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__label__wiki	0.665947	0.665947	\| Listen Live Today's Globe Globe Business Globe Sports THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING Globe / After 10 years, it’s still a fight for freedom By Jeff Jacoby Globe Columnist / September 11, 2011 Add a personal message:(80 character limit) Sending your article Your article has been sent. E-mail\| Reprints\| Text size – + AMERICA’S WAR on terror was launched when the heroes of United Flight 93 rushed the hijackers over Shanksville, Pa., aborting what would have been Al Qaeda’s fourth 9/11 attack. In the decade that began that terrible day, the goal of disrupting and crushing the Islamist terror network has been pursued with remarkable versatility: The United States has fought this conflict with military, diplomatic, and financial weapons; it has relied on aggressive intelligence-gathering and sensitive counterinsurgency; it has reshaped airline security and rewritten civil-liberties law. Jihadists have been killed with Predator drones abroad, detained as enemy combatants at Guantanamo, and thwarted in undercover stings at home. Yet in the long run it may turn out that more significant than any of these was the war of ideas that followed 9/11. Almost from the outset, President George W. Bush recognized that the United States was engaged in an ideological struggle. During the Cold War two decades earlier, Ronald Reagan had argued that the promotion of freedom should be a priority in American foreign policy. By advancing the ideals of liberty and human dignity, Reagan told the British Parliament in 1982, America and its allies would undermine the Soviet Union and eventually relegate Communist totalitarianism to “the ash-heap of history.’’ In much the same way, Bush saw, radical Islam could be weakened by deploying the moral force of liberal democracy and equality. Just nine days after 9/11, addressing a joint session of Congress, Bush began to lay out an ideological strategy for defeating the jihadist threat. “Al Qaeda is to terror what the mafia is to crime, but its goal is not making money,” Bush said. “Its goal is remaking the world -- and imposing its radical beliefs on people everywhere." Terrorism was not caused by the religion of Islam but by the Islamists’ political fanaticism. “They are the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions - by abandoning every value except the will to power - they follow in the path of fascism and Nazism and totalitarianism.’’ The war on terror, Bush accurately foretold, would be a long struggle fought on many fronts. But ultimately the only way to prevent Al Qaeda and its allies from imposing an “age of terror’’ was for America to sustain an “age of liberty, here and across the world.’’ While Bush would get plenty of things wrong after 9/11, this ideological insight - that the root of Islamist terrorism was the lack of freedom in the Middle East - was one of the big things he got right. There were plenty who didn’t. Many voices insisted that terrorism was fueled by poverty or lack of education. Other analysts rushed to explain 9/11 as the fruit of US “arrogance,’’ or as a reaction to Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In reality, as Princeton economist Alan Krueger demonstrated in a 2007 book, “What Makes A Terrorist?’’ the best predictors of terrorism are “the suppression of civil liberties and political rights, including freedom of the press, the freedom to assemble, and democratic rights.’’ Bush’s campaign to democratize the Middle East - what came to be known as the “freedom agenda’’ - was rooted in the conviction that the way to break the back of jihadist hatred was to drain the swamps in which it breeds: the dictatorships and theocracies of the Muslim Middle East. “Terrorists thrive on the support of tyrants and the resentments of oppressed peoples,” he said in 2003. “When tyrants fall, and resentment gives way to hope, men and women in every culture reject the ideologies of terror, and turn to the pursuits of peace." For decades, foreign-policy “realists’’ argued that stability in the Arab world was more important than liberty, and so it was better to tolerate oppressive regimes than to risk democratic upheaval. That was the roadmap that led to 9/11. Today, 10 years after 9/11, the region is more unstable than it has been in generations. Iraq’s dictator is dead, Libya’s is on the run, and demands for freedom and democratic reform have shaken regimes from Tunisia to Syria to Iran. Yet who wouldn’t prefer today’s churn and ferment to the illusory stability of 2001? No, Islamist terror hasn't been eradicated. Liberal Muslim democracy has a long way to go. But we have engaged the struggle of ideas. And as we fight not just the terrorists, but the poisoned ideas that motivate them, we are slowly winning the war that began on 9/11. © Copyright 2011 Globe Newspaper Company. Sorry, we could not find your e-mail or password. Please try again, or click here to retrieve your password. 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__label__wiki	0.547612	0.547612	Home / News / Uganda: Bureau of Statistics consults users on microdata availability, access and use (March 2014) Uganda: Bureau of Statistics consults users on microdata availability, access and use (March 2014) Country / Regional Activity: Uganda Date of Event: 19/03/2014 Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS), with the support of ADP/PARIS21, hosted a two-day Microdata Outreach Workshop on March 19-20, 2014 near Kampala, to engage in dialogues with other data producers and key data users about microdata availability, access and use. About seventy participants representing data users and producers from line ministries, government agencies, research institutions, and NGOs attended the workshop. The workshop was opened by Mr. Ben Mungyereza, the Executive Director of UBOS. He highlighted the unique challenges associated with microdata dissemination, and pointed out that exchanges between data producers and users are critical for bridging the gaps between users’ unmet demand for data and the large amount of existing data being unused and wasted. He encouraged more data producers to avail their data for use in planning and research. UBOS presented its efforts in improving the availability, access and use of data, and demonstrated the National Data Archive hosted on the UBOS website cataloguing over sixty surveys and censuses. Statisticians from the Social Economic Statistics Directorate further explained the design process, implementation, and quality assurance measures behind the Uganda National Household Surveys to data users. Data users shared their experience using microdata produced by UBOS. Mr. Bernard Sabiti, on behalf of the Development Research and Training (DRT), an NGO who chairs the Uganda Open Development Partnership, showed how DRT uses UBOS microdata to understand, track and redefine poverty and vulnerability. Dr. Justine Nannyonjo, Director of the Bank of Uganda, presented on how UBOS data is being used by the Bank of Uganda (BOU). She conveyed the overall satisfaction with the data availability and quality, and revealed remaining issues with data disaggregation, revision, documentation and access. Dr. Sarah Sewanyana, Executive Director of Economic Policy Research Center (EPRC), shared her insights on the changing environment in the international and national contexts. She presented on EPRC’s experience as a major user of household data produced by UBOS and their regular interaction with UBOS. She emphasized that microdata are essential for policy making, and users should always be in the driver’s seat. Mr. James Muwonge, Director of the Social Economic Statistics Directorate and other producers from UBOS engaged in lively discussion with users and responded to their concerns, suggestions and questions. UBOS welcomed users to provide timely feedback to help improve data production and dissemination. The final session of the workshop was devoted to consultations on the draft microdata access policy, currently under development by UBOS to further improve transparent and secured dissemination of microdata. UBOS assured participants that the issues and comments will be addressed and welcomed further input. ADP’s partnership with UBOS dates back to 2006. With ADP support, UBOS has strengthened its microdata management capacity and launched the National Data Archive (NADA). ADP continues to support UBOS in the development of a Microdata Acces Policy. ADP News	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line8
__label__cc	0.521807	0.478193	Why Life Alert is the Best Avoid a Retirement Home Shower Emergencies Home Intrusion Mobile + GPS since 7/3/08 NCOA's BenefitsCheckUp Site Speeds Filing for Medicare Extra Help and Other Benefits Based on the posting “NCOA's BenefitsCheckUp Now Allows Automatic Filing for Medicare Extra Help and Other Needed Benefits”, at brainbasedbusiness.com Edited (with Introduction) by Dr. Don Rose, Writer, Life Alert If you are a senior citizen, and you think you may be eligible for Medicare’s Extra Help benefit, this article is for you. Or perhaps you know someone who may qualify for Extra Help, or other benefits, but is unaware of them. Whatever the case may be, this article is for you, as it discusses how the BenefitsCheckUp website is assisting older Americans with automatic filing for benefits they are entitled to. More specifically, www.benefitscheckup.org could be especially helpful to the more than 630,000 who were "deemed eligible" in the first Medicare Part D enrollment period, but have lost their eligibility for the low income subsidy and must now apply for it. --Dr. Don Rose The National Council on Aging (NCOA) has added a new feature to its Web-based BenefitsCheckUp service that could assist several million people who are eligible for (but have not enrolled in) the Extra Help benefit, available through Medicare's Prescription Drug Coverage (also known as Part D). The new service, available at www.benefitscheckup.org, could be especially helpful to the more than 630,000 people who were "deemed eligible" for Extra Help in 2006, but who have recently lost their automatic eligibility for this assistance and must now apply for it. Speeding up Extra Help "If someone with Medicare has limited income and resources, there's no reason not to apply for the Extra Help," said James Firman, NCOA president and CEO. "And now, anyone anytime can use the Web to speed up this process and find out if they can also get extra income or other help with paying for their medicines or health care expenses." How to get Extra Help, and how much it helps People must apply to the Social Security Administration (SSA) first to find out if they qualify for Extra Help. If someone qualifies, they can save on average $3,700 a year since Medicare's Extra Help will pay their cost sharing, and they will have no gap in coverage (the donut hole). This year’s deadline for enrollment in a Medicare Part D plan is December 31, 2006. People with Medicare, family members or caregivers can now use NCOA's BenefitsCheckUp site (at BenefitsCheckUp.org) to submit their applications for Extra Help electronically, and receive immediate confirmation that SSA received the application. The extra benefits of BenefitsCheckUp In addition, without filling out any other questionnaire, the “BenefitsCheckUpRx - Extra Help with Prescription Costs” feature will tell users if they qualify for other federal or state benefits programs. These include programs that can save them money on health care (Medicare Savings Programs and Medicaid), provide extra income (Supplemental Security Income), find other prescription savings (State Pharmacy Assistance Programs) or help in paying for food (Food Stamps). Fast, free feature fits technology to need "We added this new feature to BenefitsCheckUp because we received lots of requests from individuals and feedback from organizations involved in finding and helping people with Medicare that some other tool was needed," said Stuart Spector, senior vice president of the NCOA's Benefits Access Group. "The new BenefitsCheckUp Extra Help feature is free, it's fast and it is confidential." NCOA, which led far-reaching outreach and enrollment efforts during the initial Part D enrollment period, continues its work in helping to find and enroll those who may be eligible for Medicare Extra Help. The Council is doing this through its ongoing support of local Access to Benefits Coalitions in 44 areas, and the second phase of its My Medicare Matters campaign. Seniors nationwide should take advantage of NCOA’s efforts, since the only thing you have to lose is the size of your Medicare bill. About the National Council on Aging Founded in 1950, the National Council on Aging is a charitable organization dedicated to improving the health and independence of older persons and to increasing their continuing contributions to communities, society, and future generations. For more information on NCOA, visit the National Council on Aging website (www.ncoa.org). About BenefitsCheckUp Since 2001, 1.8 million people have used BenefitsCheckUp and 400,000 have found benefits programs that help them pay for prescription drugs, health care, rent, utilities, and other needs. For more information about how to become a BenefitsCheckUp Organizational Edition user, please send email to [email protected]. This article is based on content in a posting entitled “NCOA's BenefitsCheckUp Now Allows Automatic Filing for Medicare Extra Help and Other Needed Benefits”, on the brainbasedbusiness.com website. The information provided is, to the best of our knowledge, reliable and accurate. 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__label__wiki	0.671577	0.671577	Ed Stelmach vs. Daveberta: A plague on both their houses As the Alberta Premier publically fights with the prank of a former Alberta Liberal party official and the story gains a little bit of steam, I thought perhaps it was time to ask a few critical questions. Now I am not a lawyer [but these days its hard to get too excited over the expertise of law students anyways -ed] but I did think to do a little bit of backgrounding on cybersquatting as it relates in Canada. The first thing to note is that if this was in the U.S., Ed Stelmach would have already won. While cybersquatting corporate names and slogans can be passed off as fair comment, the identities of flesh and blood people certainly cannot. The most famous case (so far) of a Canadian citizen running afoul of cybersquatting has to be Victoria's infamous Mike "Soft" Rowe (not related to the host of "Dirty Jobs" on Discovery Channel). The resolution of the case seems to have been in Rowe's favour: how much was legally connected and how much was due to Microsoft's bad press will probably never be known. The definitive answer, however, for Daveberta is going to be the Canadian Internet Regulatory Authority's "Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy". To apply under it, Stelmach must meet the requirements to possess a .ca address. Since Cournoyer met them, and citizenship appears to satify it, so far so good. The acceptable basis for complaint is as follows: Applicable Disputes. A Registrant must submit to a Proceeding if a Complainant asserts in a Complaint submitted in compliance with the Policy and the Resolution Rules that: (a) the Registrant’s dot-ca domain name is Confusingly Similar to a Mark in which the Complainant had Rights prior to the date of registration of the domain name and continues to have such Rights; (b) the Registrant has no legitimate interest in the domain name as described in paragraph 3.6; and (c) the Registrant has registered the domain name in bad faith as described in paragraph 3.7. For the purposes of this Policy, the date of registration of a domain name is the date on which the domain name was first registered in the Registry or the predecessor registry operated by the University of British Columbia. Now its apparently yet untested whether a person's full name is "a mark in which the complaintant has rights", but it would be very shocking for the CIRA or a court to find otherwise. It is highly questionable if Cournoyer has a "legitimate interest" in edstelmach.ca, but we shall come back to that matter. We shall immediately address Cournoyer's biggest danger: registering in bad faith. Paragraph 3.7 reads (emphasis mine): Registration in Bad Faith. For the purposes of paragraph 3.1(c), a Registrant will be considered to have registered a domain name in bad faith if, and only if: (a) the Registrant registered the domain name, or acquired the Registration, primarily for the purpose of selling, renting, licensing or otherwise transferring the Registration to the Complainant, or the Complainant’s licensor or licensee of the Mark, or to a competitor of the Complainant or the licensee or licensor for valuable consideration in excess of the Registrant’s actual costs in registering the domain name, or acquiring the Registration; (b) the Registrant registered the domain name or acquired the Registration in order to prevent the Complainant, or the Complainant’s licensor or licensee of the Mark, from registering the Mark as a domain name, provided that the Registrant, alone or in concert with one or more additional persons has engaged in a pattern of registering domain names in order to prevent persons who have Rights in Marks from registering the Marks as domain names; or (c) the Registrant registered the domain name or acquired the Registration primarily for the purpose of disrupting the business of the Complainant, or the Complainant’s licensor or licensee of the Mark, who is a competitor of the Registrant. I would say with a fair degree of certainty that in his role at the time of registry as Alberta Liberal Communication Director, Cournoyer is a competitor to Ed Stelmach and could be clearly construed as registering the domain in bad faith. One is tempted to apply the even easier standard of (b), since Cournoyer quite clearly registered edstelmach.ca only because Stelmach had not already done so. However, it has to be part of a pattern. Some argument including the Ontario Liberals temporary cybersquatting of a domain named after Mike Harris, and last year's case of a Michael Ignatieff campaigner being forced to cease cybersquatting against one of Harris' former staff members. As I said, easily Stelmach's biggest trump card is the "bad faith" provisions. Cournoyer's defense might include this section on "legitimate interests": Legitimate Interests. The Registrant has a legitimate interest in a domain name if, and only if, before the receipt by the Registrant of notice from or on behalf of the Complainant that a Complaint was submitted: (a) the domain name was a Mark, the Registrant used the Mark in good faith and the Registrant had Rights in the Mark; (b) the Registrant used the domain name in Canada in good faith in association with any wares, services or business and the domain name was clearly descriptive in Canada in the English or French language of: (i) the character or quality of the wares, services or business; (ii) the conditions of, or the persons employed in, production of the wares, performance of the services or operation of the business; or (iii) the place of origin of the wares, services or business; (c) the Registrant used the domain name in Canada in good faith in association with any wares, services or business and the domain name was understood in Canada to be the generic name thereof in any language; (d) the Registrant used the domain name in Canada in good faith in association with a non-commercial activity including, without limitation, criticism, review or news reporting; (e) the domain name comprised the legal name of the Registrant or was a name, surname or other reference by which the Registrant was commonly identified; or (f) the domain name was the geographical name of the location of the Registrant’s non-commercial activity or place of business. In paragraphs 3.6 (b), (c), and (d) “use” by the Registrants includes, but is not limited to, use to identify a web site. Cournoyer's defense would likely be (d), particularly since the redirect of edstelmach.ca to Harry Strom's Wikipedia page -- the previous redirect to Daveberta would violate this section. If Stelmach's lawyers filed before the change of redirect, this would also preclude a defense under "legitimate interests". Finally, the section on "Onus" makes Stelmach's job a little harder, but still eminantly do-able: 4.1 Onus. To succeed in the Proceeding, the Complainant must prove, on a balance of probabilities, that: (a) the Registrant’s dot-ca domain name is Confusingly Similar to a Mark in which the Complainant had Rights prior to the date of registration of the domain name and continues to have such Rights; and (b) the Registrant has registered the domain name in bad faith as described in paragraph 3.7; and the Complainant must provide some evidence that: (c) the Registrant has no legitimate interest in the domain name as described in paragraph 3.6. Even if the Complainant proves (a) and (b) and provides some evidence of (c), the Registrant will succeed in the Proceeding if the Registrant proves, on a balance of probabilities, that the Registrant has a legitimate interest in the domain name as described in paragraph 3.6. The legitimate interest has to come to the forefront. Cournoyer might walk away from this unscathed. But on a first read-through, it looks like Stelmach will win this in the long haul -- at least in the courts. Of course, as this post's title implies, I don't care which of these idiotic liberals wins or loses. Banish both of them to Ontario for all I care. Daveberta is now upset over Neil Waugh's observation that he's a Liberal staffer. From Waugh's article: Now here's where it gets trickier. Cournoyer was an employee of the Liberals when Stelmach's lawyer's letter arrived. "He was our communications co-ordinator and was working on our web communications," Leblanc confirmed. In other words the Grits' head computer geek. So who was he doing his blogging for? "I won't say we sanctioned it or didn't sanction it," sniffed Leblanc, not exactly coming clean. "It's just one of the realities of Internet campaigning." I'm left pondering the comment I made to this post of mine where I theorized about the validity of Cournoyer's complaints about "being a 24 year old bankrupt University student" -- the implication that somehow being (temporarily) financially poor while killing time for a long graft-filled career witht he Liberal Party makes any stunts or offenses unpunishable. Now there has to be an honesty aspect, along with the validity aspect, to this claim. Again, pace Waugh: It would have been just another prank by a student from the University of Alberta's loonie-left political science department, but Dave Cournoyer isn't some obscure fat frat boy with a sticky-up haircut. Until Dec. 31 he was the "communications co-ordinator" for the Alberta Liberal Party, the same Alberta Liberals who believe they have cornered the market in ethics and moral superiority. Anyone who has been around politics knows what edstelmach.ca was really all about, although Liberal executive director Kieran Leblanc hotly denied it. The note still is made: Cournoyer kept sound-biting the struggle as being "some young kid with no money versus the all-powerful ruler of the Albertan domain" when in fact this is the leader of one liberal party fighting back against questionable practises (see below) of an official with a competing liberal party. Not the stuff of glorious "David vs. Goliath" puns. Finally, I think its time to attack another dubious claim by the Liberals and their former staffers: Though I am still surprised that the +150 staffed Public Affairs Bureau failed to complete the simple task of registering a $14.00 domain name, I am even more surprised that Premier Ed Stelmach’s first reaction in this situation was to threaten to sue an 24-year old blogger and debt ridden University of Alberta student. This time I would like to address the first point, where the link is located. Is it really just a "simple task of registering a $14.00 domain name?" www.davecournoyer.com - English musician www.davecournoyer.ca - Links back to Daveberta www.daveberta.ca - Links back to Daveberta www.dave_cournoyer.com - Still available www.davecournoyer.ab.ca - Still available www.davidcournoyer.com - Still available www.daveberta.com - Taken by a cybersquatter www.dave-cournoyer.com - Still available www.davecournoyer.org - Still available www.davecornoyer.com - Still available www.davecournoyerlib.com - Still available www.davecournoyerpchater.com - Still available While you may argue that some of these are a little obscure, that's not necessarily the point. The reason that rules against cybersquatting are in place is because there are so many obscure names. I might be able to get around to registering www.faclc.com and www.faclc.ca and a few others, but the end result is still that there are lots of hyphenated or misspelled or suffixed domains that somebody can take. Dave Cournoyer took one. A website is a parking space on the web, as it were, and if the Premier's parking space wasn't switched from "Ralph Klein" to "Ed Stelmach" in time, it would hardly be considered normal for Daveberta to swoop in with a labelmaker and claim it for himself. The last thing we need on the Net is more bad adresses. There are dozens of ways for Daveberta to express his opinions without changing the street signs. Feynman and Coulter's Love Child said... Oddly enough, while my reading of the CIRA policies and the personal experiences of some Daveberta commenters supports my thesis, a current CIRA official claims otherwise in the Edmonton Journal. Anybody wanna see if you can dig up some Liberal Party ties? Janke? SDA? 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__label__cc	0.717684	0.282316	Federal Court Rules that Federal Reserve Cannot Be the Banksters Bitch Over Swipe Fees U.S. District Judge Richard Leon just ruled that the Federal Reserve's rules on debit card swipe fees are too bank friendly and ignore the statutory requirements of Dodd-Frank: The Federal Reserve disregarded Congress’s intent when deciding how much banks can charge merchants for debit-card transactions, a judge ruled, rejecting Dodd-Frank-imposed regulations governing “swipe” fees. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington ruled today that the Fed didn’t have the authority to set a 21-cent cap on debit-card transactions. Leon said the rule, which has been in effect since October 2011, would remain in place pending new regulations or interim standards. “The Board has clearly disregarded Congress’s statutory intent by inappropriately inflating all debit card transaction fees by billions of dollars and failing to provide merchants with multiple unaffiliated networks for each debit card transaction,” Leon said in his 58-page ruling. The groups, in a lawsuit filed in November 2011, said merchants will be “substantially harmed” by the fees the Fed set under the Durbin Amendment, a provision of the Dodd-Frank legislation. The rule went into effect on Oct. 1, 2011. “The board’s final rule permits banks to recover significantly more costs than permitted by the plain language of the Durbin Amendment and deprives plaintiffs of the benefits of the statute’s anti-exclusivity provisions,” the retailers argued in their complaint. What? The law is not friendly enough to the banks, and so the Fed draws up regulations ignoring the law? I am so (not) surprised. Posted by Matthew Saroff at 9:39 PM 0 comments Links to this post Labels: Corruption , Finance , Justice , regulation The NSA Spying Gets Worse Now we have XKeyscore, which "collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'." A top secret National Security Agency program allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals, according to documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The NSA boasts in training materials that the program, called XKeyscore, is its "widest-reaching" system for developing intelligence from the internet. The latest revelations will add to the intense public and congressional debate around the extent of NSA surveillance programs. They come as senior intelligence officials testify to the Senate judiciary committee on Wednesday, releasing classified documents in response to the Guardian's earlier stories on bulk collection of phone records and Fisa surveillance court oversight. The files shed light on one of Snowden's most controversial statements, made in his first video interview published by the Guardian on June 10. "I, sitting at my desk," said Snowden, could "wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge or even the president, if I had a personal email". US officials vehemently denied this specific claim. Mike Rogers, the Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee, said of Snowden's assertion: "He's lying. It's impossible for him to do what he was saying he could do." But training materials for XKeyscore detail how analysts can use it and other systems to mine enormous agency databases by filling in a simple on-screen form giving only a broad justification for the search. The request is not reviewed by a court or any NSA personnel before it is processed. So, either Rep. Rogers knowingly lied, or he was lied to by the state security apparatus. Yeah, it just keeps getting worse, and there is more to come, at least that is what Senator Ron Wyden said yesterday when he said that, "U.S. intelligence agencies’ violations of court orders on surveillance of Americans is worse than the government is letting on," which means that even with a incredibly compliant FISA Court (You need to keep them away from toilet paper, because they will sign anything), they be bothered to follow the "law". Labels: Communications , Corruption , Intelligence , Internet Even HarvarIf Even Harvard’s Own Law Firm is More Loyal to Bain, How Can You Get Good Legal Advice? (Naked Capitalism) If you really want to understand what’s going on here, the Austrian you need to read isn’t Friedrich Hayek or Ludwig von Mises, it’s Sigmund Freud. (Paul Krugman on why the austerity fetishists continue to ignore what is actually going on in the real world) The completely bogus shortage of technical people that requires us to expand H1B and related programs? (Business Insider) The U.S. International Trade Commission takes baby steps against patent trolls. (Daily Tech) Retta on stereotypes on Conan: Posted by Matthew Saroff at 6:03 AM 0 comments Links to this post Labels: Linkage What Ezra Klein Said He notes that when pundits talk about "the center", they are endorsing a radical agenda that is overwhelmingly opposed outside the beltway: Martin’s article doesn’t define “the center.” But it’s not the center of public opinion. It’s more a reference to an amorphous Washington consensus. Insofar as that concept ever made sense, the idea was that it’s the legislative center, the zone of compromise where things can actually get done. But even that concept has begun to break down in recent years, as that Washington center — what you might call the “Simpson-Bowles center” — no longer holds any weight in Congress. When you’re judging policy, “good” and “bad” are descriptions that make sense. So are “popular” and “unpopular,” and “likely to pass” and “no chance.” But “the center”? It’s time to retire that one, or at least come up with a more rigorous definition of what we mean when we use it. Labels: Good Writing , Philosophy , Politics How Torture Comes Home, Part 55 We now have a report that the CIA is hemorrhaging because its management sucks: For the Central Intelligence Agency, he was a catch: an American citizen who had grown up overseas, was fluent in Mandarin and had a master's degree in his field. He was working in Silicon Valley, but after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, he wanted to serve his country. The analyst, who declined to be named to shield his association with the CIA, was hired in 2005 into the agency's Directorate of Intelligence, where he was assigned to dig into Chinese politics. He said he was dismayed to discover that unimpressive managers wielded incredible power and suffered no consequences for mistakes. Departments were run like fiefdoms, he said, and "very nasty internecine battles" were a fixture. By 2009, he had left the CIA. He now does a similar job for the U.S. military. CIA officials often assert that while the spy agency's failures are known, its successes are hidden. But the clandestine organization celebrated for finding Osama bin Laden has been viewed by many of its own people as a place beset by bad management, where misjudgments by senior officials go unpunished, according to internal CIA documents and interviews with more than 20 former officers. So, how does this relate to torturers? Because the torturers are people who are not that good at their jobs. If they were good, they wouldn't have to break the law to create the illusion of results. (A quick Google shows that torture does not work) Of course, between the torture fetishists of Bush and His Evil Minions™, and the torture apologists of Obama and His Evil Minions™, torture has become a ticket that you need to punch to advance in "the agency". So, because successive White Houses have institutionalized torture, they have also institutionalized incompetent agents who become incompetent managers who are fearful that their lack of ability will be exposed. We have incentivized torture, incompetence, and corruption for people who want to have intelligence as a career path. Labels: Corruption , Crimes Against Humanity , employment , Intelligence , Torture This is Beyond Orwell's Wildest Imaginings In his seminal work 1984, he coined the idiom, "We've always been at war with Eastasia." Well, Obama and His Evil Minions™ have done this one better, and they claim that the list of people that we are at war with is classified: Back in May, we noted the oddity of the charges in Bradley Manning's trial, in which he was accused of aiding three different "enemies," with the last one being classified. Specifically, he was accused of aiding Al-Qaida, Al-Qaida of the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP, which is different than AQ itself) and... mystery enemy. Back at the beginning of July, the government quietly dropped the charge against the classified enemy, so that's no longer in play in that case. That said, apparently this concept of classifying who we're at war with wasn't just limited to the Manning trial. ProPublica has the ridiculous and frightening tale of finding out that the answer to the simple question of who the US is at war with, is apparently classified as well. At a hearing in May, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., asked the Defense Department to provide him with a current list of Al Qaeda affiliates. The Pentagon responded – but Levin’s office told ProPublica they aren’t allowed to share it. Kathleen Long, a spokeswoman for Levin, would say only that the department’s “answer included the information requested.” The Pentagon also went on to tell ProPublica that revealing who we're actually at war with would do "serious damage to national security." The main reason? They think those groups would use the info as good publicity and allow them to recruit more.……… If the UK were to hook up a generator to the grave of Eric Arthur Blair, they could power all of Europe, because he is surely spinning in his grave at unbelievable speed. Labels: Barack Obama , Corruption , Evil , Intelligence , Secrecy , War It has been reported that Cumulus Media, the 2nd largest radio conglomerate in America, will not renew their contracts with Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. Oh please make this happen. (Politico) Louisiana police are arresting people under an anti-sodomy law declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court a decade ago. (Insert Louisiana joke here) (Think Progress) Lawmakers Who Upheld NSA Phone Spying Received Double the Defense Industry Cash. Least surprising news of the day. (Wired.com) Robert Khuzami, the former chief of enforcement at the SEC has, just joined a major Wall Street Lawfirm for some serious bank. Back end bribery. (POGO) Pic of the day: Why conservatives hate New York City Bike Share: Going to Lunch, and It Was On the Radio Bradley Manning was acquitted of the most serious charge, Aiding the Enemy. I do not think that Manning "won", because I expect him to get at least 20 years, but Barack Obama, and the US state security apparatus lost. They means that the American people had a sort of a win, though. Labels: Heroism , Intelligence , Justice , Military , Secrecy One of the Worst of the Blue Dogs Gets a Free Pass Bill Halter, who nearly defeated the despicable Blanche Lincoln in the 2010 Arkansas Democratic Primary, has decided to withdraw from the race for Governor, leaving the race to one of the Dlue Doggingist of the Blue Dogs, Mike Ross. It appears that the proximate cause is anemic fund raising. My guess is that this is payback from the Clintons, who have not "gotten over" his challenge to Lincoln. (She would have lost anyway, the polls were clear on that.) Posted by Matthew Saroff at 11:39 PM 0 comments Links to this post Labels: Campaign Finance , Elections , Politics More Adventures of the New Party of Jefferson Davis Paul Krugman notes that the current attempts by Congressional Republicans to use the threat of a government shutdown to roll back Obanmacare mirrors the actions of the South when they tried to destroy the United States. You see, Marco Rubio is now claiming that Obama wants to shut down government because he will not end his health care plan. As Krugman notes, Lincoln nailed this at his Cooper Union speech over 150 years ago: Under all these circumstances, do you really feel yourselves justified to break up this Government unless such a court decision as yours is, shall be at once submitted to as a conclusive and final rule of political action? But you will not abide the election of a Republican president! In that supposed event, you say, you will destroy the Union; and then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, "Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!" To be sure, what the robber demanded of me - my money - was my own; and I had a clear right to keep it; but it was no more my own than my vote is my own; and the threat of death to me, to extort my money, and the threat of destruction to the Union, to extort my vote, can scarcely be distinguished in principle. The party of Lincoln has become the party of Jefferson Davis. Labels: Congress , Evil , Good Writing , Healthcare , Legislation , Politics A New Definition of Chutzpah……… Yes, John Pike, infamous as the Pepper Spray cop in Berkeley, who subsequently became a meme, and is now a poster boy for the banality of evil, has now filed for workmans' comp: The former UC police officer who was internationally condemned for pepper-spraying demonstrators at UC Davis is seeking workers' compensation, saying he suffered psychiatric injury as a result of the November 2011 incident. John Pike has a settlement conference set for Aug. 13 in Sacramento, according to the state Department of Industrial Relations' website and an Associated Press report. Pike was fired in July 2012, eight months after a task force investigation found that his action was unwarranted. I'm beginning to think that the only folks out there with a bigger sense of entitlement than Congressional Republicans Newt Gingrich are bad cops. Whenever the worm turns, and the scrutiny that they apply to others is applied to them, they employ every trick in the book to avoid justly deserved consequences. Labels: employment , Evil , Hypocrisy , Law Enforcement Misconduct , Protests The Joys of Children are Without Number We took Natalie to Camp Tizmoret Shoshana, a Jewish performing arts camp. It is at Capitol Camp, about 50 miles from home. So, we packed up in the morning, and drove her to camp. 100+ miles round trip, and then Sharon and Charlie had to get ready for their performances at Open Space Arts this afternoon. Only Natalie forgot a few things: her music theory notebook, Portman (her marionette), and her towels. Then, after the play, we get a text that she had also forgotten her asthma inhaler. So, instead of getting her stuff to her tomorrow, we had to go back tonight. So, back we went, another 2 hour round trip. At one point, we drove through a thunderstorm that felt like the apocalypse. We had zero visibility, and the almost constant lightning had the wipers strobing across the windshield. We are now headed back home (Sharon is driving), finally. I swear, Natalie would forget her own head if it weren't attached. Labels: family , Stupid , theater From the annals of unsurprising news, we discover that Rich people cheat more than poor people. (Naked Capitalism) What is worse than Larry Summers as Fed Chair? Tim Geithner. (Huffpo) Robert Khuzami, who studiously refused to enforce the law against big banks, gets a plush job from a law firm that represents the big banks. (POGO) Lawmakers who voted against restricting NSA spying got twice as much in campaign contributions than those who voted for the amendment. Libertarian Paradise: Posted by Matthew Saroff at 12:11 AM 0 comments Links to this post Labels: Campaign Finance , Civil Rights , Corruption , Finance , Funny , Linkage , Privacy , Snark , Sociology , Video Light Posting Tonight Lying down on a heating pad. My back is killing me. Sharon and Charlie had roles in Open Space Arts' Summer Playwrites Festival, and Natalie, who had a scheduling conflict this year, was working tech crew. OSA is a community theater in Reisterstown, and the festival had 7 one act plays. I filmed out for them. No blogging tonight as a result Posted via mobile. Labels: Entertainment , family , theater Why Eliot Spitzer must win the race for NYC Comptroller. (Hint: Unprecedented disclosures from private equity firms) Glenn Greenwald unloads on the defeat of NSA limits in Congress. Senate Democrats Ready Letter Urging Yellen as Fed Chief. (Reuters) Hating on Larry Summers. Scandal plagued East Ramopo School Board. (FalseMessiah.com) Seems out of my normal coverage, but this is what happens when religious extremist (Orthodox Jewish) voters take over a public school board and have no interest in public education: they loot it for the benefit of religious schools H/t Naked Capitalism for the pic. Eric Holder Will Sue Texas Under the Voting Rights Act He has announced that he will sue Texas under section 3C of the voting rights act. Basically, the Supreme Court invalidated the old list that was incorporated into the law when it was first passed (Section 5 4), but section 3, which can be invoked on the basis of specific actions by a state, can also require preclearance on voting changes. This has been invoked before, albeit briefly: The Obama administration moved to retain some oversight of the way states conduct elections after the Supreme Court invalidated part of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act, setting up a new fight with Republican governors. The legal strategy, announced by Attorney General Eric Holder Thursday, is directed initially at Texas' voting procedures, but it promises to have much broader impact: The action in Texas, Mr. Holder said, "will not be our last." Other states expected to receive Justice Department scrutiny include South Carolina, North Carolina and Alaska. On Thursday, the Justice Department asked a panel of judges in San Antonio to order continued scrutiny of the state's voting rules and operations, following the Supreme Court ruling in June that effectively nullified what had been a requirement for the state to seek federal approval of any changes. In an announcement that drew strong criticism from Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Republicans in other states, the attorney general said the Justice Department would invoke a little-used section of the law as a replacement measure for the one the Supreme Court struck down. In its decision, the court effectively voided Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act by ruling unconstitutional the formula the federal government used to identify jurisdictions that must receive its approval—a process called preclearance—before changing voting procedures. Now, Mr. Holder said, the Justice Department will use Section 3 of the law to try to keep Texas subject to preclearance. Under Section 5, certain states and counties with a history of discrimination against minority voters couldn't implement voting-rule changes without federal approval. Under Section 3, a court must first find evidence of intentional discrimination—a tougher test—before subjecting the jurisdiction to preclearance. In the Texas case filed late Thursday, Justice Department lawyers are seeking a 10-year preclearance period. In this case, the "tougher standard" is not so tough. There was already a finding of fact by a court a few months ago (under the now defunct section 5) that Texas was engaged in discrimination. I also think that discovery, when the DoJ computer forensics teams go through emails at the Texas state house, should be very interesting. Props to Eric Holder. (I cannot believe that I just wrote that) Labels: Bigotry , Civil Rights , Elections , Justice , Racism It's Jobless Thursday!!! Initial claims rose by 7K to 343,000, though the less volatile 4 week moving average fell by 1250, as did both continuing and extended claims. Generally, a decent set of numbers. Labels: Economy , employment , Recession Hopper Wins Which is good. If the networks had won, they would have tried to come up with a way to prevent people from going to the bathroom during the ads. But the courts have affirmed the right for viewers to use ad skipping technologies: A federal court decision Wednesday gave fresh support to a new technology that helps consumers avoid a basic irritant of television watching — the commercial. Dish’s Hopper service, which automatically removes advertisements before consumers view recorded shows, is the latest technology to worry broadcasters. These companies have long reaped profits from a practice that is as old as the television itself — forcing viewers to watch ads before they can see the rest of a show. But a growing slew of technology firms, from Amazon to Netflix, has roiled the industry by offering programs outside the traditional distribution channels that for years dictated what appeared on the living room television. For far less than what cable companies charge, these upstarts are giving consumers more control over what they watch and when they watch it, while enabling them to easily skip ads. Google, the owner of YouTube, became the latest to join this trend, unveiling a device on Wednesday that pumps online videos and other content directly into television sets. Such innovations have raised questions about how many Americans are actually viewing commercials these days and cast a shadow over a basic way that television funds itself. Digital video recorders have become so common that many consumers fast-forward through ads. With Dish’s Hopper, people can watch shows free of commercials shortly after they are broadcast live. Now that Hopper has received greater legal support, analysts expect cable companies, DVR providers and others who distribute television content to quickly offer similar services. While the business fallout from this is unclear, if it had gone the other way, it would have been incredibly ugly for the end users. I'm not reflexively supportive of technology, but the record in entertainment is clear: Not only do innovations benefit the end user, it also creates new revenues for the content providers. Labels: Entertainment , IP , Justice , technology Schadenfreude on 401(k) Plans Ian Ayres, a professor at Yale, has been reviewing 401(k) programs, and will publicize the really sucky plans that charge excessive fees: A Yale Law School professor is causing a ruckus among U.S. corporations with plans to publicize a study of employers' 401(k) plan costs. The professor, Ian Ayres, has sent about 6,000 letters to companies, saying he would disseminate the results of his study using Twitter, with separate hashtags for each company. Prof. Ayres has mailed out several different versions of the letter since June, and at least one said that he had identified an employer's 401(k) specifically "as a potential high-cost plan." He said that he and his research partner planned to publicize the results in spring 2014. Tri-City Electrical Contractors Inc., in Altamonte Springs, Fla., received one such letter on July 5. It said that the company's plan ranked worse than 77% of plans of comparable size based on total plan cost. "As a reminder, fiduciary duties are the most stringent imposed by the law, and require administrators to act solely in the interests of plan participants," continued the letter, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. The letters come as administrators of 401(k) plans have been under fire for what some workers and retirees say are excessive fees. Federal fee-disclosure rules went into effect last year requiring 401(k) administrators to better spell out the fees being charged to plan sponsors and participants. The problem is that there are a lot of 401(k) administrators who over-promise returns to justify inflated fees. Call me old fashioned, but I think that there should be (low) statutory limits on 401(k) and IRA because otherwise, the tax breaks are simply going straight into Wall Street's pockets (expense ratio is largely unrelated to plan returns). If you want to blow your money on a mutual fund manager who charges high fees, it's your business, until Uncle Sam starts supplying tax benefits, at which point, it becomes a matter for the public to discuss. Labels: Academe , Business , Corruption , Finance , Statistics Small Business Owners Are Complaining Because E-Verify Works, not Because it Doesn't The Wall Street Journal writes about the problems that employers are having with E-Verify, the online worker verification system run by the INS. The problem is not that the system is too buggy, its early problems have been ironed out, and it's not too expensive, it's free, no, for the small businesses interviewed, the problem is that works the way that it is supposed to: Since January, Daniel VanLoh has turned away nine new dishwashers and one line cook from his four Atlanta, Ga., restaurants within days of hiring them. The reason: Not one was authorized to work in the U.S., according to background checks he ran on the job applicants using a federal verification system, known as E-Verify. He says he's now struggling to fill six openings, with some job seekers simply walking away after hearing that the company uses the free, Internet-based system to check their immigration status. This is the way that this is supposed to work. Proper enforcement of worker verification is supposed to keep people who want to work illegally out of the job rolls. Here is the money quote: This month, Georgia required small employers to screen applicants with the system, a move that extended existing requirements for larger firms. At least 15 other states, including Arizona, Mississippi and South Carolina, have enacted laws in recent years requiring at least some, if not all, employers to run E-Verify checks on job applicants before hiring them. The laws don't require employers to check existing employees. Scott Whitehead, who operates an Atlanta landscaping service, began using E-Verify July 1. Over the past three weeks, he says he hasn't found a single authorized worker among more than 50 applicants at his metro area firm, Unlimited Landscaping & Turf Management Inc. "Every immigrant who walks through this door is illegal" according to the online check, says Mr. Whitehead, whose firm has more than 100 employees. He says the checks are shrinking the pool of applicants he's able to hire. As he struggles to fill openings, existing maintenance workers, most of whom he pays about $14 an hour, are demanding higher wages. Gee without the possibility of easily recruiting workers who are willing to live in immigration status enforced peonage, his workers are asking for more money. Hoocoodanode? BTW, Whitehead's solution is to engage in illegal discrimination: The system is also bringing anxieties about productivity, he says. To avoid running afoul of the new Georgia law, Mr. Whitehead plans to hire only U.S. citizens who clear the system, even though, in landscaping, he has found that immigrant workers are generally more productive. This is a violation of the civil rights law. You cannot discriminate against legal workers on the basis of immigration status. Unemployment is over seven percent, and if your crappy job cannot attract legal workers at a given wage, then raise the f%$#ing wage. Labels: employment , immigration , regulation , technology Even in Bankruptcy, Detroit Must Pay for a Millionaire's Toys Bankruptcy, Schmankruptcy, billionaire Mike Ilitch's new stadium must get its $450 million: When Detroit filed for what is the largest municipal bankruptcy in United States history, one of the items immediately placed on the potential chopping block was pensions for current retirees who had worked for the city. A pension shortfall accounts for $3.5 billion of the city's $18 billion in debt, and the city's emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, has called for "significant" pension cuts. But even with pensions possibly getting the axe – along with who knows what else in terms of services for the already downtrodden city, or even masterpieces at the Detroit Institute of Art – Detroit still seems ready to shell out hundreds of millions of dollars to help pay for a new arena for the National Hockey League's Detroit Red Wings……… This is not The Onion. Detroit is in bankruptcy (sort of, long story), but this billionaire has to get a shiny new stadium for his team. It buggers the mind. Labels: Budget , Corruption , Evil , Sports Fried chicken recipe. (New York Times) Oldest European cookbook found. (IO9) How Damon Runyon Would Have Explained Jon Corzine. (Brad Hicks) Scientific proof that cats are better than dogs. (Buzzfeed) Below is a recent video of the proto-Punk group Death. This group (some of the guys on stage in the vid are the sons of the original members) were from Detroit in the 1970s. They predated the Sex Pistols, and the Ramones, and the Dead Kennedys, and the Clash by a few years. As I've noted earlier, it does make you wonder how much the emergence of Punk was more of a societal trend than it was a Labels: Linkage , Recipes , Video We Lose The House has narrowly rejected an amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill to restrict NSA spying on Americans: U.S. lawmakers angry about domestic telephone record-collection lost an effort to curtail funding for the intelligence-gathering tools revealed by fugitive U.S. security contractor Edward Snowden. On a vote of 205-217, the House rejected an amendment that would have limited the National Security Agency’s ability to collect communications records. Implementation of the amendment could have created a new burden on telephone and Internet companies to retain bulk data, in addition to ending the NSA’s blanket collection of phone records. Those possibilities led the White House, Republicans leaders and many congressional Democrats to oppose the proposals, pitting them against lawmakers from both parties who champion civil liberties and privacy. The by-party tally is Democrats (111-83), and Republicans (94-134), a 5 vote margin, and it is almost certainly only because Obama started seriously twisting arms on the Dem side of the aisle in the past 48 hours or so. (My rep, John Sarbanes, voted yes). Hopefully, this is only the start of the fight, and the next time, the good guys will pick up a few more votes, and win. Labels: Civil Rights , Congress , Intelligence , Legislation , Privacy If the NYT really cared about keeping the newspaper business profitable they wouldn’t be calling for Anthony Weiner to get out of the Mayor’s race. Labels: Business , Funny , Good Writing , Media , Scandal , Sex Just When You Thought that Obama's Secrecy Fetish Could Not Get Any More Reprehensible……… I present to you the case of Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye, who was imprisoned at the demand of the US government because he revealed that it was a US drone strike, and not a Yemeni army attack, that killed 41 civilians in al-Majalla in 2009. His "trial" was condemned as a kangaroo court by numerous human rights group, and when the President of Yemen wanted to pardon him because of internal protests, Barack Obama personally called him to brow beat him into extending his detention. Well, Shaye has now been released, but the official wheels in the Obama administration continue to try to grind him to dust: News broke yesterday afternoon that, after a nearly three-year-long imprisonment, Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye had been released by the Yemeni government. Shaye's work drew international attention in 2009 when he reported on a U.S. airstrike in the Yemeni village of al-Majalla that killed 41 civilians. He also conducted multiple interviews with al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. U.S. officials, including the U.S. ambassador to Yemen, have told journalists that Shaye facilitated AQAP attacks, but his accounts of his arrest detail press intimidation by the Yemeni government, then still headed by Ali Abdullah Saleh, who resigned amid mass protests in November 2011. Shaye's five-year prison sentence has drawn criticism from Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the International Federation of Journalists, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and the Yemen-based Freedom Foundation. The U.S. government is still concerned about Shaye. Bernadette Meehan, a spokesperson for the National Security Council, told FP this morning by email, "We are concerned and disappointed by the early release of Abd-Ilah al-Shai, who was sentenced by a Yemeni court to five years in prison for his involvement with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula." Meehan did not comment on whether the United States advocated against his release. This is so repulsive on so many levels. Labels: Barack Obama , Corruption , Evil , Hypocrisy , Journalism , Middle East , Terrorism Damn It Feels Good To Be A Banksta Because as a bankster you can break into someone's house, and take all their stuff, and not only are not arrested, you don't have to pay them anything for this: An Ohio bank is refusing to reimburse a Vinton County woman whose house they unjustly repossessed while she was out of town. Katie Barnett recently returned home after being away for two weeks to find that the lock on her door had been changed. She crawled in through the window to find all of her stuff missing. Barnett suspected she had been robbed — and she wasn't too far off. It seems that, while Barnett was gone, the First National Bank of Wellston arrived at her place of residence, broke in, and took possession of all her belongings, including the house. Except, as it later turned out, they had the wrong address. "They told me that the GPS led them to my house," Barnett told 10TV. "My grass hadn’t been mowed and they just assumed." Phoning the local police to report the incident did Barnett little good, as the McArthur Police Chief refused to investigate and considered the case closed. But for Barnett, the ordeal is very much ongoing. With all of her stuff either sold off by the bank or thrashed, the homeowner presented the bank's president with an $18,000 estimate for restitution. He refused to pay up. "He got very firm with me and said, ‘We’re not paying you retail here, that’s just the way it is,’" Barnett recalled. "I did not tell them to come in my house and make me an offer. They took my stuff and I want it back." Seriously, will no one prosecute these rat bastards? They break into your house, they steal and trash all of your stuff, and when caught, they refuse to make you whole. I would suggest that Katie Barnett lawyer up, put a lien on the f%$#ing bank's HQ, and then start foreclosure proceedings. Labels: Corruption , Evil , Finance This is Joseph. He is a well known commodity forecaster. (Biblical commodities hedging from FT) The next financial weapon of mass destruction. (Reuters) PA Republican GOP Chair admits that voter ID is for partisan advantage. (TPM) No, the Komodo Dragon does not have a particularly dirty mouth. (NatGeo) Another thought on the Trayvon Martin murder: H/t DC at the Stellar Parthenon BBS. It Means that She Frightens Them……… Politico, the epitome of the mindless and soulless Washington, DC stupidity, has published a hit piece on Elizabeth Warren. They now see her as a threat. Labels: Congress , Heroism , Media A Patent Troll Bites the Dust One of the worst of the parasite, Eolas, has had its patents invalidated: The inventor of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee, had never testified in court before last year. In February 2012, he left Cambridge to fly down to Tyler, an East Texas city of about 100,000, to testify at a patent trial. It was the culmination of a bold campaign by a man named Michael Doyle to levy a vast patent tax on the modern web. Berners-Lee was one of several web pioneers who came through the court during the course of a four-day trial, which ultimately convinced a jury to invalidate two patents owned by Eolas, the tiny patent-holding company that Doyle and his lawyers transformed into one of the most fearsome "patent trolls" of all time. Now Eolas appears to be gone for good. The company mounted a lengthy appeal, but it was all for naught; this morning, a three-judge appeals panel affirmed the jury's verdict without comment. Pei-Yuan Wei created the pioneering Viola browser, a key piece of prior art, while he was a student at UC-Berkeley in the early 1990s. Scott Silvey, another UC-Berkeley student at that time, testified about a program he made called VPlot, which allowed users to rotate an image of an airplane using Wei's browser. VPlot and Viola were demonstrated to Sun Microsystems in May 1993, months before Doyle claimed to have conceived of his invention. Eolas claimed an tremendously broad patent on all forms of interactive web products. Why the f%$# has Eolas been able to blackmail people for so long? Labels: Corruption , Internet , IP , Patent Why Janet Yellen will not Become the Federal Reserve Chairman Because she has ovaries: The favored parlor game of the political-economic complex right now is guessing who will replace Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve. The clear front-runner is Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Janet Yellen. But she’s by no means a sure thing. One important reason she’s not — and I don’t know another way to say this — is sexism, as evidenced by the whispering campaign that’s emerged against her. The message isn’t always delivered in a whisper, of course. In May, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher suggested on CNBC that if Yellen is chosen, the pick will have been “driven by gender.” That’s more of a shouting campaign. Fisher hastened to add that Yellen is “extremely capable.” But, he said, “there are other capable people.” Capable people, I guess, who are male, and thus whose picks wouldn’t be driven by gender. But Fisher’s comments aren’t the sort that matter in this process. They’re too crude. The significant doubts about Yellen are transmitted with more subtlety, and for months they’ve been coursing through the cloistered, close fraternity that will drive the selection of Bernanke’s successor. If you look at the dynamics of the Obama administration and finance, at least under the auspices of (the now thankfully in private life) Timothy Geithner was contempt against those who lacked a Y chromosome. Notwithstanding the presence of Valerie Jarrett, the Obama administration has many of the aspects of an old boy's club, and even if you ignore the "boys" part, it is a club, and Larry Summers is most assuredly a part of that club, and Janet Yellen isn't. Labels: employment , Finance , regulation , White House Barack Obama Reveals that he is Black Barack Obama has spent pretty much all of his time on the national stage trying to avoid the accusation that he is the stereotypical "Angry Black Man", and so, with the brief exception (which he walked away from as quickly as he could) of a comment on the arrest of Henry Louis Gates. This is why Obama saying that 35 years ago that he would be Trayvon Martin was such a big deal: Barack Obama used an unexpected speech at the White House to personally address the debates over race relations that have convulsed America since George Zimmerman was acquitted over the shooting of the unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin. In remarks immediately interpreted as the most expansive comments on race since he became president, Obama said the US was still not "a post-racial society". "You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot I said that this could have been my son. Another way of saying that is: Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago," he said. But once again, it appears that Obama immediately followed this up by pandering to bigots racial profilers by floating the name of New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, who has aggressively profiled blacks, Hispanics, and Muslims: Earlier this week, President Barack Obama endorsed New York City police commissioner, and stop-and-frisk cheerleader, Ray Kelly as an adequate replacement for Janet Napolitano as head of the Department of Homeland Security. Under Kelly, the New York Police Department’s policy on randomly stopping people in the streets and then questioning and patting them down for weapons and drugs, imposed a stiff burden on black and Latino residents. According to the ACLU in New York, between 2002 and 2011, black and Latino New Yorkers made up close to 90 percent of those stopped by police — 88 percent of whom had no weapons or drugs on them when it happened. Kelly has staunchly defended the policy regardless of the racial profiling it codifies and its fruitless conclusions. But Obama told Univision on Wednesday that “Kelly has obviously done an extraordinary job in New York,” and that the police commissioner is “one of the best there is” — an “outstanding leader in New York.” “Mr. Kelly might be very happy where he is,” said Obama. “But if he’s not I’d want to know about it. ‘Cause, you know, obviously he’d be very well qualified for the job.” This endorsement seems tone deaf given the current conversations nationwide around national security. Kelly’s “extraordinary” work in New York City has led to the city council passing the Community Safety Act, which scales back the police’s ability to racially profile considerably. Kelly’s stop-and-frisk policy is being challenged in federal court by the Center for Constitutional Rights right now. Obama’s own Justice Department may be sending in a federal monitor to ensure that NYPD stops racial profiling. The following, questioning and apprehension of targeted black males is at the crux of the current debate around George Zimmerman’s killing Trayvon Martin. Also, you have to read the New York Times OP/Ed by Ta-Nehisi Coates: It was candidate Obama who in 2008 pledged to “ban racial profiling” on a federal level and work to have it prohibited on the state level. It was candidate Obama who told black people that if they voted they would get a new kind of politics. And it was State Senator Obama who understood that profiling was the antithesis of such politics. Those of us raising our boys in the wake of Trayvon, or beneath the eye of the Demographics Unit, cannot fathom how the president could forget this. Of course, the best argument against allowing Ray Kelly anywhere near law enforcement are the words of Ray Kelly, who, writing in (where else) The Wall Street Journal, where he engages in transparent lying to defend his career: Since 2002, the New York Police Department has taken tens of thousands of weapons off the street through proactive policing strategies. The effect this has had on the murder rate is staggering. In the 11 years before Mayor Michael Bloomberg took office, there were 13,212 murders in New York City. During the 11 years of his administration, there have been 5,849. That's 7,383 lives saved—and if history is a guide, they are largely the lives of young men of color. So far this year, murders are down 29% from the 50-year low achieved in 2012, and we've seen the fewest shootings in two decades. He knows that these numbers are reflected nationwide in any number of cities with all sorts of different sorts of police tactics. He knows these numbers, and the reason that he lies about this is because the only way that he can defend his contemptible policies is to misrepresent his numbers, and what they mean. Labels: Barack Obama , Bigotry , Hypocrisy , Race , White House It's a new feature for my blog. Basically stuff that I don't have anything about but, "KEWL!!!!" I'll be doing this whenever the f%$# I feel like it. When mushrooms ruled the earth. Durgin Park recipes for Baked Beans and Indian Pudding. (.doc file) (BTW, if anyone has a suggestion for a kosher replacement for pork fatback [for the baked beans] and for corn meal [for the Indian pudding] it would be appreciated. Why the rich are above the law. (Short version: our justice system is geared toward extracting plea bargains, and the rich have the resources to take it to trial.) We are currently fighting 74 different wars. (Old, but worth it) Labels: Linkage , Meta , Video Obama Continues to Spy on Ordinary Americans They just got a 3 month extension of its data drift net of Verizon, and one would assume everyone else too: The National Security Agency has been allowed to extend its dragnet of the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon through a court order issued by the secret court that oversees surveillance. In an unprecedented move prompted by the Guardian's disclosure in June of the NSA's indiscriminate collection of Verizon metadata, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has publicly revealed that the scheme has been extended yet again. The statement does not mention Verizon by name, nor make clear how long the extension lasts for, but it is likely to span a further three months in line with previous routine orders from the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (Fisa). The announcement flowed, the statement said, from the decision to declassify aspects of the metadata grab "in order to provide the public with a more thorough and balanced understanding of the program". According to Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein, the Verizon phone surveillance has been in place – updated every three months – for at least six years, and it is understood to have been applied to other telecoms giants as well. Not feeling hopey changey here. Labels: Civil Rights , Intelligence , Privacy What Yves Smith Said She makes a compelling case against Larry Summers being the next Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Basically, it comes down to the fact that he is a polarizing personality who refuses to listen to others: The big problem with Summers is not his record on deregulation (although that’s bad enough) or his foot-in-mouth remarks about women in math, or for suggesting that African countries would make for good toxic waste dumps. No, it’s his appalling record the one time he was in a leadership position, as president of Harvard. Summers was unquestionably the worst leader in Harvard’s history. Summers, unduly impressed with his own economic credentials, overruled two successive presidents of Harvard Management Corporation (the in-house fund management operation chock full of well qualified and paid money managers that invest the Harvard endowment). Not content to let the pros have all the fun, Summers insisted on gambling with the university’s operating funds, which are the monies that come in every year (tuition and board payments, government grants, the payments out of the endowment allotted to the annual budget). His risk-taking left the University with over $2 billion in losses and unwind costs and forced wide-spread budget cuts, even down to getting rid of hot breakfasts. So Summers couldn’t keep his ego out of the way, bullied the people around him, ignored the advice of not one but two presidents of Harvard Management, and left a smoldering pile of losses in his wake. And serious adults are prepared to allow someone with so little maturity and such misplaced self confidence to have major sway over much bigger economic decisions? Summers’ second big problem is the scandal that led to his ouster at Harvard, which was NOT the “women suck at elite math and sciences” remarks. The university has conveniently let that be assumed to be the proximate cause. In fact, it was Summers’ long-standing relationship with and protection of Andrei Schleifer, a Harvard economics professor, who was at the heart of a corruption scandal where he used his influential role on a Harvard contract advising on Russian privatization to enrich himself and his wife, his chief lieutenant Jonathan Hay, and other cronies. The US government sued Harvard for breach of contract and Shleifer and Hay for fraud and won. And yes, he was also hip deep in the ouster of Brooksley Born for her demands that derivatives be regulated. So, he doesn't listen, he alienates those around him, he is deeply involved in a massive corruption scandal, and he has been wrong on basically everything outside of academe. Given this record, I expect him to fail up into the Federal Reserve. Labels: Finance , regulation , Stupid , Wanker Why I Want Rush Holt and not Corey Booker to be the Next Senator from New Jersey Go Rush Holt! Rush Holt has proposed eliminating the tax cap on social security, which would keep the fund solvent until the sun burns down to a cinder. You won't hear this from Corey Booker, because he is owned by Wall Street, who is determined to get their hands on this money, so that they can generate fees. Labels: Congress , Elections , Politics , Social Safety Net , Video Helen Thomas Dead at 92 Link. While it was clear from her statements later in life, she was aggressively anti-Zionist, it should be noted that this was not her journalistic beat. On her beat, the White House, she was a pain in the ass to 10 successive administrations, which is what a reporter assigned to the White House is supposed to do. Labels: Journalism , Obituaries Johnny Cashing It Today Remember when I complained about ruining my shirt by leaving an uncapped pen in my pocket? My dad, who follows my blog, sent me a bunch of dark colored shirts, including a black dress shirt. Without thinking, I put on the black shirt today, and also grabbed a pair of black slacks. I got comments on my style sense from about 5 people at work, the best being, "Johnny Cashing it today?" I think that this is the closest that I have ever been to being fashionable in my life. Labels: 40yrs , employment , Fashion , Weird I Don't Give a Crap It has been reported that Britain's biggest welfare family is expecting their first child. Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, is reportedly in labo(u)r. To quote George Washington, "Let there be no Kings." Americans should not be following this news with baited breath. I can't wait to hear what Vonners, my (small R) republican British friend has to day about this. Labels: Breaking News , Europe , Wanker Gee, What Could Possibly Go Wrong? After all, the market solves everything, so the sale of the UK's primary blood plasma supplier to Bain Capital should work out just fine: The Government was tonight accused of gambling with the UK’s blood supply by selling the state-owned NHS plasma supplier to a US private equity firm. The Department of Health overlooked several healthcare or pharmaceutical firms and at least one blood plasma specialist before choosing to sell an 80 per cent stake in Plasma Resources UK to Bain Capital, the company co-founded by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, in a £230m deal. The Government will retain a 20 per stake and a share of potential future profits. PRUK has annual sales of around £110m and consists of two companies: it employs 200 people at Bio Products Laboratory (BPL) in Elstree, Hertfordshire, and more than 1,000 at DCI Biologicals Inc in the US. DCI collects plasma from American donors and sends it to BPL where it is separated into blood proteins, clotting factors and albumin for supply to NHS hospitals in the treatment of immune deficiencies, neurological diseases, and haemophilia. Considering the damage caused in the US because the American Red Cross (under the direction of Liddy Dole) and big pharma, both of whom resisted 100% testing for years,and killed tens of thousands of hemophiliacs in the United States, and many times that world wide, this does not fill em with confidence about the UK blood supply. Labels: Business , Disaster , Healthcare , Philosophy Silly Rabbit, Extradition is for Other Countries Robert Seldon Lady, the former CIA station chief in Rome, was arrested in Panama on an Italian warrant after he was convicted in absentia for kidnapping Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr and sending him to Egypt to be tortured. Less than 24 hours later, he was on his way back to the United States, free from any legal jeopardy: Former CIA Milan station chief Robert Seldon Lady, who was convicted in Italy of kidnapping an Egyptian Muslim cleric and recently arrested in Panama, is headed back to the United States, a State Department spokeswoman said on Friday. "It is my understanding that he is in fact either en route or back in the United States," said Marie Harf, a State Department spokeswoman. So he'll probably never face trial for this. In an interview, he invoked the good German defense: He was quoted as telling Il Giornale newspaper in 2009 that he was not guilty and was carrying out orders from his superiors. Just following orders. I thought that Nuremberg settled this matter. This is not supposed to be a valid defense. But don't worry, he has already suffered great punishment: Also in that interview, he said he had wanted to stay in Italy but his retirement villa with vineyards had been seized to cover court costs. Compare this to what is looking at Edward Snowden. Note also the case of Posada Carriles, who blow up a civilian airliner, but lives in safety in the United States. Labels: Crimes Against Humanity , Foreign Relations , Hypocrisy , Justice , Torture Bank Failure Friday on Sunday! We had the 10th credit union failure last Monday, Taupa Lithuanian Credit Union, the rate of bank and credit union failures certainly have been slowing down. Labels: Finance , regulation Deep Thought Labels: Deep Thoughts , Politics Went to Another Concert Tonight A band called Junior Doctor. They are doing an (I kid you not) living room tour, which is why out looks like they are playing in a living room. We drive across the Bay Bridge to Stevenville. Good music, and the bass player/keyboardist (Davey Hoogerwerf) was particularly impressive. His bass playing was insane. Because of the limitations of playing in a living room, the drummer, Jarrod Kearney, played a Cajón, the box like instrument that he is sitting on. Mark Hartman does lead vocals and rhythm guitar. It was (obviously) a very intimate setting. Natalie got a compliment on her song writing (she had shared some songs with then a few weeks back via Facebook). This had her going "SQUEEE!" All the easy home. Charlie got himself filmed by the band members once they saw his mad (Rubik's) cube skills. It was a good time for all, though there was a 45 minute hangup on the Bay Bridge going home because of an accident. Labels: family , Music At a Vort (Yiddish for engagement party) This is my nephew and his betrothed. Labels: family , Religion What Stefan Svallfors Said He has nominated Edward Snowden for the Nobel Peace Prize as a way for the Nobel committee to atone for giving the aware do Obama: In his letter addressed to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Stefan Svallfors praised Snowden for his“heroic effort at great personal cost.” He stated that by revealing the existence and the scale of the US surveillance programs, Snowden showed “individuals can stand up for fundamental rights and freedoms.” “This example is important because since the Nuremberg trials in 1945 has been clear that the slogan ‘I was just following orders’ is never claimed as an excuse for acts contrary to human rights and freedoms,” Professor Svallfors wrote. He emphasized that the decision to award the 2013 prize to Edward Snowden would also “help to save the Nobel Peace Prize from the disrepute incurred by the hasty and ill-conceived decision to award US President Barack Obama 2009 award.” Not being George W. Bush is an insufficient reason to give someone a f%$#ing Nobel f%$#ing Peace prize. Labels: Corruption , Foreign Relations , Hypocrisy , Secrecy Worst Constitutional Law Professor Ever So, a judge rules that guards grabbing the genitals of Guantánamo prisoners who want to talk to their lawyers is interfering with their right to counsel, so they are appealing: A federal appeals court is allowing Guantánamo guards to resume searching detainees’ genitals on their way to and from legal meetings while the Obama administration challenges a federal judge’s ruling that the searches unfairly impede attorney-client interaction. The order Wednesday by a three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit capped 24 hours of legal wrangling: The Justice Department asked a New York lawyer to let guards search her client’s genital area, the lawyer refused and the Southern Command’s top general joined the fray with a sworn declaration that a federal judge got it wrong. Groin searches aren’t intended to prevent legal meetings, said Southcom’s Marine Gen. John F. Kelly, noting that his Guantánamo soldiers similarly search captives meeting with Red Cross delegates. Past practice of shaking a captive’s trousers to see if “nails, shanks, ragged scraps of metal” fall out “posed an unacceptable risk to the safety and security of detainees and guards,” Kelly said. Last week, detainee lawyers persuaded U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth that the invasive searches, adopted amid a widespread hunger strike, were discouraging some of Guantánamo’s 166 captives from voluntarily leaving their cells for meetings with their lawyers. Lamberth ordered the guards to stop it, and resume the practice of physically shaking the waistband of the pants of a prisoner to see if any contraband comes out. In his ruling last week, Lamberth concluded that the motivation for the searches was not to enhance security but to deter the detainees’ access to attorneys by implementing search procedures that are “religiously and culturally abhorrent” to devout Muslims. Lamberth’s ruling had sought to reset the search procedures to an era before Latif’s death. The judge noted that there was no proof that Latif hid the drugs in his genital area. In London, detainee attorney Crider, who works for a non-profit law firm Reprieve, called the refusal to follow Lamberth’s order “contempt of court, pure and simple. Why is it suddenly essential for the government to grope my clients in a way that been off-limits for years?” I'm beginning to think that the Bush/Cheney regime of overt lawlessness is preferable to the protestations by Obama and His Evil Minions™ that they "respect" the rule of law and due process. Labels: Civil Rights , Corruption , Evil , Justice , Terrorism , War The Final word on George Zimmerman, Care of Alex Fraser Dear George Zimmerman, For the rest of your life you are now going to feel what its like to be a black man in America. You will feel people stare at you. Judging you for what you think are unfair reasons. You will lose out on getting jobs for something you feel is outside of your control. You will believe yourself to be an upstanding citizen and wonder why people choose to not see that. People will cross the street when they see you coming. They will call you hurtful names. It will drive you so insane some days that you'll want to scream at the top of your lungs. But you will have to wake up the next day, put on firm look and push through life. I bet you never thought that by shooting a black male you'd end up inheriting all of his struggles. Enjoy your "freedom." A black male who could've been Trayvon Martin From his Facebook page. Labels: Bigotry , Crimes , Good Writing , Race , Racism Those Whom the Gods Destroy, They First Make Weird(er) So, Michelle Bachmann is under investigation for campaign finance violations, one of her staff has been charged in petty thefts in other Congressional offices, and now its been revealed that aa Conservative Christian group mailed vibrator to Michele Bachmann: .Hundreds of pages of email and text message correspondence made public last week shed new light on the infighting and organizational disarray that have plagued America’s leading conservative Christian political consulting firm in recent months. As BuzzFeed reported in June, the Columbus-based Strategy Group for Media — which has represented dozens of tea party and religious right Republicans, including Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Michele Bachmann, and Newt Gingrich — has been mired in lawsuits and internal tumult since last spring, when seven of the firm’s managers staged a religious intervention with their CEO, Rex Elsass. After the managers made their demands in a dramatic meeting that culminated with them laying hands on their boss and praying for his soul, Elsass fired three of his top lieutenants, including his longtime protégé and Strategy Group President Nick Everhart. The series of emails and text messages, made public on the Franklin County Court website in the ongoing lawsuit between Everhart and Strategy Group, adds further detail to that meeting, and shows the extent to which the company’s managers were worried about Elsass’ psychological and spiritual health. They also reveal potentially embarrassing anecdotes for the company, including one incident in which an executive said Elsass accidentally mailed a “female pleasure machine” to Rep. Michele Bachmann. And an email thread from May 29 — after the three managers were fired — featured Strategy Group’s former voter-contact consultant P.J. Wenzel making reference to Elsass sending “female pleasure machines” to Bachmann. The emails don’t elaborate on the incident, but one person familiar with the story told BuzzFeed that Elsass had intended to give Bachmann a vibrating head massager to help alleviate her migraines, and that the employee he sent to buy the gift accidentally purchased something that more closely resembled a sex toy — and sent it to her office. Tyler said the item in question was purchased at Brookstone and was not a sex toy, but he declined to provide further information about the product. (Brookstone announced in 2011 that it had begun selling “pleasure objects.”) The person familiar with the story said the firm successfully retrieved the gift before Bachmann could open it. Seriously, have you noticed that when a political figure's career is in a death spiral, that there suddenly emerge a plethora of stories that are even weirder than before? By this benchmark, I think that Michelle Bachmann will be sent to Gitmo. Labels: Corruption , Politics , Schadenfreude , Weird If the Washington Post Were to Replace Richard Cohen with Pat Buchanan……… No one could tell the difference, except that Pat is a more interesting writer. So, it's OK to stalk a black boy in a hoodie because he's a black boy in a hoodie, just like when he said that it was OK for jewelers to refuse to allow black people into their stores. He also decided that the Polanski child rape was no big deal, basically because he likes Chinatown. (I would note that there are legitimate issues of judicial and prosecutorial misconduct, which are serious issues, but Cohen, and the almost as awful Anne Applebaum, are just horrible human beings.) I do not understand why Cohen is not sweeping floors for a living. Labels: Bigotry , Evil , Hypocrisy , Racism , Wanker Unloading on Florida After the Zimmerman Verdict The hosts of Comedy Central both unload with both barrels Oliver: A well deserved smackdown of a state that seem determined to elevate Carl Hiassen from novelist to documentarian. Labels: Bigotry , Funny , Justice , People I Do Not Want to Piss Off , Racism , Video Damn, This is Weird There have been rumors of a corruption investigation f Representative Michelle Bachmann for some time. Well, now a senior staffer of hers has been arrested for petty thefts from other Congressional offices. Have you ever noticed that just before a political figure is frog marched out of the building in handcuffs, their staff starts getting busted for the weirdest crap? Well, it looks like Bachmann is on the hit parade: That's Javier Sanchez back in June of this year with his then-boss, Michele Bachmann. [Not bothering with the picture here] They're headed for a closed briefing on the NSA disclosures. Javier Sanchez was a high-level legislative director for Michele Bachmann, assisting her with issues such as immigration reform, the farm bill, and her oxymoronic assignment to the House Intelligence Committee. On July 11, Mr. Sanchez was arrested on charges that he burglarized several offices belonging to other House members. From news reports, it appears that some thefts took place back in 2012 and others in 2013. It has been noted that, "Sanchez has been charged with Theft II," which is for amounts less than $1000.00. If this is the indicator that I think that it is, then Michelle Bachmann is toast. Labels: Congress , Corruption , Schadenfreude , Weird I Think that Carl Levin Just Suggested that Obama Fire James Clapper Seeing as how Levin is one of the most intelligence agency friendly Senators, so the fact that he is subtly suggesting that DNI Clapper be fired is a significant thing: Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) said Tuesday that he was “troubled” by the testimony of Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and was unsure how Clapper could be held accountable. The testimony prompted criticism from lawmakers and led to some calls for his resignation over the false testimony. Levin said he wouldn’t go that far but suggested that the only way Clapper could be held accountable was if President Obama fired him. “I’m troubled by that testimony, obviously,” Levin said at a breakfast roundtable hosted by The Christian Science Monitor. “How do you hold him accountable? I guess the only way to do that would be for the president to, somehow or other, fire him,” Levin added. “I think he’s made it clear that he regrets saying what he said. I don’t want to call on the president to fire him, although I’m troubled by this.” Actually, the distinguished gentleman from Michigan does want Clapper fired, he would not have brought it up, and then dismissed the suggestion, if he did not want Clapper gone. Labels: Congress , employment , Evil , Hypocrisy , Intelligence White supremacy: the idea that some black men must be killed with impunity to keep society at large safe. http://t.co/t6eK1WzL3D — The Nation (@thenation) July 14, 2013 Labels: Bigotry , Good Writing , Justice Not a Great Day for Jews It is Tisha B'Av, the 9th day of the Hebrew month Av, and a small subset of the nasty bits of Jewish history follows: The report of the spies from Canaan, resulting in the people of Israel spending 40 Years in the Desert. The destruction of the 1st Temple. The destruction of the 2nd Temple. The Romans razed Betar, killing 100,000 Jews. The Romans plowed the temple mount. The start of the 1st Crusade. (You see it as a coming together of Christendom. I see it as a pogrom with years of murder and rape.) The expulsion of Jews from England. The expulsion of Jews from France. The expulsion of Jews from Spain. Germany entered the WW I. (Can be legitimately claimed to have directly led to the Shoah) Formal approval of the "Final Solution" by the Nazis in 1941. Deportations to Treblinka from the Warsaw Ghetto begin in 1942. Excuse me while I find something sturdy to cover my head with. Labels: History , Religion The Commodities Futures Trading Commission could have instituted real and effective rules on swaps trades by doing nothing, but they caved to the banks, because the banks refused to prepare for the deadline: I’m going to be brief, in part because the CFTC’s probable demonstration of lack of gumption is still in play, while the SEC’s was expected but nevertheless appalling. But the bottom line is that even though we seem some intermittent signs of the officialdom recognizing that big banks remain a menace to the health and well-being to the general public, the measures to constrain them continue to be inadequate. As readers may recall, CFTC chairman Gary Gensler was in a position to stare down bank efforts to water down critical provisions of Dodd Frank on derivatives (see here for details of the issues at stake). The short version is that Gensler did not have the votes among his commissioners to support his position since the Administration had managed to appoint a bank stooge as one of the Democrats. However, Gensler controlled the agenda. That meant he had the option of not putting the matter to a vote of his fellow commissioners at all, which meant Dodd Frank would become effective as written (mind you, normally legislation does legitimately require some tweaking since the legislative language may be imprecise or not mesh well with existing rules). What appears to have forced Gensler to relent was not the CFTC politics, but bank refusal to prepare, which meant they could stamp their feet and say if Gensler did not back down, the markets would blow up and it would all be his fault. Read the rest, and you will not just be disgusted by the CFTC, you will want to replace the SEC with a trained monkey as well. Barack Obama Gets a Warning from Dianne Feinstein If there is one constant in the US Senate, it is that Dianne Feinstein is friendly to an expansive and intrusive state security apparatus. Thus her signing onto letter to Obama suggesting that his allowing the force feeding of prisoners at Guantanamo is illegal is a big deal: Dianne Feinstein and Dick Durbin sent Obama a letter yesterday, using Kessler’s [The Federal Judge who condemned the force feeding, but said that she had no standing to rule] ruling to connect the two explicitly. U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Gladys Kessler also expressed concern about the force-feeding of Guantanamo Bay detainees. The Court denied detainee Jihad Dhiab’s motion for a preliminary injunction to stop force-feeding due to lack of jurisdiction, but in her order, Judge Kessler noted that Dhiab has set out in great detail in his court filings “what appears to be a consensus that force-feeding of prisoners violates Article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) which prohibits torture or cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment.” The United States has ratified the ICCPR and is obligated to comply with its provisions. Judge Kessler also wrote, “it is perfectly clear from the statements of detainees, as well as the statements from the [medical] organizations just cited, that force-feeding is a painful, humiliating, and degrading process.” (emphasis added). The judge concluded by correctly pointing out that you, as Commander in Chief, have the authority to intercede on behalf of Dhiab, and other similarly-situated detainees at Guantanamo. The court wrote: “Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution provides that ‘[t]he President shall be the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States. …’ It would seem to follow, therefore, that the President of the United States, as Commander-in-Chief, has the authority—and power—to directly address the issue of force-feeding of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay.” Feinstein only by association makes the next part of her argument. We comply with these treaties by complying with our Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel or unusual punishment. And the government has long said that if we can do something elsewhere in a our gulag system, we can do it in Gitmo. Say what you will about DiFi (lord knows I’ve often said the same, where I thought it appropriate), but she has just told a President from her own party that he’s breaking the law. This is what you call a, "statement against interests." When DiFi is implying that your intelligence activities are over the top, you have jumped the shark. I would also note that the Snowden matter might very have something to do with this, she also sent a letter expressing concerns to SecDef Hagel about a month ago (about a week and a half after the Snowden revelations). The US state security apparatus still thinks that this will blow over, but even DiFi realizes that something has changed. *Full disclosure, her grandfather, Sam Goldman, and my great-grandfather, Harry Goldman, were brothers. Labels: Barack Obama , Congress , Crimes Against Humanity , Torture Back Loaded Bribery If you play ball with the monied people who want law and regulation structured to ensure that their wealth increases even more, then they reward you with lucrative jobs, like a high paid lobbyist, or, as in the case of Timothy "Eddie Haskell" Geithner, an absurdly lucrative speaking gig: During his tenure as Treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner was constantly dogged by the belief that he was spawned from Wall Street. This thinking was false: If you need a refresher, Geithner had actually spent most of his career in government, and none of it at a bank. When he left office this year, Geithner said that it would be "extremely unlikely" for that to change. But as it turns out, Geithner is now being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by massive financial organizations. It's just that he isn't being paid to work on Wall Street; he's just being paid to talk every now and then. The Financial Times reports that Geithner, like countless former public servants before him, has hit the highly lucrative speaking circuit. He's already made about $400,000 in just three engagements. And that tab is being footed by financial institutions such as Deutsche Bank and Blackstone, which paid him about $200,000 and up to $100,000, respectively. No one ever explicitly told Geithner that if he protected the banksters, he woud get a payoff, but this is explicit in Washington, DC's revolving door. He knew that he would get rewarded, and he has not been disabused of this belief. H/t Gaius Publius. Labels: Corruption , Finance , regulation , Wanker Bummer of a Birthmark, Boeing A Boeing 787 caught fire at Heathrow, though there are no indications that batteries are involved: Investigators classified the fire that broke out on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner parked at London's Heathrow airport as a "serious incident" but have found no evidence it was caused by the plane's batteries, Britain's Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said on Saturday. The question of whether the fire was connected to the batteries is crucial because the entire global fleet of Dreamliners, Boeing's groundbreaking new flagship jet, was grounded for three months this year due to battery-related problems. The AAIB designation fell just short of a full-blown "accident" on the scale it uses to describe investigations. The agency's preliminary probe is expected to take several days, opening up Boeing to more questions about its top-selling plane. When Boeing decided that it would be a good idea to outsource most of its expertise to "risk sharing partners", it was pretty much inevitable. As I noted 2 years ago in the case of Dell Computer, this is penny wise and pound foolish: So the decline of manufacturing in a region sets off a chain reaction. Once manufacturing is outsourced, process-engineering expertise can’t be maintained, since it depends on daily interactions with manufacturing. Without process-engineering capabilities, companies find it increasingly difficult to conduct advanced research on next-generation process technologies. Without the ability to develop such new processes, they find they can no longer develop new products. In the long term, then, an economy that lacks an infrastructure for advanced process engineering and manufacturing will lose its ability to innovate. Boeing's problems are further complicated by the fact that its partners did not have the time to develop the expertise to do the job right, so now we have a troubled airliner where the sum of the parts is less than the whole. Labels: Aviation , Business , Manufacturing , technology F%$# Florida George Zimmerman was acquitted of the murder of Trayvon Martin. The problem here is that the law, and quite honestly the whole governmental apparatus, of Florida is broken. Between stand your ground, and half-assed Sanford cops, my guess is that this was inevitable. Expect more people to be shot for being black in "stand your ground" states now. Labels: Corruption , Evil , Justice The rolling stones played their first gig in public. Feel old? I do. Labels: History , Music , Video Well Duh! The Washington Post notes that, "Lawmakers say administration’s lack of candor on surveillance weakens oversight." Gee, you think? Lawmakers tasked with overseeing national security policy say a pattern of misleading testimony by senior Obama administration officials has weakened Congress’s ability to rein in government surveillance. Members of Congress say officials have either denied the existence of a broad program that collects data on millions of Americans or, more commonly, made statements that left some lawmakers with the impression that the government was conducting only narrow, targeted surveillance operations. The most recent example came on March 12, when James R. Clapper, director of national intelligence, told the Senate Intelligence Committee that the government was not collecting information about millions of Americans. He later acknowledged that the statement was “erroneous” and apologized, citing a misunderstanding. "Misunderstanding," my ass. Clapper was given a day's notice that the question was going to be asked, and he was given an opportunity to further clarify immediately after the fact. He simply lied, because he knew that he could. Labels: Evil , Hypocrisy , Intelligence , Privacy , Stupid	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line14
__label__wiki	0.683674	0.683674	acuya, Harrier, kerflubble, killcarrion, Sebastian, wrestleryu, Yori Showdown '19: Mako "The Shark" Adachi (C) vs Daisuke Takeuchi: Tension World Title Match AFW :: Tension :: PPV :: Showdown Re: Showdown '19: Mako "The Shark" Adachi (C) vs Daisuke Takeuchi: Tension World Title Match by M.J.Caboose14 on Mon Jan 13, 2020 3:41 pm Mako was cocky by nature. Confidence coasted through her like blood in her veins. Hell it was probably even in her dna. No matter how much it affected her, she could never change that. Honestly, Mako knew it was a problem. But she still couldn’t stop herself. Right now, though, Mako really wished she could stop being cocky.... THWACK Although she couldn’t understand how, Mako would see Daisuke coming at her with one of the chairs she had chucked in earlier.. “Eh!? Princey isn’t that tough, is he?” the shark thought to herself. But it was far too late for her to stop him. “What the fu-UUCCKKKKK!!!“ the champ began to say before chair suddenly met skull. Mako ended up dropping backwards instantly from the blow to her head. At the very least, she was super lucky that the table had been set up a bit too far to the right for her to fall through it. However, landing on the floor hurt too. Mako ended up bouncing up briefly after landing on her back. Looking incredibly stunned, all the champ could do was stare up at the ceiling as she slowly began to remember everything, starting with her own name. Caboose's Friends List M.J.Caboose14 by Teenwrestler on Tue Jan 14, 2020 11:35 am The wrestling prince wasn't usually the type of person who would resort to chair shots when wrestling against anyone, especially against someone of the opposite gender. He always considered himself to be a graceful and technical grappler rather than a maniac using brute force or raw power to get over his matches. However, Mako was no normal opponent and he realized that from his many encounters with her and especially the last one they had in the ring. So, when the chance came begging, Daisuke would swing that chair and smack it against the head of the King to knock her off the ring apron and send her off the ring apron and down onto her back on the outside floor. She was lucky she didn't fall on the table she had set moments ago, otherwise the fall would have been much worse. Daisuke would soon join Mako on the outside, dropping down on the floor before proceeding to bend down and grab her by the hair, pulling her up on her feet. "This is what you want isn't it? Just you and me like caged animals?" he hissed. With that, Daisuke would attempt to wrap his arms around her waist and pull her up to deliver a spinebuster on the table that she had set up. Ami "The Supermodel" Takeuchi Daisuke 'The Wrestling Prince' Takeuchi Friction: Misaki Toyoda (Part-timer) Sakura Hagiwara Teenwrestler Location : Here ----> by M.J.Caboose14 on Tue Jan 14, 2020 2:29 pm Mako would let out a groan as Daisuke pulled her up by her hair. Although she was looking pretty out of it, the shark would still let out a slight laugh in response. "...Hell yeah..." Mako would say back to her opponent as if this all came naturally to her. Which of course, it did. Mako was a violent woman. Plain and simple. Giving or receiving didn't matter to her really. As long as things got rough she was happy. So since Daisuke was holding nothing back, the champ couldn't be happier. The challenger wasn't done, though. It looked like Daisuke's 'rough treatment' was only getting started as the wrestling prince suddenly hoisted the champ up before bringing her down through the table with a spine buster! The impact utterly shattered the table using Mako's body. Leaving the shark flat on her back as she held the back of her head with both arms. Despite the beating she was taking, Mako was still adamant that things were not as dire as they seemed. Sure the fans would probably be terrified seeing their champ getting wailed on. But that just meant they'd all be far more ecstatic when she turned things around! Needless to say the complete opposite was still possible and would pretty much crush the fans entirely. Which was why Mako had no intention of even thinking like that. If she let any stress get to her nerves, then the king would be in big trouble. But if she fought with her usual attitude, then Mako could take anyone down! "Aaack...fuck! Ugh...No hard feelings...but...I'm gonna really fuck you up...for that..." Mako would groan, albeit in a playful manner even if she was 100% serious about really fucking Daisuke up. Sure pounding on her like this is exactly what she wants during matches. But at the same time, these sorts of things only only encouraged her to raise the level of violence. In fact, she was already trying to think of a way to kick Daisuke through one of the steel walls they were trapped in. Impossible? Probably. Did that matter? Absolutely not. Mako would still try to do that no matter what! by Teenwrestler on Tue Jan 14, 2020 3:01 pm Despite the weird connection Daisuke had with Mako, he never understood her taste for violence. Sure, Daisuke enjoyed winning wrestling matches and putting others down by making them admit he was the best wrestler but he never enjoyed the violent side of wrestling that would transition them into fights rather than wrestling. For him, this was to be treated as a game of chess rather than a barbaric duel between two warriors. However, his last fight with Mako taught him if he were to beat the Shark he would have to stoop down to her level and beat her with an inch of her life. With that in mind he would slam her back through the table with a spinebuster that left the champ screaming in pain. "Hmph, I'd like to see you try Mako" he said in a cold response. Once more, he grabbed her by the hair to pull her up on her feet. "I never wanted this. This is what YOU wanted Mako" he would say dragging her towards the steel structure. The prince would then grab both of her hands and attempt to forcefully Irish Whip the Shark into the steel fence with as much force as he could. Mako had literally no clue this type of thing was only fun for her. Maybe it was because the prince, despite not enjoying excessive violence, was still pretty good at brutalizing her. Then again, it was probably because Mako was so dense that she didn't even have a clue about Daisuke's side of things. Even if he flat out told her, the champ would probably say he was 'playing hard to get' or 'denying his true feelings'. Then she'd probably start hitting him harder to make the guy admit it, then he'd get mad and hit her back harder, but since that's literally what she wanted, Mako would no doubt think she was right, etc...etc...etc... ...honestly it'd just be easier if they just kept fighting instead of even trying to get on the same page... So, without even taking notice of how cold Daisuke's voice was, the shark would groan as she was once again pulled back up. This time it took a bit longer since even Mako couldn't deal with tables that easy. Getting up slower would probably make her opponent impatient, but the same could be said about the champ. After all, she wanted to keep fighting more than him. While Daisuke just wanted to end this, she was dying for an insane brawl. Once she was on her feet, though, Mako seemed to sway a bit from side to side. Clearly she was a bit wobbly, but that didn't stop her defiance. "...Heh...well duh...why wouldn't I want this?" Mako laughed at the wrestling prince as he led her forwards a bit. She wasn't even close to regretting her choices, so at this point Daisuke was wasting his breathe. Soon Mako would find herself pulled suddenly, and it was clear he planned to slam her into the steel cage. Plus, being so close just meant it would hurt more. It only took a single second for her back to collide with the metal structure. Instantly feeling the wind getting knocked out of her, even Mako normally would've dropped flat on her face from such an impact. However, the cage actually bounced her back due to just how hard she had hit it. This caused her to take a few steps before collapsing on her knees with the side of her face smacking against her opponent's midsection. Normally this would be so hot for her. Sadly, these abs didn't belong to a woman. It was a shame, falling face first into a woman's abs was a fantasy of her's. Still, this gave her somewhat of a lucky break. Mustering her strength quickly, Mako would try to pull back her arms before trying to land a forearm strike to Daisuke's bread basket. Not that great of a counter, but it was a good enough start. Mako could definitely work with this... Despite all their time spent together, perhaps Daisuke didn't fully understand or get Mako all that well. She seemed like the person who would just love to fight, no hold barred, no strings attached and just an out and out fight. Clearly, things had worked out for her because she was the Tension world champion. He would then shake off these thoughts and focus on whats most important, taking that title from her waist onto his own. With that thought in mind, Daisuke would brutally whip Mako into the steel fence. The Shark's front would SMACK hard against the structure before she would wobble back and fall to her knees, her head leaning against Daisuke's abs. "Hmph! Is that it? Do you gi-Ouugghh why you" Daisuke would growl in anger when Mako would strike his lower half. This would anger the prince in so much that he would pull Mako up on her feet before wrapping his arms around her body and pulled her up in a bearhug position. He would give her firm squeeze before charging towards the ring post and attempting to drive her back into said post. by M.J.Caboose14 on Wed Jan 15, 2020 1:20 pm "Aaaack!!! Fuck...Fuck Daisuke! If you...wanted to crush on me...you should've...done it a while ago!" Mako barked out in pain. Still taunting her opponent even as he crushed her in his arms, the champ would squirm as much as she could. Legs kicking as she was held in the air, Mako would even try to pry Daisuke's arms off her. However, that wasn't working very well at all. Then, the wrestling prince would manage to charge forwards and drive the shark's back into the ring post! "GAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" she'd cry out as her spine collided with the hard post. Mako would feel her strength waver from such a collision, and she briefly went limp in her opponent's arms. This moment of weakness didn't last long, though. Regardless of how bad that hurt, Mako would force herself to start punching Daisuke's face as soon as she possibly could. While the prince proved his toughness when he recovered from that double knee drop so fast, Mako was doing that sort of thing all the time. So it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that the champ was already starting to smash her fist into Daisuke's face. Due to the punishment she'd taken so far, there was a brief pause in between every punch that Mako threw. At least for the moment, she had to muster up her strength before every strike. If she could just get out of this bear hug, then Mako could try to recover her stamina. by Teenwrestler on Wed Jan 15, 2020 2:18 pm He knew that Mako was one tough SOB and that there was no way she was ever going to submit to a plain bearhug. So, the prince decided to spice things up shortly after pulling her up and squeezing her. "Tsk, you still don't get it do you? This is just a big game to you isn't it?" he would growl in response to her taunting. Daisuke would then charge towards the steel post and RAM her back into the steel post which caused Mako to scream out loud in pain. This was an indication to the prince that he was on the right track and soon he would end victorious if he would keep this up. However, the tenacious Shark would show that she was as determined, if not more, as the prince. Right after her back was clattered against the post, she would begin to punch Daisuke's face. "Arghh, Oww" he moaned. Daisuke would squeeze her back harder before once again start a sprint, this time looking to drive her back into the steel cage door, attempting to drive her through the cage door and out of the steel structure. "RAAAUGHHH" he roared while he attempted this. by M.J.Caboose14 on Fri Jan 17, 2020 5:28 pm Daisuke's latest comment got Mako to notice his bad mood. However, noticing and caring were too entirely different things to the champ. "Well I guess I don't!" she'd shout back at her opponent before also muttering "...Moody bitch...", in an annoyed tone. This wasn't a request for Daisuke to explain what he meant, though. Nor was it an invitation to explain to her what she didn't understand. This was just Mako rejecting his words completely and continuing their fight. If there was in fact something pissing Daisuke off on a mental level, she didn't give a fuck. Nope. Not even one. This was a match. Only violence should be used to settle things between them. If Daisuke wanted to 'talk about his feelings' he had to wait till after one of them finished beating the fuck out of the other. With that in mind, Mako would let out a howl as Daisuke ran at the cage door and smashed into it while using her like a damned battering ram. The impact hurt just as much as when she'd been crushed against the ring post. The door moved a bit, but the chain keeping it locked wasn't exactly in danger of breaking. Still, this didn't help Mako very much since Daisuke wasn't letting go despite all of her struggling. By now her body was feeling heavy, and it was clear she was losing her strength at this point. Feeling weaker and weaker as this went on, Mako started going into a frenzy. Wrapping her left arm around her opponent's head, the shark would attempt to push herself up a bit while also putting pressure on his neck. That way she could start punching downwards wildly at Daisuke's head with a vengeance. Of course, by wrapping her arm around her opponent's head like this, she also forced her breasts right into his face. Oddly enough, this wasn't on purpose. Not even a little. Mako was far too focused on hitting Daisuke to actually notice she was smothering him. No one would believe this thanks to her long history of sexual hijinks, though. Besides...IF someone actually asked her about it later on, she'd probably lie and say that was totally on purpose. The wrestling prince couldn't understand his friend, how could she treat this so casually. It was a title match, in a hell in a cell and it seemed like she was enjoying it, like she enjoyed being put through so much pain. "Don't call me a bitch you crazy bitch" Daisuke hissed back at her before ramming her back first into the steel door, hoping to break it but the impact only shook the door but its hinges were still intact and the door remained closed. Mako would lean onto the prince, feeling heavy. "Just give up Mako" he whispered to her before starting to squeeze her again, continuing the bearhug submission. That is when Mako would start to counter, by wrapping one arm around his head and force it up into her chest while using the other to pound on the back of his head. "Mmrrghh?! Oowwmmfff...Uurughmmm" his moans were more muffled whilst he was being smothered. The prince's grip started to weaken and he would proceed to put Mako down on her feet.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line18
__label__cc	0.567462	0.432538	Home / Chinese Culture / Myths / General Yin / Text Fun history 2020-01-02 15:29:18 Yin General Wu Kong Yan Huaili Li Yang Bo Bodhi ancestor Li Shan Today's interesting history editor brings you the long lived fox king in " Journey to the West " why can you live so long? Interested readers can take a look with the editor. Friends who are familiar with "Journey to the West" should not be unfamiliar with this name, that is, Long Live Fox King. Exactly, this is not his name, but just what other people call him, but from this title, we Many things can be inferred. First, his actual age is over ten thousand years old, and second, he has a strong ability to dominate the king on one third of his acre. But he failed to live forever, and was eventually killed by others. So why is a pot of porridge so certain that he was killed by others, not the end of his life ? Here is a simple analysis. According to statistics, the lifespan of foxes is about 10-15 years. Although Journey to the West is a magic novel, Mr. Wu Chengen's writing is very cautious, so even if it is exaggerated, the theoretical lifespan of "Long live Fox King" will not exceed 342 years. (This age is the age of Sun Wukong in the book of life and death. Regardless of qualifications or breeds, this fox king cannot be compared with the monkeys born from heaven and earth, so this age is still estimated from Gaoli). However, "Long live Fox King" far exceeds this limit, reaching a lifetime of more than 10,000 years. This period of time can already be regarded as immortality. To achieve this level, there are two possibilities. The first possibility is that the relationship with the prefecture cannot be reversed, and the life limit can be added to the life and death book. That's what Li Shimin did. The other is to deter the entire land government by force, and there is no way for the land government to take him. Long live the fox king just dominates the king in his one acre, and demons elsewhere do not even know that such people exist. This shows that his ability is not very strong, and he can't use force to subdue the prefecture, so he can only use other means to close the relationship with the prefecture staff. His age can indicate that the prefecture has a very good relationship with him. However, Long Live Fox King eventually died, which shows that other forces have followed him, so that even the prefectural government did not dare to add his birthday to him without authorization. So who took the life of Long Live Fox King? In fact, Long Live Fox King has hinted that before his death, he told his daughter Jade- faced fox to quickly find a man. This man has two conditions. One is capable and can protect her. . One is loyal and honest, so as not to lie to her because she is greedy for her millions. Jade-faced fox As a result, the jade-faced fox really found it, and that was the Devil King. Mr. Wu Chengen's writing of this paragraph must not be a leisurely stroke. In contacting the main line of the entire Journey to the West, we can infer who killed the Long Live Fox King? The whole journey to the West is centered on this line. The one-third of an acre where the king is located is exactly on the route. The jade-faced fox king was looking for this husband, who happened to be at odds with Sun Wukong. Therefore, we have come to the conclusion that the man who killed Vive queen was the Buddhist sect. On the one hand, the site where Vive queen is located is located in Hezhou, Xiniu. It is in charge of Rulu to clean up a demon king and anyone. The Supreme Chief Jizo Bodhisattva is also a member of the Buddhism sect. In addition, killing the hooray fox king can force the jade fox to find the ox devil as a spouse, and pull the demon king who hates the scriptures into the water. Therefore, 81 difficulties, each difficulty has a causal relationship, rather than accidental encounters. Because of this, Tang Seng was arrested countless times without even losing a hair. • Why do black bear monsters like "Journey to the West" like 袈裟? But have no interest in Tang Seng? • Which fairy spells in Journey to the West are better than Sun Wukong? Who is the "strongest"? • The four long pills in Journey to the West! Sun Wukong ate three of them! • What is the final outcome of White Dragon Horse in Journey to the West? Become a "star" but lose your freedom! • There is a monster with special treatment in Journey to the West! Caught Tang Monk but was not punished in the end? • How many stitches are there in the Journey to the West? What is the name other than the gold hoop? • How was Shi Tuoling written in The Original Journey to the West? Why is this the darkest place? • What kind of person is King Che Chiguo in Journey to the West? Can only say that the thief is fine! • What are the backgrounds of the three monsters in Che Chiguo in Journey to the West? Why can the three monsters call the wind and rain? • What background does Liu Boqin have in Journey to the West? Why is Sun Wukong calling his elder brother? • What is the true identity of Liu Boqin in A Journey to the West? Why is he said to be an incarnation of Erlang? There are many heroes in ancient history. Have you heard the story of Yue Fei? There is a very powerful army in the Song Dynasty. Details Where did the "Five Hus" ethnic groups go during the "Five Hus"? It is a question that many people want? The following interesting history editor is for details. There are many heroes in ancient history. Have you heard the story of Zhu Yuanzhang? Because of the tyranny of the Yuan Dynasty, people have been going through details 9 Nine Greatest Gods of War in China's History	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line21
__label__wiki	0.544378	0.544378	[ Content \| Sidebar ] documentO @ Krowswork–Oakland, CA by Aaron Harbour on June 30, 2012 Entrance to Krowswork, with Carrie Hott's 'Blackout Means Black' all photos courtesy Krowswork Gallery 2012 Friday, June 22, 2012 saw the opening of DocumentO, an extremely ambitious project at Krowswork Gallery in Oakland, California. It was organized by its Director, Jasmine Moorhead. Operating under the guise of an unofficial satellite show to dOCUMENTA (13), the massive, 100-day exhibition held every five years in Kassel, Germany, the show at Krowswork is a brief (July 1 close) overview of the art scene in Oakland. It has been noted that ‘no one likes these things when they happen’, but judging by early reviews, dOCUMENTA’s main curator, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, has put together a stellar show. This is no small accomplishment given the potential for an enormous budget, coupled with a who’s who of international artists, to be eclipsed by the numerous biennials and international exhibitions dotting the calendar; not to mention the curator’s oversized personality and tendency toward bold, broad statements which could have easily overshadowed the exhibition, making dOCUMENTA’s mostly positive reception all the more surprising. For a thorough, informal, but critical review/walk through, see the three blog posts at http://blog.frieze.com/archive/) documentO found itself presaged by a bit of bold writing/framing by Moorhead, which localized Christov-Bakargiev’s theory about the current status of the artist as occupying a series of possible positions with art as sort of emergent phenomena: “What does it mean to be in a state of siege? What does it mean to be in a state of hope? What does it mean to be in withdrawal, in retreat? What do I do when I am onstage, when I am performing?” Moorhead draws parallels to Oakland with its perpetual ‘state of siege’, its situation as a model for America, and its artists as performing Oakland. I will expand on how the show addresses these concerns later, but what sticks out most at the preview is the shear number of artists included. There were fifty, yes, fifty, in the show, which led to cramped quarters at times. The other, less obvious observation is how eclectic they are. Many engage in practices far outside the discernible boundaries of Art Murmur or classic Oakland-based art. Many, too, have exhibited internationally and/or within the Bay Area’s larger institutions. While an interesting cross-section of the art scene, it lacked key attributes. First, space, in order to consider the individual works. Second, context to go along with the art beyond their titles, materials, et al. Within this very specific context, some pieces still managed to carve out space enough to be read, but, in general, little beyond immediate visceral aesthetic affect was offered. It may be a result of the work itself and curatorial decisions about placement, although the work appearing on the salon-style wall was not much more than a blur–no one piece was differentiated from the others. It could be they were victims of a deficiency (many were bland photographs), choices about display, or perhaps, more candidly, my own unwillingness to look closer. This contrasted greatly with the small room facing the entry where the works felt more individuated, creating a balance that worked, despite a tedious drawing by Dean Smith placed in the center of the room. Hillary Weidemann, 'Trying to Remember the Equatorial Sun' Confirmation bias, the tendency to see evidence which confirms previously held opinions, held sway on my review of the work. I found myself drawn to works/practices I was familiar with such as Hillary Wiedemann’s excellent Trying to Remember the Equatorial Sun. I especially remember the hours absorbing the futile struggle of a camcorder attempting to capture the sun, resulting in various colored artifacts becoming simultaneously tragic and funny. Also worthwhile among this grouping was the abstract work of John Davis and Suzy Poling which included two, similarly grainy films. There was much time-based media on display throughout the show, including Zarouhie Abdalian’s peculiar Drift, a film about debris outflow from the Mississippi. The details were so illegible that it felt like a sketch on a small screen. Also, Tooth and Moyah Pravah Newsreel’s hectic, 16 mm film, which would have benefited from a larger format (it was shown on a small screen as a video transfer), and Chris and Greg’s (Chris Vargas and Greg Youmans) silly take on the reality show ‘Work of Art’ where their versions of queer art are disparagingly critiqued by the show’s judges. A subtle video by Matthew Draving worked well on small screen. Its ambiguous content sat tilted in the frame with its mac top bar provided a sort of time and name signature and the introduction, for a brief second, the shadow of a hand, established and broke a second wall of sorts. As previously mentioned, familiarity with these artists and their work, I suspect, contributed to my preselection of the works I chose to review. Highlights from the rest of the show include Chris Fraser’s light installation in a corner of the pew room, a subtle variation on his practice investigating projected and estranged light. Two of the painters whose work I respond to, in part due to their medium/style’s lack of a need for context, were Steuart Pittman’s small Mansio Mens– three black geometric shapes and on a hazy background and John Zurier’s strikingly similarly concerned Jenny, a simple duo-chrome work. Their works complemented each other although they are from wildly disparate art worlds and generations–Zurier received his MFA not long after Pittman’s birth, and the juxtapositions fueled excitement. Kelly Lynn Jones’ Shelf from the Lifestyle Store, a collection of mocked objects (using what I often refer to as dumb trompe l’oeil and meant as a compliment), stood out well from the pack. So did Emma Spertus’s sculpture, fortunate enough to be situated outdoors. It was a foreshortened, ping-pong table/box object, providing relief from the main exhibition in its playfulness and serendipity. Less pleasing were Favianna Rodriguez’s posters Its My Body – It’s My Pussy I’m a Slut. Their content, confrontational counter-point to recent conservatist legislation, was forced, although, admittedly I dislike her illustration style. Emma Spertus, 'Tale of Two', 2012 The lack of context was especially awkward to some of the work by artist’s whose practice is deeply vested in a broader project. Two former Berkeley Art Museum Matrix artists, Desirée Holman and David Wilson, was a bit lost in the show with each represented by a singular drawing. Holman’s Flesh Texture (Diffuse Map), a strange color pencil drawing of a sort of flattened face was simply too weird without its video accompaniment, and David Wilson’s delicate illustration of various small plants feels precious and irrelevant separated from his broader practice which is made relevant by the shear breadth of his nature studies. Much of the show’s photography, particularly on a large salon-style wall, did not allow for individual impact, suggesting that some of these artists might benefit from placement in larger groupings or at the very least, explanatory text. In the end, my anticipation of what the show would be like matched what I saw in person. It was an ambitious, risky, exciting project which dared to present a vision of what Oakland art is. Its potential felt hemmed in by the complicated nature of its ambitions and a lack of space and/or editing. That assessment is a harsh one, because as a curator, I am unsure I could have done a better job of incorporating so many strains and subcultures of the Oakland scene. I imagine I would have’d be hemmed in by a too tightly wound aesthetic, and I don’t really subscribe to presenting (or viewing) art through a regionalist’s lens. The contradiction here is that Oakland is an especially vital place in the Bay Area, and potentially, in the broader art conversation. There are many incredible artists here, with more migrating every year for various educational opportunities and the wide array of cultural offerings. My feelings are best reflected in my agreement (and disagreement) with Moorhead’s statement for the show: Oakland has spent much of the last year in a state of siege. And before that, and before that. Oakland, this sprawling urban space, has never been any more or less under siege. Traveling around Oakland before, during and after the most visible aspects of Occupy, things are the same as they ever were, with people going to and from work and school semi-oblivious to what seem to those close to the matter life/game changing experiences and events. So, before that and before that, there was distrust in the local and broader government, general segregation-lite, creeping gentrification (of which the art spaces and artists which are multiplying here are the vanguard). Can an art show promote change, political or social in a way that denies either spectacle or commodity, or must it always operate as an ‘enemy from within’? Oakland right now is being asked to perform for the world. These artists, who either live or work in Oakland, are performing Oakland. Who is asking? This feels unresolved, our place within a broader art historical and contemporary context is something we create regardless of outside desire. We are not being asked, yet via our projects here and away we do perform Oakland, which is to say, we reflect in our general tone and wide ranging productions this place as peculiarly vital (especially given the lack of substantial institutional, fiscal, and state support). 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__label__cc	0.718924	0.281076	Eastern Conference Rookie Of The Month Trae Young’s impressive week started off with a career-high 36 points against the league’s scoring leader and his Houston Rockets. ...(Read more) Trae Young’s Ridiculous Week Ends With A Ridiculous Ejection David Astramskas \| March 4th, 2019 3,628 Views \| NBA Aka VincentDa & RedApples fka Expiredpineapples. My alter-ego is a digital-marketing guy in Houston. Won editing awards & created obsolete flash websites that have been featured in mags like Sports Illustrated. Studied film & women at FSU during the golden age of hip-hop. Collects records, laserdiscs, sports memorabilia & toys. Father of 2 daughters that are more athletic and popular on YouTube. Follow @David Astramskas Eastern Conference Rookie Of The Month Trae Young’s impressive week started off with a career-high 36 points against the league’s scoring leader and his Houston Rockets. As an encore, he tied his career-high and dished out 10 assists in a win against the Minnesota Timberwolves. Two night later, he put up a ridiculous 49 points, 16 assists and 8 boards during a 161-168 loss to the Chicago Bulls in quadruple overtime! On Sunday, Young had a shot at revenge against the Bulls. After 18 minutes, he was on pace for another 30-point double-double with 18 points (6 of 9 shooting) and 5 assists. Then the refs decided everyone was having too much fun and hit Young with a technical for staring at the back of Kris Dunn’s head after making a three. The tech was Young’s second, which meant his first career ejection in the NBA. “I didn’t say anything.” Said Young after the Hawks win. “It was just a look. I didn’t say anything…I got to live with it. They made a call. I looked at someone and that’s about it. “You play with energy, passion, emotion. For me, I was just having fun. That wasn’t the first time I looked at someone after I hit a shot. But he made the call.” As expected, the reactions on social media weren’t kind to the enforcers of the soft league that has people like me and Reggie Miller shaking our heads and reminiscing about his trash-talking days in the NBA. “What’s happened to my beloved NBA game?” Tweeted Miller. “So damn SOFT and SENSITIVE now, nooooo way Trae Young should be given a technical for this. I would have been broke and out of the league in 2 years. Let Ballers Ball.” Nick Young, who has been calling Trae Young the Rookie Of The Year throughout the week, also tweeted about the ejection. Haten my man was on his way to another 30 ball and they kick him out let that man be ROY — Nick Young (@NickSwagyPYoung) March 4, 2019 That’s weak as hell. Give @TheTraeYoung his money back https://t.co/QJnxcwjPbg — Allonzo Trier (@ISO_ZO) March 3, 2019 🗣PREACCCCHHHHH!!!!! https://t.co/02kRSYO7o4 — Baze (@24Bazemore) March 4, 2019 Anyways, let’s revisit the highlights from Young’s other games this week, including his historic 49, which made him the first rookie since The BIG O in 1961 with 40 points and 15 assists in a game. The performance was also Trae’s 4th game with 30 points and 10 assists; Only rookies with more are Oscar (24), Michael Jordan (5) and Steph Curry (5). 49 PTS vs BULLS 36 PTS vs WOLVES 36 PTS vs ROCKETS Show/Hide 0 Comments Tags: Trae Young	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line34
__label__wiki	0.569882	0.569882	Exodus, Chapter 1 Introduction to Exodus \| Chapter 2 Ex 1:1-22. INCREASE OF THE ISRAELITES. 1. Now these are the names--(See Ge 46:8-26). 7. children of Israel were fruitful--They were living in a land where, according to the testimony of an ancient author, mothers produced three and four sometimes at a birth; and a modern writer declares "the females in Egypt, as well among the human race as among animals, surpass all others in fruitfulness." To this natural circumstance must be added the fulfilment of the promise made to Abraham. 8. Now there arose up a new king--About sixty years after the death of Joseph a revolution took place--by which the old dynasty was overthrown, and upper and lower Egypt were united into one kingdom. Assuming that the king formerly reigned in Thebes, it is probable that he would know nothing about the Hebrews; and that, as foreigners and shepherds, the new government would, from the first, regard them with dislike and scorn. 9, 10. he said . . . Behold, the . . . children of Israel are more and mightier than we--They had risen to great prosperity--as during the lifetime of Joseph and his royal patron, they had, probably, enjoyed a free grant of the land. Their increase and prosperity were viewed with jealousy by the new government; and as Goshen lay between Egypt and Canaan, on the border of which latter country were a number of warlike tribes, it was perfectly conformable to the suggestions of worldly policy that they should enslave and maltreat them, through apprehension of their joining in any invasion by those foreign rovers. The new king, who neither knew the name nor cared for the services of Joseph, was either Amosis, or one of his immediate successors [OSBURN]. 11. Therefore they did set over them taskmasters--Having first obliged them, it is thought, to pay a ruinous rent and involved them in difficulties, that new government, in pursuance of its oppressive policy, degraded them to the condition of serfs--employing them exactly as the laboring people are in the present day (driven in companies or bands), in rearing the public works, with taskmasters, who anciently had sticks--now whips--to punish the indolent, or spur on the too languid. All public or royal buildings, in ancient Egypt, were built by captives; and on some of them was placed an inscription that no free citizen had been engaged In this servile employment. they built for Pharaoh treasure cities--These two store-places were in the land of Goshen; and being situated near a border liable to invasion, they were fortified cities (compare 2Ch 11:1-12:16). Pithom (Greek, Paturnos), lay on the eastern Pelusiac branch of the Nile, about twelve Roman miles from Heliopolis; and Raamses, called by the Septuagint Heroopolis, lay between the same branch of the Nile and the Bitter Lakes. These two fortified cities were situated, therefore, in the same valley; and the fortifications, which Pharaoh commanded to be built around both, had probably the same common object, of obstructing the entrance into Egypt, which this valley furnished the enemy from Asia [HENGSTENBERG]. 13, 14. The Egyptians . . . made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick--Ruins of great brick buildings are found in all parts of Egypt. The use of crude brick, baked in the sun, was universal in upper and lower Egypt, both for public and private buildings; all but the temples themselves were of crude brick. It is worthy of remark that more bricks bearing the name of Thothmes III, who is supposed to have been the king of Egypt at the time of the Exodus, have been discovered than of any other period [WILKINSON]. Parties of these brickmakers are seen depicted on the ancient monuments with "taskmasters," some standing, others in a sitting posture beside the laborers, with their uplifted sticks in their hands. 15. the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives--Two only were spoken to--either they were the heads of a large corporation [LABORDE], or, by tampering with these two, the king designed to terrify the rest into secret compliance with his wishes [CALVIN]. 16. if it be a son, then ye shall kill him--Opinions are divided, however, what was the method of destruction which the king did recommend. Some think that the "stools" were low seats on which these obstetric practitioners sat by the bedside of the Hebrew women; and that, as they might easily discover the sex, so, whenever a boy appeared, they were to strangle it, unknown to its parents; while others are of opinion that the "stools" were stone troughs, by the river side--into which, when the infants were washed, they were to be, as it were, accidentally dropped. 17. But the midwives feared God--Their faith inspired them with such courage as to risk their lives, by disobeying the mandate of a cruel tyrant; but it was blended with weakness, which made them shrink from speaking the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. 20, 21. God dealt well with the midwives--This represents God as rewarding them for telling a lie. This difficulty is wholly removed by a more correct translation. To "make" or "build up a house" in Hebrew idiom, means to have a numerous progeny. The passage then should be rendered thus: "God protected the midwives, and the people waxed very mighty; and because the midwives feared, the Hebrews grew and prospered." Introduction to Exodus \| Chapter 2	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line37
__label__cc	0.574611	0.425389	Parents Stand Strong, Planned Parenthood Holds Obscene Fundraisers by Linda Harvey, November 30, 2019 When I consider the long-term well-being of our children and what they are taught at school, my first thought always goes to pole-dancing. How about you? Planned Parenthood apparently thinks this way. A fundraiser called “Femme Fest” is being held in Olympia, Washington by the Northwest and Hawaii Planned Parenthood political action group, and it’s labeled a “sex education information” evening. The timing is ironic in relation to a recent school board vote in the nearby Battle Ground school district that rejected pornographic, pro-abortion “comprehensive sex education” via a curriculum called FLASH. These lessons funnel girl clients into Planned Parenthood clinics, but the surprising vote rejected this form of sex education. How did such a miracle happen? Parents Rights in Education, Southwest Washington State chapter, and other parent groups orchestrated a huge turnout by local churches. The Slavic/Russian community rallied for a protest in Olympia last spring, drawing more than 2,000 people, and much prayer and fasting along with meaningful dialogue with officials turned a predictably comfortable win by radicals into a thumbs-down loss. And Planned Parenthood is furious. They immediately scheduled meetings with the ACLU, a letter-writing campaign, strategy sessions and more in an attempt to quickly reclaim this territory. But first, they must do some pole-dancing. The event in Olympia on November 9 is for “all genders and ages.” An online announcement describes the event, which starts with a Pilates session but quickly deteriorates: 5-5:30 Sexy Floor Work Lesson 5:30 - 6 p.m.: The Art of Feminine Sensual Movement 6 - 6:30 p.m.: Clitoris and Pleasure Education with Planned Parenthood 6:30 - 7 p.m.: Sex Ed in Washington State Informational with Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest and Hawaii 7- 9 p.m. Wicked Sexy Pole Dance Showcase presented by Pole at Play The purpose is “an irreverently playful night of fundraising, fitness, sex talk, and exotic pole dance performances.” And of course, no sexual anarchy meeting is complete these days without making sure men dressed as women, or women dressed as men, are validated and welcomed: “The theme for the night is a reclamation of pleasure, and while we emphasize the Clitoris, we understand that not all folks who have marginalized sexualities have a Clitoris or are femme presenting.” These folks are probably concerned about their credibility and future involvement in schools because of the surprising sex ed defeat. And this is one of their solutions? It’s not the first time PP has gone full-porn in a fundraiser. “Summer, Sex and Spirits” fundraisers have been held by Planned Parenthood New York City, where VIP ticketholders received Butter Boy lubricant and pole dancing lessons. And PP never cleans up its act even when focusing on the need for youth sex education. A Bronx, NY school encouraged students to “Say It With A Condom” by designing dresses covered with condoms. This effort frequently partners with Planned Parenthood and adopted the “educational” theme, “Don’t eff with us, don’t eff without us.” Condom-covered dresses have been the centerpiece of several “Condom Couture” fundraisers in Central Ohio. In Minneapolis, a condom apparel fashion show was named “Ready or Hot: Fashion Meets Passion.” A title better describing the work of Planned Parenthood would be, “Sex Meets Death.” This is an organization that believes their recently-released obscene Q & A book, In Case You’re Curious: Questions about sex from young people with answers from the experts, is helpful to American kids. Like most of those promoting sexual promiscuity to youth, they firmly maintain their approach is “medically accurate” when addressing questions every teen has like, “Can you break a penis?” And let’s not forget Planned Parenthood’s YouTube video with advice for teens on sado-masochism as well as another that displays their despicable approach for adolescents about sexual “consent.” Go HERE to watch these explicit videos—on a website targeted to teens—with scenes of couples in bed, including several pairs of homosexuals. What does homosexuality have to do with Planned “parent”-hood? Good question. But the emerging reality is that this organization has an agenda of hyper-sexualization in all directions, and has quickly become one of the most aggressive and powerful “LGBT” lobbying groups in America. Planned Parenthood in SW Washington has marched in local “gay pride” parades and supported “drag queen” library events. What parents and school officials need to recognize is the truly harmful, misleading, medically inaccurate advice being given by Planned Parenthood, ending sometimes, as we know, in the approved and planned death of a human being. Like most of the left, these folks are determined to overcome the barriers of youth purity and innocence. The same agenda Satan has. What a coincidence! The wholesome American adolescent is an obstacle to these deeply depraved minds, and we need to take the blinders off to equip ourselves to appropriately contend against this mounting darkness. The parent groups in southwest Washington State, when asked how they achieved such a stunning victory in a very liberal climate, attributed their success to being on their knees to God because, “without His help, we knew we would not win this struggle.” Many people were praying for them as well. They also knew the objectionable FLASH curriculum inside and out so they knew its weaknesses, and they went one on one with board members with very productive dialogue. They also maintained a professional demeanor throughout. This is how we can win—prayer, research, hard work, and boldly standing for the truth. It’s time to do much more of what the Battle Ground School parents did—pray, fast, organize and recruit. And then be prepared to keep standing when a tidal wave of sewage from Planned Parenthood comes our way. We can win against these wicked people. We just have to get our heads, hearts and souls in the game. 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__label__cc	0.500665	0.499335	Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo Documents in the Archives of the Manly Art Gallery & Museum Curator Sarah Johnson has researched and documented the over 100 letters by and to Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo held by the Manly Art Gallery & Museum. They allow a new insight into the establishment and day-to-day business of the Gallery from 1925 to 1940s. They also give a closer view of Dattilo-Rubbo: a prolific writer of letters, often three or more in a week, and with impeccable English - his second language. Particularly interesting in this regard is Dattilo-Rubbo's letter from 18 June 1940 in which he writes about the enquiry about his political activities as a person of Italian origin. "Dear Mr Marriner, Owing to my school duties, I regret being unable to attend the next Monday meeting - and I hope that my absence may not cause any inconvenience in regard some likely questions relating to the present Exhibition. However I may inform you, that is is my desire that, after the Exhibition, my large picture by the title 'Betty' be a gift to the Gallery and I hope that other artists may do likewise to increase our collection in spite of our limited fund to purchase new works - You can communicate this note to your Council, in the hope that my offer will be accepted with full votes - A. Dattilo-Rubbo" Letter dated 4 April 1936 to Herbert Z Marriner, Honorary Secretary of the Manly Art Gallery The following chronological compilation gives a concise overview of the correspondence and is still currently under copyright. It has been reproduced here with permission given to the Manly Art Gallery & Museum, kindly by the Rubbo Family. ACC NO: D1091 DATE: 10 /03/1925 RA Penfold, Watson and Crane Ltd Brass Founders, Electro platers, importers. 373-375 Pitt street Sydney Works: Parramatta Rd Camperdown NSW Telephone: L 1438 ADDRESSEE: Mr Marriner, Woodland street Manly NSW ORIGIN: Sydney CONTENT: RE BRONZE FOUNDERS ROLL FOR MANLY ART GALLERY & HISTORICAL SOCIETY Concern over cost of bronze honour roll of Manly Art Gallery & Museum. During ceremony of inauguration (of gallery) mention made to Penfold that donation of roll made by a lady (individual unknown?). Penfold refers to negotiation of price with Rubbo and Mr Forsyth (individual unknown?) that roll was for committee and Penfold offered to provide at cost price to assist project. Committee would be £10. 10.0 shillings better off to take up offer. Author awaits reply from Mr Marriner. Additional signature (illegible) dated 20/4/25 AUTHOR: ANTONIO DATTILO-RUBBO, A Dattilo-Rubbo Art School, Hudson House, 15 Bligh Street City, Telephone: B5333 ADDRESSEE: MR MARRINER Re: BRONZE FOUNDERS ROLL FOR MANLY ART GALLERY: Response to letter from RA Penfold. Rubbo advises Mr Marriner the need for Mr Penfold to be informed that the gallery honour roll was donated by a lady and expenses were not known, she donated £20 for the roll’s construction. Rubbo explains Penfold was willing to offer discount on manufacture cost of £10 from the final price. Rubbo explains that Mr Forsythe can also verify this information. Rubbo asserts final cost needed to be known from Penfold and was informed not over £30. Rubbo advises if cost is more, it should be subject to a valuation. Rubbo wants the matter resolved by clearly stating; “ It surprises me and I don’t feel to discuss this matter with Mr Penfold any longer.” (Rubbo, 1925, p2) ORIGIN: Rubbo atelier, Sydney CONTENT: RESOLUTION OF PRICE ISSUE- MANLY ART GALLERY AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY HONOUR ROLL. Rubbo writes to Mr Marriner informing him of a meeting between Rubbo and Penfold regarding price of roll. Rubbo’s view changed and believes Penfold justified in questioning discount to roll when donated by an external person. The roll costs £30 (or 10 Guineas) with discount taken to twenty pounds. He is willing to give extras to value of 10 guineas if lady offers the balance of 10 pounds. Rubbo suggests resolving issue. “I would advise you to invite him to our meeting and let this matter settled in a very amicable way.” (Rubbo, 1925, p1) DATE: 25/ 04/ 1925 AUTHOR: Sydney Rubbo ADDRESSEE: Unknown, address 144 Addison Rd Manly ORIGIN: Manly, Sydney CONTENT: SYDNEY RUBBO PRIZE RECEIVED Response of thanks from Sydney Rubbo for congratulation and award for receiving a prize. (Details unknown) AUTHOR: RA Penfold ADDRESSEE: Mr Herbert R Marriner, Hon Secretary, Manly Art & Historical Committee, Woodland Street Manly ORIGIN: RA Penfold, Watson and Crane Ltd Brass Founders, Electro platers, importers. 373-375 Pitt street Sydney CONTENT: RE: MANLY ART GALLERY HONOUR ROLL Acknowledging payment of £36 and intention to send receipt for (roll?). “I am pleased that I have been of some little use to your committee in helping to cultivate the artistic in Manly.” (Penfold, 1925, p1). Positive send off and response from Penfold. Matter regarding cost of honour roll appears resolved. ORIGIN: Rubbo Art School, Sydney. CONTENT: DONATION OF ARTWORKS BY RUBBO TO MANLY ART GALLERY Offer by A Dattilo Rubbo of another artwork to Manly Art Gallery. First portrait of Rubbo done when living in Manly, which ‘to the opinion of experts is far better than the later ones I painted which I have sent to London.” (p1). The work appeared in the exhibition titled, 'father and son’ in 1923, later renamed to ‘Self Portrait’. Work was held onto by Rubbo’s wife. “Indeed I presented it to my wife who has kept this picture very jeoulousely (sic)- and always thought of it as the picture belonging to the family.” (4/3/30) CONTENT: RUBBO QUESTIONS TWO WORKS IN MANLY ART GALLERY COLLECTION RUBBO expresses disapproval of two works into the Manly historical collection questioning the value of the works and also that visitors do not know about the ‘two bodies’ of the collection- art and historical. Asks Marriner to contact him so Rubbo can ‘Explain better my point of view- my unbiased attitude in this matter.” (AD Rubbo, 1931, p2) CONTENT: RUBBO HAS BEEN BESTOWED WITH TITLE ‘CAVALIERE’ FROM ITALIAN GOVT Rubbo writes to Marriner returning tickets for an event, Rubbo is unable to attend due to teaching commitments four nights a week and every day (“except Sunday”). Reference to Miss Edwards taking picture, needs to return to Mr Marriner? When she is ‘back in town’. Rubbo requests that in future catalogues etc his full name ‘Cavaliere’ (pre fix Cav) accompany all reference to Rubbo “A recent title conferred upon me by the King of Italy”. Rubbo wishes Marriner all success with the evening event. NB: at top of letter Rubbo has hand written CAV at letterhead with FRAS (Fellow Royal Art Society) ORIGIN: Rubbo Art School, Sydney CONTENT: RUBBO REQUESTS MANLY ART GALLERY COMMITTEE MEETINGS TO CHANGE NIGHTS Rubbo sends apologies for inability to attend evening (committee meeting?), due to inclement weather. Rubbo in support of new proposed rules (for gallery?) and hopes they have been approved by committee. Rubbo under impression that night of committee meetings could be arranged to suit all committee members. Rubbo finds Monday nights difficult to attend, whereas he is generally free Wed, Fri or Sat nights. Rubbo would appreciate the change without inconveniencing other members. NB: Title CAV is featured in print on letterhead as permanent fixture. Also includes new after hours phone number. Y4747 (after 6pm) CONTENT: A SELECTION OF RUBBO WORKS DELIVERED TO MANLY ART GALLERY FOR CONSIDERATION INTO COLLECTION Society of Artists notified its members of sending pictures to Manly Art Gallery. Rubbo notifies of sending three works to the gallery, one of which to be left as a loan, unless committee objects. Rubbo would like to know the date of installation/hanging so he can arrange work to be free to “help as much as possible in this matter.”(Rubbo, 1936, p1) CONTENT: RUBBO’S INTENTIONS FOR WORK ‘BETTY’ TO BE GIFTED TO MANLY ART GALLERY Due to school commitments, Rubbo is unable to attend next committee meeting. Rubbo hopes absence does not cause inconvenience regarding ‘present’ exhibition. After the exhibition, Rubbo would like the artwork “Betty” to be a gift to the gallery and hopes that other artists may do the same to donate works in order to increase the collection, particularly due to limited budget to buy works for the collection. Rubbo would like this communicate to Council to accept offer with ‘full votes”. CONTENT: MANLY ART GALLERY COMMITTEE AGREES TO PURCHASE RUBBO WORK, ‘BOCCACCIO’. Rubbo responds to ‘unexpected resolution’ of committee communicated by Mr. Marriner in letter of 15th of the month (April) has “earned my deepest appreciation”. Following committee decision to purchase Rubbo work “Boccaccio” and addition of Rubbo’s name to the founder’s board of the gallery (est. 1924?). Rubbo encloses with letter a cheque for 10 guineas which “would fulfil my duty in an adequately practical fashion”. (Rubbo, 1936, p1) NB: Handwritten in pencil underneath Rubbo signature is note: “has receipt been sent?” CONTENT: RE: MANLY ART GALLERY ACQUISITION OF RUBBO ARTWORK, ‘BOCCACCIO’. Response of appreciation from committee to Rubbo’s gift to the gallery. Shall endeavour to attend next committee meeting. CONTENT: RE: REVIEW OF RUBBO ARTWORKS IN MANLY ART GALLERY COLLECTION. Rubbo expresses thoughts of ‘having a general review of the works in the possession of the Art gallery in order to eliminate the doubtful ones from the more suitable for the purpose of any? Art gallery. Rubbo would like to withdraw the watercolour “the son and model’/medal (?) and “exchange it with a watercolour of recent date”. Also, those works that don’t ‘find the unanimous approval of the art committee, to be handed to the Municipality-for any uses they wish.” (Rubbo, 1937, p1). In case of objections from donors, they can be returned ‘with thanks’. Rubbo advises that the selection be made prior to the catalogue being published. AUTHOR: Frances D Ellis, c/- 15 Bligh Street Sydney (Rubbo atelier) ADDRESSEE: Honorary Secretary, Manly Art Gallery ORIGIN: Bligh Street, Sydney. CONTENT: RE DONATION OF ELLIS ARTWORK TO MANLY ART GALLERY Letter from Ellis, wish to donate one of her watercolours to Manly Art Gallery following recommendation from Cav Dattilo Rubbo. Work is currently being exhibited at Water Colour Institute’s exhibition at Parkers. ADDRESSEE: Mr Herbert R Marriner, Hon Secretary, Manly Art & Historical Committee, Woodland Street Balgowlah/Manly CONTENT: RE: RUBBO ARTWORKS IN MANLY ART GALLERY COLLECTION. Response to previous letter from Marriner. Rubbo approves of conditions decided by Manly Council, regarding his collection of paintings, are acceptable to him. Rubbo hopes that when works are delivered that committee and council are justified for expenses incurred “in the extension of the building’. (Rubbo, 1939, p1) AUTHOR: Mr Herbert R Marriner, Hon Secretary, Manly Art & Historical Committee, Woodland Street Balgowlah/Manly (no name on bottom of letter). ADDRESSEE: MR LC Wellings, Town Clerk, Manly Council ORIGIN: Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney CONTENT: RE - RUBBO PAINTINGS IN MANLY ART GALLERY COLLECTION Letter in response to Wellings’ letter of 18th (March?). Copy of resolution passed in Manly council (to be forwarded to Rubbo). Rubbo’s response is quoted in the letter as; Conditions decided by Manly Council are acceptable. AUTHOR: ANTONIO DATTILO-RUBBO 45 Prince Albert Street Mosman (NB not on letterhead) ORIGIN: Mosman, Sydney CONTENT: STAND FOR SCULPTURE ‘VICTORY OF SAMOTHRACE’. Rubbo advises that the committee arrange a stand for the sculpture “Victory of Samothrace” which Rubbo intends to give to gallery. Rubbo advises he will bring into the gallery “as I consider it a good attraction to the gallery”. Advises stand to be of solid material and to source from auction rooms ‘it would be cheaper and more useful’. (Rubbo, 1939, p1) Rubbo gives dimensions and suggests a square or round base. (Editor’s note: This plaster cast and the Venus have all been donated to The National Art School, Sydney, where they are on display in the restored chapel- 2008). 45 Prince Albert Street Mosman (NB - not on letterhead) CONTENT: DONATION OF RUBBO ARTWORKS TO MANLY ART GALLERY COLLECTION. Rubbo unable to attend meeting on 23 Installation (date of month) due to another meeting. Rubbo asks to ‘obtain some lawful information in regard to my donation of pictures’. Rubbo expresses concern that in the event of his death, “and the pictures still in my possession, the gift is subject then to probates and valorem which would place my wife to a big expences”(sic). Rubbo seeks a letter from council asking for the storage of the works until “the gallery is ready to house them.” Requests that the statues be removed on any Saturday or Wednesday from his place after the ‘marine’ show is over- as “on these days I can call there at night and see that everything is ok”. (Rubbo, 1939, p1) 45 Prince Albert Street Mosman (NB not on letterhead), but with A Dattilo Rubbo Art School stamp CONTENT: CARRIAGE OF STATUES Rubbo writes to express concern about the delivery of statues to Manly. Ready for collection Monday 27 November 1939. Rubbo feels is unwise to use Anthony Hordern carriers as ‘general deliveries’ and not specialised to carry sculptures. Rubbo outlines that he had to engage a special carrier for the removal from town and ‘event then an accident happened’ and that damage would cost the committee. Rubbo hopes this is possible and can be available to oversee the delivery. Suggests a Manly carrier “and no less than two men to lift the Venus”(Rubbo, 1939, p1). ADDRESSEE: Mr Herbert R Marriner, Honorary Secretary, Manly Art & Historical Committee, Woodland Street Balgowlah/Manly CONTENT: DELIVERY OF PICTURES TO MANLY ART GALLERY Rubbo going away and needs to arrange delivery of pictures earlier on Monday, rather than Thursday. Working on a new list of pictures and reducing prices to lower insurance and “if some few subjects are missing, they have been replaced with later works”. (Rubbo, 1939, p1) Rubbo has also included pictures by other artists (continental) not in the list. Rubbo feels he has made a collection that the committee will approve of. Requests Marriner contact him by phone (XM4747) as not in town often over Xmas. DATE: Tuesday 27/12/1939 ORIGIN: Mosman Sydney CONTENT: DISCUSSION OF DONATION OF ARTWORKS TO MANLY ART GALLERY Rubbo apologises for not attending meeting due to the flu. Rubbo intends to come and talk again about the donation of works to the gallery and discussions of possible extensions to the gallery to house expanding collection. Rubbo suggests to be forwarded to meeting to ask permission of council to place honour board in a prominent position “as to direct people to the Manly Art Gallery in the same way as the national Art Gallery has done to the entrance of the Domain.” Rubbo notes that many people ask where the gallery and believes this is a good idea. “Wishing a prosperous new year to members and gallery.” (Rubbo, 1939, p1) ORIGIN: City atelier, Sydney CONTENT: LETTER FROM RUBBO WITH UPDATED NEWS FOR MR MARRINER. Miss Blaxland, ex Rubbo pupil, teacher of modelling at technical college, invited Rubbo to sit for a bust. Nearly completed and ‘a very successful work’. Rubbo suggests presenting it to the gallery as Blaxland not represented in collection. Rubbo would like committee and Marriner to see it before it is cast, and in bronze like finish. Blaxland has a studio 195 George Street opposite Port Jackson hotel, next to Nock and Kirby. (Number BW 5230). Marriner is to call before arriving. Other news in letter, Colonel Spain has a ‘nice collection of pictures’ “ and he is willing to donate us another one out of his collection – I am going to call at his home and see what I can match for us… do not leave the inspection of the bust too late. Yours ADR” (Rubbo, 1940, p1) Editor’s note: Donation Rubbo mentions is possibly the donation of the Tom Roberts’ ‘The Flower Sellers’ or other significant work in Spain’s Collection. AUTHOR: ANTONIO DATTILO-RUBBO, 45 Prince Albert Street Mosman CONTENT: RE INVESTIGATION AS ITALIAN AUSTRALIAN DURING WWII BY AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT Due to significance of letter, it has been quoted in its entirety. “After an unpleasant waiting for an enquiry about my political activities my innocence has proved, as usual, the protection of British Justice and am home a free and loyal subject of my adopted country which I love more than the one where, by accident, is born- I feared nothing and I may add, that my usual generosity and social life brought upon me the suspicion of disloyalty I believe through my Title, and then a donation to an Italian Club on one of my works and a monetary contribution towards expenses for furnishing it. That’s all, but nevertheless I don’t blame the authorities for the steps taken no matter how innocent it may have been. I shall be pleased to attend your meeting when called and talk matters over. In the hope that the dear friendship of all members of the committee has not been minimised, through an unpleasant incident, believe me. A Dattilo Rubbo.” (Rubbo, 1940, p1) AUTHOR: ANTONIO DATTILO-RUBBO, private address Mosman, 45 Prince Albert Street Mosman NSW ORIGIN: Sydney. A sad letter that resounds of the loss of his wife and a significant document announcing the end of Rubbo’s link to the gallery committee. Reference to donation of works to Manly Art Gallery following death of Rubbo’s wife and resignation from committee. “My dear friend Marriner, “I received your notice together with the information regarding your visit with the other two friends mentioned my latest gift of 30 pictures which my dear wife appropriated to herself on a mutual consent, that should she survived (sic) me, the works had to be added to my collection in our art gallery – unfortunately she has passed away, and true to our agreement, I see no reason to hold these pictures any longer- knowing that there is no wall space for them, I would suggest to rearrange the collection in my room with pictures you consider best- while others could be hanged anywhere where space is available in the big gallery- the art committee, of course, has a right to advise, and I cannot help, doubting their complacency and sincerity on this matter - In any case, they should be reminded that myself, with the enthusiastic cooperation of Mr Trennery, I was one of the most active worker to achieve what we have to day- they have come in at a “Fait accompli”- Is that enough?- Since the sad loss of my wife, I do not feel to be much the interested in the outside world! - I love the quietness of my home, avoiding, ironically speaking, the company of brother artists-socials etc- and therefore I have decided to resign from your committee- In due time I shall forward my resignation- I would suggest you the names of Merrs Murch or Townshend- both artists living in the vicinity of Manly – I may be wrong in my troubled mind, nevertheless I do not feel to be the same individual as before- accept my best wishes and believe me (This letter is Private to you). A Dattilo-Rubbo” (Rubbo, 1943, p1) AUTHOR: ANTONIO DATTILO-RUBBO private address Mosman, 45 Prince Albert Street Mosman NSW Less than a month after his moving letter to Marriner announcing his resignation from the gallery committee, Rubbo writes about the donation of further works to expand the gallery collection. Rubbo asks Mr. Marriner to convey to committee and Manly Council information regarding the collection of paintings donated by Rubbo to gallery. Rubbo wants to remind committee that initial list of donations was not complete at the time due to ‘the wanting of suitable works not available”. Ideal number of donated works was 100. Rubbo has 30 latest works “to select from to complete the collection, beside a suggestion of exchanging some of my older works with the latest ones.” Rubbo hopes there is no issue with the selection of works, to ensure”… a high standard of artworks”. (Rubbo, 1943, p1) ADDRESSEE: Mr Herbert R Marriner, Hon Secretary, Manly Art & Historical Committee CONTENT: A significant document announcing the resignation of Rubbo from the Manly Art Gallery committee due to ill health and other issues. Letter is quoted in its entirety. “Dear Mr Marriner For many years a member of the Committee of the Manly Art Gallery, after careful consideration, I feel to send my resignation owing to my ill health and other unexpected circumstances. I may add that, with rapid growing of this cultural and artistic institution, the members and assuming greater responsibility and, in consequence, I could not be absent from the meetings without failing in my duty- However, I may assure you my interest in the welfare of the gallery will never be relaxed and always ready and willing to assist if required- I thank your committee, yourself and Council for their valued help and Comradship (sic) shown towards me, and wishing increased success to the gallery I remain A Dattilo Rubbo” (Rubbo, 1943, p1) CONTENT: RE: NEW MEMBERS OF MANLY ART GALLERY COMMITEE Rubbo expresses concern that members of the committee are unavailable to attend regular meetings due to their commitments as artists and the War Effort. Rubbo suggests the creation of an art advisory committee “not less than three”, called when art works are proposed for donation or purchase. Rubbo refers to delivery of works to “Parkers George Street” as a convenient location works can be viewed. (Editor’s note: Parkers were the suppliers of art materials in Argyle Street The Rocks. All Sydney artists used them as framers as well). Rubbo also recommends new members of the committee being local citizens and “art lovers who may be of substantial help to the gallery.” (Rubbo, 1943, p1). Rubbo refers to the principle reason for leaving the gallery committee was inability to make meetings, however if committee constitution changed, “I would be willing to cooperate in the work as I have always done since the inception of the Manly Art Gallery”(Rubbo, 1943, p2). AUTHOR: ANTONIO DATTILO-RUBBO C/- Miss Moore, “Ellensville”, Camden NSW ORIGIN: Camden, Sydney. CONTENT: LETTER FROM RUBBO TO MARRINER REGARDING THE DONATION OF WORK ‘INSPIRATION’ BY FRANCIS WILLIAM SARGEANT. Rubbo indicates that the potential acquisition of work by Sargeant (that is still located outside the entry to Manly Art Gallery today). Significant in that it marks the beginning of a ‘public art’ program for the gallery and council. ORIGIN: Mosman, Sydney. CONTENT: RE: MANLY ART GALLERY COMMITTEE RULES Rubbo thanks Marriner for invitation to exhibition opening /anniversary night (20th anniversary) but is unable to attend. Reiterates his commitment to the Manly Art Gallery and hope for rule changes for committee as outlined in previous correspondence. CONTENT: RE: SIGNIFICANCE OF MANLY ART GALLERY A very interesting letter from Rubbo espousing the value of the gallery and frustration at the fact it is overlooked by members of the “Society of Artists”. “What I cannot explain in a few words – why this Society has always ignored the great achievement of Manly in the Art World-by having an Art Gallery unique in Australia, I cannot explain…I cannot show to the Society of Artists their neglect or injustice to the efforts of a good citizen as MrTrennery”(Town Clerk, integral in support and establishment of the gallery-Editor’s note)…. …In my opinion at least, such medal (awarded from the Society of Artists to outstanding art community members) should be given to the Manly Council as the only and first municipality in NSW to initiate an Art Gallery…. (Editor’s note: Broken Hill is officially the first and oldest regional art gallery in NSW established in 1904). …I would not let this matter drop before any enquiry and satisfactory reasons are given by this so called “Society of Artists”. You can keep the enclosed circular as they are of no use to me”(Rubbo, 1945, p2). Acc no: D1120.1 (additional information accompanying Rubbo letters) AUTHOR: Sydney Ure Smith, President, Society of Artists ADDRESSEE: Unknown CONTENT: RE: SOCIETY OF ARTS MEDAL A letter from Ure Smith, president of the SOA announcing Vida Lahey and Dr Roland Pope as winners of Society of Arts Medal. Letter outlines if not in agreement, objections must be given in writing by August 10 (year unknown). A letter from Ure Smith, president of the Society Of Artists announcing Vida Lahey and Dr Roland Pope as winners of Society of Arts Medal. Letter outlines if not in agreement, objections must be given in writing by August 10. AUTHOR: Frances D Ellis c/-, 45 Prince Albert Street, Mosman ADDRESSEE: Mr Marriner, Honorary Secretary, Manly Art Gallery CONTENT: RUBBO IN HOSPITAL, SEEKS OUTCOME OF GLEDHILL DONATION Rubbo in hospital, had an operation on Monday and son (Sydney) is currently here. Rubbo Anxious to know outcome of donation of Gledhill potrait. Rubbo is recovering, “to be kept quiet, without visitors, but is remarkably well and cheerful you will be pleased to know.” (Ellis, 1946, p1) CONTENT: RE: DONATION OF ARTWORKS TO MANLY ART GALLERY. Letter from Rubbo apologising for absence from dinner party due to illness. The dinner party of Mr P.S Garling, donor to Manly Art Gallery. Interesting reference to copies of old masters including Rubens that Garling donated or intended to donate to the gallery. Rubbo states in the letter, “No doubt he has been a very generous sympathiser, by his valuable gifts, even if the old masters mentioned in your letter, are copies of them- My remarks are based on one of the pictures you mentioned “Christ and his disciples at Emmaus” by Rubens- this work is on show at the Museum Del Prado in Madrid - and it would be liable to call it original as I have not seen the work…” (Rubbo, 1947, p1) Rubbo refers to another painting by Carraci (a copy) that he ‘cannot say much until I can see them- but I have a strong feeling to be the same as Rubens-“ (Rubbo, 1947, p1) Rubbo mentions a ‘potboiler painter’ who painted watercolours thirty years before and the need to know as much about Manly’s collection for future generations. Rubbo also re-iterates the importance of an extension to accommodate the expanding collection. Quoted from the letter; “There is a name which I am well acquainted with –Mr Henry Tebbit, a pot boiler painter in watercolours, engaged in contract work with a German dealer here, Mr Aldenhouen (spelling unclear) some thirty years ago- He spoiled the future of this man by making him painting(sic) landscapes from photos- and then sold them as masterpieces –in WaterColours. Poor Tebbit- finished on a pig’s farm for quarrelling with this dealer who was exploiting him- I hope that the gifted work is the best of this artist- I mentioned these facts known to me- in the interest of the gallery, so as to know as much as possible the history of our collection for the future generation-(sic) We need extension of our walls-which in its short existence of the Gallery, are already overcrowded, while our safe, I hope, will in the future, needs to be enlarged in the same ratio-“ (Rubbo, 1947, p1) CONTENT: Rubbo writes to Marriner having visited the gallery and seen the ‘Rubens’ works on exhibit. He stated “…I was very disappointed at Rubens which I consider is a very bad copy of its original- Even the technique does not show the method of this great Master-as for others, some are in the same way (unknown word) four exceptions and the entirely (sic) collection there is not one to be thought as original…” (Rubbo, 1948, p1) Rubbo writes about the further donation of his own artworks to the Manly Art Gallery. Rubbo’s intention to ‘have my best works in the Gallery collection, and monetary contribution by means of sale of minor pictures.” (Rubbo, 1948, p1) Rubbo requests that this proposition can be forwarded to the Municipal Council for approval. CONTENT: RE: RUBBO WORKS IN MANLY ART GALLERY COLLECTION Letter from Rubbo to Marriner, referring to visit yesterday (15 January 1948) from old female student (name unknown) enquiring about works of Rubbo’s withdrawn from Manly Art Gallery. Lady enquired about work titled “Rough Road” wishing to buy for 8 Guineas (Rubbo sought 10 Guineas, but accepted offer). With letter, Rubbo enclosed cheque for the Art Gallery funds. (No evidence of cheque remains with records here-ed). Rubbo requests that Marriner send the female buyer a copy of the ‘Catalogue’. Rubbo has not ‘start (sic) my enquiry for a future Exhibition of works, as I am not ready yet for the selection of works saleable to make the show a successful issue-“ (Rubbo, 1948, p1) CONTENT: DELIVERY OF ARTWORK, ‘THE POET PAUL GRANO’. Letter from Rubbo to Marriner detailing information of arrival of painting “The Poet Paul Grano” from Brisbane for delivery to Manly Municipal council. Rubbo details calling to Macquarie gallery, Bligh Street Sydney to enquire about an exhibition (of Rubbo’s works- unclear (edior's note), but disappointed booked up a year in advance. Macquarie gallery trying to shuffle exhibitions and Rubbo will let Marriner know the outcome. Rubbo also refers to the portrait of Mark Owen by Mr. Slade. (Context unknown) ADDRESSEE: Mr Trennery, Vice Chairman, Manly Art Gallery & Museum CONTENT: MANLY ART GALLERY SELECTION OF RUBBO ARTWORKS Letter from Rubbo to Trennery expressing sincere thanks for recent approval of exchange of Rubbo works in the collection. Rubbo intends to host another exhibition for sale of works to benefit gallery funds. Rubbo mentions that no promise has been made from Macquarie Gallery for exhibition except in August (1948 or 49- unclear) CONTENT: Letter from Rubbo to Marriner, having been unwell, has not seen the current exhibition on display at Macquarie Gallery. Rubbo advises Marriner to speak with Macquarie Gallery manager Miss Treania Smith, “to fix up financial matters and (word illegible-editor's note). to withdraw the pictures unsold- I am telling you that I am having an exhibition in Brisbane, early in April next, and I would like to include in the collection, if not sold, No 2, No 5 and 25 of the catalogue, to be for sale on your behalf. “ (Rubbo, 1949, p1) Rubbo needs confirmation from Marriner if he agrees to allow the unsold works to go to Brisbane and for potential sale for benefit of gallery. Rubbo affirms that this is for the benefit of the Manly Art Gallery and not personal gain. “It is to be understood that my suggestion is not made for personal interest, but purely to help the fund.” (Rubbo, 1949, p1) CONTENT: RE: CONDITION OF ARTWORKS IN MANLY ART GALLERY COLLECTION Letter from Rubbo to Marriner expressing concern about the return of artworks to the gallery will take more time due to the discovery of mildew on two of the paintings (specific works unknown). Rubbo is concerned about the outbreak, due to damp of humidity and suggests treatment with linseed or poppy seed oil to remove. Rubbo continues that the mildew could return in a worse form as the oil will grow rancid and encourage new growths to break out. “I am glad to have discovered it in time and capable of doing the work myself, which I could never be successful, if I had not the photographs of the pictures.” (Rubbo, 1949, p1) Rubbo needs time to treat these and repaint the works and wonders if the walls are damp (of his home in Mosman?- Editor’s note). He recommends a regular inspection of the works (every 8-10 years) by an expert ‘from the National Art Gallery”. Rubbo will advise when works are ready. CONTENT: RE: EXHIBITION OF RUBBO ARTWORKS AT DAVID JONES GALLERY, SYDNEY Letter from Rubbo to Mariner, advising of exhibition in September (1950?) at David Jones Art Gallery in Sydney “an historical exhibition of many years of art in Australia’. “The collection is to be organised by Mr Lloyd Rees-of the Society of Artists- I have been asked to contributed (sic) two pictures, a figure and a landscape of small dimensions- Unfortunately, I have nothing at present to show, and I would kindly ask you and Committee to be allowed a loan of two pictures from the Manly Art Gallery. No 40 Cat. “Se Froid” and a small landscape to be selected when I call there….” (Rubbo, 1959, p1) AUTHOR: G. Maselli, Labour Attache, Legazione D’Italia in Australia. 45 Ocean Avenue, Double Bay NSW: Telefoni FB 3639, FB 3689 ADDRESSEE: The Director, Manly Art Gallery, West Esplanade Reserve, Manly ORIGIN: Double Bay, Sydney. CONTENT: LOAN OF WORKS TO ITALIAN EXHIBITION IN NAPLES. Letter from G Masselli to Manly Art Gallery Director, following recent conversation with Rubbo regarding outline of organising “Prima Mostra Triennale del lavoro Italiano new Mondo” –First Triennial Exhibition of Italian Labour in the World.” Exhibition is scheduled from 15 May to 15 September 1952 in Naples, Italy. Being organised by the “Ente Autonomo Mostra d’Oltremare’ under auspices of Italian government, exhibition aims to show scope of Italians working abroad who have migrated and settled. Exhibition comprises 18 pavilions throughout Naples and includes an Australian and New Zealand and Pacific Island pavilion. “A section of the Australian Pavilion will be dedicated to Italian artists in Australia and their pupils. As, according to Mr Dattilo Rubbo, it appears that the Manly Art Gallery would be willing to kindly lend a certain number of work to the Exhibition, I wish to inform you that the Italian Legation would assume every responsibility for the packing and transport of the works of art in respect to their forwarding and return.”(Dr G Maselli, 1951, p1) AUTHOR: The Hon Secretary, Manly Art Gallery, West Esplanade, Manly NSW ADDRESSEE: N Simone, Consul General of Italy, Daking House, Rawson Place, Sydney. GPO Box 3675, Telef: MA 2106. Ind Tel. ItalConsul-Sydney. In reply please quote: B29/1 CONTENT: RE: EXHIBITION OF RUBBO ARTWORKS IN ITALY Dr Simone, asking for confirmation of whereabouts of artworks lent to the Italian exhibition, “Prima Mostra Triennale del lavoro Italiano new Mondo” so he can advise the committee. AUTHOR: N Simone, Consul General of Italy, Daking House, Rawson Place, Sydney. GPO Box 3675, Telef: MA 2106. Ind Tel. ItalConsul-Sydney. In reply please quote: B29/1o ADDRESSEE: The Hon Secretary, Manly Art Gallery, West Esplanade, Manly NSW ORIGIN: Rawson place, Sydney. CONTENT: EXHIBITION OF RUBBO ARTWORKS IN ITALY Letter from Consul General, N Simone to Marriner indicating that he has written to president of exhibition in Italy, forwarding copy of Marriner’s letter (content of that letter unknown). He will advise as soon as a response is made and apologises for the delay. NOTE: content unknown but given the fact it is four months after the closure of the Italian exhibition in Naples, it is suggested delay is return of works in the exhibition lent by Manly Art Gallery. Accession NO: D1158 AUTHOR: ANTONIO DATTILO-RUBBO, address not outlined ADDRESSEE: Mr Twigden, Hon Secretary Manly Art Gallery CONTENT: Re: REQUEST TO SOCIETY OF ARTISTS, SILVER MEDAL AWARD Rubbo considers wise to delay request and mentions ‘antagonism’ of Society of Artists ‘towards (Rubbo’s) suggestion of recognising the efforts of the Manly Council in favouring art” (Rubbo, 1953, p1). Rubbo notes that the catalogue and publications of the Manly Art Gallery committees show that members are from the Royal Art Society and not one member is from the Society of Artists, which may indicate the cause of the ‘antagonism’ Rubbo refers to. Rubbo states; “I never thought or enter (sic) my mind such situations, which as simple and un intentially is created, may be the cause of snubbing our Institution. Having the President of the Royal Art Society as Vice Patron and not the President of the Society of Artists- it may be felt a snobby (sic) in our side towards the Society of Artists- that “Presidency” may be the cause of the indifference displayed - I cannot suggest anything on such delicate situation-but, I do know the feeling of members of the Society of Artists-towards members of the Royal Art Society! Even myself I am not much trusted in the Society only because I was member of the Royal Art Society for over 25 years-“ AUTHOR: N Simone, Consul General of Italy, Daking House, Rawson Place, Sydney. GPO Box 3675, Telef: MA 2106. Ind Tel. ItalConsul-Sydney. Ref: B-29/1 Letter to Marriner advising that the President of the ‘Mostra Oltemare e del lavoro Italiano nel Mondo’ Prof Eng Luigi Tochetti, has requested Rubbo artworks to be held longer as “it has been decided to re-open an exhibition of Asian, African and Australian exhibits, the Art works of Maestro Dattilo Rubbo and those of the Manly Art Gallery, which were sent to the Naples exhibition would like to be kept for this purpose.” (Simone, 1953, p1) ADDRESSEE: N Simone, Consul General of Italy, Daking House, Rawson Place, Sydney. GPO Box 3675, Telef: MA 2106. Ind Tel. ItalConsul-Sydney. Letter to Consul General of Italy, Simone, that Manly Art Gallery Committee as approves of the artworks remaining on exhibition in Naples, as long as insurance is covered by the borrowers. AUTHOR: ANTONIO DATTILO-RUBBO, 45 Prince Albert Street, Mosman ADDRESSEE: Mr Twigden, Honorary Secretary, Manly Art Gallery CONTENT: RUBBO DECLINES INVITATION TO ART COMPETITION Rubbo received letter from Twigden dated 28 July 1953 and states that he has no intention to enter art competition (Editor’s Note: context unknown) CONTENT: RE COLLECTION OF RUBBO ARTWORK IN SOCIETY OF ARTISTS EXHIBITION Rubbo informs twigden, he is unable to collection artwork from exhibition at Society of Artists at specified time. Rubbo asks Twigden to collect portrait before noon on Tuesday (date unknown). Rubbo notes that Sunday 13 (October?) would be ideal to collect ‘cover canvas’ , Rubbo is unsure if this date is ideal as “owing to the two kids of my son from Melbourne who like to spend the day with me-likely at their Grandpa or Grandmother (sic) place at Lane Cove.” (Rubbo, 1953, p1) NB: Rubbo has written date of letter as 1935, however in blue pen and circled is date 1953. AUTHOR: c/o Watson and Crane Pty Ltd, 375 Pitt street, Sydney NSW ADDRESSEE: Mr Roger Star, 15 Ellery Parade, Seaforth NSW ORIGIN: Pitt Street Sydney LETTER TO ROGER STAR, REGARDING RUBBO’S RELUCTANCE TO PURSUE ‘NOMINATION’ (CONTEXT UNKNOWN). Henry (identity unknown-editor's note) remarks that the art works loaned for the Italian exhibition have been returned and are ready for collection from Rubbo’s residence. In handwriting at bottom of letter, author notes that ‘the four of us (identities unknown) should “visit him the first suitable Sunday pm”. (Rubbo, 1954, p1) AUTHOR: Rubbo, 45 Prince Albert Street Mosman NSW ADDRESSEE: Hon Secretary, Manly Art Gallery & Museum CONTENT: LETTER FROM RUBBO ANNOUNCING THE RETURN OF THE 12 ARTWORKS LENT TO THE ITALIAN EXHIBITION. The works lent and returned were named as such on a list accompanying the letter. Accompanying the list is another note- PS from Rubbo announcing that a painting of Mr Townsend (a member of the committee, will withdraw it at the next committee meeting). In the formal letter, Rubbo asks to have the work ‘In the Bathroom’ shown in the collection in the gallery instead of in Town Hall. Rubbo asserts that this is a different work to the ‘old types’. 1. In the bathroom 2. A Bushman 3. His Pet 4. ‘Le Froid’ 5. Australian Aboriginal 6. Our Daily Help 7. Upper Burragorang 8. The Broke Rock 9. Glimpse of the Hunter River 10. Australian Bush 11. Rennie Minnie (Grandmother Aboriginal) 12. Recollections ADDRESSEE: The Committee, Manly Art Gallery CONTENT: A LETTER FROM RUBBO TO MANLY ART GALLERY COMMITTEE REGARDING RUBBO ADDING ADDITIONAL ARTWORKS TO THE GALLERY COLLECTION. LETTER ALSO INCLUDES A LIST OF WORKS DONATED. “Some valuable works by Australian artists - and a rare bust of which I was able to obtain a copy of it from Italy- It was discovered in the excavations near Naples in the year 1840-..”(Rubbo, 1954, p1) Accession number: D1136 Additional note with list of works donated by Rubbo to Manly Art Gallery. (Quoted directly from letter). (41? written in blue pen) 1.Bust reproduction of the Roman-Greek School-founded during excavations near Naples in the year 1840. (Now at National Art School Chapel, Sydney- Editor’s Note). (99) 2. Watercolour painted on canvas by the late W. Lister-Lister (199) 3.Sketh (sic) of the Mediterranean Coast by the late Phillips Fox. (197) 4. Sketh (sic) by Janna Bruce, exhibited some time ago at the Society of Artists, well commentated by the local press. (196) 5. Oil Painting of the Church “Notre Dame” in Paris- painted by Will Ashton (47?) 6. Etching “Turkey” by Lionel Lindsay (198) 7. Brush Creek Mountain Rd- Etching by the late Friedensen- who lived for a few years in Australia.- (200) 8. “The Seine (Paris) painted in 1913-by the late Penleigh Boyd A. Dattilo-Rubbo. Editor’s Note: Letter has been written in areas with Blue pen next to original numbers written by Rubbo and “Brush Creek” has been scribbled out for reasons unknown. AUTHOR: Roger H Star, Hon Secretary, Manly Art Gallery & Museum (initials in signature MOS) ADDRESSEE: Cav A Dattilo-Rubbo, 45 Prince Albert Street, Mosman NSW CONTENT: LETTER OF THANKS FROM MANLY ART GALLERY TO RUBBO, THANKING FOR DONATION OF SEVEN ARTWORKS AND BUST AS OUTLINED IN LETTER D1136 Letter from Hon Secretary of Manly Art Gallery regarding last gallery committee meeting on 16 August 1954. Members of committee viewed seven artworks by Australian artists and a bust in cast. Letter conveys “deepest appreciation of your most generous gesture in donating such fine works to the Gallery and we are very happy to have them. This Gallery is undoubtedly deeply indebted to you and I merely echo the thoughts expressed at our last meeting when I say that your unflagging interest and generosity since its inception have been a major factor in the progress and present status of the Manly Art Gallery. The written word is always a rather inadequate vehicle for expression of emotions so I know you will understand what lies behind our simple “Thank You.” Hon Secretary” (Rubbo, 1954, p1) AUTHOR: Roger H Star, Hon Secretary, Manly Art Gallery & Museum ADDRESSEE: Cav A Dattilo-Rubbo, 45 Prince Albert Street, Mosman NSW CONTENT: LETTER OF THANKS FROM MANLY ART GALLERY TO RUBBO, OUTLINING A FORMAL LETTER OF THANKS WILL BE SENT FROM THE GALLERY COMMITTEE’S HONORARY LEGAL ADVISOR. Letter from Hon Secretary of Manly Art Gallery regarding last gallery committee meeting on 16 August 1954. Hon Secretary refers by name to committee members Mr Slade and Mr Twigden and content of meeting, whereby Rubbo proposed “Disposition of certain of your assets in what we hope will be the distant future.” (Editor’s note: Evidence that Rubbo is planning the allocation of his works and partial parts of his estate to the gallery). Letter again expresses sincere thanks to Rubbo for his dedication and consideration of the gallery and generous donations to the collection. The Honorary Secretary expresses that a formal expression of thanks to Rubbo will be sent in writing from the Art Gallery Committee’s Honorary Solicitor, Mr J Foord Hughes which Rubbo could hand to own legal adviser (sic). This will be sent to Rubbo as soon as Hon Secretary has received from Mr Foord Hughes. Acc no: D1139 (part one) DRAFT DATE: 23/08/1954 (handwritten in blue pen) AUTHOR: Unknown, signature at bottom of letter, no letterhead at top. ADDRESSEE: Cav A Dattilo-Rubbo, 45 Prince Albert Street, Mosman NSW (Cavalier has been mis-spelt and corrected in blue pen). ORIGIN: Unknown (Sydney)? Note: Letter has draft typed at top, crossed out in blue pen Content: Draft letter Manly Art Gallery Committee (name unclear, signed in blue pen) outlining the intentions of Rubbo, as agreed upon at Manly Art Gallery Committee meeting 16 August regarding bequest and donation of Rubbo’s artworks to Manly Art Gallery. Due to the significance of the letter, it is quoted in full. “Dear Cavilier (i corrected to spell Cavalier), I have been directed by the Committee of the Manly Art Gallery & Historical Collection to convey to you the deep appreciation of the Committee of your intention as expressed in your recent interviews with Mr Twigden and myself and with Mr Hermon Slade to make further most generous gifts to the Gallery which I understand may be summarised as follows: 1) That you will make a gift to the gallery of the whole of the pictures now in your possession (excepting those pictures specifically mentioned by you) 2) That out of the aggregate Collection which the Gallery will then hold the Committee is to select those pictures which it is desired to retain permanently and then arrange for the sale, by private sale, of any which the Committee may not desire to retain permanently. 3) That you propose to make provision in your Will to bequeath to the Gallery an amount which you will determine which is to be held for investment to provide income to be used for the purpose of picture restoration. The committee will be very pleased to accept with most grateful thanks the gifts which you so generously propose to make. It would appear that it would be advisable to refer the matter to your legal adviser (sic) and if you will let me know your wishes, arrangements will be made to have the matter discussed on this basis or in any way you may desire. NOTE: Signature unclear Acc no: D1139 (part two) AUTHOR: Honorary Secretary, Manly Art Gallery, name MOS? Unclear ADDRESSEE: Cav A Dattilo-Rubbo, 45 Prince Albert Street, Mosman NSW (Cavaliere has been mis-spelt and corrected in blue pen). “Dear Cavalier, NOTE: Signature unclear (Possible Roger Star - Editor’s Note) DATE: 14/10/1954 (handwritten in blue pen at top of letter- 133 Pitt Street, 3rd Floor) AUTHOR: Cav A Dattilo-Rubbo, 45 Prince Albert Street, Mosman NSW (Cavalier has been mis-spelt and corrected in blue pen). ADDRESSEE: Mr Roger Star ORIGIN: Mosman (Sydney) CONTENT: LETTER FROM RUBBO TO MR STAR REGARDING SPECIFICATIONS OF RUBBO’S WILL AND PROPOSED BEQUEST TO MANLY ART GALLERY. Due to significance of the letter it is quoted in its entirety. “Dear Mr Star, From Mr Oxlade, solicitor, I have been told that, some conditions in my last Will cannot be carried out without heavy expenses for probate-The main objection Is that my old donation of paintings, cannot be held together with the new ones, possessed at my Death, donated to the Gallery for a final selection by a Committee as a permanent one worthy to the Gallery, and to myself-This selection Committee shall be formed by a representative of The Society of Artists and Royal Art Society together with the Gallery’s Committee- My wishes are that any paintings not favourable accepted shall be disposed by an Exhibition sale and the cash derived to be add (sic) to a fund stated in the Will for the purpose indicated by it- Mr Oxlade advice is, that the old donation, would be better done by a letter to the Manly Gallery expressing my last wish, for a final selection made by the abovementioned Committee- I would be pleased to have this matter discussed with Mr’s Slade and Twigden and have their opinions about it - Thanking You - Yours Sincerely A. Dattilo-Rubbo” (Rubbo, 1954, p1) ACC NUMBER: D1141 AUTHOR: Mr Slade, Honorary Secretary, Manly Art Gallery & Historical Collection ADDRESSEE: Cav A Dattilo Rubbo, 45 Prince Albert Street, Mosman NSW ORIGIN: Unknown (Sydney)? CONTENT: LETTER FROM SLADE TO RUBBO THANKING FOR LETTER OF 14 OCTOBER 1954. Letter has been forwarded to Manly Art Gallery Committee Honorary Solicitor, Mr J Foord Hughes who has been in contact with Rubbo’s legal advisor, Mr Oxlade regarding Rubbo’s intentions in Will. DATE: 24/07/ year unknown ADDRESSEE: Mr Marriner, Hon Secretary CONTENT: RUBBO INABILITY TO ATTEND MANLY ART GALLERY COMMITTEE MEETING Rubbo refers to visiting Mayor of Manly on Saturday, looking at office and potential of placing artworks in the room. Rubbo has another three works to enter into the Manly Art Gallery collection. Rubbo had hoped to deliver them by now, but the works are currently in Bendigo, sent three months prior, Rubbo expects them at any time. “ and I shall not stop increasing the collection until (sic) the number of 100 has been reached-then, I shall have my donation completed.”(Rubbo, date unknown, p2) AUTHOR: Cav A Dattilo-Rubbo, 45 Prince Albert Street, Mosman NSW ADDRESSEE: RH Starr, Esq, The Honorary Secretary, Manly Art Gallery, 15 Ellery Parade Seaforth NSW Note: The last letter from Rubbo in the archive collection. As a letter of significance it is quoted in its entirety. CONTENT: RE: RUBBO WILL Following my recent interviews with Mr. Twigden, Mr Herman Slade and yourself, and in your letter to me of the 23rd August last, I am now in a position to say that I have consulted my Solicitors, and they are preparing a new will for me. As the founder of the Manly Art Gallery, you and your Committee will appreciate the fact that I have always kept the welfare of the Art Gallery prominently before me, and I trust that that suggestions I am about to make in this letter will be given careful consideration by your Committee, and, if possible, carried out. By my Will, after making provision for a self portrait, a portrait of my wife and family sketches, and eighteen pictures to be taken from my collection of pictures painted by me, I direct the remainder of the said collection of pictures to be disposed of in the following manner-by my Trustees appointing an Artist from the Society of Artists and an Artist from the Royal Art Society and Miss F.D Ellis, together with all the Artists who are members of the Committee of the Manly Art Gallery, a Selection Committee which is to sit under the chairmanship of the Mayor of Manly, who is to have a casting vote only. Such Selection Committee shall make a selection from the remaining pictures of the pictures they consider suitable for the Manly Art Gallery, and the pictures then remaining shall be offered for sale at an Exhibition to be arranged at some local Art Gallery chosen by such Selection Committee, and the net amount received for the sale of such pictures shall go to the Manly Art Gallery in augmentation of a legacy which I am giving under my Will. I have also provided that any person who owns one of my for a picture in the said Exhibition, and, if at the end of such Exhibition such picture has not been sold, then the Selection Committee shall, without making any charge for such picture, make the exchange. I then go on to say that, within one week after the said Exhibition has closed, all pictures not sold, and all earlier pictures receive in exchange for the pictures exhibited in the Exhibition, shall be destroyed by fire. It is my desire that the Manly Art Gallery shall only keep permanently in the Gallery such of my pictures that the Selection Committee considers best. I would like the Committee of the Manly Art Gallery, when the aforesaid selection is made by the Selection Committee, to get the Selection Committee to cull from the pictures which were painted by me, and are already owned by the Art Gallery, such pictures as it considers not desirable to retain permanently. I then suggest that the Committee of the Manly Art Gallery sell either privately or at the Exhibition the pictures mentioned earlier in this paragraph which the Committee does not desire to retain permanently in the Gallery. The legacy which I am giving I feel should be used to create a Fund for the restoration and maintenance of the pictures in the Art Gallery. I now suggest to the Committee that they create such a Fund and that the legacy and money received from the sale of the pictures be placed to the credit of such a Fund, and the Fund be invested to the best advantage. Any income not used in any year for restoration and maintenance should be accumulated until such accumulation reaches the sum of £100.0.0d., when the Committee should purchase any suitable picture or pictures for the Art Gallery, preference being given to a picture or pictures painted by an Australian Artist or Artists. I wish all success and a great future to the Manly Art Gallery as an accredited and well recognised Art Institution in Australia. A. Dattilo-Rubbo P.S. As I have appointed the Mayor of Manly to be Chairman of the Selection Committee named herein, I am forwarding a copy of this letter to the Town Clerk of Manly so that the same may be kept in custody by them. A.D.R” (Rubbo, 1954, pp1-2) The following letters were written following the passing of Dattilo Rubbo and discuss the details of Rubbo’s Estate and Bequest to Manly Art Gallery. Unknown, possibly Honorary Secretary or Hon Treasurer of Manly Art Gallery ADDRESSEE: Mr Harry Timbs, 40 Gordon Street, Balgowlah CONTENT: ESTATE OF THE LATE ANTONIO DATTILO-RUBBO, BEQUEST TO MANLY ART GALLERY Letter states, cheque for £500 is enclosed with letter. Author states that Joe Hughes can advise if special account needs to be opened. Suggests a special account in Gallery Ledger in name of Estate be established and head it with terms of Bequest. Requests an official receipt so response can be made to solicitors Gill, Oxlade and Broad. Author also asks, on behalf of Mayor of Manly, that representatives of Manly Art Gallery attend Naturalization Ceremony scheduled for Monday 14 August? 1956 at Manly Town Hall at 830pm. ADDRESSEE: Mr Joe Foord Hughes, 32 Clifford Avenue, Manly Letter stating enclosed with it is letter from Oxlade & Broad Solicitors covering cheque for £500. Author requests Hughes to advise next Gallery committee meeting of final ‘disposal of payment’. Author also wishes Mrs Hughes good health. ADDRESSEE: Mr Roger Star, Esq, c/- Dava Hotel, Mornington Rural, Vic Letter thanking Roger Star for letter of 7th August 1956. Letter addresses three areas; Rubbo Estate: Settlement of Estate “Is very pleasing’, cheque is being passed over to Harry Timbs, to open special account in Gallery Ledger, as previously requested. Mrs Stanley: Regarding potential offer of frames to Manly Art Gallery from Mrs Stanley. Author will have a look at the frames being offered. Naturalization Ceremony: Arrangements made for Gallery representation.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line44
__label__wiki	0.602891	0.602891	The Jingle Bell's Girls Photo by: Sara Herbert-Galloway The Theatre Museum's Gala Pre-Awards Show Cocktail Reception New York City, October 21, 2008. Tony award winning producer Stewart F. Lane and his stunning wife Bonnie Comley sponsored a red carpet pre-awards show cocktail reception party at the Player's Club last night. Upon ascending the stairs and entering the beautiful main room I was greeted by The Jingle Bell's girls serenading guests from another large winding stair case. I was surrounded by so much talent I felt as if I was in a Broadway Show myself. Bonnie and Stewart were full of warmth and cheer as always. Guests and supporters included a bevy of photographers and journalists including Lee Fryd from Newsday, society photographer Rob Rich, author Ward Morehouse III accompanied by Rose Billings, Aaron Gandy, Barbara Cook, Rick McKay, Euan Morton, Tony Walton, Joe Loesser, Caroline Winston, and many other entertainers. The evenings honorees included American radio and television personality Joe Franklin, dubbed "The King of Nostalgia" honored with The Lifetime Achievement Award, Five Towns College Founder, Dr. Stanley F. Cohen, Rick McKay "Broadway: The Golden Age" Honoree for the Theatre Museum's Award of Excellence for Repertoire Americana receiving the Award of Excellence for Theatre Arts Education. Founded in 2003, The Theatre Museum is New York State's first and only chartered non-profit museum dedicated to the history of theatre. It is a museum-at-large. It's primary mission is to preserve, protect and perpetuate the legacy of theatre through innovative programming. www.thetheatremuseum.org Story by: Sara Herbert-Galloway sara@blacktiemagazine.com To view more pictures please visit: www.herbertcollection.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line49
__label__wiki	0.663494	0.663494	Jurassic World Review June 21, 2015 blahbl9_wp Leave a comment By Jason Green If there’s one word I can sum up Jurassic World with, it would be “surprise”. The first Jurassic Park movie was such an outstanding movie to me. As a kid, I watched it over and over on laser disc, yes you read that correctly. As far as the two sequels go, as a kid I loved them but now as an adult I realize they’re flawed. Not terrible movies, just not as good as JP 1. I was extremely hesitant going into Jurassic World. The trailer made the movie seem… lame, for lack of a better word. The CGI seemed sub par and that scene with Chris Pratt teaming up with the Raptors made my eyes roll so hard my mom thought I was possessed. But, I will say I was pleasantly surprised with this film. It hit mostly all the right notes. First, let’s start with the bad. Most of the characters in this movie are boring. The two kids whom are visiting the park are just cookie cutter characters. You got the one teen who hates the world and his younger happy-go-lucky brother to balance it out. The other two leads, Chris Pratt’s Owen Brady and Bryce Dallas-Howard’s Clare… something, are way more interesting than the two younger leads. Although, Owen Brady and Clare are pretty standard as well they’re way more entertaining than the latter two characters of the film. Also, the character who replaces John Hammond as owner of the park wasn’t, in my opinion, very likable either and neither was the main villain of the film. Another minor gripe was some tone issues; that being it felt all over the place in some spots. For example: and this is sort of a non spoiler because most this shot was in the trailer. When the Pterodactyls escape and attack the people in the park, we are greeted with a lovely scene of a woman being lifted up and pretty much being annihilated, which is directly followed by a man running from the bar trying to protect his Margaritas. Basically, we go from a pretty ugly shot to sort of comedic relief shot in the matter of a second. All that aside, the good definitely out weighs the bad. Simply put this movie is fun and doesn’t take itself TOO seriously. The action scenes are well crafted and really keep you on the edge of your seat. There’s a very clever scene at the end when the main villain is delivering his cliche speech and is interrupted in a very witty way which definitely, at least, deserves a chuckle. And that Raptor team up scene in the third act did work out very well. There’s obviously going to be sequels, and multiples ones at that. But, it’s nice to know that the Jurassic franchise may be heading in a better direction then before. And, if you’re one of the people who didn’t like this movie, which is okay, just remember that the original script involved dinosaurs with guns. At least we got a better movie than that. @JayGreen89 entertainmentfunjurassic worldleisurelifestylemovies The Witcher 3 Review (so far) The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt defines why I love playing video games. It’s a shining example of a fully realized world that you can get sucked in to. Let me take a step back real quick and say: I have never played a Witcher game before, but that’s okay. Witcher 3 is a solid stand alone title that welcomes new players to the series and, yes it references stuff from previous games but not enough to get confused. You take control of Geralt, a very famous Witcher. Witchers are pretty much monster hitmen; meaning, a desperate towns person might be having trouble with a monster or demon and they hire a Witcher to take care of it. The chronicles of Geralt can be found throughout a series of books and now video games, which end with this final installment. To be honest, the story is a little hard to follow. It has a simple concept, Geralt is on a quest to find his surrogate daughter and gets interrupted at every turn. The real name for this game should be The Witcher 3: Detour because every person Geralt meets sends him on another quest that’s out of his way, giving him the incentive of information about his daughter. Obviously, that’s CD Projekt Red’s, the developers, way of having you explore this gigantic world. Speaking of gigantic worlds, the in game world is absolutely massive. CD Projekt Red has gone above and beyond making a fully realized, immersive, and freaking huge world. Other previews of this game have said Witcher 3 holds 200 hours of gameplay and, honestly I can totally believe that. There is just so much to do it’s pretty overwhelming, but in a good way. So far, my only fault with this game is the combat system because the sword and magic play is fun but clunky. There’s been multiple times when I yell at my TV because three or four enemies jump me at once and Geralt doesn’t block all of them. Or, I’m fighting enemies in close quarters and some veer off camera and still hit me. This is a minor point though, but still a nuisance. The Witcher 3 is a big, beautiful and bold game. There’s so much to do I feel like I’ll be playing this game well in to the next year. It’s fun, mostly easy to get the hang of and pretty to look it. Once I beat the game my full review will be up. entertainmentfunleisurelifestylemicrosoftplaystationpreviewsonyvideo gameswitcher 3xbox Fallout 4 Officially Revealed! June 3, 2015 blahbl9_wp Leave a comment A bomb was dropped this morning. The culprits – Bethesda Software. That’s right, folks. Fallout 4 is officially upon us. This announcement trailer details some interesting things, such as: the world before the Nuclear disaster and a protagonist that talks! The latter being, in the previous Fallout games your avatar never speaks. Yes, you make dialog choices but a voice is never heard. The case may be different now, though. Maybe it’ll be similar to Dragon Age: Inquisition where you choose between a few voices and pick one you like. Another thing to note is the location, which is confirmed to be Boston. Maybe some characters from Fallout 3 will make an appearance? Washington D.C. isn’t that far from Boston… Closing out, this trailer leaves more questions then answers. We know the location but, that’s about it. Why does it show civilization before the war and after in that juxtaposition? Maybe you’ll be playing in both eras? Hopefully, this years E3 will answer more. entertainmentleisurelifestylemicrosoftplaystationsonyvideo gamesxbox The Wolf Among Us (Late) Review by Jason Green, Yes, yes I know this game is over a year old and I know it’s been reviewed and praised dozens of times. But, I just played it. So, now it’s my turn. The Wolf Among Us is a fantastic game. Telltale, the developers, have been hitting home runs these last few years with various other titles and this one is no different. The Wolf Among Us was a game that, when released, I didn’t go out of my way to purchase. No disrespect to the game and the team behind it, it just didn’t seem like my cup of tea. Well thanks to a very handy Flash Sale on the Playstation Store I bought the game in its entirety and didn’t put it down for days. The Wolf Among Us is an episodic mystery game with a dash of fantasy. You’re detective Bigby Wolf and you’re tasked with uncovering a murder in Fabletown. This game takes place in the same universe as Bill Willingham’s Fable comics. Basically, all the fables and fairy tales of olds’ characters now live amongst us in New York City. Honestly, that city would be my first guess, too. I have never read any of the comics but now I’m totally compelled too. What makes this game stand out is it’s film noir-esque tone. Noir movies have always been something that fascinated me and a simple story with a stylistic tone is treat to the eyes and ears. The Wolf Among Us captures that very same tone within it’s five episode arc. Every noir aspect is touched upon; from the shady damsel in distress, to the who-done-it murder plot, to the seedy underbelly of the society. It’s all done with elegance and a flare for the unnatural, since we’re dealing with fairy tale creatures. As usual, Telltale does a fantastic job of fleshing out your character along with the characters in the story. And, as usual in Telltale fashion, the player is able to pick choices for the main character that will dictate the story in different ways. If I had nit pick at one thing in this brilliant game it would be that the choices are extremely black and white. It’s either you pick one which does a horrible thing or another which does a good thing. Yes, they do have different outcomes and some characters favor your choices over others but the choices you pick are always polar opposites of themselves. Small point, though, as the outcomes and the story for this game is fantastic. The Wolf Among Us really blew me away. Similar to how the big bad wolf blows down the three little pigs’ house, my mind was shattered. It’s an extremely unique game filled with intrigue, surprises, a surprisingly amount of action and good character depth. To top it all off, the ending is so mind blowing that you will be thinking about it for days, trust me. I know I still am. Do yourself a favor the play this game.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line50
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__label__cc	0.688822	0.311178	Top Global News AllAutomotiveHealthcareIndustriesMarketsTechnology LR Tech Park makes pitch to banking consortium for $26 million… ASU’s Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center named top in… Recruiting in the Age of Well-Informed Job Candidates How to Market Your Business With Video Livestreaming Trump Puts Fed on Blast, Says Dow Would Be ‘Thousands Higher’… Ford to Shut U.K. Engine Factory, Tabs $650 Million Charge Amid… Rare bullish S&P 500 move that has occurred only 16 times… Tesla’s $2.7-Billion Capital Raise Won’t Cut It, Says Analyst 9 Common Business Lawsuits You May Face Should You Start Your Own Business While Still in College? 5 Leadership Mantras Debunked Optimism in Small Business Exceeds Pre-Shutdown Levels How Personalized Customer Experience Can Define Your Business How to Set Up a Successful Presale Opinion: A China trade deal could cancel Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts Thanks, Seattle: Half of Tacoma home buyers paying above list price Construction almost done on Arlington Heights memory care facility Retail Wrap: Heights multiuse project planned for North Shepherd You Will Never Guess Where Home Prices Are Shooting Up the… Home Investments Is Your Website ADA Compliant? Is Your Website ADA Compliant? The federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires certain businesses to make accommodations to people with disabilities, including such measures as wheelchair accessibility to physical locations, access to service animals and the use of braille. In addition to these physical considerations, Title III of the ADA requires businesses to maintain an accessible website. What does that mean? The answer is not exactly clear, but these guidelines should help you get started toward building a truly accessible website, avoiding any penalties associated with the ADA and making your business more inclusive. Which businesses are required to comply with the ADA? The first thing to understand about the ADA is which businesses are required to comply. Under Title I of the ADA, any business with at least 15 full-time employees that operates for 20 or more weeks every year is covered by the law. Under Title III, businesses that fall into the category of “public accommodations,” such as hotels, banks and public transportation, are also required to comply. That means the entirety of the law applies, from physical considerations to digital accommodations. If your business falls under either Title I or Title III of the ADA and you do not believe you are compliant, consult with a disability lawyer and explore your options. There are no clear website accessibility guidelines When it comes to business websites, there are no clear rules. That doesn’t let businesses off the hook, though; they still must provide an accessible website that takes into account users with disabilities. “As far as websites go, there is no federally codified direction on how to make websites comply,” said David Engelhardt, a New York City-based small business attorney. “We only know that the ADA does apply to websites based on cases such as [Gil v. Winn-Dixie].” What’s the best way to build an ADA-compliant website if there isn’t a clear definition of what that means? There are a few actions you can take to set you on the right path toward ADA compliance, or at least help you demonstrate that your business has made a good-faith effort toward accommodation, should you ever wind up in court. Read more: https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/10900-ada-website-requirements.html Previous articleNo Face Time? No Problem: How to Keep Virtual Workers Engaged Next articleHow to Start a Business: A Step-by-Step Guide LR Tech Park makes pitch to banking consortium for $26 million Phase II development ASU’s Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center named top in state What is Stagflation? Inflation Plus Stagnation WhatsApp Business Signals a Change in Business Communication Cybersecurity While Traveling: Tips and Tricks Number of wells falls but crude oil production rises The Little Rock Technology Park Authority made a soft pitch to a local Centennial Bank-led banking consortium to support the second phase... The Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center (ASBTDC) at Arkansas State University has been recognized as the small business development center... Litigation addiction in the United States costs small businesses more than $100 billion each year. It's not a matter of if it will... College entrepreneurs might be foolishly tempted to drop out of school.It is possible to be successful as a college entrepreneur, with the... Growing the family asset management company With a focus on transparency, Halstatt has been transformed by a matriarchal line of CEOs. No one was picking... © Copyright 2017 - Business Magazine - by Laurentiu Barbu	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line64
__label__wiki	0.724227	0.724227	1.1 This Manual examines and explains certain important 'Suspense' transactions that arise in government accounts. Items of receipts and payments which cannot at once be taken to a final head of receipt or expenditure owing to lack of information as to the nature or for any other reasons are to be booked temporarily under the Major Head 8658—Suspense Accounts under L-suspense and Miscellaneous of the List of Major and Minor Heads of Account. The Suspense Heads are to be cleared by (—) Debit or (—) Credit as the case may be on receipt of' the relevant details/information. Детальное описание Partnervermittlung CQMI здесь. 1.2 The following concepts about Government accounts need to be kept in mind :- (a) Government Account is kept on cash basis. Most transactions take place by cheques drawn on accredited Public Sector Banks which also receive money on behalf of the Government. Reserve Bank of India is the main banker of the Government and other authorised Banks function as its agents while handling Government transactions. Transactions through Banks have their final impact on Government 'Cash Balance' in course of time. Prior to that certain intermediary/adjusting heads are operated and the bookings thereunder are to be finally adjusted at the earliest to reflect Government's receipts and expenditure accurately. (b) The terms 'debit' and 'credit' are inevitably used in all accounts. They connote 'expenditure' and 'receipt' of cash. (c) The intermediary heads referred to above are: 8670 Cheques and Bills 8658 Suspense Accounts -108 PSB Suspense 8675 Deposits with Reserve Bank - 101 Central-Civil While the head 'Cheques and Bills' accounts for the amount of cheques drawn, the heads 'PSB Suspense' and 'Deposits with Reserve Bank' reflect transactions taking place at the Banks. Thus, these do not represent income/expenditure of Government and hence credits and debits under these heads do not connote the usual meaning that these terms carry. Credits and debits under these heads conform rather to the principles of double entry book keeping. The head 'Cheques and Bills' is credited by the amount of cheques drawn and corresponding debit is given to the head to which the expenditure relates; the difference, if any, is credited to the appropriate receipt heads like GPF, Income Tax etc. Heads 'PSB Suspense' and 'Deposits with Reserve Bank' have their mirror image in Bank books. A debit to 'PSB Suspense' in Government books represents amount owed by PSBs to Government, whereas a debit under 'Deposits with Reserve Bank' represents amounts owed by RBI to Government. Conversely, credits under these heads would represent amounts owed by Government to PSBs/RBI, as the case may be. Detailed explanation of transactions under these heads will be found in the chapter dealing with these heads separately. Briefly, the amount of Government receipts in a Public Sector Bank (PSB) when reported to Government through a receipt scroll alongwith relevant challans is debited to 'PSB Suspense'. Conversely, the amounts paid by a PSB against cheques drawn by a Pay and Accounts Officer or a Departmental Officer, when reported through a payment scroll alongwith paid cheques, will be credited to 'PSB Suspense'. (d) The head 'Cheques and Bills' as well as 'Suspense' and 'Remittance' heads are intermediary accounting devices for initial record of transactions which are to be cleared/withdrawn in due course. Thus, credits under 'Cheques and Bills' are cleared in the Pay and Accounts Office on receipt of payment scrolls with paid cheques from the Banks. Debits and credits under 'PSB Suspense' are cleared by cash settlement between the PSB and the RBI by debit or credit as the case may be, to the head 8675 Deposits with Reserve Bank—101 Central-Civil. Such a clearance is effected in the accounts by booking minus entries. Thus, while original entries are positive (credit or debit) clearing entries are negative i.e. minus credit or minus debit. This is a special feature of government accounts. This expedient of minus transactions, enables a linkage between original entries and clearing entries and keeps the balance amounts smaller than would have been the case otherwise. 1.3 Parts and Divisions of Government Accounts Government accounts are kept in the following three parts:- (i) CONSOLIDATED FUND OF INDIA: All revenues received by Government by way of taxation like income-tax, central excise, custom, land revenue (tax revenues) and other receipts flowing to Government in connection with the conduct duct of Government business like receipts from Railways, Posts, Transport etc. (non-tax revenues) are credited into the Consolidated Fund. Similarly, all loans raised by Government by issue of Public notifications, treasury bills (internal debt) and loans obtained from foreign governments and international monetary institutions (external debt) and all moneys received by Government in repayment of loans and interest thereon are also credited into this Fund. All expenditure incurred by the Government for the conduct of its business including repayment of internal and external debt and release of loans to States/Union Territory Governments for various purposes is debited against this Fund. (ii) CONTINGENCY FUND OF INDIA: This is in the nature of an imprest and is kept at the disposal of the President of India to enable the Government to meet unforeseen expenditure pending its authorisation by the Parliament. The money is to be used to provide immediate relief to victims of natural calamities and also to implement any new policy decision taker, by the Government pending its approval by the Parliament. In all such cases, after the Parliament meets, a Bill is presented indicating the total expenditure to be incurred on the scheme/project during the current financial year. After the Parliament votes the bill, the money already spent out of the Contingency Fund is recouped by debiting the expenditure to the concerned functional Major Head etc. in the Consolidated Fund of India. (iii) PUBLIC ACCOUNT OF INDIA: All Public Money received by Government other than those which are for credit to the Consolidated Fund of India are accounted for under Public Account. The receipts into the Public Account and disbursements out of it are not subject to vote by the Parliament. Receipts under this account mainly flow from the sale of Savings Certificates, contributions into General Provident Fund and Public Provident Fund, Security Deposits and Earnest Money Deposits received by the Government. In respect of such receipts, the Government is acting as a Banker or Trustee and refunds the money after completion of the contract/event. The Public Account also includes various suspense and remittance heads. Consolidated Fund of India is divided into three main divisions, namely:- (a) A Revenue Section with the two sub-divisions to account for Revenue Receipts (Tax and Non-Tax) and Revenue Expenditure. (Major Head Codes 0020 to 1606 and 2011 to 3606) (b) A Capital Section which is divided into two subdivisions dealing with- (i) Capital Receipts. (Major Head Code 4000) (ii) Capital Expenditure. (Major Head Codes 4046 to 5475) (c) Public Debt and Loans and Advances etc. (Major Head Codes 6001 to 7999). Contingency Fond being an imprest is accounted for under a single Major Head. (Major Head Code 8000) Public Account is divided into six sub-divisions, namely:— (i) Small Savings, Provident Funds etc. (Major Head Codes 8001 to 8013) (ii) Reserve Funds. (Major Head Codes 8115 to 8235) (iii) Deposits and Advances. (Major Head Codes 8336 to 8554) (iv) Suspense and Miscellaneous. (Major Head Codes 8656 to 8680) (v) Remittances. (Major Head Codes 8781 to 8797) (vi) Cash Balance. 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__label__cc	0.545987	0.454013	Media: Look who’s talking Tuesday, October 30th, 2012 October 30th, 2012 Sundaresha Subramanian Two people who have been hounded by media have attacked the media’s credibility. One, by giving the media a taste of its own sting and the other by thumbing his nose on media by holding his own in one of the glamourous car races. But can we turn the question on them? Now if crony capitalists question the credibility of people questioning them, should such questions be entertained? Do two wrongs make a right? I personally feel this is a calculated campaign by people associated with the government who have been on the receiving end of media onslaught over the past few months of scams and corporate scandals. While media has dutifully reported the attack on its own credibility, the allegations are just that until anything is proved in the courts. Now, the people who have made these allegations themselves are facing allegations of attempts to bribe, doctoring tapes and defamation suits. Just because some unverified video shows some journalist demand money, does that mean all journalists and media organisations are bought and sold? Far from it. There also have been allegations in the past of paid news and ad-for-equity deals, which some analysts have equated to corruption at the owner level, rather than at the journalist level. Even these are still islands of corruption in mainstream media. Having said that, corruption in media must be weeded out at all costs. Not because these cronies have pointed it out, but more because they are using it as a shield to cover their own exposed modesty. Competence is a bigger problem in media today than corruption. To address this, media organisations need proper training facilities and must be ready to invest in people. For this they need money. And, that comes from advertising. Bulk of advertising is done by corporate majors. These are all the time involved in interactions with the government and its arms. Their businesses grow largely from getting access to natural resources like land, minerals, oil, gas and spectrum. To ensure they are preferred over others in allocating these, they employ lobbyists. Lobbyists try to influence policy by cultivating journalists. Journalists get easy stories from lobbyists. Lobbyists slip in stories that fit their agenda. Journalists, even those who are competent, get sucked into the game as it is a win-win. To break this cycle, media should develop easier payment system on the web. Like for reading this blog, I should be able to bill your IP address some 50 paise. If you think it’s worth more, you should be able to credit it to the Business Standard bank account. While dreaming, you don’t need to sound credible. Do you? Yash Chopra: School of rebellion and romance Monday, October 22nd, 2012 October 22nd, 2012 Shibangi Das You don’t expect tragedy to strike when you are at the country’s premier film festival, celebrating cinema. Somewhere halfway through the screening that I was attending, the incessant alerts on my phone led me to check it. It took me a good ten minutes to come back to what was happening on the screen in front of me. Some may mock me for sounding over dramatic, but I had completely lost all interest in the film. The reason for all the romance in my life - Yash Chopra - was dead. The two German ladies next to me in the theatre seemed shocked when they heard the news and began a conversation about YashRaj Films with me and a few others around us. It was hard not to notice how they knew so much about Bollywood, and particularly, Yashji’s films. That, is the magic and the legacy that he has left behind. The King of Romance is a kind of a misnomer for Yashji. He flouted the rules in a different way - questioning basic human feelings in contexts of everything that the society has always labelled immoral and illicit. And he used a language that did not offend anyone, but made his audience sit up and think about the bases of these societal norms that define right and wrong. Pick a movie out of his very impressive filmography and you will know exactly why he will always be among the finest Bollywood filmmakers. Yashji gave us the ‘angry young man’ in Deewar, the suspense thriller sans the song and dance routine in Ittefaq and an India-Pakistan partition drama Dharmaputra, which made Shashi Kapoor an actor to reckon with. His first directorial venture Dhool ka Phool was about an illegitimate Hindu-born child being raised by a Muslim. Daag looked closely at polygamy. The multi-starrer blockbuster Waqt which he made with brother B R Chopra launched the ‘lost and found’ formula, which inspired another slew of hits in the industry. Deewar and Trishul are what India’s children of the 70’s swear by — they too raise questions about means and ends, an important moral dilemma that the generation then was faced with. Then there were his classic romances. Silsila and Kabhi Kabhie explored pre-marital and extra-marital relationships. Mashaal is a violent and dramatic cult classic that stands testimony to the fact that Yashji was never genre-bound. Chandni and Lamhe celebrated his position as the master of relationships. While the former was a raging hit, the latter had received a lot of flak from the Indian audience at the time of its release. It was uncomfortable for the homegrown Indians to watch an inter-generation romance. Critics and the overseas audience were in awe of a movie that was very clearly very ahead of its time. Lamhe is for me, and as confessed by Yashji himself, his best work ever. Darr produced a generation of obsessed lovers. The impact of the film was such that one could suddenly see desperate declarations of love painted across walls. people talked about how someone had sent them a love letter written in blood, and stalking to scare became the new way to win your lady love. And another favourite of mine, Dil To Paagal Hai is Swiss-cheesy poetry in motion and I mean that as a serious compliment. I dare anyone to make a film with that kind of dialogue, dance and drama and not ruin it. But then again, maybe it has been imitated so many times that it now seems cheesy. I remember being enthralled by the movie, having gone to watch it on the first day itself. Veer Zaara was about lovers separated for over 20 years by border conflicts. It didn’t work for most, but I know a large group of people who still religiously watch it when it plays on TV. And of course there were the songs in his films. Composed brilliantly, sung most beautifully and picturised perfectly in flowing chiffons, vibrant hues of the rainbow and locales that made Holland, Switzerland, UK and the mustard fields of Punjab every newly-married couple’s honeymoon destinations. This list of songs deserves a separate playlist on every Bollywood junkie’s music player. It is definitely worth a mention that Yashji also produced his son Aditya Chopra’s directorial debut Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, which recently completed 800 weeks of screening at the Maratha Mandir in Mumbai. Going back to my first few lines, why I feel this sense of loss you may ask. Confession time - I am a hopeless romantic. I give credit for that to the Yash Chopra school of film-making. That is what Yashji was teaching my generation when I was growing up. Chandni, Lamhe, Parampara, Yeh Dillagi and Dil To Paagal Hai were my textbooks on aesthetics, fashion, charm, songs, dance moves, romance and the whole idea of love - the kind that makes you feel like a warm, gooey, sweet marshmallow inside, or like it is your “do or die” mission in life. Or even in the way when you know exactly where your heart is broken but you refuse to mend it only because you find a strange wholesomeness in that imperfection and pain. I thought I was done with romance. But only because I am so thankful to the soft-spoken gentleman that Yashji was, I know I will watch Jab Tak Hai Jaan, his last film as director, as said in an interview with Shah Rukh Khan on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Look at life’s cruel ironies here — how his declaration played out and what he had named his film. If not for Yashji’s teachings of love and romance, a vast majority of Indians, myself included, would have been a big bunch of cynics — just wasting life, having nothing new to look forward to and having nothing happy to hope for. His brand of love will make the quintessential Bollywood fan’s world always go round. He is an institution. And like all institutions, his philosophy will carry on inspiring generations. A sprained ankle and Hauz Khas village Thursday, October 18th, 2012 October 18th, 2012 Nitin Sreedhar One of the most important things to keep in mind while writing a blog I think, is to keep it nice and simple and to write in a way that makes it easy for the reader to grasp the true meaning of what you really want to convey. Wednesday started as usual with the routine morning jog with my cousin, where I have this tendency of putting my ankles at the mercy of the park’s rugged terrain. But somehow I managed to escape the jogging session with my ankles intact. Back home, I got a call from one of my closest friend asking me to hop along for lunch at Hauz Khas village. I completed my post graduation from one of India’s most coveted institutes located near Hauz Khas. I always heard my batchmates singing praises about the place, but I never managed to reach the ‘village’ part of it. I decided to join her for lunch and asked her to meet me at New Delhi’s most cherished meeting point — Connaught Place — which is currently in a shambles. I happened to reach before and decided to grab a couple of orchids for my friend from a florist who stays open 24X7. Done with picking up the flowers, I was stepping out of the florist’s shop when he called me up from behind to fill up a feedback form. With my face turned one side and my feet the other, I landed awkwardly on my right ankle, tweaking it. I could feel a gush of pain in my ankle. With a couple of orchids in my hand, I somehow managed to limp my way into the bustling Rajiv Chowk metro station. A direct, crowded metro got us to Green Park from where an auto-rickshaw took us to our destination. At first look, Hauz Khas village looked like your average hangout zone, nestled safely next to the Hauz Khas fort. But as you start walking inside those narrow decorated alleys you get to see the real side of the village. There is an armada of stores inside. The first one that caught my eye was a shop located in a basement. The entrance of the shop was laden with posters from yesteryear Bollywood flicks. Everything from Mother India to Mughal-e-azam. KUZART LANE Our first stop was the magnificent Kuzart Lane — an art gallery cum café. The entrance to the lane is spell bounding. A dark alley illuminated with numerous light bulbs hanging from the roof, perfectly placed in one line. On either side of the lane are two walls, which have been decorated with paintings from various artists. Most of them would be a treat for any art lover as they are available at much cheaper prices than the original price which is of course mentioned on every painting that is clinging to the colourful wall. The café is in itself a separate entity. It has been built and designed exquisitely. The walls painted in the form of a huge bird which bears beautiful colours. On the other wall in the café are two unique guitars: each with a painting etched onto it. The menu has a variety of snacks, main course meals and sparkling beverages to go along with it and add to it the melodious playlist that keeps producing one track after the other. The Kuzart café shouldn’t chalk out much out of your pocket. After a hefty lunch at the Kuzart, we wandered again, though, this time to find another place called Elma’s Bakery. It sounded pretty neat to me, whereas my friend was anxious to see and try the bakery as she had read about it quite frequently. ELMA’S BAKERY After walking for a good few minutes, I could see a small board peeking from behind another one, which read Elma’s Bakery. My friend jumped as if she had been awarded the Pulitzer. As we climbed the stairs of the bakery, I could sense the amazing aroma that was engulfing the walk. A mixed aroma of cream, chocolate and coffee surrounded us as we entered the bakery. The place has been bought together very nicely and has been given the look of an old British house. With comfortable chairs, paintings, huge windows with plants climbing on them and probably the most prominent part of the café, a soothing white piano at the end of the room. The menu at Elma’s is classy. You have tea — almost all sorts of tea. Its like, you name it they have it. A bout of hot chocolate and a chocolate croissant was what Elma’s offered us at our first visit. Even the high tea at the bakery was impressive. Anyone who is looking for calmness along with a pinch of class should definitely pay visit to Elma’s Bakery. Albeit, a tad expensive, it is worth every single penny. These are just two of the many places that the Hauz Khas village has to offer. And at the end of the day, the pain in the ankle really didn’t matter. I am sure to return to the village for more experiences, if nothing but to buy a few vintage Bollywood posters. Less than a crore is so ‘LS’ Thursday, October 18th, 2012 October 18th, 2012 Joydeep Ghosh Indians have always been extremely conscious about social standing. It began with caste, graduated to class and now, finds expression in the euphemism of ‘status’. Art imitates life and the best reflection of the Indian obsession with status is seen in cinema. The rich girl who falls in love with the poor guy or vice versa is always told “apne khandaan ke izzat ke bare mein socha hota (you should have thought of your family’s status).” Or, “iski aukaat kya hain (what’s his standing?)” – so LS (low standard). Anyway, the good part is that the fathers/brothers/uncles in most Indian movies have a change of heart and support the marriage in the end. Sometimes, even the guy/girl becomes immensely rich/Miss World in minutes to become acceptable. But this consciousness about status is not just limited to marriage, it extends to ordinary life too. A person with a supposedly high status involved in a petty crime is denounced as “chuha maarke haath ganda kiya (dirtied hands killing a mouse)” – so LS. In many other countries, society does not look at the status of the offender. So punishments are doled out in the US to celebrities or politicians, according to the crime, which could be community service or even jail. A Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan have done community service, Martha Stewart served a jail term. Recently, Scout Willis (daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis) was given two days’ community service for public drinking and carrying a fake ID. Even politicians have not been spared. US Senator John Ensign resigned for violating ethics by paying the family after having an affair. In India, people would snigger at such offences – so LS, many would say. No wonder, Union Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma’s comment on Monday that Cabinet colleague and Law Minister Salman Khurshid would not indulge in a scam for an amount as small as Rs 71 lakh does not come as a surprise – So LS… And while Khurshid has filed a defamation suit against the publication, by trivialising the issue, his colleagues are not helping him at all. Someone should tell them — using another borrowed line — it’s not about money, honey. Marketing blitz Tuesday, October 16th, 2012 October 16th, 2012 Sadiya Upade You just need to turn on the idiot box nowadays to be given an array of advice. On a food channel, it goes ‘Now we put in the X brand ginger garlic paste…this paste is highly fresh, made from natural ingredients’ and on it goes. Switch the channel and you have Amitabh Bachchan trying to fullfil every whim and fancy of KBC contestants albeit with much grace. Switch the channels some more and, as of now, you will find Karan Johar and the young brigade of ‘Student of the Year’ giggling or showing off their six-pack abs. Everywhere you see there is bombardment of celebrities and brands in your face. And that’s not speaking of the multitude of ads in between. Switch off the idiot box, go online and you will find these very people claiming your wall for themselves. Only respite is that it’s not as long drawn out as the TV. The multiple fan pages, company pages, contests and promotions on Facebook, make up more than half of the news feed of an average user. However, on the other hand, one gets a chance to happily revel in AB’s reply on your birthday wishes. On the all-hailing Twitter, it is the same — your chance to connect with the who’s who of Bollywood, tennis and pretty much all sectors. Did people ever talk about dilution of brands, celebrities? Of course, they did. But tell that to the 30 lakh plus followers of AB or the 8.3 million-plus followers of Sachin Tendulkar on Facebook. I guess, it just feels nice to get a piece of the pie. In all this marketing mela, authors are not far behind. You will find plenty of authors on Twitter. You have Nicholas Sparks quizzing you about his books on Twitter, Paulo Coelho with his one liners, Amitav Ghosh and many others. Is it a good phenomenon? The elusive chance of getting to interact with people you look upto, seek their advice, pour in your admiration and the rest? Maybe. Maybe not. For me, I miss the reclusive writer. Wonder if he has also succumbed to the glamour of marketing. Hold on, Mr Kejriwal Monday, October 15th, 2012 October 15th, 2012 Jyoti Mukul There is more to the political discourse these days than just corruption charges. It has also come to be a repertory, devoid of inhibitions and full of newer and interesting phrases. So you had Vadra taking the help of “bananas” and “mangoes” to express his anguish against those questioning him and then law minister Salman Khurshid terming Arvind Kejriwal, activist turned politician, a “guttersnipe”. While every day is turning out to be a field day for Kejriwal, leaving the ones targeted by him quite exasperated, if not for these terms, a certain fatigue could have easily crept into the corruption debate. Looking back, India Against Corruption may have very successfully put the corruption issue right in the front of us ever since the Jan Lok Pal agitation began last year, but at that time there was a lot of convincing that needed to be done. Doses of CAG reports too helped in building up the atmosphere. This year, the strategy of IAC has been to target individuals levelling charges against them and then actually running faster than probably it should to move on to the next man on the agenda. As has been with allegations against Khurshid, there has been a bit of mixing up of facts leaving many to believe that Kejirwal was relying more on a TV sting operation rather than his own independent verification. Coming as it did within days of an expose on Robert Vadra , it quite unintentionally took away the spotlight away from the Gandhi family’s son-in-law. There is a certain pause which is missing, leaving one to wonder whether the everyday new expose policy is really serving any purpose. IAC needs to pause and stick on to issues and not probably jump on to another. Kejriwal seems to be a man possessed who is making things difficult for politicians but at the same time turning the pages too fast. It may not be wrong to say that in just about few days, his diatribes may not be taken seriously if this continues to be the pace. For taking on politicians , who have been in power and know the tricks of the trade fully well, an emotive Kejriwal without a strategy may just end up being media’s source of latest in breaking news rather than an actual game changer. With corruption already a well-accepted thing among many Indians who either pay their way to get their work done or are themselves deep into easy money with loads of tolerance and envy for relatives who flaunt their ill-gotten wealth, corruption may just end up being a topic for television discussions. Between now and last year, in any case, Kerjriwal’s barbs, modelled on media’s investigative style, have overtaken the Anna phenomena, Jan Lok Pal demand has been forgotten and now it is just a race for elections where someone is sticking on to the corruption issue without realising politics has no one shade. The new President and economic reforms Thursday, October 11th, 2012 October 11th, 2012 Tarun Chaturvedi Last week, a colleague of mine who teaches in a university in Belgium, was asked to prepare a paper on the recent reforms unleashed by the Indian government. The poor guy has no knowledge of India and so reluctantly accepted the assignment. This is what he sent me for checking: With the new President taking charge at Raisina Hills, the reform juggernaut has started rolling and that too rolling pretty fast. First came the announcement to permit FDI in multi-brand retail and the steep increase in diesel price accompanied with the cap on LPG cylinders. Not only that, from 1st of October, the rail fares are also being hiked because of the additional levy of service tax. These have been tough and unpopular decisions and in the process the government has lost an ally got itself converted into a minority government but has stood its ground firmly. Surprisingly, no roll back has been hinted and now it seems the decisions have sunk in and settled. Again, in the last few days, the government has okayed FDI in aviation and insurance and these measures have come as a much needed breather to some of the bleeding industries and in turn has acted as major relief to the banks who had lent to these industries. The government has gone ahead and announced a restructuring of the State Electricity Boards which was a much awaited exercise. Now we read that the government is planning a new method of implementing the subsidy schemes by which the targeting is much better and the existing leakages in the subsidy schemes are plugged. In short, the subject for whom the subsidy has been planned gets it straight in his bank account from the government. Another brilliant move which when implemented will help the targeted class to enjoy the subsidy benefits much better. Unfazed by the growing opposition to some of the reform measures, the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has reiterated that the above reforms initiated by the central government were an ongoing process for the good of the country and hence would continue. The fact that the Prime Minister has regained his ability to speak and that too in such a strong voice has itself come as a major relief to a large part of the Indian population. And let us not forget that the Indian stock markets have closed at a 5 month high and so has the India rupee. And imagine all this has happened within a month or two of the new president settling down at Raisina Hills. Since he is going to occupy the seat for five years, India is surely going to see a lot of liberalisation. My god, I never knew about these qualities of the new president. I really don’t know how to reply. I feel the best would be to dissuade him from requesting for a new topic which deals with India. Kindled spirit Wednesday, October 10th, 2012 October 10th, 2012 J Jagannath Let’s get on with our lives by presuming that every time Amazon launches an iteration of its blockbusting product Kindle there will be people who’ll lament at it and beat their chests like King Kong. These people are self-proclaimed page huggers who think that an electronic device can’t replace the gooey feeling evoked by words on page. I am one of those people but I’m an agnostic one. Here’s why. A couple of years ago writer Vikram Chandra said at the Jaipur Lit Fest that a book is a form of technology too. You don’t pluck a book from a tree. Then you have charming charlatans like Nicholas Carr saying that we only skim while reading online while our mind is more focused when reading a book. I wish he only spoke for himself. With the forthcoming generations being Internet children their neural wiring will be well-acquainted with squinting their eyes while reading on a computer if they have to. The Kindle publishing is a tiny bit of a revolution in itself. Everyone who has a book within them can bring it out without going through all the soul-sapping rigmarole of finding a literary agent, pitching to publishing houses etc etc. It’s a different thing that most books within most of us need to be asphyxiated. But for those who really deserve to be read now have a genuine outlet. So this deep-seated romanticism of printed words is a futile exercise. That said, I wouldn’t want anyone to completely shift towards the Kindle. A book is as much an accessory as a belt or a watch is. That opening scene in Before Sunrise is turbocharged with the books that the lead characters are reading. If you’re reading a Kindle I wouldn’t know if it’s a Dostoevsky or a bodice ripper that you’re enmeshed in. You can’t get a book signed by an author. The joke in Brooklyn literary circles was of how someone arm twisted Jonathan Franzen, a Kindle hater, to sign the Kindle version of Freedom. A Kindle can resemble an iPod with you cramming it up with truckloads of books and never getting around to reading them without getting any guilt pangs. My personal record is that I read a solitary one out of every ten books that I buy. I still read that one book because of the plaintive looks it gives me from the corner of the room. We still need bookstores. They are the arbiters of taste not some brain-dead Amazon if-you-like-this-you’ll-like-this-as-well algorithm. But of course the bookstore people need to behave that they cannot sell shoes with similar ease. Treat Kindle as a convenience device and that should keep you in good stead. I mean, the air hostess can’t ask you shut down the book because the flight is taking off while the electronic devices need to be asleep at that moment.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line80
__label__cc	0.692027	0.307973	Guess what? Park Avenue used to be …a park March 6, 2010 at 7:55 am \| In cities, guerilla_politics, jane_jacobs, land_use, real_estate, social_critique, street_life, urbanism \| 3 Comments A gazillion years ago when I was 17 I traveled solo to Paris, as part of a 3-month sojourn in Europe where I took trains and hitchhiked (molto pericoloso!) if the trains didn’t run to where I needed to go. The fashion of the day was halter-tops, bell-bottoms, and platform shoes …which gives an indication of the era I’m talking about. When I got to Paris, I was frankly disappointed. It was summer, therefore hot, and the city was choked to the gills with cars. Lots of cars. The automobile had absolute priority over everything else: no sidewalk cafe seemed safe from an intrusive bumper or stinking car exhaust, drivers “parked” on sidewalks, and basically the whole show was a mess. At one point, I thought, “The car has killed this city.” Paris, for pete’s sake. How could you not love Paris? Well, cars are pretty intrusive. It takes training to tune them out, and I wanted to let the city in, not have cars run me over. It’s so damn obvious that cars destroy a city’s street life, yet we’re only now getting policy-wise and serious about stopping urban death-by-car. So, props to Streetfilms for this video, Fixing the Great Mistake: Autocentric Development. From the description: “Fixing the Great Mistake” is a new Streetfilms series that examines what went wrong in the early part of the 20th Century, when our cities began catering to the automobile, and how those decisions continue to affect our lives today. In this episode, Transportation Alternatives director Paul Steely White shows how planning for cars drastically altered Park Avenue. Watch and see what Park Avenue used to look like, how we ceded it to the automobile, and what we need to do to reclaim the street as a space where people take precedence over traffic. Oddly, Manhattan traffic struck me as electrifying when I experienced it a couple of years after Paris: a kind of visceral thrum that drove energy into your bones. (Of course that might just have been NYC itself at work, its automobile traffic a white noise to the energy of its people.) But New York City with fewer cars is obviously a great idea. When you watch this video and see Paul Steely White sitting on a tiny little strip of grass, the vestige that remains of the “park” in Manhattan’s Park Avenue, you really get an idea of what was …and what could be. Added bonus in the video: a reference to Robert Moses, exporter of super-highways as well as mostly gracious Westchester parkways, but too often a destroyer of the urban street fabric, aka the man Jane Jacobs beat. (See Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City by Anthony Flint.) Now this is a subject I feel very strongly about. I agree that cars kill street life, but I don’t agree that we’re getting serious about it. Most people don’t even realize it’s a problem. Some people in New York might be thinking about it, but it’s going to be years or even decades before anything happens in Victoria. Comment by Daniel — March 7, 2010 # […] And so I drove, which is kind of ironic in light of my earlier blog post about how cars kill cities. […] Pingback by » Inbetween places Yule Heibel's Post Studio © 2003-2010 — March 8, 2010 # I think part of the problem is our inability to address transportation as a regional issue. Each municipality guards its “turf,” as we’ve seen ad nauseum now with the Johnson Street Bridge (a piece of City of Victoria turf, even though it should be a regional asset). Thus, for example, when I recently asked Mayor Fortin why the JSB should be upgraded to “lifeline” status instead of the Bay Street Bridge (which carries vital infrastructure, including water main, electrical lines, phone lines, and gas lines), I was told that the city doesn’t own the water (CRD) or the electrical lines (BC Hydro) or phone lines (Telus) or the gas lines (Terasen), therefore they’re not going to upgrade the Bay Street Bridge because why should they (we) pay for that when it benefits all these other stakeholders …who aren’t (yet??) at the table? (Hello? I think my brain just had an aneurysm…) Ya know, with thinking like that, it’s a marvel we don’t all still live in caves… (with attached parking garage, of course…) Comment by Yule — March 8, 2010 #	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line83
__label__wiki	0.720884	0.720884	Internationalt Nyt, Narkopolitik (English) CN BC: When Heroin Hits Home Media Awareness ProjectPubdate: Fri, 16 Jun 2000. Vancouver Sun (CN BC)CN BC: When Heroin Hits HomeAuthor: Rebecca Wigod WHEN HEROIN HITS HOMETwo couples have responded to their sons’ addictions by championing the expansion of prevention, treatment and recovery facilities in B.C. If personal grief brought them to their cause, they brought to it professional abilities and connections.Rob and Susie Ruttan and Ray and Nichola Hall long ago set aside feelings of shame and failure over their sons’ addiction to heroin. Hammering their grief into action, the two Kerrisdale couples have emerged as crusaders for more treatment programs for drug- addicted youth.B.C.’s failure to provide long-term residential treatment for young people is a disgrace, they say. The Ruttan’s son, now 18, languished for months on a waiting list in B.C. Rob, A Crown prosecutor, and Susie, a former teacher, watched in horror as the boy – the grandson of a B.C. Supreme Court judge – sank from smoking heroin to shooting it to injecting heroin and cocaine twice a day. While waiting for treatment that never materialized, he also contracted hepatitis C. “When I heard [he had hepatitis C], I was just overcome with grief and rage against my government for not giving my son this essential health service,” Rob said. There are only three residential treatment centres for drug-addicted youth in B.C., and one – the only one exclusively for adolescent girls – is closing because its funding has been cut. The Ruttans finally got their son to Ontario and a treatment program called Portage, where he received 24-hour professional care for seven months. “It saved his life,” said Rob. But when their son came back to B.C., he couldn’t get much in the way of after-care. “After two months or so, he had a relapse,” Rob said. “We managed to get him back to Portage for a cleanup week, and since then he’s had a series of relapses and clean stretches as he struggles.” Rob believes it’s scandalous that in B.C. – which has the worst drug problem in the country – addicted young people have to go out of province for care. He, Susie and the Halls also say it is time drug addiction was recognized as a health problem that can hit people in every socio-economic group – even the children of loving, attentive parents. The Halls’ sons had easy access to marijuana at the elementary school they attended in a leafy neighbourhood where, as Susie puts it, every family has a golden retriever and drives a Dodge Caravan. Twelve is the average age at which B.C. kids first try marijuana, according to the Kaiser Youth Foundation. In the last five years, marijuana use has doubled among B.C.’s 13-year-olds, according to the McCreary Centre Society’s 1998-99 adolescent health survey. Marijuana doesn’t always lead to heroin, but it did for the Halls’ two sons, now 19 and 23. Growing up, they were risk-takers by nature. They smoked marijuana as young teenagers and were persuaded by friends to try heroin. Somehow, they crossed the boundary between what is safe and what is dangerous. They haven’t yet been able to get back. Nichola, who works at the University of B.C., said her older son is in a methadone program for the second time. “Relapse is part of recovery ,” she said. “This is something our treatment centres have yet to learn. They kick people out the minute they show any signs [of relapsing].” Ray, a filmmaker and University of B.C. emeritus professor of theatre, film and creative writing, excused himself from his family’s kitchen table to take a phone call from his older son, who was at work and couldn’t pick up his methadone. Ray spoke to him with concern ending their conversation with the words, “I love you.” The Halls have reached an understanding of addiction. Because they know it is a kind of sickness, they are understanding and supportive of their sons in situations where others might just get mad. For example, they have learned to lock their money and valuables in their bedroom. Even so, their sons have broken the door down when desperate for money to feed their addictions. Leveraging their position as solid, respectable citizens, the Ruttans and Halls have formed a pressure group called From Grief to Action. “We realized we had some credibility with politicians and the public that people on the Downtown Eastside don’t have,” Nichola said. About 160 parents of young drug users packed St. Mary’s Anglican church in Kerrisdale when From Grief to Action held its first public meeting last month. They have received masses of e-mail from anguished parents of middle-class kids with drug problems. Susie, who answers it, said, “Every day, I get another e-mail with a story chillingly similar to ours.” From Grief to Action has joined forces with other groups pressing for a more extensive network of prevention, detox treatment and recovery facilities in B.C. The Ruttans and Halls have also come to appreciate activists who are arguing for controversial harm-reduction measures such as safe injection sites. “We pray every day that our son won’t use,” said Rob. “But if he does use, we don’t want him dying in an alley. “He has hep-C. We don’t want him to get HIV. We don’t want him to die of an overdose.” MAP posted-by: Keith Brilhart The Budgetary Impact of Ending Drug Prohibition (English) Heroin and coffee – the saga of Lao Ta Saenlee Sundhedsstyrelsen udsender national handlingsplan til forebyggelse af hepatitis C blandt stofmisbrugere Follow the Money a Cautionary Story Heroin treatment on the NHS – Video Part 1 + 2 + 3 International Journal of Prisoner Health, Et nyt tidsskrift Fjern svartebørsen – vi krever aldersgrense og moms!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line88
__label__cc	0.563265	0.436735	Future for next gen iPhones: Evolution or revolution? You can read the tea leaves. Or you can tell the future for iPhone based on accessories spotted in stores. On Tuesday, Tim Cook, the new Apple CEO, presenting a program entitled “Let’s talk iPhones” to the media, analysts and others in the Cupertino, Calif. company’s HQ. But iPhone-ologists think they have already spotted in the future, observing the shape of accessories for iPhones to come. Let’s talk iPhone accessories based on Case-Mate sleeves spotted in an AT&T store. There is a debate over whether the iPhone 5 will be an evolution of the old shape and design of the iPhone 4 or whether it will be revolution with a brand-new design. Could it be both with two phones? With the help of a contact in an AT&T store, MacRumors said: “We now have evidence that cases for the rumored iPhone 5 redesign have already begun arriving at AT&T retail stores, as one reader has sent us alleged photos of iPhone 5 silicone sleeves that appear to have arrived at his AT&T store today. Like other cases for the rumored redesign of the iPhone 5, these cases appear to show a tapered design and the mute switch moved to the opposite side of the device.” But then there is evidence from parts on factory inventories that the new iPhone, tagged as iPhone 4S, is more like iPhone 4. Mark Gurman at 9to5mac reported: “...next-generation iPhone has made its way into Apple’s inventory system. This new iPhone is the N94 device that we found in the iOS SDK many months ago. This device is confirmed to pack Apple’s dual-core A5 processor, and is likely the device we described with an 8MP camera, 1GB of RAM, Nuance Dictation speech-to-text, and the groundbreaking Assistant feature.” He added: “Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the new iPhone appearing in the inventory system is that the model number is similar to the one from a purported ‘iPhone 4S’ packaging label we spotted yesterday on a Chinese forum. We quickly dismissed the label as fake due to its unknown origin, but it is now possibly real.” So iPhone 4S? or iPhone 5? Read the tea leaves or go to an AT&T store. Or until Cook reveals all -- or maybe some -- next Tuesday. Can you wait? Labels: ATT, design, iPhone 5, release	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line95
__label__cc	0.513621	0.486379	L’Ecole taken over by Pop-Up Restaurant Appetite By: Alexa Magarian Appetite successfully executed their special four-course menu on Sunday, February 12, bringing the Pop-Up Restaurant Challenge at The International Culinary Center to a close. When I arrived at L’Ecole, I had the pleasure of watching the students work before I was seated. The team was very composed and focused. The energy in the kitchen was surprisingly calm, the students working with rhythm in the brigade. Chef-instructors were there for support but the students were the ones who ultimately ran the show. The menu reflected new American cuisine and incorporated less commonly served meats but without being intimidating for diners. We started with the rabbit and sage meatball in a syrah demi-glace followed by the crispy duck breast which was the winning challenge dish during the competition. The main course, the spice-rubbed boar chop, was generously portioned and prepared perfectly for someone never having experienced this type of meat. It was accompanied by faro risotto—so delicious. I don’t want to sound too biased, as I am a pastry student, but the dessert was perhaps my favorite course. I cannot stop thinking about it! The chevre mousse was light and refreshing and what I loved most was that it wasn’t too sweet. It was the perfect final touch to a very memorable meal! Congrats and thank you to Nhavan Nghe, Jay Medford, Ekaskak Phongmekin, Melanie Brockaway-Rosenberger, Kelly Nuti, and Alexis Alejandro. Alexa Magarian is a student in the Classic Pastry Arts program. Originally from Boston, she hopes to combine her background in public relations and writing with her love for cooking and baking. Her greatest joy in life is spending time with her family around the kitchen table, eating dinner together. When she is not tempering chocolate and creating desserts in class, she enjoys traveling for inspiration, and meeting people who are just as passionate about food as she is. Posted by The International Culinary Center at 4:01 PM 2 comments: Recent graduate Rose Weiss wins first ever Bocuse d'or USA commis competition By: Jenny Lee-Adrian [Photographs: Jenny Lee-Adrian] Rose Weiss moved in a deliberate manner, not wasting any motion, cutting exactly where she needed to. She carefully broke down whole chickens into breasts and thighs. Weiss, who graduated from The French Culinary Institute last week, won the Bocuse d'Or USA Foundation's First Ever Commis Competition on Saturday, January 28th. She beat out Samuel Benson, a sous chef at Cafe Boulud, who won second place. Tristan Aitchison, a sous chef at Providence in Los Angeles, CA, earned third place. Sonny Longboy Acosta, Jr., cook III at Alan Wong's in Honolulu, HI, was the fourth contestant. The Bocuse d'Or USA Foundation held the Commis Competition to encourage young chefs to preserve the traditions of classic cuisine, a primary mission of the nonprofit organization. The contest was also organized to identify the next rising culinary star. Each of the four competitors prepared their interpretation of legendary chef Paul Bocuse's Poulet Au Vinaigre. To view Weiss’ winning dish, click here. The Commis Competition was the opening act of the Bocuse d'Or USA finals weekend. Richard Rosendale, the executive chef at The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs in West Virginia, won the USA finals on Sunday and will represent the United States in the Bocuse d'Or World Competition in Lyon, France in 2013. Rose Weiss, middle, reacts to being named winner of the First Ever Bocuse d'Or USA Commis Competition on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. Brooke Maynard, right, a 2011 Culinary Institute of America graduate, was Weiss' assistant during the competition. Samuel Benson, left, a sous chef at Cafe Boulud, won second place. Weiss was just happy she and her commis (assistant) Brooke Maynard completed her dish. Soon after Weiss was announced the winner, Weiss said, "I won two hours ago. When we were done with our plates, I couldn't have asked for anything better. I hardly had any regrets. I said, 'Brooke, we rocked it.'" Weiss said she entered the competition after being nominated by International Culinary Center Executive Vice President and Dean Emeritus Alain Sailhac. Weiss, 25, had worked as a line cook for several years since she was a teen. She is now an extern learning about butchery and charcuterie at Gramercy Tavern in New York City. Chef Hervé Malivert, chef coordinator for the International Culinary Center, was Weiss' coach. Weiss also received much-needed advice from her mentors at Gramercy Tavern. "It's like I told her," Malivert said. "The winning part is if you have the goal to send your dishes out the way you want, then that's your goal." From left to right: Jerome Bocuse, Les Chefs de France, Epcot, Florida; vice president Bocuse d'Or USA Foundation; Thomas Keller, The French Laundry, Yountville, CA, president of the Bocuse d'Or USA Foundation and Daniel Boulud, Daniel, New York, NY, chairman of the Bocuse d'Or USA Foundation. Weiss’ prize is a three-month paid apprenticeship at a three-starred Michelin restaurant of her choice in France. “I guess I have a trip to plan,” she said. From left to right: Third-place winner Tristan Aitchison, sous chef, Providence, Los Angeles, CA; Aitchison's commis (assistant) Nick Ahrens, 2010 Culinary Institute of America graduate; Sonny Longboy Acosta, Jr., Cook III, Alan Wong's, Honolulu, HI with commis Laura Bartholomew, 2011 CIA graduate; First-place winner Rose Weiss with commis Brooke Maynard; Second-place winner Samuel Benson, sous chef at Cafe Boulud, New York City, commis Chad Kiteveles, a 2011 CIA graduate. Jenny Lee-Adrian, a 2011 graduate of The French Culinary Institute, works as a line cook at The Mark Restaurant by Jean-Georges. She has written for SeriousEats.com and Saveur.com. She has a blog called Hummingbird Appetite. Posted by The International Culinary Center at 4:56 PM No comments: The International Culinary Center Recent graduate Rose Weiss wins first ever Bocuse ... 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__label__wiki	0.506115	0.506115	Movie Review - Doctor Strange Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, Tilda Swinton, Mads Mikkelsen, Benedict Wong, Michael Stuhlbarg, Benjamin Bratt, and more. Directed by: Scott Derrickson Written by: Jon Spaihts, Scott Derrickson, and C. Robert Cargill Based on the Comics by: Steve Ditko Cinematography by: Ben Davis Music by: Michael Giacchino Premise: A world famous surgeon loses the use of his hands after a terrible car accident. Determined to find a cure, he eventually ends up in Kathmandu, Nepal where he meets the Ancient One. Driven to succeed so he can go back to his old life, Strange finds himself embroiled in a conflict that could well decide the fate of the planet. (Rated PG-13) 1) Acting - Total Thumbs Up: Benedict Cumberbatch did a great job as Doctor Stephen Strange. Cumberbatch took the character and made it his own. Though he's played many roles with ego filled men with hearts they deny, he still found a way to make Strange unique from all his other performances. Kudos! Tilda Swinton was quite convincing as a female version of the Ancient One. Mads Mikkelsen was wonderful as Kaecilius. His conversation with Strange in the NY Sanctum was wicked and fabulous on so many levels. Not to be outdone, Chiwetel Ejiofor holds his own as Mordo. (For those who know the comic series, they do push him in the right direction by the end, so go with it.) Benedict Wong (I swear they made an in-joke of the fact they had two Benedicts) was a perfect and fun foil for Strange. Rachel McAdams was fun as Christine Palmer. Her reactions at a couple of places were priceless! :) 2) Special Effects - Total Thumbs Up: If you can possibly see this film in IMAX 3D I would urge you to do so! I get motion sickness easily, but didn't have trouble with the film, so I think it should be safe for most people. All the warping of reality looked spectacular! The special effects team also handled a silent actor who just about stole the show - the Cloak of Levitation. Totally unexpected handling of the ancient artifact and it worked so well! Loved what they did with it! The mirror universe, Dormamu's universe, and all the weird manipulations of reality were fantastic. Dormamu himself, which you get a hint of during Stephen's first introduction to the unknown, looked fabulous! Wish we'd gotten a look at the Mindless ones, but I'm sure they're saving those for later. :P The spells themselves were super cool. The physicality added to them made them seem more real, which added more to the film than just straight visual effects would have. Awesome choice. The Eye of Agamotto doesn't much resemble the iconic image used in the comics, but was still very cool. And wait untill you see the astral fight through the hospital! Fab! And wait till you see what they do with the apple. Fantastic! And the backwards while still going forward combat was sublime! 3) Plot/Story - Total Thumbs Up: This is an intro story and most of the important facts fit with the stated mythology from the comics. Doctor Strange is hubby's favorite all time comic book hero so he's been slobbering to see it. :P And he was quite happy with the treatment. Three major changes from the comics were in the film. The Ancient One is now female - though it was pulled off quite nicely. The second was the introduction of Kaecilius as Stephen's first nemesis. But that's only so they could build up what they'll be doing with Mordo later. Bwahahahaha! (Ahem...) The third was the addition of Christine Palmer into the origin story. But she made for a nice counterpoint with Strange. In essence, all the best parts of what make up Doctor Strange were definitely there. The film had a lot of interspersed humor. It was quite a surprise, but it added a nice layer of fun to the film. 4) Stunts - Total Thumbs Up: Between the training, the fighting and the effect of magic on others - the stunt team was kept very busy. Fights weren't on just the usual planes of existence anymore. This made for some challenging hand to hand combat! Even escaping was a major stunt trial. lol. 5) Locations/Cinematography - Total Thumbs Up: Both the real and the imagined locations were great! They had great flavor. They even used a couple of places where you saw one thing, but heard another, throwing the whole into a new context. What fun! Filming occurred in the real Kathmandu, Nepal. Also in Hong Kong, London, New York, Los Angeles and more. The addition of the Avenger's tower outside of Stephen's view was a nice touch. And wait till you see the New York Sanctum. Sweet! 6) Costuming/Makeup - Total Thumbs Up: Major kudos to the makeup department, Benedict Cumberbatch, and the special effects group with respect to Stephen's messed up hands. There was no doubt in anyone's mind that they weren't the same as they'd been when he wakes up in the hospital after the accident. And later you can see the scars from the repairs and additional surgeries he had performed in an attempt to get them fixed. A constant reminder of his loss. The group also did a fabulous job recreating Strange's unique look from the white in his hair to the blue gi like uniform. Great attention to detail! Conclusion: Doctor Strange is an awesome rendition of the famous comic series. Fans will be please with how technology has finally caught up enough to bring this fabulous character to the world in the right way. There are two (yes two!) extra scenes during the credits. So stay all the way to the end! Stan Lee also has a cameo! (I know - like DUH!) :P Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars (Hubby's Rating: Worth Full Price to See Again!) Posted by Gloria Oliver at 7:55 PM Labels: author, Benedict Cumberbatch, comics to movies, Doctor Strange, Gloria Oliver, Marvel Studios, movie reviews, Movies, Unveiling the Fantastic Virtual Tourist - Deus Ex: Mankind Divided 11/27/1... Promoting Small Business Saturday 11/26/16 Movie Review - Moana Movie Review - Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find ... Virtual Tourist - Final Fantasy XIV 11/6/16	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line100
__label__cc	0.604435	0.395565	CS210 Fall 2009 TF CS112 Summer II 2009 TF CS320 Summer I 2009 TF CS350 Spring 2009 TF This is a fan site about ATS, Applied Type System "unleashing the potential of types." The official ATS website is at ats-lang.org. I try to endorse ATS in my own way, but none of my endorsement is endorsed by ATS. What do I think ATS is? ATS is a programming language inspired by ML and C that incorporates dependent types, theorem proving, and reasoning about linear proposition. ATS is a bit similar to and can be used like: ML, except you have to annotate types for at least the function arguments and return types (which is a good practice anyway). ATS doesn't have Hindley-Milner style type inference. ATS also doesn't have the kind of elaborated module system (structure and functor) that Standard ML has. ATS doesn't support object oriented programming like Objective CAML does. In addition, ATS doesn't have a read-eval-print loop like most functional languages have. Dependent ML, using dependent types to help you reason about data structure integrity, from something as simple as requiring two lists to be zipped to have the same length, to preserving tree-size invariant when rotating AVL trees to the left or to the right in order to guarantee well-balanced property of AVL trees. Theorem prover, but ATS doesn't do proof search. ATS also supports linear proposition for reasoning about resource ownership and enough flow analysis to automatically track whether resource requirements are met. C, which offers you very fine control over memory allocation as well as the management of other kind of resources. The syntax still looks like ML, but you can do low-level programming that C can do in a much safer way. ATS also offers template, a C++ feature, though again it doesn't support object oriented programming. When these features are combined: functional programming, dependent types, theorem proving with linear proposition, and low-level programming, you get a language that is very powerful but somewhat difficult for beginners to grasp on their own. The difficulty is further compounded by the following human factors: Unfamiliarity with inductive reasoning and writing recursive functions. When you write a recursive function, you probably meant to write one that terminates. If you want a recursive function to terminate, you need base cases that return without making a recursive call, and inductive cases where you are sure the recursive call is only made on a smaller sub-problem (i.e. you're always making progress). A C programmer can practice this by rewriting a for-loop as a recursive function. Incomplete understanding of the data structure model. Even an experienced ATS programmer can be confronted with a data structure he doesn't completely understand. He will have difficulty reason about his program that manipulates the data structure. Lack of experience in writing proofs, or over-reliance on intuition. People usually make logical leaps because intuition says so. Sometimes the intuition is right. Sometimes it is not. Proofs are actually fairly mechanical and boring, but that's just the way it is supposed to be. Lack of experience in low-level programming. After programming in Java and ML (and Obama forbids, Haskell) for a while, you forget how your programming style could generate a lot of garbage. This is probably not a problem with your favorite language since compiler optimization and garbage collectors are getting better, and computers are being equipped with more memory. But ATS forces you to think about these issues again. ATS might not be the most elegant language, but I feel that it represents a reasonable trade-off when everything about safe and efficient programs are considered. Here are some articles I wrote as I learned ATS. This is grossly incomplete, but hopefully that will get you started. ML programmer's guide to ATS Manipulating flat memory Subpages (2): Manipulating flat memory ML programmer's guide to ATS	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line107
__label__wiki	0.880397	0.880397	Artists - Records Artists - Booking Artists - Management Artists - St Laurent Laurence Castera Laurence Castera made his first steps on stage in 2009, while playing guitar with the pop group Automat. He then made himself known to the general public in 2014 during a remarkable appearance on the show La Voix, just one year before he won the Audience Award at the Festival de la chanson de Granby. In 2017, Le bruit des mots was released, a first album of original material self-produced and co-directed by Francis Perron (Bears of Legend). Following the release of this first album, Laurence puts on a hundred show dates in Quebec in addition to a tour in Europe while his music can also be heard on various television shows. Two of the fourteen multifaceted pop-folk songs on the album are at the top of the radio charts. At the end of 2018, Laurence went back into the studio to record a 2nd album, this time with Simon Pednault (2 nominations at the 2019 Junos with Gabrielle Shonk and Tire le Coyote) who wears the hat of co-director in addition to co-writing the arrangements with Laurence. Les hauts lieux was released on April 12th. Saint-Hyacinthe, QC, Canada Salle/festival : Le Zaricot Billets : Lavaltrie, QC, Canada Salle/festival 2020-02-14 Saint-Hyacinthe, QC, Canada Le Zaricot 2020-02-15 Lavaltrie, QC, Canada La Chasse-galerie Les hauts lieux Jouer le jeu Le bruit des mots Déposer les armes LAURENCE CASTERA \| A NEW MUSIC VIDEO Laurence Castera unveils Les hauts lieux, his second solo album To be the first to know, subscribe to our mailing list! Fonds Radiostar Tous droits résérvés © 2020 Site Web: cognitif+Coutu.co - Design: Heythem Mojah	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line113
__label__wiki	0.882959	0.882959	Engineers Ireland Excellence Awards Shortlist Announced From flood relief schemes to parklands, castle conservations and an airport control tower, Engineers Ireland, the professional membership body for engineers in Ireland, today revealed the 32 engineering projects shortlisted for the 2019 Engineers Ireland Excellence Awards, held in association with ESB. The awards, founded in 2010, are presented annually in recognition of the achievements of engineers that have demonstrated exceptional engineering skills. As well as identifying leaders within the engineering sector, the awards provide an opportunity to showcase and celebrate the invaluable contribution the engineering profession makes to society. Cork engineering initiatives have led the shortlist in the Local Authority Engineering Initiative Award category, sponsored by Colas Bitumen Emulsions, with three of five shortlisted projects based in the city and county. Five initiatives that aim to inspire and develop Ireland’s future engineering talent at third-level have also been shortlisted for the Engineering Education Award, sponsored by Accenture. Additionally, the shortlisted projects for the newly introduced Sustainability Award, sponsored by Irish Water, the Heritage and Conservation Award, sponsored by the OPW, the Geoscience Ireland Award, sponsored by Geoscience Ireland and the Best Presentation Award, sponsored by Beale & Co and Griffiths & Armour were also announced by Engineers Ireland today, full details of which can be found here. As part of the shortlist announcement, members of the public are encouraged to vote online for what they consider to be the best overall national Engineering Project of the Year before the midnight deadline of Friday, 8 November. This award is one of the most hotly contested categories with the winner decided by a voting process involving an online public vote and a panel of expert judges. Shortlisted in the Engineering Project of the Year Award category, sponsored by Transport Infrastructure Ireland, are: IAA Visual Control Tower, Dublin Airport by Arup Cruiserath Biologics by Bristol Myers Squibb East Tip Haulbowline Island Remediation Project by Cork County Council, RPS, PJ Hegarty & Sons and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine Dublin Port Ro-Ro Jetty by Keating Ocean Pier Berth 31-34 by Keating Center Parcs Longford Forest by ORS To cast your vote for the national Engineering Project of the Year, please click here. Commenting on the shortlist announcement, Caroline Spillane, Director General of Engineers Ireland, said: “The shortlisted projects for the Engineering Project of the Year Award, and indeed for the each of the shortlisted projects announced today are a testament to the reputation and talent of engineers. “The initiatives shortlisted further showcase the many creative and ingenious solutions engineers implement for communities in Ireland and overseas. We look forward to showcasing the work of talented engineers at our Excellence Awards ceremony on 15 November and celebrating leaders in the field”, Ms Spillane concluded. Pat O’Doherty, ESB Chief Executive, said: “The quality of projects shortlisted epitomise engineering excellence and remind us of the impact that the engineering profession has on the daily lives of families and communities across Ireland. “Engineers make an incredibly valuable contribution to society and play a critical role in addressing some of society’s biggest challenges, from providing renewable energy to delivering smart, sustainable infrastructure and protecting our water supplies. It is important therefore that we work collectively to inspire young people to consider engineering as a career choice so that we can build the skills necessary to meet the long-term needs of our society.” The black-tie Excellence Awards ceremony will take place on Friday, 15 November, where a number of additional category awards will be presented on the evening, including: the ESB Outstanding Contribution to Engineering Award; the ESB International Engineer of the Year Award; the Innovative Student Engineer of the Year Award, sponsored by Siemens; the Chartered Engineer of the Year Award, sponsored by Arup; the CPD Employer of the Year Award, sponsored by Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland; and the President’s Award, sponsored by CRH. 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__label__wiki	0.533913	0.533913	Pre-Season Preview: UTEP Miners 2009 Record: 4-8 (3-5 in C-USA) Head Coach: Mike Price (34-38 at UTEP, 163-160 Overall) Non-Conference Schedule: Arkansas-Pine Bluff (9/4), New Mexico State (9/18), @ New Mexico (10/2), @ Arkansas (11/13) Scoring: 29.8 points per game (3rd in C-USA) Rushing Yards/Game: 151 (5th in C-USA) Passing Yards/Game: 275 (3rd in C-USA, 20th in Nation) Total Yards/Game: 426 (2nd in C-USA) Scoring: 33.5 points per game (9th in C-USA, 104th in Nation) Rushing Yards/Game: 200 (10th in C-USA, 106th in Nation) Passing Yards/Game: 246 (5th in C-USA) Total Yards/Game: 446 (7th in C-USA, 110th in Nation) Turnover Margin: -0.25 per game (8th in C-USA) Penalties: 69 yards per game (11th in C-USA, 112th in Nation) Kicker/Punter:1 Passing: QB Trevor Vittatoe, Sr (223 of 407 for 3286 yds, 17 TD, 13 INT, 273 ypg) Rushing: RB Donald Buckram, Sr (259 carries for 1594 yds, 18 TD, 6.1 ypc, 132 ypg) Receiving: WR Kris Adams, Sr (42 rec, 580 yds, 2 TD, 3.5 rec/game) Receiving: WR Donald Buckram, Sr (30 rec, 453 yds, 3 TD, 2.5 rec/game) Tackles: LB Royzell Smith, Jr (68); LB Jeremy Springer, Jr (66) Sacks: DL Bernard Obi, Jr (2) Interceptions: LB Royzell Smith, Jr (2) 2010 Pre-Season C-USA Prediction: Athlon Sports: #3 in C-USA West Bowl Prediction: Athlon Sports: New Orleans Bowl (vs Troy) UTEP went 2-11 in 2003 and then they turned the program over to Mike Price. Price posted back to back 8-4 seasons in his first two at UTEP and led them to bowl games. Unfortunately, they haven't had a winning season or been back to a bowl since 2005. Even though they went 4-8 last year they did beat Houston (then #12 in the Nation) 58 to 41. UTEP returns some impressive talent on the offensive side of the football but the achilles heel of the team last year was the defense. Can Price turn around the UTEP defense and be a contender in Conference USA? We caught up with Adrian from the SB Nation blog Miner Rush to find out what to expect from the 2010 UTEP Miners. The major strength is obviously talent at the skill positions on offense. Trevor Vittatoe is a four year starter at quarterback who will be expected to have a 3,000 yard season this fall. Donald Buckram finished fourth in the nation last year in rushing. He's a small, speed back, who has a knack for breaking tackles and runs with surprising power for his size. He has incredible vision and might be the closest thing at the college level to Chris Johnson of the Tennessee Titans. Kris Adams has potential to be a threat at the WR postition. His numbers weren't great last year but Miner fans expect a big year from him. The team's greatest weakness will probably be the transition to a new defensive scheme. New defensive coordinator, Andre Patterson, is switching UTEP over from a 3-3-5 to a 4-3 attack. The Miners showed promise along the defensive line during spring and while they may be undersized as a whole, have decent depth that they will need to free up their linebacker corps led by the very talented Jeremy Springer and Royzell Smith. The team's secondary struggled immensely last year as the 3-3-5 required tons of man to man coverage. Expect a transition into more traditional zone sets to really help a team with talent maximize their potential. Looking at the schedule who will be the first major test? I mean no disrespect to Arkansas-Pine Bluff in week one, because as a Miner fan, we can't take any games for granted, but the first major test is definitely Houston in week 2. The Cougars came in to El Paso ranked #12 in the nation last year, fresh off wins against Oklahoma State and Texas Tech, and had legitimate BCS expectations. Then, Donald Buckram & Co. torched their defense to the tune of 58-41 and the rest of Houston's season was quite forgettable. UTEP and Houston have a history of tough games and the early season game will be huge for the C-USA West race. Andre Patterson's new defense will have to play a perfect game to slow down Case Keenum. I'm not sure Miner fans "fear" any team on the schedule right now because nobody on the schedule looks to be as good as Texas was last year and the year before. This team has played the very best competition in the country, and while the second game wasn't nearly as competitive as the first, I'm confident that the Miners can hang around with anybody on their schedule. Even Arkansas. Good question and there are a lot of good players that don't get the acclaim they deserve. If I had to pick one, I'd go with TE Jonny Moore. Moore is not used in the passing game the way he probably could be, but if you watch Donald Buckram's highlights from last season, time and time again you will see Moore getting quality blocks downfield. He's a ferocious blocker and is essential to UTEP's success. There are a lot of good players on the team. Rod Huntley, Vittatoe, Adams, and Alex Solot are all quality D-1 players who at the very least will be fighting for an UFA contract at some point, but the star is probably Buckram. He's one of the most entertaining players to watch in the country. End of Story. Linebacker Jeremy Springer is all over the field on just about every play. He's a gamer and is one of those guys that even when he doesn't make the tackle, he's probably impacted the play in a way to make the tackle easier for someone else on the team. He's a good, hard nosed football player. I can't identify one single player. I'll say it's the entire secondary. In the C-USA, with Tulsa, Houston, and other elite spread offenses littering the conference, it's essential that you have a secondary that plays tough coverage and has players that don't miss tackles that make marginal plays game changers. UTEP lost some leaders in the secondary in Cornelius Brown (now trying to make it with the Chicago Bears) and Da'Mon Cromartie Smith (now trying to make it with the Steelers). It will be interesting to see how the new guys step up and adjust to the new scheme. Getting back to the secondary, the Miners expect big things from JC transfer cornerback Travaun Nixon. He has good size, 6'1-205. and displayed excellent cover ability during spring ball. He showed vast improvement from the beginning of camp to the end of camp and emerged as a guy that could be the #1 corner in the fall. Mike Price has been the Head Coach for 6 years. He started out with 2 winning seasons and since has had 4 straight losing seasons and has not posted a winning conference record since 2005. How much pressure is he under to turn around the program and what does he need to do better to get the job done? Finish games. The Miners lost 5 games last year by 7 points or less. Some of the losses were absolutely baffling. For example, the Miners followed their triumph against Houston with an absolutely atrocious loss to Memphis. There was no reason why the Miners should have lost to Tulane or Rice. Coach Price is beloved in El Paso but the locals need UTEP to win the ones their supposed to. With Vittatoe a senior, and with one of the best running backs in the country, anything less than a bowl game will render this season a disappointment and the pressure will rise on Coach Price. I don't want to toss out numbers just yet, but like I said the Miners have to make a bowl game for this season to be a success. Miner fans want a winning record and with the senior talent it's justifiable to expect a bowl game this season. Anything more than 7-5 is cake for us. We want to see Trevor go out a winner and we want to see Mike Price's reputation vindicated nationally, but we understand that progress comes slowly and we are conditioned to not be greedy when it comes to expectations. Realistically, a winning record and bowl game will revive a city desperate to root for a winner. 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__label__wiki	0.631213	0.631213	Skip to main navigation / Skip to secondary navigation / Skip to content Voter's Edge Dark Money Watch MapLight Program Manager, Voter's Edge Remote Control 2012 (U.S. Senate) Investing in Influence Remote Control 2010 (California) Remote Control 2008 (U.S. House) Media Fact Sheet Logos and Photos California Money and Politics Data Set Federal Money and Politics Data Set Bill Positions API Blogs and RSS MapLight - Money and Politics Money and Politics: Illuminating the Connection Search MapLight: U.S. CongressChange No actions available. Full Text of this Amendment SA 3645. Mr. ENSIGN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3500 proposed by Mr. Harkin (for himself, Mr. Chambliss, Mr. Baucus, and Mr. Grassley) to the bill H.R. 2419, to provide for the continuation of agricultural programs through fiscal year 2012, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: Beginning on page 210, strike line 20 and all that follows through page 211, line 19, and insert the following: ``(1) PROGRAMS.-- ``(A) COMMODITY PROGRAMS.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an individual or entity shall not be eligible to receive any benefit described in paragraph (2)(A) during a crop year if the average adjusted gross income of the individual or entity exceeds $200,000. ``(B) CONSERVATION PROGRAMS.--Not- On page 212, lines 6 and 7, strike ``Subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (1)'' and insert ``Paragraph (1)(A)''. On page 212, line 21, strike ``(1)(C)'' and inserting ``(1)(B)''. (As printed in the Congressional Record for the Senate on Nov 13, 2007.) Read the details about our data sources and methodology. Contributions data provided by the Center for Responsive Politics (OpenSecrets.org). Legislative data from GovTrack.us. Data returned by this service is subject to the use restrictions set by the Federal Election Commission. By accessing this data, you understand that you are using the data subject to all applicable local, state and federal law, including FEC restrictions. All data licensed under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license. By downloading data, you are agreeing to the terms of the license. Federal records must be attributed to OpenSecrets.org. California State records must be attributed to FollowTheMoney.org. MapLight U.S. Congress MapLight California MapLight Wisconsin	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line122
__label__wiki	0.775265	0.775265	Claudia Casper Claudia Casper’s third novel, The Mercy Journals, addresses a timely issue: how to live in a degraded world. The first point is that many people don’t. We learn right at the beginning that the journals are found on Vancouver Island in 2072, along with the remains of a human being and a cougar. Allen Quincy, whose nickname is Mercy, writes his two journals in 2047, after a great die-off and the restructuring of the political system in OneWorld. Journal One is set mainly in what was once Seattle. Quincy is 58 years old and has witnessed absolute horror. He lives a small life in a small apartment, having lost his family and any desire to succeed other than to survive and to try to dampen the force of what could be called PTSD. He was once a soldier and for many years he has believed that the only way to survive is to reduce his life to the simplest of pleasures: how his worn flannel sheets feel, for example. His life changes dramatically when he meets Ruby Blades, a free-spirited woman, who awakens desire in him — but Ruby struggles with her own demons. Quincy turns back to alcohol after 18 years of sobriety, and his overwhelming need to forget the past, to lose memory, leads him to write the journals. He’s read that Socrates believed writing “will implant forgetfulness” as it leads people to rely on material outside themselves to remember — and he is desperate to forget. Casper has created a complex and unforgettable character in Quincy. He grapples with what he thinks is the second main philosophical question: Why am I here? The first question — Who am I? — he inadvertently answers by addressing the second. So we have an intelligent, thoughtful, deeply damaged man who is tormented by his past, unsure of the present, and, at least initially, unwilling to consider the future. And all that is set against a radically altered world which has been nearly destroyed due to human greed and failure to act in time to prevent or limit climate change. In part, the novel could be seen as a treatise on loss. If Quincy can stop remembering the losses he has endured and even caused, he hopes he can stop the pain. But it’s not that simple, or even possible, so he must move forward and create a life for himself. And through his relationship with Ruby he learns about his possibilities and limitations. He also has to cope with his brother Leo, whom he has not seen for 20 years. Leo is a vile human being, the personification of greed. He’s the weakest character in the novel because he is so one-dimensional, but it’s understandable why Casper would include such a man, given the destruction the world has experienced because of people like Leo. Journal Two is a break from the first as Quincy, Leo and Leo’s stepson Griffin travel to Vancouver Island to the old family cabin (called Nirvana) to rebuild their lives. But as we know from the first page, someone dies. Stylistically, the novel portrays memory realistically with its forward and backward movement. Patterns of imagery serve to create coherence. For example, Casper has used feline imagery to tie together some of the various struggles. Quincy describes keeping things together with the image that his “cats were stuffed in a bag and sleeping”; that image shifts. The cougars on Vancouver Island are real, and hungry. And Leo’s name references cats. While the novel is set in the future, it doesn’t seem that far away or fantastical. Instead of driverless cars, most people walk or bicycle, although there are automobiles. The Mercy Journals work on two levels: as a cautionary tale and as an examination of one man’s struggle to find meaning in life. The two levels work beautifully together. Reviewed by Candace Fertile Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/sweet+mercy+near+future+setting+mercy+journals+accentuates+gripping+existential+quandary/11779147/story.html#ixzz43x5PNjzO The Mercy Journals by Claudia Casper Reviews of Claudia's work Five Stars in Foreword Trump's Wall Foretold - BC Booklook The Rumpus - Amina Gautier Reviews The Mercy Journals Quill & Quire Publishers Weekly: Starred Review, The Reconstruction Kirkus Reviews: Starred Review, The Reconstruction Booklist: The Reconstruction The Independent: The Reconstruction The Globe and Mail: The Reconstruction The Financial Post The Globe and Mail: The Continuation of Love by Other Means The Sun Times The Georgia Straight The Edmonton Journal The Vancouver Review The Sunday Oregonian	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line123
__label__cc	0.610624	0.389376	what we learnt learnshops rethinking governance, exploring new frameworks for decision-making and action in your organization ebbf’s 28th annual conference \| 17th to 20th of May 2018 – Geneva We live in exciting times, the crossing point in the transition towards new forms of enterprises and of evolving economic systems. The future is most uncertain, with the only certainty being change, an accelerating rate of change. We don’t wish to be simple spectators, instead protagonists of the new forms of enterprises and economic systems where we will enjoy creating a more prosperous, just and sustainable civilization. To help us manage the future we explored together over the four days of this event, the best new forms of governance that are emerging both in enterprises and in society. We co-created new thinking and new ideas that will allow us to create shared prosperity through adaptive organizations. We tried to understand, explore and design future forms of governance, holistic ones that will allow individuals the freedom to develop their human capacities and talents. Free and happy human resources motivated by a superior purpose that create the kinds of successful organizations, products, services, learning and experiences able to generate shared prosperity, serving the enduring interests of all people. We challenged some of the myths that make our governance systems so dysfunctional, and in a spirit of genuine enquiry and truth seeking, contributed toward a set of principles that foster unity and guide us toward operational models that promote the development of just, prosperous and sustainable businesses and society. #ebbfgovernance – highlights and proceedings You can find here images, powerpoints, videos and a twitter summary of the event If you find these materials valuable, we would deeply appreciate your contribution to allow ebbf to continue producing these kinds of events and learnigns CONTRIBUTE HERE Get a feel for the energy and interaction at the event or bring back good memories if you attended Click to view event photo album TWITTER FEED DURING THE EVENT Some of the highlighted twitter posts shown during the event will take you through the flow and hour by hour reactions to the four day learning event Click to view twitter feed highlights POWERPOINTS AND VIDEOS (videos can be found on ebbf’s facebook wall here) Malika Parent “Governance as a path to truth” governance a path to truth – #ebbfgovernance keynote by Malika Aït-Mohamed Parent from ebbf – mindful people, meaningful work Nadja Schnetzer Governance for Purpose – how can we build companies that cannot be hijacked by interests we do not share? James Jennings “Aligned Human Networks” ebbfgovernance keynote: aligned human networks by James Jennings from ebbf – mindful people, meaningful work ebbfgovernance miguel de clerk governance of a territory living together from ebbf – mindful people, meaningful work ebbfgovernance carmen pipola learnshop from ebbf – mindful people, meaningful work Jenna Nicholas Rethinking Governance – Collaborative Impact Experiences ebbfgovernance jenna nicholas rethinking governance – collaborative approaches from ebbf – mindful people, meaningful work Wendi Momen, Daniel Truran, Maja Groff What happens when you put a feminine leader into a governance structure? ebbfgovernance feminine governance maja groff wendi momen from ebbf – mindful people, meaningful work Augusto Lopez-Claros Global Governance in the 21st Century: The Future at Risk? Global Governance in the 21st Century: The Future at Risk (Augusto Lopez Claros) from ebbf – mindful people, meaningful work Alex Inchbald Using the artist inside you, to bring the future of governance to your workplace ebbfgovernance keynote: the (artist) inside, bringing the future of governance to your workplace by alex inchbald from ebbf – mindful people, meaningful work Arthur Dahl what are the new governance models that are supporting SDGs? ebbfgovernance arthur dahl governance and the sdg from ebbf – mindful people, meaningful work Program 17th to 20th May DAY 1 – THURSDAY program starts at 17:00 and ends at 21:30 Opening session: The journey begins – a welcome to the conference and information about how you can make the most of this four day ebbf learning experience Includes an introduction to your personal hosts who will accompany you on this journey, and a welcome from ebbf’s chair Wendi Momen. Presenting the event dynamic, the harvesting and exchanging of ideas that will take place, creating a dynamic of interaction with people at and outside the event. How can we build governance systems in our organizations that will be based upon and foster a culture of truth? How can society be impacted by this new form of governance? What I learnt and what remains to be discovered. Post Keynote Meaningful Conversations Following the first keynote we start the first meaningful conversations, taking those sparks of inspiration, going deeper into what they mean to us, to our workplaces and/or to the creation of new economic systems. In this session you decide which of the questions sparked by the keynote you wish to address, or create a table to have other like-minded individuals in the room join an exploration of your own question. After dinner keynote By building a media company which has as its highest goal to defend the independence of the editorial team with all means possible, I learned a lot about how to build a company that cannot be taken over by absentee owners or interests that could harm the purpose of the company and about how the members of the team work together by experimenting with new forms of governance. Interactive session using the event learning guide Stopping to think and discuss the key questions, the key ideas, the most important insights from this first day and the thinking process it has sparked in us as we compare our will to act with the often challenging workplaces we wish to influence. A final session to get to know more about who is there One of the most important resource you will have available during the course of this learning event, is the people who attend. An extremely diverse group of individuals coming from all parts of the world that are united by a common passion, similar to yours: exploring ways in which to positively influence our workplaces and economic systems. Getting to know more about who you are surrounded by, will allow you to find the individual and start the kind of meaningful conversation that is what usually brings about the most important changes in people’s work and lives at ebbf events. DAY 2 – FRIDAY Welcome to Friday: Introducing you to what you can expect in this second day of the conference. After enjoying a breakfast and conversations enjoying the rich diversity of participants, surrounded by the relaxing lake-side natural beauty, we get you in the right frame of mind with a program engaging your eyes, ears and mind with a morning inspirational followed by an introduction to the day and to the parallel sessions that you can choose from this morning and afternoon. 10 years ago, James started using open-book management, a governance model that embodies the values of justice, equity and human nobility. Far more than radical transparency, open-book teaches universal financial literacy so that everyone can speak the same language. It unifies goals, engages employees in the management of the company and shares the rewards of success. The hard outcomes are growth and profitability. The harder to quantify benefits are greater collaboration, engagement, ethical behavior and sustainability. Following this keynote that opened our mind to the opportunities that new forms of governance can bring to our organizations, we use those sparks of inspiration, going deeper into what they mean to us, to our workplaces and/or to the creation of new economic systems. In this session you decide which of the questions sparked by the keynote you wish to address, or create a table to have other like-minded individuals in the room to join an exploration of your own question. Five Parallel Learnshops You will be able to choose between five parallel sessions, (see details here) These will allow you to interactively explore five avenues to deepen your understanding, the role and application of diversity in structuring and living prosperity-creating organizations. Lunch and introduction to the afternoon Enjoy a great combination of food and meaningful conversations to relax or to spark new ideas. You will then be introduced to the afternoon parallel sessions and to how you can use this afternoon program and your interactive learning guide. ebbf annual general meeting how can the theme of this event – rethinking governance – allow ebbf, a global organization spread in over 50 countries, to learn, evolve and engage its global community? What can we all learn from the evolving shape and impact of an organization like ebbf? You will experience an interactive large group consultation, that will show how to engage communities into meaningful action. Well beyond an Annual General Meeting, this will be an AGM meaning Annual Generation of Momentum and AGC Annual General Consultation. As part of ebbf’s focus on being a learning community, we will be creating the future opportunities of this organization, addressing practical issues, interacting with operational teams and creating the space for new ideas to emerge. Afternoon keynote How are new forms finance influencing governance? How are the new forms of finance, such as impact investing, crowd financing, crowd lending and the divest invest movement affecting the relationships and priorities of stakeholders? How is governance thus evolving in companies and organizations? These will allow you to interactively explore five avenues that will allow you to better understand the role and application of diversity in structuring and living prosperity-creating organizations. Sean Hinton Human-Centred Governance How we address governance says a huge amount about our implicit conceptual framework and our assumptions about the nature of man. When we reach for incentives we say we think man is intrinsically greedy and driven by self interest. But what we are assuming about power, motivation, the potential of education, the nature of the human spirit are displayed in how we regulate governance. What are the assumptions about human beings that will allow us to create the best forms of governance? DAY 3 – SATURDAY Welcome to Saturday: Introducing you to what you can expect in this third day of the event. Enjoying worthwhile conversations over breakfast, then viewing a morning inspirational and being introduced by what you can expect today: a great way to start this third day of the event. Lars Sudmann New governance: the need for frameworks and leadership In a complex and changing environment, the traditional approach of leadership may be inadequate. We do need a deeper understanding of how to build new frameworks and how to lead and connect and empower. We have to practice a different approach to organizations and need to revisit the skill-sets of leaders, be it for setting the strategy as well as in day-to-day interactions. We now bring the new insights sparked by the keynote into what co-creation processes can create, to our workplaces and/or to the creation of new economic systems. Morning – Choose one from these five Parallel Learnshops This morning you will be able to choose between experiencing one from five parallel sessions, (see details here) These will allow you to interactively explore ways to apply diverse ideas and cultures in your organization and life. Enjoy “food for thought” continuing your meaningful conversations, interacting informally with speakers and participants. An innovative three-way keynote to show how to bring the gender and diversity of views and working into liberating and empowering governance models. Open Space exploration now it is time for you to decide what, right now, is most important for you to address We have created for you a facilitated open space session, where you can now call attention to what you now wish to address and find individuals who will engage with you exploring a new idea, or addressing the issue that has come up for you to solve. Here is where you determine the program and where you get most value from the great array of speakers and participants there around you. The design of a governance system that will lay a foundation for peace and prosperity for the world has been the subject of much creative thinking over the centuries. Despite some achievements, our progress has been chaotic and uneven and has left many behind. In some areas, such as our global politics and the essential nature of our world order, we are today at a critical crossroads. What do we need to do to set ourselves on a path of unsurpassed achievements and development? DAY 4 – SUNDAY Welcome to Sunday: Bringing the learning to your workplace tomorrow Introducing you to what you can expect in this last day, the most important of the conference. After enjoying the views, the conversations and your breakfast we offer you a morning inspirational and then introduce you to the key moment of the event, the last part where we hear a few last inspirational talks, harvest the learning and create a clear path of action to be truly prepared to impact our workplaces upon our return next week Taking what you have learned during this conference back to your workplace will take courage. You will need to tap into the artist inside you. Alex will explain how his experiences painting in extreme locations around the world can help you now. He will share his Legacy Diamond framework which places purpose at the heart of everything we do and enables leaders and their teams in leading organisations around the world to leave the legacy they were born to create. In this thought-provoking and uplifting speech Alex will use stories about art to: — Explain how creativity emerges in the stillness amidst the tension of opposites; — Describe what leaders, teams and organisations can learn from nature to get into creative flow all the time; — Explore the real reason why Michelangelo left a legacy in his lifetime and Van Gogh didn’t; — Describe the miraculous metaphysical relationship between the individual and their environment; — Explain how each of us can find the artist inside us; — Explore why purpose and belief are the key to creating what you were born to create; — Encourage each of us to explore what we are willing to stand up for. We will interview three people who took part in recent ebbf events and ask them “what actually happened to you on Monday, when you returned to your workplace after your last ebbf event experience?” An interactive session giving you a real sense for how to best prepare and harness the energy and ideas of this four day experience, enjoying a beautiful transition into your own workplace on Monday. Closing Keynote Participants now become the protagonists As a participant you will soon be leaving this beautiful setting, the trust, encouragement and new ideas and contacts is what you will need to take to your workplace to become the protagonist of the positive change you wish to make. In this final session we will make sure that you are ready and fully prepared to make that impact and to find in these last couple of hours some remaining ideas and connections but also building the post-event continuation that will allow you to keep feeding into the source of inspiration that you found during these three days. We will also look at all the answers, all the insights, all the harvesting that we have collected and create a guide that will be used to inform and impact the wider global audience of ebbf. the goodbye lunch the last lunch is the opportunity to enjoy the final conversations, to make the final connection with the individuals you will want to continue to accompany and to be accompanied in this new page of your life that starts after this transformative and elevating learning event. First confirmed speakers with whom we will enjoy challenging current assumptions about governance and build new ones. Click here to send your keynote / learnshop proposal. What are the governance systems that will allow us to build a just, fair and sustainable global economic system? Enjoying a one-year research sabbatical leave Augusto Lopez-Claros works at the World Bank as Director of the Global Indicators Group in DEC, the unit leading the Bank’s research and analytical work. The Indicators Group is the department responsible for the Bank’s Doing Business report and other international benchmarking studies. Previously he was Chief Economist and Director of the Global Competitiveness Program at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, where he was also the Editor of the Global Competitiveness Report, the Forum’s flagship publication, as well as a number of regional economic reports. He was educated in England and the United States, receiving a diploma in Mathematical Statistics from Cambridge University and a PhD in Economics from Duke University. In 2007 he was a coeditor of The International Monetary System, the IMF, and the G-20: A Great Transformation in the Making? and The Humanitarian Response Index: Measuring Commitment to Best Practice, both published by Palgrave. He was the editor of The Innovation for Development Report 2010–2011: Innovation as a Driver of Productivity and Economic Growth, published by Palgrave in November 2010. More recent publications include: “Fiscal Challenges After the Global Financial Crisis: A Survey of Key Issues” (2014), “Removing Impediments to Sustainable Economic Development: The Case of Corruption” (2015) and “The Moral Dimension of the Fight Against Corruption” (2017). You can also read here a recent article he wrote on the current debate between nationalism and global views Sean Hinton joined the Open Society Foundations in September 2015 as Chief Executive Officer of the Soros Economic Development Fund and Director of the Economic Advancement Program Prior to this, Hinton was principal of Terbish Partners, which he founded in 2007 to provide strategic advisory services focusing on China, Mongolia, and Africa and the social and economic impact of large-scale extractive investments. He was a long-term senior advisor to Goldman Sachs (Asia) and the Rio Tinto group. His other roles have included: deputy chairman of SouthGobi Resources; special advisor to the CEO of SOHO China; and chairman of China Networks. Hinton has over 25 years of experience in China and Mongolia, where he lived from 1988 to 1995. He subsequently served as Mongolia’s first honorary consul-general in Australia. Hinton began his career as a consultant at McKinsey & Company as a specialist in their media and entertainment practice. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, the University of Cambridge, and the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is a Henry Crown fellow of the Aspen Institute, and serves on the board of the Natural Resources Governance Institute and the international advisory board of the Baha’i Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland. How are the new forms of finance, such as impact investing, crowd financing affecting the relationships and priorities of stakeholders and how is governance then evolving in companies and organizations? Jenna is the CEO of Impact Experience which facilitates convenings that build lasting relationships between investors, philanthropists, innovators, and leaders of marginalized communities — linking vision with action and directing investment to the most vulnerable communities. Some of these issues include generating employment in marginalized communities such as retraining former coal miners in Appalachia; attracting greater pools of capital to minority and women run businesses and addressing health disparities. Jenna is also President of Phoenix Global Impact, a firm that specializes in impact investing, social entrepreneurship and strategic philanthropy. Through her firm, she has project managed Divest-Invest Philanthropy, a coalition of philanthropic foundations, divesting from investments in fossil fuels and reinvesting in new economy solutions. Jenna spoke at TedX Portland about the Divest-Invest work. Jenna has also worked with the World Bank Treasury on green bonds and other sustainability projects and with Toniic helping to support an impact investing community. She has worked closely with the Calvert Special Equities team and is an advisor to the Nexus Global Youth Summit and Ethic, an online impact investing platform. Jenna graduated from Stanford University with an International Relations Honors Degree during which time she also read International Development at Oxford University. Jenna is a Stanford Graduate School of Business MBA graduate, is a PD Soros Fellow for New Americans and recipient of the Stanford Social Innovation Fellowship. Jenna has also been selected as a World Economic Forum Global Shaper. Jenna has special links with China and co-taught a course at Tsinghua School of Economics and Management on Business Ethics, Sustainability and Impact Investing. She is an active member of the Bahá’í Faith. NADJA SCHNETZLER I am exploring new forms of governance for companies with the new Republik Magazine a new open-source cooperative business model that rethinks the entire concept of governance, I would like to explore what we learnt with you. Owner of «Word and Deed», and Co-Founder at Project R & Republik Magazine, reclaiming journalism as profession creating a new business model for media companies that want to place their readers at the center. It is structured as an open-source cooperative, where they share their knowledge, software and business insights with others who also want to create journalism projects that reinforce democracy. Her motto is “How can I inspire you?,” as she wants companies, teams and individuals to approach innovation, collaboration and communication in new ways that are fit for the challenges of the future. Schnetzler lives in Biel/Bienne, a bilingual city in Switzerland, with her family. She works with individuals, small teams, NGOs and big corporations on all continents. To inspire others, she searches for inspiration herself every day, in every field, using all tools and gadgets available to the curious digital nomad, and sharing her findings with her large network. Schnetzler also has a very big passion for Baroque Music, Mexican Cuisine (as she grew up in Mexico) and her blog, Hands Off Parenting. How to build new frameworks and how to lead and connect and empower, be it for setting the strategy as well as in day-to-day interactions. Lars is an advisor, keynote speaker and executive trainer on leadership, strategy, change and communication for global corporations and their leaders. He is the owner of Sudmann & Company, a consulting and management training network. Lars is drawing on his business experience (e.g. as CFO Belgium of Procter & Gamble) as well as consulting expertise with Fortune500 companies to help companies achieve better business and organizational results. Lars Sudmann supports executive teams in times of change, strategic redirection, performance improvement, and turnaround both as an advisor as well as an operational/interim manager. Additionally, Lars spends his time analyzing what makes businesses and individuals successful, e.g. as lecturer at the universities of Braunschweig (business leadership), Lüneburg (organizational change & virtual teams) as well as the RWTH Aachen University (innovation in communication). He also frequently shares these insights at conferences worldwide and is the 6-times Belgian and 2-times European Champion of Public Speaking and you can watch his appearance at TEDx DESSI DIMITROVA Dessi Dimitrova, PhD is an Associate Director for Health Systems at the World Economic Forum. Prior to the Forum, she served as Deputy Minister of Health and chair of the National Health Insurance Fund in Bulgaria where she managed the country’s health financing portfolio and led the pricing negotiations with provides. Before this role Dessislava was at McKinsey & Co, the World Bank and the Brookings Institution (R4D) focusing on health insurance, mostly in emerging markets. Dessi holds a BA in Economics from Bowdoin College, MPA in Economic Policy from Princeton University and PhD in health management from Sofia University. Her professional passion is on finding innovative ways to deliver and finance universal healthcare. How can we tap into our inner artist and the creativity and courage that brings us to implement new forms of governance in our organizations? Alex Inchbald – extreme artist and innovation specialist Alex Inchbald paints in extreme locations all over the world to explore what it takes to be creative everywhere: from the Olympic Downhill above Sochi, Russia to The Matterhorn, above Zermatt, Switzerland. From Mont Blanc, France to Mount Fuji, Japan – from over 3000 metres to gails of over 50 mph to snowy blizzards. These extreme experiments have led Alex to conclude: — All breakthroughs by artists, athletes, scientists and entrepreneurs occur in the same creative zone; — Everyone was born with the same ability to access this creative zone; — Visionary leaders unleash their creative spirit to such an extent the whole world becomes a blank canvas and they can create whatever they choose. Between 2016 and 2018 alone, Alex has helped over one hundred executives and a dozen teams to articulate their purpose. He has enabled: — Leaders to find harmony, avoid divorce, escape depression, and become CEOs; — Teams to become more purposeful, productive, profitable, and resilient; — Organizations to reinvent themselves, discover meaning and direction; — Consortiums to launch that will impact the lives of hundreds of millions of people. Alex is a cofounder of Creative Leadership Partners and lives with his beautiful wife and young family in the French Alps, just outside Geneva. MONESHIA ZU EITZ Re-thinking Governance in the Corporate World Do corporate insitutions and governance need to evolve as society becomes increasingly inclusive of diversity? Can tech saavy, values-driven indviduals still ascribe to current definitions of profit seeking enterprises? Is it possible to link individual authenticity to static organizational goals? And what role does private enterprise have, by virtue of the human and capital resources it yields- in shaping the global society in which it operates? Moneshia has 25 years of experience in M&A, Alliances and Venture Investing working as a strategic management consultant, corporate development professional and strategic investor in IT and healthcare. She most recently lead the Strategy, Alliances and Venturing team for Royal Philips Healthtech, and prior to that spent 15 years acquiring companies to drive development of new business models at IBM. With a passion for inorganic value creation for superior performance, Moneshia has directly worked on identifying, acquiring, divesting and integrating over 30 small and medium sized companies including in India, Africa, Europe, Japan and the US . As part of bringing people and processes together in pro-bono she also worked in economic justice as part of IBMs Executive Service Corp in Taiwan, and Michael Porter’s Forestry sector team in Venezuela. Moneshia completed her MBA at Wharton, University of Pennsylvania and undergraduate degree in Economics from Smith College. She has lived in many of the countries in which she has worked and is an active Womens and STEM mentor, Alumni network activator, and advisor to social start ups with a global footprint. OSCAR ROSA Promoting collective prosperity Oscar Mendez Rosa is founder of soul.com. His work has always been guided by two fundamental concepts: the spiritual reality of men and the inherent nobility of human beings. At an early age, Oscar has been dedicating his energies to building communities and contributing to collective well-being and prosperity. He has worked in over 40 countries in four continents and has interacted with people from different cultures. He has been trained in The Netherlands in communication and design and has more than 20 years of experience in business and large corporations. His passion is to develop a deeper understanding of the nature of transforming companies into communities and how this comes about. At soul.com he is therefore carrying out research in different fields of knowledge, including religion, philosophy, business, social studies, and economics. Oscar loves to help people elevate their view on reality so that their inner volition is unlocked to contribute to a more prosperous and just society. SILVIA FERLITO Silvia Ferlito is a Business Economist by education and has 17 years of finance experience in the pharmaceutical industry. Her work in finance was always accompanied with her interest to deeper understand human behavior and change patterns. This led her to study and become a Stress & Mental Coach and Trainer, supporting people in finding their strengths, releasing stress and activating hidden resources. Today she can combine both backgrounds to lead initiatives at work in the finance area around mindset change, Capacity Building and trust based communication. After her graduation Silvia spent one year in Australia and New Zealand and has since then traveled the globe. During a sabbatical she spend some time in South America and engaged in a humanitarian mission in Cochabamba Bolivia. Her high level of drive and energy leads her to find new projects to inspire and support people as well as find places to explore and learn from. GUITELLE SABETI Dr. Guitelle Sabeti has over 25 years experience in global health, with a focus on international pharmaceutical policies, good governance and strategic engagement with health partners. She negotiated and provided country support to over 50 Ministries of Health, Civil Society Organizations and development partners. She holds a Masters degree and a Doctorate in Pharmacy from the University of Grenoble as well as a Masters in Public Health from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She started her carrier in 1991 in Romania working with Pharmaciens Sans Frontières and joined the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1994 where she served in different locations and capacities. One of her achievements includes the initiation and development of the first global programme aimed at promoting good governance and preventing corruption in public pharmaceutical systems, by increasing transparency, accountability and promoting ethical practices. This programme is currently running in over 30 countries. Guitelle currently manages official relations with selected governments and represents WHO in political forums such as the G7 and G20 James has over 25 years experience as an executive and consultant helping companies grow faster. Of the many methods he has used, the most exciting are those that engage all employees in financial management, creating more sustainable and higher performance enterprise. From Anti-Corruption preaching to corruption fighting, I am committed in developing institutional accountability framework embracing soft and hard components of Fraud and Corruption prevention and control. With 30 years of experience in the Humanitarian sector, at senior management level, I have actively contributed to strategic development, policy creation & implementation, network empowerment and compliance enforcement requiring travel to 90+ countries on all continents. EOIN MCCARTHY Eoin McCarthy is part of the leadership group at Quakers and Business. Over 30 years, Eoin consulted and coached In Europe, the Middle East, the USA and China. He is an experienced Chairman, non-executive director, and CEO, with over 30 years boardroom service with seven organizations. He participated in, or led six successful start-ups. Eoin is a certified deliverer of ethicability® masterclasses, Myers Briggs, Steps I & II; Leadership Development Framework; and regularly uses discernments from Enneagram in the Worldwide Tradition in his work. As founding MD of the Aston Reinvestment Trust, and in other roles, Eoin worked during 10 years with Sir Adrian Cadbury, Chair of The Cadbury Report on Corporate Governance 1992. SARAH JAMES WRIGHT I’m a co-founder of GenerativeWork.Space, which develops new approaches to conscious leadership and culture through coaching, training and facilitation. A regular contributor to Conscious Business platforms, I have a deep belief that organisations can serve the whole of life: individuals, communities and ecosystems. GenerativeWork draws on Systemic Coaching, Organisational Constellations, Theory U and Mindfulness Practices to inspire and support life-affirming action in work. A key aspect of this approach is the capacity to hold difficult or uncertain spaces and an ability to read the dynamics live in the room to cultivate trust and allow new possibilities to be created. I have been a Systemic Coach and Facilitator since 2008, following a 20 year career in Marketing and Stakeholder Engagement. I’ve held a particular interest in working with entrepreneurs and social or environmental purpose organisations but feel the key shift now is for all business to have a deeper awareness of its purpose and impact. I was a founding Director of Forest Row Energy Co-operative Ltd, a community energy company. Find me on LinkedIN CARMEN PIPOLA Carmen Pipola is a 100 % entrepreneur. She started her career in the finance/accounting sector. Having worked for Ernst & Young – she soon became a young CFO of a shipping company – leading branches in Greece, Iran, UK, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, USA, Turkey and India. In 1994 she started her entrepreneurship with the first acquisition of a chemical production company (www.loba.ch). In 2001 she opened her own tax consultancy office near Basel which she sold successfully in 2015 in order to become a consultant for entrepreneurs. On her journey she developed her expertise through different seminars and courses focussing on organisational development, transformation coaching and spiritual healing. Her main ambition is to support entrepreneurs to live their values and to be successful. She is a certified Master trainer in systemic constellation work that she has used since 20 years in different projects for her clients. She will demonstrate the power of this tool in her workshop KURT SPECHT After more than two decades of managing and leading change in information technology projects I focus on facilitating organizational evolution and creating change leaders. My interest is in the facilitating aspects of technology serving not only as Information Technology but also as Institutional Technology such as the blockchain that has the potential to enable organizational transformation. Being a Firewalking Trainer since many years I give management and leadership seminars for enterprises. JELENA HERCBERGA I’m a PhD researcher at the University of Bristol. My doctoral research aims to provide insight into emerging alternative modes of human organising – those which might broadly be described as processes and forms of self-organisation. Among other things, I am interested in re-imagining democratic practices within business and in wider collective to bring together people across difference. IKO CONGO Iko Congo has been involved with ebbf since 2013. After a period of service at the Baha’i World Centre, the spiritual and administrative centre of the worldwide Baha’i community, he studied Business Administration at Lancaster University graduating with first honours. For the past 5 years he has been participating and facilitating courses of the Ruhi Institute which propel the process of community building, and associated process of learning of how to contribute to the advancement of civilization, which the worldwide Baha’i community is dedicated to. He was an avid participant of the seminars of the Institute for Studies in Global Prosperity, worked for Aldi UK and is currently undertaking a Master’s in Politics, Philosophy and Management at Lancaster University after which he will move to Angola to work for McKinsey & Company. Iko, with a group of friends, is looking at how to elevate the field of business by exploring its intellectual foundations. SANA ZAREEY Sana Zareey serves as Vice Principal of Nancy Campbell Academy, a Baha’i-inspired International school located in Stratford, Ontario. His passion for education began while working as an electrical engineer when he became an animator of the Junior Youth Empowerment Program. Serving as a leader of youth he became deeply moved by the empowerment process possible through education and decided to change professions. Sana pursued his Bachelor of Education and then a Master of Arts in Social Justice, Equity and Social Science Education from the University of Toronto. His Master’s research studied the impact of race and class on the course “choices” among junior youth aged students in Toronto. His research helped support the growing body of knowledge that suggests that classes with mixed abilities benefit all learners, both advanced and those who are struggling. Sana’s electrical engineering degree from Western University, combined with both his education degrees makes him an excellent teacher of mathematics, sciences, and computer studies. After graduating, Sana created curriculum at OISE to help new teachers learn how to thoughtfully integrate technology into their classrooms, and trained 300 new teachers in these methods. He also was asked to serve the Baha’i training institute in Zambia where he piloted the Statistics Recording Program in rural areas, helping to shed light on the educational process being implemented at the grassroots. Sana looks forward to a career that continues to focus on creating empowering educational environments for youth from all backgrounds. CHRISTOPHER COOKE Christopher’s overarching purpose is: to enable human emergence, in support of one viable planet, where humanity chooses to be the guardian of effective ecosystem processes. Recognised for his pioneering international application of Integral theory and practice since 1998, Christopher facilitates, coaches, educates, and advises thought leaders who recognise that to thrive on this planet requires a major leap to more complexity-aware thinking. The good news is that this more integral / holistic, complexity-aware, capacity has been mapped scientifically, as emerging for the past 100 years, and that a primary task of governance is to learn to utilise it! Most forms of current governance exclude and remove any signs! As a co-founder of 3LM, the Savory Network hub for the British Isles, Christopher’s aim is to release a natural societal shift to regenerative food and fibre. This is being achieved through holistically oriented practice and policy. Why use the term holistic? Because this communicates that this new thinking, which appreciates how nature functions in wholes, is latent in our species and that we are literally learning to utilise this new self awareness and collective meaning making capacity that is naturally ethical for all-of-life! MAJA GROFF Maja Groff is an international lawyer based in The Hague, assisting in the development and servicing of international multilateral treaties, working with diverse governments around the world. She works on existing and potential global treaties addressing areas of child law, issues disproportionately affecting women (including violence against women and human trafficking), persons with disabilities, access to legal information and other topics. She conducts liaison work with international professional associations, NGOs and other international organisations (including various U.N. bodies), and has played a key role in the co-ordination of a range of international conferences and expert groups. She contributes to a process of facilitating dialogue and legal cooperation with countries with or influenced by Islamic legal traditions. She holds degrees from McGill (civil law and common law), Oxford (M.Sc.) and Harvard Universities (A.B.), and is an attorney admitted to practice in the state of New York. She serves on the United Nations Committee of the New York City Bar Association, and is a member of the Advisory Boards of BCorp Europe and ebbf, organisations devoted to ethical business. MAHMUD SAMANDARI Mahmud Samandari is a coach for startups at the Swiss Federal Commission for Technology and Innovation, CTI. He is also the CEO of InnovaRadio, as well as a member of the Advisory Board of COMPASS – Evidence and opportunities for responsible innovation in SMEs, Horizon 2020 Cooperation and Support Action. He is a founder of EBBF, member of the Board and its Secretary General. He is a serial entrepreneur, having started companies in the fields of IT, telecommunications and education both in Europe and Latin America. WENDI MOMEN A founder member of the ebbf and a social activist working for the betterment of humanity. Wendi Momen’s key focus is on the advancement of women and their participation in decision-making at all levels, on sustainable living and on social justice. She is Secretary-General of ebbf, board member of UN Women UK National Committee, a Trustee of the Multi-Faith Centre at the University of Derby, Trustee of the Bedford Council of Faiths, a Non-Executive Director of NHS Bedfordshire, co-founder of Advance and a board member of Naserian. WHAT WE LEARNT SO FAR What are the assumptions about human beings that will allow us to build ideal governance structures?With event speaker Sean Hinton, CEO of Soros Foundation VIEW RECORDING OF INTERACTIVE WEBINAR With event speaker Arthur Dahl with event speakers: Maja Groff, Ralph Blundell and Wendi Momen How is the transition to impact investing affecting governance structures? with event speaker: Jenna Nicholass Kurt Specht shares an intro to “governance in blockchain enabled organizations” Augusto Lopez-Claros, keynoter at the event shares ideas on nationalism and global governance What does governance mean to me? new mindsets, a first point of view by Gijs van de Fliert New forms of governance in business? What insights does the Bahá’i Faith offer? by Iko Congo What aspects of governance are you interested to explore? NEXT OPPORTUNITIES TO INTERACT WITH EVENT SPEAKERS 11th April at 13:00 (Geneva time) How a new open-source cooperative business model decided to rethink the entire concept of governance? with event speaker: Nadja Schnetzler MORE INFO & REGISTER HERE #ebbfgovernance Tweets Choose between these parallel sessions Friday morning learnshops You can now choose between these five interactive learnshops 1. Nadja Schnetzler An interactive learnshop that will allow you to deepen with Nadja Schnetzer the concepts she exposed in her opening keynote. As you will have heard in her keynote, Nadja decided that quality news has become both scarce and more relevant than ever. She decided to work with a group of the best German-speaking journalists, truly the top national and international writers, to create a new media group. She decided to make this an open-source crowd-sourced cooperative model and she will give us the opportunity to interact with her to learn what kind of governance best adapts and allows this kind of diffused leadership to work. “More self-organised structures are arising. They call for new forms of flexible and open governance, more based on purpose than on structure. How was a new open-source cooperative business model able to rethink the entire concept of governance?” 2. James Jennings An interactive learnshop that will allow you to deepen with James the concepts he exposed in his morning keynote. 3. Moneshia Zu Eitz Re-thinking Governance in the Corporate World (to foster Diversity and Inclusion) Accelerating shifts towards globalization and the mix in economic participants (eg: the millennial generation- age 18-35 in that year, are expect to make up to 75% of the global workforce in 2025) is raising questions for corporations on their role in society and how to best govern a diverse workforce. – What determines the role of private enterprise in empowering diverse human and capital resources, while shaping the global society in which it operates? – How can large institutions and governance evolve as society becomes increasingly inclusive of diversity? – And how can tech saavy, values-driven individuals do to contribute to the shift from profit seeking private enterprise to one that actively creates a culture of empowerment? In this interactive workshop we will explore examples, including Blue Chip organizations grappling with these topics and contemplate key assumptions as leadership of large scale enterprise re think their role and how to bring the concept of diversity and inclusion into practice. 4. Oscar Rosa, Silvia Ferlito The individual as a key to drive new governance Models What is the relationship between the individual and governance? What is the responsibility and accountability of the individual? “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” Leo Tolstoy. Before everything it becomes imminent that we look inward and start to understand and become aware of our very own capacity to change. “Organisations do not change, people in organisations do”. So what does the individual practically need to make this change happen… to help with the transformation? “We aim to understand, explore and design future forms of governance, holistic ones that will allow individuals the freedom to develop their human capacities and talents. Free and happy human resources motivated by a superior purpose that create the kinds of successful organizations, products, services, learning and experiences able to generate shared prosperity, serving the enduring interests of all people.” 5. Carmen Pipola Systemic constellation work – a powerful tool to establish new ways of decision-making and action Every system has its own laws and rules that impact everything. In this workshop you will learn to be aware of these laws. Systemic constellation work is a powerful solution-oriented tool to understand and use the laws constructively to change a system. It supports the opening of human minds and perceptions in order to understand the impact of action and reaction inside a system. Furthermore it helps discovering and resolving the root causes for conflicts in organisations. You will leave the workshop with a wider understanding for system effectiveness and you get a simple and powerful tool to create an impact. Understanding the system laws will change your behaviour and awareness in your daily life. Friday afternoon – parallel sessions 1. Jenna Nicholas An interactive learnshop that will allow you to deepen with Jenna the concepts she exposed in her opening keynote 2. Jelena Hercberga What business can learn from radical democracy? The economy of the common good as an alternative to neoliberalism has been highly praised for its just, humane, cooperative, ecological and democratic principles of running and organising business. However, is it really democratic? Is the politics of the common good the way to go if we want to create a more just workplace? What is good? Your definition of it might be dramatically different from your colleague’s, let alone from the company’s top management’s vision. If we to develop companies that place common good above profits, we need to take into account complexity of this concept. How do we go about it? The school of radical democracy might be of help. It argues that the common good is not possible as it can never be completely inclusive. Radical democrats suggest that any consensus, that the common good is an example of, is always political, i.e. it represents interests of a certain group of people and excludes others. Radical democrats put difference and contingency that comes with it at the heart of a political debate. Their approach to creating a just society is through enabling different voices to be heard without prejudice and judgement. Radical democracy sees any knowledge as socially constructed, which challenges the validity of any strict definition and calls for seeing this world, our relations with it, as well as ourselves in it as in an ongoing state of becoming. As such, it is not so much about defining what the common good is, but creating conditions when this common good could be contested and therefore complemented from various positions. And it is not so much about creating new forms of governance and ways of organising, but shifting our perception of how we see the different and the other, both in society, but also in business. By drawing on the concept of radical democracy, I will explore together with the participants of the conference how principles of contingency and becoming can be applied in the corporate world. 3. Mahmud Samandari Diffused Governance – improving the governance and interdependence of ebbf’s local activities Looking at the expansion of ebbf local activities to 15 cities around the world, what have we learnt about the governance of such a diffused system? How can we improve the interactions and interconnections between ebbf’s current local activities and increase their reach? 4. Kurt Specht Defining governance in decentralized economic networks and distributed organizations Traditional command & control top down management styles and approaches do not work well in a decentralized world. In a more and more networked environment with distributed organizations we need to apply decentralized governance models and approaches. It is time to (re-)think governance1 for these networks, organizations and communities and the social impact on the individuals that today mostly still live and adhere to the existing institutional structures. The governance models for social interactions in such organizational models have yet to be understood, defined and used in practice. In this learnshop we will explore how governance for these emerging networks and organizations relate to core ebbf values (Unity and Moderation) and operational principles (Consultation, Collaboration and Responsibility). 5. Iko Congo How can we glean insights from the Bahá’i Faith into the field of business and governance? The scriptures of the Bahá’i Faith, as those of other religions, do not have an exact blueprint we can follow like a recipe of the inner and outer transformation of the different aspects of society, including business, envisaged by its Founders. If this is the case how can we learn about what a religion has to offer to the field of business? We must reflect on the nature of knowledge we need. We need to reflect on the worldview we hold, how it influences what we do and how it gets materialised in the world around us. The workshop is meant to help us learn how to understand the broad sketch we are given by the Bahá’i Teachings and gradually move to a clearer more refined vision of how business can contribute to the betterment of the world. Saturday morning – parallel sessions 1. Lars Sudmann Governance & Innovation: enabler or barrier An interactive learnshop designed to deepen our understanding and application of some of the concepts mentioned in the earlier keynote by Lars. 2. Christopher Cooke From the Soil to the Stomach to the Soul – The Craft of Governance from an Holistic Stance The holistic worldview – what it means and how it shows naturally in ebbf and how it forms part of a process of the human species re-cognizing the path of spirit and the invitation of communion with Spirit, not as and end but as a start of our species viability; How a process oriented, holistically informed, form of governance provides the opportunity for the release of significant human creativity. How this takes us into a space where no best practice yet exists, yet there are many examples of where an ethical alignment with all aspects of life, has led to outperformance and a regenerative social, economic and ecological legacy. The session will include an interactive whole group experience to allow the audience to explore their own analysis of the deeper dynamics of worldviews and the necessity for new thinking. The learnshop will go deeper into an appreciation of the 4 ecosystem processes that describe how all-life sustains, and how the ability to sense and monitor ecosystem processes may be used to navigate effectively towards ecological outcomes that recover and regenerate life on Earth. Christopher suggests that this work offers a most profound addition to all forms of Quality Assurance. 3. Dessi Dimitrova & Guitelle Baghdadi Moving towards a values-based discourse on global health More than nine billion people are anticipated to be living on the planet by 2050, with two billion above the age of 60. To address the challenges inherent in population growth of this scale and to secure the associate health costs, the world would need new business and operating models as well as new investments increasing over time from an initial US$134 billion annually to $371 billion by 2030, according to recent estimates by the World Health Organization. Furthermore, the Commission for Business and Sustainable Development estimates that implementing the health related Sustainable Development Goals would result in a new health and healthcare business opportunity of USD1.8 trillion. This illustrates that there is an unprecedented opportunity to impact the global health and healthcare discourse and ensure that the expected investment results in just and equitable outcomes. This session will aim at exploring how each practitioner can influence the global health discourse by 1) identifying some of the key issues that need to be addressed in the global health discourse (e.g., universal health coverage); 2) defining the true obstacles in addressing these issues to improve the health status of humanity in an equitable manner, 3) brainstorming new approaches for addressing these issues recognising the main spiritual principles still lack in today’s development endeavours; 4) identifying the key stakeholders who would need to be involved to draft and implement the above. Health governance from the community to the global levels will be reviewed as a key enabler to the above issues as well as how values-based decision-making can be encouraged to influence the global health discourse. 4. Sana Zareey Governance in Education – How to start a Baha’i Inspired School in your community Thinking about how to embue an social enterprise with spiritual qualities is challenging. Which is why at Nancy Campbell Academy, we challenge our students to start thinking about it in their first year. Creating an environment where this culture can be fostered while still achieving academic excellence has taken 20 years of experience to create, and we’re still learning. This workshop is geared towards those wishing to create a similar environment and the practical steps to creating a spiritual enterprise within Education. 5. Eoin McCarthy and Sarah James Tools for Better Decisions: How to use Quaker Business Method, Theory U and Systemic Constellations for collective decision-making Conscious business practice requires us to have regard for the whole of the system and to make decisions that work for the good of all. Yet in many organisations, those with the loudest voices get to call the shots. This 90-minute interactive workshop introduces a blend of time-honoured and modern tools for harvesting collective wisdom. We invite you to bring one of your own current decisions to the session so that we get these support tools off the page and into practice. Working in small groups, and using Spiral Dynamics as a paradigm, we’ll explore 3 processes that deepen our capacities for working together to help us make better decisions: • How do I act for the good of the whole? Each group will decide which individual issue they will hold and work on collectively, using tools from the Quaker Business Method. Successfully used in organisations for over 350 years, QBM helps reach decisions that everyone can agree to, without people feeling unheard • Am I listening with open heart, open mind and open will? As each group considers the decision they must make, we’ll practice different levels of listening, as the foundational capacity in Theory U (the latest in business thinking from MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology) • Can we tune in to the collective field? Each group will listen in to the whole system by taking part in Systemic Constellations, a powerful mapping process using embodied intelligence. We will discover how each of these approaches extends our capacity to listen – to ourselves, to others, and to the whole field of life. We will learn how multi-sensory and multi-dimensional listening can support us to make better decisions, most especially in critical issues of governance that affect the whole organisation. A Plenary Conversation will conclude our session. What have we seen and experienced that we can take away? What further questions are we holding?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line137
__label__cc	0.677837	0.322163	Judah Matras Факультет: Sociology Дисциплина: Социальная стратификация Год: Fall 2001 Тематические разделы: Социология, Социальная стратификация Aннотация: The course examines individual and structural explanations for the generation and maintenance of inequality in the United States and the influence of stratification on individuals and groups. It covers status attainment and social mobility; the allocation of societal rewards according to class, race, and gender; the distribution of educational opportunities and cultural capital; and labor market segmentation by race, ethnicity, and gender. The course will present (1) an analysis of popular, political, and social scientific concern with social equality and inequality, examine trends of social inequality and review the ways in which social inequality regimes have been studied in sociological analysis, including classical and contemporary theories. We will consider (2) problems of identification of the social class- and status-based groupings and analysis of their distinctive characteristics and interrelationships; analysis of patterns of attainment of social status and movement (mobility) among them; and examination of responses to inequality and the ways in which such responses may themselves alter the inequality regimes. We turn, finally, to (3) the bearing of major macro-societal trends, including socio-demographic changes, technological, communication, labor market, and production and distribution trends, and geo-political shifts, on regimes of inequality and stratification. class cultural capital educational opportunities ethnicity gender inequality labor market race social mobility stratification USA Вадим Валерьевич Радаев Power Stratification in the Soviet-Type System: Socio-Economic Issues in Jerry Eades and Caroline Schwaller (eds.) Transitional Agendas: Working papers from the Summer School for Soviet Sociologists Giovanni Russo, Piet Rietveld Issues in recruitment strategies: an economic perspective (Проблемы в стратегиях рекрутинга: экономические перспективы) International Journal of Career Management. 1995. Vol. 7. No. 3. P. 3 - 13. Raymond Matthew Weeks The relationship between prejudice, race and social class categorizations [Диссертация] Yuval Elmelech Transmitting inequality: An asset-based analysis of racial and ethnic inequality and its intergenerational transmission Karl O'Lessker Who Voted for Hitler? A New Look at the Class Basis of Naziism American Journal of Sociology. 1969. Vol. 74. No. 1. P. 63-69. Dennis H. Wrong The Functional Theory of Stratification: Some Neglected Considerations American Sociological Review. 1959. Vol. 24. No. 6. P. 772-782. Maurice Zeitlin, W. Lawrence Neuman, Richard Earl Ratcliff Class Segments: Agrarian Property and Political Leadership in the Capitalist Class of Chile American Sociological Review. 1976. Vol. 41. No. 6. P. 1006-1029.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line142
__label__cc	0.747898	0.252102	Fort Mill Events Dance: Line Dancing Shag and Line Dance Come out to the Fort Mill Moose Lodge, 1676 Harris Road, Fort Mill, with the Lake Wylie Shag Club by dancing, friendly people and fun! The dance floor opens at 7:30 for shag and line dance every Tuesday night. The DJ plays beach and shag music and takes ... Fort Mill Moose Lodge Tue 1/21/20 at 5:45pm-10pm Tue 2/4/20 at 5:45pm-10pm Special Event: Class/Workshop, Gaming Silent Library Challenge Can you hold it together while enduring challenges made to get you to make noise? A prize will be awarded to the winning team. Ages 11-17. Limit 25. Register online or call 803-547-4114, starting Jan. 7. York County Library (Fort Mill Branch) Tue 1/21/20 at 5pm-6:30pm Talks & Readings: Family/Child (Books) Preschool Storytime - Fort Mill Story Time for 3-5 year olds and their caregivers. No registration required. York County Library (Fort Mill Branch) Wed 1/22/20 at 4pm-4:45pm Wed 1/22/20 at 10am till 10:45am, 11am till 11:45am Special Event: Gaming More Pokemon in the Library More Pokemon fun for older children including activities, games and snacks. Ages 9-11. Register online or call 803-547-4114, starting Jan. 9. Limit 24. York County Library (Fort Mill Branch) Thu 1/23/20 at 3:30pm-4:30pm Itty Bitty Bookworms Stories, songs, fingerplays and movement activities for children ages birth-35 months and their caregivers. Register online or call 803-547-4114, starting Jan. 21. Limit 30. York County Library (Fort Mill Branch) Mon 1/27/20 at 3pm till 3:35pm, 4pm till 4:35pm Special Event: Religious Lake Wylie Shag Club Valentine Party The Lake Wylie Shag Club is having its 2020 Valentine Party on Saturday, February 1, at 7:30, at the Fort Mill Moose Lodge, 1676 Harris Road, Fort Mill, SC. Fort Mill Moose Lodge Sat 2/1/20 at 7:30pm-10:30pm Comedy: Improv The Disposition Improv Show For the first time ever, you will be seated in the theatre based on your disposition. If you are generally a happy person with a positive outlook on life you will sit in those assigned seats; if you are more easily irritated and a little negative, you wil... Fort Mill Community Playhouse Sat 2/1/20 at 8pm-9:45pm Sharing Hope in Charlotte Discover how you can share God's Hope with your neighbors in Charlotte. Join other Christians from across Charlotte and learn practical ways to minister in Jesus' Name to men and women facing stress, grief, tragedy, or crisis - and discover how to encou... Morningstar Church Sat 2/8/20 at 9:30am-12pm Special Event: Business, General, Meeting, Social Event Veterans Lunch at Towne Tavern Fort Mill The third Thursday of every month 11:30-13:00am Town Taverne at Fort Mill - 2000 SC-160, Fort Mill, SC 29708 Join us for lunch and connecting with fellow area veterans. This is a veteran-only lunch. Prior (or current) service in the Armed Forces is ... Towne Tavern Thu 2/20/20 at 11:30am-1pm Sports: Running, Benefit/Fundraiser Detective Mike Doty Memorial Run 10K/5K Detective Michael “Mike” Doty, who served the York County community for 12 years, was one of four deputies shot searching for a domestic violence suspect in York on January 16, 2018. A day later he passed away. He was an investigator with the York County M... Walter Elisha Park Sat 3/14/20 at 8am	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line144
__label__cc	0.726171	0.273829	Warning: Parameter 1 to wp_default_scripts() expected to be a reference, value given in /home/public/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 601 Life without HDMI \| Evyl Robot Soapbox The Rantings of a Complex Piece of Hardware I had a fight with my brain. And, I won. The Gunleather Page Life without HDMI Well, almost. For many years, Jennifer and I had an “entertainment system” that was cobbled together with a ~19-inch TV complete with knobs on the front, a VCR, and an old Radio shack AV receiver. We had a passive subwoofer hooked up through an old PA amp, and a quartet of speakers, an off-the-shelf pair, and a pair of homebrew towers in the front. When the VCR died, we replaced it with a DVD player. We didn’t have a lot of tapes, and the machines were similarly priced at the time, so we took the opportunity to upgrade. One year, we got a healthy tax return, a.k.a. white trash savings account, and upgraded from the tube to a multimedia projector. We painted a 91-inch screen on the wall with a special paint. We’re still using and enjoying our Optoma HD72. It’s only 720p, but it suits our needs for the time being. Around the same time, we picked up a Marantz SR4600. It was deeply discounted because the HDMI models had just come out. We didn’t feel like we needed the new hotness, but we still wanted excellent sound quality. The Marantz is one of the cleaner sounding solid-states that I’ve had the pleasure of listening to, but it became clear that we needed a good center channel speaker, which I sourced on the internet. When the Playstation won The Great HD Format War, we picked up a Samsung BD-UP5000 that was on clearance at the local electronics money pit. We were able to pick up a few HD DVDs at the time, for little to nothing for the same reasons. For full disclosure in reference to the title of this post, we do have an HDMI cable running from this player to the projector, for video only. Even though the Marantz didn’t have HDMI ports, nor decoders for HD audio formats, it did have 8-channel discrete inputs to plug in analog auto, and the Samsung had 8-channel discrete output. So far, so good! My friend, Beej even gave me a pair of Marantz towers that she picked up at an estate sale so we could have true 7.1 surround. Some time in there, we picked up a pretty nice laserdisc player at a garage sale, bundled with a small collection of discs. Well to be fair, we went through a few players before we wound up with our Pioneer CLD-D406, but for the sake of brevity, let’s say we picked up a laserdisc player. It’s an A/B side player that even has AC3 output for Dolby Digital. I wound up sourcing a Marantz DP870 to descramble the digital audio. This sound processor does a great job at that, but it has discrete 5.1-channel output. This is where we started running against a wall. We now had two units with multi-channel output, and only one set of inputs on the receiver. We don’t watch laserdiscs very often, and the only title we have that is in true Dolby Digital is Showgirls, which we rarely have a driving urge to watch. So, although this was a problem, it was not a huge one. When Avatar came out, many of our friends, whom we respect, reported that it was a really good movie. Conversely, many of our other friends, whom we also respect, regarded this film as a giant, steaming pile of thinly veiled white guilt cliches. Naturally, we had to check it out. We rented the Blu Ray from the local store and settled in for the evening. Our Samsung wouldn’t play it. So, I went off to Samsung’s website to find that they had just rushed out a firmware update for our player, specifically to tackle the Avatar issue. With the update installed, we were able to ahem enjoy this film. And, by “enjoy” I mean facepalm, exclaim “WTF?!?!” and generally hate it, joining in the latter mentioned camp of our friends. And, that firmware update was the beginning of a pretty crumby experience with our player. It had difficulty with almost all new releases from Disney and Fox. Subsequent firmware updates did nothing. I chatted with Samsung support, got nothing in return, and told them that I was tempted to avoid Samsung products from then on because of the experience. By this point, it was getting difficult to find a Blu Ray player that had alternatives to HDMI, and I was not about to buy a new AV receiver. I decided that I would work towards replacing the player with the next HTPC, which we started on last year for Christmas. My research indicated that playing Blu Ray discs on a computer was not without its caveats, and we still haven’t accomplished the task. I knew that I was going to eventually have 8-channel sound coming from the HTPC. So, that makes three devices with discrete output going to a receiver that has one input. It was now time to get creative. I needed an 8-channel analog sound switcher. Somewhere I found such a device online, but it cost as much as a new receiver. I put my head together with my brother’s, and formed a plan. I took a dead Pioneer SL-PG440 single CD player and gutted it for the project. I drilled out the back of the box to mount 40 RCA jacks that I sourced on the internet. And, I even printed out an overlay to stick on the back of the unit to label the connections. I shaved the front off the faceplate with my router table and rebuilt it with a sheet of dark colored plastic where a selector knob could be mounted. I sourced some heavy-duty, Japanese-made, four-pole relays. These are discontinued new old stock, and are built like little tanks. I discussed circuit options with my brother, and let him put it together, as he has done a lot more of this kind of work than I have, and he’s got a good soldering station. When powered up, the relays make an authoritative “clack” between input sources. The switch has six positions, with the outer two wired as off, and the inner four switch between four input sources. I have not personally listened to sound through it yet, as I lack the cabling to wire it into the system yet. My brother has wired it for sound and reports that it is extremely quiet as far as noise is concerned, that it transmits the sound signal as if it is not even in line. This is exactly what I was after. So in short, in avoiding purchasing a new AV receiver, my brother and I built a home theater electrical component from scratch. Now, we should be able to wire the discrete sound from the laserdisc sound processor, the HD DVD/Blu Ray player, and the HTPC without having to swap a handful of cables. And, I’ll have an extra input just in case we happen to pick up some other device that we have not yet thought of. Whenever I can manage to get it plugged into the system, I’ll let you know how it runs for me. Oh, and back to the Samsung firmware issues… Jennifer’s parents gave us the new Die Hard movie for Christmas. When we threw it in the player, it did its annoying trick of sticking on the splash screen. After fiddling with it a bit and threatening to throw the player in the street, I checked the internet for a new firmware version. I didn’t expect to find anything as it had been several years since the last update. But lo and behold, Samsung released a new firmware version in October! I got that installed and we were watching Die Hard in no time flat. I’ve since been able to test the machine playing Tron Classic and Tron Legacy, two titles that have never worked on this player, much to my despair. So, the Samsung has a new lease on life and I’m not feeling quite as pressured to get the Blu Ray drive installed and configured in the HTPC. This entry was posted in beautiful, Completely random, Family, fashion, Gear, Hollyweird, Movie Reviews, music, nerd, Not Political!, Oklahoma, personal rants, Reviews, Tech by admin. Bookmark the permalink. 18 thoughts on “Life without HDMI” RabidAlien on January 13, 2014 at 18:52 said: Heh. Being able to cobble a working something together from “junk” your wife’s been complaining about cluttering up the garage is always an awesome feeling, isn’t it? And Tron. WOOT!!!! I think they’re both great movies! admin on January 14, 2014 at 08:37 said: Man, I’ll tell you. That project changed shape and form several times before it was done. I’d accumulated the stuff to put it together right before I got promoted to customer. It went on the back burner for quite some time. I was originally going to build it in a cabinet made of English yew and stainless steel. The main board sat around here for a few years before we finally got on the ball and finished it out. In order to wire up the system with it, I’m going to need to order about twenty cables from Monoprice, and that’s what’s keeping me from it at the moment. I was afraid that they’d totally screw up Tron with Legacy, but it was a great flick. Old NFO on January 14, 2014 at 11:13 said: Nice ‘salvage’ job there! If it works and saves money, so much the better!!! Thanks! We’ll see how it works eventually. abnormalist on January 14, 2014 at 11:25 said: First, that setup is awesome, I love the homemade switcher. Personally though, I’m WAY lazier than that. For my setup this year, I got a decent 32″ LED 1080p with two HDMI inputs and two rca inputs. Plugged a Sony Bravia (I think) “smart” blue ray into one HDMI, a mini android PC into another, and the Wii into one set of RCAs. I set the audio output to a computer speaker set giving me dolby 5.1 with the sub. I run all a bunch of media formats via wireless off the house fileserver through the droid PC, or netflix, or hulu, or amazon prime (the bravia has to run this through a CRAZY SUCKY interface because of amazons refusal to support android). Gives me the added benefit of playing any music CDs on the Bravia, internet radio and MP3s on the droid, and leaves it fairly simple (two remotes, one for the TV that controls the blue ray as well, and a small keyboard/mouse combo for the android). I will say though the little droid rocks, and is getting more friends of the same type in the house Mini-droid http://www.amazon.com/UG007-Quad-Core-processor-integrated-Bluetooth/dp/B00EOL1BO0/ http://www.amazon.com/Hausbell-H7-Wireless-Entertainment-Keyboard/dp/B00B9996LA/ Doesnt have the neat factor of your setup, but for geek cred I’m still streaming most of the media from the server, and with a few tablets in the house I am able to give the 9yo the option to watch harry potter while the 5 yo watches little mermaid, and run sesame street on the TV for the baby Thank you! I was extremely tempted to get one of those mini androids for similar purposes. I hadn’t talked with anyone that was using them, so I kind of avoided that option. It’s good to hear that you’ve had such great results. That’s a cool keyboard too. Are you playing physical CDs or streaming from a hard drive? One phase of the project was to gather up and organize our combined CD collection (from the last twenty or so years) and rip them all to the HTPC in full resolution .wav files. I was going to load the CDs back into our changer, but then I realized that we weren’t likely to ever listen to them like that again. It makes me a little sad that we aren’t using the changer, because that was one of the first ‘nice’ things we bought together. Oh well, time does march on. One of these days, I’m wanting to set up a fileserver here to load movies/music on. Its on my list, right there in the general vicinity of the MAME cabinet for playing arcade games. ….unfortunately, they’re both on about page twelve of the list. You know, it doesn’t take much of a machine to store music and movies, or to run MAME. In your line of business, it couldn’t be too hard to come up with a freebie that would chug along for either task if not both. I’m currently trying to set up MAME on our HTPC. In our case I do run a small file server (sad that I can say “small” is only half TB, but when I work as a SAN Admin, and run multiple petabyte+ systems…. alas) that runs our music and videos off of. Best part is I got the DVDs out of the hands of the kids, where they get lost, broken, scratched, never put away etc and onto full digital media. Then they can play them on the TV, or the laptops and tablets without ever destroying another disk. In my case a simple PC running headless in a closet wired up to the house switch that runs two used cisco APs (one under each section of the house for better coverage/throughput) and the droid PC on the TV and I was able to do all of it in a long afternoon without the fam. I highly recommend it In your experience, how many DVD movies will fit on oh, say, 100gb of hard drive space? I’d considered doing the same thing, but since I don’t yet have multichannel sound from the PC to the receiver, and then the HD movies really sucking up storage space, I hadn’t really bothered with it. Good call on keeping little fingers off your media! When it was still convenient to rent DVDs, I solidly got in the routine of giving each rental a good cleaning, especially if it was a kids’ or family movie. so I encode all my media these days as mp4 mkvs @720p (more than good enough on a 32″ at room distance), and average a 2 hour movie in about 800MB. I can look up the encoder settings when I go home if you like, processing time takes a while, but results have been quite good. End result though is on a 100GB volume you can average about 100 movies and leave swap space for something else, or fill it with about 125 Grand on January 15, 2014 at 09:54 said: How about MAME on a raspberry pi? I’ve seen it mentioned before, but I get scared by the prospect of all the configurations those buggers must take. I wouldn’t mind playing with a pi, but that’s back-burner territory for me, and I’m not confident enough to pick one up with a specific plan in mind. “Hacking Raspberry Pi” by Timothy L. Warner has full instructions for making MAME from an rPi. You can also make a media center or a minecraft server. Not bad for a little inexpensive board. Grand, can I guess you dont have kids? I love the concept of the rPi, but just dont have the time to invest in it. At least until the kids show interest in building computers then who KNOWS Just don’t tell my kid that you can build a pi into a Minecraft server, or I’ll never hear the end of the wheedling and nagging! My boy was on Deadmau5’s minecraft server!!!! I have no idea what that means, but it was cool. I guess. LOL! That is pretty cool, actually.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line145
__label__wiki	0.777859	0.777859	The Spectacular, Strange Rise of Music Holograms The Washington Post’s, David Rowell, talks in great detail about the overall evolving space, the competition, and Eyellusion’s significant contribution to the future of live touring shows. He spends time with Eyellusion’s CEO/Founder, Jeff Pezzuti, Ahmet Zappa, Wendy Dio, as well as Dio Band members Simon Wright and Scott Warren and Zappa’s Mike Keneally. … Inside Music’s Booming New Hologram Touring Industry Legendary Rolling Stone rock writer Kory Grow was the first reporter to break the news about Eyellusion’s launch all the way back in 2016. He opens this great article about the booming hologram industry with his take on Eyellusion’s “The Bizarre World of Frank Zappa” show and features great quotes from fans who have seen… Live Review: Ronnie James Dio Returns to Long Island… as a Hologram (6/9) Consequence of Sound’s, Greg Prato, came to review Eyellusion’s “Dio Returns” show at the Paramount Theater in Huntington, NY. All in all, “Dio Returns” was a fun night. And on a personal note, I learned something that I was not expecting: An old friend of mine attended the show, and brought his two sons,… “It Blew My Mind!” The Bizarre World of Frank Zappa LIVE! at the Count Basie Center The New Jersey Stage came to see the “Bizarre World of Frank Zappa” show at the Count Basie Theater, in Red Bank, NJ. They not only loved the show, but also had a chance to speak with Eyellusion’s own Ahmet Zappa and Jeff Pezzuti, as well as some of the fans in attendance! The… The JamBase Podcast Episode 36: Greg Ormont And Ahmet Zappa & Jeff Pezzuti JamBase podcast host, Greg Ormont, interviews Eyellusion’s CEO Jeff Pezzuti and EVP Ahmet Zappa, about the upcoming, “Bizarre World of Frank Zappa Tour”. Listen to the hilarious interview, which not only gives insight into the show, but some very funny Zappa stories as well! You’ve never experienced anything like “The Bizarre World of Frank Zappa.” Alex Biase, writer for the Asbury Park Press, previews the highly acclaimed and anticipated “The Bizarre World of Frank Zappa” tour, which hits the Count Basie on Monday, April 22! Biase, sits down with Eyellusion’s EVP, Ahmet Zappa and CEO, New Jersey native, Jeff Pezzuti, to get some of the details about the show and… EYELLUSION ANNOUNCES FIRST DATES FOR BIZARRE WORLD OF FRANK ZAPPA HOLOGRAM TOUR FRANK ZAPPA HOLOGRAM TO WORLD PREMIERE NEW MUSIC WITH FORMER BANDMATES ON “THE BIZARRE WORLD OF FRANK ZAPPA” HOLOGRAM TOUR // NORTH AMERICAN PERFORMANCES SET TO LAUNCH FRIDAY, APRIL 19 // TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15 // U.S. DATES COME IN ADVANCE OF EUROPEAN SHOWS // Live music’s premier hologram production company Eyellusion has announced that a who’s who… Eyellusion signs with touring giant APA We’re beyond thrilled to announce that Eyellusion has signed with Agency for the Performing Arts (APA) and partner (AND touring management legend) Steve Martin for all of our forthcoming touring productions. That’s DIO Returns, Bizarre World of Frank Zappa, Glenn Gould and more to be announced. Steve booked DIO way back in the day and… EYELLUSION TO PRODUCE FRANK ZAPPA HOLOGRAM SHOWS Company working with Zappa Family Trust on multiple groundbreaking productions that will feature former bandmates in celebration of late music legend’s art, life and legacy. Company working with Zappa Family Trust on multiple groundbreaking productions that will feature former bandmates in celebration of late music legend’s art, life and legacy. Eyellusion, live music’s premier hologram… © 2020 Eyellusion, LLC	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line146
__label__wiki	0.621301	0.621301	Cruz Operations Center CruzControl Virtualized Resource Manager (VRM) Advanced Traffic Flow Management (TFA) High Availability (HA) Nutanix Console Converged Edge / U-CPE Dell OpenManage Essentials(OME) Integration OMNM Dell VEP Solutions Careers at Dorado Sonus Introduces Cloud-Optimized Diameter Signaling Controller Sonus expands its Cloud portfolio with its Cloud-optimized DSC SWe, proving that putting SS7 and Diameter in the Cloud is not a myth. Sonus’ Cloud-optimized DSC SWe supports Diameter and SS7 STP on the same virtual platform, allowing for an easy transition from hardware-based signaling equipment to modernized NFV architectures. The DSC SWe is orchestrateable using Dorado Software’s Redcell product suite, permitting service providers to centrally manage and automate NFV-based solutions for Diameter and SS7. WESTFORD, Mass. – Sonus Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: SONS), a global leader in securing Cloud and real-time communications, introduced today a Cloud-optimized version of its Diameter Signaling Controller Software edition (DSC SWe). The product seamlessly integrates with Dorado Software’s Redcell product suite, providing service providers with a real-world solution to manage, activate, and orchestrate the DSC SWe in the Cloud. The DSC SWe shares a common management and provisioning interface with the hardware-based DSC 8000. With this announcement, service providers have an easy-to-deploy solution that provides a logical path from hardware to virtualization, and now to the Cloud. Like the DSC 8000 and DSC SWe before it, the Cloud-optimized DSC SWe provides signaling for both Diameter and SS7 STP deployments, enabling an easy transition from hardware-based signaling equipment to modernized network function virtualization (NFV) architectures. 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__label__cc	0.631938	0.368062	Huginn: Writing a simple agent network. Tags: exocortex, howto, huginn, network, software_agents, rest_api, tutorial EDIT: 20170123 - My reviewers have suggested some edits to the article, many of which I've applied. It's been a while since I wrote a Huginn tutorial, so let's start with a basic one to get you comfortable with the idea of building an agent network. This agent network will run every half hour, poll a REST API endpoint, and e-mail you what it gets. You'll have to have access to an already running Huginn instance that can send outbound e-mail. This post is going to be kind of lengthy, but that's because I'm laying out some fundamentals. Once you understand those you can skip past the explanations and move on to the good stuff. First, a little background - what's a REST API? If you already know just skip down past the cut and move on, but if you don't know what I'm talking about I'll try to explain. I'm going to assume that you've been able to install Huginn using my instructions or someone else's, or you've got access to a running instance. I'm also going to assume that you're not a hardcore coder, you're someone who's trying to apply a useful tool to your everyday life. At its simplest, an API (Application Program Interface) is a way to interact with a system or part of a system. It's (hopefully) designed to be regular, which means that once you understand the basics you can apply that knowledge to figure out the more complex parts with a little messing around because the basics continue to apply. Let's say that I've written a library called myLib, which implements a bunch of really annoying stuff (like opening and closing files and sorting elements of data) so you don't have to. My library has a bunch of functions that carry out those tasks (openStupidFile(), readAllOfFilesContents(), sortIntegers(), sortFloatingPointValues(), searchThisCrapForAString()) when you call them in your own code. Those functions are part of my library's API. In the documentation are instructions for calling each function, which includes the arguments you need to pass to each function (e.g., openStupidFile() takes two arguments, a full path to a file and 'r' for read-only or 'rw' for read-write, and it returns a handle to the file that you can pass to another function or NULL if it failed). The data type each function returns (the file handle or NULL value) is part of the API, as are the arguments each function takes (path to the file and 'r' or 'rw'). The same principle has been applied to the Web in several different ways. What concerns us right now is something called the RESTful API (REpresentational State Transfer), which basically means interacting with a web service using HTTP verbs (GET, PUT, POST, and so forth) and referencing URLs instead of functions in a library. Like HTTP, requests are stateless, which means that you make a request, the server responds, and there's no further context beyond that. You can think of RESTful APIs as fire-and-forget. The general idea is that there is a web server of some kind, which could be a traditional one like Apache or a specialized one running inside a web app built around a server like web.py which responds to those URLs in some way. If you make a GET request to a URL, it'll send you some data. If you make a PUT request you replace something on the server at that URL with something you send it. If you make a POST request you create a new something on the server. If you make a DELETE request that something on the server gets erased. All of this depends on the HTTP verbs the server supports (not all REST APIs need to support all of them), your access permissions (not every account can do everything), whether or not you've authenticated to the server (it is sometimes the case that read-only access doesn't require an account but read-write access does require an account or an API token or something else along those lines), or who owns a particular resource (Alice's resources are read-only for every other account on the server, but read-write for her alone), of course. REST makes life easier but it's not carte blanche to run hog wild. Additionally, many REST API services enforce access limits - you get so many requests per minute, hour, or day and after that it returns errors. For example, Twitter's API will return an Error 420 (enhance your calm) if you trip their rate limiter. Enough theory. Let's play around a little. I thought about throwing together a little REST API service to play around with using the BaseHTTPServer module, but I figured that somebody had probably already done that. A little searching revealed the JSONPlaceholder, which has a tiny REST API service at https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/ that everybody can play around with. So, we're going to use that. Open this URL in your browser: https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1 What you see in your browser window is a good example of what a REST API returns when you make a GET request - you see some data in key/value format. When you load that document and reference a key (let's take $.title as an example) you'll get the value "sunt aut facere repellat provident occaecati excepturi optio reprehenderit." Ask for a key, get a value. Pretty simple. Let's set up a scenario to hold our example agent network in Huginn. Log into your Huginn instance and click on Scenarios at the top of the screen. If you haven't been playing around with Huginn you won't see anything here. Let's create a scenario to keep things nice and neat: Scroll to the botton and click the New Scenario button. Give it the name "Test Scenario" (no quotes, let's keep life easy) and click the Save Scenario button. Huginn will display a screen called "Test Scenario Scenario" with a bunch of empty columns (Name, Age, Schedule, Last Check, Last Event Out, dot dot dot). If you don't see this you can navigate to it manually (Scenarios -> Test Scenario). It's empty but we'll fix that. Step one: Get data into Huginn. We do that with Website Agent, which is designed to interact with websites as its name implies. Put the mouse cursor on Agents at the top of the screen, then click New Agent. Click the "Select an Agent Type" drop-down and search for Website Agent by typing the first few letters; click on it to select it. I like to give my agents names that reflect the scenario they're part of because it makes them easier to keep track of in the long run, so give this agent the name "Test Scenario - Hit JSON Placeholder". Click on the Schedule drop-down and set it to run every 30 minutes (you can change this if you need to, 30 minutes is good to start with). The Keep Events field tells Huginn how long to keep the data this agent collects in the database; "Forever" is just that, which means that eventually you'll run out of disk space. I keep events for a week, usually, two weeks on the outside. For our purposes, set it to an hour. The Sources field is a way of setting the name of an agent whose events it'll ingest. This is handy when adding stuff to fairly large agent networks but it doesn't hurt to leave it blank. The Recievers field is much the same, only it tells the new agent which existing agent to send events to. Same use case, same "it won't hurt anything to leave this blank." The Scenarios field is the name of the scenario or scenarios (an agent can be a member of more than one scenario but that makes life difficult in the long run - I recommend against it) the agent is part of. Type the first few letters of "Test Scenario" and click on it when it comes up. A brief digression: If you don't hook stuff up right the first time, you won't break anything. Honest. Events will back up in the database untl there is a way to move them into another agent, and the moment it can the pipeline will clear. You can also delete events from an agent to clear stuff out and try again if you need to. We're playing around here, so treat it like play: You're not going to hurt anything, and every new thing you do will teach you something new. If you need permission, you have my permission to stop treating it like serious business and start having fun. Now we've got a body for this agent, so let's give it a brain. Scroll down a bit and you'll see the agent's configuration editor, which is basically a souped-up JSON editor. The first option we're interested in is expected_update_period_in_days, which is the number of days which should be able to pass before the agent decides that something is wrong with it and disables itself. A good value for this is 365. The second (and most critical) is url, which is the URL of the REST API that the agent is going to contact. Copy and paste the URL https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1 into the field. You'll also want to load that URL in a separate browser tab because you might need to refer back to its output later. The type field is the type of data that the service will return; your options are XML, JSON, text (raw text - nothing special about it at all) and HTML (in case you find yourself needing to scrape and parse raw HTML). Set it to "json". The value of mode specifies when the agent should emit events ("all" seems to mean "always", "on_change" means "whenever the result from the server changes from last time", and "merge" means "take the output from the service and merge it with the event that triggered this one, then emit resulting bundle of data"). Set it to "all" for the moment. Now we need to clear out the bits we don't need because the agent is set up by default for HTML parsing (which is icky, let me tell you, but that's a tale for another time) and we want JSON parsing. If you scroll down, in the online help on the right-hand side you'll see a paragraph called "Scraping JSON." That's the part we care about. So, we're going to use the JSON editor's shortcuts: If you look on the line that says "hovertext:", at the very end there's a minus sign inside the red icon. Click that. It deletes an entire block of stuff we don't need. Do the same thing on the "title:" line and one more time on the "url:" line. The agent editor should look like this. Perfect - a tabula rasa for you to work with. Time to pick apart the JSON document. I like to use jsonpath.com for that, because I can interactively pick out the stuff I want. It's a bit of black art which takes some trial and error to learn, but once you get the pattern down the process becomes second nature. Select everything in that page you opened and paste it into the "JSON" window. The format of that JSON document you grabbed is this (follow along, it's easy): You have an { object } containing a userId, an id, a title, and a body. "userId": 1, "title": "sunt aut facere repellat provident occaecati excepturi optio reprehenderit", "body": "quia et suscipit\nsuscipit recusandae consequuntur expedita et cum\nreprehenderit..." (Note: The \n parts are line breaks.) For the purposes of our experiment, we want the "id" and "title" fields. So, put your cursor in the "JSONPath Syntax" line in your jsonpath.com tab and delete everything. The top level of the JSON document is represented with a dollar sign, so type one in there (but DO NOT hit enter - that'll wipe everything out!) Periods are used to separate the parts of the document (think of them like steps). Next, you want the ID code of that post (just pretend it's a blog post), so you'll type a period, which means "we're going one level down" and the word "id", which is the key in the document that you want the value for. If you look at the Evaluation Results window, you'll see that its contents changed - it now has the contents of the JSON document, sort of. As you change the contents of the JSONPath Syntax line, the contents of the Evaluation Results window will change in response to show you what you're getting so you know if you're on the right track. Your JSONpath will look like this: $.id Go back to your Huginn tab and just below the "Extract" part of the agent editor you should see a green button with a white plus sign inside of it. If you click on that you'll add a line to the extract bit, which will let you specify a name for what you're picking out of the JSON. You could get cute and call it "fred" or something, but do yourself a favor and be descriptive. I recommend calling it "id" and leaving it at that. Next to it you'll see two question marks, which means that the key's waiting for a value. In this case, the key's going to be a JSON path into the document. If you look closely you'll see that at the far end of that line is a {, a [, and a red circle with a minus sign (which you've used previously to delete stuff). If you scroll down a bit, in the online help you'll see that it's expecting another { object }, with a key called "path" and a value containing the JSON path. So, click the { and you'll be presented with a new pair of curly braces and another blank line starting with "??". In place of the "??" type the word "path". The cursor will jump to the other part of that line, which means it's asking for a value. Type in your JSON path: $.id Now let's run a test to see what we get. Click the button that says "Dry Run", which will trigger your Website Agent and show you what happens. A window will pop up asking you for an event to send. While this is useful under some circumstances, don't worry about it, just hit the Dry Run button. You'll be shown exactly what Huginn sees internally: A JSON document consisting of the key "id" and the value 1. Perfect. Now we want the title of our sample blog post. We're going to use the same general JSON path, only we're going to change "id" out for "title", because if you scroll back a bit you'll see that "title" is one of the keys in the JSON that represents our hypothetical blog post. Click the little 'x' button in the top-right corner of the pop-up window and then click the little green plus icon beneath "extract" again. You'll get a brand-new blank line, which you'll fill out using the exact same pattern if not text: You'll be prompted for the name, so give it "title". Click the curly brace at the end to open a new object and give it the name "path". The value for "path" will be the JSON path, which you'll be freehanding: $.title Roughly speaking, that JSON path means "Relative to the top level of the document ($), give me the value of the key called title (.title)." Your agent editor should look something like this. As before, click the Dry Run button, and then the Dry Run button in the pop-up window. You should see a little block of JSON that looks like this: "title": "sunt aut facere repellat provident occaecati excepturi optio reprehenderit" Perfect. You did it. This is what an event emitted by your test Website Agent will look like. Get rid of the Dry Run Results popup window as before and click the Save button to commit your agent to the database. You'll get dropped back to the Your Agents window. Click on the little "Test Scenario" lozenge at the end of your agent's title to go back to the screen which shows only the agents in the current scenario. If you wanted to, you could go back and reference a few more JSON keys in the REST API's output, or edit the output text to display things a little differently. There's no reason that an agent has to remain static once you've got it working, you can make changes if you need to. My advice to you on this point is to make one change at a time, test it, and then make the next. A bit complex? Maybe. I could just have given you what to put in there, but then you'd have less of an idea of how to build your own stuff later, and ultimately that's the point. You wouldn't have any examples for anything else you wanted to do and nothing to copy from, plus if you downloaded somebody else's you'd have a hard time figuring out what all the components did. Additionally, once you have a single agent up and running you can clone it over and over and just tweak the particulars (like the URL it contacts) to save time. If you spend the time getting it right once you can reap the benefits later. You've got an input, now you need an output. Remember how I said that you needed working outbound e-mail from your Huginn instance? We're going to create an agent that sends e-mail every time it receives an event from your Website Agent. Click on Agents at the top, then New Agent. This time you want to pick an Email Agent (start typing and it'll sort through them until it's got some hits, then click on the appropriate title. Give it the name "Test Scenario - Send Email". Again, you only want it to store events for an hour, to prevent cluttering up your database. This agent you want to connect to your Website Agent, so click in the Sources box, and when it pops up click the "Hit JSON Placeholder" entry when it appears; if this is a brand-new instance it'll be the only agent, but occasionally you'll have to hunt around a little. The "Propagate Immediately" tickybox means that the agent will immediately send an event to the next in the chain when it fires; ordinarily agents wait for the next minimum schedule cycle (one minute) before it does so. My advice is to not worry about it, it's not terribly useful. Put the agent into the Test Scenario in the appropriate box. Now you have a choice to make: You can save the Email Agent as-is and be done with it, in which case it'll e-mail every key in the event it's given without any sort of formatting or context, or you can copy the contents of the event into a message in such a way that it fills in blanks in the text. This example is going to show you the latter, because making use of the templating system (a very simple language called Liquid) is what lets you chain lots of agents together by referencing pieces of events in other places. In the agent editor, change the value of the expected_receive_period_in_days field to 365, just like before. Now, if you scan through the docs on the right-hand side, you'll see that the body field isn't required, but if you add it that'll create a formal e-mail body. Hit the green plus bubble and call the new field body. In the text field, type in the following: "Blog post {{ id }} has gone up with the title {{ title }}." (no double quotes) The {{ double curly brackets }} tell the agent that the words within are a template variable that should be swapped out with the value of the matching variable on the right hand side... scroll all the way down and you'll see a smaller box with the heading Agents::WebsiteAgent and a truncated view of the events it expects to receive. So, by putting the names of those fields into the appropriate locations in the text, you'll get the values of those fields. Hit the Save button. You're back to the Your Agents screen. Let's test things out. Click on your "Test Scenario - Hit JSON Placeholder" agent to bring up the agent overview. Now click on the Actions drop-down on the left-hand side and select Run to intentionally trigger the agent. If it ran as expected, you should see "Last event created: <1m ago", which means that it ran, it got data (the JSON document from JSONplaceholder), processed the data, built an outbound e-mail, and transmitted it. Now, if you know you have e-mail set up correctly, sit back and wait for a few minutes. You'll eventually receive an e-mail from your Huginn instance with the title "You have a notification!" and a message body of "Blog post 1 has gone up with the title sunt aut facere repellat provident occaecati excepturi optio reprehenderit." Good work, you just built your first agent network. Now, one more trick. Looking at a list of agents isn't terribly interesting. Assuming that you have Graphviz set up correctly (and you should, it's pretty easy), click on the View Diagram button. Huginn will display a handy visual map that shows agents as bubbles and the data flows between them as arrows. As your scenarios get bigger and bigger, you'll be able to pan around and see how things are connected. You can also click on an agent in the visual map and go right to its overview page. Really the only other advice I have for you is to read the online help for each agent on the right-hand side. 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__label__cc	0.645509	0.354491	The Official Carlos Sainz Jr. Thread mikeyg123 Post subject: Re: The Official Carlos Sainz Jr. Thread Pullrod wrote: UnlikeUday wrote: Could Sainz's awesome performance this year also down to the McLaren car? McLaren hasn't brought a big upgrade package but instead has brought small upgrades to every race which is why it kept improving ever so slightly to build such a cushion to the midfield. https://f1i.com/news/358709-mclaren-midfield-edge-down-to-little-stuff-at-every-race-sainz.html IMO Sainz in this year's McLaren would be more comfortable & competitive around most of the tracks when compared to Checo in '16 or '17 Force India. McLaren's chassis & downforce were always awesome whereas in '16 & '17 Force India was best of the rest mainly due to the (then best)Mercedes engine & because most of the midfield teams were struggling to improve. Mod edit: URL fixed Like every driver. The only way to make "more" points than what is possible is through luck. I don't understand why you and others are trying very hard not to give any credit to Sainz Jr. I remember a thread at the beginning of the year where people could vote on who would beat who between Norris vs Sainz and Norris was the clear winner in any poll I have read on the internet. The reality is not what people were expecting and they don't like it, so there must be a reason. Well this post is entirely false. Here is why - I think it's clear people were expecting Sainz to walk over Norris. He has on points but certainly not in terms of performances. Seeing this reinforces my opinion that had Sainz performing like this against Norris in a poorer car that was not able to score consistent points he'd be getting panned rather than praised. Pullrod mikeyg123 wrote: Well it is clear you don't rate him. And I have read enough forums in multiple languages to know that people don't rate him either for whatever reason. Any time Norris had a good weekend the threads were very active. But when Sainz had one it was very quiet. You are not alone though as Brown/Seidl said months ago how they were surprised by Sainz's speed. It makes you wonder if we ever watch the same races (with live timing). Since Perez is your favorite you should know that I rate him very highly and I think it is a tragedy he has never had a top car and if it was not for the Ferrari interference in 2012, Alonso would have had 1 win less. But hey it is what it is. Norris beating Sainz is simply more noteworthy because we expect Sainz to be able to beat a rookie. The poll at the beginning of the year indicates that. Mort Canard Congrats to Carlos Jr. for a well earned podium even if he didn't get to celebrate it from there. That was a great drive from the very back of the grid. Yes, he had some help from retirements and a few things falling his way but he did do what he needed to. I am hoping that Carlos can start to make a few more trips to the podium and to earn some by outperforming drivers from the top three teams. At 92 points on the season Carlos is only 3 points adrift from Pierre Gasly. Looks like that will be the battle for the 2019 "Best of the Rest". Mission WinLater pokerman Mort Canard wrote: Gasly doesn't qualify for that because he drove half a season for Red Bull. PF1 Pick 10 Competition 2013: 5th Place 2014: Champion 2015: 3rd Place Wins: Canada 2018, Abu Dhabi 2017 Podiums: (8) Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2019 11:34 pm pokerman wrote: ...and even so Carlos could end up beating Pierre in the WDC standings. Will be interesting to watch the results from Abu Dhabi. F1 Racer Not really because whether you come 6th or 7th in the WDC is kind of meaningless. F1 Racer wrote: If you're looking at it like that, anything but 1st is meaningless. 6th place would be a nice morale boost for Carlos and for the team. It would mean he beat the combined point earning of the #2 Red Bull seat over the course of the year, finishing ahead of both drivers who drove in that car. That's a statement that means McLaren isn't too far from fighting with the big teams. Since 2016, I don't think anyone has beaten a driver from one of the Big Three. Tufty Location: Colwyn Bay, North Wales Exediron wrote: To be fair, both drivers spent around half the season in a Toro Rosso, which was generally slower than the McLaren in race trim. Organiser of the single most low-tech Robot Wars tournament in history, PM for details! No, getting runner up spot or maybe even 3rd in the WDC is not meaningless, but after that no one really remembers where you came. A couple of years ago, or maybe even last season, some people were wondering if Alonso could come 10th in the WDC in his terrible McLaren, but in reality it didn't matter whether he did or not, the same with this 6th/7th battle with Gasly/Sainz. As for the supposed morale boost of beating the number 2 Red Bull seat, he obviously is nowhere near doing this, (Gasly scored I think 62 points and Albon 68 points with a race left so a combined 130 points in total, Sainz is on 95 points). So no statement would be made, McLaren is still far from fighting the big teams as they are still comfortably losing to the number 2 Red Bull car even when it is driven by bad drivers. Okay, so not as close as I had thought. Oh well. Ruste13 It's hard being a McLaren tragic hey Ex... Ruste13 wrote: It has been. This year I've been enjoying it, just because it's nice for the team to have something to fight for every weekend. I'll get tired of it if there's no step forward next year, but for now not so bad... UnlikeUday But McLaren are the best of the rest by a good margin. They've got an all-round car which is good on literally most tracks due to their brilliant chassis & downforce. No doubt, they're far off from Red Bull now but in 2021 when they'll use Mercedes engines, I believe they'll be in the top tier group. Feel The Fourth I think McLaren will also be very much aided by the driver lineup they have in place. Both Sainz and Norris have learned a lot in 2019 and improved their racecraft. I expect that Albon will find a lot of competition from Sainz and Norris next year in the WDC. That said McLaren have a long way to go to catch Red Bull in the WCC. They will definitely need to up their game to get into the top tier. Users browsing this forum: Alienturnedhuman and 1 guest	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line158
__label__wiki	0.568308	0.568308	Board index » OTHER INSIGNIA » HYPOTHETICAL RANKS HYPOTHETICAL RANKS Hypothetical Marshal of the Commonwealth insignia Dealing primarily with contemporary and historical Earth nations. (Science-fiction oriented rank systems, such as Star Trek, Starship Troopers, etc.), should be placed in FICTIVE Rank Insignia. Moderators: Miklós Lovász, Pavel Močoch, Erskine Calderon, Zdzislaw Rudzki First unread post • 249 posts • Page 4 of 5 • 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Re: Hypothetical Marshal of the Commonwealth insignia by Medic_in_Uniform » Mon Apr 15, 2013 4:50 pm Hi Clive, Yes, I think I have a decent sequence but I need to find the time to finish the drawings. I also want to put it into a historical context of what came before and how it evolved after so you can see where the progression is going. There was a lot of variation and evolution of insignia around the junior commissioned / warrant / senior rate insignia from the mid/late-19th Century to early-20th Century with changes occurring every few years at one point! Things like distinction lace and cuff buttons were constant features but their exact significance and assignation varied somewhat. The three horizontal cuff buttons were originally features of officer uniforms and, on their own, the distinction mark of Warrant Officers before being extended first to Chief Engine Room Artificers and then to all CPOs. Orignially CPOs wore two small buttons vertically on the outer edge of the cuff. In time, the three horizontal buttons were subsequently removed from the uniforms of first commissioned officers and then Warrant Officers but ultimately retained for CPO. By WW2, all RN WO would wear the quarter-inch distinction lace, without buttons, which was originally the mark assigned to those with over ten years seniority. Commissioned Officers from Warrant Rank would wear standard half-inch lace alongside sub-lieutenants. Interestingly, contemporary rank equivalence charts of the time fudge this by listing Warrant Officers, RN with Army warrant officers but specifically have notes that the naval WOs are held to be senior to all other WOs from the Army and RAF. The context of this is that my progression for this alternative timeline will ultimately lead to the following changes: 1. Old-style Warrant Officers, descended from the "standing officers" of sailing ships, who held Admiralty warrants but were nevertheless Officers, will be merged into a unified structure of officer ranks who all hold commissions and whose distinguishing insignia is gold cuff (or shoulder) distinction lace (much as per real history — in the end, it's the only obvious solution). The course of this evolution, however, is somewhat different within my alternative hypothetical history and the status and role of Warrant Officers on my version becomes somewhat more developed than the Royal Navy allowed for in real history. 2. The Chief Petty Officer rate will (eventually) be advanced and expanded to fill the senior NCO role, equivalent to the Army and RAF WO1 and WO2, but retaining the historical link of the old "warrant officer" cuff buttons for CPOs. The initial change to nominally equate the CPO rate to Army WO3 rank would have a historical context of the Admiralty wishing to maintain parity of their senior rate with senior Army NCOs, but having this complicated by the already existing naval Warrant Officers. This is why the navy later chooses to place two grades of CPO in this position and avoids re-establishing naval "warrant officers." When the WO3 rank is placed in abeyance, the CPO rate will become equivalent to WO2. After the existing Warrant Officers are merged into the commissioned career path, the rate will later be split into two classes, with the new CPO, First Class acquiring insignia that mark its equivalence to other WO1s. That's also why, when I began to play with the RN WO grades, I also included the re-introduction of PO1 and PO2, and their re-alignment to equate them to Staff/Colour/Flight Sgt. and Sergeant, respectively. Hence, ultimately, PO rates = sergeants, CPO rates = WOs. Insignia will eventually become: CPO1: smaller versions of the Royal Arms above the three buttons CPO2: smaller version of the old CPO arm badge (Crown / anchor / wreath) above the three buttons. Both grades of CPO will continue to wear the existing CPO cap badge. PO1: to retain a crown above crossed anchors PO2: to retain the Crown above a single anchor and cable Both grades of PO will continue to wear the existing PO cap badge. All of these senior rates will wear fore-and-aft rig with three rows of buttons on the jacket; POs will wear specialty marks (non-substantive badges) on the right sleeve, CPO2 will wear small specialty marks on the jacket collars and CPO1 will not wear specialty marks. Leading Rates and below will (eventually) all move into "square-rig" and the old Class III uniform will be discontinued, although it will initially be retained for some purely non-operational administrative roles. Leading Rates will also keep their established anchor and cable insignia but when a standardised career pathway is established to achieve direct parity across all the services, they will acquire a star above their anchor and a new rate for senior ABs will inherit the single anchor, finally ending one of the longest historical associations of one insignia with a specific rank. In later times, the junior rates will wear a distinctive metal beret badge (perhaps not unlike the brass badge of the class III uniforms, from the posts above) where POs and CPOs will wear smaller, embroidered versions of their standard cap badges (as will officers). For working dress, the insignia of the most junior rates would be embroidered in red on blue slides whereas those of the senior rates would be embroidered in synthetic gold thread. Thus it should be simple enough to distinguish between the crown and anchor of a PO2 and the star and anchor of a leading rate. Right, enough of that and onto other things... I'm not sure how gorget patches for the Navy would work but, potentially, I guess they could echo the decoration on the collars of the old dress uniforms, with oak leaf and acorn decoration for flag officers, gold lace for senior officers and narrower gold lace for junior officers, leading to the existing plain white turnback patch with simple white cord twist for Midshipmen. What did you have in mind...? As for the Lord High Admiral, like I said above, I already have the designs. I used something like you describe but I used it for the centre of the cap badge in place of the silver foul anchor; I used an ovel of crimson velvet, with a gold roped edge, and the fouled anchor emblem from the flag. A larger version of this badge, fully surrounded by a sliver laurel wreath, would be worn on the gold-faced ceremonial shoulderboards in place of the sliver anchor and wreath for the Grand Admiral. The crossed batons would change from dark blue to crimson. Buttons would look like flag officer buttons but would exchange the RN crown-and-anchor for the LAH double-fouled anchor alone. The crimson from the flag could also be used as a subtle accent colour for other uniform accessories (e.g. the morocco leather of the dress sword belt) but probably not between the distinction lace at the cuffs as it would look a little too much like the scarlet worn by medical officers. I decided not to use it as the backing colour for the gold-faced dress shoulder boards for the same reason. The distinction lace would also incorporate some of the elements of the Grand Admiral insignia but this varied a little as I had two different versions of the LAH insignia and uniforms: one for the hypothetical alternative history and a different version that might just work as a contemporary version for the Duke of Edinburgh. There are also insignia for the associated honorary ceremonial roles of Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom and Rear-Admiral of the United Kingdom (not associated with the usual RN substantive flag ranks of Vice-Admiral and Rear Admiral). When I have the time, I'll post the pics for all of these. Medic_in_Uniform by Clive19 » Mon Apr 15, 2013 8:59 pm I'm looking forward to these up coming pictures. What I had in mind for the Gorget patches was that the colours wouldn't be the same as the Army ones for a start, but instead mostly like the branch colours with a few exceptions. Flag officers - wreath pattern in gold Cmdr - Cdre2 - a thick line, double the size of the thin one (gold for staff or command positions, raised same colour for otherwise) S/Lt - Lt Cdr - a thin line (gold for staff or command positions, raised same colour for otherwise) with Midshipman and Cadet staying the same. This would also be linked to the collars of the Full Dress as well (which I would do slightly differently than you have done). I feel a bit stupid really as I could draw better what i mean but i haven't got the programs to draw it well. by Medic_in_Uniform » Tue Apr 16, 2013 7:45 pm Collar patches... I think I have a fair idea what you mean. Compared to what we're used to, they'll probably look a little odd on the current No.1 monkey jackets, but they might perhaps have worked on the frock coats of the late-19th / early 20th Centuries, as lesser forms of the collar decoration from the full dress coats. I have a few ideas; I'll see what I can come up with... by Medic_in_Uniform » Thu Apr 18, 2013 11:47 am Just a quick look at the full dress coats for the Grand Admiral (as First Sea Lord and professional head of the RN) and then the Lord High Admiral (as the ceremonial head of the Naval Service). The Grand Admiral wears the star, badge and broad ribbon of the Order of the Bath; the Lord High Admiral wears the neck badge of the Order of Merit and the breast star and broad ribbon of the Order of the Garter as well as star of the Order of the Bath. Both appointments also wear full First Class aguillettes. Note the variation on the cap badge and the change of buttons for the Lord High Admiral from the standard RN flag officer buttons; the same change is also made to the belt buckle plate. The crown is omitted in favour of the simple fouled anchor which is a recgnised historic symbol in its own right. Also the use of crimson for some of the uniform details -- although I'm still rather undecided about the crimson collar and the use of the small LAH fouled anchors on a crimson circle inside the curl of the sleeve distinction lace. The use of the white-topped peaked cap is probably slightly anachronistic for the 1920s where the LAH and GA are likely to continue to wear cocked hats when in full dress (at least initially) but it allows me to show you the cap badges (!). I guess this version might possibly be seen in the late-30s rather than early-20s, at least within the alternative history! In truth, I don't think we'd ever see such a uniform for all the reasons discussed in the posts above but it was fun to draw it. At some point soon, I'll get around to posting the other stuff... by Medic_in_Uniform » Thu Apr 18, 2013 1:54 pm Forgot to add this one: This was the design for something that might work for the Duke of Edinburgh as Lord High Admiral; it's slightly different in that it is based on the current RN Flag Officers' ceremonial day coat and has different sleeve distinction lace. The badges and the shoulder boards are essentially the same but with the historic Tudor crown replaced with the current St Edward's Crown. The cuff distinction insignia also uses rows of oak leaves in place of some of the gold distinction lace but the pattern is different: given that the broader upper row of 1" lace was only from the hypothetical alternative timeline, I thought that the best way might be to adapt the existing insignia for Admiral of the Fleet. The most obvious way to do this was to replace some of the plain lace with oak leaves so that the rows alternate between the two and therefore the upper row is the standard flag officer 14mm lace with 50mm diameter curl. I considered the option of placing crimson behind the lace and oakleaves and it works quite well bu still looks a little too much like the scarlet "lights" of medical officers. I also considered using the crimson for the coat's collar and this also works OK but without the overlying oakleaves, it generally seemed to look better to keep the plain white collar which also helps to bring the white of the cap into the overall desing. Final note: yes, I know, this is not a direct representation of Prince Philip's decorations and awards. These are just there to give the general impression...! On the whole, this seems to work and represents a subtle upgrade of the existing Admiral of the Fleet insignia, rather than wholesale change. The cuff lace will also work perfectly well on a standard No.1 monkey jacket. by Clive19 » Thu Apr 18, 2013 3:47 pm They are great, very well done on those. Its a shame it wasn't done in real life. One of may favourite parts is the Order of Merit however the military division has swords through it http://www.medals.org.uk/united-kingdom/united-kingdom008.htm by the way that is a very useful website for looking up medals and decorations Yes, I agree: the Military Division of the Order of Merit does indeed have crossed swords incorporated into its badge but there are currently no appointees within that branch. The Duke of Edinburgh wears the civilian version of the Order's insignia. On the other hand, it probably would be appropriate for the late 1930s version in my previous post, depending on who might have held such a post at the time. With some minor legislative amendments, I guess it would have been possible for the Board of Admiralty to continue to exercise the powers of the role whilst an individual was appointed to the title in an honorary ceremonial capacity. Just for you, here's a slightly different version of the contemporary LAH dress uniform, this one has the crimson collar I mentioned and gold fouled anchors on each side that echo the flag. For comparison, it's next to the ceremonial day coat of a contemprary Admiral as 1SL/CNS. And finally, the insigbnia for the other associated honorary ceremonial appointments of Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom and Rear Admiral of the United Kingdom. The sleeve distinction lace has been deliberately chosen to suggest those of the RN substantive flag ranks of Vice-Admiral and Rear Admiral -- but without following them exactly, so that these are clearly different. The loop above the oakleaves for the RAUK is in the usual 14mm gold lace but is of the same 50mm diameter as flag officers' curls, rather than the 45mm of loop for Commodores, which matches the curls of all other officers. The cuff lace would be the same for both day coats and the No.1 monkey jacket. The shoulder board insignia for the day coats follow a pattern after the LAH insignia but are deliberately NOT the same as those of the RN ranks. The caps would be worn with the standard flag officer two rows of oakleaves and the LAH version of the cap badge. Only the LAH would have the oakleaf pattern embroidery on the sword belt; the others would also be crimson morocco leather and would use the same buckle but would have the more usual three rows of plain gold embroidery. If day coats were to have crimson collars then only the LAH would wear his fouled anchor insignia, the others would be plain. If day coats were to have white collars, as per standard flag officer day coats, then no insignia would be worn. I guess if only the LAH were to have the uniform then maybe the white collar would be better, whereas if all three appointments were to be given ceremonial dress then maybe the crimson collars would make more sense. by Clive19 » Fri Apr 19, 2013 5:45 pm Nice, I like it a lot This one's for Sketor by Medic_in_Uniform » Wed Jun 12, 2013 12:30 pm A little while back, Sketor asked about the possibility of uniforms and insignia for the Metropolitan Police in Londan in this timeline, which I have to admit I hadn't really thought about before! It's taken me a while to find the time to be able to complete this but now I have a few things I'd like to show you guys: 1. Cap badges and so on The top row is the early cap badges; the bullion crown & wreath is for "chief officer" ranks and the silver badge with the crimson velvet backing behind the crown is for Superintendents and Inspectors (in military terms, the "officer" ranks) and the dull finish one-piece badge is for sergeants and constables. The bottom row would be later versions of the same set. The large metal plate badge on the left is the "helmet star" from the front of the traditional constables' "Custodian" helmet and the large version on the right would be the official badge used on signage etc. In the middle are the one-piece metal shoulder-titles and the standard uniform button. 2. Rank insignia I tried a few different versions; the first amends the usual UK police insignia and brings them approximately into line with the alternative army insignia from this timeline - it's OK but doesn't really work for me to be honest. Here it is: I figure that the original intention (from the inception of the police in the UK) of keeping police uniforms different to military uniforms is a sound idea, so I figured that the police generally would be reluctant to change and move away from their established insignia so I ultimately stuck with this version which uses some bits of the old Met Police structure from pre-WW2 and ads a few other twists. There are, overall, more individual grades but I figure there would probably be fewer people in each grade. The role of Clerk Sergeant (a real historical Met Police rank which had insignia same as Station Sgt.) is kind of a non-operational administrative role for long-serving senior sergeants prior to retirement, so I've separated it out and given it a different insignia like an Army WO2. In practice, it carries no additional operational authority than a Station Sergeant. Sub-inspector would usually be either an acting rank for a sergeant temporarily fulfilling a more senior role or a probationary position pending confirmation of substantive appointment as a Station Inspector. The only exceptions to this would be some special service units where Sub-Inspector would be a substantive rank. The significance of this is that UK law allows police officers of certain ranks specific additional powers over those of a normal constable, for example the authority to detain a suspect for a longer period of time. 3. Uniforms These are the general day-to-day working uniforms. Constables and Sergeants retain the older-style closed, high-collar tunic but have more practical buttoned breast pockets and flaped hip pockets. Inspectors and above wear four-pocket open-collar belted jackets with a collar and tie. The now ubiquitous black-and-white diced cap band of the UK police will not be introduced for many years so peaked caps (when worn) are plain dark blue for constables and sergeants and have a black hatband of oakleaf pattern lace for inspectors and above, as well as peak embroidery. The custodian helmet will remain the usual headwear for constables and sergeants on patrol duties. An open-collar jacket, worn with a pale blue shirt and tie, will be introduced first for Divisional Clerk Sergeants and later will replace the high-collar working jacket as the standard uniform for all sergeants and constables. 4. Ceremonial full dress. This has always existed for some senior grades within the Metropolitan Police and is worn on formal State occasions. Here, I've extrapolated this to all ranks so that the police outside the Royal palaces and Parliament can get just as dressed up as the Guards when the occasion demands (!). The tunic for sergeants and constables has a similar high-collar and seven button fron as the working jacket but is a pocketless formal tunic, based (loosely) on the older Victorian version of their uniform. The ceremonial dress for inspectors and superintendents has a blue jacket decorated with black mohair frogging (yes, it's a but more military looking...) and all-black silk embroidery for inspectors and silver bullion for suerintendents. Cuffs are peaked with small black lace Austrian knot decoration. Inspectors have plain blue collar and cuffs with black lace and knot; Chief Inspectors and Superintendents (and above) have black velvet collars and cuffs with black lace edging and silver bullion ebroidery. More senior officers have gauntlet-style cuffs with silver bullion details and bullion edging to epaulettes. The ranks of Assistant Commissioner (equivalent rank and insignia to a Chief Constable heading a smaller County police force in the UK) and Deputy commissioner have oakleaves on the cuff and all around the collar. The tunic has a silver buttoned front and is worn with a silver and blue waist sash. The Commissioner has more extensive oak-leaf embroidery, broadly similar to that of an Army general. Like the Army and the Royal Navy, the historical uniform for senior officers inluded a full cocked had with feather plumes - this is not completely abolished but reserved only for the most formal occasions like Coronations and State Funerals. Just for comparison, here's the actual ceremonial full dress, as worn by the current incumbent Commissioner: Finally, here's the equivalent uniform for the ranks of Deputy Assistant Commissioner and Commander. Note the black frogging on the front of the jacket and the detailed Austrian Knots on the cuffs -- very Victorian! Smaller silver oakleaves on the collar though. Yes, these senior officers are still wearing cocked hats with feather plumes into the 21st Century and, unusually, wear swords with full ceremonial dress too! Obviously the Comissioner has far more feathers...! Re: This one's for Sketor by sketor7558 » Thu Jun 13, 2013 12:37 am Medic_in_Uniform wrote: A little while back, Sketor asked about the possibility of uniforms and insignia for the Metropolitan Police in Londan in this timeline, which I have to admit I hadn't really thought about before! MetPol20s_Badges.jpg MetPol20s_Rank2.jpg MetPol20s_uniform2.jpg MetPol20s_Dress2.jpg Met Commissioner Ceremonial 1a.jpg Met DAC Ceremonial1.jpg Outstanding work Medic, you should earn a knighthood for this very nice work, thanks! sketor7558 by ChrisWI » Thu Jun 13, 2013 2:42 am I must concur with Sketor, excellent job on the police charts - simply amazing! ChrisWI Location: West Islip,New York,United States by Medic_in_Uniform » Thu Jun 13, 2013 6:48 am I have a few other bits and pieces that I'm in the process of finishing and should be able to post fairly soon: some Army full dress uniforms for the Royal Artillery, Royal Army Medical Corps, Rifle Brigade and an alternative variant for a different infantry regiment. by Clive19 » Thu Jun 13, 2013 12:41 pm Stunning pictures, loving all the police ones. Really like the officer's full dress and the frogging on the front. Very good by Medic_in_Uniform » Fri Jun 14, 2013 12:19 pm RAMC Full Dress Warrant Officers and other ranks Cuff details Rifle Brigade The details are drawn from the traditional uniforms of a number of british rifle regiments; dark "rifle green" is the main colour, with the usual British scarlet as an accent colour only. Buttons and rank insignia are black and bullion, where worn, is silver rather than gold. Rank markings: Note the two images on the right show differing versions of the colonel uniform; the one on the left of the two has the gold aguillettes and Royal Cyhers of an ADC to the King, and might be worn by a Royal colonel-in-Chief of one of the regiments or a General appointed as Regimental Colonel. The version on the extreme right has the scarlet hat band and badges of an officer of the General Staff, with dispensation to wear the full dress of his old regiment rather than the standard scarlet tunic of General Staff Officers. Warrant Officers and other ranks: The four Rifle Regiments use the same basic pattern of Full dress uniforms but each regiment has a different cuff pattern: Royal Regiment of Artillery The various artillery components of the British army are merged in the the overall "Royal Artillery." The titles "Bombardier" and "Lance-Bombardier" replace "Corporal" and "Lance-Corporal" as the junior NCO ranks. For ceremonial purposes, the officers and men of certain units of the previous Royal Horse Artillery retain their frogged cavalry-type uniforms but with detailing amended to match those of the other RA regiments. The gold frogged tunic on the right is for those senior officers and dignitaries appointed as ceremonial Regimental Colonels of the various sub-regiments that comprise the RA. Artillery Officers on the General Staff and General Officers of Artillery (certain specific ceremonial roles have artillery blue rather than the usual scarlet as their dress uniforms). The general officer variant would, for example, be worn by the general holding the ceremonial appointment of "Master Gunner, St James's Park," when on parade in that ceremonial capacity. by Medic_in_Uniform » Fri Jun 14, 2013 1:06 pm Finally, for now, a different infantry Regiment of the Line to that shown in the original Army Full Dress images a few pages back. This is for the fictional King's Borsetshire Regiment and the basic scarlet tunic is the same but there are regiment-specific changes, such as the traditional regimental facing colour and the cuff pattern, as well as the cap and collar badges. Like the image of the Rifle Brigade officers, above, this pic shows company and field officers as well as versions of the uniform for colonel and above (as worn by the Regimental Colonel and also officers promoted to the General Staff from, late the Borsetshire Regiment. by ijnfleetadmiral » Fri Jun 14, 2013 1:58 pm VERY nice work! ijnfleetadmiral Location: Corinth, MS by Clive19 » Sun Jun 16, 2013 2:56 am Absolutely amazing by Clive19 » Mon Jun 17, 2013 6:03 pm I don't suppose a youre doing a lancer's uniform are you? I think you could do a really good version of it Medic. by Medic_in_Uniform » Mon Jun 17, 2013 11:26 pm That might be an interesting one to do -- usually plenty of colour and details... To be honest, I guess I just sort of started with the obvious main branches of service and then based them (some more loosely than others) on what had gone before. I've now covered a couple of versions of the line infantry; the general staff; general officers and field marshals; rifle regiments; the artillery; the medical corps. The next on my list was probably the Royal Tank Regiment as I fancied doing something a bit different (but then all-black doesn't show up well in drawings...!). If you hadn't spotted the patterns already, then I'll just point out the basics of what I've tried to incorporate into the designs. The underlying premise is that full dress fell into disuse during and after WW1 and that by the time of its re-introduction in the mid-1920s (in this timeline) the War Office, the CIGS and the General Staff decided to take the opportunity to streamline and update the uniforms — but without completely neutering the idiosyncratic history and traditions so dear to the regiments and corps of the British army. In this timeline, then, the dark blue "Patrol" dress would not therefore evolve into the contemporary "No.1" ceremonial dress currently used by much of the British army, although "blue Patrols" would still be retained as an intermediate optional/prescribable semi-formal undress uniform for officers, WOs and duty senior NCOs in many units. All ranks are transitioning to wearing peaked forage caps as the headwear for dress uniforms (with, potentially, a few minor exceptions such as, perhaps, the RTR). While this seems to discard previous "traditional" patterns of headdress, it must be remembered that uniform hats developed and changed on a regular basis from tricorns and mitre caps to shakos and bicorns (and hence into cocked hats) as well as the busby and bearskin variants of fur hats and any number of different cavalry and infantry helmets, some worn for battle and some purely ceremonial, as well as bonnets, "pill-box" and peaked undress forage caps. Anyway, the point is that change was a constant process and reflected and was influenced by styles of other countries (mainly across Europe). In general, other ranks wear one pattern of cap, usually dark blue with regimental colours to hatband, piping and/or crown piping to match the main uniform and facing colours. They tend to have narrower, slide-buckle chin straps and metal cap badges. Officers may have a variant on the OR cap or may be somewhat different in appearance. They tend to have broader leather chin straps and bullion/embroidered versions of the cap badges with a little more colour. Officers up to Captain wear plain peaks; Field officer of Major and Lt. Colonel rank wear passing peaks with (usually) a band of raised bullon embroidery around the outer edge and officers on the General Staff (Colonel, Brigade Colonel) wear one row of bullion oak leaves with the Royal crest badge of the General Staff. General Officers and Field Marshals wear two rows of oakleaves and their own rank-specific cap badges. For warrant officers, WO1 essentially wear the same pattern as the junior (company-grade) officers while WO2 (and WO3 where used) wear OR pattern but with officer cap badges. With regards to uniform, the tunic pattern is broadly the same for all ranks but with additional embellishments at the cuffs and collar which increase with rank. As a standardisation measure, I postulated that three main cuff designs would be developed, derived from the basic forms previously used by most units but in a regulated format. All regiments and corps would be restricted to one of these patterns (or, possibly, a combination of them). The three basic cuff designs are: 1. flapped and buttoned "slash" cuff with buttonhole decoration and scalloped edge to the flap. Plain cloth (usually in contrast colour) or bullion piped edging above the cuff and around the outer edge of the flap, with increasing decoration to the flap and lace around the top of the cuff below underneath the flap for Warrant Officers and other ranks; bullion and lace on the flaps and increasing rings of bullion around the cuff for Officers: one ring for Second Lieutenant, two rings for Lieutenant and Captain, three rings for Major and Lieutenant Colonel, four rings for Colonel with some variation between regimental appointments and those appointed to the general staff. There is also a version with two rings of bullion, spaced the same as the outer rings of Colonel but with a band of lace filling the full space between them, for Brigade Colonels. General officers and above have bullion oakleaf and acorn embroidery. 2. peaked cuff with single line piped edging and small trefoil / Austrian knot above the point of the peak (some variation by unit as to plain or bullion piping by rank). The same pattern of decorative lace or bullion below the piped upper edge, as above. 3. Gauntlet cuff, also with plain or bullion piped edging and the same pattern of lace or bullion decoration around the upper and outer edge of the gauntlet. The main variants can be seen in the detail drawings of the RAMC and Rifle Brigade cuffs in the posts above. These basic forms would apply to all of the new full dress uniforms. Trousers are usually dark blue and outer leg stripes generally vary from narrow piping for other ranks to various degrees of broader stripes/welts for WO1 and officers and, finally, broad bullion lace with oakleaf pattern for general officers and above. Additional tunic decoration such as button placement or the use of decorative lace or frogging and so on is allowed to follow previously established regimental tradition. Other accessories such as cross-belts, shoulder sashes for sergeants and WO2, sword belts for WO1 and waist sashes for officers will vary by regiment or corps and may completely follow established tradition or may be new and updated but incorporating traditional elements. by Medic_in_Uniform » Sat Jun 29, 2013 12:15 am As mentioned above, the next instalment is the Royal Tank Regiment... Formed during WW1 after the development of "the Tank" as a new mechanised weapon of war, the Royal Tank Regiment was originally a branch of the Machine Gun Corps and then became the Tank Corps before becoming the Royal Tank Corps and finally the Royal Tank Regiment in the post-War years. It was a central component of the Royal Armoured Corps as other historic cavalry regiments moved away from horses to become mounted upon mechanised armour. In around 1920, the RTR adopted their famous black beret (being one of the first regiments to do so); it was more practical headwear inside the cramped spaces of a tank and the black didn't show the inevitable oil stains that came from working with the machinery. This practicality later spilled over into black working uniforms for tank crews and, when Full Dress was re-instituted, the RTR (which, as a new regiment, had never previously had its own Full Dress) opted to stick with black as their distinctive colour. RTC and then RTR service dress had originally used black for officers' Sam Browne belts and patent leather peaks and all ranks had used black hat bands on service dress caps. Peaked caps were also part of the initial designs for the new RTR Full Dress uniforms, along with the other other regiments but after the black beret was introduced for working dress, and then accepted as standard regimental headwear for service dress, it was eventually decided by the regimental hierarchy thaty they wished to develop their own unique traditions (like every other regiment in the British army!) and the beret was adopted for ALL orders of dress. Officers of the General Staff and General Officers promoted from the RTR or commanding Armoured Corps and Divisions, could also wear black Sam Browne belts and black peaks to their service dress caps and, later, black berets with their Service Dress or Staff Pattern battledress. General Staff Officers promoted from the RTR and serving with armoured units would sometimes continue to wear black full dress but with unit-specific badges removed and with the addition of General Staff badges and collar and cuff embellishments. Initial Post-War Service Dress: Officer Service Dress -- Peaked Forage Caps WO and Other Ranks Service Dress -- Peaked Forage Caps Full Dress, as originally planned: WO and Other Ranks Full Dress -- Peaked Dress Caps Officer Full Dress -- Peaked Dress Caps Working dress was originally the Army's new standard field service uniformas for other regiments but very quickly tank crews discovered the RAF variant for air crew (later all RAF ranks) the buttons of which fastened behind a placket,preventing them from snagging in confined spaces. As these uniforms were initially produced only in RAF grey-blue, they chose the simple expedient of dyeing them black. Eventually, this unofficial "tank uniform" was recognised and formally adopted and procured, initially by the RTR and later for many of the other new tank regiments too. The WO1 RSM and the Corporal wear standard Battledress in RTR pattern but the Staff Sergeant and the Trooper wear black Tank Crew Battledress. Like many Cavalry officers before them, the RTR's comissioned ranks work hard to "adapt" the regulations and inject as much individualism as possible into supposed uniformity... The Captain, a Troop Commander or Squadron 2iC, wears his rank on a black "Tankie" jacket over standard battledress. The Lt. Colonel wears almost standard "Staff Pattern" battledress with tailored collar -- but, like the officer he is, he has had his tailor make the uniform with the covered buttons of the black tankies. (He also has the same uniform in black for when he's actually leading his Battalion from his armoured car...) The subsequently updated Service Dress looks like this: Only a few senior officers had procured the peaked dress caps before the final regulations for the Full Dress were agreed. Technically, these remained in the regulations and were occasionally worn at very formal events by senior officers, but not when on parade with the Regiment, when all ranks would wear the beret. The final version of the Full Dress, with berets, looks like this: Finally, some more detailed images of the badges and Full Dress cuffs: by ijnfleetadmiral » Sat Jun 29, 2013 8:39 pm I'm getting tired of paying your work so many compliments. Yet another brilliant set. About the Lancer uniforms, I think they could fit into your timeline of simplification and standardisation. It can be a smart yet straight forward rig. And variety can be put on easily by changing the two principle colours. Could even make a tropical version by changing the base colour to white (though this isn't a real variation). An example in a film is the cavalry that have arrived before the credits in the film Zulu (watched it today). Good examples do exist on the internet too. It derives from the Polish Uhlan uniform. A version I like is the 17th/21st Lancers. A dark blue with white plastron and linings. Though I don't think much of the czapka helmets. really bizarre. Could easily be replaced by a peaked cap or pith helmet. They could also easily incorporate your cuffs, thinking particularly of the one with Austrian knot. by Medic_in_Uniform » Mon Jul 01, 2013 12:52 am Yes, I like this idea -- I'll see what I can come up with. I'd like to take a crack at Dragoons, hussars and lancers but that's a heck of a lot of fiddly details to get right, so it might take a while...! I'm not a great fan of the czapka in this context but, given the basic premise I had set myself, then I think it should be possible to come up with something for the lancers along the lines of a peaked dress forage cap using the colours from the tunic, piping and plastron foor the hatband, piping and crown. I have a few ideas in mind! I also need to do the Royal Engineers at some point and the Royal Military Police too... BTW, to anyone who sent me a PM recently: thank you and I have replied but I'm not sure the PM system is working fully as they all seem to be stuck in my outbox! by Clive19 » Mon Jul 01, 2013 2:17 am I do also like the lancer modifications to a standard No 1 style uniform. Such as this Out of interest, what else are you working on these days Medic? by Medic_in_Uniform » Mon Jul 01, 2013 7:30 am To be honest, I'm not doing much else like this right now. I have too many proper work-related things that I have to do at the moment. I enjoy playing around with the drawings and refining the designs though so I still do some as a kind of "down-time" break when I have a few hours (my wife calls it "work-avoidance"...!). The Lancer uniforms are kind of fun and borrow design cues from much later European styles than many other British regiments (so much so that some Lancer full dress barely looked "British" at all!) but that also makes them more interesting too! by Medic_in_Uniform » Thu Aug 08, 2013 12:08 pm OK, Clive -- still something of a work-in-progress but see what you think of these... Random fictional Lancer Regiment -- NCO / WO Random fictional Lancer Regiment -- Officers by Clive19 » Fri Aug 09, 2013 9:18 pm Very good, very good indeed. Thanks medic what could possibly need doing to those? by Medic_in_Uniform » Sat Aug 10, 2013 1:05 pm Hi Clive, I guess they just need a little refinement: the lower end of the plastron and the overlap of the front tunic flap needs to be a little narrower and I need to add in the cap cords and cross-belts. That kind of thing. I'm happy with the overall look but I think sorting out those sort of details will just finish them off. The other thing that ocuured to me is that the current "look" with overalls covering short boots would work better with blue patrol jackets (or contemporary No.1) but for full dress they shoul probably also have full below-knee riding boots. I'll try both and see how they look. I also need to add in the piping on the quarter-seams of the cap crown (it's most noticeable on the vertical front seam but is also on the sides and back). All the current No. 1 caps of the contemporary Lancer regiments feature this unique variant of the dress peaked caps -- a nod in the direction of the decorative lace and piping on the four vertical edges of the csapka-style lancer dress caps/helmets. I'll also try some variations on colour-schemes too; maybe red tunic / navy plastron with red caps and yellow (or gold) piping and stripes. There are plenty of historical examples of different coloured full dress varants among the British lancer regiments. Watch this space... As these now happen to be ready, here also are the uniforms for the Corps of Military Police. Note, not yet the Corps of Royal Military Police -- that happened later -- but a merged Corps that incorporated the previous Military Mounted Police and Military Foot Police. The uniforms are: Full Dress. The NCO / other ranks version is actually not too different to the historic full dress of the Military Foot Police around the turn of the century, which would have been worn with the infantry version of the home service pattern dress helmet. Obviously here I've paired the uniforms with a dress version of the scarlet-topped cap, in keeping with the general scheme for dress uniforms for all the other regiments that I outlined above. The officer / WO1 version is something of a confection of my own imagination (!). Blue Patrols. A variant of an older undress uniform worn historically in place of coloured regimental full dress, largely replaced by the khaki service dress. In the contemporary British Army, it forms the basis of the formal "No.1 Dress" which effectively replaced full dress for most regiments after WW2. It is still used by specific units like the Household division for formal wear on some non-parade occasions. Here it reperesents a formal duty uniform for military police undertaking certain specific duties. Note also the unique variant on the senior officers' Home Service Undress dark blue embellished tunic that is specific to the post of Provost Marshal. As an aside, in peace time the Provost Marshal (and professional head of the CMP) here holds the rank of Brigade Colonel and therefore wears the appropriate single row of bullion oak leaves on his dress cap and the associated gold cuff lace on his full dress uniform. He is also entitled to special ADC aguilletes. The deputy provost marshal and chief-of-staff of the Corps would be a full colonel, with assistant provost marshals (and COs of deployable detached units) in the field officer ranks of Lieut. Colonel and Major. In time of general mobilisation, with an increase in the overall size and duties of the corps, the post may be up-graded to general officer status, usually in the rank of Major General. For the most part, the usual general officer uniform would be worn, but when on parade with or formally representing the CMP, the general officer cap badge and two rows of oak leaves would be worn on the CMP scarlet-topped cap and the full general officer-pattern bullion oak leaves would be worn on the scarlet collar and cuffs of the CMP full dress. Service Dress. The usual khaki suit - worn with formal caps; parade version is white belts for other ranks, crimson sashes for senior NCOs (as shown) otherwise polished black belts. Officers / WO1 wear black Sam Brownes. Note the senior staff officers (Provost Marshal and Deputy Provost Marshals) wear the Staff Officer badge (and gorget patches) in place of the Corps badge but still wear the CMP scarlet-topped cap. For less formal barracks wear and when not on formal patrol / policing duties the plain khaki service-dress caps without the scarlet tops may be worn (and for these, the senior officers would have the standard scarlet hat band). Field Dress. The usual Army battledress, which may be worn in Field-pattern or Staff-pattern, according to rank. For most duties a red cover is worn over the top of the standard khaki peaked cap but this may be removed if it would be too conspicuous. CMP do not wear the usual other-ranks khaki side-caps. Officers would frequently not wear the red covers in the field unless undertaking specific policing duties but might still wear the black-on-red "MP" armbands, as required. Away from active combat zones, MPs might wear the white Sam Browne-style pistol belts and white gaiters when on patrol / policing duties (worn here by the WO1). by ijnfleetadmiral » Sun Aug 11, 2013 1:38 am by Clive19 » Mon Aug 12, 2013 12:38 am Amazing work, amazing One minor note, the lancer's uniform has two extra buttons next to the collar. Just have a look at the pictures incase my powers of description fail me. by Medic_in_Uniform » Mon Aug 12, 2013 11:56 am Thanks, guys! Clive19 wrote: One minor note, the lancer's uniform has two extra buttons next to the collar. Just have a look at the pictures incase my powers of description fail me. Yup, you are entirely correct; those additional two buttons fastening the upper edge of the plastron, either side of the collar, would keep the top of the plastron from bowing out. It's just another one of the little things I need to fix, along with adding the additional accoutrements...! BTW: lots of stuff for you here: (if you haven't seen it already!) http://pinterest.com/patrickbaty/cavalry-lancers/ by Cobra Kebab » Fri Aug 16, 2013 9:33 am Can't really express how much i appreciate your work. I seldom log in but I lurk a lot. How about a general officer's lancer uniform? Is your idea that the red piping is a permanent fixture of lancer uniforms, regardless of regiment?. I thought that piping on british lancer uniforms was of the same colour as the plastron and cuffs? Hussars next? Cobra Kebab by Medic_in_Uniform » Sun Aug 18, 2013 2:56 pm To be honest, the design above was very much a speculative first pass at what I might use but I was aware that it would need some refining, I was simply playing with ideas and using the red piping was just one of those -- although I think it does kind of work. I was toying with the idea of introducing contrast coloured piping (not necessarily red) for all the lancer regimental variations in uniform colours. For example, those regiments with scarlet plastrons on dark blue tunics (5th, 9th, 12th) or dark blue on scarlet (16th) might have had white piping or perhaps yellow (or gold) piping to match their yellow trouser stripes. I actually have much more accurate representations (albeit with collars, cuffs and epaulettes updated to the new "standardisation" for my timeline) for the 5th, 9th, 12th, 16th, 17th and 21st Lancers in their traditional colours. When I get time to fully finish them, I'll post the whole lot...! A general officer ceremonial variant on the lancer uniform would, frankly, be just ridiculously over-the-top, what with all the belts and cords and sashes and bullion embroidery and different coloured uniforms sections, not to mention aguillettes and gold trouser stripes! Utterly far too much and a classic case of "gilding the lily" if you ask me. ...it therefore sounds fabulous -- and I must have a go at drawing one of those...!! The only question is, which would be the base colours of the plastron and the tunic? Scarlet on blue or blue on scarlet...? by SFMRAS » Mon Aug 19, 2013 10:33 am Use both; one for general officers, the other for marshals/Royals. Alternatively, do a rough draft of both and see which is better looking. SFMRAS COMMUNICANT Maybe...! The whole thing puts me in mind of a something like a British equivalent of the old German rank / role of "General der Kavallerie." Obviously, there is also the very old Royal Household appointment of "The Master of the Horse" but that is a very distinct mediaeval position that used to have military significance but is now very much purely ceremonial (and has its own distinctive scarlet full dress uniform, now usually seen only at specific events like Trooping the Colour). I'll see what I can come up with but maybe it should wait until I've also been able to complete Hussars and Dragoons and we can compare which would work better (!). by Cobra Kebab » Mon Aug 19, 2013 11:44 am My idea behind requesting a general officer's lancer uniform, was of a royal or otherwise prominent general being appointed honorary colonel-in-chief of a regiment, thus being entitled to wear said regiment's uniform with general's insignia. One could also envision a flamboyant general privately commissioning a dress uniform in the pattern of his old regiment. by SFMRAS » Mon Aug 19, 2013 1:10 pm Medic_in_Uniform wrote: Maybe...! Looking at the MoH uniform, I noticed that the insignia appears to be an outgrowth of the 1700s/early 1800s general rank insignia. When you're done the Hussar and Dragoons, you could always write the difference in uniforms as a reflection of the MoH's origins, if you pursue the MoH angle. Regular MoH would wear the current version (I don't know when that came to be instituted,) while members of the cavalry would get a regimental-appropriate uniform. Depending on how the MoH is appointed in your alternate universe, their could be royalty, peer, civilian, police, veteran, Army, RN, RAF, RM, etc. specific uniforms. Granted, RN or RAF MoH would be a little different, but it makes for a fun exercise. by Medic_in_Uniform » Mon Aug 19, 2013 9:15 pm Hi Cobra, Glad you're here again! This is, after all, originally your thread so thank you for sparking all this off and letting me play with it -- look how it has grown...!! The British approach to Royal or other honorary Colonels or Colonels-in-Chief of regiments was always that, when on parade in that role, they would wear the uniform of the Regiment with the appropriate Colonel's insignia and accoutrements, regardless of their actual position or substantive rank. Thus Field Marshal the Lord Guthrie, as Colonel-in-Chief of The Life Guards, wears the uniform of a Life Guards field officer with Colonel's insignia when riding with the other regimental colonels for the Queen's Birthday Parade. That is partly why I included such variants for some of the designs in the previous posts. Now, having said all that, I'd still love to have a go at adding my General Officer-pattern collar and cuffs, with the bullion oak leaves, to the updated lancer uniform. I guess the role would be some sort of honorary appointment as the notional ceremonial head of all the Lancers. I guess that would then equally fit with something similar for Hussars and Dragoons -- when I finally get around to doing those...! That's why I was thinking of the German "General der Kavallerie" but in some sort of honorary capacity. It guess it would be the equivalent of the dark blue General's uniform I did a little while back for the Royal Artillery -- which, it occurs to me, could also be worn with Field Marshal's cap badge and rank insignia by the Sovereign in the rile of Captain-General of Artillery. by Clive19 » Tue Aug 20, 2013 12:34 am General der Kavallerie sounds like a good idea, sounds kind of similar in principle to some of the navy admiral positions e.g. Flag Officer Submarines An alternative idea is that you could use the Major-General commanding the Household Division as a parallel. Perhaps another general officer commanding an area which includes Lancers. Or even put a lancer unit under the household division. by Cobra Kebab » Tue Aug 20, 2013 6:18 am I guess the role would be some sort of honorary appointment as the notional ceremonial head of all the Lancers. I think this would be the same as the old french position of Colonel General. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_General_(France) Also, here in Sweden, many of our former kings and other royals used to sometimes wear the dress uniform of a specific regiment with general's insignia. (Svea Life Guards, Crown Prince's Own Hussars, Scanian Dragoons etc) by Clive19 » Wed Aug 21, 2013 2:08 am That's interesting, taking these titles with General of Cavalry as a starting point, you could have a head of each "arm" of the army who would be the head of a policy/doctrine/tactics development and also have a major part to play in procurement for their respective arms. Theoretically you could have one for each "arm". This is a list of possible arms with which to use this title. Infantry, Cavalry and Armour, Artillery and Aviation, Engineers, Signals and Intelligence, Medical Services, Logistics, Adjutant-General's Corps I have grouped some together as I assessed they wouldn't be large enough in isolation to warrant being its own "arm". You could have a different title for certain ones e.g. AGC could be Adjutant-General (which links in nicely in with itself), Medical Services could have a Surgeon-Genereal, I was toying with Bombardier-General for the Artillery but it could be a bit much. Using Cavalry and Armour as a potential example (using Colonel-General) General Sir Peter Thorne, Colonel-General Cavalry and Armour, heads the Directorate of Cavalry and Armour which deals with the development and would be the ruling body for matters of policy and doctrine relating to his arm of the army. In this role he has a major part to play in procuring equipment for his arm or that shared with other arms. He would sit on a board which would be under the Army Board (or equivalent) with the other heads of arms, maybe headed by the Chief of the General Staff (or equivalent or a deputy) There would be similar directorates for the other arms. There is probably something similar already but this allows the General Lancer uniform and also a variety of others as well. On an army the scale of these days it wouldn't make sense to have these directorates but for an empire it could make sense. (I've had some spare time to put some thought into it, hence the long suggestion) by JMRamos » Wed Aug 21, 2013 11:08 am On what program did you make the shoulder boards and uniforms? JMRamos by Medic_in_Uniform » Thu Aug 22, 2013 6:50 pm The original designs are all done as object-oriented vector drawings in either Corel DRAW! or Adobe Illustrator. They are then exported and saved as JPG files for uploading to the web. I started out with Corel on my PC many, many years ago and I've progressively got more adept at using it over the last decade (or more...!). Now that my main desktop and notebook machines are Macs I'm trying to convert to using Illustrator but I'm finding it frustrating because I frequently know what I want to do (and know exactly how to achieve it with Corel) but can't work out how to go about it with Illustrator. I therefore end up getting out my old PC laptop and going back to Corel -- which is the main reason I still keep the PC! I guess I should just take the time to go on a proper user course for Illustrator! I'm away from home base for a few weeks so won't be able to do much more work on the drawings for a while as I won't be able to take the computers with me. Depending on whether I have decent Internet access (which is doubtful) I may not post much at all until I get back. I'll chip-in when I can. by JMRamos » Fri Aug 23, 2013 3:14 am Thanks for that. I'll try downloading those two. by Medic_in_Uniform » Wed Sep 11, 2013 1:50 pm Much more accurate and detailed Lancer uniforms. These are NCOs up to WO2 and show all six of the extant individual Lancer Regiments around the time in question. I've tried to keep as many of the historical and traditional elements and colours as possible but there are a few variations too. The badges have been standardised a little by including a standard pattern of crossed lances as the backgound element of all the cap badges. Those regiments with other traditional emblems have had these incorporated somewhere in the unit insignia such as collar badges or shoulder strap embroidery. The colours and patterns of the peaked dress caps broadly cover follow the traditional colours of the regiments, with a couple of notable changes: the 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers no longer have the Irish green plumes that would have been on their czapka helmets so, instead, the crowns of their caps are dark irish green instead of dark blue (and this also helps to distinguish them from the 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers. The 5th also have matching green piping for collar and cuffs and it is also used as the backing for NCO chevrons. All regiments have the double yellow cavalry trouser stripes except the 17th who have white. 1. Cuff decoration for all ranks up to Colonel (various regiments): 2. 5th, 9th, 12th Lancers: 3. 16th, 17th, 21st Lancers: Note the WO2 (17th), has officer-pattern embroidered/bullion cap and collar badges and gold fittings to his uniform, including the longer officer-style cap cords over his right shoulder. 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__label__wiki	0.677203	0.677203	DO CRABS THINK WE WALK SIDEWAYS & OTHER DUMB QUESTIONS Do crabs think we walk sideways? A joke for you: The Lobster Princess is in love with a crab, but her father, the Lobster King, says, "No daughter of mine can marry a creature that walks sideways!!" So the Lobster King organizes a big party with suitable forwards-walking crustaceans for her to choose from. Suddenly, the crab bursts into the ballroom and walks straight ahead down the red carpet. All are astonished!! So the crab goes up to the Lobster King, looks him in the eye and says... "I am so drunk!!" These questions are mine: What would life be like for a bird who had a fear of heights? Why don't they call it teethpaste? You brush more than one tooth. How many chickens would it take to kill an elephant? Is cereal really cold soup? If humans had tails, what would pants look like? Why don't they sell farmers at a farmer's market? From reddit.com: Why can't I stop travelling into the future? Will drones replace storks in delivering babies? If this is a stealth plane, how come I can still see it? Will intelligent life ever be found on Earth? And from crazythoughts.com: Are Jewish vampires afraid of crosses? How do you handcuff a one-armed man? Can you daydream at night? Are children who use sign language allowed to talk with their mouth full? How come you can buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop? If milk goes bad if not refrigerated, why doesn’t it go bad inside the cow? How fast do hotcakes sell? Can a cemetery raise its prices and blame it on the cost of living? Can atheists get insurance for an act of God? Can you successfully throw a surprise birthday party for a psychic? Do coffins have lifetime guarantees? If a criminal turns himself in, shouldn't he get the reward money? If you put a chameleon in a room full of mirrors, what color would it turn? Do sheep get static cling when they rub against one another? Do butterflies remember life as a caterpillar? Where do people in Hell tell other people to go? Q: HOW MANY DOCTORS DOES IT TAKE TO SCREW IN A LIGHT BULB? A: THAT DEPENDS ON WHETHER IT HAS HEALTH INSURANCE. Q: How many nihilists does it take to change a light bulb? A: There is nothing to change. Q: How many economists does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: None. If the light bulb really needed changing, market forces would have already caused it to happen. Q: How many pessimists does it take to change a light bulb? A: None. Why bother? It's just going to burn out again anyway. Q: How many Microsoft employees does it take to change a light bulb? A: Eight. One to work the bulb and seven to make sure Microsoft gets $2 for every light bulb ever changed anywhere in the world. Q: How many blondes does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: One, but she uses a hammer!! Q: How many Einsteins does it take to change a light bulb? A: That depends on the speed of the changer, and the mass of the bulb. Or vice versa, of course. Then again, it just might be easier to leave the bulb alone and change the room. It's all relative. Q: How many Dadaists does it take to change a light bulb? A: Three. One to change the light bulb, and two to fill the bathtub with brightly-colored machine parts. Q: How many Marxists does it take to change a proletariat light bulb? A: None. A proletariat light bulb contains the seeds of its own revolution. Q: How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb? A: Only one, but the light bulb really has to want to change. Q: How many existentialists does it take to change a light bulb? A: Two: One to screw it in and one to observe how the light bulb itself symbolizes a single incandescent beacon of subjective reality in a netherworld of endless absurdity reaching out toward a maudlin cosmos of nothingness. (quora.com) (Sorry, the following refused to be copied properly.) Q: How many lawyers does it take to change a light bulb? A: Such number as may be deemed necessary to perform the stated task in a timely and efficient manner within the strictures of the following agreement: Whereas the party of the first part, also known as "Lawyer", and the party of the second part, also known as "Light Bulb", do hereby and forthwith agree to a transaction wherein the party of the second part (Light Bulb) shall be removed from the current position as a result of failure to perform previously agreed upon duties, i. e., the lighting, elucidation, and otherwise illumination of the area ranging from the front (north) door, through the entryway, terminating at an area just inside the primary living area, demarcated by the beginning of the carpet, any spillover illumination being at the option of the party of the second part (Light Bulb) and not required by the aforementioned agreement between the parties. The aforementioned removal transaction shall include, but not be limited to, the following steps: 1.)The party of the first part (Lawyer) shall, with or without elevation at his option, by means of a chair, stepstool, ladder or any other means of elevation, grasp the party of the second part (Light Bulb) and rotate the party of the second part (Light Bulb) in a counter-clockwise direction, this point being non-negotiable. 2.)Upon reaching a point where the party of the second part (Light Bulb) becomes separated from the party of the third part ("Receptacle"), the party of the first part (Lawyer) shall have the option of disposing of the party of the second part (Light Bulb) in a manner consistent with all applicable state, local and federal statutes. 3.)Once separation and disposal have been achieved, the party of the first part (Lawyer) shall have the option of beginning installation of the party of the fourth part ("New Light Bulb"). This installation shall occur in a manner consistent with the reverse of the procedures described in step one of this self-same document, being careful to note that the rotation should occur in a clockwise direction, this point also being non-negotiable. The above described steps may be performed, at the option of the party of the first part (Lawyer), by any or all persons authorized by him, the objective being to produce the most possible revenue for the party of the fifth part, also known as "Partnership." (reddit.com) FLIPPING YOUR FLIP FLOPS TO HELP OUR FINNY FRIENDS What do Barack Obama on vacation in Hawaii, the Dalai Lama just about anywhere, Northwestern University’s women’s lacrosse team at the White House, and Elle Macpherson at the Met Gala have in common? Answer: They all created a minor stir when they wore flip-flops. The $20-billion flip-flop industry is responsible for causing more than a fashion no-no, however; the humble sandal contributes to the mountains of plastic pollution in the ocean — 8 million tons annually. Flip-flops are made from a variety of materials, including rubber, foam and plastic. Millions are sold each year; in 2006, flip-flop sales exceeded those of sneakers for the first time. While some designer styles can be pricey, most flip-flops are inexpensive, costing as little as $5. The cheapest ones cost as little as 99 cents. “Over three billion people can only afford flip-flops,” says Erin Smith, CEO of Ocean Sole, a Kenyan recycling collective and artists consortium. “Those shoes are worn literally to threads. They hang on to them, fix them, duct-tape them, mend them and then usually discard them. These flip-flops ultimately make it to the ocean.” On East Africa’s Indian Ocean beaches, about 90 tons of discarded flip-flops wash up. “We are the receivers of pretty much the rest of the world’s marine pollution," Smith says. “But flip-flop pollution isn’t about losing your sexy shoe on a boat in St. Tropez or having your favorite Havaianas wash away in Hawaii — it’s about the millions of people who can only afford a cheap rubber shoe and have no ethical or eco-friendly way to discard them.” Ocean Sole’s mission is to not only contribute a solution to the plastic marine debris issue, but also to provide a source of income for some of Kenya’s poorest citizens. It was started by Kenyan native and diver Julie Church in the late 1990's, says Smith, who is also a diver. “Back in the 90's, Julie discovered an entire beach was covered in flip-flops,” Smith says. “What she saw was a whole ecosystem that was being ruined by this massive increase in marine pollution.” Today, Ocean Sole has 50 full-time employees who create art from the washed-up flip-flops that are collected on the beaches of Kenya and other East African countries. The sculptures include a life-size rhino, hippo and giraffe, and a blue whale, octopus, albatross and jellyfish made for a recent United Nations Environment Assembly held in Nairobi. “We’ve made art pieces for malls, shows and hotel lobbies,” says Smith. “Anything can be made from flip-flops — even furniture and chandeliers.” Last year, Ocean Sole upcycled 400,000 flip-flops, and Smith estimates that the company is capable of repurposing double that number. “We want our art to bring awareness to this ugly, poverty-driven problem that is negatively impacting both humans and our sea,” says Smith. (scubadiving.com/Patricia Wuest) Some examples of their work: This begins my 5th year of blogging!! ----Maxine (& fishducky) FLIPPING YOUR FLIP FLOPS TO HELP OUR FINNY FRIENDS... Q: HOW MANY DOCTORS DOES IT TAKE TO SCREW IN A LIG... DO CRABS THINK WE WALK SIDEWAYS & OTHER DUMB QUEST...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line163
__label__wiki	0.845546	0.845546	Stream Tasha the Amazon's New Album 'Black Moon' By Sarah Murphy Tasha the Amazon drops her sophomore album Black Moon tomorrow (November 12), but you can give it an early listen right now. The Toronto rapper describes the new collection of songs as "shedding fucks" from her past preoccupations with fitting into a typical hip-hop narrative or caring about what haters have to say. "On one hand, Black Moon is the eclipse-point of a moon, which is the ending of one phase and the beginning of another," she said in a statement. "But it also means the dark side of the moon." Armed with classical piano training, dancehall influences and an inward-facing mindset, Tasha delivers a sonic evolution on her latest record. Listen to Black Moon below, before it officially drops on November 12. More Tasha the Amazon Tasha the Amazon Tasha the Amazon Channels the Prodigy in Her "Helluva Ride" Video Ahead of releasing new album Black Moon next week, Tasha the Amazon has shared a new video for "Helluva Ride." The track comes accompanie... Tasha the Amazon "Intercontinental" Refusing to rest on her laurels after earning a Juno nomination for her Die Every Day EP last year, Tasha the Amazon has returned with a fie... Tasha the Amazon "Watch It Burn" (video) Toronto MC Tasha the Amazon earned herself a Juno nomination for Rap Recording of the Year with last year's Die Every Day EP. Now, she's unv... Tasha the Amazon Delivers 'Die Every Day' EP After teasing the effort with a handful of singles over the course of last year, Tasha the Amazon's Die Every Day EP has finally arrived.... Tasha the Amazon "Picasso Leaning" (video) After blessing us with her "Prayer" last month, Tasha the Amazon has returned with a eye-shifting set of visuals for her other Die Every Day...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line166
__label__wiki	0.615109	0.615109	"Hull Zero Three" by Greg Bear (Reviewed by Liviu ... Timeless Masterpieces: Yasunari Kawabata's The Dan... "Midsummer Night" by Freda Warrington (Reviewed by... Comments on two current books: Kathe Koja and Greg... “Shadowrise” & “Shadowheart” by Tad Williams (Revi... Top Five Books of 2010 versus Top Five Older 2010 ... Three Trilogies Ending in 2011, Jacqueline Carey, ... Some More Top Expectations 2011 Books, Adrian Tch... GIVEAWAY: Win an ADVANCE READING COPY of Jonathan ... "The Royal Dragoneers" by M.R. Mathias (Reviewed b... “Kill the Dead” by Richard Kadrey (Reviewed by Rob... Some More Similar Narrative Space 2011 Books, Caro... Two More 2011 Books and their covers: Alex Bell an... SIGNED "Towers of Midnight" Giveaways! Some More 2011 Books Read: Mark Newton, Joe Abercr... "Fear: 13 stories of Suspense and Horror" Edited b... "The Distant Hours" by Kate Morton (Reviewed by Li... “Surrender to the Will of the Night” by Glen Cook ... Top 10 Books at Amazon US/UK with Comments (by Liv... "The Last Four Things" by Paul Hoffman - Publicati... "The Opposing Shore" by Julien Gracq (Reviewed by ... "The Guide to Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction"... "The Broken Kingdoms" by N.K. Jemisin (Reviewed by... "Towers of Midnight" by Robert Jordan and Brandon ... “Kill the Dead” by Richard Kadrey (Reviewed by Robert Thompson) Official Richard Kadrey Website Order “Kill the Dead” HERE Browse Inside HERE Read Fantasy Book Critic’s Review of “Sandman Slim’ AUTHOR INFORMATION: Richard Kadrey is the author of over fifty short stories, a small number of non-fiction books, and five novels including Metrophage, Butcher Bird and Sandman Slim. He has written and spoken about art, culture and technology for Wired, The San Francisco Chronicle, Discovery Online, The Site, SXSW, and Wired for Sex on the G4 cable network. He is also a fetish photographer. Kill the Dead is his second Sandman Slim novel. PLOT SUMMARY: James Stark, a.k.a. Sandman Slim, crawled out of Hell, took bloody revenge for his girlfriend's murder, and saved the world along the way. After that, what do you do for an encore? You take a lousy job tracking down monsters for money. It's a depressing gig, but it pays for your beer and cigarettes. But in L.A., things can always get worse. Like when Lucifer comes to town to supervise his movie biography and drafts Stark as his bodyguard. Sandman Slim has to swim with the human and inhuman sharks of L.A.'s underground power elite. That's before the murders start. And before he runs into the Czech porn star who isn't quite what she seems. Even before all those murdered people start coming back from the dead and join a zombie army that will change our world—and Stark's—forever... FORMAT/INFO: Kill the Dead is 434 pages long without any chapter or part breaks. Narration is in the first-person present tense, exclusively via the protagonist, James Stark, a.k.a. Sandman Slim. Kill the Dead can be read as a standalone story, but is the second Sandman Slim novel, while the open ending provides plenty of material for future sequels. October 5, 2010 marks the North American Hardcover publication of Kill the Dead via EOS. ANALYSIS: There was a time when I used to like reading urban fantasy novels, but thanks to publishers flooding the market with second/third-rate carbon copies and authors recycling the same ideas over and over, I’ve grown weary of the whole subgenre. Even so, every once in a while an urban fantasy title comes along that really catches my eye, like last year’s Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey... Combining the humor and accessibility of Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden novels with the detective noir influences of the Nightside series by Simon R. Green, and the hard-boiled grittiness of Hellblazer, Charlie Huston’s Joe Pitt casebooks and Mike Carey’s Felix Castor novels, Sandman Slim was a fun and exciting introduction to James Stark—a nephilim (part human, part angel) who escaped after eleven years trapped in Hell to take revenge against Mason Faim, the person responsible for betraying Stark and murdering his girlfriend. Along the way, the book also introduces Stark’s impressive collection of weapons (the shape-shifting na’at, Azazel’s knife, Mason’s lighter, Hellion magic, the Room of Thirteen Doors) and an interesting supporting cast that includes a talking head in former magician, Kasabian; Stark’s friend, the 200-year-old immortal alchemist, Vidocq; Allegra, an ex-video clerk who becomes Vidocq’s apprentice; Candy, a vampire-like Jade and possible romantic interest of Stark’s; Doc Kinski, a fallen angel who provides healing for the supernatural; Mr. Muninn, a “merchant to the stars and connoisseurs of esoterica”; and Carlos, the bartender of the Bamboo House of Dolls which caters to L.A.’s supernatural underworld; not to mention Lucifer, Aelita, and Marshal Wells of the Golden Vigil. In addition to all of this, readers were also treated to a revenge-driven tale full of graphic violence, over-the-top action, creative magic, and surprising twists. In the second Sandman Slim novel, Kill the Dead, readers can expect more of the same. More of the cocky, foul-mouthed Stark with his accompanying addictions for nicotine, booze, Aqua Regia, car theft, and smart-ass comments. More of Stark at his favorite hangouts (Max Overload, Donut Universe, the Bamboo House of Dolls, Vidoq’s apartment which was formerly where Stark and his girlfriend lived) with the same supporting cast—and a couple of new faces in Marshal Julie and Brigitte, a “Czech Gypsy porn-star zombie killer”. More of Stark wielding his favorite weapons with violent and bloody results, while acquiring some new pieces for his arsenal including the Druj Ammun, access to the Daimonion Codex (Lucifer’s “mystical database”), and the manifestation of angelic powers. And more of Stark kicking ass, cracking jokes, and getting into trouble. The story however, is a different matter altogether. Where Sandman Slim was all about revenge and started out with a bang that really never let up until the end of the book, Kill the End is a much slower and tedious affair—at least for the first two-thirds of the novel. During that time frame, readers are subjected to Stark talking a lot—to friends, strangers and readers alike—and such mundane matters as Sub Rosa politics and Stark combating money issues by working freelance for both the Golden Vigil and Lucifer, taking on menial jobs like hunting monsters, examining supernatural crime scenes, and working as Lucifer’s bodyguard. Granted, there are moments of exciting, blood-spewing violence, impassioned sex, and entertaining verbal sparring sprinkled throughout these pages, but for the most part, I had to drag myself through this portion of the novel, all the while wondering if things were ever going to get better. Fortunately, the book does improve, significantly. Around the time the zombie plot to destroy Los Angeles is in full effect, the Sandman Slim I knew and loved from the first book, was back in all his cynical, ass-kicking glory. Add to that revelations about Stark’s father, one of his friends getting killed, another friend getting bitten by a zombie for which there is no cure, Stark’s angelic personality taking over his human side, some fascinating loose ends to be explored in future sequels, and plots to dethrone both God and Lucifer, and it was enough to make me forget about the novel’s laborious first two-thirds. Writing-wise, Richard Kadrey puts together another solid performance in Kill the Dead highlighted by energetic pacing; stylish action sequences; cool slang words—Downtown (Hell), shroud eaters (vampires), Shut Eyes (psychics), High Plains Drifters (zombies); a creative twist on zombies that includes different types of zombies (Drifters, Lacunas, Savants) and the brutal method (ripping out their spines) in which to destroy them; and accessible, pop culture-soaked figures of speech: “Know your enemy. His tactics, strengths, and weaknesses. When you do, ninety-nine percent of the time you’re going to make him squeak like a church mouse and run away like the Road Runner. Of course, if you get it wrong, you’re going to be a ten-foot banana and the guy you’re fighting will be King Kong with the munchies.” Unfortunately, Richard Kadrey’s performance is not all good. Characterization for example, is practically non-existent, especially toward the supporting characters, which is apparent by my complete lack of care and concern when one of the characters is killed off and the lives of others are threatened. Then there’s Stark’s little identity crisis when his angel personality takes over, but his narrative voice remains largely the same. Also, Kadrey has a tendency to introduce interesting ideas like the Jackal’s Backbone or the Winter Garden, without really explaining their purpose or origins. On a personal note meanwhile, I grew tired of Stark’s incessant jokes and commentary, partly because it just doesn’t fit my view of how a cynical badass would act, making Stark seem more like an obnoxious teenager rather than a hardened killer, and partly because of the author’s overreliance on pop culture references and similes/metaphors that just weren’t very creative. Additionally, I felt Richard Kadrey dropped the ball a few times towards the end of the novel, taking the easy way out with convenient, Hollywood-esque resolutions instead of embracing the unconventional route. CONCLUSION: Overall, Richard Kadrey’s Kill the Dead takes its sweet time getting to the good stuff, but when it does, the action is fast, furious and compelling, and will definitely satisfy fans of the first Sandman Slim novel while leaving readers already anticipating the next volume in the series. That said, if you like your urban fantasy dark and gritty, then there are much better options available than Sandman Slim, starting with Mike Carey’s superb Felix Castor novels and the awesome Joe Pitt series by Charlie Huston... redhead said... you were able to get past the "unfortunatelies" - bad characterization, uncreative metaphors, interesting things that never get a second glance, etc. i wasn't able to get past that stuff in the first novel. Kadrey really does have a love for pr0n stars and pr0n shops, doesn't he? Well, I've read some really bad urban fantasy novels in the past few years, so compared to those, the Sandman Slim novels have a lot of redeeming qualities despite the various issues I had with the books. You're right though...Kadrey does seem to have a thing for porn ;)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line168
__label__cc	0.729465	0.270535	Home Business Merck Foundation partners with African Leaders Merck Foundation partners with African Leaders Merck Foundation (Merck-Foundation.com) meets today the African Leaders in circular art and sustainable interiors to discuss future solutions to raise awareness about sustainable art to explore creative ways of upcycling & recycling and encourage youth to lead a sustainable lifestyle. During the meeting opportunities of collaboration will be discussed to advance this concept in Africa and Middle East as part of “The Merck Foundation sustainability Initiative” efforts to empower youth and support their development to enable them to come up with creative ideas that can reduce carbon footprint, mitigate the impact of climate change and save the environment. This Initiative will naturally progress to the establishment of The Merck Global Sustainability Center which will be launched during Dubai Expo 2020. Dr. Stefan Oschmann, Chairman of Executive Board and CEO of Merck emphasized “I am very happy to start the Sustainability Centre in Dubai, it underlines our commitment to broadening our relationships with other innovators, scientists, and entrepreneurs. We at Merck are curious minds dedicated to human progress. What attracted us to Dubai is its cross-roads location and its readiness to welcome ideas from all over the world, embrace new technologies and face up to the future.” Dr. Rasha Kelej, CEO of Merck Foundation explained, “We strongly believe that young people have numerous untapped capabilities. We wish to unleash such capabilities which would empower and enable them to lead the sustainable development and Green Environmental Agenda of their countries and to encourage others to lead a cool sustainable lifestyle in order to adapt to the impact of climate change. For this reason, we have developed The Merck Foundation Sustainability Initiative dubbed “Sustainability is a Shared Responsibility” (SSR). The aim of this Initiative is to educate, engage and empower youth and young through access to information and change of mindset in order to enrich their understanding of sustainability as well as support their new innovative and creative ideas in the sustainability space.” The Merck Foundation sustainability initiative plans to focus on capacity building and raising awareness in order to accelerate sustainable solutions to urban sustainability challenges through five pillar programs: 1. The Sustainability Ambassadors (SA): Esteemed profiles of The Sustainability Ambassadors will enable them to build advocacy and raise awareness amongst young people via media, social media and at different global and regional platforms in order to encourage youth to lead a sustainable life style with the aim of protecting the environment from further climate change. This Initiative will naturally progress to the establishment of The Merck Global Sustainability Center which will be launched during Dubai Expo 2020 2. Sustainability Education and Training Programs: Sustainability Education and Training Programs for students, community members, media, young professionals and entrepreneurs to improve access to information and change of mindset in order to strengthen their knowledge as Sustainability future leaders in their societies. These programs will encourage them to sensitize their communities and to work together to find their own solutions to mitigate impact of climate change in their small but significant ways. 3. Start-up Incubator: Start-up Incubator focused on nurturing the growth of new innovative businesses in the sustainability space including; sustainable innovation, sustainable interiors and exteriors, circular fashion, circular art and others. It will also facilitate unique access to the broad expertise and infrastructure of Merck as a leading Science and Technology Company Through two different programs: a) Merck Accelerator b) SHAMS: Power of Ideas 4. Networking and Partnership Opportunities: With the aim to accelerate transition to a more sustainable world, Merck Foundation will collaborate with local and global stakeholders, including academia, research institutions, multi-sectoral businesses, governmental and non-governmental entities, as well as community organizations, media and artists. 5. Provision of Collaborative Research and Development Spaces: Provision of Collaborative Research and Development Spaces with the aim to support a new generation of innovators to accelerate the transition towards a more sustainable world. “We will be taking the initiative further through the above listed 5 Pillars. Few important aspects include educating the youth to start utilizing the waste in a meaningful way. It’s time for everyone to be sensitive to the environment and understand the concept of creating ‘Treasure from Trash’ that has been introduced by many African artists and interior designers. Beautiful art pieces can be made by sorting and upcycling different kinds of waste; plastic, electronic, mechanics, woods, tyres and so on. We have discussed this creative concept during our meeting with African Leaders Sustainability Art And circular economy. And we agreed on certain program to raise awareness and advance sustainability products in the region. We should all work together to save our planet, in our own little way”, added Dr. Kelej. Link to the Merck Foundation Sustainibility Initiative overview: bit.ly/2QHgvCG Aldar reaffirms commitment to sustainability in 2020 Dakar minus grieving motorbike riders gives drivers problems	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line172
__label__wiki	0.961033	0.961033	home > review > archive > Obscure home news reviews previews articles about gift shop buy games search \|\| Get Prices game: Obscure posted by: Laurie Taylor publisher: DreamCatcher developer: Hydravision ESRB rating: M (Mature) platform: PS2 Xbox keywords: survival horror alone in the dark eternal darkness team co-op date posted: 12:00 AM Sat May 21st, 2005 last revision: 12:00 AM Sat May 21st, 2005 Players who happen upon Hydravision's Obscure will be pleasantly surprised. Obscure's bargain price (new for $20) and bizarre concept as a high school survival horror game make it at first seem like a questionable idea. The inclusion of the popular band Sum 41 in the opening cinematic also sounds like something from bad teen television with its musical guest stars (as on shows like Beverly Hills 90210 and Smallville). After playing Obscure for a bit though, the game is quite well designed in terms of game narrative, game play, game sound, music, and even minor innovations on the typical survival horror model. Horror gaming fans will be pleasantly surprised, other gamers will also find a decent action game and decent introduction to or overview of horror games, and those interested in gaming will find the constant homages and pastiching of horror elements to be particularly noteworthy. Obscure is a clone of the typical survival horror model in that it relies on locked doors, puzzle solving, item collection, and fast monsters. The game is set in Leafmore High School, which just happens to have gardens, basements, an infirmary, a mansion, and old unused dorms as part of the campus. This is a typical safe world gone mad, like the hospital and school in Silent Hill, the police station in Resident Evil, and the mansion in Eternal Darkness. Perhaps the best and worst of Obscure are embodied in its character usage. The characters themselves are generic, but can be played in interesting ways. The game begins with Kenny, a stereotypical jock, going missing and his friends deciding to search the school after the school day ends. The investigative team begins with Ashley, who's Kenny's girlfriend; Shannon, who's Kenny's sister; and Josh, who's Kenny's friend. Soon after the game begins, Kenny's best friend Stan is added to the team. Each of the characters excels in a particular area,Shannon is smarter and can offer hints with puzzles, Stan is faster at picking locks, Ashley is a better fighter,and the skills are part of their generic personalities. These differences aren't crucial in the overall game because all of the players are competent enough, but they come in handy in certain situations. Similarly, the dialogue for cut scenes and for game play does change (even if only slightly) based on which character is in use at the time. While the lack of individual character personality tends to be a problem, the characters can be controlled in creative ways. Obscure's play dynamics allow for normal and co-op modes where one player controls two characters, one player controls only one of the characters, or two players each play as one of the two characters. Some of this is reminiscent of the play for Resident Evil Outbreak or the teamwork aspect in Resident: 0, but it manages to put its own unique spin on team and partner playing. This includes allowing the player to let several members of the team die without ending the game,an added bonus given that some of the characters tend to be on the annoying side. Despite the generic personalities, there are enough characters that players can discard those they most dislike and still probably find a couple or few that they find interesting. Other additions to the typical horror gaming mix include very minor innovations in terms of weapon types and their uses like bats to break glass windows and cabinets, and light grenades like those in the Blade movies. The game world of the high school is also immaculately rendered with objects that cannot be carried or used, but that can still move to make the game space seem more active. The game also offers loads of interesting optional materials like being able to speak into the mic in the Auditorium and being able to read ˜Puck' as the poster for the upcoming school play. Taken individually, any one of these aspects is not particularly interesting, yet they add up to a quality gaming experience. Multiple difficulty levels aid the gaming experience because gamers unaccustomed to horror conventions can use the easier levels and veteran players can set the difficulty higher for a more intense gaming experience. Horror games are often seen as frustrating because of their difficulty level. Obscure continues in the horror game tradition with fast monsters that sometimes respawn, and are somewhat difficult to fight. Given the number of monsters and the dark lighting, Obscure could be prohibitive for those unfamiliar with horror gaming conventions, but it does offer an easy level so those new to survival horror can ease themselves into the game. Further, seasoned horror game players may want to take advantage of the easier levels for replay as subtle changes occur when different characters are in use during similar situations. On its face, Obscure could seem to be nothing more than a compilation of existing games. Digging more deeply though, Obscure is more like a Frankenstein monster that is made of parts of a number of other horror games to emerge as its own unique entity. This is because Obscure actually manages to compile all of these elements into a cohesive game while also including references to the earlier horror games. In effect, Obscure is to horror games what Scream is to horror films. It may be silly or repetitive at times, but it's an excellent synthesis of earlier horror game components; complete with a dream-like introduction that starts Eternal Darkness, the double staircase like that from Resident Evil, the use of flashlights as in Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare, monsters that look like something from any horror game, and team play dynamics like that of Resident Evil Outbreak. The game is still relatively short, but add to this Obscure's solid sound effects, music, and graphics and Obscure is a great game at a bargain price. 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__label__cc	0.669057	0.330943	"Homo-App" in Seminary? Archbishop Takes Drastic Measures Saint Patrick's College in Maynooth Edit: funny how one of the most anti-Roman prelates in the Church during Pope Benedict's reign now wants to send his seminarians to Rome. (Dublin) The Archdiocese of Dublin confirmed Wednesday that Archbishop Diarmuid Martin "temporarily" has prohibited the admission of new students in the largest seminary in Ireland. Reason for the hiring freeze is that the archbishop suspects that a "gay culture" has taken at the seminary. The hiring freeze is only a measure to combat the homosexualization of the seminary. On Tuesday Archbishop Martin told the state broadcaster RTE that he was "uncomfortable" because of anonymous charges against a significant number of seminarians of St. Patrick College of Maynooth, which were written and published on the Internet. As the archbishop affirmed, claiming the accusations that the seminary a "homosexual milieu" exists and students using a "homo-app" called "Grindr", says the Archbishop, to intiate "Homo-dating". The archbishop takes the allegations seriously and wants to make a clean sweep. "The allegations are serious," he told the press on Tuesday, "even more serious, however, would be if they correspond to the facts." This is what he wants and he'll clarify. "The use of such apps would not only be inappropriate for someone who is preparing to become a celibate priest, but also because such an app promotes sexual promiscuity, which in no way corresponds to a mature attitude that you expect in future priests," said Archbishop Martin. The admission year 2016, according to the Archbishop's decision, will not to include studying at Maynooth, but at the Pontifical Irish College in Rome. The measure will stay active until the allegations in Maynooth have been clarified. Similar studies had already begun, says the Archbishop. But there was no immediate charge because at the moment there is only anonymous material that will only be checked for authenticity. The Saint Patrick's College Maynooth, about 25 kilometers from Dublin, was founded in 1795 and became the largest seminary of the island with up to 500 seminarians. Since the 60s the figures have been declining due to the ongoing crisis of vocations. "Anonymous accusations are poison," said the archbishop, so he preferred to "move my students to study in another place." He does not recommend that other bishops follow his example, but he will inform them. Simultaneously with the announcement of the measures the archbishop expressed hopes that will prove the allegations to be inaccurate. "We will clarify." At the same time he deplored excessive "conveniences", the seminarians would have enjoyed in Maynooth, and demanded that the conference make corresponding "changes". Homosexuals may not be ordained priests in the Catholic Church or not even be included in a seminary, as Pope Benedict XVI. with the Instruction on criteria for vocational discernment of persons with homosexual tendencies in view of their Admission to the Seminary and to Holy Orders.The measure corresponds to the theological understanding of the sacramental priesthood and the natural law with respect to men and women. The instruction was also part of the papal action against the [so-called] pedophilia scandal, since the vast majority of the clergy who have been guilty of the sexual abuse of minors had aberrosexual tendencies. Thus, the instruction with the consecration and recruiting prohibition also form a protective barrier against an attempt by the "homo lobby" in the Church, about which Pope Francis spoke, attempting to bring about by means of the general social climate in the Church, a position change when it comes to homosexuality. Image: Wikicommons Labels: Archbishop Diarmuid Martin Funny that Martin was angrier about the seminarians who anonymously revealed what was going on with these letters, rather than with the sodomites themselves. Blowing the whistle creates a "poisoned environment"? Please. We all know exactly what's creating the poisoned environment there, and we also know nothing will be done about it by Msgr Connolly or anyone else. Chas Hart said... I would not be surprised in the least either if it was the homosexual subculture inhabited by a large number of FFI that cause the Vatican to take action against them. Felix M said... These allegations should be investigated by an experienced, cynical, and devout police detective. But any "investigation" will, of course, be undertaken by a limp waisted cleric and will conclude that there's no cause for alarm. Chas Hart: I think you need to be careful before making such patently libellous statements. Have you any evidence for your statement about the FFI? Such allegations have been proven true in hundreds of seminaries...many in the USA. And it's usually not the cassock-wearing, Tridentine Latin Mass loving traditionalist seminarians, but rather the Pope Francis style radical dissident progressive seminarians that have been a part of these homosexual cliques in seminaries. Likewise, the army of radical liberal dissident priests in diosecean chancelleries, and even in the Vatican, are proven to have been dominated by homosexuals. Even Benedict XVI mentions the homosexual subculture in the Vatican in his latest book. But Francis apparently tolerates, approves, and promotes these people in the Vatican and elsewhere. The rot and filth of these people began right after Vatican II, even in the Vatican. Damian Malliapalli I can't imagine anything solving this problem. The church is apparently filled with homosexuals, and of course many seminaries are filled with homosexuals. Until homosexuality is identified as a primary cause of our weakening church, not to mention the main reason so many poor boys and young men have suffered immensely at the hands of men in our church, nothing will change and these men will go on destroying Catholic teaching and souls. We never did feel the homosexual problem was properly addressed, and it has been maddening to observe. Once the John Jay Study came out the guessing was over. Since 81% of the victims of sex abuse by clergy have been males, the obvious conclusion is this is a homosexual predator problem, certainly not "pedophilia". Most of the victims are in that pederasty "sweet spot" for homosexual men, boys between the ages of 12 and 17. This sickness has not been properly addressed by our church, including our popes, and we all saw it, because nothing changed as far as acceptance into seminaries. It was never identified and addressed. Even Pope Benedict gave it a pass. We needed to see moves such as booting out the dykes and effiminates as seminary directors, who are purposefully filling the ranks of seminarians with as many homosexuals as they can find, and tormenting good seminarians to the point they leave. We needed to see Catholic teaching on homosexuality supported and reinforced, but we never did. Our church leaders, including the popes, tucked their tales under and backed off. What, besides divine intervention, could possibly at this point do anything to address this rot within our beautiful church. Truly it is like a cancer that is now in the bones. Who is Chas Hart? As someone close the FFI, I have NEVER ever seen as much as a hint of sodomites. But perhaps you were being sarcastic??? Everyone start praying for the end of the regime of Pope Francis, and the election of a true, orthodox, tradition leaning Pope who will clean out this filth. Pope Benedict XVI was charged with this task at his election, and he failed...he proved to be a wimp. We need another Pius XII or Pius X, or even a Pius V! And it's not impossible we'll get a great Pope the next time. We got garbage this time, maybe they learned a lesson. Brave man, Damian. Thank you for courageously doing a Voris and outing yourself as an invert. Chas Hart is obviously Gaybriel stirring up trouble like he always does. Don't understand what you mean Anon. I know who Voris is, he's a neo-con Catholic masquerading as a traditional Catholic....but I don't understand the rest of your comment, like Huh? Why would someone like Gaybriel go to the trouble of making up fake names, when all the comments sound like him anyway....or is Gaybriel a fake name for someone else too? HAHAHA southwillriseagain said... Uh,we got the Pope the Holy Spirit wanted. Or are you saying that the Cardinals can overrule God? Athelstane said... "Anonymous accusations are poison," said the archbishop, so he preferred to "move my students to study in another place." In short, His Excellency is taking action because he is more concerned about seminarians making anonymous allegations than he is about seminarians hooking up to have anonymous (gay) sex. Pray for good and faithful priests and bishops to return to Ireland. Chas Hart, "...the homosexual subculture inhabited by a large number of FFI" The Holy Spirit doesn't elect the Pope. That is a pious myth. In fairness I think you should read the Archbishops full comments on this. He was actually quite clear on removing his students to Rome not only because of accusations at the college but specifically in relation to Homosexual activity including the use of a particular Gay dating site that was being used. He also referred to the promotion of promiscuous Gay activity by the site which is not compatible with the faith. David O'Neill said... To Anonymous 2. Perhaps you could be taken more seriously if, like Damian, you signed your comments. Frankly I have no time for commenters hiding behind anonymity. If you have belief in what you say, sign your nam!!!! I, personally, don't have a problem with homosexual clergy - providing they are not practising!! If I did have a problem it would equally apply to heterosexual clergy - if they were practising!! That's just Gaybriel. He covets Damian's heteronormativity. David if you don't have a problem with homosexual clergy, then you have a serious problem yourself. Homosexuals, practicing or not, are forbidden to even enter the seminary, let alone be ordained a priest. The fact that there are so many in the Church today is one of the greatest evils in its history. Yes I'm sure there are a few practicing heteros as well, which of course is wrong as well, but homosexuality is a thousand times more evil and thus a greater scandal especially when in the clergy. Saying "for me personally" is like saying, I don't care about morality, not really. Himself, I reckon. Anonymous. Why should we not accept non practising homosexuals yet accept non practising heterosexuals? Homosexuality cannot hurt the Church unless it is practised, but heterosexual practised behaviour in the clergy not only has an effect on the perpetrator but on his partner too. By the way I am a practising HETEROSEXUAL with a daughter & 2 granddaughters &, following the death of my first wife, am very happily married so I don't have an axe to grind. I also have great difficulty accepting the worth of comments from 'Anonymous' commentors!! That doesn't change the fact that you're the one who's wrong. Sorry. David, homosexuals are not to be admitted to the clergy whether they're practicing or not because what they have is a DISORDER. A serious inclination to a vile evil which will cause problems even if they're not actively committing sodomy. Does this seriously have to be explained to you?? Read the Catechism or any one of the hundred saints who have spoken about this subject. Before stating your own opinion is correct as if the millenial teaching of the Church is wrong, please do some reading up first. Good grief. Augie said... And 'Saying "for me personally" is like saying, I don't care about morality, not really.' That's a splendid piece of eisegesis by one who has perfected the art. Congratulations. Augie/Gaybriel really? Tancred, just delete his asinine comments. He manages to ruin just about every thread. Anon 3:30: weak minded dullard. David O'Neill, you are correct about the matter of chaste, non-active homosexual priests. If Church authorities were convinced that these men should not even be admitted to seminaries and later to ordination, then probably somewhere around 40-50%, or even more, present bishops and priests should be cashiered from the priesthood as well including Benedict XVI. Retrospectivity in the matter would be an interesting exercise too. Good. Cashier each on of them, making them run the gauntlet on the way out. Let the Renewal begin. David, were the pre Vat-II anti-homo rules in place because the hierarchy felt like being nasty? Read this month's Culture Wars, Mike Jones has a two-parter on Voris and homosexuality in the clergy. See what you agree with there. BTW, the cashiering of the homo priests will be offset by stimulating the self- deportation of many self-styled Catholics to the compassionate, loving, open United Church of Christ, Episcopalianism and its variants, Libby Lutheranism, and what-not. Don't let the altar railing gates hit you in the fanny on the way out! It'll hurt, and you won't get much help under HillaryCare. My guess is you won't be hearing from Chas "Catching the Red-Eye to Rome" Hart. Isn't your eithegethith itself a little ironic, Frauggie? You will, Frauggie, let us know if they use those gay dating apps in Rome, won't you? If the allegations are anonymous, how will they be clarified? "Similar studies" prior to the allegations? I'll bet they were studying. Or if they were straight-up studying, how diligently? Read the book "Goodbye Good men"	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line182
__label__wiki	0.873431	0.873431	Club Grid: Santa Cruz Live Music This Week Santa Cruz Weekly News A & E Weekly Music Picks Love Your Local Band Food & Drink Reviews Love at First BIte Vine & Dine Local Talk Ad Planner/Issue Schedule Electronic Ad Guidelines Contact Good Times & SantaCruz.com This is an author search istanbul escort - istanbul escorts - istanbul escorts - istanbul escorts - istanbul escorts - istanbul escorts - istanbul escorts - istanbul escorts - istanbul escorts - istanbul escorts xnxxhamster sexoscar Santa Cruz County OKs New Development, Syringe Committee Development and public health were top of mind at a recent board of supervisors meeting Soquel is getting a new auto dealership. By Todd Guild The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors this week approved a plan to build a car dealership at a busy mid-county intersection as part of a project that will include demolishing several existing buildings. The Nissan dealership on the 2.5-acre parcel on the corner of 41st Avenue and Soquel Drive will include a 12,550-square-foot showroom and a 10,000-square-foot service area. The project includes rezoning the area from community commercial to service commercial. The business will replace King’s Paint & Paper, an adjacent self-car wash and an abandoned house. It will be a relocation for the Nissan dealership at 1605 Soquel Drive. Construction will include landscaping and a new sidewalk in front of the dealership. It will also include a signal light at Soquel Avenue and Robertson Street. As part of their Tuesday vote, supervisors also approved an environmental impact report for the project, which must now be approved by a Santa Cruz County Superior Court judge. Don Groppetti, who owns the dealership, will pay 2.8% of the cost of the signal lights, which he said is about $200,000. He will also pay for a dedicated vehicular right turn lane along the Soquel Drive property frontage, and for a sidewalk along the front of the business, which will extend 300 feet to the west and 250 feet to the south of the project site. Workers will remove eight trees and plant 50. SEEING GREEN The project, which the supervisors initially approved in May 2018, does not come without controversy. A lawsuit filed in July 2018 by the group Sustainable Soquel ended in March when a Santa Cruz County Superior Court judge ruled that the county needed to look at alternative sites. Sustainable Soquel member Lisa Sheridan has said that she wants to see the creation of “walkable neighborhoods” that include mixed-use projects. All but one of the dozen or so people who addressed the supervisors spoke in opposition. Jill Troderman of Soquel expressed concern about the increased traffic she envisions stemming from the project. She proposed instead a community space that could include music venue and cafes. That sentiment echoed what many people told the supervisors. “This could be a really special place for our community,” she said. But the trouble with such a proposal is that nobody has yet proposed an alternative project. Supervisor Bruce McPherson said that there have been no improvements to the corner for decades. He said the auto dealership plan uses the property in a “common sense manner” that complements existing uses. McPherson predicted that the mitigations of the new traffic signals will lessen traffic, rather than add to it. Supervisor John Leopold, whose district includes the site, agreed, saying that the project will improve what he called the busiest commercial corridor in the county. “It’s not an attractive corner,” he said. “It’s got dumpy buildings. It has some trees, its got no wildlife, it’s got derelict homes. I think we can all agree we want something different than what’s there now.” Gillian Greensite, chair of the Santa Cruz chapter of the Sierra Club, urged the supervisors to reject the project. “While we have no shortage of car dealerships, we do have a shortage of land available for the sort of development determined to be the best for this area as outlined in the 2014 Sustainable Santa Cruz Plan,” she said, referring to a document that lays out plans for sustainable planning and transportation. Former Santa Cruz County Greenway Executive Director Manu Koenig agreed, saying that document was approved after numerous community meetings. “The consensus was clear,” said Koenig, who’s challenging Leopold for his District 1 seat. “We need to create walkable communities. Are we going to create another temple to the automobile, or are we going to use this opportunity to create a temple to community and sustainability?” Santa Cruz insurance salesman Lou Tuosto, who has served on several boards, was the only public voice speaking in favor of the plan. He said it will bring jobs to the community and improve the otherwise “blighted” corner. Tuosto pointed out that the county looked at alternative sites, and that nobody else has stepped forward with an alternative plan. “This site looks good,” he said. “It makes sense. It makes financial sense.” Supervisor Zach Friend was the lone dissenting vote. He said that approving the project would mean the county would not be able to change its mind if a potentially better project pops up down the road. “We do future planning as a county, and I think that in 10 or 15 years we would envision something else at this location,” he said. But it’s going to be very difficult to undo what will be there in 10 or 15 years.” The proposal passed 4-1. NEEDLE NEWS In other action, the supervisors unanimously approved a first reading of a proposal to create a Syringe Services Program Advisory Commission. The seven-member public body would oversee the county’s syringe services and would be bound by public meeting rules. These programs help reduce the risk of communicable diseases such as AIDS, Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency Director Mimi Hall said. The item will return to the supervisors for a second reading and approval on Nov. 5. An advisory council has overseen the program since 2013. “We’re forming this commission because syringe services is a very important piece of the work we do,” Hall said. Update 10/29/19, 12 p.m.: A previous version of this story misstated Manu Koenig’s affiliation with Santa Cruz County Greenway. 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__label__cc	0.689995	0.310005	In a world where Karl Edward Wagner's 'Kane' books are long out of print (and going for quite obscene prices on Amazon etc, seriously, check it out...) I've been lucky enough to build up my collection through the awesome powers of the internet. Having only read 'Dark Crusade' (reviewed at the very beginning of this month and still superb reading even after all these years) I'm pretty excited at seeing how the other books measure up so you can expect to see reviews here on a fairly regular basis :o) I really should have looked up the running order of the series, before getting into it, but sometimes it's a lot more fun to read books at random and see how they fit together. So it was then that I made my next 'Kane' read 'Night Winds' and it proved to be a good choice, being a collection of short stories that feel like they can be read on their own if you don't have the other books to hand. What the reader gets with 'Night Winds' is a series of episodes from Kane's life, beginning in his early days (although he has already been around for centuries at this point) and heading through to, well... I don't know. There is a real timeless air to these stories that defies any attempt to place them within the timeline of the larger series. The only clue that we are given lies within comments about just how long Kane has been walking the earth. What are fairly recent memories to Kane are literally myth and legend to the people that he meets; that's the only clue you need about his age as it becomes really clear that Kane is practically immortal. Being relatively short stories (the 'Night Winds' collection is only a hundred and seventy five pages long in the edition I have) you don't really get the chance to explore Kane's character in the way that you did in 'Dark Crusade'. Each story has that same air of darkness surrounding it though. Kane lives in troubled times (mostly because of his own actions) where a strong sword arm, and no morals at all, is all that you need to take whatever you want and make it your own. It's interesting to see Kane fight against this attitude, even more so when the fight is done and you realise just why Kane set himself against the status quo. Kane can show some measure of humanity, surprising for someone who has lived long enough to have lost it all, that mostly serves to show him as an anti-hero but can also sometimes send a story spiralling off in a different direction entirely. Not all the stories worked for me but one thing that all of them did do was to keep me reading; mostly to see what Kane would do (here's a clue, it's mostly bloody and he's the last one standing by the end) but also for that dark atmosphere. A world so cruel that it shouldn't exist but a world that endures anyway. I don't fancy your chances of finding a cheap copy of 'Night Winds' but certainly give the book a go if you do come across it. It's pulp fantasy with an edge that demands your attention. The stories within 'Night Winds' are... 'Undertow' 'Undertow' proves to be an apt tale to kick off proceedings as it takes place in the city of Carlsultyal, a city out of the antiquity of Kane's world. It makes for interesting reading then, especially when we are given clues at how long Kane has already lived by this point. The story itself hints at how badly Kane is dealing with his immortality at this point, with tragic consequences (for one character) that we never see coming. Kane will do anything to make the long years worth living, regardless of what it means for anyone else. 'Two Suns Setting' One of the more straightforward of the tales on offer with Kane raiding an underground tomb to aid his giant companion. What's interesting though is the campfire conversations where they discuss humanity's emerging place in the world, all at the expense of their giant forefathers. Is it right that humankind should claim dominance (just because they breed more rapidly) after giantkind has done all the hard work? Of course it isn't fair but that's just the way the world is, something Wagner shows us all too well. 'The Dark Muse' Considering I'm not a big fan of poetry, at all, it was surprising then that 'The Dark Muse' ended up being my favourite tale in the collection. The actual poetry didn't do anything for me, it was the journey into the mind of a poet (determined to capture his dark vision at any cost) that proved to be compelling. Couple this with a tale of demons stalking the ruins of an ancient city (picking off Kane's men one by one, like a forerunner of 'Predator') and 'The Dark Muse' delivers on all fronts. 'Raven's Eyrie' Here's another strong story in that Wagner places Kane pretty much at death's door and then has him fighting a tenacious bounty hunter whilst trying to save the daughter he never knew he had. What I loved about 'Raven's Eyrie' is that Wagner shows just how capable Kane is without recourse to magic. Everything that happens is down to either Kane's ingenuity or sheer blind luck and it adds an edge to the tale that the others don't have. Definitely worth re-reading. 'Lynortis Reprise' I wasn't really sure what to think of this tale. I loved the twist at the end, another one that shows just how long Kane has been around, but the rest of the tale just felt like it was going by the numbers. Here's Kane, here's some people who want to kill him, lets have a big fight. 'Lynortis Reprise' felt like a bit of a let down after some very strong stories beforehand... 'Sing a last Song of Valdese' The last story in the book hardly features Kane at all and this makes his eventual entrance, on the penultimate page, all the more powerful when it finally happens. The actual story is a little too predictable for my tastes though. There's a lovely 'Haunted Inn' atmosphere going on here but it means you can see what's coming a way off. Perhaps not the best tale to sign off the collection on then... A mixed bag then but enough with atmosphere and character to balance things out overall. Worth a look if you happen to chance upon a copy... Labels: 2012, fantasy Liesel K. Hill said... Sounds intriguing! Are there ebook editions for us with less than ebay-millionaire status? :D musingsonfantasia.blogspot.com Good question, I was lucky enough to be able to pick mine up second hand :o) Have a look on Google and see what happens...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line187
__label__cc	0.530185	0.469815	Source: China Daily Published: 2019-4-12 BEIJING - Seeing a catfish effect from the launch of new science and technology innovation board, local analysts have put high hopes on the country's IPO review reform and expect higher efficiency. Pan Xiangdong, chief economist with the New Times Securities, said that the new board had played the catfish effect by attracting an increasing number of companies to apply to be listed there. By Thursday, the Shanghai Stock Exchange has had 62 companies apply to be listed on the new board. With the technical system expected to be ready by the end of May, the new board will pilot a registration-based IPO system. Under the current IPO system however, new shares are subject to approval from the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC). Since the new review panel of the CSRC started work in February, it has examined the IPO applications of 12 companies, with only one rejected. Pan said that the review process had been quickened as the emphasis of review was shifting from profitability to authenticity, completeness and accuracy of information disclosure. The review panel has set strict requirements on listing and delisting, he said. Bian Yongzu, a researcher with the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies of the Renmin University of China, noticed more positive changes. He said that the panel not only examined the past rates of return of applicant companies but also focused more on their growth potential, paid more attention to profit models and business strategies, and tended to encourage growth enterprises to go public. On March 25, CSRC released Q&As on IPO review, clarifying the standards on common legal and financial accounting issues concerning applicant companies as well as the due diligence of intermediary agencies. It was also the first time for the security watchdog to make public its review standards. Liu Naisheng, a member of the executive committee of China Securities, lauded the move, expecting more openness and transparency as well as better regulated supervision based on laws. Pan suggested the regulator better coordinate supervision on different boards and improve requirements on information disclosure quality and simplify delisting procedures. Small and medium-sized enterprises that perform well in their main business and compliance management should be encouraged to go public, which needs the concerted efforts and more input of intermediary agencies, local governments and the security watchdogs, Pan said. Bian Yongzu is a research fellow at the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China. Key Words： China IPO Sci-tech Bian Yongzu Companies return to Hong Kong IPOs2019-09-16 New sci-tech board pushing China to improve IPO review2019-04-15 Investors stay cautious on China's sci-tech board as investment values are murky2019-07-22 Jingye’s bid for British Steel still in progress, with details under discussion2019-12-19 Bian Yongzu: Driven by market demand2019-08-15 Jean-Guy Carrier: SCO, AIIB show China’s evolving world leadership role	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line195
__label__wiki	0.786082	0.786082	"This masterly plotted thriller with a twisted ending offers a riveting, character-driven story. The Murder List...is guilty of inciting shock and amazement at the author's skill. VERDICT: A must-read for fans of legal thrillers." —Library Journal Starred Review Now a BEST OF 2019! Suspense Magazine Now a BEST OF 2019! The Strand Magazine Now a CNN Ultimate Summer Read! Murder List Now available from Forge Books and Macmillan Audio Who is on THE MURDER LIST? Law student Rachel North will tell you, without hesitation, what she knows to be true. She's smart, she's a hard worker, she does the right things. She's successfully married to a faithful and devoted husband, a lion of Boston's defense bar. She's a rising-star intern in the prosecutor's office. Problem is—she's wrong. And if she takes one false step in this cat-and-mouse game, the battle for justice will become a battle for survival. (Who is the woman on the cover? She will change everyone's lives.) UP CLOSE with Hank Phillippi Ryan on THE BIG THRILL "Masterful...compelling, impossible to put down...beautifully rendered.... This is a book by a writer at her peak." —Robin Agnew, Aunt Agatha's Bookstore "Twisty, complex, dishy suspense. The Murder List is vintage Hank Phillippi Ryan—unfailingly entertaining." —William Landay, New York Times Bestselling author of Defending Jacob "A cracker of a read—her best yet!" —B. A. Paris, internationally bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors "A fireworks display of a novel: exciting, explosive, relentless—and likely to leave you gasping. Hank Philippi Ryan is that rare writer who, against impossible odds, tops herself with each new book, and The Murder List ranks as her very best to date." —A.J. Finn, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Woman in the Window "An exhilarating thrill ride that keeps you turning pages...Ryan deftly delivers a denouement as shocking as it is satisfying." —Liv Constantine, bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish "Utterly absorbing! Like a nesting doll, The Murder List contains secrets within secrets and twists within twists. Ryan is a master working at the top of her game." —Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Time I Lied "The Murder List is twisty, unpredictable, and utterly irresistible: Suspense at its finest." —Jessica Strawser, author of Not That I Could Tell "In this riveting novel of suspense by the absolute master of the genre, Ryan conjures the consummate twisty thriller: it's husband and wife, ego and id, cat and mouse." —Erica Ferencik, Bestselling author of The River at Night "Ryan shows herself a master of suspense as she sets stories within stories, leaving the reader turning pages long into the night until the final, shocking trap is sprung. Put The Murder List at the top of your list of must-reads." —Julia Spencer-Fleming, New York Times bestselling author of Through the Evil Days	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line199
__label__wiki	0.601556	0.601556	Tagged: part Blog / Interviews / Videos Hopsin Disses Trap Music, Addresses Haters, Talks About Being Different + More Hard Knock Tv’s Nick Huff Barili sits down with Hopsin for exclusive in-depth interview. In part 4, Hopsin: 1. Clowns Trap Music and rappers that don’t even make sense with their raps. 2. Explains... Hopsin Breaks Down “Fly”, Says he didn’t want to make it Ill Mind 8 + talks Kanye West + More Hard Knock Tv’s Nick Huff Barili sits down with Hopsin for exclusive in-depth interview. In part 3, Hopsin: 1. Explains the inspiration behind his song “Fly”. 2. Says Fly was going to be Ill... Hopsin on Ill MIND of HOPSIN 7, Is God Real? , Heaven, Christianity + More Hard Knock Tv’s Nick Huff Barili sits down with Hopsin for exclusive in-depth interview. In part 1, Hopsin: 1. Breaks down Ill Mind of Hopsin 7. 2. Says he wasn’t to happy with his... Hopsin talks Marcus Vs Hopsin, Celebrity Life vs Personal Life, Starting over in Australia Exclusive in-depth interview with Hopsin by Nick Huff Barili. Part 6 of this very candid interview starts with Hopsin explaining why he wants to move to Australia after his Knock Madness tour ends. “Ive... Hopsin talks Keys to Success, Miley Cyrus, Molly, Turning Down Major Labels, Artist Responsibility, Part 6 of this very candid interview starts with Hopsin explaining a recent tweet were he stated: “F*ck getting signed to a record label, I am the label.” “People may idolize Jimmy Iovine, they... Hopsin talks Getting Arrested by Racist Police Officer, New Album Knock Madness Part 5 of this very candid interview starts with Hopsin describing to Nick Huff Barili what is going through his mind as he gets ready to put out his first album in 3 years.... Hopsin: “We Don’t Know How To Be Human Anymore Because We Are So Dependent On Technology” Exclusive in-depth interview with Hopsin at his studio. Part 4 of this very candid interview starts with Hopsin telling Nick Huff Barili that he is frustrated with the industry and commitments he has as... Hopsin talks Ill Mind 6, Eminem, Macklemore, “Gay Agenda”, Racism, Hip Hop Part 3 of this very candid interview starts with Hopsin telling Nick Huff Barili what inspired him to write ILL MIND OF HOPSIN 6. “I had a friend that I grew up with…he was... Hopsin Addresses Kanye West and Kendrick Lamar “Disses” in Hop is Back video Part 2 of this very candid interview starts with Hopsin telling Nick Huff Barili that he thinks “Kanye is on some bullshit”. Hop talks about his lyrics to Hop is Back where he states:... Hopsin says “I’m lost, I don’t know who the f@%k I am any more” in candid interview Part 1 of this very candid interview starts with Hopsin telling Nick Huff Barili about the intro to his new music video Hop is Back. “Over the past like year and a half or... Logic talks Not Fitting In, Getting Married, Tattoo, Yoda, Alan Watts, Anime + More Kanye on New Album, Jay-Z and Steve Jobs PRhyme (DJ Premier, Royce da 5’9″) talk Battle Rap, Joe Budden, Jay Electronica + More Tito Lopez talks Dr Dre, Ghostwriting, Kendrick Lamar, Saigon Beef, The South + More Rico Pabon -Lay Em Down – Intro (Official Music Video) Macklemore talks New Album, Kendrick Lamar, XXL, Being Independent ASAP Rocky talks Drake, Growth, Rakim, Cam’Ron, Dipset Macklemore talks Otherside, Lil Wayne, Substance Abuse, Seattle Hip Hop and more Nas and Damian Marley talk Distant Relatives, Africa + more	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line200
__label__cc	0.522148	0.477852	Rick Scibelli The Heart of a Milk Cow Rachel Turiel “Cows are just gentle souls,” Dan James remarks, lanky frame sprawled in a grassy field dotted with manure. The morning sun has just lifted off the eastern ridges and it seems he’s been rehearsing this line, maybe just today, or perhaps his whole life. “They’re just made to graze on grass,” he says by way of explanation. And this is exactly what the small group of Jersey cows are doing, balancing bulky, rectangular bodies on stout legs, bending down to clamp grass between lower teeth and monolithic, toothless upper gums. “They don’t nibble down to the base like horses with opposable teeth; they grab and tear, which helps the grass regenerate,” James points out. Their calves — bearing artistic smatterings of caramel brown and white fur — born just weeks ago, are sacked out in the sun. James is relaxed this morning. The daily milking is complete and the cows are behaving as dairy cows should. (The term “cows” refers to any female who has calved. Previously, she is a heifer). In fact, it is highly likely that one year ago James was in this very same field, feeling a similar sense of relief and satisfaction, gazing out across an identical scene, complete with Canada goose dramatics at the lower pond and red-tailed hawks cruising the thermals. (Note: cattle ranching is not for novelty seekers). “They act in unison; that’s what you want to see,” James explains. “Right now, they’re all up and grazing with an eye on their sleeping calves. Soon, they’ll all lie down and chew their cud for a few hours. If a coyote approaches, they’ll all get on their feet and move it off.” One of the gentle souls lumbers slowly toward us. I expect her to turn and amble off at the last minute like I’ve seen cows on forest service land do. But she shuffles forward, her paunchy udder a spectacular appendage of utility, four knobby spouts protruding from the drooping mass of it. The tag pierced to her fuzzy ear marks her as “Rose.” Rose pushes her snout toward me, wet nostrils flared, hot breath on my face. Eyelashes that can only be described as lustrous brush her large, glossy eyes. The longer, light hairs surrounding her nose are backlit by the sun. “She’s curious about you,” James explains. Rose inhales my scent, and luckily, is satisfied. She carries her 900-pound bulk off to graze. The morning routine can continue. In child-raising, farming, and cattle ranching, theories suggest that results will be most efficient if you utilize the patterns and features existing naturally within system (think permaculture). Rather than laboriously tilling manure into soil, which destroys the underground fungal network that funnels nutrients to plants, one can simply add organic matter to the soil surface and let the nutrients percolate down. In the bovine paradigm, rather than forcing cows via cattle prod into situations that go against their nature (provoking fear, which James believes taints the quality of the milk), one can observe their behavior and look for ways to enhance strengths, compensate for weaknesses, and work with what James calls, “their natural way of being.” “We milk six cows at a time, April through November. In the milking barn, there are certain cows that aren’t comfortable being on the end, and others who can’t be next to each other.” (This could be the Jeopardy game show clue for the answer: How is a cow like a middle school student?). “It all works out,” James assures. “We just have to remember the best line up. First Brooke, then Sara, then Rose. If you get it wrong, you get pooped on.” Getting pooped on might be par for the course in mega-dairy operations, but James is willing to put work in on the front end to create better conditions on the back end, so to speak. Poop in the milk stall creates extra clean up and less hygienic conditions. The cows have folded up their legs, lowering massive tawny bodies to the meadow. They are preparing to ruminate, a brilliant strategy to wring nutrients out of stringy cellulose. In their pre-domesticated forms, cows were prey, and like elk and deer, also ruminants, it’s safest to feed quickly then retreat to a protected vantage for hours of digesting, where all senses can be deployed to track predators. When grazing, a cow chews just enough to moisten the food, sending it to the first of four digestive chambers, the rumen, where it forms into fist-sized wads of “cud.” Later, the cud is shuttled back to the mouth via the two-lane esophagus. Now, eyes, ears, and nose tuned to predators, the cow has a second go at it. She masticates the cud further as the sun arcs overhead and James appraises the predictable wholesomeness of it all. Digestive juices are added, grass particles get smaller, increasing surface area for the bacterial festival of fermentation unleashed in the second chamber. In the third chamber, excess moisture is squeezed out, and finally, in the last chamber, enzymes and hydrochloric acid put the finishing touches on the digestive job. Grass fuels a half-ton beast, becoming milk and muscle. And then, the cows rise to their feet and begin again. James is not casually committed to cows. He understands the intricate machinations of a cow’s rumen (“This is where the magic happens,” he explains, eyes igniting like twin engines. Indeed, for a dairyman, this is where straw is spun into the gold of milk); he can parse the subtle meanings of different vocalizations (“That’s a ‘where’s my baby?’ moo, this is an ‘I’m in pain’ moo,”); he can send a pipette of bull semen past a cow’s cervix and square into her uterus; and he knows each cow in the herd as an individual. Three-year-old Zara thinks every calf is hers. “This is how she is every year,” James sighs with unmistaken tenderness. Newborn calves must be separated from Zara because she can co-opt a less-dominant mother’s calf. Lana is a helicopter mom. “You know, overprotective, the way a lot of us were with our first children,” James smiles. “Lana’s calf, when he sees his mom coming, is like, ‘Oh my God, here comes mom. Hide me.’” Gigi’s calf, already a leader at two weeks old, commences the all-calf post-sunset romp each evening. It’s like we’re discussing the local mothers’ playgroup, and if it seems that James is playing the sentimental grandparent, make no mistake, this is a business. “These little boys are gonna grow up and be delicious,” James says, motioning to Gigi’s playful calf, curled up in the grass, fawn-like, rib cage rising and falling rapidly with breath. “I do this so you don’t have to,” James says. “I castrate and dehorn so you can be a CPA — I don’t want to do that.” It seems there is a region of James’ brain — a cluster of neurons collectively active for the past 10,000 years that humans have been agriculturalists — which for most of us have atrophied. He can provide quality milk and meat to an omnivorous society, while upholding an animal’s dignity. For James, these two goals are not incongruous. He accommodates a cow’s individuality, gives her a cow-happy life, feels unmistaken tenderness toward her, and without any sentimentality, sends her to the meat packer when it’s time. “You want to pet him?” James motions to a white and brown calf, hair coalescing into a swirl on the height of his back. “Was I that obvious?” I wonder. We approach the calf and James corrals him in his long, elasticized arms, and invites me forward. The calf’s hide is soft and sun-warmed, and he squirms and ducks his head, signifying that he is not a pet. This same calf follows us off the field, through the cows that now are lying down ruminating, and over the bridge across the ditch. His mother rises to her feet, though casually gazes off in the opposite direction. “What’s up with that mom, letting her baby get this far?” I ask. James isn’t concerned. “Trusting,” he says shrugging, already moving on to the next chore of the day. cowdairydairy farmjames ranchmilk cow Previous ArticleHome is Where the Hub is Next ArticleCarver Brewing Company (est. 1986) Remembering Sara Wakefield Why We Camp in the Winter in the Desert Jonathan P. Thompson Edible Southwest Colorado Notables by Zach Lively Zach Hively From Seminary Insipid to Visiting Sunday Gourmet Art Goodtimes Spring Asparagus Morel Sauté Katie Klingsporn Southwest Memorial Goes Local Malia Durbano The Grocery that Unites Us Sarah Syverson Read and Purchase Back Issues Here	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line208
__label__wiki	0.601787	0.601787	answeredquestions.html?_page=0&_view=all&_properties=tablingMember.label,answeringDeptShortName,legislature,legislature,questionText,tablingMemberConstituency,type&_sort=ddpModified,-version,AnswerDate&max-questionFirstAnswered.=2016-02-24T15:26:23.923Z max question first answered BBC Parliament: Hearing Impairment To ask the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington representing the House of Commons Commission, if the Commission will discuss with the BBC Parliament channel improving the provision of (a) subtitles and (b) an in-vision interpreter for hearing impaired people. The Wrekin House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2015/16 26466 Biography information for Mark Pritchard Prisons: Drugs To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 10 February 2016 to Question 25491, how many prisoners returned to jail having broken their licence conditions were subsequently found to be carrying concealed drugs in each of the last five years. Stockton North Alex Cunningham Biography information for Alex Cunningham Human Papillomavirus: Vaccination To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress his Department is making on rolling out HPV vaccinations to men who have sex with men. Finchley and Golders Green Mike Freer Biography information for Mike Freer Accident and Emergency Departments To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the performance of NHS emergency medicine services. Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath Roger Mullin Biography information for Roger Mullin Members: Correspondence To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 18 January 2016 to Question 22400, if he will meet the hon. Member for Torfaen to discuss the case of Norman James. Nick Thomas-Symonds Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the value was to the UK economy of the game meat market in each of the last five years. To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2016 to Question 24265, when he plans to (a) assess how many further education institutions are likely to incur financial penalties as a result of triggering break clauses in loan agreements they hold with banks resulting from his Department's area reviews and (b) publish such data. Further Education: Mergers To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2016 to Question 24499, what discussions his Department plans to have with banks on minimising the cost of loan and other penalties incurred by colleges which merge as part of area reviews. Dividend Tax Credits To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with small and medium-sized enterprises on the proposed change to the dividend tax. To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was recovered by HM Revenue and Customs as arrears for non-compliance with the national minimum wage in each quarter since 1 April 2014; from how many employers that amount was recovered; and for how many workers that amount was recovered. # Counting has been applied to this query. PREFIX parl: <http://data.parliament.uk/schema/parl#> PREFIX schema: <http://schema.org/> PREFIX xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> SELECT DISTINCT ?item WHERE { ?item a parl:WrittenParliamentaryQuestion ; parl:answer ?ans . ?item parl:questionFirstAnswered ?___questionFirstAnswered_0 . OPTIONAL { ?item parl:ddpModified ?___1 . } OPTIONAL { ?item schema:version ?___2 . } OPTIONAL { ?item parl:dateForAnswer ?___3 . } FILTER (?___questionFirstAnswered_0 <= "2016-02-24T15:26:23.923Z"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime>) } ORDER BY ?___1 DESC(?___2) ?___3 ?item OFFSET 0 LIMIT 10 DESCRIBE <http://data.parliament.uk/resources/451411> <http://data.parliament.uk/resources/451155> <http://data.parliament.uk/resources/451177> <http://data.parliament.uk/resources/451414> <http://data.parliament.uk/resources/451179> <http://data.parliament.uk/resources/451158> <http://data.parliament.uk/resources/451169> <http://data.parliament.uk/resources/451152> <http://data.parliament.uk/resources/452042> <http://data.parliament.uk/resources/451550>	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line215
__label__wiki	0.790296	0.790296	answeredquestions.html?_page=0&answeringDeptId=16&min-answer.questionFirstAnswered.=2019-05-21T13:43:49.577Z&_properties=tablingMember.label,answeringDeptShortName,hansardHeading,tablingMemberConstituency,answer.answeringMemberPrinted&_sort=-tablingMemberConstituency&max-answer.dateOfAnswer=2019-05-21 To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much (a) official development aid and (b) non-official development aid has been spent via the Prosperity Fund by his Department to provide fracking expertise to foreign Governments since 2016. Nottingham North <p>Through the Prosperity Fund, the FCO has spent around £87,000 Official Development Assistance (ODA) on projects intended to improve the environmental regulation of shale gas development in China since 2016.</p><p>The UK regulatory regime for Shale gas is considered among the most robust and stringent in the world. Sharing UK expertise within the UK oil and gas sector, including on environmental regulation, can help ensure that the exploration or development of resources like natural gas is done to a high standard and is managed as part of a transition to low carbon energy system, as well as supporting economic development and poverty reduction</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> Biography information for Alex Norris Israel: Palestinians To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the Government's definition is of a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine; and what steps the Government plans to take to help achieve that solution. Sir Nicholas Soames <p>The UK’s longstanding position on the Middle East Peace Process is clear: we support a negotiated settlement leading to a safe and secure Israel living alongside a viable and sovereign Palestinian state; based on 1967 borders with agreed land swaps, Jerusalem as the shared capital of both states, and a just, fair, agreed and realistic settlement for refugees. We consistently call for an immediate end to all actions that undermine the viability of the two-state solution, including terrorism, anti-Semitic incitement, settlement expansion, and the demolition of Palestinian property in the West Bank. Steps to transform the situation in Gaza are also needed. At this highly sensitive time in the region, there is an urgent need to restart the peace process between Israel and Palestine. We regularly press both parties to resume direct negotiations towards a two-state solution.</p><p> </p> Biography information for Sir Nicholas Soames Yemen: Violence To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will publish information held by is Department on the incidents of violence in each region of Yemen in each year since 2016. Leicester East Keith Vaz <p>We do not have access to reliable data on incidences of violence at sub-national level. We do follow closely the situation in Yemen and are concerned about the level of violence in general across the country. We believe a political solution is the only way to end the conflict and urge all parties to refrain from violence and work constructively with the UN to establish a peace process.</p><p></p> Biography information for Keith Vaz Iran: Official Visits To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the Government has plans to receive Iranian government ministers in the next six months. Hornsey and Wood Green <p>As Minister responsible for the UK's relations with Iran, I have yet to visit Tehran, though I note my predecessor did last year. I hope to be able to visit soon. The Foreign Secretary hopes that the opportunity to travel to Iran will arise in the future but he does not currently have any firm plans to visit. There are no current plans for Iranian ministers to visit the UK for bilateral discussions in this time.</p> Biography information for Catherine West Israel: Bedouin To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his Israeli counterparts on the future of the village Khan al-Ahmar; and what steps he plans to take to prevent further threats to villages in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Dunfermline and West Fife Douglas Chapman <p>We regularly raise our concerns with the Israeli authorities at senior levels, including with the Israeli Prime Minister and Israeli Attorney General, urging them not to go ahead with the proposed demolition of Khan al-Ahmar. Officials from our Embassy in Tel Aviv discussed this issue with the Israeli National Security Council on 7 March and the Israeli Office for the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories on 3 January. Officials from our Consulate General in Jerusalem continue to visit the Khan al-Ahmar community regularly, most recently on 28 March. The UK repeatedly calls on Israel to abandon demolition plans entirely, and instead provide a transparent route to construction for Palestinians in Area C.</p> Biography information for Douglas Chapman Israel: Golan Heights To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the government of Israel about the extension of Israeli laws, jurisdiction and administration to the Golan Heights; what were the outcomes of any such discussions; and what assessment they have made of whether that extension prejudices the possibility of peace in Syria. Lord Hylton <p>We have been clear to our Israeli counterparts that the UK views the Golan Heights as territory occupied by Israel. Annexation of territory by force is prohibited under international law, including the UN Charter. The UK did not recognise Israel's annexation in 1981 and we have no plans to change our position. On 26 March we reiterated our firm position on this matter at a meeting of the UN Security Council.</p> Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon Biography information for Lord Hylton To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they are making to the government of Israel about the number of Palestinian properties being demolished, in particular those that have been demolished without warning or explanation. Baroness Tonge <p>We have repeatedly made representations to the Government of Israel to end the demolition of Palestinian properties. Demolitions and evictions of Palestinians from their homes cause unnecessary suffering to ordinary Palestinians, call into question Israel's commitment to a viable two-state solution, and, in all but the most exceptional of cases, are contrary to International Humanitarian Law.</p> Biography information for Baroness Tonge Hajer Mansoor Hassan To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 29 April (HL15262), what steps they will take to verify the “categorical assurances” they have received that Ms Mansoor will continue to receive access to appropriate medical care. Lord Scriven <p>We have raised the cases of Bahraini national, Hajer Mansoor Hassan, on a regular basis at senior levels with the Bahraini Government and continue to closely monitor the case. We have received confirmation that Ms Mansoor has had numerous medical appointments since January 2018 and will continue to have access to all necessary healthcare and medical treatment whilst in detention, as guaranteed by the Bahraini constitution.</p> Biography information for Lord Scriven Burkina Faso: Churches To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the deaths of six people during a church service in Burkino Faso on 12 May, and other recent attacks on churches; what ideology they believe motivated those attacks; and who they believe was responsible. Lord Alton of Liverpool <p>The British Government is appalled by the murder of six people in Burkina Faso during a Sunday Church service on 12 May and other recent attacks on civilians peacefully practicing their faith. We are deeply concerned at the deteriorating security situation in Burkina Faso, which is spreading from the north to the east of the country, and the increasing instability in the wider Sahel region.</p><p>The identity of the attackers is not confirmed and there have been no claims of responsibility. The UK is committed to work with Burkina Faso and international partners to help tackle instability and protect freedom of religion or belief for all.</p> Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool # Counting has been applied to this query. PREFIX parl: <http://data.parliament.uk/schema/parl#> PREFIX xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> SELECT DISTINCT ?item WHERE { ?item a parl:WrittenParliamentaryQuestion ; parl:answer ?ans . ?item parl:answeringDeptId "16" . ?item parl:answer ?___answer_0 . ?___answer_0 parl:questionFirstAnswered ?___answer_questionFirstAnswered_1 . ?___answer_0 parl:dateOfAnswer ?___answer_dateOfAnswer_2 . 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__label__wiki	0.718653	0.718653	This is the website of Ian Freckelton QC Ian Freckelton is a Queen’s Counsel in full time practice as a barrister throughout Australia; a judge of the Supreme Court in Nauru; a tribunal member; a board and committee member; an investigator of allegations of misconduct; a professor of law, psychiatry and forensic medicine; a fellow of learned academies; a journal editor; a speaker at international gatherings; an author, editor and book reviewer; and a scholarly traveller. He has been a Commissioner at the Victorian Law Reform Commission, a President of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, and held a variety of international positions. On these pages you will find information about Dr Freckelton, in particular about his: • practice as a Queen’s Counsel at the Victorian Bar; • judicial work in Nauru; • work on tribunals; • academic work; • training work; • other appointments and scholarly involvements in Australia and internationally; • publications, including books, monographs, looseleaf services, articles and chapters; • journals that he edits and on whose editorial board he has a position; • speeches and addresses he has given in Australia and internationally; • contact options. You are welcome to make contact with Dr Freckelton QC, including to book him for cases through his clerk (Foley’s, 03 92257777, http://www.foleys.com.au), or in relation to issues that interest or concern you: I.Freckelton@vicbar.com.au	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line219
__label__wiki	0.57932	0.57932	Sweet Dreams of Artisan Ice Cream By KATHLEEN MULROY “Artisan” Definition: a person or company that produces something, usually food or wine, in limited quantities, often using traditional methods. Is it possible to find delicious, artisan ice cream in Montana and Idaho? Of course; you just have to know where to look. We’ve done the research (yum!), so you can enjoy locally made, truly gourmet ice cream. Imagine ice cream infused with beer, wine, and spirits, or ice cream scoops paired with beers or wines in a “flight tray.” These are among the creative offerings you’ll find at Boise’s artisan ice cream shop, The STIL. Owners Dan and Kasey opened The STIL in July of 2017, and, less than a year later, the shop was voted one of Boise’s Best in the Dessert Category. Their hand-crafted ice creams—made in-house daily, using Idaho dairy milk (they also have dairy-free and vegan options)—along with the shop’s entertaining atmosphere, have earned The STIL mentions in the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Sunset Magazine. The owners will open a second location soon in southeast Boise. ilovethestil.com. Located on First Street in the popular resort town of Sandpoint, north Idaho, family owned Panhandle Cone & Coffee features unusually flavored and deliciously creamy ice cream. They also serve coffee from a local favorite, Evans Brothers Coffee. The owners of Panhandle C & C say they are committed to using only the highest quality ingredients, which are often locally sourced. For example, their honey is purchased from Queen Bee Honey in Clark Fork, several miles north of Sandpoint. Depending on the season, ice cream flavors might include Wildwood Amaretto & Alder; Huckleberry Jam; Honey, Cinnamon & Frankincense; Pumpkin Pie; Black Pepper, Pistachio & Date; Honey Chai Praline; and the classics, Vanilla and Chocolate. They also have non-dairy options. The owners have recently opened a new shop in the college town of Moscow. coneandcoffee.com In Coeur d’Alene, you’ll find yummy, made-on-the-premises ice cream at Abi’s Artisan Ice Cream. Abi’s mission is to produce a superior product, using organic and locally sourced products. The shop was recently honored as the North Idaho Business Journal’s “2019’s Best of Ice Cream and 2nd Best Dessert.” Besides classic ice creams, Abi’s also provides dairy-free, gluten-free, and vegan options. They are also a peanut-free and tree-nut-free facility, because the owners’ daughter Abi is allergic to both. The locally-owned shop is also known for gourmet hot chocolate and homemade baked goods. The seasonal flavors often change daily and might include Lemon Olive Oil, Strawberry Hibiscus Sorbet, Rosemary, Dog Sorbet (carrot), Arnold Palmer Sorbet (lemon and tea), Coffee Toffee, Brown Sugar Bourbon, Sweet Cream, Huckleberry, and Caramel Buttercream. You can also find Abi’s ice cream at various local businesses. abisicecream.com Sweet Peaks Ice Cream was founded in 2010 by two ice cream loving Montanans, Marissa and Sam. They are proud of carefully crafting their ice cream and sorbets in Whitefish, Mont. They use Montana dairy products and a selection of quality ingredients, many of which hail from the mountains. Marissa and Sam’s welcoming ice cream shops are also located in Missoula, Kalispell, and Bozeman, as well as in Spokane, Wash. Their ice creams include locally inspired flavors, like Montana Christmas—pine-soaked ice cream with huckleberry jam—or Flathead Cherry Chocolate. Classics such as Lafaza Madagascar Vanilla are offered, too. To keep things interesting, Sweet Peaks frequently rotates its flavors. sweetpeaksicecream.com Big Dipper Ice Cream, with shops in Helena, Missoula, and Billings, has been serving hand-made ice cream since 1995. The company has been featured in Good Morning America, and has been chosen as one of America’s Best by Food and Wine Magazine, USA Today, Budget Travel, and others. Besides their three store locations, Big Dipper has a traveling ice cream truck called “Coneboy.” The artisan ice cream can also be found at restaurants in Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks. Check out Big Dipper’s Facebook page for current flavor offerings. Some of the more unusual flavors include Cardamom, El Salvador Coffee, Huckleberry, Black Licorice, and Espresso Heath. They also have classics such as Vanilla, Strawberry, Chocolate, Coconut, and Salted Caramel. Sorbets include lemon and tangerine. bigdippericecream.com. —ISI Tags:Big Dipper Ice Creamice creamPanhandle Cone & CoffeeSweet PeaksThe STIL	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line220
__label__wiki	0.851181	0.851181	Editing Gollum {{Countdown}} {{hobbit infobox \| name=Gollum \| image=[[File:John Howe - Gollum.jpg\|250px]] \| caption="Gollum" by [[John Howe]] \| pronun= \| othernames=Sméagol<br/>Stinker<br/>Slinker \| titles= \| position= \| location= \| affiliation= \| language= \| birth=c. {{TA\|2430}}<ref name=guide>{{HM\|Guide}}, p. 167, entry "Gollum"</ref> \| birthlocation=Near [[Gladden Fields]] \| rule= \| death=[[25 March]] {{TA\|3019}} \| deathlocation=[[Mount Doom]] \| age=c. 589 \| notablefor= \| family= \| parentage= \| siblings= \| spouse= \| children= \| gender=Male \| height= \| hair=Thin, lank<ref name="Taming">{{TT\|Taming}}</ref> \| eyes= \| clothing= \| weapons= \| steed= }} '''Gollum''', also known as '''Sméagol''' ([[Old English\|OE]], pron. {{IPA\|[ˈsmæ͡ɑːɣoɫ]}}), was a creature (originally a [[Stoors\|Stoorish]] [[Hobbits\|Hobbit]]) who bore [[the One Ring]]. He lived in the [[Misty Mountains]] for most of his life. In {{TA\|2941}} he lost the Ring to [[Bilbo Baggins]]. For the rest of his life he sought to recover his "precious" "birthday present". In {{TA\|3019}} he followed the [[Fellowship of the Ring]] and met [[Frodo Baggins]]. After leading Frodo into [[Mordor]] and betraying him to [[Shelob]] he finally seized the Ring in [[Cracks of Doom\|Sammath Naur]]. In his euphoria he died and destroyed the Ring after falling into the cracks of [[Mount Doom]]. ==History== ===Early life=== Sméagol was a [[Hobbits\|Hobbit]] of [[Stoors\|Stoor-kind]] who lived on the banks of the [[Anduin]] in the later [[Third Age]]. These Hobbits had migrated to the [[Gladden Fields]] and became a riverland people under a Matriarch. Sméagol was the Matriarch's grandson and spent the early years of his life living with his extended family during the [[Watchful Peace]], when [[Sauron]] was in the [[East]]. He had some amount of education in lore, as during his youth he had learned of the events concerning the [[War of the Last Alliance]] against [[Sauron]].<ref name=Passage>{{TT\|IV2}}</ref> [[File:The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King - Sméagol.jpg\|left\|thumb\|[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]] - Sméagol]] Around the year {{TA\|2463}}, on his birthday, with his close relative [[Déagol]] they went fishing in the [[Gladden Fields]]. It was there that Déagol found a gold ring, after being pulled into the water by a large fish. Sméagol demanded the ring as a birthday present and strangled Deágol when he refused. Sméagol became the fourth [[Ring-bearers\|Ring-bearer]] after Sauron, [[Isildur]], and [[Déagol]]. After this event, he started to make a gurgling sound from his throat; for this his family called him "Gollum". Sméagol was quickly corrupted further by the ring and, banished by his people, was forced to find a home in a [[Gollum's Lake\|cave]] in the [[Misty Mountains]]. The Ring's malignant influence twisted his Hobbit body and mind and prolonged his life far beyond its natural limits. He called it his "[[Precious]]" or his "Birthday Present," the latter as a justification for killing Déagol. Gollum lived longer than any other Hobbit could, and for over four hundred years he managed to live on raw [[fish]], which he caught from his small raft, and [[Orcs of the Misty Mountains\|Goblins]] from the nearby [[Goblin-town]]. In later years he found Hobbit and [[Elves\|Elven]] food repulsive. The Ring's corrupting influence as well as centuries of isolation in the Misty Mountains took a deep toll on him both physically and mentally. He became disfigured and grotesque in appearance, and by the time he met the Hobbit [[Bilbo Baggins]] he was afflicted with almost complete madness. ===Departure of the Ring=== [[File:Darrell Sweet - The Riddle Game.jpg\|thumb\|right\|[[Darrell Sweet]] - ''The Riddle Game'']] In July {{TA\|2941}}, during the [[Quest of Erebor]], Bilbo stumbled upon the subterranean lake on which Gollum lived and found the Ring. Gollum had lost the Ring in the network of caves leading to the lake, though in fact it is more proper to say that the Ring abandoned Gollum, for it was known to have a will of its own. As [[Gandalf]] said later, it looked after itself, trying to get back to Sauron. After the famous [[Riddle-game\|Riddle Game]], during which Gollum was unaware of his loss, Gollum refused to show Bilbo the promised way out and plotted to murder him. When he went to get his "birthday present," however, he found that it was gone. He suddenly realised the answer to Bilbo's last riddle - ''"What have I got in my pocket?"'' - and became furious. Bilbo inadvertently stumbled across the Ring's power of invisibility as he ran, allowing him to follow Gollum to the entrance of the cave. There, Bilbo at first thought to kill Gollum, but was overcome with pity, so he jumped over him to escape. As Bilbo ran, Gollum cried out, "Thief! Thief, Baggins! We hates it forever!" [[File:Ted Nasmith - Gollum is Defeated.jpg\|thumb\|left\|[[Ted Nasmith]] - ''Gollum is Defeated'']] His addiction to the Ring was so great that he overcame his hatred and fear of the [[Sun]], the [[Moon]] and other creatures. He left the Mountains and pursued Bilbo, but the trail was cold. He made his way into [[Mordor]], where he was captured by the Nazgûl and forced to reveal what he knew about the Ring. Thus Sauron's spies learned from him the names "[[The Shire\|Shire]]" and "[[Bilbo Baggins\|Baggins]]". By {{TA\|3017}} Gollum was then set free, but caught by [[Aragorn]], who turned him over to [[Gandalf]]. The [[Wizards\|Wizard]] managed to interrogate him and learned parts of the history of the Ring which he had not previously known. He placed him in the care of the [[Silvan Elves]] living in [[Thranduil]]'s [[Woodland Realm]] of [[Mirkwood]]. In June of {{TA\|3018}}, Orcs raided the [[Elves of Mirkwood]] (in an obviously coordinated attack) allowing Gollum to escape. He resumed his search of the Ring and he was brought into [[Moria]] but could not open the [[Doors of Durin]]. ===The War of the Ring=== [[File:Inger Edelfeldt - Gollum Held Captive by the Elves.jpg\|thumb\|right\|Inger Edelfeldt - ''Gollum Held Captive by the Elves'']] Gollum picked up the trail of the new [[Ring-bearers\|Ring-bearer]], [[Frodo Baggins]], as he and the [[Fellowship of the Ring]] travelled through Moria. On [[15 January\|January 15]], {{TA\|3019}} the Fellowship was divided when Gandalf disappeared while fighting a [[Durin's Bane\|Balrog]]. Gollum continued trailing the remaining members. It is unknown how he crossed the [[Bridge of Khazad-dûm]], but he came with them to [[Lothlórien]] without their knowing. Gollum, floating on a log, followed their boats down [[Anduin]] to [[Rauros]]. He pursued [[Frodo Baggins\|Frodo]] and [[Samwise Gamgee\|Sam]] across the [[Emyn Muil]] when they struck out on their own towards Mordor. Gollum followed them, but after a confrontation in which he bit and nearly strangled Sam, Frodo subdued him. Frodo tied an [[Elves\|Elvish]] rope around Gollum's ankle for a leash, but the mere touch of the rope pained him. Taking pity on the wretched creature, Frodo made Gollum swear to help them. Agreeing to the oath, Gollum swore by the "Precious" itself, and Frodo released him. The unlikely company, guided by Gollum, made their way to the [[Black Gate]], the entrance to Mordor. Frodo's kindness brought out the "Sméagol" personality, and he made at least some effort to keep his promise. The two had a strange sort of bond from both having been Ringbearers; in Gollum, Frodo saw his possible future, and so wanted to save him so he could save himself. Gollum also feared Frodo, and also thought that helping him would deprive Sauron of the Ring. When the Black Gate was reached and found to be well guarded, Gollum convinced them not to go that way, saying that they would be caught and Sauron would regain the Ring. Gollum said he would lead them south, where he knew of another entrance into Mordor. Frodo and Sam were caught by [[Faramir]], and Gollum followed them. When Frodo allowed Faramir to briefly take Sméagol prisoner, however, he felt betrayed, allowing the "Gollum" personality to take control. Faramir found out that the place Gollum was taking them was called [[Cirith Ungol]]. He then warned Frodo and Sam of the evil of that place. [[File:Ted Nasmith - Gollum at the Forbidden Pool.jpg\|thumb\|Ted Nasmith - ''Gollum at the Forbidden Pool'']] Frodo, Sam, and Gollum left Faramir and began crossing the pass of Cirith Ungol in the border-mountains of the [[Ephel Dúath]]. Gollum visited the great spider [[Shelob]], because he was planning to betray the Hobbits to her and then get the Ring for himself. When he returned the Hobbits were asleep. The sight of Frodo sleeping nearly moved Gollum to repent. However, Sam woke up and spoke harshly to Gollum, and all hope of redemption was lost. Gollum followed through with his plan and led Frodo and Sam into [[Shelob's Lair]]. For this service to Shelob, the Orcs of Cirith Ungol knew Gollum as "Her Sneak". Just as Frodo warned him, Gollum's betrayal of his oath ultimately led to his undoing, for Frodo and Sam escaped from Shelob's lair and came against all odds to the volcano [[Orodruin]], or Mount Doom. Gollum followed them all the way, seeking a chance to surprise them and take the Ring. When Frodo and Sam had almost reached their destination, he attacked, but failed to get the Ring. Sam, who had hated Gollum on sight, tried to bring himself to kill him, but relented out of sheer pity and disgust, turning his back on the beaten creature. Moments later, Frodo was standing on the edge of the [[Cracks of Doom\|Crack of Doom]], but, unwilling to destroy the Ring, claimed it for himself and put it on. Then Gollum attacked again. The two fought whilst Frodo was invisible and finally Gollum bit off Frodo's finger. Here Frodo's kindness in sparing Gollum's life was rewarded, for Gollum then teetered on the edge of the great pit, lost his balance and fell in, taking the Ring and finger with him with a last cry of "Preciouss!". Had Gollum not lived to play this final part, there would have been a good chance that Sauron would have regained the Ring, as he knew where Frodo was as soon as he put the Ring on. ==Appearance== [[File:Peter Xavier Price - The Stairs of Cirith Ungol.jpg\|left\|thumb\|185px\|[[Peter Xavier Price]] - ''The Stairs of Cirith Ungol'']] Sméagol was a Hobbit, but he spent long centuries (thanks to the Ring) in darkness and damp, influenced by its evil power. It is possible that thanks to his hardy Hobbitish nature that he was not reduced to a [[Wraiths\|wraith]].<ref> {{webcite\|author=Stan Brown\|website=FAQ of the Rings\|articleurl=http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/ringfaq.htm#Q1-GollumWraith\|articlename=Why hadn’t Gollum turned into a wraith long ago?}}</ref> However, he was reduced to a small, extremely thin and wiry person, with scrawny neck, pale skin, flat feet, long thin hands with clammy fingers, and large pale eyes that seemed to glow. His sense of sight, as well as his hearing and smelling, were very good, due to the time he spent underground. He could move and climb silently like a spider, and although he had only six teeth left,<ref>{{HM\|H}}</ref> he could give deep bites, even able to bite off Frodo's finger. ==Personality== Sméagol was the most inquisitive and curious-minded of his community. He was an inquisitive Hobbit who was interested in roots and beginnings. He owed [[#Etymology\|his name]] to his interest in roots and deep pools; he burrowed and tunnelled under trees, plants, and mounds. During his centuries of loneliness and under the Ring's influence, he developed a sort of multiple personality: his evil personality was a slave to the Ring and would kill for it, overwhelming his former self, who still vaguely remembered things like friendship and love. Not having anyone else to speak to, he often quarrelled with himself. Gollum both loved and hated the Ring and himself. He often referred both to the Ring and himself as "my Precious", perhaps confusing the two entities.<ref name=guide/> [[File:Mariët Theune - The Crack of Doom.jpg\|thumb\|right\|Mariët Theune - ''The Crack of Doom'']] Years later, [[Samwise Gamgee]] would name the good personality "Slinker" (for his fawning, eager-to-please demeanour), and the bad personality "Stinker". Other aspects of the Ring's corruption was the aversion to all living creatures, especially the [[Elves]] and all things Elven. The [[Elven rope]] burnt his skin, and [[lembas]] tasted like dust to him and choked him. Sméagol, as a Hobbit, was perhaps good at heart, and his killing was entirely the Ring's doing. But it's also likely that Sméagol was harbouring dark thoughts to begin with. Their argument bases on several points, including... # The sight of the Ring at the [[Council of Elrond]] or at many points in the journey of the Fellowship did not cause anyone to suddenly murder someone else. # It is possible for Hobbits to be evil; for instance, [[Ted Sandyman]] and [[Lotho Sackville-Baggins]]. #Bilbo was corrupted far more slowly by the Ring because his adventures with it began with an act of mercy, while Gollum began his with murder.<ref name=shadow>{{FR\|Shadow}}</ref> ==Etymology== [[File:Turner Mohan - The Ringbearers.jpg\|thumb\|left\|200px\|"The Ringbearers" by [[:Category:Images by Turner Mohan\|Turner Mohan]]]] Sméagol's (pron. {{IPA\|[ˈsmæ͡ɑːɣoɫ]}}) name is [[Old English]] one, from ''sméah'', and adjective meaning "''creeping in, penetrating''". It is etymologically related to the word [[smials]]. This title was also applied by the Anglo-Saxons to the Biblical Cain, from the story of Cain's murder of his brother Abel in Genesis. This draws a clear connection between the two. Sméagol is the translation of an actual [[Westron]] name ''[[Trahald]]''. The meaning of which was "burrowing, worming in" or "apt to creep into a hole". In both [[Westron]] and Old English, Sméagol's name is related to [[Smaug]]'s: Smaug's name in "true [[Dalish]]" was ''[[Trāgu]]'', and the ''Trah-'' stem in Trahald and Trâgu is thus an analogue of the Germanic stem present in both Sméagol and Smaug. [[J.R.R. Tolkien\|Tolkien]] explained in his "[[Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings\|Guide to the Names in ''The Lord of the Rings'']]" the origin of the name ''Sméagol'' in the lemma on [[smials]]: {{blockquote\|'''Smials'''. A word peculiar to hobbits (not Common Speech), meaning 'burrow'; leave unchanged. It is a form that the Old English word '''smygel''' 'burrow' might have had, if it had survived. The same element appears in Gollum's real name, '''Sméagol'''.}} The name [[Smaug]] which means "squeezed through a hole" is thus related.<ref>{{L\|31}}</ref> ===Pronunciation=== {{Pronounce\|Anglo-Saxon - Sméagol.mp3\|Gilgamesh}} In both the 1981 BBC radio adaptation and in Peter Jackson's films ''Sméagol'' is pronounced as "SMEE-gol", although the placement of the acute accent suggests that the correct pronunciation is "SMAY-uh-gol". On the other hand, in [[J.R.R. Tolkien\|Tolkien]]'s recordings of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' he also pronounced it "SMEE-gol" or "SMEE-AH-GOL", suggesting that ''éa'' should either be pronounced as a long "i"-sound or as a diphthong ''ea'', and not as two distinct vowels "e" and "a". Tolkien had a habit in his writing to put diacritics in varying places, as can also be seen in the name ''[[Eärendil]]'', which also occurs spelt ''Ëarendil''. ==Other versions of the Legendarium== In the first edition of ''[[The Hobbit]]'', Gollum did not appear quite as wretched or as bound to the Ring. Tolkien revised this characterisation to fit the concept of the Ruling Ring developed during the writing of ''The Lord of the Rings''. Tolkien then explained the version given in the first edition as a lie that Bilbo made up to tell the [[Thorin and Company\|Dwarves]] and [[Gandalf]].<ref name="Christensen">[[Bonniejean Christensen]], [[Jared Lobdell]] (ed.), "Gollum's Character Transformation in ''The Hobbit''", published in ''[[A Tolkien Compass]]'', pages 7-26</ref> In ''[[The Silmarillion]]'', it is mentioned that [[the One Ring]] was found "ere the Kings failed in Gondor". This can mean that originally, Gollum's age was intended to be considerably more than six hundred years (further reinforced by certain places in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' like Gollum referring to tales about an uncorrupted [[Minas Ithil]] or Gandalf comparing his people to "fathers of the fathers of the [[Stoors]]"). In fact it seems likely that Sauron leaving the Mirkwood in 2063 T.A. and some Hobbits settling there after that are details added for the purpose of making the smaller age possible; perhaps in order to make it possible for Gollum and the other characters to have the same language. ==Inspiration== [[John Garth]] has suggested that the character of Gollum carries echoes of the "night-haunting, man-eating" [[Ogres\|ogre]] [[Wikipedia:Grendel\|Grendel]] in ''[[Beowulf (disambiguation)\|Beowulf]]''.<ref>{{webcite\|author=[[John Garth]]\|articleurl=http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2014/05/j-r-r-tolkien-beowulf-one-mans-passion-threshold-between-myth-and-reality\|articlename=J R R Tolkien's Beowulf: one man's passion for the threshold between myth and reality\|dated=29 May 2014\|website=[http://www.newstatesman.com/ newstatesman.com]\|accessed=29 May 2014}}</ref> ==Portrayal in adaptations== {{Gallery \|title=Pictures of adaptations of Gollum \|height=150 \|width=200 \|lines=3 \|File:The Hobbit (1966 film) - Gollum.jpg\|[[The Hobbit (1966 film)\|''The Hobbit'' (1966 film)]] \|File:The Hobbit (1977 film) - Gollum.jpg\|[[The Hobbit (1977 film)\|''The Hobbit'' (1977 film)]] \|File:The Lord of the Rings (1978 film) - Gollum.jpg\|[[The Lord of the Rings (1978 film)\|''The Lord of the Rings'' (1978 film)]] \|File:David T. Wenzel - Gollum.jpg\|[[The Hobbit (comic book)\|''The Hobbit'' (comic book), 1989]] \|File:The Hobbit (2003) Gollum.JPG\|[[The Hobbit (2003 video game)\|''The Hobbit'' (2003 video game)]] \|File:The Lord of the Rings- The Treason of Isengard - Concept art Gollum.jpg\|[[The Lord of the Rings: The Treason of Isengard]] \|File:The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King - Gollum poster.jpg\|[[The Lord of the Rings (film series)\|''The Lord of the Rings'' (film series)]] \|File:The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King - Sméagol2.jpg\|As Sméagol in [[The Lord of the Rings (film series)\|''The Lord of the Rings'' (film series)]] \|File:The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring (video game) - Gollum.JPG\|[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (video game)\|''The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'' (video game)]] \|File:The Lord of the Rings Online - Gollum.jpg\|''[[The Lord of the Rings Online]]'' \|File:Lego - Gollum poster.png\|Gollum as a ''[[Lego]] mini figure'' \|File:Guardians of Middle-earth - Gollum.png\|''[[Guardians of Middle-earth]] \|File:Shadow of Mordor - Gollum.jpg\|''[[Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor]]'' }} ===Films=== '''1977: [[The Hobbit (1977 film)\|''The Hobbit'' (1977 film)]]:''' :Gollum is a frog-like green creature, voiced by [[Brother Theodore]]. Here, his "Gollum" noise sounds like muttering instead of swallowing. '''1978: [[The Lord of the Rings (1978 film)\|''The Lord of the Rings'' (1978 film)]]:''' :Gollum is depicted as a skinny, dark grey creature, voiced by [[Peter Woodthorpe]]. '''1980: [[The Return of the King (1980 film)\|''The Return of the King'' (1980 film)]]:''' :Brother Theodore reprised his role from the earlier [[Rankin/Bass]] production. Some footage from ''The Hobbit'' was reused to introduce the viewer to the story. '''2001-03: [[The Lord of the Rings (film series)\|''The Lord of the Rings'' (film series)]]:''' :Gollum is a CGI-motion capture creature voiced by actor [[Andy Serkis]]. He is barely glimpsed in ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring\|The Fellowship of the Ring]]'', where he is voiced by [[Dominic Monaghan]] in absence of Serkis. Gollum becomes a central character in ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers\|The Two Towers]]'' and ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King\|The Return of the King]]''. The groundbreaking CGI character was built around Serkis's voice, movements and expressions, sometimes by using a motion capture suit which recorded his movements and applied them to the digital character, and sometimes by the more laborious process of digitally "painting out" Serkis's image and replacing it with Gollum's. In one such shot in ''The Two Towers'', Serkis' real spittle can be seen emerging from Gollum's mouth. :In ''The Return of the King'' Serkis himself appears in a flashback scene as Sméagol before his degeneration into Gollum. This scene was originally earmarked for ''The Two Towers'' but held back because it was felt that audiences would relate better to the original Sméagol once they were more familiar with who he became. The decision to include this scene meant that Gollum's face had to be redesigned for the second and third movies so that it would more closely resemble Serkis'. '''2012: [[The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey]]:''' :[[Andy Serkis]] reprised his role as Gollum.<ref name="PJCasting1">{{webcite\|author=[[Peter Jackson]]\|articleurl=http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150168211921558\|articlename=Production begins in New Zealand on The Hobbit\|dated=20-March-2011\|website=[http://www.facebook.com/ Facebook]\|accessed=21-Dec-2011}}</ref> ===Radio series=== '''1955: [[The Lord of the Rings (1955 radio series)\|''The Lord of the Rings'' (1955 radio series)]]:''' :The voice of Gollum is provided by [[Gerik Schjelderup]].<ref name="RT1723">Radio Times, Volume 133, No. 1723, [[16 November\|November 16]], [[1956]]</ref> '''1968: [[The Hobbit (1968 radio series)\|''The Hobbit'' (1968 radio series)]]:''' :The narrator refers to Gollum (voiced by [[Wolfe Morris]]) as "Galloom", even though Gollum himself manages to pronounce his name correctly. Gollum's role is based on that of the second edition of ''The Hobbit''.<ref>[[The Hobbit (1968 radio series)\|''The Hobbit'' (1968 radio series)]], "[[Riddles in the Dark (episode)\|Riddles in the Dark]]" </ref> '''1979: [[The Lord of the Rings (1979 radio series)\|''The Lord of the Rings'' (1979 radio series)]]:''' :[[Gail Chugg]] provided the voice of Gollum. '''1981: [[The Lord of the Rings (1981 radio series)\|''The Lord of the Rings'' (1981 radio series)]]:''' :Gollum, again performed by [[Peter Woodthorpe]], has the first lines of the play (save [[Gerard Murphy\|the narrator]]). He is described as "slimy and as dark than darkness".<ref>''[[The Lord of the Rings (1981 radio series)]], "[[The Long Awaited Party]]"</ref> ===Games=== '''1982: ''[[The Hobbit (1982 video game)]]''''' :Gollum appears in the tunnels of the Misty Mountains. He will persistently speak riddles to Bilbo, and strangle him to death if he fails to answer them in time. However, if Bilbo puts the [[One Ring\|Ring]] on, then Gollum will not be able to see him. He can also be killed by Bilbo or his companions, even though doing so would seriously conflict with established canon. '''2002: [[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (video game)\|''The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'' (video game)]]:''' :Gollum, voiced by [[Quinton Flynn]], is seen thrice: first, in the introduction scene, he is stooping over his precious, dashing away from the camera. He is a creature in colour and clothing much like Jackson's version. He is briefly glimpsed again in [[Moria]], but not more than a dark shape with a green outline can be seen.<ref>[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (video game)]], "3 Passages"</ref> His most important role is in the final stages of the game: he can be seen atop several ridges, and can even be visited on a rock on the shores of [[Nen Hithoel]]. He throws a [[fish]], the "Xiphiidae", at "[[Aragorn\|Ranger]]". This will become the most deadly weapon in the game, and replaces [[Andúril]] in the weapon slots.<ref>[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (video game)\|''The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'' (video game)]], "Amon Hen"</ref> '''2003: [[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (video game)\|''The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'' (video game)]]:''' :Gollum is accompanying Sam and Frodo during [[Osgiliath]] mission and the is the final boss of the game at the Crack of Doom. Unlike all other enemies of the game, he takes no damage from any attacks - instead the players must perform combinations to push him into lava below. '''2003: ''[[The Hobbit (2003 video game)\|Sierra's The Hobbit'']]:''' :Gollum appears in a cut scene after the level "Riddles in the Dark". Only Bilbo's last riddle - "What have I got in my pocket?" - is shown, after which Gollum spouts out all possible answers in one sentence rather than in three turns. Gollum is a dark grey, hobbit-like creature with seven spiky teeth, who walks on all fours like an ape would, and like his Rankin/Bass counterpart, his "Gollum" noise is a muttering instead of a swallowing. He is voiced by [[Daran Norris]].<ref>[[The Hobbit (2003 video game)\|''The Hobbit'' (2003 video game)]], "Riddles in the Dark"</ref> '''2004: ''[[The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring]]'':''' :Gollum is a "Hero" unit for the Servants of the Enemy, used primarily for scout missions. '''2004: ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth]]'':''' :Gollum is a "Hero" for the Mordor factions. His health is extremely low and his attacks extremely weak, but has value for the scout missions. '''2006: ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II]]'':''' :In non-storyline battles, stealthed Gollum is roaming the map. If detected and killed, he drops The One Ring, which can give huge advantage to the side that gets it. '''2007: ''[[The Lord of the Rings Online]]'':''' :Gollum is encountered thrice, though the player has yet to know his name. The first time he is met in southern [[Trollshaws]], where the player prevents him from attacking the baby of two Fishermen; the second time he is seen in southern Mirkwood, where the player must defeat the Orcs who attempts to capture him, the third time is on the Shores of Anduin, where the player has to make sure he does not fall prey to the spiders. '''2012: ''[[Guardians of Middle-earth]]'':''' :Gollum is a striker-type "guardian" with four abilities: ''Throttle'', ''My Precious'', ''Coward'' and ''We are starved''.<ref>{{webcite\|author=\|articleurl=http://www.guardiansofmiddleearth.co.uk/guardians/gollum\|articlename=''Guardians of Middle-earth'': Gollum\|dated=\|website=[http://www.guardiansofmiddleearth.com/ ''Guardians of Middle-earth'' official website]\|accessed=16 July 2012}}</ref> '''2014: ''[[Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor]]'':''' :Gollum is featured in the game as a supporting character. In the game, set between ''[[The Hobbit]]'' and ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', Gollum is searching for [[the One Ring]] and encounters Talion, the protagonist of the game and helps him in his Quest. ==See also== [[:Category:Images of Gollum\|Images of Gollum]] ==External links== [http://lingwe.blogspot.se/2012/12/smeagol-whats-in-name.html Sméagol — what’s in a name?] by [[Jason Fisher]] {{References}} {{seq-start}} {{seq-head \| race=hobbit \| born=c. {{TA\|2430}} \| died=[[25 March]], {{TA\|3019}} }} {{seq \| prev=[[Déagol]] \| list=[[Ring-bearer]] \| dates=c. {{TA\|2463}} - {{TA\|2941\|n}} \| next=[[Bilbo Baggins]] }} {{seq \| prev=[[Frodo Baggins]] \| list=[[Ring-bearer]] \| dates=briefly, [[25 March]], {{TA\|3019}} \| nvac=None \| next=Ring destroyed }} {{seq-end}} {{ringbearers}} [[Category:Characters in The Hobbit]] [[Category:Characters in The Lord of the Rings]] [[Category:Evil]] [[Category:Hobbits]] [[Category:Ring-bearers]] [[Category:Stoors]] [[Category:Third Age characters]] [[de:Gollum]] [[fi:Klonkku]] Template:Blockquote (view source) Template:Countdown (view source) Template:FR (view source) Template:Gallery (view source) Template:Gallery/aux (view source) Template:HM (view source) Template:Hobbit infobox (view source) (protected) Template:L (view source) Template:Pronounce (view source) Template:References (view source) (protected) Template:Ringbearers (view source) Template:SA (view source) Template:Seq (view source) Template:Seq-end (view source) Template:Seq-head (view source) (protected) Template:Seq-start (view source) Template:TA (view source) Template:TT (view source) Template:Webcite (view source) Retrieved from "http://irc.tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Gollum"	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line224
__label__cc	0.590955	0.409045	Q & A (Others) Mosque Prayer Times Category: Rulings on Tawbah Cursing Islam in a Moment of Intense Anger Dear Brothers & Sisters, As-Salaamu-Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh. (May Allah's Peace, Mercy and Blessings be upon all of you) One of our brothers/sisters has asked this question: A man cursed Islam in a moment of intense anger – what is the ruling on that? What are the conditions of repentance from this action? Is his marriage to his wife annulled as a result? (There may be some grammatical and spelling errors in the above statement. The forum does not change anything from questions, comments and statements received from our readers for circulation in confidentiality.) Check below answers in case you are looking for other related questions: Repentance of an Apostate He got angry and cursed the pen and paper Praise be to Allah The ruling on the one who curses Islam is that he is a kafir (disbeliever), because cursing Islam or making fun of it constitutes apostasy from Islam and disbelief in Allah and in His religion. Allah tells us of some people who made fun of Islam and then said. “We were just joking and playing,” but Allah tells us that this joking and playing is in fact mocking Allah, His signs and His Messenger (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), and that they were committing kufr (disbelief) thereby. Allah says (interpretation of the meaning): “If you ask them (about this), they declare: ‘We were only talking idly and joking.’ Say: ‘Was it at Allah, and His Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) and His Messenger that you were mocking? Make no excuse; you disbelieved after you had believed.’” [9:65, 66] Mocking the religion of Allah, or cursing the religion of Allah, or insulting Allah and His Messenger (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), or making fun of them, is kufr that puts one beyond the pale of Islam. However, there is room for repentance from this, because Allah says (interpretation of the meaning): “Say: O ‘Ibadi (My slaves) who have transgressed against themselves (by committing evil deeds and sins)! Despair not of the Mercy of Allah, verily, Allah forgives all sins. Truly, He is Oft‑Forgiving, Most Merciful.” [39:53] If a person repents from any kind of apostasy and his repentance is sincere and meets all the conditions of repentance, then Allah will accept his repentance. There are five conditions of repentance, which are as follows: 1 – Being sincere towards Allah in repentance, i.e., the motive for repentance should not be a desire to show off, or fear of another person, or the hope for some worldly gain to be made by repenting. If a person’s repentance is sincerely for the sake of Allah alone, and the motive for it is fear of Allah and fear of His punishment and hope for His reward, then it is sincerely for Allah alone. 2 – He must regret what he has done of sin, by feeling remorse and sorrow for what has happened in the past, and he should regard it as a serious matter that he has to give up. 3 – He must give up the sin and stop persisting in it. If his sin was omission of an obligatory duty, he must start doing it and make it up if he can. If his sin was commission of a forbidden action he must give it up and keep away from it. If his sin had to do with other people, then he must restore their rights to them or ask for their pardon. 4 – He must resolve not to go back to it in the future, by having the determination in his heart not to go back to the sin from which he has repented. 5 – His repentance must come at the time when it will be accepted. If it comes after that time it will not be accepted. The time of acceptance is general and specific. The general time is when the sun rises from the west; repentance that comes after the sun rises from the west will not be accepted, because Allah says (interpretation of the meaning): “The day that some of the signs of your Lord do come, no good will it do to a person to believe then, if he believed not before, nor earned good (by performing deeds of righteousness) through his faith. Say: Wait you! We (too) are waiting.” [6:158] The specific time is when death is imminent. When death is imminent repentance will be of no benefit, because Allah says (interpretation of the meaning): “And of no effect is the repentance of those who continue to do evil deeds until death faces one of them and he says: ‘Now I repent;’ nor of those who die while they are disbelievers.” [4:18] I say: if a person repents from any sin – even if that is cursing Islam – then his repentance will be accepted if he meets the conditions mentioned here. But it should be noted that a word may be an act of kufr (disbelief) or apostasy, but the one who says it may not become a kafir (disbeliever) thereby, if there is a factor present which means that he cannot be judged to be a kafir. Here we have a man who tells us that he cursed Islam whilst in a state of anger. We say to him: If your anger was so intense that you did not know what you were saying, and at that point you did not know if you were in heaven or on earth, and you said words without thinking or knowing what they were, then these words are not subject to any ruling, and you cannot be judged to be an apostate, because these words were not spoken intentionally. If a word is spoken unintentionally, Allah will not punish a person for it. Allah says concerning vows (interpretation of the meaning): “Allah will not punish you for what is unintentional in your oaths, but He will punish you for your deliberate oaths.” [5:89] If this person who spoke words of kufr in a moment of intense anger did not know what he was saying, then there is no ruling on his words, and he cannot be judged to be an apostate in this case. As he is not judged to be an apostate, his marriage to his wife is not annulled; rather she is still married to him. But if a person feels angry he should try to counteract this anger in the ways prescribed by the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) when a man asked him, “O Messenger of Allah, advise me.” He said: “Do not get angry,” and he repeated it several times, saying, “Do not get angry.” So he must exercise self-control and seek refuge with Allah from the accursed shaytan (devil). If he is standing, he should sit down; if he is sitting, he should lie down. If his anger grows too intense, he should do wudhu (ablution). All these things will take away his anger. How many people have regretted acting upon their anger, but it was too late. Majmoo’ Fatawa al-Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthyameen. And Allah knows best. Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah's Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength. Your brother and well wisher in Islam Related Answers: He insults Islam – should he be friends with him? 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__label__cc	0.555719	0.444281	Zac Goldsmith and Richmond Park Having a peer in the Tory Party whose tax arrangements are unclear (step forward Lord Ashcroft) is not that surprising. However, having a parliamentary candidate who is a "non domicile" is surprising. The FT's Westminster blog points out on Richmond Park Conservatives Website That they say: 6. Tax the Super Rich and “non-domiciles”. The over-seas population, living in this country, would make a financial contribution to it. Tax loopholes for the super rich would be closed by reducing the complexity of the tax system. This will pay for the previous two measures. This is not just good news for Susan Kramer MP, but also a real challenge for David Cameron. Are his MPs really committed to the country? Parkie Productions said… To be fair to Zac Goldsmith he has been resident in his chosen constituency for most of his life and has paid pretty handsomely for the privilege of carrying the Conservative Party nomination. That said there is a feeling afoot that he ought to make some conspicuous philanthropic contribution to the constituency to balance his political generosity. It has been suggested to him that he could pay for the forthcoming repairs to Richmond Park's car parks thereby freeing his intended constituents from the onerous burden of car parking fees as the beleaguered Department of Culture Media and Sport will attempt to claw back some of the outlay through charging. There is a public rally in the park organised by the Conservatives on 30th January 2010 about this - will he announce it then? John Hemming's new year message 2010 Enhancing Adoptive Parenting Election Results 17th December 2009 Parliamentary Expenses 2008-9 and Q1 9-10 Election Results 3rd December 2009 Do parents have rights in the family court	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line228
__label__cc	0.696855	0.303145	Please wait a minute... Advances in Psychological Science 2017, Vol. 25 Issue (5) : 878-886 DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1042.2017.00878 Regular Articles \| Effects and mechanisms of power and status on self-interested behavior JIN Jian; LI Ye; CHEN Dongming; GUO Kaijiao (Key Laboratory of Human Development and Mental Health of Hubei Province (CCNU), Key Laboratory of Adolescent Cyber psychology and Behavior, Ministry of Education, School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China) Download: PDF(420 KB) Export: BibTeX \| EndNote \| Reference Manager \| ProCite \| RefWorks Power and status have different effects on self-interested behavior. Power can diminish cognitive perspective-taking, thus making the individual concerned more about their own interests; status can enhance cognitive perspective-taking, thus impelling the individual to speculate others' thoughts and feelings as well as consider others' interests. However, the effects of power and status on self-interested behavior through cognitive perspective-taking may be moderated by situational properties. Future research should be done to validate these relations and explanations, to explore the mediating role of empathy concern, as well as the moderating variables in the influence of power and status on cognitive perspective-taking; to explore the difference of self-interested behavior of those who own status and power when treating others in the ingroup and outgroup; to investigate the influence of interactive effects of power and status on self-interested behavior. Keywords power status self-interested behavior cognitive perspective-taking Corresponding Authors: LI Ye, E-mail: liye@mail.ccnu.edu.cn Issue Date: 15 May 2017 Articles by authors JIN Jian LI Ye CHEN Dongming GUO Kaijiao JIN Jian,LI Ye,CHEN Dongming, et al. Effects and mechanisms of power and status on self-interested behavior[J]. Advances in Psychological Science, 2017, 25(5): 878-886. http://journal.psych.ac.cn/xlkxjz/EN/10.3724/SP.J.1042.2017.00878 OR http://journal.psych.ac.cn/xlkxjz/EN/Y2017/V25/I5/878 [1] GAO Fan, WANG Pei. The relationship among the individual self, the relational self and the collective self: Based on the motivational and cognitive perspectives[J]. Advances in Psychological Science, 2017, 25(7): 1208-1217. [2] WANG Hao; YU Guoliang. Power cognitions in intimate relationship[J]. Advances in Psychological Science, 2017, 25(4): 639-651. [3] SONG Yunqiang; XU Ruiheng; XING Cai. Risk-sensitivity theory: Need motivates risky decision-making[J]. Advances in Psychological Science, 2017, 25(3): 486-499. [4] YAN Yu; HE Yanan. The role leaders’ perception to employee voice behavior motives: An attribution theory-based review[J]. Advances in Psychological Science, 2016, 24(9): 1457-1466. [5] YANG Ting; REN Xiaopeng. Celebrity defendant: The effect of the negative image of celebrity on public sentence prediction[J]. Advances in Psychological Science, 2016, 24(9): 1353-1357. [6] YOU Jin; YANG Lei; SHANG Shijie; YU Shijing. Socioeconomic disparities in health and its underlying mechanisms[J]. Advances in Psychological Science, 2016, 24(7): 1118-1129. [7] DENG Xiaoping; LUO Xiuwen; WU Yuzhen. The mediating effect of parental involvement between family socioeconomic status and academic performance: Meta-analysis structural equation modeling[J]. Advances in Psychological Science, 2016, 24(12): 1844-1853. [8] CAI Wei; WU Song; KOU Yu. Power and prosocial behaviour: How and why power affects prosocial behaviour[J]. Advances in Psychological Science, 2016, 24(1): 120-131. [9] WEI Xuhua; LIU Yongmei; CHEN Sixuan. Organizational Hierarchy: Basic Concepts and Mechanisms[J]. Advances in Psychological Science, 2015, 23(8): 1467-1479. [10] DUAN Jinyun; LU Zhiwei; SHEN Yanhan. Power in Organization: Concepts, Theories and Effects[J]. Advances in Psychological Science, 2015, 23(6): 1070-1078. [11] ZHAN Xiaojun; LI Zhicheng; LIANG Xuejiao. Customer Mistreatment: Conceptualization, Measurement and Nomological Network[J]. Advances in Psychological Science, 2015, 23(4): 690-701. [12] CAI Lin;ZHANG Yaxu. EEG Time-Frequency Analysis of Syntactic and Semantic Processing in Sentence Comprehension[J]. Advances in Psychological Science, 2014, 22(7): 1112-1121. [13] YANG Shuai;HUANG Xiting;WANG Tong. Underpinnings of Social Status Hierarchies[J]. Advances in Psychological Science, 2014, 22(2): 250-258. [14] LV Xiaokang; WANG Xinjian; FU Xiaoting. Why Poverty Impedes Decision Performance? Three Psychological Explanations[J]. Advances in Psychological Science, 2014, 22(11): 1823-1828. [15] WANG Xue;CAI Wei;SUN Jiaqing;WU Song;FENG Ziqi;JIN Shenghua. The Theoretical Development and Comparison of Power: From the Perspective of Social Psychology[J]. Advances in Psychological Science, 2014, 22(1): 139-149. Copyright © Advances in Psychological Science Support by Beijing Magtech	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line230
__label__cc	0.666412	0.333588	Although the Malaysians have been drinking tea for quite some time its plantation began in 1929. Cameron Highlands is situated on Titiwangsa Mountains above 1,500 meters above sea level. The temperature of the Highlands stays on an average of 18° Celsius while the mildly acidic soil is perfect for growing the Camellia sinensis. There is plenty of sunshine and the moisture is perfect which makes the tea leaves sweet and aromatic. The Cameron Highlands is also referred to as the ‘Green Bowl’ of Malaysia. First Tea Plantation J. A Russell who was an established businessman in rubber and tin was the first person to have got the idea of a tea plantation. He had seen that the even in the rough economic situations the Malaysians continued to buy tea. His tie up with another expert tea grower from Ceylon helped him in expanding his business. His company was called BOA Plantations and presently it is Malaysia’s largest producer of tea. Besides the BOA plantations three other tea gardens are famous for tea productions – Bukit Cheeding,SungeiPalas and Fairlie. The BOH Plantations are the biggest growers of tea in Malaysia who produce about 4,000 tons of tea annually. They also happen to be one of the companies who control all the phases of tea production – right from planting to packaging. BOH are famous for production of high quality black tea. About 70% of the country’s annual tea is produced by BOH. The remaining 30% is fulfilled by plantations of Bharat Tea and Sabah Tea. Both the plantations are known to be producers of good quality aromatic tea that give a rich honey colour and have a smooth flavour. All the gardens have their individual facilities where the processing of the tea happens. Fairlie uses some of the most modern machinery for the production of tea. The harvesting of tea leaves is usually done by clipper style machines, used with hands or raised tractor harvesting machines. Being the best company in Malaysia BOH has a huge team of researchers who continuously strive to guarantee that the quality of tea produced in their company is the best. The quality team oversees the work at their processing house. They are not only the biggest distributors of tea in the local Malaysian markets but have spread their wings abroad too. Their customers abroad are Singapore, United States, Brunei, UAE and Japan. BOH’s Best One of the tea’s for which BOH is famous for is the ‘Palas Supreme’ which is a flowery pekoe(FP) black tea. Flowery pekoe are leaves which are rolled into balls. There is a list of names for the teas which and the names are got by their style of picking. For instance Flowery Orange Pekoe(FOP) is the end bud and first leaf of every shoot. Very tender leaves are rolled in an exact proportion of the tip and the end of the buds while the Orange Pekoe(OP) are pointed and long leaves which are bigger than FOP and are harvested when the buds open out into leaves. Bharat Tea The Bharat Company was set up soon after BOH in 1933. The present owner of Bharat tea is Kesave Kumar. Although Bharat is also a contributor in the production of the country’s tea they still have to work on their retail strategy. Tea Market of Malaysia Present Tea production in Malaysia is one of the oldest industries yet there is much more potential in the Malaysian which can be exploited. The global climatic changes and shortage of labour in the tea gardens pose a problem for them these days. Despite the challenges face by them the country is considerably contributing to the tea economy. http://kopicha.com/history-tea-malaysia/	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line232
__label__cc	0.665453	0.334547	Home Family Health ‘Not your typical gym’ helps 1000 Kiwis with diabetes ‘Not your typical gym’ helps 1000 Kiwis with diabetes The 1000th participant was signed up this week to a diabetes health and lifestyle programme offered in YMCA ‘not your typical’ gyms around the country. A 10-week Jumpstart programme has been created by the YMCA Auckland and Pharmaco in 2015 – and has since spread across the country – offering once-a-week evening classes on exercise, nutrition and lifestyle change for people with type 2 diabetes, plus access to the gym. People either self-refer or are referred by their nurses, GPs or other health professionals to the programme, which is available on Green Prescription in some centres. Karen Turner from Upper Hutt answered “hell no!” when asked whether she’d ever thought about going to a gym before joining Jumpstart. “But the YMCA is not your typical gym – there are mums and dads, children and grandparents; no one is judging you and you can wander, or wobble, around and feel comfortable.” Since attending Jumpstart, she’s reported lower blood sugar levels and healthier eating habits, and to date has lost 7 kilos. Other participants have reported similar results, including reduced waist measurements and blood pressure and improved moods and confidence. Andrew Howard, Executive Chair of YMCA Auckland, says the best way to address a growing health issue like diabetes is as a community, with Jumpstart being a great example of a programme where people learn together and encourage each other to achieve goals. He said their philosophy as a not-for-profit organisation is to help build strong families and communities founded on good health, lifestyle and activity and by using its facilities, gyms and trainer to support people of all sizes to get moving and be healthy. Chandra Selvadurai, Managing Director of Pharmaco, said the programme aims at tackling the personal and family impacts of what is becoming one of New Zealand’s biggest health challenges by providing practical advice about exercise, nutrition and lifestyle. Jumpstart runs four times a year at 14 YMCAs in Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, and Invercargill and includes access to any YMCA gym for the duration of the course. The subsidised 10-week course is $80, but help is available via Green Prescriptions to those who can’t afford the fees. More information, including how to refer patients, can be found at the Jumpstart website. Jumpstart programme Previous articleACC doctors back to work Next articleAllegations 800,000 NZers at risk of medical privacy breach Short bursts of exercise good for the brain How to cut down on sugary drinks New nursing service strengthens support for Pacific families Anti-obesity programme slammed as ‘political window-dressing’ A healthier New Zealand starts in its communities Giving back: volunteering as a diabetes specialist nurse Texture modified diets part of the care Registered dietitian LIZ BEAGLEHOLE of Canterbury Dietitians says facilities need to plan ahead to ensure they get the texture of the food right for each resident, while also meeting their nutritional needs.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line236
__label__wiki	0.734549	0.734549	An influenza memorial in Manurewa By ro - September 29, 2018 In old St Luke’s Anglican Church, Manurewa, is a poignant reminder of New Zealand’s 1918 influenza epidemic. Tucked away in one corner of the chancel is a carved and polished rimu lectern. This has a tiny brass plaque affixed which reads: To the Glory of God And in memory of Dorice Whittingham Sometime Organist of this Church Who died for the sake of Dorice (usually known as ‘Doris’) died on 8 December 1918 of influenza contracted while nursing patients at Papakura hospital. She had been married to local quarryman and ex-serviceman Alexander Whittingham for little more than a year. A death notice was published in the NZ Herald the following day. A brief tribute was also published in a local newspaper: “When the epidemic was rampant at Papakura both Mrs Whittingham and her mother volunteered assistance. The former had the advantage of having had considerable nursing experience at Te Aroha, and therefore was entrusted with some of the serious cases. About a week ago she herself … 2018 Auckland Family History Expo round-up with speakers' notes By genebrarian - September 22, 2018 Auckland Libraries and the Genealogical Computing Group of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists held the third Auckland Family History Expo at the Fickling Convention Centre, Three Kings, this year, 10-12 August. Sponsors this year were Auckland Council, Genealogical Computing Group, Puketāpapa Local Board, Ancestry, MyHeritage, LivingDNA and Family Tree Maker. We had twenty-eight exhibitors, three streams of seminars with 17 speakers giving 38 seminars; and four computer workshops in Mt Roskill Library, with members of the public also joining in on their laptops. Exhibitors: Ancestry; Auckland Libraries; Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph ADU; Beehive Books/HOG Tours; Chinese Poll Tax Trust; FamilySearch; FamNet/Jazz Software; Family Tree DNA (FTDNA); Guild of One Name Studies (GOONS); Head to Head Productions;Indian genealogy (Research West, Auckland Libraries);Mentis; Memories In Time; MyHeritage; New Zealand Fencible Society Inc; New Zealand Micrographics/Recollect; New Zealand… The suffrage story of Mary Ann Gunson Today is the 125th anniversary of the day the Electoral Act was passed into law, making Aotearoa the first self-governing nation where women could vote in parliamentary elections. The 1893 women's suffrage petition was a huge part of the successful campaign for the vote. Over 30,000 women signed the petition - a small individual act that helped bring about a huge change for the wāhine of Aotearoa. In 2018 we celebrate the action they took by researching and telling their stories. Below is the story of Mary Ann Gunson, who signed sheet 21 of the petition. Her signature is fourth from the top in the image below. Her biography was written and researched by Judith Corbelletto-Thompson, who attended one of our Wāhine Take Action research workshops at Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero (Central City Library) last month. Mary Ann Gunson, sheet 21 Mary Ann Gunson (nee Bryne) was born in Glasgow about 1843. She arrived in New Zealand in 1874 aged 31 and the same year married James Gunson. She lived the … The suffrage story of Harriett Garland As part of our Wāhine Take Action programme celebrating the 125th anniversary of women's suffrage in Aotearoa, we recently held two suffrage story research workshops at Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero (Central City Library). The aim was to uncover stories of women who signed the 1893 women's suffrage petition - many of whom we know little about. By researching and telling their stories we celebrate the action they took in signing the petition - an individual act that helped bring about a huge change for the wāhine of Aotearoa. This is the story of Harriett Garland, written and researched by Donna Salmon, one of our workshop participants. Harriett's biography is also now part of the interactive display at the He Tohu exhibition and on the suffrage petition database at NZHistory. Harriett Garland, sheet 390 Harriett Threader was born in 1854 in Brentwood, Essex, the daughter of Thomas Threader, hairdresser, and Harriett Threader (nee Girling). As a teenager, she worked as a shop assis… The history of Chinese families and businesses in Auckland By zc - September 06, 2018 After my father came to New Zealand in 1955 he worked in New Zealand Shipping Co Ltd’s Auckland office. Part of his job was overseeing the provisioning of the company’s ships after they had docked in Auckland. New Zealand Shipping’s fruit and vegetables were supplied by C. W. Wah Jang and Co. Ltd of 31 Queen Street. Strategically located near the wharves and just across from the Chief Post Office, Wah Jang’s did a prosperous trade in fruit and vegetables with most ships floating around the South Pacific. During the Second World War, Wah Jang’s apparently provisioned every United States Navy vessel passing through Auckland! Helene Wong’s Heritage Talk at Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero (Central City Library) earlier this year on the history of Chinese families in Auckland helped clear up some of the mysteries about Wah Jang’s. Her talk also highlighted the racism with which New Zealand’s Chinese have always had to struggle. The tendency for Pakeha New Zealanders’ to show Anglocentric superiority … 2018 Auckland Family History Expo round-up with sp... The history of Chinese families and businesses in ...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line239
__label__cc	0.584364	0.415636	Entertaining and inspiring, American Flavor is a book that readers will turn to again and again, as a portrait of real American food in the twenty-first century. American Flavor by Andrew Carmellini Andrew Carmellini, two-time James Beard Award winner, acclaimed author of Urban Italian, and executive chef–owner of the hit New York City restaurants Locanda Verde and The Dutch, takes readers on a wonderfully rich and diverse tour through the ingredients and cuisines that constitute American flavor For most of his life, Andrew Carmellini has been hitting the road, tasting the best of American flavors. Whether on childhood trips escaping from the hard-bitten winters of Ohio to sunny Florida and its fresh citrus fruit, cross-country trips in pursuit of the Great American Breakfast, or five-meal-a-day swings through barbecue country, he absorbed everything he could about regional cooking, American-style, at every stop. In American Flavor, Carmellini shares the lessons of his culinary life on the road in recipes and stories that get at the soul of how we eat today. Using the traditional regional foodways and the multicultural neighborhoods, global eateries, and ethnic groceries that dot the American landscape as his inspiration, he introduces delectable, enticing dishes that deliver maximum impact yet are surprisingly simple to make. In the book, you’ll find cheese pierogies inspired by the Polish church ladies of Carmellini’s native Cleveland right next to his take on savory-sweet barbecued beef short ribs from L.A.’s Korea Town; seriously smoky southwestern mole alongside savory lamb stew that takes its flavors from Astoria, the historically Greek neighborhood in Queens, New York. Every recipe reflects Carmellini’s laid-back style, midwestern roots, big-city palate, and dedication to great ingredients and serious flavor. Along with the recipes are true-life tales of Carmellini’s crazy culinary travels across America, into Canada, and even to Europe. Whether he’s hunting ramps with the locals during an extern summer at a Virginia mountain resort or sampling some of the surprising off-menu specials at a hippie cafÉ in Vancouver, British Columbia, these hilarious, engaging stories tell the tale of the education of an American chef inside the kitchen—and out. Entertaining and inspiring, American Flavor is a book that readers will turn to again and again, not only for special occasions and everyday meals, but also as a portrait of real American food in the twenty-first century: sophisticated but down-to-earth, rustic but refined, and always deeply flavored and delicious. Prev: American Crucifixion Next: American Ghost	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line242
__label__wiki	0.892016	0.892016	Tuuha Tuned In After Northern Europeans Success Written by John Crumlish for International Gymnast Magazine \| Monday, 29 October 2012 16:16 2010 European vault champion Tomi Tuuha (Finland) told IG that his four medals at the recent Northern European championships has inspired him for more success in 2013. Tomi Tuuha (Finland) Tuuha helped Finland win the men's team title at the Northern Europeans, held Oct. 20-21 in Glasgow, where he also grabbed gold, silver and bronze medals in apparatus finals. "Winning the team was a big success for us," said Tuuha, who turns 23 on Nov. 28. "We had pretty much only three guys on each apparatus, apart from p-bars, where we had four guys. So we didn't have chances for mistakes, and luckily we didn't make them." Two of Tuuha's teammates also claimed individual golds in Glasgow — Markku Vahtila on still rings and Heikki Niva on parallel bars. Kasper Holopainen won the all-around bronze medal and was second to Tuuha on floor exercise. Tuuha said the team strength bodes well for the Finnish men, who will be looking for more individual success at next year's European championships in Moscow and world championships in Antwerp. "Holding the titles of Nordic championships and Northern European championships team gold medalists this year is definitely a good start for us next year," he said. Tuuha said his personal achievements in Glasgow – gold on floor exercise, silver on vault and bronze on rings – added to his feeling of success. "I was really satisfied with my individual results," he told IG. "Overall the weekend was really rewarding for me." Read more on Tuuha in the December 2012 issue of International Gymnast magazine. To subscribe, click here. IG Online Related Articles ‘Even Better Results Are Coming,’ Says Finland’s Soravuo (April 8, 2019) Sütő and Tuuha Tie Knot in St. Maarten (May 31, 2017) Kovács, Radivilov Win Twice in Cottbus (November 20, 2016) IG Online Interview: Tomi Tuuha (Finland) (November 8, 2016) Wales, Denmark Win Northern Europeans (September 14, 2014) Osijek World Challenger Cup Concludes (April 27, 2014) Slovenian Women Win Twice in Ljubljana (April 20, 2014) Jansen Eyes 15th and Final Worlds, Europeans (March 19, 2014) Five Up to Challenge at Tournament of Masters (March 16, 2014) Finland's Kirmes Eager For New Starts in 2014 (December 28, 2013) Absent from Antwerp: Adlerteg Avoids 'What If?' Thoughts About Worlds (November 15, 2013) Norway's Jansen Takes Three Medals at 30th Mälar Cup (November 5, 2013) IG Online Interview: Agnes Suto (Iceland) (September 24, 2013) Finland's Urvikko Not Yet Finished At World Level (August 7, 2013) Sweden Dominates Junior Nordic Championships (May 27, 2013) Holopainen Hopeful for More Success in 2013 (December 25, 2012) IG in Northern Europe: First Stop Finland (December 7, 2012) Nordic Nations Dominate Northern Europeans (October 21, 2012) Swedish Women Set for Northern European Title Defense (October 18, 2012) Sweden, Wales Win Northern European Championships (November 12, 2011) Latest IG News	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line243
__label__wiki	0.56083	0.56083	Medicina, ciencias biomédicas y salud pública Venomous snakes of Costa Rica: biological and medical implications of their venom proteomic profiles analyzed through the strategy of snake venomics uncorrected proofs (3.129Mb) Lomonte, Bruno Fernández Ulate, Julián Sanz, Libia Angulo Ugalde, Yamileth Sasa Marín, Mahmood Gutiérrez, José María Calvete Chornet, Juan José In spite of its small territory of ~50,000 km2, Costa Rica harbors a remarkably rich biodiversity. Its herpetofauna includes 138 species of snakes, of which sixteen pit vipers (family Viperidae, subfamily Crotalinae), five coral snakes (family Elapidae, subfamily Elapinae), and one sea snake (Family Elapidae, subfamily Hydrophiinae) pose potential hazards to human and animal health. In recent years, knowledge on the composition of snake venoms has expanded dramatically thanks to the development of increasingly fast and sensitive analytical techniques in mass spectrometry and separation science applied to protein characterization. Among several analytical strategies to determine the overall protein/peptide composition of snake venoms, the methodology known as ‘snake venomics’ has proven particularly well suited and informative, by providing not only a catalog of protein types/families present in a venom, but also a semi-quantitative estimation of their relative abundances. Through a collaborative research initiative between Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia (IBV) and Instituto Clodomiro Picado (ICP), this strategy has been applied to the study of venoms of Costa Rican snakes, aiming to obtain a deeper knowledge on their composition, geographic and ontogenic variations, relationships to taxonomy, correlationwithtoxic activities, and discovery of novel components. The proteomic profiles of venoms from sixteen out of the 22 species within the Viperidae and Elapidae families found in Costa Rica have been reported so far, and an integrative viewof these studies is hereby presented. In linewith other venomic projects by research groups focusing on a wide variety of snakes around the world, these studies contribute to a deeper understanding of the biochemical basis for the diverse toxic profiles evolved by venomous snakes. In addition, these studies provide opportunities to identify novel molecules of potential pharmacological interest. Furthermore, the establishment of venom proteomic profiles offers a fundamental platform to assess the detailed immunorecognition of individual proteins/peptides by therapeutic or experimental antivenoms, an evolving methodology for which the term‘antivenomics’ was coined (as described in an accompanying paper in this special issue). doi: 10.1016/j.jprot.2014.02.020 artículo (arbitrado)-- Universidad de Costa Rica, Instituto de Investigación Clodomiro Picado, 2014. Este documento es privado debido a limitaciones de derechos de autor. Medicina, ciencias biomédicas y salud pública [1104]	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line245
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This suggests that bisexuality is usually either a hedge for gay folks or a label adopted by straights to seem more sexually adventuresome to their (straight) matches," theorized blogger Christian Rudder. The post was insultingly titled The Biggest Lies in Online Dating." My speculation is that as taboos and strict sexual groupings start to fall away, men will be more willing to explore same sex relationships and hookups --- and be more willing to acknowledge as much to researchers --- without panicking about which label to assert. For individuals of all sexes, figuring out who we are and what turns us on has ever been hard. But we've failed to accept that many of us continue to question our sexuality nicely into adulthood. Given that most of us go through tons of other important changes throughout our lifetime, does not it make sense that our sexual desires could shift, too? That we mightn't be concurrently brought to men and women, but that some of us might go through cycles of being more interested in a specific sex? Girls have a greater capacity for gender-fluid sexual expression than men do," Chivers told Tracy Clark-Flory at Salon. Indeed, men's physical reactions track much more closely with what they report their sexual identity to be. Straight men are turned on by women and not men; gay men are turned on by men and not women. While there'll always be those who assert that this is due to biological differences, there are strong cultural variables at play. Probably thanks to lesbian until graduation" stereotypes and I Kissed a Girl"-style odes to superficial experimentation, we're more comfortable with women whose sexuality is harder to define. Approval of bisexual women hinges in part on straight men's fetishization of it," says a pal of mine who has dated both men as well as women. "My male friends were infinitely curious about the dirty details of my same-sex relationship." In a Pew Research Center survey of LGBT Americans this summer, 33 percent said there was lots of societal approval" of bisexual women; just 8 percent said the same of bisexual guys. When coming out as not-completely-heterosexual , the rules are different for men and women. Maybe this is because we've had plenty of cultural cues --- like chart-topping hit songs about girls kissing girls --- and academic research to acclimate us to the idea of women's fluid sexuality. A new British study found a fourfold increase in the last twenty years in the number of women who have gotten it on with a different girl, and 15 percent of American women vs. only 8 percent of men say they have had a same sex hookups. Research on women's sexual desires (as opposed to their behavior) reveals the female libido to be, in the words of writer Daniel Bergner , omnivorous." When researcher Meredith Chivers showed women clips of erotica --- women with women, men with men, guys with women, lonely men or women masturbating, a pair of fornicating apes --- everything made their vaginas pulse. There were some variations between straight women and lesbians, and among women of all sexual identities. But while women might not admit it to research workers or even recognize it to themselves, we're essentially turned on by everything. This doesn't quite use, nevertheless, when you disclose you're dating a man but insist you're still attracted to women. Adult Hookups Near Me Burwood New South Wales. Of course I still fancy girls," said British diver Tom Daley last week. But, I mean, right now I am dating a man and I could not be happier." There were some regular-issue homophobic reactions (which Buzzfeed and HuffPost obligingly rolled up), but Daley also evoked a more particular kind of disapproval from particular fans --- biphobia, the Advocate called it These were the folks who assumed Daley was gay but unable to fully admit it, or unwilling to relinquish the privileges of being straight. He was called avaricious and accused of attempting to have it all. (Which is baffling. It's not as if he's dating six people at once.) By contrast, a day or two before Daley's statement, actress Maria Bello published an op-ed disclosing she was in love with a girl after years of dating (and wedding) guys. While the headlines were conflicted --- some said she had come out as gay, other said she was bi --- her son summed it up best: Mother, love is love, whatever you are." The idea of a woman being legitimately attracted to both guys and other women was heartwarming rather than confounding. Thus, there you've got it. Some miscellaneous views from both genders. In the end, I think online dating is successful if---and this is a rather big if---you can be honest with yourself about two things: who you are, and what you're looking for in a partner. Don't fill out your profile based on what you think someone needs you to say. In case your perfect Friday night would be to make dinner with buddies and play Mario Kart because it's difficult to go out after a long week of work (may or may not be an excerpt from my now-deactivated OkCupid profile), put it out there. Take some time and let folks understand what you really want. The more honest you're with yourself, the more you will be able to sift through possible suitors---and the less time you will waste on men who are not right for you. I was skeptical of internet dating. Like, mad doubtful. I was worried people wouldn't like me for me. I was worried about being lied to, being solicited for sex and going out with men which weren't as adorable in person as they appeared online. And, all of these things happened to me. But I stuck with it, and I met Frank. (Add smiley Emoji.) Are you nervous about taking the next step? Still feeling burned from a terrible experience? Let's talk about some reasons I believe that you need to get in (or revisit) the digital dating game. To be clear, I am evaluating online dating from the perspective of discovering a serious relationship. I have never online dated just for fun, or just to hook up, or merely because I was bored; I made an OkCupid profile in search of a serious boyfriend. In the event you're a casual online dater, there's a chance my insights and assessments do not apply to you. They might not even seem like appropriate evaluations. So as you read, remember: I am referring to the pursuit of the long term. Adult hookups nearby Hamilton. 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__label__cc	0.691918	0.308082	Posts Tagged ‘Millbury MA’ Massachusetts State Police are investigating a pedestrian crash on the Massachusetts Turnpike in Millbury that has resulted the death of local woman. Police say at approximately 11 PM on Friday night, a 2013 Nissan Altima was in a single-car crash on the eastbound side of Route 90 in Millbury at the 95.6 mile marker. The… Crews Extinguish Burning Tree In Millbury Firefighters in Millbury got quite the amazing site early on Sunday morning. At 4:43 AM crews were called to Clearview Country Club for the report of a tree on fire. Investigators believe the tree may have been struck by lightning overnight. Check out more photos of the burning tree below. Mass Pike Crash Traps Tractor Trailer Driver For 3 Hours A tractor-trailer driver was trapped for 3 hours after his truck rolled down an embankment on the Massachusetts Turnpike. The driver, a 51 year old man from Bronx, NY, was traveling on Interstate 90 when his truck traveled off the right side of the road just after Exit 10A in Millbury. The crash occurred around… Body Of Teen Found Burned In Millbury Home State Police Detectives assigned to the Worcester County District Attorney’s Office are investigating the death of a teenage boy whose body was found at the scene of a fire on Saturday night. The smoky fire began in the living room of the home at 26 Stone Road in Millbury shortly after 9PM. The body of… New Leadership For Douglas Free Masons The Olive Branch Lodge Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Douglas recently inducted their officers for the 2018-2019 term. Although Freemasons generally meet behind closed doors, this event was open to the public and included the Masons’ families, friends and many distinguished Freemasons. Gary Watson Sr. of Putnam was installed as Master of the Lodge. Meetings are… Body Of Kayaker Pulled From Millbury Pond On Friday afternoon, the District 7 Regional Dive and Communication Teams were dispatched to Dorothy Pond in Millbury for reports of a missing boater. A 9-1-1 caller reported 2 people in a kayak, with one that dove into the water and never came back up. The second person was making several attempts to go under… Safety Alert For Women Who Use Uber In Worcester County Millbury Police have put out a warning after a former Uber driver has been accused of stalking area women. Boston 25 News reports Richard Agyemang has been going around stalking women and won’t take no for an answer. “The fear is he is aggressive. His behavior is escalating,” Millbury Police Detective Andrea Warpula told the… Millbury Police Searching For Driver Who Nearly Hit Mother & Child Millbury police are searching for a driver failed to stop for a school bus, and almost hit a mother and her 7 year old child last Friday afternoon on Riverlin Street. As you can see and hear from the video below, the alert bus driver noticed the Buick Rendezvous was speeding towards the bus with… Local Toys R Us/Babies R Us Stores Are Closing It has been a rough few months for retailer Toys R Us and Babies R Us. The company will be closing 182 stores across the country starting in February and ending in April. Fourteen of those stores will be in New England. Going out of business sales will begin in the coming weeks. This means toy…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line253
__label__wiki	0.753562	0.753562	Watch: Donald Trump and Racial Amnesia Donald Trump's supporters are notorious for their embrace of the confederate battle flag and other racist symbols. But now that he’s won, expect a lot of "racial amnesia" say some Civil War historians. Trump's victory is framed as a “white working class revolt” But Trump’s open racism, sexism and bigotry had nooooooothing to do with it. That’s the same script the Confederate losers cling to. The... Proceed to the page: http://linkis.com/7Nolq CNN: Trump Win Will Usher in 'Racial Amnesia' \| LifeZette CNN took the racism-is-to-blame justification for President-Elect Donald Trump’s successful 2016 campaign to a new level of hyperbole Thursday, comparing the outcome of the election to the white-washing of slavery. The article, published Thursday, says that Trump’s win will herald the return of... Trump's Working-Class Revolt \| LifeZette To explain Donald Trump’s surprise victory Tuesday, look no further than Trumbull County, Ohio. Situated north of Youngstown, the economically distressed county is filled with the kind of blue-collar, less-educated white voter that the president-elect always said would scramble the traditional... Sorry America, But Racism Did Not Elect Donald Trump! Is anyone else getting tired of hearing the Liberal Losers crying “RACIST” about this Trump victory? Would you believe that Mitt Romney won a greater percentage of the white vote than Donald Trump? Mitt took 59 percent while Trump won 58 percent. What about the minority voters? Hillary only got 88%... BREAKING: 48 Hours Later, Donald Trump Officially Wins Michigan - Global News Us It’s official — President-elect Donald Trump has won Michigan, bringing his electoral college count to 295. Trump’s narrow victory in state came after he waged a yearlong public battle with one of the state’s iconic automakers to energize white working-class voters. Trump’s criticism of Ford Motor... Chris Hedges: We Are All Deplorables - Chris Hedges - Truthdig Liberals have no moral authority to preach to a dispossessed white working class about racism, multiculturalism, identity politics or diversity. The abject failure by liberals to fight for economic justice triggered the protofascist backlash embodied by Donald Trump’s election victory. -... Similar Links From wibbitz.com Watch: Trump’s election is ‘the last major battle of the Civil War’ Watch: Sessions ‘too racist to be a judge in the 80’s’ Watch: Sam Bee rips white women who refused to vote for Hillary and picked the... Trump's Victory Impact on HR and Recruitment “Predictive Analytics” I voted for Donald Trump, and since 2015 I have been predicting a landslide victory. Am I insane, or lucky, or a fanatic? Not really, but some time ago I dismissed Predictive Analytics as a panacea, and if Hillary Clinton and her supporters would have done the same, today we might have had a differe Racist hate mail targets baseball great Hank Aaron \| MSNBC Letters filled with racial epithets flooded the Atlanta Braves offices this week over Hall of Fame baseball hitter Hank Aaron’s recent remarks on racism. US elections: what next? The #US electorate has spoken. The victory of Donald Trump is unequivocal and must be respected. petition: STOP American Restaurant from Selling Dog Meat Apparently there has been one American restaurant that has been granted the permission to sell dog meat. America is too rich to (16330 signatures on petition) This Will Be Our Year: 15 Women Over 50 Shaking Things Up In 2015 \| HuffPost Huff/Post50 is proud to announce a new series "This Will Be Our Year: 15 Women Over 50 Shaking Things Up In 2015." Last month, our editor-at-large R... New York driver chains neck to pole, hits gas pedal, decapitates self \| Brainerd Dispatch NEW YORK, Sept 2 (Reuters) - A 51-year-old man decapitated himself in New York's Bronx borough by chaining his neck to a pole, getting into his car and stomping on the gas, police said on Tuesday.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line261
__label__cc	0.542541	0.457459	Montana Wildlife Federation Lauds Senator Tester’s Water Rights Settlement Bill for Fort Belknap Indian Community U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D-Montana) has introduced a bill affirming the water rights of the Fort Belknap Indian Community and returning lands taken from the tribes under duress in the early 1900s. After closely examining the proposal, the Montana Wildlife Federation sent a letter of support to Senator Tester. In doing so, MWF joins several other Montana conservation organizations that have decided to support the bill. In addition to restoring culturally significant lands to the tribes, the bill will also protect wildlife habitat and water quality impacted by historic mining. Dave Chadwick, executive director of the Montana Wildlife Federation, said the following: “In addition to bringing some overdue closure to the tribes’ claims, this proposal will benefit wildlife populations, habitat integrity, and water quality. We are grateful to tribal leaders and Senator Tester for their commitment to protecting hunting and fishing access by non-tribal citizens, and making this proposal a real win for all Montanans.” For more information read the Montana Wildlife Federation’s full support letter or contact Melissa Petrich at (253) 861-3927 mpetrich@mtwf.org	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line274
__label__wiki	0.811024	0.811024	Magna Carta (Great Charter), 1297 Parliament House, Canberra Images in this exhibition within copyright were reproduced with the express permission of the copyright owners. Requests for details of copyright conditions and permission to reproduce should be addressed to the source indicated adjacent to each image. Images are provided, with permission, by the Parliament House Art Collection (Australia), Worester Cathedral (UK) and the British Library (UK). Licensed images are protected by copyright laws and the following acts are prohibited unless specifically authorised by the relevant copyright owners: a) public performance, public display or broadcast, including the transmission via a network; b) the preparation of any derivative work, including the extraction, in whole or in part, of any of the licensed images; c) any rental, lease, lending or hire. Featured glossary term Term: Tithing Taxing of a tenth part of produce Magna Carta up close Magna Carta on display at Parliament House Mail: Research Section, Department of the Senate, Parliament House, Canberra ACT 2600 Australia Email: research.sen@aph.gov.au Magna Carta image reproduction requests: art@aph.gov.au Web Site feedback: web.senate@aph.gov.au Visiting Parliament House Visitors are welcome when Parliament House is open (9.00am – 5.00pm on non-sitting days and 8.30am - 5.00pm on sitting days). More Australia’s Magna Carta booklet ‘Making Laws’ Exhibition For Peace, Order and Good Government Exhibition Return to the Australian Parliament House exhibitions web site	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line277
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__label__wiki	0.745127	0.745127	Adult Neurology Residency Child Neurology Residency Adult Neurology Rotator Research Opportunities for Students, Residents and Fellows Dr. Michael E. Cohen Resident Research Day Neurology > Tri-Institutional Research Day Showcases MD-PhD Students Fifteen students in the MD-PhD program at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences presented posters at the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Research Day last fall at the Jacobs School building in downtown Buffalo. UB Spinoff Developing Brain Aneurysm Screening Test A UB spinoff company that is developing a low-cost blood test to screen high-risk patients for unruptured brain aneurysms has received $750,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). 8 Faculty Members Honored at Celebration of Excellence Eight faculty members from the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences were among those honored for notable achievement and service at the 16th annual University at Buffalo Celebration of Faculty and Staff Academic Excellence. 25 Faculty Members Join 8 Medical School Departments Twenty-five faculty members with a variety of clinical and research experience — representing eight medical school departments — have joined the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences over the past several months. 11/18/19 Finding a Better MRI Marker for MS Disability Progression 10/3/19 What New Findings on Vitamin D and Bone Density Could Mean for Neurology Patients [Neurology Today] 9/27/19 UB Researchers Discover Clues That May Boost MS Diagnosis, Treatment [Buffalo News] 9/23/19 Gadolinium Deposition Occurs in Early Multiple Sclerosis 9/9/19 One Gene May Stymie Promising Alzheimer’s Drugs 10/25/16 Education and Training 2/8/19 Adult Neurology Residency 5/31/19 Neurology Faculty Profiles 3/22/18 Department News 12/19/17 Contact Us 11/17/14 How to Apply 1/30/17 Employment Opportunities UB Neurology Twitter	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line281
__label__wiki	0.771184	0.771184	Owenreagh Stone Circle OS Map Reference H742903. This site cannot be seen on the web....... yet. Mail us if you have a picture of this stone circle. Go back to map sheet H. Browse the list of Stone Circles and Rows by name. Go back to the map of the British Isles. The data for these pages includes information kindly provided by Dr Aubrey Burl from the following books: Stone Circles of the British Isles 1976, A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain and Ireland Yale University Press 1995, From Carnac to Callanish : The Prehistoric Stone Rows and Avenues of Britain, Ireland and Brittany Yale University Press 1993. Other recommended books... The Megalith Map is brought to you by Andy and Alastair's Cheeseless ProductionsTM. This page published on 03/10/98 15:58:30.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line282
__label__wiki	0.932231	0.932231	EM-08: Mobile Piss-Säcke für BRD-Pisser in Austria/Schweiz www.meidling-forum.at Foren-Übersicht -> FUSSBALL-ECKE Eberndorfer Verfasst am: Do Okt 25, 2007 2:00 pm Titel: EM-08: Mobile Piss-Säcke für BRD-Pisser in Austria/Schweiz Soccer Fans May Get Mobile Urinals Soccer fans caught short at next year's European Championship in Austria and Switzerland may be able to relieve themselves in a mobile urinal -- a bag which turns the liquid into a gel. The urination bag would have come in handy for these German fans during the 2006 World Cup in Germany. A Cologne-based company has developed a urinal-in-a-bag and is negotiating with a merchandising firm to distribute it at next year's European football championship in Austria and Switzerland. The bag contains absorbent polymers which soak up the urine and turn it into a gel, preventing any subsequent spillage. A moist towelette is also supplied for clean hands. The "roadbag" was designed by Eva Tinter of KETS GmbH. It is not a new invention but she has copyright protection for the design of the product, which is supplied in a little car-shaped bag. "We have presented the product and are in talks with the merchandising firm, but no final decisions have been taken yet," Tinter told SPIEGEL ONLINE. The product has been on the market since last year and is primarily aimed at drivers stuck in traffic or caught short on camping trips or open-air festivals. Tinter said it would also come in handy at major sporting events such as next June's European Championship, when thousands of fans will be soiling parks and streets with urine. Tinter said she had sold thousands of roadbags to medical suppliers and filling stations. "I have had many letters from wheelchair users expressing their thanks for the product," said Tinter. She said she had also offered to sell the product to the organizers of the Cologne carnival, which is notorious for wild urination by inebriated revellers in the city. "The matter was something of a taboo, I think the organizers in Cologne are conservative. So I'll be offering it to the carnival organizers in Düsseldorf next year instead." http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,513138,00.html www.meidling-forum.at Foren-Übersicht -> FUSSBALL-ECKE Alle Zeiten sind GMT + 2 Stunden	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line284
__label__wiki	0.672057	0.672057	“I believe music...is broader—it goes beyond. It actually deals with things concerning life. It’s almost like a doorway to get to people’s souls.” — Quennel GaskinQuennel Gaskin is a Mason & Hamlin Artist originating from New York City. Passionate about creating... Charles Szczepanek’s Theme from Schindler’s List "The Theme from Schindler's List" was the first film score arrangement I started work on, back in 2016, despite it being my third film score video here on YouTube. The arrangement maintains the original intention present in the full orchestral piece. My version sticks... Jarrod Radnich Is Back We are very excited to announce that Mason & Hamlin artist, Jarrod Radnich, is back with a new three-movement fantasy suite from the Pirates of the Caribbean hit movie series!Most often compared to the famed virtuoso Franz Liszt, pianist and composer Jarrod... 许多人都听说过一个名叫Henry Mason的品牌，这是最近才出现在中国的一个品牌。实际上，这些钢琴是完全正品的Mason & Hamlin钢琴，它们以Henry Mason这个名字在中国进行独家销售。我想花点时间对出现这种情况的原因进行澄清和解释。 WNG Rebuilder Series: Marvin Rus, Eastman School of Music Renown for its legacy of music and commitment to community development, Eastman School of Music continues to impact both the local and global music community. Based in Rochester, New York, Eastman School of Music has a beautiful history of culture and music. Inspired... Many people have heard of a brand called Henry Mason that recently emerged in China. These pianos are in fact authentic and true Mason & Hamlin pianos, sold exclusively under the Henry Mason name in China. I’d like to take the time to clarify and explain why this is the case. Articles, Mason & Hamlin Artists Articles, Rebuilder Series	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line287
__label__wiki	0.516238	0.516238	OPINION. No CV. Matthew COOKE, President, and Alice Police Officers Association, on behalf of similarly situated officers, Appellants Download "OPINION. No CV. Matthew COOKE, President, and Alice Police Officers Association, on behalf of similarly situated officers, Appellants" Marcia Jefferson 1 OPINION No. Matthew COOKE, President, and Alice Police Officers Association, on behalf of similarly situated officers, Appellants v. CITY OF ALICE, Appellee From the 79th Judicial District Court, Jim Wells County, Texas Trial Court No Honorable Richard C. Terrell, Judge Presiding Opinion by: Sitting: Phylis J. Speedlin, Justice Karen Angelini, Justice Phylis J. Speedlin, Justice Rebecca Simmons, Justice Delivered and Filed: September 29, 2010 AFFIRMED This appeal involves statutory interpretation of sections and of the Texas Civil Service Act which provide for the accrual of annual vacation and sick leave for police officers and fire fighters. TEX. LOC. GOV T CODE ANN , (West 2008). Specifically, we must determine whether the implementing rules adopted by the City of Alice with respect to police officers leave accrual violate the statutes. We hold that the City is not violating the state leave statutes, and therefore affirm the trial court s judgment. 2 FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND The City of Alice is a home rule municipality governed by the Texas Civil Service Act, Chapter 143 of the Texas Local Government Code. TEX. LOC. GOV T CODE ANN (West 2008 & Supp. 2010). Sections and of the Code govern the accrual and use of sick leave and vacation leave by police officers and fire fighters. With respect to sick leave, section (a) provides that, [a] permanent or temporary fire fighter or police officer is allowed sick leave with pay accumulated at the rate of 1¼ full working days for each full month employed in a calendar year, so as to total 15 working days to a person s credit each 12 months. TEX. LOC. GOV T CODE ANN (a). Section (a) of the Code provides that, [e]ach fire fighter or police officer is entitled to earn a minimum of 15 working days vacation leave with pay in each year. TEX. LOC. GOV T CODE ANN (a). The City of Alice, through its Civil Service Commission, has enacted rules implementing the statutory scheme for accrual and use of sick and vacation leave by its police officers and fire fighters. The City s rules define a day of sick leave or vacation leave accrual for all of its police officers as eight hours. Specifically, the City s rules provide as follows: Section : A day of sick leave accrual for Police Officers shall be eight (8) hours. A day of sick leave accrual for Fire Fighters working shifts shall be twelve (12) hours, and eight (8) hours for administrative employees. An employee who is absent from work due to illness shall have his or her sick leave bank reduced by the actual number of work hours missed. Section : A day of vacation leave accrual for Police Officers shall be eight (8) hours. A day of vacation leave accrual for Fire Fighters shall be twelve (12) hours, and eight (8) hours for administrative employees. An employee who is absent from work due to vacation shall have his or her vacation pay reduced by the actual number of work hours missed 3 Matthew Cooke, a police officer for the City of Alice, is assigned to work a 10-hour shift four days per week. Some Alice police officers are assigned to work an 8-hour shift five days per week. Both sets of police officers work a total of 40 hours per week, and accrue 120 hours of vacation and sick leave per calendar year. Cooke, on behalf of himself and the Alice Police Officers Association, sued the City of Alice complaining that the officers working a 10-hour day are treated unfairly because the 120 hours of annual leave means, in reality, they accrue only twelve 10-hour working days of sick and vacation leave each year, while the officers working an 8-hour day accrue the statutory fifteen 8-hour working days of sick and vacation leave each year. Cooke asserted that he and the other similarly situated officers receive unequal treatment because they must use 10 hours of leave to take off one working day, while the 8-hour shift officers need only use 8 hours of leave to take off one working day. By defining a working day for all police officers as eight hours, Cooke asserted the City has violated sections and of the Local Government Code which require the accrual of 15 working days of sick and vacation leave each year. Cooke only challenged the City s method of accruing leave for the officers, not its method of debiting for leave taken. In his petition for declaratory judgment, Cooke requested that judgment be entered stating the City has violated the Local Government Code, and that he and the similarly situated officers be credited with all vacation and sick leave days accrued pursuant to the law from April 2007 to the present date. The suit proceeded to a bench trial during which the parties stipulated to the relevant evidence. After hearing the legal arguments, the trial court entered judgment in favor of the City of Alice. Cooke now appeals 4 ACCRUAL OF LEAVE FOR POLICE OFFICERS On appeal, Cooke contends the trial court s judgment should be reversed because the City of Alice is violating sections and of the Local Government Code by failing to provide its police officers who work a 10-hour day with the statutorily required 15 working days of sick and vacation leave per year. Cooke asserts that a working day as used in sections and means the number of hours a particular officer is scheduled to work each day, i.e., his or her 8-hour or 10-hour shift. Cooke concedes that the City is debiting the police officers leave correctly, i.e., on an hourly basis; his contention is that the City is not accruing leave correctly for its police officers who work a 10-hour shift. The City of Alice responds that its rules implementing the state leave statutes, and defining a work day for all police officers as a standard 8-hour day, result in uniformity of leave and do not violate the statutes; both the accrual and usage of leave are calculated on an hourly basis, and all police officers receive the same 120 hours of annual sick and vacation leave. We must determine whether the City s rules interpreting the statutory guidelines and defining a work day for all its police officers as a traditional 8-hour day conflicts with the statutory leave requirements. Standard of Review A person whose rights are affected by a statute may petition a court to determine a question of construction under the statute, and may request a declaration of his rights under the statute. TEX. CIV. PRAC. & REM. CODE ANN (West 2008). We review declaratory judgments under the same standards as any other judgment. Id (West 2008). Here, Cooke asserts he was entitled to a judgment declaring that the City of Alice s rules defining a police officer s work day as a standard 8-hour day violate the statutory requirement that all - 4 - 5 police officers receive fifteen working days of annual sick and vacation leave. We begin our analysis by stating the basic principles of statutory construction. Principles of Statutory Construction Questions of statutory interpretation are questions of law which we review de novo. City of DeSoto v. White, 288 S.W.3d 389, (Tex. 2009). Under the well settled principles of statutory construction, we begin with the statutory language itself. State v. Shumake, 199 S.W.3d 279, 284 (Tex. 2006). Our primary goal is to give effect to the Legislature s intent, and we turn first to the plain meaning of the words and terms chosen. Id.; Owens & Minor, Inc. v. Ansell Healthcare Prods, Inc., 251 S.W.3d 481, 483 (Tex. 2008) ( [I]t is a fair assumption that the Legislature tries to say what it means, and therefore the words it chooses should be the surest guide to legislative intent. ). We presume that every word in a statute was chosen by the Legislature for a purpose. City of Rockwall v. Hughes, 246 S.W.3d 621, 628 (Tex. 2008). When a term is not defined in the statute, we give the term its ordinary meaning within the context of the statute, not in isolation. Guitar Holding Co., L.P. v. Hudspeth County Underground Water Conservation Dist. No. 1, 263 S.W.3d 910, (Tex. 2008). When the Legislature uses a particular term in one section of a statute and excludes it in another, we must give the term meaning where used and must not imply it where it was excluded. Laidlaw Waste Sys. (Dallas), Inc. v. City of Wilmer, 904 S.W.2d 656, 659 (Tex. 1995); Cameron v. Terrell & Garrett, Inc., 618 S.W.2d 535, 540 (Tex. 1981). If the statutory language is clear and unambiguous, we interpret its words according to their plain and common meaning unless that interpretation would lead to absurd results. Barshop v. Medina County Underground Water Conservation Dist., 925 S.W.2d 618, 629 (Tex. 1996). When a statute s language is unambiguous, it is inappropriate to resort to rules of construction or - 5 - 6 extrinsic aids. City of Rockwall, 246 S.W.3d at 626; Fitzgerald v. Advanced Spine Fixation Sys., Inc., 996 S.W.2d 864, (Tex. 1999). The judiciary s role is not to second-guess the policy choices that inform our statutes or to weigh the effectiveness of their results; rather, our task is to interpret those statutes in a manner that effectuates the Legislature s intent. F.F.P. Operating Partners, L.P. v. Duenez, 237 S.W.3d 680, 690 (Tex. 2007) (quoting McIntyre v. Ramirez, 109 S.W.3d 741, 748 (Tex. 2003)). In ascertaining legislative intent, we consider the plain statutory language in the context of the entire act, as well as the objective of the statute, its history, and the consequences of a particular construction. TEX. GOV T CODE ANN (1), (3), (5) (West 2005); City of Rockwall, 246 S.W.3d at 626 n.6; Jones v. Fowler, 969 S.W.2d 429, 432 (Tex. 1998). Powers of Home Rule Municipality As a home rule municipality, the City of Alice has the power to legislate, limited only by the Texas Constitution, general laws, or its own charter. TEX. CONST. art. XI, 5; TEX. LOCAL GOV T CODE ANN (West 2008); Lower Colorado River Auth. v. City of San Marcos, 523 S.W.2d 641, 644 (Tex. 1975); Glass v. Smith, 150 Tex. 632, 244 S.W.2d 645, 649 (1951) (legislature may by general law withdraw a particular subject from a home rule city s domain). Merely because the Legislature has enacted a law addressing a certain subject does not, however, mean the entire subject matter is completely preempted. City of Richardson v. Responsible Dog Owners of Texas, 794 S.W.2d 17, 19 (Tex. 1990). In particular, when a state statute contains an undefined term, a home rule city is empowered to enact rules and regulations defining the term and implementing the statutory provision. See City of Sweetwater v. Geron, 380 S.W.2d 550, 553 (Tex. 1964) (recognizing that cities retain residual control over aspects of civil service employment that are not specifically defined in the Civil Service Act, and that such residual - 6 - 7 control must be exercised in good faith and for the betterment of municipal service); see also Int l Ass n of Fire Fighters, Local 1173 v. City of Baytown, 837 S.W.2d 783, 788 (Tex. App. Houston [1st Dist.] 1992, pet. denied) (where longevity or seniority pay was not defined in Civil Service Act, Baytown city council acted within its legislative authority by enacting compensation plan abolishing automatic base salary increases based on fire fighters longevity, and its ordinance did not violate the same base salary requirement of section of Civil Service Act). When a home rule city ordinance appears to be in conflict with a state statute, our duty is to reconcile the two if any fair and reasonable construction of the apparently conflicting enactments exist[s] and if that construction will leave both enactments in effect. City of Baytown, 837 S.W.2d at 787 (citing City of Beaumont v. Fall, 116 Tex. 314, 291 S.W. 202, 206 (1927)). If it is not possible to reconcile the two enactments, the state statute trumps the city ordinance. Dallas Merchant s and Concessionaire s Ass n v. City of Dallas, 852 S.W.2d 489, 491 (Tex. 1993) (home rule city s ordinance that attempts to regulate subject matter preempted by state statute is unenforceable to extent it conflicts with statute). Here, neither the Constitution or city charter, nor sections and , expressly preempts the City of Alice s power to regulate and fill in the gap left by the statutes by providing a specific method for calculating leave accrual by its police officers. See City of Sweetwater, 380 S.W.2d at 552 (acknowledging the broad powers granted to home rule cities may be limited by the Legislature, but stating that should the Legislature decide to exercise that authority, its intention to do so should appear with unmistakable clarity ); see also Glass, 244 S.W.2d at 652 (same). Therefore, we must first determine whether the City s rules conflict with the statutory requirements of sections and , as alleged by Cooke, or merely provide a method for implementing the statutory requirements. If we determine that a conflict - 7 - 8 exists, we must then attempt to reconcile the two with a fair and reasonable construction of each enactment so that each remains in effect. City of Baytown, 837 S.W.2d at 787. If reconciliation fails, the state statute prevails. Dallas Merchant s, 852 S.W.2d at 491. Administrative rules are construed in the same manner as statutes. Rodriguez v. Service Lloyds Ins. Co., 997 S.W.2d 248, 254 (Tex. 1999). Statutory Interpretation of a Working Day in Sections & In order to determine whether the City s definition of a police officer s work day as an 8-hour day conflicts with the statutory requirement of fifteen working days of annual leave, we must determine what the Legislature intended the phrase working day to mean. As noted, both statutes governing accrual of sick and vacation leave for police officers require the accumulation of 15 working days of annual leave time. TEX. LOC. GOV T CODE ANN (a), (a). The term working day is not defined in either statute, or anywhere in Chapter 143 of the Local Government Code. 1 Both sides agree that working day must be accorded its plain meaning, but differ as to what is the plain meaning of the term within the context of Chapter 143. Cooke asserts that a working day means each individual officer s daily shift, while the City contends a working day means a traditional 8-hour work day. Both sides rely on City of Lubbock v. Elkins, 896 S.W.2d 346 (Tex. App. Amarillo 1995, no pet.), in which the Amarillo court construed the undefined term day as used in section of the Code as governing the time period during which a police officer may file an appeal of a disciplinary suspension. Id. at 350 (noting that in drafting Chapter 143 the Legislature clearly recognized the significance of using various terminologies... as it utilized the following nomenclature throughout the chapter, 1 In the briefs, the parties refer to a definition of working days in section (b)(4), but that subsection defines normally assigned working hours, a different term; moreover, that statute does not apply to municipalities the size of the City of Alice. TEX. LOC. GOV T CODE ANN (b)(4) (West 2008) 9 viz: days, calendar days, working days, and business days ); TEX. LOC. GOV T CODE ANN (West 2008). Elkins is factually distinguishable and does not resolve the issue before us, but we agree with the methodology employed by the Amarillo court. Acknowledging that Chapter 143 does not define the term day, the court focused on the term s ordinary meaning within the context of the statute, and also looked to the purpose intended to be accomplished by the provision within which the term is used and the effect that various interpretations of the term will have when applied to the subject matter. Elkins, 896 S.W.2d at We will employ the same analysis to construe the undefined term working day. 1. Ordinary Meaning Within Context of Statute We begin by considering the plain and ordinary meaning of the words chosen viewed within the context of Chapter 143. Guitar Holding Co., 263 S.W.3d at We are also mindful of the fact that the Legislature chose to use the particular terms working day, calendar day, business day, and, simply, day in different provisions of Chapter 143, and we must attribute value to that legislative word choice. Laidlaw, 904 S.W.2d at 659; Elkins, 896 S.W.2d at Turning to the leave provisions at issue in this case, we note that the Legislature set forth a specific method of accruing sick leave on a monthly basis, not a daily basis, i.e., at the rate of 1¼ full working days for each full month employed in a calendar year so as to total 15 working days to a person s credit each 12 months. TEX. LOC. GOV T CODE ANN (a). Such specificity by the egislature suggests it was not focused on the number of hours any individual officer worked on a particular day, but instead on a uniform method of leave accrual by month - 9 - 10 for all officers. Indeed, the Alice police officers all work a typical 40-hour work week, regardless of whether their shifts are 8 hours or 10 hours in a day. 2 We also note that in section , the vacation leave provision, the Legislature stated in subsection (a) that each officer is entitled to accrue a minimum of 15 working days vacation leave with pay in each year, but when explaining how to compute the usage of vacation leave, the Legislature specified that only those calendar days during which the person would be required to work if not on vacation may be counted as vacation days. Id (a), (b). This legislative choice to use working days for the accumulation of vacation leave and calendar days for the usage of vacation leave logically suggests the Legislature was acknowledging the fact that police officers working days are the calendar days on which they are required to work, i.e., a police officer may work on any of the seven days in a week, not just Monday through Friday. The methods for calculating leave set forth in both statutes, when read according to the ordinary meaning of the language used, suggests the Legislature was not focused on any individual officer s daily work shift, but rather on establishing a uniform system of leave for all police officers. 2. Purpose of the Act We next consider the overall purpose and objective of Chapter 143, the Civil Service Act. City of Rockwall, 246 S.W.3d at 626 n.6; Jones, 969 S.W.2d at 432. The stated purpose of Chapter 143 is to secure efficient fire and police departments composed of capable personnel who are free from political influence and who have permanent employment tenure as public 2 Cooke relies on an unpublished case in which the Austin Court of Appeals held that City of Austin fire fighters who worked varying daily shifts were entitled to accrue leave according to the hours worked. See City of Austin v. Int l Assoc. of Fire Fighters, Local 975, No CV (Tex. App. Austin 1990, no writ) (not designated for publication). That case is distinguishable because the Austin fire fighters did not all work the same number of hours each year as the Alice police officers do in this case 11 servants. TEX. LOC. GOV T CODE ANN (a) (West 2008); City of DeSoto, 288 S.W.3d at 398. Chapter 143 further provides that police officers and fire fighters of the same rank are entitled to receive the same base salary, i.e., be compensated equally, except for other types of special pay like longevity pay. See TEX. LOC. GOV T CODE ANN (b),(c) (West 2008); City of Harlingen v. Avila, 942 S.W.2d 49, 53 (Tex. App. Corpus Christi 1997, writ denied) (legislative intent of section is to require equal and fair pay). Section treats sick leave as a form of compensation, providing that when an officer leaves employment he or she is entitled to a lump-sum payment for accumulated sick leave. TEX. LOC. GOV T CODE ANN (c). Toward Chapter 143 s purpose of fair and equal treatment, both leave provisions provide that all police officers shall earn the same amount of sick leave and vacation leave each year, to wit: 15 working days. Id. at (a), (a). Reading the statutory leave provisions in view of the overall purpose of Chapter 143, it is clear the Legislature intended to establish a uniform, equal system of leave accrual for all police officers. 3. Consequences of Particular Interpretations Finally, we consider the consequences of the parties proposed interpretations of a working day. City of Rockwall, 246 S.W.3d at 626 n.6; Jones, 969 S.W.2d at 432. The City asserts its definition of a working day as a traditional 8-hour day is a reasonable and ordinary understanding of the term, and is consistent with the statutory mandate of equal treatment apparent in the leave statutes and the Act as a whole; the City s interpretation results in the same 120 hours of annual leave being credited to each officer, without regard to daily shifts. On the other hand, Cooke s contention that, in order to comply with the statutory requirement of 15 working days, the officers who work 10-hour shifts must be credited with fifteen 10-hour working days, which results in total annual leave of 150 hours for those officers, while the 12 officers who work 8-hour shifts receive only 120 hours resulting in unequal treatment among the officers. Rather than demanding equal treatment, Cooke concedes that he is indeed asking for 30 more leave hours per year for the officers who work their forty hours per week in four 10- hour shifts. This is an unequal result which the Legislature could not have intended given the overall purpose of Chapter 143. See Barshop, 925 S.W.2d at 629. The consequence of Cooke s interpretation of working day to mean each particular officer s daily shift not only undermines the stated purpose of Chapter 143 to ensure fair and equal treatment among all police officers, but conflicts with the statutory leave provisions clear intent to provide all officers with the same amount of annual leave. Conclusion We conclude the City s rules defining a work day as a traditional 8-hour day for purposes of leave accrual for all its police officers do not conflict with, or violate, the language of the state leave statutes or the overall purpose of Chapter 143. Because the term working day used in sections (a) and (a) was not defined by the Legislature, the City of Alice is empowered to enact rules implementing the leave statutes and setting forth a basis to calculate leave accrual that applies to all police officers, and results in the accrual of equal amounts of annual hourly leave. See City of Sweetwater, 380 S.W.2d at 553; see also City of Baytown, 837 S.W.2d at 788. Accordingly, we overrule Cooke s issue on appeal. ATTORNEY S FEES Finally, Cooke argues the trial court abused its discretion in denying his request for attorney s fees under the Declaratory Judgment Act. TEX. CIV. PRAC. & REM. CODE ANN (West 2008) (providing trial court may award costs and reasonable and necessary attorney s fees as are equitable and just ); Tex. Educ. Agency v. Leeper, 893 S.W.2d 432, 13 (Tex. 1994) (attorney s fees may be awarded against governmental entities under DJA). While we recognize that the court may, in its discretion, award attorney s fees to a party seeking declaratory relief even though the party does not prevail, we cannot say the court abused its discretion by declining to award Cooke his attorney s fees. See Barshop, 925 S.W.2d at 637. Cooke asserts his recovery of attorney s fees was justified because the facts are undisputed and the clear language of the statute supports his claim of entitlement to increased vacation and sick leave accrual. As discussed, supra, we disagree that the plain language of the governing statutes supports Cooke s position. Moreover, Cooke has failed to establish that the trial court abused its discretion by ruling arbitrarily, unreasonably, or without regard to guiding legal principles. See Bocquet v. Herring, 972 S.W.2d 19, 21 (Tex. 1998). Accordingly, we decline to hold the trial court abused its discretion by denying Cooke s request for attorney s fees. 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In The Fourteenth Court of Appeals NO. 14-14-00823-CV TEXAS TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION AND TED HOUGHTON, IN HIS OFFICIAL TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN NO. 03-09-00641-CV North East Independent School District, Appellant v. John Kelley, Commissioner of Education Robert Scott, and Texas Education Agency, IN THE SUPREME COURT OF TEXAS 444444444444 NO. 07-0485 444444444444 CITY OF WACO, TEXAS, PETITIONER, v. LARRY KELLEY, RESPONDENT 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444 ON PETITION FOR REVIEW Affirm in part; Reverse in part and Opinion Filed April 21, 2015 S In The Court of Appeals Fifth District of Texas at Dallas No. 05-14-00544-CV HAL CREWS AND DEBRA LEITCH, Appellants V. DKASI CORPORATION, Opinion issued October 18, 2018 In The Court of Appeals For The First District of Texas NO. 01-17-00476-CV BRIAN A. WILLIAMS, Appellant V. DEVINAH FINN, Appellee On Appeal from the 257th District Court In The Court of Appeals Fifth District of Texas at Dallas. 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PAUL LILLY, Appellant Appellee From the 335th District Court Burleson County, Texas Trial Court No. 26,407 MEMORANDUM OPINION TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN NO. 03-06-00197-CV City of Garden Ridge, Texas, Appellant v. Curtis Ray, Appellee FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF COMAL COUNTY, 22ND JUDICIAL DISTRICT NO. C-2004-1131A, In The Court of Appeals Seventh District of Texas at Amarillo No. 07-13-00287-CV CITY OF FRITCH, APPELLANT V. KIRK COKER, APPELLEE On Appeal from the 84th District Court Hutchinson County, Texas Trial Opinion issued August 25, 2011 In The Court of Appeals For The First District of Texas NO. 01-06-00490-CV THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON, Appellant V. STEPHEN BARTH, Appellee On Appeal from the 113th District IN THE SUPREME COURT OF TEXAS 444444444444 NO. 06-0948 444444444444 CITY OF PASADENA, TEXAS, PETITIONER, v. RICHARD SMITH, RESPONDENT 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444 ON PETITION FOR Texas Courts Split On Certificate Of Merit Portfolio Media. Inc. 860 Broadway, 6th Floor New York, NY 10003 www.law360.com Phone: +1 646 783 7100 Fax: +1 646 783 7161 customerservice@law360.com Texas Courts Split On Certificate Of Merit Law360, NO. 12-16-00124-CV IN THE COURT OF APPEALS TWELFTH COURT OF APPEALS DISTRICT TYLER, TEXAS WILLIAM FRANK BYERLEY, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS INDEPENDENT EXECUTOR OF THE ESTATE OF FRANCIS WILLIAM BYERLEY, DECEASED, In The Court of Appeals Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont NO. 09-10-00394-CV BOBIE KENNETH TOWNSEND, Appellant V. MONTGOMERY CENTRAL APPRAISAL DISTRICT, Appellee On Appeal from the 359th District Court UnofficialCopyOfficeofChrisDanielDistrictClerk 12/10/2018 4:58 PM Chris Daniel - District Clerk Harris County Envelope No. 29636509 By: LISA COOPER Filed: 12/10/2018 4:58 PM THE HOUSTON POLICE OFFICERS UNION, v. Plaintiff, HOUSTON PROFESSIONAL FIRE In The Court of Appeals Fifth District of Texas at Dallas. No CV No CV No CV Conditionally GRANT in Part; and Opinion Filed May 30, 2017. S In The Court of Appeals Fifth District of Texas at Dallas No. 05-17-00507-CV No. 05-17-00508-CV No. 05-17-00509-CV IN RE WARREN KENNETH PAXTON, Appellant s Motion for Rehearing Overruled; Opinion of August 13, 2015 Withdrawn; Reversed and Rendered and Substitute Memorandum Opinion filed November 10, 2015. In The Fourteenth Court of Appeals NO. NO. 12-17-00183-CV IN THE COURT OF APPEALS TWELFTH COURT OF APPEALS DISTRICT TYLER, TEXAS IN RE: EAST TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER AND EAST TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER REGIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM, RELATORS ORIGINAL PROCEEDING Opinion issued September 20, 2012 In The Court of Appeals For The First District of Texas NO. 01-10-00836-CV GORDON R. GOSS, Appellant V. THE CITY OF HOUSTON, Appellee On Appeal from the 270th District Opinion issued June 5, 2014. In The Court of Appeals For The First District of Texas NO. 01-13-00193-CV VICTOR S. ELGOHARY AND PETER PRATT, Appellants V. HERRERA PARTNERS, L.P., HERRERA PARTNERS, G.A. Send this document to a colleague Close This Window TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN NO. 03-05-00033-CV Tracy Dee Cluck, Appellant v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline, Appellee FROM THE Opinion issued December 16, 2010 In The Court of Appeals For The First District of Texas NO. 01-10-00669-CV HITCHCOCK INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, Appellant V. DOREATHA WALKER, Appellee On Appeal from MEMORANDUM OPINION. No CV. Christian W. PFISTER, Appellant. Elizabeth DE LA ROSA and Rosedale Place, Inc., Appellees MEMORANDUM OPINION No. Christian W. PFISTER, Appellant v. Elizabeth DE LA ROSA and Rosedale Place, Inc., Appellees From the 166th Judicial District Court, Bexar County, Texas Trial Court No. 2010-CI-20906 COURT OF APPEALS SECOND DISTRICT OF TEXAS FORT WORTH NO. 02-12-00390-CV IN RE RAY BELL RELATOR ---------- ORIGINAL PROCEEDING ---------- MEMORANDUM OPINION 1 ---------- Relator Ray Bell filed a petition TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN NO. 03-03-00156-CV Amanda Baird; Peter Torres; and Peter Torres, Jr., P.C., Appellants v. Margaret Villegas and Tom Tourtellotte, Appellees FROM THE COUNTY NUMBER CV COURT OF APPEALS THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS TEXAS STATE BOARD OF NURSING, BERNARDINO PEDRAZA JR., NUMBER 13-11-00068-CV COURT OF APPEALS THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG TEXAS STATE BOARD OF NURSING, Appellants, v. BERNARDINO PEDRAZA JR., Appellee. On appeal from the 93rd District HOW TO COLLECT YOUR FEE WITHOUT GETTING DISBARRED. Written and Presented by: HOW TO COLLECT YOUR FEE WITHOUT GETTING DISBARRED Written and Presented by: JESSICA Z. BARGER Wright & Close, LLP One Riverway, Suite 2200 Houston, Texas 77056 713.572.4321 Co-written by: MARIE JAMISON Opinion issued June 25, 2013 In The Court of Appeals For The First District of Texas NO. 01-12-00909-CV DAVID LANCASTER, Appellant V. BARBARA LANCASTER, Appellee On Appeal from the 280th District Court TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN NO. 03-01-00478-CV City of San Angelo, Appellant v. Terrell Terry Smith, Appellee FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF TOM GREEN COUNTY, 119TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF APPEALS SECOND DISTRICT OF TEXAS FORT WORTH NO. 02-14-00146-CV ACE CASH EXPRESS, INC. APPELLANT V. THE CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS APPELLEE ---------- FROM THE 16TH DISTRICT COURT OF DENTON COUNTY TRIAL AFFIRM; and Opinion Filed April 22, 2013. S In The Court of Appeals Fifth District of Texas at Dallas No. 05-11-01540-CV CADILLAC BAR WEST END REAL ESTATE AND L. K. WALES, Appellants V. LANDRY S RESTAURANTS, IT S NONE OF YOUR (PRIMARY) BUSINESS: DETERMINING WHEN AN INTERNET SPEAKER IS A MEMBER OF THE ELECTRONIC MEDIA UNDER SECTION 51. IT S NONE OF YOUR (PRIMARY) BUSINESS: DETERMINING WHEN AN INTERNET SPEAKER IS A MEMBER OF THE ELECTRONIC MEDIA UNDER SECTION 51.014(A)(6) I. INTRODUCTION... 1 II. TRACING THE APPLICATION OF SECTION 51.014(A)(6)... IN THE SUPREME COURT OF TEXAS 444444444444 NO. 07-0284 444444444444 CITY OF DALLAS, PETITIONER, v. KENNETH E. ALBERT ET AL., RESPONDENTS 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444 ON PETITION Fourth Court of Appeals San Antonio, Texas MEMORANDUM OPINION No. City of SAN ANTONIO, Appellant v. Carlos MENDOZA, Appellee From the 73rd Judicial District Court, Bexar County, Texas Trial Court No. 2016CI09979 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF TEXAS 444444444444 NO. 07-0322 444444444444 IN RE JAMES ALLEN HALL 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444 ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF TEXAS 444444444444 NO. 11-0686 444444444444 TEXAS ADJUTANT GENERAL S OFFICE, PETITIONER, v. MICHELE NGAKOUE, RESPONDENT 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444 ON PETITION Opinion issued July 12, 2013 In The Court of Appeals For The First District of Texas NO. 01-13-00204-CV IN RE MOODY NATIONAL KIRBY HOUSTON S, LLC, Relator Original Proceeding on Petition for Writ of Mandamus NO In the Supreme Court of Texas NO. 14-0577 FILED 14-0577 10/27/2014 12:03:27 PM tex-2962647 SUPREME COURT OF TEXAS BLAKE A. HAWTHORNE, CLERK In the Supreme Court of Texas 1620 HAWTHORNE LTD., Petitioner v. THE MONTROSE MANAGEMENT DISTRICT COURT OF APPEALS THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG NUMBER 13-08-00105-CV COURT OF APPEALS THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG RYAN SERVICES, INCORPORATED AND TIMOTHY RYAN, Appellants, v. PHILLIP SPENRATH, ED ERWIN, KENNY MARTIN, ROBERT TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN NO. 03-04-00199-CV Tony Wilson, Appellant v. William B. Tex Bloys, Appellee 1 FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF MCCULLOCH COUNTY, 198TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT NO. Opinion issued February 23, 2016 In The Court of Appeals For The First District of Texas NO. 01-15-00163-CV XIANGXIANG TANG, Appellant V. KLAUS WIEGAND, Appellee On Appeal from the 268th District Court NO. 12-07-00287-CV IN THE COURT OF APPEALS TWELFTH COURT OF APPEALS DISTRICT TYLER, TEXAS D JUANA DUNN, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS NEXT FRIEND FOR APPEAL FROM THE 7TH J. D., APPELLANT V. JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Fourth Court of Appeals San Antonio, Texas MEMORANDUM OPINION No. IN THE ESTATE OF Steven Desmer LAMBECK, Deceased From the County Court, Wilson County, Texas Trial Court No. PR-07450 Honorable Kathleen Fourth Court of Appeals San Antonio, Texas MEMORANDUM OPINION No. 04-14-00666-CV IN RE Dean DAVENPORT, Dillon Water Resources, Ltd., 5D Drilling and Pump Service, Inc. f/k/a Davenport Drilling & Pump Service, 1 of 1 DOCUMENT. SHERYL JOHNSON-TODD, Appellant V. JOHN S. MORGAN, Appellee NO CV COURT OF APPEALS OF TEXAS, NINTH DISTRICT, BEAUMONT Page 1 1 of 1 DOCUMENT SHERYL JOHNSON-TODD, Appellant V. JOHN S. MORGAN, Appellee NO. 09-15-00210-CV COURT OF APPEALS OF TEXAS, NINTH DISTRICT, BEAUMONT 2015 Tex. App. LEXIS 11078 October 29, 2015, Opinion Reverse and Remand; Opinion Filed July 2, 2015. In The Court of Appeals Fifth District of Texas at Dallas No. 05-14-00867-CV MICHAEL WEASE, Appellant V. BANK OF AMERICA AND JAMES CASTLEBERRY, Appellees Opinion issued November 3, 2015 In The Court of Appeals For The First District of Texas NO. 01-14-01025-CV ALI LAHIJANI AND MEGA SHIPPING, LLC, Appellants V. MELIFERA PARTNERS, LLC, MW REALTY GROUP, AND TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN NO. 03-11-00592-CV Mark Polansky and Landrah Polansky, Appellants v. Pezhman Berenji and John Berenjy, Appellees 1 FROM THE COUNTY COURT AT LAW NO. 4 OF NUMBER CV COURT OF APPEALS THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS CORPUS CHRISTI EDINBURG IN RE FLUOR ENTERPRISES, INC. F/K/A FLUOR DANIEL, INC. NUMBER 13-11-00260-CV COURT OF APPEALS THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS CORPUS CHRISTI EDINBURG IN RE FLUOR ENTERPRISES, INC. F/K/A FLUOR DANIEL, INC. On Petition for Writ of Mandamus. MEMORANDUM OPINION Before In The Court of Appeals For The First District of Texas NO CV. VICTOR WOODARD, Appellant Opinion issued March 26, 2009 In The Court of Appeals For The First District of Texas NO. 01-07-00954-CV VICTOR WOODARD, Appellant V. THE OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS AND TRRISTAAN CHOLE HENRY, IN THE SUPREME COURT OF TEXAS 444444444444 NO. 09-0369 444444444444 GLENN COLQUITT, PETITIONER, v. BRAZORIA COUNTY, RESPONDENT 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444 ON PETITION FOR REVIEW NO CV. LARRY E. POTTER, Appellant. CLEAR CHANNEL OUTDOOR, INC., Appellee Opinion issued July 2, 2009 In The Court of Appeals For The First District of Texas NO. 01-07-00578-CV LARRY E. POTTER, Appellant V. CLEAR CHANNEL OUTDOOR, INC., Appellee On Appeal from the 333rd District GREG ABBOTT. April 4,2007 GREG ABBOTT April 4,2007 The Honorable Homero Ramirez Webb County Attorney Post Office Box 420268 Laredo, Texas 78042-0268 Opinion No. GA-0535 Re: Whether the trustees of an independent school district IN THE SUPREME COURT OF TEXAS 444444444444 NO. 13-0047 444444444444 ALLEN MARK DACUS, ELIZABETH C. PEREZ, AND REV. ROBERT JEFFERSON, PETITIONERS, v. ANNISE D. PARKER AND CITY OF HOUSTON, RESPONDENTS 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444 NUMBER 13-09-00022-CV COURT OF APPEALS THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG IN RE GENE ASHLEY D/B/A ROOFTEC On Petition for Writ of Mandamus. MEMORANDUM OPINION Before Chief Justice Valdez TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN NO. 03-12-00242-CV Billy Ross Sims, Appellant v. Jennifer Smith and Celia Turner, Appellees FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF TRAVIS COUNTY, 201ST JUDICIAL DISTRICT NO CV HOUSTON DIVISION LAWRENCE C. MATHIS, Appellant. vs. DCR MORTGAGE III SUB I, LLC, Appellee NO. 14-15-00026-CV ACCEPTED 14-15-00026-CV FOURTEENTH COURT OF APPEALS HOUSTON, TEXAS 6/15/2015 7:55:45 PM CHRISTOPHER PRINE CLERK IN THE COURT OF APPEALS FILED IN FOR THE FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN NO. 03-16-00038-CV City of Austin, Appellant v. Travis Central Appraisal District; The State of Texas; and Individuals Who Own C1 Vacant Land and/or F1 COURT OF APPEALS SECOND DISTRICT OF TEXAS FORT WORTH NO. 2-08-374-CV CITY OF ARLINGTON, TEXAS AND ALISON TURNER APPELLANTS MARK ALLEN RANDALL V. ------------ APPELLEE FROM THE 352ND DISTRICT COURT OF TARRANT Conditionally granted and Opinion Filed April 6, 2017 S In The Court of Appeals Fifth District of Texas at Dallas No. 05-16-00791-CV IN RE STEVEN SPIRITAS, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS TRUSTEE OF THE SPIRITAS SF TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN NO. 03-07-00118-CR Charles R. Branch, Appellant v. The State of Texas, Appellee FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY, 277TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT NO. In The. Fourteenth Court of Appeals NO CV. DAVID FURRY, Appellant Affirmed and Memorandum Opinion filed March 7, 2013. In The Fourteenth Court of Appeals NO. 14-12-00754-CV DAVID FURRY, Appellant V. SMS FINANCIAL XV, L.L.C., SUCCESSOR-IN-INTEREST TO CHASE OF TEXAS, N.A., Affirmed and Memorandum Opinion filed March 26, 2009. In The Fourteenth Court of Appeals NO. 14-08-00900-CV THE CITY OF HOUSTON, Appellant V. LARRY EDGAR ESTRADA AND MAYER BROWN, L.L.P., F/K/A MAYER, BROWN, NO CV IN THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS AT AMARILLO PANEL A MAY 29, 2009 IN THE MATTER OF THE MARRIAGE OF NO. 07-08-0292-CV IN THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS AT AMARILLO PANEL A MAY 29, 2009 IN THE MATTER OF THE MARRIAGE OF CYNTHIA RUDNICK HUGHES AND RODNEY FANE HUGHES FROM THE 16TH	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line288
__label__cc	0.699712	0.300288	Notizie vecchie Siti web Myst Argomenti del forum attivi Home » Forums » Private Discussions » Private Newspaper Talk TCP Revisited... Adding some stuff (again) 7 risposte [Ultimo contenuto] 20 maggio, 2014 - 12:06 Iscritto: 28 Gen 2012 I put up a new topic for this as I don't see there's been that much happening lately. I've felt of late a bit of urge to write something again. The I.H.P.Blog is for me one way to make public some stuff that otherwise don't belong to The Cavern Post... So I'll be adding some snippets to that now and then. But what could belong to TCP is some game news and reviews. So I've put up an article (as draft) about when Rand Miller and John Romero met at the NYU and discussed their views on respective games. There's also reviews of the games, from the archives of Gamespot. I'm also playing throug a game that I intend to write a review on. Soonish, but at least before next All Guilds Meeting... So more on that later or then. Btw. would there be any interest for Brief Summaries of the I.H.P. Open Hood Day and what respective presenter had to say? Nev'yn Iscritto: 15 Nov 2011 Yeah I've have vague stirrings of VG article to follow up on Luna's. myself. Thankfully summer is on it's way, and things slow down in the Florida stores. Unfortunately, it gets terribly hot, killing off motivation during the mid-afternoon. Anys will keep you posted. (/salute) \| "The truth speaks for itself, I am just the messenger." -Lyta Alexander \| 3 giugno, 2014 - 05:59 I've put up a draft, a review on the game: "Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons". The game has a plenty of puzzle elements to it and also an unusual setting for gameplay, using two "players" at the same time. But I did not find any proper "tag" for this one, as there is no "Games" in the list! This game has got plenty of puzzle elements in it. It also uses Unreal Engine 3. Maybe it's a bit "indie" and not been promoted too much, but it's a little gem, well worth a try. I found it most enjoyable to play. Doobes Iscritto: 15 Dic 2010 Hey Max! Sorry for the late response to this, but as you know, many of us are off doing whatever distracts us. RL, mostly. I've taken a look at your articles. Your "Brothers..." article looks great and I plan on combing through it for basic spelling and grammar errors tonight. However, the "20 years of Myst and Doom" article seems to be mostly a repost of the Gamespot articles. I would much prefer it be more of your own thoughts and insights on the subject of these two franchises. While you can certainly link to these articles as sources, they should not be the bulk of your main article, IMHO. We need less Gamespot and more Max in there! In any case, it's up to you if you'd like to do a rewrite and I'll certainly come back to it when you feel it's ready again. For now, I'll get your other article ready for posting to the masses and give it the usual promotion on Facebook and Google+. Plus, you can give it its proper due at the next AGM if you want to. Nev's Note to Self: Do a review on the Room 1 & 2. 10 giugno, 2014 - 09:23 @Doobes... I agree on you in that. The "20 years... " was more of a fun throw-away when I stumbled on the reviews. I did not want make a serious attempt at analyzing any of those games. Myst I'd think I know by now inside-out... Can't be much to add there. Doom I did play at some time, the earliest version[s] of it I think. Can't remember that I ever really liked the concept, and never been a fan of such, FPS's either. But my gf and I did have some fierce sessions in it IIRC. But yeah, that article can be recycled... or binned! NP. Yeah, I too found later a few typo in the "Brothers.." article. Sorry about those, I forgot to do an extra check on those. I kinda wanted to "promote" that game, as it has some clever puzzle elements in it but also as I found it to be a very good story, too. There's a couple more I might have a go at, we'll see. Atm. I've been strolling through "Dear Esther"... And I'd agree with Luna... not a game as such. More like a visual and psychological experiment. But the scenerys are really, really astonishing! @Doobes. Had a look at the Brothers review. Thanks for brushing it up a bit!! I think it's fine now. Ready to be published.. And there we go! I've approved the article and promoted it on MOUL forums, Facebook and Google+. Regole del Forum/Chat Regole del sito	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line302
__label__cc	0.556233	0.443767	Sumthing Le Freak Book The Hitmaker PLANET C Planet C in English Planeta C en Español Planète C en Français Pianeta C in Italiano Planeta C em Português Planet C in Deutsch Planeet C in het Nederlands 惑星Cを行く(日本語版) ในโลกของ C Прогулки по Планете R EVENTS / TOUR NRMedia Close the Circle CHIC is BACK! Pre-order the new single "I'll Be There" on iTunes today. Single drops March 20th! GET IT » After waiting four long years since the Lost CHIC Tapes were recovered, I'm finally putting out our first record. I'm like a child waiting for Christmas morning. The release date is March 20, 2015, the vernal equinox, when day and night are of equal length. But this year certain parts of the Northern Hemisphere will have a total solar eclipse, which will turn day to night. This is extremely rare on a vernal equinox. I'll officially release the song at the start of that celestial phenomenon in the city and country where they set Greenwich Mean Time: London, England. The solar eclipse will begin at 8:25 (GMT), the greatest eclipse will be at 9:31 (GMT) and will end at 10:41 (GMT). In this short music teaser, the horn blast appears at what's called the point of totality, or the greatest eclipse - when day will seemingly to turn into night. There will also be a super moon, so called when the moon's orbit is closest to earth making it appear larger than normal. The super moon will continue on it's orbital track and we'll soon return to complete daylight. This will never happen again on a vernal equinox in my lifetime, and it's a moment I'll remember for the rest of my days. For me it's symbolic of the rebirth of CHIC. I was stricken with very aggressive cancer four years ago which put me on this life or death path. The new record will be a double sided 12" Maxi-Single. Side-A, is a song called "I'll Be There," the first words I spoke upon finding my partner Bernard Edwards, (RIP) dead after our last concert together. Side-B, is a song called "Back In The Old School," about the disco movement and the liberating escapades of that time. "Back In The Old School" is a subliminal statement about dance music. Though most current dance music is electronic, live bands like CHIC and dj's, co-exist very well, just as the disco movement brought disparate peoples together. Dance musicians are the lower link on the musical food chain, we're stronger united than divided. Both songs are played by my original CHIC line up along with percussionists, The Martinez Brothers on "I'll Be There. These works are my tribute to The Original CHIC Organization - musically, artistically and spiritually...which in my heart allows me to Close The Circle. I've found many boxes of Nile Rodgers and Lost CHIC Org tapes The full, early CHIC Org. Sadly, of the five guys I'm the only one still alive CHIC, Sister Sledge and Atlantic Top Brass - The new CHIC single was made from a Sister Sledge outtake Me after overdubbing "I'll Be There" w The Martinez Brothers The crossed-out take of "Got To Love Somebody" is the song I built the first single on Me, Nard, and Tony jamming on the Soul Train stage Kim, Fonzi, Luci, Alfa and Folami Conducted by me, singing disco song "I'll Be There" by CHIC CHIC "I'll Be There" / "Back In the Old School" :: GET IT » Planet C Blog Posts CANCER REALLY? I'm Done. 2018 here I come! A Year of So Many Deaths The Day I Die Why? Extremely Aggressive Cancer Remembering His Death Gives Me Life! There For Me in Life There "Is" Life After Death Some Of My Fave Duran Duran Songs A Few Moments Before She Died When Cancer Was Killing Me CHIC Comes Back Home 'Til the Day I Die, If I'm Lucky Crazy, but This Is Cool Even If It Kills Us I'm Devastated R.I.P. Some New CHIC Songs Here and Now! Today I Experienced Real Fear © 2020, Nile Rodgers Productions. All Rights Reserved :: mastermind+design: Burning6 Back to Top	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line303
__label__wiki	0.806897	0.806897	Hemodialysis Angioaccess Choice and Survival in a Tertiary Care Saudi Arabian Center from 1993 to 2004 Saad Al Shohaib 1 , Abdelkarim Waness 2 , * , Abdulla Al Sayyari 3 1 Consultant, Division of Nephrology, King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Saudi Arabia 2 Consultant, Division of Internal Medicine, King Abdulaziz Medical City, n4a1w@yahoo.com, Saudi Arabia 3 Head, Division of Nephrology, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Saudi Arabia * Consultant, Division of Internal Medicine, King Abdulaziz Medical City, n4a1w@yahoo.com, Saudi Arabia. Tel: 966-1-252-0088 ext: 14187. Fax: 966-1-252-0088 ext: 14229. Email: n4a1w@yahoo.com How to Cite: Shohaib S, Waness A, Sayyari A. Hemodialysis Angioaccess Choice and Survival in a Tertiary Care Saudi Arabian Center from 1993 to 2004, Nephro-Urol Mon. Online ahead of Print ; 3(1):69-73. Nephro-Urology Monthly: 3 (1); 69-73 Received: January 16, 2010 Accepted: March 30, 2010 Background and Aims: Properly functioning angioaccess is essential for the provision of adequate dialysis. We present and discuss a unique vascular access experience in a Saudi Arabian Center, lasting for more than ten years. Methods: We prospectively studied all patients with end stage kidney disease, who underwent any of three vascular access procedures (cuffed central venous catheter, arteriovenous graft, or arteriovenous fistula) from 1993 to 2004 with the objective of assessing the relative rates among these three forms of angioaccess and the survival rates of arteriovenous fistula and its relation with patients' gender, weight or nationality. The survival rate of the AVF as defined by the fistula patency rate was divided into three categories: short-term patency (early AVF failure in: less than 6 weeks), medium-term patency (6 to 52 weeks) and long-term patency (more than 52 weeks). Results: There were 603 patients (386 males and 217 females). The mean age was 48.5 years (SD ± 18.6). 326 patients were Saudis. The cause of ESRD was diabetes mellitus in 2 75 patients, glomerulonephritides in 170 patients and hypertension in 158 patients. The mean BMI was 29 (SD ± 3.7). 580 of the patients had arteriovenous fistula (AVF), 44 had arteriovenous graft (AVG), and 35 patients received only central venous catheter. There was a high early failure rate of AVF 46.4%, particularly in females (61.5%, p =0.0001) and non Saudis (55%, p=0.0008). The long-term patency rate (> 52 weeks) was 38.8 % with no differences seen between genders or nationalities. BMI did not have an effect on AVF survival. The incidence of other complications combined was only 5.3%. Conclusion: The vast majority of angioaccess was AVF in keeping with NKF-DOQI guidelines. There was a high early AVF failure rate in women and non-Saudis. Diabetes mellitus seems to be a strong contributing factor but not other renal disease etiologies. Further research is needed in this field in Saudi Arabia. End Stage Renal Disease Hemodialysis Central Venous Catheter Native Arteriovenous Fistula Arteriovenous Graft © 0, Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits copy and redistribute the material just in noncommercial usages, provided the original work is properly cited. Full text is available in PDF Saad Shohaib: [PubMed] [Scholar] Abdelkarim Waness: [PubMed] [Scholar] Abdulla Sayyari: [PubMed] [Scholar]	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line305
__label__cc	0.723126	0.276874	You are here: Home / Archives for VOL 38 NO 35 \| AUGUST 24 – AUGUST 30 Michelle Cheng joins Frye Art Museum August 26, 2019 By Northwest Asian Weekly The Frye Art Museum announced on Aug. 14 its appointment of Michelle Cheng to the newly created role of Director of Education and Community Partnerships. Prior to joining the Frye, Cheng worked on an award-winning education team at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum as the manager of Integration-Level Education Programs. “The Frye offers such a […] Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2019, VOL 38 NO 35 \| AUGUST 24 - AUGUST 30 Sunisa Lee sets sights on 2020 Olympics Sixteen-year-old Sunisa Lee, of St. Paul, Minn. took second place at the U.S. Gymnastics Championships on Aug. 11, outscoring and outperforming a handful of world medalists. Lee first tried the sport at age 6. A family friend knew a coach at Midwest Gymnastics Center and suggested she enroll. Lee has been at the club ever […] South Asian Spelling Bee winner Navneeth Murali of Edison, N.J., was the national winner of the 2019 South Asian Spelling (SAS) Bee held Aug. 13 in New Jersey. Murali, 13, spelled flype as flipe, yet was declared a winner. Flipe and flype are variant spellings according to Merriam-Webster’s Third Unabridged Dictionary. Flipe means to strip off by or as if […] Paper Tigers filming We got a glimpse of filming on Aug. 16 in Seattle’s Chinatown, of the independent movie, “Paper Tigers.” Last year, The Paper Tigers’ team ran a Kickstarter campaign that raised $124,000 to finance the movie. Writer and director Bao Tran, and producers Al’n Duong and Daniel Gildark, have ties to Seattle, along with other members […] Report: Levi’s, Wrangler, Lee seamstresses harassed, abused By MARTHA MENDOZA Associated Press Women sewing blue jeans for Levi’s, Wrangler, Lee, and The Children’s Place faced sexual harassment and gender-based violence and some were coerced into having sex with supervisors to keep their jobs in African factories, labor rights groups say. In response to the revelations, the brands have agreed to bring in […] Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2019, VOL 38 NO 35 \| AUGUST 24 - AUGUST 30 John Lee is a LA City Councilman-elect LOS ANGELES—For the first time ever, the Los Angeles City Council will likely have two Asian Americans serving at the same time. Longtime council aide John Lee was recognized by the city council on Aug. 14 as the Councilman-elect for northwestern San Fernando Valley’s 12th District seat following a special election against Loraine Lundquist. “This […] Rep. Ted Lieu emerges as congressional Trump critic By AVERY YANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Last month, one of the most confrontational congressional voices against President Donald Trump and his immigration policies directly questioned a top Border Patrol officer about why a 3-year-old girl was detained and separated from her grandmother when they tried to cross the border into Texas. “Do you […] Police keep low profile at huge, peaceful Hong Kong protest Hong Kong streets were turned into rivers of umbrellas on Aug. 18 as hundreds of thousands of people marched through heavy rain down a major road in the Chinese territory, where massive pro-democracy demonstrations have become a regular weekend activity. Filed Under: World News, Feature stories Tagged With: 2019, VOL 38 NO 35 \| AUGUST 24 - AUGUST 30 Cathay Pacific CEO resigns after Beijing pressure The CEO of Cathay Pacific Airways, one of Hong Kong’s most prominent companies, resigned on Aug. 16 following pressure by Beijing on the carrier over participation by some of its employees in anti-government protests. Indonesian firm cancels Chinese loan for its Trump project By FADLAN SYAM and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s son and his Indonesian business partner said on Aug. 13 that a theme park that also features a Trump hotel and condos will no longer have Chinese financing. In a move that alarmed Trump critics, MNC Land, the Indonesian […] Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2019, VOL 38 NO 35 \| AUGUST 24 - AUGUST 30	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line306
__label__cc	0.547916	0.452084	party chat June 8, 2012 Georgina Bloomberg on Soda Ban: ‘People Should Be Allowed to Make Their Own Bad Choices’ By Jamie Sharpe Michael, Georgina, and a Coke. Photo: Bruce Bennett/Getty Images In the week or so since Mayor Bloomberg unveiled his plan to ban the sale of unnecessarily large sweetened beverages, the local media has been flush with rants from deli-cart owners, Coca Cola execs, and Joe Blow on the street. Which is hardly surprising. But Bloomberg might not have expected for some of the criticism to come from his own family. “His intentions are good. And, it’s the kind of thing that the public will thank him for in twenty years,” the mayor’s 29-year-old daughter, Georgina, told us at at a cocktail soiree hosted by Stefano Tonchi for Gucci’s Frida Gianni last night. “However,” she continued, “people should be allowed to make their own bad choices.” Bloomberg the Younger suggested that her father adopt a more market-based approach to fighting obesity. “Ideally,” she said, “he would lower the cost of healthy food instead of banning unhealthy food. If people were able to afford to eat nutritious food, I think they would make better choices.” As for her? “I really like Fresca,” she said. georgina bloomberg soda ban Bloomberg’s Daughter Not a Fan of Soda Ban	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line307
__label__cc	0.545239	0.454761	Mom’s Suitcase Becomes a Casualty of Rio’s Olympic Security By Jen Kirby Volleyball player Carli Lloyd, daughter of Cindi Lloyd. Photo: Johannes Eisel/AFP/Getty Images The Olympics are always full of gut-wrenching defeats and mishaps, but perhaps none compare to the saga of this suitcase caught in the crosshairs of Brazilian security. Cindy Lloyd, mother of U.S. volleyball player Carli Lloyd (not to be confused with the soccer star), had her suitcase blown up because security apparently thought the luggage contained an explosive device which turned out to be some shampoo, a cell phone, and a charger — suspicious items authorities removed before they blew up the bag. Lloyd, who checked in and dropped the bag with the cruise line where she was staying, returned to this scene of destruction. “The handle was nowhere,” Lloyd told the New York Times. “It was completely blown up. There was some clothing. They use some sort of wet bomb, I think, because everything was wet. Some of the clothes were salvageable, but some were melted. Some had holes. My American flag was melted. And all the toiletries with caps had their caps blown off.” Lloyd seems pretty chill about the whole incident, though she was still wearing “a shirt with holes in it because she had not had time to go shopping.” The disaster Olympics, indeed. Mom’s Suitcase Is Casualty of Olympic Security	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line308
__label__cc	0.664768	0.335232	Surf Legend Kelly Slater Attacks GMOs and Biotech Giants in Hawaii Posted: March 3rd, 2013 \| Filed under: Incident Reports, Video \| Tags: autism, Babes Against Biotech, biodiversity, disease, gmo, GMO Foods, GMO Labeling, guinea pigs, Hawaii GMO Justice Coalition, Kelly Slater, Nomi Carmona, Surf, Surfing, Sustainable Pulse \| Surf legend Kelly Slater has come out with a stunning attack on GMOs and their biotech giant developers’ seed patents. In his Hawaii video, produced by the Hawai’i GMO Justice Coalition, he also criticizes the islands for allowing GM crop trials on a large scale. Kelly Slater states in the video that “if your father dies of cancer like mine did or if you have friends who are affected by having kids with autism you start to have a lot of questions, like where are these coming from? It seems like every day we are either learning about a new disease or a higher rate of disease in children.” “Now these large food companies have created all these seed banks and patented the seeds, so basically they own all the seeds and they are getting rid of biodiversity in alot of ways,” he added. Slater also slated the idea that GMO labeling is in any way a bad idea; “It seems like a no brainer to me I couldn’t imagine coming out against labeling GMO foods.” He also added that “Hawaii’s a bunch of guinea pigs, the islands are a bunch of guinea pigs for these companies,” referring to the biotech giants who have taken over the islands for GM crop field trials. “The track record of Monsanto doesn’t seem to be that good by most people’s calculations. How toxic is that land going to be after it is sprayed with Roundup for 15 years? Its almost going to be unusable for anything else” Slater concluded. In another anti-GMO video out of Hawaii yesterday, Babes Against Biotech, led by Nomi Carmona, attacked the pro-GMO policies of Colin Barnett’s current government in the surf paradise of Western Australia ahead of elections there on March 9 – Watch It Here! Robert Kelly Slater (born February 11, 1972, Cocoa Beach, FL, USA) is an American professional surfer known for his competitive prowess and style. He has been crowned ASP World Champion a record 11 times, including 5 consecutive titles from 1994–98. He is the youngest (at age 20) and the oldest (at age 39) to win the title. Upon winning his 5th world title in 1997, Slater passed Australian surfing legend Mark Richards to become the most successful champion in the history of the sport. Hawai’i GMO Justice Coalition The is an organization made up of truth tellers who are tired of the chemical status quo. They are dedicated to ending the GMO chemical warfare against our ‘aina from 25 years of GMO field trials and are committed to educating the public about issues not being reported by the mainstream media. They define justice as eviction and reparations. Source: Sustainable Pulse March in March to Evict Monsanto Posted: February 7th, 2013 \| Filed under: Events \| Tags: Babes Against Biotech, Big Island, Chemicals, Dee Jay Mailer, Demonstration, Dow, Dupont, DuPont Pioneer, Hale'iwa, Hawaii, Hawaii GMO Justice Coalition, herbicides, Kamehameha Schools, Kauai, land, lease, March, Maui, Molokai, Monsanto, Oahu, Occupy Monsanto, pesticides, Pollution, Protest, Syngenta \| On every Saturday during the month of March safe food activists throughout the state of Hawaii will be marching on 5 of the major islands to evict Monsanto. March 2 – Hale’iwa, Oahu March 9 – Kaua’i March 16 – Big Island March 23 – Maui March 30 – Moloka’i STOP the Chemical Poisoning of Hawai’i! “We personally invite Dee Jay Mailer the CEO of Kamehameha Schools to discuss why they are leasing 1,033 acres of land to Monsanto in Hale’iwa.” Source: Babes Against Biotech & Hawaii GMO Justice Coalition	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line311
__label__wiki	0.672448	0.672448	Kozinski Strikes Again Filed under: Law — Patterico @ 11:48 pm Did I say that you shouldn’t cross Alex Kozinski? Yeah, I think I did. Don’t try to slip anything past him either. (Read the dissent.) How did I guess who the judge was? Thanks to Jonathan S. Haas for the link. L.A. Times on Roberts Confirmation Filed under: Dog Trainer,Humor — Patterico @ 6:04 pm Does the L.A. Times think the country is going to hell now that John Roberts has been confirmed? You be the judge. Here is today’s front page (I am not making this up): The Power of the Jump™: Those Non-Confidential Confidential Sources, Part 2 Filed under: General — Patterico @ 7:15 am (Note: “The Power of the Jump”™ is a semi-regular feature of this site, documenting examples of the Los Angeles Times’s use of its back pages to hide information that its editors don’t want you to see.) Once again, on the front page, the L.A. Times reports on the Judith Miller case as a straightforward question of protecting a confidential source — while burying contrary evidence on the back pages. In a story titled Journalist Freed to Testify in Plame Case, this material appears on the front page: WASHINGTON — New York Times reporter Judith Miller, jailed since July 6 for refusing to reveal a confidential source, was freed Thursday after agreeing to testify about her conversations with the source. Miller is expected to appear today before a federal grand jury investigating whether anyone in the Bush administration leaked the name of a covert CIA officer to reporters. Her surprise release, negotiated between Times lawyers and a Justice Department special prosecutor, came after Miller received what the newspaper described as “a direct and un-coerced waiver” from her source that released her from any pledge of confidentiality and enabled her to testify. You have to go to Page A13 to learn that the source was already non-confidential before Miller ever went to jail: According to the [New York] Times account, [I. Lewis “Scooter”] Libby [the source] and [Joseph] Tate [his lawyer] strenuously argued that a waiver Libby had provided more than a year earlier was adequate to cover Miller, and that additional assurances were unnecessary. People close to the case speculated that the possibility of a grueling and seemingly endless jail term may also have been a factor in the resolution. As I noted last night, Miller had the waiver all along. But if you read only the front page, as most people do, you’ll never know that the “confidential” source wasn’t really confidential at all. But sssshhhhh! It’s all about blowing up Miller into a media martyr. P.S. This isn’t the first time the paper has done this. Judith Miller to Testify, Now That Her Source Has Authorized Her To — Again Filed under: General — Patterico @ 10:48 pm Back in July, I noted that Judith Miller’s source had given her a written waiver allowing her to testify — and that the L.A. Times, anxious to portray the controversy as a test of press freedoms, had buried that fact on page A18. A couple of you commenters (you know who you are) said you didn’t buy the assertion that the source had given a truly voluntary waiver. Now, Miller has been released from jail, and has agreed to testify. Orin Kerr collects a couple of links that explain what happened. See if any of this sounds familiar: Filed under: Judiciary — Patterico @ 9:37 pm Well, we all have to make predictions, even if they turn out to be wrong. Mine: McConnell. My hope: Luttig. If it’s Gonzales, then . . . well, then I’ll feel about this president the way Tony Soprano felt about his mom. L.A. Times Spin on Ronnie Earle Filed under: Crime,Dog Trainer,Politics — Patterico @ 9:01 pm Interesting how the L.A. Times portrays Ronnie Earle this morning. A cynic might even call it “spin.” (And, judging from the headline of this post, I’m a cynic.) The profile of Earle is titled Prosecutor Takes Aim at Both Sides of Aisle. The deck headline reads: “Although DeLay calls Ronnie Earle an ‘unabashed partisan zealot,’ others say the Austin district attorney shows no favoritism.” And, although you can’t read it online, there is a picture in the print edition with this caption: Travis County Dist. Atty. Ronnie Earle may be a Democrat, but so were 12 of the 15 politicians he has indicted. The story starts out telling the story of how Earle prosecuted Jim Mattox, a prominent former Texas Democrat. It then says: When he indicted U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on Wednesday, the Texas Republican lashed out at Earle, calling him an “unabashed partisan zealot.” Just one hitch: Earle may be a Democrat, but, he said, so were 12 of the 15 politicians he has indicted over the years, including Mattox. Do you get it yet? Have they beaten it into you? Earle is no partisan Democrat! I mean, he may be a Democrat, but — did we mention? — so were 12 of the 15 politicians he has indicted! He is an even-handed prosecutor! He prosecutes both sides of the aisle! He shows no favoritism! You have to dig 12 paragraphs down to read this little nugget: Earle has taken pains to project a squeaky-clean image, at one point even accusing himself of a misdemeanor when he discovered that his campaign finance reports had been filed late. Still, he has not always remained above the political fray. Earle recently said that being called partisan by DeLay was akin to “being called ugly by a frog.” At a Democratic fundraiser in May, he called DeLay a “bully.” Now, I’ll give the paper credit for printing this — but it deserves a little more prominent treatment. What do you think the L.A. Times would have done if Ken Starr had mocked Bill Clinton at a Republican fundraiser while he was investigating Clinton? I can see the caption now: Special prosecutor Ken Starr called Bill Clinton a “bully” at a Republican fundraiser. At a minimum, it’s a serious lapse in judgment for a prosecutor who is investigating a prominent political figure from the other political party to go to a fundraiser for his own party and criticize that political figure. If the L.A. Times weren’t predisposed to dislike DeLay, I strongly suspect that little tidbit would be more prominent — just like you know damn well it would be if the prosecutor were Ken Starr instead of Ronnie Earle. There were a couple of other things about Earle that the paper left out entirely. For example, why did prosecutor Earle write an op-ed piece in the New York Times criticizing a proposed rule change that would allow DeLay to keep his leadership position even if he were indicted? What difference would that make to Earle’s criminal investigation of DeLay? The answer is: none. It was a purely political point. When you put that together with Earle’s public criticism of DeLay at a Democrat fund-raiser, you begin to see where Earle’s critics are coming from. But that piece is nowhere mentioned in today’s article. I would have also liked to see some mention in the article of Earle’s suspect decision to condition plea bargains on the defendants’ making large donations to one of Earle’s pet causes. A bit odd, and something that casts a little dirt on that “squeaky-clean image.” When you look at what was omitted — and the lack of prominence to the negative facts about Earle that were included — it’s hard not to view the article as anything but what I call it in the title: spin. P.S. I’m not eager to jump on the Republican bandwagon and openly declare Earle’s indictment an obviously partisan act by an obviously partisan D.A. I don’t know what evidence he has, and I’m not a huge fan of Tom DeLay. Maybe he is dirty — and if he is, he should go. I’m just saying, there were a few facts left out today. P.P.S. Many Republicans have leapt on the example of Earle’s dropped prosecution of Kay Bailey Hutchison (also mentioned in today’s Times article, at the very end) as evidence that Earle is a partisan. I’m not making that argument, because I don’t know all the facts of that case. Prosecutions get dropped for all sorts of reasons, and a dropped prosecution doesn’t necessarily indicate that the prosecution was bogus to begin with, or that the D.A. is a partisan. Let’s keep a close eye on this — but for crying out loud, don’t trust the paper for all your facts. Roberts Confirmed Filed under: Judiciary — Patterico @ 10:01 am (Published from the Treo.) Fire? Looks like there might be a big fire in the valley, judging from the smoke I’m seeing . . . UPDATE: Sure enough. Los Angeles Times Pumps Up Yet Another Meaningless Story About Racial Disparities Filed under: Dog Trainer,Race — Patterico @ 6:54 am The L.A. Times reports: A racial disparity in mortgage lending rates appears to be sharper in Los Angeles and other California metropolitan areas than the rest of the country, according to an analysis of federal data to be released today. The study by the Assn. of Community Organizations for Reform Now, an advocacy group for the poor, looked at the percentage of higher-cost loans issued in minority communities compared with nonminority neighborhoods in the same metropolitan area. My immediate reaction upon reading that was: of course. Assuming that there is a racial disparity in lending rates to begin with — a situation that is likely to result from non-racial factors — that disparity will naturally be magnified in an area where housing prices are higher, because higher-cost loans will be used much more commonly. So I was hardly shocked to see this: California’s high housing costs are probably one reason behind the findings, said Raphael W. Bostic, a former economist for the Federal Reserve now at USC, who was not involved in the study. Gee, ya think? One paragraph temporarily seems to suggest that discrimination could be a factor: The Federal Reserve, in its own study of the disclosure act data released this month, determined that African Americans and Hispanics were far more likely to get sub-prime loans than whites and said the gap could not be fully explained by factors such as income. Until you learn this: The federal loan data do not include information about borrowers’ creditworthiness and other basic factors that would provide a more complete picture of the lending process, Hobbs [Dustin Hobbs, a spokesman for the California Mortgage Bankers Assn] said. In other words, there are no controls. This so-called study does a comparison with no controls. How in the world the Federal Reserve was able to determine that “the gap could not be fully explained by factors such as income” when they didn’t have access to basic control data like creditworthiness, I have no idea. And the intrepid reporter who wrote the story apparently didn’t ask, probably not wanting to gum up a story that he knew would be on the front page of its section. I just have one question: does anybody ever do a study of alleged racial disparities, with respect to any topic, who knows how to do a proper study with proper controls? Because it sure doesn’t seem that way. Race disparity researchers seem to be uniquely ignorant of the need for controls, if the widely reported racial gaps in areas like criminal justice and lending practices are any indication. It’s as if these researchers all go to schools where the statistics classes completely omit any discussion of the concept of controlling for relevant factors. We see this all the time, of course. The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy Goes International Filed under: Politics — Angry Clam @ 5:53 am [Posted by The Angry Clam] What do the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, the Kuomintang in the Republic of China, the Mozambique National Resistance, and the Republican Party have in common? Among other things, they’re all part of the International Democratic Union, an organization founded by Margaret Thatcher to be an alliance of various conservative parties throughout the world, and was patterned after the Communist International. That’s right, lefties, we’re conspiring to dominate the entire world. 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__label__wiki	0.533163	0.533163	R. Steinberger Paradyne Networks O. Nicklass RAD Data Communications Ltd. Definitions of Managed Objects for Circuit to Interface Translation This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. This memo defines an extension of the Management Information Base (MIB) for use with network management protocols in TCP/IP-based internets. In particular, it defines objects for managing the insertion of interesting Circuit Interfaces into the ifTable. This is important for circuits that must be used within other MIB modules which require an ifEntry. It allows for integrated monitoring of circuits as well as routing to circuits using unaltered, pre-existing MIB modules. 1. The SNMP Management Framework ............................... 2 2. Conventions ................................................. 3 3. Overview .................................................... 3 3.1. Circuit Concepts .......................................... 4 3.2. Theory of Operation ....................................... 4 3.2.1. Creation Process ........................................ 4 3.2.2. Destruction Process ..................................... 5 3.2.2.1. Manual Row Destruction ................................ 5 3.2.2.2. Automatic Row Destruction ............................. 5 3.2.3. Modification Process .................................... 5 3.2.4. Persistence of Data ..................................... 5 4. Relation to Other MIB Modules ............................... 6 4.1. Frame Relay DTE MIB ....................................... 6 4.2. Frame Relay Service MIB ................................... 6 4.3. ATM MIB ................................................... 6 4.4. Interfaces Group MIB ...................................... 6 4.4.1. Interfaces Table (ifTable, ifXtable) .................... 6 4.4.2. Stack Table (ifStackTable) .............................. 9 4.5. Other MIB Modules ......................................... 11 5. Structure of the MIB Module ................................. 11 5.1. ciCircuitTable ............................................ 11 5.2. ciIfMapTable .............................................. 11 6. Object Definitions .......................................... 11 7. Acknowledgments ............................................. 19 8. References .................................................. 19 9. Security Considerations ..................................... 21 10. IANA Considerations ........................................ 21 11. Authors' Addresses ......................................... 22 12. Full Copyright Statement ................................... 23 1. The SNMP Management Framework The SNMP Management Framework presently consists of five major components: An overall architecture, described in RFC 2571 [1]. Mechanisms for describing and naming objects and events for the purpose of management. The first version of this Structure of Management Information (SMI) is called SMIv1 and described in STD 16, RFC 1155 [2], STD 16, RFC 1212 [3] and RFC 1215 [4]. The second version, called SMIv2, is described in STD 58, RFC 2578 [5], RFC 2579 [6] and RFC 2580 [7]. Message protocols for transferring management information. The first version of the SNMP message protocol is called SNMPv1 and described in STD 15, RFC 1157 [8]. A second version of the SNMP message protocol, which is not an Internet standards track protocol, is called SNMPv2c and described in RFC 1901 [9] and RFC 1906 [10]. The third version of the message protocol is called SNMPv3 and described in RFC 1906 [10], RFC 2572 [11] and RFC 2574 [12]. Protocol operations for accessing management information. The first set of protocol operations and associated PDU formats is described in STD 15, RFC 1157 [8]. A second set of protocol operations and associated PDU formats is described in RFC 1905 [13]. A set of fundamental applications described in RFC 2573 [14] and the view-based access control mechanism described in RFC 2575 [15]. A more detailed introduction to the current SNMP Management Framework can be found in RFC 2570 [16]. Managed objects are accessed via a virtual information store, termed the Management Information Base or MIB. Objects in the MIB are defined using the mechanisms defined in the SMI. This memo specifies a MIB module that is compliant to the SMIv2. A MIB conforming to the SMIv1 can be produced through the appropriate translations. The resulting translated MIB must be semantically equivalent, except where objects or events are omitted because no translation is possible (use of Counter64). Some machine readable information in SMIv2 will be converted into textual descriptions in SMIv1 during the translation process. However, this loss of machine readable information is not considered to change the semantics of the MIB. 2. Conventions The keywords MUST, MUST NOT, REQUIRED, SHALL, SHALL NOT, SHOULD, SHOULD NOT, RECOMMENDED, NOT RECOMMENDED, MAY, and OPTIONAL, when they appear in this document, are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [21]. This MIB module addresses the concept of inserting circuits, which are potentially virtual, into the ifTable. There are multiple reasons to allow circuits to be added to the ifTable. The most prevalent of which are the standard routing MIB tables such as the ipCidrRouteTable (IP-FORWARD-MIB) and the ipNetToMediaTable (IP-MIB) act on the ifIndex and the RMON MIBs (RMON-MIB and RMON2-MIB as defined in RFC 2819 [23] and RFC 2021 [19]) require the use of an ifIndex a DataSource. There is a further need to potentially monitor or manage a circuit based on the directional flow of traffic going through it. For instance, monitoring of protocols passed on a circuit using RMON-II (RFC 2021 [19]) does not currently capture the direction of the flow. This MIB module provides the capability to define an interface based on the specific direction of the flow. This section provides an overview and background of how to use this MIB module. 3.1. Circuit Concepts There are multiple MIB modules that define circuits. Three commonly used MIB modules are FRAME-RELAY-DTE-MIB (RFC 2115) [20], FRNETSERV- MIB (RFC 2954) [18], and ATM-MIB (RFC 2515) [22]. These define management objects for frame relay DTEs, frame relay services, and ATM respectively. Each of these MIB modules contain the ability to add or delete circuits; however, none create a specific ifEntry for a circuit. The reason for this is that there are potentially multiple circuits and not every circuit needs to be managed as an individual interface. For example, not every circuit on a device needs to be monitored with RMON and not every circuit needs to be included as an individual circuit for routing. Further, the Interfaces Group MIB (RFC 2863) [17] strongly recommends that conceptual rows not be added to the ifTable for virtual circuits. The rationale for creating conceptual rows in the ifTable for these circuits is that there is a need for their use in either management of routing or monitoring of data. Both of these functions require mapping to an ifIndex. This MIB module is designed such that only those circuits that require an ifIndex need be added to the ifTable. This prevents over-populating the ifTable with useless or otherwise unused indices. While this document often refers to ATM and frame relay, it is not specifically designed for only those types of circuits. Any circuit that is defined in a MIB module but does not have its own ifIndex MAY be added with this MIB module. 3.2. Theory of Operation 3.2.1. Creation Process In some cases, devices will automatically populate the rows of ciCircuitTable as circuits are created or discovered. However, in many cases, it may be necessary for a network manager to manually create rows. Manual creation of rows requires the following steps: Locate or create the circuit that is to be added on the device. Create a row in ciCircuitTable for each flow type that is required. The first step above requires some knowledge of the circuits that exist on a device. Typically, logical ports have entries in the ifTable. If, for example, the ifType for the logical port is frameRelay(32), the circuits can be located in the frCircuitTable of the Frame Relay DTE MIB (FRAME-RELAY-DTE-MIB) [18]. If, as another example, the ifType for the logical port is frameRelayService(44), the circuits can be located in the frPVCEndptTable of the Frame Relay Service MIB (FRNETSERV-MIB) [20]. If, as a final example, the ifType for the logical port is aal5(49), the circuits can be located in the aal5VccTable of the ATM MIB (ATM-MIB) [22]. An entry describing the circuit MUST exist in some table prior to creating a row in ciCircuitTable. The object identifier that MUST be used in the circuit definition is the lexicographically smallest accessible OID that fully describes the the circuit. 3.2.2. Destruction Process 3.2.2.1. Manual Row Destruction Manual row destruction is straight forward. Any row can be destroyed and the resources allocated to it are freed by setting the value of its status object (ciCircuitStatus) to destroy(6). It should be noted that when ciCircuitStatus is set to destroy(6) all associated rows in the ifTable and in ciIfMapTable will also be destroyed. This process MAY trigger further row destruction in other tables as well. 3.2.2.2. Automatic Row Destruction Rows in the tables MAY be destroyed automatically based on the existence of the circuit on which they rely. When a circuit no longer exists in the device, the data in the tables has no relation to anything known on the network. For this reason, rows MUST be removed from this table as soon as it is discovered that the associated circuits no longer exist. The effects of automatic row destruction are the same as manual row destruction. 3.2.3. Modification Process Since no objects in the MIB module can be changed once rows are active, there are no modification caveats. 3.2.4. Persistence of Data Each row in the tables of this MIB module relies on information from other MIB modules. The rules for persistence of the data SHOULD follow the same rules as those of the underlying MIB module. For example, if the circuit defined by ciCircuitObject would normally be stored in non-volatile memory, then the ciCircuitEntry SHOULD also be non-volatile. 4. Relation to Other MIB Modules 4.1. Frame Relay DTE MIB There is no required relation to the Frame Relay DTE MIB beyond the fact that rows in the frCircuitTable MAY be referenced. However, if frCircuitLogicalIfIndex is being used to represent the same information as a ciCircuitEntry with a value of ciCircuitFlow equal to both(3), the implementation MAY use the same ifIndex. 4.2. Frame Relay Service MIB There is no explicit relation to the Frame Relay Service MIB beyond the fact that a rows in the frPVCEndptTable MAY be referenced. 4.3. ATM MIB There is no explicit relation to the ATM MIB beyond the fact that rows in multiple tables may be referenced. 4.4. Interfaces Group MIB 4.4.1. Interfaces Table (ifTable, ifXtable) The following specifies how the Interfaces Group defined in the IF- MIB will be used for the management of interfaces created by this MIB module. Values of specific ifTable objects for circuit interfaces are as follows: Object Name Value of Object =========== ===================================================== ifIndex Each entry in the circuit table is represented by an ifEntry. The value of ifIndex is defined by the agent such that it complies with any internal numbering scheme. ifType The value of ifType is specific to the type of circuit desired. For example, the value for frame relay virtual circuits is frDlciEndPt(193) and the value for ATM virtual circuits is atmVciEndPt(194). If the circuit is to be used in RMON, propVirtual(53) SHOULD NOT be used. ifMtu Set to the size in octets of the largest packet, frame or PDU supported on the circuit. If this is not known to the ifMtu object shall be set to zero. If the circuit is not modeled as a packet-oriented interface, this object SHOULD NOT be supported and result in noSuchInstance. ifSpeed The peak bandwidth in bits per second available for use. This will equal either the ifSpeed of the logical link if policing is not enforced or the maximum information rate otherwise. If neither is known, the ifSpeed object shall be set to zero. ifPhysAddress This will always be an octet string of zero length. ifInOctets The number of octets received by the network (ingress) for this circuit. This counter should count only octets included the header information and user data. If the device does not support statistics on the circuit, this object MUST NOT be supported and result in noSuchInstance. ifInUcastPkts The unerrored number of frames, packets or PDUs received by the network (ingress) for this circuit. ifInDiscards The number of received frames, packets or PDUs for this circuit discarded due to ingress buffer congestion and traffic policing. If the device does not support statistics on the circuit, this object MUST NOT be supported and result in noSuchInstance. ifInErrors The number of received frames, packets or PDUs for this circuit that are discarded because of an error. ifOutOctets The number of octets sent by the network (egress) for this circuit. This counter should count only octets included the header information and user data. If the device does not support statistics on the circuit, this object MUST NOT be supported and result in ifOutUcastpkts The number of unerrored frames, packets or PDUs sent by the network (egress) for this circuit. If the device does not support statistics on the circuit, this object MUST NOT be supported and result in noSuchInstance. ifOutDiscards The number of frames, packets or PDUs discarded in the egress direction for this circuit. Possible reasons are as follows: policing, congestion. If the device does not support statistics on the circuit, this object MUST NOT be supported and result in ifOutErrors The number of frames, packets or PDUs discarded for this circuit in the egress direction because of an error. If the device does not support statistics on the circuit, this object MUST NOT be supported and result in noSuchInstance. ifInBroadcastPkts If the device does not support statistics on the circuit, this object MUST NOT be supported and result in noSuchInstance. ifOutBroadcastPkts If the device does not support Broadcast packets on the circuit, this object should not be supported and result in noSuchInstance. ifLinkUpDownTrapEnable Set to false(2). Circuits often have a predefined notification mechanism. In such instances, the number of notification sent would be doubled if this were enabled. ifPromiscuousMode Set to false(2). If the circuit is not modeled as a packet-oriented interface, this object SHOULD NOT be supported and result in noSuchInstance. ifConnectorPresent Set to false(2). All other values are supported as stated in the IF-MIB documentation. 4.4.2. Stack Table (ifStackTable) This section describes by example how to use ifStackTable to represent the relationship between circuit and logical link interfaces. Example 1: Circuits (C) on a frame relay logical link. +---+ +---+ +---+ \| C \| \| C \| \| C \| +-+-+ +-+-+ +-+-+ \| \| \| +---+------+------+---+ \| Frame Relay Service \| +----------+----------+ \| Physical Layer \| +---------------------+ The assignment of the index values could for example be (for a V35 physical interface): ifIndex Description ======= =========== 1 frDlciEndPt (type 193) 4 frameRelayService (type 44) 5 v35 (type 33) The ifStackTable is then used to show the relationships between each interface. HigherLayer LowerLayer =========== ========== 0 1 In the above example the frame relay logical link could just as easily be of type frameRelay(32) instead. Example 2: Circuits (C) on a AAL5 logical link. \| AAL5 Layer \| \| ATM Layer \| The assignment of the index values could for example be (for a DS3 physical interface): 1 atmVciEndPt (type 194) 4 aal5 (type 49) 5 atm (type 37) 6 ds3 (type 30) 4.5. Other MIB Modules There is no explicit relation to any other media specific MIB module beyond the fact that rows in multiple tables may be referenced. 5. Structure of the MIB Module The CIRCUIT-IF-MIB consists of the following components: ciCircuitTable ciIfMapTable Refer to the compliance statement defined within for a definition of what objects MUST be implemented. 5.1. ciCircuitTable The ciCircuitTable is the central control table for operations of the Circuit Interfaces MIB. It provides a means of mapping a circuit to its ifIndex as well as forcing the insertion of an ifIndex into the ifTable. The agent is responsible for managing the ifIndex itself such that no device dependent indexing scheme is violated. A row in this table MUST exist in order for a row to exist in any other table in this MIB module. 5.2. ciIfMapTable This table maps the ifIndex back to the circuit that it is associated with. 6. Object Definitions CIRCUIT-IF-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN MODULE-IDENTITY, OBJECT-TYPE, mib-2, Gauge32 FROM SNMPv2-SMI TEXTUAL-CONVENTION, RowStatus, TimeStamp, RowPointer, StorageType FROM SNMPv2-TC MODULE-COMPLIANCE, OBJECT-GROUP FROM SNMPv2-CONF ifIndex, InterfaceIndex FROM IF-MIB; circuitIfMIB MODULE-IDENTITY LAST-UPDATED "200201030000Z" -- January 3, 2002 ORGANIZATION "IETF Frame Relay Service MIB Working Group" CONTACT-INFO "IETF Frame Relay Service MIB (frnetmib) Working Group WG Charter: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ frnetmib-charter.html WG-email: frnetmib@sunroof.eng.sun.com Subscribe: frnetmib-request@sunroof.eng.sun.com Email Archive: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf-mail-archive/frnetmib Chair: Andy Malis Vivace Networks Email: Andy.Malis@vivacenetworks.com WG editor: Robert Steinberger Paradyne Networks and Fujitsu Network Communications Email: robert.steinberger@fnc.fujitsu.com Co-author: Orly Nicklass EMail: Orly_n@rad.co.il" "The MIB module to allow insertion of selected circuit into the ifTable." REVISION "200201030000Z" -- January 3, 2002 "Initial version, published as RFC 3201" ::= { mib-2 94 } -- Textual Conventions CiFlowDirection ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION "The direction of data flow thru a circuit. transmit(1) - Only transmitted data receive(2) - Only received data both(3) - Both transmitted and received data." SYNTAX INTEGER { transmit(1), receive(2), ciObjects OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { circuitIfMIB 1 } ciCapabilities OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { circuitIfMIB 2 } ciConformance OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { circuitIfMIB 3 } -- The Circuit Interface Circuit Table -- This table is used to define and display the circuits that -- are added to the ifTable. It maps circuits to their respective -- ifIndex values. ciCircuitTable OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF CiCircuitEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current "The Circuit Interface Circuit Table." ::= { ciObjects 1 } ciCircuitEntry OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX CiCircuitEntry "An entry in the Circuit Interface Circuit Table." INDEX { ciCircuitObject, ciCircuitFlow } ::= { ciCircuitTable 1 } CiCircuitEntry ::= -- Index Control Variables ciCircuitObject RowPointer, ciCircuitFlow CiFlowDirection, ciCircuitStatus RowStatus, -- Data variables ciCircuitIfIndex InterfaceIndex, ciCircuitCreateTime TimeStamp, -- Data Persistence ciCircuitStorageType StorageType ciCircuitObject OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX RowPointer "This value contains the RowPointer that uniquely describes the circuit that is to be added to this table. Any RowPointer that will force the size of OBJECT IDENTIFIER of the row to grow beyond the legal limit MUST be rejected. The purpose of this object is to point a network manager to the table in which the circuit was created as well as define the circuit on which the interface is defined. Valid tables for this object include the frCircuitTable from the Frame Relay DTE MIB(FRAME-RELAY-DTE-MIB), the frPVCEndptTable from the Frame Relay Service MIB (FRNETSERV-MIB), and the aal5VccTable from the ATM MIB (ATM MIB). However, including circuits from other MIB tables IS NOT prohibited." ::= { ciCircuitEntry 1 } ciCircuitFlow OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX CiFlowDirection "The direction of data flow through the circuit for which the virtual interface is defined. The following define the information that the virtual interface will report. transmit(1) - Only transmitted frames receive(2) - Only received frames both(3) - Both transmitted and received frames. It is recommended that the ifDescr of the circuit interfaces that are not both(3) SHOULD have text warning the operators that the particular interface represents only half the traffic on the circuit." ciCircuitStatus OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX RowStatus MAX-ACCESS read-create "The status of the current row. This object is used to add, delete, and disable rows in this table. When the status changes to active(1), a row will also be added to the interface map table below and a row will be added to the ifTable. These rows SHOULD not be removed until the status is changed from active(1). The value of ifIndex for the row that is added to the ifTable is determined by the agent and MUST follow the rules of the ifTable. The value of ifType for that interface will be frDlciEndPt(193) for a frame relay circuit, atmVciEndPt(194) for an ATM circuit, or another ifType defining the circuit type for any other circuit. When this object is set to destroy(6), the associated row in the interface map table will be removed and the ifIndex will be removed from the ifTable. Removing the ifIndex MAY initiate a chain of events that causes changes to other tables as well. The rows added to this table MUST have a valid object identifier for ciCircuitObject. This means that the referenced object must exist and it must be in a table that supports circuits. The object referenced by ciCircuitObject MUST exist prior to transitioning a row to active(1). If at any point the object referenced by ciCircuitObject does not exist or the row containing it is not in the active(1) state, the status SHOULD either age out the row or report notReady(3). The effects transitioning from active(1) to notReady(3) are the same as those caused by setting the status to destroy(6). Each row in this table relies on information from other MIB modules. The rules persistence of data SHOULD follow the same rules as those of the underlying MIB module. For example, if the circuit defined by ciCircuitObject would normally be stored in non-volatile memory, then the row SHOULD also be non-volatile." ciCircuitIfIndex OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX InterfaceIndex MAX-ACCESS read-only "The ifIndex that the agent assigns to this row." ciCircuitCreateTime OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX TimeStamp "This object returns the value of sysUpTime at the time the value of ciCircuitStatus last transitioned to active(1). If ciCircuitStatus has never been active(1), this object SHOULD return 0." ciCircuitStorageType OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX StorageType "The storage type used for this row." -- The Circuit Interface Map Table -- This table maps the ifIndex values that are assigned to -- rows in the circuit table back to the objects that define -- the circuits. ciIfMapTable OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF CiIfMapEntry "The Circuit Interface Map Table." ciIfMapEntry OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX CiIfMapEntry "An entry in the Circuit Interface Map Table." INDEX { ifIndex } ::= { ciIfMapTable 1 } CiIfMapEntry ::= -- Mapped Object Variables ciIfMapObject RowPointer, ciIfMapFlow CiFlowDirection ciIfMapObject OBJECT-TYPE "This value contains the value of RowPointer that corresponds to the current ifIndex." ::= { ciIfMapEntry 1 } ciIfMapFlow OBJECT-TYPE "The value contains the value of ciCircuitFlow that -- Change tracking metrics ciIfLastChange OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX TimeStamp MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current "The value of sysUpTime at the most recent change to ciCircuitStatus for any row in ciCircuitTable." ciIfNumActive OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Gauge32 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current "The number of active rows in ciCircuitTable." -- Conformance Information ciMIBGroups OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { ciConformance 1 } ciMIBCompliances OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { ciConformance 2 } -- Compliance Statements ciCompliance MODULE-COMPLIANCE "The compliance statement for SNMP entities which support of the Circuit Interfaces MIB module. This group defines the minimum level of support required for compliance." MODULE -- this module MANDATORY-GROUPS { ciCircuitGroup, ciIfMapGroup, ciStatsGroup } OBJECT ciCircuitStatus SYNTAX INTEGER { active(1) } -- subset of RowStatus MIN-ACCESS read-only "Row creation can be done outside of the scope of the SNMP protocol. If this object is implemented with max-access of read-only, then the only value that MUST be returned is active(1)." OBJECT ciCircuitStorageType "It is legal to support ciCircuitStorageType as read- only as long as the value reported in consistent with the actual storage mechanism employed within the agent." ::= { ciMIBCompliances 1 } -- Units of Conformance ciCircuitGroup OBJECT-GROUP OBJECTS { ciCircuitStatus, ciCircuitIfIndex, ciCircuitCreateTime, ciCircuitStorageType "A collection of required objects providing information from the circuit table." ::= { ciMIBGroups 1 } ciIfMapGroup OBJECT-GROUP ciIfMapObject, ciIfMapFlow information from the interface map table." ciStatsGroup OBJECT-GROUP ciIfLastChange, ciIfNumActive "A collection of statistical metrics used to help manage the ciCircuitTable." This document was produced by the Frame Relay Service MIB Working Group. [1] Harrington, D., Presuhn, R. and B. Wijnen, "An Architecture for Describing SNMP Management Frameworks", RFC 2571, April 1999. [2] Rose, M. and K. McCloghrie, "Structure and Identification of Management Information for TCP/IP-based Internets", STD 16, RFC 1155, May 1990. [3] Rose, M. and K. McCloghrie, "Concise MIB Definitions", STD 16, [4] Rose, M., "A Convention for Defining Traps for use with the SNMP", RFC 1215, March 1991. [5] McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D., Schoenwaelder, J., Case, J., Rose, M. and S. Waldbusser, "Structure of Management Information Version 2 (SMIv2)", STD 58, RFC 2578, April 1999. M. and S. Waldbusser, "Textual Conventions for SMIv2", STD 58, RFC 2579, April 1999. M. and S. Waldbusser, "Conformance Statements for SMIv2", STD 58, RFC 2580, April 1999. [8] Case, J., Fedor, M., Schoffstall, M. and J. Davin, "Simple Network Management Protocol", STD 15, RFC 1157, May 1990. [9] Case, J., McCloghrie, K., Rose, M. and S. Waldbusser, "Introduction to Community-based SNMPv2", RFC 1901, January [10] Case, J., McCloghrie, K., Rose, M. and S. Waldbusser, "Transport Mappings for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)", RFC 1906, January 1996. [11] Case, J., Harrington, D., Presuhn, R. and B. Wijnen, "Message Processing and Dispatching for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)", RFC 2572, April 1999. [12] Blumenthal, U. and B. Wijnen, "User-based Security Model (USM) for version 3 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv3)", RFC 2574, April 1999. [13] Case, J., McCloghrie, K., Rose, M. and S. Waldbusser, "Protocol Operations for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)", RFC 1905, January 1996. [14] Levi, D., Meyer, P. and B. Stewart, "SNMPv3 Applications", RFC [15] Wijnen, B., Presuhn, R. and K. McCloghrie, "View-based Access Control Model (VACM) for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)", RFC 2575, April 1999. [16] Case, J., Mundy, R., Partain, D. and B. Stewart, "Introduction to Version 3 of the Internet-standard Network Management Framework", RFC 2570, April 1999. [17] McCloghrie, K. and F. Kastenholz, "The Interfaces Group MIB", [18] Rehbehn, K. and D. Fowler, "Definitions of Managed Objects for Frame Relay Service", RFC 2954, October 2000. [19] Waldbusser, S., "Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base Version 2 using SMIv2", RFC 2021, January 1997. [20] Brown, C. and F. Baker, "Management Information Base for Frame Relay DTEs Using SMIv2", RFC 2115, September 1997. [21] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. [22] Tesink, K., "Definitions of Managed Objects for ATM Management", RFC 2515, February 1999. Information Base", RFC 2819, May 2000. There are a number of management objects defined in this MIB that have a MAX-ACCESS clause of read-write and/or read-create. Such objects may be considered sensitive or vulnerable in some network environments. The support for SET operations in a non-secure environment without proper protection can have a negative effect on network operations. SNMPv1 by itself is not a secure environment. Even if the network itself is secure (for example by using IPSec), even then, there is no control as to who on the secure network is allowed to access and GET/SET (read/change/create/delete) the objects in this MIB. It is recommended that the implementers consider the security features as provided by the SNMPv3 framework. Specifically, the use of the User-based Security Model RFC 2274 [12] and the View-based Access Control Model RFC 2275 [15] is recommended. It is then a customer/user responsibility to ensure that the SNMP entity giving access to an instance of this MIB, is properly configured to give access to the objects only to those principals (users) that have legitimate rights to indeed GET or SET (change/create/delete) them. New ifTypes defined specifically for use in this MIB module SHOULD be in the form of ***EndPt. This is similar to frDlciEndPt(193) and atmVciEndPt(194) which are already defined. Robert Steinberger 2801 Telecom Parkway EMail: robert.steinberger@fnc.fujitsu.com Orly Nicklass, Ph.D 12 Hanechoshet Street Tel Aviv, Israel 69710 Phone: 972 3 7659969 EMail: Orly_n@rad.co.il 12. Full Copyright Statement Status: PROPOSED STANDARD	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line325
__label__cc	0.573822	0.426178	Julia Louis-Dreyfus Your Out of your Freakin Mind! This was the reaction Julia gave when she was asked to engage in a 'Courageous Conversation' about marriage equality by Eric McCormack! Eric thinks we could do a little better! We certainly could do worse than giving a little donation to our allies in the Courage Campaign. http://www.couragecampaign.org/JuliaAndEric Labels: Courage Campaign Maryland Postpones New Transgender Driver License Gender Marker Requirement Equality Maryland has some good news. MVA has postponed a change to it's gender marker requirements for transender people. The previous change would have required that a transgender person produce a birth certificate in order to document the requested gender marker change on his/her driver licence. That requirement, should I still be living in Maryland, would have denied me the opportunity to live my life in the pursuit of happiness as my birth state of Ohio is one of two states that will not amend or issue a new birth certificate regardless if sexual reassignment surgery had been performed or not. Thank god for little mercies, but wait! They are not finished yet! They admit that the procedure that has been in place for a decade has been effective but they are still considering making statutory changes. This leaves the door open so as EQMD states "this is a victory" for now insuring we don't slide backwards but it is only that, only a temporary stay. Please support Equality Maryland's efforts across the board! email from Equality Maryland: As you know, the Maryland Vehicle Administration (MVA) was looking at requiring an amended birth certificate in order for transgender individuals to update the gender marker on their driver's license. It was scheduled to go into effect on January 1, 2010. This would have required going through the court system. Additionally, a birth certificate change can only be done if the sex of an individual has been changed by surgical procedure. After literally hundreds of calls and e-mails into the offices of the Governor and the Attorney General, we just received wonderful news - the proposed policy has been halted. The Attorney General's office shared the following statement from the MVA: MVA believes that the current policy on gender designation which has been in practice for almost a decade is secure and the procedures we have adopted ensures reasonable accommodation for individuals who are making a gender transition change. At this time, MVA is not effecting a change to that policy. However, written legal advice received from the Office of Attorney General clearly states that MVA's current policy does not meet all statutory requirements and we are therefore continuing to work with the Office of Attorney General before making a final determination on whether a policy update is appropriate. The MVA intends to stick with current procedures; however, they continue to assert that the policy may not meet all statutory requirements. Equality Maryland and our partners will work to convene relevant stakeholders to either secure a change in the statutory requirements or assess possible policy revisions. We have already scheduled a strategy meeting in the New Year. Having a legal identity document that does not match a person's gender exposes them to potential risk not just of embarrassment, but of harassment as well. We are pleased that the MVA was willing to halt the implementation of this dangerous policy change in order to allow for constructive dialogue. There is still work to do, but for now let's take a moment to celebrate. All the best to you and yours this holiday season, Morgan Meneses-Sheets Equality Maryland Equality Maryland press release: MVA Delays Implementation of Harmful License Policy P.S. Support our efforts to protect the rights of transgender Marylanders! We are on the front lines with you everyday working to update and enhance the protections that exist for transgender Marylanders and avoid rollbacks like the proposed policy. Help us keep up the fight by visiting Equality Maryland.org today and making a donation! Labels: Equality Maryland, Maryland Driver Licence Pope 'led cover-up of child abuse by priests' London Evening Standard Catholic priests continue to rape babies. Source: Thalamus Center: "The Pope played a leading role in a systematic cover-up of child sex abuse by Roman Catholic priests, according to a shocking documentary to be screened by the BBC tonight." While he was a cardinal, ultra conservative Joseph Ratzinger who was then head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a Vatican edict Read the previously secret document to Catholic bishops all over the world, instructing them to put the Church's interests ahead of child safety. Read this and much more by Father Marty Kurylowicz at the Thalamus Center - Early Childhood Psychological Development Growing Up Gay Prior to the recent additional public disclosure of the latest catholic aiding and abetting of pedophile catholic priests, Archbishop Vincent Nichols Chairman of the Catholic Office for the Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults, attacked the BBC for what it considered 'sensational tactics' regarding it's reporting of catholic child abuse and issued a statement that "The Catholic Church in England and Wales is doing so,(apply[ing] the law of the Church to allegations and offences of child abuse) with transparency and care, and, in every case, cooperating fully and immediately with public authorities."Read Vincent Nichols statement Once again the catholic pope's duplicitous, insidious and demonic insistence to cultivate a secretive society where the raping of children is promoted and protected is being laid bare, exposed to the world. Recent developments have proven Archbishop Vincent Nichols to be in collusion with the Vatican and also a liar as Irish #Catholic's are accused of pedophile priest cover-up http://bit.ly/4Uvqpy and second bishop resigns while police promise justice http://bit.ly/5xdPYO How long must we allow catholic criminals to rape babies before our governments protect the most innocent? How long will the Catholic church be allowed to defer justice by financing and sensationalizing its war against transgender and homosexual people? Apparently not very long as the Irish police have sworn to break it's 2,000 year pact of cooperation with the Vatican and pursue criminal charges against the church. [cynically written] Read complete article - London Evening Standard – standard.co.uk Labels: Catholic Child Abuse, Justice denied Integrity Uganda 12 Days of Blessings Episcopal Church's Christian Response No doubt you have been following recent news about the draconian Anti-Homosexuality Bill that is currently before the Ugandan Parliament. If passed, LGBT Ugandans could be punished with life imprisonment or even death. Now, more than ever, LGBT Anglicans in Uganda need our prayers and financial support. That's why Integrity USA's Board of Directors has designated 10% of all donations received during the 100,000 Blessings campaign to the Hopkins Fund for Global Mission—almost all of which will be allocated to the ministry of Integrity Uganda during 2010. It costs $700 per month to provide the members of Integrity Uganda with a safe meeting space, public transportation to worship, and emergency assistance with basic living expenses. Many members have little or no income--they have been fired from their jobs and ostracized by their families because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Health care for malaria and HIV/AIDS is financially unobtainable for some. During Christmastide, we're asking you to make a gift to the 100,000 Blessings campaign so that Integrity USA can continue providing vital aid to our sisters and brothers in Uganda . Our goal is to raise at least $8400 for Integrity Uganda during the next 12 days. Click here to visit the campaign website and make a donation! A contribution of $1000 or more will qualify you for lifetime membership. If you wish, you may give in honor or memory of a loved one. Remember that donations to Integrity are tax-deductible.--Posted By Integrity USA to Walking With Integrity at 12/24/2009 10:08:00 AM Posted by planetransgender at 10:54 AM 2 comments: Links to this post Labels: Integrity USA Breakin News: Iranians, Ethiopians Seen Moving Towards Israel This just in: According to sources masses of Persian Maji's have been seen moving towards Bethlehem Israel to find a child and plan to call Him Immanuel, which means,"God With us." The Egyptian Times reports "King Herod Fooled, Furious at Deception". King Herod ever mindful of the Iranian terrorism threat was moved to action. The Palace homeland security interned the Maji and using enhanced interrogation technics ascertained that a new star had been discovered and that three Maji priests of the Zarathustra religion had stopped at the Walmart and purchased gifts of gold, and frankincense and myrrh while enroute to the Christ Child. "King Herod is really pissed" says a unnamed palace source who wished to remain anonymous. The King a orthodox conservative fearful that a new culture of love and inclusiveness might result acted on the information gleaned from the water boarded Maji. The Maji under interrogation had disclosed the exact time the star appeared. Herod then dispatched blackwater agents to the location to find the child and bring him back however they returned and reported the child was not to be found at that address. King Orders Death To All Children in Bethlehem vicinity. The Orthodox king Herod fearing that a new religion uniting Persians and Ethiopians alike might be spawned by this Christ child, issued a decree all infants are to be slain in Bethlehem. Last updated 15 hrs BC. Labels: Jesus Christ Christmas message from Lorri L. Jean LA Gay and Lesbian Center We will be there for you. Labels: LA Gay and Lesbian Center Catholic's rejoice in United Nations "Slap to the face" to Transgender people "This was a great victory for the natural law and the family and a slap in the face to the radicals," Austin Ruse, president of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM) was quoted as saying in a interview with Life site news titled UN General Assembly Eliminates Reference to "Sexual Orientation," Gender Identity. "Radicals" is a obvious reference to Transgender and Gay people. A "SLAP in the FACE" is violence. Satisfaction is what the Catholic church enjoys in committing violence against transgender and gay people. Its simple. The Catholic church would rather see you on the end of this than on this. Labels: Catholicism hate mongering, UN Gay rights Rwandan Parliament to Vote on Criminalizing Homosexuality Breaking News: Rwandan Parliament to Vote on Criminalizing Homosexuality. The lower house of the Rwandan Parliament will vote on a draft revision of the penal code that will, for the first time, make homosexuality a crime in Rwanda. The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) has learned that the proposed Article 217 of the draft Penal Code Act will criminalize "[a]ny person who practices, encourages or sensitizes people of the same sex, to sexual relation or any sexual practice." Rwanda's Chamber of Deputies will vote on the draft code December 16, 2009. If the Chamber of Deputies approves, the draft code will likely go before the Rwandan Senate in early 2010. Article 217 violates Rwandans' basic human rights and is contradictory to the Rwandan Constitution as well as various regional and international conventions. IGLHRC, the Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL), and Rwanda's Horizon Community Association (HOCA) will shortly issue a call to action to demand that the Rwandan Parliament withdraw this article. We urge the international community to act against this proposed law and support the equality, dignity, and privacy of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Rwanda. This draft provision targeting LGBT people closely follows the introduction of a similar measure in neighboring Uganda, where the nation's parliament is currently debating an Anti-Homosexuality Bill. The proposed Ugandan law would prohibit all LGBT activism and organizing, would further criminalize consensual same-sex conduct between adults, which is already illegal in Uganda, and in some cases apply the death penalty. Find out more information about LGBT Human Rights in Rwanda %raquo; Labels: Rwanda New York State To Become Seventh State to Offer Job Protections to Transgender Public Employees Governor Paterson To Sign Executive Order Prohibiting Discrimination in State Employment on the Basis of Gender Identity! Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund Hails Governor Paterson's Signing Tomorrow of Executive Order Barring Discrimination Against Transgender State Employees NEW YORK, NEW YORK - The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) hails New York State Gov. David A. Paterson's planned signing tomorrow of an executive order barring discrimination against transgender state employees. New York will become the seventh state to protect public employees from discrimination based on gender identity or expression, after Delaware, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania. "Like everyone else, transgender employees deserve to be judged on their ability to do the job, and not on who they are," TLDEF executive director Michael Silverman said. "This executive order will ensure that hard-working transgender employees of New York State can work without fear of discrimination, and provide for themselves and their families," he added. “We applaud Governor Paterson for taking this important step for transgender equal rights.” Transgender people face tremendous discrimination in the workplace. Forty-seven percent of transgender people report being fired, or denied a job or promotion just because of who they are. In one recent Florida case, 17-year-old Zikerria Bellamy was denied a job at a McDonald's restaurant because she is transgender. Miss Bellamy applied online for the job, but after managers learned that she is transgender, she received a voicemail message from one of the them telling her, "You will not get hired. We do not hire faots." TLDEF filed a complaint on Miss Bellamy's behalf on Dec. 7. Few protections exist for transgender people who experience employment discrimination. In 38 states, there is no law protecting people from being fired because they are transgender. In New York, while a number of municipalities protect transgender workers from on-the-job discrimination, there is no statewide law offering such protection. The Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act, which would add gender identity and expression to the state's non-discrimination law, has been repeatedly introduced and passed by the state Assembly, but it has never been passed by the state Senate. Federal law similarly offers no job protection for transgender people. The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) would address discrimination in the workplace by making it illegal to fire, refuse to hire, or refuse to promote an employee based on the person's gender identity or sexual orientation. ENDA has been stalled in the House of Representatives despite demands by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans that Congress take swift action to pass the legislation. "We applaud Gov. Paterson for recognizing that transgender New Yorkers should have the chance to earn a living and provide for their families without being refused a job or fired for reasons that have nothing to do with their ability to do the job," Silverman added. Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund is committed to ending discrimination based upon gender identity and expression, and to achieving equality for transgender people through public education, test-case litigation, direct legal services, community organizing and public policy efforts. Labels: Governor Paterson NY Fox Gene Determines Sexual Organs: ON or OFF! "...may eventually remove the need for surgery in gender reassignment treatment." Imagine a doctor visit with threapist note in hand and leaving the office with a blue pill for Boy or pink pill Girl. Questioning may be a multicolor, who knows! Gene that keeps females, female uncovered by ‘sex reversal’ in adult female miceGene that keeps females, female uncovered by ‘sex reversal’ in adult female mice. By ‘turning off’ a gene Foxl2, scientist have seen ovary cells become more like testes’ in an adult mammal, according to new landmark research by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). Scientists have shown that this single gene, which is found on a non-sex chromosome, is solely responsible for keeping the ovary as an ovary in adults and acts by directly suppressing the male-promoting gene Sox9. Using genetic tricks to turning off the gene Foxl2 in adult female mice, scientists made a dramatic change to cell types in the ovary, making them more closely resemble those in a testis. The cells produced testosterone and organised into structures resembling those responsible for sperm production (although sperm was not produced). The research has wide-ranging implications for reproductive medicine and challenges several long held assumptions about sex determination; that female development happens by default, is fixed and relies solely on the X and Y chromosome. The Foxl2 gene was thought to be important for normal ovary development and for female fertility, but until now its role in maintaining the adult ovary, was unknown. Dr Robin Lovell Badge, from the Medical Research Council’s, National Institute for Medical Research said: “We take it for granted that we maintain the sex we are born with, including whether we have testes or ovaries. But this work shows that the activity of a single gene, Foxl2, is all that prevents adult ovary cells turning into cells found in testes. If it is possible to make these changes in adult humans it may eventually remove the need for surgery in gender reassignment treatment. If this does become possible, it’s likely that while treated individuals would make the right hormones for their new sex, fertility would be lost”. Dr Mathias Treier, Group Leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory said: “We were surprised by the results. We expected the mice to stop producing oocytes (eggs), but what happened was much more dramatic: somatic cells which support the developing egg took on the characteristics of the cells which usually support developing sperm, and the gender-specific hormone-producing cells also switched from a female to a male cell type.” These findings could help to understand and eventually treat certain conditions affecting fertility and sexual development, such as the masculinising effects of menopause seen in some women and some cases of premature ovarian failure. It also offers for the first time the suggestion that fertility treatment options might be available for sex differentiation conditions in children with intersex conditions. 1. “Somatic Sex Reprogramming of Adult Ovaries to Testes by FOXL2 Ablation” will be published in the Journal Cell. 2. For almost 100 years the Medical Research Council has improved the health of people in the UK and around the world by supporting the highest quality science. The MRC invests in world-class scientists. It has produced 29 Nobel Prize winners and sustains a flourishing environment for internationally recognised research. The MRC focuses on making an impact and provides the financial muscle and scientific expertise behind medical breakthroughs, including the first antibiotic penicillin, the structure of DNA and the lethal link between smoking and cancer. Today MRC funded scientists tackle research into the major health challenges of the 21st century 3. The European Molecular Biology Laboratory is a basic research institute funded by public research monies from 20 member states (Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom) and associate member state Australia. Research at EMBL is conducted by approximately 80 independent groups covering the spectrum of molecular biology. The Laboratory has five units: the main Laboratory in Heidelberg, and Outstations in Hinxton (the European Bioinformatics Institute), Grenoble, Hamburg, and Monterotondo near Rome. The cornerstones of EMBL’s mission are: to perform basic research in molecular biology; to train scientists, students and visitors at all levels; to offer vital services to scientists in the member states; to develop new instruments and methods in the life sciences and to actively engage in technology transfer activities. EMBL’s International PhD Programme has a student body of about 170. The Laboratory also sponsors an active Science and Society programme. Visitors from the press and public are welcome. Press contact: 020 7637 6011 press.office@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk Posted by planetransgender at 8:20 AM 2 comments: Links to this post Labels: Fox Gene Filipino Transgender Woman Sass Rogando Sasot’s Inspirational speech at the UN "Reclaiming the lucidity of our hearts" Speech transcription courtesy of Society of Transsexual Women of the Philippines (STRAP) “Opposing grave human rights violations on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity” ECOSOC Chamber, United Nations Headquarters, New York Thursday, December 10th 2009 at 1.15 p.m. – 2.45 p.m Let me begin by expressing my warmest gratitude to the Permanent Missions to the United Nations of Argentina, Brazil, Croatia, France, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden, and to the coalition of non-government organizations defending the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. Thank you for making this event possible and for giving us this opportunity to contribute our voices to this ongoing conversation for change. Our esteemed participants, beautiful beings, and profound expressions of this Universe, a warm, vibrant, and dignified afternoon to each and every one of you! Burned at stake. Strangled and hanged. Raped and shot and stabbed to death. Throats slashed. Left to bleed to death. These are just some of the ways transgender people were killed in different parts of the world, in different times in the history of humanity. These are just the tip, the violent tip, of the iceberg of our suffering. I can go on and on, reciting a litany of indignity upon indignity, but my time is not enough to name all the acts of atrocious cruelty that transgender people experience. But what is the point of counting the dead bodies of our fellow human beings, of narrating how we suffer, and of opposing violence against us if we don’t challenge the root of our oppression? The sincerity of our intention to address the human rights violations against transgender people rests upon the depth of our appreciation of human diversity and the breadth of our understanding of why transgender people suffer these indignities. The root of our oppression is the belief that there is only one and only one way to be male or female. And this starts from our birth. Upon a quick look on our genitals, we are assigned into either male or female. This declaration is more than just a statement of what’s between our legs. It is a prescription of how we should and must live our lives. It is a dictation of what we should think about ourselves, the roles we should play, the clothes we should wear, the way we should move, and the people with whom we should have romantic or erotic relationships. But the existence of people whose identities, bodies, and experiences do not conform to gender norms is a proof that this belief is wrong. Nonetheless, even though the truth of human diversity is so evident and clear to us, we choose to hang on to our current beliefs about gender, a belief that rejects reality and forces people to live a lie. This is the belief that leads to attacks on our physical and mental integrity, to different forms of discrimination against us, and to our social marginalization. This is the belief that led to Joan of Arc to be burned at stake because she was cross-dressing. This is the belief that motivated the rape and murder of Brandon Teena on December 31, 1993. This is the belief that led to the stabbing to death of Ebru Soykan, a prominent transgender human rights activist in Turkey, on March 10, 2009. This is the belief that led to the arrest of 67 Filipino workers in Saudi Arabia for cross-dressing in June this year. This is the belief that keeps the list of transgender people being harassed, killed, and violated growing year after year. And it is very unfortunate that our legal systems, religions, and cultures are being used to justify, glorify, and sanctify the violent expressions of this belief. So we question: Is human life less precious than this belief? Is our right to life, to dignified existence, to liberty, and pursuit of happiness subservient to gender norms? This doesn’t need a complicated answer. You want to be born, to live, and die with dignity – so do we! You want the freedom to express the uniqueness of the life force within you – so do we! You want to live with authenticity – so do we! Now is the time that we realize that diversity does not diminish our humanity; that respecting diversity does not make us less human; that understanding and accepting our differences do not make us cruel. And in fact, history has shown us that denying and rejecting human variability is the one that has lead us to inflict indignity upon indignity towards each other. We are human beings of transgender experience. We are your children, your partners, your friends, your siblings, your students, your teachers, your workers, your citizens. Let our lives delight in the same freedom of expression that you enjoy as you manifest to the outside world your unique and graceful selves. Let us live together in the fertile ground of our common humanity for this is the ground where religion is not a motivation to hate but a way to appreciate the profound beauty and mysteries of life; for this is the ground where laws are not tools to eliminate those who are different from us but are there to facilitate our harmonious relationship with each other; for this is the ground where culture is not a channel to express the brutality of our limited perception but a means to express the nobility of our souls; for this is the ground where the promise of the universality of human rights can be fulfilled! And we will be in this ground if we let the sanity of our desires, the tenacity of our compassion, and above all, the lucidity of our hearts to reign in our lives. by: Sass Rogando Sasot, transgender activist, Society of Transsexual Women of the Philippines (STRAP) Links to the entire webcast: In English: Click Here En español: haga clic aquí Special thanks to: bird of paradox, UK for writing about this and to Stephanie Stevens for posting this on Transgender News and helping to give this incredible speech the attention it deserves. Thank you. Labels: Sass Rogando Sasot, Society of Transsexual Women of the Philippines (STRAP) Governor Paterson To Make Special Policy Announcement for Transgender New Yorkers A message from the TLDEF: Join Us Wednesday for Governor Paterson's Special Policy Announcement for Transgender New Yorkers We've got a special treat for all of our friends in the New York City area. And we're pretty sure that the rest of you will like it, too. On Wednesday, December 16, New York State Governor David A. Paterson will join us to make a major policy announcement affecting the lives of transgender New Yorkers. And you're invited to be there to hear it first! The Governor's office has asked us not to reveal what he will announce, but I can tell you that you'll definitely want to be there to hear it for yourself on Wednesday morning. Who: New York State Governor David A. Paterson What: A major policy announcement for the transgender community in New York State Where: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, 208 West 13th Street, Manhattan When: Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 10:30 a.m. Arrive early - doors open at 10 a.m. Why: To hear Governor Paterson's announcement and thank him for his tireless efforts to achieve equal rights for New York State's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. It's important that we have a strong turnout to thank the Governor for his tireless efforts on behalf of the entire LGBT community in New York State. I'm incredibly excited about what the Governor is doing and I know that you will be, too. We hope we'll see you on Wednesday! Michael Silverman Transgender legal.org Jesus Catalan America's Most Wanted For The Murder of Transgender Woman Paulina Ibarra Have you seen this Man? Jesus Catalan is wanted in connection with the brutal slaying of Paulina Ibarra [right] after his blood soaked clothing was turned over to police by acquaintances soon after her murder. Aliases: Brian Nanes, Luis Santiago Sex: Male Race: Hispanic Current Age: 25 Height: 5'9" Weight: 140 lbs. Hair (Color, Description, Facial Hair): Black Scars and Tattoos: Unknown design on right arm Traits and Habits: Drug user, may use methamphetamines, Frequent sexual encounters with transgender women Last Seen: Hollywood , CA Other Possible Locations: Los Angeles , CA Believed to be homeless. Known to frequent the Hollywood and Rampart areas. If you have information about Jesus Catalan please contact AMW at 1-800-CRIME-TV OR CLICK HERE for a link to AMW. Posted by planetransgender at 7:37 PM 2 comments: Links to this post Labels: Jesus Catalan, Paulina Ibarra Dallas Rally Human Rights Day 2009 Date: Saturday, December 12, 2009 Location: Dealey Plaza Street: 411 Elm St. City/Town: Dallas, TX Host: Equality March TexasContact Shawn Amoei @ 972-603-5418 or rxa2929@gmail.com for further info Do you know what Human Rights are? Every person is entitled to certain rights – simply by the fact that they are a human being. They are "rights" because they are things you are allowed to be, to do or to have. These rights are there for your protection against people who might want to harm or hurt you. They are also there to help us get along with each other and live in peace. Many people know something about their rights. They know they have a right to be paid for the work they do and they have a right to vote. But there exist many other rights. When human rights are not well known by people, abuses such as discrimination, intolerance, injustice, oppression and slavery can arise. Born out of the atrocities and enormous loss of life during World War II, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was created by the United Nations to provide a common understanding of what everyone’s rights are. It forms the basis for a world built on freedom, justice and peace. Labels: human rights day Marcela Romero is Argentina's Woman of the Year and Transgender! "...somos personas que venimos de una lucha fuerte, no ese estereotipo or we are people who come from a strong fight, not the stereotype." Please meet transgender activist Marcela Romero Argentina's Woman of the year! The Dallas Voice reports that "The honor was conferred by the Committee on Women and the Family in the lower house of the Argentine Congress in recognition of Romero’s 10-year court battle to have legal documents issued recognizing her identity as a woman." This accomplishment is astounding. Ms. Romero'a battle for life has included separating her transgender expression from the patriarchal, hetero and homo-normative misogynistic "drag Queen" genre, imprisonment and physical assault. The recognition of Ms. Romero by Argentina's goverment was not a universally appreciated event as some of the members of the government's lower house walked out during the announcement. I wonder if any of the upset people were American conservative ultra orthodox Anglicans who recently absconded to the "Southern Cone"? Also on the Web: pagina12.com. Respetar el genero, transformar el cuerpo By kelli Anne (former Anglican) Busey Labels: Marcela Romero, Southern Cone Uganda's Anti-Gay Bill: Inspired by the U.S. Source Time.com"The late-November afternoon sun bore down on the park in downtown Kampala, and all along the benches, Ugandan office workers took their siestas. There could have been no less likely setting for criminal conspiracies to topple an East African state. Still, the doctor's voice dropped a notch when an office worker in a brown suit settled in close by. The medic shifted a battered fedora over his eyes. "I am the gay doctor," the physician whispered to me, making sure nobody around heard. He talked about the gay and lesbian couples who go to his office to avoid ridicule in public hospitals. "They know they can trust me, and trust is a big issue," he said. "There is the stigma of being gay, but also the stigma of being [HIV] positive. They are such hidden communities. Nobody wants to deal with their problems." "In a matter of weeks, the Ugandan doctor's admission to TIME could land him in jail and his patients on death row. An anti-homosexuality bill now before Uganda's Parliament would include some of the harshest anti-gay regulations in the world. If the bill becomes law, the doctor, who asked that his name not be published, could be prosecuted for "aiding and abetting homosexuality." In one version of the bill, his sexually active HIV-positive patients could be found guilty of practicing acts of "aggravated homosexuality," a capital crime, according to the bill" Read more: Time.com Uganda's Anti-Gay Bill: Inspired by the U.S. Labels: Uganda Uganda Drops "Kill Gay" \| Draconian Inhuman Imprisonment Sought Source: Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- "Uganda will drop the death penalty and life imprisonment for gays in a refined version of an anti- gay bill expected to be ready for presentation to Parliament in two weeks, James Nsaba Buturo, the minister of ethics and integrity, said." "The draft bill, which is under consideration by a parliamentary committee, will drop the two punishments to attract the support of religious leaders who are opposed to these penalties, Buturo said today in a phone interview from the capital, Kampala." Full article at Bloomburg.com Uganda to Drop Death Penalty, Life in Jail for Gays (Update1) Rachel Maddow interviews "ex-gay" activist Richard Cohen Maddow questions Cohen about the discredited lies accredited to a disbarred ex gay source in his book that were used by the Ugandan government to justify it's "Kill Gay" bill. Cohen like a rat scurries backwards as he claims his third edition will have those passages extracted so "that it can't be used against gay people'. The blood of murdered LGBT people in Uganda is on your hands Richard Cohen. Labels: Homophobia, Rachel Maddow, Richard Cohen Tell Congress: No More Delays, Pass ENDA Now! LGBT AMERICANS OUTRAGED AT DELAY IN BASIC JOB RIGHTS In light of continuing delays in the House of Representatives, we must state clearly and unequivocally: Passing basic job protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people must happen now. At a time when our government is deeply focused on the critical issue of employment, it is inexcusable to delay action on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). Each and every job lost to prejudice based on sexual orientation and gender identity needlessly compounds the unemployment challenges facing our nation. We call on Congress for the immediate passage of ENDA. For decades now, we have called upon Congress to pass legislation to address the basic right of LGBT people to work free from discrimination at our jobs, and now Congress tells us we must wait another year. In 29 states, it remains legal to fire people based on sexual orientation and in 38 states, discrimination based on gender identity remains legal. In failing to take swift action to pass ENDA, our government allows unfettered bigotry to go unchecked, leading to the loss of jobs, fear in the workplace, economic instability, and personal hardship, while allowing employers to lose competent experienced workers. ENDA is urgently needed by our communities. The majority of Americans consistently state their support for employment protections and voters have affirmed similar state and local measures. There is absolutely no reason for Congress to continue to delay this non-controversial bill or drop LGBT issues to the bottom of their agenda. We will not be denied basic rights any longer. Nothing is more important than protecting peoples' jobs so ENDA must pass now. Further delays are absolutely unacceptable. Click here to send this message. LA Gay and Lesbian Center Homeless Youth Need You This Christmas A speical message from Jane Lynch Serving on the Board of Directors of the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center is one of the things I'm most proud of in my life. I do it because there are still far too many people—especially young people—who are harassed, abused or abandoned because of who they are. That's why I'm asking you to join me in making an urgent donation to the Gay & Lesbian Center today. This year the demand for the Center's services for homeless LGBT youth doubled. More than 900 youth routinely depended on the Center for warm meals, a safe place to stay, clothing, counseling and much more. Unfortunately, as the demand has increased, donations have fallen. At a time when young LGBT people need us more than ever, the Center is facing a $79,000 budget gap in private donations.Let me assure you, whatever you give will be put right to use to help young people like Theresa. This 17-year old recently told us, "If I weren't here at the Center, I would probably be in jail or dead."That's why the Gay & Lesbian Center is so important. Nothing matters more than getting young people off the streets and giving them the compassionate support they deserve. Won't you give what you can to support our efforts? Though we've already expanded our services by adding 6 emergency beds and expanding the hours at our Jeff Griffith Youth Center, we're still struggling to . meet the increased demand from homeless LGBT youth.We're also seeing an increase in the number of people with HIV/AIDS who have lost their jobs and health insurance—and who are turning to the Center for free and low-cost medical care.That's why we need your help. We can't do this alone. Your gift today is absolutely critical—we must close this funding gap to meet the needs of the more than 20,000 people who depend on the Center month after month. Please help us close the gap and keep our LGBT safety net strong by making a generous, tax-deductible gift today.A gift of just $35 will provide another day's worth of services for a homeless youth at our drop-in center; $75 will give a young person one night's shelter from the streets. Whatever you can give will make a vital difference, especially at this time of year.There are thousands of LGBT kids out there right now with nowhere else to turn. Please join me in giving them a safe place to turn this holiday season by making a generous gift today. Affirmation Declaration: Shine Jesus Shine Set our Hearts on Fire I have loved this song from the first time we sung it. Now it takes on a special meaning as we join together in the "Affirmation Declaration"that all people are worthy of loveingkindness in the face of mounting opposition to our belonging in providence by the signers of the "Manhattan Declaration". Set our hearts on fire as we sign the "Affirmation Declaration" Labels: Affirmation declaration Christian Affirmation Declaration Refutes Infamous Manhattan declaration The Affirmation Declaration is a statement that expresses the convictions of Christians all over the world. It was written in response to the now famous Manhattan Declaration, to correct egregious errors contained in the document, errors that have been preached in the pulpits of many local churches for far too long. With the growing notoriety and support for the Manhattan Declaration, our Affirmation Declaration reflects an urgent need to respond to the portion of the Manhattan Declaration dealing with issues related to sexual orientation—specifically, homosexuality and same-sex marriage. We strongly disagree with the contention that same-sex attractions and the oft-resulting romantic activities are immoral. Because of the large number of people affected by this serious issue one way or the other, we felt it expedient to respond formally, both by submitting our Declaration to the drafters of the Manhattan Declaration, as well as by releasing our Declaration to the public, allowing Christians to show their support for love and affirmation, just as so many have shown their support for the propagation of false doctrines of oppression and inequality against the GLBTI (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Intersex) community. We also desire to let the world know that not all Christians are locked in what we believe to be an ancient worldview regarding homosexuality. We want to give people hope—hope to know that God loves them just as they are; hope to know that their gay loved ones are not destined for Hell; hope to know that although some Christian churches will never accept them or their same-sex unions, a great many will. May the signatures we garner serve as a fire that will never burn out, lighting the way through the darkness of bad theology, and setting Christ's Church back on the right track as it relates to matters of sexual and gender orientation, and gender identity. Sign The Declaration • Spread The Fire "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. [35] By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another." McDonald's tells applicant Zikerria Bellamy: "We do not hire faggots." TLDEF press relese New York, New York — Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund today filed a Complaint with the Florida Commission on Human Relations against an Orlando McDonald's restaurant for refusing to hire 17-year-old Zikerria Bellamy because she is transgender. On July 10, 2009, Ms. Bellamy applied online for a job at a McDonald’s restaurant in Orlando, Florida. On July 28, after managers at McDonald’s learned that Zikerria is transgender, she received a voicemail message from one of the managers telling her, "You will not get hired. We do not hire faggots." She was never allowed to interview for a job. Read the press release at transgenderlegal.org Labels: Mcdonald's Faggot response Belize: Protect Student Jose Garcia from Discrimination and Expulsion Join the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) and United Belize Advocacy Movement (UNIBAM) in calling on the Ministry of Education of Belize and other authorities to take legal action to ensure that Jose Garcia is not prevented from attending school because of his sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression and to protect him from harassment and discrimination. Expelled! On October 1 and 5, 2009, Jose Garcia, a 19-year-old student at Baptist School of Adult and Continuing Education in Belmopan, Belize, received letters from the school threatening to dismiss him is because "he acts like a girl," "dresses effeminately," "uses the female bathroom," and "carries a purse as his school bag." On October 20, Jose received a letter from the school principal, Norman Willacey, asking that Jose withdraw from the school and seek counseling. Later, he told Jose, "You have me so embarrassed. I don't want to see you here in the compound. If you [don't] leave right now I will call the police!" Authorities seem to be unwilling to act to protect Jose Garcia's right to education. The Public Information Officer of Belmopan, Arlette Gomez, has stated that it is their aim to ensure that Mr. Garcia's constitutional rights are not being infringed upon and that the guidelines of the Education Act and Rules are being followed. The Minister of Education, Patrick Faber, has also stated that the school is "bound to follow the constitution, otherwise anybody can take them to court." Nonetheless, the Minister has offered no concrete protection for Jose Garcia, stating that "it is a Baptist High School, there is not much the Ministry can do." "I am not hurting anybody because of the way I dress."- José García Discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression in education systems is a serious problem all over the world that has not been addressed at all. Harassment, mistreatment, violence, and other human rights violations threaten students' physical or emotional well-being, influence how well students do in school, make it difficult for students to achieve their career goals, and excludes thousands of students all over the world entirely from education systems. All people have the right to education under international human rights law without discrimination based on, and taking into account sexual orientation and gender identity (Yogyakarta Principle 16). Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Article 13 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), Article 28 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the Convention against Discrimination in Education, all of which Belize is party to, ensure the right to education of all. Additionally, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the Convention Against Torture (CAT), and the ICESCR are explicitly interpreted to include protection from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and/or gender identity (Human Rights Committee: Toonen v. Australia; Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights General Comment 20; Committee Against Torture General Comment 2). Furthermore, the right to education without discrimination exists in Belize law as well. The preamble to the Belize Constitution states that "a just system should be ensured to provide for education and health on the basis of equality," and the Education Act dictates that "[s]chools shall be free of gender, racial and other biases (Art. 25 (2))." Jose Garcia's rights to education and non-discrimination under international and Belize law are being violated by his expulsion, threatening all other rights underpinned by equal access to education, including his right to work, to housing, and to health. Send a message » Please send your letters to: Sr. Patrick Faber Minister of Educationemail: http://us.mc456.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=moeducation.moes@gmail.com Sr. Wilfred Elrington Attorney Generalemail: http://us.mc456.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=agministrybze@yahoo.com Sr. Elvin Pender Minister of Youth, Sports, Information and Broadcastingemail: http://us.mc456.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=info@pressoffice.gov.bz Sr. Simeon Lopez Mayor of Belmopanemail: http://us.mc456.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=bmpcitco@btl.net Sra. Arlette Gomez Public Information Officer of Belmopanemail: http://us.mc456.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Arlette.gomez@moe.gov.bz Please send a copy to: Caleb Orozco UNIBAMemail: http://us.mc456.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=orozco.caleb@gmail.com Fernando D'Elio IGLHRCemail: http://us.mc456.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=fdelio@iglhrc.orgemail: http://us.mc456.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=communications+action.alert@iglhrc.org Mr. Patrick FaberMinister of Education of Belize Minister Faber: I am writing to express my deep concern over the expulsion of Jose Garcia, a 19-year-old student, from Baptist School of Adult and Continuing Education in Belmopan on October 30, 2009 because of his perceived gender identity and sexual orientation. I call on you to protect his and all students' right to education without bias or discrimination. All people have the right to education, under international human rights law, without discrimination based on, and taking into account sexual orientation and gender identity (Yogyakarta Principle 16). Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Article 13 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), Article 28 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the Convention against Discrimination in Education (CDE), all of to which Belize is a party, ensure the right to education to all. Additionally, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the Convention Against Torture (CAT), and the ICESCR are explicitly interpreted to include protection from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and/or gender identity (Human Rights Committee: Toonen v. Australia; Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights General Comment 20; Committee Against Torture, General Comment 2). The right to education without discrimination exists in Belize law as well. The preamble to the Belize Constitution states that "a just system should be ensured to provide for education and health on the basis of equality" and the Education Act dictates that "[s]chools shall be free of gender, racial and other biases (Art. 25 (2))." Jose Garcia was threatened and expelled by his school simply because he was perceived to be too "feminine" with no remedy or protection. A bias-free educational system cannot support such discrimination. Discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression in educational systems is a serious problem that needs to be addressed at all levels. Harassment, mistreatment, violence, and other human rights violations threaten students' physical or emotional well-being, influence how well students do in school, make it difficult for students to achieve their career goals, and excludes thousands of students all over the world entirely from education systems. We respectfully request that: The state ensure that Jose Garcia can return to his school or any other where he feels safe and protected from harassment and discrimination to complete his education. The state lead and conduct programs and campaigns to sensitize principals, teachers, students, and others involved into the education system on the issues of sexual orientation and gender identity as well as discrimination based on those grounds, to allow all young people to learn a tolerant, non-discriminatory environment. We trust you will treat this request with the attention it deserves. Name:Organization:Country:E-mail address: Send this letter » Labels: IGLHRC, Jose Garcia DC Passes on Catholic Threats and OK's Gay Marriage Ohio Celebrates 3 Transgender Victories! Cleveland, Akron and Summit County Pass Non-Discrimination Ordinances Last night, Cleveland City Council voted 21 - 0 to protect against discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations based on gender identity and expression. Akron voted 10 - 2 to do the same based on both sexual orientation and gender identity and Summit County voted 11 - 1 to pass a countywide ordinance protecting against discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Thanks to all the advocates and coalitions who have worked long and hard to see these much needed protections finally included in municipal law! We encourage Cleveland, Akron and Summit County citizens to thank their councilpersons. You can find Cleveland councilpersons' contact information at www.clevelandcitycouncil.org. Akron councilpersons' contact information at http://www.akroncitycouncil.org/Find_your_Councilperson/ and Summit County councilpersons' contact information at http://www.co.summit.oh.us/council/index.htm Sylvia's Place NYC LGBT Youth Shelter Annual Holiday Benefit Drive PLEASE SAVE THESE DATES! I hope this finds us all having survived the Thanksgiving holiday relatively unscathed, but it is time to get down to some serious issues...... and serious parties!. Tuesday December 15 @ The Phoenix Thursday December 17 @ Nowhere Bar These are the dates for our annual food and clothing drives and holiday parties for the benefit of Sylvia's Place, the emergency shelter for homeless transgender, gay and lesbian youth in New York I think anyone who reads my posts and blogs is aware of the homeless TLGB youth crisis in New York. Sylvia's Place has been doing the best it can for many years now, but they are in seriously bad shape this year with the city having pulled the major portion of their funding. Sylvia's now operates only with the help of people like you. THESE HOMELESS TLGB KIDS ARE HANGING BY A THREAD AND NEED YOUR HELP! Desperately and urgently needed this year: Cold and Flu medicines-generics and store brands are fine Basic first aid supplies Canned and boxed food goods Coats,jackets, and gloves-used and clean is fine Hats and caps-used and clean is fine Scarfs-used and clean is fine Blankets-used and clean is fine You can help our TLGB family, our kids, by donating any of the above AND enjoy some great parties at the same time! Bring your items to: Tuesday Dec. 15 @ The Phoenix W. 13th Street btw. 1st Ave and Ave A Thursday Dec. 17 @ Nowhere Bar 322 E. 14th Street btw.1st and 2nd Aves We will make sure your donations get delivered to Sylvia's Place promptly AND you can enjoy all the great Holiday spirit, great people, and John's famous party food! (he's an awesome chef!) These parties are NOT to be missed! Can't make the parties? Not in the NYC area? That's a major bummer and you'll certainly be missed, but you can still contribute and donate to Sylvia's Place. You can send a small check or money order to Sylvia's OR ship your donations there! All donations are tax deductible and can be shipped directly to: Homeless Youth Services Checks and money orders should be made payable to M.C.C.N.Y.Y. S Sylvia's also accepts Pay Pal. http://www.homeless youthservices. org/Generalpaypa l.html AND DON'T FORGET THE BEST HOLIDAY GET TOGETHER OF ALL! Christmas Night, Dec. 25, John Williams of the Nowhere Bar (and now Phoenix as well--congrats John!) and I will be cooking dinner again for the kids at Sylvia's and YOU'RE INVITED! Last year was a very special time, not only for the kids at Sylvia's, but for all the sisters and friends who dropped by to spend a few moments with our TLGB family. Ina, Hedda Lettuce, many of the members of Crossdressers International and representatives and friends from the NYPD all came by. it was a great night for us all, and I hope you can all manage to come by for a visit and bite to eat. More details on will follow. Questions? Write me. Or phone: 914.457.5925 Let's ALL make this a wonderful Holiday Season for all of us, but especially our younger brothers and sisters. Mona Rae Mason Trans Events USA. org monaraemason.com Metropolitian Community Church, New York, NY. NY Times Giving Shelter: Portraits of Young Lives in Limbo Labels: Sylvia's Place Cleveland City Council to vote on ending discrimination based on gender identity or expression Dear TransOhio friends, family and supporters! Tonight, Cleveland City Council will vote to ban discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations based on gender identity or expression! TransOhio fully supports the collaborative work of Equality Ohio, the LGBT Center of Greater Cleveland, TransFamily of Cleveland and Cleveland's City Council in regards to banning discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations based on gender identity and expression. "It's important to ensure that we can get laws on the books that protect Cleveland's transgender residents," says Shane Morgan, Founder and Chair of TransOhio, Ohio's statewide tra nsgender advocacy organization. "These organizations have worked tirelessly with Cleveland City Council members to ensure that all Cleveland residents, regardless of their gender identity or expression, are afforded the same opportunities for employment, housing and accommodations as their neighbors." Your show of support is welcomed and this vote is open to the public: Monday, November 30, 2009 7:00pm - 8:00pm Cleveland City Hall - Council Chambers 601 Lakeside Avenue Cleveland, OH TransOhio applauds the Cleveland City Council and urges them to vote to pass this important non-discrimination ordinance. Labels: Support LGBT Measures passing in Cleveland The Family: Christian Fundamentalists Murderous Ugandan Agenda The Family aka the fellowship, which attributes its successful seventy year anti human rights campaign to maintaining a secretive profile, is hosting Congressional representatives and other American leaders at the 'National Prayer Breakfast' to spread its vision of death for lesbian, gay and transgender people. Listen to NPR 'Fresh Air' on WHYY The Secret Political Reach Of 'The Family'. I was horrified as to the insipid treachery of this shadow fundamentalist group and I am sure it will shock you also. TWO Truths warns us that 'The Family' Is Directly Linked To Draconian Anti-Gay Death Bill in Uganda and it's time to lift this Vail of secrecy and reveal the atrocities the 'family' intends to unleash on you and your christian family. All Americans regardless of religious affiliation must stand up and demand an end to the Families agenda. Those who do not are giving tacit support to murder of innocents in Uganda by paying the salaries Congressmen and Senators who expedite this merciless persecution and executions of gay, lesbian and transgender people. This is happening today in Uganda. The family wishes the same for LGBT people in America tomorrow. Ips news.net RIGHTS-UGANDA: "You Cannot Tell Me You Will Kill Me Because I’m Gay" Human Rights Watch Uganda: ‘Anti-Homosexuality’ Bill Threatens Liberties and Human Rights Defenders Change.org Meet the U.S. Politicians Who Want to See Gay People Dead in Uganda Unified worldwide Anglican condemnation of the criminalization by Uganda of homosexuality is desperately needed as INTEGRITY URGES THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH TO TAKE A STAND AGAINST ANTI-HOMOSEXUALITY BILL PROPOSED IN UGANDA "Our church has already spoken through Resolution D005 at General Convention in 2006 opposing legislation criminalizing homosexuality..." Michael Russell author of of D005 invites you to sign the petition and leave a prayer or comment for our leadership to perhaps read. Then send the link to all your friends. Updated 2000hrs 11/30/2009 House of Deputies president condemns proposed Uganda anti-homosexuality legislation Integrity USA, Canadian bishops also call for opposition By Mary Frances Schjonberg, November 30, 2009 [Episcopal News Service] The pending Ugandan legislation that would imprison for life or execute people who violate that country's anti-homosexuality laws would be a "terrible violation of the human rights of an already persecuted minority," Episcopal Church House of Deputies President Bonnie Anderson has said. Anderson was responding to a Nov. 16 request that Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, Archbishop Henri Orombi of Uganda and she speak out against the legislation. Anderson is the first to issue a statement. Read statement from Episcopal Life Online House of Deputies president condemns proposed Uganda anti-homosexuality legislation Religion in Uganda Census of October 2002 The Revealer A daily review of religion and the press. Gay Uganda blogspot Labels: Fundies, The Family Myriam Mercado, madre de Jorge Steven López Mercado, gracias seguidores en You Tube Cortesía de la Voz de Dallas. El amor lo conquista todo. Labels: Steven López Mercado 2009 Transgender Murders number 101: A Sad List The number of Transgender Deaths has doubled within one year. As of Oct 22 2009 there has been 95 deaths calculated the year before there were 47. We are people, We have faces, We have families, We have friends, We have lives, We have value, We have voices, None of this should be taken away from any of us because of who we are. We are the unwilling victim of hate. http://www.transgenderdor.org/ to find a TDoR event near you. Labels: TDOR 2009 Tampa City Council votes to Protect Transgender Citizens Source: Equality Florida (TAMPA) "Equality Florida commends the Tampa City Council for expanding non-discrimination protections to those who live, work and visit the city. Tampa is the latest city in Florida to add “gender identity” to its human rights ordinance that bans discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodation." "Today’s action comes at the request of the Tampa Human Rights Council led by its Chair, Phil Dinkins. Equality Florida has worked closely with the council in the months leading up to today’s vote and assisted with documenting the clear need for such protections." “Equality Florida was born out of the struggle to expand Tampa’s non-discrimination protections so they include the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community,” said Nadine Smith. “Today’s vote, while long overdue, makes it clear that Tampa is a leader in Florida when it comes to protecting its citizens.” "One extreme right organization launched an effort to derail today’s vote, but Equality Florida members and allied organizations including Pride Tampa Bay and the Hillsborough LGBT Democratic Caucus stepped up and sent 3,096 emails to various Tampa City Council members encouraging them to stand strong in their conviction to protect all citizens. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida, BB&T Bank, PepsiCo/FritoLay and other leaders in the business community spoke out debunking wild claims by the opposition by recounting the positive impact inclusive policies have had for their companies." Full story at Equality Florida Labels: Equality Florida, Tampa Bay International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission TDOR IGLHRC Observes Transgender Day of Remembrance: Take Action Against Abuse of Transgender People in Guatemala and Turkey On November 20, the 11th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, take action against the recent murders of transgender women in Guatemala and call for changes in a law used to persecute transgender people in Turkey. TAKE ACTION: GUATEMALA » Stop Murder of Trans Women in Guatemala This day offers a powerful opportunity to insist that trans rights are human rights, and that the global community has an obligation to stop violence against transgender people. TAKE ACTION: TURKEY » Change Law of Misdemeanors to End Abuse of Trans People Transgender Day of Remembrance memorializes those who have been killed by hatred and prejudice against transgender people and raises public awareness to combat violence against transgender people. Every year, transgender people around the world face pervasive threats of discrimination, imprisonment, violence, and murder. The tragic deaths of over 200 trans people reported in the last two years-and the countless others that go unreported around the world-are sobering reminders of transgender people's vulnerability to state-sponsored and private violence because of their gender identity and expression. Read more about the state of trans people's human rights in the past two years. IGLHRC's mission is advancing human rights for everyone, everywhere to end discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. In September 2009, IGLHRC held its first strategy workshop for trans activists in the Caribbean. The workshop provided activists from the most marginalized communities with training in documentation and human rights advocacy. The Caribbean Forum for Liberation and Acceptance of Genders and Sexualities (CARIFLAGS) and the Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition (CVC) co-hosted the workshop. WATCH VIDEOS » Watch videos of activists from the workshop speaking about the hardships and challenges they have confronted in their lives. IGLHRC 80 Maiden Lane, Suite 1505 New York, NY 10038 phone: 212.430.6054 fax: 212.430.6060 Labels: IGLHRC, TDOR 2009 Transgender Woman Dana Beyer attacked with 'KGB-type tactics' Dana Beyer's employer, Montgomery Maryland County Councilwoman Duchy Trachtenberg is furious about the secretive 'KGB-type' investigation being conducted by the state's ethics committee. The ethics committee, apparently motivated by the anti transgender group "Citizens for a Responsible Government" has secretively been conducting after hours searches of the official offices and computers of her top advisor. " Citizens for a Responsible Government" were the sponsors of the failed petition drive to bring the recently passed transgender inclusive anti discrimination ordinances in Montgomery Maryland to a popular vote. Source: Gazette.com "A County Councilwoman's senior policy adviser who helped draft the county's antidiscrimination law to protect transgendered people now is using the law in filing a complaint against the Montgomery County Ethics Commission." "I helped craft the bill, and I'm the first to use it," said Dana Beyer, a transgendered woman who serves as senior aide to Councilwoman Duchy Trachtenberg (D-At large). "That's a delicious irony." "Beyer filed a complaint Tuesday with the Montgomery County Human Rights Commission against the county, claiming its Ethics Commission has investigated her for the past eight months because of her "gender identity." read full story at Gazette.com Labels: Dana Beyer Barbra Boxer and Courage Campaign for Reproductive Rights On November 7, the House passed the Stupak Amendment to their health care reform bill, representing one of the biggest setbacks to women’s health in recent decades – unless we stand together and stop it. That's why I just signed the petition Senator Barbara Boxer has launched FightForWomensHealth.com, calling for the removal of the Stupak Amendment from any bill that reaches the President's desk. The House amendment would tell women who participate in the new health insurance exchange that they can't even use their own funds to buy a policy that offers abortion coverage. In short, the Stupak Amendment would take away health insurance coverage that women already have. This is a huge step back for women’s health. Join me and Senator Boxer to FightForWomensHealth.com today! Labels: Barbra Boxer, Courage Campaign Sarah Silverman YouTube "Sell the Vatican, Feed The World" Labels: Sarah Silverman, Vatican Live, Love, and Learn: DC Diocese Turns on Homeless Catholic gargoyle salivating for the weakest. The homeless and destitute are easy prey when they are freezing and hopeless. Joseph Ratzinger's pseudo christian organization 'Catholic Church" knows this better than anyone as they forgo their Christian facade in threatening extortion by abandoning 67,000 homeless in the District of Columbia just before the winter if the Capitol city of the United States does not comply with it's demands. Read the whole story at Live, Love, and Learn: DC Diocese Turns on Homeless Labels: Catholicism hate mongering Will Phillips Arkansas Fifth Grader Refuses to Pledge Allegiance until LGBT people are Equal Ten year old Will Phillips, who's intelligence was recognized by skipping fourth grade, demonstrated extraordinary compassion and empathy when he recently sited a 1943 Supreme Court ruling and refused to recite the pledge of alliance. Phillips believes until all Americans are equally enjoying "liberty and Justice for all" the pledge is a empty verse. This incredible young ally who's orientation is not gay, is enduring a homophobic backlash by his adolescent classmates and in all of places, Arkansas. The home of former Governor Huckabee recently enacted a state amendment to its constitution prohibiting adoption of children by same sex couples. Arkansas is one of the most anti gay states and this according to Will is being proven true as the same children have over and again taunted him with phrases such as 'Gaywad'. Update December 3, 2009** I have been contacted separately by Will's mother and father. Both are very grateful for the emails and phone calls in support of Will. Both are happy that Will is now focused on his school work and both are satisfied with the response from the school. It would seem at this time continued contact with the school is not necessary at this time.~kelli Please take action "Support Will Phillips" by emailing the The West Fork School District. Sample email: Dr. Naccaman Williams Chair of the State Board of Education. E-mail: naccaman@att.net Mailing Address: 2807 Brookshire St., Springdale, AR 72762 Deborah Harnish President West Forks District Board 359 School Ave, West Fork, AR 72774 Re: Protect educational integrity and protecting Will Phillips from bullying. Dear Deborah Harnish and Dr. Naccaman Williams, It has come to my attention that a substitute teacher in your district has attempted to intimidate and bully a student, Will Phillips, into doing something that was against that students better judgement and moral values. Phillips decision not to participate in reciting the pledge of allegiance was in fact, a constitutional right protected by a supreme court ruling. The student Will Philips, has since then reported becoming the subject of homophobic bullying even though Will Phillips himself does not identify as gay. I am asking that you require this teacher to apologize for attempting to intimidate Phillips, and that the school principal make a announcement that the school respects individual rights and the school will not allow harassment within it's walls. This would send a message to your students and teachers that bullying is not acceptable. I wold also ask that you require your teachers to make a speical effort to be attentive and aware of bullying and to stop it immediately when it is apparent. These actions will save lives and allow your schools to pursue the American ideals that are set forth in the Pledge of Allegiance and so valued by Will Phillips. Kelli Anne Busey Dallas Transgender Advocates and Allies West Fork School District Edge San Francisco article Arkansas 10-Year-Old Won’t Pledge Allegiance Until Gays Gain Equality Arkansas Times article A boy and his flag Why Will won’t pledge Labels: Arkansas, Homophobia, Will Phillips Julia Louis-Dreyfus Your Out of your Freakin Mind!... Maryland Postpones New Transgender Driver License ... Pope 'led cover-up of child abuse by priests' Lond... Integrity Uganda 12 Days of Blessings Episcopal Ch... Breakin News: Iranians, Ethiopians Seen Moving Tow... Christmas message from Lorri L. Jean LA Gay and Le... Catholic's rejoice in United Nations "Slap to the ... 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__label__wiki	0.704621	0.704621	Define your site secondary menu By Mike Allen November 9, 2013 On the Table, Beneath the Surface Photo by Brandon Clower Buck O’Kelly is wizened and his hands are dominated by knuckles, betraying years of hard work. But his spirit rivals that of artists decades his junior. The veteran furniture builder at Inventia Design talks about wood species, design philosophy, and finishes with a philosophical intensity that borders on mysticism. He and his partner Suzanne Bonham created the elegant wood tables that, night after night, endure the onslaught of steel, ceramic, and glass wrought by the hungry hordes of Le Pigeon. The pair is just one among a legion of small woodcraft design shops flourishing beneath the surface of Portland’s vaunted dining scene. In Portland’s new restaurant aesthetic, exposed wood surfaces are essential. White linens increasingly give way to polished surfaces highlighting complex grain patterns and deep shades. The warmth, irregularity, and sturdiness of wood echoes the dual biological and aesthetic roles played by the dishes it supports. Like cooking, woodcraft is situated on a ridge between craft and art. Both employ techniques and tools modern and ancient, while the raw materials remain timeless. I set out to find some of the personalities behind Portland’s public furniture and found a burgeoning scene humming away in nondescript warehouses and dilapidated wooden shops. The characters within were (mostly) happy to brush off the sawdust and discuss the philosophies, techniques, and materials behind some of the city’s more recognizable dining surfaces. The bar at Grain and Gristle is so iconic it threatens to steal the spotlight from the food (which is quite good). Composed of thick, live-edge slabs of Western big leaf maple, the bar was built by Brendan Alvistur of Alvistur Design. “Live edge” refers to the fact that the edge isn’t cut smooth—and this edge looks like a bit of brobdingnagian filigree, the heavy burl sometimes curling back on itself to form hollows. The individual slabs are held together by mortise and tenon joints hidden under butterfly inlays of walnut. It’s a style pioneered by the late Japanese-American woodworker George Nakashima, a giant in the American Craft movement whose work was influenced by the forests of the Pacific Northwest. Alvistur has a passion for Northwestern hardwoods, and much of what he uses is sourced from somewhat unconventional sources. Grain and Gristle’s slab, he says, was cut from the trunk of a big leaf maple bound for the paper mill, but it was fortunately too big for their saws. A friend of Alvistur’s, who reclaims wind-fallen and otherwise out-of-place trees, picked it up from the mill and milled it himself. “This is pretty unusual, with the burl running all the way up and down the trunk. They told me that maple with burl like this is one in a thousand,” he says. “These slabs here were only half of the tree—it was 48 inches at the base.” Modern milling obviously requires voltage, but Alvistur does nearly as much by hand as by machine. “Machines, from a historical perspective, are just replacing apprentices. All the milling, the straight lining, all the thicknessing, all the grunt work that used to be done by 15 or 20 guys is now done with 240 volts of electricity,” he says. At Grain and Gristle, he carved some of the details and rounded all the hard edges by hand. He painstakingly cut chalice shapes into relief behind the corbels (the perpendicular supporting members), but if he had to do it again, he says, he might just ply together more sheets of wood. Like every detail that’s difficult about this job, “nobody seems to notice. It’s just an immense amount of work; and there’s a bit of a paradox in that if you’re building right, and you’re building well, it doesn’t look like a lot of work.” He finished the bar with polyurethane, since big leaf maple isn’t a very hard hardwood and it will have to stand up to a lot of abuse as a bar top. “I think, as the finish wears, it provides character. They were kind of talking to me about refinishing but… I think to keep it polished and buffed out is kind of futile. I’m not into perfection. After I install it, I want it to be perfect. After that, it’s there to be used and abused and take the abuse. “It’s amazing, the wood available to us in this part of the world… a lot of the places don’t even stock Oregon black walnut. It’s imported from the east—and it’s kind of inferior wood in my opinion,” he says. Back in the days when local walnut was likely the only walnut to be had, the kind of old-growth douglas fir that Justin Rideout salvages from old barns and industrial buildings was just framing lumber. Now it’s sanded, finished, and featured in seemingly every other new restaurant around. Rideout Designs, housed in one of the dilapidated warehouses that line North Columbia Boulevard, is essentially a working museum for local old-growth salvage. Anyone who has eaten in a few restaurants in Portland has seen Rideout’s work: Lovely’s Fifty-Fifty, Podnah’s Pit, Firehouse, Oven and Shaker, Dick’s Kitchen, Apizza Scholls, Fire on the Mountain on Fremont, Whole Foods… The list goes on, characterized by massive slabs of tight-grained fir, covered with stained gashes, gouges, and nail holes—all preserved under a thick sheet of polyurethane. It’s as if Eduardo Chillida tried his hand with forest products. The story behind Rideout’s relationship with Whole Foods is instructive as to how a small shop like his can influence the restaurant aesthetic of an entire city: While dining at Firehouse, the manager of the Whole Foods store on Fremont admired the homey aesthetic that Rideout had created and contracted him to build the dining area at her store. “The only instructions she gave me were: ‘I want it to be like this.’ That’s basically how I get all my business,” he says. A walk through his shop reveals a roughly three-part operation: a design and finish area where ideas are mapped out, a production area, and a cavernous raised storage area filled with old slabs and timbers of all different species, innumerable dimensions, and in various stages of finish. As we walk past rows of grayed and splintered lumber stacked high on the warehouse’s similarly aged wood floor, Rideout explains the inherent value of this older material. “The trees that they cut down now are juvenile trees,” he says. Younger trees grow quickly, perhaps a quarter to a half-inch per year, creating a loose grain pattern. He picked up a scrap of sanded fir and shows me the grain: It runs straight through the length, and the striations marking a season’s growth are no more than a sixteenth of an inch apart. The color is deeper than modern structural lumber, nearly orange, and the tight repetition of the pattern is hypnotic. In fir, and less commonly redwood, this grain pattern is known as “clear grain” or “clear vertical grain” (CVG). It correlates to the designation “quarter-sawn” in hardwoods and it means that the width of the cut runs exactly perpendicular to the rings of the tree, resulting in a straight grain that is stiffer and more resistant to warping than so called “flat grain” or “plain sawn” lumber which might contain oval shaped patterns where the grain loops back. Most boards cut from a tree can achieve this grain pattern, if it’s first sawn lengthwise into quarters. This older material is cut from stock so large that just cutting straight through the bole yields many boards of CVG lumber. In his estimation that makes it worthwhile to continue utilizing salvage, despite the increasing cost and difficulty of obtaining it. Which isn’t to say that Rideout’s design decisions are based entirely upon economic factors. He started building with salvage as a kid in upstate New York, doing woodshop projects with scrap that he found because that was all he had to work with. Working with salvage now, as he’s done professionally since the early ‘90s, has been a continuation of those early endeavors. Salvage, and the massive proportions of his pieces, is about more than aesthetics. “If I see something that a normal person would cut up and make like 20 things, I just make one thing—even though I’m possibly wasting [material]. It makes it something more substantial and something that people will possibly want to keep for a long time. All the furniture and fixtures that they buy for a restaurant is a big veneer of what you want it to look like, and then it gets a hole in it, and it’s trash. It’s going right into the landfill,” he laments. Buck O’Kelly calls this notion “design sustainability,” and it’s Inventia’s stock-in-trade. Although their business is building custom furniture, they also repair and refinish. So, after they built two alder tabletops for Le Pigeon, they rebuilt the restaurant’s family-style table. O’Kelly says the finish was getting tired and worn through, unsightly, and the longwise boards that comprise the center of the table were at odds with the breadboard ends, causing buckling and cracking. He and Bonham applied their understanding of joinery and finish chemistry to the walnut table. Their methodology involves allowing the wood the freedom to move through swelling and shrinking cycles. Their proprietary penetrating finish of oil and wax allows the wood to respire the moisture that it absorbs during a busy night’s service back into the air. The pair also built the two trapezoidal tables that sit at the front of the dining room from alder, O’Kelly’s preferred medium. They look like the antiques of the future. The grain that patterns Inventia’s philosophy is the futility of resisting the inevitable. Moisture, temperature change, abrasion, and age are unavoidable facts of existence. Rather than fight the forces of wear, they cleverly elude them by arranging a harmonious coexistence. They believe that their pieces will retain value for generations because age will only make them more beautiful, and eventually they become heirlooms. “The depreciation aspect of it has been obliterated by the fact that the more it’s used, the worse you treat it, the better it looks. That’s part of the design intention, to collect our history as humans, as clumsy beasts. It’s a totem of our life,” O’Kelly says. When in the public domain, a surface collects a totem of community. The nicks and wear piling atop one another, like the strata of civilizations, record a history of gathering and restoration. The underlying form continues to complement the feast. The serendipitous curves of the bar top at Grain and Gristle echo a cooking style that embellishes the natural appeal of beautiful raw products, the scarred slabs of Podnah’s interior evoke the honest rusticity of barbecue, and the simple elegance of Inventia’s surfaces elevate Le Pigeon’s French classics as imagined by chef Gabe Rucker. “They’re really into the sensual experience, and so we wanted the table to reflect that. Warm and beautiful. Buttery—we describe the finish as buttery,” Bonham muses softly. It should come as no surprise that Portland, surrounded not only by fertile valley bottomland but also forested mountains, attracts artisans in woodcraft as readily as those in the culinary arts. The difference is in the consumability of the product and exposure of the practitioners. Cooks and chefs now work in open kitchens surrounded by gleaming copper; furniture designers and builders and woodworkers work behind closed doors, in unwelcoming buildings. Their work is largely bound for private homes, only to be seen by a select few. The restaurant is therefore the perfect showcase for their work, as it exists on the threshold between public and private, satisfying the dual demands of function and artistry. Mike Allen Mike Allen is an essayist and freelance writer living in Portland, OR. Ernest Cooper Great article and from one who has been in their shop and seen they’re amazing work I can’t rave about Buck and Suzanne enough. In addition, when I decided to have some custom cabinets made and installed in my kitchen during the design phase I’ve never seen such attention to detail and thought go into a job. It’s so nice to see the word getting out about Buck’s furniture, even though this article was focused on restaurant installations as a way for folks to see the work. You can get a sense of richness and beauty and sheer elegance of Buck and Suzanne’s work based on techniques he has worked out for many years to enhance both the richness and durability of his creations in wood from looking at his website http://inventiadesign.com/ Check out the current work, blog, and archives tabs to see some of this wonderful furniture. From talking with Buck, I understand a lot of his commissions come from the East Coast – wake up Portland to the master craftsman in your midst! Copyright PDX Publications, 2018	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line328
__label__wiki	0.617082	0.617082	Meghan Markle style: Fashion week looks perfect for her first royal tour As Meghan Markle prepares to embark on her first major overseas tour on Oct. 16, we’re looking to fashion weeks in London, Paris, Milan and New York to see what might inspire her wardrobe selections for the epic 16 days abroad! Thankfully, there was no shortage of styles on the runway to inspire her planning for a mind-blowing 76 official engagements. The collections provided plenty of sartorial – and seasonally appropriate! – ideas with an array of daytime dresses, polished separates and formal evening wear. From close friend Roland Mouret to perennial favourites like Erdem, Givenchy and Jason Wu, plus a few new labels for the Duchess of Sussex to try, click through for the looks that we feel would make a fitting addition to Meghan’s tour wardrobe. From her wedding to her first official outing with the Queen and her first solo engagement, Meghan’s go-to designer – Clare Waight Keller at Givenchy – has seen her through many iconic moments. This caped, double-breasted ensemble would be perfect for the suit-loving royal on a night out Down Under. The Duchess of Sussex isn’t one for loud prints or too much volume – she prefers to stand out courtesy of thoughtful tailoring and striking cuts. Already a fan of Phillip’s bags, this city-girl-on-vacation gown with slits and a criss-crossed bodice would be just the sartorial ticket for a chic beach outing. With her classic style, this Italian label with a focus on timeless designs is the perfect fit for the newest member of the royal family – especially the spring collection, which put ‘80s power women in the spotlight. This safari-suiting look is just flawless for exploring the outback. Meghan has been wearing the former Spice Girl’s label since her days as Rachel Zane on Suits. The former actress and designer have struck up a friendship, as both women share a love of sharp silhouettes, tailored pantsuits and statement dresses that emphasize simplicity and elegance. She’s known to love the French fashion house’s makeup and Gabrielle Hobo Bag, but it could be time for the duchess to debut a full look. This chic, summery jumpsuit would be perfection on Meghan, especially with wide legs offering the illusion of a shirtdress (one of her go-tos) and her beloved belted waist. One way the designer would surely win the duchess over is in his use of eco-fabrics and yarns from renewable forests. This design also calls to mind the pretty dress with pleated skirt that the style icon wore to a friend’s wedding this summer, making it the perfect wardrobe update. SEE ALL OF MEGHAN'S BEST LOOKS SINCE JOINING THE ROYAL FAMILY Meghan’s sartorial choices have subtly paid homage to her new home across the pond, and cool British label Peter Pilotto may be next in line to win her seal of approval. We predict she’ll start with a smartly tailored striped pantsuit, a style that’s been worn by Beyonce and Lady Kitty Spencer in lilac. Why not kick her love of buttery leather up to the next level? Tod’s wasn’t afraid to, even for the summer months. Another take on the simple shirtdress, Meghan would surely shine in this oversized leather design, with its effortlessly chic and slouchy rolled sleeves and curved hemline. While she’s proven her love of black suits, the Duchess of Sussex is yet to wear a white two-piece – and this tour could be just the time! As a royal she’s also never worn the French designer, whose coterie of Valli girls includes her gal pal Amal Clooney. The Canadian-Taiwanese designer is a go-to for Prince Harry’s leading lady, who has worn blue dresses by Jason on two occasions this year. Combining her love of power suiting and shirt dresses, this pinstriped look with delicate lace along the hemline should be a shoo-in for Meghan’s first tour. The French designer – creator of sexy silhouettes like his signature “Galaxy” dress – has known Meghan for many years. The luxe label is a good bet as a fixture in the 37-year-old’s tour trunks, especially spring’s relaxed and deconstructed silhouettes. ALL THE FUN ACTIVITIES HARRY AND MEGHAN WILL DO ON THEIR FIRST TOUR At one time tipped to design Meghan’s bridal gown, Roksanda is no stranger to royal commissions and counts Kate as a fan. For spring, the designer used an earthy colour palette and we can already see the brunette beauty in the billowy belted dress and lightweight trench coat, the epitome of poise and elegance. This belted navy shirt dress reminds us of the one Meghan wore at the Royal Foundation Forum earlier this year, but with impeccable Dior tailoring and a netted underlay to offer a hint of edge – maybe for her speech at the University of the South Pacific or an official welcome at one of the four cities on the couple’s itinerary? The Duchess of Sussex wore a green leather Boss skirt to raves for a day exploring her namesake county of Sussex, so it wouldn’t be a surprise to see her in the German label once again. Another fresh take on her suiting fancy, this pink ensemble could be worn with a simple camisole, blouse or even something dressier for evening. © 2001-2020, HELLO! - All rights reserved	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line339
__label__wiki	0.546673	0.546673	MIYUKI OKUYAMA PHOTOBOOOK “DEAR JAPANESE” CORTONA ON THE MOVE EDITION, RPS SPECIAL Miyuki Ouyama, a participant of RPS photobook as an object workshop in 2015, she produced 70 editions of artist book from her dummy she developped through the workshop and we also organized her exhibition in 2015. This book has been well received as her artist book has been sold out and won the 2016 Cortona on the Move Photobook Review & Dummy Award, being offered to get her book published through Cortona on the Move in 2017. We’ll have copies with 2 exclusive, complimentary Risograph posters. The book will be shipped sometime late August or early September. 80 images (49 images plus 31 images from archives) Publisher: Cortona On The Move, Cortona, Italy ISBN：978-88-99901-01-1 YOU COULD PLACE YOUR ORDER CHECKING OUT THE PAYPAL, PLEASE MIND THE DESTINATION WHERE YOU WOULD LIKE THE BOOK TO BE SHIPPED. THE SHIPPING WILL BE MADE FROM THE NETHERLANDS. Asia ¥6,200 JPYNorth and central America, Europe, Middle East and Oceania ¥6,500 JPYSouth America and Africa ¥6,800 JPY Awards Cortona on the Move Photobook Review & Dummy Award, winner LUMA Rencontrs Dummy Book Award Arles, nomination DOCfield Documentary Photo Fest, Dummy Award, nomination The Anamorphosis Prize, nomination Fiebre Photobook Dummy Award, nomination Collections MoMa Library, New York Franklin Furnace Foundation, New York Haas Arts Special Collections, Yale University About the Project: © MIYUKI OKUYAMA / DEAR JAPANESE / CORTONA ON THE MOVE EDITION “Dear Japanese” is a documentary made with my personal perspective as a Japanese living in the Netherlands, portraying the offspring of Japanese soldiers and Dutch-Indonesian women, born during Pacific War in Indonesia, now living in the Netherlands. In the portraits, the models look straight into the viewers’ eyes beyond the lens. Their gaze challenges the viewer to see who they really are. A Dutch/Indo viewer might notice the dissimilarity of appearance to him, while a Japanese viewer might find striking resemblance to himself. Similarly, the ordinary Dutch landscapes may appear unfamiliar to the eyes of the photographer and the photographed. This is a subjective documentary on compatriots abroad, assembled from a personal perspective as a Japanese immigrant in the Netherlands, sharing with the models the complexity of having pride in being Japanese, coupled with feelings of alienation and guilt. Historical Background “Dear Japanese” Since the 16th century, the Netherlands colonozed the Indonesian archipelago, and this gave rise to a population of Indo-Europeans—Dutch citizens sharing both European and Asian ancestry. Japan attacked and occupied the Netherlands East Indies in 1942. For the next three-and-a-half years, Netherlands East Indies was ruled by the Japanese military administration, with over 360,000 Japanese stationed in the Indies throughout that period. Not only were the men in military service interned in POW camps, most of Dutch civilian men were also interned in Japanese civilian camps. With the men interned, the women were left to fend for themselves. Forced to search for a livelihood, many Indo-European women found work in Japanese offices, cafes or restaurants. In many cases, their encounters with the Japanese occupiers led to intimate relationships and births. The number of Japanese offspring born during the war were estimated to at least 10,000* or approximately between 30,000 and 40,000** in Indonesia, but there is no concrete number even now. After the Japanese capitulation, Indonesia declared its independence. This was the beginning of the four-year decolonisation period followed by large-scale military operations by the Netherlands. Throughout this period, the mothers of children who had been fathered by Japanese men often felt ostracised from their communities. Consequently, many women and their families decided to keep quiet about their experiences and their children’s Japanese parentage. Even after resettlement from Indonesia to the Netherlands, the Japanese origins of these children would often remain a family secret. Many children of Japanese descent grew up in communities which harboured hostile sentiments towards Japan. Today, more than 70 years after the end of WWII, many children are still searching for their biological fathers in Japan to fill an important missing element of their identities, and many are still suffering the adverse effects of traumatic childhoods. They take pride in their Japanese roots and they yearn for the land of their fathers as they struggle to solve the puzzle of their origins. RPS exclusive, complimentary gift. A3 Poster x2, printed on Kraft paper with Risograph News, PHOTOBOOK STORE	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line343
__label__cc	0.726332	0.273668	Collective bargaining 2019-20 Workplace visit Visiting Hof and Brekkuborg “We love our job. That’s why we’re still here. It’s definitely not for the money.” These are the words of an unskilled kindergarten worker spoken during a visit by Sólveig Anna and Ragnar Ólason yesterday. This woman has worked at the same kindergarten for nearly three decades, but she doesn’t even get 300.000kr after taxes per month. This forces her to work two side jobs to make ends meet. She, along with her colleagues with Read more… 3 months 2 months frá birtingu Who gets 105.000 kr? The state and Reykjavík city have agreed to a down payment of 105.000 kr for Efling workers on August 1. The negotiating team of the union of municipalities, SÍS, has banned other municipalities from doing the same. Yesterday, a letter from the team to the municipal councils was published in the media. In the letter, the reason for the ban is said to be the referral of the negotiations with Efling and other SGS unions Read more… Notice to Capital Hotels staff On May 1, the new collective agreement with SA gave Efling members in the private market a 17.000kr/month raise, plus other benefits. Some employers have tried to escape those raises, such as Árni Valur Sólonsson, owner of CapitalHotels. He terminated the wage section of all his employees’ contracts and told them they’d be rehired at uncertain terms, designed to counter the raises. Efling considers this to be illegal on several counts. Firstly, this breaches the Read more… Meeting requested with SA at state mediator office over noncompliance Efling has demanded a meeting with Halldór Benjamín Þorbergsson, the director of the business cartel, SA, in the offices of the state mediator, due to noncompliance with the new collective agreements. The case arose after the mass termination of wage terms by Árni Valur Sólonsson, a hotel manager, immediately after new agreements went into force. In the letter of termination this is said to be “with the aim of reducing labour costs”, due to “foreseeable Read more… Negotiations with the public sector Reykjavík city Efling has met with the city’s representatives over several month. No progress has been made to talk of. The negotiation committee of Efling does not have much hope for the approach seen at meetings so far. Talks have been broken off and preparations for a strike begun. State A shorter working week has bee discussed. The unions emphasise an actual shortening of working time in these agreements. A trial project by the authorities Read more… 9 months 1 week frá birtingu From the new agreements: New rules on interpretation Half of the Efling membership is from abroad. They often work under the management of Icelanders who prefer to speak with staff in Icelandic. “We have seen how very important information gets communicated to staff in a language they simply don’t understand,” says Viðar Þorsteinsson, managing director of Efling. “This winter we attended a staff meeting where a high-level manager announced a mass layoff in Icelandic, which nearly everyone in the room didn’t understand. The Read more… 9 months frá birtingu Union reps out of chains: From the new agreements In Iceland, many hotels and restaurants are run by conglomerates and chains. These companies keep the tourist economy going, but they themselves are kept going by mostly foreign labour. They also have rapid turnover of staff. In these conditions, having solid union representation is very important. However, these are also the places where it’s often proven the hardest to get union reps elected. Some of these businesses see the whole chain as a single “workplace”, Read more… Menn í vinnu: Wage claims, a fine and another mutation Before Easter, the legal office Réttur sent letters to companies which rented workers from the temp agency Menn í vinnu this winter. In the letter, it is made clear that, due to laws on chain responsibility, they are liable for their workers’ unpaid wages, even if their work is bought through a temp agency. “What we’re hoping is that these companies take care, in future, that their employees from temp agencies get correct pay and Read more… SGS-SA collective agreement accepted All member unions of SGS accepted the new collective agreement with the business cartel, SA, in a vote that concluded yesterday. Most did so with a sizable majority. Amongst Efling members, 77% voted yes and 2.3% abstained. In total, 19 thousand people were on the Efling voting registry. The agreement applies to general workers in sectors such as construction, transportation, road construction, dock work, agriculture, mechanical work and in hotels and restaurants. You can read Read more… Summary of the new agreements A new collective agreement for private market workers in Efling has been signed, lasting for 3 years and 8 months. It includes significant input from the government, and adds disposable income from several sources. It will be effective as of April 1, 2019. A vote on the agreement will take place very soon. Here’s an overview of the main items. Raises Wages will rise every year, from April 1, 2019 to the contract’s end in Read more… 10 months 9 months frá birtingu	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line352
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By the mid-16th century, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ruled a vast tract of land in Central and Eastern Europe. During the 18th century, internal disorders weakened the nation, and in a series of agreements between 1772 and 1795, Russia, Prussia, and Austria partitioned Poland among themselves. Poland regained its independence in 1918 only to be overrun by Germany and the Soviet Union in World War II. It became a Soviet satellite state following the war. Labor turmoil in 1980 led to the formation of the independent trade union "Solidarity" that over time became a political force with over 10 million members. Free elections in 1989 and 1990 won Solidarity control of the parliament and the presidency, bringing the communist era to a close. A "shock therapy" program during the early 1990s enabled the country to transform its economy into one of the most robust in Central Europe. Poland joined NATO in 1999 and the EU in 2004. With its transformation to a democratic, market-oriented country largely completed and with large investments in defense, energy, and other infrastructure, Poland is an increasingly active member of Euro-Atlantic organizations. Historically, an area of conflict because of flat terrain and the lack of natural barriers on the North European Plain Location: Central Europe, east of Germany Geographic coordinates: 52 00 N, 20 00 E Size comparison: about twice the size of Georgia; slightly smaller than New Mexico Land Boundaries: total: 3,071 km border countries (7): Belarus 418 km, Czech Republic 796 km, Germany 467 km, Lithuania 104 km, Russia (Kaliningrad Oblast) 210 km, Slovakia 541 km, Ukraine 535 km Coastline: 440 km exclusive economic zone: defined by international treaties Climate: temperate with cold, cloudy, moderately severe winters with frequent precipitation; mild summers with frequent showers and thundershowers Terrain: mostly flat plain; mountains along southern border Natural resources: coal, sulfur, copper, natural gas, silver, lead, salt, amber, arable land Natural hazards: flooding Current Environment Issues: decreased emphasis on heavy industry and increased environmental concern by post-communist governments has improved environment; air pollution remains serious because of emissions from burning low-quality coals in homes and from coal-fired power plants; the resulting acid rain causes forest damage; water pollution from industrial and municipal sources is a problem, as is disposal of hazardous wastes International Environment Agreements: party to: Air Pollution, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Seals, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands signed, but not ratified: Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulfur 94 Nationality: noun: Pole(s) adjective: Polish Ethnic groups: Polish 96.9%, Silesian 1.1%, German 0.2%, Ukrainian 0.1%, other and unspecified 1.7% (2011 est.) note: represents ethnicity declared first Languages: Polish (official) 98.2%, Silesian 1.4%, other 1.1%, unspecified 1.3% (2011 est.) note: data represents the language spoken at home; shares sum to more than 100% because some respondents gave more than one answer on the census; Poland ratified the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in 2009 recognizing Kashub as a regional language, Czech, Hebrew, Yiddish, Belarusian, Lithuanian, German, Armenian, Russian, Slovak, and Ukrainian as national minority languages, and Karaim, Lemko, Romani (Polska Roma and Bergitka Roma), and Tatar as ethnic minority languages Religions: Catholic 85.9% (includes Roman Catholic 85.6% and Greek Catholic, Armenian Catholic, and Byzantine-Slavic Catholic .3%), Orthodox 1.3% (almost all are Polish Autocephalous Orthodox), Protestant 0.4% (mainly Augsburg Evangelical and Pentacostal), other 0.4% (includes Jehovah's Witness, Buddhist, Hare Krishna, Gaudiya Vaishnavism, Muslim, Jewish, Mormon), unspecified 12.1% (2017 est.) Age structure: 0-14 years: 14.8% (male 2,924,077 /female 2,762,634) Population growth rate: -0.16% (2018 est.) Death rate: 10.5 deaths/1,000 population (2018 est.) Net migration rate: -0.4 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2018 est.) rate of urbanization: -0.25% annual rate of change (2015-20 est.) Major urban areas - population: 1.768 million WARSAW (capital) 767,000 Krakow (2018) 55-64 years: 0.9 male(s)/female female: 82 years (2018 est.) Contraceptive prevalence rate: 62.3% (2014) Physicians density: 2.4 physicians/1,000 population (2016) Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write (2015 est.) total population: 99.8% male: 99.9% female: 99.7% (2015 est.) Country name: conventional long form: Republic of Poland conventional short form: Poland local long form: Rzeczpospolita Polska local short form: Polska former: Polish People's Republic etymology: name derives from the Polanians, a west Slavic tribe that united several surrounding Slavic groups (9th-10th centuries A.D.) and who passed on their name to the country; the name of the tribe likely comes from the Slavic "pole" (field or plain), indicating the flat nature of their country Capital: name: Warsaw etymology: the origin of the name is unknown; the Polish designation "Warszawa" was the name of a fishing village and several legends/traditions link the city's founding to a man named Wars or Warsz Administrative divisions: 16 voivodships [provinces] (wojewodztwa, singular - wojewodztwo); Dolnoslaskie (Lower Silesia), Kujawsko-Pomorskie (Kuyavia-Pomerania), Lodzkie (Lodz), Lubelskie (Lublin), Lubuskie (Lubusz), Malopolskie (Lesser Poland), Mazowieckie (Masovia), Opolskie (Opole), Podkarpackie (Subcarpathia), Podlaskie, Pomorskie (Pomerania), Slaskie (Silesia), Swietokrzyskie (Holy Cross), Warminsko-Mazurskie (Warmia-Masuria), Wielkopolskie (Greater Poland), Zachodniopomorskie (West Pomerania) Independence: 11 November 1918 (republic proclaimed); notable earlier dates: 966 (adoption of Christianity, traditional founding date), 1 July 1569 (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth created) National holiday: Constitution Day, 3 May (1791) Constitution: history: several previous; latest adopted 2 April 1997, approved by referendum 25 May 1997, effective 17 October 1997 amendments: proposed by at least one-fifth of Sejm deputies, by the Senate, or by the president of the republic; passage requires at least two-thirds majority vote in the Sejm and absolute majority vote in the Senate; amendments to articles relating to sovereignty, personal freedoms, and constitutional amendment procedures also require passage by majority vote in a referendum; amended 2006, 2009, latest submitted in 2015 and is pending legislative process (2019) Legal system: civil law system; judicial review of legislative, administrative, and other governmental acts; constitutional law rulings of the Constitutional Tribunal are final Executive branch: chief of state: President Andrzej DUDA (since 6 August 2015) head of government: Prime Minister Mateusz MORAWIECKI (since 11 December 2017); 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minorities exempt from threshold; members serve 4-year terms) elections: Senate - last held on 25 October 2015 (next to be held in October 2019) Sejm - last held on 25 October 2015 (next to be held in October 2019) election results: Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - PiS 61, PO 34, PSL 1, independent 4; composition - men 87, women 13, percent of women 13% Sejm - percent of vote by party - PiS 37.6%, PO 24.1%, K15 8.8%, N 7.6%, PSL 5.1% other 16.8%; seats by party - PiS 235, PO 138, K15 42, N 28, PSL 16, German minority 1; men 334, women 126, percent of women 27.4%; note - total legislature percent of women 24.8% note: the designation National Assembly or Zgromadzenie Narodowe is only used on those rare occasions when the 2 houses meet jointly Judicial branch: highest courts: Supreme Court or Sad Najwyzszy (consists of the first president of the Supreme Court and 120 justices organized in criminal, civil, labor and social insurance, and extraordinary appeals and public affairs and disciplinary chambers); Constitutional Tribunal (consists of 15 judges, including the court president and vice president) judge selection and term of office: president of the Supreme Court nominated by the General Assembly of the Supreme Court and selected by the president of Poland; other judges nominated by the 25-member National Judicial Council and appointed by the president of Poland; judges serve until retirement, usually at age 65, but tenure can be extended; Constitutional Tribunal judges chosen by the Sejm for 9-year terms subordinate courts: administrative courts; military courts; local, regional and appellate courts subdivided into military, civil, criminal, labor, and family courts Political parties and leaders: Civic Platform or PO [Grzegorz SCHETYNA] Democratic Left Alliance or SLD [Wlodzimierz CZARZASTY] German Minority or MN [Ryszard GALLA] Kukiz 15 or K15 [Pawel KUKIZ] Law and Justice or PiS [Jaroslaw KACZYNSKI] KORWIN (formerly the Coalition for the Renewal of the Republic-Liberty and Hope or Liberty) [Janusz KORWIN-MIKKE] TERAZ! 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[Ryszard PETRU] Nowoczesna (Modern) or N [Katarzyna LUBNAUER] Polish People's Party or PSL [Wladyslaw KOSINIAK-KAMYSZ] Razem (Together) [collective leadership] Wiosna (Spring) [Robert BIEDRON] International organization participation: Arctic Council (observer), Australia Group, BIS, BSEC (observer), CBSS, CD, CE, CEI, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, ECB, EIB, ESA, EU, FAO, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MONUSCO, NATO, NEA, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OIF (observer), OPCW, OSCE, PCA, Schengen Convention, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMIL, UNMISS, UNOCI, UN Security Council (temporary), UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC National symbol(s): white crowned eagle; national colors: white, red National anthem: name: "Mazurek Dabrowskiego" (Dabrowski's Mazurka) lyrics/music: Jozef WYBICKI/traditional note: adopted 1927; the anthem, commonly known as "Jeszcze Polska nie zginela" (Poland Has Not Yet Perished), was written in 1797; the lyrics resonate strongly with Poles because they reflect the numerous occasions in which the nation's lands have been occupied Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Piotr Antoni WILCZEK (since 18 January 2017) chancery: 2640 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20009 consulate(s) general: Chicago, Los Angeles, New York Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Georgette MOSBACHER (since 6 September 2018) embassy: Aleje Ujazdowskie 29/31 00-540 Warsaw mailing address: American Embassy Warsaw, US Department of State, Washington, DC 20521-5010 (pouch) telephone: [48] (22) 504-2000 FAX: [48] (22) 504-2226 consulate(s) general: Krakow Poland has the sixth-largest economy in the EU and has long had a reputation as a business-friendly country with largely sound macroeconomic policies. Since 1990, Poland has pursued a policy of economic liberalization. During the 2008-09 economic slowdown Poland was the only EU country to avoid a recession, in part because of the government’s loose fiscal policy combined with a commitment to rein in spending in the medium-term Poland is the largest recipient of EU development funds and their cyclical allocation can significantly impact the rate of economic growth. The Polish economy performed well during the 2014-17 period, with the real GDP growth rate generally exceeding 3%, in part because of increases in government social spending that have helped to accelerate consumer-driven growth. However, since 2015, Poland has implemented new business restrictions and taxes on foreign-dominated economic sectors, including banking and insurance, energy, and healthcare, that have dampened investor sentiment and has increased the government’s ownership of some firms. The government reduced the retirement age in 2016 and has had mixed success in introducing new taxes and boosting tax compliance to offset the increased costs of social spending programs and relieve upward pressure on the budget deficit. Some credit ratings agencies estimate that Poland during the next few years is at risk of exceeding the EU’s 3%-of-GDP limit on budget deficits, possibly impacting its access to future EU funds. Poland’s economy is projected to perform well in the next few years in part because of an anticipated cyclical increase in the use of its EU development funds and continued, robust household spending. Poland faces several systemic challenges, which include addressing some of the remaining deficiencies in its road and rail infrastructure, business environment, rigid labor code, commercial court system, government red tape, and burdensome tax system, especially for entrepreneurs. Additional long-term challenges include diversifying Poland’s energy mix, strengthening investments in innovation, research, and development, as well as stemming the outflow of educated young Poles to other EU member states, especially in light of a coming demographic contraction due to emigration, persistently low fertility rates, and the aging of the Solidarity-era baby boom generation. GDP - real growth rate: 4.7% (2017 est.) 3% (2016 est.) 3.8% (2015 est.) Gross national saving: 20% of GDP (2017 est.) 19.2% of GDP (2016 est.) 19.9% of GDP (2015 est.) GDP - composition, by end use: household consumption: 58.6% (2017 est.) government consumption: 17.7% (2017 est.) investment in fixed capital: 17.7% (2017 est.) investment in inventories: 2% (2017 est.) exports of goods and services: 54% (2017 est.) imports of goods and services: -49.9% (2017 est.) GDP - composition, by sector of origin: agriculture: 2.4% (2017 est.) industry: 40.2% (2017 est.) services: 57.4% (2017 est.) 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__label__wiki	0.50915	0.50915	Post to this Thread - Printer Friendly - Home Page: [1] [2] Republican or Conservative folk singers Related threads: Folk Songs for Conservatives (80) Right Wing Folksongs (86) right-wing 'folk' (44) Folk Singers who are Politically Conservative (290) (closed) Lyr Req: Conservative Song (5) Studio 360 segment: right-wing folk (37) Lyr Add: Conservative ballads (19) Folk Songs of the Far Right Wing (36) MGM·Lion 18 Oct 12 - 05:49 AM Jim Carroll 18 Oct 12 - 06:05 AM Leadfingers 18 Oct 12 - 06:34 AM Allan Conn 18 Oct 12 - 08:10 AM Stringsinger 18 Oct 12 - 08:19 AM GUEST,Desi C 18 Oct 12 - 08:48 AM musicmick 18 Oct 12 - 09:41 AM Howard Jones 18 Oct 12 - 10:06 AM Elmore 18 Oct 12 - 11:00 AM Richard Bridge 18 Oct 12 - 11:59 AM Stringsinger 18 Oct 12 - 12:41 PM MGM·Lion 18 Oct 12 - 12:46 PM Jim Carroll 18 Oct 12 - 03:23 PM GUEST,Tony 18 Oct 12 - 04:49 PM musicmick 18 Oct 12 - 11:35 PM GUEST,davemc 19 Oct 12 - 05:35 AM GUEST,raymond greenoaken 19 Oct 12 - 05:44 AM GUEST,Jim Knowledge 19 Oct 12 - 07:09 AM Jim McLean 19 Oct 12 - 08:27 AM GUEST 19 Oct 12 - 09:12 AM GUEST,sciencegeek 19 Oct 12 - 11:25 AM Wolfgang 19 Oct 12 - 04:47 PM MartinRyan 19 Oct 12 - 04:52 PM pdq 19 Oct 12 - 08:11 PM oldhippie 19 Oct 12 - 09:09 PM Larry The Radio Guy 20 Oct 12 - 01:31 AM pdq 20 Oct 12 - 09:18 AM dick greenhaus 20 Oct 12 - 03:57 PM Leadfingers 20 Oct 12 - 04:36 PM GUEST,Don Wise 21 Oct 12 - 04:26 AM GUEST,henryp 23 Oct 12 - 06:24 AM Subject: RE: Republican or Conservative folk singers From: MGM·Lion Jim ~~ Point very much taken. Your name was out of place in that list. The others not so. ~Michael~ From: Jim Carroll Don't mention it Mike - let's both try harder in future. From: Leadfingers One Right Wing Folkie of my acquaintence was a tad concerned that his friendship with Robb Johnston (VERY Talented Left Wing Songriter) might be a drawback his Political Ambition ! And Ron Shuttleworth , writer of SUPERB parodies , was definately on the Right Wing . From: Allan Conn "and the Wee Cooper of Fife would be arrested for spousal abuse" We used to go to a singing club in Selkirk and the woman running it had chosen to do 'Wee Cooper of Fife' one week. The following week we were about to do it again when two po-faced women both declared that we couldn't possibly do that song as it stood and one produced new lyrics which she had written herself - which in all truth were pretty badly written anyway! The majority there looked slightly bewildered by it all. Some didn't say anything but gave each other exasperated looks. Various other people suggested that the song was of its time, was a humorous song anyway, and that singing it didn't mean one was condoning domestic abuse. One of the complainers then went into a long lecture about the evils of domestic abuse which was aimed primarily at me - presumably because I was the only male in the room. I must add I've never a woman in my life! Anyway the woman was being more than a bit tedious but I could have lived with that, however my other half took great objection to me being picked on and she upped and left with me in tow - as I needed a lift home :-) From: Stringsinger Bascom Lamarr Lunsford criticized Pete Seeger for singing "Down on Penny's Farm" stating vociferously that the original tune was "Robertson's Farm" and that the employer "loved" his workers and they wouldn't complain. I suspect overt racism here. It has to be remembered that the "folk boom" started with the interest of the Left Wing Movement, spearheaded by Pete Seeger, including many prominent folklorists of the day, offshoots of the Popular Front period. Republicans have been traditionally wealthy individuals who would not relate to the music of the "masses". However, in the South, there are plenty of bluegrass and old time musicians who are quite conservative or even radically right wing. From: GUEST,Desi C Thankfully from my experience politics rarely rears it's ugly heap openly in Folk Clubs here. Even political animals like myself who do broach the subject do it rarely and it doesn't seem to illicit much interest. I suppose it's fair to say politics was more a part of the 1960's Folk revival, but that was mainly quite Liberal possibly quasi communist in nature with anti nuclear protests, civil rights etc. Given that both Liberals and Conservatists in the UK are much the same thing and mostly for the very rich, and inceasingly against feee speech, I would class most Folk Club goers as old fashioned liberal or socialist in nature but I wouldn't describe them overal in nature as particularly political. It'll be interesting to scroll down and read others comments From: musicmick The connection between the left and folk music, in the USA, stems from the series of concerts sponsered by unions in New York city, in the 1940s. The performers included youngsters like Pete Seeger, Cisco Houston, Leadbelly, Woody Guthry, Lee Hayes and Josh White. Those guys worked cheap and they were, all, well to the left of center. Union locals, in other towns followed suit so Win Strake, in Chicago, George Britton, in Philadelphia and Sam Hinton, on the coast stared singing folksongs for their living. Oh, I forgot Carl Sandburg, who endd his poetry reading with a short folk concert. But the people, whose songs these were, were as traditional intheir values as they had always been. It was the left who politicized folk singing. From: Howard Jones I suspect there's a greater range of political opinions than some on the left would like to believe. It's certainly true that folk song is more likely to be used to express left wing political views rather than those on the right, and those singers who are most overtly political tend to be from the left. However the left's caricature of the Tories as rich toffs ignores the fact that they manage to attract a sizeable number of working-class voters I don't agree that Peter Bellamy's political views were all that evident from his singing, certainly not compared with the likes of say Dick Gaughan. As for abortion, that is a matter of conscience rather than falling on one side or another of the political divide. It is certainly true that people espousing left-wing views on the folk scene probably feel they are likely to get a sympathetic reception. I think it is also true that those who don't share those views prefer keep quiet rather than get into arguments over politics when they just want to enjoy the music. The sort of responses this thread has generated indicates why. From: Elmore Actually, I was attracted to folk music by topical (lefty) folk singers. I found it refreshing that someone would be willing to express her true beliefs on stage. That was the sixties.Later I got into more traditional music. I don't care what Peter Bellamy's politics were. I loved his songs, even loved his voice. From: Richard Bridge I find Bellamy's politics all too evident in his work apart from the Young Tradition, and very offputting. As to the prevalence (to the extent that there is any such) of working class support for the present government, may I borrow and subvert the expression "Lions led by donkeys" and say "Donkeys led by liars"? Indeed most of that IMHO comes from a scurrilous campaign of disinformation about the recipients of benefits so that the donkeys will vote against the interests of themselves and their class. Date: 18 Oct 12 - 12:41 PM Musicmick, your historical view of folk music USA is completely accurate. Much of it was brought to the public by the influenced by the New Popular Front headed by CPUSA leader Earl Browder attempting to bring the culture of the "masses" into prominence. It has to be said that "agit-prop"music has a venerable history in the U.S. even prior to Joe Hill when you find ideology in earlier forms of what we call folk music, the political ballads such as Yankee Doodle, Lilibulero, The World Upside Down and early protest music. Calypso and Jamaican music can be classified as "agit-prop" as well. Even Chopin wrote a "Revolutionary Etude". Beethoven had an axe to grind also. You might be surprised to find that nursery rhymes were originally political statements such as "Little Jack Horner" (Archibald) and "Mary, Mary Quite Contrary" (Mary Queen of Scots). A good song is a good song, agit prop or not, regardless of the motive for writing it. Doesn't the rather quaint American habit of giving their children names redolent of ancient nobility tend to rebound absurdly? Fancy the CPUSA leader being called Earl! ~M~ "The connection between the left and folk music, in the USA...." The politics of folk song in Britain is a multi-faceted one. It was certainly the left who set the ball rolling there with the left wing Workers Music Association introducing MacColl and Lloyd to the public and later setting up Topic Records. Alan Lomax, on the run from McCarthy's thugs, prodded the BBC into embarking on the mopping up campaign of recording what was still to be found in the field. Lloyd and MacColl, both left wingers, were in the forefront of the revival involved in setting up one of the earliest folk clubs. However, the concept of an artistically creative working class making their own songs and claiming them as their own was a revolutionary concept in itself - still difficult for some people to get their heads around. This is not to say that all our traditional singers queued up at the polls to vote for the Labour or Communist parties, but many of them where aware of the social and historical significance of the song. Go and listen to Harry Cox spitting feathers about the forcible enclosure of common land after having sung Van Dieman's Land, or commenting "that's what the buggers thought of us", after singing Betsy the Serving maid (son of wealthy family falls in love with a servant, parents deport her to America, son dies of grief). Richard's quote: "If living was a thing that money could buy Then the rich would live, and the poor would die" was recited to MacColl and Parker by Sam Larner during the making of 'Singing the Fishing' Walter Pardon sang the Agricultural Trades Union Song, The Old Man's Advice, and spoke with pride about his family's part in re-establishing the union in East Anglia. I find it offensive that anybody should attempt to censor our folksongs because they don't happen to fit into their own particular mindset - they have always been a part of peoples' self expression and long may that continue to be the case. From: GUEST,Tony As always, we're talking at cross-purposes – some of us construing "folk music" to mean what we find in the Folk bin of a US record store, others adhering to a 1950-something definition that hardly anyone has ever heard of even in the UK. I assumed Cathy was talking about folk musicians in the former sense, since she said she's American and since her second post mentioned "medium to large venues." Yes, Stringsinger, and Rockaby Baby was about Chrles II or someone, remarkably, like him. Tony is using the pop meaning of folk music (A song sung by its composer, accompaned on acoustic guitar unless, of course, the song is played on a Country station.) I have always admired the Irish, who have maintained the popularity of their trafitional music. Americans seem embarrassed about our trad and have adopted the "folk bin" redefining of folk music. Our ubiquitous singer/songwriters include few, or none, Cyril Tawneys, Pete St. Johns or Ewan MacColls. I hope that Tony is wrong. The UK's trove of folk treasures deserved to be heard. The OP was clearly American but appeared to be inviting comparison with the UK. From: GUEST,davemc I guess the unwelcoming and closed minds in most folk clubs are likely to put off most people whose politics are moderately right of centre. You're unlikely to get many bookings unless you either completely censor your politics or parrot the leftie banalities. Choose another genre guys: "So move along, get along, move along, get along, Go, move, shift" as Jimmy of Salford might say. From: GUEST,raymond greenoaken >I find Bellamy's politics all too evident in his work< Know what you mean, Richard: all that preachy Lefty stuff like All In A Day, Pilgrim's Way, Death Of Bill Brown, Farewell To The Land. The man had no shame. From: GUEST,Jim Knowledge I `ad that "Breezie" in my cab the other day. `e`d been up at `erga`s the night before doing a couple of numbers. `e was on `is way down to Wadebridge for a spot of R&R following the rucus that night. I said, "Morning John, you look a bit miffed. What`s `appened? Your light to moderate veered to gale force?" `e said , "Nah Jim. I did me bit and said it was all in aid of the F.A.C. and would people like to contribute. They chucked me out!" I said, "I`m not surprised, raising dosh for the "Fellowship of Allied Conservatives" in a club like that." `e said, "It wasn`t for them. It was for "Folk Against Cancer!!" Whaddam I Like?? From: Jim McLean Jack, the lines immediately following my quote from Fletcher of Saltoun prove the effectiveness of ballad making, although he might have disapproved of the results. From: GUEST I recently did a song that was political at a festival. It was titled "I'll Tell You the Good Things Our Government's Done, with apologies to Tom Paxton." I told the audience I'd been working on the song since 1978. A small untruth which I'm sure will be overlooked by history. It went like this with two other voices harmonizing on the word 'done'. Deep breath and "I'll tell you the good things our government's done." Expel remaining air, look around the audience, step back and wait. It took about five seconds of silence and the laughter started. It lasted substantially longer than the song. Subject: RE: Republican or Conservative folk singers Eric D Eric Darling was a Libertarian I believed he was an Ayn Rand follower. I am not aware he wrote or sang political songs and/or preached to the audience Having said that,he was an incredible 12 string guitarist; on par with Dick Rosmini and Fred Gerlach From: GUEST,sciencegeek there has always been music that was used to thwart the "status quo".. otherwise, Cromwell wouldn't have felt the need to try to eliminate those pesky travelling harpers or hang the pipers. Or consider those "darky" songs that helped runaway slaves find their way to freedom. Very illegal activity for the time. As long as there are folks who feel the need to impose their will on others... and those others aren't real pleased with that... there will be unrest, dissention, etc. As part of the lets's put Americans to work & get the us the heck out of this depression, there was a fair amount of $ invested in "the Arts"... and that included preserving traditional music of all kinds. What I see happening today is a lot of closed minded folks who want the rest of us to be as ass backwards as them... and a bunch of wealthy folks who want to turn democracy into an oligarchy, manipulating those folks into supporting them. I am a practicing GDI... god damn independent who preferes to think for herself and resents oppression of any sort. From: Wolfgang This thread's a good enough reason to reinstate my cookie. Even folksongs decrying injustice are not "left" by default. If I look through the titles of my copy of the "Liederbuch der Hitler Jugend" (songbook of the Hitler youth) I can see a lot of songs that originally (and after the twelve years) belong(ed) to the Left. "Brueder zur Sonne, zur Freiheit" (brethren, towards to sun and the freedom) is a trade union song still sung today by German Social Democrats at the end of each party convention. And, yes, it was sung by the Hitler youth too. Songs from peasant uprisings, songs against feudalism, against injustice of capitalism, are all found in that book. Even the title of that Liederbuch (Uns geht die Sonne nie unter, the sun never sets for us) is a line from one of my all time favourite German folksongs praising the free life instead of the life of the bourgeoisie. BTW, the Nazi's Horst Wessel Lied used the tune from an older folksong. Folksongs in Germany today can be sung by the Left (rather not by the extreme Left) and by the (extreme) Right. Well, but then, the S in NSDAP stood for "Sozialistische". From: MartinRyan Hi Wolfgang! I clicked on this thread grudgingly, expecting it to bring out my cormudgeonly soul - and found you had just posted! Been wondering where you were... Good to hear from you. quote: I hope that Tony is wrong. The UK's trove of folk treasures deserved to be heard. Musicmick, you're mixing up two different ideas: 1. Traditional music should be preserved. I agree completely and am very active in that preservation. 2. The term "folk music" can only be used to mean traditional music. Good luck with that. Maybe you should talk to the French Academy. In English (or, as it really should be called now, American), usage determines the meaning of a word. I often wonder how the preservation of traditional music is affected by its being associated with people who get bent out of shape at the use of a word to mean what 99% of the population think it means. If the general public ever does become aware of the music described in that 1950-whatever definition, they'll almost certainly call it "nerd music." Another reason why I thought Cathy was using "folk singers" in the vernacular sense (apart from her being an American and mentioning larger venues than any trad singer would ever get here) is the fact that she said they talked liberal politics on stage. That's actually the best clue. It even narrows it down to a small number of specific "folk" singers. "Folk songs" is not the only term to be commandeered and redefined. "Gay" doesn't seem to mean what it used to, either. The trouble is that while "gay" has enough synonyms to replace the original, "folk songs" does not. ("Trad" is insufficient because tradition, by nature, implies repeated usage, generally oer generations. One can no more write a traditional song than make an antique.) Folk songs, unlike other songs are defined by their tranmission or collective creation. Thus, older songs that have survived by popular repitition (Like "Happy Birthday", "Three Blind Mice", "Silent Night") live, not bcause of popular recordings. but through our own singing. Even songs that are created by groups (Like the Korean War version of "Bless 'Em All") are of and by the "folk". I understand that some very old songs do not experience the changes of what we used to call the "Folk Process". I am thinking of hymns and anthems. So, "Folk" is an umbrella but it's not limitless. It never meant any song written with accoustic accompaniment. If it did, Jaques Brell or Antonio Carlos Jobim would be the best folksinger of them all From: pdq Too many Lefties have tried to co-opt Folk Music and use it for their political purposes. Social comentary is not the same as politics. Even Jerry Garcia said he was tired of people trying to use The Sixties to push their politics. He made it clear that the message was social change, not political change. An old Appalacian singing about the poor quality and high price of food is social commentary, not political. A Blues singer telling us how mean his old lady is? That's social also, not political. From: oldhippie pdq - your post "It's quite refreshing to listen to Doc Watson, Ian & Sylvia, Burl Ives and other who left politics out of their music." Have you never listened to Burl's "50 Years From Now"? Sorry, I have not heard "50 Years from Now". I will try to correct this lacuna. However, did you know that Burl Ives was a 33rd degree Mason (highest possible) and a Republican? Burl Ives was a "friendly" withess during the blacklist years. He was considered an outcast by the folk establishment. Years later, at a Weavers reunion concert, a very old and very sick Burl Ives appeared on stage and Pete Seeger, who had been hurt by Ives' testamony, embraced him. I wrote, at the time, that Pete did an admirable thing but I kind of wished he had used him as a urinal, first. From: Larry The Radio Guy I'd like to address briefly pdq's very important point: "Too many Lefties have tried to co-opt Folk Music and use it for their political purposes. Social comentary is not the same as politics"...........An old Appalacian singing about the poor quality and high price of food is social commentary, not political. For the most part I agree. Even Linda Ronstadt dedicating "You're No Good" to George W. Bush.....while inwardly I cheer....I also recognize it's a bit cheap. But I think that most social commentary is "small p" political...particularly when we know that even Democrats (or, in Canada, NDP'ers) who espouse concern for the poor sometimes end up supporting policies that are the antithesis to that....and most political issues are debatable. Yet.....for those of us who believe in what I consider to be 'good' values (eg. compassion, equality, respect, openness to different), ideas, I think we have a duty to communicate those values in our performances and our songs (include the inbetween patter). So, for example, when Mitt Romney makes comments like "I'm not concerned about the very poor", I think folksingers would be neglecting their duty if they didn't at least make fun of these comments.....and to demonstrate as effectively as possible how this is not in line with the values that many of us 'folk singers' believe in. I do agree that somebody with conservative/republican sentiments very much has the right to write songs and to be heard. And.....if they can communicate in a way that is consistent with what I believe are positive values, I'll listen to them. In fact, I think Clint Eastwood, as a movie director and script writer, is one 'conservative' who does a beautiful job of that....and I love the humanity that is in most of his movies. Off hand I can't think of any 'republican' type folk singers/writers who do that (though I'm sure some exist). I agree there are a lot of 'lefties' who shove diatribes down our throats, and I personally find them boring. On the other hand there are so many like Utah Phillips, Tom Paxton, Fred Eaglesmith (who no longer identifies himself as a 'lefty'), Peter, Paul & Mary, Bruce Springsteen, Cheryl Wheeler, etc. who are clearly 'liberal' or left-wing and bring their small 'p' political beliefs to their performances....and they're inspiring! But I do wonder if there are any 'Clint Eastwoods' in the folk music world. People who bring an intelligent and thoughtful conservative sentiment that can find the 'meeting place' between what we think of as left wing or 'liberal', and those that some Republicans might also embrace? The most striking constant feature of Eastwood's film output is his support of vigilantism and opposition to legal rights. Hardly "intelligent and thoughtful". While I don't want to turn this thread into a Clint Eastwood debate, the films I'm thinking of include the ones that I and most critics hail as thoughtful, 'human' (in it's most positive sense)....with a passion rather than an opposition to people's rights. Eg. Mystic River, Bird, Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, maybe even Bronco Billy. I must take issue with Howard Jones that the right wing conservative attract a lot of working class voters, That is purely down to two facts. One- 80% of British voters are rather particularly ignorant, the vote these days purely on what the media instruct them to do. For instance when the Daily Mirror was a left wing Socialist newspaper and had thge biggest circulation, most people voted Labour. These days the vast majority of our media is right wing including the very biased BBC. And not surprisingly The Sun owned by who sponsors the Conservative party (many would say in his pocket, instructs it's politically ignorant readership who to vote for. Thereore as the Sun attracts the most ignorant readers they are merely doing what they're told, not out of any special allegiance to the Conservative. To back this up you only have to remember when the Sun said vote Labour, those reliable Sun readers did as they were told. I rest my case ;) Subject: RE: Is Burl Ives underated? "Ives was identified in the 1950 pamphlet Red Channels and blacklisted as an entertainer with supposed Communist ties. In 1952 he cooperated with the House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC) and agreed to testify. He stated that he was not a member of the Communist Party but that he had attended various union meetings with fellow folk singer Pete Seeger simply to stay in touch with working folk. He stated: 'You know who my friends are; you will have to ask them if they are Communists.'" That was all he said about Pete Seeger. Lefties wanted him to ignore the sapoena and risk jail time. He chose to respect the authority of the House and attend as did Elia Kazan, Humphrey Bogart, and the vast majority of those who received a summons. Burl's best album was "Butrl Ives Sings for the House Unamerican Activities Committee" (HUAC) Desi C, that seems a remarkably condescending opinion of the working classes. Do have the same objections to those poor ignoramuses who vote Labour because their union tells them to? Political allegiances are complicated things, and people's views don't always fit into convenient categories. Large numbers of the working class have been traditionally conservative, with a small c if not a large one, and plenty of middle-class people vote Labour. Besides, why should someone's political views have a bearing on their musical preferences? I think the question arises because those who feel strongly about politics tend to view everything through a political prism, including music. They find it difficult to understand that others may not regard music in the same way, and that people who share their taste in music may possibly not share their political beliefs. What DesiC says is largely right if simplistic (and the BBC is not wholly right-wing as is evidenced by the constant war against it by doctrinaire free-marketeers). However it is overgenerous to the current right-wing (as distinct from the ultra-right fascistic racistic parties like the BNP EDL etc) and does lend some credibility to the not quite so fascistic racist right like UKIP whose entire "philosophy" can be summed up as "Wogs begin at Calais". The current UK lever of choice of the right to move the working class to vote conservative is the ceaseless campaign of bigotry and vilification against the unwaged and disabled. Even the parts of conservative plans to force the unwaged into ever more desperate attempts to find work are part of the attack against the working class, for it only increases the pool of labour which must then compete in capitalist terms against each other so driving wages downwards - to the benefit of capitalists who may exploit labour by the use of zero-hours part-time contracts (which, incidentally reduce tax take and so increase the deficit - clear evidence that the strategy of war on the poor is not evidence-based but dogma-driven). But to return to "conservatism", the basic credo of conservatism is to preserve privilege and entitlement - the advantage of the ruling class. Folk music is not the music of the ruling classes. It is the expression - at its most basic - of what were the peasant classes: the very people that the ruling classes exploit. A conservative folk singer is at best a mere parrot, at worst a quisling. Republicans, as far as I can see, are even worse, comprised of oppressors and the tools of oppressors swallowing the propaganda of multi-billionaires. In both the UK and the USA the skewness of income distribution has increased and is increasing. The poor do not even get the crumbs from the rich man's table that "trickle down" economics seeks to deceive that they will receive. Republicans and conservatives not only defend but aid that tendency. How can they sing the songs of the oppressed when they are the oppressors? From: dick greenhaus Folks here seem to be much more preoccupied by "Republican or Conservative songs" rather than "Republican or Conservative singers ." Desi C has it right ! Some years back there was a survey which indicated that more than 60% of Sun readers , at a time when it was nearly as hard right as the Dirty Mail , thought it was a Left wing paper . From: GUEST,Don Wise Arlo Guthrie is quite open about being a card-carrying Republican. He is also quite open in his rejection of various current Republican 'policies'. The confusion over thinking The Sun a left-wing paper emanated from the fact that it was aimed in style as what were considered the tastes and preferences of the working-class, in conscious imitation of the style of the Mirror, which did lean leftwards, but a bit more 'daring' ~~ eg daily p3 nude rather than the suggestive but actually v prudish near-nudity often to be seen in the Mirror. Howard I think you only make my point for me. Wha tI Was saying and maybe didn't make clear, is that the English, generally and over all 'classes' are very politically naieve, if not indeed ignorant. You'll not get any more intelligent political debate from a rich man in a wine bar than you will from a union worker in his pub. For instance just a couple of years ago we were ALL very angry at the revelation that approx 60% of MP's were fraudently claiming expenses, and the pitifully few prosecutions only added to the Fraud. just 9 months into the Condem gov't's hate campain against the out of work and the Disabled and hate crimes against those groups had risen by 36%, and the government fraud largely forgotten A hate campaign conduced ny Conservatives and Lib Dems alike and added to by Labour through their silence. That hate crime has now risen by almost 60% and The biggest reason for that is largely ignorant British electorate, en masse, reading and listening to government run media (and vice versa) Who haven't the inteligence to look up the facts and find out that nearly All the Govt 'facts'are 99% lies. It's Nazi propoganda happening all over again to make us think those LEAST responsible caused the recession. I'm middle class by the way From: GUEST,henryp Romney is trying to attract the Hispanic vote. 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__label__wiki	0.54798	0.54798	Ebooks ➡ Fiction ➡ Horror ➡ Young adult or teen ➡ Horror ➡ Undead The Son of Dracula and the Blood Countess By Drac Von Stoller Copyright May 16, 2016 Shakespir Edition Nestled upon a mountain top in 1590, what the villagers called the Castle of Death was the castle of Drac Von Stoller. Drac, being a blood lover, met a countess by the name of Erzsebet Bathroy, who would be later known as The Blood Countess who killed 640, that he took a liking to. At one of his costume parties, instead of just entering her room at the dead of night and biting her on the neck then transforming into a bat to fly out her window into the night, looking for another victim, the two made passionate love together, and the result of that encounter led to an offspring that would carry on the tradition of his father. But it could have ended there on the spot, but Erzsebet was spared her life because while they were making love the bedroom door burst open and there standing at the doorway was none other than Van Helsing with a wooden stake and hammer. He held up a cross as he got closer to the bed and pressed the cross on Drac’s forehead, burning his flesh, causing Drac to fall back on the bed and enough time for Van Helsing to drive a stake into Drac Von Stoller’s heart, ending the bloody rampage for years in his castle of death, or so Van Helsing thought. Little did Van Helsing know that Erzsebet Bathory was carrying Drac Von Stoller’s baby and she was bitten on the neck when they were making passionate love together which would ultimately change her life from that day forward. The only thing left of Drac Von Stoller was his cape and a pile of ashes. Erzsebet left Drac Von Stoller’s castle to grieve the loss of her one night stand that she hoped to wed soon, but those dreams were shattered by a stake in the hands of the notorious vampire killer Van Helsing. Shortly after Drac Von Stoller was laid to rest in his coffin in the family crypt, Erzsebet started having strong cravings for blood. To try and keep her mind off her one and only love for Drac Von Stoller she would have parties in her castle and lure young women to her bathing quarters and then kill them, hanging their dead bodies upside down and slitting their jugular vein to drink and bathe in their blood. This gave Erzsebet a high like none other and wasn’t about to stop now because they craving for blood was too strong for her to ignore so she found killing these young women was very easy to do and just kept going. Finally, it was time to bring into the world the bundle of joy or should I say the bundle of hell that she and Drac produced. When she held her newborn baby in her arms and opened his eyes for the first she said “What blazing red eyes you have.” She also noticed when he opened his mouth he already had a complete set of teeth and you guessed it upper and lower fangs. The midwife said “Let me put the baby in his crib so you can rest.” When the midwife took the baby in her arms he opened his eyes and she screamed and said “His eyes are blood red.” Then Erzsebet laughed hysterically and the baby sunk his teeth in her neck as she screamed and fell to the floor dead. Erzsebet came over and picked up her baby and said “I’m proud of you son and I know your father would be. I wish he were here to witness what just happened but you’ll just have to carry on his legacy that he left behind.” Erzsebet decided to give her son a name, so she settled on Frederick Von Stoller to carry on his father’s name. Frederick was also showing signs of vampirism, such as blood red eyes and fangs. One day when Erzsebet was breastfeeding, Frederick sunk his fangs into her breast and drew blood, which she knew then her son was evolving into a vampire day by day and would need blood in order to survive like his father needed. This gave Erzsebet an idea since she too craved blood. She decided to lure women over to her castle, then let them hold her baby in their arms, unbeknownst to them that her baby was a vampire and would sink its teeth into their necks and get a taste of blood before Erzsebet would strangle them to death. She would then strip them of their clothing and hang their dead bodies over a tub and bathe in their blood. Frederick would also join in the tub with his mother and drink the blood dripping from the young woman’s body to quench his thirst. If the prince of darkness Drac Von Stoller was still alive, he would be proud of Erzsebet and his son Frederick. Frederick and his mother would go on to kill over 600 young women before they were walled up in the cellar brick by brick in 1614. Legend has it that young women’s screams can be heard in the castle followed by a ghostly laugh, presumably that of Erzsebet Bathory and even get a bite from the son of Dracula. A ghostly figure of a young boy can be seen chasing a young girl’s ghost through the castle, running for her life only to succumb to a bite on the neck and brought to his mother to be killed and strung up over the tub in Erzsebet’s bedroom and have her jugular vein cut so she and her son could bathe in it. Author: Drac Von Stoller A Special Connection by Karl Thorn The Catholic Digital News 2016-09-10 by The Catholic Digital News A Book Of Poems Volume 1 by Mike Santucci 5 Apps That Pay You For Practically Nothing by Nicolette Emerson New World Order? No Way Out? by Paul Casselle Enough Love for Everyone by Janice Alonso by Akua Dankwa The Qur'anic Stitchings by L.J. 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__label__cc	0.664973	0.335027	Chronicling the new Empire of America, the uber-Bully. By swooping onto the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, Brave Fighter Pilot George W. Bush demonstrated his formidable lying... I mean flying skills so finely honed in the National Guard, where he was AWOL for nearly a year, without consequence after having gotten Poppy to spring for a little avoidance of that whole messy 'Nam thing. See Stories for Details The war on Iraq is over. So says sassy Fighter Pilot Bush on the heels of his ready-for-MTV-and/or-reelection-2004-campaign-ads entrance last week. "The battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that began on Sept. 11, 2001, and still goes on," Yes, our President, known affectionately around SOTC.com global headquarters, as "that simple-minded idiot" is still pushing the whole Iraq = 9/11 equation of corrupt morality and deceitful manipulation of public opinion. All the Al Qaeda and Iraq allegations that were spewed forth from the Bush Regime's collective lie-hole have been all too quietly refuted in the mainstream media. The connections have all been exposed as fraudulent, revealing Bush and company as shrewd opportunists willing to sell their war plans on the most emotional level possible, regardless of the voracity of those claims. If they were selling headache pills using similar strategies, the FTC would string them up. Nearly all speculators, from all but the furthest reaches of the political spectrum, have assumed there are at least some biological and chemical weapons in Iraq. However, given the depictions provided by Bush of imminent and catastrophic threats, we would certainly have expected the discovery of significant caches of biochem weaponry by now, on top of which Rummy could do a little leprechaun dance. Every alleged discovery so far has been debunked, but again the debunking provides far less Fox"News" Oomph than the alleged smoking guns. Certainly, if the intelligence information regarding these weapons were that solid, it would have led to significant findings by now. "Oh, but what about the inhumane treatment of Iraqis?" remains the last refuge of the supporters. Certainly, the cruelty of the Saddam Hussein regime cannot be overstated. So, shouldn't the war justification have been based on the issue of human rights alone? A look back at the months leading up to the war sees the human rights justification as secondary, if not tertiary reason for invasion, a cherry on top of the threat-to-America sundae. But then, solely on the merits of human rights, the Bush administration opens itself up to issues of Africa, Israel, China, North Korea, Pakistan, even Ashcroft's America with questions of intervention. America has been swindled in the reasoning for the war. Bush appealed to our 9/11 fears by creating the fantasy that Saddam directly threatened the safety of Americans with his weaponry and terror support. That this was a contrived reality designed to artificially create fear-based citizen support is perhaps the most tragic stateside event of the Bush Regime so far. Rumsfeld's Speech, an exclusive transcript! In our continuing effort to provide fellow outragees with exclusive insights into today's affairs, SOTC.com has exhaustively studied Donald Rumsfeld's recent speech to the Iraqi survivors. To ensure everyone is privy to his words, we employed highly sensitive microphones to capture even the under-the-breath subliminal mutterings of everyone's fave assassination cheerleader. In fairness to the Donald, we've distinguished the lines captured by less sensitive microphones in black standard font, while those subliminal mutterings are depicted in red italics: "Hello, I'm Don Rumsfeld, the American secretary of defense, I am pleased to visit Iraq - your country - to witness your liberation. Now that I have reasonable assurance that my ass is fully protected. The American people share your joy that tyranny is gone, Well, except for the Sunnis. You must be kinda bummed, heh heh. But seriously folks... We have watched you embrace your freedom except for those of you whose arms we blew off, you won't be embracing much (pause for laughs) - pulling down statues of Saddam Hussein, step aside you dirty people, let America handle the statue toppling and face-flag adorning, worshipping freely for the first time in decades in the rubble piles you used to call mosques, debating the future of your country like, how best to think happy pro-American thoughts, or else and even raising voices in dissent without fear of torture and death, we just go straight to death, bypassing that messy torture part... God, I'm killin' it up here!. "The coalition is committed to helping you as you take control of your country as we fire off a few rounds into rowdy protesting crowds and make the transition from tyranny to freedom and self-government. By which we mean a free-govern-tyranocracy American Style! Building a free society isn't easy. But lemme tell you, breaking it apart just takes a few Florida State Troopers shutting down roads to voting booths in predominantly black precincts. It requires hard work and sacrifice. We do the hard work of adorning our SUVs with motivating slogans while you sacrifice family members, homes, limbs... We know this is a difficult time for many of you although I forget what the exact megaton count of daisy cutting cluster bombs was when we brilliantly surmised this. Even as you celebrate your new-found freedom by stealing what cultural artifacts we missed in our bombing campaign you also want to see normalcy restored to your lives by which I mean stuff like Bojangles, Celebrity Mole Hawaii and other neat things that Mrs. Rummy and I do during family time. "You want to return to work so you can earn a living for your families (get your ass back on that oil rig and bring me a bucket of that sweet Iraqi crude, you filthy camel dingleberry!), you want to see schools reopen with a slightly revised world history curriculum, if ya' catch my drift, electricity restored starting with the oil pumps, the oil distribution facilities, the oil refineries and lastly, the ports that distribute the oil. Then maybe them fancy-pants hospitals and water running so you can mix up some of that refreshing Country Time lemon drink mix!. "Each day that goes by, conditions in Iraq are improving. Fewer people are complaining, or at least alive or willing to complain... Heh, heh. In fact, in a number of parts of the country people already have more food, water and electricity than they had under the old regime especially the US military bases. But some do not have these necessities and the coalition is working day and night to help provide them. One of these days we'll get some of the Sunnis hooked up, heh heh... Hey Shiites, don't get cocky, we ain't done with you yet... "Improvements in life in Iraq depend on finding the remnants of the regime and ensuring the Ba'ath party's influence is removed especially from the whole democracy thing. The coalition has taken into custody a number of senior leaders from Saddam Hussein's regime. Some of those guys I hadn't seen since way back from the old CIA training days. Ahhhh, good times, <sigh>. In almost every case, it was with the help of the Iraqi people thanks a lot for the 3 of clubs, you lame-asses. We need your help to capture the rest of them before they figure out this whole free elections thing. We also need to get rid of foreign fighters except ours, those from neighboring countries except from America who are seeking to hijack your country for their own purposes except us. "Please help remove this threat (again, not the threat we pose) by approaching coalition forces with any information you may have about the activities and whereabouts of any foreign fighters in your area. However, be advised that if we can't figure out your intentions as you approach coalition forces, we may just blast your head of, for security purposes. We hope you understand. "We shared a common objective in the removal of Saddam Hussein more oil! and we share common objectives for a new Iraq: - a free country (free? hell, we just made a $60,000,000,000 downpayment!) where Iraq's leaders answer to the Iraqi people instead of murdering the Iraqi people unless of course that answer is murder, in which case, it's pretty much the same old crapola - where the country's wealth is used to benefit the people especially those in the executive leadership of Halliburton, Bechtel, Exxon, Mobile etc, not to line the pockets of a cruel dictator 'cause Dick Cheney is actually quite cuddly! - where Iraqi children can play using the limbless ones as home plate and study how to cower before the murderous infidels who killed their families and learn and grow more complacent at the lingering presence of handsome and powerful overlords,and not worry whether they or their parents will be suddenly taken away by death squads or some mystical place in Cuba where everyone plays sweet harp music and eats ripe dates through all of eternity.. "Back home in America I have three children - it was a complex assault on Mrs. Rummy's moist marine landing beach, followed by a flanking maneuver across her left breast as I disrupted supply lines throughout her nether region and six grandchildren - the youngest is just one year old and terrified of my permanent scowl and menacing fists. I want the same things for them that each of you want for your children and grandchildren - safety, security, that cool new video game where you get to kill the bloodthirsty camel-riding Islamic... oh never mind and a just society where they have freedom to pursue their dreams. Note all dreams must be pre-approved by the Freedom Coalition to Establish Free Dreams of Liberty and Freedom. "We are committed to helping you as you build a new Iraq. Well, we'll supervise, but you'll do the lifting. Let me be clear: Iraq belongs to you you know, the flag, the sand and stuff. We just get the black gooey stuff way underneath it all. We do not want to run it. We just want you to run it on our terms. Our coalition came to Iraq for a purpose well, actually a bunch of purposes, not that all of them are working out according to the PR firm's recommendation - to remove a regime that oppressed your people and threatened ours in vague yet menacing ways that we'd rather not discuss in detail. "Our goal is to restore stability and security by firing off rounds into crowds of protesters, so that you can form an interim government which, by the way, we've already set up for ya' and eventually a free Iraqi government free? Hell, we just made a $60,000,000,000 down payment!?!?!?! I know, I already used that line, but it's all just funny money anyway, we stopped counting that whole money thing a while ago- a government of your choosing and we won't have any issues with a fundamentalist Shiite government of your choosing, will we now?... heh heh., a government that is of Iraqi design and Iraqi choice although I've got some intriguing designs out in the hummer I'd just love to run by you!. "We will stay as long as necessary to help you do that, and not a day longer. Good luck figuring out what the hell that means! "Thank you for listening." When I come back, I better get a fuckin' parade! Saudi Game The Deparment of Offense, I mean Defense, has announced a near total pull-out of US troops from Saudi Arabia. At face value this means one of bin Laden's top goals has been achieved - the ouster of American troops from holy Saudi Arabia, petri dish of 9/11 hijackers. However, if we put the whole thing into perspective, it becomes clear that US troop embedding in Arab lands is merely a shell game. We've upped our presence in a number of countries, notably Afghanistan, Oman, Somalia, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, Uzebekistan, but especially Qatar (pronounced "gutter"). So, it ain't exactly like we're abandoning the region, spanking our hands and expecting democracy to spread like kudzu an old barn. With all the outrage in the middle east, Asia and Europe of American motives and deep concern stateside, it is clear the Bush Regime must take steps to at least appear to address concern of Americanization of the Arab lands. Special attention must be paid to the big picture and not allow the hypocrisy of Bush and his minions to soothe our concerns with their lip service to morality. The Fuzzy Math of Voodoo Economics Well, now that Iraq is finished and has been entirely transformed into a Mesopotamian political utopia, the Bush Regime seems ready to assassinate the hideous economy, shock and awe unemployment and cluster bomb the bear market. The weapon of mass destruction in this case is tax relief for the wealthy. Reagan nostalgia has certainly set in, for few economists still believe this flash-in-the-pan wistful thinking that by giving rich people a tax break, the poor people get more jobs. Still, give the conservatives credit for shredly selling their corrupt logic on the voters who support the raging anti-tax fervor, clinging to the lip service offered for social safety nets, education and protecting our dwindling resources. The situation? There are 8,800,000 Americans actively seeking work. The goal? convert much of those job seekers to job holders. How is Bush going to do it? Well, here's the math: Plan Tax cut Jobs to be created $per new job orig Bush plan $700,000,000,000 Bajillions $700,000? "compromise plan" $550,000,000,000 1,000,000 $550,000 So our economic genius has figured out a way to create a new job for only half a million dollars! It should be noted that the 1,000,000 jobs created would be extremely modest by historical trends, both long term and recent. Even the reviled PornPrez Clinton managed to preside over a 5,000,000 job growth in his first term, despite increasing taxes on the beleaguered wealthy. As a matter of fact, there has been an average growth of 1,300,000 jobs per year over the past 84 years, while Bush seeks to create less than that figure over the next 18 months, while recklessly bankrupting the federal budget on the backs of the poor and middle classes while lining the pockets of his fat cat constituency. The only president who didn't see net job growth over his tenure was Hoover. Now Bush looks like a shoe-in for sharing that horrific honor. Even his dad, who was booted from office for not giving a crap about the economy, saw job growth. Still, we Americans are happy to get a few table scraps of tax relief from the smorgasbord of the rich and are willing to watch education, care for the poor, veterans benefits and pretty much all other domestic spending go down the drain. Sad. Ari Fleisher reminds us that unemployment is a lagging indicator. Ari, it's not a lagging indicator of unemployment, which is the big problem right now you bald-headed soul-bereft doofus.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line364
__label__wiki	0.712394	0.712394	Tag: Native American (x) Time period: Antebellum Period (x) Reviews/Essays (28) American Poetry -- 19th Century (1) Authors, American --19th century --Correspondence (1) Historical fiction -- Authorship (1) Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870 -- Correspondence (1) South Carolina -- History (2) South Carolina--Description and travel. (1) T.A. Richards (1) Carl Werner (1) Herman Ottfried (1) Matilda Ottfried (1) Anonymous [William Gilmore Simms] (3) John Tomlin (1) S. (1) Thos. J. Bowen (1) W. Gilmore Simms (1) W.G.S. (5) William Gilmore Simms (3) Alfr (1) Alfred Taylor Odell (1) Southern Teachers (1) The Youth of South Carolina (2) Mary C. Simms Oliphant (1) T.C. Duncan Eaves (1) Richardson, SC (1) Craighead and Allen, Printers (1) R.L. Bryan Company (1) Babcock & Co. (1) George Adlard (1) S. Babcock & Co. (1) Philip C. Pendleton (5) Cicero (1) Demosthenes (1) Edmund Ruffin (7) Edwin Forrest (1) Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (1) Margaret Fuller, Marchessa Ossoli (1) Peter Harris (1) Sir Walter Scott (8) William Byrd of Westover (7) William Cullen Bryant (1) Stereotyper Savage & McCrea (1) Destination (inferred) Charleston, SC (1) University of South Carolina (1) University of South Carolina, South Caroliniana Libr (1) University of South Carolina, South Caroliniana Library (16) Columbia, SC (1) Charleston, SC (29) Point of origin Oconee (1) Oconee County, SC (1) Okefenokee Swamp, GA (1) St. Marys River (1) Congaree River (1) Nantahala River (1) Tuscaloosa, AL (1) Ruffins' Publications (Page 261) Reviews/Essays \| 1843-04 Ruffins' Publications ([The Magnolia, April 1843] Editorial Bureau, Page 259) Southern Passages and Pictures Southern Passages and Pictures is a volume of poetry by William Gilmore Simms, although his name is not mentioned directly on the title page. The work announced its author simply as the writer of “Atalantis,” “The Yemassee,” “Guy Rivers,” and “Carl Werner,” perhaps assuming that readers would know Simms in association with his authorship of these well-read works. The volume was published in December of 1838 by George Adlard, who also published Carl Werner on Simms’s behalf. Craighead and Allen were the Printers. Although Southern Passages and Pictures was published ... Tecumseh—A Poem (Page 300) Tecumseh—A Poem ([The Magnolia, November 1842] Page 299) The Geography of South Carolina History \| Babcock & Co. \| 1843 The Geography of South Carolina, written as a companion piece for the 1842 edition of The History of South Carolina, was published by Babcock & Co. in 1843. Simms conceived of The History and The Geography as parts of a single project and initially desired the two books to be published together in one volume.[1] Sean R. Busick notes that such a publication was cost-prohibitive; thus, The History and The Geography were published separately.[2] In the preface to The Geography, Simms suggests another reason for their separate publication: by breaking up his subject ... The History of South Carolina, From Its First European Discovery to Its Erection into a Republic History \| S. Babcock & Co. \| 1840 Believing it “necessary to the public man, as to the pupil,” Simms undertook The History of South Carolina explicitly for the education of the state’s young people, so as to tell them the vibrant history of the state and the distinguished accomplishments of her leaders.[1] There is evidence to suggest that Simms was particularly motivated to write such a history in order to provide an historical account of South Carolina and notable South Carolinians, to his eldest child Augusta, who was attending boarding school in Massachusetts in the late 1830s.[2] Simms seemingly ... History \| Redfield \| 1860 The Letters of William Gilmore Simms. Vol. 1 Correspondence \| U of South Carolina P \| 1952 In his lifetime, William Gilmore Simms “was the author of thirty-four works of fiction, nineteen volumes of poetry, three of drama, three anthologies, three volumes of history, two of geography, six of biography, and twelve of reviews, miscellanies and addresses, a total of eighty-two volumes.”[1] The estimate of the output was impressive, if not quite complete.[2] Regardless, Simms’s influence was unparalleled. No mid-nineteenth-century writer and editor did more to frame white southern self-identity and nationalism, shape southern historical consciousness, or foster ... The Wives of England / American Tradition (Page 335, Two Items) Miscellany \| 1843-05 Untutored Eloquence	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line367
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__label__wiki	0.586426	0.586426	The LaBlue Review Ricky LaBlue's personal blog Hokie Hangover Patreon Home Virginia Tech Holds on to Emotional Win at Miami Virginia Tech earned an emotional victory on Saturday in Miami, knocking off the Hurricanes 42-35. It was a game full of errors and mistakes on both sides, but a win is a win. Let’s be honest — Saturday’s win vs. Miami doesn’t instill a ton of confidence in the Hokies. Consider these notes… Virginia Tech forced five turnovers and totaled six sacks in this game and nearly lost. Tech led 28-7 at halftime and nearly lost. Hendon Hooker turned in three touchdowns and zero interceptions in his first career start, and Tech nearly lost. Virginia Tech defeated a bad team on Saturday. Miami’s offense is perhaps the most inconsistent unit in the country, scoring 35 points despite turning it over five times and benching entrenched starter Jarren Williams. Miami committed 10 penalties for 75 yards, including an unsportsmanlike conduct flag that gave the Hokies beneficial field position on their game-winning drive. Miami stinks. There’s no denying that. And Virginia Tech’s narrow victory over the Hurricanes gives Tech at least some hope that they can be competitive for the rest of the season in the ACC. But Tech has their own problems, including an erratic and unpredictable defense and an offense trying to find an identity with a new quarterback. We’ve covered these problems ad nauseum. Tech’s defense might have forced five turnovers, but the unit allowed 28 second half points and gave up 21 of those points in the fourth quarter. Backup quarterback N’Kosi Perry tossed three touchdowns for 305 yards while running back DeeJay Dallas broke approximately 42 tackles on his way to a 62-yard touchdown run that should have put Miami in the lead. Instead, kicker Bubba Baxa missed the extra point. The offense produced with the newly minted Hooker in the game, but the unit is still clearly limited. Hooker scored four total touchdowns and took advantage of Miami’s many mistakes, but he missed open throws regularly and completed just half of his passes. The offense largely went into a shell in the second half, save for Hooker’s masterful throw to Damon Hazelton that set up the go-ahead score. Virginia Tech is a flawed team and we all know this. The offense may be on the verge of figuring something out, but the defense is leaky, and Tech barely won a game when they won the turnover margin by five. The Hokies have a long way to go to right this season’s ship, but that doesn’t mean Tech fans can’t appreciate the win. The Hokies failed to respond in many situations on Saturday, but showed up when it mattered most. Hooker and the offense punched Miami directly in the mouth en route to a game-winning score, and the defense held on just enough at the end after getting run for much of the second half. There are still plenty of negatives to worry about. But given how hellish of a week it’s been for the players, the coaches and the fans, it’s okay for all parties involved to take a moment to celebrate. That especially goes for head coach Justin Fuente, who seemed to thoroughly enjoy this win. For the first time all season, there’s finally reason for slight optimism. Author Ricky LaBluePosted on October 6, 2019 Categories Virginia Tech Sports 5 thoughts on “Virginia Tech Holds on to Emotional Win at Miami” Tommy Tomlinson says: Ah Ricky, you sound like someone who would gripe if they hung you with a new rope. I thought the game plan was sound (it took nerve to attack their strength with a new QB), the execution was good (in the first half) and the team went after it all game, especially after the knock-down by Duke. To come in away from home that fired up showed me they are fighters after all. Go Hokies. Eric Hayes says: I agree Tommy. The game was far from perfect but I do feel that the tackling was better, the defensive line got after folks although we could question Miami’s Oline, they are better than Furman and ODU’s Oline and we did lay that many sacks on either of those teams. The offense moved the ball against the best defense they played this year and I doubt we can say that other teams defensive lines were better that Miami’s. Heck, I wondered how the game would have turned if Jerod Hewitt did not make the bonehead penalty that nullified an int returned inside their goaline. A TD there could have been a deflated Miami mentally and charged us to the point that the second half comeback is mute. After all, Miami did score on that possession if my memory served me good. We are long ways and no need to get the coastal tickets but I do believe that a glimpse of hope which is what needed was provided to this team which is what they need. After Duke, I began to feel that this team including the coaches, do not know how to win. So yes let celebrate, but let’s also keep it in true perspective which, this team has the capability (outside of ND) of winning every game on the schedule but also have the capability of losing (outside of RI) every game on the schedule. If Hooker stays healthy and improve, I like our chances to achieve the former. R. J. says: Your comments are objective and accurate. I hope the players and coaches can build on the positives from the Miami game and continue to get better in all phases in each game going forward. We might have beaten a bad team, but it was a much needed win. IMO, we got conservative on offense in the third quarter which led to several 3 and outs. That in turn kept giving them more time to make s comeback. This might sound a little trite, since we’ve just seen what happened in the Miami game, but I didn’t think it was such a mystery as to what was wrong with the Va Tech football team. Years ago Don Meredith, who was an announcer on Monday Night Football, said that sometimes a quarterback can fall in love with his arm. I think that happened with Ryan Willis and to some extent with Coach Fuente. Ryan Willis can and has made some amazing throws. And in trying to make those throws, he’ll miss or throw into double and triple coverage resulting in an interception or a ball batted down. It seemed like half of his incompletions were dropped passes by the opposing defense. At the same time his decisions in the read option running game have been poor at best, resulting in very little yardage on the ground. If you throw in the occasional fumbles, the resulting turnovers will eventually be taken advantage off by the opposing offense. That puts our defense in a bad spot, so now the defense looks bad. I hate to rag on the guy, because I’m sure he tries as hard as anybody, but if you look at when Willis came in as the starter, including the ODU game last year, we just haven’t looked the same. When I heard that Hendon Hooker might be starting against Miami, I thought we had a chance to win that game. After seeing Ryan Willis play this past year at Va Tech, I can now understand why he did so poorly at Kansas in his freshman year, there. It’s a funny thing that nobody seems to have noticed this before, but looking back on it now, it seems so obvious. 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__label__wiki	0.743679	0.743679	In Which We May Honour Our Boats by Ana Cecilia Alvarez Édouard Glissant opens Poetics of Relation in the belly of the boat. In its horrors. ‘For the Africans who lived through the experience of deportation to the Americas,’ he begins, ‘confronting the unknown with neither preparation nor challenge was no doubt petrifying.’ Glissant asks us to imagine the enslaved, the deported, ruptured from their familiar winds and gods, chained in darkness, dying next to the dead. Imagine, ‘if you can’, encountering the unknown of the ship’s bowels, the unknown of the ocean’s depths, the unknown of the unimaginable shore. This unknown does not forsake knowing. It is the void from which knowledge emerges. ‘This boat is your womb,’ Glissant writes, and you are about to be born. I let Glissant’s words wash over me, underlining this phrase as if gasping for air. He will elide, repeat, interject his own streams, tracing the rhizomatic fibrils of his thought. It frustrates and enlivens. In this way, his writing embodies his philosophy: one of relation and opacity. To write of and from within Glissant’s feverish project requires resistance to the tempting reduction of transparency, for an errantry of thinking that ‘wanders without becoming lost’. Or that moves around an idea like one floats on water, toying with buoyancy, under threat of submersion, rolling at the waves’ pace. We are floating in the Atlantic, approaching the shores of the Caribbean, now washing up on the sands of Martinique, where Glissant was born and now rests. He studied at the Lycée Schoelcher in Forte-de-France, Martinique’s capital, where Frantz Fanon was a fellow student and Aimé Césaire, at the time, a teacher. Glissant left the island for Paris in 1946 to study ethnography and philosophy at the Sorbonne. There, he began to publish his writings—poetry, novels, plays, and essays, completing no fewer than 40 volumes in his lifetime—while working for the anti-colonization movement. In 1965, he returned to the Caribbean and later settled between New York and Paris, teaching and writing. Poetics of Relation was published in 1990 and two years later he was nominated for the Nobel Prize. When filmmaker and scholar Manthia Diawara proposed directing a documentary on the life of his close friend, Glissant, as Diawara recalls, suggested that, ‘if he were I, he’d wait until we were in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, and point the camera at the mass of water, its abyssal expanse. That would be the whole film in one shot, for him.’ The ocean flows beneath Glissant’s thinking. His writings sail across ideas of departure and arrival, the closed boat of slavery and the open boat of migration—that condition of colonialism, which simultaneously romanticizes the voyager and displaces the migrant. In 2015, Poetics of Relation was the namesake and theoretical foundation for an exhibition curated in the Pérez Art Museum Miami, a nod to Glissant’s growing influence within contemporary art discourse (curator Hans Ulrich Obrist is said to read his work for 15 minutes every morning). In one of the artworks featured in the exhibition Superunknown (Alive In The) (2010), American conceptualist Xaviera Simmons grouped 40 found photographs of open boats mid sail. Each boat carried people in search, people who, by setting forth upon the liminal open ocean, became migrants, became a ‘political issue,’ became enmeshed — not in relation, but in a ‘global crisis’. Simmons collated the photographs from newspapers, travel magazines, and human rights websites. ‘... for me, migration is the state of being an American,’ she offers, in an interview. While her concerns are centrally formal, about photography and appropriation, I can’t help but consider these images under the auspices of a Glissantian consideration of relation and migration as the handwriting on the border’s wall. ‘We need to put an end to the idea of a border that defends and prevents,’ Glissant tells Diawara. ‘Borders must be permeable.’ Diawara, perhaps inspired by Glissant’s prior remark, documented the pair’s time aboard the Queen Mary II, crossing the Atlantic from Southampton to New York City. ‘When you lean over the ship’s railing,’ Glissant tells Diawara, ‘you can’t stop thinking about the Africans at the bottom of the sea.’ Given the luxurious atmosphere of the cruise liner, he notes, almost relishes noting, ‘that [his] ancestors had left for the New World in terrible conditions very much unlike these.’ And now he returns, re-emerges from that abyss, embodying a new kind of knowing. ‘Those who were forced to leave as slaves do not return as slaves,’ he says, ‘but as something else: a free entity, not only free but a being who has gained something in comparison to the mass of humanity. And what has this being gained? Multiplicity.’ In his first non-fiction collection, a ‘self-ethnography’ gloriously titled The Sun of Consciousness, Glissant, as if to tease the philosophical project that he would dedicate his work to undoing, asks, ‘Who has not dreamt of the poem that explains everything, of the philosophy whose ultimate word illuminates the universe, of the novel that organizes all truths . . .?’ His imagining aborts that seductive dream of universal coherence to reckon with the definite and ineluctable specificity of difference in relation. ‘There isn’t one absolute truth, but truths,’ Glissant tells Diawara. ‘I say that nothing is true and everything is alive.’ Relation, in Glissant’s work, appears capitalized, as if to underscore its impenetrability. In my notes, I write sentences that thud with blunt inscrutability, such as: ‘Relation is total,’ or ‘Relation cannot be defined, only imagined’. By his own admission, in Poetics of Relation, Glissant circles around his theory, amassing instances that intimate Relation without ever submitting to the fixity of definability. There is, however, one image he offers for Relation’s condition. He writes, ‘Relation contaminates, sweetens, as a principle or as flower dust.’ Flower dust: sticky pollen that affixes, roves, rubs, pollinates, bears fruit. When honeybees return to their hives covered in pollen and stuffed with nectar, they spit the sweet liquid into the body next to them, who swaps spit with the body next to them, who again swaps spit with the body next to them, thickening the soup until they regurgitate honey. This is Relation, too. ‘Working with different languages,’ Simmons says, ‘is like trying to get the most succulent nectar out of each word. That’s the best way I can describe it.’ Her other installation for Poetics of Relation fills a 16 by 60 foot wall with hand-painted words in white against a black wooden backdrop, in English, Spanish, and Creole; phrases pulled from films, conversations, literature, magazines—all evoking the feeling of ocean and blue, of borders, of the moon, of its connection to flow, and onto land. Titled In the Lushness (2015), the work manifests a theatre of symbol and sound that ‘engages with the space and the breathe in the front and the back of you’, a multilingual surround that disintegrates each language while upholding the tonality of each word. Betsy Wing, in her translator’s introduction to Poetics of Relation writes that Glissant’s charged ‘new word complexes,’ impossible as they are to translate, ‘provide a sudden contact with an unforeseen relation in language, not unlike the collisions between cultures that he sees as productive of Relation.’ Diawara dons Glissant, a ‘philosopher of post-filiation’, a thinker who tears at the ‘totalitarian roots’ of legitimacy, instead anchoring his poetics in the entanglement and enmeshment of the rhizome. In botany, rhizomes are plant stems that grow horizontally beneath the dirt, extending roots from their nodes. Picture a ginger root, an open palm spreading its bulbous junctions, jutting new nubs. Deleuze and Guattari proposed the rhizome as a creative and intellectual approach that seeks the non-hierarchal and the non-linear. The rhizome cuts across arboreal conceptions of knowledge stemming from the centrality of the trunk or verticality of a branch’s reach. Glissant, too, rejected the arborescent backbone that shapes how we structure genealogy, organizations or evolutionary history. In Poetic Intention, his second collection of essays, he writes that in Caribbean thought the tree is ‘the upward thrust, the Whole, a density in ferment. When I try clumsily to draw a tree: I will end up with a wall of vegetation, whose indeterminate growth only the skyline of the page can cut off. The unique gets lost in the Whole.’ The finely trimmed tree, echoing the manicured gardens of colonial Europe, gives way to a forest aesthetic bent on chaos and totality. In Poetics of Relation, Glissant conjures two ‘varieties of identity’, but I sense them rather as orientations. The first, ‘root identity,’ conceives of a self founded in mythological time, in distant pasts, sanctified by lineage, ratified by a legitimate claim to territory. The other, ‘relational identity,’ is ‘linked not to a creation of the world but to the conscious and contradictory experience of contacts among cultures’. This is why contamination is key to understanding Relation, and to understanding Glissant—his thinking is suspicious of, if not outright opposed to, purity, especially the purity of lineage, the purity of self-similars. ‘What racists fear most of all is mixing,’ he reminds. Rather than posing difference as oppositional to sameness—the binary backbone of Structuralism, The Self and The Other—Glissant imagines an assemblage of dissimilars in relation rather than in opposition. ‘His idea,’ Diawara writes, ‘recognizes and enables a relation between different people and places, animate and inanimate objects, visible and invisible forces, the air, the water, the fire, the vegetation, animals and humans.’ Here, where Relation decenters the human as the sole locus for ecstatic exchange and expands that capacity laterally, like a rhizome, to the vibrancy of all things, here, an ethics of Relation surfaces. Diawara’s expansion takes me to one of the most tremendous passages in Poetics of Relation, where Glissant impossibly seeks, ‘An aesthetics of the earth? In the half-starved dust of Africa? In the mud of flooded Asia? In epidemics, masked forms of exploitation, flies buzz-bombing the skeleton skins of children? In the frozen silence of the Andes? In the rains uprooting favelas and shanty towns? In the scrub and scree of Bantu lands? In flowers encircling necks and ukuleles? In mud hut crowning goldmines? In city sewers? In haggard aboriginal wind? In red-light districts? In drunken indiscriminate consumption? In the noose? In the cabin? Night with no candle? Yes. But an aesthetics of disruption and intrusion. Finding the fever of passion for the ideas of ‘environment’ and ‘ecology’, both apparently such futile notions in these landscapes of desolation. Imagining the idea of love of the earth—so ridiculously inadequate or else frequently the basis for such sectarian intolerance—with all the strength of charcoal fires or sweet syrup. An aesthetics of rupture and connection.’ Such aesthetics would require a new way of being, or as Glissant would say, always derisive of Being, a new way of ‘giving-on-and-with’ in the world. A new movement of rupture and connection with the land, an errantry. Glissant undoes romantically held notions of nomadism, once associated with a kind-of countercultural uprootedness, by drawing a parallel to the ‘arrowlike nomadism’ of the colonizer, fed by the ‘devastating desire for settlement.' Today, this gentrifying charge ahead and into is just as relentless, especially when coupled with a precarity that jolts settling into instability. And so we move on and through, displacing while seeking better, newer, other land, and make it similar, make it ours. But rather than a nomad we can be an errant, one ‘who is no longer traveler, conqueror, or discoverer, [who] strives to know the totality of the world yet already knows he will never accomplish this—and knows that is precisely where the threatened beauty of the world resides.’ Simmons, I suspect an errant herself, describes how travel, the experience of being in an unknown space, and unknown in that space, ‘helps one to be excited about mystery’. Or, as Glissant celebrates, helps one to clamor for the right to opacity. That we might find hope, even joy, in not-grasping, not-reducing. Reading and working through Glissant has turned into practice for an ethics that displaces all reduction and basks in the impenetrable irreducibility of what is encountered on the other side of the abyss. Understanding is not, and should not be, a prerequisite for care, or even solidarity. And we do not, despite what the border patrols and the cops and the immigration officers will demand, we do not have to make ourselves transparent in order to live and move on-and-with this world. There is hope in the knowledge of the unknown. ‘We know ourselves as part and as crowd, in an unknown that does not terrify,’ Glissant writes. ‘We cry our cry of poetry. Our boats are open, and we sail them for everyone.’ Artwork: Superunknown (Alive in the), 2010, as shown at Pérez Art Museum Miami by kind permission of David Castillo Gallery. In Which We May Honour Our Boats features in Somesuch Stories 3, now available for online purchase worldwide via Newsstand. Photograph by Xaviera Simmons / David Castillo Gallery Yawning into the Staring Abyss Again by Trevor Shikaze Grenfell Exposed London's Negligence Towards Its Immigrants by Joanna Fuertes SOMESUCH © Somesuch 2020	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0110.json.gz/line382
__label__wiki	0.626347	0.626347	Super Zeros 1970s NY Graffiti Artists Still Have Urge to Tag Witten and a generation of urban latchkey kids who spray-painted their initials all over Manhattan in the 1970s and ’80s and landed in the city’s street art scene are coming of age — middle age, that is. 1% Rappers #20 Rick Ross – Net Worth $25 Million #19 Tie between T-Pain and T.I – Net Worth $30 Million #18 Nelly – Net Worth $55 Million #17 Busta Rhymes – Net Worth $60 Million #16 Ludacris – Net Worth $65 Million #15 Beastie Boys – Net Worth $75 Million Each #14 Timbaland – Net Worth $75 Million #13 Pharrell Williams – Net Worth $77.5 Million #12 Tie between LL Cool J and Akon – Net Worth $80 Million #11 Kanye West – Net Worth $90 Million #10 Lil Wayne – Net Worth $95 Million #9 Ice Cube – Net Worth $100 Million #8 Snoop Dogg – Net Worth $110 Million #7 Birdman – Net Worth $115 Million #6 Eminem – Net Worth $120 Million #5 50 Cent – Net Worth $250 Million #4 Dr. Dre – Net Worth $260 Million #3 Master P – Net Worth $350 Million #2 Jay-Z – Net Worth $475 Million #1 Diddy – Net Worth $500 Million It’s raining heroin on Indo-Pak border On an average, more than a kilogram of heroin was seized every day on the Indo-Pak border adjoining Punjab for the first six months of this year. Records with the Border Security Force (BSF) show that in the first half of 2012, the force has seized a record 197 kilograms of heroin worth nearly Rs 1,000 crore. This is nearly three times more than 68 kgs seized last year. It is also the highest amount of the drug seized in the past five years. The Shining finally gets a second movie Warner Bros have confirmed that they are working on a prequel to the Jack Nicholson thriller – which contained the famous line, “Heeere’s Johnny.” Heroin drug targets middle school students Cheese is the slang name for a mixture of black tar heroin and Tylenol PM. The substances are combined and come out looking much like parmesan cheese. The resulting product is sold for as little as $2 per hit. Kids in the Dallas-area are buying “cheese” with their lunch money, according to media reports. They’re snorting the stuff up their noses – often at school – and dying in alarming numbers, according to the Dallas County medical office. A recent study by the Dallas Independent School district determined that more than 5,000 kids have tried cheese. More than two dozen have died of overdoses. Most, like Mariela, first take the drug in middle school. That’s shocking. Middle school students are being targeted by drug dealers and turned into heroin addicts before they reach high school. TSA Checkpoints Exposed: Journalist Tracked, Targeted and Harassed for Filming Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange breaks down WRC Correspondent Julio Rausseo’s experience at the Chicago Union Station, 1 week after releasing a video exposing TSA checkpoints being setup there. The Aleppo Codex Mystery One day this spring, on the condition that I not reveal any details of its location nor the stringent security measures in place to protect its contents, I entered a hidden vault at the Israel Museum and gazed upon the Aleppo Codex — the oldest, most complete, most accurate text of the Hebrew Bible. The story of how it arrived here, in Jerusalem, is a tale of ancient fears and modern prejudices, one that touches on one of the rawest nerves in Israeli society: the clash of cultures between Jews from Arab countries and the European Jews, or Ashkenazim, who controlled the country during its formative years. And the story of how some 200 pages of the codex went missing — and to this day remain the object of searches carried out around the globe by biblical scholars, private investigators, shadowy businessmen and the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency — is one of the great mysteries in Jewish history. Just a face in a crowd? Scans pick up ID, personal data As you scan the face on that giant billboard, it may just be scanning your face right back. Increasingly sophisticated digital facial-recognition technology is opening new possibilities in business, marketing, advertising and law enforcement while exacerbating fears about the loss of privacy and the violation of civil liberties. Businesses foresee a day when signs and billboards with face-recognition technology can instantly scan your face and track what other ads you’ve seen recently, adjust their message to your tastes and buying history and even track your birthday or recent home purchase. The FBI and other U.S. law enforcement agencies already are exploring facial-recognition tools to track suspects, quickly single out dangerous people in a crowd or match a grainy security-camera image against a vast database to look for matches. Palestinians Rip Romney’s ‘Racist’ Praise for Israel – Candidate again steps in it, says Israel has better ‘culture’ for business Mitt Romney offended Palestinians again today, saying that Israel was more prosperous than Palestine because of its superior culture and the will of God. “You notice such a dramatically stark difference in economic vitality” between Israel and Palestine, Romney said at a fundraiser in Jerusalem today, citing each nation’s per-capita GDP, the AP reports. He went on to say that in considering Israel’s accomplishments “I recognize the power of at least culture and a few other things” including the “hand of providence.” 30 Global News Events The Batman Massacre Allows The American Media To Ignore The essence of the information war is the timely interjection, distortion or omission of news events. Reports can minimize, omit or basically bury key news stories that require analysis while magnifying others which are of lesser importance to the keen, analytical mind. While the Batman massacre is tragic, the buzz in the so called alternative media circle is centered around the litany of ongoing stories that will be stifled in the week to come by the mainstream media’s focus on the Aurora, CO shooting. Beyond that, the analysis you read here is not all presented as 100% fact, some conclusions are presented in light of other evidence, and where noted, some are speculative based on educated theory. In this era of total media bombardment, to the point of overload, some events have to be considered beyond just what is confirmed in print or on video and must be evaluated in the full context of possible human behavior. Feds Sue Telecom for Fighting Warrantless Search The Justice Department is suing a telecommunications company for challenging a request from the Federal Bureau of Investigation for customer information — despite the fact that the law authorizing the request explicitly permits such challenges. According to documents provided by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which is representing the telecom, the company (whose name is one of the many redacted details in the documents) received a national security letter (NSL) in 2011. An NSL is essentially a self-issued search warrant whereby the FBI bypasses the Fourth Amendment and demands information about an individual without bothering to obtain a judge’s consent — and forces the recipient of the letter to keep mum about it because disclosure would allegedly harm national security. NSLs were employed somewhat sparingly prior to 2001 but became widely used — and abused, as the Justice Department’s inspector general reported in 2007 — after the misnamed Patriot Act loosened the require Feeling bad about your life? Well, at least you’re not this guy! American fast food diet unleashes disease epidemic sweeping across Asia Though increasingly looked down upon here in the U.S. as a sign of slothfulness and low socioeconomic status, routine fast food consumption in some parts of the world is actually considered to be culturally desirable. But as foreigners progressively adopt the American fast-food lifestyle in place of their own native foods, rates of chronic disease are skyrocketing, including in East and Southeast Asia where diabetes and heart disease rates are off the charts. According to a recent study published in the journal Circulation, globalization continues to usher U.S.-style fast food into East Asian countries like Singapore, Malaysia, and Cambodia, where natives, especially those from the younger generations, are quickly adopting things like hamburgers and fries in place of their traditional fare. And based on the data, this Western fast food craze is responsible for a significant uptick in cases of diabetes and heart disease. Scientists Read Monkeys’ Minds, See What They’re Planning to Do Before They Do it Neurologists working with monkeys at Washington University in St. Louis to decode brain activity have stumbled upon a rather surprising result. While working to demonstrate that multiple parameters can be seen in the firing rate of a single neuron (and that certain parameters are embedded in neurons only if they are needed to solve the immediate task), they also found that they could read their monkeys’ minds. This isn’t exactly ESP, but it is really interesting. The researchers came to find out that by analyzing the activity of large populations of neurons, they could discover what actions the monkeys were planning before they made a single motor movement. By monitoring neural activity, the researchers could essentially see what the monkey was thinking about doing next. CIA “Manages” Drug Trade, Mexican Official Says In a recent interview, Chihuahua state spokesman Guillermo Terrazas Villanueva told Al Jazeera that the CIA and other international “security” outfits “don’t fight drug traffickers.” Instead, Villanueva argued, they try to control and manage the illegal drug market for their own benefit. “It’s like pest control companies, they only control,” Villanueva told the Qatar-based media outlet last month at his office in Juarez. “If you finish off the pests, you are out of a job. If they finish the drug business, they finish their jobs.” Another Mexican official, apparently a mid-level officer with Mexico’s equivalent of the U.S. Department of “Homeland Security,” echoed those remarks, saying he knew that the allegations against the CIA were correct based on talks with American agents in Mexico. “It’s true, they want to control it,” the official told Al Jazeera on condition of anonymity. Is There Too Much Pressure to Engage in Crazy, Kinky Sex? What those trying to aggressively market an ever more “exotic sex life” fail to realize is that sexual preferences aren’t shaped by artifice. Buying a leather slapper won’t suddenly give you a penchant for spanking—and let’s face it, if you were really into the idea in the first place, you probably would have gone DIY and just picked up a hairbrush long before now. Making people feel shitty about their vanilla-ness is mainly a capitalist calculation. As any marketing exec knows, the moment people become satisfied is the moment they stop buying stuff. Black Hat presentation shows iris-scanning breach A research team from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and West Virginia University have troubling findings for those who think iris scanning is one of the safest methods of biometric security. Their reverse-engineered, “replicated eye” image was able to bypass iris scanning, fooled into thinking the synthetic image was real and correct. Javier Galbally and his team printed out synthetic images of irises taken from codes of real irises stored in security databases to test iris-scanning vulnerabilities. An iris code is the data stored by recognition systems when they scan a person’s eye. This is information that the researchers could replicate in their synthetic images. A commercial iris system only looks for the iris code and not an actual eye, Galbally noted. He and his team tested their fake irises against a leading commercial-recognition system. In 80 percent of attempts, the scanner believed that the attempt was a real eye. Was the “Batman Shooting” a Ritualistic Murder Carried Out by Mind Controlled Patsy? Shooter James Holmes even went as far as to take Vicodin, a drug found in Heath Ledger at the time of his death. Vicodin is a powerful pain-killer with morphine-like effects that is used in mind control to “dull out” victims. Is there some kind of ritualistic connection between The Dark Knight, the sacrificial death of Heath Ledger and this new installment of a Batman movie that was “launched” with a mass murder? Is there a reason why this mass-murder, which occurred during the midnight screening of a movie called Dark Knight RISING took place in a city called Aurora, the name Roman goddess of dawn (dawn being the time where the sun begins to rise)? Another interesting fact: Aurora is considered to be the mother of the morning star, also know as the Light Bringer, or Lucifer. Social Scientists Might Gain Access to Facebook’s Data on User Behavior Social scientists hungry for Facebook’s data may be about to get a taste of it. Nature has learned that the social-networking website is considering giving researchers limited access to the petabytes of data that it has amassed on the preferences and behaviour of its almost one billion users. Outsiders will not get a free run of the data, but the move could quell criticism from social scientists who have complained that the company’s own research on its users cannot be verified. Facebook’s in-house scientists have been involved in publishing more than 30 papers since 2009, covering topics from what drives the spread of information and ideas to the relationship between social-networking activity and loneliness. However, because the company fears breaching its users’ privacy, it does not release the underlying raw data. With A Chemical Injection, Blind Mice Can See Two of the most common causes of blindness are retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic disease, and macular degeneration, an age-related disorder. Both are characterized by damage to the rod and cone cells in the retina, which robs the eye of its photoreceptors. Treatments for these forms of blindness focuses on restoring the retina’s abilities, and we’ve seen a few examples — stem cell injections, implantations of light-sensitive compounds using viruses, and a whole host of electronic devices and artificial retinas. A chemical called AAQ can also make these damaged cells sensitive to light again, and it wouldn’t require any foreign substances or stem cells. How Much Is Your Gmail Account Worth? The cloud backup guys over at Backupify put together a calculator to help folks estimate the value of their cloud-based Google Gmail web mail accounts. So what’s the average account’s worth? $3,588.85, Backupify’s Jay Garmon writes in a blog post. That’s the value of the time invested in the average Gmail account, given how many emails the average Gmail user has written (5,768), how long it takes to write the average email (one minute, 43 seconds), and the most recent U.S. Depart of Labor statistics on average annual salary ($45,230). In other words, if the average Gmail user were paid to recreate all the Gmail messages he or she’s ever written, it would cost $3,588.85. Honey buns sweeten life for Florida prisoners They are a lowly, sturdy food designed for desperate cravings and vending machine convenience. They can endure weeks of neglect and even a mild mashing in a coat pocket or backpack. They are, it should come as no surprise, especially beloved by a similarly hardy but disrespected population: Florida’s prison inmates. Inmates in the Florida prison system buy 270,000 honey buns a month. Across the state, they sell more than tobacco, envelopes and cans of Coke. And they’re just as popular among Tampa Bay’s county jails. In Pasco’s Land O’Lakes Detention Center, they’re outsold only by freeze-dried coffee and ramen noodles. Not only that, these honey buns — so puffy! — have taken on lives of their own among the criminal class: as currency for trades, as bribes for favors, as relievers for stress and substitutes for addiction. They’ve become birthday cakes, hooch wines, last meals — even ingredients in a massive tax fraud. Thanks Jasmine Texas woman jailed for stabbing husband: Was it Facebook or PCP use? Rhonda Roshell Washington, 33, told police her husband was high on PCP when they got into an argument about his drug use at their home in Bryan early Thursday, the Bryan-College Station paper reports. The fight turned physical, she said, and she jabbed him in the hand with her keys. Her husband, however, claimed she became upset about something on his Facebook page and chased him with a knife, stabbing him in the hand. UK’s largest skateboard unveiled ahead of Olympics This isn’t a story about a skateboarding giant, the UK’s largest skateboard has been created to mark the fact two thirds of children think the Olympics will only be worth watching when more extreme sports like skateboarding are included, obviously. Measuring a staggering seven metres in length, two and half metres in width and at a metre high, the oversized board weighs as much as a baby African elephant – so any ‘ollies’ or ‘kick flips’ are probably out of the question. The Joke’s on You Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards. We have come to accept coy mockery as genuine subversion and snarky mimesis as originality. It would be more accurate to describe our golden age of political comedy as the peak output of a lucrative corporate plantation whose chief export is a cheap and powerful opiate for progressive angst and rage. Google: we failed to delete all Streetview data Despite repeated assurances in public and to the Information Commissioner, Google has admitted that it did not in fact delete all the data, which could include passwords and emails, collected over open WiFi networks by its Streetview mapping cars in 2010 in a number of countries around the world. The news means that Britain’s recently reopened investigation into the so-called WiFi snooping could be bolstered by an opportunity to re-examine evidence that the ICO had asked to be destroyed. The ICO has demanded to examine the data “immediately” to look for evidence that it is in fact more extensive than Google had originally claimed, as authorities in America had discovered for data collected there. Tim Geithner Admits Banks Bailed Out With Rigged Libor, Costing Taxpayers Huge Amount But he also said that, months later, when it came time to set bailout terms for the Too Big To Fail Set, the government just had no other choice but to use Libor. Sure, that’s one way to look at it. Another, less charitable way to look at it is that the Fed was fully aware that Libor was being manipulated lower, and was fine charging an artificially low rate to lend money to banks and to AIG, in what amounted to yet another kind of bailout. Why make life harder for them, right? They had enough problems dealing with the crisis they had created. Raising red flags about Libor might have only made the crisis worse, making it harder for banks to borrow money. But in the process, the government left untold mountains of cash on the table for U.S. taxpayers. Even if Libor was only manipulated a tiny bit lower, these small breaks add up. Woman Claims Watching 3D Film Made Her Pregnant What Terrorizes Americans Most: Guns or Sexual Freedom? America treats sex, not violence, as the biggest threat to families and the nation, starting with Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) ratings bestowing action flicks that brutalize half-naked nymphets a PG-13, but anything suggesting female pleasure the deathly NC-17, as happened with the marital cunnilingus scene between Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams in Blue Valentine. A common argument against gay marriage or condom commercials is, “What would I say to my kids,” as if sex talk destroys childhood innocence. 19 Examples Of How Control Freaks Are Killing America With Their Completely Ridiculous Regulations The control freaks are winning, and they are absolutely killing America. Our founding fathers intended to establish a nation where Americans would be free to pursue “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” in an environment where freedom was maximized and government interference was minimized. Unfortunately, our nation has turned away from those principles and is now running 180 degrees in the other direction. For some reason, our political system tends to attract psychotic control freaks that want to micromanage our lives and make most of our decisions for us. These control freaks are actually convinced that freedom and liberty are “dangerous” and that there should be a rule or a regulation for just about everything. This is not just happening on the federal level either. The truth is that the control freaks are often the worst on the local level. When you add up the red tape on all levels of government, we literally have millions of laws, rules and regulations in America Iran nuclear energy facility hit with malware that plays AC/DC at full volume An email to F-Secure — allegedly sent from an AEOI scientist — detailed the attack, noting that the malware has shut down some of the facility’s automated processes. The rather vague wording of the email leaves a few unanswered questions as to just what parts of the AEOI are in danger, but one piece of information was very clear: The insidious software prompted several of the group’s computers to begin playing the song “Thunderstruck” by AC/DC in the middle of the night, and at full volume. 600-year-old linen bras found in Austrian castle A revolutionary discovery is rewriting the history of underwear: Some 600 years ago, women wore bras. The University of Innsbruck said Wednesday that archeologists found four linen bras dating from the Middle Ages in an Austrian castle. Fashion experts describe the find as surprising because the bra had commonly been thought to be only little more than 100 years old as women abandoned the tight corset. Skydiver Fearless Felix jumps from 18 miles up On Wednesday, Baumgartner took another stratospheric leap, this time from an altitude of more than 18 miles — an estimated 96,640 feet, nearly three times higher than cruising jetliners. He landed safely near Roswell, N.M. His top speed was an estimated 536 mph, said Brian Utley, an official observer on site. It’s the second test jump for Baumgartner from such extreme heights and a personal best. He’s aiming for a record-breaking jump from 125,000 feet, or 23 miles, in another month. He hopes to go supersonic then, breaking the speed of sound with just his body. 62,000 pennies used to pay off mortgage What started out as a joke 35 years ago ended with a Massachusetts man paying off his mortgage using 62,000 pennies. “I’ve never saved anything other than pennies. And it started out as a whim. You know, a penny for the mortgage,” Thomas Daigle told NBC affiliate WHDH-TV of Boston. Daigle, from Milford, Mass., recalled how, after signing the mortgage papers 35 years ago, he found a penny on the ground. He and his wife then joked about collecting pennies to pay off the loan — and the rest is history. Over the next 35 years, Daigle would roll pennies, 50 cents at a time. His bank found out the hard way just how much work that was — it reportedly took tellers two days to unroll the penny cases. More odd-colored lobsters turning up in the catch – but why? Reports of odd-colored lobsters used to be rare in the lobster fishing grounds of New England and Atlantic Canada. Normal lobsters are a mottled greenish-brown. But in recent years, accounts of bright blue, orange, yellow, calico, white and even split lobsters – one color on one side, another on the other – have jumped. It’s now common to hear several stories a month of a lobsterman bringing one of the quirky crustaceans to shore. Did the NYPD Break International Law in Suppressing Protest? A report by a group of civil and human rights attorneys released Wednesday morning paints the clearest picture yet of the New York City police department’s aggressive tactics and over-policing, all of which resulted in the systemic suppression of the basic rights of Occupy protesters. The report, which chronicles events from late September 2011 up to July of 2012, extensively documents numerous ways in which the NYPD acted with excessive force, attempted to intimidate and harass members of the press, expelled activists from public space due to the content of their speech, and ultimately concludes that authorities broke international law in their handling of Occupy Wall Street. Mayor Bloomberg Says Cops Should Go On Strike Until Americans Give Up Their Guns In 2008, ten times more civilians regular people were killed by cops than cops were killed by perps. In 2011, 72 cops were shot and killed in the entire U.S.; in L.A. County alone, cops shot and killed 54 suspects the same year–22 percent of those people were unarmed. As Scott Reeder reported at Reason this morning, “Farmers, ranchers, commercial fishermen, loggers, garbage collectors, truck drivers, construction workers, pilots, steel workers, roofers, and others are far more likely to face death on the jobs than police or firefighters, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.” And as Choire Sicha wrote earlier this year, “2008 was the ten-year low for police officers being killed, and 2012 is, so far, year-to-date, down 49% from last year.” Batman Shooter James Holmes on Hardcore Pharmaceutical Drugs Like virtually all massacre shooters before him, the notorious Batman shooter James Holmes is now reported to have been taking hardcore pharmaceutical drugs. In Holmes’ case, they happen to be the very same drugs that ultimately led to the early death of actor Heath Ledger. With a fix for ‘altering his state of mind’, the ‘Batman shooter’ was heavily hooked on the prescription painkiller Vicodin. Holmes even reportedly dosed up on a pharmaceutical cocktail just before the shooting. Side effects of Vicodin use, even at ‘recommended’ levels which Holmes likely far exceeded, include ‘altered mental states’ and ‘unusual thoughts or behavior’. The New Domain Awareness System Will Be Used To Track Potential Criminals And Terrorists The New York Police Department will soon launch an all-seeing “Domain Awareness System” that combines several streams of information to track both criminals and potential terrorists. New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly says the city developed the software with Microsoft. Kelly says the program combines city-wide video surveillance with law enforcement databases. He says it will be officially unveiled by New York’s mayor as soon as next week. Two Texas Pre-Teens Create a Fake Facebook Account, Texas Cops Charge Them With Felonies and Lock Them Up According to the Student Press Law Center, which investigated the girls’ arrest, officials in Hood County, Texas, are refusing to say whether the girls (who were arrested July 16) are still being detained. 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Drug formulations not covered by the law’s language, and almost certainly synthesized in direct response to legal pressure, are already on sale. If synthetics are supposed to be part of the War on Drugs, then this battle may already be lost. “There are several compounds out there now, in mixtures that I’ve tested myself, that would not fall under this ban,” said Kevin Shanks, a forensic toxicologist at AIT Laboratories, an Indiana-based chemical testing company. “The law just can’t seem to keep up.” The new law, officially known as the Synthetic Drug Abuse Prevention Act of 2012, comes in response to the growing popularity of compounds designed by chemists to mimic the effects of various illegal substances, particularly marijuana and amphetamines. ☛ San Antonio Wendy’s Drive-Thru Worker Gets Prison For Child Porn A drive-thru restaurant worker in South Texas has been sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison for selling child porn to patrons. A federal judge in San Antonio on Wednesday sentenced 36-year-old Juan Antonio Rosa. Rosa in March pleaded guilty to distributing child pornography. He allegedly met the porn customers online. Prosecutors say buyers used the code word “Scooby Doo” to get the memory cards along with food at a Wendy’s Co. restaurant in San Antonio. Officials say the restaurant operators were not aware of the illegal deals. ☛ Organic Food Purists Worry About Big Companies’ Influence The fact is, organic food has become a wildly lucrative business for Big Food and a premium-price-means-premium-profit section of the grocery store. The industry’s image — contented cows grazing on the green hills of family-owned farms — is mostly pure fantasy. Or rather, pure marketing. Big Food, it turns out, has spawned what might be called Big Organic. Bear Naked, Wholesome & Hearty, Kashi: all three and more actually belong to the cereals giant Kellogg. Naked Juice? That would be PepsiCo of Pepsi and Fritos fame. And behind the pastoral-sounding Walnut Acres, Health Valley and Spectrum Organics is none other than Hain Celestial, once affiliated with Heinz, the grand old name in ketchup. Over the last decade, since federal organic standards have come to the fore, giant agri-food corporations like these and others — Coca-Cola, Cargill, ConAgra, General Mills, Kraft and M&M; Mars among them — have gobbled up most of the nation’s organic food industry. ☛ Ouija board helps psychologists probe the subconscious Gauchou’s approach is to turn to the Ouija board. To keep things simple her team has just one person with their finger on the planchette at a time. But the ideomotor effect is maximised if you believe you are not responsible for any movements – that’s why Ouija board sessions are most successful when used by a group. So the subject is told they will be using the board with a partner. The subject is blindfolded and what they don’t know is that their so-called partner removes their hands from the planchette when the experiment begins. The technique worked, at least with 21 out of 27 volunteers tested, reports Gauchou. “The planchette does not move randomly around the board; it moves to yes or no. It seems to move almost magically. None of them felt responsible for the movement.” In fact some subjects suspected that their partner was really an actor – but they thought the actor was deliberately moving the planchette, never suspecting they themselves were the only ones touching it. ☛ The Girl Who Wrote About Drugs: Cat Marnell on Vice, Addiction & More Cat Marnell became Internet-famous last month for quitting her job to do drugs. She’d been the beauty and health director of the women’s website xoJane.com since it launched last year but couldn’t bear to spend another summer meeting deadlines in an office when she could be on the roof of a New York City club “looking for shooting stars and smoking angel dust.” It wasn’t long after her much blogged-about resignation that the diminutive, amphetamine-addicted, and uncomfortably honest former beauty writer landed a weekly column at Vice.com. Marnell is arguably the Internet’s most divisive writer, not just because she’s always on drugs, as she often makes sure to note, but because she allows her longtime yet ever evolving addiction play out online like a reality TV show. The fragile-looking 29-year-old, with her white-blond hair and seemingly permanent black eyeliner, drops names, brands, clubs, drugs, and emotions freely as she details her drug-fueled dalliances around her New York City ☛ The Montauk Project You’ve got to love a story that is stranger than any fiction but claims to be the God’s honest truth. What could be more fabulously outrageous than the idea that your tax dollars have subsidized the demented experiments of an evil cabal of Navy brass, CIA shrinks, fugitive Nazis and Reptoid ETs? What could be more fantastic than the vision of them pow wowing together for a little high-tech, tantric voodoo? How very spicy, that this panoply of government geeks and their alien pals fired up interdimensional vortexes by means of a buff, naked dude who was jacked into a psychotronic chair — while sporting a raging boner! ☛ America the Beautiful: A Fire Sale for Foreign Corporations If you thought that with Citizens United we had hit rock bottom in surrendering our democracy to the power of money, this TPP “trade agreement” would throw our democracy into free fall. Foreign corporations will be allowed to feast like termites upon America’s natural resources, trash our environment and public health, violate our rights as American citizens and make us pay them if we try to protect ourselves. ☛ Hidden Government Scanners Will Instantly Know Everything About You From 164 Feet Away Within the next year or two, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will instantly know everything about your body, clothes, and luggage with a new laser-based molecular scanner fired from 164 feet (50 meters) away. From traces of drugs or gun powder on your clothes to what you had for breakfast to the adrenaline level in your body—agents will be able to get any information they want without even touching you. And without you knowing it. ☛ 17 previously unknown legal highs found by researchers The drugs found in Britain by researchers for the first time between January 2011 and March 2012 1. DMMA 2. MDAI (Sparkle) 3. Etizolam 4. JWH-250 5. JWH-200 6. AM-694 7. 4-Me0-PcP 8. 5-Me0-DALT 9. 2-AI 10. n-ethylbuphedrone 11. 2-C-C-NBoMe 12. AM-2201 13. Ipracetin 14. Ethacetin 15. 4-HO-MiPT 16. 2-C-P 17. 25D-NBOMe ☛ Bad dog! Anger at police pooch named Bono that ALWAYS says there are drugs in a car A dog with a sharp nose for drugs can be a great asset to any police department, but in the case of a German shepherd named Bono, accuracy is not his strongest suit. The four-legged crime fighter working for the Virginia State Police has been on a hot streak, detecting drugs nearly every time he’s on the job. In reality, however, illegal narcotics were found just 22 times of the 85 ‘alerts’ by the dog. ☛ The Real Class Warfare is Baby Boomers Vs. Younger Americans Hey kids, wake up! Stop playing your X-Box while listening to your Facebooks on the iPod and wearing your iPad with the cap turned backwards with the droopy pants and the bikini underwear listening to Snoopy Poopy Poop Dogg and the Enema Man and all that! Take a break from getting yet another tattoo on your ass bone or your nipples pierced already! And STFU about the 1 Percent vs. the 99 Percent! You’re not getting screwed by billionaires and plutocrats. You’re getting screwed by Mom and Dad. Systematically and in all sorts of ways. Old people are doing everything possible to rob you of your money, your future, your dignity, and your freedom. Here’s the irony, too (in a sort of Alanis Morissette sense): You’re getting hosed by the very same group that 45 years ago was bitching and moaning about “the generation gap” and how their parents just didn’t understand what really mattered in life. ☛ Egypt’s Government Planning to Destroy the Great Pyramids? An online magazine has offered translations to Arabic news sources that purportedly indicate that Egypt’s Salafi party has come forth with plans to demolish Egypt’s Great Pyramids in an effort to bring down what it calls “symbols of paganism.” ☛ CCSU Police Say Student Faked Anti-Gay Notes The day Alexandra Pennell addressed an anti-hate rally at Central Connecticut State University about the anti-gay messages scrawled on her door, police had begun to question her claims. Twice the video surveillance system placed in Pennell’s room to help police identify the person responsible for scrawling the notes had been disabled, in one case just before a note was slid under Pennell’s dorm room door. Police say only after they set up a second camera in a hall closet — a camera that Pennell did not know about — did they learn the truth: Pennell had been writing the notes herself. ☛ How to spot a meth lab, drug dealer in your neighborhood The Smell Meth production creates an odor. It can be flammable and highly dangerous, depending on the recipe, and police say there are many different kinds. Ingredients can include muriatic acid, a chemical used for cleaning concrete; camp fuel and automotive starting fluid, all which have strong odors on their own. According to one website offering meth recipes, the smell of cooking meth with these ingredients can range from a rotten egg and chemical aroma to ammonia or cat urine smell, depending on the ingredients. “People experience different smells,” Madison County Sheriff Allen Riley said, but there is always a strong chemical smell. The smell can dissipate soon after the cooking is done. If cooked indoors, there is generally an exhaust or fan system rigged up to ventilate the cooking area, since the fumes generated can make the cook sick. Burgess said that while there are multiple ways to make meth, the “Shake and Bake” or “one-pan” method is the recipe most-used now ☛ Homemade drugs frustrating police When Andrew Spofford was arrested by Grand Forks police last month, he told them he is a “hobby chemist.” Police say the end result of his chemistry was a synthetic drug that appears to have killed two teens in the area and sent several others to the hospital with overdoses. It’s a growing problem for law enforcement as investigators struggle to identify a myriad of new synthetic drugs. Knowledge of basic chemistry has allowed drug “cooks” to make small molecular changes to existing drugs, creating new substances and keeping the cooks a step ahead of investigators. “We are seeing a continued influx of changing of chemical compounds that make up various drugs or substances being ingested throughout the state,” said Drew Evans, senior special agent with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. “They are changing at the molecular level into something it wasn’t before, but may have similar effects or different effects.” ☛ Methadone to blame for one-third of U.S. prescription painkiller deaths, CDC says Methadone accounts for only 2 percent of painkiller prescriptions in the United States – but the drug is behind more than 30 percent of prescription painkiller overdose deaths, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday. Methadone is commonly known for treating withdrawal symptoms from heroin addiction, but the drug is also prescribed for pain. Health officials say most of the overdose deaths are people who take it for pain – not heroin or drug addicts. According to the CDC, methadone carries more risks than other painkillers because levels build up in the body and may interfere with a person’s normal heart rhythm or breathing. ☛ The Ultimate Counterfeiter Isn’t a Crook—He’s an Artist The majority of counterfeiters, as one federal investigator told me, are meth heads who, after three nights without sleep, suddenly get the bright idea to scan a $20 bill, bleach a bunch of $5 bills, and print the image of the $20 on that same paper. Even the most senile merchant can usually spot these shams. But with his scrupulous craftsmanship, Kuhl placed himself among a rarefied class of counterfeiters who can produce truly high-quality fakes. They possess sophisticated knowledge about paper and dyes, and they have expertise in printing machinery and banknote security features such as watermarks and color-shifting ink. With a cigarette in one hand and a money- marking pen in the other, Kuhl began his quest to conquer the dollar by thumbing through thick binders of paper samples. Money-marking pens draw a black line on paper made with starch but not on stock that lacks starch, such as the ultrafine cotton-linen sheets manufactured by Crane & Co. of Dalton, Massachusetts ☛ The NSA’s warrantless wiretapping is a crime, not a state secret And in Congress, two US senators, Ron Wyden and Mark Udall, have been asking the NSA for a year simply for a ballpark figure of how many Americans have had their communications surveilled by the spy agency. The NSA finally responded two weeks ago, claiming it did not have the capacity to find such number. Apparently unaware of the irony, the NSA argued that releasing an estimate of how many people’s emails they read would violate Americans’ privacy. ☛ The Socialist Way: The Art of Shoplifting Shoplifting is a topic that is practically relevant to many and it should therefore not become an exclusive craft confined to a small shoplifting elite. On the contrary, shoplifting is an art that deserves the widest possible dissemination. For your convenience we have printed below a step by step guide to shoplifting. Good luck. ☛ DHS taps database of license plate snapshots to hunt fugitives More than 685 million continually updated images of license plates gathered in a commercial database soon will be available to federal authorities for pinpointing the hideouts of escaped illegal immigrants, according to a contract slated to be finalized Tuesday. The National Vehicle Location Service program, commonly used in law enforcement, is intended to augment manual field surveillance of fugitives, Homeland Security Department officials said. Fugitive aliens are non-U.S. citizens who have not complied with deportation orders. The geo-tracking data largely will come from commercial camera operators who capture license plate information on behalf of lenders trying to recover collateral from borrowers, according to the vendor, Vigilant Video. Also, law enforcement agencies themselves increasingly are deploying license plate readers to share photographs through the service. ☛ Dinosaur Sex Experts Concur That Animals Mated Front To Back Ever think about dinosaur sex? Paleontologists do. And they’ve come up with some surprisingly specific ideas about how the prehistoric beasts were able to mate despite their enormous size and weight–and despite the horns and other bony appendages that might have proven bothersome when the creatures got hot and bothered. The males and females of modern-day birds and reptiles have a single body opening for urination, defecation, and reproduction–something called a cloaca (Latin for sewer). Paleontologists believe that dinosaurs had the same basic equipment, and that they coupled by pressing their cloacas together. No penis is needed to perform a “cloacal kiss.” But some birds have penises and crocodiles sport penis-like “intromittent organs,” and male dinosaurs might have had something similar. As you might imagine, a dinosaur penis might have been pretty big–perhaps up to 12 feet in length for T. Rexes. ☛ Pentagon’s Mega Stun Gun Could Blast You Unconscious Imagine a stun gun that doesn’t just drop you to the floor, but renders you unconscious for several minutes. This tech is called a “nano-second electrical pulse,” and the Pentagon believes it could be used in a gun that would hit targets with high voltages of electricity for an amazingly short amount of time – we’re talking billionths of seconds here. That would make the enemy an easy capture. But today’s stun guns are already linked to dozens, if not hundreds, of abusive incidents. What happens if they become even more powerful? ☛ Provocative Palestine-Israel ads at New York train stations rile critics Advertisements at train stations in suburban New York depicting shrinking Palestinian territory in Israel are riling some critics who say they are “deliberately misleading and inaccurate,” FoxNews.com has learned. The ads, which were purchased by The Committee for Peace in Israel and Palestine, show the “Palestinian Loss of Land” from 1946 to 2010. An accompanying headline reads: “4.7 million Palestinians are classified by the U.N. as Refugees.” ☛ Biker Activities – First Date Ideas – BikerKiss.com ☛ Boyfriend assaults girlfriend with steak sauce over ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ The sauciness of “Fifty Shades of Grey”–the titillating trilogy that millions of women around the world are reading this summer–turned literal late last month, when a 31-year-old British man, apparently upset that his girlfriend was one of them, assaulted her with a bottle of steak sauce. According to authorities in Carlisle, U.K., Raymond Hodgson was so bothered that his girlfriend, Emma McCormick, was reading E.L. James’ “pornographic” and “distasteful” book, he drove to her house and squirted her in the face. Thanks Jasmine ☛ Couple arrested for dancing on subway platform: lawsuit “We were doing the Charleston,” Stern said. That’s when two police officers approached and pulled a “Footloose.” “They said, ‘What are you doing?’ and we said, ‘We’re dancing,’ ” she recalled. “And they said, ‘You can’t do that on the platform.’ ” The cops asked for ID, but when Stern could only produce a credit card, the officers ordered the couple to go with them — even though the credit card had the dentist’s picture and signature. When Hess began trying to film the encounter, things got ugly, Stern said. “We brought out the camera, and that’s when they called backup,” she said. “That’s when eight ninja cops came from out of nowhere.” Hess was allegedly tackled to the platform floor, and cuffs were slapped on both of them. The initial charge, according to Stern, was disorderly conduct for “impeding the flow of traffic.” “There was nobody on the platform. There were, like, three people,” she said. ☛ Man Gives Cops The Finger, Gets Arrested, Sues City He was taken to the local precinct, where he cooled his heels for a couple of hours while being booked for disorderly conduct. While in the holding cell, the lawsuit alleges that “several officer-defendants made derogatory comments and taunts regarding their perception of Bell’s sexual orientation.” He was ultimately released without having to spend the night at the Tombs going through Central Booking, and after consulting with the NYCLU, Bell pleaded not guilty. And because Officer Play didn’t appear at the court date, the charges were dropped. But now Bell’s making a stand on behalf of all Americans who salute with one finger. His lawyer, Robert Quackenbush, assures us that flipping the middle finger is protected by the First Amendment, “particularly where the officers who were the target of the gesture never even saw it, and especially because the Supreme Court has said that police officers are expected to exercise restraint in response to criticism.” ☛ 14 Incredibly Creepy Surveillance Technologies That Big Brother Will Soon Be Using To Spy On You Most of us don’t think much about it, but the truth is that people are being watched, tracked and monitored more today than at any other time in human history. The explosive growth of technology in recent years has given governments, spy agencies and big corporations monitoring tools that the despots and dictators of the past could only dream of. Previous generations never had to deal with “pre-crime” surveillance cameras that use body language to spot criminals or unmanned drones watching them from far above. Previous generations would have never even dreamed that street lights and refrigerators might be spying on them. Many of the incredibly creepy surveillance technologies that you are about to read about are likely to absolutely astound you. We are rapidly heading toward a world where there will be no such thing as privacy anymore. Big Brother is becoming all-pervasive, and thousands of new technologies are currently being developed that will make it even easier to spy on you ☛ How Many Checkpoints in One Morning?! Welcome to the Police State! [Video] ‘No thank you!’ ☛ Man made movies of drunken rape A Webster man is in jail on no bond, accused of raping a 17-year-old female after getting her drunk nearly two years ago. Elric Shawn Millner, 24, is charged with sexual assault of an adult. According to court records, the woman told Webster police she was at Millner’s apartment on Aug. 3, 2010, when he gave her so much alcohol to drink that she has no memory of the night. She said she woke up between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. the next day, and Millner showed her videos he had taken the night before in which he forced her to perform sexual acts, records state. The woman saw herself in one video vomiting violently and urinating on herself because she was so intoxicated while the defendant laughed at her, according to the complaint filed against Millner by the Harris County District Attorney’s Office. 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Researchers in Germany and Israel were able to grow mouse sperm from a few cells in a laboratory dish. In a world first a team headed by Professor Stefan Schlatt, at Muenster University in Germany, were able to grow sperm by using germ cells. These are the cells in testicles that are responsible for sperm production. Scientists grew the sperm by surrounding the germ cells in a special compound called agar jelly to create an environment similar to that found in testicles. ► How to fake the pledge of allegiance “I pledge a lesson to queen’s frag and her United States of Hysteria, and to the wee puppet for witch’s hands. One Asian, under dog, invisible, with little tea and just rice for all.” ► Worlds earliest toy car and title deed on show at Mardin Museum Archaeologist Mesut Alp said that the toy car, which is made out of stone, dates back to the late Stone Age and is thought to be 7,500 years old. The Culture and Tourism Director of Mardin, Davut Beliktay, said that the car is like a copy of cars today, adding that in its shape, the ancient toy also resembles a tractor. Beliktay also revealed that toy dolls and whistles, also made of stone, were found at sites in the area, “we believe that the whistles and dolls are 5,000 to 6,000 years old. The whistles are still in working condition,” he said. ► Death of man struck by train leads to bizarre civil case Ruling in what it called a “tragically bizarre” case, an appeals court found that the estate of a man killed by a train while crossing the Edgebrook Metra station tracks can be held liable after a part of his body sent airborne by the collision struck and injured a bystander. In 2008, Hiroyuki Joho, 18, was hurrying in pouring rain with an umbrella over his head, trying to catch an inbound Metra train due to arrive in about five minutes when he was struck by a southbound Amtrak train traveling more than 70 mph. A large portion of his body was thrown about 100 feet on to the southbound platform, where it struck Gayane Zokhrabov, then 58, who was waiting to catch the 8:17 a.m. train to work. She was knocked to the ground, her leg and wrist broken and her shoulder injured. ► Gary Webb’s Drug War Reporting Vindicated Douglas Farah was in El Salvador when the San Jose Mercury News broke a major story in the summer of 1996: The Nicaraguan Contras, a confederation of paramilitary rebels sponsored by the CIA, had been funding some of their operations by exporting cocaine to the United States. One of their best customers was a man nicknamed “Freeway Rick” — Ricky Donnell Ross, then a Southern California dealer who was running an operation the Los Angeles Times dubbed “the Wal-Mart of crack dealing.” ► New Year’s Resolution: Full Disk Encryption on Every Computer You Own The New Year is upon us, and you might be partaking in the tradition of making a resolution for the coming year. This year, why not make a resolution to protect your data privacy with one of the most powerful tools available? Commit to full disk encryption on each of your computers. Many of us now have private information on our computers: personal records, business data, e-mails, web history, or information we have about our friends, family, or colleagues. Encryption is a great way to ensure that your data will remain safe when you travel or if your laptop is lost or stolen. Best of all, it’s free. So don’t put off taking security steps that can help protect your private data. Join EFF in resolving to encrypt your disks 2012. Here’s some basic info about full disk encryption. You can read this and much more (including information on password security) in our recent whitepaper on protecting privacy at the border. ► The Perfect Score: Cheating on the SAT For Sam Eshaghoff, getting a high score on the SAT college admissions exam was more than a point of pride. It was a lucrative business. As Alison Stewart reports, other students paid Eshaghoff up to $2,500 each to take their tests using easily manufactured fake IDs. His scam came crashing down in fall 2011, when he was arrested for criminal impersonation and fraud. Eshaghoff has since accepted a plea deal, but the case still raises major questions about the integrity of the test itself. ► Bad Teachers: Weird Education Crimes of 2011 Gang Bang Teacher: Cops Say She Had Sex With Five Students & Filmed It. Science Teacher Accused of Sex With 17-Year-Old Student. Caught in the Act: Cops Say Teacher Seen Having Sex With Student. Biology Teacher Accused of Sexy Lesson. Bad Teacher: Police Say Substitute Urinated in Front of Class. Cops: Teacher Caught Doing It With ‘Love Doll’ on School Property. ► Russian officials rattled by breach at rocket plant Russia’s deputy prime minister vowed Thursday to punish “sleepy” security officials after bloggers posted dozens of photos of an apparently unguarded strategic military rocket motor factory near Moscow. Blogger Lana Sator said she and friends met not a soul, much less any security guards, as they roamed around state rocket-maker Energomash’s plant, snapping pictures, on five separate night-time excursions in recent months. She posted almost 100 pictures of decrepit-looking hardware from inside a rusted engine-fuel testing tower, the plant’s control room and even its roof at lana-sator.livejournal.com ► Facebook Responsible for A Third of Divorces in UK? A recent survey conducted by a UK based divorce website disclosed that 33 per cent behaviour divorce petitions filed cite Facebook as a cause for filling for divorce in 2011. In 2009 this figure was 20 per cent. 5000 people were surveyed by Divorce-Online, the UK divorce website, during 2009 and 2011 covering Facebook as a means to check behaviour of spouse with the opposite sex and spouses using the social networking platform to comment about their exes post the separation. ► Faking It: How the Media Manipulates the World into War As the drums of war begin to beat once again in Iran, Syria, the South China Sea, and other potential hotspots and flashpoints around the globe, concerned citizens are asking how a world so sick of bloodshed and a population so tired of conflict could be led to this spot once again. To understand this seeming paradox, we must first understand the centuries-long history of how media has been used to whip the nation into wartime frenzy, dehumanize the supposed enemies, and even to manipulate the public into believing in causes for war that, decades later, were admitted to be completely fictitious. ► U.S. double standard surfaces in Strait of Hormuz What was truly comical was the manner in which numerous U.S. military pundits magnified the actual threat the primitive Iranian navy poses. Contrary to those gross exaggerations, the fact is that the most serious threat in Iran’s maritime arsenal is its three small, aging, Soviet-era Kilo-class submarines. It is believed that at best, only two of the vessels are even still seaworthy, and the shallow, narrow Strait of Hormuz would preclude the effective use of any submarines. As for its surface fleet, Iran does possess a few fast missile patrol boats and an additional ad hoc flotilla of designated suicide attack boats. The majority of these craft are little more than rigid-hulled inflatables mounted with a variety of light machine-guns, packed with explosives and crewed by militia zealots. Opposing this cockleshell Flintstones navy is the mighty U.S. Fifth Fleet. Consisting of more than 20 warships, including aircraft carriers and missile cruisers ► Lego Concentration Camp “Each box contains a set of bricks, that can be used to build the element of a concentration camp as shown on the box. All elements in the sets as well as those depicted on the boxes have either been taken from the mass-produced sets of LEGO bricks, or have been slightly altered by the artist. The prisoners are played by smiling skeletons from the “Pirate” set, while slightly modified figurines from the “Police Station” set appear as tormenters. In the upper-left corner of each box we find the following statement: “This work by Zbigniew Libera has been sponsored by Lego” – as the project was made possible thanks to the bricks presented by the polish department of the Danish company. Upon its presentation in Denmark, LEGO headquarters has launched legal complaints against the artist, however as a result of a fierce press campaign it has decided to drop the lawsuit. The controversies concerning Libera’s LEGO also appeared in Poland, yet those where of a somewhat different character. ► This is What Happens When You Give Thousands of Stickers to Thousands of Kids This December, in a surprisingly simple yet ridiculously amazing installation for the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, artist Yayoi Kusama constructed a large domestic environment, painting every wall, chair, table, piano, and household decoration a brilliant white, effectively serving as a giant white canvas. Over the course of two weeks, the museum’s smallest visitors were given thousands upon thousands of colored dot stickers and were invited to collaborate in the transformation of the space, turning the house into a vibrantly mottled explosion of color. How great is this? Given the opportunity my son could probably cover the entire piano alone in about fifteen minutes. The installation, entitled The Obliteration Room, is part of Kusama’s Look Now, See Forever exhibition that runs through March 12. ► DARPA’s New Spy Satellite Could Provide Real-Time Video From Anywhere on Earth “It sees you when you’re sleeping and knows when you’re awake” could be the theme song for a new spy satellite being developed by DARPA. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s latest proof-of-concept project is called the Membrane Optical Imager for Real-Time Exploitation (MOIRE), and would provide real-time images and video of any place on Earth at any time — a capability that, so far, only exists in the realm of movies and science fiction. The details of this huge eye-in-the-sky look like something right out of science fiction, as well, and it would be interesting to determine if it could have applications for astronomy as well. ► Skateboard Songs Of The 70’s “Skateboard” (as it is known in Brazil) is a sport that has emerged in the late 50 invented by surfers as a hobby in times of low tide. With the passage of time was the sportive will gain new fans and winning characteristics. In the mean time (years 50 and 60) there were a few musical recordings exploring the theme of skateboarding, such as “Skatebordin ‘Pt 1 & Pt 2” dual “Jan & Dean.” But the boom of skateboarding was only to give even in the late ’70s, when the sport received a veritable flood of newcomers, and soon to greatly increase the number of songs exploring this new market of skaters. The recordings ranging from power pop, bubble gum, glam, disco, funk or any musical style that could match the atmosphere that the young skate ever breathed, with a strong influence of surf music, especially the Beach Boys. 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Ginther, a reclusive, Stanford-educated math genius, has had winning tickets in 1993, 2006, 2008 and 2010. Now, Harper’s magazine theorizes that the Lone Star legend skillfully charted when and where winning tickets might show up. ◆ Fukushima Unit 3 MOX likely melted through MOX fuel that was believed to have been kept cool at the bottom of one of the reactors at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant after its core melted is believed to have breached the vessel after melting again, a study said Monday.The study by Fumiya Tanabe, an expert in nuclear safety, said most of reactor 3’s mixed uranium-plutonium oxide fuel may have dribbled into the containment vessel underneath, and if so, the current method being used to cool the reactor will have to be rethought. This could force Tokyo Electric Power Co. to revise its schedule for containing the five-month-old disaster. ◆ Study says nuclear fuel at Fukushima reactor possibly melted twice Fuel inside one of the reactors at the crippled nuclear complex in Fukushima Prefecture, which was believed to have been kept cool at the bottom of the pressure vessel after its core suffered a meltdown, has possibly breached the vessel after melting again at the bottom of the vessel, an expert’s study showed Monday. ◆ Big Pharma’s Crooked Crusade to Push Pills on Little Kids In the past decade, America’s pharmaceutical industry has knowingly marketed dozens of dangerous drugs to millions of children, a group that executives apparently view as a lucrative, untapped market for their products. Most kids have no one to look out for their interests except anxious parents who put their trust in doctors. As it turns out, that trust is often misplaced. Big Pharma spends massive amounts to entertain physicians, send them on luxury vacations and ply them with an endless supply of free products. As a result, hundreds of thousands of American kids—some as young as three years old—have become dependent on amphetamines like Adderall and a pharmacopeia of other drugs that allegedly treat depression, insomnia, aggression and other mental health disorders. ◆ Michael Moore to Obama: ‘Show some guts,’ arrest S&P head On his Twitter feed Monday, the Oscar-winning film director also blamed the 2008 economic collapse on Standard & Poor’s — apparently because it and other credit-ratings agencies did not downgrade mortgage-based bonds, which encouraged the housing bubble and let it spread throughout the economy.“Pres Obama, show some guts & arrest the CEO of Standard & Poors. These criminals brought down the economy in 2008& now they will do it again,” Mr. Moore wrote. Standard & Poor’s, one of three key debt agencies, stripped the U.S. federal government of its AAA status Friday night and reduced it to AA+ for the first time in the nation’s history. Mr. Moore went on to note that the “owners of S&P are old Bush family friends,” continuing a theme he has developed through several films about capitalism as essentially a crony system for the rich and Wall Street, especially the Bush family. ◆ Massachussetts takes up anti-liberty torch The hypocrisy of police trying to stop citizens from videotaping their public actions should be obvious in this, the Patriot Act Age. From warrantless wiretapping to data mining to the proliferation of red-light cameras, the Surveillance State is clearly on the march. And yet, when citizens occasionally exercise their constitutional rights and turn the camera on the Surveillance State itself, they increasingly face the threat of police retribution. ◆ Will RIM help British police ID BlackBerry users who rioted, looted? Well, this could pretty much rule out a marketing campaign touting BlackBerry as the smartphone of choice for rioters. Which is too bad, because Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) could use a new demographic stronghold to reverse its dwindling market share.Media reports since the weekend’s rioting in sections of London following the shooting death of a local man by police have focused on the roles Twitter and BlackBerry’s IM service played in stoking the mayhem. Now RIM has officially responded. BlackBerry UK, the “official UK Twitter account” for Canada-based RIM, early Monday tweeted: We feel for those impacted by the riots in London. We have engaged with the authorities to assist in any way we can. So how can RIM help the police identify riot and looting participants? According to The Register, “RIM can pass over decrypted versions of BBM chatter.” ◆ Kanye West Says People Look At Him ‘like Hitler’ The 34-year-old rapper known for his outbursts was the headline act at the Big Chill music festival Saturday night, where he ranted in the middle of his set about being misunderstood and underappreciated. “I walk through the hotel and I walk down the street, and people look at me like I’m (expletive) insane, like I’m Hitler,” he said. “One day the light will shine through and one day people will understand everything I ever did.”West received light boos from the crowd as a result. ◆ Digital Hit Men for Hire Cyber attacks designed to knock Web sites off line happen every day, yet shopping for a virtual hit man to launch one of these assaults has traditionally been a dicey affair. That’s starting to change: Hackers are openly competing to offer services that can take out a rival online business or to settle a score.An ad for a DDoS attack service. There are dozens of underground forums where members advertise their ability to execute debilitating “distributed denial-of-service” or DDoS attacks for a price. DDoS attack services tend to charge the same prices, and the average rate for taking a Web site offline is surprisingly affordable: about $5 to $10 per hour; $40 to $50 per day; $350-$400 a week; and upwards of $1,200 per month. ◆ California Mother Charged With Murder After Breastfeeding on Meth Charges against a California mother have been upgraded from manslaughter to second-degree murder this week after evidence at preliminary hearings suggested that she knowingly endangered her infant’s life by breast-feeding while using methamphetamine.Six-week-old Anthony Acosta III died last year after an allegedly lethal amount of the drug was passed to him when his mother, Maggie Jean Wortman, 26, continued to breast-feed despite her meth habit. ◆ Man dead after firing on police in fiery Poconos standoff Battling an addiction to bath salts, Kish took his mother and two others hostage in his mother’s Chestnuthill Township house Thursday afternoon. After he wounded a state trooper with birdshot and set fire to the house, police said, he ran outside with a gun and refused to put it down. ◆ How to Write a Book in Three Days: Lessons from Michael Moorcock In the early days of Michael Moorcock’s 50-plus-years career, when he was living paycheck-to-paycheck, he wrote a whole slew of action-adventure sword-and-sorcery novels very, very quickly, including his most famous books about the tortured anti-hero Elric. In 1992, he published a collection of interviews conducted by Colin Greenland called Michael Moorcock: Death is No Obstacle, in which he discusses his writing method. In the first chapter, “Six Days to Save the World”, he says those early novels were written in about “three to ten days” each, and outlines exactly how one accomplishes such fast writing. ◆ Smugglers using creative ways to bring drugs into South Florida From subs to nuts, in wigs, sculpture, fruit and “wearable heroin,” drug smugglers are finding more creative ways to conceal their bootlegged goods. ◆ Chocoholic fish: Giant Gourami Gary: Kit Kats: Sea Life London Aquarium Aquarium staff have managed to wean a chocoholic giant fish onto a healthier diet after inheriting the gourami, raised entirely on Kit Kats by its owners. ◆ 4 men arrested in LA-to-NY cocaine smuggling ring The prosecutor said police seized $3 million worth of cocaine, $900,000 in cash, steroids, money counters and other paraphernalia from several locations. Also seized were eight vehicles, including a Mercedes-Benz and two Cadillac SUVs.Besides the secret compartments, the ring took extra precautions by placing the vehicles on car carriers ordinarily used by legitimate auto dealers. The car carrier companies weren’t aware that drugs were being shipped inside the vehicles, authorities said. ◆ Kings of Leon bandmates “urge Caleb Followill to enter rehab” Caleb admitted: “We would wake up at 3pm, soundcheck, have dinner and drink two bottles of wine. We would drink another before we went on stage, take a bunch of pills, drink another bottle on stage followed by a bowl of cocaine.” ◆ Riots: the underclass lashes out This is the most arcane of uprisings and the most modern. Its participants, marshalled by Twitter, are protagonists in a sinister flipside to the Arab Spring. The Tottenham summer, featuring children as young as seven, is an assault not on a regime of tyranny but on the established order of a benign democracy. One question now hangs over London’s battle-torn high streets. How could this ever happen? ◆ Did George Soros win 10/1 return on S&P’s US credit rating downgrade? A mystery investor or hedge fund reportedly made a bet of almost $1billion at odds of 10/1 last month that the U.S. would lose its AAA credit rating.Now questions are being asked of whether the trader had inside information before placing the $850million bet in the futures market. There were mounting rumours that investor George Soros, 80, famously known as ‘the man who broke the Bank of England’, could be involved. ◆ Twitter users could be arrested for ‘inciting’ London rioting and looting Twitter users in the United Kingdom who posted inflammatory messages encouraging others to engage in violence could be arrested, according to Scotland Yard Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stephen Kavanagh.Kavanagh told The Telegraph that officers were investigating messages posted on Twitter and would “absolutely” consider arresting users who helped incite some of the worst rioting in the British capital in years. ◆ Honey-Soaked Naked Girls Were Filmed By Pastor Using a hidden video camera, a Texas man filmed four naked, honey-drenched teenage girls while they showered at a church where he worked as a youth pastor.But since the statute of limitations has already expired, prosecutors today were forced to dismiss felony charges lodged against Thomas Fortenberry, who allegedly did the surreptitious filming in November 2007 at the Greater Harvest Community Church in Pasadena. ◆ China’s New Lucrative Business: Dead Babies Turn into Stamina Booster Pills Chinese hospitals and abortion clinics that are connected to the business immediately notify pharmaceutical companies when a baby dies, mostly because of a still birth or an abortion.The companies purchase the baby corpses and store them in some family’s refrigerator to avoid suspicion. The next step in this highly secretive process is putting the corpses in a medical drying microwave and grinding them into pills. The ground baby powder is then put in a capsule, ready to be sold as a stamina enhancer, according to the SBS team. ◆ Translucent Ants Photographed Eating Colored Liquids Scientist Mohamed Babu from Mysore, India captured beautiful photos of these translucent ants eating a specially colored liquid sugar. Some of the ants would even move between the food resulting in new color combinations in their stomachs. ◆ 10 Beautiful Chinese Women Executed Over the Past 30 Years ◆ London burning: history just went sci-fi History always repeats itself, said Hegel. But he forgot to add, commented Karl Marx, the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. What Marx meant in his essay The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is that history does not repeat itself at all. It only appears to, because human imaginations cannot keep up with the speed of change, so they dress it in costumes borrowed from the past. It is not the 2011 rioters who are dressing in history’s robes – they appear to have modelled themselves more on recent zombie movies – but commentators, who are reaching for analogies of 1980s socialists to attribute these troubles to familiar causes.It is worth looking at images of London’s violent weekend and asking how they make you feel. Far from fitting into any historical model, they seem to me to come from an imagined London, a horror scenario of the city as a blazing wilderness. Sci-fi nightmares of urban catastrophe resonate with these pictures because this is a city made strange. ◆ Texas Town to Recycle Urine The drought in Texas has gotten so severe municipal water managers have turned to a once untenable idea: recycling sewage water.”When you talk about toilet-to-(water) tank it makes a lot of people nervous and grossed out,” says Terri Telchik, who works in the city manager’s office in Big Spring, Texas. Water for the town’s 27,000 residents comes through the Colorado River Municipal Water District, which has broken ground on a plant to capture treated wastewater for recycling. “We’re taking treated effluent (wastewater), normally discharged into a creek, and blending it with (traditionally supplied potable) water,” district manager John Grant told Discovery News. ◆ Jay-Z and Kanye West album deal irks indie retailers Watch The Throne will be released first on iTunes before the Best Buy chain’s exclusive deal to sell the album nearly two weeks ahead of other music retailers.The letter says the deal will do “great damage” to more than 1,700 record stores and calls for equal access. Jay-Z’s spokesman had no comment. Posted by the organisers of Record Store Day, the letter has been signed by shops across the US and calls the release plan a “short-sighted strategy”. ◆ Mexican Smugglers Nearly Interrupt California Surf Contest Three Mexican nationals attempted to illegally land their boat on California’s Huntington Beach Sunday — about a mile away from where crowds were forming to watch a professional surfing contest.Lifeguards spotted the small fishing boat at around 8:30 a.m., but when the men realized they had been spotted, they turned back to sea and were seen throwing a package overboard, The Orange County Register reported. ◆ Racy Cathay Pacific Cockpit Pictures Prompt Investigation (VIDEO) Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific Airways is launching an investigation into pictures that appear to show a pilot receiving oral sex from a flight attendant while in a commercial airplane cockpit.Low quality photos of the act, featuring a woman in a red outfit not unlike those of Cathay Pacific’s flight attendants and a pilot, have circulated through Chinese media. According to some reports, the two are a couple. ◆ Government agents stole $9,000 in cash during Rawesome Foods raid, says witness A witness on the scene during the Rawesome Foods raid has publicly stated that an agent of the Specialized Surveillance & Enforcement Bureau of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health stole $9,000 in cash from James Stewart after placing him in handcuffs. The $9,000 in cash was about to be used to acquire food products (honey, watermelons, eggs and others) that are offered to club members of Rawesome Foods.During the raid on Rawesome Foods, $4,500 in cash was taken from the store and $9,000 confiscated from James Stewart, but only the $4,500 in cash was noted on the warrant. California law requires that all items seized at the raid are noted on the warrant, but the LA County Department of Public Health failed to note the $9,000, meaning there is no longer any paper trail for this cash that was taken from James. ‪◆ Metropolis II by Chris Burden (the movie)‬‏ A short doc about a kinetic sculpture that took four years to build. We had the honor of spending three days in Chris Burden’s studio filming this sculpture before it was moved to the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art (LACMA) where it is being reinstalled. The installation opens fall 2011. ◆ Italian town’s kebab ban enrages migrant community “To ban kebabs in Cittadella is like forbidding pizza in Paris or New York,” said Abdallah Khezraji, a member of the Consulta Regionale Immigrazione for Italy’s Veneto region.On Friday, the town council of Cittadella passed a law stopping to stop the issue of licenses to vendors wishing to sell kebabs in the medieval walled city in Veneto. ‘Protecting tradition’ “This food is certainly not part of our tradition and of our identity,” said Mayor Massimo Bitonci of the anti-immigration Northern League party, which shares power in Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s ruling coalition. Bitonci said kebabs were “not suited to our historic center [because of] the way in which the foods are eaten, the smell they give off.” He also justified the ban on health grounds, saying the ordinance targeted “dishes cooked and then left in the open for a long time.” ◆ Twelve Triggers Driving Mankind Towards World Government What I am about to describe in this article are not “predictions” of any kind. Rather, they are forecasts based on available data and common sense projections of where the Global Power Elite are trying to take the world, why they are doing so, and what they hope to achieve. The more they keep the general public in the dark, the higher their chances of success.Doing this kind of forecast is rather like understanding the weather. If on a hot summer day you look out your window and see dark clouds and lightning on the horizon, and suddenly a strong, damp ozone-filled gust blows your way, it’s basic common sense to say that you shouldn’t be forecasting “sunny and calm today,” but rather “drenching rain, thunder, lightning and hail.” Tags: 1980s, Abortion, Adderall, Addiction, Agent, airplane, Allegedly, America, American, amphetamines, Anti-Hero, Ants, Arab, arrest, Art, Article, assault, attack, Awesome, baby, bad, ban, Bank, bath salts, Beach, Beat, Bet, BIG, Birth, Blame, Boat, Book, Bootleg, Bottle, bottom, breast, Broken, Bum, Burn, Bush, Cadillac, California, Camera, Can, Cannibal, Car, Catastrophe, child, Children, China, Chinese, Church, CIA, Citizen, Club, Cocaine, Cock, Collapse, Collection, color, Come, Commercial, common sense, community, Constitution, Constitutional, Cool, Costumes, Credit, Criminal, criminals, Crippled, Crypt, cum, Cyber, damage, Dangerous, dark, data mining, DDoS attacks, DEA, Dead, death, democracy, Depression, Digital, Director, disaster, Discharge, discovery, disorder, Dress, Drink, Drug, Drugs, Dystopia, Economy, Eggs, enforcement, England, Everything, evidence, Face, Family, Famous, Felon, felony, Film, Films, Fire, Fish, Fishing, Food, force, Forced, Free, Fruit, Fukushima, Genius, Giant, Girls, Government, gun, Hack, Hackers, Headline, Health, Hedge fund, Heroin, Hidden, High, Historical, History, Hit Man, Hitler, Horror, Hostage, Hot, Hotel, Human, incite, India, Indie, Industry, information, investigation, Italian, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Karl Marx, Kids, Kings of Leon, Lame, laughter, Liar, liberty, Lightning, Links, London, Look, looting, Los Angeles, Lucrative, magazine, Man, manager, mankind, Mayhem, Mayor, Medical, medieval, meltdown, Mental health, Mess, Meth, Methamphetamine, Mexican, Michael Moore, mob, Monday, money, month, Mother, Movies, Murder, Museum, Music, Mystery, Naked, New York, Night, Nightmare, Nightmares, NOT, Nuclear, Obama, OD, Old, Online, oral sex, outfit, Outlines, paraphernalia, Paris, Pharma, Pharmaceutical industry, Photo, Photograph, Photos, Pictures, pill, Pills, Pizza, plutonium, Police, Pot, powder, Power, Prediction, Proliferation, Public health, quality, Rap, rapper, Rawesome, Reactor, Record, Rehab, Research, Riot, rioters, rioting, Riots, River, scenario, scene, Sci-Fi, scientist, Sculpture, Secret, SeMeN, SeMeNSPeRmS, Service, sewage, Sex, Shooting, Shopping, site, skin, Slaughter, Smack, smartphone, smell, Smoking, smuggler, smuggling, Soaked, Some, Speed, Stab, Strange, Street, Streets, stripped, Studio, Sugar, Summer, Sun, Surf, Surfing, Surveillance, surveillance state, Sword, System, Tank, Teen, Teenage, Teenage Girl, Texas, threat, time, Tokyo, Twitter, U.S., UK, Underground, United Kingdom, uranium, urban, Urge, urine, US, Video, Violence, Violent, Virtual, Wall Street, War, Washington, waste, Water, Watermelon, weekend, Wet, wiretap, Woman, Women, World, Worst, wound, Young, youth, Zombie File under Horror, Music, SeMeN SPeRmS BLArRrG, SeMeN SPeRmS Links 'o Death, Sex Inside the Army‚ Far-Out Acid Tests “Ketchum estimated that the barrel contained at thirty to forty pounds of the drug, a few hundred million doses and with a street value of something like a billion dollars. The sort of amount the CIA had been after.” LEAP – Law Enforcement Against Prohibition – Cops Say Legalize Drugs Earth’s Brain, Akashic Records and Paranormal Imprints “All recent computer-simulations of the early universe have one prediction in common: the first large-scale structures to form in the young universe are long filaments connected at their ends in ‘nodes’. The models typically look like a three-dimensional spider’s web, and resemble the neural structure of a brain.” Art Basel Miami 2009 \| Aurel Schmidt Video My pal Crystal Moselle directed this. 25 Things You Might Not Know About Water Worldwide, big investors like T. Boone Pickens are buying up water rights like they have bought up oil. Some have predicted that the next wars will be over water. U.S. Tap Water Quality Database Sewers at Capacity, Pollution Spills Into Waterways Our tap water is fulla SHIT! Health Risks of Reading on Toilet Does reading on the crapper contribute to hemorrhoid growth? Britain is ‘designer drugs’ capital of Europe, says EU agency Paul Griffiths, of the European drugs agency, said that Spice contained a new compound, JWH-018, which was the first synthetic cannabinoid ‚Äì the active ingredient in marijuana ‚Äì and which was very potent even at low doses. In the face of the growing crackdown on Spice, research chemists have already developed a range of nine other cannabis-like drugs that would not be covered by the ban. The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal How to Insert a Tampon Amazing Trick With Mouth Johnny Rotten on Juke Box Jury BBC 70’s Ice Cube – No Vaseline (N.W.A Diss) La Lenguota Magnetic food: Metal Bits in YOUR Cereal! Yummy! GA jail goes pink The Sheriff is painting the entire jail bright pink. Pure Pepto Bismol Pink will cover every wall inside the jail. “We are also going to have pink shower shoes, pink wash clothes, pink towels, pink sheets and pink blankets,” When the CIA tried its hand at magic If Marijuana Production Were Legal: Projected Tax Revenues, by State ‘Twilight’ Connection in Big Heroin Bust Here’s the kind of “Twilight” merchandise you really don’t want your kids getting their hands on — baggies of heroin with a cartoon of Rob Pattinson’s face printed on them. Adam Lambert ‚Äì Iron Maiden Eddie Swastika Denim Jacket Heavy Metal Nazi Jew Fag Amerikkkan Idol Doctors recommend medical marjiuana for minors with ADHD in California Bringing Down the Curtain on New York‚Äôs Roll-Down Gates New York City‚Äôs storefront gates, like its fire escapes and stoops, are there but not quite there: the unnoticed wallpaper of New York at night. They have been battered by vandals and defaced by graffiti taggers. They have secured diamonds, handmade tortellini and other valuable commodities. They have provided the clattering soundtrack of dawn and dusk, the steel canvas of struggling artists, the most compelling evidence that the city does, indeed, sleep. And now, on orders of the City Council, roll-down gates have joined the ranks of fatty foods and cigarette smoke: they have been legislated against, some right into extinction. Pill Reports – Obama Ecstasy Test Results Piperazine Obama LSD Blotter! Abundant Waste: The Gleaner’s Role & Tips for Dumpster Diving Obama Ecstasy pills hit the streets (hop)E 8 Million Reasons for Real Surveillance Oversight Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with its customers’ (GPS) location information over 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009. This massive disclosure of sensitive customer information was made possible due to the roll-out by Sprint of a new, special web portal for law enforcement officers.The evidence documenting this surveillance program comes in the form of an audio recording of Sprint’s Manager of Electronic Surveillance, who described it during a panel discussion at a wiretapping and interception industry conference, held in Washington DC in October of 2009. It is unclear if Federal law enforcement agencies’ extensive collection of geolocation data should have been disclosed to Congress pursuant to a 1999 law that requires the publication of certain surveillance statistics — since the Department of Justice simply ignores the law, and has not provided the legally mandated reports to Congress since 2004. Wearing The Hair Of The Dog. Portraits Of People In Clothes Made From Their Pets’ Fur. Nothing Says I Love You Like Dead Tree Rat A pair of genuine taxidermy squirrel feet earrings Fixed – Fawn – Steampunk Taxidermy LOVED TO DEATH Taxidermy Jewelry Genuine Bird Head by lovedtodeath Syd Barrett’s Shed on eBay This shed is from the garden of the house Syd Barrett spent the last 30-odd years of his life living in. It has been painted oxblood and cream inside by Syd and contains furniture he built and painted himself; a press with two opening doors, a hose reel, a shelf and several other adaptations, the most curious of which is a device for retrieving his house keys even when he had also misplaced the key of the shed. The door of the shed seems also to have been made or at least fitted by Syd, and it is painted green with the hinges picked out in a chalk blue colour (a style favoured by Syd). Some planks have been replaced with fence shiplap at the far end. The Sinners of Hell aka Jigoku 1960 horror movie 1960 Japan The story tells of a young theology student who flees a hit-and-run accident, he is plagued by both his own guilt-ridden conscience and a mysterious, diabolical doppelg√§nger represented by Tamura, who appears to know everyone’s darkest secrets.Eventually more deaths seem to occur around him, including his own which sends him plummeting into Hell. Marilyn Monroe Smokes Pot THE VIDEO! Yahoo, Verizon: Our Spy Capabilities Would ‚ÄòShock‚Äô, ‚ÄòConfuse‚Äô Consumers Want to know how much phone companies and internet service providers charge to funnel your private communications or records to U.S. law enforcement and spy agencies?That‚Äôs the question muckraker and Indiana University graduate student Christopher Soghoian asked all agencies within the Department of Justice, under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed a few months ago. But before the agencies could provide the data, Verizon and Yahoo intervened and filed an objection on grounds that, among other things, they would be ridiculed and publicly shamed were their surveillance price sheets made public. I Gotta Go! Potty Trainin’ was never this FUN! How you are goin’ to die. ‚ÄúWhile you may be worried of catching of an obscure disease you heard about on the news, the truth is that we are far more likely to die of a small range of illnesses‚Ä¶‚Äù Is long-term solitary confinement torture? The United States holds tens of thousands of inmates in long-term solitary confinement. Is this torture? Mickey Rourke Raps Over Game’s Closing Credits – Rogue warrior UK jails schizophrenic for refusal to decrypt files Terror squad arrest over model rocket Blackout Crew – Dialled Put a Donk on yer ringtone! Blackout Crew – Rumper Pumper Oh my…. the Blackout Crew are back, with a special guest appearance from Willy Donka… Bizzy Bone Gets $35k of Bling Jacked – Robber Gets 12 Years In Prison A Look At Hip Hop‚Äôs Most Outstanding Tattoo‚Äôs The Cyberwar Plan It’s not just a defensive game; cyber-security includes attack plans too, and the U.S. has already used some of them successfully. Generation XXX: The Taste Below the Waist Economy Is Forcing Young Adults Back Home in Big Numbers, Survey Finds For more young adults, there is no place like home for the holidays, and for the rest of the year, too. Ten percent of adults younger than 35 told the Pew Research Center that they had moved back in with their parents because of the recession. Scaredy-cat tigers Zoo-keepers in China say their tigers have grown so tame that they’re frightened of the chickens they’re supposed to eat. Christians in Jerusalem want Jews to stop spitting on them LONDON – DRUG REPORT: MEPHEDRONE BENDER Hipster Grifter Freed — Now What? The Defecator: ‘Shitty’ Street Art Big Hot Dog is a 7 Lbs. Weiner What Do Levi Johnston, Evangelicals and Oprah Have in Common? They All Blind Us to What Really Matters Celebrity worship has banished the real from public discourse. Burn, Santa, Burn!! The Feds Are Addicted to Pot — Even If You Aren’t e government keeps pushing the BS that pot is addictive and has serious health consequences. And no wonder — lying about pot is a lucrative business. 2 busted for threatening YouTube rap Investigators said the rap video featuring Mathew Rufino, 24, of New Bedford and Jason Foley, 28, of nearby Fairhaven would have been protected free speech if it had simply been aimed at police, The Boston Globe said. But throwing in specific names along with footage of a gun and noises of a firearm discharging elevated it to a potential crime. Blind man fitted with ‘bionic’ eye sees for first time in 30 years 2009 Cannabis Cup Winners Cannabis Cup 1. Super Lemon Haze – Green House 2. Vanilla Kush – Barney’s 3. Headband Kush – Green PlaceIndica Cup 1. Starbud – Hortilab Seed Company 2. OG18 – Reserva Privada 3. Kush D – Allstar Genetics Sativa Cup 1. Saris Hilton – Harvestman Seed Company 2. Super Lemon Haze – Green House Seed Co. 3. The Purps – BC Bud Depot A LEGAL drug known as ‘meow meow’ led one lad to rip off his own SCROTUM, police said today. My tattoos are breast A BOOB crazy man loves nipples so much that he has had them tattooed on his BUM. Goth robber jailed for bizarre Eastbourne bank job Frater Osiris Xnoubis was dressed from head to foot in black leather when he carried out the bizarre robbery. The 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia Are You Brave Enough to Say No to a High-Stress Holiday? The problem with Christmas is that no one much likes it anymore. Ice T’s Wife Coco POV Epic billboard fail Beyonce Stage Dives/Crowd Surfs at London Concert Woah, Sasha Fierce! Stage divin’ now officially mainstream, as if that car commercial, where the car crowd surfs, didn’t kill it. Bang Your Head or I’ll Rip It Off!: Heavy Metal Gangs of Wadeye I felt acid melting my face away and wanted to die. Now I’ll show the world this evil rapist didn’t win \| Acid attack victim Katie Piper Timelapse of swarming monster worms and sea stars eatin’ a baby seal Man acquitted of spitting on police burger Egads! Confidential 9/11 Pager Messages Disclosed Binaural beats or binaural tones are auditory processing artifacts, or apparent sounds, the perception of which arises in the brain independent of physical stimuli. This effect was discovered in 1839 by Heinrich Wilhelm Dove. End ‘medical’ sham and just legalize marijuana The Case Against DMT Elves : James Kent Tryptamine Hallucinogens and Consciousness by Terence McKenna Entheogen The Search for the Killer Painkiller Herd behavior Muni rider: Tooth bandit followed her off bus The next thing Aronson recalls is being on her knees outside the bus, bleeding profusely from her torn lip – with her two upper front teeth missing. Police: Vermont man stole bus, posted video of it “It’s not every day that someone documents their crime and posts it on YouTube,” said prosecutor Todd Shove. Dude Drives $1.6 Million Bugatti Veyron Sports Cars Into Salt Water Marsh Lion opens family’s car door with his teeth In the comfort and security of their car, a family thought there was nothing to worry about as they drove through a South African safari park – until a lion calmly opened their back door with his teeth. Ohio 8th-grader suspended for wild Bengals haircut Wiiiiiiild! CA man allegedly paid teens to spit in his face A 39-year-old Southern California man has been arrested for misdemeanor child annoyance after allegedly paying a teenager $31 to spit in his face. Cannabusiness Assembling a hydro hut, buying a gun safe, cleaning up after neighborhood dogs‚Äîthe ABC‚Äôs of opening a pot franchise Statewide survey shows “ball tapping” problem widespread “Ball tapping” is the act of intentionally hitting or kicking a male in the genitals. Cooking Eggs or Popcorn with Cell Phones Pop Corn With Your Cell Phone — Hoax or Real? Can you use cell phones to make popcorn? Sure — if you believe the three vids below. Med Grow Cannabis College Detroit’s Med Grow Cannabis College offers course in growing marijuana Interview with Dr. Alexander Shulgin Dr. Alexander Shulgin is a noted chemist who has been studying the chemistry and effects of the psychedelics for over 30 years. He is probably most widely known for his book ‘PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story’ (Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved). He is also the discoverer of DOM (at one time known as “STP”), MMDA (not MDMA) and many other psychedelics, and was indirectly responsible for the introduction of MDMA to psychotherapy in the late ’70s. PiHKAL Phenethylamines I Have Known And Loved: A Chemical Love Story By Alexander and Ann Shulgin Dr. Ecstasy ”At the beginning of the 20th century, there were only two psychedelic compounds known to Western science: cannabis and mescaline. A little over 50 years later — with LSD, psilocybin, psilocin, TMA, several compounds based on DMT and various other isomers — the number was up to almost 20. By 2000, there were well over 200. So you see, the growth is exponential.” When I asked him whether that meant that by 2050 we’ll be up to 2,000, he smiled and said, ”The way it’s building up now, we may have well over that number.” Simon Reynolds’s Notes on the noughties: When will hip-hop hurry up and die? Gucci Mane Sentenced To 12 Months In Jail A. Rappers Are Stupid B. The Man Be Haters C. All Of The Above Rapper Sentenced To Two Years For Song About Killing Cops Johnson put it up on his MySpace page, and authorities stumbled across it while looking for gang-related activity on MySpace. The song was never played on the radio. Look At This Fucking Juggalo Clown Make Up & Rape. Thanks Patrick Nybakken Fleet’s Appreciation – Black people can be emo, too! “Despite the fact that I’m a cool as nigga there is a darkside. If you watch my twisted videos you will see that darkside; I’m an angry bitter lil piece of shit and I know it. Porn and Hate are the only things that make me happy. Fuck my piece of shit life. And if you ingorant motha fuckas don’t like me kiss my ass. If you post up some disrespectful shit about me your bitch ass will be blocked. I’m not goin to prison cuz of sum youtube war so don’t look for me to argue with you. I MOTHA FUCKIN HATE MY FUCKIN LIFE.” Thanks 247jerkoff Cannibal Corpse – Corpsegrinder talks bout World of Warcraft Pictures of other people’s parties from Flickr. The Economics of Pinball Life is Good – Stellar Kart Official Video Can I get a Emo Christian Sidehug? BrokeNCYDE’s Crunk Kids Photo Album Make me Emo: Zac Efron BrokeNCYDE – bree bree Crunkcoreeeeeeeeeeeeeeee First-ever marriage between man and videogame character in Japan: Nintendo DS “Love Plus” Japan is so progressive, and to think, over here in the US people bitch about gays gettin’ hitched! $3 Million Coke bust at Brooklyn hipster drug den “The suspects also gave Weinstein a weird vibe when they moved in sometime last year. He said that they didn‚Äôt fit the usual block demographic of young, affluent artists who used to dwell in the building. ‚ÄúThey looked like rock world hipsters, but older,‚Äù Weinstein recalled. 7th Grader Suspended For Wearing Skinny Jeans ‘When he sat down, Seth’s pants were disrupting.’ PornFail – NSFW Jerks! Greetings From Guantanamo Bay I Have a Bad Case of Diarrhea Why Must I Cry? This music video is about a man whom befriended a fatherless ghetto boy. The boy stole from him time and time again. This video also speaks of a man who fathered twins with a woman he felt no love for. This song is highly emotional and it’s not about how well the singer is it’s about expression of hard times. THE MOST RACIST COMMERCIAL EVER!!!!!!!! Natalia Eats A Banana Eames-Inspired Prosthetic Leg Death by Wifi? Wireless Medication Implant Could Get Hacked Epson’s tiny GPS receiver will make everything location aware Between this, Google Latitude, and the ever expanding lineup of Skyhook positioning devices, you can kiss your location anonymity goodbye. Pepsi Logo Design Brief: Branding Lunacy to the Max Pancock – NSFW Beyonce Panty Upskirt Courtney Love Topless Desire Drug May Prove Sex Really Is All in Her Head Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH is banking on sex really being all in women‚Äôs heads. The German drugmaker is putting the finishing touches on a pill designed to reawaken desire by blunting female inhibitions. Unlike Viagra, which targets the mechanics of sex by boosting blood flow to the penis, this drug works on the brain. When Sex Hurts, and No One Can Tell You Why: The Mysterious Condition Called Vulvodynia Loosely defined as chronic vulvar pain, vulvodynia is characterized by burning, stinging pain in the vuvla, sometimes called the ‚Äúlips‚Äù that surround the opening to the vagina. Vulvodynia is often mistaken for yeast or bacterial infections or as a sexually transmitted infection or disease. Rabbi ‘offered cocaine for sex’ During his final police interview, Chalomish told officers he bought large quantities of cocaine for himself and often used it when he could not sleep, the jury heard. Mr Goldwater said the prosecution did not exclude the possibility that there might be some truth in what Mr Abbas told the police. “That some of the drugs were given to young women who came to the flat and that one or more of those young women may have provided sexual services,” he added. ‘Our unborn baby looks like Michael Jackson!’ Looks more like the Crimson Ghost Verona NJ teen sentenced to year in prison for online attack of Scientology The War on Soy: Why the ‘Miracle Food’ May Be a Health Risk and Environmental Nightmare Word “Canadian” So “Reviled in Some Places” that Visiting Canucks Say They’re Americans Cigarettes harbor many pathogenic bacteria Cigarettes are “widely contaminated” with bacteria, including some known to cause disease in people, concludes a new international study conducted by a University of Maryland environmental health researcher and microbial ecologists at the Ecole Centrale de Lyon in France. GLOW Show 100 Opening Rap – Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling Thanks Ashirm Zorabbim The Baloney Detection Kit inedia – breatharianism Inedia is the alleged ability to live without food. Some inediates become breatharians, like the stigmatic Therese Neumann (1898-1962) of Bavaria, who said ‚Äúone can live on the Holy Breath alone.‚Äù She claims to have done this from 1926-1962, during which time she says she only consumed her daily serving of transubstantiated bread. Breatharianism What’s the harm in astrology? Mind Control: America’s Secret War 10 Famous Men With Only One Ball Succu Dry Vampire Fleshlight Woman blasts off boyfriend‚Äôs penis with firecrackers Needs my ‘special sauce’. 15 Signs American Society Is Coming Apart at the Seams Sky Serpents – The flying snakes that terrorised America! In June 1873, a farmer identified as Mr Hardin, who lived a few miles east of Bonham, Texas, observed, along with workers in nearby fields, an ‚Äúenormous serpent‚Ä¶ as large and long as a telegraph pole‚Ä¶ of a yellow striped colour‚Äù, in the words of the Bonham Enterprise. That would have been remarkable enough, except that this was floating in a cloud heading in an easterly direction. The witnesses ‚Äúcould see it coil itself up, turn over, and thrust forward its huge head as if striking at something, displaying the man≈ìuvres of a genuine snake‚Äù. Thanks Nico Dios. 7 ghoulish archaeological discoveries What supplements actually work to increase semen volume? FAQ On Semen ‘Fruits like kiwi, watermelon, celery, and pineapple are all said to make semen taste lighter.’ “Graffiti is becoming a true art, fine and delicate” – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Stopping the ACTA Juggernaut \| Electronic Frontier Foundation AntiCounterfeiting Trade Agreement government is tryin’ to push through without public oversight. Read this shit ‘n cringe. Is this the ‘Transparent’ government that Obama talks about? Led Zeppelin’s ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Gets Smoking DJs’ Approval “The song became successful by accident,” Charles R. Cross told the New York Post. “[I] had 100 DJs swear to me that they only played the song because they needed a long break to go and smoke a cigarette. If it had been a minute shorter, you couldn’t have smoked a full cigarette. If it had been a minute longer, it would have been too long.” LED Throwie Rat (or Mouse) Eminent Domain Outrage in Connecticut: Pharmaceutical Giant Pfizer to Leave New London, Site of Major Housing Battle Homeowners in New London, Connecticut took on the city‚Äôs leaders after they announced plans to condemn all of the homes in one neighborhood to make way for a private development project for pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. The city said it would bring in thousands of jobs. After a 2005 Supreme Court ruling against the homeowners, the entire neighborhood was bulldozed. This week Pfizer announced it is shutting down its research center. Michael Jackson – Captain Eo part 1 of 2 ( FULL VERSION ) Jews on $20 Bill Mass: We Pray – The Video Game Roof Coffee Cup Then it hit me. If I put something on my car roof, I could see if people notice. I decided a coffee cup was the best choice, and after consulting my friends, they said to go with a StarBucks cup w/attached “cup condom”. 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Modern Day Amazons: Colonel Qaddafi’s Elite Female Bodyguards Colonel Gaddafi hires ‘500 beautiful Italian girls’, asks them to convert to Islam during Rome summit Ugandan official: cane bodies of people who die from drinking gin Oops, they weren’t logs after all: The moment a crocodile was killed after taking a foolish shortcut across a herd of hippos Truckers Delight – Crazy Video Game Inspired Video Thanks Jim White Star Wars Holiday Special 1978 Swastikas Gift Wrap: Neither Merry nor Right Hillsborough woman used stun gun on children “She used belts, hammers, wooden spoons, electrical cords, one is supposed to be a stun gun that she utilized,” said Debbie Carter with the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office. Carter also says the children were covered in marks and bruises. Horace was arrested on Tuesday and booked into the Orient Road Jail. An arrest affidavit says the children told police she urinated on them and held their heads underwater. 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Militant group‚Äôs recruiting of soldiers worries watchdogs “Many of the Oath Keepers are people who believe that martial law is about to be declared at any moment, it’s right around the corner,” Potok said. Monitor on Psychology – Understanding Terrorism “One big problem with terrorism policy altogether is that it tends to interpret things from our perspective, based on what makes sense to us,” Taylor says. “That’s not really the issue: The issue is what makes sense to people on the ground.” How India’s neurocops used brainscans to convict murderers People are being jailed after lie-detecting brain scans find them guilty. The science is flaky, but this is just the latest instance of neuro imaging being used to ‚Äòread‚Äô the human mind ‚Äì and even acclaimed studies are now being challenged as spurious. Warning of extra heart dangers from mixing cocaine and alcohol A third chemical ‚Äì cocaethylene ‚Äì builds up in the liver over a number of years among those who mix the two drugs. 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Steve Albini on Recording 2,000 Albums, Nirvana, How Geffen Tried to Put Him Out of Business, & Disregarding the Listening Audience… ‘I‚Äôll Literally Work With Anybody’… Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No by James Blagden Spanish region takes hands-on approach to sex education Officials launch campaign to teach young people about ‘sexual self-exploration and discovery of self-pleasure’ Crackdown on ‘Cleavage of the Buttocks’ Lawmakers in the city of Yakima, WA, have apparently had enough. Yesterday the city council voted 5-2 to change the city’s indecent exposure laws to include “cleavage of the buttocks,” that is, exposing a thong or G-string in public. Women caught showing off their assets can now be fined $1,000 or face up to 90 days in jail. If a child under the age of 14 is considered a victim of indecent exposure, those penalities are increased to $5,000 and up to a year in jail. Baggy pants wearer arrested According to incident reports, Bainbridge Public Safety Officers Rusty Day and Collin Hastey were patrolling the 1100 block of East Troup Street searching for a stolen bicycle. The officers observed a male riding a pink bicycle with his pant low on his body, exposing his undergarments. Officers stopped Edison on Sims Street and he was placed under arrest for violating the city ordinance, which was passed on Dec. 16, 2008. 15 Shocking Tales of How Sex Laws Are Screwing the American People China: Secret ‚ÄúBlack Jails‚Äù Hide Severe Rights Abuses Tampa police: Marine reservist attacked Greek priest he mistook for terrorist Police say Bruce offered several reasons to explain his actions: The man tried to rob him. The man grabbed Bruce’s crotch and made an overt sexual advance in perfect English. The man yelled “Allahu Akbar,” Arabic for “God is great,” the same words some witnesses said the Fort Hood shooting suspect uttered last week. “That’s what they tell you right before they blow you up,” police say Bruce told them. Police arrest Night Stalker suspect The Night Stalker is thought to be responsible for at least 108 attacks on the elderly, including four rapes and 24 indecent assaults, during break-ins in South London over 19 years Israelis Want a Pain Ray of Their Own The American weapon, known officially as the Active Denial System (pictured, above), heats the target‚Äôs skin with short microwaves. These only penetrate to about 1/64 of an inch. That‚Äôs enough to be extremely painful but (generally) harmless. In thousands of tests of the system, nobody has been able to stay in the beam for more than a few seconds. You Still Can’t Buy a Vibrator in Alabama By Paul Krassner Stealing Money, Selling Heroin and Raping Boys: Meet Our Afghan Ally For instance, one reason Afghan villagers prefer to deal with the Taliban rather than the government security forces is that the latter have a habit of seizing their sons at checkpoints and sodomizing them. Facebook Defense gets robbery suspect off the hook Saved by status update: ‚ÄúON THE PHONE WITH THIS FAT CHICK‚Ä¶‚Ä¶WHERER MY I HOP.‚Äù New estimate for Afghan war: $1 million per soldier Senior administration officials reported to the New York Times today that budget projections for the war in Afghanistan will cost U.S. taxpayers at least $1 million per soldier, per year. Prison inmates find drugs in fruit donated by police Prisoners working in the mess hall of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice‚Äôs Segovia Unit found 25 pounds of marijuana nestled in a crate of bananas and other fruits Friday. Senegal, Africa colossus proves sore point A gigantic, multi-million dollar bronze statue rising over the skyline of the Senegalese capital is causing a colossal storm for the man who conceived it. Olives Irrigated With Blood “Then I reached the location of the mass graves. I found one large grave, an olive tree standing next to it. Many corpses of civilians inside the hole. So the olive tree had been irrigated with the blood of the innocent people. How will it be the tree of peace, after being irrigated with blood?” Victim of Chimp Attack Shows Destroyed Face on Oprah New warning on ‘perfect vaginas’ Advertisements promote labial surgery as easy answers to women’s insecurities about their genital appearances – insecurities that are fuelled by the very advertisements that prescribe a homogenised, pre-pubescent genital appearance standard for all women 25 Years in Prison for Pot? Drug Warrior Congressman’s Idea Is Way Obsolete Rep. 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French Branch of Scientology Convicted of Fraud ‚ÄúIt‚Äôs the first time in France that the entity of the Church of Scientology is condemned for fraud as an organized gang.‚Äù Amelia Earhart’s Final Resting Place Believed Found Legendary aviatrix Amelia Earhart most likely died on an uninhabited tropical island in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati, according to researchers at The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery Feds Charge Cable Modem Modder With ‚ÄòAiding Computer Intrusion‚Äô Man blames diarrhea for indecent exposure charge The underwear in question was located with stains, but the responding deputy determined the stains weren‚Äôt consistent with explosive diarrhea. The Official Ed Hardy song ft. Bigg Woo The Douche Bag Theme! Thanks Rob Kiley. Bushwick ’77: When the Lights Went Out – Brooklyn, NY BANGS Take U To Da Movies No worser than OJ Tha Deuce Man. Thanks Venus Jazmin Soto Bloody Nipples – a gallery on Flickr Heavy Metal New Jersey 80’s Rockn’ Roll Heaven segment Channel 4 News – Clark, NJ “Barry Manalow, you’d better cover your ears!” Thanks Billoney. Bromoderma after Excessive Ingestion of Ruby Red Squirt We report a case of bromoderma from excessive ingestion of a soft drink. A 63-year-old man presented with a two-week history of tender, ulcerated, erythematous nodules on his hands and fingers JONTE’ PERFORMS “YA!WHO?” LIVE WTF Japan?! Thanks Shadi. Cool Comic Cover Gallery ‚Äì Batman Gets Punched! 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The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking. Man at center of Enumclaw horse-sex case in trouble again “More charges are coming. They’ve been having sex with full-grown horses,” Maury County, Tenn., Detective Terry Chandler said on Monday. “He [Tait] has been here for four years and it looks like it has been going on for some time.”Chandler said that Thomason owns the farm and the animals — 13 horses, Shetland ponies, goats and dogs. The detective said that it appears that people had been having sex with ponies and dogs as well. Cat Roadkill Toy Teaches Children About Life And Death Group attacks woman, rip out gold fronts Unemployed Jordanians deceived into donating their organs Between five and 10 per cent of kidney transplants performed annually around the world are estimated to be the result of organ trafficking. Wild Mook – American Police Wheelchair user, 92, arrested for smuggling coke A 92-year-old woman with cocaine strapped to her body flew all the way from Brazil to Spain before police arrested her, in a wheelchair, at Madrid’s airport. Voices Revealed Village ‘witches’ beaten in India Five women were paraded naked, beaten and forced to eat human excrement by villagers after being branded as witches in India’s Jharkhand state. Mona Lisa’s smile a mystery no more Different cells in the retina transmit different categories of information or “channels” to the brain. These channels encode data about an object’s size, clarity, brightness and location in the visual field. 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Abandoned Atlanta Prison Hashima Island – More Photos Hashima Island Abandoned Japanese island fulla ruins. Sustainable Free Spirit Sphere Treehouse Damn, I wanna live in this! ALEX LUKAS Futuristic Mobile Homes: Trailer Trash or Treasure? Artist Entertains With Fiery Graffiti Don’t get burnt, Ellis! SAMANTHA GEIMER The girl French film director Roman Polanski raped Shopkeeper’s privilege In many jurisdictions of the United States, the courts recognize a common law shopkeeper’s privilege, under which a shopkeeper is allowed to detain a suspected shoplifter on store property for a reasonable period of time, so long as he has cause to believe that the person detained in fact committed, or attempted to commit, theft of store property. Home Depot Needs To Check Your Receipt “In Case You Stole Something” Woman Sues Toyota Over ‘Terrifying’ Prank Lawsuit Claims Woman Believed She Was Being Stalked Thanks to Toyota’s Marketing Prank Got a Black Flag Tattoo? Vitamin D not flu shots Thanks Angie Park Star Wars Origins – Frank Herbert’s Dune Star Wars also rips of the Lensman series The Spiders That Decorate Their Own Webs Decorated trains in Japan Top to bottom, Full car Cold war nuclear bomb warmed by chickens Plans to fill a nuclear landmine with chickens to regulate its temperature were seriously considered during the Cold War. PERVERTED JUSTICE EXPOSED Perverted-Justice.com – The largest and best anti-predator organization online Check out the ‘Top 10 Most Slimy’ & predator chat transcripts! Mint&Serf’s Photostream Immigrant activists call out ‘Illegal Alien’ costumes 1 million fps Slow Motion video of bullet impacts Fake cabbie ‘may have assaulted 100 men’ Lim, who was found guilty of 15 counts of sexual penetration without consent, 11 counts of indecent assault and one count of unlawful wounding Dad convicted after trying home circumcision on son “He learned about circumcision on the Internet and sent away for special instruments. Court heard he put his son on the floor on some clean garbage bags and towels, with Band-Aids and a veterinary powder used to stop bleeding standing by.” Mayor of the Sunset Strip What We Do Is Secret Part 1 That Germs film that came out a few years back. RIP Darby. Corky Gets Wild To ‘Fight The Power’ Thanks Lil’ Deth Lord Haw-Haw Lord Haw-Haw was the nickname of several announcers on the English language propaganda radio program Germany Calling, broadcast by Nazi German radio to audiences in Great Britain on the medium wave station Reichssender Hamburg and by shortwave to the United States. Mildred Gillars aka Axis Sally Mildred Gillars (November 29, 1900 ‚Äì June 25, 1988) was a female radio personality during World War II, best known for her propaganda broadcasts for Nazi Germany. Hollywood Poseurs Ashlee Simpson & Pete Wentz Deal Drugs on ‘CSI’ Ashlee, Pete Wentz Deal Drugs on ‘CSI’ “Probably aspirin or something” Sesame Street “Slayer Sing-Along” 3 Minute Supervan Tank car implosion Willy Wonka’s Tunnel of Hell Reversed WACO The Big Lie Parts 1 & 2 (Video 1) Steve Powers: A Love Letter For You JonBenet Meets Timothy McVeigh at Heavens Gate BEAKSHOW ON THE DANCE FLOOR The Creator Of Hot Chicks Picking Up Dog Poo And Hot Chicks With Dogs With Boners Speaks! Clone Yer Cock! Moonbase Central – Space Toys of the 60’s The Nuns Are On The Sea Wall This is merely a Blog for audio and video recordings of Velvet Underground which have not been officially released. Egypt – ‚ÄòArtificial Virginity‚Äô Kit Opposed The Artificial Virginity Hymen kit, which is distributed by the Chinese company Gigimo and costs about $30, is intended to help newly married women fool their husbands into believing they are virgins A Placenta Teddy Bear Giant, Mucus-Like Sea Blobs on the Rise, Pose Danger Cocaine Vaccine Is Developed, but It Does Not Keep Users From Wanting the Drug Stone circle suggests Stonehenge part of burial complex Brooke Shields photographer ‘disappointed’ by police pornography claim Brooke Shields: Victim of child porn? Polanski The Predator – Unsealed grand jury minutes detail 1977 sex assault France – Culture Minister Is Attacked for Paying Young Asian Boys for Sex Propaganda kills Afghan girl A YOUNG Afghan girl suffered fatal injuries after a box of public information leaflets, dropped from a British RAF transport aircraft over Helmand province, landed on top of her. 1,000 cameras ‘solve one crime’ Only one crime was solved by each 1,000 CCTV cameras in London last year, a report into the city’s surveillance network has claimed. Drugs woman forced into sex ring A Chinese woman arrested when a cannabis factory was raided, claimed she was made to have sex with workers locked in the premises ‘day and night’. E.T. – The Pachimono Experience Bootleg cards, circa 1983. Serial killer is a teenager girl 17-year-old Brazilian girl admits killing 30 men Callout Cards – That’s Not Cool How to make Crank/Meth Aka shake n bake New meth formula avoids legal bans “But now drug users are making their own meth in small batches using a faster, cheaper and much simpler method with ingredients that can be carried in a knapsack and mixed on the run. The “shake-and-bake” approach has become popular because it requires a relatively small number of pills of the decongestant pseudoephedrine — an amount easily obtained under even the toughest anti-meth laws that have been adopted across the nation to restrict large purchases of some cold medication.” The Clash – Magnificent Seven – Tom Synder Show 1981 Thanks Liz Feralcat Dogos, Ancient Astronauts, nomoos, zulu, Ancient Civilizations, Syrius, DogStar, Orion, Burlington Ufo and Paranormal Research and Educational Center, in Burlington, Wisconsin Lucifer is a Latin word, literally meaning “light-bearer”, that was used as a name for the “day star” or “Morning Star” that precedes the rising of the sun. Crime Scene : Sell-crack-or-die defense is now 0 for 2 Thanks Matt Slim Black metal prank call Thanks Jason Scott Goodman In pictures: Phil Spector JUICY J – LET’S GET HIGH Slut Princesses: Tricks or Treats? Teen girls slutty costumes! Hareton – Hare Krishna Reggaeton Thanks Arielle Castillo. Walrus Wank Thanks Billoney. Doll Coffeeshop “This site is about life size posable dolls and it contains sexual and erotic material. I sell nothing on this site (not even coffee).” Art and Philadelphia – The New York Times “As a teenager, Mr. Powers, left, was a prolific and notorious graffiti writer known as Espo. Now, as an established gallery artist living in New York, he has returned to Philadelphia to mount an ambitious urban beautification project, one whose odd, affectionate messages – like ‘”Forever Starts When You Say Yes” and “Pre-pay is on/Let’s talk/Till my minutes are gone” – are about love and reconciliation.” Philly Mural Arts Program: A Love Letter For You Stephen Powers‚Äôs Love Letter to Philadelphia S√ÉO PAULO’S NEXT MOVE “In an unprecedented move in the war against visual pollution, S√£o Paulo, Brazil banned all outdoor advertising in 2007. S√£o Paulo made the revolutionary bid to reclaim its visual and mental environment by denying corporations the right to disseminate their messages throughout the urban landscape.” Somali Pirates hit navy ship ‘in error’ Thanks Shadi. PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC: One Nation Under a Groove . The Film Cherie Currie ~ Photo Album Underage Runaway Rockin’ in her Undies! Hot Chicks Picking Up Dog Shit Thanks Haley H. Warzone on Regis and Kathy Lee 1986 NYxHC! Thanks Jeff Rokose Reed School for Nervous and Backward Children (1906) Hold on to your hearts: It‚Äôs deep-fried butter! 2nd prize stories – World Press Photo – Boxers Before and After Fights MONKEY PICKED TEA In praise of the sci-fi corridor Spike’s (Snoopy’s Stoner Brother) Cymothoa exigua: Alien! Cymothoa exigua is a parasitic crustacean of the family Cymothoidae. This parasite attaches itself at the base of the tongue of the Spotted rose snapper, Lutjanus guttatus, with the claws on its front three pairs of legs, and extracts blood. As the parasite grows, less and less blood is able to reach the tongue, and eventually the organ atrophies from lack of blood. The parasite then replaces the fish’s tongue with its own body, by attaching to the muscles of the tongue stub. Thanks EMone Michael Richards (aka “Cosmo Kramer”): Freemason, Shriner, Racist Thanks Patric Egan Toy fanatic builds a house from LEGO Thanks EMone Darth Vaders Voice Before Voice Over Show Me Yer Diapers! American Pyramids Obama Satanic Youth Free masonry: Its pretensions exposed in faithful extracts of its standard … By Henry Dana Ward (1828) Freemasonry Freemasons Illuminati Free masonry: Its pretensions exposed in faithful extracts of its standard authors; with a review of Town’s Speculative masonry: its liability to prevert the doctrines of revealed religion, discovered in the spirit of it doctrines, and in the application of its emblems: its dangerous tendency. Nachtrag von weitern Documents confiscated by the Bavarian Elector at the Sandersdorf Castle in Bavaria. The castle belonged to high-ranking Illuminati member, Baron von Bassus: Thomas Maria Baron De Bassus (1742 Poschiavo, Switzerland ‚Äì 1815 Sandersdorf, Germany). Primary documents. “The Influence of the Mystery Religions on Christianity” by Martin Luther King, Jr The death of former Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones is to be reviewed following new evidence, it has been revealed. Stimulus checks lure Floridians to their arrest Cops basically use a Nigerian email scam to entrap fools Nearly-Naked Man Hijacks Atlanta School Bus Bob Bonis – “BOXERS OR BRIEFS?” – The Rolling Stones This amusing photograph of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards answers the age old question about Mick’s underwear,,, “Boxers or briefs?” Meanwhile Keith is pulling a nanker. 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