceedingly well with its stories of these three tragic heroes. And, as AM television commercial parodies go, this is undeniably an excellent one in terms of its production. Each spot is superbly acted, staged, photographed, edited, narrated, scored and directed. Each perfectly recreates the elusive “vintage video look” of a 1970s original. Our sincerest congratulations to ALL of the master 1:6 scale customizers and diorama builders involved in its production. Simply AMAZING work!
Superb 1:6 custom packaging—surrounds three tragic and depressing 1:6 scale custom Action Man figures. No, you can’t go out to a local toy store and buy these sets. But then again, why would you want to? Despite the quality of their execution, they’re just too sad to own (or ARE they?). (Custom figure sets and photo: Darren Cullen) Click to enlarge.
Bottom Line: The creators of this video clearly hope it will generate strong reactions among viewers, thereby aiding them in their cause. But will it? Military recruitment remains (sadly) a necessary endeavour for all free nations (freedom ISN’T free), but at what AGE should an individual be allowed to enter their country’s military? VFPUK’s website is urging UK citizens to write into their local MPs concerning this matter, and request that they raise the minimum enlistment age from 16 to 18. It will be interesting to see whether or not their Action Man parody video has any effect in making that change happen. Stay tuned, AM fans!
Tagged Action Man, GIjOE TV Commercials
Action Man, Famous Names in GIjOE, Miscellaneous Toy News
After 80 Years, UK Community Designates Palitoy’s “Old Toy Factory” (The Birthplace of Action Man) As a Revered “Green Plaque” Commemorative Site
Three Cheers for Palitoy! Former employees of the beloved UK toy company raise a rousing “Hip, hip, hooray!” at the site of their former business, whilst receiving the Leicestershire County Council’s honorific of “green plaque” commemorative status. (Photo: Leicestershire County Council) Click to enlarge.
Our good buddy, Bob Brechin, wrote in to us again today to share another tidbit of good news from that “old country across the pond.” Bob was clearly (and rightly so) bursting with pride, as he told us all about the recent Leicestershire County Council’s (LCC) decision to commemorate the site of the original Palitoy toy factory building, known to millions of fans around the world, as the “birthplace” and former home of —you guessed it—Action Man! According to the LCC website:
“A former factory in Leicestershire which created popular children’s toys such as Action Man, Tiny Tears dolls and Star Wars figures was honoured with a green plaque. On Thursday, 2 November, the plaque was installed at the Coalville Business Park, in Jackson Street, Coalville, where the toy factory once stood. The company manufactured some of the most popular toys in Britain from 1937 to 1985 – before it ceased trading. Palitoy not only helped to stoke children’s imaginations with its classic toys and figures it also helped to put Coalville on the map.”
“Two Bobs” for Action Man! These two talented gentlemen have every reason in the world to be proud of Palitoy’s newly acquired “green plaque” status, and of their own individual accomplishments as well! From left we have Bob Brechin, former chief toy designer, and on the right, Bob Simpson, the company’s former managing director. (Photo: LCC) Click to enlarge.
It’s obvious to fans living here in the U.S. (and elsewhere around the globe), that local UK community support (and thanks) for the men and women who helped bring Action Man and other great toys “to life” remains very strong. And while those lucky few in attendance at Palitoy’s recent green plaque ceremony may now largely be members of the “silver-haired set,” it’s good to know that their children and grandchildren will be able to look up at that plaque and remember all the wonderful toys created there (by their loved ones) for many generations to come.
Pam Posnett, Leicestershire County Council (Photo: LCC)
“It is fantastic to see that 80 years on, there is still HUGE support from the people of Leicestershire.” — Pam Posnett, LCC Cabinet Member for Green Plaques
It should be no surprise then too, that Bob Brechin, ever the promotor of all things Palitoy and Action Man, was the man originally behind all of the efforts required for gaining the beloved Palitoy company its esteemed honor of “green plaque” status. According to Brechin:
“It is 80 years since Palitoy toys were first made in Coalville and I thought the famous toy company should be celebrated with a green plaque at this special time.” —Bob Brechin
Bottom Line: Our sincerest thanks and congratulations go out to Bob Brechin for his heads-up intel on this story, and to the wonderfully generous Leicestershire County Council for their excellent photos, and to all of the other past employees of Palitoy. You’ve all done so much—to bring so much joy—to so many people. Go, Action Man! And… Hip, hip, HOORAY for Palitoy!
Tagged Action Man, Bob Brechin, Bob Simpson, Coalville, Palitoy
Action Man, New Products, Paper Goods, Unusual, Unique & Rare Items
Blimey! New UK Royal Mail Stamps To Commemorate 1960s-70s Vintage Toys Including (Yes!) Action Man
Geronimo! This new 2017 stamp from the UK Royal Mail commemorates vintage toys, specifically the 1960s Action Man “Red Devil” paratrooper figure. (Image: UK Royal Mail)
HOT OFF THE WIRES: According to an article posted today over on the Sun.co.uk:
“The series of ten toys – all made in the UK – will be released on August 22. They are available to buy from 7,000 post offices across the UK and on the Royal Mail website.
Royal Mail spokesman Philip Parker said ahead of the launch:
“British toymakers enjoyed a reputation for quality and innovation. These nostalgic stamps celebrate 10 wonderful toys that have endured through the decades.”
Characters in the set feature the nation’s favourite toys from the past 100 years. These include Sindy dolls, which were launched in Britain in 1963, and Action Man, which first appeared on the market in 1966. The iconic Red Devil Action Man figure will feature in the stamps.
Which of these vintage toys do YOU remember? (Photo: UK Royal Mail)
The Royal Mail website is offering a selection of products ranging from £4.50 to £29.99. Sets available include postcards, just the stamp set and and a framed version. Some enthusiasts can pick up a Classic Toys Edenbridge First Day Cover for £8.22 , which is personalised with the recipient’s name and address and cancelled with a Toys Hill, Edenbridge postmark. There’s also an Edinburgh First Day Cover – but both are only available until August 22.”
Holy, Ephemera! Sometimes, the brochures and “press packs” that accompany the release of new postage stamps can be more exciting to own than the stamps themselves. (Photo: UK Royal Mail)
Return to Sender? NO WAY! These “First Day of Issue” envelopes feature all 10 vintage toy stamps and will ROCK your ephemera and philatelic collections’ world. Crikey! (Photo: UK Royal Mail)
Action Man’s Been Framed! Perhaps the most displayable and desirable collectible of this set would be the 10 FRAMED stamps. Yes, they’ll mail them to you already professionally matted and framed. All you have to do is hang them up—and ENJOY! (Photo: UK Royal Mail)
Bottom Line: These are tiny but VERY desirable collectibles for all fans of GIjOE and Action Man. Fans in the U.S. and elsewhere may have to order their stamps online, but that’s a no-brainer in this day and age. Simply go HERE now, mate. Go, ACTION MAN!
Tagged Action Man, UK Royal Mail
Action Man, Important Dates, Shows, Sales & Events
Blimey! “Action Man Day 9” This Weekend in the UK
Bottom Line: How did this great event sneak up on us again this year? Oh well, fans in the U.S. will either have to catch the next Concorde SST flight (that ain’t happening again anytime soon) or simply wait until next year. Regardless, our best wishes go out to all of our AM friends and fans living in the UK. Have a great time, mates! And… GO, ACTION MAN!!!
Tagged Action Man
Action Man, Fans & Collectors, Searching for "Lost" G.I. Joes, Videos, DVDs & Podcasts
Catastrophic Capsule Failure Dooms Astronaut “Major Bob Tom” During “Mercury 10” Mission Commemorating Action Man’s 50th Anniversary
Lost (From) Space— The whereabouts of the UK’s most famous 1:6 scale astronaut, Major Bob Tom, remain unknown. Did he survive his momentous fall? Can YOU help find him? (Photo: Rob Wisdom)
Final Fate and Location of Organizer’s Vintage Action Man Astronaut Remain Unknown
Robert Wisdom, Action Man fan and collector (Photo: Robert Wisdom)
Bottom Line: A 1:6 scale “space mission,” designed to lovingly commemorate Action Man’s 50th Anniversary, has ended with mixed—some might say, heartbreaking—results. The goal was to lift a vintage Action Man astronaut figure (strapped securely into a vintage AM space capsule) up, up, UP through the stratosphere with the aid of a helium-filled balloon, and return him safely back down to the Earth (see our earliest coverage of this event HERE).
Designated “Mercury 10” by its organizers, the UK mission was masterfully coordinated by Rob Wisdom and funded primarily through donations raised in a surprisingly successful (10-day!) Kickstarter campaign (see that fundraising page HERE). Thankfully (for the thousands of AM fans around the world who were not able to attend), this mission’s breathtaking ascent, its startling final fate, and the frustrating field search for the intrepid (yet sadly, still missing) “Major Bob Tom,” have all now been preserved and presented in an excellent 25-minute video (see below). Enjoy!
Identifying Marks— To help you find him, note that Major Bob Tom was bedecked in an original silver space suit with a union jack flag and custom “Mercury 10” patches from Patches of Pride—one was even placed on his helmet for maximum visibility. Also-fricken-TASTIC! (Photo: Rob Wisdom)
A Perfect Fit— As this closeup reveals, the real cloth “Mercury 10” patches provided by Patches of Pride conform perfectly to the folds and sleeve of a vintage AM space suit. If you find an astronaut in a field in Britain, look for THIS patch. It’s only on the uniform of Major Bob Tom! (Photo: Rob Wisdom)
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US8626383B2 - Method of optimizing the loading of loads in a vehicle - Google Patents
Method of optimizing the loading of loads in a vehicle Download PDF
Pierre Prudhomme-Lacroix
Laurence Maille
Airbus Helicopters SAS
2011-02-28 Priority to FR1100589A priority Critical patent/FR2972066A1/en
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A method of determining the locations of loads in a vehicle in such a manner as to ensure mission safety in terms of loads being retained in the aircraft. On the basis of vehicle parameters, the anchor points available in this type of vehicle for retaining the loads are identified. As a function of the available loading volume(s), a possible loading configuration is calculated using at least some of the available anchor points, at least some of the retaining means, and the characteristics of the loads. The forces that might be exerted on the selected anchor points are verified as being less than maximum limits. The calculated loading configuration is confirmed, otherwise a new loading configuration is calculated.
This application claims priority to FR 11 00589 filed on Feb. 28, 2011, the disclosure of which is incorporated in its entirety by reference herein.
(1) Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to the general technical field of transporting freight in a vehicle. The term “vehicle” should be understood as meaning any type of transport means such as a truck, a motor car, a train, a boat, or an aircraft. The aircraft may be a fixed wing aircraft or a rotary wing aircraft such as a rotorcraft, a helicopter, a hybrid helicopter, or any other type of aircraft.
In the present description, reference is made more particularly to aircraft, however the invention is not limited in any way to such a particular application.
(2) Description of Related Art
It is very important to manage loads on an aircraft both from an economic point of view and in terms of the safety of said aircraft in flight. It is constantly desired to load aircraft with as many loads as possible while improving safety in flight, or in general during a mission performed by a vehicle transporting the freight. Safety in flight is improved in particular by appropriately distributing loads as a function of their weights relative to the center of gravity of the aircraft. In terms of flight missions, the stowage of loads is managed relative to potential loading volumes in the aircraft.
Reference is made more particularly to loads that are for loading in the cabin or the hold, for example, however the invention also applies to loads placed outside the aircraft. In certain circumstances, the aircraft may be loaded with loads both inside and outside the cabin and/or the hold.
The present invention relates more particularly to a method of providing assistance in loading loads into a vehicle, in particular an aircraft, and more particularly a rotary wing aircraft such as a rotorcraft.
In order to ensure safety in flight of an aircraft, it is necessary to ensure that loads are retained, i.e. prevented from moving, during a flight. Retaining loads that are loaded in a predefined arrangement serves in general to obtain a degree of balancing in the distribution of the loads and also enables an acceptable location to be achieved for the center of gravity of the loaded aircraft. This generally makes it easier to pilot the aircraft.
By way of example, document U.S. 2010/0222993 discloses a system of managing the loading of a rotary wing aircraft, and more precisely a method that calculates the position of the center of gravity of the loaded aircraft and also acceptable limits for positioning said center of gravity, such that the crew can determine in real time information associated with the current loading and also the position of the center of gravity. The use of such a method is certainly advantageous, but it does not serve to satisfy the objects of the present invention in terms of optimizing safety of the aircraft in various loading and flight configurations.
Document WO 2007/119898 also discloses a method and a system for optimizing the distribution of freight in an aircraft in order to optimize centering of said loads. The method described is based on an algorithm for calculating a loading configuration as a function of the weights, the distribution, and the positioning of the loads. The method described thus makes it possible to take account of information associated with the loads and to propose acceptable loading configurations to the pilot. The method described is likewise insufficient for guaranteeing optimized flight safety for the aircraft in all of its flight configurations.
It is known to propose loading configurations for an aircraft by calculation as a function of vehicle parameters and as a function of load characteristics. The vehicle parameters are identified in a database and the load characteristics are determined depending on the particular loads to be loaded on board the vehicle. The operator selects vehicle parameters and inputs the characteristics of the loads on the basis of which a computer executes an algorithm for determining the best possible loading configuration.
By way of example, reference may be made to the following documents:
L. A. Martin-Vega: “Aircraft load planning and computer description and review”, extracted from Computers & Industrial Engineering, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 357-369;
Debra Anderson, et al.: “ALLPS a knowledge-based system for aircraft loading”, extracted from IEEE Expert, IEEE service center, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 71-79;
M. Monceau, et al.: “Optimization of aircraft container loading”, extracted from IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, extracted from IEEE service center, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 140-150;
FR 2 460 841 (Messerschmitt Boelkow Blohm); and
U.S. 2005/246057 (C. J. Olin, et al.).
According to those documents, the loading configurations obtained by calculation supply a distribution loads inside the aircraft as a function of the arrangement of various spaces available for use in loading. The looked-for result is to obtain the best possible distribution of loads as a function of the individual weights of the loads, of the overall weight of the loads taken together, and of the natures of the loads, such as in particular possibly perishable foodstuffs. The distribution is calculated relative to the center of gravity of the aircraft and the storage volumes available on board the aircraft. Finally, it is desired to minimize loss of energy in terms of fuel consumption and/or to distribute the loads as well as possible in view of their weights relative to balancing the loaded aircraft.
More particularly, according to U.S. 2005/246057 (C. J. Olin, et al.), vehicle parameters relating to anchor points of an aircraft are listed in a database. The database also lists current loading configurations for a given aircraft, on the basis of the actual presence, locations, and orientations of located anchor members, each of which comprises an individually by anchor point of the aircraft. From the database, the operator identifies and selects the vehicle parameters of the aircraft that is to be loaded with loads and for which the current loading configuration is listed. The operator inputs the characteristics of the loads for loading on the aircraft. A computer determines whether the characteristics of the loads are compatible with the current loading configuration of the aircraft, and if not it proposes a new loading configuration.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
An object of the present invention is to propose a method enabling the above-mentioned limitations to be overcome, by providing the crew of an aircraft with an optimized configuration for loading the vehicle.
More particularly, the present invention seeks to provide such a method that provides optimized safety for loading the vehicle with loads.
The method proposed by the present invention also seeks to simplify loading operations in terms of operating the vehicle, while maximizing potential loading.
For example, the present invention seeks to provide loading configurations for a vehicle that comply with the requirements of regulations and standards, such as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) rules or the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) regulations that are in force for rotorcraft.
The objects given to the invention are achieved with the help of a method of determining the locations of loads in a vehicle, in such a manner as to ensure mission safety in terms of retaining the loads in the vehicle. The method implements at least one database that is common to a fleet of vehicles, and a computer for implementing an algorithm on the basis of parameters specific to a vehicle type, referred to as vehicle parameters, being identified and selected in the database, and on the basis of the characteristics of the loads, including the number, the weights, and the volumes of the loads.
The method of the present invention comprises the following operations:
on the basis of the vehicle parameters, identifying available anchor points in this type of vehicle for retaining the loads, thereby determining a possible loading configuration;
verifying that the total weight of the loads does not exceed a predefined limit; and
as a function of at least one available loading volume, calculating a possible loading configuration from among predefined possible loading configurations of the vehicle, depending at least on said available anchor points and depending on the characteristics of the loads;
on the basis of the vehicle parameters, determining maximum accelerations and decelerations of the vehicle depending on various authorized mission configurations and depending on rules specific to said vehicle and included in the database;
on the basis of vehicle parameters, determining available retention means for connecting the loads to anchor points;
as a function of at least one available loading volume, calculating a possible loading configuration from among predefined possible loading configurations of the vehicle, depending at least on said available anchor points, depending on at least some retention means, and depending on the characteristics of the loads;
on the basis of the vehicle parameters, determining the forces that might be exerted on each available anchor point and also the acceptable movements of the loads;
verifying that said possible movements of the loads and said forces that might be exerted on the selected anchor points remain below predefined maximum limits;
an operator confirming the calculated loading configuration or else the operator requesting another loading configuration to be defined by returning to the step of calculating a possible loading configuration from among the predefined possible loading configurations of the vehicle; and then
an operator on the site where loads are loaded onto the vehicle verifying whether the tension applied on each anchor point is in compliance by comparing said tensions with predetermined values of pretensions on the retention means while retaining the loads.
The method of the invention serves to distribute the loads over the vehicle not only as a function of their weights, but also by proposing loading configurations that incorporate safe stowage of loads having a variety of respective shapes and weights. Secure retention of such loads on board the vehicle in any flight configuration is incorporated in the setting up of this flight configuration by the computer.
In an implementation of the method in accordance with the invention, the method includes a display step of displaying the confirmed loading configuration on a screen or the like.
In an implementation of the method in accordance with the invention, said display step comprises displaying the loading schedule, the locations for loading the various loaded loads, the various selected anchor points, and the selected retention means.
In an implementation, the loads comprise freight made up of one or more elements.
In an implementation of the method in accordance with the invention, the method is implemented by an algorithm loaded into a computer of a management system of the vehicle such as an on-board avionics system of an aircraft.
In another implementation of the method in accordance with the invention, the method is implemented by an algorithm loaded into a computer that is independent of a management system of the vehicle, such as an avionics system on board an aircraft, e.g. a laptop computer for implementing the steps of said method.
In an implementation of the method in accordance with the invention, the display step is performed by means of a multifunction screen of the instrument panel of the vehicle or the aircraft in order to display the loading configuration(s).
In an implementation of the method in accordance with the invention, the method includes the operation of selecting anchor points and retention means so as to constitute connections between the load(s) and said anchor points, so as to present angles relative to the vertical and/or relative to the horizontal that lie within predefined angle ranges.
In an implementation of the method in accordance with the invention, the method uses at least one database that is common to an entire fleet of vehicles or of aircraft.
For example, at least one database includes data relating to regulations, to standards, and/or to particular specifications of the operator of the vehicle.
In an implementation of the method in accordance with the invention, the method includes the operation of defining a zone that is designated for a special use, e.g. in the cabin or the hold, and that is not available for loading. This is particularly advantageous during a mission should the pilot need to unload some of the freight or to load additional freight, or indeed for reserving said special-use zone for transporting an unexpected load.
In an implementation of the method in accordance with the invention, the method includes the operation of neutralizing anchor points that are not usable for retaining loads, by making them unavailable for retaining such loads.
In another implementation of a method in accordance with the invention, the method uses a computer for producing at the time the vehicle is designed a paper document such as a chart suitable for informing the pilot of the vehicle of an optimum loading configuration.
In a use in accordance with the invention, the method is applied to a vehicle of the rotorcraft or helicopter kind.
The invention also seeks to provide a computer program for implementing the above-specified method.
This object given to the invention is achieved with the help of a computer program comprising a set of instructions and data for implementing the calculation steps of the method in accordance with the invention. Said instructions are loaded onto a medium for incorporating in a computer or for being connected to a computer. Said instructions are executed by the computer with the help of at least one database that is suitable for being updated.
The method includes in particular a step of updating the at least one database used in the method, either regularly or on the basis of newly available information by an operator, in particular a pilot of the vehicle.
An advantage of the method in accordance with the invention lies in being applicable to various types of aircraft, e.g. to an entire fleet, in spite of the complexity associated with managing loads in different aircraft. The method in accordance with the invention makes it possible to harmonize management and to use for aircrafts that are different from one another. Such management is also extremely simple to use for the operator of the aircraft.
Another advantage of the method in accordance with the invention lies in the fact that it makes it possible to take special cases into account, e.g. associated with a particular mission or flight plan. The method is implemented in particular with the help of one or more databases that are suitable for being updated by an operator, in particular a pilot, either regularly or to take account of newly-available information. Such information may be temporary, e.g. relating to the unavailability of certain anchor points in a fuselage or on a floor, to unusual flying conditions, or to freight being unloaded in part during a mission.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWINGS
The invention and its advantages appear in greater detail from the following description of an implementation given by way of non-limiting illustration and with reference to the accompanying figures, in which:
FIG. 1 is a flow chart of an implementation of the method in accordance with the invention; and
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the means involved in implementing the method in accordance with the invention.
Elements that are present in more than one of the figures are given the same numerical or alphanumerical references in each of them.
The description below, given by way of non-limiting example, relates more particularly to a vehicle such as an aircraft of the airplane, rotorcraft, or helicopter kind. Any characteristic that is described in such an application may be transposed to any other type of vehicle without going beyond the ambit of the present invention.
FIG. 1 is a flow chart of an implementation of the method in accordance with the invention, which method consists in a set of successive steps that are described below.
In a step (e1), the method comprises operations of an operator identifying and selecting a type of aircraft using input means, such as a multiple choice menu or the like, and using at least one database 5 having parameters that are specific to the type of aircraft, referred to below as aircraft parameters.
In a step (e2), a computer uses the aircraft parameters to determine the maximum accelerations and decelerations for the aircraft under various flight configurations as authorized or expected during a mission.
In a step (e3), the computer uses the aircraft parameters to identify anchor points that are available in this type of aircraft for retaining the loads.
In a step (e4), the computer uses the aircraft parameters to determine the retention means available that are suitable for connecting the loads to the anchor points.
In a step (e5), an operator determines and stores in the computer the characteristics of the loads, including in particular the numbers, the weights, and the volumes of the loads. The computer uses the vehicle parameters to verify that the total weight of the loads does not exceed a predefined limit.
In step (e6), the computer calculates, as a function of the available loading volume(s), a potential configuration for loading by making use of at least some of the anchor points available on board the aircraft, at least one or more of the retention means available on board the aircraft, and also the previously-stored characteristics of the loads.
In a step (e7), the computer uses the aircraft parameters to determine the forces that might be exerted on each available anchor point and the movements to which the loads might be subjected.
In a step (e8), the computer verifies that the forces liable to act on the selected anchor points and the movements of the loads remain below predefined maximum limits.
In a step (e9), the operator confirms the calculated loading configuration or issues a request for execution by the computer of calculation operations starting from step (e6) in order to define another loading configuration or to optimize the previously-calculated loading configuration.
In an implementation of the method in accordance with the invention, the confirmed loading configuration is displayed on a screen 6 or some analogous display device, or analogously by means of a device for printing a document.
In an implementation of the method in accordance with the invention, the method includes an operation of displaying the schedule of loading, the locations for loading the various loads, the various selected anchor points, and also the selected retention means.
In an implementation of the method in accordance with the invention, the method implements means for monitoring the tension applied to each anchor point by means of pretensions on the retention means while retaining the load(s). Such monitoring means are constituted in particular by conventional mechanical measurement means, which deliver pretension values that can be compared with the recommendations displayed as a result of executing the method, in particular as displayed on the screen 6.
The anchor points may be constituted, for example, by rings, snap-hooks, or other hooks fastened to the fuselage, or rails provided in the floor of the cabin, of the hold, etc.
By way of example, the retention means comprise a net covering the loads and fastened to the anchor points via connections constituted by straps. Advantageously, each strap has a mechanical tensioner. The net may be an adjustable net, e.g. in terms of adjusting the size of its mesh, so as to adapt as well as possible to the shape of the loads.
In an example, the loads comprise freight made up of one or more elements.
By way of example, the method is implemented by an algorithm loaded into a computer 4 of the avionics system on board the aircraft.
By way of example, the method is implemented by an algorithm loaded into a computer 4 that is independent of an avionics system 2 of the aircraft, such as a laptop computer.
By way of example, the method implements a multifunction screen of the aircraft instrument panel in order to display the loading configurations.
The method comprises an operation of the computer selecting anchor points and retaining means available on the aircraft in order to constitute connections between the load(s) and said anchor points. Said connections present angles relative to the vertical or relative to the horizontal, lying within predefined angle ranges depending on the arrangement and the positions of the anchor points relative to one another and relative to retention means available on the aircraft.
The method advantageously implements at least one database 5 common to an entire fleet of aircraft with the respective vehicle parameters thereof being stored in said database 5. The database 5 thus has all of the information relating to the aircraft and needed for implementing the method.
By way of example, at least one database includes data relating to regulations, standards, and/or particular specifications of the operator of the aircraft.
In a particular step of the method, a zone for a special use is defined, e.g. in the cabin or the hold. Such a zone for special use is considered as being unavailable for loading, since it is reserved for loading an unexpected load, such as a stretcher.
In a particular step of the method, anchor points that are defined as being unavailable or already in use for other functions are neutralized by being made unavailable for retaining loads in a definition of a loading configuration made by the computer.
The method in accordance with the invention thus makes it possible to define an available loading space for a given aircraft during a given utilization.
The method in accordance with the invention proposes one or more loading configurations to the pilot, which configurations take account of the distribution of freight, the volume of each element of freight, the distribution of anchor points, the positioning of the pilot and any passengers on board the aircraft, and the maximum forces exerted on each of the anchor points. The method thus makes it possible to take account of the strength of the various available retention means and also the dimensions of the openings into the cabin or the hold through which elements of freight are to be loaded, where such information forms part of the vehicle parameters.
FIG. 2 is a diagrammatic view of means involved in an implementation of the method in accordance with the invention. The aircraft, e.g. a helicopter 1, includes an on-board avionics system 2. The on-board avionics systems 2 is connected via a wired or wireless connection 3 to a computer 4 having an algorithm loaded therein for executing the method in accordance with the invention.
By way of example, the computer 4 incorporates a database 5 that may be added to or modified by the pilot or by a member of the crew.
The display screen 6 serves to present the pilot with the loading configurations that are suitable for being confirmed on the basis of implementing the method in accordance with the invention.
In a variant, the computer 4 and the database 5 may also be incorporated in the on-board avionics system 2.
In another implementation in accordance with the invention, the method consists, while designing the vehicle, in using the computer to produce a paper document such as a chart, enabling the pilot to determine the best loading configuration. The various possible loading configurations are thus defined at the time the aircraft or the vehicle is designed.
The invention also provides a computer program including a set of instructions and data for implementing the steps of the method in accordance with the invention. By way of example, the instructions may be recorded on a medium suitable for being incorporated in the computer 4 or for being connected to the computer 4.
The instructions are executed by the computer 4 with the help of the database 5. The computer 4 may also be designed to store flight configurations. It thus conserves a trace of the weights and the stowage arrangements of the loads, which information may be used, for example, in order to reconstruct how an accident took place.
Naturally, the present invention may be subjected to numerous variations as to its implementation. Although several implementations are described, it will readily be understood that it is not conceivable to identify exhaustively all possible implementations. It is naturally possible to envisage replacing any of the means described or of the steps described by equivalent means or by an equivalent step, without going beyond the ambit of the present invention.
1. A method of determining a loading configuration for loads in a vehicle, so as to ensure mission safety in terms of loads being retained in the vehicle, the method comprising:
providing a database having a plurality of vehicle parameters for each of a plurality of vehicle types;
receiving, at a computer in communication with the database, an indication of a vehicle to be loaded with loads;
accessing from the database, by the computer, the vehicle parameters for the type of the vehicle;
on the basis of the vehicle parameters for the type of the vehicle, identifying, by the computer, anchor points of the vehicle for retaining loads and retention means of the vehicle for retaining loads to the anchor points;
providing to the computer information indicative of characteristics of the loads to be loaded in the vehicle including quantity, weights, and volumes of the loads;
verifying, by the computer, that a total weight of the loads to be loaded in the vehicle does not exceed a predefined limit;
on the basis of the vehicle parameters for the type of the vehicle, determining, by the computer, maximum accelerations and decelerations of the vehicle depending on mission data indicative of various mission configurations;
as a function of at least one available loading volume, calculating, by the computer, loading configuration for the vehicle depending at least on the anchor points and the retention means and the load characteristics, the loading configuration employing at least some of the anchor points and the retention means of the vehicle for retaining the loads to be loaded in the vehicle;
on the basis of the vehicle parameters for the type of the vehicle including the maximum accelerations and decelerations of the vehicle, determining, by the computer, forces that might be exerted on the anchor points and possible movements of the loads for the loading configuration;
verifying, by the computer, that said possible movements of the loads and said forces that might be exerted on the anchor points for the loading configuration are below predefined maximum limits;
loading the loads in the vehicle pursuant to the loading configuration; and
while the loads are loaded in the vehicle according to the loading configuration, monitoring, by mechanical tensioners associated with the retaining means, tension applied to the anchor points caused by the retaining means retaining the loads and comparing, by the computer, the tension applied to the anchor points with pretension values on the retention means.
2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising displaying the loading configuration on a screen.
3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising displaying on a screen locations for loading the loads, the anchor points, and the retention means for the loading configuration.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the computer is part of a management system of the vehicle.
5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the computer is independent of a management system of the vehicle.
6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising displaying said loading configuration on a multifunction screen of the vehicle instrument panel.
7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the anchor points and the retention means for the loading configuration constitute connections between the loads and said anchor points, which connections present angles relative to the vertical and/or relative to the horizontal that lie within predefined angle ranges.
8. The method according to claim 1, further comprising defining a special-use zone of the vehicle that is unavailable for loading, for use in transporting an unexpected load.
9. The method according to claim 1, further comprising making unavailable anchor points that are not usable for retaining loads.
10. The method according to claim 1, further comprising during the design of the vehicle producing a document giving information about an optimum loading configuration.
11. The method according to claim 1, further comprising updating the database either regularly or else on the basis of new information becoming available.
12. The method according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle is a rotorcraft.
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The Artist's Granddaughter
Author: Robin Bayne
Bio and Other Titles by Robin Bayne
When Megan bids on her grandfather's painting, the last thing she expects is to be outbid by Michael Kirk, her first love. He left town years ago leaving her reputation--and her heart--in tatters. She must keep her grandfather's final legacy in her family, but Michael claims to need it for...
When Megan bids on her grandfather's painting, the last thing she expects is to be outbid by Michael Kirk, her first love. He left town years ago leaving her reputation--and her heart--in tatters. She must keep her grandfather's final legacy in her family, but Michael claims to need it for his career. He also claims to want Megan back in his life, and her betraying heart doesn't mind the idea...but does Michael want her or the painting?
Awards and Kudos
2002 Carroll Award winner (formerly the ACFW's Book of the Year)
Bolts of dislike struck the back of her head, but Megan faced forward, sat straight, felt the collar of her dress scratching the back of her neck. She studied the works of art at the front of the room, ignoring Debbie’s gaze boring into her as if today was just another day here at Carrolton High. Debbie had stopped speaking to her in the tenth grade, and now, thirteen years later, the first time Megan had been back in her old school, the woman was shadowing Megan’s every move.
From the front row of folding chairs, Megan could see every item being auctioned to benefit the school. Most of the framed works were serigraphs and lithographs, but a few were original oil paintings. Granddad’s last oil was framed in painted gold wood, museum-style, and the next to be put on the auction easel. She twisted the sapphire ring on her right hand without looking down.
After an elderly gentleman bought a Civil War sketch, two young boys lifted Granddad’s picture onto the tripod, and the auctioneer gave a brief description of the oils used to paint the rustic cottage on the canvas. The gardens of muted pastel flowers sparkled as if made from crushed opals and emeralds. Of course, the auctioneer didn’t know how warm the man had been who’d so lovingly crafted the piece and carefully signed Delano Roberts in the lower right corner. This was business tonight.
He opened the bidding at eight hundred dollars, which Megan had expected. Her checkbook sat securely in her purse, plumped with the funds she’d been saving for this event. Even though her parents hadn’t left her much in the way of money, she’d done all right for herself, preparing for the day, this day, when she could dramatically reclaim her heritage. Megan’s excitement dimmed a bit when she thought of Granddad, and how much she missed him.
“One thousand,” Megan said, after someone’s bid of nine hundred, and she emphasized the thousand. Her pulse quickened. This piece would be going home with her tonight, no matter how high the bidding went.
“One thousand from the pretty lady with the gold hair.” He paused and listened. “Eleven hundred, do I have twelve? Twelve? Twelve hundred?”
Megan nodded. The auctioneer had pointed to someone behind her again, and Megan turned to look, searching for another elderly person who liked the painting. She wanted to stare him down.
Instead, she gasped. The woman now bidding thirteen hundred dollars was none other than Debbie Grimes, who stood tottering on narrow heels, swinging long dark hair as she tried to outbid Megan.
“Fifteen hundred,” Megan said, loud and clear. Her blood pumped faster and her face warmed. People were whispering behind her back, probably wondering if she’d lost her mind. Debbie had some nerve! Had she somehow figured out why Megan wanted the piece so badly? Could she have that much spite left after all these years?
The portly, bearded auctioneer sweated profusely while he looked back and forth between his competing bidders, clearly unexpected in this small town charity benefit. Megan figured he would rub his greedy little hands together with glee if he didn’t have that wood gavel to play with.
Megan raised her program, showing her bidder number on the back cover, indicating she’d go the two thousand now needed to top Debbie’s last bid. The smell of gym socks pervaded her senses when she tried to take a calming breath, and she could taste the rusty water from the hall fountain as if she’d drank from it yesterday. Sitting even straighter, she glanced Debbie’s way again, and bit her lip when she saw the ice in her old friend’s eyes. Granddad always nagged at her to stop biting that lower lip, but he wasn’t around to do that anymore. So what if no boys—make that men—would notice her if she bit her lip? There were none to notice, anyhow. She could have a good old chomping session if she really got nervous!
Words echoed around the makeshift auditorium and before Megan knew what had hit her, Debbie had bid over four thousand dollars for the painting.
Megan had only five thousand dollars to her name.
She blinked, considering her checking account and the tiny savings account she held at the local bank. Swaying slightly, she wished she’d sat in the second row so she’d have a chair back to clutch for balance. Yes, she could go a little higher, but at serious risk to her security blanket. It didn’t matter. She had to have Granddad’s last piece—and she’d promised her father she’d find it and keep it in the family.
“Four thousand five hundred,” the auctioneer chanted, waving his gavel and pointing at Debbie, questioning the bidder who had fallen silent.
Megan smiled, her shoulders losing some of their tension. She clutched her program, ready to show her number to the auction recorder as the highest bidder, when another voice rang out. A male voice.
“Six thousand,” came the confident bid from the back of the room.
Megan froze again. She knew that voice. Hadn’t heard it in years, but knew it as though it had whispered in her ear every night. With moist palms, she turned and leaned to look over the crowd. A man stood just inside the bright blue doors, arms crossed in front of his wide, well-suited chest.
Her teeth sank into the softness of her lip.
Michael Kirk was back.
Megan swung to face the stage again, her heart thundering in her ears.
Tilting her head up, she pretended to study another picture, willing the tears to stay in her eyes and not add to her humiliation. She’d lost Granddad’s painting.
At the very least, she hadn’t lost it to Debbie Grimes. But Michael? He hadn’t shown his face in Carroll County in a dozen years—and back then, he’d been a long-haired kid in jeans and leather. Just like she had been.
Sighing, Megan turned slightly and looked to where he had stood, but he wasn’t in sight. It had to have been him. Her nervous system confirmed it, even though the well-groomed man who outbid her wore a dark grey suit and tie and didn’t resemble the scruffy teenager she remembered. So why did the grown up Michael want the oil?
Around her, the auction went on. Men and women dressed in their finest moved around the warm gym fanning their faces with the auction programs. Auction staff lifted art onto the display easel. The auctioneer started another bid.
As a huge Tarkay print of sophisticated ladies went up for sale Megan thought she should leave. There was nothing else here for her to bid on. The one thing she’d come for, the only thing that had any meaning, had gone to the highest bidder and it hadn’t been her.
Megan’s heart pounded to match the falling gavel. She could talk to Michael and maybe convince him to sell the painting to her. Approaching him would be uncomfortable, but they were both adults now, and she could perhaps explain the situation. Surely, he would remember how close she was to her grandfather, and if he only knew why she needed to own the painting, surely he’d sell it. Of course, he’d want six thousand for it. He couldn’t be expected to take a loss. Somehow, she’d come up with the extra grand.
Slowly she made her way to the back of the gym, nodding to acquaintances as she went. Would any of them recall the gossip about her and Michael? Had any of them believed it then? An elderly lady in a wool coat and purple Fedora smiled at Megan as she grabbed her own coat from a metal rack. Would Mrs. Pemberton still be smiling if she knew Megan was about to try and charm Michael Kirk?
The restroom door opened and Debbie appeared, which placed both women at the outer doors simultaneously. Megan hung back a pace and let Debbie go through first. Debbie wouldn’t meet Megan’s steady gaze, but pushed forward, then stopped suddenly, and Megan nearly collided into her.
“Michael!” Debbie had stopped to gawk.
Michael leaned against one brick wall, a leg propped up like a cowboy lazing around the ranch, his arms again crossed in front of him. He smiled, but regarded Debbie with little apparent recognition, instead turning toward Megan as she pushed past the brunette.
“Megan,” he said, gaze intent as he dropped his foot and straightened. “You look great.” He sounded surprised, whether at seeing her, or at the chance to talk to her, she couldn’t tell.
The words were so soft she had to move closer to hear him, and she noticed from the corner of her eye that Debbie was stalking off.
“Hello Michael. You’re looking well yourself.” Inwardly she winced at her choice of words. After everything they’d shared, “looking well” sounded lame. But her stomach was not cooperating, it was alive, fluttering; words were trying to change font or something on the way from her brain to her mouth.
“I didn’t expect to see you tonight. You don’t still live here?” Hands shoved deep into his trouser pockets now, Michael looked every inch the rugged guy she’d known so well, just in smoother wrapping.
“I’m afraid so. Never left.” Not that you’d know that, she thought, not wanting to speak the words and sound bitter.
He shook his head but the soft brown hair, cut shorter than his high-school shagginess, scarcely moved. She remembered it longer, tickling her cheek when he’d bent his head close to hers.
Megan realized he was staring, probably waiting for her to speak. What had he said? The October night air became a cold cloak around them and she swallowed hard.
“I’m sorry, what was that?”
He grinned then, tilting his head in that way she remembered. “Just wondering what you’ve been up to job-wise. Do you work here in Carrolton?”
“I have a little shop in town,” she said, “but most of my business comes from Baltimore.” Would he remember her interests or just assume she sold flowers or dry goods? “How about you?” The wind picked up, pushing strands of hair into her face and tickling her neck.
“I’m in a small legal practice in Roanoke.” He looked her up and down, shoved a hand through his hair. “It’s getting cold out here, you should get going.” The grin returned. “You’re going to freeze to death in that little dress.”
Setting her purse on a low brick wall, she wiggled into the coat she’d forgotten to put on. Cheers rose from inside the gym, and Megan remembered why she’d approached Michael.
“Would you like to get a cup of coffee? I’d like to talk to you about something.” She shivered, a bone-chilling spine shiver, and wondered if coffee with the man who’d broken her heart was such a good idea. But this was far too important.
“Megan,” he said as the doors swooshed open. He yanked her from the path of a large frame being carried to the parking lot. “I don’t think that’s a good idea.” He stepped back from her, but held her with his gaze.
She’d always loved the blue-green-gray of his eyes. Mood eyes.
“Michael, I—”
“What would your friends in town say? Look, there goes Megan Roberts with that boy who ruined her reputation in high school?” He leaned close, letting her smell his woodsy pine scent mixed with the peppermint of his breath. He held her arm firm. “What would your parents say, Megan? Would they get a restraining order?”
She wrenched her arm free. “My parents have been dead for seven years, Michael.” Her pulse raced with apprehension now instead of excitement. She had to speak with him about Granddad’s painting. “And no one here even knows about what happened thirteen years ago.” Forcing her voice to a steady, calm pace, she kept eye contact with him.
She saw the change in his demeanor by the color of his chameleon eyes, the angry green fading to a docile grey.
“I’m sorry. I hadn’t heard about your parents.” He sighed. “I know you loved them very much.”
Too much, she heard him add silently. “Thanks. Granddad just passed away recently, too, and that’s why I need to talk to you.”
Michael closed his eyes briefly, then opened them, nodding his agreement. “OK, just coffee. I certainly don’t want to be the reason you’re mangling this little lip.” He reached out and traced her lips, gently, staring down at her.
Megan licked the lip she routinely used as a tension outlet. Funny he’d mentioned it. He should have seen it thirteen years ago.
Warming in the wood-decor cafe, Megan clutched her ceramic mug like a lifeline. She eyed Michael across the paneled table, taking in how the years had changed him. Matured him. Made him even more handsome than she’d remembered.
What was she doing? The last thing she needed was to be seen in public with him, let alone in the small town’s only coffee shop, drooling over a man like him. With a reputation like his. A man she had a past with, one whom some of the older members of the community would remember with distaste. She could still picture their disapproving faces.
The scent of cinnamon drifted over from the next table as the waitress delivered hot pastry, drawing Megan’s attention from the past.
“Megan Marie Roberts,” Michael began, pushing back in his chair as he set down his mug. “I’d never expected to see you again. Or if I did, I would’ve thought you’d be married with three kids and traveling around in a wood-paneled station wagon. No, this is the twenty-first century. A mini-van.” His grin eased his words.
Megan prickled. “And how do you know I’m not?”
Guilt crossed his face, fleetingly. He shrugged. “Asked around.”
“When I saw the back of your head at the auction, and your undeniably nice backside. Seems all the old faithful residents of Carrolton know you and your marital status.”
Her cup clanked on the table. “You knew you were bidding against me?” She sat straight in the wood chair. Why had he bid on her painting?
“No…yes, I was bidding, but no, once I recognized you, I wanted to see you, but wasn’t planning on competing with you,” he said, shifting in his seat. “That wasn’t my intention.”
Was he uncomfortable?
“Say, did you ever do anything with your talent at putting nice stones together like jewelry?”
Megan smiled, shaking her head at his attempt to change the subject. But she was proud of her work, and eager to tell him about it.
“I’m a gemologist. I buy and sell semi-precious stones, and set them into gold. It is jewelry.”
Lisa, their waitress, approached with a decanter to refill their cups. “And she won an award last year, too!” Beaming, Lisa winked at Michael. “And she’s pretty as a gem herself, too, ain’t she?”
Michael grinned as Megan’s cheeks fired up. Didn’t Lisa know who Michael was? Chattering on, the waitress left for another table, patting her ponytail as she went.
“I’m impressed.”
“Why? I’m no lawyer.” Instantly she regretted her tone. “I didn’t mean that the way it sounded. She’s new—”
“Yes, you did. You meant it, but that’s OK. I resemble that remark.” Michael fished in his pocket and tossed a twenty dollar bill on the table.
Wondering if her face could possibly explode from the blood flood, Megan dabbed at it with her paper napkin.
“Why would it matter if Lisa was new or not?” He stood up, as understanding dawned on his face. “Guess she hasn’t heard about the evil Michael Kirk, huh? I’m outta here. I have to check in with Mrs. McCreary by ten, anyway.”
Megan rose and tried to look friendly. “The old Bed and Breakfast?”
He nodded. “Where can I drop you?”
A sarcastic remark about him dropping her thirteen years ago crossed her snippy little mind. Instead she bit her tongue, and lip. “Not necessary. Can I leave the tip?”
“No, we lawyers make a lot.” The look he gave her said it all. Her derogatory comment had offended him.
She reached for her purse. “Michael, before we go our separate ways,” she said, knowing they must do just that. A twinge of regret surprised her as she pushed in her chair. Going our own ways...like we did all those years ago. “I need to ask you a favor.”
One dark eyebrow lifted.
“My timing’s never been the best,” she went on as Lisa came to collect their cups, grabbing the paper napkins and empty creamer containers.
“But I really need something you have.”
“Sounds interesting.” He tilted his head to indicate she should move toward the door, away from listening ears. Could that eyebrow arch any higher?
“The painting you just bought, the Delano Roberts, was the last one Granddad did before he died.” She took a deep breath, and since he said nothing, rushed on. “We never found the mural paintings, even after Dad died, and I really need to keep that last painting in the family, it’s kind of a grand finale, you know?” She took a breath. “Anyway, I really need to buy that piece from you. I’ll pay you as much as you paid—”
“I’m sorry, Megan.” His voice was soft, gentle.
“You want more? I could probably make payments—”
“I’m very sorry, Megan.”
The coffee taste in her mouth turned acidic, heavy, weighing down her tongue. “Wha—what?”
“I’m sorry you want that painting. I know exactly who the artist is. Was. But it’s not for sale.”
A1. Bolts of dislike struck the back of her head, but Megan faced forward, sat straight, felt the collar of her dress scratching the back of her neck. She studied the works of art at the front of the room, ignoring Debbie’s gaze boring into her as if today was just another day here at Carrolton High. Debbie had stopped speaking to her in the tenth grade, and now, thirteen years later, the first time Megan had been back in her old school, the woman was shadowing Megan’s every move. . . .
"One thousand," Megan said, after someone’s bid of nine hundred, and she emphasized the thousand. Her pulse quickened. This piece would be going home with her tonight, no matter how high the bidding went.
"One thousand from the pretty lady with the gold hair." He paused and listened. "Eleven hundred, do I have twelve? Twelve? Twelve hundred?" Megan nodded. The auctioneer had pointed to someone behind her again, and Megan turned to look, searching for another elderly person who liked the painting. She wanted to stare him down.
Q--Have you ever had a friend disown you, without you knowing why? Did the animosity continue for years? How did you deal with it? Were you ever able to forgive?
Q2. Excerpt: "So, the theater?" She wanted to break the personal contact, to return to small talk.
"Yeah. Seems my boss heard it’s up for sale, and he’s getting ready to retire. So it’s to my advantage to help him out."
"Your boss wants to fix up the Grande? Cool."
He nodded, then shook his head, matching Megan’s pace as they continued down the street, positioning himself on the road side of her. Several more cars blew by them, and he waited until they passed to speak. "He just wants to re-sell it, that’s what he does. He’s not planning on re-opening it. Sorry." He coughed, and Megan wondered if he felt bad about his news.
The shoe salon was to their left, and the theater sat just beyond. They crossed the street and approached the old place, looking at it from the sidewalk.
"Feeling adventurous?" he asked, indicating the building with a tilt of his head. His grin made her heart stop, just like it always had.
Q--Jesus tells us there are mansions of many rooms waiting for us in Heaven. Are there earthly places that stir up tender feelings and longings for you--knowing they are only shadows of how wonderful our place in Heaven will be?
Q3. Michael and Megan are reunited in this story, they seem to share true love. Why does the Bible say man and woman are meant to love each other?
A3. A relationship between man and wife is a foreshadowing of the relationship we will eventually share in Heaven as the bride of Christ.
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Authors scramble to add amendments to SB 827 to address impacts identified by its critics.
The February Rockridge News featured an article on Senators Scott Wiener's (D-San Francisco) and Nancy Skinner's (D-Oakland-Berkeley) bill, which would mandate residential upzoning near transit stations and major transit line stops statewide. Faced with significant opposition to their bill, they have added a series of amendments. (The attached file shows the bill's amended language as of March 1, 2018.) The amendments attempt to placate at least some of the bill's opponents, which include many tenant and minority advocacy groups. Those opponents have said that the bill would increase tenant displacement and gentrification in "transit-rich" areas like Rockridge and West Oakland. (See, for example, this recent article.)
While still early in the legislative process (the bill is still pending in its first committee - Senate Housing & Transportation), it has already become one of the most high-profile and polarizing bills of this legislative session, with front-page coverage in the New York Times and many other news media. Supporters include California YIMBY [short for Yes In My Back Yard](which has gotten major support from the Bay Area's high-tech industry), the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, and the Bay Area Council; while the opposition is headed up by the League of California Cities and also includes local neighborhood groups, especially in the L.A. area.
Wiener and Skinner have responded by adding amendments to clarify some of the bill's provisions and to add some protection for current tenants in rent controlled units. Also added are provisions intended to help tenants displaced by projects under the bill, including potentially providing them with "comparable units" in the new projects (although, under California's Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, those units could not be subject to rent control).
It remains to be seen whether the changes that have been proposed will satisfy the bill's opponents, and if not, what additional changes might be added. One risk is that a bill can get so loaded down with amendments that it becomes too complicated and eventually gets shelved by a committee along the way.
Certainly this bill remains one for residents of Rockridge and other transit-rich communities to watch and comment on. Those are the places where the bill's impacts - both positive and negative - will be focused. The bill can be followed on the Legislature's website at https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/.
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Former Afghan Football Chief Karim Wanted A Warrant for Arrest
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KABUL – Afghan authorities issued an arrest warrant against Keramuudin Karim, the former president of the Afghan Football Federation, following complaints of sexual violence. The police told DW that Karim may no longer be in the country.
Keramuudin Karim, former president of the Afghan Football Federation (AFF), in disgrace, must now be arrested in Afghanistan, confirmed Sunday the Ministry of Interior to DW.
We have been ordered to arrest Keramuudin Karim, Interior Ministry spokesman Nusrat Rahimi told DW correspondent Reza Shirmohammadi.
We will take steps to catch up with him as soon as possible, Rahimi added, while stating that Karim could be currently out of the country.
We still do not know where he is, but we will stop him wherever he is, said the spokesman.
The arrest warrant against Karim comes a day after FIFA has fined one million Swiss francs ($1.01 million, or 882,000 euros) for sexual abuse. The governing body of football around the world has also banned Karim for life after learning that at least five Afghan women have filed a lawsuit against Karim.
The Afghan leader was suspended for the first time in December, when FIFA opened its investigation. He rejected the charges against him.
US Ambassador to Afghanistan John R. Bass on Sunday hailed Karim’s ban and said Afghan women need support and a safe work environment free of harassment or aggression that their workplace is a football field office.
British human rights lawyer Kat Craig, who advises the Afghan National Women’s Football Team on the issue, told DW that the arrest warrant was “not enough”.
It’s actually a small step. We know there is overwhelming evidence that many people have been involved in sexual, physical and psychological abuse, she said.
I think it is true that the arrest was specifically aimed at Karim; because the case against him is highly publicized. But it’s just not possible that in the past five years, many women and girls have been abused and that no one knows about it, added Craig, decrying a systematic failure to protect women.
The Afghan National Women’s Football Team (AWFNT) was formed in 2010 despite opposition from conservative circles. A women’s football league was launched five years later.
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Doctor Who: Frontios
The TARDIS loses its integrity and breaks apart into many pieces, stranding the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough in the far future on the remote planet of Frontios. They find a small group of humans apparently, the only survivors of the human race barely surviving after the crash of their spacecraft. They are under constant bombardment by meteors, and some of them have mysteriously disappeared. Turlough and Norna, a young female survivor, stumble across an underground cave system and start exploring it. Norna disappears and Turlough is found wandering around in a state of shock. The Doctor must try to make sense of Turlough’s ramblings, and discover what is happening to the survivors and can he repair the TARDIS?
As a strange force takes hold of the TARDIS, the Doctor and his
companions find themselves grounded in the inhospitable planet of
Frontios. They find the last survivors of the human race scratching out
a desperate existence far away from their long dead homeworld.
The Doctor, still trying to come to terms with the loss of the TARDIS, is
surrounded by an impromptu firing squad of Orderlies. Norna stands in
the line of fire, pointing out that even if the Doctor is an invader he will
at least know why the colony is under attack. But the Doctor needs to
come up with answers, and quickly!
Tegan manages to distract the Tractators and breaks their grip on the
Doctor and Norna. Tegan helps Norna flee to safety while the Doctor
keeps the Tractators occupied, but when she returns to help, the
gravity beam traps them both.
The Gravis seems to know the Doctor by reputation, and is intrigued
when Tegan inadvertently reveals that they travelled to Frontios by
TARDIS. As the Tractators have been marooned on Frontios for
centuries, the Gravis is obsessed with any means of travel
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Santos For Congress
Thats What Leaders Are Made Of
A major role in the continuation of modern society is our leaders and the roles they play. They are the ones who will show us the way, so to speak. But who will these people, these leaders, be? What qualities and characteristics do leaders possess? And why is it we the people follow these leaders?
But first, what is leadership? Leadership is a process whereby one group member influences and coordinates the behavior of other members in pursuit of the groups goals. This specific group member, the leader, provides guidance, specialized skills, and environmental contacts that help obtain the goals of the group. Some activities, or responsibilities, of the leader are planning, organizing, and controlling group activity (DeLamater and Michener 373). More specific responsibilities will be discussed later in the paper.
Now that we know what leadership is and some of what a leaders responsibilities are, lets find out what it takes to be a leader. Think about someone you know whos in a leadership position. What are some characteristics they possess that make them a leader? There are many qualities that make a good leader, but there are four main ones: the leader has a goal and knows what to do to achieve it, the leader is a good decision-maker, the leader is honest, trustworthy, and respectful, and the leader is confident with what s/he does. Lets look at these one at a time.
First, the leader has a goal and knows what to do to achieve it. This should be almost self-explanatory and go without saying, because what are you going to do if you have nothing to strive for? There as to be a goal to keeping working for, that way the group continuously moves forward. So say we have a goal. Great!! Now what? What are you going to do to achieve it? Every goal has to have a plan, or blueprint, as to how to accomplish it. A goal without a plan is like trying to cross the ocean without a boat. It doesnt work.
Second, the leader is a good decision-maker. A good decision-maker is one wholl make decisions for the benefit of the group. An individual is elected or chosen because it is believed s/he can help the group. In order to help the group, the individual has to be a good decision-maker.
Third, the leader is honest, trustworthy, and respectful. Who wants a leader that is going to abuse his position by doing things for his/her own self-interest? A leader should be someone you respect and can trust to do the right thing to the best of their ability. After all, s/hes the main representative of the group, and the way s/he acts directly reflects on the group.
Lastly, the leader is confident with what s/he does. By having confidence, it gives the group a form of self-assurance that they are going to be okay because their leader knows what theyre doing. It also helps the leader do a better job because then their not worried about whether or not they are doing it correctly: they know they are.
So how does an individual become a leader? Two general criteria for picking a leader are the extent to which the group achieves their goals, and the level of consideration s/he shows towards other members (DeLamater and Michener 353). There are multiple ways to become a leader, but the two most popular ways are being voted into position and a persons level of experience. These two ways are related in some ways, but completely separate at others. To be voted into a leader role requires no experience (some helps though). And it is possible to work your way to leadership positions without a vote being taken. But usually, to be voted into leader positions requires experience; and regardless of how long one has worked or how much experience s/he has, a vote is usually taken (amongst fellow leaders, amongst other people, etc.) before the individual is given a leadership role. Other ways include being born into it (i.e. kings), an individuals level of education (to become a supervisor usually, but not always, requires more education than an entry level job does), and even due to a persons age (older people are more likely to receive leadership positions than younger people are).
So now we have our leaders, but what are their responsibilities? As mentioned earlier, some are planning, organizing, and controlling group behavior (DeLamater and Michener 373). John D. DeLamater and H. Andrew Michener highlight ten main responsibilities. These ten are to formulate a clear conception of the groups goals and objectives, and communicate this to the group members; develop specific strategies for the attainment of the groups goals; specify role assignments and standards of productivity for members; establish and maintain channels of communication among members; recruit and train new members.
Interact and react personally with members to maintain good relations; influence task activities of group members by means of persuasion, rewards, and punishments; monitor the groups process towards its goals and take corrective steps if off track; resolve conflict among members to reduce tension and maintain harmony; and to serve as a representative of the group to outside agencies and organizations. So more or less, the leader tries to strengthen group productivity by changing the way members view the group, its opportunities, and its mission. But how is this done?
Leaders fulfill their responsibility through the way they lead. Two forms of leadership are transactional and transformational. Transactional leadership is based on an exchange between the group and the leader, whereas transformational leadership creates new ways of thinking, creates structural changes, and institutionalizes new practices within the group which strengthens group productivity (DeLamater and Michener 373). Other types and styles are instrumental and expressive, and authoritative, democratic, and laissez faire.
Instrumental leadership is group direction that emphasizes the completion of tasks. The instrumental leader wants to get things done. S/He also has a formal, secondary relationship with the members, gives orders, punishments, and rewards according to contribution, and usually receives respect (Macionis 174). An authoritarian-style leader is a prime example of instrumental leadership. The authoritarian leader personally takes charge of decision-making, and demands strict compliance. Because of this, the authoritarian is usually appreciated in a crisis (Macionis 175).
In contrast too instrumental leadership is expressive leadership. Expressive leadership focuses on collective well being, maintaining group moral, and minimizing tension and conflict (Macionis 174). Expressive leaders have personal, primary relationships with members, offer sympathy to a troubled member, keeps the group united, lightens serious moments, and usually receives affection. The democratic style of leadership is a primary example of expressive leadership. The democratic leader charges every group member with decision-making, and draws ideas from all creating from them creative solutions (Macionis 175).
There is a third style of leadership that doesnt fit into a specific category of leadership. This style is called laissez faire. In this style, the leader steps back and assumes the role of the overseer letting the group more or less run itself (Macionis 175).
So why do people follow someone? Usually its because they have elected/chosen, or wanted the individual as their leader. So they follow because they share the same ideals and/or goals. Other reasons people follow are because they are told to, out of fear (itself or of punishment), or just because they have no other choice. Now, not all of these reasons are good, but they are none-the-less real reasons why some people follow certain leaders.
Probably the most influential reason people follow leaders is the effectiveness of the leader. A leaders effectiveness in directing a group depends both on his or her style and on the circumstances of the situation (DeLamater and Michener 374). The situational characteristics referred to are the leaders personal relations with the group members (good or bad), the degree of structure in the groups tasks (structured or unstructured), and the leaders power position in the group (strong or weak) (DeLamater and Michener 376). Based on these three characteristics and the style of leadership used, an individual decides whether or not s/he will follow the leader.
Portrayals of leaders can be found everywhere from movies to real life. Although, it is these real life leaders that matter most to us. They are the ones who will take us to the 21st century and beyond.
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Nana Banerjee was named president and CEO of McGraw-Hill in April of 2018 and is responsible for the growth and management of its global businesses. Previously, Dr. Banerjee was group president of Verisk Analytics, overseeing Verisk’s Argus, Geomni, Verisk Maplecroft, and Verisk Retail businesses. Dr. Banerjee has extensive experience leading, innovating and scaling technology businesses globally.
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About Worldview
Worldview is unique in our city and country. It connects Chicago to the world, and the world to Chicago. Yet station management plans on cancelling Worldview in favor of programming that simply cannot measure against its impact.
This city’s important role in the world, the many international communities the region home, and urgent global topics like the climate crisis warrant a dedicated program. Worldview makes WBEZ standout as an example in this way
On Worldview, we hear true experts from around the world and from our own neighborhoods. Examples include those working for peace in the Middle East, planning an international community celebration, sharing stories as survivors of torture, organizing to defend democracies, hosting acclaimed musicians from abroad, screening an important foreign film, returning from war-torn countries, implementing solutions to the climate crisis, and many more. All of this happens vis-à-vis the best possible analysis of world news.
For twenty-five years, Worldview has done this while building a globally-engaged community.
Did you know that recently Whitney Young High School was designated as Chicago’s first Fair Trade School — a recognition of how it is educating students about fair trade, a movement to ensure that goods worldwide are produced ethically and sustainably?
And did you know this started with Worldview, when Whitney Young teacher Anne-Michele Boyle heard Jerome’s interview with Nasreen Sheikh, the founder of the Local Women’s Handicrafts sewing collective in Nepal?
“I was immediately captivated,” Boyle recalled. “I searched and found Worldview’s host Jerome McDonnell on the Internet, emailed him requesting his help connecting me with Nasreen so that she could share her story with my students.”
From that connection, Sheikh came to the school.
“After hearing Nasreen’s story, my consumption habits have been forever changed, as have many of my students,” Boyle said. But more important, the students are educating themselves and mobilizing their communities around fair trade — a lens for them to understand and influence our city and our planet. Two have since spoken at a national conference and dozens more remain actively engaged.
That’s just one powerful example of how Worldview is a unique resource for Chicago. Its value cannot be quantified.
We are deeply grateful to host Jerome McDonnell, his team at Worldview, and all at WBEZ for the program’s transformative work. WBEZ should be proud its impact and find a way to continue Worldview.
The core team of Worldview supporters includes Ali Abunimah, Jennifer Bing, Katherine Bissell Cordova, Gary Cozette, Adam Olson, and Mary Zerkel. Their a grassroots, volunteer effort proved that Worldview could remain a viable project going forward.
Share your view on what distinguishes Worldview and its impact. Your testimonial should include your full name, location, and photo. 200 words or less, please.
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Schlemiel Theory
The Place Where the Laugh Laughs at the Laugh
Jean-Francois Lyotard: The Debt to Childhood – Part I
by Menachem Feuer
Critics like A.O. Scott and Josh Eells are frustrated when it comes to Hollywood. They feel that the possibility of adulthood – which they equate with progress – is stifled by countless films that encourage “perpetual adolescence.” Scott, at the end of his essay “The Death of Adulthood in American Culture,” tells that “to get off his lawn.” But his mocked crankiness discloses his witty insight: that he’s half serious. Likewise, Josh Eels in a feature article of Seth Rogen’s The Interview, insists that Rogen is finally at a “crossroads” and must decide whether or not he wants to grow up. The Interview, muses Eells, seems to be a step in that direction.
Although many people would nod their heads in agreement to Eells and Scott’s pronouncements, I would like to suggest that we stop and think about what, exactly, this framework of maturity is. For me, one of the most interesting reflections on the meaning of growing up comes from the introduction of Jean-Francois Lyotard’s The Inhuman. Like many thinkers, Lyotard is interested in what it means to be human. Aristotle linked the meaning of being human to thinking. And many followed in his path. Lyotard takes a different path toward childhood and its battle with “adult consciousness.” His question opens up this path:
What shall we call human in humans, the initial misery of their childhood, or their capacity to acquire a ‘second’ nature which, thanks, to language, makes them fit to share in communal life, adult consciousness, and reasons? (3)
In response to his question, Lyotard notes that what matters is not simply how this “dialectic” means so much as whether it “leaves a remainder”(3). “If this were so,” writes Lyotard, the remainder would be “inexplicable” to the adult. It remainder leaves its mark on humankind because one has to “struggle constantly to assure his or her conformity to institutions or even to arrange them with a view to a better living-together”(3).
But this is not freedom.
And there is nothing comical about this kind of life. Is it….really human?
Lyotard tells us that what we need to draw from the “remainder” is the “power of criticizing them,” “the pain of supporting them,” and “the temptation to escape them.” And that power can be found manifested in “literature, the arts, philosophy.” But what makes them special, this remainder, is what Lyotard calls “the traces of an indetermination, a childhood, persisting up to the age of adulthood”(3).
Lyotard, in other words, suggests that the freedom of literature is informed by a “childhood” that remains.
…..to be continued….
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Home TOP STORIES CRFFN, PCC urge FG to reopen land border
CRFFN, PCC urge FG to reopen land border
By Shulammite 'FoyekuDec 06, 2019
The Ports Consultative Council (PCC) and the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) have called on the Federal Government to reconsider its stand on the closure of Nigeria’s land border with neighbouring Benin and Niger, saying that informal trade through the corridor, which runs into millions of dollars daily, is suffering.
PCC Chairman, Otunba Kunle Folarin said in Lagos on Thursday during an interactive session on the land border closure policy, freight forwarders perspective, organised by CRFFN that Nigeria provides indirect foreign exchange to neighbouring countries that move goods and services to its market.
“We are here to talk on the border closure. Because of those who were affected, we feel that we should revisit the issue and the border should be reopened, and if it is not opened, there must be some framework that should be done because of the future.
“Particularly on the issue of Customs administration, it has to be reformed. They have to restructure all the treaties because probably there have been difficulties in compliance.
“We must not wait until there is crisis before we do damage control. Closing the border is largely damage control and we must avoid that in order to make sure that Nigeria prospers by taking due attention to what we do,” he said.
On his part, the Registrar of CRFFN, Samuel Nwakohu, reiterated the need for officers of the NCS to be properly equipped to tighten security at the borders.
He pleaded with the government to reopen the borders for the sake of the ECOWAS Trade Liberalization Scheme (ETLS) for compliant goods.
“They should reopen the border because the freight forwarders are in no way encouraging criminality. But they are of the view that ECOWAS Trade Liberalization Scheme (ETLS) compliant goods should be allowed to go through.
“We are of the view that what went wrong or what is going wrong at the borders are as a result of system failure especially on the part of the NCS and that Customs should be better equipped, trained and adopt global best practice.
“The freight forwarders are of the view that compliance should be adhered to on the protocol of agreement in the West Africa region. These were some of the resolutions that we have reached during the session. We are appealing to the Federal Government to please reconsider and open the borders because legitimate businessmen are suffering,” he said.
Nwakohu said people who borrowed from the bank to do cross-border business are finding it difficult to pay back.
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Ronald Tilton, PhD
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine,
Division of Endocrinology,
Email: rgtilton@utmb.edu
My research program is focused on understanding the pathogenesis of diabetic complications with an emphasis on diabetic nephropathy and retinopathy. We are interested in the role of VEGF in the pathogenesis of diabetic complications, and our previous studies have indicated that vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is upregulated in animal models of diabetic nephropathy and inhibition of VEGF signaling attenuates diabetes-induced functional and structural changes. These findings strongly implicate elevated VEGF levels in the pathogenesis of diabetes. Our overall objective for this research is to identify all proteins globally affected by increased VEGF expression in the diabetic eye and kidney, then use bioinformatics-based tools to explore molecular mechanisms of VEGF action in the pathogenesis of diabetic complications. This research represents a multidisciplinary approach to build and compare systems biology linkages between dysregulated protein pathways and networks in retina and in glomeruli and proximal tubules of diabetic rodents and humans. Our approach utilizes a method to globally identify and quantify dysregulated proteins, involving endoprotease-catalyzed, 18O-labeling of tryptic peptides. 2D-LC-MS/MS is used to sequence peptides, and web-based analysis of the identified proteins, together with commercially available and in-house developed software for in silico modeling of identified pathways and networks are used to provide novel insights into tissue- and organ-level protein networks and molecular functions affected by diabetes. Our use of bioinformatics and mathematics tools to build predictive models of diabetes allows perturbation-based reiterative refinement of the model using relevant interventions. This process of acquiring proteomic data, integrating the data with bioinformatics tools to build a predictive model, and refining the model by iterative hypothesis testing provides unique, systems level approaches for understanding diabetes pathogenesis. Our research group also has focused on NF-κB activation in diabetes. We use a human pTEC tissue culture system to probe molecular mechanisms involved in canonical vs noncanonical NF-κB pathway activaton in response to stimuli that mimic the in vivo diabetic milieu, including exposure to elevated glucose, advanced glycated endproducts (AGE), and angiotensin-II. Results obtained in tissue culture, combined with our animal experiments provide invaluable insights into molecular mechanisms by which diabetes induces and maintains chronic inflammation in the kidney.
Sadygov, R.G., Zhao, Y., Haidacher, S.J., Starkey, J.M., Tilton, R.G., Denner, L.: Using power spectrum analysis to evaluate 18O-water labeling data acquired from low resolution mass spectrometers. J. Proteomic Res., 9(8):4306-4312, 2010.
Starkey, J.M., Zhao, Y., Sadygov, R.G., Haidacher, S.J., LeJeune, W.S., Dey, N., Luxon, B.A., Kane, M.A., Napoli, J.L., Denner, L., Tilton, R.G.: Altered retinoic acid metabolism in diabetic mouse renal cortex identified by 18O isotopic labeling and 2D LC-MS/MS proteomics. PLoS ONE, Jun 14, 5(6):e11095, 2010.
Ido, Y., Nyengaard, J.R., Chang, K., Tilton, R.G., Kilo, C., Mylari, B.L., Oates, P.J., Williamson, J.R.: Early neural and vascular dysfunction in diabetic rats are largely sequelae of increased sorbitol oxidation. Antioxidants Redox Signaling, 12(1):39-51, 2010.
Tieu, B.C., Lee, C.Y., Sun, H., Lejeune, W.S., Recinos, A., Milewicz, D., Tilton, R.G., Brasier, A.R.: IL-6 production in the adventitia accelerates vascular inflammation leading to dissecting aneurysms. J. Clin. Invest., 119(12):3637-3651, 2009.
Irani, Y., Brereton, H.M., Tilton, R.G., Coster, D.J., Williams, K.A.: Production of scFv antibody fragments from a hybridoma with functional activity against human vascular endothelial growth factor. Hybridoma, 28(3):205-209, 2009.
Zhao, Y., Haidacher, S.J., LeJeune, W.S., Denner, L.A., Tilton, R.G.: Comprehensive analysis of the mouse renal cortical proteome using two dimensional HPLC – tandem mass spectrometrey. Proteome Science, 6:15, 2008.
Tilton, R.G., Haidacher, S.J., LeJeune, W.S., Zhao, Y., Kurosky, A., Brasier, A.R., Denner, L.A.: Diabetes-induced changes in the renal cortical proteome assessed with two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and mass spectrometry. Proteomics J., 7:1729-1742, 2007.
Starkey, J.M., Haidacher, S.J., LeJeune, W.S., Zhang, X., Tieu, B.C., Choudhary, S., Brasier, A.R., Denner, L.A., Tilton, R.G.: Diabetes-induced activation of canonical and noncanonical nuclear factor-κB pathways in renal cortex. Diabetes, 55(5):1252-1259, 2006.
Williamson, J.R., Ido, Y., Kilo, C., Tilton, R.G.: Hyperglycemic pseudohypoxia and diabetes complications: sorbitol pathway-generated NADHc mediates diabetes complications. In Commentaries on Perspectives in Diabetes. Vol. 2. Robertson, R.P., Ed. Alexandria, VA, American Diabetes Association, 2006, pp. 39-41.
Tilton, R.G. Diabetic vascular dysfunction: Links to glucose-induced reductive stress and VEGF. Microscopy Res. Technique, 57(5):390-407; 2002.
Flyvbjerg, A., Schrijvers, B.F., De Vriese, A.S., Tilton, R.G., Rasch, R. Compensatory glomerular growth following unilateral nephrectomy is VEGF dependent. Am. J. Physiol. Endocrinol. Metab., 283(2):E362-E366; 2002.
De Vriese, A.S., Tilton, R.G., Elger, M., Stephan, C.C., Kriz, W., Lameire, N.H. Antibodies against vascular endothelial growth factor improve early renal dysfunction in experimental diabetes. J. Am. Soc. Nephrol., 12(5):993-1000; 2001.
Tilton, R.G., Chang, K.C., LeJeune, W.S., Stephan, C.C., Brock, T.A., Williamson, J.R. Role for nitric oxide in the hyperpermeability and hemodynamic changes induced by intravenous VEGF. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci., 40(3):689-696; 1999.
Tilton, R.G., Kawamura, T., Chang, K.C., Allison W., Faller, A.M., Ido, Y., Stephan, C.C., Brock, T.A., Williamson, J.R. Vascular dysfunction induced by elevated glucose levels in rats is mediated by vascular endothelial growth factor. J. Clin. Invest., 99(9):2192-2202; 1997.
Tilton, R.G., Chang, K., Nyengaard, J.R., Van den Enden, M., Ido, Y., Williamson, J.R. Inhibition of sorbitol dehydrogenase: Effects on vascular and neural dysfunction in streptozocin-induced diabetic rats. Diabetes 44(2):234-242; 1995.
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SCREAMING AT THINGS TO COME!
by screamingsoup in Uncategorized Tags: animated, Billy, cartoon, cowboy, Deadwest, graphic violence, horror, howl-inn, monster, movie, re-make re-mix, reanimated review, remake remix, review, screaming, Screaming Soup!, season 1, season 2, season 3, skeleton, soup, tribute, twitter, youtube
Howdy there, Scream freaks! Yee-haw! Things are in full force over here! Producing the web’s #1 animated horror show is certainly a full time gig, and has us up at all hours of the day to ensure we deliver our promise of great entertainment.
Like right now, we have not 1 but 3 seasons in the works! We’re currently releasing season 2 a month at a time, animating season 3 for next year, and prepping for season 4. Then there’s the secondary videos we’re finding time in between to keep up with like Re-make Re-mix, Re-Animated Reviews, Graphic Violence, and Tribute videos. Add in the daily task of plugging the show across every conceivable social media and the time needed for creating new original works for promotional material, and this is a true labor of love only crazy people would commit too!
But it’ll be worth it. There’s been the occasional heckler (like 1 out of every 1,500 internet patrons told about the show), but the show’s been validated overall with rising Youtube subscriptions, Facebook likes, and Twitter followers. And we listen to the fans. Boy howdy, do we listen. We were with one fan when he started fast forwarding a little in the show toward the end, and he told us they were doing that because the animated segments had become somewhat predictable by episode 15. That’s when we realized we needed to step up our game and start pushing the envelope regarding the stories and animation. From here on out, you can expect to start seeing some more story archs, new characters, and action sequences that explores more of the Howl-Inn Grub and Spirits. Oh, the show’s going to some exciting places, and we can’t wait to take you Scream Freaks!
For now, you’ll just have to settle for a sneak peek at the newest addition to the cast who will be appearing in the next episode scheduled 7/20/15.
Otherwise, be sure you’re caught up with the rest of Screaming Soup! Season 2, use our social buttons in the upper right corner of the site and follow our tweets, subscribe to our Youtube channel, like our Facebook, watch and share all our vids, and keep that fan mail coming.
That’s pretty much it for now, so I’ll see ya’ later Scream Freaks!
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Getting a Jump on Our Budget Challenges
Mayor Jerry Sanders
Last week, before the City’s Budget and Finance Committee, I presented a timeline for a balanced budget for fiscal year 2011 – including my strong recommendation that the City Council act early in order to reduce the impact these unavoidable budget cuts will have on city services.
I thought it was important to discuss the process we will be following, because it is crucial that the public understands what we’re doing and why we’re doing it this way.
There are a lot of tough decisions ahead of us and with every tough decision comes a temptation to procrastinate.
It’s human nature to hope that a crisis, if given enough time, may cure itself.
Or to hope that the economy will spontaneously recover and our revenues will miraculously multiply.
Or to hope that a magic memo can solve our problems.
But hope is not a strategy.
And false hopes – which distract our attention and delay our decisions -- will only exacerbate our problems.
This is why I am moving forward to close this budget deficit quickly and to begin the new year with a balanced budget.
The sooner we make these cuts, the fewer cuts we will have to make.
Our General Fund deficit is currently estimated to be $179 million.
But if the new budget is implemented earlier, the level of cuts needed to balance the budget will shrink.
This is because the savings realized in fiscal year 2010 will accrue over a longer period of time, and can be used to close the budget gap in 2011.
For every month the new budget is in effect before July 1, we reduce the level of cuts we need to make by approximately 10 million.
So if our new budget took effect January 1, we could reduce the amount of cuts by approximately $60 million.
That’s approximately $60 million in public services that would be saved.
To put that number in perspective, this year’s Library Department budget is $37 million. Our Park and Recreation Department budget is $86 million.
At a time when every department is considering deep cuts in popular programs and neighborhood services, a savings of that magnitude cannot be ignored.
But to achieve that goal, we must do more than start this process quickly, we must end it quickly.
Last week, department heads were given individual budget reduction goals that are equivalent to roughly 27 percent of their discretionary budgets.
We’ve asked them to identify permanent budget cuts that will help us in succeeding years -- not one-time cuts that don’t reduce our structural deficit, and not cuts in our General Fund reserves, which will increase future costs by damaging our credit ratings.
Their assignment is tough.
From those recommendations, I will work with the Financial Management team to develop a balanced budget for release in November and adoption by the City Council in December.
Meanwhile, Councilman Tony Young, who serves as the Chair of the Budget and Finance Committee, will be conducting the San Diego Speaks program that was so successful last year at engaging the public in a meaningful dialogue about City priorities.
I know that every Council member is also soliciting ideas and input from their constituents, as I am on the City website.
Believe me, we wouldn’t be doing this if there was a silver bullet out there that would solve our budget problems.
There is no tax hike that will save us.
There is no shell game we can play with our redevelopment funds.
There is no way to reduce our employees’ vested benefits without violating the law.
There are simply difficult choices, which will become less painful if we act sooner rather than later.
I’m confident in the process we’ve designed, because this City Council has already proven it can make difficult choices.
But by focusing on honest solutions, and implementing a budget after the first of the year, we can reduce the impact these cuts will have on our neighborhoods and our quality of life.
This will not be easy, but together we will guide the City out of this financial crisis.
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Navigating the endless ALM river
Agile development and DevOps are fueling the evolution of application life-cycle management (ALM) as delivery cycles continue to shrink. While the original promise of end-to-end visibility and traceability is still important, today’s ALM is more about continuous processes. Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) reflect that and the changes that … continue reading
Why software tools need to adjust to the changing landscape of ALM
There’s no hiding the changes happening in the application life cycle. Heavily influenced by the likes of DevOps and agile, ALM today is affected by market disruptions and the role that business leaders and stakeholders play throughout the process of delivering software. Companies are focusing on the rapid and continuously changing landscape of ALM and … continue reading
New app for C# and F#, NVIDIA debuts new VR tech, and Flash and Firefox usage changes—SD Times news digest: July 21, 2016
A new app called Continuous Mobile Development Environment has been released, and it’s a professional C# and F# IDE for iOS devices. The app was built with Xamarin and developed by Frank Krueger, a longtime independent developer who made apps like iCircuit and Calca. The Continuous app offers full syntax highlighting and code completion, including … continue reading
Rethinking application life-cycle management
How must developers change in the face of expanding scope and evolving methodologies? … continue reading
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Topic Integration
SubTopic Enterprise application integration (EAI)
Enterprise application integration (EAI)
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AAA picks Dell Boomi cloud integration tools over IBM, Jitterbit
A local AAA auto club serving three western states is using cloud-based data integration tools to help drive an aggressive cloud computing strategy.
A newly adopted and highly aggressive cloud computing strategy has led AAA Northern California, Nevada and Utah...
(AAA NCNU) to choose Dell Boomi cloud integration tools over IBM Cast Iron and Jitterbit, an IT official with the organization said.
The popular auto club, a $600 million company that provides roadside assistance, sales and membership services to about 4 million customers in the Western United States, said the decision to go with Dell resulted largely from financial considerations and a matter of multi-tenancy.
AAA NCNU wanted a “truly multi-tenant” cloud-based integration tool—a single version of the application that serves multiple clients—but IBM Cast Iron and Jitterbit didn’t fit the bill, according to Kirk Heughens, the auto club’s application integration leader.
“We were looking for a true cloud offering,” Heughens said. “A lot of vendors nowadays say they are cloud [but actually] have multiple installations of their software out there in the cloud, so it’s really not truly multi-tenant.”
Multi-tenant cloud applications greatly reduce or eliminate the costs associated with scheduled software maintenance, Heughens explained, because any necessary software updates are sent out to the customer base automatically.
“Cast Iron was not truly multi-tenant,” he said. “Jitterbit plans to do more of a multi-tenant app, but right now they’re not.”
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Independence breeds opportunity
AAA NCNU was the second largest AAA club in the U.S. when it broke up into two companies, an insurance carrier and an auto club, in early 2011. At the time, senior executives decided to leave almost all of the organization’s hardware and business applications with the insurance group—and this presented the auto club’s IT team with a rare opportunity.
“We actually had a greenfield,” Heughens said, “and we decided to buy a lot of our applications going forward—mostly completed cloud apps.”
A veteran user of Salesforce.com’s hosted customer relationship management (CRM) application, the auto club was no stranger to the benefits of cloud computing, which include reduced software development and IT overhead costs, according to experts. But the breakup of the company gave the auto club a chance to take that strategy even further.
“We [decided] to go completely cloud wherever possible, own no hardware, and if we need some type of a physical data center or anything like that, it will be a purchased or managed service,” Heughens said.
The auto club began deploying several new cloud-based offerings, including Jive Software’s intranet application; Workday Inc.’s human resources and financial applications; and Zuora Inc.’s billing and subscription engine. But it became clear last summer that integration tools would be required to facilitate the flow of data between the new applications. That’s when Heughens’ began to look more closely at Dell, IBM and Jitterbit.
The IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration offering was the first to be dropped from the running. In addition to its lack of multi-tenancy, Heughens said the product cost about twice as much as the others, and the investment could not be justified from a budget standpoint. He added that he would have also liked more time to experiment with the product when IBM came for proof-of-concept (POC) meetings.
“During the evaluation, I was going to just go in blind and see if I could use their system without any training,” he said. “But [the IBM sales team] wouldn’t even allow me to do that.”
The IT team at AAA NCNU liked Jitterbit’s technology, sales and services organization quite a bit, but couldn’t get past the multi-tenancy issue.
“If budget was our number one concern, we probably would have chosen Jitterbit over Boomi for our solution. The price was [one third of Boomi’s] and it met our basic requirements,” Heughens explained. “Boomi surpassed our basic requirements and was a true multi-tenant architecture.”
While some users have reported problems around the complexity of Dell Boomi, Heughens said the initial deployment of the software went smoothly. He says the real test of the software will come later in the year as AAA NCNU rebuilds its membership management system using nothing but cloud applications. Membership information currently resides within a legacy mainframe that will no longer be supported at the end of 2012.
“Our plan is that Zuora will be the subscription engine and it will hold the master copies of our billing data in the cloud and Salesforce will hold the basic customer information,” Heughens said. “Boomi will be the integration layer between Salesforce and Zuora and whatever data we have to send back to our financial system, which is Workday.”
Be prepared for cloud integration POCs
The key to making the right decision when evaluating cloud integration software is being prepared—and Heughens can certainly claim preparedness.
The application integration leader was armed with “a matrix” of over 100 questions to ask Dell, IBM and Jitterbit when they came in to pitch their products. The vendors were then scored on their answers and the club decided to go with Dell Boomi.
Some of the questions on Heughens’ list include: How many integration solutions does the company offer? How many different versions are currently supported? What is the delivery model? How do you integrate a cloud application with an on-premise application? How do you support complex integrations with multiple processes and sub-processes?
The list also included several questions about the products’ security features, but Heughens is not particularly troubled by the prospect of storing data in the cloud.
“We absolutely are not concerned about having data in the cloud,” he said. “I think you have to take that risk on.”
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East Grand Rapids Scores Repeat in OT
Posted Saturday, June 9, 2018
By Jason Schmitt
Special for Second Half
HOWELL – Defense is the specialty of East Grand Rapids boys lacrosse coach Rick DeBlasio.
But even the veteran coach had to be impressed with the offensive exploits of his high scoring tandem of seniors Eric Solberg and Chris Owens.
Solberg tied an MHSAA championship game record with six goals and Owens netted the game-winner as the Pioneers won their second straight Division 2 title with an 11-10, double-overtime victory over Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central on Saturday at Parker Middle School in Howell.
“When he gets his hands free and sweeps, and if you give him a half a step, it’s over,” said DeBlasio, talking of Owens, the team’s leading scorer this season. “For him to get the game-winning goal, it was really special. It’s something the whole team celebrates.”
The game-winner, which came with 2:04 left in the second overtime, may have caught the Rangers by surprise – and some of Owens’ teammates as well.
“We had decided to settle it down, maybe get on offense, but I saw an opening and I just took a shot,” said Owens, taking in the moment just minutes after being swarmed by his teammates on the north end of the field. “It’s crazy, all these people watching. It feels really good to finish it off.”
It seemed like neither team would be able to finish things off. East Grand Rapids looked like it was going to close out the game in regulation, only to see Forest Hills Central tie it up at 10-10 on a goal by junior Luke Majick with 33 seconds remaining.
“To get back to this game, after what happened last year, has really been a driving motivator for us this year,” Rangers coach Andy Shira said. “Obviously our guys didn’t want to lose (the game). Especially against East Grand Rapids, we’re not going to go down without a fight.”
That was evident throughout the game.
Forest Hills Central kicked off the scoring less than five minutes in, with senior Tobey Hendricks scoring off a pass from Majick. But East Grand Rapids would answer, with Solberg scoring a pair of goals to cap off a low-scoring first quarter.
Forest Hills Central and East Grand Rapids then went on a scoring binge, combining to tally seven goals in just less than four minutes, the last three scored by the Pioneers. Solberg had three of them, Owens had the other, giving their team a 6-4 lead at halftime.
Though the Pioneers continued to maintain a lead into the fourth quarter, Forest Hills Central would not go away. On three occasions, the Rangers tied the game up. Junior Tate Hallock scored two of those tying goals, with Majick scoring the other.
Solberg’s six goals tied a championship game record held by three Birmingham Brother Rice players (Morgan Macko, Jason Alessi and Devin Peurach). He’s a converted midfielder, something his coach said has worked in favor of the Pioneers.
“We were hoping his dodging would free him up, but we went through a period where offensively we weren’t getting the kind of production we wanted and I moved him to attack,” DeBlasio said. “Since I moved him to attack, he’s averaged four to six goals a game. He’s a pretty special kid.”
Junior Jack DelVecchio and senior Drew Poortenga also scored goals in the Pioneers’ victory.
Hallock finished with four for Forest Hills Central (18-2), while Majick and senior Patrick English each had two. Seniors Hendricks and Bryce Clay each added one goal for the Rangers, who entered the postseason as the top-ranked team in Division 2.
It was the third straight year the two schools played for the Division 2 title, with the Pioneers winning last year and the Rangers picking up the 2016 title. Central had defeated East Grand Rapids, 14-7, earlier this season.
“They executed a little bit more (today),” Shira said. “Everything they did today, we’ve seen on film. We just didn’t execute as much as them. We had our chances, but they’re an excellent team, very well coached.”
The championship was the fifth for East Grand Rapids (19-4), which also won titles from 2007-09 and again last year.
Click for the full scoring summary.
VIDEO: East Grand Rapids’ Chris Owens scores the game-winner in overtime.
PHOTOS: (Top) East Grand Rapids celebrates its Division 2 championship game win. (Middle) EGR and Forest Hills Central players battle for possession.
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Tennessee law requires that all mechanically powered vessels (including documented vessels) and all sailboats which are principally used in Tennessee must be registered. Mechanical propulsion includes electric trolling motors but does not include boats powered only by oars or paddles. Boats which require registration must be properly registered before using them upon any public water of Tennessee. Currently registered boats from other states may use Tennessee waters for a period not to exceed 60 consecutive days. Exception: Sailboats brought into Tennessee by persons from states that do not require numbering of sailboats are exempt from registration provided that Tennessee is not the state of principal use and that the vessel will not be used on Tennessee waters over 60 consecutive days.
Registration fees are determined by the length of the boat. The vessel may be registered for one, two or three years upon option by the owner. However, if an owner acquires another boat, there is no transfer of fees from one boat to another.
Vessel Fee Category
16 feet and under $15 $28 $41
Over 16 feet to less than 26 feet $29 $56 $83
26 feet to less than 40 feet $44 $84 $125
40 feet and over $59 $113 $166
Dealer / Manufacturer $37 $75 $111
Duplicate $7
Persons who wish to register a boat must complete a registration form, available through a county clerk's office or from the dealer that sold you the boat.
Initial Registration: The Tennessee Department of Revenue requires that boats which have never been registered before must show certification that their sales tax was paid when purchased. The owner needs to have the appropriate county clerk's office or boat dealer stamp on the application verifying that the tax was paid. The registration form is then mailed to or taken to the address shown on the form for processing.
Registered Boats transferred from one individual to another: Follow the same process as described for previously unregistered boats above. If a dealer is not involved, the county clerk's office will require a bill of sale from the individuals involved.
Renewing a registration that does not involve a change of ownership: You may renew instantly by going to any business that sells TWRA hunting and fishing licenses. You must have the boat registration TN number and it is very helpful to have your TWRA ID number with you. You will receive a temporary registration which will allow you to operate your boat until your new decals and registration card arrive by mail, in about 2 weeks.
Registration by Dealers or Manufacturers: Dealers or manufacturers may apply for registration which can be transferred from one vessel to another. A copy of the business license and sales tax number must accompany the application for a dealer or manufacturer number. Such vessels are to be used for demonstration purposes only and more than one vessel may not be operated simultaneously with the same number. In addition, vessels being demonstrated must have the Certificate of Number on board and the registration number must be correctly displayed. However, such vessels may display the number by having it attached to removable signs which can be temporarily but firmly attached to the vessel.
Source: https://www.tn.gov/twra/boating#registration
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Marriage License Information
Before a marriage can occur in Tennessee, a license must be obtained from a County Clerk. Ministers of the Gospel, Rabbis, Christian Science practitioners, and various civil officials are authorized by law to solemnize a marriage.
Marriage license requirements are specific to each applicant's age. Please refer to the following guidelines:
-Blood tests not needed
-No waiting period
-ID requirements:
One of the following: State certified birth certificate, Driver License, State Issued ID
-Identification guidelines for Legal Aliens who do not have a social security number:
1) Each with valid expiration dates: Passport and American Visa, or
2) Resident Alien Card
-Please contact your county for specific fees.
-You must know the following:
Parents full name (including maiden name of mother)
Parents state of birth and address (if living)
Applicant's number of prior marriages
Date last marriage ended (if applicable)
-A marriage license is valid for 30 days after issuance and may be executed outside of Tennessee. However, it must be returned to the issuing Clerk for recording and filing with the Tennessee Vital Records Office.
-Blood tests are no longer needed
-If applicant is 17 years of age, the other party has to be within four years their senior.
-Consent of parents, guardian, or next of kin (unless minor emancipated).
-Parent or guardian must accompany in applying for license. Custodial Parent must bring custody papers (if applicable) to show proof of custody.
-Identification guidelines for Legal Aliens:
-Proof of Social Security Number (Social Security Card or Driver License containing SSN)
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Handicap individuals must have form SF0953 completed by a physician to obtain plates or placard. If purchasing a plate, an individual has to be a registered handicap person. Handicap license plates cost $29.00 plus applicable wheel tax. If an individual is permanently confined to a wheel chair, the plate is free. If a handicap individual obtains plates, the placard is free. If no plate is purchased, the placard is $26.50, and it is renewable every two years for $3.
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Involves issuing and maintaining records relating to notary commissions.
NOTE: For notary application and election information, please contact your County Clerk's Office.
WHAT IS A NOTARY PUBLIC FOR THE STATE OF TENNESSEE?
A Notary is a county public official whose powers and duties are defined by statute. Basically, a Notary has the power to administer oaths and take depositions, affidavits and acknowledgments. A Notary's powers and duties can be exercised in all counties in the State of Tennessee.
ARE THERE ANY RESTRICTIONS ON BECOMING A NOTARY?
Statutory age, residency and qualification requirements are specified in TCA §8-18-101 and §8-16-101. It is a misdemeanor to take office as a Notary if a disqualification exists.
HOW DOES A PERSON BECOME A NOTARY?
A Notary is elected by the county legislative body in the county in which the applicant, at the time of his/her election, resides or maintains his/her principal place of business. An application and a fee (part of which will go the County Clerk's office and part to the Secretary of State) must be submitted to the County Clerk. The County Clerk certifies an election of the applicant by the county legislative body and forwards the certification and the State fee to the Secretary of State, Division of Business Services. Upon receipt of the election certification and the State fee from the County Clerk, the Division of Business Services prepares, records and forwards to the County Clerk the notary commission signed by the Governor and the Secretary of State. The County Clerk records the notary commission and notifies the person to whom the commission was issued. After an oath has been taken and bond posted, the County Clerk delivers the notary commission to the person elected.
WHAT IF A NOTARY MOVES FROM THE COUNTY OF ELECTION?
If a Notary moves his/her residence or principal place of business out of the county from which he/she was elected to another Tennessee county, the Notary remains qualified to act as a Notary, but must notify the County Clerk of the county from which he/she was elected, and the County Clerk in turn will notify the Secretary of State, Division of Business Services of the change of address. A processing fee of $7 ($5 for the County Clerk and $2 for the Secretary of State) must be submitted to the County Clerk. If a Notary moves his/her residence or principal place of business out of the State of Tennessee, he/she is no longer qualified to act as a Tennessee Notary and must surrender his/her commission.
WHAT IS THE TERM OF A NOTARY?
A Notary's term of office is four years, beginning on the date that the notary commission is issued by the Governor. A notary commission can be renewed through the same method as the initial election (see above). It is a Class C misdemeanor for a Notary to act in an official capacity after the expiration of the notary commission.
WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENTS FOR AN OFFICIAL SEAL?
State law requires all Notaries to use a seal design prescribed by the Secretary of State. Pursuant to Rule 1360-7-2-.01(1), a Notary commissioned on or after July 1, 2004, must use a seal that substantially conforms to the following design: a circular seal with the Notary's name (as it appears on the commission) printed at the top, the county of election printed at the bottom, and the words "State of Tennessee Notary Public" or "Tennessee Notary Public" printed in the center. A sample seal format appears below:
Pursuant to Rule 1360-7-2-.01(2), a Notary commissioned prior to July 1, 2004, must use either the seal design described above, or, until the expiration of his/her current term of office, may continue to use a seal that substantially conforms to the following design: a circular seal with the Notary's name (as it appears on the commission) printed at the top, the county and state printed at the bottom, and "Notary Public at Large" printed in the center. A sample seal format appears below:
A Notary must purchase an official seal at his/her own expense. The seal should be a rubber or other type stamp (not an embossed/impression seal) and must be imprinted in "...any color other than black or yellow, provided the color used to imprint the seal shall be clearly legible and appear as black when photocopied on a non-color copier." However, these requirements do not apply to Notaries commissioned prior to July 1, 2004, until the expiration of their current terms of office. In addition, the failure to imprint the seal with a proper color does not invalidate the notarization and does not subject the Notary to any civil or criminal liability. Furthermore, the use of an embossed/impression seal after May 12, 2003, does not render an acknowledgment defective. The seal must be surrendered to the county legislative body upon expiration of the Notary's term of office or resignation, and the personal representative must surrender the seal in the event of the Notary's death.
HOW ARE COMPLAINTS AGAINST A NOTARY HANDLED?
A Notary is considered a county public official and may be removed from office just as any other county official. Complaints concerning official misconduct should be directed to the appropriate official (such as the County Attorney or the District Attorney General) in the county in which the Notary is elected or in which the alleged misconduct occurred.
HOW CAN THE NAME OF A NOTARY AS COMMISSIONED BE CHANGED?
A Notary whose name has been legally changed can obtain a new commission by submitting to the Division of Business Services (through the County Clerk) the original commission, a statement from the County Clerk indicating that the legal name has changed and identifying the former and current names, and payment of a $5 fee to the Secretary of State. The new commission will be forwarded to the County Clerk for delivery to the Notary.
ARE THERE ANY NOTARY ADVERTISING RESTRICTIONS?
Restrictions and disclosure notices may apply to advertising by certain Notaries. Please review the consumer protection provisions found in Title 8, Chapter 16, Part 4 of Tennessee Code Annotated.
WHERE CAN I OBTAIN NOTARY INFORMATION?
For Notary application and election information, please contact your County Clerk. The Secretary of State, Division of Business Services maintains an Internet website that includes some Notary information and a searchable database of current notary commissions. The Division's site may be accessed via the Secretary of State's home page at: www.state.tn.us/sos/ The Secretary of State, Division of Business Services is neither authorized nor qualified to provide legal advice relative to Notaries or their powers and duties. Please contact an attorney or other qualified professional for such information.
Titling a Vehicle
To title and register your new vehicle, you will need to submit to your resident county clerk the following:
-Manufacturer's Statement of Origin
-the new vehicle's invoice and
-a copy of your current registration if transferring your license plate
To title and register a used vehicle, submit to your resident county clerk the following:
-a valid certificate of title properly assigned along with an Odometer Disclosure Statement, if applicable
-a copy of the current registration if transferring your license plate
Please note: You will need to provide proof of identification and proof of residency when titling and registering your vehicle.
Hunting and Fishing License
Hunting and Fishing Licenses may be purchased at your County Clerk's Office. For online information regarding licensing, please refer to www.tn.gov/twra.
Note: Some counties may not offer Hunting and Fishing Licenses.
Auto Dealer Information
If you sell more than five vehicles in a calendar year in Tennessee, you must have a dealer license.
Requirements to Apply for a Dealer License
-An approved building facility physically separate from all other buildings, with office furniture and a working telephone (cell or mobile phone not acceptable as primary line).
-A vehicle display area large enough to fit 15 vehicles.
-To meet the sign requirements of a minimum letter height (per ordinance), permanently installed, and visible from the road.
-A garage facility or a service agreement with a nearby garage.
-Certificate of Liability Insurance (minimum $300,000)
-Business tax license
-Sales tax identification number
-Personal and/or financial check disclosure
-Financial statement prepared by a CPA
-Zoning compliance
-Franchise agreement letter from the manufacturer
-Two-year surety bond
If applicable:
-Stockholders update
-City tax license
-Corporate charter
-Warranty rate form
-New vehicle dealer: $400, per line make
-Used vehicle dealer: $400
-New motorcycle dealer: $400, per line make
-Salesperson or change of employer endorsement: $35
-Motor vehicle show permit: $200
-RV dealer: $400
-Manufacturer, distributor, factory branch, or distributor branch: $1600
-Factory distributor representative: $400
-Auto Dismantler/Recycler: $400
-Automobile auction: $800
-All duplicate licenses: $25
For more information, refer to www.dmv.org
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UK OVER 50s HOUSING WEEKLY
OHS LEGAL
NEWS HR
The Regulatory Board for Wales examines the regulatory performance and activity of the Welsh Government and registered social landlords within the social housing sector. The Minister has appointed two new independent members to the Regulatory Board: Jane Mudd and Kevin Lawrence. Jane is Labour Party member and a Labour councillor for Malpas in Newport. Kevin Lawrence has no political activity declared The appointments will commence on 1 September 2018 and expire automatically on 30 August 2021. The post of Independent Member is a paid post earning £198 per day.
Ramsay Health Care has appointed Dr Claudia Sussmuth Dyckerhoff as a non-executive director. She has been with management and strategy consultancy McKinsey & Company for 21 years, where she is an external senior adviser. Shareholders will vote on her appointment at the November 14 AGM.
The Deeley Group, which is based at the Coventry Business Park, has hired Anthony Holt as the company’s new group development director and Jane Fradgley as senior development manager. Hold said: “I am delighted to join the Deeley Group at such an exciting time for the business. I have been involved with sourcing, obtaining planning and developing out residential development and mixed use opportunities in the Midlands for over 25 years. “I worked at Crosby Homes, part of the Berkeley Group, when they first ventured into city centre living in the Midlands, developing out schemes including Symphony Court in Birmingham. “I went on to work with other housing developers in the retirement and open market sectors.
When Stephen Javes started at Orwell Housing Group, the organisation had 15 staff, 800 homes and a £750,000 turnover. On Friday, he leaves it in rather a different shape; as a much more diverse provider, with 4,500 dwellings, a £50m turnover and 800 people on its payroll. His organisation now provides dwellings for people in housing need, including hostels and specialist accommodation for older people, those with learning disabilities and people fleeing domestic abuse.
Mark Dale has been appointed catering & hospitality manager at Stockpot not-for-profit provider, Borough Care.
Mainstay Medical International plc, a medical device company focused on commercializing ReActiv8®, an implantable restorative neurostimulation system designed to treat an underlying cause of disabling Chronic Low Back Pain, today announces that Dr Manus Rogan has decided to step down as a Non-Executive Director of the Company with immediate effect.
Three executives have resigned from a newly merged housing association, including the man tipped to take over the organisation. Jake Berriman was deputy chief executive of 10,000-home Connexus Group but has left his post. Paul Sutton, director of assets and development at Connexus and Matthew Hill, head of development at the association’s construction arm Floreat Homes have also quit.
Healthwatch England has appointed Sir Robert Francis QC as its new a chair, taking over from current chair Jane Mordue after her three-year tenure.
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Babraham Institute pins down public attitudes to basic science
Public dialogue exercises can come across a bit like the public engagement version of a ‘lock-in.’ They are undoubtedly enjoyable – for all concerned including the participants. However, there can be a feeling that people are being force-fed information until they recant their ways!
That said, this tool (of choice, for many) is a useful way of exploring people’s views on issues in-depth and over time. I myself used to post a lot of these studies on this blog because I genuinely found them useful and thought they deserved a wider audience. But I have done this much less in recent times because the days are shorter and the studies are more numerous.
This one came out on Wednesday and was commissioned by the Babraham Institute and BBSRC, supported by ScienceWise. It interested me because it sought public views on fundamental bioscience (the stuff that happens in laboratories) and the Institute’s future strategy for research into ageing.
Contrary to the views often held about public involvement in basic science – too hard for them to grasp, they will score it less high than clinical trials – the study demonstrates that people are not only interested in it but see it as an important priority.
In guiding the Institute they emerged with six principles for the future:
Be fundamental, in-depth and a ‘building block’
Be fair, helping the greatest number of people and/or most vulnerable
Enable collaboration
Help people control their health through understanding
Work to increase quality of life
Bring commercial benefit
That last one is very interesting given how the debate usually goes on industry and commercialisation.
The tension between researchers and public about whether it is possible to involve people in this sort of science and at a strategic level is laid bare in this rather telling paragraph:
Participants saw some opportunities for a deeper ‘collaboration’ with the Babraham Institute. They felt the public could be engaged with some specific areas of work and might become informed enough to join
strategic discussions, for example ethics, epigenetics, and disease
driven vs fundamental research directions; and that these were subjects where lay opinions would be valuable and should drive strategy.
They felt it was incumbent on a publicly funded Institute to allow the taxpayer some say in decisions on how funds are spent. The public felt it was important for the credibility of public engagement that scientists
should be as involved in these engagements as possible.
You can download and read the rest of the report here.
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For what it’s worth: a few brief one-liners on the #NurseReview
Opening up clinical research to the masses – new online learning course
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Of Me I Sing
I always knew Mariah Carey was a narcissist. But I never suspected how big of one she was.
Nick Cannon, who is married to Mariah Carey, said in an interview that the two of them have sex while listening to her albums. He also says, when she's off on tour, he pleasures himself while listening to her music.
Proposed: the only artist who can listen to their own albums while having sex is Barry White.
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Letters From Our Readers: Satire Is Where You Least Expect It
So, yesterday, I goofed on how a trio of porn channels in Canada might be denied broadcast licenses because they don't have enough Canadian content.
Apparently, this problem goes back further than I realized.
One of the fine, upstanding readers of my blog sent me this link, Rick Moranis explaining the origin of the Mackenzie Brothers. Apparently, it was in response to the very thing I mentioned yesterday. Enjoy.
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Makin' Bacon
Me on the coder channel:
Well, I have a pound of bacon that expires today, so I'm cooking it up so it doesn't go to waste.
"Awesome! Bacon sandwiches are great anytime!"
...sandwiches?
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Pune Smart City’s ‘Smart Clinic’ project bags national award
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Google bags Rs 150 crore wi-fi project in Pune
Google will be collaborating with companies including IBM, Larsen & Toubro (L&T) and RailTel to provide wi-fi services in Pune as part of the smart city project. For this project, Google will be working with the Pune Smart City Development Corporation Limited (PSCDCL).
“With the goal of creating a great Internet for the next billion users, we have found that making high-quality public wi-fi more easily accessible can play a critical role in bringing the benefits of internet to millions of Indians. We believe that Google Station, can help ISPs, venue operators, and city governments quickly and reliably deploy high speed internet, ” a statement from Google said.
Under the contract valued at Rs.150 crore, Google will deploy its Google Station platform, which has wi-fi network management capability. RailTel, on the other hand, will provide last-mile fiber connectivity to enable wi-fi hotspots at around 200 strategic locations across the city.
PSCDCL is a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), which consists of seven stakeholders and 15 directors collaborating on the smart city mission.
Under the deal, IBM is providing its smart city solutions that will work as the backbone of the Pune smart city.
IBM is also helping L&T set up a Smart City Operation Centre (SCOC) to integrate all the services and applications on a single platform, which will be able to accommodate all future needs through integration of various citizen-centric applications. It will integrate 49 applications.
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Hawkesbury Sandstone Shale Lenses
Most people who live in the upper North Shore and who are interested in bushland, or gardening, or geology, or maybe all three, would be conscious of whether they live on ‘shales’ or ‘sandstones’. They might also be aware that the shales generally overlie the sandstones, or so it would seem. But I had a conversation once with a lady who lives at Duffys Forest who believed that she and her neighbours lived on ‘Wianamatta Shales’. Well it was a reasonable assumption – but incorrect!
The shales that were once extensively quarried at Duffys belong to a thick lens some 140 to 170 m above the base of the Hawkesbury Sandstone, and at these levels and geologic times, the meandering, braided river channels that deposited the sands were starting to pond, and flood plain lagoons became more extensive and persisted for longer, accumulating clays that were preserved beneath further layers of river sand; or torn up and redeposited as sand with shards of shale. Eventually the sand was washed down only in intermittent flood bursts; its sand bars invading the muddy lagoons and the sands interlayering with the clays and silts, creating the transitional Mittagong Formation. The clays then took over as the river basin became a swampy, Triassic coastal lowland, and the Wianamatta Group was formed, but more about Mittagong and Wianamatta in later articles.
Shale Lenses: Form and Size
Hawkesbury Sandstone shale lenses lie sometimes only a few tens of metres or less below the stratigraphic top of the sandstone and they have been mapped and interpreted in different ways over the years. Without drill data it can often be difficult for a field geologist to know if scrappy, lateritised shale floaters and outcrops on a ridgetop are lying within or on top of the sandstone. As such, they were mapped sometimes as outliers of Wianamatta Group or Mittagong Formation, but latterly they have tended to be pushed down into the sandstones. A good example of such ambiguity would be the lateritised shale ridge capping at St Ives Showground, whose topographic setting could fit it into either category. Not only do such shale lenses tend to increase in frequency upwards in the sandstone sequence, but they are more common northwards and towards the coast.
Most lenses are just oversized slivers less than a metre thick and tens to hundreds of metres in lateral extent, and they tend most commonly to consist of laminite: a thinly bedded (mm to cm) alternation of shale, siltstone and sandstone. If you're out and about there are several places you can see them such as the south wall of the Argyle Cut in the Rocks. And on the M2 at Barclay Road overbridge, North Rocks, the NorthConnex guys are excavating a sandstone face with a laminite lens, though this may well soon be concreted over. There's a great example on the cliff top north of Wattamolla, and then there's Beacon Hill, just off Warringah Road, where shale once quarried for ceramics is still visible at the base of the hillside flanking the sports oval. This lens is more substantial and actually yielded numerous fish fossils of freshwater affinity.
Laminite – millimetre-thick alternating layers of sandstone and shale, Wattamolla cliff top
The Beacon Hill shale lens is thick, but not as thick as the Duffys Forest lens which was 35 m thick before quarrying. Thick also was a lens at Lucas Heights which is of the order of 10 to 20 m. Substantial lenses also occur at Canoelands, Kirrawee, Menai and Darkes Forest, and most of these larger ones tend to carry shale and mudstone in addition to laminite. There is a very readable account published on-line by ANSTO of the Little Forest lens at Lucas Heights, in which the author found little difference between its shale and typical Ashfield Shale of the overlying Wianamatta Group.
In terms of area, the larger lenses may originally have covered several square km, though because they were formed in lagoons and oxbows there is a tendency for them to appear long and narrow. The Darkes Forest lens for example extends along its ridgetop for nearly 4 km and the Duffys Forest lens measures 3 km in outcrop from north to south.
Shale/mudstone overlain by sandstone in former wall of Beacon Hill Quarry
Shale Lenses and their Vegetation
The shale lenses have a marked effect on soils, and this is reflected of course in the vegetation. Shale soils being more fertile have often been cleared for orchards and smallholdings, as at Darkes Forest and Canoelands, though there are significant surviving natural vegetation remnants, as described below.
Darkes Forest
I first stumbled on Darkes Forest by following the signs to the orchards from the Princes Highway, and was surprised to drive past quite tall forests of straight trunked trees; quite a contrast to the sandstone woodlands and shrublands along the highway. The forests are catchment protected so it's unwise to venture too far in, but it's easy to distinguish White Stringybarks, Sydney Peppermints and Sydney Red Gums shading an open floor peppered with tall shrubs of Two-veined Hickory Acacia binervata and a variety of other species including Gymea Lilies. About 200 ha of this forest remains, and has been declared as O'Hares Creek Shale Forest community and listed as endangered. See photo at the top of the page.
You may drive past the 5 ha Halls Drive Bushland Reserve off New Illawarra Road without noticing it, and be unaware there is any shale in the area, but venture in and you'll see shale fragments in the soil and be confronted with several species of eucalypts of both shale and sandstone affinity. It's probable both White and Common Sandstone Stringybarks are present as are Red Mahoganies, and these are accompanied by Sydney Red Gums and scribbly gums (unsure of species). The last two are perfectly at home on sandstone, but there are also abundant Blackthorns Bursaria spinosa – shrubs more typical of shale terrain. The plant community falls within the broad embrace of the critically endangered Shale Sandstone Transition Forest community.
The 1:100,000 scale published geology map shows a chain of shale bodies running for 10 km along the ridge line between Sutherland and Cronulla. These are almost entirely built over except for some tiny patches of bushland adjoining Kirrawee railway station. These feature grassy woodland dominated by Grey Ironbarks and are a good example of Sydney Turpentine Ironbark Forest.
Beacon Hill–Frenchs Forest
The only surviving bushland on Beacon Hill itself is totally on sandstone not the shale of the former quarry, but shale lenses mapped around Frenchs Forest nearby carry surviving forest and woodland, though this has been under recent threat from hospital and road construction. A tree that can still be found there is White Mahogany Eucalyptus acmenoides, a shale-loving northern species also common in Edna Hunt Sanctuary near Epping, both areas at the southern limit of its natural range.
Duffys Forest
This semi-rural ridgetop settlement spreads across sandstone and shale, extending over the old shale quarry which has been manicured into a housing estate, country club and golf course. Much of the shale-related bushland was lost in the quarrying but some survives on its north-east and south-west sides. Whether it's truly Duffys Forest plant community may depend on interpretation, as key Duffys species such as Brown Stringybark Eucalyptus capitellata and Caley's Grevillea Grevillea caleyi are either absent or extremely hard to find there.
Trees that can be found include common species like Red Bloodwood, Silvertop Ash, Common Sandstone Stringybark, Sydney Red Gum and Christmas Bush, with a scattering of Blackbutts and Turpentines. The tree flora has affinities with both Duffys Forest and Shale Sandstone Transition Forest communities.
The shale is heavily lateritised, and iron-rich laterite debris have accumulated downslope on sandstone benches and in hollows. Among the species supported in such sites are a wealth of Proteaceae including Waratahs.
Berowra
When you walk from Berowra to Berowra Waters you descend to a firetrail that follows the contour. The hillside here has flattened into a broad bench and there are numerous shale and siltstone fragments in the soil. A shale band has created an aquiclude, wetting the soil to support abundant Umbrella Fern groves, plus thickets of the green-flowered Grevillea mucronulata; not a common plant on the North Shore but very abundant here. The Berowra example is a departure from the ridgetop shale settings and threatened, shale-related plant communities, and if any threatened community is represented there it is Coastal Upland Swamp.
Canoelands
The name of this locality is said to derive from timber getters finding stringybark ‘canoe trees’ with scars from bark removal. The stringybark was said to be Eucalyptus cephalocarpa but there are no known localities of this species north of Merimbula. The few hectares of bushland remnants among the Canoelands orchards carry tall straight stringybarks that are most likely E. globoidea. Such remnants have been mapped as critically endangered Turpentine Ironbark Forest in Hornsby Council's surveys.
This is the second in a series of articles by John Martyn on Sydney’s geology. Click here for his article on the Narrabeen Group.
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Pam’s grief journey began on October 13, 2010. Her daughter Addie was stillborn at 40 weeks due to a blood clotting disorder, Lupus Anticoagulant Syndrome. Pam became a devoted member of Mothers of Angels, and she regularly attended monthly support group meetings, reached out to help other moms with their grief, and volunteered her time to make crafts and memory boxes. Addie has encouraged her to be strong and to be involved in pregnancy loss awareness, and Pam unhesitatingly stepped up to help form The Still Remembered Project. She has recently became a Stillbirthday Birth & Bereavement Trained Doula ®. She is honored to be able to help new mothers and families on their journey of grief.
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The Truth About Cats
Notes From The Feline Underbelly
by Molly Brandenburg
THE TRUTH ABOUT CATS is the funny, furry, cartoon exploration of the random life of cats, especially Frankie, the lovably soulful black and white cat who harbors a Hollywood dream, but mostly just wants to get his special spot on the bed back. A must for cat lovers of all ages!
Get ready, get set, MEOW! Are you ready for the truth? Can you even handle the TRUTH? For cat cartoon enthusiasts, the truth has arrived, in cartoonist Molly Brandenburg’s THE TRUTH ABOUT CATS. It’s the funny, furry, follow-up to Brandenburg’s first book of cat cartoons, EVERYDAY CAT EXCUSES, the hilarious exploration of the inner life of cats, published by Sterling Books in 2008. Brandenburg’s cartoons are also currently a regular feature of the political website Restoringtruthiness.org. THE TRUTH ABOUT CATS is a random series of cat cartoons that explores the major issues of the kitty universe, including theological concerns, sleeping in piles of other cats, and the real question of who exactly has first dibs on the kibble bowl. The book also introduces Frankie the cat, the loveably soulful cat with his eyes on a Hollywood career. In a series of lively line drawings, Frankie’s story is revealed, as this weight-challenged black and white cat finds his status on the home front threatened when a tabby kitten moves in and takes over his special place on the bed. Small issues, perhaps, to humankind, but to a feline, finding the right place on the owner’s bed is big time stuff, to be sure! THE TRUTH ABOUT CATS reveals all this and more. It’s sure to be the cat’s meow for cat lovers of every age. The truth is out there. And it’s sure to have a lot of fleas.
Molly Brandenburg is a writer, cartoonist, comedy performer and singer. Her cartoons have been published in newspapers and magazines, as well as the political website, RestoringTruthiness.org. Her first book of cartoons, EVERYDAY CAT EXCUSES, was published by Sterling Books in 2008. When not drawing cartoons, Molly performs as comedy lounge singer Miss Peggy Judy, who can be seen at PeggyJudy.com. Molly lives in Los Angeles with her daughter, Emma, and their three cats, Frank, Ava and Angel.
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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says Paul Pogba will be a like a new Man United signing on injury return
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has defended Paul Pogba’s professionalism and says the Manchester United midfielder will be like a “new world-class signing” when he returns to fitness.
After an uncomfortable summer of speculation following the World Cup winner’s admission that he would like to leave, the campaign could not have gone much worse for the 26-year-old.
Injured against Southampton at the end of August, Pogba was able to return in late September against Rochdale and Arsenal only for an ankle issue to lie him low ever since.
The France international this week finished up a period of rehabilitation in Miami, where the midfielder was seen playing basketball with Heat star Jimmy Butler without his ankle seemingly proving problematic.
That video naturally raised questions and a report in Spain even suggested the wantaway midfielder was fit and refusing to play for United, but Solskjaer defended the former world record signing.
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“Every player is allowed to be injured when he’s injured and Paul is working hard to get back,” the United boss said.
“No one can doubt his professionalism, his willingness or his desire to play football.
“He’s one of the best midfielders in the world and it’ll be like signing a new player before the transfer window opens.
“And, of course, we’ve missed him when he’s been away. I think some of the players – Scotty [Scott McTominay] and Fred – have taken up that challenge and have done well but of course it’s a boost for us when he comes back.”
Pogba is now back in Manchester but will not feature against Aston Villa, when McTominay could return from an ankle injury of his own.
But there appears a chance that the 26-year-old could make his long-awaited return on Wednesday against Tottenham, who are now managed by Jose Mourinho – the former United manager that clashed so spectacularly with the Frenchman.
“He’s stepping up his recovery and let’s see how soon he’ll be match-fit and available,” Solskjaer said.
“Of course, that’s going to be a new signing for us.
“He’s not really been able to play for us so when we get him back it’ll be like a new world-class signing, a new world-class midfielder, so of course we want him back as soon as possible.”
Asked if he would be back to face Villa, he said: “Sunday, no. I can’t say now (about Tottenham), because I’ve not been home and seen him so hopefully…
“Let’s see where he’s at when he comes back and starts training with us.”
Solskjaer cannot wait to call upon Pogba’s adaptability again as United look to kickstart their top-four tilt boosted by players returning to fitness.
Jesse Lingard is among those players and the Norwegian says he is “coming back to his best”, with the stand-in captain opening the scoring as their Europa League dead rubber at Astana eventually ended in a 2-1 loss.
The midfielder was among only four non-teenagers that travelled to Kazakhstan, where Luke Shaw provided an assist and completed the full 90 minutes on his first appearance since getting injured in August – a period in which talented teenager Brandon Williams has pushed himself to the fore at left-back.
“I think the performances of Brandon have been a big, big plus – not just for him and me, but for Ethan (Laird) today, who’s played with Brandon through the years,” Solskjaer said of the right-back, who was among six debutants in Kazakhstan.
“So, for me, it’s also a big boost for Ethan because we’ve got many, many full-backs, loads of them who compete.
“I’ve been very pleased with Brandon, he scored a great goal, so let’s see where they’re at. Great to have Luke through 90 minutes today and let’s see what we do for Sunday.”
United could well have been returning home victorious had Tahith Chong not missed an open goal moments before Astana levelled.
The 19-year-old is out of contract the end of the season and Solskjaer believes they have made a fair offer to extend his deal.
“There’s players we want to get signed, of course, and Tahith is a player we think is going to develop,” he added.
“We’ve offered him a very good contract so the ball is in his court.”
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Seattle’s Inability to Address Its Whiteness Problem Made Me Say Goodbye for Good
May 24, 2018 Editor 85 Comments
by Sonya Green
In Seattle, I was always acutely aware of my blackness. I felt like the small black font on an all-white page of the newspaper. No matter how many black typeface words filled the page, the background is all white. Always. White.
Whiteness surrounds you in Seattle. Even more so now than when I left in 2016. My husband and I departed for a fellowship but decided in 2017 not to return. There are myriad reasons we decided to permanently leave, but the one at the top of my list: whiteness. Overwhelming whiteness. Unchecked whiteness. Ally whiteness. Solidarity whiteness. Everything IS about us, nothing without us, whiteness.
After 12 years, meeting my needle in a haystack black husband and some of the most amazing friends who are now members of my tribe, I had to bid adieu to Seattle.
Most people hear this and ask questions something like this, why leave such a beautiful, progressive, liberal utopian city the rest of the country strives to be like?
It’s simple. Seattle is not that city.
Seattle enjoys a reputation as a liberal bastion. I resent this unearned notoriety. It makes me roll my eyes when I mention living in Seattle and people start swooning about how great it is. Truth be told. It is great. For white people. For most black people, it’s a different experience.
Seattle never showed me what it claimed to be, but what it really is: a city that enjoys the mystique of openness and a reputation of being woke, but that, in my tenure, never lived up to this bold statement.
Seattle showed me quite the opposite.
I’ll never forget one of my first experiences of racism in Seattle. I lived in West Seattle when I had “the nigger moment”, a moment all too familiar for black people and defined by sociologist Elijah Anderson as acute, racially biased disrespect. I had moved from Colorado state. It was time for me to switch my license plates to Washington state. I did so on a quick break from work one day. On my way home, I stopped at the Metropolitan Market for a few things. As I got out of the car, I looked at my expired Denver tabs. I decided to change my tabs right then and there for fear of getting a ticket or worse being pulled over by the police.
I grabbed the license plate and tabs out of my vehicle. In my black suit and heels, I proceeded to unscrew the license plate. As I was struggling to loosen the screw, I noticed a white woman looking at me suspiciously. I ignored her and continued working. I glanced over a few minutes later and she was still looking my way but this time she was on the phone. While taking this in, I notice the store manager and two employees come outside, look in my direction and turn away. I felt uncomfortable especially because I thought surely the store manager recognizes one of the few black customers to patronize the grocer. Then I thought even if he didn’t recognize me surely one of the cashiers whose line I frequent will recognize me. Whether they acknowledged recognizing me or not, no one walked in my direction.
Moments later and after I directly asked the woman if she needed to ask me something, two police cars swarmed into the parking lot and boxed me in on both sides of my car. I was standing by the rear end of my car trying to remain calm, holding the paper that would justify what I was doing with MY car. When the first police officer approached me, I handed him the motor vehicle registration before he could open his mouth. “This is why you were called here,” I say between clenched teeth. He looked at it and immediately registered what happened. To his credit, he told the other officer to leave and then graciously changed my license plates for me. I was grateful for the save but beyond pissed at the humiliation and aggravation I suffered because this soccer mom white woman decided to mind my business and not hers.
This is how whiteness works. A white person feels uncomfortable or threatened by black people’s mere existence in a space perceived as white only and they call the police. No matter the consequence for the black person who more often than not isn’t breaking the law or committing a crime. Look no further than the many examples of living life while Black whether at a BBQ in Oakland, inspecting property for investment or sitting in Starbucks waiting for a friend.
I wish I could tell you these incidents were uncommon or better yet that my situation in Seattle was an isolated incident. But it’s not. This was the first of many such experiences where the liberal whiteness façade was unmasked to reveal the ugly truth.
I’m from the south. I choose to go back to the south. Why would you do that many proclaim? Isn’t it a step back in time?
Maybe. Or maybe it’s a reminder of the time we as a nation/society have never gotten past. To live anywhere in the U.S. and think you have found some section of the country that has “made it” as opposed to others is naïve at best but mainly just wrong.
I am a proud North Carolinian. I grew up in the tiny town of Randleman, home of Nascar great Richard Petty. Overt racism was normal. Expected even. White people are honest with their racist attitudes. And black people are honest with their have zero fucks to give attitudes. Black people don’t have to try and decipher code to determine how white people feel in the south because it’s in your face. Not like in Seattle, where there is so much emphasis on being anti-racist that actually deconstructing what it is or looks like to be racist falls by the wayside. The desire to be seen as a “good” white person outweighs honesty about how problematic whiteness can be. Honestly, I found being black in Seattle exhausting and fatiguing. Once away from it, I realized how deep my physical, spiritual and mental health had been impacted. For me, leaving created an opportunity for me to come back home to the south. For all of its ills, I find some peace here.
Macon, Georgia is our new home. It is deep south. It’s honest, sometimes uncomfortable south. I’m not claiming it to be better or worse than the Pacific Northwest. It’s different. White people and their whiteness still surrounds me but it doesn’t threaten to suffocate me with a persistent need to be validated, included or stamped for approval.
On a recent return visit to Seattle, in one day alone, every white person that greeted me said the same thing, “Oh my God! I love your hair!”. Yes, my natural hair is fly. But does it warrant random strangers losing their minds over it, no. What I came to realize by the end of the day, other than I was back in Seattle, was the notice had more to do with white people looking for a way to give themselves a pat on the back for “seeing” me even if in the most superficial way.
Seattle, you have a whiteness problem. The ethos of solidarity is empty unless there is a real, honest examination of whiteness. Whiteness beyond privilege. Whiteness beyond fragility. You’ve had those conversations.
Now deal with whiteness as culture. Whiteness as supremacy. Whiteness as more than a background all around. Whiteness as visible and present danger when it goes unnoticed and unchecked.
Black folks can and should sit this one out. White folks this is on you. Deal with it. Figure it out. Do better. Be better.
Sonya Green is an Engagement Reporter at the Center for Collaborative Journalism at Mercer University in Macon, GA. Green previously served at 91.3 KBCS as the Interim Assistant General Manager, News Director and the inside collaborator for Localore: Finding America. A series produced for the project earned the Katherine Schneider Journalism Award for Excellence in Reporting on Disability, a national award given by the National Center on Disability and Journalism at the Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University. Sonya left her position at 91.3 KBCS radio in Seattle in 2016 after being selected to the Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowship at the University of Michigan. While at the fellowship, Sonya researched how language, attitudes and approaches in journalism narratives can perpetuate stereotypes about race, class and identity.
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85 thoughts on “Seattle’s Inability to Address Its Whiteness Problem Made Me Say Goodbye for Good”
kathleenskeels says:
I have a question, where will we go? Black, pink, brown, yellow, regular people can not afford this town anymore. There is hardly a city out there that is not undergoing a bidding frenzy. We are priced out, what next?
Cool Hand Juke says:
A good question. The Midwest has a lot of really prime real estate at rock bottom pricing. And thats including housing, business and industrial areas as well as plenty of agricultural opportunities, both urban and rural. The infrastructure is there, its just unused and they are selling it off to anyone who will buy. With their population declining, the political and other systems are also open to our candidates and efforts as well.
I’m old. I don’t think I can handle the frigid winters and torrid summers of the midwest. I’d move to Burien but it looks like it’s too late now, already too expensive.
Queen Esther says:
Public service announcement: You DO NOT want to come here to the [Koch Bros.] Midwest. It’s more evil here than the coasts, trust me.
You can literally buy perfectly functioning, classically built houses in places there for $1. If you can get a few people to move there at that price, yall can A/C and heat it up at them prices! Plus probably have money to travel when you aint trying to be there. If you have just about ANY business idea, you are also much more likely to get it approved there as well as secure the funding for it.
it aint perfect by any stretch, but at least the options are there for us.
The Intersectional Ape 🍌 (@Mme_Geraldine) says:
Detroit?
But Detroit is another example of a city, (like Seattle, New York, Oakland, even Baltimore), where the real estate bidding war sets in. Soon it will be only for the rich.
There are hot spots in Detroit but there are still PLENTY of housing/commercial/office/industrial sites available there. They aint running out anytime soon. these deals can be found all throughout the Rust Belt states…… Ohio is another prime location for these types of property salvage opportunities.
It is a two way street and not all about white people.
Delta Sea says:
I’d be interested in hearing more about what you mean.
Typical yt response. Have several seats Beth
Wow, Beth. No, whiteness is not a two way street. You should check out Robin DiAngelo’s work on white fragility.
Micky kay says:
Easy for you to say BETH, many white people have discriminated against people of color for years. If the shoe was on your foot you would be forced to recognize the power of wrong teaching being handed down from generation to generation. The poison of social media, and the rejection of Jesus Christ! People have chosen to deprive themselves and children of what love, compassion, and most important integrity that fuels respect for self while fueling evil people with the antidote to self hate. People that want all power and control have a problem hidden within their heart that money can’t heal.
Own the history your ancestors created and be a part of change, not the problem. Try God.
runshyt says:
That’s where you’re wrong! It is all about white people, and this pretense that racism isn’t solely a white man’s burden is the reason we remain in the mess this country is in. White comfort is all about keeping the status quo, all the while pretending that people of color had done fictitious role in creating the racial mess in which we now live. My responsibility is to my community, and I own that. The people responsible for the racial mess won’t clean it up, because they know they benefit every day from a system of white supremacy. Boo-hop all you want to, but blacks never asked for any of this. We didn’t ask to live with whites in the first place, nor are we the people who have used law, media, education, and every other system available to profit on a macro level at the expense of other groups. Accept it. This is white people’s mess, and therefore the responsibility to clean it up belongs to them.
Maybe but probably not and any way we can only change ourselves. Until white people understand that we have been conditioned to expect white supremacy and that we are the problem things won’t change.
It’s true, Beth, even if it’s not convenient. It’s well known that Africans captured people from other tribes and sold them into slavery as a way of making money. I am Native American and our history is full of the same behavior, as is much of White history if you go back far enough. Since the author lived in Seattle for 12 years I suspect her frustration is about more than the mistaken behavior of a particular woman, or the normal response of cops to a call for help.
I work in Information Technology, skills I learned in the Navy that have helped me build a good life in Seattle. Still, I see few people of color pursuing technical fields, though I know our organization is actively recruiting for minorities across the country. It takes effort beyond high school, but Seattle’s community colleges offer everything you need, and affordably. Treating education like it’s somehow a “white thing” is not the answer, nor is blaming others. Writing about racism to others who read about racism doesn’t seem very useful. Maybe learning more marketable skills and moving away from the “Racism Industry” would improve the author’s outlook.
By the way, I myself have thought twice about changing plates in public, some people are quick to judge and who needs to create a scene? Use some common sense and get that huge chip off your shoulder!
I’m so sorry we treated you this way.
Carla Bell says:
Thanks for this, Sonya.
I’m a big proponent of using accurate language to confront and disrupt damaging patterns of behavior.
So, I don’t believe Seattle is unable to address its whiteness problem. I believe it’s been unwilling to address it’s whiteness problem. (There’s a grace that we automatically grant to inability, and it’s undeserved in this case.)
Good for you about making the move. ‘Hoping to see a longer Seattle-Macon comparative essay from you.
As a Chicano, I fully support your articles sentiments here. You stated, with more eloquence and patience than I can muster, my feelings on this situation.
Despite the validity of this writer’s feelings, removing a license plate in a public lot is an action that provokes suspicion. Race almost certainly plays a role, leading someone to call the police rather than just approach the person directly. I’m sorry you were treated in this way. Also inspired by the officer who gave you a hand.
Removing a license plate in a public lot is suspicious? How? What I have learned from my experiences and those of other black people is that anything any individual white person does not like WILL provoke suspicion and in their minds warrents a call to the police especially IF there is a person of color involved.
mickeleh says:
You could just as well argue it the other way. Changing your license plate in public, in full view of passersby is evidence of innocent intent, isn’t it?
Gross. Mind your own business. Calling the police when seeing someone black changing their license plates, means you want them humiliated and violated by police. You know that if shit goes wrong, they can get killed in front of your eyes.
I wish all of Seattle could read your comment. Dont know if it would evoke a change in them, but at least they could no longer claim ignorance.
Kevin Henry says:
I would like to hear more too.
That’s fair.
Loana says:
Exactly. I was in Northgate, a northern suburb of Seattle, a couple years back and locked my keys in my car. A lady called the cops on me because it likely did look suspicious. The cops showed up and a little African American lady came out and explained why she called them on me. It was annoying but made sense. The author didn’t like Seattle for a “myriad of reasons”, I find Seattle to be very open as a Latino. It’s what you make it
I agree, changing the plates in public will attract onlookers and they probably did not ask questions because in fear of being in danger. Let’s say you were truly trying to steal the license plate, I would never approach you and ask what your doing.
You also need to walk in their shoes too. But instead of looking at the negative, you should look at the positive. That officer realized the truth and lend you a hand! But my question is, changing the license requires a tool to remove the license plate. Now I don’t know anyone to have the tool ready in the car to change license plate in public.
I don’t know about other people, but to me, this is crying “wolf”.
The difference is if she had been a white lady in heels and a suit no one would have given her a second thought, except maybe can I help you?. That is racism. If you think I’m wrong then right there is the problem.
A) If you are “in fear” of folks changing their license plates, better not leave the house. Like at all.
B) No, I dont have to “walk in their shoes”. I already understand their racism, ignorance and privelidge, its not my responsibility to coddle them even more. How about you go “walk in some KKK members shoes” so you can see where they are coming from?
C) Its called a screwdriver and if you dont know anyone who has the tool in their car, you should consider expanding your circles lol
D) If the responding officer hadnt have been professional and the author had been incarcerated, injured or killed over nothing illegal, you would likely still find an excuse to justify the unjustifiable…..
So, it’s odd for someone to carry tools in there car? NO, NOT AT ALL. 1, her tags were out of state And Expired. 2, she picked up her plates during lunch. She was multitasking… You know because she has a limited about is time for lunch. 3, SHE WAS IN A SUIT. If she was really stealing plates in sure wearing a suit wouldn’t be a first choice. And a bonus, why doubt her experience? This woman is a professional and telling you only ONE of I’m sure many examples. I’m was born and raised in Seattle and I agree wholeheartedly where she’s coming from. The fake smile and fakes liberal mess while being stabbed in the back. One other think, why in the hell does she have to change her story to make you or any other white person feel comfortable with HER truth. Lay in the bed feel them nasty sheets and bread crumbs. If you don’t like it change your bed!
This sounds completely crazy. More often than not, the passerby would not call the police if the person removing the plate was white.
I have seen people call the police just because a white person liked the interior of a car and was just peaking thru the window of the car for only 30 seconds. Then the person went into the grocery store and went about his business. Then when police arrived, they went into the store searching for him and questioned him. Mind you, I am not white nor black. But I was discriminated against by my black manager at T-Mobile. It just depends on every individual person whether your black, white or Asian.
Cherisse Gardner (@cherissegardner) says:
I’d like to see on hidden camera what happens when a similarly business attired… hell, a barefoot dreadlocked white man decides to change his license plates on a public Seattle street.
Sus Sweeters says:
As a Mexican who went to graduate school at UW, I totally understand what you are saying. I left as soon as I finished.
I dont know how to like your comment in return. But Im heartened to know even though you dipped out, you got your learn-on because a UW degree goes a long way from what I understand. Props to you.
Flyright says:
The writer is so on point with her commentary. Seattle is so sickening right now. Having lived in the CD for many years and trying to qualify to buy a house in 1999, with a new wife and family. But turned down by all the lenders for a loan was only the beginning of the racism that has been more overt over the years. The only comfortable place a Black person could coexist in was the CD. Now you get looked at like you a damn alien! Very depressing and frustrating place to be. Everywhere you go in this city you are looked at like suspect. I bought some property down south several years ago. I am waiting for my wife to retire and I’m out, that is if I can hold on that long.
I’m a white male living in Seattle but originally from Texas (with a brief stint in Georgia as a child). You’re 100% on the mark about how Seattle doesn’t think it has a race problem. And you’re spot on about how Seattle is deluding itself—it’s progressive more in theory than in practice. Great article. Sorry you couldn’t stay in the PNW, but I hope you’re happy.
jsm says:
Thank you for your closing sentence, I can not agree more wholly as so few people throw the ball in our court where it belongs.
Two thoughts.
1. That cop is like 5% of the mindful white people in Seattle. I know that person, he wanted to go over and scream at that lady but he knew his badge would be taken away.
Seattle has a very strong core, but there is 40% of the town that tries to act as that 5%… those are the folks that love your hair. They want to be good people but they have lived in this white mono-culture that they simply just do not know how to live and rejoice in heterogeneity.
2. It is the task of that 5% to really rake the 40%.
Maybe a third thought… that 5%… there is a problem… they got that way because they did not have the privilege of the 40%… so this causes a discrete problem, they have similar if not as severe gate-keeping keeping them out of the leadership positions that could make Seattle change from the current position of wanting to be saviors to the actual position of grasping for the health of heterogeneity.
It is a fucked up situation in Seattle. I cannot claim to say i have the answers….
But I thank you for throwing the ball at our feet…. the people to tear down the power structure should be the ones who are part of it.
We will keep trying.
Thanks for your words, good article. Love to hear if you see any insight to what i said.
p.s. the 55% I don’t mention are simple default racist. So even if the 5% move the 40%… the traditional struggle will still confront us…
Jkeith says:
You’re quoting these numbers. What are your sources? People make s*** up around here and its suspect.
Ouch, you have a point… I’m sorry, I am using the numbers symbolically as they fall into place in basic stats.
Can I clarify?
5% a nearly insignificant minority (5% is the limit of significance in a gaussian distribution)
45% a large constituency that could change the situation (nearly half, the tipping point)
50%-55% the majority that is in opposition but could be changed.
Valid point I was using numbers in a non-empirical way. I hope clarifying the map will show that i am 100% sympathetic of the writer.
You and people like you are the problem. Deny-deny-deny!
The last couple have years have really opened my eyes to the fact that the middle and upper income folks here truly pat themselves on the back for voting for Hilary and being a progressive state… as long as the progression doesn’t threaten their wealth or comfort.
It’s been uncomfortable learning and realizing I’ve contributed to it as well and how I can change to do better.
Nancy Robb says:
Thank you for publishing this essay. I hope it receives widespread distribution.
RandoPerson says:
One Seattle has a huge issue with people stealing license plates: http://q13fox.com/2017/03/20/driver-learns-plates-are-stolen-from-toll-bill/ I would hope passersby’s would call the cops if they see someone removing license plates in a grocery store parking lot. It doesn’t matter what color your skin happens to be… it is an odd place to do that activity. (White people can and do steal drive license plates.) On top of that, the cop investigated the situation appropriately and then even helped you installed your license plate. What was racist in his interaction with you?
The second example is that people complimented your hair. Is it rude for a person with a different skin color to compliment someone else with a different skin color? (Although being called racist in Seattle is a pretty big insult, so I can see some people really try hard to be inclusive and welcoming to all people. The intent is good, but maybe the execution is poor?)
Like all places, racism exists in Seattle and in all different favors, but I don’t think your examples support this statement. Additional clarification and discussion on these examples would be great.
Shannea says:
I’m from Seattle and in 2014 began my quest to “Get Out!” Very well written piece, and completely accurate.
I think Seatle’s claims make the racism even worse. It’s like being molested is bad, being molested by a priest takes the trauma to another level. The treatment Brown people receive in Seattle and the denial that accompanies it makes the liberal claims so much worse.
Co-signed. The denial and patronizing attitudes as they commit these acts makes it even more difficult to deal with.
I’m a white woman. I’ve changed my license plate in public with not a second thought. That is white privilege. The fact that someone saw that exact behavior as suspicious is definitely about race. The notion that “well it could be seen as suspicious behavior, and maybe it’s not about race” is exhausting and insulting, and seems to be exactly what Sonya is describing. So the white soccer mom can say, “oh it wasn’t because she was black I just wanted to be helpful If she was doing something illegal” is bs, and she’ll keep on believing she is not a racist. I dont have an end point here, and I’m not as elequont as Sonya. I wish Sonya the best of luck in Georgia, and we white people need to be better and more willing to call this out.
The Fin says:
I was born and raised in St. Louis and I also lived a short time in Virginia before moving here. I agree with your points so eloquently put but I am obligated to say we as black people must start dealing with these issues head on. Missouri is one of the most racist states in this country and so many black people want to move because of it. Virginia isn’t much different and the same result black people want to move. Seattle has the same issues and so many people want to move. Its time to stop running from these issues, addressing these issues and help these cities become more of the change we want to see. We are running out of places to run to because white people and their systems are in place nationwide. Too many strong black people have been rendered powerless so they give up. We must fight for restorative justice, equality, and our freedom to live and fight on level grounds.
I wouldn’t be so presumptuous as to truly compare my experience, but when I weighed between 350 and 420, the so called liberal, spiritual, earthy-crunchy folks were shamelessly vicious about it. The illusion of these folk’ unconditional acceptance is nothing more than that.
Yup, you got it. But dont let it get you down Big Mama, just do you and be the best person you can be….. their own insecurities and pettiness are theirs to “own” lol
I wouldn’t be so presumptuous as to truly compare my experience, but when I weighed between 350 and 420, the so called liberal, spiritual, earthy-crunchy folks were shamelessly vicious about it. The illusion of these folks’ unconditional acceptance is nothing more than that.
Bob Burr says:
Erin, we will miss you, I hope you will be less stressed in Macon.
Bud says:
Raised in Seattle during 50 s and 60s
I would not blame Seattle for issues
My mom so fix it-don’t run from it
I’ve heard the author’s thoughts echoed many times in Seattle – that it’s much easier to deal with overt racism than with the kind of racism that’s hidden because people don’t want to appear racist or challenge their own stereotypes and racial fears. “Good morning Mr. Johnson, so nice to meet you, Mr. Johnson, oh, we JUST rented the apartment out to the person who stopped by 10 minutes ago….”
I do think much of the “I love your hair” kind of behavior is cluelessness. Some may be trying to make themselves feel good for saying something “nice” (let’s not forget about the ever-present “Seattle nice,” shall we?) to a Black person. But I believe many are also trying, in their clueless way, to reach out, to include black people in their lives, yet honestly don’t know how, or are afraid to say or do the “wrong thing.” Having grown up in overwhelmingly white culture, they honestly don’t know how; maybe good intentions, but a very self-conscious or clueless execution.
Some people are lost causes, but what would you say to white people who want to build those bridges and are afraid their cluelessness will be misinterpreted?
mandyinseattle says:
I love Chris Crass (below) and his thoughts on awkward whypepo. I remind folks all the time that white people who talk about race are often awkward when doing it and we should help them along. I am NOT one of these people who say “White people need to do it themselves!” because I think it’s impossible to do that, and it’s missing an opportunity, so I forgive awkwardness like “I love your hair!” although sometimes it’s hard to tell if its a real and awkward reaching out or just condescension and filling a silence.
“Not one drop of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.”—Quincy Jones
I think you blame Seattle for your misgivings, but your heart never left the South. I still miss the state I began my life in, but Western WA is fantastic. Just ask all those drivers with out-of-state licenses.
Way to diminish everything she said. She described my experience exactly and I moved from LA and was fully committed to Seattle for the long haul. I left last year and i can’t tell you how much my life has improved. You can blame me and ignore our experiences or you can consider them and work to make seattle a more welcoming less uptight place.
And don’t get me started on lame Seattle drivers.
Thats a common (not so passive) passive-aggressive response I have heard personally whenever the situation gets to much and a person vents (either vocally or online)….. “It doesnt sound like its working out for you here, maybe you should try a different place for a better fit.” which roughly translates to “Your truth and willingness to express it inconveniences and exposes my facade of being a progressive, why dont you just go somewhere else if you arent content to suffer in silence.” That sentiment has been expressed by more than one poster here in this articles comments section.
Sickandtired says:
I am an infrequent visitor to Seattle and have never met as many whining people as I have here. Everyone needs to gtfu and learn how to get along. I cringe every time I read something pertaining to this issue. Glad I’m just an infrequent visitor here.
Try a more cosmopolitan place such as New York City. It has it’s moments and own share of persisting racial issues (e.g. the faux concern of teachers and PTA parents about “fit,” whenever brown children enter segregated all-white schools), but over the centeries, the brute force of so many “others” (even Irish and Italian immigrants who were “others” in the past) have shaped a uniquely comfortable culture that welcomes people based upon character, skill, and tragically, whether they have the capital to enter more exclusive spaces. All in all, I’ve found it decisively different than the experiences you describe, and when such experiences occur (I’m typically the only black person in my work space – medicine – so it happens intermittently), they are easily navigated.
NY costs TOOO much
And is even more segregated.
The NYC region is historically segregated like chicago but what’s lost in the statistics are the fact that intermingling is practically the rule rather than the exception, unlike most American cities
So like most places out here, people will associate and date outside their races in NYC, but generally dont live together in community. That does not help the situation.
*its
Charleete M. Black says:
Seattle has always been this way. I moved here from Northern California in 1989 and worked downtown for a large bank institution. The looks and treatment I received from many whites were patronizing and comments uncalled for. It was their problem..not mine. I was also amazed how many mixed-race marriages I saw which was more than I had ever seen in Colorado, Missouri, California, Chicago, Detroit and New York. I agree with your comments 100% however as a single Mother raising 2 black male sons thought it was the best place to raise them to live to maturity rather than Oakland California which was dangerous. I am sad you felt you had to move. Further I would like to say that in this town blacks do not speak to each other or try to connect. It is the oddest feeling I have ever experienced. It is very hard to make friends in this town as it is very “clickish”. Another thing I notice is that when other immigrants move in to black communities they have a very low opinion of the black community and that includes Africans, Vietnamese, Indians (from India) and others. They set up businesses to sell to black residents with overcharged prices and rude attitudes. I have found Hispanics to be more friendly and open. I have been followed around in stores dressed as a professional until I call them on it. I even had the experience of a store clerk not wanting to sell me a $150 pair of shoes asking me if I could afford them. The bank I worked for turned me down for a home loan until my Senior VP boss got on their case. I lived in Mount Baker and was there when Columbia City was beginning to be occupied by white businesses and many young white couples were purchasing homes because Bellevue and Issaquah was too expensive. Soon after they got settled some would act like I was the newbie. Crazy. I now live on Beacon Hill and love it. Good luck to you and yours and have a glorious life.
The “Seattle Freeze” is real. Back when I moved here they called “Seattitude.” I was fortunate because with music I found instant community, but I have friends who moved here from Pennsylvania, very open and welcoming people. It took them more than two years to find a circle of friends here. Four years ago they moved to Texas, and it took them about two months. Even back then, there was an enormous difference between Seattle and Portland just a few hours away, where people in bars would just come up and introduce themselves, for example. Now big money is changing that city as well but it still holds on to that openness. I’m not sure what it is about Seattle, but it’s at the center of the love-hate relationship I’ve had with this city for most of my time here.
People are friendlier in Portland in a laid back kind of way. Still, that history… lol
Thank you for saying that, that black people don’t connect and aren’t very open with each other. It was bizarre. I assume it’s a jealous guarding of their situation, because there are so few opportunities for real black engagement with the white community.
I said more than once “There aren’t enough colored girls in this town for us to ignore each other!” and I got so tired of the cliques and unfriendliness, lack of acknowledgment. I challenged one young black woman who was heading up BLM in Seattle shortly after it started a few years back and I ran into her at the PCC and she looked right through me. Long story short, I said “You don’t remember me? We marched last week.” She looked annoyed and I said, “You should know who your allies are,” and then she got pissed and walked away. Too bad.
I’m glad and grateful to have raised my black son in Seattle but when he turned 24 or so, I knew it was time for him to go, and he did. And then I followed.
I think Hispanics are more friendly and lively and that helps make LA a welcoming place.
Why should there be unfriendliness and cliques amoung the black community here in Seattle? What is the psychology?
“You should know who your allies are,”
Translation: “You shouldn’t call me out or challenge me in any way shape or form regardless of my actions…. nor should you call out the white/Jewish/whatever people who fund my endeavors which never seem to get their intended results.”
I have dealt with plenty of that myself……..
Whiteness as a culture is this: We’re at a political rally and the speaker is lively and inspiring and speaking loudly, and when I yell “THAT’S RIGHT!” or “HELL NO!” in support of what he or she is saying, I get looks from the crowd like “Do you MIND…?” That’s a fragile kind of entitlement that I ran into, less with politically active progressives but yes, even with them. It felt like a lack of a sense of humor, a complete lack of irreverence, and/or entitlement not to share the space with anybody making noise. At a political rally.
I had to urge people to dance AT A CHRIS ISAAK CONCERT lol
Often at my local PCC, I’d strike up a chat with a woman with a young child, a word of encouragement or an observation (because I well remember those days with a young child even though my son is now 32) and most responses were to ignore me or smile weakly and turn away. Try smiling at someone while walking around Green Lake? Ha. Now I smile at anyone walking through Koreatown in LA and I know I’m not alone anymore.
There are many decent, honest, white progressives working hard to make this world a better place in Seattle and I feel like I know all of them haha And they are beautiful people.
Yeah mayne, being at a hip-hop show and getting into it (dancing, call-and-response or etc.), its weird to hear the “Do you mind?” hiss from behind…… weird indeed!
Hey Sonya,
The exact same thing happened to me. I was in front of a Metropolitan Market, coincidentally, changing my tabs of my motorcycle when an older lady started asking what I was doing. I told her politely, but then she started telling people walking by that she thought I was stealing this motorcycle. Then, she called the police. I was long gone before they could arrive but not before showing that lady my two middle fingers.
I’m a white male in my early 30s but even as tattooed “rocker”, I get shit all of the time. Security screenings at airports, stopped and/or followed by security guards, store clerks (illegally) asking what I had stolen, and just plain treated like dirt. Mostly by soccer moms in rich neighborhoods or dumb fucks in business suits (even though I’m an engineer and make more than most of them).
I’m not trying to undermine what you have to go through. I can hide in a dress shirt if I could stomach it. I just want to make the point that people are idiots and no matter where you go, you can’t escape those pea-brained morons from staying the fuck out of your business and making your life more difficult. I am sorry this happened to you in Seattle. Hopefully, those idiots will die off and as we keep pushing towards equality, our city’s culture will bring us an even better tomorrow.
Jim Dailey says:
I love my friends. Many have skin colors different from myself. There is certainly a cultural divide amongst different people with dark skin. From yt eyes a small minority choose not to integrate and their behavior is seen as self destructive and anti-social. Are all the successful, well spoken, educated people with African roots not considered black? Honestly, I see my friends as people and not a color. If I can’t understand what you are saying or if every other word is a curse word you will not be my friend. To yt it is about behavior, not color.
licotto says:
I’m not racist.
And I’m white.
Maybe a lot of whites are idiots about how they treat people, but NOT ALL.
‘We’ are not all the same.
For the record, during my life in Seattle for the last 3 years, the multiple threats and names and vitriol I have received has predominantly been from people of color. Yeah, I’ve also had my “faggot” calls from a variety of people. But the ones that told me to ‘gtfo’ or that I was in their hood, or given me the hateful stares as I simply tried to buy a chocolate milk and a donut in Rainier Beach, that was black men and women.
I love meeting & talking to new people, I like to create random conversation whatever I go -but the ONLY times I’ve been outright told to “shut the fuck up” has been from people of color here in the Seattle area.
Yeah, I get that racism is all over this country and I thinks it’s RIDICULOUS that it happens.
But not ALL white people are to blame.
There are stupid people from EVERY race, EVERY religion, and EVERY sex.
Please kindly remember that a great number of people are not like the group that is being portrayed above and in these comments -and we should all recognize that otherwise when will anything change???
If we constantly use “all of you hate is”, no one will ever feel like what they do is mattering.
Elisabeth Guerry says:
Welcome to the world of every ethnic, religious, and racial group in America. I hope you enjoy your journey of facing contemptuous scorn from passersby, verbally assaulted through daily microaggressions, physically assaulted by total strangers egged on by current though politic, socially and economically marginalized from enjoying the benefits of full employment, living wages, and healthcare benefits. My oh my, it is indeed one fantastic lifetime journey. Enjoy!
Stop the Boat. says:
Late 30’s Hispanic male and I want to say, thank you for putting the finger on exactly why I feel so uncomfortable in this city. Obviously I’m going to be treated differently as many of my people cook and garden here and in many U.S. cities, but I am treated differently the vast majority of the time.
I don’t get sat as quickly as white people when I go out to a restaurant, I get pulled over for driving in white, rich neighborhoods, I get talked down to when I go to PCC or even downtown, and yes, I even get straight up stared at, complete with mouth agape at times, too.
My ex-wife (who’s white, born and raised here and also comes from wealth) could never understand why at times I would want to leave a store or bar or why we would get pulled over for just driving down the street. Even more so when we would hold hands or take our mixed baby out for a walk. Worse yet, I have many visible tattoos.
So for all the white people here who can’t understand what it’s like, let me tell you this story: Just 2 weeks ago my girlfriend and I went to my hometown in Corpus Christi, TX. I didn’t quite feel like going in to the supermarket so she went in without me. She came back out after about 15 minutes and said, “I have never been in any place where I was the only white person! That was the weirdest feeling I have ever had!”
That’s just an aspect of what she’s talking about.
Why do people in Seattle have to loudly proclaim that they’re “anti-racist”? Why can’t they just not be racist? Why do they have yo go out of their way to make a statement of it?
One day, when I was still in the Navy, I stopped by the grocery store near our old apartment in upper Queen Anne, next to a very busy street. A mother wasn’t paying attention to her toddler son and was walking out to the street. I dropped everything in my hands (fruit, eggs, glass bottle of milk, flowers for the ex) and grabbed him out of the street. Then and only then did she turn around and start screaming at me. I shook my head and walked back into the store to buy the things I had dropped.
Not every white person is the same, not every person is the same, yes that’s true. However, when you swim in the sea and there’s a bunch of trash wouldn’t you say, “damn the ocean is filthy, I don’t want to swim in that.”? Yes, yes you would.
Pretentious, extremely passive aggressive, condoning, assuming, pat themselves on the back, bullshit is what I tend to get up here. Is it better than the shitty town I was so desperate to get away from? Like she said already, yes and no but at least back there I know where I stand. At least down there I know what to expect, at least down there they don’t claim enlightenment. At least down there I can feel comfortable.
So to all the white people claiming “we aren’t all the same”, know that’s not what this is, this is just people who get judged solely on the color of our skin sick of that shit. It’s fucking 2018, come the fuck on already.
Liking the shit out of this!
Mary Holscher says:
This hit home for me, as a white woman who has lived in Seattle since my freshman year at Seattle University 52 years ago: “To live anywhere in the U.S. and think you have found some section of the country that has ‘made it’ as opposed to others is naïve at best but mainly just wrong.” And this: “White folks this is on you. Deal with it. Figure it out. Do better. Be better.” Through intensive study/personal reflection/healing in community (especially a sustained immersion in the ideas contained in Robin DiAngelo’s What Does It Mean to Be White?), I am learning that if I commit to sustained effort it is possible for me to begin to to know how deeply embedded white body supremacy and white skin privilege is in my body, my language, my habits, my assumptions, my unconscious biases. I am committed to the lifelong work of uprooting white supremacy in myself, my immediate community, and my city, in all the ways I am learning how to do. I love Seattle very much–it is my home–but its patterns of segregation and racism run very deep. The ways we white Seattle residents pat ourselves on the back for how progressive we are keep us in denial and get in the way of the inner and outer work we white people need to do.
I like this honest perspective from someone who’s had enough of superficial and disingenuous interactions Seattle whites have with Blacks (or any other ethnic group). It does wear on your psyche and soul to have to bear with the false sense of entitlement from Whites who choose to cloak their racist bullshit behind their wealth, education, and perceived social standing.
Having lived in two mostly white neighborhoods (Wallingford and Fremont), I know first hand how clueless and insensitive the whites in Seattle remain because they do not care and do not want to change their ways. Whites immediately uncomfortable when they meet any articulate, well educated, and poised Black professional who challenges their long-held stereotypes. Anytime a Black person comes into physical proximity of whites, the whites become triggered at the psychological violation of their sacred space. It happens everywhere in Seattle–on the job, in educational settings (especially at triggered places such as University of Washington), in restaurants, in houses of worship; basically anywhere and everywhere where whites have created their spaces to the exclusion of others.
I, too, had that “nigger moment” over in Ballard back in the summer 2016. Some white, homeless female accosted me on the street right in front of the Ballard Branch of the Seattle Public Library where there were dozens of silent witnesses. This white idiot had the audacity to yell, “Nigger go home. This is a white, Christian country.” I proceeded to tell her that I would never allow any poor, white trash walk up to my face and tell me that nonsense. Next thing that came from my mouth included fact checking her–That her ancestors stole the land from Native Americans and she had no business making claims on anything. Second, if she were a Christian, then why wasn’t she reading her Bible over at the nearby Church in the area? That’s because she was a sorry irredeemable wretch whom no one would even let inside their church because she was a waste of time. Then the female had the nerve to take swing and try punching me. I laughed while stepping aside because she didn’t even know how to throw a punch. Then the fool ran away because someone stood up to her pitiful ways. Did any of those so-called white progressives or allies step forward and get involved? Nope. Not a damn one.
I called the Ballard police and reported the incident has a bias/hate crime in the area, after which I forwarded the complaint to the City Council representative of Ballard. Their office brushed off the complaint claiming they could do nothing about the incident even after filing with the police. I lambasted the office for their complicity in reinforcing race-based violence as part of the accepted status quo and normalizing fear within ethnic groups. After getting nowhere with the City Council person’s office, I contacted the FBI which launched its own investigation into the incident. Later the Seattle Police tracked down the homeless woman who now has a bench warrant for her arrest for assault and attempted battery as it relates to a hate crime. The Seattle Police tried ignoring their duty to protect and serve its citizens until I gave them the name and address of a civil rights attorney who later initiated a formal complaint against the City of Seattle.
Now, I’m branded in Seattle as “that uppity nigger” because I stand up for my rights. Well, so what! At least I can look in the mirror and sleep at night!
Mary Jane Miller says:
Good article. Thank you!
My husband and I moved here to the Seattle area 15 years ago from SF Bay area. We are white hippy tech special ed types with a small farm of rescued animals. My daughter and her two mix race ( black) daughters moved up 10 years ago and live on our property. We live amongst many white liberals and though I feel we and our girls are “safe”, I know we will never be fully accepted. We live every day with much social anxiety and disappointment. At various times our girls have been labeled in very subtle but damaging ways ie behavior problem, slow learning,etc. With perseverance we have stood up and set straight these discrepancies and injustices to some degree. But I seriously never would have believed how truly clueless, insensitive, and well meaning while rascist white people can be!
A few years ago we took the girls to SAM for the day for some cultural appreciation. Saw many extraordinary exhibits, had an organic lunch etc. Such a beautiful setting but the only other black person we saw all day was when we had to walk through the kitchen area and a black dishwasher came out pushing a huge cart of dirty dishes! Sad. Just horrifically sad for a major city like Seattle to exhibit such a degree of unapolegetic inequity!
White people here live so comfortably with so much disconnect on a regular everyday basis. Its shocking what is not talked about and how frighteningly confident they are!!
Brrrrrr!
Seattle person (@seattleperson) says:
You sound racist. Whining because there weren’t enough black people. You found a “needle in the haystack” black man–making it sound likely that you specifically sought out a black husband. Doing something that is suspicious might get the cops called on you. You just assume it’s all about race. If your black you just attribute it to that entirely, not stopping to think it could very well be that people objectively find it suspicious. I once walked to cut a lock of my bike with bolt cutters as a white person and people were suspicious of me too.
Tamika Diggs says:
I had this same experience in my mid twenties. I moved to SEA from STL with a brand new ecology degree and was excited to be with green liberals who thought like me. One of my first jobs was campaign fundraising where I had to stand on the streets and interact with people. One day someone asked me if I was selling “real change” and I had no idea what that meant. I asked my coworkers about it and they told me it was how the homeless made money. I asked them if anyone had ever asked them that. The answer was “no.” Surprise, I was the only person of color on the team. I went home crying that day. I moved back to STL after two years for other reasons (one being money) and I do hope to move back to SEA one day… but I definitely see if differently now.
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AnalysisSingapore property market crash – When will the next crash be?
by Stanley
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Ever since the last round of cooling measures on July 6, there has been much speculation about what will happen in the future. Will the Singapore property market crash? Or will prices dip down for a bit and rise back up? Or is the market so resilient that it is actually just a temporary blip?
Naturally, just before the cooling measures were announced, everyone was very optimistic about where property prices in Singapore would be heading. Earlier in the year, the CEO of CapitaLand was bullish about prices going up, stating that an increase of 5 to 10 per cent was possible by the end of 2018.
91% of Singaporeans own their own homes — the majority built by the government on government land and sold at government-fixed prices.
Posted by Financial Times on Friday, March 2, 2018
There were multiple other news sources like the Financial Times and Singapore Business Review also reporting that Singapore prices were heading further up, predicting that overall home prices could rise by 5% in 2018.
Not to mention, the headline grabbing “Singapore’s property prices to double by 2030”.
It's about to get much more expensive to live in Singapore.
Posted by CNBC International on Thursday, April 13, 2017
Life after latest cooling measures
So now that it has been some time since the latest cooling measures what is likely going to happen to the market in the future? Are property experts now going to talk about a Singapore property market crash? Or will they still be upbeat about where property price in Singapore will be heading?
Top executives from some of the biggest developer’s in Singapore are all of the opinion that the latest cooling measures will slow down the market, but that it would be unlikely that it would induce a Singapore property market crash. Of course, some were of the opinion that the cooling measures were not necessary. But those viewpoints should be taken with a pinch of salt, particularly as a buoyant property market will only be in their interest.
Other sources like Savills reported that despite the cooling measures, they still expect that private home prices will rise by 10 percent to 12 percent in 2018, and a further 5 to 10 percent in 2019.
Once thing is for sure, if you base your buying decisions on purely news sources, it could possibly be detrimental. Just look at all the contrasting news reports before and after the cooling measures. All these forecasts so far have proven to be a mixed bag. You can see from history that it is not possible to predict cooling measures in Singapore, whether it be relaxing or tightening them. Neither can anyone predict political changes or external market forces that can have a major impact on property prices in Singapore.
So to be clearer about the situation ahead perhaps it would be good to revisit the history of the Singapore property market.
Singapore property market crash and history
HDB formed and 12,000 flats built between 1960-1970. Property Tax introduced.
CPF implements Public Housing Schemes for home ownership.
Inflow of foreign funds and the beginning of Singapore’s golden years.
Property curbs introduced, foreigners not allowed to buy residential properties, tax surcharge w.e.f. 1974.
Oil Crisis which afflicted the US economy of which Singapore was very dependant on. The year saw a plunge in Singapore property price and Singaporeans learned how their home prices has everything to do with the US economy.
Introduction of Residential Property Act: Foreigners allowed to purchase flats in buildings of 6 levels or higher.
CPF implements Residential Properties Scheme for private home ownership which allowed Singaporeans to use up to 80% of their CPF ordinary account savings for property purchase. Property price rose 3 to 4 times eg. HDB flats bought in the 1970s where in the range of $10K but in the 1980s, HDB flats bought in the 1970s were in the range of $10K but in the 1980s, HDB flats typically cost $40K – $100K.
Economic recession.
CPF implements Minimum Sum Scheme to ensure that Singaporeans have enough CPF for their retirement.
Total CPF withdrawal for the purchase of private housing increased to 100% of the value of the property, this made property prices escalate.
PRs allowed to buy HDB flats and HDB owners allowed to invest in private property.
Gulf War – which saw a small dip in property prices but it did not last long as US declared victory. Property price continued to escalate after that.
HDB allowed single citizens above 35 to buy 3-room flats
CPF rules relaxed and home buyers allowed to withdraw larger CPF amounts and HDB flat buyers allowed to take higher mortgages. Property prices soared.
Government introduced Executive Condominium which were sold for about 10% less than 99-year lease condominiums. The launches were heavily oversubscribed, typically with 10 applicants to 1 unit.
Exemption limit for owner-occupied property increased to the first $150,000 (previously $75,000) of its NAV. Exemption limits on estate duty for residential properties and movable assets, including CPF balances, raised to $9 million and $600,000 respectively. CPF balances in excess of $600,000 will continue to be exempt. Property tax rate from 13% to 12%. Stamp duty adjustment on property transfers, and reduction on stamp duty rates on property leases.
Anti-speculation measures implemented. 80% financing restriction for property purchase. Stamp duty extended to buyers of all sales and sub-sales of uncompleted properties. New stamp duty on those who sell properties within years; tax on gains from properties sold within 3 years of purchase. Property price fell for the first time after 10 long years of relentless up trend.
Concessionary property tax rate of 4% on the annual value of the residential house for home owners who rebuild their houses for their own subsequent occupation during the period when their houses are undergoing reconstruction.
Measures to curb abuse of HDB subsidised mortgage eg. HDB mortgage pegged to bank rate.
Asian Financial Crisis. Property price plunged.
Reversal of Anti-speculation policy implemented in 1996:
Removal of $30,000 cap.
HDB owners allowed to book a new private property only after occupying flat for 5 years.
Government sale sites deferred and project completion period (PCP) extended for up to 8 years.
Stamp duty for sellers suspended.
More property policy reversal:
Land sales were suspended, 15% property tax rebate for commercial and industrial properties commencing July 1998. Property tax exemption for land under development reinstated, exemption will be for a period of up to 5 years and will apply from the time construction begins to the time the TOP is granted. More tax exemptions granted, stamp duty deferred for buyers of uncompleted properties until TOP or subsequent sale.
10% CPF housing grant cut and more tax rebates.
The 55% property tax rebate on industrial and commercial properties was extended by another year to 30 June 2000.
Second CPF housing grant cut.
Government to resume land sales in 2000.
Budget 2000 – Tax exemption on land under development withdrawn, change will only affect new projects. Projects which have been granted tax exemption will continue to enjoy the concession for a maximum of 5 years or upon completion, whichever is earlier.
DC rates revised, increased by 27% on average for residential land. Property tax rebate extended up to June 2001, at reduced rate of 25% (from 55%).
HDB owners required to seek approval before booking private property even if they have fulfilled the 5-year time bar.
Collapse of dotcom bubble
MND announced that less than 8,000 new public flats will be built in 2001.
Capital gains tax was lifted, foreigners were allowed to use SGD for housing loan.
GLS was suspended. Sites would only be made available through the Reserve List.
Property tax was exempted for a period of 2 years for land under development.
GST increased from 3% to 5% from 1 Jan 2003.
CPF minimum sum raised to $80,000 on 1 July 2003 of which $40,000 can be in property. CPF withdrawals for housing limited to 150% of the value of the property and bring the limit down to 120% in equal steps over 5 years.
For purchase of ECs, a minimum of 10% of the downpayment will have to be paid in cash, while the remaining 10% can be paid out using CPF funds.
Fixed rebate of up to $8,000 per year for all commercial and industrial properties. 30% rebate for the remaining property tax payable, 2 years property tax exemption for all land under development with immediate effect. Stamp duty rates reduced by 30% on all instruments. GLS confirmed list suspension extended to 1H2003.
Iraq War and SARS Outbreak
Budget 2003 – Defer restoration of CPF employer contribution rate for 2 years, lower CPF salary ceiling over 2 years. New property tax rebate for commercial and industrial properties for 2H2003. $230 million on SARS Relief Package eg. Additional property tax rebates for commercial properties; higher property tax.
Single purpose company requirement for GLS sites lifted. Formation of HDB Corp and announcement on the public housing building programme. Programme would be opened up to the private sector – starting with 10% in July 2006 and reaching 50% in July 2008.
Government’s invitation to foreigners to buy land in Sentosa Cove.
GLS: No confirmed list in 1H 2005.
Budget 2005 – REITs incentives; $40 million Orchard Road Investment Enhancement Plan by STB.
Government announced plans to build 2 integrated resorts
Changes to the Residential Property Act – all existing and new QC applicants will be granted project completion period of 6 years from date of QC issuance. Banker’s Guarantee for QC application reduced.
Loan-to-Value Limit raised from 80% to 90%. Cash payment for residential properties reduced from 10% to 5%. Non-related singles allowed to use their CPF to jointly buy private residential properties, phase out of the Non-Residential Properties Scheme in July 2006. Restriction on the use of CPF savings for multiple properties.
Budget 2006 – Tax incentives to broaden capital markets like tax exemption on foreign-sourced interest and trust distribution received by REITs expansion, lift property tax surcharge.
The first public housing project under the Design, Build and Sell Scheme (DBSS) launched for sale.
Stamp duty concession withdrawn – all property buyers to pay stamp duty (at up to 3% for properties worth over $360K) within 14 days of the date of acceptance of an Option.
Increase in Development Charge. Rate is estimated to be about 55%
Withdraw the deferred payment scheme for the sale of uncompleted private residential and commercial properties with effect from 26 Oct 2007.
So since 2009, the Singapore property market crash of 1997 was long forgotten and the number of well to do middle class private property buyers grew and grew. The growth could also be attributed to the rise in foreigners coming into Singapore from about 1.6 million in 2008 to about 2.1 million in 2013.
Looking at the Singapore Residential Property Price Index, before the cooling measures, property prices did seem to be heading up to almost the same highs of 2013. So what will be the response after the latest round? In December 2011, Morgan Stanley released a report with a prediction that prices would fall 20 percent by the end of 2012. All these predictions were made after the Government introduced cooling measures then to cool the market, one of which was an additional 10 percent stamp duty on foreigners buying private residential property. This caused foreign purchases to drop 62 percent in 2012.
Despite all that, not only did prices not fall, the PPI actually went up in 2012 and then further up in 2013. But as evidenced by the population figures above, this was probably due to the influx of foreigners at that point so if we are trying to draw parallels to that situation in 2013, the conditions are not exactly the same.
What we can be sure of is that the Government is committed to ensuring that a Singapore property market crash will be unlikely to happen on their end, given that they are keeping such tight reins on the market. Still, the aggressive land bids by foreign developers earlier during the year was a big reason why en bloc prices were going up and up. Vacancy rates are still above 7%, which is a far cry from the days that it used to be at 3 to 4%. It is no wonder that rental demand has been weak.
So with foreign developers driving up land costs, a high vacancy rate and tight control over the immigration policies where is the demand going to come from for all the future units going to be released into the market? Unless the Government decides to loosen the strings on immigration, it is tough to see any other way out. With all that said, we will leave you to draw your own conclusion with a note of warning from the MD of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), Ravi Menon.
No one will listen to the warnings, of course. Greed and euphoria is in the air. Singapore property prices will continue…
Posted by Mano Sabnani on Wednesday, July 4, 2018
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Senate Acts on Bill to Delay Flood Insurance Hikes
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Bipartisan legislation that would delay flood insurance premium hikes for hundreds of thousands of people living in coastal and low-lying areas cleared its first hurdle in the Senate on Monday.
The 86-13 vote demonstrated that the measure had filibuster-proof support in the chamber, which was likely to pass it in a few days.
The legislation would delay for up to four years premium increases set to phase in next year on homeowners facing whopping premium increases under new flood maps and would allow homeowners with subsidized insurance policies to pass them on to people who buy their homes.
The higher premiums were the result of changes made to the federal flood insurance program less than two years ago — widely praised as long-overdue reforms of the program — that were designed to make it more financially stable and bring insurance rates more in line with the real risk of flooding.
The White House Monday evening issued an official policy statement that failed to endorse the legislation. "Delaying implementation of these reforms would further erode" the program's financial position, the statement said. But it urged relief for economically distressed policyholders.
But the new rates have caused sticker shock for hundreds of thousands of people who could face big premium jumps as flood maps are updated in coming years. And the loss of subsidies when homes are sold has put a damper on the real estate market and threatened home values. Homeowners are seeing estimates that in many cases would force premium hikes of 10 times or more as their homes are judged to be at greater risk of flooding.
"It's had a significant impact in the flood-prone areas," said Ken Baris, a real estate agent in West Orange, N.J. "There's lots of people who are seeing their equity being eaten up."
But Egon Kahl, an agent on Long Beach Island in New Jersey, which was hit hard by Superstorm Sandy, said the real estate market there was humming.
Other reforms, including higher premiums for frequently-flooded properties and on 1.7 million second homes would remain in place.
Clearing the first Senate hurdle put the bill on track for Senate action later in the week. Its future in the House was uncertain at best. Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, opposes the Senate bill but was holding the door open to a more modest measure that would leave more of the 2012 overhaul in place.
At issue is the federal flood insurance program that was established in 1968 and has incurred big losses, most recently with Sandy in 2012. It is more than $24 billion in debt to taxpayers for losses from big storms like Sandy and Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
The 2012 overhaul of the program made several changes to the program, which helps 5.6 million policyholders, 20 percent of whom receive subsidized policies for older homes built before communities joined the flood insurance program. Owners of second homes, frequently-flooded properties and businesses in flood areas would gradually lose their subsidies and pay 25 percent more a year until they reach an actuarially sound rate. Others get to keep their subsidies but can't pass them on when selling their homes.
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How to move apps and create folders on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
You can organize the apps on the Home screen, put them in folders, and move them to other pages, or screens. You can also reorder your pages.
Organize your apps
Touch and hold any app on the screen, then tap Edit Home Screen.
Now you can drag any app to another spot, including the Dock at the bottom of the screen.
On iPhone X and later, tap Done to save. On iPhone 8 and earlier, press the Home button.
Put apps in a folder
If you have a lot of apps, you can put your related apps in folders.
To make a folder, drag an app onto another app.
If you want to rename the folder, tap the name field or and then enter the new name.
Now that you have a folder, you can drag apps into it. Folders can have more than one page.
Move an app to a different page
You start with one page of apps. To make a new page, drag an app to the right edge of the screen. You might need to wait a second for the new page to appear. To delete a page, consolidate all your apps to another Home screen. When there are no apps present the page will delete.
When you have more than one page, a bright dot in a row of dots above the Dock shows you which page you're on. You can move an app to a different page and create new pages:
If there are dots to the left or right of the bright dot, you can drag an app to the right side of the screen to move the app to the next page in that direction. Or swipe left to see the apps on that page.
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Kriminals
KRIMINALS Kriminals Is a unique gathering of indavisuals, striving to acheive there goals in a passionate manner. Starting out as a local street gang from south Austin Texas, in the early 90s gave them a understanding of the trials and tribulations in life, that we all face. Rather than self destructing which was a high probability, they rose to the challenge of surviving this dirty game. In the process of staying a float they picked up the knowledge needed for there long journey ahead. As in what is seen so often in Texas, freestylin was a large part of there recreational lives! Often they received compliments and suggestions of getting more serious about what at the time was just a hobby. Soon, taking head to the advice of there peers they began to do just that, and become more serious about music and how they could create it. At that time (2003) they began to put money, man hours, and sweat into what was starting to become a job. Starting with (Kriminals-Chapter 1) a raw show of talent they began there quest. Next up was (Kriminals-Kriminalistic minds) Which was giant show of progression and skill in this trade they were taking on. Both of these albums were released in 2003. 2004 brung the year where they got a full understanding that they were on to something. Yet in there lives things were rough so things were not moving as fat as they would have liked. With the mind set of keep going and not once thinking of quiting they began working on(Kriminals-Kriminals on the loose). With the understanding that this could be done, They took there time puting passion and lots of hard workstriving to put out classic tracks that could be played trough the ages. In the process of the recording of this album they got there first oppurtunity to perform along with life long friend NICK-D live at the Historic Victory Grill. The first show was a huge success blowing up the stage and opening the door for many performances to come. Over the next year they open for big name artist such as Webbie, 8 Ball & MJG, Big Tuck,Big Moe Dirty Wormz etc..... and at least 25 shows in venuse such as Antones,Ruta mayas, Troubadours, Red 7,Spiros, 311 and many others. Then came 2006 where they bgan workin on ther best peice of work up to date which is (Kriminals- The Games We Play) which far exceeded in talent passion and original classics for a larger audience to reach! All in all Kriminals Is a up and coming group out of South Austin Texas, looking to make a stain and music that can last trought the ages.
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UPS to add 12,000 pickup locations inside retail stores beginning in 2020
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by Talk Business & Politics staff (staff2@talkbusiness.net) July 24, 2019 12:29 pm 116 views
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United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) said it will add 12,000 new package pickup locations inside CVS, Michaels and Advance Auto Parts stores beginning Jan. 1. The move is in response to the growth in online shopping and pressures for faster delivery and reduced costs.
The new locations will give the Atlanta-based transport company 21,000 pickup points in the U.S. Globally, the company will have 40,000. Also in January, the company will offer pickup and delivery services seven days a week. The company’s main competitor for delivery of online orders is the U.S. Post Office, which does make deliveries on Sunday.
UPS also said it plans to establish a subsidiary unit that will focus on expanding drone delivery operations. That is now limited to transporting medical samples at a group of hospitals in Raleigh, N.C.
UPS has filed for certification from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the subsidiary called UPS Flight Forward. The certification would allow UPS to fly drones beyond line of sight, at night and with an unlimited number of drones and operators in command, the company said.
In the drone delivery race, Amazon and Google are also making headway. Google announced in April its Wing Aviation affiliate obtained federal approval to make commercial deliveries by drone. Wing will begin operation with flights in Virginia later this year. Google is the first to get FAA approval for making commercial deliveries by drone in the U.S.
In June, Amazon unveiled its latest version of the Prime Air delivery drone. The hybrid aircraft is capable of vertical takeoff and landing as well as sustained forward flight.
Amazon said it wants to launch a delivery service using the drone in “the coming months,” but has not said where that might take place or how many customers it might cover.
Amazon said its goal for the finished Prime Air service is to create “fully electric drones that can fly up to 15 miles and deliver packages under five pounds to customers in less than 30 minutes.” Amazon said between 70% and 90% of items purchased online are under that weight limit.
Amazon is still awaiting FAA approval on the new design.
CO2 emissions are projected to decrease 2% in 2019
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MIT Sloan is a different kind of management school. We’re not iterating on a better widget or cashing in on the latest business fad. We’re not talking about management in the abstract. As part of the world’s leading research institution, we’re bringing together today’s brightest minds to tackle global challenges. For real.
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A liquid metal battery for grid-level energy storage
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MIT Sloan expert on why paternity leave matters
5 years ago - Getting away from the cult of motherhood: Why paternity leave is so important — Lotte Bailyn Sports radio isn’t a typical venue for impassioned debate on work-family issues and employment policy. But recently when Daniel Murphy took three days off from his job as second baseman for the New York Mets to be with his wife as she delivered their newborn son, it became just that. Two WFAN broadcasters — Mike Francesa and Boomer Esiason — took to the airwaves to rebuke Murphy’s absence.
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Where Economy Meets Ecology
5 years ago - Think of a city as a complex organism powered by human activities and consumption. John E. Fernández, associate professor in the Department of Architecture, wants to understand how the urban metabolism works—what it needs in terms of energy, materials, and water to sustain the work and lives of its residents, and what gets discarded as waste. “When we speak of a healthy city,” says Fernández, “we are really focusing on whether it strikes a balance between economic growth and resource efficiency.”
Sustainable Brands® Community to Showcase New Business Performance Metrics
5 years ago - Sustainable Brands® recently announced the program and conversation leaders for its annual Sustainable Brands New Metrics’14 conference, scheduled for September 24-26 in Boston, MA. In partnership with MIT Sloan School of Management Sustainability Initiative, this event is a gathering point for sustainability executives, business strategists and financial leaders who are focused on the forefront of corporate practices and performance indicators that quantify environmental and social impacts and tie them to financial value.
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Rethinking the Role of the Sustainability Executive
5 years ago - For too long, sustainability executives have been focused on external stakeholders — selling their company’s story in order to build reputation and fill polished social responsibility reports.Now, according to a recent MIT Sloan Management Review article by George Mason University’s Gregory Unruh, sustainability managers have had enough. They’re turning their gaze inward, to the functional managers and line employees who control the management tools — budget, staffing, incentives, etc. — to make change happen.
Whether or Not We're 'Flourishing' Is a True Measure of Sustainability
5 years ago - John R. Ehrenfeld, author of Flourishing: A Frank Conversation About Sustainability, contends that the world is more unsustainable now than in 1972 in spite of the sustainability programs of firms worldwide.In his recent post, Ehrenfeld argues that sustainability strategies and programs fail to address the fundamental causes of unsustainability, because most economies and companies still pursue growth beyond the capacity of our planet to support it.
Engaging Outraged Stakeholders: The Power of Engagement (Part 1 of 2)
6 years ago - This is the first in a series of excerpts from Engaging Outraged Stakeholders: A How-To Guide for Uniting the Left, Right, Capitalists and Activists (Affinity Press, 2013), the new book from Future 500, co-written by CEO Bill Shireman, COO Erik Wohlgemuth and VP of Stakeholder Engagement Danna Pfahl. We begin with the first of two posts that make up Chapter Two: The Power of Engagement.
Collaborative Consumption and the Sharing Economy in Developing Markets
6 years ago - This is an edited excerpt from Pablo Barros' upcoming book, Behaviour change, consumption and sustainability: how companies can influence individuals in a world in transition, due for publication in September 2013.
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Reccos: Garm Hava
sputnik, February 16, 2012 August 4, 2015 , Member Reviews, Reccos, Reviews, 1
This review was written by me a few years ago.
Director: M.S Sathyu
Cast: Balraj Sahni, Gita Siddharth, Jalal Agha, Farooque Shaikh, A K Hangal, Jamal Hashmi
Garm Hava, based on an unpublished short story by Ismat Chugtai, is one of the finest movies ever made in India. It deals with the trials and tribulations of an Indian Muslim family during the post partition years. Salim Mirza (Balraj Sahni), an ever optimistic businessman, has to face a lot of difficulties, trying to keep his shoemaking business afloat in the wake of all the distrust and angst caused by partition. His relatives and family members start migrating to Pakistan. His ancestral house is taken over by the custodian, his young daughter’s fiance is arrested and deported to Pakistan and his son cannot find a job and is told to migrate to Pakistan. He clings on to hope that things will get better but a personal tragedy and all the humiliation meted out to him deal a final death blow to his optimism. Will he too move to Pakistan or stay back and fight it out is what the movie is about.
Some of the scenes remain in your mind long after watching the movie like the scene which shows Salim’s elder brother giving a speech in a rally that “even if all muslims leave India he would still be in India” and the scene immediately after that or the scene where Salim Mirza’s mother does not want to leave the haveli and hides in a woodshed or the scene where her whole life revolves before her eyes just before her death or the scene where Amina(Gita Siddharth) finally gives in to Jamal Agha’s protestations of love or the scene where Amina finds out that Shamshad (Jamal Agha) is getting married to another girl. The only thing a little unsettling for the average audience would be the abstract ending.
Balraj Sahni is brilliant as Salim Mirza. This is arguably his best performance. He captures the resilience, optimism and the never give up spirit so well. Gita Siddharth is brilliant as the daughter on whom circumstances play a cruel joke. Jalal Agha, Farooque Shaikh, A K Hangal, Dinanath Zutshi and Jamal Hashmi all deliver very good performances.
Kaifi Azmi has adapted the story well. His dialogues and the couplets like “Gita ki na koi sunta na Quran ki sunta… (No one heeds the Gita, no one heeds the Koran)” are very good. There are no songs except for one qawwali by Ustad Bahadur Khan, beautifully shot at the Tomb of Salim Chishti. The Taj Mahal scenes are very beautiful too.
M S Sathyu’s direction is brilliant. He wonderfully captures the Muslim culture. The scenes where Balraj and Farooque Shaikh talk into a camera are brilliantly done. The film is filled with one heart wrenching scene after another. The movie shows how an average family is affected by a big thing like partition.
This film was nominated for the Golden Palm Award at the Cannes Film Festival, 1974. It won the Filmfare Awards for Best Dialogue (Kaifi Azmi), Best Screenplay (Kaifi Azmi & Shama Zaidi) and Best Story (Ismat Chugtai & Kaifi Azmi). It also won the National Award for the best film on National Integration (1974) and was India’s official entry for the Oscars. Garm Hava is the best movie dealing with the aftermath of partition and is a movie that every Indian and Pakistani should watch.
Rating: 4.5 / 5 (Brilliant)
Tags: A K Hangal Balraj Sahni Cannes Farooque Shaikh Filmfare Award Garm Hava Gita Siddharth Jalal Agha Jamal Hashmi M.S Sathyu Member Reviews Reccos Reviews
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Director: Kathryn Bigelow Cast: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Christian Camargo, Evangeline Lilly, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse, Guy...
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I, Me Aur Main Public Reviews
sputnik, March 1, 2013 October 26, 2018 , Public Reviews, Reviews, 0
Pictures from Sets of BarfeeEkk Deewana Tha Movie Review By Taran Adarsh
From the official website
‘I do not have the language to describe the beautiful, painful sensitivity of the visuals and the sounds of ‘Garm Hava’. And though it is painful, it has a raw strength, too. If Ghalib was the singer of political gloom after 1857, this film is the chronicle of robust hope after 1947.
– Film Fare
…in many ways Garm Hava is the most important film made since independence. Never before has the camera tackled one of the most sensitive issues of our time, the communal situation, with such courage and incisiveness.
– Times Of India.
“Garm Hava” is the most courageous piece of political cinema to be seen here for a long time.
– Hindustan Times.
It is a film which sets you thinking and this can be said of very few films made in this country. “Garm Hava” is one of the most important films of our times. It is not an intellectual film. There is nothing esoteric about it. But it is a filmic experience of great power.
– The Indian Express.
“Garm Hava” is one of the most important films to be made in recent months in this country – in fact, one of the most significant movies ever. It is a film with no false notes, no melodramas, no over-playing and no gimmicks, but a film which is narrated in an-off-the cuff style.
– The Sunday Standard.
Sathyu achieves world class with this film. Every actor and actress has been cast in the right role and there is nothing that is out of place. Blaraj has left this film as a memorial to us and no sensitive personw ill fail to realie the effort that has gone in making this film. It is beautiful. Go, see it to believe that India can make such films.
– Film World.
It is a bold attempt to break out of the circle formation of the Indian cinema. A circle of conventional love, cheap comedy and pointless violence. Here is a sensitive theme handled with courage and imagination, a bold experiement for whicht eh producers and directors deserves kudos. The highly urduised dialogue is sharp and the photography is slick. There is harldy a dull moment in the entire sequence…
– Economic Times.’
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By T21 on January 11, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )
A Nigerian movie shown by Netflix is a big deal. Oh yes when it was announced it would be showing on Netflix I was overjoyed at the achievement a movie made in Nigeria for Nigeria could achieve and it was no coincidence Netflix saw it because I also saw it. Without further ado let us go into the Movie.
Genevieve Nnaji, Pete Edochie and Nkem Owoh
A Movie which had Pete Edochie, Kanayo O. Kanayo, Onyeka Onwenu, Phyno, MR. P (Peter Okoye), Jemima Osunde, Nkem Owoh and the Delectable and amazing Genevieve nothing short of amazing was expected and amazing we got considering Genevieve also wrote the movie.
The movie was totally different considering it was a South Eastern Movie and shot away in the East not in Lagos as is usually the case caught my attention. The movie is about a transport Company owned by Pete Edochie but run by his daughter Genevieve. They had the dream of making sure this indigenous company got the contract to run BRT buses in Enugu Mr Obiagu collected loans to get fleet of buses for the contract before he fell ill and appointed his brother Godswill played by the funny Nkem Owoh and Genevieve to run the company in his absence. Unfortunately, they both found out they had 30days to get the loan repaid or the company would be taken over, they had to come up with a plan to savage the company. With time running out, their fiercest rival in Igwe Pascal (Kanayo. O. Kanayo. Our very own Supervillain) trying to buy the company over they had to come up with a plan to savage the company.
I am tempted to summarize the whole movie, but I promised myself I would not so that those that have not made up their mind to watch it would go ahead and do so and would not have to deal with my spoiler. Lol
Genevieve and Jemima Osunde
So, my thoughts regarding the movie then; First and foremost, the lighting, audio, cinematography, continuity was splendid to say the least. Everything felt crisp and proper. If I could compare it to a type of food, you definitely know it is the REAL Nigerian Jollof lol. The promotion of our indigenous language was also something I truly enjoyed in the movie. Especially at the dining table with all the family member there. I probably did not understand a word spoken on that table, but I honestly felt like a member of the family just watching it. It felt really like home. The angle of the camera also was perfect. Just a line of English was spoken on that table and it was by Genevieve when she said, “Leave me out of this biko”. Also, an Indigenous motor company was used in INNOSON Motors which means a whole lot to me that our indigenous company are being promoted in the movie. In as much as the movie showed the great side of the state, they did not fail to show the true state of things also. Like in the Prisons with the right cell and Police uniform. The Car park where people enter cars to travel was a major plus. The only person I probably did not believe his acting enough was Peter Okoye, but you cannot blame the man, he is a musician and not an actor after all. Also, another part I noticed a glitch was when Genevieve’s uncle asked her who Igwe Pascal was and she said she did not know who he was and what he wanted, but fast forward to that same day she was describing who he was and why he wanted to buy out the company. She should know who their competition is and if she did not honestly know, then she cannot just know few hours later without showing us how she knew. Also, how board meetings are called and how cooperate law is being run, a thorough research was not done in this respect we can forgive them though for that part.
The swap of clothing in the Prison was another major master stroke that I really gave a thumbs up to and showing the beautiful city of Kano from the air, made my hour watching the movie worth it. My best quote of the movie was from Abigail to her daughter Adaeze played by Genevieve “God does not give us a situation that he has not equipped us for”. So true if you ask me. Also, Ernest Obiagu’s (Pete Edochie) line to his daughter Adaeze “You are the pendulum of my life, if you stop swinging then I’m done”. They also promoted the saying “boy or girl, who the cap fits let him wear it”. Which should be our motto in Africa. Phyno should be singing and not miming to his own song though just the same way Peter was singing a Psquare song. It should not be that hard. Also, the Inter tribe relationship that was brewing was amazing. More of that should be encouraged. We are Nigerians afterall.
Phyno and Genevieve
All in all, it is worth the hype. What a way to start the year if you ask me. I will rate it a FOUR STAR out of FIVE, yes that is how much I thoroughly enjoyed it. Go to the cinemas and watch LIONHEART. If you do have NETFLIX you can also catch it there. You will not regret you did believe me.
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Where Have All the Angels Gone?
Rewind a decade. Angel investing was an important part of the Startupland ecosystem. Today, you can't make the same argument. 2018 observed the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010. Angels led 156 rounds last year, a figure that collapsed from 714 in 2015. In that same time period, the median angel round has fallen from $500k to $270k. And the total number of dollars invested by angels halved from a peak of $365M to $177M.
Angel investing used to account for nearly one-quarter of the dollars at the very first round. Today, it's 4.3%, an 81% decline. What's happening to the very earliest stages of the fund raising market?
The answer? Institutional seed has come to dominate the first round of capital. It's massively outstripped any growth in angel investing, growing from about $0.5B annually to just about $4B in 8 years.
Seed fund checks are larger than angel checks, which corroborate what we all observe to be the case: valuations and round sizes at the very earliest stages are rising. Institutional seed funds might respond to this trend by writing bigger checks, raising bigger funds, raising opportunity funds or concentrating their portfolios. Angel investors, on the other hand, seem either to be walking away, or raising an institutional seed fund of their own.
This pattern is broadly true across the top six states by angel round dollars, but Georgia and Colorado are bucking the trend to some extent. Look at Georgia - a sign of things to come or an anomaly, I wonder.
What does this mean for startupland? Startup investing is no longer a cottage industry. It's formalized, a standalone asset class deploying $100B a year. And the earliest stages are no exception.
As one of my partners told me recently, venture investing in the valley started with six men who would lunch on Thursdays and syndicate investing because none could write a big enough check to cover a round on their own. We're a long way from a white linen tablecloth lunch at a San Francisco oyster bar.
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Posts Tagged ‘The Red Wheelbarrow
Poetry Assignments: The Book (Online): Responses; or Calling All Poets (Dead & Alive); or Talking to Eternity
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Categories: Poetry, poetry assignments and Poetry Prompts
Tags: Andrew Marvell, Anne Carson, Beatrice, Calling All Poets (Dead & Alive), Dante, Flossie Williams, fragment 24C, fragment 24D, Imaginary Worlds, Kat Smith, Michelle Bonczek, Mike Dockins, Monsoon, poetry, poetry assignments, Poetry Assignments: The Book, Poetry Prompts, Redactions: Poetry & Poetics, rejection, Responses, Sapphic love, Sappho, Talking to Eternity, The Divine Comedy, The Red Wheelbarrow, The Wally Stevens Anecdote, The Wrath of Flossie, To His Coy Mistress, W. C. Williams, W. S. Merwin, William Carlos Williams, William Heyen, writing prompts
“The Cave” by Brian Warner. Used with the permission of Brain Warner.
or 100 Jackhammers for the Poet with Writer’s Block;
or 100 Ways to Jumpstart the Engine;
or 100 Pencil Exercises;
or 100 Ways to Stimulate Your Next Wine, Cheese, & Poetry Night
Finding the First, Discovering the Middle, & Chasing the End
Science, the Universe, Time, & Other Evolutions
Fun with Letters, Words, Language, & Languages
Forms: Obscure, Updated, & Invented
New School; or Double Vision; or WWI (Writing While Intoxicated) & Its Repercussions
Miscellany; Trying to Relate the Unrelated; or These Gotta Go Some Place . . . So Here
Stupid Money, Dumb Politicians, & Celebrating America
Responses; or Calling All Poets (Dead & Alive); or Talking to Eternity
The Dr. Carlos Response Poem
Write a response to William Carlos Williams‘ “The Red Wheelbarrow.” There is enough information in this poem to piece together a story, i.e. the wheel barrow is glazed with rain water suggests it has recently rained. You may even want to fill in the spaces between the words or lines in the “The Red Wheelbarrow.”
(9-16-06 addendum) Notice how each stanza in the poem looks like the profile of a wheelbarrow. Thanks for sharing that observation, William Heyen.
The Dr. Carlos Response Poem II: The Wrath of Flossie
Pretend you are Flossie Williams (Dr. Carlos’ wife) after having read the following note on the refrigerator door:
a: The Dr. Carlos Response Poem III: City Talk
Yes, another response poem idea, but . . . Ok.
In Dr. Carlos’ Paterson, at times it seems the city of Paterson is trying to talk or is being talked for, though sometimes it is Dr. Paterson. So here’s the assignment: pretend you are a city writing a poem.
Other alternatives are to be a mountain or a lake, but something with a history & a story or stories to tell. I guess this means you are limited to narrative, but if you can break free of that, then most cool!
b: The Beatific Beatrice Response, or Dante? Who’s He?
From what I’ve learned, Dante & Beatrice met only four brief times, but Dante was horribly in love with Beatrice. And I think Beatrice didn’t pay him much mind after their visits.
With that in mind, we should explore how Beatrice felt after The Divine Comedy was finished & published. How would she have responded?
c: Beatrice Takes A Journey With Sappho, or Hell Hath No Fury Like a Beatrice with a Pen
Write a new Divine Comedy but from the point of view of Beatrice & using Sappho as her guide. Or maybe just write a canto for the Inferno, a canto for Purgatorio, & a canto for Paradisio.
Sapphic Love
As we know, we only have one complete & full poem/song of Sappho. The rest are all in fragments. Sometimes translators leave those blanks in their translation. This assignment, which I imagine has been done before, attempts to fill in those blanks – not all blanks to all her poems, but for just the blanks of one poem. For instance, consider fragment 24C:
]we live
the opposite
or 24D
]in a thin voice
Quoted lines from If Not, Winter by Anne Carson, copyright © 2002 by Anne Carson.
Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.
So put words, lines, stanzas where the brackets are.
One may also just take a fragment like “I would not think to touch the sky with two arms” (fragment 52) & wrap a poem around it.
I imagine in your final draft, to tip your hat, you should italicize Sappho’s words.
Other poems with only fragments from poets like Anakeron or the iamb inventor Archilocos, etc. can be used in place of Sappho.
Good Sappho books are 7 Greeks by Guy Davenport (NY: New Directions, 1980), or If Not, Winter by Anne Carson (NY: Vintage, 2002). The former is awesome, & the latter is equally as impressive. Mary Barnard’s book, while also impressive & awesome, doesn’t leave the blanks.
This One’s for the Ladies; or “Oh, Please. Enough With the Worms, Already. If That’s What You Want to Call It”; or “Andy, Andy, Andy. Will It Ever End With You?”
Andrew Marvell wrote a wonderful poem, among many others. But the one we are concerned with is “To His Coy Mistress,” which is quoted below.
Alas, then. You are to be the Coy Mistress & respond to Andy’s pleas. Using meter & rhyme might be nice, or you can contemporize the whole situation if you wish. That’s it.
To His Coy Mistress
Had we but World enough, and Time,
This coyness Lady were no crime.
We would sit down, and think which way
To walk, and pass our long Loves Day.
Thou by the Indian Ganges side
Should’st Rubies find: I by the Tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the Flood:
And you should if you please refuse
Till the Conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable Love should grow
Vaster then Empires, and more slow.
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine Eyes, and on thy Forehead Gaze.
Two hundred to adore each Breast:
But thirty thousand to the rest.
An Age at least to every part,
And the last Age should show your Heart.
For Lady you deserve this State;
Nor would I love at lower rate.
But at my back I alwaies hear
Times winged Charriot hurrying near:
And yonder all before us lye
Desarts of vast Eternity.
Thy Beauty shall no more be found;
Nor, in thy marble Vault, shall sound
My ecchoing Song: then Worms shall try
That long preserv’d Virginity:
And your quaint Honour turn to dust;
And into ashes all my Lust.
The Grave’s a fine and private place,
But none I think do there embrace.
Now therefore, while the youthful hew
Sits on thy skin like morning dew
And while thy willing Soul transpires
At every pore with instant Fires,
Now let us sport us while we may;
And now, like am’rous birds of prey,
Rather at once our Time devour,
Than languish in his slow-chapt pow’r.
Let us roll all our Strength, and all
Our sweetness, up into one Ball:
And tear our Pleasures with rough strife,
Thorough the Iron gates of Life.
Thus, though we cannot make our Sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.
Dealing with Rejection
With my 99th literary-rejection letter just received, & number one hundred at hand [as of November 7, 2016, I am at 1085 rejection letters], I was reminded of Mike Dockins’ poem “Monsoon” about his one hundredth rejection letter, which then sparked this assignment.
Your assignment is to write a poem dealing with rejection, & if it deals with rejection letters from literary journals, all the better, & perhaps even more preferred.
Here’s Dockins’ poem, which first appeared in 5 AM & also appeared on Verse Daily on February 18, 2004:
Dear 100th rejection slip, I am learning to spell
monsoon. I look forward to your square blue ocean:
starfish and whales of polite sentences wriggling
on harpoons, black tide awash with monsoon,
my lamp a fiery moon rising on krilly semi-colons,
maybe a sleek marine scribble. Soon, soon.
I see the in the Arabian Sea, approach Panaji
from the southwest. How kindergarten, how 1978,
how monsoon. I am in love with your maps
and hieroglyphs – how jejune. When you cry
à la loon from my blustery mailbox I’m going
to order a fat drink speckled with plankton,
festooned with a paper umbrella bending in
monsoon, tiny tsunamis crashing the salted rim.
I might even kiss the postal clerk, Irishman
that I am, monsoon I long to be. I’m a candle-boat
on the anniversary of something terrible
and beautiful, some atom balloon, adrift on
a waveless lagoon, wailing monsoon monsoon.
Used by permission of 5 A.M.
On Second Thought
This one has a long tradition, & now it’s your turn. You are to write a response poem to one of your friend’s poems. You can pick up on a theme & say “Yes, & in addition to that . . .” or “No. It’s more like this . . .” or “What about this?” Etc. (Of course, phrase those utterances with a more poetic sensibility.) Most important, it’s gotta be a response to your buddy’s poem!
Here, Let Me Try
This is in line with the above assignment, “On Second Thought.” This time, however, you will take one of your buddy’s poems & revise it for him/her.
Whether you keep the revisions for yourself (& be a kinda cool literary thief who won’t go to jail, but who may have to buy their buddy a bottle of wine if the poem comes out good – you know, a fine) or whether you return it (like Ez did with The Waste Land to Tom) is up to you.
This idea comes to me from Kat Smith after she heard W.S. Merwin read a poem at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA. It is also something that Lorca has done, & should provide for a good summer long exercise.
The assignment is a celebration of our clothes.
You are to write a poem about a particular piece of clothing you wear or someone else wears.
I plan on writing every time I go to the laundromat, so by the end of summer, & after all the laundry, I hope to have a series of clothing poems.
Ok. Go Sing, celebrate, & clean your clothes.
The Wally Stevens Anecdote
[This assignment arose from a Michelle Bonczek idea, and is used with permission.]
It is simple. Here it is.
Write a poem with the title “Anecdote of Me Reading a Wallace Stevens Poem.” You can insert your name in place of “Me.” I imagine you can do it with any poet, but I imagine it is funnier with a Wally Stevens poem.
Art Response Poem
Find a painting or a sculpture, one that isn’t too famous or popular, & write a poem about it, or a response to it, or let it evoke something. Perhaps even create a narrative about the scene. The Pre-Raphaelites might be most helpful for the latter.
Thing and All: Reading W. C. Williams Spring and All Through a Thing Theory Lens
Tags: "Thinking Things", A Homemade World: The American Modernist, A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature, Bill Brown, Gertrude Stein, he Continuity of American Poetry, Hugh Kenner, Natalie Gerber, no ideas but in things, pring and All: Foraging a Link to the Present Moment, Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose, Roy Harvey Pearce, Sacred Emily, Spring and All, Steven Connor, The Movements of the Imagination Revealed in Words, The Red Wheelbarrow, The Rose, Thing Theory, Travis P. Timmons, W. C. Williams, William Carlos Williams, XXII
Below I read William Carlos Williams Spring and All through a Thing Theory lens in an attempt to understand “Thing Theory.” My understanding of Thing Theory may not be complete, so if you have suggestions and/or want to clear up any of my misunderstandings, please leave a comment below.
Thing and All
In Bill Brown’s “Introduction” to A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature, he makes a comment about Williams Carlos Williams and Williams’s Spring and All when he writes, Williams “seems to understand the process of wresting things away from life and experience to be the essential dynamic of the artist’s endeavor” (2). Later on, however, Brown misunderstands the meaning of Williams “no ideas but in things,” a quote from Williams that appears a few years later than Spring and All in the poem “Paterson.” In that misunderstanding, Brown also misses out on an opportunity to read Spring and All through a Thing Theory lens. By reading Spring and All through a Thing Theory lens, and asking some of the questions Brown asks in “Introduction” about how to read literature, Thing Theory can illuminate how Williams enables the reader of his poems to see things as aesthetic items devoid of utilitarian value and to objectify latent pleasure within the thing as beauty.
Thing Theory’s main focus is on things, especially in relation to objects, or how things transform into objects and objects into things. For Brown, a thing can be encountered in two manners, and in either manner “we only catch a glimpse of things” (Brown “Thing Theory” 4) before they are transformed into objects. One way is to encounter an item is to interact with it as a percept, or thing, before language intervenes and transforms the thing into an object with meaning. Perhaps this can best be explained by seeing something for the first time and not knowing what it is, or imagining a baby first perceiving an item, or even imagining how an animal might witness an item for the first time – all occurrences are in a sudden pre-linguistic state. It is from this “amorphousness out of which objects are materialized by the (ap)perceiving subject” (5). The other way to encounter a thing is to “imagine things [. . .] as what is excessive in objects” (5). That is to say, objects are things that have accumulated meaning (whether from culture, tradition, history, etc.) or have a use value, and to strip away those meanings and utilitarian values is to find or encounter the thing as it really is. Brown points out that “We begin to confront the thingness of objects when they stop working for us” (5). For instance, if a person has a flashlight and the batteries in it die, then the flashlight can no longer beam light. Instead of a flashlight, the person now holds a cylinder of plastic with no use value. As a result, the relation between the object and subject change, where the subject is the perceiver of the thing/object, user of the thing/object, or the person who gives the thing meaning or name. With a flashlight that doesn’t beam light, the subject has to create a new relation with the plastic thing, which the subject could render useless or transform into something new, like a hammer. In other words, as Steven Connor points out, “Objects are what we know, objects are things that know their place, and whose place we know” (1), and once the subject no longer knows the object, it loses its use value, or the object loses its place, the object becomes a thing. Much of Modern poetry is also concerned with the thing, and it tries to rediscover objects or relocate them into environments where they have new meanings and aesthetic values. This can be done in a variety of ways, such as using the mythic method or through non-representational means. As a result, Thing Theory becomes a useful tool for reading poetry from the Modernism era, especially in order “to imagine a work of art as a different mode of mimesis – not one that serves a thing, but one that seeks to attain the status of thing” (“Brown “Introduction” 3).
The fundamental impulse of Modernist poetry is to find or create utopia. For some poets, such as T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, this utopia is found in the past, and for other poets, such William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens, this utopia is in the future or what can be created now. These poets who find utopia in the past, or mythic poets as Roy Harvey Pearce calls them, see history as static and believe that there are a set of beliefs that hold true everywhere and at all times. Without these beliefs, T. S. Eliot’s objective correlative could not exist, because its underlying premise is that there are symbols that speak to all people in the same way. For the mythic poets, the past is something a person wants to return to because it holds an existence as it should be. These poets use objects and all the cultural, linguistic, traditional, mythic, and historical residue that has accumulated on them over the centuries as a means of expression. For Eliot, to use an object or symbol is for him to use all the meanings and allusions that are associated with that word or object and then relocate the object into a new environment. For him, the rose, for example, will carry all the symbolism and tradition that comes with the rose.
The poets who see utopia in the future or as a form of creation, however, think differently. These poets, or the Adamic poets as Roy Harvey Pearce calls them, want to break from this tradition. These poets want to scrape off all the cultural, linguistic, traditional, mythic, and historical accumulation and residue that has gathered on an object in order to see the thing again and then to recreate the thing into a new object in order to create and direct the foundational terms of culture. The poet wants his/her audience to feel a rupture from their expectations of art and how they live. An example of this rupture happening occurs with William Carlos Williams’s Spring and All.
Spring and All is collection of poems and prose pieces that was released in 1923 from Contact Publishing in a print run of 300 copies, and it acts and often reads as a manifesto to what poetry should do in the modern era, at least what Williams wants to do, anyway. It acts in a manner to support what Williams will say a few years later in his poem “Paterson” (which precedes by a number of years the epic poem Paterson), “no ideas but in things,” and this “no idea but in things” is at the heart of Thing Theory despite Brown’s misunderstanding of it in his “Introduction” to A Sense of Things, where Brown writes:
Williams’s creed [“no idea but in things”] violates his own poetic practice of rendering things – “a red wheel / barrow” – in their opacity, not their transparency. “No ideas but in things” should be read as a slip of the pen: a claim – on behalf of replacing abstractions with physical facts – that unwittingly invests objects with interiority, whereas Williams meant to evacuate objects of their insides and to arrest their doubleness, their vertiginous capacity to be both things and signs (symbols, metonyms, or metaphors) of something else. (11)
Since Brown refers to the now very well-known poem “The Red Wheelbarrow,” or “XXII” as it appears in Spring and All (see “Attachment A: ‘The Red Wheelbarrow’”), I can point out Brown’s misunderstandings while at the same time viewing the poem through the Thing Theory lens. Just prior to this poem are three other poems and a little over two pages of prose. In the prose sections of this book, Williams sets up points of his manifesto for a new poetry and/or how the old poetry is no longer adequate. The prose sections are then followed with an example of what he means or wants to accomplish by presenting one of his poems or a group of poems that perform what the prose has said it wants poetry to perform. In the prose section before “The Red Wheelbarrow,” one concern for Williams is to mark the distinctions between prose and poetry and between fact and imagination. For Williams, prose is a “statement of facts concerning emotions, intellectual states, data of all sorts – technical expositions, jargon, of all sorts – fictional and other” (219), and prose “is the accuracy of its subject matter” (219). Poetry, however, is a “new form dealt with as a reality itself” (219) and is “related to the movements of the imagination revealed in words – or whatever it may be –” (219). Natalie Gerber explains Williams’s distinctions more clearly:
Poetry’s organization frees words from their usual discursive burdens of making and securing meanings. Whereas the form of prose is determined by its need to present an exposition of facts, poetry situates words as the transcription of immediate perceptions that are serially considered and modified, and yield in turn to further clarifications. (13)
In other words, Williams is rendering things, and the rendering is accomplished through the imagination rendering things physical as they are, or rendering their opacity and not their transparency. Turning back to “The Red Wheelbarrow,” we can see Williams’s idea in practice. The first two lines of the poem open in abstraction, “so much depends / upon” before it turns to the physical world. So on one level, Brown is partially correct, as Williams is replacing the abstractions with physical facts. However, Williams’s poem is actually moving like the imagination through words. The opening of the poem, and the prose that precedes it, is actually cleansing the reader’s lenses of perception in order to see new again (to re-see) and not necessarily replacing abstractions with the physical. As Brown says in a different essay, “Thing Theory,”:
The story of objects asserting themselves as things, then, is the story of a changed relation to the human subject and thus the story of how the thing really names less an object than a particular subject-object relation. (4)
This is what Williams is doing. He is changing the relation of the subject and object. And what’s being named are not the objects but the reader coming out of abstractions (“so much depends / upon”) and then seeing, as if for the first time, a red wheelbarrow. Actually, first the reader sees “a red wheel” and then, after the line break (“a red wheel / barrow”), the reader sees a red wheelbarrow in full. The reader’s relationship has changed thrice. Twice by looking at the thing before and after the line break and once by looking though the dependency – “so much depends / upon” (“The Red Wheelbarrow” 1-2). In addition, the reader sees the wheelbarrow in a stationary position. It is not being used to carry or move anything, such as mulch, feed, or seeds. The wheelbarrow has no utilitarian value. In fact, one could say, as Brown does, “You could imagine things [. . .] as what is excessive in objects, as what exceeds their mere materialization as objects or their mere utilization as objects” (“Thing Theory” 5). In other words, an object becomes a thing when the object loses its use value, as the wheelbarrow does here. But the wheelbarrow does gain another value – an aesthetic value – and not only because it is in a poem. It is because it is red. There is no need to paint a wheelbarrow, unless it is made of metal so as to protect it from rust. This wheelbarrow from 1923, however, was most likely a wooden wheelbarrow, and would not require coloring, except for aesthetic reasons. In fact, the paint, adds to the opacity of the thing, and not the transparency that Brown thought, as mentioned earlier. In addition, the wheelbarrow acquires value but not of a productive labor value, but it acquires the value that arises from the new subject-object relation, and this relation is an aesthetic relation. In addition, Williams redefines the object of the wheelbarrow, he strips it of its traditional use value and associations as a tool of labor, and returns the wheelbarrow to its thingness. Then, because he is a modern Adamic poet, Williams transforms the thing into a new object, or rather, Williams enables the reader to transform the thing into an object.
Thing Theory has other issues it is concerned with besides transforming objects into things and then into new objects. Some of the concerns can be addressed by answering the questions Brown asks about literature but by rephrasing those questions as questions concerning Williams’s Spring and All, such as: what does Spring and All do “with objects” (Brown “Introduction” 16)?; how does Spring and All “reinvest the subject/object dialectic with its temporal dimension” (16)?; does Williams turning things into objects, as a result, objectify the subject (17)?; and “how do objects mediate relations between subjects, and how do subject mediate the relation between objects” (18)? A reading of the poem “The Rose,” the only unnumbered poem in Spring and All (see “Attachment B: ‘The Rose’”), will help to answer these questions in relation to Spring and All, as a whole.
The first line of Williams’s “The Rose” is “The rose is obsolete,” but before the rose can become obsolete, Williams first must make the world surrounding the rose obsolete in order “[t]o refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we live” (Spring and All 178). Williams realizes “[t]here is a constant barrier between the reader and his consciousness of immediate contact with the world” (177), and much of the barrier comes from cultural, linguistic, traditional, mythic, symbolic, and historical barriers, and most of these barriers come from Europe. These barriers, according to Travis Timmons, prevent “us from making contact with and engaging the rose. So Williams’s poem [“The Rose”] seeks to recover this sort of encounter with the rose” (41). To accomplish removing the barrier, Williams declares war on Europe:
Tomorrow we the people of the United States are going to Europe armed to kill every man, woman and child in the area west of the Carpathian Mountains (also east) sparing none. [. . .] Kill! kill! the English, the Irish, the French, the Germans, the Italians, and the rest: friends or enemies, it makes no difference, kill them all. The bridge is to be blown up. (178-79)
When “the annihilation of every human creature on the face of the earth” has occurred, when this “holocaust” (179) is completed, when the destruction of the bridge to the past and European cultural values, symbols, and meanings, “[t]hen at last will the world be made anew” (179). The imagination previously “intoxicated by prohibitions” (179) will be freed. A new spring will rise, a new spring witnessed through the perception of poetry and seeing the thing blossom and “with a full realization of the meaning of ‘art’” (181).
As a result, Williams has established a world of things. A place where objects no longer have use value or meaning, and a place with a new subject-thing relation and the potential for a new subject-object relation. Williams has established a place where “The rose is obsolete” (“The Rose” 1). Meaning, the rose with all its European cultural, traditional, sentimental, symbolic, etc. accumulation and residue on the rose have been removed, so the rose is just a rose, which recalls Gertrude Stein’s a “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose” (“Sacred Emily” 187). What follows in Williams’s “The Rose” is the reconstruction of the rose, and as a result, the relation between subject and thing is reconstructed and “the oneness of experience” (Spring and All 194) is revealed.
In order to accomplish this, the reader needs to know how to re-see, or to see things as if for the first time. The prose section preceding the poem helps the reader understand how they can now use their imagination as a “means of expression, the essential nature of technique or transcription” (193) of reconstruction. The imagination, however, is only a tool. There is also a process of how the “subject mediate[s] the relation between objects” (Brown “Introduction” 18). This process, the process Williams will use in “The Rose” and other poems, uses the new Modern art techniques of Cubism and artist Juan Gris, as explained in the paragraph before “The Rose,” where Williams says, “the attempt is being made to separate things of the imagination from life [. . .] by using the forms common to experience so as not to frighten the onlooker away but to invite him,” (Spring and All 194). Notice how the paragraph ends with a comma before the poem begins. The comma separates, but it also invites. A period would be an end, but the comma suggests to the reader to continue. This comma is the first hint at the new technique of seeing anew – the collage method. The comma acts as place to begin the juxtapositions. On a literal level, it’s the juxtaposition of prose and poem, but it also hints at the workings of the poem, where the passive is juxtaposed with the active, and nature is juxtaposed with the mechanical, mathematical, artistic, metallurgy, romance, and the metaphysical.
After the opening line, the rose becomes active. Each rose petal’s edge is “cementing,” “cuts,” “meets,” and “renews / itself.” The rose through its actions is trying to define itself. In fact, at this point, the subject is a passive observer watching the rose redefine itself. Soon the subject’s passiveness becomes active and is actively perceiving the rose, “so that to engage roses / becomes a geometry” (12-13). In just these first few lines, the thing has imposed on the subject and then the subject has imposed on the thing. However, neither has redefined the other. The rose is still a rose, as the subject has not attached value or meanings to it. The rose is just asserting opacity through action. The subject while engaging the rose geometrically, realizing how its shape interacts with space, how its shape defines space and space defines the rose, the subject has still not recreated the rose. The rose is still a rose, and the subject is still learning how to interact with a thing, and to interact with the thing in the moment. The subject has not imposed old meanings and symbolic associations on to the rose nor has the subject made assumptions about the rose. At this moment, perhaps subject and thing are both things. The subject, yet defined, is only perceiving, and the thing, without meanings, has only begun to enter the new space. This new space will be collaged, and as we will see later, will become a place of definition.
“The Rose” begins with descriptive terms borrowed from the world of construction: “cementing,” “columns,” “metal,” and “porcelain”; then the poem brings in the mathematical term “geometry” (and later “infinitely”); moves to artistic terms, such as “majolica,” “plate,” and “glazed”; then moves to metallurgy with terms like “copper roses” and “steel roses”; then moves to romance with “love”; and eventually will end in the metaphysical world as the rose “penetrates / the Milky Way” and then “penetrates space.” Each one of the description presents a unique way of encounter the rose. It’s a collage of encounters, but each encounter uses the “forms common to experience” (Spring and All 194). Each encounter repositions the subject to have a new relation with the thing. That is, the subject can now choose how to interpret the rose. This is especially true in the fourth stanza, where the impression of a rose is given:
Sharper, neater, more cutting
figure in majolica –
the broken plate
glazed with a rose
On this plate, was a mimetic representation of a rose, and it was an even more precise rendering of the rose, as it was “Sharper, neater, more cutting” (14). This representation was made by a person (or subject) or a machine programmed by a person, but now the plate is broken and so is the image of the rose. Much like the war Williams waged on Europe, this broken plate has freed the rose from another form of representation. The mimetic rose is shattered. Its broken self is now only a collage of fragments. As a result, the plate no longer has use value and it no longer has aesthetic value, or it has the potential for newly rendered aesthetic value but without use value. The broken object, now a thing because its use value has been removed, forces the subject to interact with it in a new way. More important, though, is that the poem has forced the reader to interact with a mimetic rose stripped of its “glazed” context as well as a natural rose stripped of symbolism, tradition, cultural, and historic contexts. As a result, “Williams’s solution [to creating a thing] in this poem is to disavow the ‘crude symbolism’ accrued around the rose by creating a present moment in which the rose happens to us as an artistic event” (Timmons 41-42). The subject-thing relationship has changed for the second time, and it will change a third time, too.
Before the third transformation, however, the rose needs to be stripped of its only remaining association – its romantic associations. The rose needs to have the heavy symbolism of love removed from it because “love is at an end – of roses” (22). The rose can no longer be associated with love, at least not in same ways it has been for centuries. This love is now “at the edge of the / petal” (23-4), where the petal cuts into space, the space of renewal, as indicated in the first stanza. And while love waits there, in the next stanza it’s as if the rose has finally lost all its virility and is now impotent:
Crisp, worked to defeat
laboredness – fragile
plucked, moist, half-raised
cold, precise, touching
It’s delicate, limp, and without passion. All the accrued meanings of the rose have finally been removed and removed using mechanical, natural, and sensual word descriptions, which are the same types of words that tried to re-render the rose in this poem. In Gerber’s words, “Instead of confirming words in their emotional implications, this organization liberates words from their emotions. Words no longer convey ‘facts’ but are experienced as facts in themselves” (13). And this leads to the third transformation – the rose as poem.
In his “Introduction,” Bill Brown wonders: “The question of things becomes a question about whether the literary object should be understood as the object that literature represents or the object that literature has as its aim, the object that literature is” (3). In other words, is the poem a symbol of literature, much like the rose is a symbol of love, or is the poem a thing waiting to be rendered a literary object with meanings? Is the literary entity, such as a poem or collection of poems, mimetic, representational, or creative? To begin answering these questions, “The Red Wheelbarrow” needs to be revisited.
“The Red Wheelbarrow” is a 16-word sentence, and as Hugh Kenner points out in A Homemade World: The American Modernist, it is without rhetorical situation (59-60). It’s not a sentence, he thinks, that anyone would ever say, and if it was said, the person who heard it would “wince” (60). This sentence is really a collage of three items (wheelbarrow, rain water, and chickens) and one abstraction (the opening stanza) and is held together by three prepositions (“upon,” “with,” and “beside”). The poem has linguistic elements, though it lacks punctuation and rhetorical situation. In that sense, it’s not a traditional literary item, at least not in 1923. It has no symbolism or meanings. It is a thing, or as Kenner says:
But [“The Red Wheelbarrow”] hammered on the typewriter into a thing made, and this without displacing a single word except typographically, the sixteen words exists in a different zone altogether, a zone remote from the world of sayers and sayings.
That zone is what Williams in the 1920’s [sic] started calling “the Imagination.” (60)
In other words, Williams has created a thing from words. When these words are arranged, they are non-referential other than to themselves. That is, they have no allusive content, symbolism, or culturally imposed expectations, especially since they have no exterior or outside context. The reader can only assume the scene is on a farm, but the assumption is without certainty. In addition, the words do not create any meaning. They have no use value, other than to enter that “zone” of the imagination, that “Somewhere the sense / makes” (“The Rose” 18-19) things into objects and makes objects of aesthetic value. This poem does its best to take language and things out of a context, so they can be reinvented new by the reader. The poem has, thus, changed the subject-thing relationship and subject-object relationship, but on a slightly different level than mentioned in the earlier discussion of “The Red Wheelbarrow.”
“The Rose” is also redirecting the reader to see the rose as a poem. For instance, the poem “The Rose” begins to draw attention to itself in lines 29-31: “What // The place between the petal’s / edge and the.” The poem in its collage descriptions of the rose interrupts itself to ask “What do you mean that love is between the petal’s edge and air? What do you mean the petal’s edge cuts without cutting?” These questions become self-reflexive as we can now see the petals as the lines in the poem. Each line cuts into nothing, or into the page’s white space, and sometimes this is dramatically rendered with the em dashes at the ends of lines. Even the incomplete sentence, “The place between the petal’s / edge and the” (30-31) cuts into the white space and into the expectations of a completed thought, but the sentence is cut short. As a result, as Timmons points out, the actions of the poem and its lines:
encourages us to simply notice the poem happening on the page, rather than reducing the poem merely to a vehicle for meaning. Readers experience these words free from the conventional expectation that the edge is meant metaphorically. The edge happens in reality on the page. Thus, the poem happens as something that undoes any prepared knowledge of what is rose is that we might bring into the poem. (43)
The poem is reduced to a happening, an artistic event like watching the rose become. The poem has become a thing. The poem is not the traditional meaning container of a literary object. It is a container waiting to be filled from the imagination of witnessing the happening. The rose is not its petals and thorns, but it is what penetrates space. To return to the earlier question, “Is the literary entity, such as a poem of collection of poems, mimetic, representational, or creative?” the answer is none of these. The poem is a happening. It is a thing cutting into the space of a page, with the potential for beauty to be projected on or in to it.
In “Thing Theory” and “Introduction,” Brown quotes Leo Stein, who says, “Things are what we encounter, ideas are what we project” (“Thing” 3, “Introduction” 11). In “The Rose” and in “The Red Wheelbarrow,” as well as Spring and All, Williams has created things through words. He has created artistic events wherein the subject and thing can recreate each other through an act of the imagination. The reader does this by objectifying the latent pleasure within the poem/thing through projection, and the thing or poem through various decontextualized linguistic endeavors transforms the subject’s relation with it and, thus, enables an aesthetic object to be created, whether or not it has any utilitarian value.
Brown, Bill. “Introduction: The Idea of Things and the Ideas in Them.” A Sense of Things: The Object Matter in American Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Photocopy.
—. “Thing Theory.” Critical Inquiry 28.1 (Autumn 2001): 1-22. JSTOR. Database. 18 Oct. 2013. PDF.
Connor, Steven. “Thinking Things.” Textual Practice 24.1 (February 2010): 1-20. Ebsco. Database. 17 Nov 2013. PDF.
Gerber, Natalie. “‘The Movements of the Imagination Revealed in Words’: Williams Poetics in Spring and All.” William Carlos Review 24.2 (2004): 11-17. Literary Reference Center. Database. 14 Oct. 2013. PDF
Kenner, Hugh. A Homemade World: The American Modernist. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. Print.
Pearce, Roy Harvey. The Continuity of American Poetry. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1987. Print.
Stein, Gertrude. “Sacred Emily.” Geography and Plays. New York: Something Else Press, 1968. 178-188. Print.
Timmons, Travis P. Spring and All: Foraging a Link to the Present Moment. Diss. The Florida State University. 2008. DigiNole Commons (The Florida State University). Database. 12 Oct. 2013. PDF.
Williams, William Carlos. Spring and All. The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: Volume I: 1909-1939. Eds. A. Walton Litz and Christopher MacGowan. New York: A New Directions Book, 1991. 175-236. Print.
Attachment A: “The Red Wheelbarrow”
so much depends
a red wheel
glazed with rain
beside the white
Attachment B: “The Rose”
The rose is obsolete
but each petal ends in
an edge, the double facet
cementing the grooved
columns of air – The edge
cuts without cutting
meets – nothing – renews
itself in metal or porcelain –
wither? It ends –
But if it ends
the start is begun
so that to engage roses
becomes a geometry –
figured in majolica –
Somewhere the sense
makes copper roses
steel roses –
The rose carried weight of love
but love is at an end – of roses
It is at the edge of the
petal that love waits
The place between the petal’s
edge and the
From the petal’s edge a line starts
that being of steel
infinitely fine, infinitely
rigid penetrates
without contact – lifting
from it – neither hanging
nor pushing –
The fragility of the flower
unbruised
penetrates space
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Decentralised Energy
A Global Game Changer
Christoph Burger,
Affiliation: European School of Management and Technology, DE
Antony Froggatt,
Affiliation: University of Exeter and Chatham House, GB
Catherine Mitchell,
Affiliation: University of Exeter, GB
Jens Weinmann (eds.)
The energy system is undergoing a fundamental transformation – from fossil to renewable energy, from central power plants to distributed, decentralised generation facilities such as rooftop solar panels or wind parks, from utilities to private residents as producers of energy, and from analogue to digital.
This book looks at the energy transformation from two complementary angles: governance and business model innovation. On the one side, governance is a decisive factor for the success of the transformation because it can act as an accelerator, or it can delay the process. On the other side, entrepreneurs and corporate decision-makers provide new business models for a decentralised energy world.
Based on best practices, country studies and interviews with CEOs and founders of startups from all over the world, the “Global Game Changer” suggests eight key principles for political decision-makers to successfully implement the transformation, and six core competencies for corporate decision-makers to thrive in the new marketplace.
Introduction – what are the drivers of decentralised renewable energy generation?
Regulatory and policy incentives – how to establish governance for decentralised energy systems?
Antony Froggatt & Catherine Mitchell
Australia: from central electricity to solar/storage systems
Helen Poulter
China: bureaucratic and market hurdles to move from a central towards a decentral energy system
Antony Froggatt et al.
Denmark: centralised versus decentralised renewable energy systems
Frede Hvelplund & Søren Djørup
Germany: from feed-in-tariffs to auctions and the question of diverse actors
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India: dirty versus clean decentralised energy generation
Ranjit Bharvirkar
Italy: network costs versus decentralised system
Michele Gaspari & Arturo Lorenzoni
California versus New York: policy implementation via Investor-Owned Utilities or Distribution System Provider?
Catherine Mitchell
Conclusions and reflections from the country reports
Business models beyond subsidies – which core competencies are needed?
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A Roman Holiday: how to do Easter in the Eternal City
Dubliner, travel writer and inveterate globetrotter Pamela McCourt Francescone fell in love with a Roman on a visit to the city in her twenties and has lived there ever since. Here’s her guide to Easter in the Papal HQ
My Rome started years ago as an escape from a wet Dublin summer, which became a great job at the Rome Daily American newspaper – and finally home, when I met the Italian of my dreams. This city captures you with its beauty, dolce vita lifestyle and history – right in front of your eyes at the Coliseum and St Peter’s, and at the same time so delicately engraved on every stone that you begin to wonder how you can live without it.
Rituals and saints
Easter in Rome is an exciting mix of sacred and profane, starting with the Pope’s ‘Way of the Cross’ in the Colosseum on the Friday night before Easter Sunday on 20th April. An easy way to take part in this is to stay in the Relais & Chateaux Palazzo Manfredi, which has rooms overlooking the Colosseum. The highlight is the Pope’s blessing in St Peter’s Square on Easter Sunday morning. This year, thanks to the popularity of Pope Francis, and the fact that two former popes will be made saints the following Sunday, the throngs are likely to be humongous.
History on the table
The profane kicks in with food, of course, topping the bill. To escape the crush in town, head for the 2,000-year-old Appian Way. Stroll along the old chariot tracks and admire the massive tomb of Caecilia Metella, whose husband, Marcus Crassus, was the richest Roman of all time. In the historic L’Archeologia at N°139, enjoy Easter specialties like Abbacchio Brodettato, oven-braised lamb in a creamy egg and lemon sauce and Bignè di Pasqua, deep-fried choux pastries filled with ricotta, custard and whipped cream.
Chic shopping and decadent treats
The little streets around the Spanish Steps are packed with interesting shops like Ricami Veronica, Via Frattina 106, where linens, baby bibs and aprons are personalised with names and messages. Giuseppe Rossi at Jaja Camiceria, Via Belsiana 7a, makes hand-sewn bespoke shirts in the finest cottons and silks. Customers get fittings within 24 hours and the shirts can be mailed worldwide. Tartufi and Friends, Via Borgognona 4a, is a chic truffle lounge. Italy’s prized black and white truffles are shaved over pastas, main courses and desserts in the intimate dining room and feature in their take-away gourmet sandwiches, condiments and sauces. On Via del Babuino, stop at 150a for a coffee in the Museo Canova Tadolini – be prepared to be dazzled – or sip a cocktail in the secret garden of Rocco Forte’s Hotel de Russie, a home-away-from-home for the likes of George Clooney and Brad Pitt.
Art and artichokes
In Rome, the street scene tempts the eye as much as the work of Italy’s Old Masters. Admire the three, breathtaking Caravaggios in the church of San Luigi dei Francesi and, just across the road, visit the city’s most colourful open-air market, the Campo de’ Fiori, where the fruit and vegetables are the choicest in the city. Cross the Tiber to the Ghetto for Rome’s famous artichokes, which are at their succulent best – deep-fried with a crisp outer layer – at Piperno, Via Monte Dè Cenci 9.
Fresh air and rustic fare
On Easter Monday families pack up picnic baskets – actually five-course meals – and head for the countryside. Drive up to the Roman Hills and take a look at Castel Gandolfo’s palazzo where the Pope relaxes in summer. In nearby Ariccia, stop at a street stall and buy sliced porchetta, slow-roasted suckling pig, and thickly-cut crusty casareccio bread. Sit down in a fraschetteria, an informal restaurant with paper tablecloths, buy a carafe of local Frascati white wine, open the brown-paper-wrapped fragrant porchetta and enjoy a meal fit for a king.
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This morning Paramount Home Entertainment made the official announcement for a number of expected releases, including the remastered Star Trek Season Two on Blu-ray and Next Generation Motion Picture Collection on Blu-ray and DVD. They also announced individual titles for all the ‘even numbered’ feature films on Blu-ray and DVD. We have all the details for all the releases below.
DVD/Blu-ray/Streaming, Star Trek (2009 film), TOS, TOS Remastered | July 9, 2009 | By: Anthony Pascale 83 comments so far
Star Trek Season 2 Blu-Ray Coming September 22nd + More Trek Home Video Announcements At Comic Con
In April CBS & Paramount released the first season of Star Trek: The Original Series on Blu-ray with a note that Seasons 2 & 3 were ‘coming soon’. Now an industry trade magazine has revealed the date for Season 2. We also have news on what what Paramount Home Entertainment has planned for Comic Con.
DVD/Blu-ray/Streaming, TOS, TOS Remastered | July 1, 2009 | By: TrekMovie.com Staff 49 comments so far
New BD Live Video Content Coming For Star Trek Season One Blu-ray Set
If you have the recently released Star Trek Season One Blu-ray set, then you actually have more content headed your way via BD Live (an optional part of Blu-ray discs that allows for extra content and interactive features to be downloaded or streamed over a high-speed Internet connection). Beginning this week CBS will be posting brand new video bonus material into the Star Trek Season One Portal, available exclusively to those with the Season One Set.
Celebrity, Science/Technology, TOS Remastered | June 3, 2009 | By: Anthony Pascale 56 comments so far
Mike Okuda To Receive NASA Public Service Medal
Mike Okuda is well known to Trek fans as a designer for Trek on TV and film, author of Star Trek reference books and a producer TOS Remastered. But while Okuda was designing Trek’s fictional future in space, he has also been designing for the real space program today. And now NASA is going to honor Okuda with a special award for all his work.
DVD/Blu-ray/Streaming, Review, TNG, TOS, TOS Remastered | May 13, 2009 | By: Matt Wright 92 comments so far
Review: “Best Of” TOS and TNG DVDs
Along the release of the new Star Trek movie, the Original Series on Blu-ray a few weeks ago, and TOS movies on Blu-ray, this week CBS and Paramount Home Video also just released two “Best Of” DVD sets for the most popular Trek series, The Original Series and The Next Generation. See below for our review of these bargain-priced Star Trek starter kits.
Review, TOS Remastered, TOS-R Screenshots/Video | May 2, 2009 | By: Jeff Bond 175 comments so far
TOS-Remastered Review of “The Cage” w/ Video & Screeenshots
CBS has chosen the weekend before the release of the new Star Trek movie to put out the remastered version of the original Star Trek pilot "The Cage" (check local listings). This is the last new episode to air in syndication for the Star Trek Remastered project, and so we now present you with our final TOS episode review.
DVD/Blu-ray/Streaming, Interview, TOS Remastered | April 29, 2009 | By: Anthony Pascale 128 comments so far
EXCLUSIVE: Interview with Mike Okuda – Talking “The Cage”, TOS-R On Blu-ray & more
This weekend Star Trek’s first pilot "The Cage" will be the final new episode to air in syndication for the remastered Star Trek (check local listings). Also this week CBS Home Entertainment released Season One of the remastered Star Trek on Blu-ray. In our exclusive interview, TrekMovie spoke to Star Trek Remastered co-producer Mike Okuda about both, and a little bit about the new Star Trek movie.
TOS-R Preview | April 22, 2009 | By: Anthony Pascale 208 comments so far
First Look: Preview for Star Trek Remastered “The Cage” Airing Next Weekend
In the first weekend of May, the final new episode for the Star Trek Remastered series in syndication will finally air. Just in time for the buzz around the new Star Trek movie, comes the remastered version of the first pilot for the Star Trek TV series, "The Cage". CBS has given TrekMovie a first look at the promo trailer, check it out below.
DVD/Blu-ray/Streaming, Review, TOS, TOS Remastered | April 21, 2009 | By: Matt Wright 140 comments so far
Review – Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1 – Blu-ray [UPDATED]
Back in September 2006 CBS commemorated the 40th Anniversary of Star Trek by going back to the original film and digitally remastering the series for the HD era, cleaning up the images and adding new CGI special effects. Previous HD-DVD & DVD releases were available with only the new. But now thanks to the benefits of Blu-ray, fans have a choice (original or CGI), and can see Trek in 1080p.
Games, Review, TOS-R Screenshots/Video, Trek Franchise | April 4, 2009 | By: John Tenuto 41 comments so far
Review – Star Trek Monopoly Continuum Edition
For the first time ever, Monopoly is being customized to cover the entire Star Trek franchise. This month USAopoly releases The Star Trek Monopoly Continuum Edition, and TrekMovie got an early version. See below for our early review of the latest Star Trek board game.
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With Rolling Hills under new ownership and a new management team in place, the 110-unit apartment complex is undergoing a $4.3 million renovation. Ten rehabbed units, with new flooring, windows, doors, kitchen appliances and bathroom fixtures were expected to come online on Tuesday.
When Steele Properties took possession of Rolling Hills Apartments in Winston-Salem last November, the company inherited a low-income housing community where residents harbored deep cynicism from repeated cycles of neglect.
The Colorado-based real estate investment company, which specializes in rehabilitation and construction of affordable multifamily housing, purchased the 110-unit apartment complex — which is subsidized through the federal Section 8 program — for $4.9 million from the Aspen Companies. The sale provided the Aspen Companies with a $1.8 million profit, compared to the $3.1 million spent to purchase the property February 2014.
As part of the financing package, which required the city to sign off on a revenue bond, Steele Properties agreed to invest $4.3 million — or $42,760 per unit — to bring the property up to code. City leaders, including Councilman Derwin Montgomery, had been dissatisfied with a previous proposal, which would have invested only $17,000 per unit.
“We’re increasing the value of the home,” said Mary Owens, the new community manager at Rolling Hills Apartments. “We’re increasing the value of the perception of the home by the residents. Being multifamily here, it needs to provide a value for the tenants.”
The improvements outlined by Owens on Monday include equipping a community room at the leasing office with computers for residents to use, including children who need to do their homework, a new security gate at the entrance to the campus, and a new playground.
Owens said she was surprised to learn how many vacancies there were at Rolling Hills.
“Once the sale went through, we did a full walk-through,” she said. “We found that there were more vacancies than we were told. We heard that the tenants just left.”
On top of multiple code violations under the previous ownership — the city levied more than 600 violations, affecting 96 out of 110 units — Aspen Companies was accused of fraudulently billing the US Department of Housing & Urban Development for vacant units. The allegations were made by Jeremy Cox, a former property manager, along with Gene A. Smith, a former maintenance supervisor. The Aspen Companies has categorically denied the two employees’ claims.
Steele Properties started rehabbing the property in February, Owens said, beginning with the vacant units. She expected the first 10 to be ready to lease on Tuesday, with the entire project being complete in the latter part of 2017. Steele Monroe Group, the company’s property management unit, is hoping to move tenants within the apartment complex as the renovations take place, but Owens said that due to the complicated logistics of the undertaking they may opt at some point to issue vouchers so that some tenants can temporarily stay offsite until repairs are complete.
“Some of them had conditions that were deferred maintenance,” Owens said of the units. “There were floors and ceilings that needed replacement. We’re putting in central air and putting in energy-efficient windows.”
One of the units where workers from ZMG Construction were finishing up on Monday showcased matching, new black kitchen appliances, new PVC flooring with a fine grained pattern, and new windows and doors. Some but not all of the drywall had been replaced, and the entire apartment was painted. The bathroom was equipped with a new tub, toilet, sink and shower rod.
Owens said the owners are eager to attract new tenants.
“We currently don’t have a waiting list,” she said. In a couple months, when more of the rehabbed units come online, she said she anticipates that the apartment complex will hold an open house.
“I would like to reintroduce Rolling Hills to the community,” Owens said.
A common refrain among low-income tenants and advocates is that owners often make the minimum required investment and then let the properties fall into disrepair again.
“I know that we have schedules in place to make sure that the asset is maintained,” Owens said. “We do have quarterly inspections. We have a quarterly housekeeping inspection.”
Owens said that as a part of Rolling Hills’ ownership turnover, she wants to be a welcoming presence to the residents.
“You won’t find me in the office too much,” she said. “I’m walking the grounds and interacting with the residents. It’s a really happening place.”
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COWBOYS AT&T STADIUM: NBC Sports will debut new Red-Zone 360-degree view in Giants-Cowboys opener
OXNARD, Calif. NBC Sports and the Dallas Cowboys announced that they will work with Replay Technologies Inc. to provide a unique, new 360-degree “FreeD” look at red-zone plays for viewers watching NBC football telecasts and fans at the game in AT&T Stadium.
“FreeD” (free dimensional video) will debut during the Sept. 8 Sunday Night Football New York Giants-Dallas Cowboys opener. In addition, NBC Sports will use the system for the October 5 Notre Dame-Arizona State game, and the October 13 Redskins-Cowboys SNF game (in addition to any Cowboys home games flexed into primetime) at AT&T Stadium. Fans in the stadium will also see “FreeD” replays on the scoreboard at all home games, as well as on Cowboys local programming during the season.
The “FreeD” system will utilize 24 high-speed cameras mounted in the stadium — 12 in each red zone placed on both sides of the field from the 20-yard line to the goal line and in the back of each end zone — to provide replays of key red-zone plays from a 360-degree perspective, enabling fans to see the action seamlessly.
“We are excited to partner with NBC Sports to bring a new look at replays to our fans,” said Charlotte Anderson, Dallas Cowboys executive vice president. “We are always striving to be on the cutting edge of technology and innovation. Just as our center hung video board has changed the way our fans view the game, we believe that this ‘FreeD’ technology will add a unique viewing dimension for our fans at every game.”
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“The Cowboys are the perfect partner, because AT&T Stadium is the most technologically advanced stadium in the world, and the organization is constantly striving to provide the best entertainment experience for their fans,” said Fred Gaudelli, coordinating producer of Sunday Night Football. “Being able to seamlessly move from side to side and around an entire play without switching shots will entertain and inform the fans at the stadium and watching our telecast. Fans will think they are playing a video game or watching a Sci-fi movie, but they’ll actually be viewing football as never presented before.”
RELATED: ‘FreeD’ brings 360-degree camera views to NBC football this fall
Sure, the Palace in Dallas, newly rechristened AT&T Stadium in a naming rights deal worth upwards of $19 million a year, may be a $1.2 billion monument to excess to Texas-style size and excess. But that doesn’t doesn’t mean the high-end gadgetry inside can’t be put to good use.
This season, in conjunction with Replay Technologies Inc., the Dallas Cowboys and NBC Sports will introduce 360-degree, “FreeD” replay views for red-zone action (from the 20-yard line to the end zone), available for viewers watching NBC’s football broadcasts, local Cowboys broadcasts in Dallas, and those inside the stadium staring up at 23,040 square feet of center-hung LED Diamond Vision display. Twenty four cameras – 12 on each side of the field – placed strategically allow depth and color to be calculated for every pixel within visible coverage. The information is then built into 3D models enabling fully orbiting views without switching cameras. The effect is like a combination of The Matrix-style “bullet time” and the latest Google Maps animations, with any moment of action viewable from almost any conceivable angle.
The system makes its maiden NFL voyage on Sept. 8, when the Dallas Cowboys host the New York Giants and will be used again on October 13th when Dallas hosts Robert Griffin III and the Washington Redskins. Fans of college football will also get a taste of FreeD when Notre Dame plays Arizona State on the 5th of October, at AT&T Stadium as part of this year’s “Shamrock Series.”
Fred Gaudelli, producer of “Sunday Night Football” for NBC, told the Television Critics Association Sunday the decision to place the system in Dallas was no accident. “It literally takes a month to install this system,” he said. “Obviously, we’re doing games every single week. So there’s only one system in the world. We basically had to put it in a stadium we knew we were going to be at least twice. Pray for three times.”
No sport has a larger, more dedicated television watching audience than the NFL. FreeD promises fresh views of a football game’s most critical moments. (Including potentially soul crushing, late game mistakes). The upcoming NFL season contains a nearly endless array of compelling questions. If, for you, one happens to be “If Tony Romo and The Matrix had a baby, what would it look like?”
Your answer is coming.
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2013-2014 TRAINING CAMP UPDATE: Jason Garrett press conference–Gotcha
Jason Garrett played a joke on the reporters in his daily press conference today (Monday).
You might remember, from just days earlier, reports that Tony Romo wouldn’t be participating in the upcoming Hall of Fame game. Romo said the staff hadn’t had any meetings about that yet.
Today, Garrett was asked at what point in the week would the team start deciding on playing time for the Hall of Fame Game. Garrett, notoriously reluctant to reveal anything he doesn’t have to, had everyone’s attention when he began his answer: “We had those conversations two weeks ago, and we outlined everybody’s playing status. We made that public.”
He stopped. Silence hung in the air.
He curled his finger, put it near his mouth and made a motion like a fish caught on a hook.
He couldn’t hold back his smile. He had “hooked” the media. He laughed as knowing smiles spread.
“You guys were locked into that answer,” he said.
And then, just to properly answer the question, he said, “We will have those conversations later this week.”
Jason Garrett Press Conference – 7/29/2013 – Gotcha (Duration 13:26)
Dallas Cowboys coach Jason Garrett speaks to the media during his daily press conference in Oxnard, California. Garrett discusses:
2013-2014 Dallas Cowboys roster
Thoughts on yesterday’s Blue & White scrimmage
Barry Church
Kevin Kowalski upside
Ben Bass’s rise
RB Lance Dunbar challenges/role
RT Doug Free battling back
Quarterback Alex Tanney instincts
Joseph Randall’s progress
Redzone and the running game
Overcoming negative plays and penalties from last season
WR Terrence Williams
Coach Dooley
J.J. Wilcox physical edge
Playing better at home.
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Orange County, California (CNN) - "Hello? Hey, what are you doing, girl? You just woke up? You going to be free to hang out in a little bit?" Shane, a vice unit undercover investigator, is on the phone with a woman who placed an online ad offering adult services.
"Okay I'm going to head down to the Disneyland area and get a hotel." He's making a date, and choosing his words carefully.
"I just want to make sure I get what I need. Are you bringing condoms or do I need to bring condoms? You've got some? And it's 200 for an hour right?" Shane has become an expert at scoring that important criminal admission over the phone - making sure there is no confusion that sex is expected on this date.
"From what I found, sometimes you can use too much jargon," Shane explained. "If you use too many street terms you can come off like a cop so I almost talk to them like, "Hey this is what I'm looking for" - just common terms and maybe throw in just a little bit of street jargon.
"If you call them rude or real vulgar they'll just hang up on you. So, to them it's a business and they run it like it's a business, so there's that fine dance you have to do with them in negotiation you have to play to get the deal to work."
This is the first step in a human trafficking operation by the vice unit. Next, the team will wait for Shane's date at a local hotel, hoping to eventually grab the date's pimp.
Shane works for Anaheim Police Department - one of a raft of agencies that make up the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force or OCHTTF.
The task force covers an area south of Los Angeles known for ritzy neighborhoods, tourist destinations and beaches.
In recent months, the fight against prostitution has been refocused and now the prostitutes are treated as victims.
"It's not knocking what we did before," explained Sergeant Craig Friesen, head of Anaheim's vice unit. "You'd go out, arrest the girls, you do John stings, you arrest the Johns, but with those arrests they're often low-grade misdemeanor arrests where the people either receive a very minimal sentence or they're released, oftentimes working in the street 24 hours later.
"With us changing our focus to trying to arrest the pimps, pimping carries a three year mandatory sentence here in California, so to us we have more of an impact because if we can arrest one pimp we can in theory shut down three or four girls because if their pimp's out, it gives them the opportunity to escape the life that they're in."
The Orange County task force is one of 42 federally funded human trafficking task forces across the United States.
Many agencies are part of the task force - from local police departments like Anaheim and Westminster, to federal agencies like ICE and the IRS, which help with immigration and translation issues.
The FBI lends agents to the task force, and one agent frequently works with Anaheim's vice unit via the FBI's domestic child sex trafficking task force known as Innocence Lost.
By treating accused prostitutes as victims, services such as the county's Community Service Programs and the Salvation Army can be used. These non-enforcement services often play key roles in the task force as they try to help the victims start new lives.
"I think what I'm struck most by is the similarity between the stories," said Heidi Thi, the supervisor of the human trafficking program at CSP.
"I could have somebody who was sold as a child in China and brought here to Orange County to work as a slave in somebody's house, or I could be talking to a domestic minor who's been trafficked for sex who was from Northern California and was down here in Orange County - and it's striking how similar those stories can be, that there was an abusive or neglectful home, or that there was a dream they had that life could be better. And somebody told them, "Yes, life can be better, come with me and I will show you how I can make life better for you." And trusting that person, they went and found themselves in a horrible situation."
Anaheim's operation that started with Shane's phone call was successful.
It led to the arrest of a man for pimping and pandering - and two women victims taken from the streets and into the arms of CSP.
One of the dates was a 17-year-old girl. Her age means she is automatically considered a victim of human trafficking. CSP hopes to convince the women to leave the life of prostitution.
"I think with a trafficking survivor, one of the most important things we can do is to give them choices," said Thi.
"The situation that they come from, they've been told where to go, what to do when they get there and when to do it, down to minor daily things like eating, using the restroom, going to sleep and waking up. So the more choices that we can give them helps them practice that self-determination."
Fighting forced prostitution, while a big part of the task force's mission, is only one facet of human trafficking in Orange County.
CSP has also helped victims of forced labor, domestic servitude and servile marriage.
The county task force is seven years old, and in that time the team says it has conducted dozens of operations - more than 60 in Westminster alone.
Anaheim is the task force's newest member, and only nine months after receiving federal human trafficking grant money, the team has seen great success.
Sergeant Friesen said the original goal was one pimping arrest in the first year. The arrest from Shane's date was the 13th in the first nine months.
He added: "Once we started looking for it - and almost stopped ignoring it - we started finding it everywhere."
Lieutenant Derek Marsh, who heads up Westminster Police's human trafficking unit, sums up what drives the task force.
"Human trafficking goes against why you become a police officer, why you're a human being. It's really an ethical imperative. There's really nobody who can stand seeing a child or a woman or a man exploited. It's who you are when you go to serve the public as a police officer.
"You're trying to make it easy so that everyone has an equal opportunity to have their shot at making something of themselves. And human trafficking takes that dream and twists it."
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It's the oldest profession in the world. Control it though legalization and maybe then you'll start getting some control of the situation instead of wasting our tax dollars.
WiseAcre
Mm-hmm. Good plan. Because the government is so good at making things better. You know, like the war on drugs? That hasn't wasted any money and has completely fixed the problem!
OpenMindedOptimist
Drugs should also be legalized and regulated. The "war on drugs" is no better than the prohibition of alcohol. Regulation and taxation would make these things safer and able to be tracked. Has the IRS ever let someone off the hook for not paying taxes on something, NEVER, it would completely eliminate the Black Market for these goods.
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Steve O
Just so we're clear – you're citing the debacle of the war on drugs as an example of why we should not legalize prostitution? You're using the best argument that exists in the world FOR LEGALIZING PROSTITUTION.
Wow you really are an Idiot. The 'War on Drugs' failed because people WANT drugs. PERIOD... You can't stop people from getting what they want. You just can't. As long as someone wants it, there will be some one willing to sell it to them..And when you make it illegal, you make it Dangerous and twice as expensive... People want sex. And some people are willing to sell it. PERIOD... Legalize it, make it safer for the girls, and drive the price down to the point where criminals don't have an interest anymore...
August 10, 2011 at 12:41 pm |
dpnelson1978
Legalize something just because some people want it?
Like child pornography? Where exactly would YOU draw the line?
August 10, 2011 at 1:02 pm |
dpnelson1978, you draw the line when there is a victim. To produce child pornography, there is a victim: the child. As for drugs and sex consumed and provided by consenting adults, there is no victim. Once a person's desires infringe on the liberty of another, then there's a problem. If it doesn't, no need to make something illegal. Attempts at unnecessary social control have proven time and time again to be costly failures.
Tony Baloney
Just because it would be legalized doesn't mean the Government would run it. But let's get one thing straight...legalize POT and that would solve all the worlds problems...or at least most of mine!!!
PierreLaFranc
The victim of drugs, alcohol and prostitution are the people killed by the drunk (or high) drivers. Legalizing wouldn't remove the victim that is manipulated into prostitution.
Tristis
Exactly what PierreLaFranc said, you can pitch legalization as the solution to trafficking, but I won't buy it unless you can show how to tell the difference between "No, baby, I really like it," meaning "of course I'm not trafficked. This is my way of earning a living," and "No, baby, I really like it," meaning "I will be beat or killed if my owner thinks I told anybody," or "I desperately need the stuff my boyfriend got me hooked on before telling me I had to pay for it by turning tricks."
I'm not being rhetorical. I'm actually prepared to listen. But it's got to be workable in the real world, not in the sexually free utopia of your dreams.
Chrisstopher
I can read, with all due respect, there is only a 'victim' in that case in YOUR OPINION! I had sex with adults as a child and liked it. So did numerous other people I knew as a child and even as an adult.
It's time to stop this bullplop about there being a 'victim'. The only victims in the case of pedoSEXUALITY are created by keeping it illegal and not bringing it out in the open. They also come from parents not doing their jobs and MONITORING who their children are spending time with.
Boo Xang
Boo Xang agree so many many wasted moneys . Soon to be in the future war on everysing.
imastarchick
Please tell me how this turned into an argument for legalizing because its between two consenting adults? How is forced prostitution ever between two consenting adults? You forget the third adult involved in the scenario, the pimp in control. So your "two consenting adults" argument is BS. Adults having sex with minors, having sex with people who are brainwashed, trapped financially or trapped against their will is sick and anyone who does so is an evil shelfish beast. I would like them to burn in hell, but since I dont believe in it... what to do!
Neeneko
Wouldn't that be the equivalent of the current prohibition around prostitution?
Or The War on Poverty? Started by Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s? Yes, that has worked so well, too.
Youre an idiot wiseacre. Youre making smarterthan u's point
Fellski
Question, Smarterthan – do you have daughters? I do, and the last thing I want is for them to think that prostitution is a legitimate way of making a living. Idiot.
I think you're being overly critical of SmarterthanU (even if his/her name is left open to debate). No one "dreams" of going into this type of business, but legalizing it, as the Dutch government had, could give law enforcement a greater incentive to protect prostitutes against violence, as they'd be involved in a legal trade. It may also, hopefully, promote greater enforcement against illegal child prostitution, overall human trafficking, and unsafe sex. If prostitution was a legal, taxable trade, the government might take more proactive approaches to it. I'd be in favour of it.
Babak from LA
I have a daughter also. What difference does it make if it is legal or not. We as parents need to raise them right...
bridgmjm
I have all sons thank God.
Ever go to a strip club?
Conky2012
Haha you sir are the idiot. If prostitution was legal, and out in the open, nobody would want to be a hooker. Its different when its off record and underground. You sir have no brain, and your opinion fails. The fact you have children is laughable with your level of intelligence. Less people do drugs when they are decriminalized because nobody wants to be known as somebody who buys and does heroin. The same thing applies to prostitution.
butterscotchtall765
@BRIDGMJM....males are prostitutes also...don't clap to soon.
@Kat 21
You do know that's not working out right? Violence increased because people starting trafficking immigrants more, plus other criminal activities like money laundering gravitated towards it. Now they're trying to heavily regulate it and were even shutting down some businesses that had gotten out of control.
If we try the legalization route it might do more good to legalize prostitution, but keep pimping, soliciting, and being a john illegal, since the demand is the problem, not the girls and boys supplying it because they have no other option than starving or being beaten to death. Pimps condition them to accept it, we need to help them escape it.
Anyone who thinks they are entitled to buy another person for their personal pleasure has a problem.
You would be the idiot...you alone...if your daughters thought it was a legit way to make money...
That's a choice your daughters could make for themselves, whether legal or illegal. If legal, it would be safer, and at least they wouldn't be forced into it by a pimp.
It is legal. In Vegas.
Do your daughters aspire to the lowest legal common denominator? Is that why you're worried? Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's going to be desirable all of a sudden. Maybe you should do a better job of discussing goals with your daughters and not expect us to fix your parenting concerns with poor legislation.
@conky.. Less people do drugs when they are legalized? Lmfao id like to see that study. Im sure you just dont hear about the people that do them after becoming legal because they are no longer being persecuted in the news. Thats the most ill informed statement ive ever heard.
Fellski, there is nothing wrong with prostitution. You have only been brainwashed by religious leaders to think that there is something wrong with having sex with more than one person in your life.... if that was the case, to be blunt, only one would fit!
I told my daughters that there was NOTHING wrong with prostitution in the slightest nor with having sex with whoever they wished to. It has served them well (even though they are not prostitutes, though are free with their sexual favors) and they never got into that stupid thinking that they would have a 'knight in shining armor' in their lives.
Fellski,
II am a woman; and I have daughters just for the record. BUT I am here to disagree. Prostitution IS a legitimate means to earn money in states where it is legal (NV for one). Look I get where you're coming from. I wouldn't be thrilled with a stripper/hooker daughter, but it is a fact that by making the hooking illiegal, you have created pimps. Think about it, legal houses have "madams', STD checks, mandatory condom use, and no physically abusive pimp stealing the money afterwards. Tax revenue would be created, STD spreading would diminish and most importantly, since it would be a legal brothel, your daughters COULDN'T work there because those places have age restrictions. It's kind of a win win situation. By the time your kids are old to understand what a brothel is, they would know enough to not want to work there.
be a parent
Dear Fellski,
you dont want your daughters to aspire to being hookers, then be a good parent.
dont displace blame
Which is kinda a sick way to see your daughters since it means that you see their sexuality (and virginity) as an asset/resource that you don't want the wrong people to have. Congratulations, your a misogynistic woman trader.
People who were not burnt do not understand how it feels to put hand in fire from reading about it.. People who are not parents do not have right to talk about parenting.. If you really are a parent and you really do not have a problem with your kids going into this business (legal or not), you should really really find the closest shrink and get your head checked.
Whether something is legal or not, has never really been the catalyst to a new career. In Europe where prostitution is legal, most brothel owners will turn people in who are trafficking or dealing in bad business. Reason why is clear, these are business men/women and they do not want to lose their right to do business in that country (like Heidi Fleiss pretty much did). Drug use and prostitution can be regulated and patronized by consenting adults. I think all thinking societies would agree that child abuse does not fit in this model. A child is not able to consent to anything...and those who destroy that trust and faith should be lobotomized (or exterminated). There are different arguments going on and part of the problem is that we have a lot of people in this country that have become too liberal because it is easier than anything else. The whole concept of "all cultures and all behaviors are ok" is actually not ok.
Kat 21, the Dutch have problems with trafficking and underage prostitution. Legalizing it didn't change that.
August 11, 2011 at 8:46 am |
How old are your daughters? If they are adults it is none of your business what they do.
BananasandLice
Neeneko,
I don't get it.
people who talk like you usually support these kinds of things, police should start checking you out, pedophelia, illegal porn, pimping,, you never know.
Is that so? And how do you come by this conclusion? Do you know many people are that are into “pedophelia, illegal porn, pimping” ? maybe you need new friends. Or.. do you have some other source for your opinion.. perhaps you could post this source and validate your argument.
P.S. It is spelled “pedoph-ilia”
A person who talks like you is a judgmental m*r*n who without bases for lavish and outright idiotic claims dismisses logical arguments and insists on their view as if they are inherently correct and a gift from the heavens. Lady, you are no gift and there is no heaven ….you are in effect DISMISSED.
Tu PAPA
red flag. check out anna
@what
You are at least as judgemental as Anna, with possibly less cause. You say there is no Heaven, but you can't prove that, any more thgan Anna or I can. And please, use some grammar. It makes your points clearer, and people are more likely to take you seriously.
@ Anna
"People who talk like that" may also be playing "Devil's Advocate". They may not support anything of the sort. Be careful about tarring many people with the same brush.
In the places where prostitution has been legalized, human trafficking has grown significantly. It does not make the problem better, it makes it significantly worse. This myth needs to stop being told, because it could not be further from the truth.
Would you please post a source for your claims, because there is very few places where prostitution is completely legal and as far as I know your claims are false?
@Really – Take a look at the situation in the Netherlands. Do a quick Google search and you'll figure out that what he/she is saying is atually correct. I've done numerous research papers on trafficking for college and they are a perfect example of legalizing prostitution thinking it would help and the catastrophe that it ended up bringing. In the end they kept being a prostitute legal but being a pimp or buying a prostitute is illegal. That way the people running the women are caught and jailed but the women (many of whom are victims of trafficking) are treated as victims and helped. When it is legal it is harder to tell who is a victim because it is a "legal" business and there is no justification or reason to dig deeper into it. Legally speaking, legalizing prostitution does nothing but tie the hands of cops who are actually trying to help these victims.
@Sammi
Post your source. your side states these as fact but i've yet to see a single shred of proof. Stating you've writen papers is not proof. If i'm wrong i'm open to it.
chillwind
Right because since it became legalized and regulated, the authorities are better able to detect human trafficking as opposed to flying under the radar before the legalization. There could be 2 points to this. One is that human trafficking actually increased due to legalization, or that authorities makes more arrests even though trafficking decreased. Obviously those that think prostitution should be illegal will spin the data and correlate to the failure the legalization, specially interest group posing data spin as "study". And obviously those that think prostitution should be legal, will ignore the possibility that the trafficking could have indeed increased. The point is, police release statistics, and all these special groups will spin the statistics and make some correlation. Correlation is not a fact. If you do "research" using hearsay from interest group/correlation as proof, you need to learn how to do real research.
Where? When? Why waste time responding if its just garbage you are typing that has no truth to it?
SpecialPlace
I agree with Really...
From what I understand, look at Nevada's legal brothels. There is a DRAMATIC reduction in prostitute violence, robbery, and STD transmission in these brothels. Not only that, but it delegitimizes the black market....if you are a man looking for sex, are you going to go to a brothel where you KNOW the sex is safe, or would you risk it on the street with a woman who typically is much less professional?
Here are just a few links (out of hundreds of studies – check out Nexus or other journal search) to articles, studies, and journals that show the legalizing prostitution really does nothing but give the businesses a "veneer" of legality, and actually increases sex trafficking of men, women, and children.
http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/prostitution_spain_july04.pdf
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chelsealyn-rudder/sex-for-sale-legalized-pr_b_769779.html
http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/4149
http://www.prostitutionresearch.com/laws/000022.html
http://prostitution.procon.org/view.answers.php?questionID=1315
Uh, KateB.... all of those organizations are very anti-females having sex with anyone outside of marriage, so they are not very damned reliable nor believable, to be blunt.
They have a MOTIVE to DISTORT the facts there.
For those of you who want sources, here you go:
http://lilt.ilstu.edu/critique/Spring2010%20docs/Bailey_Joshua.pdf
http://www.servingourworld.org/PDF/trafficking/dos-prostitution-sex%20-trafficking.pdf
http://www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/commentary/data/000107
So for those of you who think that legalizing prostitution will NOT lead to an increase in human trafficking and have been arguing that point, where is YOUR proof? If you demand it from one side of the isle, you better be able to back up your thoughts on it as well.
The belief that trafficking increases when prostitution is legalized is just another lie spread by the people who want to abolish all prostitution, including that between consenting adults. Places in Nevada where sex work is legal have NO trafficking. (It is not legal in Las Vegas or Reno). This is hard evidence that cannot be refuted, so the anti-prostitution activists simply ignore it. They also ignore the fact that there are dozens, if not hundreds, of professional organizations for sex workers worldwide. Slaves have professional organizations?
People who want to abolish all prostitution tell ridiculous lies, such that the average age of entry into prostition is 13. Ashton Kutcher says there are as many as 300,000 child sex slaves in the USA. That would mean that one in every thousand people in the USA is a child sex slave. We should be seeing child sex slaves everywhere. Where are they? Remember, this is the age of the ubiquitous security camera; you cannot go anywhere without showing up on some security camera somewhere.
It is easy for prostitution haters to tell lies about other countries because Americans have no easy way of checking those statements.
It is really sad that people give proof and idiots still don't believe it. They don't want proof just to make a point. Its sad but like those idiots and the johns they are all in same nasty and gross boat. Only when their daughter got pimpped or strung out would they care. Stand for something that will help others you fools.
Anyway US shouldn't fold like others when it comes to children being victimized, drugs, or prostitution for that matter. We fold on enough things stand for something, right its about time.
PIMPIN AINT EASY... the smart thing to do is take your "business" and bring it somewhere where this "escort" service is not big maybe delaware or wyoming or some farm country and MAKE BANK!!! honestly has anyone heard of a "escort"/prostitution problem there. im not saying i back up all prostitution but it is legal in some parts of these great states.
Pimping is easy in big cities where there are lots of pimps. Pimping in a town or city as the only pimp would get you caught. Real fast. Dumb.
JeffinReno
Yeah "there is no illegal prositution in Nevada" where brothels are leagal in several counties.
Legalizing something like sex is not the solution, there are just as much, if not more illegal prositiutes that are usually hooked on drugs walking Vegas and Reno.
Legalize selling out teenagers eh? Hope you don't have kids...
Although you can correlate, obviously you don't know the distinction between prostitution and human trafficking, they are not the same. Come back when you learn the difference.
santosaint
your an idiot. Trafficking and prostitution are two completely different issues. One chooses to be a prostitute and someone being trafficked is a victim. Learn something about anything before you open your mouth and show your ignorance. It's people like you that give the traffickers their power to enslave. Yuck!
Studies of Nevada's prostitution show that they go hand in hand. Maybe you are the one that should do some studying. You can with Googling Human Trafficking in Nevada
As always!!!
As always, state your source, I have yet to see one article about Vegas supporting your claim! I don't really care either way but if you are going to state something as fact prove it!
honestpimp
Man, everyone ragging on these pimps hardcore. Many girls seek out a pimp for protection–if not for a pimp, the working girls would just get robbed by the johns. Pimps exist for a reason–they provide protection for their women.
Now yes there are the pimps we see in the movies that force girls to take drugs and lock them away in a dungeon, but this is not reality. In reality, these girls are lazy women who want the finer things in life but without working for them(same as a typical drug pusher), or they are drug addicts that need a fix. Either way, in most cases these women are making a choice. GROWN ADULTS SHOULD BE ABLE TO MAKE THIER OWN DECISIONS IF THERE IS NO DIRECT MEASURABLE HARM DONE TO ANOTHER PERSON. THIS IS SIMPLE LOGIC!
I wouldn't call them lazy. Most prostitutes are women who figure that since they like sex, with multiple men, why shouldn't they get paid for doing it with them?
That is all that people in a MARRIAGE where only the MAN is working are doing, so..... need I keep on going?
Chrisstopher: Of all the couples I've known where one person is a stay-at-home mother/wife (or husband/father, for that matter), I've only known one where the woman wasn't working (and she is an exception to most rules). A stay at home mom/wife might not have a paying job, and it is often a thankless job, but she is doing hard work - generally some combination of maid, cook, chauffeur, nanny, pet sitter and lawn person. So your sexist implications are just that - sexist. And dated. It's obvious you're the type who thinks "woman's work" isn't real work, and probably thinks your "prostitute" wife is most fulfilled when she's dusting, cooking dinner and churning out kids for you (maybe even after coming home from her full time job), but that's not the real world. Stay at home moms (and dads) work their behinds off. In your petty mind, that might not count as much as a "clock in, clock out" job, but I respect the people who are always on call, always there, always "on the job" more than pompous fools who would disparage them.
Chrisstopher, no they're not. Most prostitutes and stripers are on drugs or have bad mental issues.
And most women stay at home? What planet do you live on? Hahahahaha. Derp Herp Derp.
crazycats
@Honestpimp Let me tell you that I was a working girl and a honest pimp is a oxy moron.What are you doing to earn the cash besides sitting on your a$$,giving orders,driving to hotels,&buying clothing?? Are you the one opening your mouth &legs?? I NEVER allowed a client to rob me b/c I made sure to keep my cash on a separate debit card which I kept the psychical card in a different location&I made sure to memorize my acct number that I had kept in a secret email acct that I knew about.I usually wired to the money to my acct via western union or something along those lines.
If it wasn't for all the girl's the pimp wouldn't have a dime in his pocket and he'd have to find another way to make money.The only reason the cop's in Orange county care so much is b/c Orange county is a upper class fundamentalist community and god forbid a family visiting Disneyland notice the lady in the next hotel room has a lot of male visitor's showing up between the hour's of 10 am &5pm for a daytime encounter.
The pimp is nothing but a predator who takes advantage of girls/women who are young,naive,and will do anything to prove that she is a 'down a$$ B!ch' to support her so-called man.Yes,I was a hooker at one point in my life,but I was NEVER foolish enough to allow some piece of garbage take what I worked for.
JulieB
Yeah, legalize it, but there absolutely has to be an legal age limit.
spikette
it is not a profession and the lazy resort to this saying. legalization does not make things better, they make them worse. all the countries that legalized are looking at ways to address the bigger problems created with legalization. be informed. educate yourself.
Based on WHAT, exactly? I'm sure you would like this to be true, but you'll find that it isn't. Ever.
Funny, spikette.... we legalized alcohol after prohibition was shown to a big failure, and it didn't make things worse in the slightest.
Chrisstopher: Child Prostitution does not equal alcohol. Read a book. Seriously, go read or something. The adults are here talking.
Chrisstopher, yes, no one every drives drunk or becomes an alcoholic. Prohibition didn't work, but that doesn't mean alcohol is harmless.
Skegeeace
The issue is CHILD prostitution- there's NO WAY that should EVER be legalized. I hope that's not what you meant.
Why not, with all due respect? The fact is that children are having sex VERY young today (speaking from my experiences as a child, those of people my own age as a child, and children today) so why shouldn't it be legalized?
The fact is that the BEST way to protect children from FORCED sexual encounters (which are the only ones you should be trying to protect them from) is to bring pedosexuality out into the open, legalize it, and have parents DO THEIR JOBS... monitor who their children are spending time with.
Yeah Chrisstopher...and why don't we let 5 year olds work in sweat-shops too...after all, they asked mommy if they could. And little Johnny, well he likes jumping off tall structures because he thinks he's Superman...we should totally just let him do it too! Why not!? And Lindsey just turned 15 and has realized she likes men...but isn't quite mature enough to understand the implications of pregnancy, stds, and passing disease to others. But hell, she's 15 and it feels good so why don't we let her!?
Chrisstopher, you just invalidated all of your arguments when you advocated legalizing child prostitution. That's something that EVERYONE agrees is bad – except for you and pedophiles. Which makes me wonder about you.
sevnofnyn
These are children, not adults. I am not sure who would suggest legalizing prostitution for minors... except pedophiles. And yes, I do believe that for adults it should be legalized, unionized, taxed, health insured... etc... and anyone caught trafficking would have the book thrown at them. Because it should be a choice, nothing coerced or forced.
David in Corpus
I used to wear my bleeding heart openly for the children. I still love and value children but....
I have learned the hard truth over time that no matter how much I like kids they all become adults eventually and
I HATE ADULTS !!!!!!!
Stupid kids (watched too much tv growing up and actually believed it) become stupid adults. I got enough problems of my own to give two cents about someone else's throw away kids.
No kid should be a throw away kid, and that was an evil thing to say. People like you are a major part of the world's problems.
What! Slavery still predominately exists in the world, so it would be OK here. Exploitation isn't an issue for you; you must be a libertarian tea partier.
Do not forget that many of these victims are sexually exploited minors. This is kidnapping and child abuse in one of its most crude and damaging forms.
Wrong. With all due respect, most of these girls knew what they were getting into from the get-go (coming from speaking with a former child prostitute).
Whether or not they "knew what they were getting into", they are too young to make that decision for themselves. Hell, kids can't enter into a contract on their own; why would anyone allow them to enter such a damaging profession?
You, Chrisstopher, seem to want others to have to suffer they way you did. Please get some counseling.
Complete hypocrisy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_2LpLhOsc4
horny whores!
I dont think you understand the difference between VOLUNTARY prostitution and NON-VOLUNTARY prostitution. Sure, if a woman wants to become a prostitute on her own free will then so be it – thats her CHOICE. But when people are being forced into prostitution not because they want to but because they have a barrell stuck to their temple and a pimp that says either you "put out" or you get killed – that's a human rights violation. This article is about women who have no choice but to be prostitutes.
How do we know that? How do we know that these women/girls are not lying about how they were made to get involved in prostitution? Answer: We cannot.
I do not trust solely the statements of ANY man nor women, girl nor boy since having a girl accuse me of sexually abusing her 10 years ago (yes, I am a pedosexual. No, I did not touch the girl in question in any fashion sexually) which was an out and out lie, confirmed by her older brother who was spying on us.
Would they be wasting taxpayer dollars IF this were your child,sister,aunt, cousin....that had been forced into this life??
Tristis,
I am so glad you are willing to listen. You are a rare breed on this site.
The answer is easy. We draw that distinction all the time in the law. Lots of things are legal, but if you force people to do it, it is illegal. Very simple. Prostitution should be legal. Forcing people to prostitute themselves should be illegal. If the person claimss that they are doing it voluntarily, you have to accept that, unless there is other evidence of brainwashing or threats. If it is very young kids, you can claim that they are too young to make voluntary decisions, but teenagers are probably capable of making decisions, especially the older teens. The exact age can be debated, but most of this law enforcement is completely unnecessary, and just moral posturing. Most people they are arresting are just interested in making a living. Nobody is forcing them to do it!
Actually, Vince, no, you cannot say that if someone is 'too young' they are not able to make their own choices about sex. If that was the case, then guess what?
We would be born WITHOUT genitalia and have them appear magically at the age of 18. Since we have them from birth, it is clear that nature expected us to be having sex FROM BIRTH, and yes, even child/adult sex.
It only becomes wrong when you physically force someone into sex against their will or physically harm someone else without their permission.
melvinslizard
Chrisstopher thinks it's okay for him to have sex with babies because they were born with genitalia... he'd have sex with a fetus if it was developed enough...
Chrisstopher is an absolute idiot. Sure, I wanted to have sex when I was 14 and 15. But guess what? I wasn't mentally capable of having sex and I damn sure wasn't financially capable of raising a child if I would have gotten pregnant. I may have thought I was mentally capable, but I wasn't. Not by a long shot.
crazyvermont
I'm sure Jerry Brown has thought of legalizing for revenue. Not too many other decadent ideas he hasn't passed or tried to pass since coming into office
Fred Evil
It's going to go on whether you approve or not, it would be better for the women if the industry was monitored and Prohibition of victimless crimes only empowers the REAL bad people.
bluemountain
If he could increase revenue by taxing stupid comments here he would help California enormously.
Ignoranceisntbliss
Children are NEVER items to be bought like a commodity. Your idea that legalizing the sexual expolitation of CHILDREN is stupid. You need to re-examine your grip on reality and stop bying into the twisted idea that sex with children is ever OK.
With all due respect, again..... most of these children are going into it of their own free will with eyes wide open. So the only one selling them is THEM THEMSELVES, which they have the right to do.
Now, if they can PROVE that these children were forced into this with threats of being killed, then these people are doing something wrong. However, 99% of the time it's just taken on the word of the child in question, which children WILL lie about being forced to do something in order to avoid punishment for something that someone else doesn't like and would want to punish them for.
Chrisstopher, do you have a criminal record involiving sexual assaault and children? The way you use the word "children" constantly while talking about sex. You disgust me, pedophile.
I think Chrisstopher is a manipulative child predator.
I had sex when I was a child, didn't you?
Yes.......it is the oldest profession in the world...the second oldest profession is Sheriff............keep in mind that about 99% of the pimps are of the MINORITY variety..............perhaps we should START there BEFORE legislation.
Saying, "It's the oldest profession in the world" is the oldest comment in the world. Come up with an original thought, please.
But it's true....how come people don't make all this noise about The Playboy Magazine owner he's a pimp?
The pimps should be pimped around in prison. Have someone tell them when to eat. sleep and pick up the soap.
Reminds me of an old George Carlin monologue:
"If selliing is legal, and (f) sex is legal, why is selling (f)sex legal?"
Boo Xang must make last word from mouth more clrearer's. Boo Xang agree with SmarterthanU not crazy child sex creep named Chrisstopher. Chrisstopher sounds like very scary man hiding in bushes waiting for to force himself on chilld.
Chrisstoppher say many very very creepy comment.
Make sure to hide children from Chrisstopher he very very scary like dragon with no feeling
Fuyuko
Legalize child prostitution? Did you read the article?
Here are some good links about Sex Trafficking:
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTncdkjtl4s&w=640&h=360]
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMtUEsWhg1E&w=640&h=360]
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtaEdI3aiwg&w=640&h=360]
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rvA60zdkD8&w=640&h=360]
http://www.wfaa.com/v/?i=114983179
http://bebopper76.wordpress.com
http://bebopper76.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/cnn-leads-the-medias-mass-paranoia-over-a-nonexistent-sex-trafficking-sex-slavery-human-trafficking-epidemic/
@SmarterthanU the issue is underage forced prostitution, you are not suggesting legalizing that are you?
This gist of this article is about predators who are pimping out adolescents – meaning their brains are not fully developed yet and can be easily exploited. You sound like a john who likes to exploit adolescents and this kind of article really rubs you the wrong way. Learn to be a human being.
CNN leads the media’s mass paranoia over a nonexistent Sex Trafficking, Sex Slavery epidemic
I remember the last couple of mass panics. Do you?
There was the daycare scare of the 1980s, when we were told that child molesters had infiltrated childcare centers across the country. From the beginning of the panic, with the infamous McMartin Preschool trial (which ended in zero convictions), it should have been obvious that there was something hard to believe about the media reports of this nationwide crime epidemic.
Toddlers who had been hypnotized reported that they were being flown to Mexico to be sexually abused, killed, eaten, and then magically restored before Mom and Dad could pick them up (that is actual testimony from one particularly incredible trial that did, in fact, send a Texas couple to prison).
Gripped by mass fear, it took the public some time to wake up from that fever dream. About the same time, America was hyperventilating over another nonexistent threat: satanic cults that, experts swore, were sacrificing thousands of victims across America.
Remember that one? I’m sure Geraldo Rivera does.
We’ve panicked in other ways since those days, but if we tended to see terrorists everywhere after 9/11, at least there was vivid evidence that we had become a target.
Here are some good links about this:
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/07/cnn_amber_lyon_conflict_of_interest.php
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But even that threat is fading. Our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are receding fast from public consciousness. Our economy is gradually crawling back. Crime remains at record lows. A new presidential campaign is only in its earliest stages.
What’s there to panic about today?
A small group of political activists is quite ready to provide the answer. In the second decade of the 21st century, we are being told that there’s a widespread, growing, and out-of-control problem to fear in our country. And it has a catchy name: “trafficking.”
In cities across America, we are told over and over, like a mantra, that “100,000 to 300,000″ underage sex slaves have been stashed away from public view, with more joining them every day. It’s a problem growing so quickly that the United States soon will be no better than Moldova or Nepal in regard to child sex trafficking. Why go to the Third World looking for this nightmare when our cities and suburbs are bursting with children in bondage?
Feel that panic in your chest? Must have been what Geraldo experienced. Now, step back and take a deep breath.
As we showed in our cover story last week, the newest panic is like the ones that preceded it—an emotional reaction, based on good intentions, but grounded in bogus information.
The actual data behind this “epidemic” is wanting in the extreme. It involves guesses by activist professors, junk science by nonprofit groups trying to extract money from Congress, and manipulation by religious groups hiding their real agendas about sex work.
And one of the most visible enablers in this national fantasy has been young CNN reporter Amber Lyon.
Lyon is best known for ambushing Craigslist founder Craig Newmark last year, questioning him about what are known as “adult ads.” At the time, Craigslist was heavy with such ads. Having cornered the timid Newmark—who has told people he’s a borderline Asperger’s case—it didn’t take much for the aggressive Lyon to reduce Newmark to catatonia with her questions about Craigslist’s facilitating the enslavement of young girls across the country.
Under pressure by the attorneys general of several states, Newmark initiated a lawsuit in South Carolina, which he won. (In fact, he won every time he went to court.) But facing the further pressure of congressional hearings about its sex ads, Craigslist dropped its adult sections last fall. (You can still find the ads on the site, if you know where to look.)
Lyon has been known to tell people that her ambush of the meek Newmark resulted in the shuttering of “the Walmart of child sex trafficking.” Now, she has set out to take down a new target: Village Voice Media.
Seven years ago, the people I work for were smart enough to start Backpage.com, a competitor to Craigslist. While other newspapers were doing little more than publicly condemning Newmark for the way Craigslist has, for years, eaten into their classified-ads revenue, we decided to fight back. That’s just how we operate.
Backpage.com has since inherited some of the adult business that left Craigslist. The Village Voice itself has been taking such ads since the mid-1970s. In the 1980s and 1990s, the adult business was a large part of the paper. Today, it’s a smaller presence in the print edition, and the Voice‘s website has no adult advertising—that business appears only at Backpage.com.
Backpage.com is not a newspaper. It’s an Internet bulletin board where people can place ads for anything from rental apartments to bicycles to lawnmowers. And, yes, it’s a place where adults can post notices so that other adults can contact them.
What happens when two adults find each other through Backpage.com? I couldn’t tell you. The whole point of Backpage.com is that we aren’t involved after two consenting adults find each other through the community bulletin board, which exists solely so that people can freely express themselves—sometimes in ways that make other people uncomfortable. We’re First Amendment extremists that way. Always have been.
We’ve spent millions of dollars putting in place strict policies and monitoring services to make sure that it is only adults finding each other through Backpage.com‘s adult pages. Not only do we have security specialists making constant searches for keywords that might indicate an underage user, but we’re quick to cooperate with law enforcement and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children when we find suspicious ads. In some cases, our reports about suspicious ads have resulted in underage runaways being traced and recovered—as opposed to the underground economy of bus stations and street corners where kids are truly invisible.
Backpage’s 123 employees, who screen about 20,000 ads every day, alert NCMEC when they find something suspicious, who in turn contacts law enforcement. That process triggered 230 reports last month. For more on how quickly and often Backpage reports problems, see Caleb Hannan’s story at our sister paper, Seattle Weekly.
Underage prostitution is a persistent problem in this country, but as we established in last week’s cover story, it exists at a level that is nothing like what is being trumpeted by Amber Lyon on the behalf of activists who want to put us out of business. Lyon and other journalists—even the New York Times—may repeat uncritically the figure of “100,000 to 300,000″ underage prostitutes, but as we showed last week, that number is based on a flimsy study by a couple of activist professors who included in that figure runaways (most of whom are back home in a week) and any teen who happens to live near an international border, supposedly putting them “at risk.”
Using official law enforcement data, we showed that underage prostitution arrests are closer to 800 per year for the entire country—a number that has not increased over the past decade. Far from a widespread and rapidly growing problem, this is, instead, a small problem that stays about the same size because its underlying causes—drug addiction and teen homelessness—are not targeted with federal funds the way scaremongering is.
In December, we sent information to CNN about what we’re doing to keep Backpage.com‘s adult pages for adults only as Amber Lyon prepared a sensationalistic piece about the mythic hundreds of thousands of underage American sex slaves, for whom she wanted us to appear responsible.
When her piece aired in February, however, this is what Lyon said: “What is [Backpage.com's] holistic plan? We don’t know because [Backpage.com security adviser] Hemu Nigam wouldn’t talk to us.”
We subsequently pointed out to CNN that we had, in fact, provided Lyon with a two-page, single-spaced data sheet about what we’re doing to keep underage users out of Backpage.com‘s adult pages. In a later rebroadcast of her piece about us, her legal department forced Lyon to tack on this correction: “Backpage.com sent us a statement in late December saying, ‘Backpage.com is committed to preventing those who are intent on misusing the site for illegal purposes.’ And they went on to say that they implemented new safety measures to that end, which are listed on the company blog. There is evidence these measures have had some results. According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Backpage reported 30 suspicious ads in 2010. And in the first month of 2011, they reported 65.”
Well, that was something. But Lyon’s reporting has been manipulative, at best. When you watch her special, “Selling the Girl Next Door,” it should be obvious that Lyon is less interested in learning how Backpage.com actually operates than she is in making viewers squirm about sex. In one segment, she talks to the women working at a legal brothel in Nevada. In another, she talks to men who are undergoing counseling for paying for sex—none of them with underage girls. Each of these segments is intended simply to make viewers see sex work in the worst possible light. And that’s no accident.
At the end of her broadcast, Lyon’s sources are singled out for “special thanks.” The list includes several Atlanta-area foundations, deep in the Bible Belt, that have done as much as anyone to create the current panic about a nonexistent epidemic of sexual slavery.
We recently found out that Lyon is even closer to these groups than you could tell from a list at the end of her broadcast.
It’s not unusual for reporters, after working with helpful sources, to feel that they’ve become friends. It’s happened to me and just about every other journalist I know. But as professionals, we know that it’s important to keep some distance from the sources we rely on for information.
Someone forgot to mention that to Lyon, apparently.
On May 4, FAIR Fund, one of the sources thanked in CNN’s special, held a fundraiser in Washington’s City Tavern Club.
The event’s emcee was Amber Lyon, and she didn’t seem at all uncomfortable helping a source raise money. We know because we sent a reporter to watch and videotape her performance.
“Hello, everyone, and thank you all for coming tonight to ‘Pearls of Purpose.’ And my name is Amber Lyon, and I’m an investigative and documentary reporter with CNN. This is just an amazing gala and an amazing way to really celebrate the empowerment of young girls all around the world,” she said to the gathered crowd.
It wouldn’t be a Lyon appearance without the required mantra: “Somewhere around, anywhere from, 100,000 to 300,000 American children are being trafficked,” she told her audience. “It’s an honor to be here tonight hosting this. I’m definitely proud to be supporting FAIR Fund.”
I emailed Lyon, asking her to explain how she could help a source raise money while continuing to use it as a source for stories. I was also curious how much money her event had raised, with tickets ranging from $125 to $250 a plate.
“We are declining your request for an interview” is how she responded.
That surprised me. Lyon clearly has ridden her fame for how bravely she stood up to mild-mannered Craig Newmark. I didn’t expect her to duck some straight questions about her involvement in a semireligious crusade.
Meanwhile, CNN has made trafficking its pet issue. The problem is, the network seems to draw almost no distinction from what Demi Moore finds in Nepal and what is actually happening here in the United States. That’s just bad journalism. But it’s what happens when an organization takes on a cause, regardless of the facts.
There is a lot of controversy over the topics of sex trafficking, sex slavery, human trafficking and forced prostitution. Regarding what the definition is, the research methods used to find statistics, what the definition of a victim is, the number of child and adult victims involved, forced vs. unforced sex, how the actual prostitutes themselves feel about it, and legal vs. illegal prostitution.
There is a growing number of well respected researchers, journalists, scientists, professors, that have concluded in their research that the sex trafficking, sex slavery concept is based on emotion, morals, and monetary funding rather than facts, evidence and proof. They state that very few kidnapped, forced against their will, physically abused, raped sex slave prostitutes for profit have been found throughout the world. Their research concludes that women who enter into this type of work do so of their own free will. They also state that there are many anti-prostitution groups who simply do not like the idea of consensual adult prostitution and have distorted the facts in order to push their agenda and receive funding and money into their organizations in the form of donations, grants and to change the laws about prostitution. They state that these anti-prostitution groups use made up child sex trafficking statistics which they have no proof or evidence of in order to gain public acceptance for their cause.
Sex trafficking is illegal and the pentities are very severe. It is very difficult to force someone to be a sex slave, they would have to have 24 hour guards posted and be watched 365 days a year, 24 hours per day. Have the threat of violence if they refused, and have no one notice and complain to the authorities or police. They would need to hide from the general public yet still manage to see customers from the general public and not have the customers turn the traffickers in to the police. They would need to provide them with medical care, food, shelter, and have all their basic needs met. They would need to have the sex slaves put on a fake front that they enjoyed what they were doing, act flirtatious and do their job well. They would have to deal with the authorities looking for the missing women, and hide any money they may make, since it comes from illegal activity. They must do all of this while constantly trying to prevent the sex slaves from escaping and reporting them to the police. They would need to prevent the general public from reporting them into the police. This is extremely difficult to do, which makes this activity rare. These criminals would be breaking dozens of major laws not just one. Kidnapping itself is a serious crime. There are many laws against sex trafficking, sex slavery, kidnapping, sex abuse, rape, sexual harassment etc. If someone is behind it, they will be breaking many serious laws, be in big trouble, and will go to jail for many long years.
While there are some women who may be true victims. And it is possible for this to happen in rare situations. This is a small rare group of people and that the numbers and scale of this crime is exaggerated. The very nature of someone pulling off a kidnapping and forced sex for profit appears to be very difficult. Since it would be difficult this makes this crime rare. Not impossible, but extremely rare.
A key point is that on the sidelines the prostitutes themselves are not being listened to. They oppose laws against prostitution. But no one wants to listen to the prostitutes themselves. Only to the self appointed experts that make up numbers and stories many of which have never met a real forced sex slave or if they did it was only a few. The media and government never ask the prostitutes themselves what would help them in terms of laws.
Many women in the sex business are independent workers. They don’t have a pimp.
They work for themselves, advertise themselves, and keep all the money for themselves. No one forces them, because there isn’t anyone to force them. They go out and find their own customers, set their own prices, and arrange everything by themselves. Sometimes they may employ others to help them, but these are not pimps. If for example, she hires an internet web design company to make a website for her, does that make the web design company a pimp? If she pays a phone company for a phone to do business, does this make the phone company a pimp? If she puts an ad in the paper, does this make the editor a pimp? If she puts the money she makes into a bank account does this make the bank a pimp?
A lot of anti prostitution groups would say yes. Everyone and everybody is a pimp.
These groups make up lies, and false statistics that no one bothers to check. A big reason they do this is because it provides high paying jobs for them. They get big donations, and grants from the government, charity, churches, etc. to have these groups, and pay these high salaries of the anti prostitution workers.
Dallas TV News show about the super bowl sex trafficking myth:
Cocopuf
Drugs and pimps often go together. Appeasing any of it is still wrong and ruin people's lives either in the short run or also in the long run. Legalizing it is no cure but a ticket of approval (period) . We need to better educate our kids and provide MUCH stiffer punishment to pimps, drug dealers, pushers, and slavery of any sort. Once word gets around that when you're caught and proven guilty, there is no way out because of mandatory long jail terms, things will slowdown and save lives. These types of crimes require mandatory stiff punishment. There are NO excuses for ruining other people's lives for the profit of some evil idiots. Crime=lose your rights in court (period)
Jack D
Second oldest profession ...... The John came first, with hunter's spoils.
mdamone
Legalize it. But do not make the serious mistake of thinking that the Fed or States can own it – they have royally f'ed up everything else they have touched.
Privatize it. Business licenses and fees. Let the States police adherence – NOT the Fed. These businesses would be subject to all the health, filing, etc. regulations other business entities are subject to. Fine any that do not comply. Strip the license (no pun intended) of any that violate. Require them to carry insurance. Require regular AIDS and health tests, like restaurants must pass health inspections. Mandate State-issued ID cards for the employees. Anyone with an expired, suspended or revoked card doesn't work...or if they do goes to jail.
Tax it. On both the Fed and State level. Earmark some of the revenue for sex education. Another part of it goes to pay for the State enforcement departments policing the industry.
Here's the deal on the part of public: employment in the industry would be voluntary – there goes the "victim" arguments. The sex would be a simple pay-for-service business contract. If there wasn't a need, there wouldn't be an industry. Live with this fact.
If you don't want your daughter thinking it's a good way to make money, that is a parenting issue. Raise her not to. If you don't believe in this kind of thing, don't participate in it, but get the hell off your self-righteous soap box trying to tell others how to live. You have problems of your own. Worry about them instead.
If you take issue with it morally, sorry to hear that. Deal with it or keep it to yourself. Jesus befriended a reputed prostitute and anyone who operates with a "better than you, holier than thou, I know what god wants" should worry more about how they will explain their selfish, snotty, judgemental, hypocritical contempt for others to their maker when the day comes and they meet him..or her..or it...or whatever.
But what of children? Unfortunately, there is a market for that. And that, needless to say, shall never be legal. This task force would be relevant in any case.
Lolskater
great ida!! shame it doesnt work in country where sex selling is legal huh
Fine - your wife, daughters, and mother can feel free to work in that area. I'd prefer it illegal because I don't think it's in the best interest of 99% of women to be involved in that.
Willie 12345
Murder is also a long established bad behavior. Let's legalize it. If it's legal, would you want your sister to become a whore? I didn't think so.
Agreeathon
There's a lot of things I don't want my sister to become. Unemployed is one of them.
If my sister chose to become an escort I'd try to talk her into doing something else. But if she persisted I'd hope she do it in the safest environment possible. Our current legal environment ensures that will never happen.
Legalization has been shown in country after country to reduce crime associated with prostitution. It's a far better solution than yours which apparently is to "lock up all the whores".
You are right about wasting our tax dollars. The article said the cops will wait for hours outside a motel. If they are rescuing someone who is trafficked I am all for it, but if this is a matter of consenting adult prostitution then all those police hours could be put to far better use.
Reno, Nevada has legalized prostitution. There are no serial killers hunting prostitutes. They are inspected for diseases and they pay taxes. Illegal prostitutes are driven out of town by authorities and by the legal ones. No parasite pimp who hooks these hookers on drugs to enslave them. This one solution. Another one is that of Sweden. Selling sex is not illegal but buying it is ! The Johns get arrested.
Funny. Now we call it Human Trafficking instead of what it is, busting hookers. I don't know how it is the police don't have enough people to investigate a burglary or a traffic accident but they can afford a 7 person team scouring ads on the internet. Fiscal prioritize much?
I'm sure the women are grateful to be saved and thrown into the slammer. The social safety net is bogus. All the money goes into interdiction and prosecution.
I've read most women who advertise on CL were independent. Until that avenue was shut down by the legal system. What a bunch of hypocrites.
We should legalize it and be done with it.
I disagree with you when you say that prostitution should be legalized. This could possibly waste tax dollars because lawmakers will have to write more bills and the laws will have to be enforced. In addition, it would take a lot of the lawmaker’s time, which could be spent on legislation that is more important.
freedom writer
r u kidding me oldest profession ..... human trafficking is taking young boys , girls, woman, men away from there homes and brought to different towns , cities, countries to be sold as sex slaves serving 10-50 men a night r u kidding me that's not a profession that's kidnapping , abuse, captivity, lots of the slaves r beaten and drug-ed up its a sick profession and we all need to help how ever we can ...... now prostitution when a woman chooses to go in to that life style is a different story but even in these situations the woman needs help no right minded person really want to sell their body and sleep with numerous people doing sometimes God only knows what . Human Trafficking IS AN ABOMINATION TO US ALL !! http://www.thea21campaign.org
Someone once told me that the oldest profession in the world was that of the village mystic, shaman, healer, etc. Or it could be living a life of ignorance, I'm not really sure.
Francis Cagney
Well its about time they went after the pimps, instead of just victimizing the girls themselves.
Resptoadolt
If the girls are making their own 'dates' they aren't the victims they are the business person. arrest them with the rest
No. Simply legalize what they are doing, realize that it is THEIR CHOICE to choose to have sex with, regardless of their age or 'lack of age', and move on.
Pimps and hos. I make no distinction.
Heres a thought: Why do women (in general, not across the board) pander to men so much?
Whether it be culture, ignorance, or sexu al instinct, doesn't matter, stupid is as stupid does.
I have little to no respect for a person who doesn't take care of themselves, including women.
Ladies (and hos) stop relying on men, stop wanting their attention so much, stop trying to find value in your life through a man. Pathetic. Personally, the only women I truly respect are the ones that have a back bone like men do, or lesbians.
How anyone could be attracted to us men is beyond fathoming.
Qublai
@David: You must be super naive. The providers (that's what they prefer to be referred to as) don't give a crap for the man. They are after the money!!!!!!
It is very empowering for some women in this profession to know that they have this kind of control. Part of new feminist movements supports legalizing prostitution as a legitimate job.
Most of y'all are good men, and my life would have been poorer without my dad, my son, my uncles, husband, and guy friends.
Answer: The oldest profession is working on the soil.
Man should be educated to have self-control. He should learn to chase after the stars instead of girls and to love and protect one woman he commits his life to. Barbaric Americans need Christian education again.
"Barbaric Americans need Christian education again."
yeah...because America is the only country in the world with prostitution.
Wow...you really posted that, no wonder you only put (A) as your screen name.
I hope your comment was a typographical error. Have you heard, there are other countries in the world outside the US?
And guess what , they ALL have prostitution either legal or illegal. Sorry to shock you.
@bluemountain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
just let you know, prostitution include both male and female.
and many developed countries actually legalized prostitution
Those are phags homie. No one cares about them. Ick. Sooner they are dead in a ditch the better.
The anti-prostitution activists don't care about rescuing anyone, they just say they do in order to mobilize the idealistic types. It is really about keeping the price of female heterosexuality high, i.e. marriage or "relationship". They want to restrict the availability of female sex to males.
That is why they are totally indifferent to anything other than female sex workers. Gay male sex workers are of no interest to them.
petridish
"Christian education", yeah, apparently told to us by a god who commited acts of genocide, designed a world in which the majority of people will burn forever for their "sins", etc. etc. What a role model!
Gpsam
Treating cancer is by cutting off the infected part. On the whole it is an act of mercy. Similarly perverts need to be removed from the society to avoid the spread of this type of cancer.
@Petridish: God only ordered genocide upon those who fully deserved the execution, the child-killing perverts and no one else, in order to protect the surrounding tribes and the future generations. Meanwhile, He takes care of innocent victims. Read Psalms. Also, humanity's sin has eternal consequences so eternal judgment is justice. Until 200 years ago there weren't many people and the Gospel and the human population spreaded together at the same time. Today 1/3 humans believe in Jesus and 3/4 humans know about Him. Sense of time is different in afterlife. Only worry for your own sin. Everyone needs Jesus, the Divine Savior of the world.
pat carr
Stuff the preaching about your insane religion and violent god
God is only violent against bad people.
uh-oh....
If God only levies death against "bad people" or those who deserve it... a lot of us have pending death sentences.. just ask Onan...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onan
(struck down by God for "spilling seed".... ( pulling out before climax)
"bridgmjm
God is only violent against bad people."
Have you mentioned that to Caylee Anthony?
America is one of the few blessed nation with the well-structured, invincible Christian foundation. America must excel other nations and be examplary in EVERYTHING. (It was, decades before.) Otherwise, downgrading will be worse than all other nations. More is given, more will be required of.
Turns out America isn't so "examplary" at spelling...
no we do not need a theocracy
America is Christian and anti-christians should get kicked out of the nation. They are illegals and traitors. Christians are too lenient on thugs.
America is in no way a christian nation. I don't know why this fallacy continues to exist. Our founding fathers were not Christian, but rather Deist, Agnostic, and Atheist. Why do you think they fled Europe? It was because of people that existed there such as yourself who were intolerant and ignorant in grasping the act of reasoning. The only reason people will be leaving America is due to the fact that too many of you people are around now and your taking this great country down with it. Ignorance is not bliss.
That's the biggest load of BS I've read in a while. America is NOT a christian nation, one of the founding principles was freedom of religion, not freedom for only christians. As for traitor, show me in the laws of the United States that declare that you MUST follow the christian religion and worship the christian god. Your blind dislike of non-christians is clouding your judgement, open your eyes.
Jesus just told me that you're a jerk. But he did want to thank you for helping police the world through fear.
Okay, now I KNOW you're a troll.
Why do people insist on this ridiculous notion that America is a christian nation?
Ryan in Michigan
@Really & Proof – You guys have been reading the strangest history books. Probably modern, public school ones. "None of the founding fathers were religious"? That's one of the most bogus statements about history you can make. Let's look at who believed in God or gods and who didn't at the time of the revolution. Among the non-believing Agnostics/Atheists/Deists/Humanists/whatever was Thomas Jefferson and ... well, nobody else. Among those who were strong of faith in their God/gods were George Washington, John Adams, Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Nathan Hale, Benjamin Franklin (believed in God, but not the deity of Christ), James Madison, James Monroe, Alexander Hamilton, Paul Revere, John-Paul Jones, and many others. People like you are evidence that the public school system's brainwashing techniques are working. Sadly, that's about the only public school system program that does.
No, America is tolerant of Christians and every other faith, for that matter. The idea was to welcome all religions, not declare loyalty to one. Happy to hear you're enjoying your Christian faith. But you're in America. There are lots of different people here. Remember your first day in kindergarten? Well, this is kind of like that. Share. Be nice. Respect your neighbor's space, and their freedom to choose just as you do. Play nice, or go somewhere else.
Christian education? Would that include fondeling our kids in church by the prist?!?!?
No, that's public education, where high schoolers and the occassional middle schooler have sex with their teachers.
BBull
Because Jesus and Mary Magdalene are great examples?
I knew somebody would bring religion into this.
Is that that same Christian education that condoned slavery in America?
TexasGal
i dont care what everyone else is replying to you @Faith. You got the right idea! 🙂
You shame the rest of us thinking Texans with your bible belting girl. I hope I never fkd u when I lived in N.E. Texas. You didn't deserve the multiple O's.
Is that you Palin
LOL @ TexasGirl – You're kissing a trolls @$$!!?
Faith, monogamy is a HUMAN MADE invention. Humans are not supposed to be celibate until marriage, they are not supposed to have sex with only one person in their lives (if they were, only one would fit) and it's time to admit those two facts.
Actually studies have shown that men did not evolve to produce "as many children as possible." This is evidenced by the fact that the human baby is basically worthless until the age of around 5. The child can't walk, talk, has no motor-skills, etc. This differs from the animal kindgdom in which a cow (or similar animal) can walk within 24 hours and keep up with it's mother almost immediately. Humans are completely different. A pregnant human mother has a hard time walking, getting what she needs (if we weren't in modern society) and has to have care/help. This further supports mongogamy. This idea that men can't control themselves and are ruled by their penises only makes your gender appear weak. I think it's a poor excuse for you to live how you wish without responsibility for yourself or the feelings of others you destroy in your path. I hope you find help. Come on men, you're stronger than that. Quit making excuses of why you can't be faithful or good people.
People here are free to follow whatever faith, or none. Plenty of so-called "Christians" who harm others. Otherwise, I agree with your comment. Many men feel they are entitled to sex with a woman, which is why (female) prostitution is so prevalent. Women do not feel entitled to sex with a man, which is why there is so little (male) prostitution aimed at women.
Nuba Warrior
I would agree that the oldest profession is prostittion. Even before man learned to to work the soil, women were using their sexuality to have men take care of them. More power to them, they found a way to sit back and enjoy the ride while men slave away (hunting and gathering) just by showing some cleavage here and there...LOL
Funkzillabot
Kagami
A rare glimpse into the male psyche.
educateyourself
As you reference hunting and gathering, perhaps you should look up who spent most of the time gathering. It was and still is the women in hunter gatherer societies. Also, the gathering is of more significance than the hunting as meat is not supplied daily, but the roots, nuts and berries are. The women also prepare all the food, so get over yourself.
jon e
Your horse is pretty high there. He was making a joke. Pull your panties out of the crack and relax/
If that's a joke it's in pretty bad taste, and if it's not you don't sound well.
And I suppose you were there to see all this so you can tell us? Dang, you are some long-lived guy!
Bet you're one of the people who rags on people of faith because there's no solid evidence...but there' s no solid evidence for what you're promoting, either!
Photos of Prince Andrew with child prostitute, and lurid details of 'naked pool parties'.
http://www.dailymail (replace this dot) co (replace this dot, too) uk/news/article-1362380/Prince-Andrew-naked-pool-parties-paedophile-friends-house.html
I guess the wealthy can do this with impunity...
When there's demand, there'll be supply.....
targeting prostitution is wasting of taxpayer money IMHO...... no wonder California is so broke
JustinConvo
Really?? we are wasting money on this??? I understand that some people have been trapped in a "slavery" type deal but whats the percentage??? It's the oldest proffestion in the world. As long as no one is getting hurt whats the deal?? police are wasting tax payers money on a victomless crime...for the most part. Maybe the Gov should tax it like California taxes Weed and then we can get something done in this country.
You evidently did not read the article. Forced prostitution and human trafficking are not victimless crimes. As the article points out, many prostitutes are lured into the trade and then treated horribly by their pimps. The prostitutes are the victims. The pimps are the criminals.
How do we lock up the biggest pimp of all?? Uncle Scame
How are prostitutes victims? Unless they're in fact imported from another country to work as a prostitute they are not victims. Here in Australia (Well my state anyway) prostitution is legal and regulated, instead of trying to stop something you can't – – you regulate it. Personally I have no issues with prostitution, they chose how they want to live, and I can respect that.
it's amazing to read men here finding their way to " reason" that prostituting an underage is okay and using "taxes" as an excuse, it sounds like a kid protecting their candy from being taken away- stop your b.s , you support prostitution because you can't get laid otherwise and it upsets you because if it's gone how are you gonna support your nasty little habit, fucken pedophile!
@anna stop being stupid!!! I read the article, what I’m talking about are straight up and down prostitutes that know what they are doing. I’m no saying regulated it so little kids get molested or sold for sex. That’s stupid. What I’m saying is, is that it is a victimless crime and has been around since the dawn of time. I would rather see the police stop the drugs!! Stop crack babies stop the robbing so that a junkie can get a fix. The money that the U.S. spends on stopping a grown woman from selling a sex is insane!! You’re a blow hart. And since you mentioned it….i’ve never paid for sex because I’m not a ugly dog. You on the rag?? Having a bad day? Get off the net and stop trolling!!
pretty sure i didnt read any comments that are for underage prostituting.
I am 27 and a woman. I spent three years as a prostitute in Nevada. I loved every day of it. I was never forced, lied to. I grew up in a good home with normal parents. They were not happy about my choice, but then again it was my choice. I like sex, have for a while, hope to continue having sex. I really liked the money that it offered. Allowed me to start a business. Some girls did drugs. Most of them were kicked out of the brothel for it. Don't judge until you have tried it. I have always said, now more than ever, legalize it, tax it, regulate it, require exams and proof of age/residency, and counseling for those that need it. Man/woman will always be willing to sell if the demand/price is right.
But if they pay for it then they do get laid don't they. Paying for sex just allows you to skip all the date stuff you don't want to go eat or to a movie and no walks on the beach you just want to bust one.Then pay for another hot chick on the next night sorry you don't agree but sex will always sell.
Well Josh I guess you didn't really read any comments. Cause Chrisstopher has admitted that he is a pedo, got caught and want prostitution to be legal for children of any age. He refuses to admit that he has a problem, and should admit himself to a prison or a mental institution.
@jconvo -well convo, you didn't say underage either on your first comment but you seem to be really triggered by what i said, you must feel some guilt about something that you have to let everyone know how good looking you are, and by the way you don't have to be ugly to pay for sex- at least marc is honest about it and sick christopher, but you seem to be indenial about the whole thing- raping an unwilling child is one of the worst thing you can ever do to any human being- my personl opinion: their chance to have a somewhat normal happy life is taken away from them, it's almost like taking their life away from them, i think that men who exercise this kind of power over the weak are weaker because it's easy to pick on someone weaker who cannot fend for themselves, one thing for sure that if any sick fuck touch my kid, let god be merciful on my soul because i will unleash every beast in me and force -feed that nasty animal down that throat- ecclessiastes: " there's time for everything, time for anger and time for revenge"..
oh and one more thing convo- i happen to have a very dear friend whose child was a victim of this shit and when he came home he was never the same suicidal each day for years that they have to move everywhere the entire family suffered and ruined all because of a sick fuck who loves little blond kids, now i'm saying this again, let god be merciful on my soul because i will not be as passive..
Josh, go back and read Chrisstopher's comments.
You know what Ann?? You are one sick twisted B*** no One on her has been talking about screwing your little kid. You think you are on here talking to the person that hurt you as a child is on here talking to you about what happened to you when your where a kid?? Is that what you think?? You are stuck on you past and we are way beyond talking about Pimp hoes and illegal trafficking. This is from like 5 days ago and you still running your mouth?? I’m sure we can find someone stick something you your mouth!!! Yes you pissed me off you are lower than a troll. You need help with your issues???? Of find a shrink. Because nothing of what I said lead me or anyone else on here for you take personal attack people. You need Help Anna for what that creep did to you But it wasn’t me. So kiss off!
lancesackless
please, the 'ho is just as guilty as the pimp. Quit being so sexist, Looney California! 'MDS', jeez, rellember when CNN was actually a good news outlet, rather than the polar opposite of Faux News?
Richard Mavers
Funny how prostitution doesn't cause problems in countries where it's legal. If you make it illegal and drive it underground, then you get 12 year old hookers.
But in America, we prefer to punish rather than prevent.
All (actual) evidence to the contrary. Nevada's illegal prostitution industry is nine times greater than the state's legal brothels and sex trafficking of minors in Vegas is higher per capita. HumanTrafficking . org
The reason it is higher is because of the number of people that come to Vegas to party. In order to go to a brothel in Vegas you have to leave Clark county and drive to counties that do legalize prostitution in brothels. It's quite the drive. Plus it can be very expensive. So pimps bring the illegals to the city. This makes it much cheaper but also more dangerous for the girls and the johns.
Prostitution is wrong. It make the civilization immoral and worthless. Anything you don't want for your own innocent child's life must not be done to any other humans on earth, and it must be fought against till the Kingdom comes. And regardless of age, if you don't care about your child spending his/her entire life as a prostitute, you are a criminal and belong to jail.
How is prostitution wrong? Because you say it's wrong? or because religion says it's wrong? In any case both reasons are false. I'm not even going to bother going into a deep though out response because I understand your a blind sheep that has probably grown up terrified of going to hell.
bwllm
hey Sean, it's you're* Idiot atheist.
hey bwllm..yolu are the biggest IDIOT of all!!!!!! Can come up with a valid argument so you just name call, let me quess, you are an uneducated religous moron??? Classic!
Sean, read my comment below. Child-abusers and womanizers indeed go to hell.
Faith you crack me up.... so you have been to hell and back, so what did you do to deserve to go there, did you covet thy neighbor and get paid for it?
Yeah, you don't go after the "drug", you nail the dealers!
@ anna. Are you mentally disabled? Do you not fathom your nonsense hysteria? I never said underage prostitution was somehow acceptable, in fact my comment has nothing to do with children what-so-ever. Grow up and maybe learn how to reason with both sides and not jump to conclusions. Foolish human.
Is anyone nailing the guys that are hiring the prostitutes?
Well Yeah, the Pros are nailing those guys.
Y. thirteen arrests for "pimps"
Men, your uncontrolled lust is the problem. Every girl is born to this world to be loved and cherished by one good man for lifetime, never to become a victim of filthy lust. We need more number of gallant men who'd rather die than hurt or abuse a girl. Men must sacrifice themselves to protect women and children, never the opposite. American dream? American men, read your anthems. You are anything but your forefathers' dream. USA is becoming its ancestors' shame by being morally chaotic. America must repent.
This lust you speak of is a result of EVOLUTION – If we didn't get horny looking at each other there would be no babies. The average male has evolved to procreate like there's no tomorrow; we could father a baby every day of the year until we're dead, roughly from the age of thirteen. You must get this idea of Godly perfections out of you brain. No amount of Bible thumping will bring perfection to this world.
Sathyavrath
The act of cohabition and s3x with multiple partners is natural and anthropologically sound. In this instance it is an act between 2 consenting adults, not a three way with one dissenting adult, i,e you. Grow up. Your mother and father did it so you can pontificate on this blog.
Secular men are stupid and evil – the last thing this planet needs.
You are a religious nut. Any validity your argument may contain is negated by the fact that you let a group of wealth stealing liars create your opinion for you. If there is a God, I highly doubt he whispers into the ears of popes and priests. And a 2000 year old book that stole half it's ideas from Babylon (and the rest from our current version were REVISED by King James btw) is not evidence for a deity. Oh and just for the record, the CATHOLIC CHURCH used to promote prostitution as a way to prevent rape.
Dear Faith: Man issues?
I like how you are ignoring lust issues that women have. and chivalry is dead because women killed it.
Faith, you are totally sexist and demeaning to WOMEN!
so your saying women should be subservient to men? WOW were are all my ladies at?
Faith is ho bag, loose arby's roast beef between the legs.
I agree with Faith. However I wish my parents had castrated me before puberty so that I wouldn't have these feelings of uncontrollable lust. Actually we should just castrate everyone but a few designated breeders so we wouldn't have all these uncontrollable feelings of lust flying around.
Is that guy really wearing a Duke hat?
the very fact that this guy is wearing a duke hat is proof enough that his entire operation is a shame. How can the public intrust a servent to prosecute pimping when coach K is guilty of pimping out kids' educational aspirations for the needs of his own enormous ego!
Legalize, regulate, tax. The war on sex is as stupid as the war on drugs which was as stupid as the war on alcohol. Dumb. We have better things to spend our resources on.
richajam
We( including me) read too much into the things we believe are the problem(s) of modern society. There is justification in every thing- if you just look for it-no one is too proud to choose to 'survive' in this world. Its ok to be right winged, left winged and centered(or whatever) on this topic, however you want to argue it. Currently there are many things we practice now that we once believed was immoral to previous generations, and there are other 'foul' things we practice today that was once accepted by other generations without issue. The ballance is in preception and the basis/causes you base those preception(s) on. Wrong or right, people do things out of 2 principles: Need and Want; and in turn these 2 things govern each other and will continue to do so until mankinds' the end of time.
-No one wants to be a prostitute- they have needs they need met so they do what they must to get where/what/who they want.( physicaly, emotionaly, financialy, ect). The thing that needs to be taught in this world is not whats wrong in the world and the many oppinions of why its wrong, but what mutual 'respect' means and what the words 'I am responsible' means. We spend more time trying to fix things for our kids and kid's kids future, that we do not have time to fix things for ourselves(and our country for that matter) in this moment of time. Maybe if we fixed those things for ourselves, in our own lifetime, our kids just may do the same in theirs, and eventualy, those foul things in the world may just self-extinguish in a few generations. We are all fools if we think we can fix the whole world over night.
Simple fact. None of the arrests of the Johns or prostitutes would have happened without the active participation of the police.i.e entrapment. In a victim-less "crime" there is no trafficking at all, the girls are in it voluntarily and is a transaction between 2 consenting adults. Decriminalize prostitution, you put bread on the table and the police can save our tax dollars in fighting real crime.
dutspup
there are some intsances of traffiiking but the large majority are doing it strictly for the cash. most are traveling hookers bouncing city to city using craigslist. Heck even a well known dating site is promoting this now and its legal hahahaha. College girls can get their bills paid by making a date. But these guys will have you believe that all girls are shipped in on a box truck from asia and put to work in bed, BSSSSSShiot. Just jump on your local craigslist and see for yourself, better yet since these idiots are so slow at fighting crime check backpage, thats where all the acting is now.
Folks these girls are not the victim. (Not the ones I have met, at least.) They want the Gucci and the Chanel bages. They want to German cars and have a taste for the good life. A man will blow his one week pay in just a couple of hours with them ... Who got used? Legelize it, tax it and let's keep our prison for violent criminals.
All those $5 hookers hanging out on the corner can buy Gucci bags with their earnings? Wow!
A few women can make the kind of money you're talking about, and even then only for a few years. Most don't.
bachmanntwit
Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann will soon be going door to door selling buttplugs.
Sumero Kolcak
Honest Pimps trying to make a living by selling what people like.. pussi..
WTF IS GOING ON HERE?
SOMEONE ARREST THOSE RETARDED COPS.. AND UNDERCOVER SHIET
– Sumero Kolcako
Evolvepeople
This is a waste of time, money, and effort. Prostitution is NOT wrong when you have CONSENTING adults! Period and point blank. All of this God this, and that, and sin, and burning in hell, is crap. If God does value all people and all people are his children, then why can't they repent? Also most folks who throw God around act less God Like in their daily lives. Now back to the topic at hand. Prostitution should be legal, women/men should have to register for a license, must work in a license brothel, must get regular exams, and use protection with each and every act without fraud. The sex worker should be taxed by the IRS, and the brothel should be taxed by the IRS using a Sin Tax. Use this money for sex education, STD education, clinics, etc.
convicted of being a pimp first time =30 days in jail.............convicted second time=a ,45 bullet right between the eyes......there another problem """"""' SOLVED """"'
Badonkadonk!
Prostitution is pretty cool. It's legal in many countries outside of the US. All you prudes need to get your freak on in a legal country then you'll understand.
You're days of entitlement spending will soon be over ... police departments saving little girls. *spit* It's communism at its core and proof that Obama is Stalin reborn in an American black man.
This is just one of those things that will never go away, no point in crying that its not getting better just how many do with drugs. Just keep fighting it as always. Just how there will always be war there will always be prostitution and drugs. I personally don't agree legalizing anything that will cause social harm to the population. I believe in karma and God, not trying to bible thump or anything but places in the bible where they didn't have morals God destroyed. So far every powerful country in history has fallen so we might not want to speed things up, In God We Trust is there for a reason. Plus if you don't like your tax money stopping these type of things go live somewhere else and pay taxes there if it's so great here. N Faith shut up because I was born and raised on U.S. soil n would gladly give my life for my sister, mother or wife.
jjque
Ok, so why are pimps protected from being classified as child molesters by the law when they clearly had sex with under aged children? Why do we spend millions of dollars on finding internet sex predators only to find one stupid person who never had sex with anyone and put him in jail for life? Why do we allow TV to teach our children that sex is ok with anyone they so desire (TV reality shows)?
Got to keep your Pimp Hand Strong! Bitches be Crazy!!
carnivalbarker
wake up dirtbag get a job
Hey "educateyourself",
You are correct when you say that women are hunter/gatherer's. You hunt men and gather them to pay for all your needless BS.
Legalized prostitution exists in Nevada and guess what, there is still illegal prostitution going on. Legality is not the problem.
It is only legal in King county not all of Nevada.
Nevada doesn't have a King county. It is illegal in Clark, Washoe, Douglas, and Lincoln counties, and Carson City but legal in the 12 other counties
hippypoet
there is nothing wrong with selling what you have, as long as you don't pass on any STD's then fine, "have a ball"! There is possible only one other thing i can see wrong with selling yourself, its the placement of the street-walkers... say one place/area allows the walkers, and the rest of town is off limits. There should be a place where you go to be a walker, you sign up, you get perks like a nice room, clean sheets, you get the portection of the state laws instead of random losers... this way its regulated, taxed, and counted... just like what they should to for weed
Legalization makes it worse:
From HumanTrafficking . org
"...after a two-year study of how prostitution functions in Nevada, one of the book's conclusions is that prostitution and sex trafficking are linked in the state as in other localities. Sex trafficking happens when and where there is a demand for prostitution and a context of impunity for its customers"
"Nevada's illegal prostitution industry is nine times greater than the state's legal brothels"
For all of you idiots that compare prostitution to the victims of sex trafficking, you should learn the difference between the two. Your the ones that give power to the traffickers to enslave others by your ignorance and your hoorah for prostitution. THEY ARE NOT THE SAME. One is a choice and the other is forced enslavement. Would you like to be a slave and have others talking about, oh how cool prostitution is?! Most are men that praise prostitution and put it in the same category as sex trafficking. REAL MEN DON'T BUY GIRLS. REAL MEN DON'T BUY GIRLS. REAL MEN DON'T BUY GIRLS. REAL MEN DON'T BUY GIRLS. REAL MEN DON'T BUY GIRLS. REAL MEN DON'T BUY GIRLS. LOSERS.
The are indubitably linked though as shown in studies done on Nevada's legal and illegal prostitution.
Only an uninformed idiot would compare SEX TRAFFICKED victims to PROSTITUTION (LEGAL OR ILLEGAL). AND only use one study out of one state out of 50 (not to mention one state out of the entire world) to give basis to your stupid argument.
Since you have yet to offer any empirical evidence to support your opinion I would have to say that the score is still me 1 you 0. And that was just one study, here in America, where prostitution is legal, there are studies from the Netherlands and (conversive studies) from Sweden which all corrolate with eachother that Prostitution and sex trafficing go hand in hand. All these studies and more can be viewed at humantrafficking . org. Score me 3 you still with the goose egg.
OMG, thats hilarious, santohell is a moron, HAHAHA
MoTownMoJo
Only an UNINFORMED and UNEDUCATED idiot would not realize that where there is prostitution there is the activy of sex trafficking
Look into the mirror....AMERICA
You are fatter than the everyone else in the world while others go hungry.
You buy more underage sex than anyone else in the world.
You consume more illegal drugs than anyone else in the world.
You consume more legal drugs than anyone else in the world.
You produce more trash than anyone else in the world.
You spend more on weapons to kill than anyone else in the world.
Your addicted to pornography.
You borrow more money than anyone else in the world.
You consume more of the earth's resources than anyone else in the world.
You hate more than anyone else in the world.
All the while we claim to be the most religious people in the world and the most ethical and morally just.
What a contradiction in morals and ethics.
What a country we have become just because WE DO NOT HONOR OUR MOTHER AND FATHER. If we did we would try learning more from them and go back to a time when we had morals and bound by a shared sense of ethics.
Well Put! Run for office.
So why don't you leave...
Jmee
@ marc, why should we leave? isn't America ours too? Don't we have as much right to be here as any one else? Aren't our opinions covered under the Bill of Rights for freedom of speech? While I may personally believe in God, the Christian faith and moral values, I also know that my shoving my beliefs will NEVER change another's mind. Only their own God experience can do so. All I can do is live peacefully, helping others, practice Jesus' teaching of loving my neighbor, and living my life without judgement of others. I personally believe in judgement and hell, but it's not for me to condemn someone to it.
Leafonthewind
There is no lower form of life than a pimp. Period.
Absolutely Right. Human vultures, all of them!
LEARN THE REAL CRIME.
LEARN THE REAL DEBATE.
REAL MEN DON'T BUY GIRLS. PERIOD. If your buying it your a loser.
Guess that means more kitty for me then.
Duder
What if a guy simply can't get laid? What does he do then?
SantoSaint- Real men are unfortunately indirectly buying it all the time. There's more than one way of paying.
FYI: "Your" = possessive eg. "I ownzors your rear-end"
"You're" = truncated "You are". You want the second one.
If 2 dudes or 2 chicks can get married in some states why can't a man pay to have relations . Are we a society of moarlity for certain things??
pimps need to be registerd sex offenders....slugs in the community need to be stepped on
If the law would classify pimps as child molesters, you would see pimping disappear over night, because no body wants to go to jail as a "child molester" these days!! Going to jail as a pimp is a badge of honor in these times and it is protected and treated with respect by law!
Pmun
This article is about pimps and how they force women to be prostitutes... That is worng and should be stopped, but don't forget there are thousands of woman across the states that do this for money and don't have pimps. They are independent. Why should that be illegal. Sex in general isn't illegal so if a woman of her own CHOICE wants to give up sum booty and ask for sum money then it should be her CHOICE. That's why it might be good for these women to do the deed first and then ask if they can get some money afterwards cuz they need a favor. Just be friends with your clients and the whole prostitution thing goes out the window!!! LOL... Lets take this example and tell me how it is illegal... I have a friend who is a girl and she is in dire need of money, so if she were to ask me for money to help her out and I do so and then go see her the next day or maybe a couple weeks and ask her for a favor that happens to be sexual it is still her choice to say yes or no right? I did her a favor and she did me a favor as a friend, yet this could be deemed as paying for sex when in reality its two people helping each other out... Cops and authorities don't need to be involved in that anyway... It wouldn't be no different if my friend asked me to come over and help her with some mechanical work or whatever and then when I go into the house and say I'm done she decides to give me a reward for being so nice. Either way she is giving sexual favors for services rendered that would have cost money so it could be deemed the same thing as prostitution but it absolutley is not. It comes down to personal choice for women who CHOOSE to do this all on their own. Yes I do beleive that people should be punished for forcing girls into this profession no matter what their age is. But if people on here are gonna talk about prostitution as a whole and its legality its too black and white for knowing what is right and wrong. To the government/police its not about right and wrong anyway as it is more about uncle sam getting his fair cut for doing nothing during the whole transaction. Don't let the media and these stupid articles blind you to the real reason the authorities even care about this!! (MONEY) And so what if you have daughters, it's your job as a parent to keep them off the pole, literally!!
After all your idiotic word vomit, you show your lack of intelligence and reading skills. You go on and on about how it's a woman's choice. READ THE ARTICLE AGAIN OR READ IT FOR THE FIRST TIME. It is about sex trafficking and these victims are enslaved by the sex trafficker. It has nothing to do with a woman making a choice about her body. IT'S ALL ABOUT SOMEONE NOT HAVING ANY CHOICES AND BEING A SEX SLAVE. This has nothing to do with prostitution it's about sex enslavement and trafficking.
How about taking the pimp and forcing him or her into sexual slavery? I know, that's horrible. Just imagine what a changed man he would be after that torture. Ok, that's enough. It's just sad.
They do it's called prison.
Pimps put a lot of hard work and time to train and discipline these little sluts. Pimpin' truly ain't easy. I love hookers.
Bristol Palin
You sound like someone I should be working for.
Yes, surely you should. After all that's your life's calling.
Because if their pimps out it gives them a chance to escape the life their in...WRONG. It gives them a chance to keep all the money for themselves. Some of them will still work for the pimp even while he's in jail sex will always sell no matter what you do sorry it's just a fact.
And for the comment that real men don't buy girls... That's only true given what your particular situation in life is... I would bet that a good majority of guys that buy girls arent doing it just cuz they can't get booty somewhere else but rather by paying for it they don't have to deal with the other female dramas associated with sex... feelings, committment, etc... Sum people just want sex and want it to be discrete and thats why the money even comes into play... You are paying for that discretion PERIOD.... Granted sum dudes can't get any and need these women... What about guys who are handicapped and can't get a women on their own? People in general are shallow and that's why a beautiful woman wouldn't give them any without them paying... Being in a wheelchair is already depressing I am sure, but not being able to have female contact as well?? That's not right. So in a way these women offer services for some people that couldn't otherwise find it on their own... All of this crap, people buying drugs and prostitutes, is not what bothers the government. The fact the government can't track these transactions and get their share is what bothers them. They need to tax our money 3 maybe 4 times over before they are satisfied. People are gonna get high and buy prostitutes until the end of time, thats just the way it is... So why waste our taxpayer money on trying to stop something you cant? Its like a war on terrorism... LOL... Give me a break... That isn't going away either... But we spend billions and billions of taxpayer dollars on trying to stop things that can't be stopped. Does that make any sense at all??? No wonder we are a nation in debt!!!
H.D.
Men worth a woman's time don't need to pay for sex. The other losers can enjoy their mom's basement, Star Trek conventions, hookers and the incurable crud that comes with them.
Maybe you lived under a rock while actors, politicians and Wall St. banksters went around getting busted for doing just that. It's more likely these men are loaded because a lot of these high end prostitutes run around $10k a night minimum, with many topping $100k for one night.
There aren't many more lucrative professions in the world.
Another bait and switch. Try to criminalize two CONSENTING ADULTS conducting a transaction that harms no one else by lumping them in with human traffickers who coerce women against their will. These are two polar opposite things.
Did you read the comment or was the word idiot just dying to come out of your mouth before you even knew what you just read? LOL... Obviously Trafficking and Prostitution are different things, and I kow what the article is about. Before I even commented I read through these posts and saw how once again everyone gets off track from the story. So my comments were touching base with most of the comments made for the article and for the legality of prostitution... Tell everyone else to stay on track and we wouldn't have these issues... Also the name calling doesn't add anything smart or intelligent to the conversation.... It just shows your ignorance... It's easy to call names and be tough on a computer... Learn to read and actually state some intelligent thoughts that contribute to what everyone is talking about.... IDIOT!!!
Adriane Reesey
Thank you for this article, and I hope that it receives wide dissemination. Human trafficking, and the idea of human beings being bought and sold is at the very least repugnant. I wish we could stem and curtail the demand..........there is certainly no limit to the number of victims at this point.
It is sad to think that there is an entire criminal culture that has been literally built on the backs of sexual servants; what rivals that ill is the thought that there is an appetite for it in our society...........www.bhtc.us
Sorry, but in the case of most of the American girls who turn to prostitution the problems is not the pimps, but their parents who didn't teach their daughters that making money through prostitution is not a good thing. Most were not forced, they got into it because they wanted money and in amounts they could not easily make working at McDonalds or WallMart. They are not the victims. The same tearjerking story about victimization could also be made up about the users of prostitutes... 'oh, these poor young men who are drawn into buying sex by these terrible women'. I have heard that too and it is just as wrong. These are mostly adults and they should be treated as that. Not given the excuse of being 'victims'.
oldboldgold
Snort... someone FORCED the men to pay for sex and they are the real victims? Pobrecitos.
I'm looking for a pimp for my daughter. We share the same dim light bulb, except she doesn't have the delusions of grandeur like me.
I'm goin' to work for Geezer, mom. And if you're smart, you will too.
I would love to, but I have a little odor problem. It's a bit south of cheese.
Let me get this straight? Pimps prey on young girls dreams??!?!? Omg, it all makes sense now.
Legalizing prostitution will not solve the sex slavery and trafficking issue. Just as many girls will work the streets illegally as did before, because nobody wants the government sniffing up their backside (literally).
The problem runs quite deep. We live in a society that has glamorized and encouraged promiscuity. A return to morality is the real solution, but not one we're likely to see. Why? Because everyone wants to have their fun, all while treading a fine line and pointing their own dirty fingers at somebody else.
H.D. prostitution, trafficking and slavery have always existed... even in times and places that were considered more moral... it is either the oldest profession or the second oldest (after shaman, healer etc... as someone suggested). A lot of it comes down to lack of respect. For others, maybe it is the only way they can get sex if they do not have someone in their life or have a health problem that most others would find repulsive. We are all sexual beings. It is very complicated. If someone willingly and only willingly is willing to exchange sex for money, using safer sex methods and get regular check-ups for people who are alone or have health issues, I see no problem- it seems like a mission of mercy almost.
I am a Libertarian and as such, I am not opposed to legalized [REGULATED] prostitution. However, I feel such a trivial fraction of both prostitutes and clients would use legal brothels that it would be unlikely to curb the issue of sex slavery/trafficking and spread of disease. Nevada is a prime example of this social experiment gone wrong.
I am opposed to prostitution *personally* for myriad reasons, but I do not allow my own moral convictions based on my own emotions and life experiences to stand in the way of law and reason. I'm aware we are sexual creatures, but I am also aware we are, at least in theory, highly evolved animals from a psycho-social point of view. We should have risen above this. Instead, it seems we have become ever more deviant.
I'm in Philadelphia and have interviewed numerous street prostitutes. They have all (at least 20 women) told me that the cops, especially vice cops, are some of their best clients, and the cops even tell their favored girls when the vice squad will be out making arrests. One girl told me her very first trick was with a cop. Usually they stop the girl while in uniform and tell the girl to meet them at a certain time and place after work. If a cop gets caught with a girl he can always say she's an informant and he was getting some information from her.
Bill Krayer,Jr.
I think it was COPS I saw they mentioned prost. is legal in Nye County NV(granted I don't know what year the ep was filmed) but y'all realize most death from "illegal" activity is from METH AND COKE!!!check out the book "Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do" for more research!it even lists the "age of consent" state by state & I was appalled 2 find out the age in NM is/was 13!!!
southern_gent_from_mississippi
Just more idiot republicans trying to legislate their morality. Strange, they see nothing wrong when THEY get caught soliciting sex in the bathroom from other men. Its been going on since the beginning of time and always will. Actually no difference from street prostitutes and the gold diggers who latch onto a man through marriage and immediately quit work and let him take care of them. Well, a little difference. They usually have a lot better lifestyle. Some areas of nevada have legalized it and taxed it with very few problems. A few indian reservations also. Again with very few problems. Personally, Ive never paid directly for it but Ive spent a lot more through the normal dating procedures and rituals. Just seems odd to me how a country thats morally and financially bankrupt can still waste money enforcing such garbage 'morality' laws.
sameeker
Gambling and prostitution. Nevada also has no state income or property tax. I prefer elective taxes any day. If you don't want to pay the tax, don't gamble or go to the brothel.
Selling's legal. Fucking's legal. Why isn't selling fucking legal?!
the problem prostitution should not be legal at all. All of you have to ask yourself? How would you know if some person is being force to be an prostitute. You wouldn't know. Second you would have to make the pimp the boss just like any other job. Third you have all these crazy people out here Killing, raping young lady and transporting from different country let along our on USA city to city, state to state. Plus what about all the desease out there. Would you want your daughter or mother out there prostituting. I think not!
Its hard out here for a pimp...
Is there anything I can help you with?
Conservatism is a disease
I remember watching COPS where they had some undercover cop pose as a hooker only to bust some poor schmuck who was on his way home after a long day's work. He stopped at a light when she was offering herself and of course he says yes because he got tired of mounting whatever old bag he had at home. How is this not entrapment?
Ohhh! Poor tired man would rather risk disease and sleep with a ho-bag than the old bag at home. Poor poor man!
If broads like you would get their fat asses on a treadmill and would keep the forks out of their mouths maybe men wouldn't have to resort to hookers.
How *is* it entrapment? He obviously wanted a prostitute and thought he was getting one, since nobody drugged him or held a gun to his head.
He was on his way home when he got proposition. Reading comprehension clearly isn't your strength.
@Conservatism He could have said no, and he wouldn't have been arrested. Basic common sense clearly isn't your strength.
It could be entrapment, if the wiki is accurate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrapment .
Entrapment holds if all three conditions are fulfilled:
1 – The idea for committing the crime came from the government agents and not from the person accused of the crime.
2 – Government agents then persuaded or talked the person into committing the crime. Simply giving someone the opportunity to commit a crime is not the same as persuading them to commit that crime.
3 – The person was not ready and willing to commit the crime before interaction with the government agents.
In this case, 2 and 3 are arguable, but 1 is definitely fulfilled.
WasabiPotPie
My theory is if some of these girls had studied more in school and got better grades they would have been able to get real jobs or gone to college and not turned to this lifestyle.
Most prostitutes are addicted to drugs, learning disabled, mentally ill or some combination of the three. Many, if not most, come from broken, abusive homes. A large percentage became addicted to drugs as teenagers and entered the world of prostitution to feed their addictions. Without proper outreach, they have few options.
As long as men are willing to pay them, they will continue to trick because there are no set hours and no drug tests required to whore oneself. As long as girls and women continue to offer sexual services for a price, men will pay.
This is not a problem only one gender is responsible for perpetuating.
Ahhhhh, the life of a pimp, always wining! Step one, find girls (underage or other) to have sex with and babies with, then pimp them out to pay for your life style. Get caught, let the state pay for your healthcare, room and board and your illegitimate children. Go to jail with respect from the other inmates. Get out early for good behavior or get out because the state can't afford you living there. Got to step one and repeat. Pimp... ONE: State, tax payers, parents, and girls (with or without illegitimate children)...ZERO!!!! WHAT A COUNTRY!!!!!
Drug dealers and pimps are so easy to pick out, their the ones driving around with the loud boom boom boom hate rap.
donnamarinchekmarn01
Where is the "Core",of This Problem?Does anyone Really Want To Get to the "Core"?
You Put Them in Protective Custody......But no one Stay's in Jail Long.They get out and they do it Again and Again and Again.Until Death Happens.
Scott Pilgrim beat The World
I can't say I've ever used prostitution, but men just end up paying for sex anyway. If you date a girl, you have to take her out a few times, listen to her problems, try to impress her, etc. It's probably cheaper in the long run to just pay the upfront fee.
If you're only dating for sex, you're dating for the wrong reasons...look for a f*** buddy instead.
Sonu Abraham
It is really not good to force small children both girls and boys or matured woman to do sex, forcing is illegal, but; matured woman, who really wants to do it themselves and got no respect for the society or humanity, I think they should choose a word for themselves as a sex machine, and they cannot think themselves as a human being anymore cause they themselves wants to be a machine.
Small girls or children must be protected by the society and also parents, cause we can't really save a lot of crimes unless we all stand together and stop it ourselves! I must say that a new born baby must have a censor to be kept under surveilance untill they grow up till 18. I hope in future then police wont have to worry about the kids missing!
Flossy White
THESE ARE NOT PIMPS, THESE ARE WANNABE PIMPS. REAL PIMPS dont mess with underage girls. REAL INTERNATIONAL MEN OF LESUIRE HAVE STALLIONS ON THEIR TEAM NOT SCALLIONS. IREALLY WISH THE MEDIA WOULD GET ITS FACTS STR8T
booker t fonsworth esquirer stone wall jackson the 3rd
Pimpin ain't easy
Eric Northridge
I'm all for keeping prostitution illegal. Legalizing it would more than likely make my girls go "legit" and work for a house that pays taxes, makes sure the girls are healthy and drug free. My girls don't need any of that. Do you think I care if one of my HIV infected girls services that married father of 3? Nah... All I care about is getting paid. Now if you don't mind I gotta go. I'm sure there are easily manipulated 14 years olds getting off the bus looking for all their dreams to come true.
Name*tt
Pimpin ain't easy LOL
Ever notice how it's really the fat and fugly as well as the "good christian" women who complain? Even your jesus had himself a prostitute. I bet he glazed her starfish.
hammeredshytt
and he sukked her clitorus too!!!
Please bring on MORE PIMPS!!!! We need more poontung for tonight's cellubration!!!
more ni66ur hors puleeze...we need our diks to get stankin!!!
Another usless, badly written POS from CNN.
CDaeda
You have more pimps and prostitutes in Washington DC than the whole of California. Funny the law makers haven has the worst of everything in their own back yards.
Mr Whatever
I totaly disagree with this. i think prostitution is like abortion a womans right to her body. Pimps only exist due to it being illegal. then they tie it into human trafficing which includes sex, but i guarantee the majority of people arrested are of age. this is another example of us wasting resources on something we cant possibly control.
women should be fukked by large black cocks until they are RAW!
You should be buried right next to bin Laden.
AngelLee
Actually I live in Las Vegas NV, prostitution IS NOT legal here. It is legal in the brothels that are outside city limits which tend to be inconveinent for most "Johns". So please believe that the "escorts" here make awesome $$$ and most are freelance, as in not working for an agency or a pimp.
Yeah, in the Civil War, the war wasn't against the slaves picking cotton, albeit it certainly was, to an extent, against slaves picking cotton.
Wow, what an innovative idea. Who came up with it?
Since when is it the victim of a crime that puts the cash in their pocket after the crime is committed. Legalize it and you take the pimps out of the picture and force the cops to go after the real criminals. They like prostitution busts because they are always resolved with a fine (revenue) rather then bust a violent criminal who costs profits to deal with.
humtake
Can you do this to my boss for me? I can't stand my life sometimes and I'd like to get out...
xdougx
Corporations prey on young girls dreams as well.
AaronT3
More tax payer money wasted, legalize drugs and prostitution, and if you don't want to participate in either then don't. This is a total WASTE of our tax dollars..
Yes, because calling each other morons and idiots will solve the problem.
The new "California Dream" for these privileged self-absorbed repugnant teenagers of today is to suck as muck c@ck as possible and the pimps are just helping them fulfill it!
yes, and 99% of the hoers in DC are ni66urs!!!
Please neuter yourself before you reproduce.
Al ` A father to a daughter
As a father to a daughter....I have a hard time accepting this. Where are the dads of these little girls, and why would they allow this to happen to them.....second, to the Imps, with a capital I.....whiip their asses, and surgically castrate...and if need be; PUBLIC HANGING.....yes, in America.....when are we going to take a stand against lawlessness and anarchy?????
Injeun
What struck me first by this article is that it really is a noble effort by Californians and more precisely law enforcement to help these young women and girls. Yes in some cases a seventeen year old young woman is as corrupt as her handler. But they had to draw a distinguishing line to save as much innocence as possible. And if that means that some of the girls will go back to it, then so be it if it also saves some. At any rate, this effort in general is very pleasing to me because it punishes the pimps and encourages the girls to better themselves. This is a good thing. in another country, they might simply kill both the girls and the pimps.....having no mercy or concern beyond judgmentalism. In yet other countries they might legalize it or even encourage it which is equally reactionary in the opposite direction of brutal severity in other countries. But this program here recognizes that the conduct is wrong, that the girls need protecting, and that the pimps too have a chance after punishment. They have to learn that the consenting of adults does not apply to girls simply by nature of the act. Americas religous adversaries in the mideast, were they to give this just a small measure of consideration, would have to conclude that, hey, maybe America isn't so bad. They adore their daughters, value chastity, and are mercifull even in such sacred matters as our procreative capacity. I think Californians are doing the Christ-like thing here. Great job! And thanks to the writer of this outstanding article..
Let's go after McDonalds also for exploiting young girls. While pimping is a problem in more profitable areas like big cities and such. It is really a small problem. around central Illinois, the gals doing it are doing it on their own. Legalize it as well as drugs and quit wasting my tax dollars on such nonsense.
How is prostitution forced, anyway? If there is any coercion, then anyone doing so is looking at at least 20 years in prison if all applicable charges stick.
On the other hand, it's disingenuous to use the word "forced" when 99% of the time the ladies do it voluntarily simply because the only other job they are qualified for with their level of education is working the cash register at jack in the box, which only pays minimum wage.
Exactly Andrey. There is a moral war being waged against prostitution, and they are distorting all the words like "trafficking", "forced prostitution" etc. to decribe mere prostitution by adults, and sometimes by teens. This is morality police! Nothing more, nothing less! Leave prostitutes alone. Legalize!
Girl's gotta eat, man has to have sex. It's a win win.
GailS
Legalize prostitution and there will be no need for pimps.
Bingo. Legalize pedosexuality as well and you won't have any children being forced into sexual encounters because those pedosexuals (coming from my experiences as a child and those of my relatives) will be able to find a WILLING child to have sex with.
You sound like a sexual predator, Chrisstopher.
You're comparing apples and oranges. Legalizing pedosexuality is forcing sex on children. Legalizing prostitution is allowing two adults to legally negotiate a rendezvous. You would have a point if I suggested legalizing child prostitution, but I didn't suggest that.
You have been horribly lied to, by your own mind. Whether your body responded (betraying what you knew was wrong) to the sex or not as a child, in your mind you knew it was wrong. And maybe that's what's got you confused. You see, children aren't fully developed mentally, and that is why as adults, its our job to protect them. Their critical thinking skills are still developing, hence, why they are in school. Please get some help...before you continue to hurt other children. The people who hurt you as a child are predators. And the fact that you say your relatives are involved makes me want to vomit. P.S. if u r just trolling on this site to make waves, please go to a different one
Monbois
To Conky2012: You sound as stupid and ignorant as Peter Griffin! Prostitution is legal in Holland and Nevada (and probably a few other places I'm not aware of) and there are plenty of women – and MEN! – who work in the business! It was as good as legal in the US & Europe (and probably very legal in Asia) until the 20th century and plenty worked in the business then!
Why don't you learn how things are before you spout off about what they will be?
As far as drugs, marajuana and cocaine used to be legal here until the US government made them illegal by exploiting xenophobia and racism (long story, but you're probably not interested in hearing it because you like to make up your own history) and plenty of people used both. Pot is still legal in The Netherlands (another name for Holland, which you probably also did not know) and people use it there. I'm sure if any illegal drug were to become legal here a lot of people would use it! They may not want their neighbors to know they use it any more than a lot of people now don't want their neighbors to know they watch legal porn, but fear of their busybody, nosy neighbors (and I'm sure you're one of them) won't deter enough people from using drugs.
You, sir, are the dummy.
Cops on easy time, probably overtime, wasting time.
Easier to sit in a room with a recorder than go after the REAL criminals; the corrupt investment bankers, the corrupt commercial bankers, the paid-for politicians through political donations by special interests, the crooked leaders of labor unions always looking for government hadouts
kristalips
prostitution should not be legalized! and the only people that want it to be are nasty pathetic men that want to use the service because they Cant get it anywhere else Hahah!! i do believe in god, but i dont believe this is only a christian nation! and yes pro creation but with one women not every women that gets your little pecker excited! i despise some of the comments on here from men, its sad you weren't raised with better morals!.
Waste of money and time. What if the women have no pimp? She is free to do it if she want to, or is USA a nazi/fascist country that don't allow women work freely in the profession they choose? There's ONLY ONE solution for human trafficking: LEGALIZE and REGULATE the oldest profession. Or keep wasting tax money with useless undercover operations that don't help in anything. And worse is when "undercover" agents reveal their tactics for entire world read and discover how they work. LEGALIZE and REGULATE, any other solution is useless.
Waste of MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
last nerv
Does the phrase "4 floors in Singapore" mean anything to anyone?
Chrisstopher is a frightening example of inhumanity. Minors do not have the mental capacity to understand the longterm consequences of their behavior.
Personally, I find the idea of paying for sex disgusting. I cannot imagine the world you live in. Did you give your daughters lessons when you convinced them to be easy? If you think of your own children's sexuality in this manner, how do you treat their friends? Do you buy them dinner first and think that makes it okay?
The overall crime rate in Singapore is almost nothing compaired to the crime rate in the USA.
irvineman
It takes two to tango, and I just don't buy 17 year girls have been forced to do anything against their will, although pimps may give impression that they love them more than parents. Come on girls, you can work at McDonald, etc. in USA.
VanAZ
I agree. Waste of money and time. Legalize, License, and Tax this line of work! It has been and always will be around. Focus on steering the underage children out of the business. That should be the goal.
We tax cigerettes and alcohol, as both are bad for health, but we do not make them illegal. Charging for sex between two consenting adults should be treated in the same manner. What is forced should be treated as rape and all persons involved, from the pimp to the clients, should be jailed. Having said that, I would encourage social counselling provided for adults who would like to get out of prostitution, considering its negative impact on self-esteem and even physical well being. I beleive the article was about police tryting to prevent this prostitution against their will or by under-age minors which is valid.
Most female adults are in prostitution as it provides easy money and men are in it because it provides sex without responsibility. Engaging in prostitution is about personal beliefs or morality and peer pressure, not policing can change such behavior.
Pimps? Dream destroying? I think Ed Wood made some films about this!
I pay for sex and there's no law nor "morals" that will make me change. Fortunately in my country it's legal and regulate and I only go to decent places where I know there's no criminals nor traffickers involved. Unfortunately in nazi countries that for false moralist reasons bans freedom and prostitution, the market goes undercover and the adult and free women are considered a criminal just like the pimp who force people to prostitution. Only a complete idiot can defend the nazi/fascist system that's clearly bring no benefits to society, here is rare we see forced prostitution and when it happen police is able to go there and close and bust the owners because prostitution is legal and the authorities always knows who's the owner of the brothel that's committing a crime. I repeat: There's ONLY ONE solution: LEGALIZE and REGULATE. Any other thing is useless, waste time, tax money and produce only more criminality, because like me there's millions and we have the right to pay for sex. No law will make me change, they ban here, I will continue pay, difference is that instead my money goes for the women who is working and for State as tax, it will go for criminals, pimps and mafia.
Also in those countries that is legal, girls, boys,women are forced into prostitution, because you go and is legal it dosent make moral, or something to be proud of.
I work in a hospital an I see women and girls from central america that are forced to work in this places, not to mention forced to work drunk.
The brutality of how this sex slaves are treated is bad even when is legal. If I were a man, I would be sorry that I have to pay to somebody to male feel like a man. Very sad indeed.
Prostitution legal or not ruins lives, no matter what excuse some men use to condone it. Pobre Jose,no puede conquistar si no paga. Poor Jose cant get a girl if he dosent pay.
troll as much u want, I will continue paying. Legal or illegal, my rights to pay for sex nobody will put their hands. It's cheaper and much better than waste time with a boring girl like you. Without mention the sex professionals are always beautiful.
Jose...it is a pointless debate with these "I've been brainwashed since birth" people. They cannot even begin to understand that "prostitution" is only something that moralists came up with to manipulate and control societies. They haven't the thinking capacity to understand that what two consenting adults want to do with each other is no one elses business. They also cannot swallow that the tradition of "dating" in the west is just as much prostitution as anything. Unless a woman/man pays for their half of all the expenses related to that date and sex is involved then it is PROSTITUTION. They just mask it in a societal accepting way to feel better about it. Just because something is paid for upfront doesn't make it any different than being paid for by a dinner, drinks and a movie....unless of course you have a small mind and are incapable of critical thinking.
Why do so many people here assume all sex workers work for a pimp? Most are self-employed.
Terry Brookman
Girls mature a lot quicker than boys and they pick up the other than pleasure rewards from their mothers at a very young age. What they don't understand form interaction in a family unit in most cases is the down side. There mothers should start this teaching at a younger age than they do, before they pick it up on the street on online. Boys at fifteen are still thrilled by cars, sports and video games where girls are way past them in the sex department thus making them easy targets for the perverted pimp older male. Mothers teach your girls at a younger age, don't leave it to schools and pimps.
Kudos to the California police and all police around the globe who are tackling this ultra-serious issue of trafficking women/kids against their will. Hope more of these pimps get locked up and these victims freed so they can live healthy lives of healing.
Even if they decided to legalize prostitution, as suggested above, they should keep pimping illegal and break those guys down as hard as they can.
Can we stop islam? Girls are forced into "marriages" at the age of 6. Just as sick as this garbage.
Did you read the article dear friend? What does this have to do with Islam or any other religion?
It is easy to stop ot, castrate to the pimps and put them in jail to be used, and the customers have their photo, address,names posted and jail time.
After all they are perverts looking for young girls or boys.
This is great that the California police are taking such an enlightened stance on this issue. Regardless of whether or not prostitution should be legal (which there are arguments for both sides), pimping is a form of human trafficking and needs to be treated as such.
For people interested in learning more, I'd highly recommend checking out notforsale.org or reading any of Victor Malarek's books about sex trafficking.
balzosteel
It's going to take a lot of effort and education to put an end to human trafficking, but nobody said that pimpin' was easy!
these comments are MADDENING. sure, ideally, paying for sex between consenting adults sounds reasonable: simple supply and demand. but when is anything so simple? the issue is that people (including CHILDREN) are taken advantage of and exploited! sure, not every situation is that way – BUT exploitation exists in prostitution!
Any sexual acts with under-aged girls is just not acceptable (or legal). However the "working girls" that I have met were never abused. They have a few things in common; 1- A very poor father image. 2- A taste for the good (material) things in life and no desire to work hard to get it. 3- they usually are supporting a looser. As one explained to me; "Why should I spend a whole week to make $500, when I make it in one hour?" ... To you and I there are many things wrong with that statement, to her it made perfect sense.... Each to their own, I guess.
Too lazy to read all the posts on here, so if somebody's said it already, sorry. Here goes: can you think of anything else that's legal to do for free but illegal to do for money? That's the best argument in favor of legalizing prostitution FOR ADULTS. Of course people under age should not be exploited. And making prostitution legal would go a long way to ending trafficking in underage prostitutes, because the industry would be out in the open and regulated. As it is now, it's all underground because it's illegal. Many countries have legalized prostitution without negative outcomes.
in most parts of the world, the worst thing you can call a man is a pimp. In America its cool
The problem is
In just about every place they have tried legalizing prostitution, human trafficking and slavery have increased. I'm glad these police officers have recognized that the true problem and cause of prostitution is the exploitation of vulnerable women.
they should lock you up and abuse you too then!
"The Orange County task force is one of 42 federally funded human trafficking task forces across the United States."
what a crock, california is a sanctuary state allowing illegals to hide in our country. yet they make a big deal about this. this is what you don't know, the feds will pay these "victims" to live in this country and send them to school to learn a trade on your SS dollars so when you don't get any money on retirement, that is where it went.
I have often disputed the claim of surveyors to belong to the second oldest profession. I contend that surveying is historically the OLDEST profession. According to James Burke, before the invention of the plow everyone's "profession" was the same – getting something to eat. The use of the plow permitted one to cultivate the land and produce a surplus of food. Without this surplus of food we might today still be just "seekers of food" or "takers of food."
Prior to the plow, there could be no government (no money); no kings, no church, no businesses, nothing to legitimate or illegitimate! However, with a surplus the "takers" would become kings and knowing who's (taxable) crop belonged to whom would be extreemly important.
The "Rope-Strechers" (surveyors) were just the ones who knew how to determine who's was who's and permitted a stable "legitimate" society to develop. It would only be after this that codes of behavior and "normalcy" or legitimacy would have any real meaning. Only after 1) surplus, 2) government, 3) religion, 4) marriage had been instituted could another, more familiar, profession develop who has for a long time claimed to be the "oldest."
PhaReal
Correction! Pimps GIVE them dreams
eastwood1379@gmail.com
behead them
Why don't the Pigs leave the people alone. This is a victimless crime that should be legalized. Only in America.
Jathy
Chrisstopher.....please post some comments solo. Maybe a pyschiatrist (sp) will happen to come across your comments and be able to offer some help. It is never ok to have sex with children. I'm sorry the adults in your life who said they cared about you deceived to so gravely.
Cops prey on people. That's what the article and the lousy CNN media should admit.
Chrisstopher REALLY wants to have sex with kids.
Marc Parella
It is time to end laws against prostitution. The cops are at their worst when dealing with this problem. Yes some women and even children are forced against their will go into prostitution – and that should have be legalized or decriminalized. But many women feel that prostitution liberates them and gives them a sense of power in society. Think my argument is nuts? What about the women who have successfully become millionaires in pornography? What is the real difference between the two other than one is legal and one is not?
If we are supposed to be a free country, then freedom becomes with the individual. Who that individual engages with is purely up to that individual and seeing a bunch of cops busting people for prostitution and claim how they are liberating women makes me sick.
If a woman (or man) wants to engage in prostitution – it is their own damn business. We will have about as much success in dealing with prostitution as we have with the war on drugs. We need to learn the difference between consensual acts and criminal acts – and then the cops can focus their limited resources on what really matters.
I have the sollution:
If the Government was legally bound to provide each man with 10 super-models, and those 10 super-models were legally bound to do his every bidding, otherwise they would end up in jail, then the market for prostitution would disappear entirely.
That is the sollution. You pay tax, so you are entiteled to 10 super-models in return.
Or, we could make that a liquid-system:
Each man is entitled to 10 standard women, and the more tax you paid, the more beautiful women you were entitled to.
If standard women were not good enough for you, you could just tell the government that you opted for the deluxe-package instead, and that you would rather pay higher taxes and get women with longer legs in return.
This is the sollution. It is perfect.
Except that those supermodels are ALSO paying taxes, and probably way more taxes than you do. I don't think they'd take it kindly to be "assigned" to some random guy.
please read: "and that should NEVER be legalized or decriminalized..."
mzprosperity
They have legalized prostitution ..it's all called the billion dollar porn business..escorts.. video vixens, bunny ranch... As long there is a profit 2 be made off of a person.. there will be someone with evil and corrupt attempt to use it's power to the fullest for a personal profit... now it's plenty of sick individuals who are out here praying on kids.. who are not getting caught.. those the ones I'm concerned about.. they're corporate Amerikkk that are pimping out our youth... but I bet they won't be put on blast on any major network.. hush hush..-_-
Jack Slap
I agree with everything that you wrote but then stumbled when I hit the "Corporate AmeriKKKa" pimpin out the minors blah blah blah...crackpipe hit blah blah
Put the punishment of force prostitution punishable death, nobody will want to be a pimp. Reality is force prostitution is a small percentage of prostitution. Many prostitutes are doing it for the money reasons and are not forced. The ones forced are by greedy pimps who want to keep all the money. and this article even entire section is just sensationalizing prostitution. like slavery and force prostitution..report numbers and facts instead of sensationalizing to sell news. the public deserves better.
reACTIONary
I know a libertarian, like some making comments, who thinks prostitution should be legal. He also thinks the age of majority should be 13 years old. So if a 13 year old girl wants to run away from home and make a living selling herself on the street, he's OK with that. This is the sort of social deprivation some people want in the name of "freedom".
reality there is no demand for male prostitutes. only gay men would pay for sex. women don't pay for sex. majority of females are into prostitution cause they are in debt, broke or need to pay for school and not forced. sure they may a percentage to pimp like 25% of fees like an employment agency if they work for an agency. or they can be independent.and don't pay one and keep 100% these stories of force prostitution and sex slavery is just talks about greedy pimps or ripping off prostitutes.
we are all whores
We are all whores our government and the banks that run it pimp us out
And cracking down on prostitution is costly for police and court system.. less police for other serious crimes. unless your have long and severe sentencing for pimps who acturally do FORCE PROSTITION OR CHILD PROSTITITION than it's not a deterent for economic crimes like force prostition and child prostition,,,tougher punishment or longer sentencing is a deterent. minimim no parole 20 year sentence for force prostition and child prostittion. because it's destroying another life so life sentence is fair.
and lots are in prostitution to support a drug addiction...no female wants to be prostitute as a career. but have to make ends or single moms etc for economic reasons.
meese1960
Ever hear of Annie Sprinkle?
If there was a problem, yo I `d solve it.
Check out The Hook, while my DJ revolves it.
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In theory I have no problem with prostitution between consenting adults(but it's nothing I would ever do). There are people out there who don't mind selling physical sex. However, these people strike me as a very small minority. The real question is how often is it truly out of choice versus being forced by outside circumstances. If the majority of the time it's forced then prostitution should probably stay illegal. Regardless, child prostitution should always be illegal.
Give real punishments to the Johns, the only reason there are pimps and underage hookers is because there are millions of people (mostly men) wanting to pay for it.
A three year mandatory sentence in a state that is having to release criminals ahead of time because of overcrowding. These pimps would probably be the first ones released unless they have a crimiinal record that includes violence. Actuallu, I'm suprised they just don't legalize it like Nevada. I guess it's ok to get stoned in California but you can't pay for sex.
First of let me start off by saying this has been going on for many, many years ("pimping") but before it was ok when it was majority white women and men running "escort services" this "pimping" business is now under more scrunity than ever before. Yes the internet makes it more easier and more accessible but to say that every quote on quote "pimp" is out there taking every amount that the girl gets on a call is not really the case. If the law wants to build a case then they need to get the "working girl" testify saying that her "pimp" beats her and gives her all his cash. Other than that THIS IS A WASTE OF MY AMERICAN TAX PAYING MONEY. You are really giving out 3 year mandatory prison time (felony charges) for a "misdemeanor crime" (consenting adults wanting sex and one pays for it and other agrees to accept it), which the "working girl" gets no time at all usually and gets a fine , maybe probation. Do you see something wrong in this picture? Then the article talks about "human trafficking" which is not the same as what you are sentencing a "pimp" for but YES it can be if he is "human trafficking" a person but from what i see is that most of your so called "pimps" do not conduct business in "human trafficking". So this article is really touching 2 different subjects here. Again the law is wasting time because most of these women will be right out doing "prostituting" even if they do have "pimps" and they will do it as an "independent" or they will just get with another "pimp". Yes please get rid of the ppl who are "human trafficking" ppl (send them to prison) but this is the minority not the majority you are catching on these stings. This is a lose lose situation. You are wasting too much man power and hours on these harmless crimes. Morally incorrect – Yes but other than that very low on the " TO CATCH A PREDATOR OR CATCH A KILLER" level!!!!
zsailor
If I call up a phone number advertised and say exactly the same things the cop does and the person on the other end is a female cop pretending to be a prostitute in order to rob and imprison people looking for sex they will rob me, take all my money, and kidnap me, lock me up in jail for doing it. So a cop doing the same thing should be guilty of the same thing and locked up for soliciting prostitution. Cops should not be allowed to break the law any more than an ordinary citizen is. In addition; if a female advertises an escort service and meets a man at a hotel and proceeds to rob him and tie him up she will be accused of robbery and kidnapping. If a female cop does the same thing then the female cop should be arrested and charged with robbery and kidnapping. In non urgent situations the police should never be allowed to break the law in order to enforce a law. If a law requires the police to break it in order to enforce it then the law needs to be changed.
The article said 13 pimps were arrested in nine months. I am willing to bet there were far more than 13 prostitutes in Orange County in the past nine months. If they could only find 13 pimps in nine months that means that trafficking is relatively rare, i.e. most sex workers are not trafficked.
Is it true in USA cops can pretend to be whores to send innocent people to jail? If Hitler was alive he would find it a very good idea to apply in his Nazi Germany. And USA think is a free country, what a joke. Here if a cop do it, she's immediately sent off the corporation and can even go to jail for serious violation of Constitution and Human Rights. I live in Brazil and here the law is clear, pimp is forbidden, but we're a democracy, so woman can choose the job they want to do. The brothels here are like bars, the women are free to work where they want, how they want, and in as many brothels they want, their job is make the customers spend a lot with erotic shows (no touching the girl) and others thing, if we want take them to bed we deal direct with them and pay direct for them. Naturally some fascists here will say it's same as pimp, but I have no time to explain in details. Come here, visit the brothels and see how it works. There's no human trafficking here? no child prostitution? no pimps? Of course there's.. but that represents less than 3% of the sex industry and with brothels open and working as bars, Police always knows who's the owner of the place and if have a denounce it's easy know who's the responsible for the place. If it was like in USA, we would have the same number of brothels, but police would not know who's the owner or where to go and wouldn't be able to do any undercover work as in USA, because it's unconstitutional here. The reality is only one. LEGALIZE and REGULATE. There's no other way to solve the problem of human trafficking, child prostitution and forced prostitution. This article proves it, 13 pimps in 9 months... looool
LibertySpins
Pimps need to be given sentences of 25 years so we can clean society of these violent abusive men.
People need to understand, a female working as an escort is NOT a bad thing. I've been doing it for 5 years and I've made more money than any other 25 year old has. I was making $30,000 a month, only working 5 days a week. There is no way anyone can tell me what I was doing was bad. It's my body and I'm not harming anyone! I used my money to further my education, I now have bachelors degree in Marketing. If I didn't make that money I don't know how I'd survive. Of course there are pimps out there, but the female doesn't have to be with one! Most of the time its her choice!
Most women don't make that much; you were very lucky. But really, if it was that great, why get a marketing degree? Just work on your back for 10-15 years and invest the money.
Im a Pimp with a degree in Poli Sci, and to get an education is to better yourself. I too am 25 and the money is amazing, and I am forcing nobody to do anything, nor mess with any underage females. Just because you get a degree doesnt mean that you want to slave at soem 9-5 job for somebody, it's increasing your worldy views. Oh yeah, Carrie send me a message @ dj@mailcatch.com with some contact info.
Butthead
PierreLaFranc mindlessly spewed the following tripe: "The victim of drugs, alcohol and prostitution are the people killed by the drunk (or high) drivers."
1) alcohol is legal (so is stupidity, so you get to walk free)
2) prostitution – I gotta say, what the heck are you babbling about? Your inclusion of prostitution into your mindless comment is mind boggling. What do they have to do with each other?
3) The number of people injured by drivers who are high is insignificant compared to the number of people killed by ignorant, incompetent or distracted drivers, of which you are likely one.
Honestly, if there are no more pimps, there will still be hoes a hoeing.... There are good Pimp and bad pimps as with anything in the world. Adult consensual prostitution should be legal or a non jailable offense. Now people that are sending underage girls should get the boot and the gavel! But the rest of this is ridiculous. Theres a few things you cant stop, such as murder, terrorism and PROSTITUTION! Get with it or dont even mention it. TY
Teragon
For god's sakes people, there will always be women who will volunteer to sell sex and men who will purchase it. Hell, there are now women that will buy sex from men. Make it legal, secure and accountable.
Voluntary prostitution is not slavery. You may dislike prostitution and claim that it humiliates women etc., but it's still not slavery. Stop confusing the issues.
To the poster Chrisstopher: You were ABUSED as a child and are now a PEDOPHILE (since you said you have had child sex as an adult). I hope the FBI tracks your IP address and throws you in jail so some inmates can violate you. In no way is a child mentally capable of consenting to sexual relations, particularly with an ADULT. Even a Doogie Howseresque child genius would be emotionally unable to handle sex. The fact that you threw the term pedosexuality out there for people to read is shameful and makes me sick inside. This has nothing to do with opinion. You can twist it any way your warped mind wants to, there is no factual argument I could ever accept that would allow me to believe that a child can or should have sexual relations with an adult. To reiterate, you're a sick individual and I'm now going to spend a moment in silent contemplation hoping something horrendous occurs to you. Soon.
To sum up all these comments
Anyone who is ok with prostitution being legalized, regulated, taxed and between consenting adults - sick degenerate pedophile who abuses animals for fun and profit
Anyone who is ok with having their daughter being a prostitute within a legalized framework - sick pedophile who needs psychotherapy and should have their child takes away by Child Serivces and who beats their wife daily
Anyone who thinks of their daughter as a shining princess who deserves the entire world and who should never be hurt by anyone and who will kill anyone who hurts their delicate snowflake - perfectly sane, capable adult not suffering from any delusions and a shining paragon of virtue
Seriously people, grow up.
What about women who trade sex for Jewelry, Cars, Fancy Dinners, Trips to Paris, Fur Coats, Rent Free Apartments, and the occasional Free Drink? (A large amount of attractive women do this) They're just freelancing contractors?
They're ahead of the curve 😀
Oh so it's just the cash exchange you have a problem with. How about we get prostitute gift cards? lol
I actually have no qualms with prostitution. Whether you give her money directly or buy groceries for her to eat, you're paying in the end, and payment is payment. Amen
How many women say: "I wish I had a better body, cuz I'd be a stripper"? A lot. How many women say: "If a rich guy offered me $1,000,000 for sex I'd do it!" A lot. Or how about the woman who say: "If he buys me a house and a car and a $7,000 engagement ring I'd suck the hull off his battleship?" A lot. There are varying degrees of women who trade on their body for wealth or other enrichment. And to be honest, most women are trading their sex for financial security by hoping for a rich husband. The question is, how much is it worth to the individual woman? A woman who wants to land her a hubbie and a house doesn't want some other woman (who may or may not be more attractive and probably is more sexually adept) giving it away for cheap. Trapping men is hard work, and the women who don't want to do that must be morally wrong or something. LOL.
You are dumb and sad.
esther ilechukwu
you are doing a great job,this evil crime commit to humanity is unbelievable but it is achoice,but most victim are taking in to it beacause of money.i pray GOD WILL empower you people.
madhater
Whures? Oh nice.
It is very disturbing to see the attitudes towards women expressed by many. It is a reflection of the an overall problem facing the world and humanity.
As for prostitution, the purchace of sex services should be illegal. There are already some countries where it is.
name one country where it's illegal and there's no prostitution? It's easy say, make it illegal, make that illegal. Hard is give a reasonable solution if maximum your brain can understand is the world "illegal". In Iran and Saudi Arabia women are flogged and even sentenced to death if they choose to work in a are government says she can't. Before say "make it illegal" go look the reality in the nazi countries that forbidden everything. But go there or find a serious journalist (something rare today) who went there and have proves, relates and all to show. I say again. If they make it illegal here I'll continue buying sex but instead my money goes for the girls and for State, it will go for a pimp and the mafia. But I don't care, if government decides my money must go to pimps and mafia then let it be.. But this problem I'll never have, to bans prostitution here they will have to change the Constitution.
Legalizing prostitution is not going to solve anything. Think about it; do you think those low life's are going to pay uncle sam when they don't even pay their prostitutes? We may get a few national dollars from taxing brothels but the majority of prostitution will still be done underground to avoid paying tax. Our money will always be funding to fight the sickos that use children. We need to find a secluded volcanic island out in the middle of the ocean and every pedophile, child pimp, and trafficker needs to be castrated, sewed up, and dumped on tha island with minimal provisions. That way our tax money only has to pay for transport. There is no rehabilitation for these creeps so cast them out of society forever!
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Why do the insist on keep calling it Human Trafficking when the majority of these people are consenting adults trying to make a living.
Here are the statistics from the FBI itself on one sting called Operation Cross Country V
661 Busts Adult, 69 Juvenile, 99 Pimp, 125 John /Other
All these from around 31 States and just a few cities.
How much man power and teams and at what costs to pay agents to bust 661 prostitutes? Adult, consenting females over 18? How much wasted resources? Fuel for cars, stakeouts, food, overtime? Airplane tickets ects...
Yes, absolutely saved 69 kids who for whatever reason was in that mess and you do not know why even if it's because they wanted to be there. Cool, save the kids and leave the rest alone.
Put them in brothels, tax them, make them have health cards or they can't work legally.
Bust them if they don't have a licence just like any other business.
If a customer knows that they won't get busted and a brothel has health inspection then you bring it to the light and no more underground and taking chances.
The waste of resources and man power for baloney laws that never worked has done nothing but filled our prisons and keep real criminals out on the streets to rob and kill you.
cnnagain
I just found this through one of my favorite youtubers, that is now doing what she can to help stop human sex trafficking as well. It's a non-profit called Free the Birds that raises money to give to other non-profits that are stopping human sex trafficking and helping the victims. Check the video out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r0BOcakA10&feature=feedu
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Those cops harassing defenseless girls who did no harm to anybody are a disgrace for the US, just as this whole CNN Freedom Project. Journalism cannot get any lower.
There is no such thing as forced prostitution. It is a code word to impose puritan morality on people who don't want it.
Leave these girls in peace! Don't they suffer enough from social discrimination?
notaplaya
I have a daughter and she was, will and has been raised with values! Cops, Government? As much as I have empathy for people and especially the ones that are taken advantage of, no matter what their home life or other circumstances were that led them to any pimp! I would gladly off the bastard myself! A bullet only costs a dollar! Better yet, let me catch some moron putting his hands on a woman, underage or not! If I sense that she is being abused against her will! He will be mine! Consenting adults can do what they want. When I was young, I delivered papers to a legal brothel! The police chief of the little town owned interest! Pimps come in all shades of grey! Anyone that uses others by controlling them need to go away! It sickens me to the point of anger to read about POS that make their money off the backs of others by control! The young girls that are drawn into this live will usually end up lost and alone or worse!
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But for me i think, this whole thing still boils down to the fact that many people are losing sight of God. If we can realize the fact that God is still the God who preached and punishes immoral act, then our consciences will awaken to condemn and reject this obnoxious practice. How can a person of conscience traffic another just to get rich. the pick, people who call themselves mothers go after children who are there's to make money for their own children at home. The only thing that can stop this devilish act is reviving this conscience by establishing contact with God . So let religious men and women stand up and preach against human trafficking. Let seminars be held in primitive villages and towns to educate the young. Please aim at the blessings that can come of out your little effort in saving souls for God and the society.---Lenny
I think the improvement in controlling human trafficking is a great thing. Many times the prostitute does not need to be punished and I’m glad that they have a chance to get help with this new program.
Jim, Los Angeles CA
Who in hell cares about these stupid people?
They have ruined California. I was born here in 1948 and it was a great place to grow up...
Not any more. Its nothing now but a refuge for illegal aliens and whores.
KRM1007
Hopefully India could learn from this tragedy and stop human trafficking of young girls from Nepal to India as prostitutes.
Thank you CNN for running a TV program on this subject hosted by Demi Moore. Asia Foundation estimates about 7000 girls are trafficked from Nepal to India every year for prostitution and about 200,000 Nepali girls and women are currently working in the sex industry in India.
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get the muslims and negroes out of usa. they are for sex slavery and perversion
You're right!
90% of CNN's Human Trafficking stats and comments are total BS. The vast majority of girls CHOOSE to do this to earn more cash then their other options. Even in this article read the sentence: "CSP hopes to convince the women to leave the life of prostitution.". Ummmm, hmmmm, CSP has to work to convince them?? Guess it aint as bad as they thought? Why not help someone who wnats your help?? I am so tired (and so are my many hooker friends) of all this holier-than-thou crap.
Although Drugs and Prostitution co-exists, and sometimes share certain similarities the outcomes cam be quite different. Drugs kill people- the users and sometimes innocent bystanders. Paid sex rarely kill people : on the other hand may result in production of people if the participants do not take appropriate precautions. Instead of arguing ad nauseam- it would be more prudent to look at countries which have legalized drugs and prostitution, and compare outcomes.
Peter Matthews
This public service announcement was produced to warn young people that Human Traffickers use bogus job ads to lure their victims into interviews. Respondents will meet for an interview – usually in a secluded place – and are abducted. They are often drugged, beaten, raped, starved and subjected to emotional abuse before being forced into prostitution. From the time of entering prostitution, their life expectancy is about 6 years. http://www.vimeo.com/13335393
Do you even know any hookers? This is such horseshit. I know a ton of them. an extremely small % were coerced in any way; far fewer physically harmed. Any abuse or force or use of underage girls is horrid – but FAR MORE women are abused by their husbands every day. Put these resources towards solving THAT problem!
This is not about hookers. They have chosen their way of life. It's about innocent young people being tricked into interviews by human traffickers and rapists.
"The young woman from Joburg was overpowered and viciously raped and stabbed in the Umhlanga City Lodge hotel on Friday evening. The 24-year-old woman was lured to Durban by a man whose identity is known to Independent Newspapers, on the pretext that she was auditioning for an MTV presenter’s job." – http://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/tv-star-hopeful-raped-and-stabbed-in-durban-hotel-room-1.1122704
FBI statistics claim that people lured into human trafficking have a 6-7 year life expectancy.
And, as a matter of interest, human trafficking is the fastest growing industry in the world. It's far bigger than drugs today.
As defined in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, the legal definition of a “severe form of trafficking in persons” is:
Sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age; or
The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining or a person for labor services, through the use of force, fraud or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.
So, you have not been sex trafficked. It's your choice... It's not about you.
You're missing my point. I am telling you that your precious statistics are bullshit. Of roughly 1,000 hookers I have known over the years I know of 3 who were coerced into it. All 3 by debt (they couldnt get their passport back until their debt was paid). I agree this is inhuman, as is underage girls, but we are talking about .3%. A tiny, tiny fraction. In many places, including the US a hooker gets off scot-free if she tells a cop she was "trafficked", but gets a nite in prision of fine if she says she's doing in voluntarily. Hmm, now what would YOU say if arrested by the cops. As soon as these "trafficked" girls are released they are back doing it again – VOLUNTARILY.
Would they rather be doing a different "respectable" job to earn the same money? Yes, of course. But how many people dont like their jobs?!?! How many would quit if they could earn the same cash doing something they enjoy more? Almost everyone!
The stats are complete horeshit. The problem over-blown to enable cash to flow to NGOs and keep them business, and to allow media companies to get ratings through stories of illicit sex and pain. Americans LOVE stories with sex and pain involved! Clearly the most gullible mass audience the world has ever seen.
Hey Player... no judgement here. I know many women who married for money. They look after their husbands and do what they are told because they get the good life. That is nothing short of legitimized prostitution. Hey, but good for them. It's a win win.
I live in South Africa. Children and young teens (girls and boys) are abducted often in Africa. Their parents never hear from them again. They are often drugged, beaten, raped, starved and subjected to emotional abuse before being forced into prostitution. These aren't made up stories. They come from the kids who are recovered. And yes, they mostly go back to prostitution, because it's the life they know. That's my concern. Stealing a child's innocence and human rights. It is modern slavery. Unlike a drug deal, the 'handlers' have repeat sales of the same 'product'. It's more lucrative than drugs.
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The problem here is not about legalizing prostitution. It will not work because most people are not interested in adult prostitutes, but in 14 – 17 year old girls.
WTF? You are an idiot! Where did you get this little gem of info from? Most guys who buy hookers are paedophiles? Completely and utterly wrong!
Being a horny man does not equate to being a paedophile! 99.9999999999% of paid sex is between an adult man and an adult woman. Just TRY TO FIND an underage hooker – go online, Craigslist, the bars, the streets.... You'll find 10,000 adult hookers before stumbling into an underage hooker.
lol .. This what rightwingers always says... probably because they're only interested in 14 – 17 yrs girls.. but majority of population is normal and different of you, they like women.
While false moralists like you keep lying and invent excuses against democracy, several kids are suffering in Sweden, USA and others nazi countries, because government do not legalize prostitution. When rightwingers will understand that if prostitution is illegal, criminals will command it and if go out with a 18+ women is crime, people who likes kids, will ask for the kids. He will to go to jail anyway... so, if he's a pedophile he will take risk with a kid. These absurds excuses of false moralists, fascists, rightwingers and feminazis are the main cause of child trafficking in the world.
Solution is only one: Legalize, respect freedom, democracy and the universal declaration of human rights. My sex workers are all over 18 and choose this profession because they wanted to. I pay direct for them. Here Constitution legalize it, so nazis can't touch this right, but if someday a pathetic nazi government copy the nazi sweden law, I'll be a great customer for pimps and criminals (but still will only ask for 18+ women) and also a constant visitor of police station, probably we will end drinking a coffee while I open a report against government for violation of human rights.
Not much better than muslims really. It's dirty because you say it's dirty. My dog is perfectly happy dry humping anything or anyone when she feels like it. She certainly doesn't feel embarrassed about it. Other dogs don't single her out for doing it. Oh but people no God forbid you see a boob in public take her out of the village and stone her to death! At the end of the day all you are doing is perpetuating an ancient taboo that has no basis in logic. All that money and all those resources wasted and for what? Arrest one and another one appears, and another and another. Who was it that said insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result?
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SC to pronounce judgement on J&K restrictions on Friday
Thu Jan 9, 2020 8:02 pm IST
by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 9: The Supreme Court will deliver, on Friday, its judgement on the clutch of petitions, including by senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, challenging the Centre’s decision to impose restrictions on the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir after the August 5 revocation of provisions of Article 370, giving special status to the state.
A bench, headed by Justice N.V. Ramana and comprising Justices R. Subhash Reddy and B.R. Gavai, had reserved judgement on November 27 last year. Besides Azad, the court had heard the petitions filed by Anuradha Bhasin, Executive Editor of Kashmir Times, and few interveners, who challenged the imposition of restrictions on the valley.
The Supreme Court had said that “we are more concerned about the future”, as it reserved its verdict. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta consistently maintained that during the imposition of the restriction in the Jammu and Kashmir region, neither a single life was lost nor a single bullet was fired.
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, representing Azad, said that restrictions have virtually abrogated the fundamental rights and paralyzed the lives of seven million people in the region. He contended that restrictions have been imposed under the garb of public tranquillity, public order and national security, but national security does not appear in the order imposing Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code in the region.
“This is not about the past, but it is about the future”, he submitted before the bench on the final day of the hearing.
Advocate Vrinda Grover, representing Kashmir Times Editor Anuradha Bhasin, contested the restrictions by terming them “unconstitutional” and consistently argued that the restrictions have to pass the test of proportionality.
The Jammu and Kashmir administration had contended before the court that normalcy was returning to Kashmir. Mehta, representing the administration, submitted data on the same in the top court. He insisted the curbs on the internet are justified, as cross-border forces are waiting to exploit this opportunity by pushing anti-India sentiments through various social media platforms.
Mehta told the court that terrorists’ and Pakistan’s Army official Twitter handles have been used to instigate people for “jihad”.
Sibal contested the shutdown of internet services have severe consequences on business, trade and heavily affect the common people in the region. He contended that abnormal conditions have been induced through restrictions. Saying that the state should not muzzle the voice of common people, he also highlighted instances of misuse of technology.
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Then & Now: a streetcar and a bus in Highland Park, 1955 and 2013
Photo by Alan Weeks, via Metro Transportation Library & Archive’s Flickr stream.
Photo by Steve Hymon/Metro.
The top photo was taken in the afternoon on May 21, 1955, by Alan Weeks at the corner of Avenue 61 and Monte Vista in Highland Park (or Mount Angelus). I took the bottom photo last Friday, Aug. 16th, in the afternoon trying to match the telephone pole shadow in the bottom left of the 1955 photo.
Yes, I’m that much of a geek.
Very little has changed. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power substation is obviously still there. The telephone poles are mostly still there. The stop sign and street sign got an upgrade or downgrade depending on your love of old signs. The Mount Angelus sign is also a new addition.
The brick street has been paved over. My hunch is that given the decades between paving in the city of L.A., the brick isn’t that far below the asphalt.
There is no tree shadow at bottom right in 1955; the tree was either planted or has grown considerably judging by the shadow in 2013. The bus these days takes a wider turn than the streetcar did in 1955, making for an additional challenge in getting matching photographs.
The small sliver of building that can be seen in the right part of the frame is still there, now a different color and the awnings and businesses are gone:
Photo by Alan Weeks, via the Metro Transportation Library & Archive’s Flickr stream.
The building at right as seen last week in this iPhone pic. Photo by Steve Hymon/Metro.
Bottom line: Highland Park, like many other parts of the Los Angeles area, is the land that time has forgot.
About the photography
Alan Weeks, 81, is a retired transit scheduler for the RTD and the MTA. He is still shooting transit photographs — lately he’s been documenting construction of the Gold Line Foothill Extension project. Many of his photos can be seen on the Metro Transportation Library & Archive’s Flickr stream.
Alan used a 35mm SLR in the 1950s with a 50mm Zeiss lens and Kodachrome slide film. Kodachrome is no longer manufactured or processed.
I shot today’s photo with a Nikon D5100 digital SLR with a 35mm lens — which on my cropped frame camera (i.e. the sensor is 24mm wide) is almost equivalent to a 50mm lens on a 35mm camera. Even with computer-aided processing, recapturing the wonderful colors and crispness of Kodachrome is nearly impossible.
For this photo, I used the Visual Supply Company’s slide presets presets for Adobe Lightroom, specifically the Kodak 100G preset with many smaller adjustments. The processing helps the digital look more film-like but it pales in comparison to the simple slide film technology of the 1950s.
Two photos of Florence Avenue: a streetcar in 1955 and a bus this afternoon
Then & Now: streetcars along the Crenshaw/LAX Line alignment in the 1950s and those places today
Categories: Transportation News
Tagged as: Avenue 61, Gold Line, Highland Park, Kodachrome, Monte Vista, Mount Angelus, Nikon D5100, presets, streetcar, Then & Now, VSCO, Yellow car
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Wonderful photo(s), excellent work with the “exact” timing of the telephone pole shadow. I love stuff like this. I can not stop going back and forth to compare the differences and the “still the same.” I am 38 years old, moved to L.A. (Burbank) in 1978 from Adena Ohio. I must add that I have a huge addiction to Adam-12 and Chips so I can see L.A.’s past. The really sad thing is the bars in the windows of the 2013 picture, which is common in today’s Highland Park homes and businesses. Thank you so much, I will now take a gander at your other “art.”
Les Le Mon says:
Great work matchng the photos!
These are great. Keep them coming.
bobtatfore says:
Just a guess but the bricks in the street may have been where people got on and off the streetcar. Consequently, they may indeed be gone.
dmalcolmcarson says:
The commercial building on the right looked a lot better before . . .
Collin1000 (@Collin1000) says:
This is a great series Steve. 😀
Dr. M says:
Interesting how in these photos and the earlier sets you see happy pedestrians as well as motorists sharing the road with the streetcars. Some rail obstructionists claim that this is impossible.
Great job matching the bus and the streetcar!
Steve Crosmer says:
These would be photos that So.Ca.T.A.’s late founder, Pat Moser would appreciate.
James paramore says:
Great series Steve I also grew up in the central part of Los Angeles Mid Wilshire district Arlington Heights area.I want to know extremely more on the Washington Blvd Route 12 and did it run out of the same bus divisions as Venice Blvd Pico Blvd Route 28. The Wilshire line number 20 all the way up to Hollywood Blvd see iam also a history buff on transportatiin especially in southern California when it was southern California rapid transit district RTD. MTA and what division did route 5 now number 40 work out of I use to also take extremely that one a lot to Hawthorne plaza in Hawthorne and when did limited bus service start it would be great to get an old bus schedules from routes 28 40 30 33 after they changed the numbers in 83 as well as before. Email me at jamietaramore@yahoo.ca to send that info thanks
I’ve never seen a detailed street map showing exactly where streetcars once ran. I’m often on a wide street and wonder if tracks once ran there.
Go to Pacific Electric Railway
Historical Society(PERYHS.ORG)website.
Or type “Yellow Car” L.A.rwy map.
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THE GIANT ROBOTS
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Hejsan svejsan,
The Giant Robots are a Rock'n'Roll band and are ready to conquer the World. Born in February 1996 (or was it in 1966 ?), the Giant Robots have already done many gigs in their hometown Lausanne, all around Switzerland, Italy and Germany and they've released several records. But let us tell you the full story of that incredible band:
"One snowy day, Tanguy was skiing down the "Petit-Chene" street in Lausanne and suddenly saw the purple Milka-cow. To avoid this famous Swiss symbol, he turned and crashed his beautiful face into an old garage door.
Because of the violence of the shock, the door got opened.
"O surprise", the garage was full of dusty musical instruments: he realised that he was inside the rehearsal place of the mythical local heroes "Les Aiglons". Nobody walked into this room for more than thirty years. His first reaction was to tell it to his friend Michel (27, an unknown guitar player), who at the
time was surfing on the famous freezing spot of the Château de Glerolles on the Lake of Geneva. Immediately they were convinced that they had to bring back the spirit and sound of their wild rockin'ancestors.They asked the two most beautiful & gorgeous girls in town (Julia & Stephanie), to play bass and organ in their newly founded band:
The GIANT ROBOTS were born."
After the debut 7'' ''Introducing...'' done in 1996 and ''Invasion'' CD in 1998, The Giant Robots made a one year break due to Michel's surf trip in the Pacific Ocean in 1999 (Niuatoputapu, Vava'u, Tanna). In 2000 The Robots striked back with a new single (A Super Robot E.P., released in april) which has included, for the very first time, a hit song in french! Nowadays, they're here to present you their second album ''Too Young to Know Better... Too Hard to Care'' (Voodoo Rhythm).
The Giant Robots are playing fast & sexy garage-punk-rock and fuck everybody who says that they play as bad as Paquito (another local star).
THE GIANT ROBOTS - TOO YOUNG TO KNOW BETTER ,TOO HARD TO CARE
1. C'MON BACK
2. MAUVAISE NEUVELLE
3. THE STINKER
4. SHARE MY LOVE TO YOU
6. ECHOES FROM CANYON
7. ELLE EST PARTIY
8. BYE BYE BABY
9. TELL ME WHAT TO DO
10. JUKE BOX
11. MY NEW DATSUN
12. MALAGA TWIST THE GIANT ROBOTS
"TOO YOUNG TO KNOW BETTER ,TOO HARD TO CARE"
in the Tradition of 60's French Pop Garage comes this Band from the French Part of Switzerland, Michel a Ultra Die Hard Mod from the romandie still believes in the 60's.The way of Live was a thousand times better than today.. and he is right or not !!! people did REVOLUTION not only talk about it like we do today and the Spirit of the 60's you find also in thes Recordings no Hi Fidelity shit with crap sub bass shit, it's LO in recording and HI in Listening Pleassure.
the Giant Robots exists sinse 1996 and their main inspiration are the Aiglons a french/swiss band from the mid 60's.
what's good on the Giant Robots is that its Garage Beat.. these days everybody says from black flag over to the hives they do garage punk.. but what it's all about you here in this record, Back to the Grave Garage Punk with a French touch it's not aggressive it's music to get girls and boys to bed and fuck with them and this it's what its all about or not ? music to get Girls to bed with you, and if you ain't gonna Dance at least after the 3rd song then you definitely need some Viagra action up your Butt
Weiterlesen: THE GIANT ROBOTS - TOO YOUNG TO KNOW BETTER ,TOO HARD TO CARE
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Bookish in the 'Burgh Holiday Gift Guide
Written by: The Bookish in the 'Burgh Team | Photos by: Seth Culp-Ressler
When it comes to holiday shopping, the team at Bookish in the ‘Burgh, Pittsburgh’s Teen Book Festival presented by Riverstone Books, feels certain that books are some of the best gifts for the young people on your shopping list. If you have a teen or pre-teen in your life who can’t wait for the next edition of the Bookish in the ‘Burgh festival on March 27-28, 2020, here’s a holiday gift guide full of book recommendations compiled by our Bookish in the ‘Burgh team.
For the globally-minded
Top Pick: PATRON SAINTS OF NOTHING by Randy Ribay
About: A National Book Award Finalist, PATRON SAINTS OF NOTHING is a coming-of-age story about grief, guilt, and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the truth about his cousin’s murder.
Recommended by Teen Ambassador Abby R., Age 17: “This book was absolutely wonderful. I love to see diversity by authors who have gone through similar things. I’d share this book with anyone looking for Filipino diversity.”
For the treasure hunter
Top Pick: THE GILDED WOLVES by Roshani Chokshi
About: Set in Paris in 1889, THE GILDED WOLVES tells the story of treasure-hunter and wealthy hotelier Séverin who calls upon a band of unlikely experts to hunt down an ancient artifact for the elite, ever-powerful Order of Babel in order to win back his true inheritance.
Recommended by Bookish in the ‘Burgh Creator and Director Kelsey Ford: “This Parisian fantasy has a dynamic ensemble cast of treasure-hunters and code-breakers with snappy dialogue, lush worldbuilding, rollicking adventure, and a bit of romance. Perfect for fans of SIX OF CROWS by Leigh Bardguo and THE DAVINCI CODE by Dan Brown.”
For someone who is coming-of-age
Top Pick: COLOR ME IN by Natasha Díaz
About: COLOR ME IN is the story of a fifteen-year-old biracial girl struggling to understand and balance belonging and heritage as her parents (her black, Baptist mother and her white, Jewish father) go through a divorce.
Recommended by Teen Ambassador Layla K., Age 15: “I really enjoyed reading this book! It provides a unique perspective into modern America and a teenage identity crisis with a complex plot that doesn’t shy away from racial injustices.”
For the magic-seeker
Top Pick: WOVEN IN MOONLIGHT by Isabel Ibañez
About: Releasing on January 7, 2020, this is a book you’ll definitely want to preorder as a holiday gift. WOVEN IN MOONLIGHT is a lush tapestry of magic, romance, and revolución drawing inspiration from Bolivian politics and history.
Recommended by Teen Ambassador Maddie M., Age 19: “This book is like if CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE by Tomi Adeymi and classic tale of THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER had a baby! It’s a world that you aren’t going to want to leave. Filled with lush descriptions of food and scenery, it’s a debut book no reader should miss. Perfect for anyone who enjoys magic and diverse representation.”
For the drag queen fans
Top Pick: REVERIE by Ryan La Sala
About: Inception meets The Magicians in this wildly imaginative story about a queer teen who is found half-dead in the river and can’t remember how he got there, what happened after, and why his life seems so different now.
Recommended by The Bookish in the ‘Burgh Team: “Described by one reviewer as ‘If Miss Peregrine had a baby with an episode of Ru Paul’s Drag Race’, this book is so unique, magical, and innovative that you can be sure you’ve never read anything like it. There’s a drag queen villainess! It’s amazing. Unique teen fantasy at its finest. We highly recommend!”
We recommend buying all of these books (and more!) at Riverstone Books, one of Pittsburgh’s local independent bookstores and the presenting sponsor of Bookish in the ‘Burgh, Pittsburgh’s Teen Book Festival. Registration for the FREE Teen Day of the festival will open on January 31st, so mark your calendars!
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Categories: Sport Author 3ajlnewsPosted on July 21, 2019 No comment on Nketiah strikes again in Arsenal’s 3-0 friendly win over Fiorentina
Nketiah strikes again in Arsenal’s 3-0 friendly win over Fiorentina
Youngster Edward Nketiah made it three goals in two matches on Saturday with a brace that boosted Arsenal to a 3-0 win over Fiorentina in a pre-season friendly in North Carolina.
The 20-year-old striker, who fired the game-winner two minutes from time in a win over Bayern Munich on Wednesday, picked up right where he left off with goals in the 15th and 66th minutes.
Joseph Willock added an exclamation point with a goal to make it 3-0 in the 89th.
Fiorentina could have made things more difficult for the Gunners but for a series of missed chances in the first half and solid work by Emi Martinez in the Arsenal goal.
Nketiah displayed a crisp scoring touch, putting Arsenal up 1-0 as he seized on Sead Kolasinac’s low cross, dodged his defender and fired home with his right foot.
He was perfectly positioned in the 66th to slot home a pass from Alexandre Lacazette after good work up the left side by Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
The victory in sweltering heat before a crowd of 34 902 at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte made it three wins in three matches for Arsenal in a tour that began with unsettled captain Laurent Koscielny refusing to make the trip in a bid to force a transfer.
On Tuesday, Unai Emery’s men take on Real Madrid at FedEx Field, home of the NFL’s Washington Redskins.
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Categories: News Author 3ajlnewsPosted on January 21, 2020 No comment on Corruption at KwaZulu-Natal SAPS remains in focus at State Capture Commission
Corruption at KwaZulu-Natal SAPS remains in focus at State Capture Commission
The Commission of Inquiry into State Capture in Parktown, Johannesburg, will on Tuesday continue to hear evidence of how some government officials in KwaZulu-Natal allegedly benefited from corrupt deals.
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Categories: Lifestyle Author 3ajlnewsPosted on December 20, 2019 No comment on 5 beach safety tips to ensure you have a safe summer
5 beach safety tips to ensure you have a safe summer
There have been far too many incidents of drowning along South Africa’s coastline since the start of the summer, making the work that the NSRI does even harder.
“The NSRI plays a critically important role in keeping holidaymakers and locals safe all throughout the year, but especially over peak season,” said Pieter Twine, General Manager of MySchool MyVillage MyPlanet.
“The company has been a long-time beneficiary of the MySchool MyVillage MyPlanet community loyalty programme and it’s great to see how supporters continue to nominate this organisation as their beneficiary of choice because, as we have already seen this summer season, every cent is needed towards resourcing and maximising the safety of those who use our beaches.”
Craig Lambinon of the NSRI believes that with adequate education and information, everyone can be safer on the beaches this summer.
“Every year we do our best to ensure that everyone who uses the beach is armed with as much information as possible when it comes to water safety,” said Lambinon.
“This, along with our teams having a physical presence at various beaches, is all part of our effort to ensure that locals and visitors alike have a fun, safe and happy seaside escape in South Africa.”
Below are some of Lambinon’s top tips:
Choose a beach where lifeguards are on duty and while you are there, always listen to the lifeguard and take their advice.
Swim between the flags. When there are lifeguards on duty, they will put up flags over a short distance demarcating the area in which swimmers should swim. Lifeguards are always watching the swimmers between these flags.
Don’t drink and swim. Consuming alcohol before you dive in could affect your ability to swim properly and you could end up in a difficult situation in the water.
For parents – get off your phone. If you are supervising children, keep your eyes on them at all times. Don’t get distracted and drawn into your phone.
Do not go into the water to rescue someone unless you are trained and have flotation. For those not trained in rescue, call for help (Google Sea Rescue or call 112) and throw something that floats to the person in distress.
Categories: Sport Author 3ajlnewsPosted on December 15, 2019 No comment on Tuks beat Royal Eagles 3-2
Tuks beat Royal Eagles 3-2
The University of Pretoria cemented its position in the top four brackets of the National First Division GladAfrica Championship.
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Categories: Entertainment Author 3ajlnewsPosted on December 14, 2019 No comment on Chasing The Sunsets with Sam Feldt
Chasing The Sunsets with Sam Feldt
Dutch deep house maestro, Sam Feldt returns to SA playing his signature groovy sound and will be entertaining crowds in Cape Town with Corona Chasing SunSets on Sunday, December 15.
Some may say that electronic music DJ Sam Feldt’s rise to fame was serendipitous. One day, on a whim, he mailed a track he was working on to Dutch label Spinnin’ Records. Less than three hours later he received a phone call that changed his life.
"After DJing a lot in the neighbourhood and making my own music at home, I found my own sound,’ says Sam. ‘I decided to make a bold move and see what happened. I didn’t think I’d be offered a contract a few hours later."
Sam started out making and playing music at a very young age. ‘Back in the day, I had my own drive-in show and my dad used to drive me around in my hometown of Boxtel in the Netherlands to play at clubs and community centres,’ he explains. ‘When signing my first contract at Spinnin’ Records I truly felt acknowledged, because they were the first “outsiders” that really appreciated my music on a professional level. They believed in me enough to take a risk and invest in me and my career.’
Fast forward a few years and Sam has now shared the stage with some of the biggest names in the music industry, and released many of his own tracks.
And he’ll once again be bringing his melodic deep house tunes to Cape Town and Joburg as part of the Corona Chasing Sunsets series this season.
Venue: The Grand Cafe & Beach
Times: 2pm – 10pm
Tickets: R450, available at Howler
Categories: News Author 3ajlnewsPosted on December 13, 2019 No comment on eThekwini finance official gunned down execution style outside his home
eThekwini finance official gunned down execution style outside his home
DURBAN – An employee in the eThekwini municipality’s finance department was shot dead execution style as a colleague dropped him off at his home in Shallcross, Chatsworth, late on Thursday afternoon.
Fifty-year-old Colin Pather was declared dead at the scene by paramedics.
His body was handed over to Chatsworth police who are investigating his murder.
Emergency services were called out 4.48pm to Olympia Street in Shallcross and arrived at the scene within minutes.
Witnesses at the scene said Pather was shot at the gate of his home while being dropped off by a colleague on Thursday afternoon. Initial reports stated he was shot in the face, but emergency services confirmed he died from a single bullet to the back of the head.
The motive for the shooting is unknown at this stage although the suspects only shot Pather and no valuables were taken. His colleague who was driving the vehicle was not attacked.
Colin Pather. Picture: Facebook
Police spokesperson Captain Nqobile Gwala said: "On December 12 at 16:50, a 50-year-old man was opening the gate of his house at Olympia Street in Shallcross when he was attacked by unknown suspects travelling in a vehicle. They fired shots towards him and he sustained a gunshot wound to the face. He was declared dead at the scene by paramedics. A case of murder has been opened for investigation by Chatsworth SAPS."
The Shallcross community is in shock over the murder.
In a Facebook post, Pather’s sister confirmed that his funeral would take place tomorrow. "It is with a very broken heart we extend the funeral notice of the Late Colin Pather. His body will lay in state from 11.30am to 3pm before proceeding to Clare Estate Crematorium between 4pm to 5pm," it read. The service is in Hall 3.
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Categories: Lifestyle Author 3ajlnewsPosted on December 13, 2019 No comment on WATCH: 5 times African beauties won the Miss Universe crown
WATCH: 5 times African beauties won the Miss Universe crown
Twenty-six-year-old Zozibini Tunzi from Tsolo in the Eastern Cape is the pride of South Africa after she was crowned Miss Universe. But she is not the only African to win this prestigious crown.
Here are the five African women who have been crowned Miss Universe:
Miss Universe 1978 – Margaret Gardner (South Africa)
Margaret Gardner
Margaret Gardiner won the Miss Universe crown in 1978. At the age of 18, she became the first South African woman to win the title.
Miss Universe 1999 – Mpule Kwelagobe (Botswana)
Mpule Kwelagobe
Mpule Kwelagobe was the first black African woman to win one of the Big Four international beauty pageants (Miss World, Miss Universe, Miss International and Miss Earth) and the first woman from Botswana to win.
Miss Universe 2011 – Leila Lopes (Angola)
Leila Lopes
Leila Lopes was 24 years old when she was crowned Miss Universe in São Paulo, Brazi. She is currently the 60th Miss Universe titleholder and is the first Angolan woman to win the crown.
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Miss Universe 2017 – Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters (South Africa)
Hailing from Sedgefield in the Western Cape, Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters was crowned Miss South Africa 2017.
Nel-Peters graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business management and entrepreneurship from North-West University just days before winning the Miss South Africa 2017 crown.
Miss Universe 2019 – Zozibini Tunzi (South Africa)
Zozibini Tunzi was accepted as one of the top 26 semifinalists of Miss South Africa 2017 but never made it through to the twelve finalists. She returned to to the pageant in 2019 and went on to win Miss South Africa and Miss Universe three months later.
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Categories: Business Author 3ajlnewsPosted on December 13, 2019 No comment on Moyo is Business Report’s Newsmaker of the Year
Moyo is Business Report’s Newsmaker of the Year
CAPE TOWN – He kept South Africa’s corporate world riveted throughout 2019 after a boardroom corporate governance fall-out saw him haul the country’s biggest insurer to the South Gauteng High Court, and win, not once but twice, after they fired him.
Former Old Mutual chief executive Peter Moyo’s wrestle with the company catapulted him from an ordinary business executive into one of the country’s top resisters, easily making him Business Report’s Newsmaker of the Year.
Last week Moyo suffered a slight glitch in his bid to return to the helm of the insurer when Judge Brian Mashile, who twice ruled in his favour against Old Mutual, decided to recuse himself from the case.
But the fight is far from over.
And depending on how the court proceedings unwind next year, he may still turn out to be South Africa’s biggest whistle-blower yet on governance failure in the South African corporate world.
“He has made serious allegations (about corporate governance failures), he has tested the board, he has influenced the future of the group and he has used the courts to take them on… It’s certainly unprecedented for such a case to have gone on as far as it has through the court, and for so long,” said one JSE analyst who chose to remain anonymous, when questioned about the impact of Moyo on Old Mutual and the local corporate world.
Peter Moyo
The spat between Moyo and an Old Mutual board that is led by former finance minister Trevor Manuel, has, according to many commentators, tarnished the image of a group that has invested deeply over more than a hundred years to build a reputation of a safe and exemplary repository of people’s savings, pensions and investments.
It is a story that has all the hallmarks of a blockbuster thriller.
Old Mutual suspended Moyo in May on claims of conflict of interest relating to his position as a co-founder of investment company NMT Capital.
Moyo claimed that he declared his shareholding in NMT Capital when he was hired, but the group argued that he disbursed dividends to shareholders while Old Mutual preferential dividends, an institutional investor, were in arrears. Old Mutual claims that Moyo personally benefited from approximately R30.6million.
In May the insurer suspended Moyo and fired him in June.
Moyo took to court and Mashile ordered that he be reinstated to his position.
But in August, the company fired him again in an open letter to shareholders, where it said it had become clear that a continued employment relationship with Moyo was untenable.
Moyo took to court to challenge his dismissal.
The shareholders have certainly paid for the spat.
Old Mutal’s shares have plummeted, wiping off billions in the company’s market capitalisation..
Last week Mashile threw in the towel, deciding to step down from the case after, according to Old Mutual’s evidence, Moyo’s legal team had “introduced allegations that Old Mutual was scandalising the court, putting the judge in an untenable position.”
OLD MUTUAL head offices in Sandton, Johannesburg. Simphiwe Mbokazi African News Agency (ANA)
This followed a public apology by Manuel, after he described the judge in a derogatory fashion as “a single individual who happens to wear a robe.”
Moyo’s legal team has consistently argued that he was being persecuted for raising concerns around Manuel’s alleged conflicts of interest on the boards of Old Mutual and Rothschild & Co, an international advisory firm that had previously been contracted to counsel the insurer on its managed separation process from the UK, that was completed in 2018, a claim Old Mutual has staunchly disputed. Moyo now wants all 14 of Old Mutual’s board members declared delinquent and has filed a R250m damages claim.
With Mashile recusing himself, a different judge now needs to be appointed as the legal proceedings drag on into 2020.
Describing Moyo as “brazen“, the analyst said that there is no doubt in his mind that this court case has damaged Old Mutual’s reputation, and it has given space for competitors to chip away at their market share.
“Old Mutual is large, slow moving and they needed to prove they had the right team in place post the de-merger, which they obviously hadn’t. The longer they take to appoint a new chief executive, the longer it is going to take to rebuild,” said the analyst.
Another insurance sector analyst said “the longer Moyo drags out the case, the more he stands a chance of securing a settlement out of court,” because not only has Moyo suffered reputational damage to his future career prospects after a previously highly successful career, but Old Mutual’s shareholders need this issue to go away as soon as is possible.
The analyst said that the management conflict in Old Mutual had resolved in his firm’s mind once and for all as investment managers, that there is no difference between conflicts of interest and potential conflicts of interest, at management and board level.
“We won’t invest in companies any longer where there is even a potential for conflict of interest,” he said. In Old Mutual’s case there had been potential for conflict of interest with both the chairperson Trevor Manuel and the chief executive Peter Moyo, and both these potential conflicts of interest had subsequently hurt the group.
“They (the Old Mutual board) thought they could manage these potential conflicts of interest, and for a while they did, but it caught up with them in the end,” the analyst said.
Moyo’s legal representative Eric Mabuza was not immediately available for comment.
And yesterday Old Mutual closed 0.86percent higher on the JSE at R18.80. But in the year to date, the group has lost more than 15percent of its value in the market.
Categories: Business Author 3ajlnewsPosted on December 13, 2019 No comment on ‘When they manipulate the rand it affects the value of the rand’
‘When they manipulate the rand it affects the value of the rand’
Manager of the Cartel Division at the Competition Commission, Makgale Mohlala has argued that the commission has jurisdiction to prosecute over 14 international banks, which allegedly colluded in manipulating the rand-dollar exchange rate.
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Categories: Business Author 3ajlnewsPosted on December 7, 2019 No comment on SA aims to deepen economic dealings with Ghana
SA aims to deepen economic dealings with Ghana
President Cyril Ramaphosa has met with Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo at Jubilee House, the presidential palace in Accra, to strengthen bilateral, political and economic relations
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Categories: Lifestyle Author 3ajlnewsPosted on November 24, 2019 No comment on Death threats prompt music executive to appeal for peace in feud with Taylor Swift
Death threats prompt music executive to appeal for peace in feud with Taylor Swift
Music executive Scooter Braun on Friday said his family had received “numerous death threats” over a feud with singer Taylor Swift, and appealed to her to make peace.
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Categories: Lifestyle Author 3ajlnewsPosted on November 17, 2019 No comment on Taylor Swift wins some support in feud with old label, and lots of silence
Taylor Swift wins some support in feud with old label, and lots of silence
Taylor Swift and her former record label traded barbed accusations on Friday about her rights to perform her old songs, winning support from singers like Selena Gomez and Sara Bareilles but silence from many of the big hitters in the music business.
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Categories: Business Author 3ajlnewsPosted on November 14, 2019 No comment on Liquid Telecom collaborates with Microsoft on new cloud service
Liquid Telecom collaborates with Microsoft on new cloud service
CAPE TOWN – Pan African telecoms group Liquid Telecom said it was working with Microsoft to a launch new enterprise cloud service to improve business collaboration, productivity and drive growth on the continent.
The announcement was made at this week’s annual AfricaCom conference in Cape Town.
The Azure peering service uses Liquid Telecom’s fibre network, strategically located data centres and cloud architecture to provide organisations with optimised, reliable internet connectivity to Microsoft services such as Microsoft Office 365, chief digital officer David Behr said.
"The launch of these new services marks an exciting new chapter in the trusted collaboration between Liquid Telecom and Microsoft, and act as a catalyst for business growth across Africa,” said Behr.
“Liquid Telecom is the first choice for organisations wanting fast, reliable and scalable connectivity to their Microsoft services. With the new Microsoft Azure peering service, the two organisations are transforming connectivity to services like Microsoft Office 365, increasing business agility, innovation, and growth.”
Delegates at the AfricaCom conference in Cape Town. PHOTO: Armand Hough /African News Agency (ANA)
Liquid Telecom chief executive Nic Rudnick said the company was one of Microsoft’s fastest growing network connectivity partners in Africa.
“The scale and reach of our fibre network, data centre infrastructure, local knowledge, and expertise enable Microsoft enterprise customers to realise their business objectives more quickly and effectively," he said.
"Together, Liquid Telecom and Microsoft are creating a modern business foundation for customers across Africa, one that inspires innovation, cloud-paced change, compliance, and business growth.”
AfricaCom touts itself as Africa’s biggest telecoms, technology conference where industry experts and leaders from across the continent gather to discuss digital connectivity.
Categories: Business Author 3ajlnewsPosted on November 14, 2019 No comment on SAA strike to affect local, international commuters
SAA strike to affect local, international commuters
Thousands of local and international commuters could be left stranded as NUMSA and the Cabin Crew Association reached a deadlock in wage negotiations with South African Airways (SAA).
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Categories: Sport Author 3ajlnewsPosted on November 8, 2019 No comment on Thousands come out in Joburg and Soweto to celebrate Springboks’ World Cup victory
Thousands come out in Joburg and Soweto to celebrate Springboks’ World Cup victory
Vilakazi Street was packed to the rafters as thousands – young and old – came out to show their support for the world champion national rugby team, the Springboks.
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Categories: Sport Author 3ajlnewsPosted on November 7, 2019 No comment on Springboks victory parade to bring Joburg to a standstill
Springboks victory parade to bring Joburg to a standstill
The Springboks are expected to bring traffic to a standstill in Johannesburg at lunchtime on Thursday, when they parade through the streets with the winning Rugby World Cup trophy.
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Categories: News Author 3ajlnewsPosted on November 4, 2019 No comment on Gauteng schools placement period extended as tempers flare
Gauteng schools placement period extended as tempers flare
The Gauteng Education Department says it has extended its placement period for learners going into Grades 1 and 8 to the end of this month.
The post Gauteng schools placement period extended as tempers flare appeared first on SABC News – Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader..
Categories: Sport Author 3ajlnewsPosted on November 2, 2019 No comment on South Africans in London gear up for RWC final
South Africans in London gear up for RWC final
With less than 24 hours until the Springboks take on England in the Rugby World Cup final, thousands of South Africans living in London are gearing up to get out and support the Bokke across the city.
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Categories: Sport Author 3ajlnewsPosted on November 2, 2019 No comment on South Africans jubilant over Springboks’ victory
South Africans jubilant over Springboks’ victory
Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Sports has congratulated the Springboks for their remarkable performance which saw them beat England in the 2019 Rugby World Cup final in Japan.
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Categories: Sport Author 3ajlnewsPosted on November 2, 2019 No comment on Middendorp on Derby tactics & Pirates
Middendorp on Derby tactics & Pirates
For the next seven days, South African football fans will be treated to a double dose of Soweto derby as archrivals Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates will be battling it out in the Telkom Knockout quarterfinal on Saturday in Durban and in the next weekend.
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Categories: Sport Author 3ajlnewsPosted on November 2, 2019 No comment on Match against Japan an opportunity for Banyana to redeem themselves: Ellis
Match against Japan an opportunity for Banyana to redeem themselves: Ellis
Banyana Banyana coach Desiree Ellis has announced the national team that will face Japan in the International Friendly match on Sunday the 10th of November. The 22 player’s squad will play at the Kitakyushu Stadium in Fukuoka.
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Ranking the top 5 moments from “Once Upon a Time” season 7 episode 12: “H Town”
After watching ABC’s Once Upon a Time season 7 episode 12 last night, I wish I could get the opportunity to listen in on Henry’s full podcast, “H Town.” While he carefully unravels a mystery for his listeners, he is spot on when he asks the relevant question: “what could possibly happen next?” When one door closes on OUAT, fans know that several more are about to open, bringing new faces to town and dangerous enemies as well. Please note spoilers are ahead if you have not gotten a chance to watch yet. In last night’s episode, “A Taste of the Heights,” we finally learn more about Sabine/Tiana’s past, which introduces us to new characters like Doctor Facilier and Prince Naveen. Meanwhile, Rumpel finally throws his hat in the ring to uncover the mystery behind Lucy’s doctor’s death, Henry finds out about the mix tape Jacinda made him, and Regina’s jaded past catches up to her. My top 5 moments from Once Upon a Time season 7 episode 12 are:
Welcome back Rumpel!
So even though Rumpel has been in most of the episodes this season, it seems like he has been taking a back seat to the drama, which seems uncharacteristic and suspicious. Well that’s all about to change and it’s about time. Rumpel begins investigating the death of Lucy’s doctor and doesn’t believe for one second that it is pure coincidence that she died at the exact moment that Victoria did. He loops in Hook or “Nook” and explains that the lock of hair could mean that there is an evil in town extending past Eloise/Mother Gothel. Our two favorite detectives interview Hilda who runs a bakery. What’s her best seller? Gingerbread of course, which Rumpel points out, is really out of season. Hilda is blind and is clearly the witch from Hansel and Gretel. While initially it seems like she might know more than she is letting on, she is then attacked and a lock of her hair goes missing as well. Is this the work of Doctor Facilier? Seems likely when we think about voodoo magic, but we know that Rumpel and Nook are on the case.
“Food Truck Queen of the Heights.”
So I was thrilled that we finally got the opportunity in this episode to really get a glimpse at Sabine/Tiana’s back story. It really was perfect timing since Dr. Facilier and Prince Naveen have also conveniently shown up in town, now that Victoria is dead. While Tiana/Sabine recognizes that she is a perfectionist, she’s used to putting on a “one woman show,” as Naveen/Drew reminds her. Tiana always puts her people first in her past and tries to do what is right. In her present, she is quite nervous about her food truck debut and is heartbroken when the cop tells her she can’t debut at the event because she is missing her safety permit. While she initially blames Naveen/Drew, he does the right thing to win her trust and gives her his own safety permit. Swoon! While this seems to be bringing these two back together again, Doctor Facilier/Mr. Samdi shows up and tells Naveen that he did a good job winning her trust. Is Naveen/Drew really out for himself or will he do the right thing and be true to Tiana/Sabine?
“The dark one in denim. How quaint.”
Zelena was absolutely hilarious in this moment and I couldn’t help chuckling myself. While Rumpel may not have the best fashion sense, he is vital to bringing down the new threat in the Heights. When Rumpel approaches Regina and Zelena, Regina is initially angry because she tried to bring Rumpel into the fold much earlier. However, she recognizes that he might be the key to them saving Henry. They put two and two together and realize that someone is killing witches. This means that the threat is nowhere near over and it also means that Regina and Zelena are in danger themselves. Will they be able to stop this new threat before it’s too late?
“Word on the street is you made me a mix tape.”
While I can’t really buy Henry using the phrase, “word on the street,” this moment is absolutely adorable between him and Jacinda. Lucy is now awake and it seems like Henry and Jacinda’s romance can finally begin or begin again. Lucy is beyond excited and they invite Henry over for a game night. Lucy confides to Henry that it’s all real and that her grandmother, Victoria showed her the book. While she doesn’t know where the book is now, she is convinced that true’s love kiss will break the curse. However, Lucy finds a missing page of the book which reveals the truth that the kiss will end Henry’s life. She quickly intervenes just in the nick of time and stops the kiss from happening. Now that Lucy knows the truth, who will she turn to for help? Will Henry and Jacinda ever be able to get their happily ever after?
Regina’s past is revealed.
While it seems apparent that Doctor Facilier could be the evil threat everyone is talking about, I was shocked to learn that Regina had a romantic past with him. At the end of the episode, Regina pays him a visit and says, “You think you can just waltz into my town and pretend you’re cursed.” She asks him what he is here for, which is something we are all wondering, but Doctor Facilier does not appear to be intimidated by his former flame, Regina. Big mistake Doctor Facilier. If there is anything I know for sure, it’s that you don’t mess with Regina Mills!
I hope you enjoyed the list and feel free to post your own thoughts and theories on Once Upon a Time below. Happy viewing!
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Posted on March 10, 2018 Categories Once upon a Time, UncategorizedTags A Taste of the Heights, ABC, episode 12, fairy-tales, fans, H Town, magic, mix tape, mystery, Nook, Once upon a Time, OUAT, Ranking, romance, Season 7, spoilers, theories, Top 5 moments, true love's kiss, TV, witchesLeave a comment on Ranking the top 5 moments from “Once Upon a Time” season 7 episode 12: “H Town”
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Google's Sundar Pichai doesn't want you to be clear-eyed about AI's dangers
Alphabet and Google CEO, Sundar Pichai, is the latest tech giant kingpin to make a public call for AI to be regulated while simultaneously encouraging lawmakers towards a dilute enabling framework that does not put any hard limits on what can be done with AI technologies. In an op-ed published in today's Financial Times, Pichai makes a headline-grabbing call for artificial intelligence to be regulated. Simultaneously the pitch downplays any negatives that might cloud the greater good that Pichai implies AI will unlock -- presenting "potential negative consequences" as simply the inevitable and necessary price of technological progress.
(Bloomberg) -- Sign up here to receive the Davos Diary, a special daily newsletter that will run from Jan. 20-24.Microsoft Corp’s chief executive officer warned that countries that fail to attract immigrants will lose out as the global tech industry continues to grow.“Every country is rethinking what is in their national interest,” Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella said in an interview with Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait on Tuesday at Davos. Governments need to “maintain that modicum of enlightenment and not think about it very narrowly.”“People will only come when people know you’re an immigrant friendly country,“ he added.Nadella has previously voiced concern about India’s Citizenship Amendment Act, which bans undocumented Muslim migrants from neighboring countries from seeking citizenship in India while allowing immigrants from other religions to do so, calling it “sad.”However he said he remained hopeful. “I’m an India optimist” he said. “The fact that there is a 70-year history of nation building, I think it’s a very strong foundation. I grew up in that country. I’m proud of that heritage. I’m influenced by that experience.”Microsoft has also recently unveiled plans to invest $1 billion to back companies and organizations working on technologies to remove or reduce carbon from the atmosphere, saying efforts to merely emit less carbon aren’t enough to prevent catastrophic climate change.“We will now have to make sure all our data center operations are first consuming renewable energy,” Nadella said.Microsoft and Amazon.com Inc., along with other technology companies, have been criticized for supplying software and cloud services to large oil and gas companies like Chevron Corp. and BP Plc. BlackRock Inc.’s Larry Fink has been trailed to work and public engagements by protesters decrying the investment firm for inaction on global warming and other issues.Activists have been pushing for companies to stop working with the largest produces of greenhouse gases. BlackRock has said will cut exposure to thermal coal as the world’s largest asset manager moves to address climate change.Nadella declined to comment on whether Microsoft would stop working with the major carbon producers. “The energy transition is going to include all of us,” he said.On the battle with rivals Alphabet Inc. and Amazon over winning new cloud customers, Nadella said he beleives Microsoft has the advantage.“We’ve had competition in the past in the previous era and in this era we have new competitors and we feel very good about our position,” he said. “We if anything have an architectural advantage.”In October, Microsoft beat out Amazon for a $10 billion Pentagon cloud contract, a deal Amazon had been seen as the favorite to win.(Updates with context in final three paragraphs)To contact the reporter on this story: Amy Thomson in London at athomson6@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: Giles Turner at gturner35@bloomberg.netFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
Macron, Trump May Have Tariff Truce in 2020 Digital Tax Spat
(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. Presidents Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump agreed to a truce in their dispute over digital taxes that will mean neither France nor the U.S. will impose punitive tariffs this year.Macron said on Monday he had a “great discussion” with Trump on the issue, without giving details.“We will work together on a good agreement to avoid tariff escalation,” he said on Twitter.“Excellent!” Trump said in a reply to Macron’s post, without providing additional information. Trump is en route to Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum.A White House readout of the call was notably more muted, saying only that the “two leaders agreed it is important to complete successful negotiations on the digital services tax” and “discussed other bilateral issues.” And neither a White House spokesman nor officials with the U.S. Trade Representative’s office would confirm that the U.S. president had called off his announced tariffs.Still, the possible respite may defuse transatlantic tensions that had been building between Washington and Brussels along another potential trade war front. Last week, Trump signed a cease-fire with China in phase one of a broader deal aimed at balancing trade between the world’s two largest economies.The European Union is an even bigger U.S. trading partner than China and supply chains between the two economies, particularly in automotive and financial services industries, are intertwined in ways that would make a tit-for-tat tariff dispute even more harmful to the world economy.Macron’s government still hopes to find a solution that fits within discussions at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s work on the issue, according to a French official who asked not to be identified in line with government rules.European finance ministers meeting in Brussels Tuesday will discuss progress of the OECD talks. While the OECD is still working on its proposal for taxing tech companies around the world, France pushed ahead with its own levy last year that hit U.S. internet giants like Google, Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc.“We now have an agreement between the two presidents to avoid any tariff escalation and avoid any trade war,” French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told reporters in Brussels before the meeting. “It’s remains a difficult negotiation -- with digital tax, the devil is in the details and we need to resolve the details.”Paris and Washington have discussed the possibility of France suspending the collection of the digital tax payments due in April as long as the U.S. refrains from imposing new tariffs, French officials said. But that wouldn’t constitute a withdrawal of the levy, they added. For its part, the French government denies its national tax is discriminatory and warned that the EU would retaliate if the U.S. imposed additional levies.The U.S. has said that the French tax discriminates against American technology companies, citing Section 301 of a 1974 American law that Trump has thus far reserved to justify tariffs against China. That opened the door to the U.S.’s threat to hit $2.4 billion of French goods with tariffs in retaliation.Among the French products targeted with duties of as much as 100% were luxury items like wine, cheese and makeup. One American wine merchant called it the biggest threat to the industry since Prohibition a century ago.For its part, the French government had warned that the EU would retaliate if the U.S. imposed additional tariffs.The dispute was another headache for European trade officials scrambling to expand their policy arsenal as the U.S. takes aim at a rules-based system for global trade that Trump argues is outdated and tilted against America. It also coincided with a change in leadership at the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm.EU trade commissioner Phil Hogan visited Washington last week for the first time in the job, partly to plead for talks rather than tariffs in disagreements like the French digital tax. At stake, he said, was transatlantic trade in goods and services valued at more than $3 billion a day.“Sounds like a fairly healthy relationship to me,” Hogan said Thursday in the U.S. capital. “So why put tariffs on these EU products to make them more expensive for your people?”The truce follows weeks of discussions between Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Le Maire, who were scheduled to meet Wednesday in Davos, Switzerland, the alpine resort town where government officials and business leaders gather during the winter to discuss whatever is ailing the global economy.The dispute has ramifications outside France as other countries try to come up with ways to generate revenue from the digital economy. Mnuchin told the Wall Street Journal that the U.K. and Italy will face American tariffs if they proceed with similar levies on foreign tech firms.U.S. and EU trade relations started to sour in 2018 when the Trump administration invoked national-security considerations to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum from Europe. As a U.S. military ally, the EU was infuriated and promptly retaliated with levies on iconic American brands such as Harley-Davidson Inc. motorcycles and Levi Strauss & Co. jeans.A subsequent U.S. threat to wreak significantly more economic damage by targeting the European auto industry with duties on the same security grounds led to a hastily agreed truce and a pledge by both sides to work toward reducing industrial tariffs across the board.Since then, the Trump administration has refused to start the tariff-cutting negotiations unless Europe includes agriculture in them. Also, it imposed levies on EU products in retaliation over government aid to Airbus SE that was deemed illegal by the World Trade Organization, and disabled the WTO’s appellate body,The EU, meanwhile, is pressing ahead with a plan for tariffs against the U.S. in a parallel WTO case over unlawful subsidies to Boeing Co.Trump, scheduled to speak Tuesday in Davos at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting, on Sunday reiterated his frustration with Europe as a trading partner.“Europe has had tremendous barriers to us doing business with them. All those barriers are coming down. They have to come down,” he told a conference of farmers in Austin, Texas. “If they don’t come down, we’re going to have to do things that are very bad for them.”He added, “Europe was, in many ways, more difficult -- and is more difficult -- than China.”(Updates with possible French concession in the 11th paragraph)\--With assistance from Jonathan Stearns, Justin Sink and Chelsea Mes.To contact the reporters on this story: Ania Nussbaum in Paris at anianussbaum@bloomberg.net;William Horobin in Paris at whorobin@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ben Sills at bsills@bloomberg.net, Brendan Murray, Wendy BenjaminsonFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
The Davos Bubble Swallows Anyone Who Tries to Pop It
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- “Davos is not one thing. There are many Davoses at Davos.” This haiku-like meditation on the annual Swiss junket — which is known for preaching the gospel of touchy-feely stakeholder capitalism against a backdrop of $43 hot dogs, $10,000 hotel rooms, and several hundred trips by private plane — could have come from any number of its rich, powerful and blissfully un-self-aware attendees.That it comes from a co-founder of the anti-capitalist movement Occupy Wall Street, Micah White, as part of a long explanation of why he is attending Davos this year, says a lot about why global capitalism’s biggest tent is still standing even in an age of populist anger. The Davos bubble is turning out to be quite good at swallowing those who would like to pop it — however justified their cynicism.Davos was, let’s face it, supposed to have been “canceled” by now. Last year’s event resembled one long guilt trip: Billionaires awkwardly batting away ideas like higher taxes for the rich; Sir David Attenborough telling an audience packed with private-jet users that “the Garden of Eden is no more;” and historian Rutger Bregman going viral with his description of Davos as a hypocritical talking shop. “Stop talking about philanthropy, and start talking about taxes,” he berated attendees.Well, this year, Davos is back — minus Bregman — and it’s more Davos-y than ever. The private jets are still flying in, only now they’re being asked to fill their tanks with “ Sustainable Aviation Fuel.” Davos organizer Klaus Schwab is still welcoming powerful CEOs, but has made sure to ask them to commit to a net-zero economy by 2050. The rooms will be painted with renewable sources like seaweed. The carpets will be made from end-of-life fishing nets and fluff. And lest anyone think the debates on offer have gotten more humble, there are 25 panels under the banner, “How To Save The Planet.”Davos isn’t just good at greenwashing the globalists. It’s also good at co-opting the populists. The junket has shrewdly realized that offering a stage to an anti-Davos crowd can work in its favor. Micah White, for one, is excited to dip his toe into “the most powerful gathering in the world.” He will be lecturing a money-and-politics crowd that he once wanted to smash apart on how to turn “protest into progress.” There will be other incongruities: Greta Thunberg will tread the same boards as Donald Trump; France’s Bruno Le Maire will promote a tax on tech firms in front of Google’s Sundar Pichai.It’s this veneer of exclusive neutrality that Davos clearly wants to promote as its value proposition, rather than just being a hyper-efficient version of LinkedIn. “We bring together people of influence, and we hope that they use their influence in a positive way,” Schwab told the New York Times. Or, in other words: Everyone who matters is here — even if they disagree, Davos wins in the end. Like an Alpine version of Soho House, Davos is a (not-for-profit) club that lives and dies by its guest list. White’s description of “many Davoses” includes secretive back-room meetings that don’t get filmed — a Davos within Davos, in other words.This seems intuitively strange in an era of political activism and social media, when boycotts seem to spring up out of nowhere and cause serious brand damage. Couldn’t Davos be simply replaced? Author Anand Giridharadas suggested that genuine do-gooders had no reason to be wandering into a billionaires’ tent. Instead, they could work through the United Nations to create a new global conference. “We could create a new body. We could have it rotate among certain countries,” he told Project Syndicate last year.It’s an interesting point — we could. But national versions of Davos, such as those promoted by France or Saudi Arabia, have failed at being either as neutral or as exclusive as the original. Maybe coming up with a new Davos isn’t as easy as it seems. Or maybe Davos is simply really good at protecting its brand. In 2018, the conference warned imitators that it would “use all means to protect the Davos brand against illicit appropriation.” It has preserved its image as a truly global stage, even as incidents such as a ban on Russian businessmen targeted by sanctions (later lifted) show how it’s not politics-free.White’s final warning to Davos critics is a well-aimed one: “Rejecting Davos is easy when one has not been invited to attend.” (This applies to yours truly.) Maybe the world’s most exclusive tent will only fall when it extends its membership to all-comers. Until then, expect the private jets to keep flying in — on sustainable fuel.(A division of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News, runs its own event, the New Economy Forum, which has been held in Singapore and Beijing.)To contact the author of this story: Lionel Laurent at llaurent2@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: Melissa Pozsgay at mpozsgay@bloomberg.netThis column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of Bloomberg LP and its owners.Lionel Laurent is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Brussels. He previously worked at Reuters and Forbes.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com/opinionSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
The EU's proposal for a temporary ban on facial-recognition technology won backing from Alphabet Chief Executive Sundar Pichai on Monday but got a cool response from Microsoft President Brad Smith. While Pichai cited the possibility that the technology could be used for nefarious purposes as a reason for a moratorium, Smith said a ban was akin to using a meat cleaver instead of a scalpel to solve potential problems. "I think it is important that governments and regulations tackle it sooner rather than later and give a framework for it," Pichai told a conference in Brussels organised by think-tank Bruegel.
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Artificial Intelligence ‘Needs to Be Regulated,’ Says Google CEO
(Bloomberg) -- Alphabet Inc.’s chief executive officer urged the U.S. and European Union to coordinate regulatory approaches on artificial intelligence, calling their alignment “critical.”In a rare public speech in Brussels at an event hosted by European economic think tank Bruegel on Monday, Sundar Pichai, who is also CEO of Google, said “there is no question in my mind that artificial intelligence needs to be regulated,” but that “we don’t have to start from scratch” with entirely new rules in some cases.The comments come weeks before the EU is set to unveil its plans to legislate the technology, which could include new legally binding requirements for AI developers in “high-risk sectors,” such as healthcare and transport, according to an early draft obtained by Bloomberg. The new rules could require companies to be transparent about how they build their systems.While in Brussels, Pichai is also due to meet with Margrethe Vestager, the competition chief responsible for more than 8 billion euros ($8.9 billion) of antitrust fines levied against Google. In addition to competition, she now also oversees the bloc’s digital policies, including the plans to legislate AI.Alphabet has battled intense regulatory pressure in Europe for years. The search giant is challenging the EU’s multi-billion-dollar antitrust fines and has sought to fight off copyright and other forms of platform regulation emanating from Brussels in recent years.The Google chief cautiously welcomed plans for rules that take “a proportionate approach, balancing potential harms with social opportunities.”Facial recognition technology and so-called deep fakes-- or manipulated audio and video clips -- are two areas where AI could be used destructively, and companies have a responsibility “to get this right,” Pichai said. He said Google has released open datasets to help researchers build better tools to detect fakes and that it has chosen not to offer general-purpose facial recognition application programming interfaces.Pichai touted the company’s recent developments in AI, including a Google Health algorithm that can spot breast cancer more accurately than doctors and other research for accurately predicting the weather as well as advancements by its self-driving car unit, Waymo.The Google chief said existing rules like Europe’s privacy legislation GDPR and regulation for medical devices like AI-assisted heart monitors would serve as strong foundations for governing AI in some areas, but that for self-driving cars, governments would need to establish regulations.But Google has also come under intense criticism over how it handles users’ privacy with some of its AI projects. Google faces a U.S. federal inquiry after the Wall Street Journal in November reported how it collects the health-care data from millions of Americans to design new AI software. It’s also facing scrutiny over the methods it uses for training algorithms that run Google Assistant.To contact the reporter on this story: Natalia Drozdiak in Brussels at ndrozdiak1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Giles Turner at gturner35@bloomberg.net, Amy ThomsonFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
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Macron Has a Plan to Lure Tech Talent to France
(Bloomberg) -- Sign up here to receive the Davos Diary, a special daily newsletter that will run from Jan. 20-24.Emmanuel Macron’s pre-Davos summit for tech executives will hold some goodies for startups.In the third edition of his “Choose France” summit on Monday, timed to catch global CEOs in Paris on their way to the Swiss Alps’ World Economic Forum, the French president will detail measures in his 2020 budget that have improved stock options for startups in France.Macron will also plug a revamped visa regime that will give fast-track papers to tech workers for French or foreign companies and a new benchmark index, the French Tech 120, to promote the nation’s most promising ventures.Snap’s Evan Spiegel, who was given French nationality in 2018, EU digital Commissioner Thierry Breton, Netflix Inc.‘s Reed Hastings, Google’s You Tube CEO Susan Wojcicki, Lime’s Joe Kraus and other leaders from Mexico, Nigeria, Sweden, Turkey and the U.K. will attend the forum in Versailles.Entrepreneurs and executives at some of Europe’s most successful technology startups have been urging local governments to change laws to make employee stock options more attractive, in order to better compete with Silicon Valley. Macron, his Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, Digital Minister Cedric O and 17 ministers will present the government’s latest measures.In November 2018, about 30 chief executives of companies including iZettle AB, Funding Circle Ltd., Supercell Oy, TransferWise Ltd., Blablacar and U.S.-based Stripe Inc., signed an open letter saying a patchwork of different rules in various European countries makes it complicated and costly for employers to dole out stock options.The French 2020 budget law, voted late last year and enacted on Jan. 1, has two major measures already to make stock options of startups more attractive. First the conditions of the so-called BSPCE, an employee shareholding tool equivalent to a stock options, have been sweetened: they will get a discount compared to the price investors paid at the last fund raising.Also, employees of foreign startups with a base in France will be able to get stock options calculated on the parent company’s performance, not just the French branch, minister Cedric O unveiled in a statement late last year, as he said France seeks to attract more tech workers and companies.“What France has done is fantastic, but we really need a pan-European solution,” Martin Mignot, Partner at Index Ventures, which has stakes in BlablaCar, told Bloomberg. “Currently, startups face the same problems every time they expand into a new country. Talk to any entrepreneur and they tell you it’s madness, it is slowing them down and it is putting them at a disadvantage to large companies.”Macron has attempted to lure more investors to France ever since his years as an economy minister in 2014, via taxes, visas, benchmark indexes, bilingual schools and the French way to welcome new comers.In September he created the “Next 40,” a listing of France’s top 40 startups with the strongest growth potential. While only a few of them are currently “unicorns,” with values topping $1 billion, the government said it expect more of them to scale.Read more: Napoleon, Chateaus on Display as France Seeks Venture CapitalOne of the key measures taken by Macron was a 30% flat tax on capital revenues from securities, savings, capital gains, and other sources. That measure got him into trouble with some of his citizens protesting against inequalities in the Yellow Vests movement that started in December 2018.The statistic institute Insee said the increase in inequality in 2018 was linked to a sharp rise in investment incomes, which benefited from the introduction of a flat tax the same year.Still, Macron has also toughened his stance on issues like taxes and privacy. He brought it up with Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook in his first months as president and repeatedly to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Macron is currently in a tug of war with U.S. President Donald Trump over his tax on digital giants.Amazon.com Inc., like other tech companies, will make their first payment of France’s new tax on digital giants in a few weeks. The government enacted a 3% levy on large tech groups that is retroactively effective from Jan. 1, 2019.(Updated with comment from Index ventures)\--With assistance from Natalia Drozdiak.To contact the reporter on this story: Helene Fouquet in Paris at hfouquet1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Giles Turner at gturner35@bloomberg.net, Vidya RootFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
Noom Signs Up Dieters as Investors See New Wins for Weight Loss
(Bloomberg) -- This New Year’s Day, 55,000 people signed up to lose weight with the smartphone app Noom. You’ve probably seen the ads -- it claims to have helped more than 350,000 get slimmer.Dieting, not to mention keeping weight off, is an iffy proposition, but Americans spend billions each year trying.Noom, which combines human coaches and AI, has attracted $114 million from A-list investors such as Sequoia Capital, Groupe Arnault-backed Aglaé Ventures, WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum, Serena Williams, and other prominent names that see promise in its approach and growth.The company’s founders say they’re in constant conversation with their investors who are watching the market to assess a possible IPO as soon as this year.Crowded MarketIndeed, in a competitive market, Noom has racked up impressive growth, driven in part by aggressive advertising: Noom closed 2019 with $237 million in revenue, up from $61 million and $12 million in the two previous years, respectively.“For a certain demographic, Weight Watchers is more comfortable and familiar,” said David Katz, founding director of Yale University’s Prevention Research Center. “For a younger, more digitally savvy audience, Noom is a different way to get a grip.”Shares in WW International Inc., the diet company formerly known as Weight Watchers, have more than doubled from last year’s low in June. In September, WW announced the Oprah’s 2020 Vision: Your Life In Focus Tour with shareholder Oprah Winfrey. Investors will have to wait for WW’s fourth-quarter results in late February for a sense about early-year sign ups.Industry analysts note the cyclical nature of the dieting industry and that Noom’s robust start this year does not necessarily herald lasting success.“You’ve got a lot of program starts after the holidays, and that’s the nature of the business,” said Steven Halper, a senior health-care IT and managed care analyst at Cantor Fitzgerald.Pounds Off, Pounds On“You get in shape, you lose your weight, everyone wants to look good at the beach in the summer time, and lo and behold the weight comes back on,” Halper said. He covers Tivity Health Inc., which acquired WW rival Nutrisystem in March.Noom was founded over a decade ago by Artem Petakov, a former Google engineer, and Saeju Jeong, lover of heavy metal, who strayed from his family lineage of 29 medical doctors to be an entrepreneur.“Noom’s story didn’t initially work,” said Amy Sun, a partner at Sequoia Capital. Sequoia invested for the first time in the $58 million Series E round that Noom announced in May 2019.“They tried a whole bunch of different angles, including doing pure AI where it’s completely automated, and they tried 100% human coaches, and it wasn’t until they married the two that the company started to grow,” said Sun.The company now employs 1,600 remote, full-time coaches in 36 states.Not Peloton“The product they have today is not what they started with,” said Miyuki Matsumoto, head of U.S. investments at Groupe Arnault’s tech venture-capital arm Aglaé Ventures. The firm invested the second most after Sequoia in the most recent funding round.“We weren’t thinking we were going to get our money back in two years or less, even though that’s a possibility,” Matsumoto said.Sun notes that Sequoia is looking to capitalize on the trend of digital companies focused on helping people manage their health. Other investors saw that trend in Peloton Interactive Inc., which priced at $29 a share in its September IPO, but traded as low at $21 a share a month later.“Peloton is quite different because so much of their revenue is hardware,” Sun said. “It’s hardware plus subscription, versus Noom is all digital.”To contact the reporter on this story: Hailey Waller in New York at hwaller@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: James Ludden at jludden@bloomberg.net, Ian FisherFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
Putin Hunted for Scapegoats and Found Medvedev
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- When Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a radical overhaul of Russia’s governance system this week, he also ended the Medvedev era. Dmitry Medvedev was, at least formally, Putin’s closest sidekick, the politician with whom the strongman was most willing to share formal power. Whether or not it’s time for Medvedev’s political obit, his stint near the top of Russia’s so-called power vertical will serve as an example of how the Putin system’s inertia can suffocate the best modernizing intentions.Medvedev abruptly resigned as prime minister on Wednesday, without giving advance notice to members of his government, who also had to tender their resignations. “We as the government must give our country’s president the opportunity to make all the necessary decisions,” Medvedev said, though it wasn’t clear how his continued occupancy of the top cabinet post could get in the way of Putin’s reform. Putin expressed rather tepid gratitude for the prime minister’s service. “Not everything has worked out, but then things never work out completely,” he said. Putin has always avoided firing close, trusted associates, but as prime minister since 2012, Medvedev presided over Russia’s longest run of declining real incomes during Putin’s 20-year rule. The government’s $400 billion “national projects” spending plan, designed to rectify things, hasn’t gotten off to a great start. The new job Putin has offered Medvedev didn’t even exist before — deputy chairman of the Security Council, an advisory body that includes Russia's mighty security chiefs. It’s formally headed by Putin but run by its secretary, former secret police chief Nikolai Patrushev. The council has been described, including by Kremlin propaganda outlets, as the closest Russia has to the Soviet Union's ruling Politburo. So the newly created post, with Putin as the direct supervisor, can be enormously influential — but perhaps not when filled by Medvedev, who has never really commanded the respect of the security bosses in the way Putin does, with his KGB record and training.Medvedev’s move means he isn’t likely to be Putin’s successor as president when the latter's term ends in 2024. Nor will he return to the prime ministerial post, now handed to a supremely skillful technocrat, former tax chief Mikhail Mishustin. His career has been launched on a downward trajectory — something he probably expected. For years, he has appeared bored and morose at official functions, time and again photographed with his eyes closed and seemingly asleep. Opposition politician and anti-corruption activist Alexey Navalny posted one such photo taken as Putin delivered his Wednesday address, tweeting, “Only one thing in Russia is really stable and unshakable — Dmitry Medvedev, asleep during the president’s state of the nation speech.”During a recent award ceremony, Medvedev’s New Year’s greetings included this quotation from Anton Chekhov: “The newer the year, the closer you are to death, the wider your bald spot, the twistier your wrinkles, the older your wife, the more kids you have and the less money.” Some of the incredulous listeners couldn't help but recall Medvedev's most famous quote, his answer to a woman in Russian-annexed Crimea in 2016 who complained that her pension was too low: “There's just no money now. When we find the money, we'll raise pensions. You hang on in there, stay cheerful and healthy.”Medvedev may have been fatigued and depressed lately as his government failed to deliver on Putin's promises of a tangible improvement in living standards, but money isn't something he's lacked himself. During this snowless winter, the vast land plot around his residence in Central Russia is covered with artificial snow. Medvedev has never given a substantive answer to a long video produced by Navalny's team and watched more than 33 million times on YouTube, in which he was accused of accumulating vast wealth while working for the government.Medvedev's approval rating never recovered from that video's release, languishing below 40% in recent months, while Putin's remains close to 70%. Government spending cuts that began in 2015 and lasted through 2018 didn't help, and the government’s decision in June 2018 to raise the retirement age — made by Putin, but often ascribed to Medvedev because of his perceived insensitivity — dealt his popularity an especially crippling blow.The visibly bored, defeated Medvedev at the end of his prime ministership was a far cry from the hopeful, cheerful modernizer who started a four-year presidency in 2008 and charmed U.S. President Barack Obama and his aides into trying a reset of U.S.-Russia relations. Though many Putin opponents — myself included — never believed Medvedev could pursue an independent policy, so-called system liberals, believers in changing the system from within, vested serious hopes in the younger, more polished leader. They believed he could shake off Putin's conservative influence if he ran for a second term in 2012, and that Russia would then gradually become freer both economically and politically.Medvedev tried some promising things. He set up a large innovation center at Skolkovo near Moscow, trying to lure investors and entrepreneurs into a Russian version of Silicon Valley. He started reforms in the self-serving, thoroughly rotten law-enforcement agencies, and he modernized Russia's obsolete armed forces, starting an ambitious reorganization and rearmament. He removed some of the most entrenched, hidebound regional leaders, breaking up the corrupt monopolies that had sprung up around them.But the system liberals’ hopes were probably dashed in March 2011, when Medvedev ordered the Russian representative in the United Nations Security Council to abstain on a resolution authorizing the U.S. and its allies to use force against the regime of Muammar Qaddafi in Libya. Putin publicly criticized his protege for not ordering a "no" vote, likening the Western intervention in Libya to a “medieval crusade." In his book, “From Cold War to Hot Peace," Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia and a believer in Medvedev's liberal intentions, wrote that “U.S. military intervention in Libya, which helped topple Qaddafi, also inadvertently might have helped remove Medvedev from power in Russia."In September 2011, Putin and Medvedev announced they intended to switch jobs the following year, a development that bitterly disappointed the system liberals. Protests against a rigged parliamentary election, which broke out less than three months later, only served to convince Putin that the West was trying to undermine him and empower Medvedev instead. But, perhaps out of a sense of loyalty toward his temporary successor who hadn't tried to cling to power, Putin made no attempt to replace Medvedev as prime minister.The latter never really raised his head again. He avoided making major decisions or advocating big reforms; the cabinet ministers learned they needed Putin's approval for anything remotely controversial. In a way, that helped Russia build a protective economic wall after Putin annexed Crimea and, simultaneously, the oil price crashed in 2014. Amid Western sanctions and a tightening hold of Putin's cronies and enforcers on the economy, Russia's generally competent economic managers could only cut spending to insulate the budget from external shocks — and accumulate international reserves every time the price of oil edged up. Medvedev's tenure ended with these reserves at $554 billion, near the 2008 historic high of $569 billion.Putin's patience was sorely tested. Busy with geopolitical chess and with finding ways to retain power after 2024, he clearly wanted his hands free from domestic economic management. He wanted to set goals and let someone else get to them. Time after time, he told Medvedev that he wanted "results.” They failed to materialize.Meanwhile, Medvedev's work as the formal leader of the Kremlin's loyalist party, United Russia, also proved insufficient. The party's support melted away, and its legislative majorities and governorships have had to be obtained with increasing rigging efforts and administrative pressure. In December, only 29% of Russians were willing to cast a vote for United Russia in a national election, a threat to its parliamentary majority even in an unfair system. Putin needs a stronger party behind him post-2024, and an effort to build one on the basis of his broad support network, the United People's Front — or to reform United Russia — is to be expected.Putin’s legendary personal loyalty stretched far enough not to send Medvedev, who is only 54, into retirement. But then, it was Putin himself who backpedaled in 2011 instead of letting Medvedev pursue his cautiously reformist course. It was Putin who created a system that paralyzed any kind of economic liberalization and who launched Russia on military adventures that limited its ability to develop trade. Putin, who gave Medvedev the exhilarating hope of building a more modern Russia, then quickly took it away, leaving his former successor with little except the luxurious lifestyle enjoyed by the Russian elite.It was Putin's country to give and to take back.To contact the author of this story: Leonid Bershidsky at lbershidsky@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: Tobin Harshaw at tharshaw@bloomberg.netThis column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of Bloomberg LP and its owners.Leonid Bershidsky is Bloomberg Opinion's Europe columnist. He was the founding editor of the Russian business daily Vedomosti and founded the opinion website Slon.ru.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com/opinionSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
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(Bloomberg) -- Sonos Inc. Chief Executive Officer Patrick Spence accused Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Amazon.com Inc. of using their market power to thwart competition a week after filing a lawsuit against the world’s largest search engine.“Today’s dominant companies have so much power across such a broad array of markets and continue to leverage that power to expand into new markets that we need to rethink existing laws and policies,” said Spence Friday at a congressional antitrust hearing in Boulder, Colorado, led by Representative David Cicilline, the Rhode Island Democrat who is investigating competition in the technology sector.Sonos, a 1,500-person company, sued Google Jan. 7 for allegedly infringing five patents covering multi-room audio technology. Spence said Google’s dominance enabled it to violate the speaker company’s intellectual property. He said that Google tries to prevent customers from using its voice assistants alongside another company’s on Sonos speakers. While Amazon doesn’t go that far, he said, it has used its power to “to subsidize the conquest” of the booming smart-speaker market, particularly by under-pricing its offerings.Sonos has worked with the committee since before it decided to file the lawsuit, according to a person familiar with the discussions. It has also responded to questions that the committee sent to customers of the large technology platforms.Google has disputed Sonos’ claims and said it will defend itself. The search giant, which faces antitrust probes by 48 state attorneys general as well as the U.S. Justice Department, says it faces robust competition. Cicilline is using the hearing to air grievances by smaller companies, following a series of Washington meetings that focused on the tech giants.“It is apparent that the dominant platforms are increasingly using their gatekeeper power in abusive and coercive ways,” Cicilline said in his opening statement.The panel also heard from David Barnett, the founder of Boulder-based PopSockets, which makes phone holders and stands. He alleged that Amazon frequently engaged in “bullying,” including deliberately selling counterfeits, threatening to go to unauthorized resellers and dropping prices without consulting. “We have $10 million less to innovate this year” because of PopSockets’s decision to end its relationship with Amazon even though it’s more difficult to sell elsewhere, Barnett said.“It seems like Amazon is so dominant that there is no alternative,” said Representative Ken Buck, a Colorado Republican on the committee.Amazon said in a statement that PopSockets is a “valued retail vendor” and added: “We’ve continued to work with PopSockets to address our shared concerns about counterfeit, and continue to have a relationship with PopSockets through Merch by Amazon, which enables other sellers to create customized PopSockets for sale.”The company said it refuses to work with some resellers to ensure low prices, and rejects the notion that it’s dominant, saying it represents just 4% of U.S. retail.The panel also heard from Kirsten Daru, general counsel of Tile Inc., which makes devices that pair with phones to help people locate lost items such as keys or purses.Apple Inc. is reportedly preparing to unveil a competing service, and Daru’s 100-employee company alleges the phone maker has started putting up roadblocks to Tile’s business, such as burying permissions that allow the phone and Tile devices to communicate and prompting users to disable permissions that have been set.“You’re playing up against a team that owns the field, the ball and can change the rules at any given time,” Daru said in an interview before the hearing, adding that a majority of the company’s customers are on Apple’s operating system.Apple said that its treatment of permissions, which focused on location, were designed to protect user privacy and that it’s working with developers whose customers may want particular apps to be able to track them at all times.Daru said Apple also removed Tile devices from its retail stores, and that it bid on search terms related to the would-be rival to drive up the cost of advertising 50% each week during the fall.Cicilline has said his goal is to develop a final report with recommendations for Congress this year. He told reporters on Tuesday that he wants to wrap up his probe by the end of March and said he’s hopeful the tech giants will cooperate with requests for chief executives to give information without subpoenas, preferably in public hearings.“It’s hard to imagine that we’d conclude the investigation without hearing from some of the large technology CEOs, particularly in companies whether there’s such really centralized decision making,” he said.(Updates with comments from PopSockets CEO from eighth paragraph)\--With assistance from Mark Gurman, Rebecca Kern and David McLaughlin.To contact the reporter on this story: Ben Brody in Washington, D.C. at btenerellabr@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Sara Forden at sforden@bloomberg.net, Paula DwyerFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
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PSG look to cruise to title with Fab Four in charge
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Coupe de la Ligue - Quarter Final - Paris St Germain v Saint-Etienne
PARIS (Reuters) - Paris St Germain started the year with a bang in the League Cup and the form of their fabulous four suggests they will again run unopposed to the Ligue 1 title.
After first suggesting he could not field Kylian Mbappe, Neymar, Angel Di Maria and Mauro Icardi at the same time, coach Thomas Tuchel has been using them together with devastating effect.
Mbappe and Icardi were the brightest duo with four goals and three assists between them as PSG demolished 10-man St Etienne 6-1 in the League Cup quarter-finals on Wednesday, sending a warning to Monaco, whom they will host at the Parc des Princes on Sunday as Ligue 1 action resumes after a three-week break.
PSG have 45 points from 18 games and lead second-placed Olympique de Marseille, who have played one more match, by seven points.
Monaco, the 2017 champions when Mbappe was still in their ranks, are seventh on 28 points as new coach Robert Moreno looks to make an early impact to secure Champions League action next season.
If they are to stand a chance against PSG, the principality side will need to stabilize their defence, having conceded 26 goals in 18 games this season, for they will face one of Europe's most intimidating firepowers.
Between them, Icardi, Mbappe and Neymar have scored 28 goals in Ligue 1 this season from a combined 33 games while Di Maria added six goals and eight assists.
But most importantly, they have started to chip in with some defensive work to relieve the impressive duo of holding midfielders Marco Verratti and Idrissa Gueye.
"There was a realisation. We might not be the best defenders in the world but we've improved and it shows on the pitch," said Mbappe.
"Behind us they have to run less because we've been doing our job. You can see Neymar tackling."
Tuchel added that in addition to the fab four doing some defensive work, the players behind were also going forward.
"I'm convinced that the four players in front love to play together. But maybe we talk too much about them. They are 11 players on the pitch and they all bring something offensively," the German said.
While PSG are on track to match their French record of 96 points in a season, they know they will be judged on their Champions League performance after some spectacular failures in recent years.
Olympique Lyonnais, who need to recruit during the transfer window to make up for the loss of injured Memphis Depay, will look to salvage a mediocre season.
They currently lie 12th on 26 points ahead of their trip to Girondins de Bordeaux on Saturday.
(Reporting by Julien Pretot; Editing by Pritha Sarkar)
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Chapel Bridge and Water Tower
Kapellbrücke, 6002 Luzern
About Chapel Bridge and Water Tower
The Capel Covered Bridge and the Octagonal Water Tower are landmarks in Lucerne and even Switzerland, and often appear on postcards. Built in 1332, the Kappel Covered Bridge connects the two sides of Lucerne. It is the old wooden covered bridge in Europe. It was rebuilt after the fire in 1993 and has been leading to the octagonal water tower of the representative of Lucerne. Like the Museg City Wall, this bridge and water tower are also part of the Lucerne fortifications.
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Capel Corridor Bridge is the symbol of Ryusen and the most famous tourist attraction. It was built in 1333 and is the oldest wooden bridge in Europe. It is also called "Church Bridge" and has a beautiful name "Flower Bridge". There are busy commercial streets at both ends of the bridge. Tourists flock to each other. Near the center of the bridge, there is an octagonal water tower. It used to be the place where trophies and jewelry were laid during the battle. It was also used as a prison and execution room for some time. Who could have imagined that such a beautiful corridor bridge had been hit by a fire on August 17, 1993, which almost destroyed the wooden bridge, leaving only the water tower unspoiled. It was rebuilt by Swiss craftsmen, and the wooden bridge was almost completely recreated on the surface of the lake. All the details of the rebuilding are restored according to documents and other records, including the paintings on the inner wall of the bridge roof.
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The Capel Bridge, commonly known as the Corridor Bridge, was built in the early 14th century as part of the city's defensive fortifications. In the 17th century, paintings were added under the eaves of the bridge to depict local historical events in Switzerland and Lucerne, including the biographies of Leodegar and Mauritius, the city's patron saints. There is an octagonal stone tower at the turning point of the bridge. The tower, more than 34 meters in height, was built around 1300 years ago. It was originally part of the city wall and used as an archive, treasury, prison and interrogation room.
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Capel Corridor Bridge and Octagonal Water Tower are located in Kapellbr 252; cke, 6002 Luzern. Entering Ryusen, Switzerland, is like entering a beautiful dream. The earliest wooden bridge in Europe with a history of nearly 700 years, the Campbell Corridor Bridge, such as the Rainbow Sleeping Wave, spans the Royce River. About 200 meters long, the bridge is decorated with beautiful flower bonsai on both sides. Under the roof of the triangle, there are ancient paintings of the triangle, which depict the life of the sage who guarded Ryusen. There is an octagonal tower near the south of the wooden bridge. It is said that both the bridge and the central tower of the bridge were part of the city wall of that year. The tower is a military looking-out building. The solid tower is permeated with profound historical vicissitudes. Capel Corridor Bridge and Octagonal Tower are the landmark buildings of Ryusen and Switzerland. They are found on postcards in Switzerland.
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The wooden corridor bridge, about 200 meters long, was built in 1333 and spans the Royce River. The wooden bridge and the octagonal water tower beside the bridge were part of the city's water defense works. There are 110 triangular paintings on the beams under the veranda, on which Heinrich Bergman depicts the life of the saint who guarded Lucerne. Water towers are outposts to monitor foreign invasion, which are used as warehouses and interrogation rooms for loot. Capel Corridor Bridge and Octagonal Tower are the landmarks of Lucerne and Switzerland. In the daytime, there are delicate flowers on the railings; in the evening, the corridors and water towers are very romantic in the light of colorful lights. This is an important scenic spot in Ryusen. Tourists will come to visit it. We walked across the gallery bridge and visited the appearance of the octagonal water tower.
Capel Gallery Bridge is a must-see tourist attraction in Lucerne. It is the oldest wooden bridge in Europe. It is very beautiful. The gallery bridge is full of flowers. The gallery bridge is engraved with flowers. The painting describes the history of Lucerne and the Swiss Confederation. Every day on the bridge, tourists are bustling and very busy.
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The Cabel Bridge is the symbol of Lucerne. All tourists who come here have to walk on the bridge. The old wooden bridge is full of romantic feelings. The bridge is not straight. There are two turning points. Near the center of the bridge, there is an octagonal water tower. There are many remaining paintings on the wall. Lucerne's beauty includes the charm of the bridge, the lake and the swan.
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This is a must-punch attraction in Ryusen. Capel Corridor Bridge and Octagonal Water Tower are located on Lake Liuson, which connects both sides of Lake Liuson and Octagonal Water Tower. Capel Gallery Bridge is the landmark building of Ryusen, and also the oldest wooden gallery bridge in Europe. There are European restaurants on both sides of the lake, with a glass of red wine and a portion of French fries. It's probably an afternoon life for Swiss locals. It's very pleasant. Near the lake, there is a street selling all kinds of watches, famous brands and chocolates, which is very busy.
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The hotel is booked nearby, and you can walk for five minutes in the morning to the Corridor Bridge. It is interesting to see that the morning markets on both sides of the bridge are in full swing and experience the grand occasion of the Swiss morning market. Crossing the corridor bridge, the opposite church opened, which was covered with red marble, more luxurious.
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The Cabel Corridor Bridge is a 200-meter-long wooden bridge across the Royce River, also known as the Church Bridge. Near the center of the bridge is a 34-meter-high octagonal water tower whose middle floor is the headquarters of the Ryusen Artillery Association. This scenic spot is very famous in Ryusen.
The Capel Corridor Bridge, also known as the Church Bridge, is located on the Lois River downstream of Lake Lucerne in Lucerne, Switzerland. It is the most famous symbol of Lucerne. It was built in 1333 and is the oldest wooden bridge in Europe. There are 120 religious historical paintings on the brows of the bridge. Along the way, you can also enjoy paintings describing the epidemic of the Black Death. The 200-meter-long wooden bridge has two turning points. Near the center of the bridge is an octagonal water tower. It used to be a place where trophies and jewelry were laid during warfare. It was also used as a prison and execution room for some time. Walking on the bridge, you can appreciate Lucerne's romantic medieval feelings. It's a must-have place to visit Lucerne!
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More bad news in the fight for a right to die
22 July 2015 by Isabel McArdle
R (o.t.a A.M) v. General Medical Council [2015] EWHC 2096 (Admin) Read the full judgment here
The High Court has rejected the argument made by “Martin”, a man with locked-in syndrome who is profoundly disabled and wishes to end his own life. This comes shortly after Strasbourg’s rejection of the Nicklinson and Lamb cases, for which see my post here.
Philip Havers QC, of 1COR, acted for Martin, and has played no part in the writing of this post.
Martin would like to travel to a Swiss clinic to end his life, but wishes to obtain a medical report, from a doctor, to assist. He would also like to take medical advice on methods of suicide.
There is no dispute that a doctor advising him in this way will likely break the law, by committing the crime of assisting suicide. However, Martin argued that in practice, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has relaxed guidelines on when it is in the public interest to bring a prosecution against a doctor in these circumstances.
However, the General Medical Council (GMC), a body which regulates doctors and has the power to end their medical careers by striking them off its register, has issued guidance which suggests that a doctor assisting Martin in the way he seeks would risk professional disciplinary action, and may be struck off the register.
Martin challenged the guidance of the GMC in two ways.
First, he argued that his ECHR Article 8 (the right to respect for private and family life) and 10 (freedom of expression) rights are breached by the GMC’s position. The guidance subject to challenge includes:
Where patients raise the issue of assisting suicide, or ask for information that might encourage or assist them in ending their lives, doctors should be prepared to listen and to discuss the reasons for the patient’s request but they must not actively encourage or assist the patient as this would be a contravention of the law. Any advice or information they give in response should be limited to: an explanation that it is a criminal offence for anyone to encourage or assist a person to commit or attempt suicide, and the provision of objective advice about the lawful clinical options (such as sedation and other palliative care) which would be available if a patient were to reach a settled decision to kill himself. For the avoidance of doubt, this would not prevent a doctor from agreeing in advance to palliate the pain and discomfort involved for a patient in this position should the need arise for such symptom management.
Doctors should continue to care for their patients and must be respectful and compassionate. We recognise that doctors will face challenges in ensuring that patients do not feel abandoned while ensuring that the advice or information that they provide does not encourage or assist suicide. Doctors are not required to provide treatments that they consider will not be of overall benefit to the patient, or which will harm the patient. Respect for a patient’s autonomy cannot justify illegal action.
The Court accepted that Article 8 was engaged, but the real question was whether interference with that right was justified.
Martin argued that it was not justified, because “it fails to give a doctor the same sense of security when giving advice or writing a report as the DPP’s policy” [39].
The Court found that it could not be said that the interference was not justified:
40.…the decision in Nicklinson is that section 2, even read alone, is compatible with article 8. If a blanket ban on assisted suicide does not infringe article 8, it must follow that any step taken to discourage a doctor from assisting a suicide cannot infringe the article either. The DPP could, as a matter of Convention law, have adopted a policy of generally prosecuting assisted suicides if the evidence was sufficient to justify it, without placing the UK in breach of article 8. The fact that the DPP has recently adopted (or at least clarified) what Martin might conceive to be a laxer and more compassionate policy does not affect the application of article 8 at all. The GMC is not obliged to fall into line in order for its guidance to remain article 8 compliant.
41. If the position were that section 2 would in exceptional cases infringe article 8 save for the fact that the discretion conferred upon the DPP is capable of being so exercised as to render it compatible, there would be room for the argument now being advanced. It could be said that the GMC guidance undermines the mechanism which secures compliance with article 8. It was indeed argued by Martin in the earlier case that this was the proper reading of the decision of Pretty in the Strasbourg Court, that Martin was an exceptional case, and that accordingly the DPP had to indicate in his policy that it was unlikely that a doctor would be prosecuted for assisting him in the ways he sought.
However, Elias LJ pointed out that both the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court rejected this submission, finding that section 2 is compatible with article 8 even as a blanket ban. Its conformity with article 8 was dependent neither on the existence of the prosecutorial discretion nor the way that it is exercised. Indeed, Lord Kerr (with Lord Hughes’ express agreement) had considered that under the constitution it would not be open to the executive, in the shape of the DPP, to redeem section 2 if it were otherwise incompatible with article 8.
Hence Elias LJ concluded that
it cannot possibly be contrary to article 8 for the GMC to take as its starting point the principle that a doctor has a duty to obey the law, and to structure its guidance accordingly. The reason why the section 2 interference with article 8 is justified, which the Supreme Court held was the protection of vulnerable patients, equally justifies the GMC’s guidance which seeks to reflect and give effect to that principle. The argument Martin advanced in the earlier proceedings with respect to the DPP’s policy was similar, namely that it should be modified to ensure compliance with article 8. Lord Hughes gave it short shrift (para. 288): “If section 2(1) is not disproportionate unless and until Parliament says that it is, then for the same reason the Director cannot be required to “modify” her policy…””
The Article 10 challenge did not raise materially different points to the Article 8 challenge so was dismissed for the same reasons.
Secondly, Martin made a traditional Wednesbury challenge (in short, that the decision to issue and maintain the guidance was so unreasonable or irrational, that no reasonable decision maker could reach it), arguing(at [46]) that it was irrational for the GMC not to amend its policy so as to bring it in line with that adopted by the DPP. The DPP is the public officer responsible for enforcing the law relating to assisted suicide; if she considers that the public interest is properly protected by giving a strong indication to doctors who act out of compassion on a one-off situation that they will not be prosecuted, it is Wednesbury irrational for the GMC to take a different view as to what public policy requires.
This argument too was rejected, for reasons including that the GMC, as a specialist regulatory body, was better placed than the Court to assess what was in the public interest with regard to medical discipline, and there was no constitutional reason why the GMC guidance must accord with DPP guidance, given the very different roles of the two bodies.
This latest challenge to the legal barriers to assisted dying has not resulted in a change in professional regulatory guidance, but it has helped to keep end of life issues in the public eye. Watch this space for more assisted dying in the news, with another Bill in the pipeline, scheduled for a second reading in September 2015 – and watch its progress here.
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Ellen – there is plenty of protection for people who don’t want to die. Those of us who may want assistance to die in the future are not protected.
there isn’t – its all ‘after the event’ .
..and we note that the GMC are effectively unable to strike anyone off , due to the fact that Drs can ‘voluntarily erase ‘ themselves from the register the night before the formal hearing , which leaves them free to practice medicine anywhere else in the world, or even to work in psychiatry, judging people as ‘competent’ when their beneficiaries want to take them to Dignitas..like Mr Brewer http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3103075/Banned-British-doctor-linked-death-clinic-Dignitas-uses-struck-medic-approve-patients-suicide.html
”Doctors are not required to provide treatments that they consider will not be of overall benefit to the patient, or which will harm the patient. ”
Do you know, if you are elderly or disabled, some of the Drs working at present withdraw food under the pretence its a ‘choking risk’…don’t notice any great cavalry charges from the HR profession over that .
Dont you think lawyers would be better fighting for his human right to live in slightly more amenable surroundings than those shown in the photograph above?
Anyone would feel depressed enough to end it all in such a stimulating environment as that!
Fantastic news! Will relieve every disabled person and NHS medical practitioner in the UK!
The “right to die” considered again: R (AM) v General Medical Council | Law & Religion UK says:
[…] There is a longer analysis on UKHRB by Isabel McArdle: see More bad news in the fight for a right to die […]
John Allman says:
At the beginning of April last year, the day of the relevant EU Directive, I published the following analysis of the conflict between the EU right to die and the ECHR right to life (Article 2):
The right to die -v- the right to life
https://johnallmanuk.wordpress.com/2014/04/01/euthanasia/
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The Shambles That Is Sunderland AFC
By bernieuche on September 30, 2016 • ( 7 Comments )
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The most hated clubs in the English Premier League are usually the guys at the top. For so long, jealousy fueled fans hatred of Manchester United. Now, Chelsea’s Russian oil money machine is now the most hated team in the land. Again, part of this is jealousy, the other part is that they have been accused of spending their way to the top. Love them or hate them these clubs and other top clubs in the league should be respected for showing ambition.
Sunderland however, is a disgracefully run football club. Football fans everywhere should be insulted by the way this football club performs season in, season out. It’d be better if they were relegated and spent a few years in the wilderness in order to reassess how they operate. Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. If that’s the case then Sunderland are the custodians of the asylum.
How does it make sense that a Premier League club hasn’t won a game in the first two months of the season, for four years? It shows a consistently genuine lack of preparation. Some serious questions have to be asked. On the transfer side, are the players being brought in up to scratch? Does the manager bring in who he wants or is there some bogus transfer committee? Are the players integrating properly?
As far as the managers are concerned, are they setting the proper expectations of their players? Are they setting up training properly? Perhaps the biggest question is whether the board is doing enough to ensure the club is competitive when the season starts. I feel as if the answer to all these questions is a resounding “NO”!
David Moyes wasn’t supported in the transfer window (deja-vu?). Many of the players at Sunderland bar Jermaine Defoe and Patrick Van Aaanholt are not worthy of the Premier League. The transfer policy has been a complete shambles. There’s no sign that this situation will improve so if they survive this season, expect another quagmire of a transfer window and summer preparation in 2017.
For Sunderland’s poor starts to each of the past four seasons, the club usually turns things around when the Tyne-Wear derby with Newcastle comes about. They unfailingly beat Newcastle and then manage to put a few good results together, slump again, finish strong and narrowly avoid relegation.
Sunderland give you that false sense of hope that they have figured things out. The manager who saves them looks like an absolute genius. Gus Poyet experienced this, Paulo Di Canio did so before absolutely burning the club to the ground. Dick Advocaat saved the club from relegation. He managed to convince his wife to allow him to delay his retirement plans, only for the team to revert to form and he decided to take her advice (although he reneged on that once more for Fenerbache).
Sam Allardyce was seen as the solution; a former player who could instill passion into the side. He did just that, saving them once again, only to take the England job and disgrace himself in a corruption scandal. Now poor David Moyes has inherited the poisoned chalice. Moyes has received little support in the transfer market and the players are rubbish. He may also not be the man for the job. Moyes should’ve waited to take over a mid-table club. One he could mould in his image over time rather than a club that seems to be stumbling around drunk in the dark.
Moyes will be sacked, Sunderland will hire some one else (Steve Bruce? Big Sam again?) and survive again. Sunderland fans will rejoice at their survival but they should be upset. Sunderland should just do us all a favor and go down. Quite frankly, we are sick and tired of this charade. Newcastle went down and Rafa Benitez has tried to transform the football club from the ground up. There’s a long way to go in the Championship but Rafa has brought in some very useful players, upgraded the youth program and Newcastle look in good shape to get right back up. Sunderland perhaps could use that type of downfall to change their habits.
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kevin boyes says:
This is actually so true I am a Sunderland fan and would be happy for us to go down sought our finances and the running of the club then come back up and make slow steady progress
Utter rubbish and you can’t spell either. We need to stay up and build from there.
mohaned89 says:
There’s been no building for 3 years … always next season eh
Nonsense article
What a knob the guy who wrote this is!!! Stick to writing about ice hockey
Yaaaaaaaaas rustled.
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Pickford Kone Kirchhoff Khazri 1 homegrown future England keeper and 3 quality signings bought by big Sam , just 4 I plucked off the top of my head after this muppet said we only had 2 quality players, stick to reporting your national sports of which I know nothing and therefore couldn’t comment on and neither should I, ps and by the way it’s Man City we all hate now
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To Stop Displacement, Disclose the Data! by Guest Blogger Gregory Jost
In New York City neighborhoods where low-income residents face uncertain futures, real estate speculation has become, among other things, a form of information asymmetry. Bankers and investors with access to the means of collecting, analyzing, and acting on proprietary financial data are perpetually one or two (or three) steps ahead of the New Yorkers most likely to be impacted negatively by sudden influxes of new neighborhood investment. And where the profit motive meets a living legacy of housing discrimination, residents at risk of displacement face not only daunting struggles to stay put, but also an often inscrutable mix of law, policy, planning, and finance which obscures the very forces they are up against.
A lack of publicly available information is one of the fundamental imbalances of power in our housing system. But data has also provided, in many instances, the key to tipping this scale. Starting in the 1960s in Chicago, landmark data-gathering efforts aimed at exposing racist real estate practices — byproducts of the now infamous lending policies and practices known as “redlining” — established the foundations for a national movement to disclose mortgage information. These movements, in turn, provided the bedrock for federal legislation aimed at protecting the rights of communities to both access lending data, and to hold lending institutions accountable to community priorities. Gregory Jost carries this history into the present-day Bronx, where for 20 years he has helped community organizations access and leverage data in local struggles for housing justice. Here, he connects historical fights for housing data disclosure across the country to a pressing need for finding ways to follow money through increasingly more complex and global webs of real estate speculation in the 21st century.
To Stop Displacement, Disclose the Data by Gregory Jost
Along Southern Boulevard in the South Bronx, a prospective rezoning by the New York City Department of City Planning has concerned neighbors fighting back against looming displacement — but they can’t all agree on whom to target and how to stage this battle. A coalition of nonprofits (including the organization where I work) has pushed for seats at the proverbial table with city agencies and the local council member, demanding community control of land and urban planning strategies that prevent displacement of existing residents and businesses. Meanwhile, a more radical group, without ties to traditional funding mechanisms, has adopted an alternative strategy of disrupting the city’s public events and challenging the nonprofits on their participation in a system that drives the rezoning process. While both groups agree that rezonings increase displacement pressures, and that community control and ownership are the best protections, divergent strategies on how to fight City Hall have led to heated divisions within the neighborhood.
Members of the Southern Boulevard Coalition and Take Back the Bronx clash at a June 2019 rally against the potential rezoning of Southern Boulevard. Both groups oppose the city’s proposed plan for the area.
One reason for this divide is that City Hall represents only the public face of a much larger problem that we know very little about. Mayor de Blasio has used lofty affordable housing goals to justify a spree of rezonings across all five boroughs. But by changing land use protocols to allow for higher density residential and mixed-use development, primarily in neighborhoods of color, the city also enables a process that enriches developers and investors who profit off the displacement of lower-income communities. The investment is inherently speculative, meaning investors gamble on a neighborhood becoming more valuable through this displacement, with an ideal outcome of gentrification. The money itself, which organizers have labeled “predatory equity,” comes from largely unknown and seemingly bottomless sources, its influence the result of growing economic inequality and wealth disparities in New York and around the globe. Investors, both foreign and domestic, seek a combination of high returns and security, and New York City real estate has performed remarkably well as a financial commodity for the past quarter of a century.
While a rezoning by the city sends a clear message to speculators that another neighborhood is ripe for change, reinforcing the intricate entanglement between our political system and the real estate state, the deeper problem for neighborhoods like Southern Boulevard lies in waves of unregulated speculative investment that are already capitalizing on displacement. The Bronx has become home to many of those already displaced from other boroughs. Even without a rezoning, family homelessness in New York City is at the highest levels since the Great Depression, and many residents live on the edge of eviction every month. If the deeper issue is the power of predatory equity over both land and legislators, those fighting displacement will need to know more about its sources and how it functions to be able to curtail its power.
Beginning fifty years ago, grassroots coalitions fought against a similar predatory real estate practice known as redlining. They won the battle for community-based reinvestment because they were able to first force the disclosure of bank data that proved the structural injustices in the housing and financial markets, and then use that data to win common sense (yet powerful) reforms and enforcement mechanisms that still exist today. Their victories have much to teach those of us currently fighting predatory equity and displacement, especially one crucial lesson: We lack the data we need to identify and expose our targets. We need to know whose money is financing this predatory investment, where that equity is coming from, and what the expected returns are on this investment. It is time we consider the new data we need to frame our campaigns against displacement in the coming years.
Typically, those in power control the means of gathering and distributing data. Tech companies, for instance, are so powerful and profitable because they have learned how to commodify data about the users of their products and platforms. Government and industry leaders also create, access, and control data to build more profitable enterprises, increase efficiency, and maintain influence as necessary. Everyday people, on the other hand, are expected to give up information for some small compensation or convenience, be it access to social media, physical spaces, shopping, or entertainment. To powerfully organize and transform systems, grassroots coalitions have turned this relationship on its head by collecting, analyzing, and presenting data about the injustices of our economic systems. Data is a language that speaks to people, including those in power. Control the data, and you can potentially control the narrative. For instance, if data can show not only a correlation but a causation between racist housing practices and negative outcomes for working-class people, political will and policies can shift dramatically and rapidly.
A Home Owners’ Loan Corporation map of the Bronx. Image via Mapping Inequality.
The Fight against Redlining
Beginning in the 1930s, the federal government, through the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation and the Federal Housing Administration, codified pre-existing discriminatory practices of the real estate and financial industries to design a system that either valued or devalued residential neighborhoods across the nation based on explicitly racist ideas. The “infiltration” or “invasion” of “undesirable” people, primarily people of color and immigrants, across real or imagined boundaries, translated into a neighborhood being deemed as a risky investment, cutting off access to low-cost, government-insured mortgage financing, prime-rate insurance policies, and decent municipal services. Real estate speculators quickly realized how to capitalize on the separate and unequal housing markets created by redlining policies, flipping homes and entire neighborhoods in short periods of time using blockbusting and panic peddling techniques to prey both on the racist fears of white homeowners and the desires of Black families to escape overcrowded, already redlined areas for a better life.
Speculators further exploited Black homebuyers through a form of loan sharking known as contract selling, in which Black families took on all the responsibilities of home ownership without the benefits of building equity or security of ownership. Under the system of contract selling, missing one payment meant the home would go back to the seller. Contract buyers were subject to additional, mysterious fees or payment increases, and eviction was a constant threat. But in the summer of 1966, community organizers began door-knocking in the racially changing neighborhood of Lawndale on Chicago’s West Side. They found Black homeowners who, in their desperation to move out of deteriorating redlined neighborhoods, had paid steep prices for their homes only to have billions of dollars of their collective wealth stripped away while having to make impossible choices between taking on multiple jobs, forgoing repairs, or missing a payment and losing everything. The group quickly coalesced into the Contract Buyers League (CBL).
In their growing mobilization against contract selling, the CBL partnered with researchers at Northwestern University’s Center for Urban Affairs. Together, they undertook a massive research project to prove the systemic level of mortgage discrimination against Black families and their neighborhoods that created the conditions for contract selling to thrive. They organized payment strikes and blocked evictions, even moving evicted families back into their homes. They prepared for a large court battle against not just the contract sellers, but also the lending institutions and the Federal Housing Administration who refused to make and insure loans in their neighborhoods. According to Beryl Satter in her historic account of the CBL, exhaustive questionnaires from 475 families supplemented detailed property records for 2,600 plaintiffs and 30,000 complete histories of every property on the West Side connected to a contract selling operation. Organizers and researchers did similar work for the South Side of Chicago, all of it transferred to computer cards and then mapped. The work, often in dingy basements of municipal buildings, was grueling and tedious — one researcher described it as “the sixth rung of hell” — but people knew they were part of something big.[1]
Many factors, including repeated delays and out-of-court settlements, undermined the court case even before it began. When they finally went to trial, the judge ruled the data inadmissible, ironically because it was so compelling. “[The data findings] are misleading. They might be given unnecessary weight, since people feel computers are infallible.”[2] But while the losses were devastating for the families who couldn’t renegotiate their contracts, the data itself had already begun to follow a different path forward.
Chicago-based community activist and National People’s Action founder Gale Cincotta. Photo courtesy of the People’s Action Institute.
Winning Community Reinvestment
Meanwhile, a new multiracial coalition was taking shape in Austin, one neighborhood west of Lawndale, where racial change was following a similar pattern of blockbusting, contract selling, and wealth extraction. When Northwestern shared their findings with leaders of the Austin group, local mother-turned-activist Gale Cincotta saw how the underlying issues of neighborhood deterioration were rooted in a similar practice of mortgage redlining. Cincotta believed if they had the data to prove the extent to which banks were taking deposits from neighborhood residents — but refusing to lend that money back out to purchase, refinance, or improve homes or businesses in the same neighborhood — and correlate that data with racial demographics, they could effectively fight back. They pushed the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago to release local banking data which showed that in one overwhelmingly Black South Side neighborhood, financial institutions had taken $50 million in deposits but made only $24,000 in mortgages over two years.[3] Cincotta used this data to unite similar neighborhood groups across Chicago, and subsequently the entire country, into National People’s Action. NPA built alliances around everyday issues like sanitation, school overcrowding, and poor housing conditions that all pointed back to redlining as a root cause. In a huge 1974 coalition victory, Mayor Daley announced that the City of Chicago would require all financial institutions holding city deposits to disclose deposit and lending information and pledge to not practice redlining.[4] The coalition leveraged this victory into a statewide disclosure ordinance which passed in the summer of 1975.[5] However, understanding the critical role of the federal government in the mortgage and banking systems, they knew they needed to wage a national campaign.
Left, Cover of the May 1980 issue of Disclosure. Image courtesy of Ted Wysocki. Right, A profile of NWBCCC from the May 1976 issue of Disclosure. Image courtesy of Gregory Jost.
NPA expanded their fight against redlining by sending organizers along with their monthly newsletter, aptly called Disclosure, to similar neighborhood groups in places like Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Baltimore. In 1974, they came to the Bronx, where they allied with the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition (NWBCCC), who had recently formed to fight off the waves of fires and abandonment that had begun in the South Bronx and were spreading north at the rate of ten blocks per year. NPA helped Bronx organizers see how redlining was fueling the infamous fires that ravaged the borough’s tenement buildings, giving hope for a possible solution. It helped that the NWBCCC’s first two organizers were originally from Chicago, where they had been trained in struggles against block busting and contract selling.
By allying with groups like NWBCCC in dozens of states, NPA built a base for its national campaign for a federal mortgage disclosure bill that could prove the vast extent and impact of redlining in neighborhoods across the country. They also found a champion in Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire, the new chair of the Senate Banking Committee. Cincotta sold Proxmire on sponsoring mortgage disclosure legislation, because it didn’t cost the federal government much money, and he was willing to push the banks to do their jobs. By the end of 1975, after an intense legislative battle, the final version of the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) went to President Ford’s desk for signature. The original bill required banks to disclose geographic mortgage lending data including approvals and denials and, to further combat discrimination, the law was updated in the 1980s to include the race, gender, and income of applicants. Armed with HMDA data, NPA groups repeatedly demonstrated the pervasive and systemic nature of redlining and how this practice — not the supposed lawless, pathological, and irredeemable behavior of local residents — led to the deterioration of neighborhoods. Instead of policies of “benign neglect” or “planned shrinkage,” redlined communities required quality lending and reinvestment. Within two years of national mortgage disclosure, NPA won another massive federal legislative victory with the passage of an anti-redlining enforcement mechanism known as the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA).
CRA states that banks have an obligation to meet the credit needs of the communities they serve. While bank regulators control the rulemaking and have made many changes during the past four decades, CRA requires banks to pass tests on lending, service, and investment. Since 1977, community groups have used CRA to challenge discriminatory or insufficient bank practices when institutions apply to their regulators for approval of mergers, acquisitions, or expansions.
The passage of HMDA and CRA was just the beginning of struggles for investments that truly benefit historically redlined neighborhoods and people. In the early ‘80s, for instance, members of NWBCCC used CRA to challenge Citibank’s plans to open a new Manhattan branch on Park Avenue because the bank had recently closed four Bronx branches, failed to make loans to both private homes and apartment buildings in the Northwest Bronx, and had even sent out a “Get Moving Kit,” encouraging its Bronx customers to apply for mortgages in suburban Westchester and Rockland counties. The challenge led to hearings and a delay of Citibank’s expansion, though the regulator eventually ruled in favor of the bank.[6] Still, HMDA and CRA allow small community organizations to battle giant foes and these laws, with public investment, have created incentives for trillions of dollars to flow into historically redlined neighborhoods.
A “Get Moving Kit” flyer.
Yet many advocates feel the laws and rulemaking have not kept up with the larger deregulation of the financial system, and fundamental questions of who benefits from these private investments remain. Blocks have been rebuilt, buildings renovated, and homes improved, but many longtime residents have been displaced, while the racial wealth gap continues to grow. Furthermore, even though redlining was explicitly racist in its logic, CRA is framed as entirely race-neutral, meaning investment can easily evade borrowers of color in gentrifying neighborhoods. In other words, quantifying dollars isn’t enough if we are not able to track the quality of investments and who is building wealth from them.
The Building Indicator Project
During the last housing bubble and burst, from 2003 to 2014, research conducted by NWBCCC’s reinvestment affiliate (and my former employer), University Neighborhood Housing Program, documented how sales prices of rent-stabilized Bronx buildings dramatically increased without a corresponding increase in net operating income. Investors were banking either on rising property values to flip buildings for a profit, planning to displace existing tenants to increase rents and cash flow, or both. Since they were not basing their purchase prices on the existing financial situations of buildings, we knew this was speculative investment that sought to do harm to existing tenants one way or another.
Graph depicting trends in annual cost per unit for multifamily housing in the Bronx using data from the Building Indicator Project.
At the same time, the city had begun making property information available through individual building lookups on various department websites. We began to aggregate as much property data as possible to identify any large-scale trends. We pulled data on housing code and building violations, tax and water liens, ownership, management, and — perhaps most crucial for identifying institutional organizing targets — mortgage holder of record. We prototyped a rudimentary scoring system to identify levels of physical and financial distress in Bronx apartment buildings and then called a meeting with a number of prominent multifamily lenders. To their shock, we presented them with our own data on their lending portfolios, with buildings ranked from most likely distressed to least. Many banks pushed back, with one longtime banker confiding, “I don’t want to know this shit,” implying that then he would have to do something about it. That was precisely the idea, and exactly the point of disclosure.
We asked for honest feedback from the bankers about the scoring system and realized any findings were only as good as the data going in. The Giuliani administration had severely cut back on code enforcement and many violations on record were old, while many current violations had gone undocumented. There was no integrity to the violation data until the Bloomberg administration began investing in code enforcement. The more the city did to improve code enforcement, including instituting the 311 hotline system for housing complaints, the better our data became. We targeted our system to capture buildings with more recently issued code violations. In 2006, we subjected our interns to their own “sixth rung of hell” — but instead of sitting in a dingy basement like their counterparts in the 1970s, their eyes blurred scouring numerous city websites, pulling dozens of data fields for over 7,000 Bronx apartment buildings into the first incarnation of the Building Indicator Project (BIP), a database to identify buildings that are likely to be physically and/or financially distressed. By 2008 we semi-automated our system and began pulling records for 60,000 apartment buildings across the city.
Screenshot of the Building Indicator Project database.
Our efforts couldn’t have been timelier. As the housing market began to collapse, many buildings were rapidly deteriorating and going into foreclosure. UNHP worked in tandem with organizers in the Northwest Bronx and around the city to identify and organize buildings that our data predicted to be distressed, increasing efficiency. We continued to meet with the banks to push them to inspect their problem properties and put pressure on landlords to improve conditions. We began sharing data with financial regulators, asking them to use their influence to spur more banks into responsible action with their multifamily borrowers — including delaying refinancing applications until building conditions improved, better screening processes for new borrowers, and overall tighter underwriting standards based on existing rents. We then demanded the regulators use our data to evaluate the banks on their CRA exams, not just for the quantity of lending in our neighborhoods, but also the quality of loans.
Along the way we discovered that many of the distressed mortgages had been sold by the originating banks into commercial mortgage-backed securities, meaning the debt was now owned by anonymous investors around the globe. While we did not have an easy target to hold accountable, we did read through the prospectus documents the securities firms had prepared for investors that clearly stated the intended investment strategies by the landlords. They would “unlock the upside potential” in buildings by pushing long-term tenants out, some claiming a 20 to 30 percent turnover (i.e., displacement) goal in just the first year. When we challenged the banks, who underwrote some of these predatory loans, they defended themselves by saying the investors were putting so much cash and equity into the deal that they still considered their lending conservative. We began to call this type of investment predatory equity, as the cash and equity were specifically designed to push people out of their homes.
One predatory equity group, Milbank Real Estate, had purchased ten buildings across the Bronx, home to more than 500 families. When their gentrification dreams were not realized, they stopped maintenance and allowed living conditions to deteriorate dramatically. We worked closely with organizers and longtime tenant leaders to push the city to be more proactive in intervening with buildings before they became like the Milbank portfolio, where collapsed ceilings, extensive mold growth, peeling paint, long outages of heat and hot water, and apartment flooding became pervasive.
Mayor Bloomberg at a press conference in 2011, attended by NWBCCC and other groups, announcing the sale of Milbank’s dilapidated Bronx properties to a new owner. Photo by Spencer T. Tucker via the Office of the Mayor of New York City.
Between the people-power of leaders from the Northwest Bronx and the comprehensive data BIP provided, as well as many legal and advocacy allies, our coalition won the creation of the Proactive Preservation Initiative. The Initiative uses data to preventively target buildings heading toward distress for enforcement mechanisms by the city, and was announced by the Mayor in January 2011. By 2012, all three federal bank regulators were receiving quarterly updates of BIP data, and our research and organizing work pushed the Governor to announce the Slumlord Prevention Guidelines, updating CRA regulations for New York State chartered banks in September 2013. The guidelines provide primarily carrots (and a few sticks) for banks to only lend to landlords “who are committed to the long-term health of a community instead of quick-buck artist slumlords who let buildings fall into disrepair.”
Keep Following the Money
Victories such as these have improved living conditions for millions of New Yorkers, but they have not ended speculative investment, predatory equity, and their offspring: serial displacement and gentrification. Bronx buildings now sell for nearly double what they did at their peak before the market crashed ten years ago, but the median income of Bronx tenants has barely increased. A 25 unit building on Bryant Avenue, in the heart of the Southern Boulevard rezoning area, sold last year for $5.2 million, over $200,000 per apartment. The buyer owns nearly 40 buildings in the Bronx and put in $1.3 million in cash and equity to leverage a $3.9 million mortgage with Country Bank, which has since been refinanced by Santander for $4.65 million. Holding banks accountable to sound underwriting remains critical, but it is insufficient given the amount of cash and equity coming into real estate transactions, as well as the growing alternative of unregulated non-bank lenders who are not accountable to communities at all. Requiring disclosure of cash and equity sources in high-priced real estate transactions, just like banks ask for when a family purchases a home to live in, would shine a bright light onto one of investment capital’s favorite parking lots and laundromats.
In this era of massive wealth inequality, financial deregulation, and an oversupply of global cash and equity, we need to know as much as we can about the money driving real estate speculation to protect our own homes. A small group of researchers, advocates, and organizers have begun to plan a campaign for a state law requiring the disclosure of sources of cash and equity for large real estate transactions — including disclosure of expected returns on that investment. Such a disclosure mechanism could lead to the regulation of non-bank lenders and even investors and their investment vehicles. It could also build support for updating the state banking laws to give regulators more power over banks. Those interested in taking a critical immediate action can submit comments in support of both HMDA and CRA, both of which are currently under attack from Trump-appointed regulators.
BIP, Bronx, Community Development, Data, Multifamily, Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition, Bank, CRA
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