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Not Just the Ticket — #5, Depeche Mode, August 5, 1990
January 11, 2010 — Ned Raggett
Then-current album: Violator
Opening acts: Electronic and Nitzer Ebb
Back of ticket ad: a coupon for a three-piece combo at El Pollo Loco for $2.99. Clearly I didn’t find this tempting.
Ragged on the edges, faded heavy type, little tears here and there — a ticket that went through a few things on the night, I guess. But I don’t have to wonder what it all sounded like that evening, I’m listening to it right now.
I’ve had this bootleg for a while, listened to it a few times, so it didn’t sneak up on me the way that New Order recording did. Hearing a recording, any recording of a show that you were at inevitably changes the context of how you remember it — the sound mix is often radically different, often just depending on whoever taped the show was standing or where they’d set up their mike. I don’t know if it was ever quite so clear on the night, except at one key point, but it sounds pretty clear here, a great audience recording that has some crowd noise right nearby but not so near as to irritate, instead sounding like just one might expect, the reactions of people around you as the songs and exhortations and more go on.
It’s also good to have this bootleg because, somewhat notoriously in the obsessive fandom for Depeche, this is about the only tour since the late eighties not to have had some sort of formal film or live album or DVD or all three released in accompaniment with it. There’s even been comments on the official page about how supposedly there might be a French broadcast film somewhere out there, while a clip of the Anton Corbijn film done for the performance of “Personal Jesus” on the tour also surfaced on the site, but otherwise, out of sight, out of mind — if there’s a full sound mix or film mix or anything of this tour it’s lost somewhere in someone’s archive.
Oh and yes I should mention that this was DEPECHE MODE playing at DODGER STADIUM with something like 75,000 PEOPLE OR MORE while on tour for VIOLATOR and they even got ELECTRONIC which consisted of BERNARD SUMNER OF NEW ORDER and JOHNNY MARR OF THE SMITHS and THE PET SHOP BOYS as guests just to be the OPENING ACT because it was freaking DEPECHE MODE IN THE SUMMER OF 1990 WHEN THEY OWNED THE GODDAMN UNIVERSE HOLY FUCK!
So, yes, I have some memories.
When the remasters came out for Depeche a couple of years back with the DVD documentary films, the one for Violator started the only way it could — with a collage of the news reports in LA on the day that what was supposed to just be a promo signing for Violator‘s release became a full-on, honest to god riot and police action. Here, really, I’m not kidding:
I just remember turning on one of those broadcasts that night and whichever newscaster it was saying “The band…De-pe-chee Mode…” said very, very unsurely. One got the sense that he had never, ever heard of them before, couldn’t understand what the hell had happened, why any of this had occurred, and why he had to talk about it. Well, he knew why he had to talk about it, but one got a sense that his equilibrium had been utterly disturbed.
Me, I was probably cackling quite a lot. It was such a beautiful moment.
Honestly, there was this sense of atmosphere in the air around LA when it came to Depeche that I don’t think I’ve ever felt anywhere since, though there must surely be equivalents and comparison points galore for other people, other bands, other places, other memories. But I was there, I was at a good age for it and it was…Depeche. I’ve already mentioned the somewhat bizarre experience of thinking that everyone on my dorm floor a couple of years before must have gone to the 101 Rose Bowl show, something I just missed getting it together to go to while still down in the San Diego area. I knew who they were, of course, and that year I finally started to scarf up all the albums, so by the time “Personal Jesus” came out in the fall of 1989…
Impressions, impressions. The endless, obsessive playing of that song on KROQ in particular. Of “Dangerous,” the B-side, because that started to get some spillover attention. Of the acoustic version of “Personal Jesus” because it could provide further variety while still being Depeche and that song. This wasn’t just me, this was in the air, on the air, everywhere one seemed to look and listen. Then the MTV airplay really kicked in, and then after a little while “Enjoy the Silence” came out and…
Somewhere around this time is when the riots happened for the signing, and the tickets were announced. Rose Bowl down last time, Dodger Stadium this time. For the first time I found myself in a line waiting for tickets — the announcements had been made in the papers, on the air, the word was out. I went with my friend Kirsten and at least a couple of other folks, all of us planning on buying as many tickets as we could for all our group planning on going, however many it was. I can’t remember, there were a lot of us. There was a lot of everyone else too.
We stood out in the parking lot of the nearest Wherehouse (at least I guess it was a Wherehouse, maybe it was a Tower?) to UCLA, it was a Saturday, no classes, but we’d hauled ourselves far too early — pretty sure that might well have been the first time I fueled up on both coffee and donuts instead of just the latter — and got down there. Well of course there was a line, every place in the basin that was offering tickets had a similar scene in front of it. Again, not a new feeling, not the first time, not the last, but one had a sense that the nation was out there, that everyone was wired and ready to go.
I forget the group draw for the line, I seem to remember some sort of number lottery thing. We got in and we were able to get a batch together for us, and then on the way back to the apartment I remember Kirsten playing “Any Second Now,” one of the band’s earliest songs, on her car tape player, quietly lost in its gentle, instrumental beauty. We later hear that Dodger Stadium has fully sold out…twice. In fact a third show was later added to the Universal Ampitheatre, and I remember being really, really jealous of everyone who would get to see that much more smaller in comparison affair.
It’s summer of 1990 now and I seem to remember that weekend feeling…weird. In a good way. I suddenly recall standing out on the balcony of the apartment the day before the show — the weather was strange, the world was unsettled (more about that shortly), things felt anticipatory and wonderful and weird. It was the biggest show I had ever seen until then, it featured a band I was fully committed and in for, the opening acts were both favorites too, life was strange, life was great. I was nineteen, I was loving it, loving it, LOVING it.
I next recall the parking lot and the stadium sitting in the distance — not the first baseball stadium I’d been to but somehow all the much more looming and mysterious in the long summer sunset haze. Our group parked and walked and walked, endless amounts of bootleg shirts were offered for sale, we slowly made our way up and up to our seats. High, high above right field, looking down at the stage at dizzying angles, partially obscured by the stage’s superstructure.
We missed Nitzer Ebb but Electronic had put on a good set, though the better part of a year out from the release of the album meant that I only knew “Getting Away From It” from said set, and that it was great to see Sumner, Marr and the Pet Shop Boys all on stage at once.
Things turned even more dreamlike after that for me, and still feel that way. The world was unsettled because Iraq had just invaded Kuwait a few days before — and when you think about everything and anything that has happened since then, that event that occurred when the Cold War still had a year-plus to run but nobody knew it would end as it did, then the fact that everything suddenly seemed all the more unsure than before was all that much more of a strange harbringer. A romantic view in a perverse sense, but I felt in that packed stadium of increasing intensity and excitement a strange floating distance, heightened by where we were in the stadium, hanging in space and watching the shadows lengthen.
And watching the clouds come in. People had talked to me with amazed wonder about the 101 show because during the show it had done something that doesn’t really happen in LA at all during late spring to mid-fall — it had rained. Out of nowhere, a burst of rain during that show, seemingly timed to arrive and depart at crucial moments. That night in Dodger Stadium I saw another batch of clouds come, appearing over the edge of the stadium’s curve…and I started to feel the rain. I was now even more swept away on visions of romantic grandeur, it seemed that Depeche brought the rain.
The thunder and the lightning followed. Really.
I couldn’t believe that. I still can’t but by god, there it was, and we were all pretty astounded too. It wasn’t constant but it was often, and the way that the stadium curve framed it, if you were looking straight at the stage, right behind it would be clouds in a rapidly darkening sky, the wet smack of rain, then thunder, then lightning and thunder. At one point two bolts went off almost simultaneously, and it almost seemed to frame the stage in the distance from our angle at least. The screams for that from the audience, of thrilled delight and a tinge of fear.
All that was needed was four guys from England to stroll on to stage and start playing a few songs.
Again, I’m listening to the bootleg now, from that specific night, that specific show. Everything they did, there it is, clear sound and all. But that’s not how I felt it or remembered it, no, there I was hanging high in the sky on seats that seemed to float, and down below were lights and images, keyboards and tiny figures, Dave Gahan running around and getting everyone going…
Because of the rain, not drenching but present enough, I remember more than once the amusing sight of a batch of roadies dashing out between songs with towels, rapidly mopping up water in swirling motions from the stage floor and then just as quickly disappearing again. I remember Kirsten letting out a cheer and a thrilled wail more than once. I remember looking around me and noticing that our bunch, mostly white or Asian in background, seemed to be smack dab in the middle of a huge crowd of Iranians, which I thought was pretty cool. (In the just released film The Posters Came From the Walls, a story about obsessive Depeche fandom across the world and across the decades, there’s a story about actual Depeche fans in Iran getting harassed for the way they dressed. Depeche owns the world, even those who hate them have to react to them. I could go on. I already have been, this is just one show, just the first.)
I can hear, I am hearing, the performances on the night, but I do remember how all the songs from Violator sounded great, how powerful “Never Let Me Down Again” was, how the concluding “Behind the Wheel/Route 66” killed — even as Gahan sounds a bit ragged at points on the recording, I didn’t remember that, I didn’t need to remember that, didn’t want to, really. It’s not that I remember it being a perfect performance, I just remembered it being something else, a live-wire monumentalism on all fronts.
I also remember something that this recording just doesn’t capture at all. It captures the performance, but not the key part of it.
For the longest time in the world of Depeche tours, there’s been something of a mid-show tradition where Martin Gore steps out from being the backing singer and performer and takes a turn on lead vocals. In this case, it was just him and an acoustic guitar while the rest of the band took whatever kind of break suited them. He played two songs a night, altering it up as he chose.
The second song this night was from Violator, “Sweetest Perfection,” but the first was a touch more obscure — “Here is the House,” a song from the second half of the Black Celebration album, never released as a single or even a B-side or anything like that. If you knew the song, you had to know it because you sought it out, you had the album, you’d played it a lot — you didn’t just have or had only heard the singles. It’s a really lovely song, a favorite of mine, a bit of gentle energy and yearning and desire amid the extremely bleak grinddown of that album’s second half. (And don’t get me wrong, I like that grinddown. A LOT.) But again, only those who really took the time to get into Depeche would know it.
It was probably on the second verse that I realized something, and I had to look around me to confirm it, and I couldn’t look around the whole stadium to confirm it on the broadest scale but I sure as hell knew that my ears weren’t lying.
Martin Gore was quietly singing and playing a deep album cut from an album that was four years old at that point…and the ENTIRE stadium, that group of 75,000 or however many people it was in the end, was singing along.
This bootleg recording couldn’t capture that, but the biggest IMAX screen with the ultimate sound mix couldn’t, I think. Memory will have to do.
Posted in Life, Music, Not Just the Ticket. Tags: depeche mode, dodger stadium, violator. 3 Comments »
3 Responses to “Not Just the Ticket — #5, Depeche Mode, August 5, 1990”
benny blanco® Says:
Was just digging up the Googles to see if there was any write ups on this show (I was at 101 too). Thanks for capturing. I probably ate at taco vs el pollo loco though. 😉 I believe this was the ONLY Electronic live set put on, at least in the US. Hope yer catching Nitzer Ebb in their current 2019 tour.
Ned Raggett Says:
Yup, got my Nitzer Ebb tickets for late September. First time I’ll have seen them since 1995, IIRC…
Nice. If you are still local to LA area, keep an eye out for Douglas’ ‘Blackline’ project. They pop up with shows every so often with various guests in the ensemble. His solo album is fantastic too if you can get into the more House Music side of things.
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1956 locomotive 'Bety' celebrates Queensland Rail's 150th birthday with a regional ride
By Chrissy Arthur Updated Sat 18 Apr 2015, 11:23 AM AEST
Bety the 1956 locomotive pulls into Barcaldine station.
ABC News: Chrissy Arthur
An historic steam train has rolled into the state's west, as part of a journey to celebrate Queensland Rail's 150th birthday.
"Bety" is the pride of QR's heritage fleet, and is making the long journey from Brisbane to Longreach, stopping at regional centres along the way.
The 1956 locomotive and nine carriages pulled into Barcaldine station yesterday and will complete the journey to Longreach this afternoon.
Thousands of hours went into restoring the train and its carriages for QR's milestone.
Photo Bety the steam locomotive was built in 1956 and is taking a nostalgic journey in Queensland's west.
QR's historian Greg Hallam said the train was a piece of living history, with some carriages more than 100 years old.
"The last carriage, it was built in 1902," he said.
"It is an Edwardian, I won't say relic, it is an Edwardian piece of living history.
"The dining car, it's modern, it was built in 1935.
"So if you look through this train, we have got 1902, and those other carriages are about 1910, 1911 and 1912 and the old sleeping car from 1924."
It is an Edwardian, I won't say relic, it is an Edwardian piece of living history.
Greg Hallam
Mr Hallam said about 1,200 people have enjoyed the trip on Bety during the journey west, including about 900 who took a short trip during a stop at Emerald earlier this week.
"Everyone has got a great railway story, and the further west you go, the wilder they get and as far as I am concerned the more entertaining they get as well," he said.
Photo The driver in charge of Queensland Rail's heritage department, John Broderick, took Bety out west.
Mr Hallam said many people who visited the train or took the rare chance to ride it had enjoyed the experience.
But he said he was hoping people also reflected on the role of rail throughout Queensland's history.
"It looks like around about a quarter of a million railway workers, since 1865 have been employed in some form or another throughout Queensland," he said.
"At one point there about 8 per cent of the Queensland population was directly employed or impacted by the Queensland railways, back into the 1940s and 50s even, so it was a huge enterprise."
The steam train needed some diesel assistance to get up the Drummond Range, east of Alpha, but otherwise has been travelling well.
John Broderick
Train driver John Broderick is a third generation railway man and in charge of Bety on her trip west.
He said the big challenge in driving the steam train was keeping water and coal stocked up.
"They use, I've been told, an estimated 100 litres [of water] per kilometre," Mr Broderick said.
"We used about 50,000 litres of water easily from Emerald over [to Barcaldine].
Photo Volunteer Laurie sits inside the restored carriage that was built in 1909.
"We had to get a water truck at Alpha, a water truck with 25,000 litres to top us up.
"We had to get the maintenance guys also to top us up with coal at Alpha."
Mr Broderick said the best thing about driving the vintage train was working with a team of people who were passionate about rail and rail history.
"The best thing about it is the mateship, we all work well together and there is good comradeship," he said.
"The steam train needed some diesel assistance to get up the Drummond Range, east of Alpha, but otherwise has been travelling well.
"This engine is capable of doing 80 kilometres and hour legally, but we only do 60 kilometres an hour maximum out here.
"It is slow, but we have got a fair bit of weight behind us, we have nearly 300 tonnes of weight behind us too," he said.
About 250 people are expected to ride the train today around Barcaldine, before Bety heads west to Longreach where the service terminates.
The train will be moved to Winton this weekend where it will be used for a World War I troop train re-enactment starting on Monday.
Photo The restored carriages being pulled by Bety at Barcaldine train station.
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Will devastating bushfires and division among Liberals force Scott Morrison to rethink climate policy?
Opinion The Conversation By Michelle Grattan Updated Fri 13 Dec 2019, 8:38 PM AEDT
Scott Morrison is struggling to negotiate his way through these fraught days before Christmas.
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Scott Morrison is picking up that Australia's devastating, prolonged fires are producing a soured, anti-government mood among many in the community.
It may not be entirely rational for people to turn on politicians in such situations. The actual fighting of the fires, driven primarily at state and local levels, appears to have been efficient.
But the Government has invited anger in terms of the broad debate by being so inactive and partisan about climate change over the years.
Morrison is struggling to navigate his way through these fraught days before Christmas.
He's stressing unity: "I want to reassure Australians, that the country is working together … to deal with the firefighting challenge."
The fires of the future are here, but we might not be ready for them
Firefighting experts and senior scientists tell Background Briefing they're concerned the Federal Government is refusing to guarantee funding for the only national research body for bushfires beyond 2021.
He's refusing to meet calls for a national summit or a COAG meeting on the fire effort, but he's highlighting the Federal Government's coordinating activities.
He's placing the most positive spin he can on what Australia is doing on climate change, but all the time emphasising Australian emissions are only a tiny portion of the global total "so any suggestion that the actions of any state or any nation with a contribution to global emissions of that order is directly linked to any weather event, whether here in Australia or anywhere else in the world, is just simply not true".
The climate debate has put Liberal unity under pressure
The fires are putting pressure on the Government by elevating the climate issue and opening new division among Liberals. Only this time, and importantly, the internal wedge is coming from the left rather than the right of the party.
Photo Bushfires like this one in Old Bar have burned out of control in terrible conditions so far this summer.
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The PM is being pushed to do more, rather than being held back.
Morrison is no longer able to gloss over the climate debate. The big question for the next year or two is whether he will reposition the Government.
As former treasury secretary Ken Henry has argued, "today's catastrophic bushfires, and rapidly vanishing water security, again following years of drought, put the present government in a similar position" to when John Howard moved on climate change in 2006.
"The political economy of late 2019 is looking a lot like late 2006," Henry writes in an article titled "The political economy of climate change".
Will pragmatism push Scott Morrison to act?
Morrison is the ultimate pragmatist and so, if he sees it in his interest, he may well be willing to readjust.
Not radically, nor quickly. Just enough, as and when he judges it, to satisfy middle-ground voters.
He did a little of this before the election when he topped up funding for "direct action" and advanced pumped hydro, although some read more into the shift than was there.
This week NSW Liberal Environment Minister Matt Kean bluntly called out his federal colleagues' dancing around the climate-fires link.
"Let's not beat around the bush … let's call it for what it is. These bushfires have been caused by extreme weather events, high temperatures, the worst drought in living memory, the exact type of events scientists have been warning us about for decades that would be caused by climate change," said Kean, who is the leader at state level of the moderate faction.
"There has been a lot of talk since the federal election about ending the climate wars. I think that that talk has been misplaced. It's not time to end the climate wars. It's time to win the climate wars."
Photo Matt Kean has broken ranks with senior coalition figures on climate change.
Kean also notably acknowledged the "leadership" on the climate issue of Malcolm Turnbull (who again prodded the bear on Monday's ABC Q&A).
One federal Liberal says, "for a long time [Kean's line] is where the overwhelming majority of the party has stood [but] nobody was willing to say it. The community is so concerned it has given us the cover to come out and say it".
The MP points to the impact of the issue in Liberal heartland seats in Sydney and Melbourne.
The Federal Government has repeatedly derided the Victorian and Queensland Labor governments for what it argues is their excessive ambition on renewables and emissions reduction. Kean has flagged NSW plans to strengthen its stand. The Federal Government is clearly exposed as the odd player out.
These are the numbers the Government is aiming for
Yet it is the states' targets for renewables that are helping the national effort on emissions reduction, according to figures just released by the environment and energy department in its report "Australia's emissions projections 2019".
Looking at Australia's progress towards its 2030 Paris target of a 26-28 per cent reduction on 2005 levels, which, incidentally, can only be reached via the much-criticised course of carrying over Kyoto credits, the report has revised down its 2018 estimate for projected 2030 emissions.
Reasons for this revision include the boost to the "direct action" fund and "stronger renewables deployment". A factor in the latter was "the inclusion of 50 per cent renewable energy targets in Victoria, Queensland and the Northern Territory".
The projection is now for Australia to have renewables generating 48 per cent of its electricity by 2030, very close to the Labor policy of 50 per cent of which the Government was so critical.
Only one type of mask will protect you from bushfire smoke
Face masks are a familiar sight in countries like China and Japan. Should Australians consider them to protect their lungs from bushfire smoke?
Energy Minister Angus Taylor's speech at the United Nations COP25 conference in Spain this week showed how, as the inevitable transition to clean energy progresses, the Government is conflicted.
Regardless of years of scepticism about renewables from the federal Coalition, Taylor in Madrid lauded Australia's achievements in this area.
"In Australia, an unprecedented wave of low emissions energy investment is already underway," he boasted.
"Last year, renewable investment was Australia's highest on record at A$14.1 billion, which is world-leading investment given our population. Renewables are now more than 25 per cent of our electricity supply in our National Electricity Market."
But coal is not forgotten
Reality is gradually proving stronger than ideology as the energy mix changes, but not entirely.
The debate around a new coal-fired power station goes on.
The Government before the election promised a feasibility study into a possible venture in Queensland, and the Nationals continue to push for action.
Video 1:24 Flames move through South Turramurra
If a feasibility study left the way open for a coal-fired station, would the Government be willing to provide any financial help or guarantee for a portion of the energy output? Given the reluctance of private capital, that would likely be the only way it could happen.
And what was Anthony Albanese thinking?
There was a certain irony in Anthony Albanese touring coal country in central Queensland this week, given the climate debate.
Visiting Emerald, Rockhampton and Gladstone among other stops, Albanese was beginning his mission to reconcile the strands in Labor's climate messages, after Bill Shorten failed to do so, costing vital Queensland votes.
This week, Albanese has been talking up the domestic transition to renewables, while providing reassurance to the coal areas by declaring the world will continue to want Australian coal for the foreseeable future.
He says the role of government in relation to new coal mines is to make the environmental judgements; if they pass that test, then such projects live or die on their ability to raise private finance. On Adani, he says it has its approval and he's urging it to get on with providing the jobs (the company says it is doing so).
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As to a new coal-fired power station: he believes it would not get private finance.
Very aware Shorten was smashed for trying to walk in different shoes on climate and coal when he was in the inner city and in regional Queensland, Albanese is aiming for a story to which he can get a favourable reception all around the country.
That won't be easy. Then nothing is, for anyone, on the climate issue.
Michelle Grattan is a professorial fellow at the University of Canberra and chief political correspondent at The Conversation, where this article first appeared.
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Why Michael Joseph insisted on Bob Collymore after global search
Safaricom's founding chief executive Michael Joseph (left) with the late Bob Collymore who succeeded him at the telecom giant at a past function. Mr Joseph has been named the interim CEO pending search for a substantive holder. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
By ELVIS ONDIEKI
Mr Michael Joseph says he insisted on Collymore taking over from him because he was consultative and patient.
Mr Joseph says Collymore, despite not being the front-runner, understood the 'DNA' of Safaricom was best suited to succeed him.
However, Mr Joseph says Collymore had had a hard time in his first two years at the helm but later managed to steer the ship.
Safaricom’s founding chief executive officer Michael Joseph personally campaigned to have Bob Collymore succeed him in 2010 despite the latter not being the front-runner.
Mr Joseph told a gathering in Nairobi last year that being the “dictator” that he is, his ideal successor had to be a consultative individual to lead the telecommunications firm to the next phase — one of the reasons why he thought Mr Collymore would be the best pick.
“Quite frankly, my personality, my character, my lack of democracy, my dictatorship style of management was suited to a start-up and growth company. It wasn’t really suited to this mammoth that we have now. We have to consult and we have to agree; be nice to everybody,” said Mr Joseph, admitting that seeking consensus is “not my style.”
Mr Joseph was speaking at an event to celebrate 18 years of Safaricom on October 25, 2018, which Mr Collymore had not attended as he was away receiving medication.
“He’s very patient. I’m not patient at all,” Mr Joseph said of Mr Collymore, who died on Monday aged 61. His remains will be interred at a private ceremony on Tuesday.
Safaricom picks ex-chief to fill void
At the October 2018 event, Mr Joseph revealed the long search for the next CEO of Safaricom, a company that is partly owned by London-based telecommunications conglomerate Vodafone, the government of Kenya and shareholders.
“We had gone on a worldwide search for a replacement for me. Actually, the search had started two years beforehand and we’d gone round and we’d done a shortlist,” he told the gathering that included journalists and other players in the technology space.
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Located in Luzerne County, Hazleton is home to about 25,000 residents, making it the 17th largest city in the state and the second largest in the county. Hazleton is renowned for its breathtaking landscape, fascinating downtown, well-maintained neighborhoods, diverse culture and arts, and a prominent park system. The city enjoys a stable economy and provides different employment options.
Hazleton hosts a number of annual events and festivals, including the Funfest and the Valley Day. Other attractions in the city include the Pennsylvania Theatre of Performing Arts, Paragon Off-Road Adventure Park, Lehigh Gorge State Park, Greater Hazleton Rails To Trails, Edgewood In The Pines Golf Course, and others.
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Hazleton, PA Airports within 70 miles
1. BBX, Wings Field, Blue Bell, United States
2. CTH, Chestercounty Carlson, Coatesville, United States
3. CYE, Crystal Lake, Crystal Lake, United States
6. HAR, Capital City, Harrisburg, United States
7. HZL, Hazleton, Hazleton, United States
8. IPT, Lycoming County, Williamsport, United States
9. KPD, King Of Prussia, King Of Prussia, United States
10. LNS, Lancaster, Lancaster, United States
11. MPO, Mt Pocono, Mt Pocono, United States
12. MUI, Muir AAF, Fort Indiantown, United States
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15. RDG, Municipal/Spaatz Fld, Reading, United States
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Hotels in Hazleton, PA
1. Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott Hazleton, 1 Woodbine Street, Hazleton
2. Residence Inn by Marriott Hazleton, 1 Station Circle, Hazleton
3. Hampton Inn Hazleton, 1 Top of 80’s Road, Hazleton
4. Capri Lounge, 541 Alter Street, Hazleton
5. Red Rooster, 924 Harwood Road, Hazleton
6. Genetti’s Catering, 1345 North Church Street, Hazleton
7. Ovalon Restaurant, 252 North Wyoming Street, Hazleton
8. Cusat’s Cafe, 742 Alter Street, Hazleton
9. Jimmy’s Quick Lunch, 123 East Broad Street, Hazleton
10. Red Roof Inn & Suites Hazleton, 1341 North Church Street, Hazle Township
11. Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott Hazleton, 1 Woodbine Street, Hazleton
12. Residence Inn by Marriott Hazleton, 1 Station Circle, Hazleton
13. Penn Terrace Motel, 1880 East Broad Street, Beaver Meadows
14. Comfort Inn, 58 Pennsylvania 93, West Hazleton
15. Hampton Inn Hazleton, 1 Top of 80’s Road, Hazleton
16. Forest Hill Inn Hazleton, 3 Forest Hill Road, Hazleton
17. Hazleton Motor Inn, 615 East Broad Street, Hazleton
18. Capri Lounge, 541 Alter Street, Hazleton
19. Red Rooster, 924 Harwood Road, Hazleton
20. Genetti’s Catering, 1345 North Church Street, Hazleton
21. PetSmart, 90 Weis Lane, West Hazleton
22. Booty’s Place, 1101 North Church Street, Hazleton
23. Ovalon Restaurant, 252 North Wyoming Street, Hazleton
24. Damon’s Grill, 10 Woodbine Street, Hazleton
25. Cusat’s Cafe, 742 Alter Street, Hazleton
26. Jimmy’s Quick Lunch, 123 East Broad Street, Hazleton
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World Cup: Most social sporting event ever, experts say
by Gregory Wallace @gregorywallace June 15, 2014: 12:43 PM ET
This year's World Cup is likely to be the most social ever.
The Olympics are big. But they don't stack up to the World Cup, at least in terms of social buzz.
The 2014 World Cup will be the most social sporting event ever, according to projections from the Adobe (ADBE) Digital Index, a study of online marketing.
The month-long soccer championship is already is outpacing the Sochi Olympics and 2014 Super Bowl. The most famous athletes, such as Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo, are getting millions of mentions each.
In the year leading up to the first matches in Brazil last week, the World Cup was mentioned 19 million times across the blogs and social outlets Adobe tracks, which include Facebook, (FB) Google (GOOG)+, Reddit, Twitter (TWTR), Instagram and YouTube.
Related: Celeb security a big deal at World Cup
The conversation is more global than the Olympics, Adobe said, and spans 230 countries. People in Japan are most engaged, posting nearly two of every five mentions, while the U.S. was just behind Brazil, contributing about 8% of social media mentions.
Robots take on World Cup security
Sentiments from the host nation reflect what has played out in the streets of Sao Paulo, where protesters have demonstrated their frustration with the government spending $11 billion to host the games. Adobe said in an online post about the findings that 42% of posts from the host nation "expressed sadness, anger, or disgust."
The matches are also expected to set records on viewers' other screen: the television. Experts say the worldwide audience could number 3.6 billion people. Advertisers -- most notably Nike (NKE) and Adidas -- are fighting to put their products in front of those fans.
CNNMoney (New York) First published June 15, 2014: 12:22 PM ET
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Ian Williams is a comics artist, doctor and writer, now living in Brighton. He has studied Medicine, Medical Humanities and Fine Art and he founded the website GraphicMedicine.org, coining the term that has been applied to the interaction between the medium of comics and the discourse of healthcare.
Born of a Welsh family, Williams grew up in the north of England and studied Medicine in Cardiff before moving to North Wales, where he lived for over twenty years, to pursue his love of mountaineering. He worked as a doctor while developing a side career as a painter and printmaker, exhibiting nationally and internationally. He undertook an MA in Medical Humanities and wrote a dissertation on medical narrative in comics and graphic novels.
Williams’s attempt to find some common ground between his two careers led to the creation of his own comic strips in 2007, using the nom de plume ‘Thom Ferrier’ to maintain some anonymity while still working in rural general practice.
Populated by a cast of flawed characters, and shot through with gallows humour, his stories explore the darker side of medicine, revealing the harsh realities of human interaction and behaviour during times of stress and fear. The Bad Doctor, his debut graphic novel (Myriad, 2014), was highly commended by the British Medical Association at the Medical Book Awards 2015. His latest graphic novel, The Lady Doctor, was published by Myriad in January 2019.
He is also author of a series of comic strips for The Guardian. Sick Notes is a weekly cartoon about the trials and tribulations of working within the NHS.
He is joint Series Editor for the Graphic Medicine list by Penn State University Press, US publishers of The Bad Doctor.
Visit Ian’s website here and the Graphic Medicine website here.
Best Books of 2019 by Bookish Beck
Bookish Beck touts The Lady Doctor by Ian Williams as one of the Best Books of 2019.
‘Dr. Lois Pritchard works at a medical practice in small-town Wales and treats embarrassing ailments at a local genitourinary medicine clinic. The tone is wonderfully balanced: there are plenty of hilarious, somewhat raunchy scenes, but also a lot of heartfelt moments. The drawing style recalls Alison Bechdel’s.’
The Lady Doctor, Sussex Life ‘Must Read’
The October issue of Sussex Life chooses The Lady Doctor by Ian Williams as a ‘must read’. Buy the graphic novel HERE.
Viva The Lady Doctor
Viva Brighton ran a double-spread feature on Ian Williams, his new graphic novel The Lady Doctor and the recent Graphic Medicine Conference, which took place in Brighton this weekend. Read in full HERE.
Comics Beat Interview: Graphic Medicine gets a clean bill of health from founder Ian Williams
Doctor and graphic novelist Ian Williams talks to Comics Beat about Graphic Medicine, the upcoming conference in Brighton and why comics are such a vital tool in supporting new ways of learning. Read the full interview HERE.
Do you have any sense of why the combination of medical topics and comics work so well together and why people appreciate it so much?
I guess loads of people like comics and you could argue that culture in general is becoming more visual and with comics having become a more respected form of art and literature over the last 20 years, I guess people are starting to look in that direction. And maybe because they’ve read comics when they were younger, it gives them a thrill to rediscover comics. People seem to just get really excited about the idea of using comics in healthcare or using comics as a therapeutic intervention.
As we’ve gained ground and it’s been taken up at an institutional level people have suddenly started to take it seriously. And thank god, graphic medicine has become a thing. Now you get loads of people saying, “oh, this is cool, I’ve just written a paper about something and I’d like to turn it into a comic book,” a lot of, which is really not suitable but people like the idea, they see it as being cool, I suppose. Also at the same time, big institutions like the Wellcome Trust in the UK and big research institutions have used comics in public engagement. So people see that and start to get it.
Top 10 Releases of 2019 by Bookish Beck
The Lady Doctor by Ian Williams is chosen by Bookish Beck as one of her ‘Top 10 Releases of 2019’. Read her review HERE.
The Lady Doctor – Ian Williams’ Tale of Rural Practice is All the More Affecting for the Fragile Humanity it Encapsulates
Andy Oliver of Broken Frontier shares The Lady Doctor by Ian Williams.
‘The Lady Doctor is a book of self-discovery as Lois comes to terms not just with who she is and who she has become but with the forces that shaped her too. There’s also an underlying anger here as well, though, as the strains of life on the GP frontlines are portrayed with a raw honesty and the spectre of the gradual destruction of the NHS looms large throughout. Social commentary is an integral part of Williams’ work, effectively wrapped up here in the trappings of everyday, slice-of-life storytelling.’
Read in full HERE.
Ian Williams, My Life in Books for Sussex Life
Ian Williams shares all sorts of book-related tidbits in ‘My Life in Books’, which features in Sussex Life, June 2019. Click on image to read in full.
The book that inspired me as a teenager…
‘Primo Levi’s The Wrench, although I’m not sure it inspired me in the right way. It’s about an itinerant rigger (an engineer who erects oil derricks and the like) who’s constantly on the move and loves and leaves. He’s a restless libertine and loner. I have finally – in my early 50s – had a child and got married. Enough said.’
Graphic Novels That Will Diagnose Your Disease by The New York Times
The Lady Doctor (Myriad, 2019) reviewed by Hillary Chute for The New York Times. ‘What makes this book fascinating is its sensitive portrayal of Lois’s interactions with a range of patients. In recurrent, wordless pages throughout, with his clean and fluid black line art, Williams illustrates the rhythm of Lois’s professional routine through whom and what she encounters: an assortment of faces, body parts and affects streaming by in an even staccato.
Podcast - Ian Williams on Resonance FM
Medicine, humour and the art of drawing stories. Ian Williams shares his new graphic novel, The Lady Doctor on Resonance.FM.
Hear the podcast
The Jester
Ian featured in The Jester, March 2019.
Comicbook of the Month
The Lady Doctor was chosen as ‘Comicbook of the Month’ by Page 45 – who else?
Graphic Content: Comedy and tragedy in the NHS
‘As doctors we listen to people’s stories, we interpret and reconstruct their stories using our medical knowledge. People love medical stories, all of life is there.’
Read the full interview with Ian by Teddy Jamieson for Herald Scotland over on their website.
The Momus Questionnaire
‘OCD is not about being punctual or tidy: the clue is in the ‘disorder’ bit of the diagnosis.’ Ian discusses The Bad Doctor, The Lady Doctor and his irresistible charm in an interview with Minor Literatures. Read it online here.
Laughter is the Best Medicine—The Big Issue
The Lady Doctor featured in The Big Issue, including extracts from the graphic novel and a mini interview with Ian.
‘What are the hardest things you have to deal with as a GP?’
‘One of the hardest things currently is to do with mental health. It plays a big role as a GP. We see a lot of people who are very depressed and particularly children who are suffering – the services to send those people to are cut to the bone. Particularly teenagers who are suffering from self-harm – it’s very hard to get anybody to see them because the services are not adequately funded.’
Interview for The Doctor Paradox podcast
Listen to Ian Williams discussing The Bad Doctor and the artistic side of medicine, in this exclusive interview with California-based Dr. Paddy Barrett, curator of The Doctor Paradox website and podcast.
Ian Williams’s article for the Independent
‘I remember, at medical school, drunken discussions concerning the small number of class “nutters” in our year of 150 students… I kept quiet, but laughed along with the others. I was convinced that I, too, was doomed to a future as a “nutter”, having developed some kind of “madness” that I was struggling to hide.’
Read more of Ian’s article for the Independent in which he discusses his experience of OCD and how this has informed his work.
Ian at Laydeez do Comics
Ian Williams and fellow Myriad graphic novelist, Paula Knight, took part in graphics salon Laydeez do Comics to discuss their respective graphic novels. Comic artist Jules Valera captured the event through various sketches and paintings, which you can see on her blog here.
Interview with Ian Williams for The Conversation
“The great thing about comics is that the medium itself is shot through with irony and self-reflexivity, so you can make a serious point, but then immediately undercut any suggestion of earnestness,” Ian Williams discusses graphic medicine with Emily Haworth-Booth for The Conversation. Read in full here.
The Independent view of Ian Williams’s bookshelf
Feast your eyes on Ian’s personal bookshelf via The Independent. Includes titles such as Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut, The Great War by Joe Sacco and Fran by Jim Woodring.
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The Carsey-Wolf Center’s Spring 2019 screening series at UC Santa Barbara explores the international legacies of cinematic New Waves, including films from France, Cuba, China, Italy, and Iran. Whatever their disparate eras or sources, these selections share an emphasis on stylistic and narrative experimentation, a rejection of traditional film conventions, a sympathetic response to youth culture, an insistence on emotional verisimilitude, and a critical examination of contemporary social and political issues.
Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima mon amour (France-Japan/1959), written by novelist Marguerite Duras, uses the post-war affair between a French actress and a Japanese architect as the basis for a poignant meditation on memory and forgetfulness. The two struggle with their differing perceptions of the Hiroshima bombing and its lingering effects, both societal and personal (one of which is the end of their affair). Resnais, a former editor, employs a dense, elliptical narrative structure that includes documentary footage and brief flashbacks to the lovers’ previous lives, among other innovations. Resnais was a generation older than Truffaut, Godard, and other French New Wave filmmakers, but his innovations proved influential on their work.
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s Memories of Underdevelopment (Cuba/1968) is a complex character study set in Havana during a period of social turmoil, between the Bay of Pigs invasion and the missile crisis. The protagonist, Sergio, is a wealthy bourgeois aspiring writer who elects to remain in Cuba after his wife and friends flee to Miami. Living a rootless existence in an atmosphere of anomie, Sergio is soon caught up in the social and political Cold War forces engulfing Cuba, and the post-revolution economic upheavals that are causing his privileged class to disappear. As in Renais’ film the narrative which unfolds is fragmented and highly subjective, in a style meant to evoke the process of memory and that requires active participation from the spectator.
Zhang Yimou’s Red Sorghum (China, 1987), based on the novel by Nobel laureate Mo Yan, chronicles life in a rural Chinese village during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Though seemingly more conventional in style and narrative structure than other New Wave films, Red Sorghum shares its determination to challenge Hollywood conventions, eschewing ersatz sophistication and easy sentimentality in favor of simplicity and emotional directness, expressed in unromanticized depictions of poverty, sexual abuse, and sudden violence. The overall effect at times approaches a state not unlike magic realism. The film was also distinctive for its time and place in centering its story on a young girl, an emphasis which abetted a critique of Chinese society’s traditional sexual mores and treatment of women.
Though diverse in their blending of themes and techniques, what emerges from viewings of these and other New Wave films is a renewed sense of the cinema’s potential as a narrative art form, one illuminating aspects of the human condition far surpassing the boundaries of Hollywood storytelling.
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http://www.flemingssteakhouse.com/
Wichit Sandwich
http:// http://www.wichitsandwich.com/
8 Park Plaza, Boston, MA 02116, USA 1.32 mi
L'Espelier
The Shops at the Prudential Center, 774 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02199, USA 1.33 mi
http://www.lespalier.com/
recommend calling in advance
http://www.tapeo.com/
91 Summer St. Boston, MA 02110 1.34 mi
162 Columbus Avenue, Boston, MA 02116, USA 1.37 mi
http://www.davinciboston.com/
Tossed
http://www.tossed.com/
salads only
Red Lantern
39 Stanhope Street, Boston, MA 02116, USA 1.38 mi
http://www.redlanternboston.com/
http://www.olerestaurantgroup.com/zocalo
Jacob Wirth & Co
37 Stuart Street, Boston, MA 02116, USA 1.39 mi
http://www.jacobwirth.com/
Copley Place, Boston, MA 02116, USA 1.42 mi
84 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02110, USA 1.44 mi
1 Post Office Square, Boston, MA 02110, USA 1.45 mi
131 Dartmouth Street, Boston, MA 02116, USA 1.48 mi
100 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, MA 02110, USA 1.49 mi
City Landing
255 State Street, Boston, MA 02109, USA 1.52 mi
http://www.citylanding.com/
5Napkin Burger
The Shops at the Prudential Center, 105 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02199, USA 1.52 mi
http://5napkinburger.com/
GF burgers, buns, dedicated fryer
Sorriso's
107 South Street, Boston, MA 02111, USA 1.58 mi
http://www.sorrisoboston.com/
http://neborestaurant.com/
255 Long Wharf, Boston, MA 02110, USA 1.64 mi
B&G Oysters
http://bandgoysters.com/
http://thebutchershopboston.com/
Stir Boston
102 Waltham Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA 1.73 mi
http://stirboston.com/
demo kitchen; recommend calling in advance
Myers and Chang
1145 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA 1.79 mi
http://www.myersandchang.com/
Franklin Cafe
278 Shawmut Avenue, Boston, MA 02118, USA 1.81 mi
http://www.franklincafe.com/
250 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA 1.82 mi
Grill 23 & Bar
161 East Berkeley Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA 1.84 mi
http://grill23.com/
345 Congress Street, Boston, MA 02210, USA 1.95 mi
http://pastoralfortpoint.com/
http://sportelloboston.com/
http://drinkfortpoint.com/
http://mentonboston.com/
Barlow's
241 A Street, Boston, MA 02210, USA 2.05 mi
http://barlowsrestaurant.com/
700 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02118, USA 2.09 mi
http://www.estragontapas.com/
152 Dorchester Avenue, Boston, MA 02127, USA 2.14 mi
155 Seaport Boulevard, Boston, MA 02210, USA 2.22 mi
http://www.rosamexicano.com/
170 West Broadway, Boston, Massachusetts 02127 2.32 mi
Morton's Steak House
2 Seaport Lane, Boston, MA 02210, USA 2.34 mi
http://www.mortons.com/bostonseaport/
225 Northern Avenue, Boston, MA 02210, USA 2.44 mi
The Shops at Station Landing, 501 Fellsway, Medford, MA 02155, USA 2.47 mi
Legal C Bar
Harborside Drive, Boston, MA 02128, USA 2.74 mi
http://www.legalcbar.com/site/
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'No choice but to act': Trump signs proclamation sending National Guard to secure Mexico border
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen suggested troops could begin arriving as soon as Wednesday night, though other officials said details were still being worked out
Jill Colvin
WASHINGTON — Asserting the situation had reached “a point of crisis,” President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a proclamation directing the deployment of the National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border to fight illegal immigration.
“The lawlessness that continues at our southern border is fundamentally incompatible with the safety, security, and sovereignty of the American people,” Trump wrote in a memo authorizing the move, adding that his administration had “no choice but to act.”
The announcement came hours after Trump pledged “strong action today” on immigration and a day after he said he announced he wanted to use the military to secure the southern border until his long-promised, stalled border wall is erected.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said she had been working with governors of the southwest border states to develop agreements on where and how many Guardsmen will be deployed.
She suggested some troops could begin arriving as soon as Wednesday night, though other administration officials cautioned that details on troop levels, locations and timing were still being worked out.
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Trump has been frustrated by slow action on building his “big, beautiful wall” along the Mexican border — the signature promise of his campaign — as well as a recent uptick in illegal border crossings, which had plunged during the early months of his presidency, giving Trump an accomplishment to point to when he had few.
Federal law prohibits the use of active-duty service members for law enforcement inside the U.S., unless specifically authorized by Congress. But over the past 12 years, presidents have twice sent National Guard troops to the border to bolster security and assist with surveillance and other support.
Nielsen said the effort would be similar to a 2006 operation in which President George W. Bush deployed troops to help U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel with non-law enforcement duties while additional border agents were hired and trained. President Barack Obama also sent about 1,200 troops in 2010 to beef up efforts against drug smuggling and illegal immigration.
Nielsen said her department had developed a list of locations where it would like assistance on things like aerial surveillance and other support, and was discussing with the governors how to facilitate the plans. She declined to say how many personnel would be needed or how much the operation would cost, but she insisted, “It will be as many as is needed to fill the gaps that we have today.”
A U.S. border patrol vehicle guards the bank of the Bravo River, the natural border between the cities of El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez in Mexico, on April 4, 2018. Herika Martinez/AFP/Getty Images
One congressional aide said that lawmakers anticipate 300 to 1,200 troops will be deployed and that the cost was expected to be at least $60 million to $120 million a year. The Pentagon would probably need authorization from Congress for any funding beyond a few months, said the aide, who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Under the mechanism the administration is looking to use, the Guard would not be mobilized as a federal force. Instead, governors would control the Guard within their states.
Governors of the four U.S. states bordering Mexico were largely supportive of the move. The office of California Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat who has sparred with Trump on immigration issues, said any federal request would be promptly reviewed to determine how the state could best offer its assistance.
The Mexican foreign ministry said Nielsen told Mexico’s top diplomat that troops deployed to the border “will not carry arms or carry out migration or customs control activities.”
Senators in Mexico urged President Enrique Pena Nieto to temporarily suspend co-operation with the U.S. on immigration and security issues. In a nonbinding statement approved unanimously Wednesday, the senators asked Mexico’s government to freeze joint efforts “in the fight against transnational organized crime” until Trump starts acting “with the civility and respect that the people of Mexico deserve.”
Trump first revealed Tuesday that he’d been discussing the idea of using the military at the border with Defence Secretary Jim Mattis.
“We’re going to be doing things militarily. Until we can have a wall and proper security, we’re going to be guarding our border with the military,” Trump said.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen speaks during a press briefing at the White House on April 4, 2018. Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images
He spent the first months of his presidency bragging about a dramatic drop in illegal border crossings, which some DHS officials had even dubbed the “Trump effect.” Indeed, arrests at the border last April were at the lowest level since DHS was created in 2003, and the 2017 fiscal year saw a 45-year low for Border Patrol arrests.
But the numbers have been slowly ticking up since last April and are now on par with many months of the Obama administration. New statistics released Wednesday show about 50,000 arrests of people trying to cross the southwest border last month, a 37 per cent increase from the previous month, and a 203 per cent increase compared to March 2017. The monthly increase follows typical seasonal fluctuations.
Trump’s new focus on hard-line immigration policies appears aimed, at least in part, in drawing a political contrast with Democrats heading into the midterm elections. He has also been under growing pressure from conservative backers who have accused him of betraying his base for not delivering on the wall, and he was set off by images played on his favourite network, Fox News, of a “caravan” of migrants making their way through Mexico.
In Texas, which already has about 100 National Guard members stationed on the border, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, said the president’s decision “reinforces Texas’ longstanding commitment to secure our southern border and uphold the Rule of Law.”
New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, a Republican, said she appreciated the Trump administration’s efforts to involve states in the effort to better secure the border. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, also a Republican, tweeted that his state “welcomes the deployment of National Guard to the border. Washington has ignored this issue for too long and help is needed.”
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2020 Wellbeing Cities Award: Call for Applications
Montréal, Canada – January 8th, 2020.
NewCities is proud to announce the launch of the 2020 Wellbeing Cities Award, an international award recognizing cities’ efforts to place wellbeing at the heart of their policy and planning.
Following a successful first edition in 2019 counting more than 100 participating cities across 30 countries, cities and regional authorities have until February 5th, 2020 to submit for the 2020 Award in the following five categories:
Integrating nature and biodiversity,
Planning for better urban health,
Building a vibrant urban economy,
Supporting cohesive communities,
Prioritizing wellbeing.
To find the application form, please click here.
The five laureate cities will be selected based on reported achievement; levels of inclusivity and collaboration with local stakeholders; demonstrated leadership and commitment to wellbeing; and inspiration for others through sharing best practices.
Facing tomorrow’s challenges, cities worldwide benefit from putting wellbeing at the heart of their approach. We see planning and policy making more inclined to public health investments, efforts to promote diverse and cohesive communities together with sustainable environments, and stronger local economies.
The Wellbeing Cities Award recognizes those initiatives by offering a powerful global platform to tell their story and inspire others. Additionally, following a two-round application process, laureates will be announced at the annual Wellbeing Cities Forum taking place in Montréal on 16-17 June 2020, where they will meet a global network of leaders committed to urban wellbeing.
“If we truly want to improve the quality of life in cities, it is time to stop reducing it to a collateral benefit. Wellbeing should be at the heart of how we plan, assess and design our cities” explains John Rossant, Chairman of NewCities. “Today, as we launch the second edition of the Wellbeing Cities Award, we invite cities around the world to present their own commitment to urban wellbeing.”
“We see the best and most sustainable outcomes when health and wellbeing are integrated across sectors – into urban planning, transportation, workplaces, food systems, education and so on. But it is not easy”, underlines Niels Lund, vice president of Health Advocacy at Novo Nordisk, “Therefore, we will be looking forward to learning from the cities that have been successful in this regard.”
“Cities have a major role to play in developing a sustainable living environment that promotes the wellbeing of citizens,” adds Valérie Plante, Mayor of Montréal. “We have a responsibility to seize the opportunities available to us to rethink our habits and find innovative solutions to preserve our living environments and respond to the challenges that we face. This is why I am looking forward to this second edition of the Wellbeing Cities Award, which rewards cities placing quality of life at the heart of their urban policy.”
The annual Award is powered by NewCities in partnership with Novo Nordisk, and in collaboration with the City of Montréal, the Toyota Mobility Foundation, Transdev, Politico, Cities Today, Shareable, Design Exchange and The New Times Rwanda.
More information on the Wellbeing Cities Award and Forum, including the application process and links to the application form, can be accessed via: http://bit.ly/Wellbeingcities_Apply.
Esther Perrin
esther.perrin@newcities.org
Eve Gesbert
Communications and Media Relations Manager
eve.gesbert@newcities.org
About NewCities
NewCities is a global nonprofit committed to shaping a better urban future, headquartered in Canada. We have a decade’s experience curating and producing innovative content about the most important emerging urban trends. We do this through our events, our knowledge-sharing platforms, and actionable research. NewCities brings a ‘whole-city’ approach – we convene and connect the key stakeholders of the urban ecosystem: the residents, governments, academic institutions, civil society organizations, and business communities of a city. Our activities are inspired and supported by our global network of members; whose insights help us determine the most pressing topics in cities.
www.newcities.org Follow us Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
About Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with more than 95 years of innovation and leadership in diabetes care. This heritage has given us experience and capabilities that also enable us to help people defeat obesity, haemophilia, growth disorders and other serious chronic diseases. Headquartered in Denmark, Novo Nordisk employs approximately 42,200 people in 80 countries and markets its products in more than 170 countries. For more information, visit novonordisk.com, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube.
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APCOA and NewMotion expand Germany’s electric vehicle (EV) charging network
100 EV charge points already in operation at 35 sites across Germany
200 new EV charge points at 100 sites in 2016
Stuttgart, 6. Juli 2016 – The partnership between APCOA PARKING Group, Europe’s leading parking facility manager, and The NewMotion, the leading provider of intelligent charging solutions, is expanding the number of EV charge points in Germany. 100 EV charge points will be in operation at 35 APCOA sites across Germany before the end of this month. By the end of the year, this will rise to around 200 EV charge points at 100 sites.
“APCOA has set itself the task of providing innovative solutions for urban mobility. Our partnership with The NewMotion enables us to install intelligent EV charge points throughout our network, and to play a strategic role in the expansion of electric mobility in Germany,” said Philippe Op de Beeck, CEO of the APCOA PARKING Group. And this is just the start. APCOA’s collaboration with the NewMotion will soon be extended into APCOA’s other European markets.
APCOA and The NewMotion have been working together since autumn last year and announced their partnership at the IAA 2015. The roll-out of EV charge points across APCOA’s German network of car parks and parking garages started in January 2016. “This partnership means that we have been able to offer our customers a network of user-friendly and innovative charge points for their electric vehicles in our parking facilities since the beginning of this year. Electric car drivers can charge their vehicles at a wide selection of sites across Germany and, if they use the NewMotion’s app, they also benefit from a range of extra services. Customer satisfaction is an absolute priority at the NewMotion, and we know that our customers are happy from our high NPS (Net Promotor Score),” said Sytse Zuidema, CEO of The NewMotion.
Kontakt: APCOA PARKING Holdings GmbH, Sebastian Merkle, Flughafenstr. 34, 70624 Stuttgart-Airport, T: +49 711-94791-0
About APCOA PARKING APCOA PARKING Group is the leading full-service parking management company in Europe. The company has over 45 years of experience and expertise in 12 European countries and an extensive portfolio of clients. More than 30 European airports have entrusted APCOA with the management of their parking facilities. APCOA Parking Group manages more than 1.4 million individual parking spaces. In doing so, APCOA uses its international experience to deliver future-oriented and innovative parking services to customers and property owners at over 8,700 locations. The company’s 4,900 employees contribute international know-how and local expertise, and deliver new business and customised technical solutions. The group’s headquarters and German office are in Stuttgart, Germany. www.apcoa.com
About NewMotion The NewMotion, founded in 2009, offers advanced charging solutions for drivers of electric vehicles (EV) and EV-charge locations. All our activities aim to facilitate drivers of (Plug-in Hybrid) EV’s to be able to drive as many kilometers on electricity as possible using, as much as possible, electricity retrieved from renewable energy sources. Electric driving is a fantastic experience and it’s not only great for the environment but it’s also great for your wallet. We make electric driving easy and fun. In the last 5 years the NewMotion has installed 25.000 intelligent charge points. By using the NewMotion charge card, drivers can access the NewMotion’s charge network consisting of more than 30,000 public charge points spread across Europe. The NewMotion charge network is the largest, fastest growing and most intensely used charging networks in Europe. A growing number of European EV drivers use the NewMotion products and services, including Europe’s most interoperable charge pass. We also offer charging solutions to companies for (commercial) operation of chargers, and work closely together with leasing companies and car manufacturers. The NewMotion is continuously expanding its charging network in and outside The Netherlands. Also in Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, Austria, Switzerland, Finland and the United Kingdom EV-drivers can charge their EV’s at the NewMotion charge points and use our comprehensive offering of charging services.
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HomeEntertainmentJokesDaily Joke: Man Walks into a Restaurant with a Full-Grown Ostrich behind Him
Daily Joke: Man Walks into a Restaurant with a Full-Grown Ostrich behind Him
July 10, 2019 | by Razia Meer
What would you wish for if you only had two wishes? The fellow in the following joke got one of his wishes brilliantly right and the other...you decide.
A man walks into a restaurant with a full-grown ostrich behind him, and as he sits down, a waitress comes over and asks for their order.
The man says, "I'll have a hamburger, fries and a coke," and turns to the ostrich. "What will you have?"
"I'll have the same," says the ostrich.
A short time later, the waitress returns with their order. "That will be $6.40 please," and the man reaches into his pocket and pulls out the exact change for payment.
The next day, the man and the ostrich come again and the man says, "I'll have a hamburger, fries and a coke," and the ostrich says, "I'll have the same."
Burger and fries. | Source: Pexels
Once again the man reaches into his pocket and pays with exact change. This becomes a routine until late one evening, the two enter again.
"The usual?" asks the waitress. "No, this is Friday night, so I will have a steak, baked potato, and a salad," says the man. "Same for me," says the ostrich.
A short time later the waitress comes with the order and says, "That will be $12.62." Once again the man pulls exact change out of his pocket and places it on the table.
The waitress can't hold back her curiosity any longer. "Excuse me, sir. How do you manage to always come up with the exact change out of your pocket every time?"
"Well," says the man, "several years ago I was cleaning the attic and I found an old lamp. When I rubbed it a Genie appeared and offered me two wishes. My first wish was that if I ever had to pay for anything, I just put my hand in my pocket, and the right amount of money would always be there."
Man holding out $20 notes. | Source: Pexels
"That's brilliant!" says the waitress. "Most people would wish for a million dollars or something, but you'll always be as rich as you want for as long as you live!"
"That's right! Whether it's a gallon of milk or a Rolls Royce, the exact money is always there," says the man.
The waitress asks, "One other thing, sir, what's with the ostrich?"
The man sighs, pauses, and answers...
Portrait shot of an ostrich. | Source: Pixabay
"My second wish was for a tall chick with long eyelashes and legs who agrees with everything I say."
I mean, the genie wasn't wrong! Did you find this joke funny? Remember to share it with your friends and find out what their wishes would have been.
In a heartwarming story, a hungry homeless man approached a local Burger King in San Antonio, Texas to ask what he could get for 50 cents.
Instead of turning him away, teenager Matthew Resendez treated the man with kindness and asked him what he would like to have off the menu, knowing that the menu had no 50 cent items.
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The teenager rang up a full meal for the man, paying for it with his own debit card, and took nothing from the other man except his thanks.
A woman who witnessed the entire exchange between him and the homeless man then tipped Resendez $100 and wrote to Burger King about him.
Resendez's proud mum shared the good deed on Facebook, urging others to pay it forward.
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Unknown Andy Warhol Discovered in Carnegie Mellon Archive by artnet Critic Blake Gopnik
THE DAILY PIC: Warhol's second published work is found in a magazine called Cano.
Blake Gopnik, February 9, 2015
(Image courtesy Carnegie Mellon University Archives)
It didn’t take that much to unearth the new Warhol that I’m revealing today. To find the picture, which turns out to be the second work that Warhol ever published, all I had to do was take a ten-hour train ride from New York to Pittsburgh, head to the archives of Carnegie Mellon University, where Warhol studied art, discover that they have files dedicated to ancient student publications, get the archivist, Julia Corrin, to pull the box with the student magazine called Cano, leaf through every page of every issue of the thing and then, hey presto, on the second page of the last number published, in April of 1949, spot a full-page illustration that could only be by the master. Or rather, the not-quite-master-yet. (Click on my image to see the work in detail.)
Warhol would have been all of 20 when he drew the picture, in his senior year in college but still finding his footing as an artist. He was talented enough to have been named art director of Cano, the students’ literary magazine. (Given what it’s like to work on student publications, this might have been more burden than honor.) But he was also enough of a beginner to produce a work that doesn’t quite know where it’s going.
Warhol executed the illustration in his new “blotted line” technique, which went on to be his signature commercial style for the next decade and more. (The technique is on view everywhere in the amazing catalogue of the “complete” magazine work just released by an obsessive Warholian named Paul Maréchal; I feel guilty having to revise its completeness already.) Warhol had adopted the blotted line, or maybe invented it, sometime in 1948, and its presence in this illustration pretty much guarantees that the image is by him. He’d already used it five months before for the comic orchestra on the cover of issue 7 of Cano, which is well known as his very first published image. (Cano also includes some minor decorative touches that could be by Warhol.)
To make pieces like the one I’ve discovered, Warhol first drew his subject in fine pencil or pen, went over that drawing in goopy wet ink, then laboriously blotted this inked line onto another sheet of paper that would become the finished, more fractured image. All the fussy hand labor of drawing and blotting had the paradoxical effect of producing an image that looked mechanical, as though it were a twentieth-generation print pulled from a lousy press, with an image that had broken down in the pulling. Our blotted-line drawing for Cano shows Warhol faking mass production from the very start of his career, as of course he goes on to do, with a vengeance, through his heyday as a Pop artist. Warhol’s so-called Factory was always much closer to a buzzing Old Master workshop than to a real manufacturing facility. Pretending his production was industrial was an artistic conceit.
In the new Carnegie Mellon illustration, Warhol, not yet sure of himself, mixes his blotted line with a second drawing style that he was also developing around this time: a smooth, swooping pen line, borrowed from Matisse, that evokes a spontaneous virtuosity which is in fact at odds with the pseudo-printed labor of his other, blotted mode. In the 1950s, Warhol mostly keeps his two styles apart, but here he hasn’t figured that out. We have to ignore the breaks and blots in its line to realize that our Cano piece links up nicely with plenty of Warhol’s later, “Matissean” portraits whose faces have the same pursed lips, fine chins and slender eyes and cheekbones as the two figures from 1949.
Time now to deal with those absurd “leopard spots” that spread right across the Cano faces and into the spaces around them. Although those spots certainly look like they show Warhol at his most goofily immature–had his famous acne spread from his own face to his subjects’?– they may actually hint at the deep-thinking artist he went on to be. Warhol’s illustration was made to go with a terribly grim short story, written by a fellow student named Jane E. Harris, that tells the tale of a gorgeous young Austrian couple separated by the horrors of World War II. (Hence the German caption to Warhol’s image, quoting from an obscure Romantic-era poem; like Cano itself, whose Latin title–“I Sing”–comes from the first line of Virgil’s Aeneid, Harris’s story can be a touch pretentious.) When the story’s pair meet again after years of deprivation, their sorrows have eaten away at their beauty; the husband, disgusted by their newfound ugliness, takes off into the night. Warhol’s challenge was to use a single image to depict both the couple’s former grace and their fall from it. To his credit, he forgoes the obvious before-and-after solution in favor of what is basically a conceptual one: The blotches that cover his whole image refer to the idea of ugliness without stooping to a literal, narrative depiction of it in his figures. It’s as though not just those characters but Warhol’s entire vision has been infected by the ugly, with the story’s illustration “catching” the repulsiveness described in its text. This device of an all-over pattern that overlaps a figure survives into some other Warhol pieces from the 1950s, but almost always with the opposite effect and meaning of his Cano illustration: The “pustules” from Cano become butterflies and flowers that flutter all over some splendid beauty, as detachable symbols of loveliness. (See the late ’50s image below.) We don’t really get the return of the mournful Cano effect until around 1962, when Warhol’s photographic images of car crashes and suicides start to disappear behind a mess of badly pulled silkscreen ink. We may need to think of our newfound student illustration as the first of Warhol’s Death and Disaster pictures.
Or maybe it looks even further forward than that, to his gender-bending work of the late 1960s and ’70s. Although the text of the Cano story describes a manly man and elegant woman, Warhol’s illustration almost eliminates the distinction. The picture gets made at just the moment when Warhol would have been coming out, in a city dedicated to persecuting gay people. (I’ll be giving the grim details in the Warhol biography I’m working on.) The courage that the art student showed in messing with gender becomes a driving force behind the mature artist’s work of the ‘50s and beyond.
For a full survey of past Daily Pics visit blakegopnik.com/archive.
(Courtesy Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York; © 2015 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)
Blake Gopnik
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Hellenic Seaways Has Sights Set on Own Terminal at Piraeus Port
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Home > Company updates > Hellenic Seaways Has Sights Set on Own Terminal at Piraeus Port
Greek coastal ferry operator Hellenic Seaways expressed its interest in operating out of its own terminal at the Port of Piraeus once its privatization is completed, the company’s CEO told a press conference on Wednesday, held on board the Ariadne.
Hellenic Seaways CEO Antonis Agapitos said that as one of the port’s most active users, his company is considering entering a 20-year concession deal with the new OLP majority stakeholder.
Mr Agapitos added that 2014 was a good year for the company, with fixed fares, operating costs reduced by 11 percent and new charter routes abroad.
As part of plans for the next two decades, Hellenic Seaways has already made contact with foreign shipyards for the construction of new ships to be launched to the Greek islands.
Nissos Rodos – Photo © Hellenic Seaways
Mr Agapitos told the press that his company was also planning on launching ferries to service the remote Limnos – Agios Efstratios island route, the Nisos Rhodos to operate the Cyclades-Northeastern Aegean route and the inclusion of 10 new destinations.
Hellenic Seaways also expressed interest in expanding its operations to the southeastern Attica port of Lavrio towards the Cyclades islands if competitor NEL Lines is declared forfeit – an issue to be discussed today at the Coastal Transportation Council (SAS).
Founded in 2005, Hellenic Seaways is a Greek shipping company owned by Minoan Lines, operating passenger and freight ferry services in the Aegean and Adriatic Seas.
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New Jawa Perak Bobber Bookings Commence in India
2020 Price List of Royal Enfield Motorcycles Available in India
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BS6 Royal Enfield Classic 350 Launch Soon (Bookings Open): As per the latest buzz, the BS6-compliant model of the current-gen RE Classic 350 will launch in the Indian market on January 7, 2020. Some of the Royal Enfield dealerships have also started accepting pre-bookings for the motorcycle. Along with making the current-gen Classic 350 BS6-compliant, the brand has also equipped the street cruiser motorcycle with alloy wheels, though some of the colours will be available with spoke wheels.
BS6 Royal Enfield Classic 350 Signals Edition
The upcoming model of the Classic 350 was recently spotted in Gunmetal Grey, Stealth Black, Chrome Edition and Signals Edition. In addition to these four special colours, Royal Enfield is expected to offer the BS6 model in standard colours like Black, Maroon, White and more.
BS6 Royal Enfield Classic 350 Gunmetal Grey Edition
The motorcycle will be powered by a BS6-compliant version of the existing 346cc, single-cylinder engine that is capable to generate a maximum power of 19.8Bhp and a peak torque of 28Nm in its BS4 guise. The engine will remain mated to a 5-speed transmission. At present, no details are available regarding the power and torque figures of the updated BS6 engine.
BS6 Royal Enfield Classic 350 Launch on January 7
The brand has equipped the motorcycle with an electronic fuel injection technology, a catalytic converter and an oxygen sensor to meet the upcoming BS6 emission norms, which will be implemented in the Indian market on April 1 this year. Along with making the current-gen Classic 350 BS6-compliant, Royal Enfield has also equipped the motorcycle with a slightly different exhaust muffler with a bigger heat shield.
BS6 Royal Enfield Classic 350 Chrome Edition
One can expect Royal Enfield to officially launch the motorcycle with a starting price tag of around INR 1.60 lakh (ex-showroom). In addition to the updated BS6 current-gen model, the all-new 2020 variant of the Royal Enfield Classic is also expected to be launched by mid-2020 while getting a lot of cosmetic changes, a more powerful engine and an all-new digital-analogue instrument console.
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Diabetes type 2: Cut down this popular drink to help manage the condition
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Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes in the UK, and a condition where there is too much blood sugar.
People with conditions can take medication to control it, but it is also important to ensure a healthy lifestyle and follow a balanced diet.
It is important to keep diabetes controlled, as if not treated can lead to health complications involving the heart, nerves, feet, eyes and kidneys.
Contrary to what many people are thinking, having diabetes does not mean that you can not consume any sugar at all, but it is important to reduce it.
According to diabetes.co.uk, a popular drink where people with the condition may Want to avoid fruit juice.
While fruit is an integral part of a balanced diet, and the juice of the fruit can contribute to your five-day, sugar is also high.
"Fruit juice contains a large amount of sugar that increases blood sugar levels very fast," says diabetes.co.
"Therefore, people with diabetes are usually the best to avoid eating fruit juice."
Adults in the UK are advised to consume no more than 30g of sugar a day, and half a pint of fruit juice contains more
When the fruit is mingled with juice, most fiber found in the fruit is also gone, taking an important element of a balanced diet.
Additionally, fruit juice contains more calories than whole fruit, which can also increase the risk of developing diabetes-related complications.
A 250ml glass of unsweetened orange juice usually contains about 1
00 calories, compared to 60 calories in an actual orange.
According to diabetes.co.uk, current research also indicates regular consumption of fruit juice can increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes in the first place.
This is because of fructose – the sugar found in fruit juice
If the liver is overwhelmed by fructose, it can lead to type 2 diabetes as well as non-alcoholic liver-like illness.
In the glycemic index, orange The juice drops between 66 and 76 in a size of 100, making it a high-GI drink.
The glycemic index is used to show the effect of certain foods on blood sugar levels
"GI foods and beverages are best avoided by people with diabetes under the majority of events, "says diabetes.co.uk.
Fruit juice is a great source of nutrients and vitamins, but health professionals advise them to get them from whole fruit or vegetables.
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Cedar Fair Entertainment Company Names New Chief Operating Officer
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Ahead of the upcoming transition of Cedar Fair's Richard Zimmermann into the CEO position, the company has announced Tim Fisher will replace him as their new Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Fisher will take on the COO role on the 1st of January, 2018, when current CEO Matt Ouimet transitions into a position on the company's board of directors, and Mr. Zimmermann officially becomes CEO.
Mr. Fisher is coming to the company from Village Roadshow Theme Parks, which owns and operates parks and attractions in Australia and around the world, where he was most recently made the CEO of the company. During his time at Village Roadshow their theme parks achieved record attendance, revenue and EBITDA, according to Cedar Fair's press release. The photo featured here is from this profile on Mr. Fisher, done by Attractions Management several years ago.
He is also very familiar with the U.S. theme park market, having served decades working in it and eventually becoming executive vice president of Paramount Parks, which Cedar Fair ended up purchasing. To that end, Mr. Fisher is a natural fit having already managed half of Cedar Fair's existing portfolio years ago, understanding the parks and their markets. He would then also already have a working relationship with Cedar Fair's new CEO, Mr. Zimmermann, as he worked as a Paramount Parks executive as well.
"Tim is the right person at the right time to enhance the strength of our management team," said Zimmerman, Cedar Fair's president and incoming chief executive officer. "We are making significant, strategic, long-term investments within and adjacent to our parks. Tim's significant industry experience, coupled with his extensive knowledge of our parks and target markets, will deepen our management team and help us fully capitalize on all of our park-level initiatives."
With a change in leadership well underway, Cedar Fair is looking toward the future and appears to have its eye on growth. It's not a coincidence that the company choose to include the above quote about making "significant, strategic, long-term investments within and adjacent" to their parks... sounds like there are some big plans in the works for the company. I, like most, cannot wait to see what is in store.
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NLJC NAMES TEN BEST-MANNERED PEOPLE OF 2019
(CHARLOTTE, NC) – Candace Cameron Bure, selected for emphasizing the value of kindness and grace to her family, but also to the public as an American actress, heads “Ten Best-Mannered People” list published by the National League of Junior Cotillions® (NLJC).
“These selections are made based on each person’s commitment to honor, dignity, and mannerly conduct,” says President, Charles Winters. “We feel these ten individuals have distinguished themselves through excellent character and conduct and applaud them for their contributions to society.”
The top “Ten Best-Mannered” are:
Candace Cameron Bure – for emphasizing the value of kindness and grace to her family, but also to the public.
Freddie Freeman – for his outstanding display of proper sportsmanship to both teammates and opponents on the field.
Colin Powell –for emphasizing the value of being tactful and well-mannered when in a position of leadership.
Jennie Finch – for being a positive example of purpose, passion, and kind consideration as an athlete.
Ellen DeGeneres – for her overarching standards of kind-heartedness and positivity while in the television limelight.
Alex Gordon – for displaying integrity and leadership skills beyond his athleticism.
Misty Copeland – for highlighting tremendous poise and healthy habits in the spotlight.
Chris Evans – for being the face of honor and self-esteem on-screen and within society.
Patrick Mahomes – for being an esteemed leader and exemplifying outstanding sportsmanship on the field.
Ree Drummond – for incorporating etiquette into her platform and frequently writing about the value of good manners.
Each year, Cotillion students and Directors nationwide nominate individuals for the “Ten Best-Mannered People” award.
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Frigg (Myths of the Norsemen by H. A. Guerber)
Kogaion English Aesir, Allfather, angles, anglo-saxoni, asgard, asterism Orion's Belt, Óðinn, Balder Dead, Draupnir, edda, Fensalir, Fiorgyn, frea, freki, Freyja's Distaff, fri, fria, frig, frigg, Frigg's Distaff/spinning wheel, frigga, Frigga's Spinning Wheel, Friggerock, Friggjar, Frijjō, frjá, geri, german paganism, germanic mythology, germanic myths, Germanic races, Germanic tribes, germans, Glads-heim, glasir, god, Gods, goti, Guerber, Gungnir, H. A. Guerber, Hárbarðsljóð, Hávamál, Heimdall, Hermóðr, Hlidskialf, Hugin, Jörd, kogaionon.info.www.kogaionon.info, Lidskialf, Lokasenna, Matthew Arnold, midgard, mitologie nordica, Munin, mythology, Myths of the Norsemen, Myths of the Norsemen by H. A. Guerber, nordic, norse, norseman, Northern races, odinism, Orion's Belt, Orion's Girdle, ostrogoti, pagan, paganism, prīyā́, saga, sagas, saxon, Saxons, Spinning Wheel, thor, Tyr, vandals, Váli, Völuspá, Vidar, Vikings, vizigoti, Woden, Wuotan, Wōđanaz, Wōđinaz Leave a comment
"Frigga Spinning the Clouds" by J. C. Dollman.
The Queen of the Gods
Frigga, or Frigg, daughter of Fiorgyn and sister of Jörd, according to some mythologists, is considered by others as a daughter of Jörd and Odin, whom she eventually married. This wedding caused such general rejoicing in Asgard, where the goddess was greatly beloved, that ever after it was customary to celebrate its anniversary with feast and song, and the goddess being declared patroness of marriage, her health was always proposed with that of Odin and Thor at wedding feasts.
Frigga was goddess of the atmosphere, or rather of the clouds, and as such was represented as wearing either snow-white or dark garments, according to her somewhat variable moods. She was queen of the gods, and she alone had the privilege of sitting on the throne Hlidskialf, beside her august husband. From thence she too could look over all the world and see what was happening, and, according to the belief of our ancestors, she possessed the knowledge of the future, which, however, no one could ever prevail upon her to reveal, thus proving that Northern women could keep a secret inviolate.
“Of me the gods are sprung;
And all that is to come I know, but lock
In my own breast, and have to none reveal’d.”
Balder Dead (Matthew Arnold)
She was generally represented as a tall, beautiful, and stately woman, crowned with heron plumes, the symbol of silence or forgetfulness, and clothed in pure white robes, secured at the waist by a golden girdle, from which hung a bunch of keys, the distinctive sign of the Northern housewife, whose special patroness she was said to be. Although she often appeared beside her husband, Frigga preferred to remain in her own palace, called Fensalir, the hall of mists or of the sea, where she diligently plied her wheel or distaff, spinning golden thread or weaving long webs of bright-coloured clouds.
In order to perform this work she made use of a marvellous jewelled spinning wheel or distaff, which at night shone brightly in the sky as a constellation, known in the North as Frigga’s Spinning Wheel, while the inhabitants of the South called the same stars Orion’s Girdle.
To her hall Fensalir the gracious goddess invited husbands and wives who had led virtuous lives on earth, so that they might enjoy each other’s companionship even after death, and never be called upon to part again
“There in the glen, Fensalir stands, the house
Of Frea, honour’d mother of the gods,
And shows its lighted windows and the open doors.”
Frigga was therefore considered the goddess of conjugal and motherly love, and was specially worshipped by married lovers and tender parents. This exalted office did not entirely absorb her thoughts however, for we are told that she was very fond of dress, and whenever she appeared before the assembled gods her attire was rich and becoming, and her jewels chosen with much taste
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No Redeeming Social Value
Welcome to the new official No Redeeming Social Value website for 2016 and beyond.
Currently, NRSV is hard at work and making progress with our new material for 2016 release on Dead City Records. The new material promises to be our strongest to date with the NRSV anthem quality sing-a-longs we have come to be known for. We are excited and proud to continue to work hard and write great songs as a group after 25+ years. God bless NYHC and God Bless the U.S.A.
Just announced...NRSV will be playing the Grand Victory in Brooklyn, NY on July 15th. The Grand Victory is another hardcore friendly venue to fall victim to gentrification. While we are saddened to lose such a great venue, we are honored to be asked to send the G.V. out in style. We anticipate seeing all of our friends partying with us.
Thanks to everyone who came out to see us at NJ Toxic Fest. It was great to see all our friends and we enjoyed many cases of Olde-E. The encore of our set featured a few songs by Billy Club Sandwich as a warm up for their comeback set at this years Black and Blue Bowl. We are currently planning summer shows for Baltimore and Rhode Island with more to be announced soon. After many months and many demos, NRSV has set a date to begin recording an all new album of soon to be NYHC anthems. Stay tuned for more hardcore action.
Click to check out pix from the Rocks Off Punk Rock party cruise. (photos by Samma Jamma)
Working 9-5
Check out InEffectHardcore.com feature article on the daily occupations of hardcore musicians featuring Dean / NRSV. Hardcore don't pay the bills.
The Last Time New York was Hardcore
NRSV is both pleased and proud to represent NYHC in this fine article that looks back to the 90s.
Hardcore is dead?
Hardcore is dead...?? Really? That's news to us! We have all heard this polarizing statement so many times over the years NRSV has been a band that we can no longer ignore this inflammatory rehtoric. This issue needs to be addressed HERE and NOW, in our first blog-post on the all new NRSV.com.
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives. The past dies every moment to a re-birth in the present. The Hardcore/ punk scene like many other facets of life goes through various cycles - ups and downs. What is old becomes new again. This is especially true in the case of the Hardcore scene. As bands get older, and break up for various reasons, and leave the scene, many new bands are born everyday. The new bands begin the cycle again and bring newness and life into the scene, which was previously nurtured and pioneered by the older bands.The new bands then blaze their own trail, and make new ones, going places that Hardcore has never been before.
Many old-school heads are the first to nostalgicize their time in the Hardcore scene and claim that 'those were the (best/ good old) days'. Everyone is fond of their memories of their first shows, or discovering their first and favorite bands from 'back In the day'. Sometimes so much so, that the new bands that are scratching and clawing their way out of the pit get overlooked. But it doesn't mean that just because YOU can't seem to stop listening to the first Warzone demo that nothing of merit has come after it. Just because some of the Old school heads have moved out of the scene, and are no longer in touch with what's going on, doesn't mean there isn't plenty of monumental stuff going on.
So many great bands release great material every year, which add to Hardcore's continually growing legacy as a worldwide force in music, art, and folklore. Old school heads that have faded out and aren't in the scene anymore are the guiltiest of making statements that hardcore is dead. Maybe in their minds it is? OR maybe they have simply turned their minds off. Or, their lives are headed in a different direction that doesn't allow for them to participate in the scene as much as they used to?
Listen up Old-school peeps - don't be hating on the young punks just because you hung up your boots and traded Sunday Matinee days for a 9-5 life. Hardcore continues to grow exponentially on a worldwide scale everyday. Classic bands are still going strong - SOIA, Madball, H20, AF, Sheer Terror, NRSV, Yuppicide, Breakdown, and so many more that continue to tour, and release awesome new material.
So many new bands come out that borrow from the old bands and add their own flavor to put a new twist on the music and make their impact felt. If you don't know all this is going on....then maybe you punked out.
Maybe just because you gave up doesn't mean everyone else did?
Maybe it's your spirit that is dead?
Maybe get your head out of your ass and take a look around.
Just because CBGBs is gone doesn't mean HC is dead.
When people that haven't come around to a show or bought a new band's record in 10, 20 years holla that shit - it doesn't make you sound 'old- school' it just makes you sound 'old'..
HC LIVES!!!
No Redeeming Social Value / Murphy's Law - A memorial for Virginia Kress
Amityville Music Hall, 198 Broadway, Amityville, NY
16+, $15 - All proceeds will go to Virginia's son. There will be a 50/50 and a Chinese Auction.
No Redeeming Social Value / Fishbone
Friday, March 24, 2017 @ 7:00PM Fri, Mar 24, 2017 @ 7:00PM
Gramercy Theater, 127 E. 23rd Street, NY, NY
Tickets available through Live Nation at: http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0000523BC2B78931
No Redeeming Social Value / Sick of It All
Sunday, December 11, 2016 @ 6:00PM Sun, Dec 11, 2016 @ 6:00PM
Blackthorn 51, 80-12 51st Ave, Elmhurst, Queens
Sick of It All 30th Anniversary Tour
Friday, July 15, 2016 @ 7:00PM Fri, Jul 15, 2016 @ 7:00PM
Grand Victory, 245 Grand Street, Brooklyn
with The Krays, Examine, We All Die
New Jersey Toxic Fest
Hartley's, 350 Belleville Tnpk, North Arlington, NJ
No Redeeming Social Value, Psycho Enhancer, plus 7 more bands tba
$20, 21+
2015 Punk Rock BBQ
Saturday, August 22, 2015 @ 2:00PM Sat, Aug 22, 2015 @ 2:00PM
Evenflow Bar & grill, 150 E. Main Street, Bayshore
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1. I am a researcher wanting more information on the Nuxalk…
There are many publicly available materials about Nuxalk history, culture and language at academic, public and online libraries. Although many of these sources are interpretations of Nuxalk by non-Nuxalk researchers and armchair academics, they are a good start in general knowledge about who we are. More in depth Nuxalk knowledge is culturally situated within our families, villages and potlatch system and is acquired through practical application and apprenticeship. For this type of research, please be aware that this requires certain protocols and standards of methodology to be met to protect both Nuxalk knowledge and knowledge keepers.
* Due to limited volunteers for this website, individual questions regarding Nuxalk names, language and cultural information cannot be answered.
2. How is “Nuxalk” pronounced?
Nu-xalk. The “xalk” is pronounced almost “hulk,” but with athroat-clearing noise like the German ach.
Hear the word “Nuxalk” on the First Voices website.
3. How do I get to Bella Coola?
View: Google map of Bella Coola.
Depending on where you are coming from and the season:
drive from Williams Lake BC, west on Highway 20 approximately 460 km
fly Pacific Coastal Airlines from Vancouver South Terminal
Airport to the Bella Coola Airport; flight time is roughly 1hour 15min;
during the summer months, take BC Ferries from Port Hardy BC (located on Vancouver Island)
or take an adventurous and environmentally friendly option and bike, run or walk etc
Once you are in Bella Coola, you can get around the community on the Bella Coola Valley Transit Bus.
4. Where does the name “Bella Coola” come from?
There are several theories about the name ‘Bella Coola.’ Some people believe it is the name that the Kwakwaka’wakx and/or our neighbours, the Heiltsuk, had for us and was taken to be the name of our nation by explorers who met them first. Others believe it may be a Norwegian derivitive, as many Norwegian settlers also made the valley their home. However, it is not our name for ourselves; we are a collective of villages and families from a common language group that were relocated to the village of Q’umk’uts’, on which present day ‘Bella Coola’ is now built.
5. Where can I get a tour of the Thorsen Creek petroglyphs (rock carvings) or Tallio Hotsprings?
As of April 30, 2008, the Nuxalk Nation Band Chief and Council have officially declared the petroglyphs and Tallio hotsprings as sacred sites. Commercial activities have since been banned from these areas.
6. I would like to visit Bella Coola and am interested in meeting Nuxalk people, what should I do?
Depending on the nature and time of your visit, there are many options for you to consider. Local artists may be contacted through the various Nuxalk galleries and businesses listed on this site. Children’s groups may be interested in visiting the Acwsalcta School and Nuxalk locals can always be found visiting on the banks of the river during summer months, watching locals fishing. In fact, if you visit our valley at any time of the year, you will meet Nuxalk people wherever you go, as about half the population in the valley is Nuxalk. If you have a specific group of people in mind, contact the Nuxalk Nation Band Administration for more details: phone 250.799.5959
7. I am interested in moving to Bella Coola… what is the Nuxalk perspective on people purchasing property in Bella Coola?
Nuxalkmc are very friendly and widely known for our hospitality to guests in our valley and ancestral territory. People considering purchasing property in the valley should be aware of the political and historical context of the unsettled land question that continues to exist between our sovereign Nuxalk Nation and the Crown. Nuxalk ancestral territory has never been given up or won in battle, treaty or other means and crown title to these lands has not been established in any court of law. This means that legal ownership to land and resources within Nuxalk ancestral territory (including the Bella Coola Valley) has not yet been settled between the Crown and the Nuxalk Nation. We, the Nuxalk, assert sovereignty over our lands and do not recognize the authority of the Crown to sell off our lands. Newcomers should also be aware that throughout the valley exist locations of numerous villages and family owned fishing, hunting and gathering areas, over which Nuxalk people continue to exercise rights and responsibilities.
8. I am interested in working/volunteering for the Nuxalk Nation, what should I do?
Please send a letter to the Nuxalk Nation Band Administration Office or phone for more information: 250.799.5959
9. Is there a tourism office to get more information?
During the summer months, there is a tourism office located in downtown Bella Coola.
For more information, go to www.bellacoola.ca
10. How many Nuxalk people are there in the valley? Elsewhere? How does this population number compare to historic (pre-contact) populations?
Official INAC records indicate that the current on-reserve population of Nuxalkmc in Bella Coola is 893. The total living on and off reserve is approximately 1411. Historic population estimates are as high as 35,000.
11. How many Nuxalk reserves are there? How big are they and how does this compare to the size of the traditional Nuxalk territory?
There are seven Nuxalk reserves totalling approximately 2,025 hectares, which is only 0.1% of the 1,800,000 hectares of Nuxalk ancestral territory.
12. How do I say “hello” in the Nuxalk language?
“Yaw ” (click to hear audio). If you are brave, you can attempt to say “hello friend” which is “yaw smatmc” which is pronounced as yaw smah-dumc with a throat clearing sound at the end. Please visit the Nuxalk language page on the First Voices website to hear Nuxalk language audio clips.
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CYCLE OF RAGE: Mayor Chooses Politics over Facts in Backing NTSB Helmet Recommendation
It’s the revenge of Marcia Kramer!
For the second time in as many months, Mayor de Blasio has willfully ignored facts to align himself with an anti-biking policy that would dramatically reduce cycling.
Asked by the pro-car WCBS2 reporter Kramer on Wednesday to react to a National Transportation Safety Board recommendation that all states should require adult cyclists to wear helmets, the mayor said, “I think the NTSB is pointing us in the right direction.”
It's the latest from a car-loving boomer who willfully ignores fact in favor of politics to cut cycling because he lacks the political will to keep riders safe. Politics: The @NTSB staff specifically did NOT recommend helmet laws — but political hacks did, and @NYCMayor joined. https://t.co/LgX0ciTXBn
— Streetsblog New York (@StreetsblogNYC) November 6, 2019
In siding with the three-person safety board, de Blasio is again choosing demagoguery over facts. In reality, the NTSB board vote came after the agency’s staff prepared a lengthy list of recommendations for improving cyclist safety that did not include helmet laws, but rather called for better infrastructure, better police investigations, lower speed limits and asking bike manufacturers to add safety features that have remained unchanged since the reflector mandate in 1980.
Transportation questions to the mayor = chum in the water
— Jon Orcutt (@jonorcutt) November 6, 2019
The NTSB staff report, compiled by respected Dr. Ivan Cheung, intentionally stopped short of recommending helmet laws because of the “unintended consequences” of such laws — chief among them a marked decrease in cycling, especially bike share, he said.
Currently, no state has a requirement that adults wear helmets, but many states require children to do so. Cheung said such laws have proven successful in encouraging helmet use in adults because it gets people in the habit of wearing helmets — which many studies show make cyclists safer in the event of a crash.
But Cheung also told the three NTSB members — Chairman Robert Sumwalt, Vice-Chairman Bruce Landsberg and member Jennifer Homendy — that the main focus of the NTSB should be to recommend a dramatic increase in protected cycling infrastructure across the country. Indeed, he said that only four states have installed protected infrastructure on state roadways.
The vast majority of fatal crashes were in mid-block crashes that are virtually eliminated with protected bike lanes.
The board accepted all of Cheung’s recommendations, but Homendy added the proposal that the NTSB would recommend mandatory helmet laws in all 50 states. But Landsberg was initially suspect, given a recent trip he said he had taken to the Netherlands. As such, he wanted to know why the Dutch not only cycle more than Americans, and do so with very low helmet use, yet end up with so few fatalities.
Cheung made it clear that the real way to protect cyclists is to make roadways safer and to reduce speed limits on drivers rather than worrying so much about cyclist behavior.
“The Netherlands has been committed to making bicyclists part of their complete street and part of the overall transportation strategy — and they have tens of thousands of protected bike lanes and protected intersections,” he said. “Not to shame the U.S., but we are 20 or 30 years behind. As a result, bicycling as a percentage of the mode share is very very high. … Our team thinks helmets are important, but the difference between the Netherlands and the U.S. is infrastructure.”
None of that came up in Kramer’s question, which again put the mayor on his heels — choosing to capitulate rather than push back on Kramer’s underlying theme: that cyclists are responsible for the 170-percent increase in cyclist deaths this year, even though all but one of the 27 cyclists killed this year was hit by a driver.
And, to be fair, the mayor offered lip service to wanting to encourage bike riding.
“We don’t want to discourage people from riding bikes,” he said. “It’s good for the environment, climate change, fighting congestion. I hear that. I really do. But we have to have an honest conversation about the value of bike helmets and I don’t think these two ideas have to contradict each other.”
Then he veered into fantasy.
“I think we have to figure out what’s a way to get to the day where people use bike helmets regularly and we keep encouraging bike use rather than discouraging it,” he added. “I don’t have a magic formula yet, but think the NTSB is pointing us in the right direction. Have to figure out a way to do whatever we do that keeps people safe but does not discourage bike use. I think that would be a really bad outcome.”
It’s not the first time Kramer has called on the mayor to support helmet laws, in spite of because of the fact that they have been shown to reduce cycling. And studies also show that cycling becomes safer and safer as more and more people do it.
In September, Kramer got the mayor to make headlines — the wrong kind — when she ostensibly accused him of not doing enough to protect cyclists because he has not required them to wear helmets. He doubled down on it two days later in his weekly radio broadcast.
A mandatory helmet law, the mayor told Kramer, “is something we are talking about inside the administration. I think it is a really valid issue.”
It’s not. Citi Bike serves 90,000 rides per day — a number that would drop precipitously if helmets were required because tourists and casual riders very rarely have a helmet with them. The Lyft-owned company said it does encourage riders to wear helmets, but disputes the notion that helmet laws work.
“There is extensive evidence that what keeps cyclists safe are protected bike lanes, enforcement against dangerous driver behavior, and more people riding bikes — not mandatory helmet laws,” spokeswoman Julie Wood told Streetsblog.
That was a reasoned response — and one that basically matched the NTSB staff report until Homendy, a Trump appointee, got her hands on it. But advocates for cycling — which the mayor claims to be — displayed less sangfroid in the face of a Vision Zero mayor who seems eager to undermine cycling in the city.
“In New York City, we need bold leadership to elevate biking across our city, not knee-jerk and piecemeal responses to NTSB’s misguided recommendation,” said Transportation Alternatives Executive Director Danny Harris. “Helmets help, but requiring their usage will negate all of the progress Mayor de Blasio has made to date for the 1.6 million New Yorkers who ride bikes and the millions more waiting for a safe and dignified invitation to do so. We urge the mayor to balance the NTSB’s recommendation with real data from Melbourne and Seattle that saw decreases in ridership from mandatory helmet laws, which led to more crashes and injuries for the average cyclist.”
Bike New York’s Jon Orcutt focused on what a helmet law could to do Citi Bike.
“The mayor’s transportation department does a good job articulating the ‘safety in numbers’ principle of building bike ridership, and his administration is in the midst of a big expansion of Citi Bike,” he said. “A bike helmet law would fly in the face of both.”
Gersh Kuntzman is editor of Streetsblog. When he gets really angry, he writes the “Cycle of Rage” column. Prior posts are archived here.
Filed Under: Bicycling, Cycle of Rage, DOT, Helmet laws, National Transportation Safety Board, Street Safety, Promoted
City Officials All over the U.S. to Feds: Don’t Mandate Helmet Laws!
By Gersh Kuntzman | Nov 8, 2019
NACTO, a group of city transportation officials from all over America, urged the National Transportation Safety Board to pull back from its recommendation earlier this week that all states require adults to wear helmets.
SURPRISE! Federal Panel Seeks Mandatory Helmet Laws
A federal safety board issued a surprise recommendation for mandatory bike helmet laws in all 50 states — unanimously approving a last-minute resolution that had not been recommended by the board's own staff.
Has the NTSB Made a Single Recommendation on Bike Safety Since 1972?
By Angie Schmitt | Mar 1, 2013
The National Transportation Safety Board, whose current chair, Deborah Hersman, is the reported frontrunner to replace Ray LaHood as transportation secretary, is the federal agency charged with “assisting victims of transportation accidents and their families.” These are the people who investigate every single plane or passenger train crash. But NTSB doesn’t have much to say about the […]
De Brainless: Mayor Endorses Meritless Helmet and Licensing Requirements for Cyclists
By Dave Colon | Sep 4, 2019
The idea that helmets make cyclists safer flies in the face of every piece of research done on the subject including by, uh, the mayor's own Department of Transportation.
Streetsies 2019: The Dumbest Thing Mayor de Blasio Said This Year
By Streetsblog | Dec 26, 2019
Hizzoner stuck his size 12S foot in his mouth regularly, prompting our annual end-of-year award for his biggest gaffes. And the nominees are ...
Monday’s Headlines: Hero Cops Bust Churro Lady Who is Obviously a Danger to EVERYONE
By Streetsblog | Nov 11, 2019
How to improve the reputation of the NYPD? Step one: Stop arresting the churro lady. That, plus all the other headlines from a busy weekend.
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Global Voices: How can white allies honour Black History Month?
‘In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends,’ Martin Luther King Jr. once said.
We got to thinking about Black History Month when we were talking to Dr. David Campt, creator of the White Ally Toolkit.
We realized how rarely white people recognize our privilege in treating the month — and the centuries-long fight for equality — as history.
It’s not history for the people who are still living it, fighting income disparity and racial profiling. And yet 52 per cent of Canadians don’t believe that racism is a serious problem. That’s more than half, which is staggering.
The march of progress has always been slowed by skepticism about the urgency of racial justice. We’re ready to deal with racism as a piece of history more than an issue of our time.
Today we recognize that Martin Luther King Jr. marched for freedom from oppression. In 1963, King fought an uphill battle to gain mainstream support and convince white people that the issue mattered.
We remember “I have a dream.” We forget that King also said, “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
Campt wrote the book on coaching white allies to speak up, so we asked him for his thoughts. He said a few things that really struck us.
“It’s easy to think of times in which the situation was so stark and the crimes were so heinous. It’s easy to make it victims versus oppressors.”
In other words, don’t use the worst moments of history to minimize the impacts of racism today.
As allies, it’s not enough to compare ourselves to historical oppressors and give ourselves a pass. Maybe we should look to the people who fought for equality and ask if we’re doing enough.
“White people have always had choices about whether they involve themselves. Are they an oppressor? Are they a bystander? Are they an upstander fighting for racial justice?” asks Campt.
Finding ourselves in history involves learning from black luminaries and leaders, but Campt also suggests studying the history of allies.
“There were always way too few white people fighting for racial justice, but there were always a few. We don’t lift that up enough.”
We never thought of it in that way. Black History Month isn’t (and shouldn’t be) about celebrating white allies, but white people do need to recognize the spectrum of roles they’ve played throughout history.
Maybe, with better role models, we’d have fewer silent bystanders when racism rears its head at work or the family reunion.
One of the biggest contributions white allies can make is talking to friends and family openly about race, even when it’s uncomfortable, says Campt.
That means listening to views you might disagree with and responding calmly and rationally. The goal is to leave the conversation with the other side considering a new perspective — not winning an argument or burning a bridge.
“White people have put themselves on the line, have died,” says Campt. “If they did that, you can talk to your uncle when it’s hard.”
Racism isn’t history, but history does give us tools and perspectives to fight racism today. Look back to learn how to help others move forward.
Craig and Marc Kielburger are the co-founders of the WE movement, which includes WE Charity, ME to WE Social Enterprise and WE Day. For more dispatches from WE, check out WE Stories.
Global Voices: Are You Food Literate? Global Voices: Social enterprise addresses rural challenges
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Ocean Beach Resist Trump Rally – Photo Gallery
by Source on March 4, 2017 · 10 comments
in Civil Rights, Culture, Election, Ocean Beach, Organizing, Politics
Caleb Serban-Lawler captured this photo via drone of people lining the beach
From Indivisible San Diego:
More than six hundred San Diegans marched from Dog Beach to the Ocean Beach Pier this morning with a demand to impeach President Trump. The protesters created a performance art project by standing in patterns to spell the messages “RESIST!” and “IMPEACH!” on the sand. Drone cameraman Caleb Serban-Lawler of Sabre Springs captured the images.
“San Diegans are fed up with Trump’s lies about Russia and the undermining of our democracy,” said organizer Kathy Stadler of Indivisible San Diego, which co-sponsored the event. “Trump’s dangerous policies and unstable leadership strongly suggest he won’t last four years. Republicans, like Reps. Darrell Issa and Duncan Hunter, would be wise to listen to their constituents and stop enabling this corrupt administration.”
Indivisible San Diego registered new voters and recruited new members at the event. Nearly 90 Indivisible groups are active in San Diego County.
OB Rag/SDFP Editor and event organizer talks to the media. Photo by Pamela Hughes/Indivisible SD
From the OB Rag, which co-sponsored the event:
Nearly 500 people showed up today, Saturday, March 4th, on the sands of Ocean Beach and spelled out the word “IMPEACH”. This all came down just north of the OB Pier.
Just earlier in the morning, about 200 people spelled out the word “RESIST” north at Dog Beach. That crowd then marched south along the beach to the other gathering and filled up the letters.
Making the message clear. Photo via Indivisible SD
Photo via Indivisible SD
Voter registration in progress at Indivisible table. Photo by Pamela Hughes / Indivisible SD
Here are more photos from March 4 Impeachment facebook:
Old Frank March 5, 2017 at 10:55 am
When people publicly rage about perceived injustices that don’t affect them personally, we tend to assume this expression is rooted in altruism—a “disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others.”
However, professing such third-party concern—what social scientists refer to as “moral outrage”—is often a function of self-interest, wielded to assuage feelings of personal culpability for societal harms or reinforce (to the self and others) one’s own status as a Very Good Person.
I’d suggest that being intimately involved in local politics and doing good things for your community has a greater yield than getting together with like-minded people to protest an already elected president.
If only this much human effort were expended before the election……..
Steve zivolich March 5, 2017 at 6:57 pm
Well done Frank G.
Wish I could have staid for the whole event.
Odd times to have loose nut and science denyer as our electoral leader.
nostalgic March 6, 2017 at 9:29 am
These are magnificent photos! From all of us, a special thank-you to Caleb Serban-Lawler for this truly spectacular presentation.(And no, I don’t know him, I’m not related, I just loved the pictures).
Tyler March 6, 2017 at 11:07 am
600? According to what? I was surfing during the protest and I spent a good 5 minutes looking at the head count. There were no more than 250…MAYBE 300.
Why inflate it? You can even get a decent estimate looking at the photos.
rick callejon March 6, 2017 at 11:15 am
Are you related to Sean Spicer?
Tyler March 6, 2017 at 12:46 pm
Cool snark.
Trump is a jackass and Spicer is his stooge…
I know it’s hard to process, but you can be against Trump and also against stupid protest messages. Protest this administration and its policies, but do so in a way that actually furthers the cause. Spelling out impeach before we have any direct evidence is childish. Is evidence likely there? YES. Let’s investigate! And inflating numbers is no dumber than Trump telling the crowd at CPAC that there were people lined up for blocks outside (ther weren’t).
Marc Snelling March 6, 2017 at 3:27 pm
There is already direct evidence this administration has foreign and domestic assets that represent conflicts of interest. Impeachment is a power of the legislature not the judiciary. So how is an impeachment proceeding going to commence as long as the Republican majority votes in lockstep? The lawsuit filed by CREW is already in progress. This WH was already involved in many lawsuits before taking office. That is another potential cause for impeachment. Calls for impeachment are common, and they allege misconduct, they don’t prove it. The House voted to send an impeachment resolution to committee when W was in the office. It contained 35 articles from the Iraq War, prisoner torture, spying and wiretapping to Valerie Plame. The resolution to form an investigative committee failed.
Frank Gormlie March 7, 2017 at 10:51 am
Tyler, I personally went down the human chain and counted 280 people and friend Ben continued and came up a total still in line of 380. Dozens had already left the event and another 100 were milling around not in the line.
unwashedwallmartThong March 7, 2017 at 8:37 pm
I’m so glad no one spelled, “No Regerts.”
Woorke March 8, 2017 at 12:15 pm
Nearly 90 Indivisible groups are active in San Diego County, thats amazing stuff happening near me
Older Article: “Impeach” Spelled Out in Ocean Beach
Newer Article: The National Democratic Party Is Missing in Action
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Chair Doug McKee
Vice Chair Teree Bergman
Commissioner Ray Paolino
Commissioner Pete Bistany
Commissioner Honey Pivirotto
ABSENT: Commissioner Clark Reddin
Joe Andrews, Town of Oro Valley Civil Attorney
Stacey Lemos, Finance Director
3. Call to the Audience opened and closed with no speakers.
4. Minutes
MOTION: Vice Chair Bergman MOVED to approve the January 3, 2008, Planning and Zoning Commission regular meeting minutes as written. Commissioner Paolino seconded the motion. Motion carried 6:0.
5. Presentation of Recommended Town of Oro Valley 5-year Capital Improvement Program (CIP) for Fiscal Years 2008/09 through 2012/13
Sarah More introduced Stacey Lemos, Finance Director for the Town, who gave a presentation on the recommended Town of Oro Valley 5-year Capital Improvement Program (CIP) for Fiscal Years 2008/09 through 2012/13. Ms. Lemos stated that the CIP is still a work in progress, as the budget for next fiscal year is still being worked on, and will go to the Council for approval in June or July. She gave a brief PowerPoint presentation reviewing the highlights of the plan and then opened a question and answer period.
Chair McKee thanked Ms. Lemos and her assistant, Art Cuaron, and commended her on the major improvements made on the way the committee works.
6. Discussion Item: Review of a Proposed Schedule to Process Major General Plan Amendments in Conformance with State Growing Smarter and Town of Oro Valley Requirements
Ms. More stated that tonight’s discussion would be on the logistics of addressing the process for the Major General Plan Amendments. She talked about the legal limits that must be followed. There were six cases that were filed by the March 31st deadline for submittal. There is a State law requirement for a 60 day notice to surrounding jurisdictions, the Department of Commerce and various other entities. This provides the opportunity for those entities to send in comments regarding the amendments.
Ms. More presented a flow chart showing a possible schedule for the meetings needed. The dates are flexible and only an example of what may be done.
The Commission does not have to consider all the items at the same public hearing as the Council does. However, the Council could open a public hearing and carry it over to another day by not adjourning the meeting.
Planning Commission members noted concerns/comments to be considered in setting the Major General Plan Amendment schedule:
- The Arroyo Grande project needs its own study session and open house/neighborhood meeting.
- All neighborhood/public meetings will be held separately for each project.
- Staff should not be excluded from the neighborhood meetings.
- The Town should run the neighborhood meetings.
- Concern that the public and commissioners may not be able to attend all day sessions. Possibly have a combination of day and evening meetings, to be able to accommodate those individuals who might not be able to attend evening meetings.
- New Commission members being brought current on information.
- Keeping Commissioner’s whose terms expire in June on the Commission for continuity.
- Add another study session.
- Notifying the public of the timing of items on agendas.
- Should the "citizen task force" be included in any of the study sessions?
- Will the General Plan Amendment and the Annexation Agreement for Arroyo Grande be presented together?
- Will there still be regular Planning and Zoning Commission meetings besides the General Plan Amendment meetings?
It was the consensus of the Commission that Ms. More work with Chair McKee putting together a letter to the Council regarding the possibility of expiring terms being extended to allow for continuity. It was suggested that other Commissioners send in letters to Ms. More, addressed to the Council, showing their support for this. At the same time Ms. More will be working on getting applications submitted to be able to fill the vacancies if that should occur.
The Commissioners were also in agreement that Chair McKee, Vice Chair Bergman and Ms. More meet to refine the Major General Plan Amendment schedule.
7. Future Agenda Items
There were no future agenda items.
8. Planning Update
Ms. More advised that the Steam Pump Ranch (SPR) Master Plan Task Force has made a recommendation that will be going to the Historical Commission and Town Council for approval. The Town is working on budget to be able to maintain SPR and prevent further deterioration to existing structures.
MOTION: Commissioner Paolino MOVED to adjourn the Planning and Zoning Commission meeting. Commissioner Bistany seconded the motion. Motion carried 6:0. Meeting adjourned at 8:00 p.m.
Diane Chapman
Senior Office Specialist
Apr 01, 2008 Planning & Zoning
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Programa de Pós-graduação em Comportamento e Biologia Animal
v. 18 n. 2 (2017): Revista Brasileira de Zoociências /
Composition and structure of the helminth community of Columba livia (Gmelin, 1798) (Aves, Columbidae), in the municipality of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais state, Brazil
Sthefane D'ávila Museu de Malacologia Prof. Maury Pinto de Oliveira, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brasil.
Elizabeth Cristina de Almeida Bessa Departamento de Zoologia, ICB, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brasil.
Maria de Lurdes de Azevedo Rodrigues Departamento de Parasitologia Animal, Curso de Pós Graduação em Ciências Veterinárias, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica, Brasil.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.34019/2596-3325.2017.v18.24669
The objective of the present study was to describe the composition and structure of the helminth community present in domestic pigeons, in the municipality of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The helminthological survey of 35 hosts revealed the presence of two digenetic trematodes, Tanaisia (Paratanaisia) bragai (prevalence 51.42%, mean intensity 288.8 ± 403.86 and mean abundance 148 ± 320.9) and T. inopina (prevalence 2.85% and mean abundance 0.68 ± 4.05); five cestodes, Raillietina allomyodes (prevalence 34.28%, mean intensity 6.66 ± 9.14 and mean abundance 2.28 ± 6.11), Raillietina sp. (prevalence 37.14%, mean intensity 9 ± 10.68 and mean abundance 3.34 ± 7.7), Skrjabinia bonini (prevalence 20%, mean intensity 2.14 ± 1.21 and mean abundance 0.42 ± 1), Skrjabinia sp.( prevalence 5.7%, mean intensity 6 ± 7 and mean abundance 0.34 ± 7) and Fuhrmanneta sp. (prevalence 2.85% and mean abundance 0.028 ± 0.16) and four nematodes, Baruscapillaria obsignata (prevalence 51.42%, mean intensity 29.72 ± 44.2 and mean abundance 15.28 ± 34.7); Ascaridia columbae (prevalence 51.42%, mean intensity 60.55 ± 79.88 and mean abundance 31.14 ± 64.2); Tetrameres fissipina (prevalence 14.28%, mean intensity 346.3 ± 504.4 and mean abundance 49.42 ± 212.1) and Synhimanthus (Dyspharynx) nasuta (prevalence 2.85% and mean abundance 0.028 ± 0.16). Among the examined hosts, 97.2 % were found parasitized by at least one helminth species. In accordance with the prevalence of each species T. bragai, A. columbae and B. obsignata were considered secondary species and T. inopina, T. fissipina, S. nasuta, S. bonini, Skrjabinia sp., R. allomyodes, Raillietina sp. and Fuhrmanneta sp. were considered satellite species. All the species exhibited aggregate distributions, which is the most common distribution pattern in helminth populations.
v. 18 n. 2 (2017): Revista Brasileira de Zoociências
Rev. Bras. Zoociências, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brasil. p-ISSN: 1517-6770 e-ISSN: 2596-3325
Frequência de Publicação: Semestral
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GMOs, Viruses, Vaccines and Military Industrial Sabbotage
The Zika virus “outbreak” in Brazil has populated recent headlines in the Mainstream (I am informed, as I rarely see any value in checking out tainted sources). The popular shortlist culprit in the alternative Mainstream (mostly sponsored by the same supporters of the Mainstream) is Bill Gates’ genetically modified mosquitos. As Zika virus was first noted in the 1940’s, unless Gates infected the planet by time portal, his freaky mosquitos (presuming they exist) are not the culprit unless what is being labelled “Zika virus” is actually something else. I will continually stress, until I leave this great planet that all (and not some) viruses are caused by forms of inorganic or organic pollution. In the case of organic, it often turns out various forms of faeces or other bodily waste products are pollutants. Our bodies, any bodies deal with invading matter in three ways. Firstly they produce anti-bodies in great numbers. Secondly, they absorb the extraneous matter producing, in some cases, physical trace elements such as “viruses”. Finally, in accordance with the chain reaction, this produces symptoms, such as the common flu.
As the great journalist Jon Rappoport noted (and he became the Mainstream’s rash from the very beginning), there were many potential factors leading to a spike in the rare natal condition, microcephaly. He came straight out and said, from the outset, in this case there could be a number of factors contributing to those dismal Brazilian statistics. Nevertheless, as there is a long history of dreadful encephalitic eruptions in other places too, it would be foolish not to first consider these as the plausible “why?” for the peak in Brazil. In accordance with every single nuclear disaster; Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Chernobyl, Fukushima and other lesser known events, prenatal and natal outcomes, such as the small heads syndrome, brainless births, etc. have been strikingly similar to the Brazilian incidence. I would find it incongruous, as a journalist, not to have seen some corresponding evidence of radiation pollution influencing the birth defects in Brazil. Drawing of Jon’s wise preclusion towards multiple factors, I am drawn to consider how normally safe levels of radiation might have induced the catastrophic effect currently being witnessed in Latin America.
Outside the Mainstream, vaccines are not being given a good press. Indeed, prior to it hitting academic news feeds and before he could even mention his name, Jon Rappoport was reporting on the prospect of William W. Thompson, CDC Whistle-blower, coming out. MMR Vaccine had camouflaged mercury based preservative, thimerosal. Those that bothered to check out the ingredients in the vaccines destined to destroy their children’s lives would have had to dig deep to find out any coherent information on the compound. If mercury wasn’t enough, let’s add aluminium and formaldehyde for good measure, but nothing to see here, the quacks know what they are doing. Outcome, we learn from Thompson, is aggressive autism and this was known by the CDC and Merck Vaccines from the very start. That makes your kids sick and that makes me madder than hell. There are no class actions against Merck or the CDC yet, but they are waiting for confirmation that they irrefutably lied, otherwise its “mea culpa” (tough shit) for the victims, I’m afraid.
People, please! Do your own bloody homework before you trust in something given to you by the supposed experts. Stop relying on the system of vipers to protect you. I know I cannot influence any of you; unless you decide you will be influenced by me, but, for pity’s sake, wake up.
There was a vaccine connection with the Brazilian incident. And, before I continue, I would like to say not all vaccines are necessarily bad. I am not another of those alternative Mainstream imbeciles that whips up hysteria for the sake of sensation. Everything must be evaluated separately, individually, on merit. There are very good reasons why there are many valid, therapeutic vaccines and I will outline logic in my summary. Thank goodness we were not dealing with MMR in this instance, but that also is not to say infants involved were not processed by the system: small headed and autistic, what a combination! Well, perhaps I spoke too soon. Back in 2014, according to sensational Mainstream news reports, all mum-to-be were given the TDaP vaccine. A cursory look at the raw ingredients reveals aluminium phosphate, ammonium sulphate and formaldehyde; but is there any mercury in there?
We can see the answer on the Food & Drug Administration’s own website (in muted damage control):
“Much progress has been made to date in removing or reducing thimerosal in vaccines. New pediatric formulations of hepatitis B vaccines have been licensed by the FDA, Recombivax-HB (Merck, thimerosal free) in August 1999 and Engerix-B (Glaxo SmithKline, thimerosal free) in January 2007. In March 2001 the FDA approved a second DTaP vaccine formulated without thimerosal as a preservative (Aventis Pasteur’s Tripedia, trace thimerosal). Aventis Pasteur, Ltd was also approved to manufacture a thimerosal-free DTaP vaccine, Daptacel, in 2002. In September 2001 Chiron/Evans was approved for manufacturing a preservative-free formulation of their influenza vaccine, Fluvirin, that contained trace thimerosal. In September of 2002, Aventis Pasteur, Inc was approved to manufacture a preservative-free formulation of their influenza vaccine, Fluzone that contained trace thimerosal…”
So there you have it. In all likelihood, the thimerosal preservative agent would have been administered to 3rd world countries and certainly to jurisdictions where not many important people lived. By the way, if thimerosal is not at all harmful, why remove it?
Another line of reasoning per the Brazilian tragedy introduced by Jon Rappoport was the potential for Monsanto’s involvement. This prompts two avenues of consideration. Brazil is renowned for its expansive jungles which, though substantively reduced from the 1970’s, are still extremely prevalent. In accordance with industrial production and processing of natural resources, statistics point at considerable quantities of herbicides, pesticides and insecticides infecting that fragile ecosystem at all levels. Good science has already established a link between imbalanced gut bacteria (leaky gut) and weakened immune systems. It is also a factor of obesity, particularly noted in developed nations. The principal ingredient of Monsanto’s Roundup, glyphosate, is the agent that causes guttural imbalance. After the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) monumental announcement that the chemical is a “probable carcinogen” (i.e. cancer causing), the Mainstream, aided by the men in white coats, have pounced at any opportunity to devalue that message.
For instance, Monsanto’s press agents have been quick to stress that “probable”, “possible” do not mean “is” [necessarily] and [as they are used] this is something like a disclaimer for their products so no one needs to pay attention (which I might add is sheer and unadulterated bullshit). That would be fine if the villainous WHO hadn’t decided that “certain” was too strong even though (and under enormous pressure to look the other way) all 17 cancer experts could not extricate the cause/effect link (as hard as they tried). We all know the ban of Monsanto’s products has begun in Europe, but it is likely to require an earthquake to fully dislodge those corporate interests. Thus, Jon Rappoport’s focus on glyphosate in relation to the Brazil and the microcephaly outbreak is a credible line of consideration. Whereas there is no connection between the chemical and ionizing radiation (causing horrific prenatal impairments to those exposed directly after a nuclear disaster), glyphosate is linked to autism (and ADHD), Alzheimer’s disease, Anencephaly, brain cancer and Multiple Sclerosis.
Before I discuss the other Monsanto product range, genetically modified organisms, it is essential to establish the difference between a virus and a retrovirus. As with all things microscopic, the truth is never particularly clear, but I have found a source that offers an apt and contrite explanation of differences:
Virus contains DNA or RNA as their genetic material and DNA or RNA may be single stranded or double stranded. The core of viruses i.e. genetic material is surrounded by protein or lipoprotein coat. It is called as the capsid, and sometimes the capsid is enveloped with a membrane, when they are in the outside of a cell or host. Capsid is composed with identical units, which are called capsomeres. The capsid is symmetrical and varied from simple helical form to highly complex structures…
Retrovirus
Viruses that carry reverse transcription are called retroviruses. This virus can convert their RNA into DNA copy. This process is catalyzed by reverse transcriptase enzyme. Then this DNA is integrated covalently into the host genome using integrase enzyme, which is coded by reverse transcriptase. So, retrovirus has a special advantage as a gene carrier. They are integrated into the host genome directly, but the reverse transcription is much faster than the normal transcription process and it is not much accurate. So offspring may be genetically different from the first generation. Retroviruses can cause HIV and number of cancers in animals.”
Summarised and with Ozzie Thinker lateral translation, a virus is inorganic (or redundant organic) matter that infects the living cell layer and a retrovirus is a virus that mutates in such a way it cloaks cellular DNA guaranteeing unchecked mutations (cancers) of the second generation or greater. It is logical to assume that an adopted alien cell system, foreign to the body, could effectively harbour a virus which, by causal effect, would become a retrovirus in undetected form. HIV, for instance, is arguably the retroviral product of something (virus) that lies dormant in apes and came into existence when batches of polio vaccines with cultured in the kidneys of live green monkeys and chimpanzees after serums were administered. So, returning to Bill Gates’ (alleged) genetically modified mosquitos introduced to the same region of Brazil which saw the microcephaly outbreak after a reported Zika virus spike, let us consider the possibilities.
These insects were made and introduced to, apparently, relieve the region of Dengue fever as the new mosquitos were predicted to overwhelm and squeeze out (per natural order) the larger, unmodified bugs. My other blog regularly features articles about other worldly, extra-terrestrial systems. In this case, I refer to the Draco’s (a shadow, extra-dimensional, reptilian hierarchy that monitors and controls man) numerous and unsuccessful attempts at creating a new human hybrid (our replacements). These guys have been at it for billions of years. Monsanto or some other organisation comes along and, in two minutes, expects to overcome the issues that have affected geneticists from the dawn of time? If a mosquito feeds on your blood, it makes an exchange of DNA, so every time a Brazilian is bitten by one of these little suckers they become a minuscule part GM mozzie (assuming the whole thing isn’t a giant hoax). I rather like this quasi-mainstream article that puts things into perspective:
“This theory suggests the Zika virus outbreak is the result of mosquitos genetically modified by British company Oxitec. The GM mosquitoes in question, Aedes aegypti, have been engineered so that when they breed with the normal population, none of the mosquito offspring survive…
…But this is nonsense. GM mosquitos cannot reproduce, and those that survived into adulthood cannot suddenly become infected with the Zika virus. Further to that, the Zika virus has been around for more than 60 years, having been first isolated in Uganda in 1947. It found its way from Africa and moved westwards, with cases in Micronesia, French Polynesia and Chile. It was first identified in Brazil in May 2015.”
It seems Zika fever is well known in India and has been around so long it perhaps was recorded in Vedic times. Unfortunately I have not been able to cite any specific examples in the holy texts, but I feel sure correct due diligence would show something. The important point is, if Zika fever originates from the same Zika viral strain that was discovered in 1947, then the connection with “genetically modified mosquitos” (if they exist in the region) is coincidental. Reading between the lines, additionally, it was only after the WHO 2015 announcement of a possible Zika virus threat that Brazil bothered to screen their populaces (or perhaps I have misread that from the dearth of propaganda). As, colloquially, viral symptoms are relatively mild and certainly not life threatening, perhaps Zika virus has been around in Brazil, noticed or unnoticed, for a very long time too. The Ugandan version discovered in 1947 is a flavivirus which affects the RNA. St Louis encephalitis is another flavivirus, so the microcephaly association was not entirely unwarranted. However, as it turns out the original 4,000 encephalitic disorders have been reduced to around 400, of which a mere 17 show a slight presence of Zika virus in the afflicted babies, due diligence has not been applied to the dissemination of information in the Mainstream.
In my extensive research for this article, I posited a line of enquiry to ascertain what the known agents of disease are. The answer was dramatically simple. There are four agents of disease: parasites, bacteria, fungi and pollutants. Now, of course, science journals expand this to five or more (depending how you class pollution) with the addition of viruses. Yet, to anyone that isn’t entirely boneheaded or corrupt it is strikingly obvious viruses are symptomatic effects of pollutants (organic or inorganic) and cancers are caused by a combination of fungi and pollutants. Shouldn’t the objective of true science be to identify what pollutants/fungi are responsible for diseases before branding symptoms or traits as the causes? Removal or eradication of the problem, will give no cause for symptoms.
Jon Rappoport calls the CDC the new medical CIA for good reason, as we see from the atrocious handling of the very much current MMR scandal that, to them, medicine is an “op” or “ops”. Frankly, as we have discovered here, the WHO isn’t much better. It offers fear mongering propaganda in place of what should be sanity. No wonder the world’s finest medics are seen as little more than quacks by serious investigators, committed thinkers. That is because just about all have some vested interests supporting the very same propaganda that has created the dreadful mess called governance. Governments that supposedly administer for the people exist in worlds adrift of reality. Insistence on spinning fantasy myths that sometimes amount to absolute hogwash is the anchor we, the people, rely on. That mainstay is attached to the ship by a silk thread and the malignant ones know it, but because people (generally speaking) are such cowards, they cling to the journey to oblivion for dear life.
Returning back to the topic and the Zika/encephalitis outbreak in Brazil, culprits are conclusively obvious to me. The microcephaly condition was not caused by Zika or any other fantastical virus. In fact there was no direct culprit. Though the true number of instances of affliction has been dramatically reduced for this localised region of Brazil to a few 100’s complaints, there are about 25,000 comparable encephalic conditions in the US alone, annually. Why not focus on this given the panic over Brazil? Because Brazil is actually about “damage control”, but let me continue with the summary before I explain why. Zika’s presence was irrelevant, incidental. Please be clear on this. There were two issues at play. The first was the TDaP vaccine. We do not know, but can assume thimerosal laced serum was issued in Brazil. Net effect was mother and child’s immune systems were challenged and, in the case of some infants’, severely weakened. Thus, when each mother and partner lovingly witnessed the fresh ultrasound images of their bundles of joy-to-be, little did they know of the dangers, which, in normal circumstances, weren’t there. Sound waves do generate radiation of a sort, but it hasn’t been discovered by human science yet. So, there is no connection with potentially harmful ionizing radiation and sound per se. The machines that deliver ultrasonic beams are radioactive and miniscule amounts leaked would have been enough to seriously affect a seriously weakened foetus. Case closed.
So, let us consider the fantasy that has been generated by the WHO and other Mainstream or alternative information outlets and why. They have selected a virus as the possible cause which is a known dud. To show how serious this is (or they are), a Hyderabad bio-merchant is 10 years away from developing a Zika vaccine. It is strange that this ex. Islamic fiefdom and thorn-in-side of the autocratic rulers is India’s champion in the fight against a known dud. Zika headliners have blanketed all major news feeds, as a lot of money has been invested in pharmaceutical stocks. Did not Bill Gates and Warren Buffet collectively chip in $60 billion (wasn’t it?), as mates do? Then Bill kindly gave away $5 billion (right?) to India (again?). The alternative news streams conjured up the mother of all fiendish diversions. They created killer genetically modified mosquitos and that shifted the focus away from Zika and onto the possibility of a (retrovirus) mutation of Dengue fever. All these possibilities and not a single truth in sight! There was no deadly mutation and there were no genetically modified mosquitos. That was a ruse and I am sure Bill Gates, being in the club, is laughing heartily.
As I have outlined, the real causes of the Brazilian tragedy were not mentioned in the Mainstream and may have been manipulated out-of-context by most alternative sources. In the years I have been writing, it has become increasingly clear that the alternatives are witting or unwitting agents of the precise same tyrants that determine what the Mainstream is allowed to say. In this particular case, hidden toxins in vaccines and the transparent effect of industrial pollutants [in bodies] are an absolute no no. In conjunction, the fact that both culprits were innocently delivered by ignorant medics because they have been branded safe by propaganda spinners suggests that wider populaces might be incensed into outright rebellion should they ever comprehend the truth. To avoid that dark day, this skilful subterfuge has been woven into the Mainstream, including most science journals. Mildly questioning the efficacy of certain statements is the closest we come to dissent. Most of those flames are vigorously fanned down by the crowing voices of evil.
The overall objective is far worse than even the most ardent critic [of the system] would imagine. The reason situations unravel as though they were part of some theatre or chess moves on a giant board is that is precisely what is going on. Truth has been replaced by “the message”. The objective, end game, is total control of humanity (the board). Industrialists deliberately pollute and then sterilise, then pollute again in order to solve the problem, on and on, ad infinitum as that ensures perennial control. It means nature no longer satisfies man’s lifespan; their medicines do. Those we want to perish we do not assist. The rest are kept alive courtesy of the system (all those good vaccines, cannabis oil, if necessary and so on). The military, for their part, are not merely spreaders of pollution, but also arbitrate clandestine operations of terror for purposes of manipulation, removal of obstacles or infrastructural support. Though they say, “sticks and stones will break your bones but words will never hurt you” to kids, this isn’t true. Those that study the effect of Voodoo quickly realise words are far more effective than remedial action, certainly when trying to convert large numbers quickly. The military-industrial corporate complex may be the producers of most toxins that cause most illnesses plaguing this planet, but without their vile unscrupulous “science-journalists”, mutinies would have haemorrhaged at the highest levels and caused systemic collapse long ago.
Posted on February 9, 2016 by ozziethinker in Rage against the machine • Tagged ADHD, alternative news streams, aluminium phosphate, Alzheimer’s disease, ammonium sulphate, Anencephaly, autism, autistic, Aventis Pasteur, bacteria, Bill Gates, bio-merchants, brain cancer, Brazil, Brazilian tragedy, CDC, CDC Whistle-blower, Chernobyl, chimpanzees, corporate interests, Daptacel, Dengue fever, disease, DNA, Draco, encephalitic disorders, Engerix-B, exopolitician, extra-dimensional, FDA, flavivirus, Fluvirin, Fluzone, Food & Drug Administration, formaldehyde, fukushima, fungi, genetically modified mosquitos, Glaxo SmithKline, glyphosate, green monkeys, hidden toxins, Hiroshima, hiv, human hybrid, Hyderabad, Islamic fiefdom, Jon Rappoport, known dud, Mainstream, mea culpa, Merck Vaccines, mercury, microcephaly, military-industrial corporate complex, MMR scandal, Monsanto, multiple factors, Multiple Sclerosis, Nagasaki, nuclear disaster, parasites, polio vaccine, pollutants, propaganda spinners, quacks, reptilian, retrovirus, RNA, small headed, St Louis encephalitis, tainted sources, TDaP vaccine, Telangana Rebellion, thimerosal, Tripedia, Warren Buffet, WHO, William W. Thompson, Zika virus • 11 Comments
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Callous Abuses of the Word Abuse
No one should honestly embrace this topic “in sincerity” without first addressing the greatest abuse of all current abuses: “paedophilia”. Perhaps it’s the circles I frequent, but I cannot fathom why more people don’t “get it”. Are you all so consumed with passion you cannot distinguish reliable information from the vagaries of conjecture? Jon Rappoport’s work on the disintegration of problem solving logic very much impinges on modern social conditioning, in my opinion. Therefore, I plan to separately tackle the child designate sex issue head on, in isolation and as thoroughly as I am able. Be assured detail will be exquisite. A future release has already been part-scripted in essay form and aptly provisionally titled, “The Powers’ Proud Accolade: Brand Pedo”.
Few today (of correct age) would have the presence of mind to remember that the transition from homophobia to pedophobia began in the 1970’s, perhaps inspired by the sexual revolution a decade prior. The “powers” were quick to action a remedy against that dissent (which included droves of AWOL’s from Vietnam), and how to impose sexual sobriety was one of the foundation stones laid in 1971-75 plans aimed at stemming aggressive independent cultures (cults) non-compliance with aggregate society. Multiculturalism synthetically imposing “common goals” was sure to vanquish any notion of social independence. It was no coincidence that Britain had set the precedent for total censorship of pictorial sexual literature after a number of successful prosecution outcomes against publisher David Gold in 1972. Under his new business partner, the desperately corrupt David Sullivan, their new marketing policy saw grossly misleading advertising fortuitously erupt into an explosion of sales of legal censored or “soft core” topical picture books and films. Arguably “smut’s” new found popularity had arisen as a symptom of burgeoning bohemian attitudes reacting against prohibition. For instance, the same thing happened after Mary Whitehouse successfully targeted schlock horror “B movies” in the 1980’s.
Behind the scenes (though nothing explicit was produced by Gold or Sullivan after the court losses) extremist sentiment against “hard core” pornography in general saw a misdirection campaign that strategically positioned child porn as the undeniable progressive pinnacle of perverse licentiousness. Circular logic fused “thin end of the wedge” and “guilt by association” opinion to fan misguided and erroneous belief that all things illicit are “related” and virulently spread like cancers. Predictably absolute “resolution” determined anything pornographic must be forbidden to “cure” harmonious society. Conversely, attitudes were relaxing against salacious (one time pornographic) literatures, after a case against Penguin Books over publication of D H Lawrence’s “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” was overturned by the British courts in the 1960’s.
A pithy American current affair propaganda piece titled “The Children of God” (or something similar) made in 1971 (there have been several subsequent “documentaries” based on similar themes) ridiculed a network of community groups that called themselves The Family International (established in California by David Berg in 1968). According to the original documentary, ethics of the institution placed no age restrictions on sexual interaction between incestuous community members (a policy that radically changed in 1985). Production of pornographic literatures (examples offered were classed as child porn) was encouraged and sales were used to raise funds for the group. Unsurprisingly, film makers were only concerned with exposing perceived negatives and, beyond that, nothing was learned about the mission and ethos of The Family International. My personal research showed a number of cult members were pushed into suicide after trying to reintegrate into “closed minded” wider society before and after Berg’s (whose written legacy by no means identifies with vicious hysteria post documentary) death in 1994.
Homosexuality ran a different, though in some ways parallel, course, marked by virulent crusades against suspected public figures and all promotional publications. Throughout the 1970’s I would argue that it was viewed as a far greater social evil than paedophilia. Rather interestingly society’s whims so often seem adrift of reality. In more tolerant times, a relatively well publicised survey suggested roughly one in three males were clinical paedophiles. Other censuses have calculated one in five males showing bisexual tendencies. Personally I am inclined to take “statistics” with a big pinch of salt and that’s why I haven’t cited specific references. Even so, I am rather compelled to believe that the percentage of potential agitators for or against specific causes might disproportionately swell if people were a little more honest about themselves.
Attitudes didn’t relax against gay communities until well into the 1980’s. By the 1990’s AIDS (or gay plague) fear, mostly a misdirection campaign or scam, had reached fever pitch and this, I feel, was the cause of softened social attitudes towards the “plight of homosexual men” (in particular). However, in my opinion, had Bill Clinton (an alleged paedophile, by the way) not made it as President of the United States of America, the “changeover” (from homo to pedophobia) likely would not have happened. He began gay favourable rhetoric which laterally blossomed through corrupt [mainstream] Medias. His appointment of Janet Reno as head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) mandated radical development of a “Child porn entrapment market” as number one priority.
From around 1995 malignant advertising campaigns specifically targeted borderline adults as never before and these were accompanied by numerous arrests of teenagers and similar aged adults (i.e. 18-21) that had allegedly engaged in sexual acts. Those trading explicit visual materials depicting “teenagers” also came under scrutiny in a much bigger way than before. Many arrests on the back of ignorantly innocent distribution networks included sensational pieces of “evidence”, such as a hard core stag film featuring an alleged fifteen year old Rob Lowe as “pizza boy”. Reno (who has been promoted as a “lover” of Mrs Clinton, also an alleged paedophile), incidentally, was the one that ordered the murder of innocent American citizens under the auspices of the 1993 FBI attack on the Dravidian (cult) community located at Waco Texas.
As mentioned earlier, I shall discuss the origins of the concept (and that’s all it is) paedophilia (which literally means to have an intellectual compatibility or love of children) in much more detail in the future. It will also give readers the opportunity to explore and evaluate some of the (inquisition style) tricks used to calculate confessions from targeted individuals or groups, manufacture the presumption of guilt “as charged” and regularly encourage bearers of false witness to commit perjury (in court). But, for now, I will only deal with that which is contextually related to the word “abuse”, which, I must say, in the context of paedophilia, is so vastly widespread, it may well serve evidence to justify multitudes of reports. The arbitrary nature of an inflexible (paralysis) and baseless (no scientific case) age of adulthood (currently set at eighteen, until the next foul referendum) should raise a cacophony of “destruction of liberty” alarm bells. I am fondly reminded of Krishna’s timelessly wise instruction, “The forces of evil paralyse”.
Perhaps anyone else would have said “sovereign choice” in place of liberty. However, sovereign individuality potentially conflicts with social liberty and the distorters of “abuse” know that all too well. Mankind is heading towards totalitarianism, the only utopian federal alternative to communion, at a rapid rate. There are two fundamental branches of the slave/master paradigm. One is labelled Fascism. This version of order is built on the premise that the fabric of commerce is strong enough to regulate social charters. Evidence might appear in the form of something like, shall we say, corporate responsibility whereby employee-slaves are both bound by “the law” and their company manifesto. Under Fascist totalitarianism, companies seeking new employees (of all rank) would rate assessment of authority documentation (official identification, police check, bankruptcy report and so on) as the most important stage of the internment process. Penal facilities would be outsourced and run by privateers. Marxism, the alternative totalitarian system, is very similar, except the social charter is administered by government and, consequentially, core business might be nationalised to compliment that seamless authority.
Sovereign individuals disrupt utopian society (per the Fascist/Marxist models). Societies are governed by standards and these might conceivably be eroded by abusers. Therefore, logically, abuse of the word abuse relies on the distortion of truth, which allows the marginalisation of social values geared to reducing sovereign choice in favour of social conditioning (i.e. only “choice” to conform and not to rebel). Society masters impose order on members by the same methods parents use to oppress children. In today’s society children are broken into conformation (to conform is the only “choice”) for what can become lifelong family feuds that are amply exploited by “authorities”. The regime treats its members with common impunity. Children are conditioned into responding to but not respecting family boundaries. So too society’s parts are tolerant but not understanding of individual prisoner status. Freedom is limited to “they tell me this is allowed”. Abuse has been distorted to vilify the authority against “that which isn’t allowed”. True violation is certainly secondary (a sort of bi-product) and mostly irrelevant beyond ramping up any case in favour of abuse stipulations.
The flawed logic of this philosophy doesn’t end there. If abuse is a symptom of that which defies freedom, our vile powers may as well argue they protect those locked up in prisons from the world at large. Under that premise, they would do detainees a great service. The whole foundation of abuse as a concept has been twisted to satisfy the crime (as it were) in this way. Expanding on my incarceration metaphor, it might be argued that though people may well be taken against their will, social disinfection actually serves the dual purpose of ensuring captive would-be criminals are locked into cramped cells “each for their own good”. The “powers” claim, therefore, incarceration is not “abuse”. Whereas currently, for my research, the justice system hasn’t made humanitarian assertions of this nature, it’s only a matter of time before it happens.
In the same manner sexually orientated child designates are persecuted under the guise of “protection”, the rules governing society transcend individual reasoning. The bi-product is an insanity which permits free thinking individuals can be stripped of all tenable rights and abused in spirit but not “under law”. Wayward laws were never in place to protect society, but rather to purge incongruous elements; those that choose to be different, set apart from the masses. A corresponding history of the delineation of order can be charted from the very cradle of civilisation. For the peoples of ancient Atlantis, administrative powers determined wrong doers should be scooped up and separated from the masses in order to purify society. Consequentially, prisoners (that were not routinely executed) were banished from their impenetrable towering citadel home.
After the collapse of Atlantis, roaming derelict tribes (prisoner outcasts) gradually re-civilised and this encouraged the consolidation of penal codes configured to administer secure wholesale capture and disposal of enemies. Today’s confinement model was the natural evolution of those haphazard reactionary origins. That is largely why the modern day “justice system” is terminally flawed. It was built on a framework geared to exclusively serving the “in-group”. Incidentally, our price busting “captive labour” prison system fits the Fascist corporate ordained order model like a glove. If those detained were classed as “privileged” (rescued) by the system, what would inhibit it from billing them full board over incarceration periods? In the future could everyone be forced into bonded labour to “cover penal charges”?
Governments, whether supporting Marxist or Fascist policy objectives, are exclusively in power to construct the framework or refinement of “order”. Manifestos are only delivered by governments and not created by them. Even so, given those ever teetering cyclic oscillations that divine the “power sharing” poled between aggressive conservative and leftist opinion making, manifestos are also “open” enough to permit “the law” and its administrational infrastructures change with the seasons. Dramatic “anti-social” policy making relies on false flags to subvert rebellion. Complimenting this deception government backed terrorists are routinely commissioned to attack in ways that ensure sponsored solutions [to fictitious problems] are both feasible and “palatable”. Were any planes used in the so-called “9/11” attack or was Fascist “News’” “live cut” really a stage-play of pre-recorded enhanced special effects (or, in other words, government sponsored propaganda)? Reasoning determining these ongoing travesties against societies is almost identical to the philosophic candour that claims to justify the distorted abuse of “abuse”.
Fantasy is deemed more vital than reality in so much as nature and everything vibrantly natural has become the subliminally targeted enemy of the spinners of make-believe. They, as evidenced by their non-existent reasoning that has become the graduation of child status on ever more bodily adults, assures their followers that survival of power is the only real justification for all social considerations. For anyone that questions this “balance of power”, genetically modified organisms (GMO’s) are all about demonstrating the “machine” can conquer nature and (from the inspiration perspective) have nothing to do with the manufacture of goodness. Unforseen dietary advantages innocently improve “spin campaigns”. An expansion of this, should I call it, platform insists presumption of guilt defines society at large (per an expansion of unknown nationals or “Goyim’s” categorisation as strangers that are presumed “untrustworthy”), with exemptions given to the honourable or those with the right credentials (in the “family”). Thus, everyone of “file” is a potential prisoner-in-waiting when not of sufficient “rank”. That is the primary reason why “abuse” has been distorted as a condition of that framework (i.e. behind “presumption of guilt” is the contamination assurance that an abuse has been committed).
With empirical clarity abuse is transformed into something material, solid, clear cut. It is something that can be tangibly used in a court of law. [Individual] circumstances become secondary, perhaps even arbitrary or elementary (i.e. if a “black and white” abuse has occurred; how are circumstances relevant?). In that fashion, any accusation becomes virulently more potent than all cohesive evidence backed defences (which risk being judged as excuses or hindrances). In other words, if “circumstances” are irrelevant, for abuse is abuse, then what is the purpose of evidence beyond obstructing the course of justice? Once an abuse is “agreed on”, all that’s needed is a wrongly done by claimant. That’s the lack of logic being applied here and that is why evidence is going to potentially obstruct the potency of any abuse claim (which must be true to be potent) under those farcical terms. Referring again to my mention of Jon Rappoport’s work, that is why the education system does everything and anything to block critical thinking. “Truth” is becoming so estranged from popular acumen; I fear it is threatened with extinction.
In fact immortalisation of distorted abuse is a feature of a watershed that is slowly but surely stripping away all sovereign rights. On this course when a “file” member thinks for himself it is potentially a most destructive act against the regime. Frankly put, the only way to possibly undermine the power brokers and their fraudulence passed off as “goodwill” is to outwit them. Therefore, I could well see critical thinkers labelled “terrorists” under threat of some capital offense or other at some juncture. Currently the Mental Health Act substitutes as the primary lateral filter. It has made damned sure that we no longer have the right to use our bodies in the way we decide. Examples to illustrate this include impingement on just about every functional aspect of life. We must wear clothes at all times except by arrangement when on private property. All bodily functions are limited in some way. I could focus on sexual reassignment of homosexuals, but the more obvious “for instance” is the denial of consenting sex between “minors” (i.e. all parties are legally underage).
To show just how fanatically lacking in conscience and common sense the powers’ lust for control has become, per their “abuse philosophy”, a statutory rape charge must be served on at least one party (all underage, per this example, let us not forget) when infractions occur. Thus, the justice system will determine at least one person has been abused whether claimed or not. To any reasoned thinker, potential consequences should be startlingly obvious. Predictably, there have been a number of judicial outcomes after no one embroiled agreed to being abused. In instances of this sort “the system” has been seen to judge everyone involved as having “raped each other”. How can that be? Is it possible for there to be perpetrators without victims or victims without perpetrators (depending on the legal insistence)? Surely this must be one of the best examples that conclusively demonstrate how unchallengeable validation of a concept can pervert reality.
There must be no doubt that corrupt goodwill does pervert reality and it causes all kinds of nasty chain reaction consequences. I plan to explore what motives are behind and ramifications result from circumcision in “The Powers Proud Accolade: Brand Pedo”. Recently a commenter on Jon Rappoport’s blog asked if I could include her feedback on the subject in one of my public writings. Presumably of Jewish ancestry, she reported her sibling’s circumcision had contributed to a painfully vicious hate/guilt cycle that has persisted to haunt the family relationship and, ultimately, befoul the lateral mother/son bonding process.
Men are considered (by the Pharisees) to have much stronger libidos than women, so males are circumcised shortly after birth. Contrary to popular opinion, Islam was created to radicalise Judaism (as “Christianity” had failed in the Pharisees’ utopian quest) and circumcises females as well (originally Muslim males were cut to honour the prophet). However, if the ceremony is done too early in the female’s case, it risks destroying all sexual self-esteem (leading to frigidity). Therefore the clitoris is partly removed from girls around age six. It is not fully extracted as the function of circumcision is merely to act as a masturbation (inappropriate lust) inhibitor and not to create permanent dysfunctional sexuality.
Fake “abuse” wields as much power as “blasphemy”. The very mention of it should send shivers down the spine and not for noble reasons. In fact in its current use it marks the total collapse of sanity. Abuse is a winner. It can hang a court. It has acted as anchor to all past and current inquisition movements, including the latest one used against Catholic priests, Jewish rabbis and others that dare inhibit Zionist order. Juries are marginalised, perhaps superfluous even, when presented accused are “certainly guilty” beyond any doubt without need of peer review.
From the provable “conspiratorial” angle I could argue there is a covert agenda geared to demeaning anything and everything that entitles communion. This, by extension, distorts purposeful living into desecration. Underpinned by many unwelcome corporate compliance terms, whether delivered through the private sector or “government”, the final step has been to vilify slavery (dressed as “employment”) as the fundamental point of vocational existence. Bearing in mind the “contract” everyone makes with God prior to coming into the world is to balance “living life to the max” and “revering the body as the temple”, real abuse, real violation has been mutated into something beautifully sacred. The powers’ grand coup, great deception against the peoples’ contract with God could not be more amply highlighted than by outlining how religions scammed “beliefs”.
Religions gave “God” a voice and it was a remarkable revolution, because God never actually said anything and none dare question what wasn’t said. In precisely the same way shadow powers execute government, the Pharisees control all religions today and the basic “blasphemy” indoctrination has been incorporated into Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. Perhaps there’s the odd tribal culture “exception” saved by lack of popularity, but the rationalisation has predominantly been a global one. “God” has also been incorporated into civil law federally, so religions have served their purpose and cease to be explicitly necessary. Through those wonderful pharisaic ideologists, God talks in mysterious ways. Mass indoctrination continues, unaltered by atheism, unhampered and never erring in the deliverance of the never spoken word.
Of course, everyone “should” know the “word of God” is actually bullshit and “God’s values” are actually the Pharisees’ Laws. The real God talks through nature and that’s why they (the shadow powers) attack any known pantheist cult, attempt to destroy natural foods (supress organic, flood GMO’s), aggressively sponsor sexual “reassignment” and support, impose anything else that is sure to give nature a whack in the nose. Those believed-to-be vigilant “forces for light” (euphemistically calling themselves Truthers) couldn’t discover the “truth” if they tripped over it. Their spiteful and pointless crusade against phantom “Illuminati” power has failed to get close to coming to terms with the real evil doers and their so-called “Luciferian Doctrine”. Illuminati occultists (hidden ones) have scripted the greatest violation, abuse imaginable. The ultimate goal is poison the planet whilst “undoing nature” in an agenda determined to reduce humanity to abject trans-humanism, a globe populated by living robots if you will.
Everyone seems to go along with the plan, blindly and ignorantly. The few that become aware do nothing meaningful to inhibit destruction in motion. Babbling do-gooders assume if it “ain’t noticeably broken, why fix it?” People culturally attune and do their upmost to maintain their selfishly favourable status quos for as long as they persist. Conversely, those that dare challenge their “hard earned”, wilfully fickle resources are despised. Per this haughty arrogance, ones that beg for support “must be” inferior parasites of the lowest character. How dare they abuse us by “expecting” donations and other spiritually draining demands? It’s not only the “powers” that callously abuse the word “abuse”. You all do.
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R. Finlayson
An Abstract API for Multicast Address Allocation
Copyright © The Internet Society (2000). All Rights Reserved.
This document describes the "abstract service interface" for the dynamic multicast address allocation service, as seen by applications. While it does not describe a concrete API (i.e., for a specific programming language), it describes - in abstract terms - the semantics of this service, including the guarantees that it makes to applications.
Additional documents (not necessarily products of the IETF) would describe concrete APIs for this service.
Applications are the customers of a multicast address allocation service, so a definition of this service should include not only the inter-node network protocols that are used to implement it, but also the 'protocol' that applications use to access the service. While APIs ("application programming interfaces") for specific programming languages (or operating systems) are outside the domain of the IETF, it is appropriate for us to define - in abstract terms - the semantic interface that this service presents to applications. Specific APIs would then be based upon this abstract service interface.
Note that it is possible to implement the multicast address allocation service in at least two different ways. The first (and perhaps most common) way is for end nodes to allocate addresses by communicating with a separate "Address Allocation Server" node, using the "Host to Address Allocation Server" network protocol (MADCAP) [1][7]. Alternatively, an "Address Allocation Server" implementation might be co-located (along with one or more applications) on an end node, in which case some other, internal, mechanism might be used to access the server. In either case, however, the abstract service interface (and, presumably, any specific APIs) would remain the same.
The remainder of this document describes the abstract interface.
Note that this interface is intended only for the allocation of dynamic multicast addresses, as used by the traditional multicast service model [2]. Future multicast service models might allocate or assign multicast addresses in other ways, but this is outside the scope of this document.
2. Abstract Data Types
The interface described below uses the following abstract data types:
- AddressFamily: e.g., IPv4 or IPv6
- MulticastAddress: An actual multicast address (i.e., that could
subsequently be used as the destination of a datagram)
MulticastAddressSet: A set of "MulticastAddress"es
- LanguageTag: The code for a (human) language, as defined in [4]
- Scope: An "administrative scope" [3] from which multicast
addresses are to be allocated. Each scope is a
"MulticastAddressSet", with an associated set of
(character-string) names - indexed by "LanguageTag". (Each
language tag has at most one corresponding name, per
scope.) For each scope, a (language tag, name) pair may be
defined to be the 'default' name for this scope. (See the
section "Querying the name of a scope" below.)
(An implementation of this abstract data type might also include other information, such as a default TTL for the scope.)
- Time:
An (absolute) event time. This is used for specifying the "lifetime" of multicast addresses: the period of time during which allocated multicast addresses are guaranteed to be available. (It is also used to specify the desired start time for an "advance allocation".)
Note that a concrete API might prefer to specify some of these times as relative times (i.e., relative to the current time-of-day), rather than absolute time. (Relative times have the advantage of not requiring clock synchronization.)
- Lease:
A compound data type that describes the result of a (successful) multicast address allocation. It consists of:
[MulticastAddressSet] The set of addresses that were allocated;
[AddressFamily] The address family of these addresses
[Time] The lifetime of these addresses (the same for each address)
- [Time] The "start time" of the allocation. (See the
discussion of "advance allocation" below.) (A concrete
API would likely also include a MADCAP "Lease
Identifier" [1].)
- NestingRelationship:
A binary data type that describes whether or not two scopes nest. Two scopes nest if traffic sent sent to a multicast group within one scope could be seen by all hosts present within the other scope were they to join the multicast group within the first scope. This value would be "False" for overlapping scopes where only some (or none) of the hosts within the second scope could see traffic sent to an address due to the presence of an administratively scoped boundary. In cases where the first and second scopes are topologically identical this value would be "True."
Status: A result code.
3. The Abstract Interface
3.1 Allocating multicast addresses:
alloc_multicast_addr(in AddressFamily family,
in Scope scope,
in Integer minDesiredAddresses,
in Integer maxDesiredAddresses,
in Time minDesiredStartTime,
in Time maxDesiredStartTime,
in Time minDesiredLifetime,
in Time maxDesiredLifetime,
out Lease multicastAddressSetLease,
out Status status)
This operation attempts to allocate a set of multicast addresses (the size of this set is in the range [minDesiredAddresses, maxDesiredAddresses]) within the given address family and scope, and within a given range of desired lifetimes. ("minDesiredStartTime" and "maxDesiredStartTime" are used to specify "advance allocation"; this is described in more detail below.)
If the address allocation succeeds, the result is returned in "multicastAddressSetLease" (with "status" = OK).
During the lifetime of this lease, the allocation service will make a "best-effort" attempt to not allocate any of these addresses to others. (However, once the lease's lifetime has expired, any of its addresses can be allocated to others.)
Multicast addresses are allocated for a limited lifetime. An application may attempt to extend this lifetime, but this operation may fail. Therefore, an application must be prepared for the possibility it will not be able to use the same addresses for as long as it desires. In particular, the application must be prepared to either quit early (because its original multicast address assignments have expired), or, alternatively, to occasionally 'renumber' its multicast addresses (in some application or higher-level-protocol dependent way), by making a new allocation. However, if an application needs to consider 'renumbering', it will always know this in advance, at the time it acquired its current address(es) - by checking the lifetime in the returned lease. An application will never need to be notified asynchronously of the need to 'renumber'.
Possible errors:
- bad address family
- bad scope
- bad desired number of addresses (e.g., max < min)
- bad desired lifetimes (e.g., max < min)
- errors with the two "start time" parameters (see
"Advance allocation" below)
- no addresses can be allocated (for the requested parameters)
An allocation attempt can also fail with a result "status" code of TRY_LATER, indicating that the requested allocation cannot be made at this time, but that it might succeed if the caller retries the attempt at some future time. (This future time is returned in the "start time" field of the
"multicastAddressSetLease";
the other parts of this lease are undefined.)
Note that a concrete (i.e., programming language-specific) API for multicast address allocation will probably include additional, specialized variants of this general allocation operation. For instance, it may include separate operations for:
- allocating only a single address
(i.e., minDesiredAddresses = maxDesiredAddresses = 1);
- (attempting to) allocate an address with a single, fixed
lifetime (i.e., minDesiredLifetime = maxDesiredLifetime);
- (attempting to) allocate an address for immediate use
(i.e., minDesiredStartTime = maxDesiredStartTime = 'now')
3.2 Changing multicast addresses' lifetime:
change_multicast_addr_lifetime(in Lease multicastAddressSetLease,
in Time maxDesiredLifetime, out Time lifetime)
This operation attempts to change the lifetime of previously allocated multicast addresses. Unless an error occurs, it returns the new lifetime (which might remain unchanged).
- bad durations (e.g., max < min)
- the addresses' lifetime could not be changed
(and the existing lifetime was not in the requested range
[minDesiredLifetime,maxDesiredLifetime])
- the addresses were not ones that we had allocated
(see section 5.9) - or they have already expired
3.3 Deallocating multicast addresses:
deallocate_multicast_addr(in Lease multicastAddressSetLease) This operation attempts to deallocate previously allocated multicast addresses.
(or they have already expired)
3.4 Querying the set of usable multicast address scopes:
get_multicast_addr_scopes(in AddressFamily family,
out "set of" Scope)
This operation returns the set of administrative multicast address scopes that are defined for this node.
bad address family
3.5 Querying the name of a scope:
get_scope_name(in Scope scope,
in LanguageTag language,
out String name,
out LanguageTag languageForName)
This operation returns a character-string name for a given scope. If the scope has a name in the specified "language", then this name (and language) is returned. Otherwise, the scope's default (language, name) pair is returned.
bad scope.
3.6 Querying the nesting state of known usable multicast address scopes:
get_scope_nesting_state(in "set of" Scope,
out "matrix of" NestingRelationship)
- bad scope.
- nesting state undetermined at this time.
This operation would return a matrix that shows the
current nesting relationships between the supplied
set of scopes which would have previously been supplied
via the get_multicast_addr_scopes(...) function.
3.7 Querying the set of scopes that a given scope is known to nest inside:
get_larger_scopes(in Scope,
This operation returns the set of administrative multicast address scopes that are known to encompass the supplied
3.8 Querying the set of scopes that are known to nest inside a given scope:
get_smaller_scopes(in Scope,
This operation returns the set of administrative multicast address scopes that are known to nest inside the supplied Scope (NB this would include those scopes that are topologically identical to the supplied scope).
3.9 Note: The decision as to who is allowed to deallocate (or change
the lifetime of) a previously allocated multicast address set lease is implementation-specific, and depends upon the security policy of the host system. Thus it is not specified in this abstract API. One possible starting point, however, is the following:
A previously allocated multicast address can be deallocated (or have its lifetime queried or changed) by the same "principal", and on the same node, as that which originally allocated it. ("principal" might, for example, be a "user" in the host operating system.)
3.10 Advance allocation
By specifying "minDesiredStartTime = maxDesiredStartTime = 'now'", the address allocation operation - "alloc_multicast_addr" - described above can be used to request a set of multicast addresses that can be used *immediately* (and until their lifetime expires). During this whole time, the addresses are not available for allocation to others.
It is also possible - using the "minDesiredStartTime" and "maxDesiredStartTime" parameters - to allocate multicast addresses *in advance* - i.e., so that they have a future "start time" as well as an expiration time. Before the start time, the multicast addresses may be allocated to others.
Advance allocation is convenient for allocating addresses for events that begin far in the future - e.g., several weeks or months away. Without advance allocation, it would be necessary to allocate addresses for a long period of time - even when it will not be used. Such a request would not only be a wasteful use of the multicast address space, but it may also be difficult to implement (especially since address allocations are expected to remain valid in spite of topology changes).
Advance allocation requests can produce the following errors (in addition to those defined earlier):
- bad start time durations (e.g., max < min)
- requested start times conflict with requested lifetimes
(i.e., min start time > max lifetime)
The following operation is also defined:
change_multicast_addr_start_time(in Lease multicastAddressSetLease,
in Time minDesiredStartTime, in Time maxDesiredStartTime, out Time startTime)
This operation attempts to change the start time of previously allocated multicast addresses. Unless an error occurs, it returns the new start time (which might remain unchanged).
Possible errors: the same as "change_multicast_addr_lifetime"
As noted in section 5.9 above, each implementation of this abstract API should define a security policy that specifies when (and by whom) previously allocated multicast addresses can be deallocated (or queried, or have their lifetime changed).
Because multicast addresses are a finite resource, there is a potential for a "denial of service" attack by allocating a large number of multicast addresses without deallocating them. Preventing such an attack, however, is not the role of the API, but rather by the underlying MAAS ("Multicast Address Allocation Server(s)" [6]).
Many thanks to other participants in the "MALLOC" working group - in particular Steve Hanna, Dave Thaler, Roger Kermode, and Pavlin Radoslavov - for their valuable comments.
[1] Hanna, S., Patel, B. and M. Shah, "Multicast Address Dynamic
Client Allocation Protocol (MADCAP)", RFC 2730, December 1999.
[2] Deering, S., "Host Extensions for IP Multicasting", STD 5, RFC
1112, August 1989.
[3] Meyer, D., "Administratively Scoped IP Multicast", BCP 23, RFC
2365, July, 1998.
[4] Alvestrand, H., "Tags for the Identification of Languages", RFC
1766, March 1995.
[5] Handley, M. and V. Jacobson, "SDP: Session Description Protocol",
RFC 2327, April 1998.
[6] Estrin, D., Handley, M. and D. Thaler, "The Internet Multicast
Address Allocation Architecture", Work in Progress.
[7] Kermode, R., "MADCAP Multicast Scope Nesting State Option", Work
in Progress.
Ross Finlayson,
Live Networks, Inc. (LIVE.COM)
EMail: finlayson@live.com
WWW: http://www.live.com/
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Bunker Boys we 03/05
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Monday 6 May 2013
Monday 29th April 2013
Phoenix G.C. (Mountain & Lake courses) Medal)
Only 10 players today, so we had some problems when we checked in because the discounted PSC rate at Phoenix is only for 20 players or more. Fortunately we have some Phoenix members in the group, so everyone was able to register as member’s guests at the same rate. The weather was hot, with rain in the forecast, but none appeared and even a very welcome cooling breeze arrived for the last three holes. The course was in good shape as usual, but the pace of the greens were difficult to read, as they appear to be getting more grainy, making downhill putts with the grain very fast, and uphill putts against the grain, very slow. The greens can’t be blamed for the poor scores on the day however, with William Macey taking the honours with a modest score of nett 75, ahead of Mashi Kaneta on a countback.
Results :
1st William Macey (hcp. 20) nett 75
2nd Mashi Kaneta (hcp. 15) nett 75
3rd Kenny Chung (hcp. 25) nett 76
Only two near pins were hit : Tony Robbins and Steve Durey
Wednesday 1st May 2013
Eastern Star G.C. (Stableford)
Another public holiday today, and we were forced to make a late change in venue, because Treasure Hill decided to increase the green fee from 1,400 Baht to 2,000 Baht when we re-confirmed our booking a couple of days prior. It’s difficult to understand the mentality of the management in pulling a stunt like that, but needless to say, we cancelled on the spot and made an alternative booking at Eastern Star, taking advantage of their special promotion, with a holiday green fee of 850 Baht. We hadn’t played Eastern Star since mid-February when some of the greens were in a terrible state, but it seemed a better option than submitting to the Treasure Hill extortion. In the event the course was as good as anyone could remember, with the greens fully recovered, although as always, a bit on the slow side. There was a shortage of buggies when we checked in, but surprisingly the course was quiet, and the round progressed smoothly. There was no logical reason for the low scores on the day, and Reg Smart’s winning total of 29 points was the lowest winning score that your scribe can remember in Bunker Boys recent history – the less said about the other scores, the better! It turned out to be a good day for the small group that played, the weather was great, the course was good if a little scruffy in places, and all in all well worth the hassle of changing venues. Thanks to Tony Robbins for sorting out that little problem for us.
1st Reg Smart (hcp. 30) 29 points
2nd Ken Davidson (hcp. 23) 27 points
3rd Tony Robbins (hcp. 13) 24 points
Tony Robbins was the only player to hit a green today and scooped the near pin’s pot.
Khaow Keow G.C. ( A and C courses) Stableford
A bright sunny morning at Khaow Kheow, but there was an ominous black cloud looming, which seemed to follow us for the first few holes, eventually catching us on the 7th. A thirty minute rain delay was necessary, but the skies soon brightened up again, and the round was still completed in under four and a half hours. The course was in good shape, but the greens on the A nine were slow, whilst those on C were much quicker, which caused some problems. No problems though for Neil Griffin, who romped home with 41 points, seven points clear of his nearest challenger. His mate Skinny will be worried when he reads this in the U.K., and no doubt the beer bets will be off when he returns. Charles Cunningham came in second place, despite only scoring six points on the last six holes, and Tony Robbins was third scoring 18 points on the inward nine. There was an interesting race for the wooden spoon today, with Peter Habgood taking the prize (four points on the back nine) ahead of (or behind?) Ken Davidson (seven points on the back nine).
1st Neil Griffin (hcp. 25) 41 points
2nd Charles Cunningham (hcp. 18) 34 points
3rd Tony Robbins (hcp. 13) 32 points
Only 3 near pins were claimed : Charles Cunningham, PJ Redmond and Tony Robbins.
The Bunker Boys are a PSC affiliated golf society, who now play out of The Ranch bar on Pattaya 3rd Road (in front of the fire station, and almost opposite the Buffalo Bar). We play three times per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, so if you enjoy a fun day out, and a friendly but competitive golf competition why not come and join us. We meet at The Ranch at 9 a.m. for breakfast and transportation, and new players are always welcome. Contact “Buff” on 086 046 5091 or 080 605 5663 for all enquiries. You can find all the news, schedules and results on our website at http://www.bunkersociety.com.
Neil Griffin looks like he can’t quite believe his score at Khaow Keow
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Buddhist Bhutan Proposes ‘Anti-Conversion’ Law
Posted on August 10, 2010 by particularkev
Already suppressed Christians say bill is designed to control growth.
THIMPHU, Bhutan, July 21 (CDN) — Christians in this Himalayan nation who are still longing to openly practice their faith were disheartened this month when the government proposed the kind of “anti-conversion” law that other nations have used as a pretext for falsely accusing Christians of “coercion.”
The amendment bill would punish “proselytizing” that “uses coercion or other forms of inducement” – vaguely enough worded, Christians fear, that vigilantes could use it to jail them for following the commands of Christ to feed, clothe and otherwise care for the poor.
“Now, under section 463 [of the Penal Code of Bhutan], a defendant shall be guilty of the offense of proselytization if the defendant uses coercion or other forms of inducement to cause the conversion of a person from one religion or faith to another,” reported the government-run Kuensel newspaper on July 9.
“There was always a virtual anti-conversion law in place, but now it is on paper too,” said a senior pastor from Thimphu on condition of anonymity. “Seemingly it is aimed at controlling the growth of Christianity.”
Kuenlay Tshering, a member of Bhutan’s Parliament and the chairperson of its Legislative Council, told Compass that the new section is consonant with Article 7(4) of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Bhutan, which states, “A Bhutanese citizen shall have the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. No person shall be compelled to belong to another faith by means of coercion or inducement.”
He said that the National Council had proposed that offenses under the proposal be classified as misdemeanors, punishable by one to less than three years in prison.
Tshering said that the amendment bill “may be passed during the next session of Parliament, after the National Assembly deliberates on it in the winter session.”
Asked if he was aware that similar “anti-conversion” laws in neighboring India had been misused to harass Christians through vague terms of “inducement,” he said he was not.
Authorities usually act on complaints by local residents against Christian workers, so frivolous complaints can lead to their arrest, said another pastor who requested anonymity.
Of the 683,407 people in Bhutan, over 75 percent are Buddhist, mainly from the west and the east. Hindus, mostly ethnic Nepalese from southern Bhutan, are estimated to be around 22 percent of the population.
There are around 6,000 Christians, mostly ethnic Nepalese, but there is neither a church building nor a registered Christian institution. The Bible, however, has been translated into the national language, Dzongkha, as well as into Nepali.
The constitution guarantees freedom of religion, but the government has not officially recognized the presence of Christians, whose practice of faith remains confined to their homes.
The Drukpa Kagyue school of Mahayana Buddhism is the state religion, with Hinduism dominant in the south, according to Bhutan’s official website, which adds, “Some residues of Bon, animism and shamanism still exist in some pockets of the country,” but makes no mention of Christianity.
Still, since Bhutan became a democracy in 2008 after its first-ever elections – following more than 100 years of absolute monarchy – people have increasingly exercised their freedom, including religious choice.
‘Why More Religions?’
Home and Culture Minister Lyonpo Minjur Dorji told Compass that Bhutan’s government had “no problems” with Christianity or any other faith.
“But Bhutan is a small country, with a little more than 600,000 people, and a majority of them are Buddhist,” Dorji said. “We have Hindus, also mainly in southern parts. So why do we need more religions?”
Buddhism is closely linked with political and social life in Bhutan. Dorji’s office sits in a gigantic monastery in Thimphu known as Tashichho Dzong. Buddhism unites and brings people together, Dorji said, explaining that the social life of a village revolves around its dzong (monastery).
Dorji said India’s multi-religious society had led to tensions and bloodshed.
“India can survive riots and unrest,” he said, “but Bhutan may not, because it is a small country between two giants [India and China].”
With leaders who have been proud that they have not allowed it to be colonized, Bhutan historically has been keenly concerned about its survival. Bhutan’s people see their distinct culture, rather than the military, as having protected the country’s sovereignty. And it is no coincidence that Dorji’s portfolio includes both internal security and preservation of culture.
The constitution, adopted in July 2008, also requires the state to protect Bhutan’s cultural heritage and declares that Buddhism is the spiritual heritage of Bhutan.
A government official who requested anonymity said that, as Tibet went to China and Sikkim became a state in India, “now which of the two countries will get Bhutan?”
This concern is prevalent among the Bhutanese, he added.
Sikkim, now a state in India’s northeast, was a Buddhist kingdom with indigenous Bhotia and Lepcha people groups as its subjects. But Hindus from Nepal migrated to Sikkim for work and gradually outnumbered the local Buddhists. In 1975, a referendum was held to decide if Sikkim, then India’s protectorate, should become an official state of the country. Since over 75 percent of the people in Sikkim were Nepalese – who knew that democracy would mean majority-rule – they voted for its incorporation
into India.
Bhutan and India’s other smaller neighbors saw it as brazen annexation. And it is believed that Sikkim’s “annexation” made Bhutan wary of the influence of India.
In the 1980s, Bhutan’s king began a one-nation-one-people campaign to protect its sovereignty and cultural integrity, which was discriminatory to the ethnic Nepalese, who protested. Their non-compliance, however, resulted in a harsh crackdown by authorities, leading to the expulsion or voluntary migration of over 100,000 ethnic Nepalese, many of whom were Christians, to the Nepal side of the border in Jhapa in the early 1990s.
“Bhutan did not want to become another Sikkim,” said a local resident, explaining why the government did not tolerate the protests.
Bhutan is also rigorous in implementing its laws related to the use of the national language, the national dress code and the uniform architectural standards throughout the country to strengthen its cultural integrity. Bhutanese men are required to wear the gho, a knee-length robe tied at the waist by a cloth belt, when they go to work or attend a public function. Women have to wear the kira, an ankle-length dress clipped at one shoulder and tied at the waist. Non-compliance can lead to fine
and imprisonment.
One hopeful pastor said he expects the government to officially acknowledge the existence of Christianity in Bhutan in the near future.
“Religious freedom will be good for both Christians and the government,” he said. “If Christians are not officially acknowledged, who will the government go to if it wants to implement an executive decision related to religious communities?”
Explaining the reason for his hope, he recalled an incident in the Punakha area in January, when a house under construction was demolished after rumors that it was used as a church.
“The house owner, a Christian, went to his majesty [King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck] and told him he was not constructing a church but would have worship with other believers on Sundays,” the pastor said. “The king allowed him to build the house.”
He also said that a delegation of Christians met with Prime Minister Lyonchen Jigmey Thinley in May 2009, who reassured them that there would be more freedom soon.
Christianity is gradually growing, but through word-of-mouth – testimonies of those who have received healing from sickness – and not public preaching, he said, adding that Christians needed to understand and be patient with the government, “which cannot and should not make changes or give freedom overnight.”
Christians’ Skulls, Bones Used for Buddhist Ritual
The ambiguity in Bhutan over the status of Christians has brought with it a new difficulty: A national daily recently reported that at least eight graves of Christians had been exhumed and the skulls and thigh bones extracted for a Buddhist ritual.
Although the report marked the first time the practice had made the news, Christian leaders said more than 100 graves have been dug up as the trade in human bones has been going on for more than five years.
A local resident of the Lamperi area, near Thimphu, identified as Namgay, told the Bhutan Observer that he found eight graves in a “secret forest graveyard” that had been exhumed by hunters of craniums and thigh bone.
“We saw skulls without craniums and a hand sticking out of a grave,” he was quoted as saying in the daily on May 27.
A human skull garners between 5,000 ngultrum (US$105) and 10,000 ngultrum (US$211) in Bhutan, with men’s skulls considered more valuable. The skull of a man affected by leprosy is not considered ideal for purification. Rather, such skulls are considered best for rituals to subdue evil spirits.
In a visit to the graveyard, the Bhutan Observer found at least eight graves freshly dug up. “Hand gloves, khaddar [a coarse homespun cotton cloth], a currency note, a wooden cross, and a wooden hammer lay scattered all over,” it reported.
The daily said the graveyard apparently belonged to the Christian community in Thimphu and nearby areas.
“Christians in the country say that there should be an official recognition that there are Christians in the country, and other things like burial rights will naturally follow,” the report noted.
A local pastor told Compass that since Christians did not have a burial ground, they buried their dead in forests.
“More than 100 bodies have been dug up, even though we have changed several locations for burial,” he said. “I wonder how the traders in human bones discover these locations. Where do we go now?”
Some local residents reportedly believe that a Christian grave brings bad luck.
Damcho Wangchu, a resident of Thinleygang area, told the daily that the area surrounding the graveyard was holy. He attributed all misfortune in the area – including storms, the death of three students and of four others – to the Christian cemetery.
“We never experienced such misfortunes in our gewog [cluster of villages] before,” he said.
The daily explained that the tradition of use of human skulls and thigh bones in Buddhist rituals was as old as Tantric Buddhism itself. “Thoepai Dagpa is a generic name for the text that illustrates the use and study of quality of skulls,” it reported.
Tantric Buddhism, widespread in Bhutan, involves rituals as a substitute or alternative for the earlier abstract meditations.
An editorial in the same newspaper noted, “Our hunt for the criminal will probably lead us from the unplanned graveyard to the sacred altar.”
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California state and local government officials are literally and figuratively standing in school house doors to block enforcement of Federal law. Interestingly, the last time that happened, the politicians were also Democrats.
Since immigration now is front and center, I offer the following Immigration iFA(i)Q [infrequently asked (inconvenient) questions].
Does the law of supply and demand apply to the labor market?
Unless you are a liberal, the answer is “Duh.”
Should America have and enforce immigration laws that set limits on how many foreigners can immigrate each year and criteria for which foreigners can immigrate?
Samuel Gompers, founder of the American Federation of Labor [the AFL in AFL-CIO], recognized this:
“Those who favor unrestricted immigration care nothing for the people. They are simply desirous of flooding the country with unskilled as well as skilled labor of other lands for the purpose of breaking down American standards.”
Ronald Reagan said succinctly “a nation without borders is not a nation.”
On September 22, 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a report funded by the pro immigration MacArthur Foundation. Buried in the 495 page report is how much American workers and taxpayers are hurt by legal and illegal immigration.
Immigration reduces the wages of American workers by 5.2% or $494 Billion per year while producing an immigration surplus of only $54 Billion per year.
Unskilled and low skilled immigrants are a drain on American taxpayers, $279 Billion on 2013.
Only university educated immigrants pay more in taxes than they consume in government benefits, and they compete for jobs with American university graduates.
Not in the report, illegal immigrants cost California taxpayers $25 Billion per year.
The government imports 2 million foreigners every year [not including illegal immigrants] to compete with the 4 million Americans who enter the labor force each year. All net employment gains since 2000 have gone to immigrants. The wages of American workers have flat lined since the 1970s under this immigration deluge. Record numbers of Americans are out of the labor force. The labor force participation rate is lower than any time since the 1970s. 80% of illegal immigrant households receive one more welfare benefits. Every immigrant gets a job and/or welfare benefits.
Interestingly, the same people who want the government to command higher wages for low income workers by raising the minimum wage also want amnesty, open borders and mass immigration to drive down the wages of the same workers.
Should America’s immigration laws serve the interests of American workers and American taxpayers ahead of foreigners, illegal immigrants and business interests that want cheap labor?
The politicians who believe otherwise should try to make their case to the American people. The candidate who advocated amnesty for illegal immigrants and told Brazilian bankers in a secret $225,000.00 speech “my dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders” lost the election. BTW, that would mean 600 million people could immigrate to America. The party that openly favors amnesty received ~3.5 million fewer votes for Congress than the party that at least claims it wants to secure the border and stop illegal immigration.
Polling data matches the election results:
74% agree with: “The American people are right to be concerned about jobs and wages, and elected officials should put the needs of American workers first.”
71% agree with: “Immigration policy needs to serve the interests of the nation as a whole, not a few billionaire CEOs and immigration activists lobbying for open borders.”
70% agree with: “The first goal of immigration policy needs to be getting unemployed Americans back to work – not importing more low-wage workers to replace them.”
If people benefit by breaking the law, does that encourage more law breaking?
If illegal immigrants are rewarded for illegal immigration, does that encourage more illegal immigration?
Once again the answer is “Duh.”
Is granting amnesty or even protection to illegal immigrants unfair to legal immigrants who waited years and jumped through all of the hoops to immigrate legally and to those millions now waiting to immigrate legally?
Should the millions around the world waiting to immigrate legally have the word “idiot” stamped on their foreheads for not immigrating illegally?
I find that legal immigrants are among the strongest opponents of illegal immigration.
Should America be a nation of laws rather than a nation of men (or women)? [Since this is California, you can fill in your desired other pronouns or genders at no extra charge.]
Is the rule of law important to our Constitutional Republic?
Should the government and government officials obey the law?
Justice Louis Brandeis said: “If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.”
While the Founders are politically out of favor in some quarters, they understood human nature and government and created the longest surviving Constitution and Republic in the world.
“In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” Thomas Jefferson
“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.” John Adams
When the government is free to break the law, our rights and Republic are not secure. Congresses and Presidents duly elected by the people enacted and signed the current immigration laws. In our constitutional republic, proponents of amnesty have every opportunity to influence members of Congress to enact amnesty and/or to elect new members of Congress who favor amnesty. That they have been unsuccessful, does not justify breaking the law.
If county clerks in Kentucky have to obey the law, why not Dem politicians in California?
If Dem politicians in California can break immigration laws, what laws can Rep politicians break in their states?
Letting government officials pick and chose which laws to follow and which laws to break undermines the rule of law, respect for the law, and quickly leads to anarchy.
If Arizona was not allowed to enact laws to assist enforcing immigration laws, should California be barred from enacting laws and policies to hinder enforcing immigration laws?
The courts have severely limited states enacting laws to aid enforcement of Federal immigration laws, most recently in Arizona v. United States (2012) 132 S.Ct. 2492. The Court struck down most of Arizona’s immigration law designed to help enforce Federal immigration laws. The Court held the Federal government has broad authority to regulate immigration under Congress’ enumerated constitutional power to “establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization.” As to some provisions, the Court found Congress occupied the field meaning “even complementary state regulation is impermissible.” As to other provisions, even designed to enforce Federal immigration laws, the Court found the Arizona law was an “obstacle to the full purposes and objectives of Congress” because removing illegal immigrants is “entrusted to the discretion of the Federal Government.”
The Obama administration only challenged state laws to enforce America’s immigration laws while systematically refusing to enforce those laws. While Dem supporters of illegal immigration celebrated the ruling in Arizona v. United States, what are prospects for California’s laws and policies intended to aid and abet illegal immigrants and hinder enforcing Federal immigration laws when those laws and policies are challenged by new Attorney General Jeff Sessions? As the saying goes, be careful what you wish for because you may get it.
Bonus questions:
Does the Dem Party favor illegal immigration? If so, why?
In the 1970s, Jerry Brown and the Dems opposed refugees fleeing communist Vietnam settling in California. Why do Jerry Brown and all or virtually all Dem politicians now favor illegal immigrants and Muslim refugees settling in California?
If most illegal immigrants [if they could vote and when they vote illegally], and their children when they can vote, voted Republican, would there already be a 100 ft high wall and would Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Jerry Brown take turns garrisoning it?
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My Review of ‘Halloween’
Scroll to the bottom for my Audio only review!
It has been 40 years since multiple teens were killed, and Lauri Strode fought for her life against The Boogeyman, The Shape, aka Michael Myers. It is now Halloween of 2018 and Michael Myers is back to reek havoc in the quite town of Haddonfield, where Lauri (Jamie Lee Curtis) has lived a recluse and paranoid life in preparation for this moment.
This slasher movie is a direct sequel to the 1978 film of the same name. Forget every Halloween movie that has come out after the first one, they don’t count. Which is not a bad thing, even devout fans of the Halloween franchise will admit that many of the films are absolute garbage. So that means that there is a very low bar set for making a “good” Halloween movie, and this movie succeeds in just that. It’s not perfect, it’s not even great, but if you are a fan of Halloween or you just want to see a decent slasher movie because it is the season for thrills and chills, then this movie is enough to satisfy your itch.
I am not the biggest fan of the franchise, however, I can respect and admire the first movie for being the grandfather of the slasher genera and this film pays big homage to its predecessor in a very positive way. You can tell that this film is made by fans of the franchise.
Director David Gordon Green smartly uses similar tricks and echoes that made the first movie the cult classic that it is. There are specific scenes in the movie that are shot for shot callbacks to events from the first movie, but instead of Michael Myers, they use Lauri Strode. Brilliantly illustrating that even though Lauri is the victim and heroine of the franchise, she is damaged. Laurie and Michael have become two sides of the same coin.
Jamie Lee Curtis is brilliant in this movie, perfectly portraying someone who is strong yet damaged and longing for the torment that she has felt for 40 years to finally be over. This is absolutely a breath of fresh air for this franchise, because lets be honest, she doesn’t deserve any kind of acting awards for the first movie. She has come a long way as an actress since 1978, and deserves high praise for her performance in this film.
This movie is very brutal in its killing, something that the first Halloween did not do. Gordon Green does not shy away from showing the blood and carnage that is left in the wake of Michael Myers stalking his prey. While some may be offended by this change, I am not. The brutal killings go even further to show just how much of a heartless monster Michael Myers is – that he is the true embodiment of the Boogeyman.
Now, this seems like a lot of praise for this movie, but I have to say there are some definite drawbacks.
Just like the first movie, Halloween takes forever to get things started. I found myself wanting to check the time at several points for the first 30 to 40 minutes of the movie before things finally started to get bloody. This tactic may have worked in the 70’s, but horror movies have changed a lot since then and audiences, including myself, have become accustomed to faster paced horror. So getting something that takes this long to start really seems like a drag.
There are also a few plot points, twist in particular, that I question the director and screen writers for. Unfortunately , I can’t go into them without spoiling anything, but they really took me out of the film as I was asking myself “why would they do that?” There is even one plot line that he film makers just forgot to wrap up entirely involving the boyfriend of Lauri Strode’s granddaughter. If you see the movie you will notice it too, its pretty obvious that they forgot about one of their side characters that was being explored for the first half of the movie.
Overall, if you like Halloween movies, then you will like this one. There are many things for fans to latch on to and many things for new fans to love. It’s not the greatest horror movie of all time, in fact it’s not even the greatest horror movie this year. But for a fun stabby slashy movie it works. There are absolutely some drawbacks – but what slasher movie is perfect?
I’m going to give 2018’s Halloween, the sequel to 1978’s Halloween, a 7/10. Great kills, great thrills, but not a perfect film.
What did you think of Halloween? Did you see the first movie, or is this the first one for you? Leave a comment below and let’s make a discussion about it.
Author: Kylan Riley
I am a regular person who has a burning passion for movies. For as long as I can remember I have always been a fan of watching movies, and staying up to date on movie related current events. I made Reel Movie News in the hopes of creating a community of movie fans, like myself, that love movies and want stay up to date on current events and discuss movie related topics in a safe and fun environment. View all posts by Kylan Riley
Author Kylan RileyPosted on October 24, 2018 October 29, 2018 Categories Movie ReviewsTags 1978 Halloween, 2018 Halloween, David Gordon Green, Hadonfield, Halloween, Horror, Jamie Lee Curtis, Lauri Strode, Michael Myers, The Boogeyman, The Shape
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The 'Sea' link to go fish at the town lake
The fishing screen
Going Fishing Edit
Fishing is a daily activity available in towns that have lakes and seas. In the town screen, click on the 'Sea' link in the upper right corner (Please note, in version 3 the link to go fishing is in the upper LEFT corner and the sea is NOT visible, it just says "Lake"). This will take you to the fishing screen.
This grid shows which rows a character may fish at based on their strength.
Where to Fish Edit
The grid on the fishing screen is made of 20 columns (x-axis) and 20 rows (y-axis). The numbering for both columns and rows begins at 0 and ends at 19. Rows closest to shore generally produce less yield than those furthest from shore. The highest number row that a character my fish is equal to their current strength. In addition, fishing in rows beyond row 6 require that the character use a boat while fishing.
Each square can hold up to ten fishermen a day.
How to Fish Edit
Characters begin fishing by clicking on a square. Then, they are shown the yield for that square. Characters may move and fish in different squares during a single day. This is done to find squares with higher yields. The number of times a character can move to a different square in a single day is limited by the character's intelligence in the following numbers:
0-4 IP = 2 box
10-14 IP = 4 box
and so on to 255 IP which will yield 53 boxes.
How far out you can fish is linked to your Strength. Each point let you fish further from the shore. One Strength Point (SP) for each line:
1 SP = 0,1
2 SP= 0-2
6 SP= 0-6 *This is the last line you can wade at.
7 SP= 0-7 *You must have a boat to fish on this line and further out.
and so on to SP 19 or greater for line 19.
At the end of the day, the last box the character clicked on is used the square they will be fishing in (even if they still could have moved to other squares).
Fishing Yield Edit
Each square's yield is reset daily to a random amount within the range for its row (y-axis). Fishing yield is expressed in the percentage of a single fish caught in a day. The character's fishing yield is calculated by taking the previous remainder from their last fishing expedition and adding it to the yield percentage in the last square they clicked on that day.
character's previous remainder + the last-clicked square's yield = character's fishing yield
If the total is above 100%, the character catches one fish; if it's over 200%, the character catches two fish. The number of whole fish caught are deducted from the total and any remaining percentage is recorded as the character's previous remainder.
The following shows a square's yield range (in %) based on its row (y-axis):
y/(Y-Axis/Strength)
Min-Yield (%)
Max-Yield (%)
6 80 102 91
Fishing Tips Edit
Most folks advise against fishing when the character's strength is less than 6, since the daily income gained will be likely be less than the character could have made working a different job.
An easy way to determine the coordinate of a given square in the grid is to move the mouse over the square and look at the link address in the browser's status bar.
Some people recommend having at least 5 points of intelligence before fishing so that more squares may be searched for the higher yields.
Most towns with lakes have a dedicated section within their town's area of the Renaissance Kingdoms forums where citizens post identified squares' fishing yield.
Once a square is clicked on, the character is committed to fishing for that day's work. So be certain you mean to fish before you click on a square!
There is a item called a fishing net that can be used to increase the amount of fish caught while fishing.
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Kyle Shanahan learned a lot from the 28-3 debacle in Super Bowl LI (123)
Sports leagues slash the price of money for nothing, as NFL remains silent
Posted by Mike Florio on May 16, 2018, 7:50 PM EDT
Major League Baseball, the NBA, and the PGA want states that adopt gambling to cough up one percent of the action in exchange for, well, nothing. But the sports leagues are willing to take a lot less in exchange for, well, nothing.
Via Patrick Anderson of the Providence Journal, the trio of leagues has slashed their request from 1.0 percent to 0.25 percent in Rhode Island.
PGA Tour vice president David Miller told the Rhode Island Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday that the “[l]eagues create the source of activity” on which the betting will be used, and that the leagues “bear the burden of integrity risk” of gambling-driven irregularities like match fixing and point shaving.
“These are our games,” NBA senior V.P. Dan Spillane argued at the same hearing. “The games and the fans who are interested in them. That’s what you are getting for it.”
That argument has never flown in Nevada, and the sports leagues never have tried to take a stand against illegal gambling on this plank of sanctimony. Instead, they’ve historically enjoyed the increased interest in their sports via legal betting in Nevada and illegal betting elsewhere. Now that the other 49 states can get in on the act, the sports leagues are putting a hand out because: (1) they can; and (2) the cost for doing so pales in comparison to the money they could make, if they can convince one or more states to swallow a hook that holds no actual bait.
The NFL has yet to make a move for any type of integrity fee, but the league’s constant references to the “integrity of the game” (even with one of the teams already slated to move to Las Vegas) seems to be the precursor to making a play not in statehouses but in Congress to get a fee aimed at giving them the money, ostensibly, to ensure that the games will have something they already should.
36 responses to “Sports leagues slash the price of money for nothing, as NFL remains silent”
exinsidetrader says:
These people have no clue at how thin the PROFIT margins are for sport books.
Yes, there is a 10% vig on a bet, but for every $22 bet in this standard case $21 is returned to the winner which means only 1/22 or 4.1% is gross revenue. From that you have to deduct all the salaries and other expenses shrinking that number further. If they ask for 0.1% they may have a chance. Anything more and they will be told to get lost and start their own sports book.
tarheel219 says:
Sports is so stupid. When people bet they watch the games they otherwise could care less about. 1% fee is too much unless you are betting close to an even bet.
onereasonableman says:
An “integrity fee” makes no sense. What happens when these leagues here the answer is no? Are they going to stop playing??? Nope. Nice try.
officialgame says:
How can the NFL charge a fee for integrity when they have none?
nyyankeehatespoliticos says:
If sports books and states tell the leagues to F-off, what will they do – not play? What leverage would the PGA, NBA, or MLB have on any sports books or states?
tedmurph says:
Nothing but a shakedown. The gambling industry would be right to tell the leagues to go pound sand. What are the leagues gonna do? Not play the games? Integrity of the game has been a red herring from the start. Any player that wants to gamble on games can do so. It’s been here since the beginning of time. I don’t think it’s that widespread with players, but if it was, we’d probably never find out about it. The leagues should just take their additional TV money due to ratings and shut up. But they won’t. Because the system is corrupt and they’ll grease enough pockets to get regulation, all along playing the legalized gambling is more of a blight on society than illegal gambling, casinos, offshore betting, state lotteries, etc. A sickening joke.
murphyslaw40 says:
Two random thoughts.
One, if the NFL saw this legal ruling coming, the decision to let the Raiders move to Vegas seems less rebellious than it previously did.
Two, and this may be the wrong site, but g’dammit let Pete Rose into the baseball Hall of Fame already.
Nevada sports books won $248.7 million, gross, an all-time record, in 2017. $4.86 billion was wagered in 2017, also an all-time high, according to Nevada Gaming Control.
Profit margin is small? What a joke! Guess that 10% adds up.
twinfan24 says:
Given that gambling has already been legal in Nevada, if there were such a need for extra integrity police in each league, they should already have them in place, and the need would already be there. Allowing more states the same thing does NOT change the equation.
Now, if they wanted to try to go after them for using player names and likenesses (like for video games), that would seem to have a better chance. Although, again, if that were already a need, they would have gone after Nevada for that as well.
espy70 says:
As a wise man once said, you’ll get nothing and like it!
Salaries and other expenses don’t just come from sports book revenue, which is only in Vegas. There’s also food, liquor, entertainment, hotels, table games, slots, etc. If casinos wouldn’t give up more than 2% they’d put themselves outta business.
cyberbucs says:
integrity fee or not, people will still pay it to gamble
ducknichols50 says:
Would this make us all “owners” of the NFL, etc?
charger383 says:
there is no way they deserve this
jake6879 says:
Just a rudimentary grasp of basic mathematical concepts would have stopped you from shoving your foot into your mouth. 248.7M / 4.86B (also read as 4860M) yields a gross profit margin of 5.1%. Gross, we’re not talking net, gross. Still have to pay the expenses to run the business.
britishraven says:
So if I place a bet on the weather I should pay a % to whom? Totally ridiculous from the sports leagues
mmack66 says:
What exactly is the process of turning kickbacks into integrity?
19dead2 says:
Give then nothing which is exactly what the states should do as what can the sports leagues do? Nothing…….they wont pass up revenue from increased viewership. Sure Jerry Brown of California will give them 3%,while others states will get the leagues to pay them.
vicnocal says:
I dont get how the law won’t let a church organize a Super Bowl party without kicking some money back to the NFL but making a killing handling bets on the NFL’s games without paying a dime to the NFL is allowed.
foodiefoodnerd says:
When vastly experienced, and highly skilled negotiators unhesitatinly reduce their demsnd by 75 percent before receiving a counter offer or even reaching the table, it’s pretty clear that even they know this is ludicrous.
Their best move now is to quietly slink back to their mansions before they lose every last shred of respect and goodwill.
I sure didn’t read of them handing out bonuses and extra pay from their bloated revenue and profits sparked by the gambling craze.
thoughtlessintheextreme says:
“if they can convince one or more states to swallow a hook that holds no actual bait.”
Any chance this becomes a real issue the next time a team threatens to move to a different state (and the league must approve)?
afwhigs says:
“…Anything more and they will be told to get lost and start their own sports book.”
Interesting. I wonder if the NFL will ultimately start their own “official” sports book and have locations present in the stadiums (like the in-stadium betting in the UK)?
cardinealsfan20 says:
“I don’t get how the law won’t let a church organize a Super Bowl party without kicking some money back to the NFL…”.
Churches can have all the Super Bowl day parties that they wish without paying the NFL. They just can’t use the words “Super Bowl” to promote said parties. And even if they did, it would not be a “kickback”. It’s a fee for using a trademarked phrase.
thirdand43 says:
The leagues and teams are going to be iced out of the legal gambling profits which may very well lead to owners and GMs, as well as players and coaches, taking matters into their own hands. Point shaving, fake injury reports, inexplicable personnel decisions during games, peculiar officiating, etc. will tend to make fans suspicious that insiders are possibly manipulating outcomes. When fans have a feeling that they are merely buying tickets to view predetermined conclusions, say goodnight Gracie.
theboysvlog says:
Thank you for this. I chuckled.
feckyerlife says:
Man you have no clue, you have no idea how many times i’ve won on the under in a Tennessee Titans or Cleveland Browns game, 2 teams i never watch.
Rick G. says:
If these leagues take 1% of the betting pool, aren’t they now a 100% participant in the same gambling laws they fought against for years? They said that gambling on games is immoral and would ruin their game but now that it’s legal, they flip over like a dog and will do all they can to strong arm each state for the “straight gambling cash homey” … hypocrisy at it’s finest.
mogogo1 says:
Let’s compare apples to oranges and scratch our heads wondering why they’re so different from each other. It’s almost like they’re totally different things or something.
kevpft says:
What leverage? Well, there’s the question of where they hold tournaments, Super Bowls, drafts, where they look to for expansion franchises… leagues won’t forget which states made which choices.
I agree with you, but at the same time, it’s pretty inevitable now that a huge, overt gambling infrastructure is going to be built up around games – web, TV, phones, you name it, all kinds of portals to interact with money and games. No way the leagues will just passively allow all that to be built and all that money to be created without them trying to either own or at least “regulate” (take a cut of) the experience.
TheDotardinChief says:
The states should agree to the 0.25%, on the condition that any NFL/NBA/MLB/NHL or minor league team with any financial ties to those leagues that requests public funds for stadium building is subject to sanctions of at least $1,000,000.
purplepackerhater says:
Except, I find it unlikely any team will agree to it which means the NFL or other leagues won’t have any locations to choose from except those that wouldn’t give them free money.
I understand how the church thing works, genius. Trust me, I am smarter than you. My point still stands except ur too blinded to see it. Also, the church thing wasnt about them using the term Super Bowl to promote the event, it was because it was a gathering of more than 20 people watching on a big screen where food and drink would be sold or something ridiculous like that -even after the pastor said they would remove the entrance fee, they still werent allowed to hold the event. So I say again, if they had refused to do as ordered, law enforcement agents would have eventually come down on them. Same thing as a video game company that makes football games featuring NFL names. But when a giant sports book is making a whole industry out of taking and advertising bets on the NFL’s games, there is not one dime they have to pay for that?
Judging from your post I doubt you are smart, let alone “smarter” than him. If I described you as clueless on the subject-matter I would be exaggerating your expertise.
frodoftw7 says:
They are not asking for 1% of the profits. That is small potatoes. They are asking for a 1% tax on all bets placed. Which makes them the house. Talk about integrity!
Why are you surprised the NFL wants free gambling money? Their whole mantra is to screw the taxpayers into giving them free lavish stadiums and then demand major renovations every 3 years or so. Then they’ll throw tantrums and threaten to move if they don’t get it. This is also the same multi billion dollar organization that had TAX FREE status for years and was able to prevent networks for showing local games.
The arrogance of the NFL is just appalling.
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Brett Favre and Sqor Founder Brian Wilhite Sqor-ing With Today’s Athletes
by Kim Constantinesco 5 years ago Follow @KimCon14
By Matt Petrero
Unless you live under a rock, you know that social media (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc.) is all the rage these days. It can be a very powerful tool for the good. It provides the means to get information in real time, network ideas and contacts, and get your product out to the world en mass; kinda like we do here at Purpose2Play.
The downside to social media are the trolls who are looking to pounce on somebody who doesn’t share their views on any number of issues, spew hate, get as vulgar as they can, and spread rumors in an effort to hurt or discredit people, whether it’s true or not.
This behavior seems to be prevalent in pretty much any arena, but in the world of sports, it’s not only a breeding ground for disgruntled fans to light up players, management, or other fans, but it is also a place that athletes cannot escape a barrage of hateful commentary for mistakes they have made either on or off the field of play.
Furthermore, these sites become a relatively convoluted vehicle to try and do good things in the community. Let’s face it, somebody is trying make the public aware of a fund raiser for a good cause, but it ends up on the timeline somewhere between a spam post for the latest fat-burning scam and a ridiculous survey asking for your favorite Kardashian sister (and by the way, haven’t their 15 minutes expired yet?).
The potential pitfalls of the social media world for athletes was not lost on one man in particular. Brian Wilhite is the founder and owner of a site called Sqor.com (Oh, and there’s an app for that).
Wilhite recognized what was missing on the social media landscape was a place for athletes to go where they can escape the craziness of the garden-variety social media sites all while working on building up their brand and using the platform to help advance and raise money for worthy causes.
For good measure, Wilhite brought in future Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre. Favre sits on the board of directors and is one incredible resource for marketing and using his vast network to get the word out about this ambitious undertaking. We had the great pleasure of conducting an interview with Wilhite and Favre to get more insight into Sqor.com.
Sqor.com and it’s Mission
What does Sqor.com do that gets its wheels moving and why was Wilhite inspired to create the new age platform?
“What we’re really striving to do is give the athlete complete and total control of their digital persona; give them control of their message, give them a platform that creates opportunities for them, and puts them in complete charge in establishing this profile of record for the athlete,” Wilhite said. “The inspiration behind my starting the company came from my recognizing that in the global sports ecosystem, there was something that was missing. For me, what gets me up out of my chair screaming and yelling for what just happened is that individual athlete performance. Athletes are amazing, they do amazing things both on and off the field. The original sports ecosystem was focused on the team and the league and the game; there was nothing focused on the athlete, helping the athlete solve problems, helping the athlete be more efficient, be better off the field, and then ultimately create these economic opportunities for the athlete. We’re doing that by building a great product, with a great software platform. Then what you get is, from a fan’s perspective, is you get an amazing, rich, and fulfilling experience as it relates to the athletes, the sports they play, and the teams that they play for. We sort of turned the telescope around and looked at it from different directions. We’re creating value across the ecosystem for the fans, athletes, and for those who want to have a link to a plan as well. Then the last thing we’ve done recently is we’ve launched an initiative about crowd-funding in our platform. So we’ve got the ability to process and take donations, allow athletes to focus on charities or causes that they care about. Then we’ve also built the viral marketing components into the platform as well.”
There are various benefits for an athlete to create a Sqor account. However, it raises the question if the well-known athletes are there strictly as mentors for lesser known athletes or if they, themselves, are there for the benefit of Sqor’s branding assistance as well as mentoring.
“We take an active roll,” Wilhite said. “We are a software platform but we do provide some services to help athletes get better at their off-the-field efforts. We work closely with their agents and handlers; in some cases, directly with the athlete if they want that kind of relationship with us. We have a lot of best practices. We know what works, we know what doesn’t work. And we do as good a job as we possibly can at coaching that athlete and the people around that athlete as to what works off the field and and how they can become better at building their own brand, and really take control of the message that they really want to get out there.”
If Sqor gets more exposure by the mainstream media and social media outlets, this could lead the way in how athletes are covered; focusing on the good in the sports world rather than always looking for the negative dirt to exploit.
“It puts the power of the voice back in the athlete’s hand and they can say whatever they want, whenever they want and really reach that audience to get the message out,” Wilhite said. “I think, just like society, you have people that step out of bounds and do things that are crazy. Athletes are no different. They make mistakes too and unfortunately the media focuses on that one percent or that outlier experience. That’s what gets all the attention in traditional outlets. We’re democratizing the message and highlighting the ninety-nine percent and the good things they do.”
Who is on Sqor?
Initially, upon downloading the app, one will notice that a good portion of the athletes of the Sqor community are from the worlds of soccer and MMA. So is this just a coincidence or is this the result of being an ideal platform for increasing their exposure and improving brand recognition?
In fact, the first person to follow me was Miesha Tate, a former Strikeforce Women’s Bantamweight champion and the #11 “pound-for-pound” female MMA fighter according to MMARising.com.
“It’s true. We have almost 300 professional MMA fighters on the platform and they’re very active.,” Wilhite said. “A large portion of the Women’s US Soccer team are also now on the platform and they’re very active. There’s a lot going on in women’s soccer. The World Cup is next year, so you’ve got some of the top women soccer players in the United States that are very active in the sport at the moment. There is a lot of initial outside media that’s taking place so they’re getting a lot of buzz and getting a lot of traction. We have a lot of other athletes in the main sports as well: professional baseball, professional football, and professional basketball. We are also strong in other outlying sports like international sailing and rugby.”
Sqor Founder and CEO, Brian Wilhite displays his latest creation. Photo courtesy of IJ photo/Frankie Frost
Brett and Deanna Favre’s, Favre 4 Hope Foundation was the first fund raiser to launch on the platform. The next logical question was to ask if Sqor has a way of knowing what kind of progress is being made toward fundraising goals and the effectiveness of the exposure and circulation on the Sqor platform.
“We just launched the crowd-funding initiative this weekend (5 days prior to this interview), sort of a soft launch,” Wilhite said. “We currently have five athletes who are active on the platform who are promoting their particular charity or cause. Brett and his wife, Deanna has Favre 4 hope. We have established a goal for a hundred-thousand dollars.”
To date, Favre4Hope, which benefits breast cancer survivors and disabled children in various states has raised more than $10,000.
“On the platform, we establish the goal and then we also show a meter which shows the progress towards the goal,” Wilhite said. “While we don’t have a lot of data and it’s just getting started, I can tell you feedback that we’ve received from the athletes and from charities and causes, it’s really quite impressive to me. It makes sense for us as a company to offer this because athletes do so many great things, but what I had not anticipated is the enthusiasm with the launch of the product. So I think it’s going to be very successful. It doesn’t take a lot out of you. It’s something you can do very easily. You can speak to your audience about it very quickly and activate them. So I think it’s going to be something that is going to have a big impact with the charitable giving community.”
So what’s around the bend for Sqor?
“We’ve got large product plans to expand this,” Wilhite said. “We are getting a lot of interest from high school athletic departments. I can’t think of a high school athletic department that isn’t out there trying to raise money. So when you connect the sports-specific nature of our product platform and combine that with the ability to raise funds for events or for tournaments or anything else, it makes it interesting and easy.”
Too many school districts are fortunate enough to not have to make cuts each fiscal year, so being able to fund things like sports tournaments or traveling long distances to face high profile programs in a particular sport is extremely improbable. Sqor should be the perfect vehicle to help these programs out.
Favre and the Sqor Connection
For those who don’t know, Favre played in the NFL for 20 years. He played for the Atlanta Falcons (1991), Green Bay Packers (1992-2007), New York Jets (2008), and Minnesota Vikings (2009-2010). He played in two Super Bowls (winning one), won three league MVP awards, and retired with every significant league passing record. So it’s a no-brainer to say that he is a future hall-of-famer.
What is Favre’s involvement like with Sqor as a member of the board? Does he have day-to-day tasks or is he there more for name recognition and to offer his networks to help Sqor branch out.
“I would say no as far as the day-to-day,” Favre said. “We do a lot of these interviews in regards to a lot of different things. I try to bring as much to the table as I can. Unlike Brian, I’m not tech-savvy. I’m not out there in San Francisco (Sqor’s corporate location) with Brian so I’m not there on the day-to-day activities. I know a lot of people. I think there are some situations where I can get Brian on the phone with either friends, guys I played with, business associates, or whatever. It can be beneficial to them as well. So I think more than anything, that’s what I can bring to the table.”
Between Wilhite’s tech knowledge and drive, and Favre’s inspiration, networking, and name recognition, we can’t imagine that Sqor won’t be a colossal success, and perhaps have a proverbial Hall of Fame career in the tech world.
You can download the Sqor app for iPhone through iTunes and for Android devices through the Google Play store.
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Pompeo Staunchly Defends Drone Attack on Iranian General
Thứ hai, 06 Tháng 1 2020 01:58
WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday staunchly defended the drone attack that killed top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, but refused to publicly offer any evidence supporting the American claim that he posed an imminent threat to U.S. forces and officials in the Mideast.
FILE - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers remarks at the State Department in Washington, Dec. 19, 2019.
Pompeo, in one of a string of interviews on news talk shows, told ABC that senior U.S. leaders who had access to all of the intelligence before the attack on Soleimani had "no skepticism" about the necessity of killing him.
"The intelligence assessment made clear that no action allowing Soleimani to continue his plotting and planning, his terror campaign, created more risk than the action that we took last week," the top U.S. diplomat said. "We reduced risk."
FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2016 photo released by the office of Iran's supreme leader, Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, center, attends a meeting with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran.
But Pompeo several times declined to reveal evidence of the threat the U.S. believed that Soleimani posed.
"There are simply things we cannot make public," Pompeo told Fox News. "You've got to protect the sources providing the intelligence."
On CNN, Pompeo said U.S. officials would continue to disclose information about the drone attack, but only "consistent with protecting our sources and methods and importantly our capacity to continue to understand what's going on in presenting threats. You don't want to risk that intelligence."
Meanwhile, Tehran said it would further roll back its participation in the 2015 international nuclear deal that U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from. Iran said it would enrich uranium without restrictions.
The war of threats between Washington and Tehran in the aftermath of Soleimani's killing was unabated.
U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted Saturday that the U.S. has identified 52 sites in Iran, including "some at a very high level & important ... to the Iranian culture," that the U.S. would strike "very fast and very hard" should Iran attack any U.S. personnel or assets in retaliation for the killing of Soleimani. The number 52 represents the 52 American hostages taken by Iran in 1979 and held for 444 days.
Under the Geneva Conventions laying out the legal constraints of war, attacking another country's cultural sites is a war crime. But Pompeo, while not rebuking Trump's Twitter comment, told ABC, "We'll behave lawfully. We'll behave inside the system. Every target that we strike will be a lawful target and it will be designed at the singular mission of protecting the American people."
Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has vowed "severe revenge" against the killing of Soleimani. His top military adviser, Brigadier General Hossein Dehghan, told CNN, "The response for sure will be military and against military sites."
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said in a televised news conference, "Iran is not seeking a war but is ready for any situation." He said the final decision in response to Soleimani's killing would be made by "the system's leadership."
He said Iran would try to "devise a response in a way that would both make the enemy regret" Soleimani's killing and "not bring the Iranian nation to a war."
In this photo provided by ISNA, the flag-draped coffins of Gen. Qassem Soleimani and his comrades who were killed in Iraq in a U.S. drone strike, are carried on a truck surrounded by mourners during their funeral in Ahvaz, Iran.
Tehran said a million people poured into the streets of Mashhad, the country's second city, to mourn Soleimani's death. Because of the ongoing program there, authorities canceled a planned event in Tehran, instead urging Iranians to attend a ceremony honoring Soleimani at Tehran University on Monday.
In the U.S., Republican lawmakers voiced support for Trump's order to kill Soleimani. But opposition Democrats said that while they believed that Soleimani was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of U.S. forces in the Mideast, Trump's action increased the threat of a U.S.-Iran war and complained that a military intervention like that against Soleimani required congressional approval.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen told Fox, "We're now headed very close to the precipice of war." He said that "you just can't go around and kill" world figures the U.S. opposes. "The president is not entitled to take us to war" without congressional authorization."
Larry Pfeiffer, the director of the Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy and International Security at George Mason University and a former senior director of the White House Situation Room, rebuked Trump's threats against Iranian cultural sites. He told VOA, "This is not how America should behave and would likely violate international conventions and norms." Pfeiffer said Trump's threats "sound like something that would be issued by an autocratic regime like North Korea."
"When the U.S. president makes it open season on cultural sites, he offers false justification to adversaries to do the same," Pfeiffer said.
Trump said Friday that Soleimani's killing was long overdue.
"We took action last night to stop a war," Trump said at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. "However, the Iranian regime's aggression in the region, including the use of proxy fighters to destabilize its neighbors must end and it must end now."
Trump claimed Soleimani was responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans, Iraqis and Iranians, saying the longtime Iranian general "made the death of innocent people his sick passion" while helping to run a terror network that reached across the Middle East to Europe and the Americas.
Analysts say any retaliatory actions against the U.S. by Iran would likely come after the three days of mourning that were declared Friday.
On Saturday, the White House formally notified Congress of Friday's drone strike. Under the War Powers Act, the notification is required within 48 hours of introducing U.S. forces into an armed conflict that could lead to war.
The classified document was sent to congressional leadership, officials said. It would likely describe the Trump administration's justifications for the strike against Soleimani, as well as intelligence information behind the decision and the expected scope of the military involvement. It is not known if the information will be released to the public.
Soleimani's body is being moved late Sunday to Tehran, before he is buried Tuesday in his hometown of Kerman.
Jeff Seldin and Ken Bredemeier contributed to this report.
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Let It Snow - Center Parcs Longford Forest is transformed into a Winter Wonderland
Press release • Nov 08, 2019 08:00 GMT
Center Parcs Longford Forest's General Manager, Daragh Feighery, welcomes Santa Claus to the Winter Wonderland
Those dreaming of a white Christmas are in luck as Center Parcs Longford Forest has been transformed into a Winter Wonderland that will delight adults and children alike.
From today, a magical experience awaits those staying at the resort – from light installations and Christmas-themed animatronics to festive woodland pony rides and Santa and his elves – the team at Center Parcs have pulled out all the stops to help Irish families create unforgettable memories and establish new traditions this festive season.
A team of 20 resident elves have been working around the clock for the past 30 days to ensure the resort is in tip top shape for Santa Claus, who arrived at the village by sleigh last night. For the next 46 days, Santa has swapped the North Pole for a lodge at Center Parcs Longford Forest where he will be in residence, welcoming children and their grown-ups to his Woodland Workshop.
Irish families will be walking in a winter wonderland this festive season – with 57,600 twinkling fairy lights, 3 tonnes of biodegradable snow, 462 metres of Christmas garlands and 52 metres of hanging icicle lights, guests are in for an awe-inspiring experience. The Christmas tree at Santa’s Woodland Workshop, which is almost 10 metres tall, has been decorated with 19,000 lights and 4,450 baubles and its star has been illuminated by an additional 4,450 lights. Furthermore, the journey to Santa’s Woodland Village is filled with festive family photo opportunities, a giant walkthrough Christmas bauble, singing reindeer and forest pathways filled with twinkling lights.
The magic doesn’t stop there, those enjoying a short break at Center Parcs over the Christmas season can take part in a range of seasonal activities, including festive carriage rides, pottery painting and a Christmas roller disco.
To top it all off, a spectacular Winter Wonderland light and sound show will take place over the resort’s lake during each short break. A first of its kind in Ireland, the nine-minute animation will be projected on to a wall of water and bring guests on a magical journey from the Center Parcs lake and woodlands, over the seas, spotting dolphins, fish and other creatures along the way, to the North Pole, the final magical destination where guests will see Santa Claus and a snowman.
Daragh Feighery, General Manager at Center Parcs Longford Forest, said: “We’ve made the lists, checked them twice and are delighted to open our Winter Wonderland doors today. The resort has been transformed into a festive playground and we can’t wait to welcome our first Winter Wonderland guests and see their reactions to our unique festive experience. Winter Wonderland at Center Parcs Longford Forest will be truly magical and I’m sure that families will not only enjoy the festive cheer but also create precious memories that will last a lifetime.”
Short breaks to the enchanting festive experience start from €459 for a family of four. Christmas and New Year short breaks are also available, perfect for those who want to enjoy a home away from home this festive period. Guests have the choice to enjoy Christmas dinner in one of the resort’s restaurants or cook a turkey with all the trimmings in the comfort of their cosy lodges, which are complete with a wood fire. For more information about Winter Wonderland at Center Parcs Longford Forest or to book a short break, please visit www.centerparcs.ie.
Center Parcs Ireland opened its door in July 2019 and offers weekend, (Friday to Monday) and midweek (Monday to Friday) family breaks in the unique setting of Longford Forest.
The Longford Forest resort includes 466 luxury lodges and 30 stylish apartments which accommodate up to 2,500 guests in a safe, peaceful, and car-free environment. Guests will be able to enjoy more than 100 family activities – both indoors and out – a range of restaurants and shops, and our famous Subtropical Swimming Paradise, Ireland’s biggest indoor water park as well as our relaxing Aqua Sana spa.
Center Parcs currently has five destinations across the UK; Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire, Elveden Forest in Suffolk, Longleat Forest in Wiltshire, Whinfell Forest in Cumbria and Woburn Forest in Bedfordshire and as the leader in the UK short break holiday market, welcomes more than 2.2 million guests each year, with 96% of guests expressing an intention to return.
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Title: Regional Engineering Manager
“I’m really proud of being able to contribute to the trains being on time and helping people to get where they need to be every day.”
Stewart Royle is the leader of the “Keeping the railway running” project. He and his team helped restore a railway pumping site to protect rails from flooding. By doing so they helped trains to be on time, saved commuters from danger and prevented frustration.
One of the pumping sites of a British railway company was experiencing frequent failures. When two of three pumps had failed, ERIKS’ engineers were called in. They observed that all the pumps were in a visibly poor condition, and that they were no longer supported by the OEM. The incumbent repairer manufactured components to keep the pumps running. This situation was giving the customer “sleepless nights”.
ERIKS’ specialists proposed a new, more robust pump solution. When we specified the new pump sets and explained all the features and benefits, we also offered to do the installation via our Engineering Workshop. The customer agreed to let ERIKS order and install the pumps. They were commissioned by the OEM, who offered this service free of charge due to their close working relationship with ERIKS.
Preventing the rails from flooding, not to mention the associated damages, and most importantly saving passengers from endangerment and the frustration of time loss – these are the results of ERIKS’ expert action. We are happy to say the pumps are all up and running and the customers have got their sleep back!
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A Journal of Imagining America
“Globally Engaged” Pedagogy, Research, and Creative Practice, Vol. 3 No. 2
Editorial: Global EngagementIfeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo, Jeffrey Hou, and Jan Cohen-Cruz
Editorial: Global Engagement
Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo, Jeffrey Hou, and Jan Cohen-Cruz
This issue of Public: A Journal of Imagining America focuses on implications and mechanics of civically engaged research, teaching, and creative practice across national boundaries. What does it mean to be "globally engaged?" What principles guide the building and sustaining of equitable relationships with international partners? What opportunities and challenges can/do international engagement partnerships present? What are the politics of framing and funding engaged arts, humanities, and design projects abroad? How do we recognize global engagement that is an extension of colonialism: "beneficent" projects that "bring civilization" to communities seen as eternal victims or as primitives? How do we enact a paradigm grounded in two-way projects aimed at bringing various populations' epistemologies, semiotic paradigms, theories, and philosophies into scholarly and public discourse within and beyond their nations?
Hemispheric Engagements: Pedagogy of the StonesOlivia Gagnon
Hemispheric Engagements: Pedagogy of the Stones
Olivia Gagnon
In this interview––conducted by Olivia Gagnon, an NYU Performance Studies doctoral student who was a graduate assistant for the course––Taylor discusses “Art, Migration, and Human Rights,” which was developed as an urgent response to the crisis of forced migration from Central America through México. Reflecting on what made this version of the Chiapas course so unique, Taylor discusses the radical possibilities offered by (multilingual) digital publishing platforms; the importance of situated knowledge, collaborative pedagogy, and embodied practice; the problematics of access; and the creation of political environments for engaged learning and cross-cultural collaboration.
'Imagination Unloosed:' a Transnational Spirit of InquiryMargaret Himley
'Imagination Unloosed:' a Transnational Spirit of Inquiry
Margaret Himley
Given the increasingly globally interconnected world we all live and work in, it's important for study abroad opportunities to further students' knowledge, skills, and disposition as they become socially responsible professionals. Community-based design projects are one way of accomplishing these goals.
Principles + Practices
Our Global ROOTS: Alternate ROOTS Artists Respond to Immigration in the Deep SouthNicole Gurgel, José Torres-Tama, and Elise Witt
Our Global ROOTS: Alternate ROOTS Artists Respond to Immigration in the Deep South
Nicole Gurgel, José Torres-Tama, and Elise Witt
For the past 40 years, Alternate ROOTS has been a champion of, and resource for, artists, cultural workers, and progressive movement builders in the southern United States. In this article, Nicole Gurgel interviews two longtime ROOTS members — Elise Witt and José Torres-Tama — and explores these artists’ responses to the global challenges the Deep South is facing. Witt directs an arts-integrated curriculum at a school for teenage refugee girls in Decatur, GA. Torres-Tama uses performance, visual arts, bilingual poetry, critical writings, and the development of a mobile teatro to ensure that the enormous contributions Latina/o immigrants made to New Orleans’ post-Katrina reconstruction are not forgotten. Both projects bear witness to immigrant experiences in the South, resisting and complicating the polemic black/white struggle that has long defined the region and the nation’s racial paradigm. Positioning their work within the context of European colonization, cross-Atlantic slave trade, and late-twentieth-century US imperialism, these artists reveal the ways in which global conflict and resistance to it has been, and continues to be, woven into the fabric of the South. As artists, their work not only illuminates these issues, but also underscores the power and value of engaging with them through the arts.
Blackness Through a Dual Lens: A Caribbean Journey into the African American ExperienceCatherine Amelia John
Blackness Through a Dual Lens: A Caribbean Journey into the African American Experience
Catherine Amelia John
This essay utilizes a personal case study to address the nuances of the race/culture nexus in Black spaces. The assumptions that many continental Africans, African Americans, and African Caribbeans have historically had of each other, while nuanced in intellectual conversations, remain something of a stereotype in the public imaginary. I use the personal narrative here as a vehicle to explore what “Blackness” means in both US and Caribbean contexts, including in the distinct intersections of color and class in both places. This essay engages discourses around post-Blackness, globalization, nationalism, and cultural identity, as well as conversations about fragmentation and continuity with regard to group consciousness and collectivity.
The Culture of Remembering: or The Experience of the Borderland Center in Sejny, PolandLukasz Galusek and Dorota Sieron-Galusek
The Culture of Remembering: or The Experience of the Borderland Center in Sejny, Poland
Lukasz Galusek and Dorota Sieron-Galusek
The Borderland of Arts, Cultures, Nations Centre (Sejny, Poland) created one of the most original programs for working with history and memory in a specific place and community. Its results and significance go far beyond the local context. The ideas, attitudes, and cultural practices developed by Krzysztof Czyżewski, the Borderland founder, are organized into an original philosophy of the “culture of remembering.” By rejecting oblivion as a method of neutralizing the demons of the past and by analyzing the mechanism of forgetting, Czyżewski declares himself for a “cultural archaeology of memory,” which is based on painstaking, lengthy, everyday work with people. The culture of remembrance practiced in this way not only builds social ties and cultural identity, but also inspires artistic exploration and new forms of expression. Memory becomes an authentic part of everyday experience.
Reflected Borderlands – Newark/Sejny: The Borderland Center, the Urban Civic Initiative, and the “My Story” Project at Rutgers University-NewarkIan Watson
Reflected Borderlands – Newark/Sejny: The Borderland Center, the Urban Civic Initiative, and the “My Story” Project at Rutgers University-Newark
Ian Watson
Reflected Borderlands examines the influence of the Borderland Center, a Polish-based, internationally recognized NGO whose work focuses on engaging arts-based strategies to address issues of ethno-national conflict, on a recent community-engaged initiative developed by the Department of Arts, Culture and Media (ACM) at Rutgers University-Newark (RU-N). The piece discusses early contacts between the two organizations, follows the development of what became the Urban Civic Initiative at RU-N and the “My Story” Project (which brings socially and educationally challenged youth into university classrooms in order to study alongside undergraduate ACM students) that grew out of it. In closing, “Reflected Borderlands” analyzes the influences the Borderland Center had on the development of the “My Story” Project, and touches on what these influence might suggests for further international collaborations in the field of community-engaged arts-based practice.
Staging Digital Portobelo: Humanities Scholarship, Digital Tools, and Collaboration as Acts of Persistent TranslationRenee J. Alexander Craft and Pamella R Lach
Staging Digital Portobelo: Humanities Scholarship, Digital Tools, and Collaboration as Acts of Persistent Translation
Renee J. Alexander Craft and Pamella R Lach
This essay offers a discussion of the front stage and backstage processes that created Digital Portobelo: Art + Scholarship + Cultural Preservation (digitalportobelo.org), a collaborative, interdisciplinary, digital humanities project that focuses on an Afro-Latin community located on the Caribbean coast of the Republic of Panama. Front stage refers to the humanities-driven research questions and processes that animate the project. It also names the project’s forward-facing conceptual design. Backstage refers to the digital competencies, tools, and behind-the-scenes labor that produce the website, as well as the interdependent constellation of teams that make it possible. With Digital Portobelo as their focus, Alexander Craft and Pamella Lach engage with the following questions: How can we build digital rubrics that reflect the dynamism of community-engaged scholarship through qualitative research and extend our collaborative potential? What are the processes of translation necessary to render deeply contextual qualitative work across multiple embodied and virtual cultural contexts? How might “staging” these processes offer nuanced discussions about the cultural practices at the heart of community-engaged scholarship? How might this work expand upon, as well as challenge, the notion of open-access, particularly in its attempts to span the digital divide? And how does doing global digital humanities highlight and underscore the limitations and assumptions embedded in digital humanities (DH) tools and practices? How does our work point to not only the linguistic limitations of our tools, but the cultural biases scaffolded in our platforms, processes, and methods?
Educating the Citizen Scholar in the South African Writing Class: Insights from Three US Writing TeachersPamela Catherine Nichols
Educating the Citizen Scholar in the South African Writing Class: Insights from Three US Writing Teachers
Pamela Catherine Nichols
This paper examines the written reflections of three writing teachers coming from the United States to South Africa, spanning a period from 1981 to 1992. All wrote books about their experiences that were admired in the United States; one even reached the New York Times list of top ten nonfiction books. Within South Africa, in contrast, none of the books were particularly well received and they have been rarely mentioned since publication. However, all three describe common conflicts that arose from the pedagogy that they sought to implement, and all illuminate the otherwise invisible micropolitics of the South African classroom at both the secondary and tertiary level.
Case Studies + Resources
Transferred, Translated, Transformed: Design tools for student engagement in Ghana, West AfricaKofi Boone
Transferred, Translated, Transformed: Design tools for student engagement in Ghana, West Africa
Kofi Boone
Designers are increasingly working in cross-cultural situations. This trend is impacting design education and resulting in a rising number of US college students participating in study abroad programs with a desire to engage in work with people from different cultures (Keen and Hall 2009; Altbach and Knight 2007). How do these trends impact pedagogy? And how can study abroad design education adapt to provide effective tools to improve cross-cultural competence while collaborating with people from different cultures? This paper uses the redesign of an international design studio in Ghana, West Africa, as a case study reflecting the range of outcomes associated with the adoption of different pedagogical methods. The paper builds from a literature review of cross-cultural competencies focusing on specific metrics. The case study reflects the lessons learned by adopting cross-cultural design education tools, and shifting from formal and instructor-led to informal and student-driven educational experiences, These approaches are derived from methods for building cross-cultural competence in order to enhance collaboration between US faculty and students and Ghanaians. The tools used range from transferring information gained about Ghanaian culture, to translating that information into knowledge through various interactions with Ghanaians, to transforming that knowledge into cocreated design outcomes spanning art, design, and planning.
Design Activism in Brazil: Building Community in Pedagogy and PracticeRebekah Ison Radtke
Design Activism in Brazil: Building Community in Pedagogy and Practice
Rebekah Ison Radtke
The University of Kentucky Summer Study Abroad Program in Brazil is a suite of collaborative courses that explore socially responsible design as a means of engaging stakeholders in shaping their environment and, in the process, building community. Participating students engage with the people, culture, and community in order to create design interventions that respond to real-life design issues. This essay features qualitative assessment instruments measuring our method of immersing students in a culture through a joint study abroad and community-engaged experience in order to achieve cultural understanding. The data demonstrates the transformative experience of community-engaged design abroad, which is not often measured in such contexts (Gillespie 2002). The findings support a learning experience that increased cultural competency, community roles, and design competencies.
“YES, AND”...A dialogue on measuring the value of community-engaged designSylvia Gale, Stephani Etheridge Woodson, Rebekah Ison Radtke, and Jocelyn Zanzot
“YES, AND”...A dialogue on measuring the value of community-engaged design
Sylvia Gale, Stephani Etheridge Woodson, Rebekah Ison Radtke, and Jocelyn Zanzot
This edited conversation explores questions of community impact and value in engaged, short-term projects such as the design-build study abroad experience Rebekah Radtke describes. Joining Rebekah are Sylvia Gale, University of Richmond’s Bonner Center for Civic Engagement and member of Imagining America’s Assessing the Practices of Public Scholarship [APPS] research group; Stephani Etheridge Woodson, Arizona State University, School of Film, Dance and Theatre and also a member of APPS; and Jocelyn Zanzot, Mobile Studio.
Amplifying the ingenuity of community self-organization: A collaborative design workshop in ShanghaiMingjie Zhu, Kin Wai Michael Siu, Minqing Ni, and Dongjing Song
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Mingjie Zhu, Kin Wai Michael Siu, Minqing Ni, and Dongjing Song
Community is the container of everyday urban life. The quality of the community environment depends on local residents’ happiness and wellbeing. Collaborative self-organization plays an important role in bottom-up community development. This paper offers a case study of a self-organized senior club, “Sweet Home,” in Shanghai, whose residents collaborated with design students and faculty in 2012. We present four design projects that reflect the different design research methods we applied to the co-creation process. We also discuss the results of the evaluation we conducted. Through the project, we found that design could be an amplifier of local ingenuity and thus promote the quality of the community environment. We end with suggestions for improving community-based teaching.
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Of Note Magazine: An Artful Call to ActionWilliam Cleveland
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Sex, Lies, And Community-Based Arts: A Review Of On The Origin Of StoriesMathew Schwarzman
Sex, Lies, And Community-Based Arts: A Review Of On The Origin Of Stories
Mathew Schwarzman
A review of one of the most provocative books to come out in the last ten years concerning the role of the arts in human development.
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Children's route choice during active transportation to school : Difference between shortest and actual route
- Dessing, Dirk, de Vries, Sanne, Hegeman, Geerje, Verhagen, Evert, van Mechelen, Willem, Pierik, Frank
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Dessing, Dirk; de Vries, Sanne; Hegeman, Geerje; Verhagen, Evert; van Mechelen, Willem; Pierik, Frank
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Background: The purpose of this study is to increase our understanding of environmental correlates that are associated with route choice during active transportation to school (ATS) by comparing characteristics of actual walking and cycling routes between home and school with the shortest possible route to school. Methods: Children (n = 184; 86 boys, 98 girls; age range: 8-12 years) from seven schools in suburban municipalities in the Netherlands participated in the study. Actual walking and cycling routes to school were measured with a GPS-device that children wore during an entire school week. Measurements were conducted in the period April-June 2014. Route characteristics for both actual and shortest routes between home and school were determined for a buffer of 25 m from the routes and divided into four categories: Land use (residential, commercial, recreational, traffic areas), Aesthetics (presence of greenery/natural water ways along route), Traffic (safety measures such as traffic lights, zebra crossings, speed bumps) and Type of street (pedestrian, cycling, residential streets, arterial roads). Comparison of characteristics of shortest and actual routes was performed with conditional logistic regression models. Results: Median distance of the actual walking routes was 390.1 m, whereas median distance of actual cycling routes was 673.9 m. Actual walking and cycling routes were not significantly longer than the shortest possible routes. Children mainly traveled through residential areas on their way to school ( > 80 % of the route). Traffic lights were found to be positively associated with route choice during ATS. Zebra crossings were less often present along the actual routes (walking: OR = 0.17, 95 % CI = 0.05-0.58; cycling: OR = 0.31, 95 % CI = 0.14-0.67), and streets with a high occurrence of accidents were less often used during cycling to school (OR = 0.57, 95 % CI = 0.43-0.76). Moreover, percentage of visible surface water along the actual route was higher compared to the shortest routes (walking: OR = 1.04, 95 % CI = 1.01-1.07; cycling: OR = 1.03, 95 % CI = 1.01-1.05). Discussion: This study showed a novel approach to examine built environmental exposure during active transport to school. Most of the results of the study suggest that children avoid to walk or cycle along busy roads on their way to school. © 2016 Dessing et al.
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International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity Vol. 13, no. 1 (2016), p. 1-11
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Walmart to work with Andhra Pradesh on branding, marketing products: N Chandrababu Naidu
Retail giant Walmart will work with Andhra govt in 5 areas, including branding and marketing of the state's products, Chief Minister Naidu said.PTI | January 27, 2015, 18:27 IST
HYDERABAD: Retail giant Walmart will work with Andhra Pradesh government in five areas, including branding and marketing of the state's products, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu said here today.
"Walmart is a global retail giant. An understanding has been reached on working together in five areas. Helping with technology under CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility), doing branding for 'Made in Andhra' products through retail stores and providing international market for more than 20 horticulture products like cashew, peanuts, rice, coconut...," he told reporters here.
Naidu was briefing reporters on his recent visit to the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, where he met honchos of Walmart and other top private companies.
"They (Walmart) source products within the state. If need be, they would source the products from here (AP) and sell where they have marketing networks. They have accepted this (request). They will brand about 100 items made by self-help groups and promote them. They have also come forward to provide technical expertise to farmers," he said.
On his meeting with software major Wipro Chairman Azim Premji and other officials of the company, Naidu said he discussed an idea of AP government and Wipro setting up a Joint Venture to work in the area of e-governance. The proposed JV would also offer consultancy services to other governments in the country.
"Modalities are being worked out," he said. Wipro has assured it will expand its facility for Santoor brand of soaps at Hindupur in Anantapur district, he said.
On his meeting with Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka and other top officials, Naidu said he has requested them to set up a centre either at Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada or Tirupati.
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Sample Pack: Schiphol Airport
By User on 12th Nov 2016 in Blog, Sample Pack
The concept of music designed specifically as a background feature in the environment was pioneered by Muzak Inc. in the fifties, and has since come to be known generically by the term Muzak. The connotations that this term carries are those particularly associated with the kind of material that Muzak Inc. produces – familiar tunes arranged and orchestrated in a lightweight and derivative manner. Understandably, this has led most discerning listeners (and most composers) to dismiss entirely the concept of environmental music as an idea worthy of attention.
Over the past three years, I have become interested in the use of music as ambience, and have come to believe that it is possible to produce material that can be used thus without being in any way compromised. To create a distinction between my own experiments in this area and the products of the various purveyors of canned music, I have begun using the term Ambient Music.
An ambience is defined as an atmosphere, or a surrounding influence: a tint. My intention is to produce original pieces ostensibly (but not exclusively) for particular times and situations with a view to building up a small but versatile catalogue of environmental music suited to a wide variety of moods and atmospheres.
Whereas the extant canned music companies proceed from the basis of regularizing environments by blanketing their acoustic and atmospheric idiosyncracies, Ambient Music is intended to enhance these. Whereas conventional background music is produced by stripping away all sense of doubt and uncertainty (and thus all genuine interest) from the music, Ambient Music retains these qualities. And whereas their intention is to `brighten’ the environment by adding stimulus to it (thus supposedly alleviating the tedium of routine tasks and levelling out the natural ups and downs of the body rhythms) Ambient Music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
September 1978 – Liner notes from Music for Airports
In 1916, as a result of development and striving for change, the first wooden structures of an airport were built on a muddy piece of land at the bottom of the former Haarlemmermeer.
Thus, Schiphol Airport opened on 16th September, 1916 as a military airbase. Its name was derived from a former fortification named Fort Schiphol, which was part of the Stelling van Amsterdam defence work. There are many stories about of how airport got its name but the most popular one says that ‘in the shallow waters sudden, violent storms could claim many ships’. A literal Schiphol (ship-hole). If you haven’t caught on by now, the theme of this Sample Pack is “Schiphol” and features XX archival sounds recorded in and around the airport over the past few decades. We’re not encouraging anyone to make ambient music for Airports but instead use the ambient sound of the airport to make music for the airport
After serving its time as a military airbase for the Dutch and the Nazis, Schiphol reinvented itself 1949 Schiphol. It was built on the concept of one large terminal split into three big departure halls which connect again once airside and has become one of the most important airports in the world.
Aside from the sounds of aircraft landing and takeoff, there is a bunch of sound recorded at Schiphol which together build up the specific atmosphere of the place. The sample pack includes interesting audio samples also from the control tower and announcements of flights to various destinations. There is a lot potential in the field recordings of air traffic, buzz in the restaurants, at the platforms and airport hall. Sounds of landing and takeoff of different aircraft also produce varying rhythmic frequencies. All surely can be reuse for creation process, and build new musical compositions.
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Posted by Vijeta Uniyal Right-wing Progress Party: “We do not compromise with people who have voluntarily joined terrorist organizations.” Norway’s ruling coalition collapsed on Monday over the repatriation of a suspected female Islamic State fighter from Syria. The right-wing...
Bernie Sanders Became Very Wealthy by Funneling Huge Sums of Taxpayer Money to Family Members
by Cristina Laila “Secret Empires” author Peter Schweizer wrote a new book titled, “Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite,” and although one slimy lifelong politician — Joe Biden — emerged as the “king of sweetheart deals” Schweizer also revealed that Socialist crackpot Bernie Sanders (VT) funneled taxpayer money to his own family members. Schweizer told Sean Hannity on Monday’s radio podcast that during the 2016 election, a mysterious media-buying company run by two of Bernie’s wife’s friends popped up in a suburb of Virginia and they funneled $83 million through the business. Now we know...
by Cristina Laila “Secret Empires” author Peter Schweizer wrote a new book titled, “Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite,” and although one slimy lifelong politician — Joe Biden — emerged as the “king of sweetheart...
“I’m Ready for the F**king Revolution – Guillotine the Rich”
by Jim Hoft James O’Keefe Strikes Again: Second Bernie Sanders Staffer Praises Gulags Last week James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas released part 1 and 2 of their “Expose 2020” series showing a Bernie Sanders field organizer praising Joseph Stalin and insisting there was a legitimate reason for the use of gulags. The Bernie field organizer called for the mass murder of the opposition if President Trump wins reelection. “F*cking cities will burn” if Trump gets reelected Bernie Sanders organizer Kyle Jurek told an undercover Project Veritas journalist. In the video you see Bernie’s Field Organizer Kyle Jurek suggesting that Trump...
by Jim Hoft James O’Keefe Strikes Again: Second Bernie Sanders Staffer Praises Gulags Last week James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas released part 1 and 2 of their “Expose 2020” series showing a Bernie Sanders field organizer praising Joseph Stalin and...
“We Will Never Let Radical Socialists Destroy Our Economy, Wreck Our Country or Eradicate Our Liberty”
by Kristinn Taylor President Trump spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland Tuesday, proclaiming the comeback of the American economy under his leadership while calling out hoax climate change activists as tyrannical socialists who seek to dominate and control “every aspect of our lives”. Trump also mocked them as “perennial prophets of doom and “heirs of fortune tellers” who falsely predict crisis after crisis that never occur. full story at https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/01/president-trump-slams-climate-change-alarmists-at-davos-we-will-never-let-radical-socialists-destroy-our-economy-wreck-our-country-or-eradicate-our-liberty/
by Kristinn Taylor President Trump spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland Tuesday, proclaiming the comeback of the American economy under his leadership while calling out hoax climate change activists as tyrannical socialists who seek to dominate...
Rep. Adam Schiff Caught Leaking Classified Information from House Committee in Effort to Damage President Trump
by Joe Hoft Democrat Adam Schiff leaked sensitive and classified House Committee materials in his obsession to politically damage President Trump. In an exclusive report, we provide the evidence below. On July 12, 2018, Democrat Representative Adam Schiff sent John Szobocsan a letter on official letterhead requesting that Mr. Szobocsan participate in an interview in front of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI): Mr. Szobocsan was an associate of Peter W. Smith who had tried to obtain Hillary Clinton’s emails and who then reportedly committed suicide in May 2017, a year before Schiff’s request. (Obviously, because Smith...
by Joe Hoft Democrat Adam Schiff leaked sensitive and classified House Committee materials in his obsession to politically damage President Trump. In an exclusive report, we provide the evidence below. On July 12, 2018, Democrat Representative Adam Schiff sent...
Sweden Has ‘Lost Control’ After Bombings Spike 60% In 2019, Says MP
Source: Zero Hedge A Swedish politician says that the government has ‘lost control’ after new figures reveal a 60% rise in bombings in 2019 over the previous year, amid what Reuters reports as “a surge in drug-linked gang-violence.” “Unfortunately, this government has lost control of what is happening in Sweden. Now in the morning, we woke up again to news of bombs and explosions, this time in Stockholm’s inner city and in central Uppsala,” wrote Moderate Party leader Ulf Kristersson in a recent Op-Ed for Aftonbladet. Approximately 257 bomb attacks were reported to police last year, up from 162...
Source: Zero Hedge A Swedish politician says that the government has ‘lost control’ after new figures reveal a 60% rise in bombings in 2019 over the previous year, amid what Reuters reports as “a surge in drug-linked gang-violence.” “Unfortunately,...
ByAlan Boyd, Sydney Pending legislation seeks to bar all kinds of large cash payments to fight crime and money laundering Australia’s revenue chiefs are bidding to ban large cash payments to hobble drug dealers and other criminal syndicates, but critics see a more sinister agenda that will allow banks and bureaucrats to manipulate ordinary citizens’ spending habits. A bill outlawing cash transactions of A$10,000 (US$6,900) or more has been passed by the lower house of parliament and is now being considered by the Senate. Anyone caught breaking the law could be jailed for two years if the legislation becomes...
ByAlan Boyd, Sydney Pending legislation seeks to bar all kinds of large cash payments to fight crime and money laundering Australia’s revenue chiefs are bidding to ban large cash payments to hobble drug dealers and other criminal syndicates, but...
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Working Mother Names RSM to 2016 "100 Best Companies" List
Leadership in creating progressive programs to support working families cited
CHICAGO, September 27, 2016
Working Mother magazine today recognized RSM US LLP (“RSM”) – the nation’s leading provider of audit, tax and consulting services focused on the middle market – as one of the 2016 “Working Mother 100 Best Companies” for RSM’s outstanding leadership in creating progressive programs for its work force in the areas of advancement of women, flexibility, child care and paid parental leave. The 100 Best Companies are featured in the October/November issue of Working Mother and on workingmother.com.
“For 31 years, Working Mother has tracked the progress of companies that lead in creating a supportive workplace for America’s families,” said Jennifer Owens, editorial director of Working Mother Media. “Now more than ever, with changing family dynamics, parental benefits are a key weapon in the war for talent. These companies aim to create the culture that attract the best talent.”
“We are honored to be recognized for the tenth time for our efforts to attract and retain high-performing employees who provide the best possible service to our middle market clients,” said Richard Caturano, national leader of culture, diversity and inclusion for RSM US LLP. “At RSM, we value the diverse insights and talents that our people bring to our clients, and we strive to help our employees balance their work and personal lives. In addition to our workplace flexibility options, we also promote participation in employee-led employee networking groups (ENGs), including our STAR women’s group. They are designed to bring employees with common interests together so they can network and learn from one another – not just about work-related issues and topics, but also about issues that impact them personally.”
“This year’s class of winning companies goes the extra mile to support working moms and all diverse families,” said Subha Barry, vice president and general manager with Working Mother Media. “In 2016, fully paid leave offerings have grown to an average of nine weeks, up from 8 last year. The Working Mother 100 Best Companies continues to pave the way for employers nationwide to support their employees, both personally and professionally.”
The complete list of the 2016 Working Mother 100 Best Companies can be found on their website.
About Working Mother Media
Working Mother Media (WMM), a division of Bonnier Corporation, publishes Working Mother magazine and its companion website. The Working Mother Research Institute, the National Association for Female Executives and Diversity Best Practices are also units within WMM. WMM’s mission is to serve as a champion of culture change. Working Mother magazine is the only national magazine for career-committed mothers. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest.
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RSM’s purpose is to deliver the power of being understood to our clients, colleagues and communities through world-class audit, tax and consulting services focused on middle market businesses. The clients we serve are the engine of global commerce and economic growth, and we are focused on developing leading professionals and services to meet their evolving needs in today’s ever-changing business environment.
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New travel ban still discriminates against Muslims: NY Attorney General
By Chris Kjelgaard
US President Donald Trump claims in a new executive order intended to temporarily ban travel from six majority-Muslim countries that his previous, court-stayed Executive Order 13769 “did not provide a basis for discriminating for or against members of any particular religion”. But New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says the new ban discriminates against Muslims.
“Courts across the country have made clear: President Trump is not above the Constitution,” says Scheiderman in a statement released after a media briefing this morning by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly to reveal and discuss the new executive order (EO).
“While the White House may have made changes to the ban, the intent to discriminate against Muslims remains clear. This doesn’t just harm the families caught in the chaos of President Trump’s draconian policies – it’s diametrically opposed to our values, and makes us less safe,” Schneiderman’s statement continues. “My office is closely reviewing the new executive order, and I stand ready to litigate – again – in order to protect New York’s families, institutions, and economy.”
Trump’s new EO outlines a 90-day ban on all residents of six mainly Muslim countries – Iran, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Libya. It removes Iraq from the list Trump proposed in his original EO 13769 – after the Iraqi government reportedly agreed to intensify vetting of its citizens before letting them travel to the USA.
The new EO also proposes a 120-day ban on all refugees arriving under the United States Refugee Admission Program.
However, it differs from the previous EO in that instead of trying to achieve complete surprise by planning to put the ban into effect immediately, it calls for the travel ban to go into effect on 16 March. This is intended to give the US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) and US law-enforcement agencies more time in which to interpret the planned new order and make arrangements accordingly.
By providing a 10-day window before which the planned ban would go into effect, the new order potentially may avoid some of the chaos, confusion, CBP overreach and mass protests at US airports and other international border entry points to the USA that the previous ban caused, creating strong international condemnation of Trump’s first travel-ban EO.
However, tweeting in defense of that original EO shortly after he had signed it, Trump argued that “if the ban were announced with a one week notice, the ‘bad’ would rush into our country during that week”.
The new EO contains several important differences from Trump’s originally planned travel ban:
It provides that people with valid visas will be allowed to enter the USA;
It provides that refugees already approved by the State Department will be allowed to enter the USA, but limits the number of refugees taken in by the United States for the year at 50,000 people;
The new EO does not include a blanket ban on all Syrian refugees;
It exempts Green Card holders (legal permanent residents of the US) from the named countries from being affected by the new order; and
Unlike the previous order, the new order does not give priority to religious minorities, the Associated Press reports. A major criticism of the previously planned ban was that it unlawfully showed preference for Christian refugees.
Sessions said at the joint news conference announcing the planned new ban that more than 300 people who entered the US as refugees are under investigation by the FBI for potential terrorism-related offences, citing the FBI as his source.
However, Tillerson, Sessions and Kelly took no questions from media following their joint news conference.
While the Trump administration denied the planned travel ban is a “Muslim ban”, noting millions of Muslims around the world are not affected by the executive order, Omar Jadwat, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s immigrant rights project, says in a statement that “Unfortunately, [Trump] has replaced it with a scaled-back version that shares the same fatal flaws.”
Prejudice rewritten is still prejudice. We tracked changes in the new #MuslimBan2 against the earlier #MuslimBan https://t.co/mRjjkgQuwt pic.twitter.com/JgNzf11MJs
— ACLU Massachusetts (@ACLU_Mass) March 6, 2017
Adds the ACLU’s Jadwat: “The only way to actually fix the Muslim ban is not to have a Muslim ban. Instead, President Trump has recommitted himself to religious discrimination, and he can expect continued disapproval from both the courts and the people.”
Trump’s new travel-ban EO comes just days after the Transportation Security Administration put in place new, more personally invasive pat-down procedures at airport security checkpoints – likened by passengers experiencing them as “groin scrutiny” or, in tweets from airports, as “legalized groping”.
One report quoted a TSA spokesman as admitting pat-downs “will be more thorough and may involve an officer making more intimate contact than before”.
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Would Willie Mitchell Be An Upgrade On The Caps Blueline?
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“We need a blueliner” is a typical Caps Fan’s lament this offseason (second only to DAMMIT!) and recently unrestricted free agent defenseman Willie Mitchell has been rumored to be in the Capital’s cross-hairs. Mitchell has been training and skating for 18 days and is finally symptom-free after his latest concussion – all fueling speculation that his signing is imminent.
But would Wilie Mitchell a good fit on the Capitals’ blueline?
By 9 years ago
RMNB’s First Year Party: A Recap In Photos
Sam, Sam, Ian, and Wes Pose For a Photo at RMNB’s First Year Party. Photo by Jesse Vaughan
A Heartfelt Thank You: Over the last nine months, RMNB has taken away valuable time I could have spent with my closest friends or family. Honestly, I haven’t always enjoyed the late nights of writing, the five Diet Pepsi’s to get through the day or trekking across the tri-state area just to meet one person or get one photo.
But everything changed Saturday night when I met RMNB’s readers. You all are so fun, so passionate, and so dedicated. You showed us what it means to be a true Caps fan, and I feel so blessed that we have carved-out a place where you can all respectfully obsess with us.
At final count, over 150 fans of the blog gathered at Front Page Arlington to simply meet each other and have a good time. We gave you a great excuse to spend your money for a good cause; Samantha Casey’s charity Love146. At the end of the night, you were all gracious enough to donate almost $900 towards it. And yeah, some awesome prizes didn’t hurt either!
Simply put, you are all such inspiring people. You constantly encourage some of my closest friends: Peter, Neil, Fedor, and Kyle – to write insightful, creative, funny pieces about your favorite hockey team. We do this because you are so receptive, so responsive, and just so danged nice. Saturday night was really just a giant thank you to all of you for participating in a blog that has evolved from being more than just a hobby (that I do in my sweatpants). We eagerly look forward to this October and maybe – if we’re lucky – our 2nd Anniversary party can be in June.
Well, with that said, let’s relive the mayhem that was last Saturday Night.
By Ian Oland 9 years ago
Barack Obama To Attend A Washington Capitals Game Next Year
Photo by Ned Dishman/NBAE via Getty Images
All those that thought President Obama would attend a Caps game before physicists figure out how to teleport an object all the way across the galaxy, please step forward to claim your prize. Wait a minute, everyone, not so fast…
All hope is not lost. The Washington Post’s new Caps beat reporter Katie Carrera informed us that Barack Obama attended yesterday’s Washington Mystics game at the Verizon Center. Those of us here at Barack The Red were instantly filled with heartbreak.
Russian Machine Never Breaks: The Party
Front Page Arlington
What makes a good party? Drink specials, good food, and great friends. If you throw in a sashed pageant-winner, signed Caps gear, and the lovely facilities of Front Page Arlington, you’re entering Great Party territory. That’s RMNB’s First Year Party for you.
Here are the deets. At 6PM, the doors of our party will open to the huddled masses. Hopefully, we’ll keep everyone properly entertained until 12:30am – or whenever Michael Jenkins shows up and saves us after SportsNite. This party is an all-ages affair, but attendees under the age of 21 will have their hands X’ed in classic D.C. tradition.
There will be no underage drinking at the party. Front Page is doing us a solid by letting us hang out, so we’re going to follow their rules. Besides, we can’t have people thinking our readers are a bunch of loudmouthed buffons. That’s our reputation, and we’ve worked too hard to let you usurp it.
Front Page is gracious enough to let us occupy the Back Bar and the Atrium as well. Let’s show them the proper respect for allowing us to run our victory lap in their fine establishment. Would have been a lot more fun if we had a Stanley Cup with us…
How about the food? The Front Page has created a special burger just for the party. For $9.99, you will be able to eat the Ovie Burger, which I can only assume will include Russian Dressing, 8 pickles & a spicy dipping sauce made from the tears of Max Talbot. If you’re saving your hard-earned money for the raffle, the Front Page will also be offering Happy Hour specials until 8pm. Check it out:
Rejected Invitation For RMNB’s First Year Party
A good idea gone terribly, terribly wrong. (Sketch by Ian Oland)
Caps-related Auction Tomorrow to Help a Local Infant Beat Cancer
Aiden Lipscomb is a 7-month-old baby boy with a rare form of cancer called Rhabdomyosarcoma, a type of muscle cancer. Aiden is on a 54-week chemotherapy regimen, which will be followed by radiation and further treatment. As you can imagine, the medical costs are astronomical. To help Aiden’s family afford to continue his treatment, an auction will be held tomorrow afternoon.
Aiden’s Auction
National Conference Center
18980 Upper Belmont Place
Leesburg, VA 20176-1245
The silent auction will have a lot of items of interest to Caps fans. There will also be a children’s book fair, jewelry, concessions, and delicious cupcakes. There is a $5 entry fee, all of which will go directly to Aiden’s Recovery Fund.
By Peter Hassett 9 years ago
Capitals Deal Della Rovere to Blues For Tough Guy D.J. King
Conventional wisdom around the blogosphere was that the Capitals’ offseason needs included a second-line center and shutdown defenseman. So tonight it was a bit of a shock when it was announced that the Caps acquired rugged right wing D.J. King from the St. Louis Blues in exchange for prospect Stefan Della Rovere.
Yeah: WTF!?!
It’s a curious move, one that comes in response to coincidentally coincides with Max Talbot calling Alex Ovechkin a “real douche”.
Russian Machine Never Breaks: We Suck
We spent a bunch of pixels bragging about all the cool stuff we did in the last year. That’s cool, ’cause we really are proud. But we’re totally rank amateurs. False rumors, worse typing, and bad luck charms; that’s just us. We’ve surpassed our peers by a long stretch of internet miles when it comes to screwing up.
The giant gray thing at the top of the page
Ian assures that one day we will put a feature widget for good posts there. I think he might just be waiting for us to write some.
Spelling names incorrectly
We’re supposed to be fans of this team, so we should probably start spelling their names right. I’ll go ahead and take the blame for this one. I’ve goofed up Matthieu Perrault, Michael Nuevirth, and both Morrrisssonnns. I did it in my very first post, and I’ll eventually get around to correcting it.
Varlamov will miss the Olympics
In our defense, Lisa Hillary was trying to trick us. After re-injuring his groinular area, Lisa gave a pessimistic prognosis that we might have accidentally blown completely out of proportion. Real-live PR people and respectable writers had to bail us out.
Nick Backstrom to sign a huge contract… in February
Maybe we were just waaaaay ahead of everyone else. We found an article on a Swedish site that said Backy was this close to signing a massive deal. It was a few weeks later before someone bothered explaining fact-checking to us.
Neil Greenberg
Just in general.
Peter shaves his beard, dooms the Caps
Peter loved #beardpact. It was his baby, and he protected it. But he couldn’t look like a pirate at his buddy’s wedding, so he shaved. And the Caps lost three in a row. JINX!
The Washington Capitals… Napoleon Dynamite style
Sara Bae created these monstrosities, and we…. oh screw it. This post was awesome, and we are unashamed. Please send us more fan art!
The Joe Corvo Bandwagon
We trust Neil implicitly, and that’s a character flaw we will address soon. He said that Corvo was the missing link and a hands-down improvement on Pothier. Suckers we are.
Our logo scares children
Ian’s girlfriend reports that this t-shirt has driven her students to tears. That’s because it’s freaking terrifying. Contrast/compare with one of the most twisted films of all time:
Taunting the Hockey Gods
We had a post actually titled We Got it Made, in which we document all the reasons why the Caps will beat the Canadiens in five games. Our reasons included secondary scoring and Jose Theodore. Ugg.
In-SEMIN-nation
Least tasteful t-shirt ever? Be honest; someone was going to do this sooner or later. Just be glad it was us.
Justin Bieber in the Bears’ locker room
There’s a fine line between cute human-interest stories and oversharing. This post demarcates the two.
Various crimes against the English language
Our relationship with the written word is abusive and codependent. The difference between resign and re-sign (post date: Yesterday) springs to mind. We’re language recidivists, well beyond any hope of rehabilitation.
After looking at all this, I can’t blame Mike Green for blocking us on Twitter. We’re a wandering band of fools and idiots, sauntering into town, breaking everything we touch and offending the locals. At this point, that you’re still reading this post speaks more to your failings than ours. You really should know better.
If you have any other screw-ups we should know about, use the comments to have your voice heard. Tomorrow, we’ll list our resolutions for next year. We promise to do better, people.
Flash (Back) In The Pan
What started with an apology from Caps PR Mogul Nate Ewell ended with information that sent the Twittersphere into a tizzy: The Washington Capitals have signed forward Tomas Fleischmann to a one-year contract. The pact is reported to be for $2.6 million and avoids a potentially messy arbitration hearing that was set to be heard Wednesday.
The important thing to remember here is that the Capitals were going to sign Fleischmann to a one-year deal regardless. You simply do not let a developed asset like a 20-goal scorer walk away for nothing, and avoiding arbitration helps preserve goodwill on both sides. The only important detail was: for how much?
And that seems to be the rub for most: $2.6 million is too much. But is it?
Russian Machine Never Breaks: The Highlights
Top 10 Stories of the Year
10. Semyon Varlamov Finally Rehabs Again With The Hershey Bears (https://www.russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2010/02/07/semyon-varlamov-finally-rehabs-again-with-hershey-bears/)
Ian told us of Varly’s kinda triumphant return to pro hockey in early February, and everyone kinda flipped out. Partially because the Future of the Franchise was finally on the mend and partially because his helmet has a bazillion eagles on it.
9. Could The Kovalchuk Signing Mean The End For Semin In DC? (https://www.russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2010/07/19/could-the-kovalchuk-signing-mean-the-end-for-semin-in-dc/)
Just last week, Neil peered into a crystal ball with one eye and Ilya Kovalchuk’s ridiculous contract with the other. Through the fog he saw the boyish grin of Alex Semin, whose one-year extension looms over the coming season like… well, a fog.
8. Ovechkin, Semin and Varlamov End Year With Devastating Loss In World Championships Gold Medal Game To Czech Republic (https://www.russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2010/05/23/ovechkin-semin-and-varlamov-end-year-with-devastating-loss-in-world-championships-gold-medal-game-to-czech-republic/)
The Caps parade of misery finally reached its completion with Team Russia’s disappointing silver finish at world championships. And we, like rubberneckers, can’t help but stare at the disappointment on the faces of Alex and Alex.
7. Russian Lessons Part I: Learn To Say Ovechkin Correctly (https://www.russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2010/02/08/russian-lessons-part-i-learn-to-say-ovechkin-correctly/)
Fedor endeared himself to us with this crash course in Russian. Now I can’t have a conversation with Ian without him hooting “ah-BOOCH-kin”.
6. Rejoice! Samantha Casey, Miss Virginia USA, is a Big Caps Fan.
(https://www.russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2010/04/18/rejoice-samantha-casey-miss-virginia-usa-is-a-big-caps-fan/)
This was one of our favorite fan profiles and unsurprisingly the most popular. Apologies to Michael Jenkins and all the people whose bandwidth this page ate up with its two dozen images.
5. Braden Holtby, Superstitions & the Introduction of “Holtbyisms”
(https://www.russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2010/03/30/braden-holtby-superstitions-and-the-introduction-of-holtbyisms/)
Holtby is now Hershey’s number-one netminder, and he’s one wacky dude. Let’s keep him and his Holtbyisms in the Caps organization for a long time to come.
4. Alex Semin Smokes, Russia Loses Its Dang Mind (https://www.russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2010/05/13/alex-semin-smokes-russia-loses-its-dang-mind/)
Fedor and I had a bear of a time getting to the bottom of this one, partially because it’s a non-story. Alex Semin can skate figure eights around me, so if he wants to have a pack a month, that’s cool by me.
3. Caps vs. Pens: The Fix Is In? (https://www.russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2010/04/06/caps-vs-pens-the-fix-is-in/)
Addison did a terrific job revealing that officials put the whistle away for the Penguins when they play the Caps. It’s math, people. Deal with it.
2. The Latest Updates From Ilya Kovalchuk’s Facebook News Feed (https://www.russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2010/07/21/the-latest-updates-from-ilya-kovalchuks-facebook-news-feed/)
1. Habs Fans Boo National Anthem. How Will Caps Fans Respond? (https://www.russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2010/04/19/habs-fans-boo-national-anthem-how-will-caps-fans-respond/)
Yay! One that I wrote! The gist is this: Caps fans rule, and everyone else sucks.
Buckle up, friends; we’re taking a victory lap.
Over the last year (technically more like 9 months), we’ve had some terrific highlights. Yes, the grim shadow of the playoffs still hangs over the year, but we choose to remember the good times. Our finest moments are usually our team’s finest moments as well, and so our recollection includes the high points of both the team and our silly blog.
At latest count, our Facebook page has 1,047 likers (including my mom). The parade of typos we call our Twitter account has 1,493 followers. The website itself is north of 300,000 hits, which is kind of dumbfounding if you think about it too long. Our teammates Neil and Fedor have parlayed their skills into gigs with VOA and Washington Examiner respectively. Even Peter has managed to hustle free pub fries from The Greene Turtle using the blog.
If we had to pick a single highlight for the year, it would have to be Andrew Gordon’s residency during the Calder Cup Finals. When Ian blackmailed convinced Andrew to pitch in, we didn’t know quite what to expect. Once Andrew turned in his first column, we figured out that his writing chops are just as formidable as his hockey skills. Andrew provided an unprecedented look not only behind the scenes, but also into the heart, of professional hockey. We are eternally grateful to Andrew for both his candor and the oodles of traffic he delivered.
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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: May 2 – May 8
Marilyn Drew Necci | May 2, 2018
Topics: Bad Magic, Basement, Champion RVA, Charly Bliss, Citizen, Fury, Hop Along, New Junk City, Patty smyth and scandal, Pedals On Our Pirate Ships, Positive No, Power Trip, Pronoun, Red Death, Saintseneca, Sea Of Storms, Sheer Mag, shows you must see, Skating Polly, Souvenirs, strange matter, The Broadberry, The Camel, The Canal Club, The Grim Gang, The Shelter People, The Sword, The tin pan, Washers, Worriers
Saturday, May 5, 7 PM
Power Trip, Sheer Mag, Fury, Red Death @ The Broadberry – $18 in advance/$20 day of show (order tickets HERE)
Just in time for the weather to really warm up, here comes one of the hottest gigs of the year! I hope you bought a new air conditioner before everybody sold out of ’em — if you come home from this gig on Saturday night covered in sweat, that old freon-deprived thing in your window that just acts like a big noisy fan will do nothing to cool you off. But even that’ll be all right, because you’ll be returning from the kind of evening that’ll fuel you with the energy you need to get through the hot summer months in Richmond… which are apparently already upon us.
Power Trip is a band that’s been coming through and laying serious devastation on the entire metropolitan area on a regular basis for long enough that they shouldn’t need much of any introduction. However, even if you’re intimately familiar with the brutality this Texas thrash outfit delivers, you’ve still got plentiful reason to come out and headbang. In addition to their still-hot 2017 LP Nightmare Logic, these guys will be touring behind the just released non-LP comp Opening Fire: 2008-2014, which celebrates their tenth anniversary as a band by making all their earliest stuff available once again in an easy-to-obtain format. And in case you’re thinking “They’ll never actually play any of those old jams,” Power Trip singer Riley Gale told Revolver recently that they’d be busting at least one out. Get stoked for that!
And hey, get stoked on the amazing dual-headline potential of the fact that Sheer Mag is also playing this show. While their punky garage-pop might seem like an odd fit for a tour with Power Trip, what these two bands have in common is a strong positive energy. As their 2017 LP, Need To Feel Your Love, so strongly demonstrated, Sheer Mag are one of the most vital bands in the music world right now, and they’ll have you dancing with a big grin on your face just as hard as you’ll be headbanging to Power Trip a short time later. California HC heads Fury — who have nothing to do with that long-departed Swiz side project, though they’re in the same league musically — will bring the, um, fury in their opening slot, and DC’s always-reliable Red Death will kick things off with a bang. Bring your sweatbands.
Wednesday, May 2, 7 PM
Charly Bliss, Skating Polly @ The Camel – $13 (order tickets HERE)
Sometimes even getting to Wednesday can be so difficult, it starts to make you feel like the weekend will never come. Thankfully for you, this Wednesday night sees Charly Bliss and Skating Polly rolling into town, bringing the fun party vibes you wait all week for right to the middle of the week, where you need it most. Both powerful and #relatable, last year’s debut full-length, Guppy, helped put Charly Bliss on the map in a big way. Bringing the winsome charm of Girlpool to the chunky guitar-pop riffs of bands like Speedy Ortiz, Guppy won a lot of people over, and for good reason.
As for Skating Polly, this youthful Oklahoma band has an irresistible charm all their own. They may have come together when stepsisters Kelli Mayo and Peyton Bighorse were still in junior high, but they’ve come into their own in a big way on The Make It All Show, their brand new LP, which comes out this Friday. The sisters have strengthened their lineup by adding their little brother on drums, and they’ve got a thicker, more self-assured sound that’s still loaded with the kind of pop charm and hooks that helped them win audiences over when they were still younger than they had any right to be. Come out tonight, bug them for a copy of the new album (chances are they’ve got ’em regardless of offical release date), and dance your ass off. Why wait for Friday night?
Thursday, May 3, 6 PM
Basement, Citizen, Pronoun, Souvenirs, The Grim Gang @ The Canal Club – $20 (order tickets HERE)
You emo fans are in for a treat this Thursday night — a double bill sure to knock your socks off is coming to The Canal Club, and I hope you’re ready! At the top of the bill is excellent UK band Basement, who had a high-profile departure from the scene after their second album but thankfully have been back on track for a few years now, starting with 2016 album Promise Everything and continuing with a variety of tours including the one now bringing them to our doorstep. Their mix of emotional melody and a harder-edged sound that draws equally from mid-90s post-hardcore and chunky alt-rock is somehow simultaneously reminiscent of Quicksand and Hot Water Music (and I hope I’m not dating myself too much with those references).
It may only be their status as Americans that makes the difference, but Citizen began with a much stronger association to the emo revival that everyone was super-stoked about five years ago. However, as trends moved on, they stayed consistent, demonstrating their talent and songwriting quality once again last year with the release of their third album, As You Please. Citizen’s consistently emotional style tugs at your heartstrings even as they attack their instruments with passion and ferocity. Either one of these two bands is worth the price of admission on their own — both together makes this Thursday night gig such a steal that you’d be totally justified in calling in to work the next morning.
Friday, May 4, 8 PM
The Sword, The Shelter People @ The Canal Club – $17 in advance/$20 day of show (order tickets HERE)
These days, I’m sure it’s only the old heads who are aware of The Sword’s RVA connection (well, old heads and those who have been reading my column for a while, because I’m sure I’ve mentioned it before). Evolving out of a stonerific RVA ensemble known as the Ultimate Dragons, The Sword first decamped for Texas and then went through a variety of lineup changes, making frontman JD Cronise their only still-extant connection to our hometown. Even if no one here knew any of them, though, we’d all have good reason to catch their latest jaunt as it touches down in Shockoe Bottom. The band just released their sixth album, Used Future, and it’s every bit as killer as their previous outings.
Some may write The Sword off as Fu Manchu-ish stoner boogie, but their musical evolution over the years has proven that they have a lot more to offer than your typical Camaro-rattling Cali bong-rock ensemble. Used Future takes their sound ever further in a progressive direction, with some of the songs blasting off into outer space fueled by the killer guitar pyrotechnics generated by dueling axemen Cronise and Kyle Shutt. Get ready to have your head expanded. Openers The Shelter People are much more conventionally rooted in late 60s proto-metal stoner fundamentals, but that does nothing to minimize the wallop their 50-foot-thick riffage will lay on you. Pull back the curtains of smoke and enjoy this one in your most laid-back frame of mind.
Pedals On Our Pirate Ships, New Junk City, Washers @ Champion RVA – Free!
Killer melodic punk never goes out of style, and if there’s one thing that’s made that fact clear, it’s been the recent (welcome) return of Pedals On Our Pirate Ships. A longtime project of guitar-slinging local punk troubadour Matt Seymour, this project has undergone quite a bit of revamping since their last LP in 2012 — which might explain why they’ve started going by just plain “Pedals” more and more often. With only two members remaining from their last incarnation, they’ve filled the lineup back out with members from Sundials and gone fully electric for a strong sound that’ll give a real kick to their always-catchy tuneage.
On this bill, their pairing with Atlanta’s New Junk City seems incredibly appropriate, as this band brings their own dose of melodic punk with a powerful electric kick. Their contributions to a recent split EP with UK band Hot Mass make that eminently clear, bringing to mind a few incredible dirty-yet-heartfelt legends of pop-punk’s past, including Dear Landlord and Bent Out Of Shape, among others. The evening kicks off with a set from Washers, a band uniting members of Sports Bar and Worn In Red under the banner of old-school catchy punk. Think The Dictators, or Fear, but without the shady shady politics (god knows we don’t need any more of those). This one is gonna get you dancing.
Sunday, May 6, 7 PM
Hop Along, Saintseneca @ The Broadberry – $15 in advance/$18 at the door (order tickets HERE)
There’s something both amazing and terrifying about a band releasing an absolutely incredible album. It’s amazing just because the album exists at all; what’s terrifying is the prospect of a follow-up. Will it take forever? Will it be disappointing? Will the band implode under pressure? Will they just repeat themselves to diminishing returns for the next decade-plus? Hop Along assuaged a lot of fears when they released Bark Your Head Off, Dog, the follow-up to 2015’s outstanding Painted Shut, earlier this year. While Bark Your Head Off is every bit as excellent as this band’s previous release, it’s by no means a carbon copy of what Painted Shut had to offer.
Of course, frontwoman Frances Quinlan’s songwriting skills remain intact, so you can expect great tunes both old and new to greet your ears when Hop Along takes the Broadberry stage this Sunday. But you might also be pleasantly surprised by the risks the band takes with their sound, integrating quiet electronic textures alongside their traditional folk-tinged melodies and alt-rock guitar scrapes. And of course, there’s Quinlan’s incredible voice on top of it all, which manages to turn a breathy twang into a heartfelt grasp for emotional connection in the most powerful of fashions. She and her band are sure to hit close to home for all of us on this night; you owe it to yourself to show up and have a real emotional experience — especially since most of us spend our lives fleeing from such things.
Monday, May 7, 8 PM
Worriers, Positive No, Sea Of Storms, Bad Magic @ Strange Matter – $8 in advance/$10 day of show (order tickets HERE)
Lauren Denitzio just continues to amaze. This excellent songwriter first showed their chops as the less-heard, more-anticipated songwriter in The Measure (SA). They carried that talent over in a big way to the Worriers, who despite perennial lineup instability have become a consistent force for incredible music in the underground punk rock scene. Their third LP, Survival Pop, came out last year and carried on this tradition with songs that both bravely attacked important issues too often swept under the rug in our society (“Gaslighter,” “What We’re Up Against”), and displayed real emotion and vulnerability in a manner that can offer comfort to even the most repressed among us.
The Worriers have come through Richmond with a variety of lineups over the years; Denitzio is often backed by a variety of fellow punk luminaries from bands like The Ergs, Bridge And Tunnel, and more. But really, who’s backing them isn’t that important; what matters here are the songs, and the strength of their delivery. As long as it’s Denitzio up front, you’re guaranteed to get those. And on this incredible bill, you’re going to get a triple-shot of killer local tuneage in the bargain, from Positive No’s politically-driven melodic alt-rock and Sea Of Storms’ hard-hitting post-hardcore emotion to Bad Magic’s always-on-time indie-rock crunch. Don’t miss a single minute.
Tuesday, May 8, 8 PM
Patty Smyth and Scandal @ The Tin Pan – $47.50 in advance/$52.50 at the door (order tickets HERE)
Look, I’ll admit it — the price for this one is high. And you’ve gotta be pretty old to remember Patty Smyth’s heyday with hits like “Goodbye To You” and “The Warrior” (I’m in my 40s and these songs all predate my teen years). That said, while Smyth may not have quite as much indie cool cred as her Y-to-I doppelganger Patti Smith, she and her longtime band Scandal still rock like crazy, and anyone with the means would be foolish to miss out on this surefire great time on a Tuesday night.
Make no mistake, Patty Smyth does have some indie cool points. After all, her first husband was legendary first-wave punk Richard Hell, and one of her biggest hits as a solo artist back in the 80s was a cover of Tom Waits’ “Downtown Train.” If you ask me though, it’s her time fronting Scandal that produced her best work; the catchy kiss-off “Goodbye To You” and the feminist power anthem “The Warrior” are deathless rock n’ roll classics. Patty’s been back together with Scandal since that early-2000s VH1 show Bands Reunited made them the subject of an episode, and you can expect the eternally-youthful Smyth to bring the fire when she and Scandal hit the Tin Pan stage Tuesday night. Trust me on this one.
Email me if you’ve got any tips for me about upcoming shows (that take place after the week this column covers–this week’s column has obviously already been written): [email protected] [and yeah, in case you’re wondering, more awesomeness from my cracked and bleeding fingertips is available at GayRVA — come say hey.]
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MACRoCk 2014 Was A Total Music Overload & I Loved Every Minute Of It
Marilyn Drew Necci | April 18, 2014
Topics: Amanda X, Big Ups, Disciples Of Christ, Disco Doom, Ex Hex, Ex-Breathers, Ex-Cult, Fluffer, Iron Reagan, live music, LVL UP, MACRoCk, Occultist, Ovlov, Pachangacha, PC Worship, Psychic Teens, Skating Polly, Yautja, You're Jovian
Although MACRoCk‘s been happening in Harrisonburg for nearly two decades, its 2014 edition, which took place on Friday, April 4 and Saturday, April 5, was the first one I ever managed to attend.
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MACRoCk Is Still Awesome, And It’s Happening In Harrisonburg In Three Weeks
Marilyn Drew Necci | March 13, 2014
Topics: Amanda X, Big Ups, Boogarins, Diarrhea Planet, Disco Doom, Ex Hex, Ex-Cult, Grass Is Green, Harrisonburg, Iron Reagan, JMU, LVL UP, MACRoCk, music, music festivals, Ovlov, PC Worship, Skating Polly, The Diamond Center, virginia, Yautja
MACRoCk (The Mid Atlantic College Radio Conference), happens this year on April 4 and 5 in Harrisonburg, VA.
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Lockheed Martin Australia Partners with RDA Hunter to Grow Future Workforce
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Williamtown, Australia, 13th December 2018 – Lockheed Martin Australia has announced a strategic partnership with Regional Development Australia (RDA) Hunter, as part of its commitment to investing in genuine opportunities for Australians in regional centres. The partnership – aimed at developing high-value, job-ready skills needed to create, and sustain, advanced technologies for defence industry – was announced at the Lockheed Martin Australia Technology Expo 2018 held at Fighter World in Williamtown, NSW.
This initiative will connect Lockheed Martin Australia with local secondary schools, as well as vocational training and tertiary institutions, to inspire and mentor Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) learning and shape curricula to address the region’s projected STEM skills required to operate, sustain and maintain the 5th Generation era of defence capability. Lockheed Martin Australia is making an initial investment of more than $60,000 to support initiatives across the secondary, vocational and tertiary education continuum, specifically:
• RDA Hunter will partner with Lockheed Martin Australia and TAFE NSW, under a new STEMStart initiative, to shape vocational education curriculum that will ensure a job-ready, highly skilled, high value workforce to support the industry technologies of the future. The program will enhance the vocational pathway for technical training to include critical skills in Cyber, ICT and programming and attract students to the expanding sector.
• Lockheed Martin Australia will support curriculum development across relevant STEM-related University of Newcastle courses. Called Project Altitude Accord, this initiative will support the contextualisation of curriculum to develop a ‘5th Generation’ technology-enabled workforce to support Lockheed Martin Australia’s future job requirements.
• The unveiling of our Future Generation STEM interactive display which has been tailored to careers of the future and aims to take Year 7-10 students on a journey from today, into the future and beyond with a range of interactive educational activities.
Speaking at the official opening of the Lockheed Martin Australia Technology Expo 2018, Lockheed Martin Australia Chief Executive, Vince Di Pietro AM, CSC, reiterated the company’s commitment to working with industry and education providers. “As home to Australia’s first squadron of highly advanced F-35 fighters and Australia’s largest regional economy, we understand the importance of the Hunter to our wider economic and national security interests,’ he said.
“We are actively working with RDA Hunter as an industry partner to raise the technology base in this region of Australia and to help develop the innovative Australian high technology businesses so that the Australian Defence Force and our future fleet of F-35s, remain at the leading edge of technology,” he said. “It is Lockheed Martin Australia’s firm belief that, through greater awareness and positive engagement with industry technologies, more secondary school students will take-up STEM related subjects and go on to pursue industry-related career pathways,” Di Pietro said.
RDA Hunter Chairman Mr John Turner said he was very pleased to publicly recognise RDA Hunter’s new partnership with Lockheed Martin Australia.
“Defence projects such as the F-35 deliver significant economic impact in the Hunter, bringing next-generation technology and related new, high-value, skilled jobs. RDA Hunter is delighted to collaborate with Lockheed Martin Australia to help STEM-skill students in preparation for these roles.”
“We look forward to sharing our knowledge and expertise with LMA and connecting them with the region’s wider defence industry, education and government to help build the workforce they need, while providing Hunter students with pathways to long-term career opportunities in the region.” “We extend our thanks to the University of Newcastle and TAFE NSW Newcastle for their support in the delivery of the educational components of these new STEM focused defence industry activities.”
About the Lockheed Martin Australia Technology Expo 2018
• On 13 December 2018, over 300 secondary students (Year 7-10) from the Hunter region will attend the Lockheed Martin Australia Technology Expo 2018 at Fighter World in Williamtown, NSW.
• The centrepiece of this event is the Lockheed Martin Australia STEM interactive. It is an interactive installation which showcases the broad applications of STEM skills and how they apply to the careers of the future. In Australia for the first time, the experience uses Lockheed Martin’s technological advances in aviation technology and space exploration in an educational and enjoyable format to inspire the next generation of innovators, explorers, inventors and pioneers to pursue STEM careers.
• Conceived by Lockheed Martin Australia and delivered in partnership with RDA Hunter, the Expo will build awareness of the broad and growing range of exciting industry and technology career pathways available.
• Exhibitors at the Lockheed Martin Australia Technology Expo 2018 include Lockheed Martin Australia, BAE Systems, Boeing, Varley Group, Pennant as well as University of Newcastle.
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About Lockheed Martin Australia
Headquartered in Canberra, Lockheed Martin Australia is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation. The company employs more than 1,000 people in Australia working on a wide range of major programs spanning the aerospace, defence and civil sectors.
About RDA Hunter
RDA Hunter works with the three levels of government, industry, other RDAs and local communities to support the economic development of the Hunter. In collaboration with relevant stakeholders, entrepreneurs and emerging business leaders, RDA Hunter is exploring opportunities to sustain a strong local economy, create local jobs, attract investment, foster innovation and, by working with industry and educators, build the skilled workforce of the future.
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Speaker 2020
We are working on creating a top-class international speaker line-up. The first to taking the stage will be announced shortly. Have a look at our exciting speakers from 2019. Are you interested in attending the event as a speaker? Then let us know by applying now!
TV personality and business woman
Julia Saller
Born of her love for cosmetics, Judith Williams founded Judith Williams Cosmetics in 2007. It has since become the most successful brand in European home shopping. The American, born in Munich, took her first steps on the path to internationalisation in 2009 with QVC in London and now enjoys great success not only in Europe, but also in Russia and Australia.
Williams has been an investor on the award-winning TV show "Die Höhle der Löwen" (the German version of "Dragons' Den") since 2014, supporting a number of start-ups and leading them to success. Her main focuses are product quality, sustainability and long-term brand development.
At the Shopware Community Day, Williams will share her moving story and talk about her journey to success.
VBites
Heather Mills is the founder of the plant based ethical Vegan food company VBites. She has encountered an unusual life of extraordinary circumstances. A woman that has an inert ability to defy and conquer anything that falls in her path.
In 1993 Heather suffered the loss of her left leg below the knee due to an accident. To save her amputated leg from constant infection she went on a plant-based diet.
Heather created the pioneering International Plant Based ethical Vegan food company, VBites, which exports to 24 countries, offers 130 plant-based products and has won 80 awards.
Consumer & Shopper Behaviouralist
Glacier Consulting
Ken Hughes is now acknowledged as being one of the world’s leading authorities on consumer and shopper behaviour, blending his understanding of consumer & cyber psychology, digital anthropology, and retail futurology to explore the needs of the new consumer and predict changes to come.
Ken advises some of the biggest brands in the world on customer experience, omnichannel strategy, shopper marketing, retail trends, the millennial and Gen Z shopper and the peer-to-peer economy. As an accomplished author, TED speaker, part-time university professor and actor, his performances are not only insightful and thought-provoking, but are infamous for their sheer passion, energy and wit.
Sebastian Hamann
Sebastian Hamann is a passionate designer and a pioneer in bringing more emotional shopping to the German ecommerce. Already at the age of 15, along with his brother, he founded Shopware. As the creative head of the company, Sebastian is responsible for the holistic design and marketing concept. In order to shape the future of retail, he always thinks out of the box.
Johannes Altmann
Customer Experience Thinker & CEO
Shoplupe
Johannes Altmann is founder and managing director of Shoplupe GmbH. Since 2003 he has advised companies on the design and optimisation of their online shops. As a usability expert, he has been dealing with the wishes and needs of customers on the Internet for over 15 years and has developed user experience concepts for retail, industry and publishers. Since 2014, he has focused on the branding effect of customer experience and has held numerous lectures.
In recent years, Johannes Altmann and his team have developed the Customer Happiness Loop. Using the method of Design Thinking, they work to develop new customer insights, transform perspectives at companies and develop new ideas for digital commerce. Altmann and his team have become a pragmatic source of ideas for users and provide input for complex problems.
Daniel Höhnke
CEO & thought leader
Pixup Media
“Standing still means giving up! Anyone who is not already looking to tomorrow today cannot understand the present. Everyone can learn something from everyone else. Always think just a bit ahead.”
These words describe the attitude of Daniel Höhnke, managing director of Pixup Media GmbH and long-standing companion of shopware AG. Having been in ecommerce for more than ten years, he manages companies of all sizes on a daily basis and works practically around the clock on new ideas, concepts and technical solutions for ever better shopping experiences.
With the knowledge that new, significant technologies are emerging every day, he is constantly looking to analyse, experiment, develop and then use them effectively.
Martin Meinert
Head of Partnerships
Martin Meinert has been active in the payment industry for almost 10 years. At Amazon Pay he is responsible for the cooperation with shopping cart providers and agencies. In his previous positions as a management consultant and manager at Mücke, Sturm & Company, and Dr. Thede Consulting, he managed various payment projects at telcos, banks and start-ups. As a co-author, he has published several studies on payment, including the “Mobile Payment Study”.
Niklas Dzösch
Developer Evangelist
In his role as Shopware Developer Evangelist, Niklas Dzösch is an important liaison between the developer community and Shopware – he is always available as a direct contact within Shopware for questions about the product and continuously brings feedback and ideas from external events back to Shopware developers. You can also find Niklas centre stage in the Shopware Academy, where his online tutorials focus on helping developers understand the technology behind Shopware.
Daniel Nögel
Product Manager Enterprise
Daniel Nögel is Shopware’s Enterprise Product Manager and responsible for the continuous development of the enterprise portfolio – the two most recent projects launched under his leadership include the B2B Suite and Shopware Enterprise Search. In this role, he focuses on identifying the requirements of customers and partners, developing related concepts and incorporating these into the Shopware roadmap and product line.
As a Shopware veteran, he is also known from the forum, consultation appointments, and numerous developer trainings.
Moritz Naczenski
Moritz Naczenski – if you’re active in the Shopware community, you’ve likely come across this name on a number of occasions, whether online in the forum/social media or in person at various user groups.
As Community Manager, Moritz is responsible for building and interacting with the versatile community of developers and users; a role which comes naturally due to his many years’ experience as a product manager in customer service. Moritz has been closely involved in the customer experience and strategic development of Shopware for years, and has recently become responsible for the roadmap and release planning of Shopware 5. At the Shopware Community Day, Moritz will give exclusive insights into the future of Shopware 5.
Philipp Schuch
Philipp Schuch is Product Owner in Shopware’s core development. As a long-time digital pioneer, he works together with his team to develop new concepts and solutions surrounding ecommerce. He is also known from his casual and entertaining presentations at trade fairs and events, where he covers topics such as user experience, design thinking and virtual reality.
Niklaas Leniger
As Key Account Manager, Niklaas plays an integral role in supporting large national and international Shopware customers and partners. His training in business economics, master's degree in Scotland and experience abroad characterise his orientation in international sales – a professional background that is hugely beneficial as Shopware continues to expand in Germany and abroad.
Jan Bücker
Developer Core
When Jan Bücker first joined Shopware as a core developer in 2015, the release of Shopware 5 and subsequent cinema tour were in full swing.
Since then, he has garnered a reputation as an architecture expert in his own right and is one of the thought leaders behind the new Shopware version. When he's not putting his ideas into action or developing new ones, he gladly shares his knowledge and experience with others. He is one of the most captivating and entertaining speakers that Shopware has on the roster. Today, he is one of the few people on stage that have shaped and accompanied Shopware every step along the way from the big 5 to the latest version.
Aaron Schaarschmidt
Manager Product Design
As a trained carpenter and furniture designer, Aaron is a fervent advocate of "form follows function" – a maxim which ultimately led to him establish the Product Design department at Shopware. However in his role as Team Leader, he is not responsible for furnishing the headquarters, rather works daily with his team on designing the user experience and interface of Shopware’s product line.
As Product Manager, Aaron also develops feature and UX concepts for future products – such as new administration – and promotes the fusion of development and design at Shopware.
Holger-Thomas Kaßner
Holger is Squad Leader & Product Owner of Shopware’s Services Team and responsible for the development of the in-house plugins.
As an expert in ExtJS, he started out at Shopware in the core development and took over as team leader of the Services Team at the end of 2017.
Next to discovering new and emerging technologies, Holger enjoys learning how to solve challenging technical problems. He is also known as an experienced lecturer in the Shopware Academy, where he imparts his specialist knowledge and enjoys diving into technical topics with the participants.
Michael Telgmann
Back in 2013, when Shopware’s employee count was in the double-digits, Michael - or better known as “Telgi” to many – came on board to strengthen the Services Team, where he cared after the company’s line of self-developed plugins.
Since those early Shopware 4 days, Michael has been in the thick of every major and minor change to the software, and experienced all there is to experience when it comes to Shopware extensions.
For years now, Michael has been sharing this unique knowledge with participants in the Shopware Academy and is always happy to address questions and exchange with developers from the community.
Tobias Pierschel
Net Inventors
Tobias Pierschel has been self-employed in the IT sector for around 20 years and has personally experienced the evolution of ecommerce from its very origins. With customer understanding, strategic orientation and a creative approach to working towards a common vision, Tobias turns problems into opportunities and finds smart solutions with his team, even for complicated challenges.
This year, his agency Net Inventors is celebrating its tenth anniversary. Net Inventors has been a certified Shopware partner since 2014 and, with nearly 60 individual plugins, is one of the leading Shopware plugin manufacturers. The driving force behind it all? Their own ideas and customer wishes, which cleverly simplify the implementation and operation of online shops and create significant added value.
Florian Hinz
Senior Business Development Manager Credit
As Senior Business Development Manager at PayPal, Florian Hinz oversees the distribution of “Ratenzahlung Powered by PayPal”, “Kauf auf Rechnung” and “PayPal Business Credit”. Prior to that, he was responsible for the cooperation with shop systems and technology partners in PayPal's partner management for 3 years.
Tim Schwarz
Neofonie
Tim Schwarz is responsible for partner management at Neofonie and works together with the likes of Magnolia CMS, Adobe, Shopware and Commercetools. He primarily focuses on topics surrounding digital transformation and advises clients in the fields of ecommerce and publishing.
Sabine Bernsee
Head of B2C E-Commerce
Sabine Bernsee's professional path from print to online has left a mark on her area of expertise. She specialises in the development of new business models and establishing online structures, particularly for medium-sized enterprises. In her previous work at various newspapers and media outlets, she focused on developing cross-media concepts and CRM systems for ad sales. At the German Lottoblock, Sabine spearheaded the Lotto.de project after the online lottery game was legally permitted again in 2011. Sabine has been with Paulmann Licht since 2014 and is passionate about building the online sales channel and international web shops – with the first major relaunch of the shop just around the corner.
Cynthia Mattingly
Cynthia has been programming in PHP since she moved to Germany in 2002. After an internship at the soccer club BVB, she worked for agencies creating ecommerce solutions until starting at Springlane in summer 2016. She led the developer team during the complete relaunch of the Springlane shop based on the Shopware platform in 2018.
Joachim Franz-Höfle
Director Data Intelligence & Systems
After completing his studies in Business Informatics at the TU Dresden, Joachim worked for five years at the management consultancy A.T. Kearney as an Analytics Associate before venturing into the start-up world at Springlane in 2012. There he built up Business Intelligence (DWH and Reporting). Today he is responsible for all IT processes (infrastructure and development) and business intelligence at Springlane.
Marvin Luttermann
Key Account Manager Partner
As Key Account Manager Partner, Marvin Luttermann plays an integral role in the internationalisation of Shopware and acts as a dedicated resource and strategic advisor for business partners in the Irish and UK market. Marvin’s degree in Business Psychology was a launching point for his experience across multiple industries, including the automotive, metal and ecommerce. Having thrived as a consultant at Creditreform specialising in business intelligence, Marvin is particularly passionate about how technology can be best applied to facilitate companies as they grow online.
Jonas Elfering
After graduating in 2017, Jonas joined the Shopware Enterprise Team as a developer. During this time, he helped turn prototypes into products and was one of the first to help develop the new core into what it is today.
Jonas likes to experiment with new technologies and doesn't believe in hype until he's tried and tested it himself.
Dominic Klein
After completing his studies in Computer Science at the TU Dortmund, Dominic Klein joined the core team of shopware AG in product development. For about 1.5 years he has supported international customers and partners with concepts, workshops and a broad product and market knowledge in the preparation and implementation of their projects with Shopware. Due to his open nature and a high technical affinity, he and his team form a valuable bridge between the sales and development departments.
Stefan Zessel
As Director Sales, Stefan Zessel – who has had a role in leading Shopware’s sales team for over 5 years – always focuses on customer and partner satisfaction and is now responsible for sales operations. Through his previous position as branch manager of medium-sized online shops and position at Shopware, Stefan has gathered indispensable experience surrounding online trade, which the graduate business economist and his team use pragmatically for all sales processes.
Philipp Scharlau
As Manager Sales, Philipp Scharlau oversees the Key Account Management for the German-speaking market. He has been working in Shopware’s sales department for more than seven years and looks back on more than 10 collective years of ecommerce experience. The certified retail specialist brings a great deal of expertise to the new challenge, where his main focus lies on the satisfaction of Shopware’s partners and customers.
Julia Leusing
Julia Leusing has been Product Designer at Shopware since 2016 and is an important contributor to the topic of “User delight” – a holistic approach that not only benefits from empathy and knowledge of human nature, but also from her distinct enthusiasm for the topic.
With her lecture at last year's SCD “Time to inspire - customer success factor”, she motivated shop owners to make their digital business more authentic and personal. She is convinced: “In an increasingly faster and more digital world, appreciation as a unique selling proposition is becoming more and more important.”
Udo Harwardt
As Key Account Manager, Udo Harwardt is one of Shopware’s main contacts for partner agencies in the German-speaking market. Prior to joining the team in December of last year, Udo was the International Partner Manager at the software company Micro Focus.
Udo has a broad knowledge of ecommerce and perfectly complements the team with his enthusiasm and high affinity for new digital topics.
Vincenzo Pollicino
Vincenzo Pollicino has been Key Account Manager for the UK and Irish market since April 2018. With his long-lasting, international experience as project manager in ecommerce, he brings valuable knowledge into Shopware's international team.
His tasks revolve around the consultancy of international customers as well as driving Shopware’s internationalisation forward.
Tim Rymarczyk
"Do something with computers, that's the future" was the career counselling tip that came to steer Tim Rymarczyk’s career path, first as an apprentice as a computer science, then later when he worked in quality management, purchasing and finally sales. With over 12 years of sales experience, Tim is one of the Key Account Managers for enterprise ecommerce projects at Shopware and accompanies the customer in the pre and after sales process.
Tobias Berge
Tobias is one of the creative forces behind the Shopware 5 Responsive Theme. Over the course of 4.5 years, he has lent his expertise in media design to make Shopware incrementally better every day.
But the influence goes both ways: since joining Shopware, Tobias has become one of the leading frontend experts and considers VueJS his second home. As a result, he is once again a pioneer of Shopware’s new technology; a good part of the new administration rests on his shoulders. As an old hand in the field of training and lecturing, he is also someone you like to have standing in front of you on stage.
Christian Rades
Since joining the Shopware family in 2017, Christian Rades has gained first-hand experience with the product in a number of departments. Starting in the Enterprise Team, Christian worked on distributed systems and cloud applications – an experience which prepared him as a core developer for the new Shopware platform, where he focuses on the administration, messaging and file management.
When not busy crafting the product itself, he’s committed to strengthening the Shopware team for years to come. Christian is one of the organisers of Shopware’s popular Code Camps, which are geared towards promoting young talent in the IT sector.
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Tobias Häusler is a moderator for Germany’s popular WDR television station, where he covers current political, economic and cultural topics. His long journey as a reporter began with his first radio show when he was 16-years-old. Later, at 22, he was awarded an Axel Springer Prize and recently received a coveted Grimme nomination for the best radio interview on his own talk show. Another highlight comes on May, 23rd, when he acts as the common thread on the inspiration stage of the SCD.
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All Vintage Products
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Online Vintage Store Launched in Ipswich
Berridges Jewellers opened its doors in Ipswich for the first time in October 1994 but Christopher Hardman the co-founder had many years experience in dealing with Vintage jewellery prior to that.
Christopher left school in 1979 and joined Croydons Jewellers in Ipswich. Croydons were the county jewellers of Suffolk and being established since 1865 they had built an enviable reputation for quality and service.
At that time Croydons ‘dabbled’ in Vintage jewellery the display being housed in their front window on what was called ‘Croydons little shelf’. Christopher was enticed to join by Robert Croydon who was keen to expand the Vintage selection and being interested in the styles and history behind the pieces Christopher rose to the challenge.
With a surge in popularity of antiques programmes on television such as Lovejoy and The Antiques Roadshow during the 1980s business flourished and the ‘little shelf’ grew into the entire front window and a vastly expanded silver gallery on the first floor.
Christopher soon realised that in order to supply the demand he would need to look further afield and hence he became a regular Friday morning (2am!) visitor to Bermondsey Market, he built up a reputation as a regular trader and dealt there for over 20 years until its demise.
Other sources for stock included weekly visits to Antiques Fairs across the country from Newmarket to Newark and numerous visits to auction houses. Where he built up a close relationship with dealers and collectors alike which fuelled his interest and knowledge of the subject.
When Croydons closed in 1994 it was an obvious decision to go into business with his close friend and colleague David Berridge, and thus Berridges was formed. The unique formula of a quality jewellers with an upstairs restaurant was an instant hit and the rest as they say is history.
Berridges has flourished and the Vintage jewellery department has become an integral part of the business. Alongside this Christopher is also an Independent Registered Valuer which recognises his skill and expertise in evaluating both modern and Vintage jewellery. For six years he also sat on the National Association of Goldsmiths panel to monitor the quality of jewellery valuations.
The Large selection and reputation that Christopher had gained moved seamlessly into Berridges and business has continued to flourish.
This website is a natural progression of the business in order to reach a wider audience but please bear in mind that there are many more items instore.
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Board Info:
Elected by popular ballot during general election
Serve 4 year terms without pay
Attend monthly board meetings, Area IV Annual Meeting and WACD Annual Convention, various public agency meetings and seminars
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Associate Members: They are appointed and do not vote but provide input in various areas.
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Joe Parsons, District Manager
Joe grew up in Hulett, WY. After serving four years in the Marine Corps, Joe graduated from the University of Wyoming with a degree in Wildlife & Fisheries Biology and Management. He joined SERCD as District Manager in 2012. He oversees all District operations, natural resource field projects and maintains working partnerships with various agencies. Joe was named the WACD Outstanding Employee of the Year in 2017. And he most recently accepted the U.S. Forest Service 2018 Rise to the Future Award on behalf of SERCD for his work with partner agencies to improve fisheries.
Email: joe.sercd@gmail.com
Jean Runner, Office Manager
Jean was hired as Office Manager/Education Coordinator in 2002. She holds a degree in Business Management and Marketing from Chadron State College. From 2002-2019 she developed and implemented the District’s Natural Resource Education Program. Jean oversees budgeting and the financial operations for the District.
Email: jarrunner@gmail.com
Garrett Pantle, Resource Specialist
Garrett joined SERCD in 2016. He is a graduate of the University of Wyoming with a BA in Rangeland Ecology and Watershed Management and minors in Forest Resources and Reclamation and Restoration Ecology. Garrett is responsible for District field projects which develop and enhance natural resources for Ag producers and residents. He works with partner agencies and private landowners, completes grant applications and reimbursements and also the District’s Annual Report and Plan of Work.
Email: garrettpantle@gmail.com
Leanne Correll, Education-NEPA Coordinator
Leanne was named Education/NEPA Coordinator in March 2019. She holds a BS in Animal Science from Colorado State University and MS in Rangeland Ecology and Watershed Management from the University of Wyoming. Since 2014, she acted as the District’s National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Consultant. Now, Leanne is responsible for the Natural Resource Education Program and represents the District on local, state, and Federal projects which have the potential to impact the District.
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The Vatican has ruled that priests can no longer cite papal secrecy in abuse cases, the latest move by Pope Francis to combat silence surrounding paedophilia in the Roman Catholic church.
The Church has been hit by thousands of reports of sexual abuse around the world by priests, and accusations of cover-ups by senior clergy.
The Vatican also announced that it was raising the age at which sexual images of a person were deemed child pornography from 14 to 18.
Francis’ latest instructions regarding Vatican law on sexual abuse say that the pontifical secret no longer applies “to accusations, trials and decisions” involving such cases.
Pontifical secrecy is a rule of confidentiality designed to protect sensitive information related to Church governance, such as diplomatic correspondence, personnel issues and alleged crimes.
Critics say the secrecy laws have prevented priests and victims from reporting abuse, as well as hindered national justice systems prosecuting cases.
In May, the pope passed a landmark measure to oblige those who know about sex abuse to report it to their superiors, a move expected to bring even more cases to light.
In Tuesday’s statement, issued on the Argentine pontiff’s 83rd birthday, Francis spelt out the new obligations.
“The person who files the report, the person who alleges to have been harmed and the witnesses shall not be bound by any obligation of silence with regard to matters involving the case,” he wrote.
Archbishop of Malta Charles Scicluna, the Vatican’s chief sex crime investigator, called Francis’ move an “epochal decision that removes obstacles and impediments.”
A 25 year old English woman has become the first female to win a match at the PDC World Darts Championship, receiving a standing ovation from the crowd in London after beating compatriot Ted Evetts 3-2.
Fallon Sherrock trailed 2-1 but hit back to seal the historic first-round victory, landing six 180s with a 91.12 average.
When her dart landed in the double 18 to finish, the typically festive Alexandra Palace crowd produced the biggest roar of the tournament so far.
“I have proved that we can play the men and can beat them,” the 2,000-1 title shot said after her win.
“I feel really happy because I have made something for women’s darts.
“I can’t believe it. To do that on the biggest stage, wow. I am so happy that I can continue.”
Sherrock was one of two women to secure a place among the 96-person field at the championships.
The other woman, Mikuru Suzuki, lost to James Richardson at the weekend.
Sherrock faces Austrian Mensur Suljovic in the second round.
Estonia’s president Kersti Kaljulaid has issued an apology to Finland 34-year old Prime Minister Sanna Marin after Estonia’s Interior Minister Mart Helme mocked the young Finnish leader about her background.
Ms Kaljulaid phoned her Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinisto, offering a public apology on behalf of Estonia and Mr Helme to Ms Marin and her government.
She said she was “embarrassed” by the comments of Mr Helme, who leads the populist far-right party Ekre.
The 70-year-old Mr Helme made his controversial remarks on his party’s radio talk-show.
“Now we see how one sales girl has become a prime minister and how some other street activists and non-educated people have also joined the cabinet,” Mr Helme said.
Mr Helme, Estonia’s former ambassador to Russia, also mocked Ms Marin’s ruling “red” Social Democratic Party, saying it was out to “liquidate” Finland with its policies.
Mr Helme’s remarks triggered a vote of confidence to be called against him in Estonia, with MPs voting 44 to 42 to remove him from his post. However, the motion failed to pass because it did not achieve an absolute majority of 51.
Mr Helme is widely known in Estonia for his political gaffes and sexist comments about women, including personal attacks on Ms Kaljulaid, Estonia’s first female president, whom he called earlier this year “an emotionally heated woman”.
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Israeli Forces Destroy 10 Palestinian Houses in West Bank
Israeli Forces’ bulldozers have demolished over 10 Palestinian houses and residential structures in the village of Khirbet Tana, located in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority (PA) official who monitors the Israeli regime’s settlement activity, said that Israeli bulldozers demolished the houses and structures on Tuesday, with Israeli officials claiming that they had been built illegally in an area declared by Tel Aviv as a “firing zone” for military training.
An Israeli military spokesman said that “enforcement steps were taken against five buildings and six tents which were built illegally without permits.”
Some 20 percent of the West Bank has been designated by the Israeli regime as firing zones, where Palestinians face serious restrictions on their freedom of movement and access to basic needs, and are also subject to settler violence and harassment by soldiers.
Khirbet Tana is home to some 300 Palestinians, belonging to a herding community that have lived in the village for decades. Rights groups say the demolition of Palestinian homes are in line with Israel’s policy of expansion of settlements and land theft.
More than half a million Israelis live in over 230 illegal settlements built since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East Jerusalem (al-Quds). The United Nations and most countries regard the Israeli settlements as unlawful.
The presence and continued expansion of Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine has created a major obstacle for the efforts to establish peace in the Middle East. The PA wants the West Bank as part of a future independent Palestinians state, with East al-Quds as its capital; Press TV reported.
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Regency Corinthians, Dandies, Rakes and Young Blades
In Regency romances these days, it seems as if every gentleman back then was a rake. But there were actually several sets to which a gentleman might belong.
Almost all Regency gentlemen gambled, drank, played hard, hunted, went shooting and generally indulged in excess, carnal and otherwise, following a tone set very much by the Regent. The Prince turned 49 in 1811 when he became Regent of England, putting him past the age where either “young” or “blade” could be aptly applied to him, but there were other men gentle by birth—though not necessarily by manner—who looked to belong to certain distinct fashionable sets which excelled in specific areas.
Lord Byron in Turkish Dress
It can be difficult to tell the difference between these different set, and quite often a gentleman had overlapping interests. There were rakes who were good enough sportsmen to be called “Corinthians,” and Corinthians who also belonged to the dandy set by virtue of the care they took with their dress.
Lord “Beau” Petersham was one such man. Born in 1780, Charles Stanhope, Viscount Petersham, later became the Earl of Harrington in 1829. He was said to resemble Henry IV, and he emphasized this by growing a small, pointed beard. He designed his own clothes and made famous the Petersham overcoat and the Harrington hat. He was also noted for his brown coach, clothing, and servant’s livery—a color said to have been chosen for his devotion to a widow named Brown. However, in 1831 he married a Covent Garden actress named Maria Foote who was seventeen-years his junior. His was also noted for his snuff and tea mixes, and Gronow said of his sitting-room that, “…all round the walls were shelves, upon which were placed tea-canisters, containing Congou, Pekoe, Souchong, Bohea, Gunpowder, Russian, and many other teas, all the best o the kind; on the other side of the room were beautiful jars, with names in gilt letters, o finnumerable kinds of snuff….”
Petersham owned a snuff boxes for each day of the year and according to Priestley in The Prince of Pleasure, took care to “…choose one that suited the weather, not risking a cold by using a light snuffbox in an East wind.”
Lords Alvanley and Sefton were other examples of dandies who also had sporting interests.
William Arderne, Baron Alvanley, was famous for his wit, his dinner parities, his dress and his eccentricities. He insisted that an apricot tart be on the sideboard, no matter the time of year, after he was served a cold one that he liked. He also put out his candle by throwing it across the room—with his valet wisely remained alert in case it should start a fire and have to be put out. A hard rider to hounds, Alvanley was one of the best liked men of his set.
Lord Sefton, William Philip Molyneux, was a cousin to Petersham. Society wits dubbed him “Lord Dashalong” for his driving style, and his matched bays were quite famous. He rode in steeplechases and was so fond of coursing greyhounds against each other as a sport that he devoted part of his estate to raising rabbits for the chase.
Even with examples of gentlemen who had diverse interests, there are still distinctions that can be made between these various sets. Byron is quoted as having said, “I like the Dandies, they were always very civil to me.” This shows that while the distinctions between these sets were fine, they existed.
George Brummell (1815)
To see this illustrated, one can look at the most famous of dandies, George Bryan “Beau” Brummell who led the dandy set for a number of years. As Captain Gronow states, “All the world watched Brummell to imitate him, and order their clothes of the tradesman who dressed that sublime dandy.” He also reports that, “The dandy’s dress consisted of a blue coat with brass buttons, leather breeches, and top boots; and it was the fashion to wear a deep, stiff white cravat, which prevented you from seeing your boots while standing.”
In Life in Regency and Early Victorian Times, Chancellor marks the world of the dandies as “…that portion of St. James’s, bounded by Piccadilly and Pall Mall, St. James’s Street and Waterloo Place, was the ne plus ultra of fashionable life…” Obviously with a mention of Waterloo Place, this puts this area a touch later than the Regency, but St. James’s did mark the center of the fashionable gentleman’s world.
Brummell was on terms with the Prince Regent, and his closest friends included the Dukes of Rutland, Dorset, and Argyll, Lords Sefton, Alvanley, and Plymouth. As Gronow states, “In the zenith of his popularity he might be seen at the bay window of White’s Club, surrounded by the lions of the day, laying down the law, and occasionally indulging in those witty remarks for which he was famous.”
Wit was as much a hallmark of the dandy as were his clothes—indeed, everything about the dandy had to bespeak style, including his dress, his manners, and his furniture. Understated elegance was what Brummell strove for and he is quoted as saying, “If John Bull turns round to look after you, you are not well dressed; but either too stiff, too tight, or too fashionable.”
As a gentleman, Brummell rode to hounds, following that sporting fashion. But it is reported that he never rode past the first field for he did not want to stain his white boot tops with mud, and so retired to the nearest inn. This is what sets him as a true dandy, caring more for his appearance than anything. A true Corinthian would have distained such a poor showing, for, in general, Corinthians sought to excel in the sporting world.
Shakespeare has his Prince Hal proclaim in Henry IV, “They take it already upon their salvation, that though I be but prince of Wales, yet I am king of courtesy; and tell me flatly I am no proud Jack, like Falstaff, but a Corinthian, a lad of mettle…”
A lad of mettle was what the Regency Corinthian sought to prove himself.
Bartleby’s defines a Corinthian as “A gentleman sportsman who rides his own horses on the turf, or sails his own yacht. A member of the pugilistic club, Bond Street, London” which references the Pugilistic Club formed in 1814 as the meeting-place of the aristocratic sporting element, often called “The Fancy.”
The Corinthian was, above all, a sporting man. He drove his own horses, boxed, ride to hounds, shot and strove to be among the elite of this group would undertook these expensive as well as athletic endeavors.
Military men, too, might aspire to sporting excellence. Wellington was said to have a “bad seat” on a horse, but he certainly loved to hunt. His officers could keep packs of hounds, and while foxes might be scarce in Spain and Portugal, there were rabbits enough to hunt. Winter was also the time when the army had to wait out the winter before a spring campaign, and as Harry Smith wrote in his autobiography, “At this period of the year (February, March) the coursing in this part of Spain is capital, and by help of my celebrated dog Moro and two other excellent ones, I supplied the officers’ mess of every Company with hares for soup.” Smith kept greyhounds to chase the hares, a sport far older than fox hunting, and his life is superbly fictionalized in Georgette Heyer’s The Spanish Bride.
There were more than a few Corinthians who also excelled at excessive dissipation, and who could be called rake, or “rake-hell,” or “rake shame.” It took more than a little womanizing for a Regency gentleman to earn the status of rake. Prostitutes were so numerous that guidebooks were put out to describe the women, their specialties, and what they might not do. Most gentlemen kept a mistress, and even titled married women considered discreet affairs the norm. But a gentleman who went beyond conventions, who preyed upon young women, or even children, or who undertook perversions, was deemed unacceptable. These rakes ignored convention and morality. Two such examples of this are Lord Barrymore and the Duke of Queensberry.
Born in 1768, Richard Barry became the Earl of Barrymore in 1773. He took to living to please himself, and earned the nickname “Hellgate.” His brother, Henry Barry, became “Cripplegate” for his crippled foot, and his other brother, the Honorable Reverend Augustus Barry, was called “Newgate” because that was the one gaol he had kept clear of. His sister, who became Lady Milfort, was called “Billingsgate” for the foul language she used.
Barrymore rode his own horses in races, then went deeply into debt building his racing stables and gambling on his horses. It is said that he was a whip equal in skill to any professional coachman. He also organized boxing matches, bet on them, and was accounted a good boxer himself. In 1792 he married Miss Goulding, niece of the notorious Sir John Lady and Letty Lade—a woman who had been the mistress of the highwayman known as “Sixteen String Jack.” Sir John was not a respectable person, but he was a noted whip, and had driven a coach and four round the tiny horse sale yard at Tattersalls—a remarkable feat. Instead of marrying to settle down, Barrymore had to make a scandal of even this. He received permission from Sir John to marry Lade’s niece, but Barrymore decided to elope with his bride anyway, setting Society to talking about such disgraceful behavior.
While Lord Barrymore lived up to the image of a dissolute and dashing young blade, the Duke of Queensberry, known as “Old Q” for the initial he had painted on his carriage instead of his crest, was more the classic old rake. He also was a noted race-horse owner, gambler and driver, traits of a true Corinthian.
William Douglas had become the Earl of March in 1731, and then inherited the dukedom of Queensberry in 1786 when his cousin died. Fabulously wealthy, he never married. He adored young Italian opera singers, and was said to have been a member of the notorious “Hellfire Club.” Like a true rake, he neglected his estates of Drumlanrig, Dumfries, and Galloway, and lived for his own pleasure.
While Georgian, the Hellfire Club is worth a brief mention in that gossip made it a standard (abet a low one) for scandalous debauchery. It was not actually called the Hellfire Club by its members. Started in 1746 by Sir Francis Dashwood, its name, like its members and its activities, were kept secret. It was called either The Friars of St Francis of Wycombe, The Monks of Medmenham, The Order of Knights of West Wycombe, or The Order of the Knights of St Francis. Stories held that members included the Earl of Sandwich, the son of the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Hogarth, the Earl of Bute, the Marquis of Granby, and even the Prince of Wales, and that they indulged in everything from orgies to Satan worship. What they really did is unknown, but it is very likely that they held orgies with prostitutes and probably performed invented Pagan ceremonies that were relatively harmless.
By the Regency, Dashwood and his club had been replaced by other clubs—some every bit as scandalous.
There were numerous gentlemen’s clubs in Regency London, and a gentleman’s clubs also denoted his status within each set. Some clubs were founded for the purpose of eating, some for drinking, some for wit and society, some for debauchery, some for gambling, some for sports. Many of them had whimsical rules, such as a club founded by Lord Barrymore which ruled that “if any member has more sense than another he be kicked out of the club.”
Most gentlemen belonged to several clubs. Waiter’s was considered the domain of the dandy, but closed in 1819 after becoming infamous as a place where too many gentlemen were ruined with deep play (which was also suspected of being rigged play). White’s was considered the most exclusive, and was where Beau Brummell held court in the famous bow-window with Lord Alvanely, the Duke of Argyle, Lord Worcester, Lord Foley and Lord Sefton. Opposite White’s stood Brooks’s, a club that, through its patronage by Whig families, became known as the place for liberals. Members included the radical and the artistic, such as Edmund Burke, Sir Joshua Reynolds, David Garrick, Horace Walpole, Edward Gibbon, Richard Sheridan, and the Prince of Wales. Finally, a sporting minded gentleman might join Boodle’s with its focus on heavy gambling, or The Marylebone Cricket Club which played at Lord’s, or might aspire to the Bensington Driving Club, founded in 1807, or the more elite Four-Horse Club.
The Four-Horse club met in George Street, Hanover Square, and drove to Salt Hill to dine. Members had be noted whips, drove four horses attached to a barouche carriage and had the right to wear the yellow-striped blue waistcoat and black spotted neckerchief insignia of the club. Membership was so exclusive that the club counted only around thirty members or so, and included Lords Barrymore, Sefton, Worcester and Fitzhardinge, Sir John Lade, Sir Henry Peyton, Sir Bellingham Graham as well as other noted whips.
M. Simond, writing about his visit to England in 1810, might well have been writing of the Four-Horse club when he said, “I have just seen the originals of which Matthews gave us a faithful copy a few days ago in Hit or Miss—the very barouche club; the gentlemen-coachmen, with half-a-dozen great coats about them—immense capes—a large nosegay at the button-hole—high mounted on an elevated seat with squared elbows—a prodigious whip—beautiful horses, four in hand, drive in a file to Salthill, a place about twenty miles from London, and return, stopping on the way at the several public houses and gin shops where stage-coachmen are in the habit of stopping for a dram, and for parcels and passengers; the whole in strict imitation of their models and making use, as much as they can, of their energetic professional idiom.”
For boxing, there was Daffy’s Club, which The London Spy reported was held at Tom Belcher’s at the Castle Tavern in Holborn. Boxing matches were also held at Fives Court in St. Martin’s Street.
Just as each set had its customary haunts and clubs, slang terms also defined a gentleman’s interests. Some dandies, such as Sir Lumley “Skiffy” Skeffington spoke with a lisp. (Many in the liberal Devonshire set also copied the Duchess of Devonshire’s lisp to denote their status as Whigs.) With his lisp and his appearance as “a thin pallid little man with sharp features and rouged cheeks, and the atmosphere of a perfume shop,” Skeffington was almost the archetype of a dandy. He wore colored satin suits, penned plays and was said to spend eight hundred pounds a year on his clothes. Actually, while Skeffington was a friend of Brummell’s and the Regent, he was actually too fashionable to meet Brummell’s standards for understated taste.
The Corinthian, in turn, adopted boxing terms or the slang of the coachman on the road. It should be noted that are differences between London “thieves cant” often used by the young bucks about town, and the language of the Fancy.
As examples, Pierce Egan’s Life in London; or, The Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his elegant friend, Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their Rambles and Sprees through the Metropolis shows his heroes—Tom and Jerry—using the slang of the Fancy as Tom shows his country cousin Jerry about town. Egan calls his hero “one of the fancy, but not a fancy man…” And said of him that while he was as home waltzing at Almacks, he was not a dandy.
Egan also published Boxiana as a serial put out between 1811 and 1813, and he was a well known figure in the sporting world. Captain Grose’s Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue provides a reference to the thieves cant used by the London underworld, and which might be employed by a young gentleman going slumming in brothels or gaming hells.
In addition to imitating the lower classes of London, young gentlemen looked to imitate the professional coach driver who handled the mail and stage coaches. They might done a “Benjamin” (the greatcoat worn by coachmen) while seeking to “handle the ribbons” (hold the reins), and “spring the team” (put a team into a canter); “feather it” (drive very close to obstacles), managing both the “leaders” and the “wheelers” (the front pair and rear pair of a four horse team) over a “stage” (the distance between one change of teams and the next—usually 10 to 20 miles).
For others, it was not the professional coachman but the professional boxer who became the hero to emulate.
Boxing at Gentleman Jackson's
Fist fighting begun to replace sword or cudgel sports during George I’s reign. Though it was illegal, betting made it enough of an attraction to draw nobility as well as common folks. The first official champion of England was James Figg, who was also an expert swordsman and who later opened a School of Arms.
Later, Jack Broughton, who was champion of England from 1734 to 1750, invented the “mufflers” or boxing gloves that were used for practice only since all prize-fights were fought with bare fists. Called “the father of British pugilism” Broughton drafted the rules that were used before and during the Regency. (It was not until 1866 that the Queensberry Rules were developed by the 8th Marquis of Queensberry and John G. Chambers.)
Broughton’s rules outlawed hitting below the belt, striking an opponent who was down (which included being on his knees). Wrestling holds were allowed only above the waist. Every fighter had a gentleman to act as umpire, with a third to referee disagreements. When a fighter was knocked down, he had 30 seconds to get up—or have help getting up—and then he had to be placed at the corner of a 3-foot square that was drawn in the center of the ring.
As was common for retiring champion boxers, when John Jackson retired after willing the champion title in 1795, he opened the Bond Street School of Arms at Number 13. Jackson won the championship in a hard-fought match with Daniel Mendoza, but it was his school which brought him fame.
Jackson, known as “The Gentleman,” was friends with fencing instructor Henry Angleo, who had a school next door and who urged his students to alternate with lessons from Jackson—which made sense for Jackson advocated footwork and the science of targeting a hit.
Everyone went to Jackson’s, even Lord Byron, the lame poet. When tasked with keeping such low company Byron insisted that Jackson’s manners were “infinitely superior to those of the fellows of the college whom I meet at the high table.” That no doubt contributed Jackson’s nickname and his success.
Other boxing champions of the Regency era included: Jack Bartholomew, champion from 1797 to 1800. Jem Belcher who often wore a blue scarf marked with white spots and blue centers around his neck, which became known as the Belcher neckcloth, and soon sporting mad young bucks were wearing any scarf of garish color with spots. “Hen” Pearce, “The Game Chicken,” who held the title from 1803 to 1806 when he retired. John Gully who won the championship in 1807 and retired in 1808 to open a racing stable. And Tom Cribb became the champion in 1808, winning a famous bout against African-American Tom Molineaux on December 18, 1810. Cribb went on to hold the champion title until 1822.
As an interesting footnote, Tom’s less famous brother, George had about five fights, and lost all of them—some men simply were not cut out to be Corinthians, dandies, or rakes.
Fencing at Henry Angelo's
This entry was posted on August 18, 2011, in Articles, Research and tagged gentlemen, rakes, regency. 3 Comments
The Regency Horse World
Hunter. Carriage horse. Race horse. Town hack. Horses were part of everyday life in Regency England. And the horse world of a few hundred years ago was quite different than its modern counterpart.
By the start of the 1800’s one of the biggest innovations in horses had already occurred—the Thoroughbred had arrived. Three founding stallions—the Darley Arabian “Manak,” the Godolphin Barb, and the Byerley Turk—had been brought to England in the early 1700’s. When the light, fast and sturdy Arabians were bred with the larger, cold-blooded English mares, the cross produced a horse with size, speed and stamina. It produced the Thoroughbred.
At the same time that the Thoroughbred was being established as a breed, horse racing was also becoming a regulated sport. In 1711, Queen Anne had established regular race meetings at her park at Ascot. Gentlemen organized races for themselves, often “matching” particular horses against each other, and by 1727 a Racing Almanac began to be printed.
Flat and jumping races were also held for women only. Mrs. Bateman wrote in 1723, “Last week, Mrs. Aslibie arranged a flat race for women, and nine of that sex, mounted astride and dressed in short pants, jackets and jockey caps participated. They were striking to see, and there was a great crowd to watch them. The race was a very lively one; but I hold it indecent entertainment.” Some women—such as the infamous Letty Lade, who apparently swore like a coachman—rode and drove to please themselves, but they were the exception in the Regency world.
Around 1750, the gentlemen who regularly met at the Red Lion Inn at Newmarket started the Jockey Club. And in May of 1779, the first Derby was held. By 1791, the Jockey Club had issued the “General Stud Book”, and by the early 1800’s Jockey Club stewards attended every racing meet.
Assize-week was the time for races, for that was when the gentry came into the chief town of the shire for trials and selling harvest. Meet sprang up, and still run, at Newmarket in April and October, York in May, Epsom, Ascot in June, Goodwood, Doncaster, Warwick, Manchester, Liverpool, Chester, Cheltenham, Bath, Worcester, and Newcastle.
Racing, however, was a sport for the rich. Before the Prince Regent quit the racing scene in 1807, his racing stud farm came to cost him 30,000 pounds a year.
For the less wealth, horses still served as sport, primarily for fox hunting. While Thoroughbreds might be seen in the field, one might also see farmers upon their heavier draft horses, such as the Suffolk Punch. Children might well be mounted upon the small but handy Welsh Cob or Welsh pony. And Irish Hunters, with their thick bones and size have always been prized for horses who can go all day and then some.
While fox hunting traces its roots back to the mid-1600’s, the sport did not take its present form of jumping and long runs until after the Enclosure Acts of the 1700’s. By the 1780’s, fox hunting had become the most popular of sports, replacing the more ancient sport of stag hunting.
November to March was, and remains, fox hunting season, starting after the fall of the leaf, when the fields lie fallow, and ending after the last frost, just before the first planting.
Hunt territories varied widely. The fifth Earl of Berkeley hunted an area from Berkeley Castle to Berkeley Square, stretching 120 miles.
By 1810, there were 24 subscription packs—a packs that one could pay to hunt with, as opposed to requiring an invitation from the Master. This would double, so that by the mid-1800s hunting had become more a matter of ‘subscribing’ in exchange for the right to hunt with the pack.
The golden age for hunting in Leicestershire is considered to be 1810 to 1830. During this time, there were as many as 300 hunters stabled in Melton Mowbray—with some gentlemen keeping up to 12 hunters. A gentleman could hunt six days a week with the Quorn, the Cottesmore, the Belvoir, and the Pytchley.
Ladies were also found in the field. Mrs. Tuner Farley hunted for 50 years. Lady Salisbury was master of the Hatfield Hunt from 1775 to 1819. She hunted old and blind, in her sky blue habit, with a groom leading her horse and yelling at her to, “Jump, damn you, my lady.” And from 1788 to 1840, Lord Darlington hunted his own hounds four days a week in Yorkshire and Durham, with his three daughters and his second wife, all in their scarlet habits.
However, between late 1700’s to about mid 1800s, when the jumping pommel was invented for the side saddle, ladies were more likely to be advised to “ride to the meet and home again to work up an appetite.”
While fox hunting was viewed as a sport for everyone, the reality was that it cost money to keep a pack of hounds and hunt them. However, anyone could take a horse and follow, if the master allowed it, and some followed the hunt in their carriages.
For most families, a carriage was a necessity, and specific breeds of horses were used in harness. The ideal hunter had a long, low stride. But a carriage horse needed high-stepping action, which looks lovely in harness, but which is not always the most comfortable ride.
Carriage breeds of the era included the Yorkshire Trotter, the Norfolk Trotter, the Hackney Horse, the Hackney Pony, and the Cleveland Bay, which is still one of the most desired of carriage horses. Ponies were often used for smaller vehicles, and for ladies. Prints of the era often show ladies driving a matched team of cream ponies–which looks a lovely sight.
Owning and maintaining a horse could be expensive, but there were more affordable options.
John Tilbury of Mount Street in London offered a horse for rent at 12 guineas a month. For 40 guineas, one could hire two hunters and a servant.
Carriages were more expensive than horses, for they had to be custom built. Families with modest incomes would often purchase a carriage second hand, from an advertisement in The London Times. Those who could afford it would have a carriage built to their own specifications.
In Jane Austin’s Northanger Abbey, Mr. Thorpe enthuses over his new carriage, boasting: ‘Curricle-hung, you see; seat, trunk, sword-case, splashing-board, lamps, silver moulding, all you see complete; the iron work as good as new or better’ — and all for fifty guineas.
Chandros Leigh, a distant cousin of Jane Austen, obtained an estimate for a fashionable laundau in 1829. The price of the basic carriage was 250 pounds, which included: ‘plate glass and mahogany shutters to the lights, and plated or brass bead to the leather, lined with best second cloth, cloth squabs, and worsted lace….’ The ‘extras’ ordered including footman’s cushions, morocco sleeping cushions, steps, silk spring curtains, his crest on the door, embossed door handles and full plated lamps. These brought the cost to 417 pounds, 11 shillings and 6 pence, but he was given 60 pounds in exchange for his old carriage.
Carriages for country and for town were generally quite different in build, for they served different purposes. And since carriages were custom built, almost every carriage could be a unique design. Common types of carriages, however, included:
The Phaeton – a four-wheeled, owner-driven vehicle fitted with forward facing seats, usually an open carriage.
The Gig – a two-wheeled vehicles (Whiskey), built to hold two, usually an open carriage.
The Curricle – the “gig” of the quality, built to hold two, which could be two or four-wheels, and which sometimes had a top that could fold down.
A Town Coach – a closed coach that could be drawn by one horse or a pair.
Landau – a four-wheeled vehicle that held four, which was drawn by a pair and built with a removable or folding top.
Barouche – a four-wheeled vehicle drawn by a pair, or by four or even six horses, with an option for a driver, or for post boys to ride and control the horses. Sometimes built with a fold-down top.
(For images, visit –Georgian Times.)
A ‘Drag’ was a slang term for a gentleman’s private coach. It was built much like a mail coach, and often used for race meetings or other outdoor events as it height and roof seats created its own grandstand.
In 1805, smaller Hackney coaches came into use and in 1823 the first Hackney cabs came to London. It was not until 1830’s, however, that the famous Hansom Cabs appeared in London.
Both carriage and road constructions were being developed during the Regency and were not without problems.
Sylas Neville’s diary recorded a 1771 journey on the London to Newcastle stage. It took him two days, traveling day and night, to cover the 197 miles from Stilton to Newcastle.
By the 1780’s, private carriages could cover the distance from Bath to London in 16 to 18 hours. But the Royal Mail coaches were much slower until John Palmer produced a mail coach that left the Rummer Tavern in Bath on August 2, 1784 at four PM, and arrived at the Swan with Two Necks in London by eight AM the next morning. The stage had traveled 119 miles in less than 16 hours!
Up to 1820, most coach horses were changed every ten to eleven miles. Thereafter, to get better speeds, they opted for even less distances, changing about every six miles. But as Mr. Darcy says in Pride and Prejudice, “fifty miles of good road was ‘little more than half a day’s journey.’
With so many road problems, those who wished for speed would often ride.
RIDING: SIDE SADDLE AND ASTRIDE
Riders of the 1800’s leaned back and rode with long stirrups that kept their seat in the saddle. Even jockeys rode sitting down square on a horse’s back. And English ‘tack’ or equipment is quite different from its ‘western’ counterpart.
An English saddle has a pommel up front, not a saddle horn. The back of the saddle is the cantle. The saddle is held in place with a girth–not a cinch–and uses stirrup leathers and stirrup irons.
Riders generally carry a hunting whip, which is designed with a crook on the end to open gates, and whip points on the opposite end that can be changed and used to control the hounds. This whip is not actually used to whip the horse.
A lady often used a whip to give a light tap to the horse on the ‘off’ or right side as a command, since her legs hang down on the ‘near’ or left side.
Prior to 1835, a side saddle had only one or two pommels. One turned up to support the right leg, and some had a second pommel which turned down over the left leg. The ‘jumping’ pommel did not exist in Regency times.
A lady’s riding habit had to be cut so that it draped down over the horse’s side, coving ankle and boot in a lovely flow. This drape required that a loop be attached to the hem, so that, when dismounted, a lady could gather up the extra length of skirt. The fabric for a habit was usually a heavy cotton, twill or wool. And due to its cut, a habit can provides any woman with a long stride as much freedom as breeches.
Riding habit styles often copied military fashion, with close cut coats, cravats, and military shakos. Ladies always wore gloves, both to preserve their hands, and to improve their grip upon the reins.
One print from the early 1800 shows a lady strapped into her saddle, but the danger from this would be that if the horse fell the rider would almost certainly be crushed or dragged.
Modern views make it seem as if riding side saddle must be awkward and uncomfortable. In fact, it is neither.
The important factor in riding side saddle is the horse. A comfortable stride and good manners are essential. This does not have to be a placid horse, but should not be a horse with a rough or bumpy stride.
The side saddle requires the rider to sit with a straight back and with hips and shoulders absolutely even. Slightly more weight should be carried on the right hip to compensate for the weight of both legs on the left. Any tilting to one side, leaning or twisting eventually results in a horse with a sore back.
Side saddles have a broad, flat and comfortably padded seat. The right leg goes over a padded leather branch which turns up (the top pommel). The left leg is in a stirrup that is short enough to bring it firmly up against a second pommel which turns down. If the horse plays up at all, the rider must clamp both legs together, gripping these pommels.
On a comfortable horse, riding side saddle soon begins to feel a bit like riding a padded rocking chair. It’s far less tiring than riding astride for the only effort is to sit straight and still.
While it is possible to rise to the trot in a “posting” motion, some claim that this is the real cause of giving a side saddle horse a sore back as it requires too much weight be put in the left stirrup.
Betty Skelton, author of Side Saddle Riding, found that….”As a teenager in the 1920’s, side saddle riding was second nature to me. I found it comfortable and I did not fall off as often as I had done from a cross saddle.” In teaching side saddle, Ms. Skelton has found that a beginner rider can often be comfortably cantering during her first lesson, which is far more progress than most can manage when riding astride.
It is possible for a lady to mound dismount on her own when riding side saddle.
To mount, she holds the reins and whip in the left hand and stands facing the horse, or even slightly towards the horse’s head. Taking the stirrup iron in her right hand to hold it steady, she places her left foot in the iron. With her foot in the iron, she can reach up to grip the saddle. As she hops up, her weight goes to the left foot in the iron and she leverages her weight up.
Instead of swinging her leg over the horse, she pulls her right leg up in front of her and seats herself sideways in the saddle. She then can settle herself with the right leg over the top pommel, the left under the left pommel and in the stirrup.
To dismount, a lady unhooks her right leg, takes her left foot out of the stirrup and simply slides off.
For a gentleman’s saddle, mounting also requires the reins and whip to be held in the left hand. A rider traditionally mounts from the left. The rider stands at the horse’s shoulder, facing the horse’s hind quarters.
With the right hand, the rider turns the stirrup iron sideways. The left foot goes into the stirrup, and the rider may grasp the cantle or back of the saddle with the right hand. He then pushes himself off the ground with the right foot, transfers his weight to the left, stirrup foot, and swings the right leg over the horse’s back to land lightly in the seat.
To dismount, the gentleman kicks his feet out of both stirrups and swings off to the left, the right leg coming over the horse’s back.
By natural inclination, a horse will move out of the way of any rider attempting to leap onto its back with a vault from the rear or a jump from a high point. However, horse may be trained to put up with this behavior.
A groom who leads a horse out for a gentleman or lady will stay and hold the horse’s head. If the gentleman is portly, the groom may also hold the stirrup on the opposite side from the rider to keep the saddle from ending up under the horse’s belly.
In giving a “leg up” to a lady, a groom would not dare to be so bold as to take a lady by the waist, as a rather forward gentleman might. Instead, the groom makes a stirrup from his hands. He then holds his hands low enough to allow the lady to easily step into them with her left foot. Then the groom boosts her lightly into the saddle.
When a groom is unavailable, a mounting block can help, and is particularly recommended to help keep a side saddle even on the horse’s back. This can be a block about two feet in height, or a fallen tree or river bank can serve the same purpose.
In general, horses prefer one horse, one rider. Being creatures of habit, carriage horses also prefer to be driven, not ridden, unless they have been trained for both.
However, with a man’s saddle, it is quite easy to manage two on a horse. The disadvantage is that the lady usually ends up sitting on the pommel, and galloping in this position can be painful on the posterior. For fast flight, it would be best to have the lady sit behind the gentleman and have him hold on to him.
With all riding and driving, specific fashions evolved in the Regency to denote affiliations.
Each Hunt had its own hunting “colors,” which included a color of coat collar as well as a button insignia. The most fashionable gentlemen in the field might also wear white boot tops to their riding boots. Ladies, too, would wear hunt colors.
The exact origin of the bright red hunting coat—which is actually called a hunting pink—is a little vague, but one theory holds that it was army officers hunting in their scarlet regimentals that started that fashion. Another holds that the tailor Mr. Pink started the fashion, and that the coats took their name from him.
Driving clubs, such as the Four Horse Club or the Four-in-Hand Club, also had specific styles of dress that denoted membership. This included a blue coat with insignia buttons, a yellow and blue stripped waistcoat, a white muslin cravat spotted with black, and white corduroy breeches.
And in the stylish Regency, fashion extended to more than just clothing, for horses and carriages were ways to express ability, style and good Ton.
According to Captain Gronow in his Reminisces, Lord Barrymore drove, “…four splendid greys, unmatched in symmetry, action and power.” While Lord Petersham’s carriages, “…were entirely brown, with brown horses and harness.” Gronow accredits Petersham’s affectation as being due to his love for a widow named Mrs. Brown. Regardless, the color soon became his trademark signature.
Through it all, the horse endured as a symbol of style, as a sport, and as a source of pleasure and delight.
Horses and Horsemanship though The Ages, Luigi Gianoli
Royalty on Horseback, Judith Campbell
Side Saddle Riding, Betty Skelton
This entry was posted on July 28, 2011, in Articles, Research and tagged horses, regency, research. 12 Comments
Setting up for Digital
Some things just seem simple–digital publication is one of those. Upload a file and presto, right? But there are a few things that you want to figure out first—it’s another case of a little planning going a long way.
The ISBN is an industry standard for identifying a book. If you want full control of your book listing, buy your own ISBNs, which you can do through Bowkers at myidentifiers.com
You can buy a single ISBN for $125, or a premium one for $185, or buy 10 at a time for $250. Assigning them is a bit of a pain.
The ISBN is not actually in use until it is applied to a book. To do this, you’ll need the book cover, your bio, your book description, a PDF of your book, and an Excel file saved in the CSV format with the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) terms you want to use.
After you buy your ISBN, login to myidentifiers.com and follow the tabs and fields to set up all the information. You can also replace an older print ISBN if that print edition has gone out-of-print.
Include pricing and sales areas (countries where you’re selling), and check back in a few days to confirm your ISBN has been activated for that digital publication. It usually takes only a day or two to get this set up.
Then you can do that “easy file upload” for digital publication on Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook, and Smashwords.
Smashwords.com is both easier in some respects, and more difficult in others. They do provide a lot of information readily available on their site. The first step is to sign up and set up an account. Set up payment methods and create a profile. Click on the PUBLISH button to start the publishing process.
Fill out all the forms. Set your price (and Smashwords offers a cool graph to show what you’ll be making on any book for each price point). Be honest about if your book contains adult material (explicit sex or graphic violence). Upload your correctly formatted book and your cover. And remember to include the wording that Smashwords requires at the front of your book.
IMPORANT: Always take a look at the preview to make sure your book appears as you want it formatted. If you need to, adjust the text in the file and upload that again to correct any formatting errors or typos.
With the ISBN manager at Smashwords, you can add your ISBN or let Smashwords give this to you. If you’re having Smashwords do your ISBN, but you’re doing your own Kindle and Pubit uploads, set up Smashwords first so you have the ISBN to add other places.
Before you do that final submit, read the legal stuff (the Terms). This is a contract you’re signing with your mouse click.
It can be minutes to hours to actually have the book upload. It will then show as pending approval (that’s okay).
In Smashwords, select DASHBOARD, and now set your distribution for this book with the Distribution Channel Manager.
You can let Smashwords distribute to all formats, including Kindle and Nook. However, you’ll make higher royalties if you do your own Amazon and BN distribution. For Smashwords, I opt out of Amazon and BN formats. I opt into Apple (which requires an explicit opt in selection).
NOTE: Your book will appear in Smashwords right away, but will not be listed there as “premium content” until it’s approved. Check back every few days to make sure it is approve, or if the format needs to be adjusted (and also to see how you’re sales are doing).
UPDATE TO SMASHWORDS: They now allow both short descriptions, and long descriptions of up to 4000 characters. If you have books on Smashwords, you may want to update your descriptions. I’m using the short descriptions for review promos, and then adding in more details about the story in the long descriptions.
B&N PUBIT
For uploading to the Nook via Pubit, this again starts with reading up on the process on their site, and creating an account, this time at pubit.com. B&N requires a credit card to create an account. This is in case a book is returned (for example, you’ve sold 20 books, but one person decides to send it back, but B&N has already paid you for 20 books; they use the credit card to account for that one return). Some folks don’t like this but I had no issues.
When your account is set up, head to Add a Title.
One nice thing about PubIt is that you can save your work as you go (very handy that). So you can add some info, go away, fuss with promotional copy, and come back and add that.
As with all other formats, once you upload your book, make sure you check out how it will look with the preview option (PubIt automatically brings this up for you to view, which is a nice feature). You can also mark if the book is part of a series.
You can add up to five reviews, including reviewer names and quotes. You can post excerpts from the reviews, but you should get clearance from the reviewers before you use their copywritten work.
NOTE: While BN’s PubIt doesn’t require you to have an ISBN, I’ve found it’s easier to add this up front, instead of trying to update the ISBN at a later time. Everything else is much easier to update (cover, copy, reviews, descriptions, even pricing).
Amazon Digital Text Platform- Kindle
UPDATE: Amazon has renamed this to the “Kindle Direct Publishing”. They’re also now putting out a newsletter with useful tips and advice. The old link below still works, but the new link is: https://kdp.amazon.com.
The options at Amazon can be confusing: they have Create Space, and Kindle, and their Associates Program. To actually sell a book on Kindle, you want to head to: https://dtp.amazon.com. If you don’t have an existing Amazon account, you can create it. Again, Amazon provides a lot of information about the process on their site (including a video). The details can be a little overwhelming, so you may want to tackle the basics first, and then improve your publishing and promoion.
NOTE: To help promote your book you’re also going to want an Author’s page at https://authorcentral.amazon.com.
As with PubIt and Smashwords, you’ll need to set up all your account information so you can get paid.
Again, you enter your book title, cover, and upload your book. Make sure you spell your name as the author correctly. Again, make sure you preview how the book looks on Kindle.
You can mark if this is a series (same as for PubIt). You can set your pricing and opt out of DRM. Add in your ISBN if you have one. When you save your information, the book will go into a pending mode. Once approved, the book will be listed for sale.
And there you have it – the easy (or almost) steps to digital publishing.
This entry was posted on January 13, 2011, in Articles and tagged digital books. 2 Comments
Twelve Steps to a Digital Format
There’s lots of information out there about eBook format. But in converting my print books, I’ve streamlined this to a simple twelve steps. You can get fancier if you know what you’re doing. My choice is go to for a clean format. So, here’s the twelve easy steps.
STEP 1 – Put your book into a single file in Microsoft Word. I had my chapters split into multiple files, so the first step was a lot of cut and paste. I did have electronic versions of my work, but not the same ones as in print. This meant either scanning the books or manually inputting my edits. I went with the latter and made this part of my editing process.
Other ways you can do this might include a search the Internet to see if someone’s done the work for you and you can grab an electronic version (yes, those pirate sites have a use). You can invest in a scanner and OCR software that converts the scanned image into text—the cost will be about $300 – $400 for a full setup. Or you can pay for a print book to electronic conversion: about two to three dollars a page to get all the work done for you. If you’re still going it on your own….
STEP 2 – With your book file open, use the SELECT function. Select ALL and set the font to Ariel or Times Roman. Electronic readers like consistency and these are about the most Web-safe fonts around. I use Times Roman for the bulk of the book, but I put the title and front copy into Ariel.
STEP 3 – Set the font to 12 or 14 point, no smaller and no larger. I like to set the title and chapter headings to 14 point and use 12 point for everything else.
STEP 4 – Remove all TAB marks. To do this, use the REPLACE function, select MORE and SPECIAL CHARACTERS. Put the tab mark in the field to “find” and nothing in the replace area and that will remove them all.
STEP 5 – Use the REPLACE function to search and replace all double spaces with single spaces (do this a couple of times to catch all of them).
STEP 6 – Set your paragraph indents with the PARAGRAPH function. Set INDENTATION to SPECIAL, FIRST LINE, with LEFT set to .2″ or .3″ (you can go up to .5″ but I think the smaller option looks better in the electronic readers).
STEP 7 – Use the PARAGRAPH function to set spacing to single space.
STEP 8 – Remove all headers and footers—deleted them.
SEPT 9 – Remove any page breaks between chapters.
STEP 10 – Center your chapter headings and number chapters as in “Chapter One” – that’ll help to automatically generate a table of contents. Put only a single blank line space between chapter headings and the text – that’s both before and after.
STEP 11 – For breaks within a chapter, use a simple mark such as the asterisk (*) which electronic readers can handle. Center this and put a single blank line space before and after.
STEP 12 – Put dedications and reviews up front since this is free preview content.
Your format should look something like this (without the blue text which is just here to make the book text stand out)…
Opening Page:
A PROPER MISTRESS
Shannon Donnelly
For Marsha —
may you always find the courage to choose happiness
Bookseller’s Best Finalist, Golden Quill Finalist, Orange Rose Finalist
“With its excellent characterization, polished prose, and humor, Donnelly’s latest Regency is a supremely satisfying, deftly plotted delight.” – Booklist, American Library Association, John Charles
“…delightfully offbeat romp with an engaging set of young lovers and a good cast of supporting players…highly enjoyable” — Romantic Times Top Pick – 4½ Stars
“I highly recommend A PROPER MISTRESS, and can’t wait for Ms. Donnelly’s next book….” — Five Roses – Escape To Romance, Marlene Breakfield
“Beauty ain’t required, but she’s got to catch the eye,” Theodore Winslow said, striding across the small salon, one hand fisted behind his back and the other gesturing in the air. “I mean, I’m supposed to be smitten. But she can’t be at all acceptable—only she can’t be too coarse, either,
A chapter break will look similar to this:
“Why, you’re hardly more than a boy yourself! Why ever do you want to go hiring a woman from this house to act as your bride?”
At the sight of a short, curvaceous redhead being thrust into the room, Theo started to smile. But those tempting, full lips parted and her words cut into him like a butcher’s knife. Hardly more than a boy!
And a scene break will look something like this:
“Well, you want to make sure you ain’t a trout with your mouth gapping open to be hooked by this flash gent, or any other. Remember that, or you’ll be agreeing to more than you think you will now. And just you remember, too, every woman may have her price, but every man has his limits. Most of ’em start with his purse. Now, let’s see how those dresses look. You’re going to have to be dazzlin’, ’cause it’s going to take us longer than a quarter hour to turn you out in style.”
By the time Sallie finished, Molly no longer recognized herself. Nell and Harriet, seeing the door open to Jane’s forsaken room, had poked their heads in—eyes sleepy and hair tumbled and still in their night wrappers. Sallie’s house kept late hours and late mornings. Sallie bustled them out, saying to Molly afterwards, “Never does to stir up jealousy, and you don’t want them thinking you’re stealing their trade.”
If you know what you’re doing, you can get fancier about the formatting. Or if you pay someone to do this for you, they can do the fancy stuff.
While this may sound like a lot of work, I found it to be not all that difficult, it just takes some time. I’m averaging two to three weeks to get a book formatted and that’s working only weekends and evenings and doing all the edits. It’s going faster the more I do this (I’m getting a process down). Basically, this requires patience and persistence, something every writer needs in buckets.
Save your file as both a standard word .DOC or .DOCX. Also save the file as a PDF version (this will allow you to give away free PDF copies to readers, and you’ll need this format, too, if you set up an ISBN).
NOTE: Smashwords also requires specific text at the front of your book about being published at Smashwords, so you want to set up a separate file with this info:
Published by Shannon Donnelly at Smashwords.com
Copyright 2010 Shannon Donnelly
Discover other works by Shannon Donnelly at Smashwords.com
That’s it. Twelve steps. The part that really takes the work is getting the writing done in the first place.
This entry was posted on January 9, 2011, in Articles, Just stuff and tagged digital books. 1 Comment
English Winter Fare
In the still largely agrarian world of the early 1800’s, autumn and winter became a time to relax after harvest. Gentry and yeoman alike could take advantage of old feasting customs that had long ago mingled with the Christian holidays.
In autumn, Parliament opened again and some of society returned to London. St. Michael’s and All Angel Day, or Michaelmas, at the end of September, marked the end of a quarter year. The Celtic calendar also wove itself into English holidays, with one of the main events on November 1 becoming All Saints Day or All Hallows and October 31 therefore set as All Hallows Eve. It should be noted that Saman (also Samana, Shamhain, and Samhain) a minor Celtic guardian of herds, and so important to a herding society, played a part in the celebrations, but modern lore has turned him into an ancient god of death and mixed up several Celtic customs along with imported Christian beliefs to give us Halloween.
October was a month when land owners ate pheasant, partridge, duck and grouse. Fish for meals included perch, halibut, carp, gudgeons, and shell fish. Poachers also looked to snared hares for their pot. Beans were still fresh, and the fruits of summer gave way to pears, apples, nuts and the last harvest of grapes.
On November 5 bonfires burned in mockery of Guy Fawkes and memory of the Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament. The Feast of St. Martin, or Martinmas, fell on November 11, and St. Andrew, the patron saint of Scotland, had his day on November 30. St. Andrew’s day also marked the beginning of Advent to celebrate the four weeks before Christmas. In November, the landed gentry still dined on wild foul as well as domestic poultry—which was now getting a bit old and aged (meaning tough and needing sauces to make the meat palatable). They also had beef, venison and pork with their meals. Fish could still be caught and served, and winter vegetables graced the dining room, including: carrots, turnips, parsnips, potatoes, leeks, cabbage, celery and lettuces. With November, walnuts and chestnuts came into season.
More celebrations lead to Christmas Eve when the Lord of Misrule danced and the Mummers traveled to perform their pantomimes. Then came Christmas Day, and Boxing Day on December 26, which was St. Stephen’s Day. Boxing Day did not get its name from gift boxes, for the exchange of gifts was a German custom still new to Regency England. Instead, Boxing Day got its name from the older tradition of it being a day in which pleadings could be placed in a box for a judge to privately review. In December, besides beef and mutton to eat, pork and venison were served. Goose was cooked for more than just the Christmas meal, and there would be turkey, pigeons, chicken, snipes, woodcock, larks, guinea-foul, widgeons and grouse to eat. Cod, turbot, soul, sturgeon and eels joined the list of fish in season. Forced asparagus added a delicacy to the usual winter vegetables. Stored apples, pears and preserved summer fruit appeared on the better, richer tables. Mince pies made from mincemeat, which has no meat in it, were another traditional fare, with the tradition being that everyone in the household should stir, for luck, the mix of dried fruit and spices before it was baked.
Households also celebrated not just according to the season, but also to the customs of the area. In the Regency, local customs in the countryside might well hold to the old ways.
For one of my books, Under the Kissing Bough, I needed a Christmas wedding and customs that suited the countryside around London. In ancient days, a Christmas wedding would have been impossible for the English Church held a “closed season” on marriages from Advent in late November until St. Hilary’s Day in January. The Church of England gave up such a ban during Cromwell’s era, even though the Roman Catholic Church continued its enforcement. Oddly enough a custom I expected to be ancient—that of the bride having “something borrowed, something blue, and a sixpence in her shoe”—turned out to be a Victorian invention.
For Christmas customs, I relied on those that have carried down through the ages: the Yule log from Viking winter solstice celebrations (which gives us Yule Tide celebrations), the ancient Saxon decorations of holy and ivy, and the Celtic use of mistletoe on holy days, which transformed itself into a kissing bough. Carolers might well travel from house to house, offering song in exchange for a wassail bowl—a hot, spiced or mulled drink, another tradition left over from the Norse Vikings.
The holidays were a time of games as well, and the game of Snapdragon is a very old one. It’s played by placing raisins in a broad, shallow bowl, pouring brandy over them and setting the brandy on fire. Players then must show their courage by reaching through the spirit-flames to snatch up raisins. And the game even comes with its own song:
Here comes the flaming bowl,
Don’t he mean to take his toll,
Snip! Snap! Dragon!
Take care you don’t take too much,
Be not greedy in your clutch,
Celebrations continued to mix tradition and religion when the Twelfth Night feast arrived on January 5, which combine the Roman Saturnalia with the Feast of the Epiphany, when the three wise men were said to have paid tribute to the Baby Jesus. Deep in winter, there was still plenty of game to eat. Beside those wild and tame birds available in December, lobster came into season in January, as did crayfish, flounder, plaice, smelts, whiting, prawns, oysters and crab. Broccoli made a welcome change from the other winter vegetables, as did cress, herbs, cucumbers, beets and spinach. Preserved fruits would be running low in all but houses with large orchards, and stored apples and pears would have to serve guests until the expensive force strawberries of February appeared.
For the Celtic year, winter ended February 1 with the celebration of Imbolc or Oimelc. This is the time when ewes begin to lamb and lactate for their offspring, and life begins to return. For the ancient Celts, this was the celebration for Brigid (also Brigit, Brighid or Bride), the Light-Bringer, one of the main Celtic goddesses. She was strong enough to survive and be transformed by early Catholics into Saint Bridget, who was celebrated, along with the Virgin Mary, on February 2, Candlemas Day.
Another ancient tradition, this one of law, was to ignore leap year days—February 29 did not exist. This became the day when the world could be out-of-order. Tradition held that St. Bridget complained to St. Patrick about women having to wait so long for proposals, and Patrick answered that women could propose on Leap Day. In Scotland, their tradition added on that any man who declined a proposal in a leap year must pay a fine, which could be anything from a fine silk dress to a kiss given to the disappointed female.
St. David’s Day the Welsh patron saint came on March 1, and tradition held that all good Welshmen should wear a leak—a vegetable readily available from winter fare. March also brought Lent, and in Shropshire and Herefordshire, Simnel Cakes made with saffron were made for the season.
With March 21, the spring officially arrived, but for most of England, it would still be some time before warm weather and spring flowers arrived, and even longer until the return of the lush abundance of summer fruit and foods.
This entry was posted on November 29, 2010, in Articles, Other Things and tagged artricles, regency, research. Leave a comment
The wonderful thing about food is that it’s as much fun to read about it and write about it as to actually indulge–well, almost as much fun. And the joy of writing a historical novel is the meals–breakfast, nuncheon, tea (but not High Tea unless you’ve a Victorian setting or a lower class who must make do with this for their dinner), dinner and supper were and still are the main eating occasions in England.
Meals often provide a social structure for life. However, as noted in The Jane Austen Cookbook, “In the late eighteenth century, at the time of Jane Austen’s birth, it was necessary to make the best possible use of the hours of daylight….candles, wood and coal were quite as expensive comparatively speaking as gas, oil and electricity and far more liable to be in short supply or to run out altogether during hard winters.”
What this meant was a different structure to meals.
To start the day, breakfast came around ten o’clock–well after most had risen and started their day. The Regency morning then went on through the afternoon, with morning calls being paid. In London, five o’clock was the fashionable ‘morning’ hour to parade. And so serving a breakfast party might well occur sometime between one and five o’clock in the afternoon.
During morning calls, light refreshments might be taken. Ladies might have a ‘nuncheon’ but the notion of lunch did not exist. Also, the lush high tea now served at most swank London hotels actually originated as a working class dinner, and was perfected by the Edwardians into an art form, but was not a Regency meal.
Dinner in the Regency came at three or four o’clock in the country. In London, the fashionable dined between five and eight, before going out for the evening.
This left room for a supper to be served–as either a supper-tray that might be brought into a country drawing room, or as a buffet that would be served at a ball. Such a supper would be served around eleven. Again, in London, this supper could be served as late as nearly dawn.
From the Georgian era to the Regency the method for serving dinner changed. “…as soon as they walked into the dining-room they saw before them a table already covered with separate dishes of every kind of food…” states The Jane Austen Cookbook. The idea was that with all courses laid on the table, those dining would choose which dishes to eat, taking from the dishes nearest. It was polite to offer a dish around. Food in History notes, “It was a custom that was more than troublesome; it also required a degree of self-assertion. The shy or ignorant guest limited not only his own menu but also that of everyone else at the table. Indeed, one young divinity student ruined his future prospects when, invited to dine by an archbishop who was due to examine him in the scriptures, he found before him a dish of ruffs and reeves, wild birds that (although he was too inexperienced to know it) were a rare delicacy. Out of sheer modesty the clerical tyro confined himself exclusively to the dish before him….”
This style of serving dinner was known as service à la française. During the Regency this was replaced by service à la russe in which the dishes were set on a sideboard and then handed around by servants.
Maggie Black and Deirdre Le Faye in The Jane Austen Cookbook provide this menu for a meal recorded in Mrs. Philip Lybbe Powys’ diary of some of the dishes she served, as hostess for her brother-in-law the Dean of Canterbury, for Prince William of Gloucester. Fourteen sat down to a meal in August, 1798, that included:
Fricandó of Veal
Raised Giblet Pie
Vegetable Pudding
Muffin Pudding
Curry of Rabbits
Preserve of Olives
Haunch of Venison
Open Tart Syllabub
Raised Jelly
Three Sweetbreads, Larded
Maccaroni
Buttered Lobster
Basket of Pastry
Society meals were also being influenced at this time by the French chefs who had fled the revolution in their own country, and who had become a fashionable necessity in London.
Food in History gives this account of the dinner held by the Prince Regency at the Bright Pavilion, with his chef Carême in command on January 15, 1817:
“It began with four soups:
Le potage à la Monglas – creamy brown soup made with foie gras, truffles, mushrooms and Madeira
La garbure aux choux – country-style vegetable broth with shredded cabbage
Le potage d’orge perlé à la Cracy – a delicate pink puree of pearl barley and carrots
Le potage de poissons à la russe – ‘Russian-style’ fish soup, probably made from sturgeon
The soups were ‘removed’ with four fish dishes:
La matelote au vin de Bordeaux – a light stew of freshwater fish cooked in wine from Bordeaux
Les truites au blue à la provençal – lightly-cooked trout with a tomato and garlic sauce
Le turbot à l’anglaise aux homards, poached turbot with lobster sauce
La grosse anguille à la régence – a large fat eel, richly sauced, garnished with quenelles, truffles and cocks’ combs
The fish dishes were followed (the trout and turbot remaining on the table, the matelote and eels being taken away) by four grosses pieces or pieces de resistance:
Le jambon à la broche au Madére – spit-roasted ham with Maderia sauce
L’oie braiése aux racines glacées – braised goose with glazed root vegetables
Les poulards à la Perigueux – truffled roast chicken
Le rond de veau à la royale – round of veal, enrobed in a creamy sauce, finished with truffle purée and various garnishes
These grosses pieces (and the turbot and the trout) were flanked by no less than thirty-six entrée…”
Reay Tannahil, author of Food in History, gives a sampling of the various entrée, which includes macaroni and grated cheese, pheasant, rabbit, and other dishes, all with lush descriptions of rich sauces. He adds that this was considered only the first course.
He also describes the set pieces brought in made of sugar icing and molded into such things as ‘The ruin of the Turkish mosque’, as well as the other entremets (between serving items) and the assiettes volantes, such as the five chocolate soufflé.
As stated earlier, while no one was expected to sample every dish on the table, the description makes it instantly understandable why the Prince Regent had run to fat.
The menus also reflect dishes familiar to any modern table–macaroni and cheese, trout with a tomato and garlic sauce, spit-roasted ham.
For a more simple family meal, Maria Rundell’s Domestic Cookery of 1814 gives this menu:
Crimp Cod
Gooseberry Pudding
Leg of Mutton
Crimp Cod is the simplest of recipes. The directions are to take a cod and, “Boil, broil, or fry.”
For a salad, this is not what might be found in any modern American restaurant. Instead, for Mrs. Rundell’s French Salad, “Chop three anchovies, a shalot, and some parsley, small; put into a bowl with two table-spoons-full of vinegar, one of oil, a little mustard, and salt. When mixed well, add by degrees some cold roast or boiled meat in very thin slices; put in a few at a time; not exceeding two or three inches long. Shake them in the seasoning, and then put more; cover the bowl close, and let the salad be prepared three hours before it is to be eaten. Garnish with parsley and a few slices of the fat.”
Gooseberry pudding is a baked dish. “Stew gooseberries in a jar over a hot hearth, or in a sauce pan of water till the will pulp. Take a pint of the juice pressed through a coarse sieve, and beat it with three yolks and whites of eggs beaten and strained, one ounce and half of butter; sweeten it well, and put a crust around the dish. A few crumbs of roll should be mixed with the above to give a little consistence, or four ounces of Naples biscuits.
(If you actually wish to try making this dish, you may want to start with gooseberry jelly, if you can find it. For a ‘few crumbs of roll, think of this as something like a bath bun–a sweet roll. Or for biscuit, think English cookie–something sweet to crumble into this.)
Jerusalem Artichokes offer another simple recipe in that they, “Must be taken up the moment they are done, or they will be too soft. They may be boiled plain, or served with white fricassee sauce.” Otherwise, prepare them as you would any artichoke, taking off a few outside leaves and cutting off the stalk (I also like to cut off the tips, but that’s optional).
For Leg of Mutton, Mrs. Rundell’s recommendation is, “If roasted, serve with onion or currant-jelly sauce; if boiled, with caper-sauce and vegetables.” (Personally, I would swap in lamb for the mutton and opt for roasting it. My grandmother who came from Yorkshire insisted on boiling all meat, and nearly made vegetarians out of all of her sons.)
And now I think I’ll go off and get something to eat.
This entry was posted on September 30, 2010, in Articles, Other Things and tagged food, research. Leave a comment
The Regency Post — A Pity We’ve Lost Letters
From an article published in The Beau Monde’s Quizzing Glass newsletter…
Posting a letter in Regency England was not as simple as walking down to the local post office and dropping off a stamped letter. Prior to January 10, 1840, stamps did not exist. Inked hand stamps applied to the letter indicated such information as whether it had been sent POSTPAID, UNPAID, PAID AT (city), PENNY POST, TOOLATE, 1dDUE or FREE, or what post office had collected the letter and what mileage it would cover. The ‘letter box’ itself only came into use after 1794, and did not become compulsory until after 1811. (The box consisted of a slit in the wall of the receiving house, which opened into a locked box. Private boxes could be hired in some towns for as little as 1/2d per letter to 4d per letter.)
The letter itself differed from its modern form. The letter usually comprised a single sheet (sometimes folded once in the middle to make a booklet-like page). This was folded in thirds, then the ends were folded together, with one end tucked inside another. Hot wax dripped onto the joining ends sealed the letter. The address or direction would be written on the front and rarely went beyond Name, Town (or house name), County– occasionally, in London, a street might be indicated.
To save money, correspondents often wrote down the page, then turned it and wrote across their previous writing– thrifty souls would turn it yet again and write diagonally across everything else, producing a nearly illegible mess. This was called crossing and recrossing one’s lines. The postmaster receiving the letter would write on the envelope the postage due by whoever received the letter.
‘Posting a letter’ in the country meant sending it from one post town to another, where it could be collected. After 1784, country areas had three deliveries and two collections, with deliveries sent out from London by horse messenger to the receiving houses. The messenger then brought back any letters going to London.
Post offices operated as parcel depots, poste restante address (or post office boxes), and usually carried on some other business, such as serving as an inn. Enterprising postmasters could and did charge for local delivery to non-post towns, villages, and even manor houses.
From 1801- 1808, England had numerous private posts to carry letters between towns and manor houses. Rates could vary from 1/2d to 1d or more for delivery. From 1808 on, local delivery standardized at 1d per letter and post towns began to use the stamp P.P. for Penny Post. The private posts, however, tended to be notoriously slow and unreliable. Postmasters often went bankrupt, ending their service. Those to whom speed carried more importance than money kept to the old practice of sending letters via servants, by the Common Carriers or by private courier.
On Monday August 2, 1784, the Post began to change when John Palmer’s first Mail Coach left the Rummer Tavern in Bristol at four o’clock PM, carrying the mail and four passengers (which later became seven passenger, with four inside). Palmer had long advocated postal reform and expansion. Increases in commerce, industry and population demanded it. After his friend William Pitt became Prime Minister, Palmer got authority to try his reform ideas.
Palmer’s Mail Coach reached Bath at five-twenty PM, and arrived in London at the Swan with Two Necks well before eight o’clock the next morning to deliver mail to the Chief Post Office in Lombard Street. The coach had traveled 119 miles in under sixteen hours, an incredible feat. Palmer received public acclaim and bureaucratic stone-walling, including a record of criticism which ran to three volumes of copperplate. However, Palmer’s Mail Coaches began to take hold.
By 1811, approximately 220 mail coaches ran on regular schedules from London to various major cities. These coaches used the post roads and cross post (post roads that did not pass through London), which could support the light, fast coaches. The Post Office continued its custom of farming out the job of postmaster, and letters still had to make their own way between post towns. Coffee houses, inns along these routes, and even carriage makers, held contracts to provide both horses at each stage, coaches and coachmen.
Coach hire rates were based on mileage, and varied from 2d to 4d per double-mile of the journey. Mail coaches had the advantages of not having to pay tolls, which could be worth as much as six pounds to the contractor. (In 1813, Parliament repealed the toll exemption for mail coaches with more than two wheels in Scotland and imposed a 1/2d tax letters carried in Scotland to compensate the carriers.)
The Post Office did use its own, scarlet-liveried employees as guards. These men had to read and write to fill out their time sheets (Way-bills). Each carried a timepiece set each evening before leaving the Chief Post Office at eight PM. As compensation for sounding the horn at toll gates, seeing the mail safely to its destination and carrying out the unpleasant task of reporting the misbehavior of any sub-contracted coachmen, guards earned an excellent wage– half a guinea a week, plus sick pay and pension. Tips were allowed and could average as much as 2/- a passenger. As the Chief Superintendent of Mail from 1792 to 1817, Mr. Hasker also allowed his guards to carry personal goods and newspapers, provided this did not interfere with the mails.
Until the mid 1800’s, when rail began to take over, mail continued to be carried by Mail Coach on the best roads between major cities. In rural areas, post went by cart, horseback and even by foot. Private Penny Posts often tried to undercut the General Postal rates. In 1805 when the minimum rate between post towns became 4d, the private post and some postmasters began an illegal Twopence Post, charging only 2d to carry a letter between two nearby post towns. This was not fully resolved in all counties until 1840 and the standardized 1d stamp.
1784 GENERAL POSTAL RATES
Rate are “Single Letter”, “Double Letter”, “Triple Letter” or “1 oz”
The d stands for “denarius” which means a penny, and comes from the Latin the Romans left behind; shillings are written out with a slash as in 1/ (1 shilling) or 1/2 (1 shilling and 2 pence).
Not exceeding 1 Post Stage 2d 4d 6d 8d
1 – 2 Post Stages 3d 6d 9d 1/-
Above 2 Post Stages up to 80 mi 4d 8d 1/- 1/4
80 – 150 miles 5d 10d 1/3 1/8
Above 150 miles 6d 1/- 1/6 2/-
From/to London, to/from Edinburgh & to/from Dumfries, Cockburnspeth & intermediate places between them and Edinburgh
7d 1/2 1/9 2/4
Not exceeding 15 miles 3d 6d 9d 1/-
15 – 30 miles 4d 8d 1/- 1/4
30 – 50 miles 5d 10d 1/3 1/8
50 – 80 miles 6d 1/- 1/6 2/-
80 – 120 miles 7d 1/2 1/9 2/4
120 – 170 miles 8d 1/4 2/- 2/8
170 – 230 miles 9d 1/6 2/3 3/-
230 – 300 miles 10d 1/8 2/6 3/4
every 100 miles thereafter +1d +2d +3d +4d
Not exceeding 15 miles 4d 8d 1/- 1/4
50 – 80 miles 7d 1/2 1/9 2/4
80 – 120 miles 8d 1/4 2/- 2/8
230 – 300 miles 11d 1/10 2/9 3/8
1812 GENERAL POSTAL RATES (new mileage divisions)
50 – 80 miles 8d 1/4 2/- 2/8
80 – 120 miles 9d 1/6 2/3 3/-
230 – 300 miles 1/- 2/- 3/- 4/-
London had had its own General Post with local delivery since 1635 when Charles I opened the Royal Mail. In 1680, William Dockwra began his private Penny Post, named for the penny charge to mail any letter up to a pound. Two years later, the government took over and continued operation of the Penny Post. It comprised the cities of London and Westminster and the Borough of Southwark, covering letters received and delivered within ten miles, while the General Post serviced both London and the country side.
From 1680 to 1794, letters for London’s General Post had to be prepaid 1d. This relaxed after 1794, with the condition that letters put into the Penny Post for delivery by the General Post still had to be prepaid. Letters from the General Post for Penny Post delivery were charged 1d on delivery, plus the General Post charge. In 1794, Parliament also lowered the weight limit to four ounces for any 1d letter.
The General Post and Penny Post remained separate organizations with their own letter carriers and receiving houses (a large number of which happened to be stationers’ shops). The only point of exchange came at the Chief Post Office.
In 1792, Parliament gave letter carriers for the General Post uniforms of scarlet coats with blue lapels, a blue waistcoat and a tall hat with a golden band. Walking back from a delivery, the carrier rang a large hand bell to indicate he could collect letters for an extra charge of 1d postage. The letters went into the slit of a locked pouch for delivery to the Chief Post Office.
In 1794, London’s five post offices (Lime street, Westminster, St. Pauls, Temple and Bishopsgate) became two: the Chief Office in Abchurch Lane, Lombard Street, and the Westminster Office in Gerrand Street, Soho. All London mail now passed through the Chief Office. In addition, service expanded to cover the seven rides surrounding London: Mortlake, Woolwich, Woodford, Edmonton, Finchley, Brentford and Mitcham.
London post offered six collections (at 8, 10 and 12 AM; 2, 5 and 8 PM) and daily deliveries. The clerk stamped letters received after seven o’clock PM with that time or a TOO LATE stamp, for the window closed at seven forty-five so that mail could be shorted and bagged by eight for the last collection. The Chief Office charged an extra sixpence for such letters, with other receiving offices setting their own fee. Letters received at the Chief Office on Lombard Street on Sunday were sorted and posted on Monday as there were no Sunday deliveries.
From the Post Office on Lombard Street, the blue and orange Mail Coaches departed every evening at eight. Passengers assembled at various inns throughout London for departure at half past seven. The coaches then stopped in Lombard Street to collect the mail and the guard, and departed London at eight PM. Lombard Street became so congested that by 1795 the six Western Road coaches began to leave from the Gloucester Coffee House in Piccadilly at eight-thirty, with the guard and mail traveling to this point from the Post Office.
In 1812, Cary’s Itinerary listed 37 inns with stage and mail coach departures. By 1815, this grew to 44, with inns having as few as 3 or as many as 35 coaches departing. In 1815 alone, of the 20 coaches leaving the Angel Inn, St. Clement’s, Strand in London, five are daily post coaches and four are daily Royal Mail coaches.
The Bull and Mouth, Bull and Mouth Street, boasted the record of having thirty-five coaches departing, including the Royal Mail to Edinburgh, while the Swan with Two Necks, Lad Lane, listed the original Bath and Bristol coach, the Royal Mail to Bath, the Brighton Post Coach, and the Prince Regent coach to Dover and Paris.
POSTAL RATES – LONDON 1794 1801 1805 – 1831
Within Town Area 1d 1d 2d
Town to Country, or within Country 2d 2d 3d
Country to Town 1d 2d 3d
Town to General Post 1d 1d 2d
Country area to General Post 1d 1d 2d
General Post delivered by P.P. in town free free free
General Post delivered in Country free 1d 2d
THE FRANKING SYSTEM
Since the post office’s beginning, its revenues went to the crown, which held the right to grant the privilege of signing a letter and having it posted for free. This practice, known as franking, extended to both Houses of Parliament and certain officials.
In 1764, postal revenues were given to Parliament in return for the crown being able to submit a Civil List to award honors. Thereafter, Parliament authorized Free Franking. Letters were stamped FREE when franked. Nearly everyone abused the privilege. Most considered a stack of signed blank sheets from a Member of Parliament’s to be a common present after a short visit. Franks could also be issued, by law, by certain public offices both in London and abroad.
To curb abuse, Parliament made forgery of franks a felony, punishable by transportation for seven years. As of 1784, reforms required all franked letters to have the signature, as well as the place and date of posting written at the top by the person franking it. Limits on the numbers of letters that could be franked were imposed, but how could a lowly postmaster tell an undersecretary not to frank more than ten letters a year?
During these years, 1780’s to early 1800’s, it became a hobby among some well-bred ladies to collect franking signatures from letters. Rather the Regency equivalent of collecting autographs. Some ladies strove for a broad collection, while others specialized in particular friends, MPs or relatives.
Prior to 1836, newspapers– and some other printed material such as charity letters and educational materials– could be also franked for free postage to postmasters by the six Clerks of the Road. A tax of 4d had been imposed to cover the cost to handle newspapers. However, publishers were not shy about franking their own newspapers. Booksellers, after Parliament imposed higher postage rates in 1711, also wrote the names of Members of Parliament for free postage, with the approval of the postal Surveyors appointed in 1715, who administered function and facilities of the postal roads.
In addition to franking, from 1795, Parliament granted privileged rates to those serving in the Army, Navy and Militia, with no letter charged a rate higher than 1d. Over the year, this extended to every branch of military service, including, in 1815, the soldiers and seamen employed by the East India Company.
While privileged rates continued for the armed services, all free franking was abolished with the introduction of the penny postage stamp in 1840, which marked the beginning of the modern post office as we know it.
The Postal History of Great Britain and Ireland (1980), R.M Willcocks & B. Jay ISBN: 0-9502797
English Provincial Posts (1633-1840) (1978), Brian Austen ISBN: 0-85033-266-4
England’s Postal History to 1840 (1975), R.M. Willcocks ISBN: 0-9502797-1-4
British Postal Rates, 1635 to 1839, O.R. Sanford and Denis Salt ISBN: 0-85377-021-2, The Postal History Society
United Kingdom Letter Rates 1657-1900 Inland & Overseas, C. Tabeart ISBN:0-905222-58-X
Cary’s New Itinerary Great Roads (1815), John Cary
A More Expeditious Conveyance: A History of the Royal Mails (1984), Bevan Rider ISBN: 0-85131-394-9
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The Venus Flytrap: Avni And Other Tigers
Posted on November 11, 2018 by Sharanya Manivannan
There is one particular detail of the killing of Avni, the tiger, in Maharashtra last week that I keep circling back to. She was lured using a trail of tiger urine mixed with a men’s perfume, Calvin Klein’s Obsession. The scent contains synthetics that mimic civetone, which is secreted in the perineal glands of civets, and has similar effects to musk, another animal-based perfumery ingredient. Tigers find civetone irresistible; it was deployed here because earlier experiments showed that they wanted to roll themselves all over where it was sprayed, rubbing their faces into it and sniffing with visible pleasure. Essentially, Avni was lured to her death through aphrodisiac pheromones.
Avni was a “man eater”, that archaic word so colonialist in its resonance, which keeps being used in reports about her killing. It’s a word from a worldview that’s clear in its division between animal and human, but specifically Man (colonial order wasn’t the only thing built into the language). As though women or water buffaloes don’t get eaten too (both equally inequal in the hierarchy of the Kingdom of Man). The dictionary suggests that it was first used for human cannibalism (more colonial inference), later becoming used to describe animals. “Man eater” is also still in common parlance as an innuendo, used to caricaturise women who are unapologetically desirous. The fear of the desirous woman is such that she is likened to a creature that kills to devour.
But for cultures that lived or live alongside the tiger, traditionally, fear is mixed not with bloodthirst but with reverence. In the Sundarbans, the tiger deity Dakshin Rai is appeased and asked for protection, while simultaneously expected to be mercurial and voracious. In Karnataka, the tiger god is Hulideva. Naga legend holds that the first tiger, first human and first spirit all shared the same mother. Among Warli and Koli people, Waghya (meaning “tiger”) is one of the principal deities, and Waghoba is the deity of the forest at large in Maharashtra.
It bears noting that it was at the behest of the people living in the Pandharkawada divisional forest, where an estimated 13 people were killed due to tiger attacks, that Avni was shot. While the lack of adequate tranquiliser usage, the decision to kill rather than capture, and the uncertain fate of her two cubs are all worthy of questioning, that she was a threat was something that we must accept. Otherwise, what difference is there between we who live in cities and have the luxury of choosing animal-friendly diets we don’t forage for ourselves, and those who colonised centuries ago and decided that the beasts of our lands were for sport hunting and that some human lives were less valuable than their own?
To return to man-eaters and musky pheromones, there’s another possibility as to why the scent attracted Avni. It’s heartbreaking to think that she died hoping that a mate was rambling in the vicinity. Perhaps what she thought she sensed was a competitor, another tiger on the prowl for the same prey. And so she died ferocious, protective – double-edged, just the way the tiger is understood by those who know it most.
An edited version appeared in The New Indian Express on November 8th 2018. “The Venus Flytrap” appears on Thursdays in Chennai’s City Express supplement.
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The Venus Flytrap: Packing A Pestle
I was meant to travel so much this year. I was supposed to see many vistas, bring back myriad stories, and have at least a few experiences that would make me suddenly smile at their memory. Instead, I’ve been rendered out of commission with a string of demands, reversals and blockages on the personal front. So when something turned up in my inbox to which I didn’t have to say No, I think I’d gotten so used to hearing or saying the word that I reached for an excuse. And then, the deeper part of me – the one that is frustrated and yearns – told me not to be silly. I could just pack a mortar and pestle into my luggage, and go.
I’m on a course of traditional medicine that requires me to pulverize fresh herbs every day, hence this unusual travel need. The ferocious Baba Yaga of Eastern European folklore did the same: using the kitchen appliance as her flying vehicle, in fact. I could picture myself sitting in a mortar like it was a boat, rowing with the pestle and arriving very late to my appointments but pleasingly dramatically. It would give my broomstick a rest, too.
We take objects of the everyday for granted until we’re at a loss. The most obvious of these is the toilet, the #1 impediment for women travelers. Somewhat less indispensably: scissors, tampons, charger cords, a sharpener for your kohl – you’ve probably been in a situation in which you’re positively desperate for something you barely glance at in your cabinets at home. Why, even the lack of saline solution can prevent a short-sighted person from being spontaneous sometimes. On a long trip once, I had been so moody while packing that I hadn’t bother to bring shampoo; and found myself not only at hotels that mysteriously had no such mini-bottles, but also with an unexpectedly charming travel companion and profound regret that my hair smelled more like grease than like Sri Lankan ginger.
But I’ve never had to carry a mortar and pestle anywhere before, and my new need made me consider the familiar implement, and its relations, with a fresh regard. Culturally speaking, these appliances have always been known to be worth their (quite literal) weight. The Mesoamerican molcajete was a part of the burials of people of elite status. A related kitchen implement, the larger two-part stone grinder known in Tamil as the ammi kal and in Odia as the sila puua, is used in wedding and other festive ceremonies. It has such an intuitive design and function that people as far away as the Andes have also used it for centuries, where it is known as the batán and uña. Quern-stones have also been admired for their beauty, as in ceremonial metates of Costa Rica which had elegant bird and animal shapes, or were associated with legends, such as in the British isles, where mill-stones were repurposed as tombstones.
The sensible thing to do, though, is to just pack a plastic juicer instead. It would weigh so much less and make my medicine just fine. But it wouldn’t be quite so evocative, would it?
An edited version appeared in The New Indian Express on September 20th 2018. “The Venus Flytrap” appears on Thursdays in Chennai’s City Express supplement.
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The Venus Flytrap: Losing A Museum
Brazil’s national museum was only 200 years old, but contained within it were artifacts aged millennia, like the 11,500 year old female skull nicknamed Luzia. Or even millions of years: like the fossils of a maxakalisaurus, a vegetarian dinosaur. The base on which its reconstructed skeleton stood had been termite-ridden. The under-resourced museum had been forced to crowdfund the repair, reopening the exhibit only in July. But now the entire museum has gone up in flames, along with most of its 20 million artifacts. Some mollusk specimens were saved; the fireproof Bendegó meteorite is intact (perhaps other salvages will be revealed in the coming days) – but what of the frescoes from Pompeii (which survived that inferno, 20 centuries ago)? In the aftermath of the fire, the blame is squarely being pointed on the lack of governmental funding.
Neglect is one way to erase, equally tragic as when the erasure is intentional. The destroying of heritage objects and institutions is a tactic of both power and terror. History is a long list of such acts of cultural genocide, through the annihilation of libraries, museums and monuments. To erase record is to first muddy then suppress memory.
And then there is pillage, which is unquestionably wrong, but sometimes reveals itself retrospectively as fortunate. The entirety of the British Museum, for instance. The first time I went, I fell in love. The last time, I made it minutes before closing time, wanting only to see again the Mesopotamian terracotta relief called The Queen of the Night.
Panting, rushing through those majestic halls, refusing all other possibilities of beauty that might distract, I arrived before that taloned one, who may be Inanna or her shadow, Erishkigal, or the Semitic Lilitu. I briefly touched my palms to the glass. Menstruating, heart pounding, desperately grateful, what came to me in that intense moment was a Durga mantra. A Tamil woman intoning Sanskrit syllables inside her heart, gazing at an Iraqi goddess, in a monument that is at once a paean to human experience and itself a dark remnant of human cruelty. I was there because I had the paperwork that allowed the visit. I was also there because, remarkably, I existed still.
No, it is incomplete to say that it was only paperwork that had given me passage. I had come at the invitation of a body connected to the same monarchy that enacted on the world a colonisation it cannot recover from, can only incorporate into its being. I stood there in England and said grace, this is true, but it’s also true that arriving and departing contained more complicated thoughts. The great Gloria Anzaldúa describes a similar moment in one of her essays: “What does it mean to me esta jotita, this queer Chicana, this mexicatejana to enter a museum and look at indigenous objects that were once used by my ancestors? Will I find my historical Indian identity here, along with its mestisaje lineage?”
To lose is a tragedy, to steal is a travesty, to survive is bittersweet. A museum can contain the world. And each visitor carries her own: ashes, remnants, inheritances, loans, and certain indestructible materials.
An edited version appeared in The New Indian Express on September 6th 2018. “The Venus Flytrap” appears on Thursdays in Chennai’s City Express supplement.
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The Venus Flytrap: Behind The Zenana’s Doors
Posted on April 30, 2018 by Sharanya Manivannan
The doors opened and I was inside a zenana: an erstwhile one, turned into a hotel. “A harem” was how my new friend described it, until I gave her the other word. She’d been staying there on her many trips to India over three decades. Nothing of the façade suggested what was within: courtyards, labyrinthine staircases, powder blue and mint green paint, leafiness and sunlight. Even the bustle of Triplicane was extinguished. Mani Ratnam had just been shooting there, and the huge airy room on the roof was still having its regular furniture brought in when I visited. Later, I was disgusted to learn – this mysterious place where I’d been welcomed is infamous for a policy of allowing only white guests. That’s why the seclusion – it is really exclusion.
Still, I’d been there at noon on a new moon day and the gracious caretaker had insisted on taking dhrishti for me as he smashed or split pumpkin, coconut and lime one by one on the road outside, camphor burning. What do we make of these mismatches – when the parts don’t add up to the sum, when a place or a person is nice to you but nasty in general? This was also the second time recently when I’d been treated warmly somewhere, but scratching beneath the surface revealed an underbelly of racism.
Things are not what they seem, and then they are. And then sometimes you find that they are how they are only because you are what you are. Or what you seem to be.
I’ve written elsewhere at length about my Karaikal Ammaiyar mode – a method of dressing that appears careless but in fact is designed to make people take me seriously, or to let me be inconspicuous while I go about my own work. Karaikal Ammaiyar was the 6th century poet who prayed to be turned into a wraith so that her she could move through the world unencumbered by her own beauty. My “true” hyper-feminine, quite glamorous self takes a backseat to this style quite often. There’s something tricky about this mode though, which I keep forgetting. It makes me lower my guard. It puts me on the footing of assuming my own unattractiveness, and so makes me open in ways I don’t easily when aware of myself. I felt it happen recently: I put on my armour, and I dropped my guard.
Only, I was then left wondering: if my alluring self was real, how was my Ammaiyar self also honest? Perhaps like the plain-looking lodging that opened onto a zenana, but revealed itself to be stark of heart, something in my austere manifestation held more than a kernel of truth. Had I played the Ammaiyar disguise so much that I had grown in it, and begun to hold myself in authentic ways even in that state?
My friend who stayed at the zenana had asked me to meet her somewhere else the previous night, with instructions to “dress and behave like a goddess”, so we’d be given permission for something. I knew what she meant. Recognition is mostly a game of optics. Authenticity, though, is about much so more.
An edited version appeared in The New Indian Express on March 22nd 2018. “The Venus Flytrap” appears on Thursdays in Chennai’s City Express supplement.
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The Venus Flytrap: Other Sitas, Many Ramas
The lines flow like waves along their skin, or radiating circles. The same word over and over again in faded-tattoo green in the Gondi language, in Devanagari script. Ram Ram Ram. I came across the Ramnami people of Chhattisgarh in a stunning feature written and photographed by Joydip Mitra for the People’s Archive of Rural India. Ramnamis are descended from Dalits who rejected the caste system, and calligraphed the sacred onto their skin. Only the elderly write their devotion onto their bodies now. In the photographs, only their eyes and lips carry no ink, and around their shoulders they wear fabrics that repeat the name they hold holy. Ram Ram Ram.
“Ram is written all over us,” says Pitambar Ram of Raigarh to the journalist. “So, you see, we are the Ramayana.”
There are so many, you know. My newest book of poetry, The Altar of the Only World, began with someone who held this name holy too. It was always Sita, only Sita, for me, and this too is a long tradition – found in folksongs and variations, the way a story becomes a new one each time it is told. It began with her weeping in the forest – there is a Sanskrit word for that, “aranyarodhan”, even though the Sita I got to know was not a Sanskrit version at all. Instead, she is mothered by Mandodari, who drinks a grail of sacrificial blood and sets her miraculous, curse-born child to drift away on the water like Moses or Karna. Instead of being the daughter of the earth, she is the earth itself. As well as a Persian angel, exiled from heaven because of too much devotion, and a goddess of love and war who enters the underworld to confront her shadow, who in the ancient Sumerian texts that describe her looks strikingly like the lion-headed Pratyangira Devi.
When I started to write The Altar of the Only World, nine years ago, it felt like it was a safer world to tell stories in. And a safer world to tell the truth in, too. Not so anymore. This casts an edge over all the usual trepidation before a book release. And then there’s the ambivalence of letting go of something that has been incomplete in you for so long that you can hardly imagine it fulfilled.
A year and a half ago, I was on a flight that made a missed approach. Like other frightening things, I had never known such a thing existed until it happened. In a terrible storm, the plane almost touched the tarmac and then suddenly swooped upwards again into the roiling thunderclouds. We circled the airport for many long minutes, not a word from the captain or crew for a while. The cabin remained quiet, and there was applause when we finally landed. I remember feeling aware, not afraid. This is how letting a piece of long labour into the world feels like: you cannot tell if it will make it or not, but you must suspend absolutely the idea that you can control what happens. And given the vagaries of the journey, be grateful for touchdown at all.
An edited version appeared in The New Indian Express on December 7th 2017. “The Venus Flytrap” appears on Thursdays in Chennai’s City Express supplement.
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The Venus Flytrap: Fire-Trampoline Marriages
We need to talk about those fire-trampoline marriages. You know: the kind where after a grand time running around town setting other people’s hearts on fire, someone takes a leap off a ledge, bounces right into the waiting arms of the patriarchy, and looks back up (still bouncing, not a toenail singed) and shouts: “I always told you I’d marry someone of my parents’ choosing!”.
If only real life was as comic panel-perfect as this analogy. Because what happens next largely happens out of sight. While the man or the woman with the trampoline conducts their socially-sanctioned conjugal bliss in full public view, cheesy captions and all, there is also a person trapped in that metaphorical burning building. The ashes of charred dreams and the mess left for them to clean up are not metaphorical at all. (The jumper’s spouse is a contemplation for another time).
It should be no surprise that in an India where only 5% of marriages are inter-caste (i.e. actually based on something other than upholding the system), there are a whole lot of fire-trampolines. This applies especially among those who are more educated, more affluent and for the most part, urbanites. There’s a profound disconnect between the veneer of liberal values and sexual mores that are enjoyed superficially and one’s actual beliefs.
But more so than a question of ideologies, this is really an issue of accountability. To mislead and treat someone badly then write it off as something you needed to do for the sake of family, culture, religion, money or general appearances is not “the right thing to do”. There’s nothing honourable about it. The most devious version of all is when the jumper pleads their cowardice, and claims they wish they were strong like you. Don’t believe it for a second.
I hear many stories from the people left holding the broom, the bucket and the bad end of the stick. Here’s what I told the last woman who cried to me about a man who suddenly got engaged to someone else while almost simultaneously declaring his love for her for the first time. (Yes, men do seem to jump into fire-trampolines more than women because the system is essentially designed to serve them better). This is what I told her: “It’s not that he doesn’t know what he wants, despite what some will tell you, including him. It is that he knows what he can have. He can have the convenience of his marriage, and by leaving this door ajar, he can also have emotional intensity – and more – from you.”
Because anyone who keeps a fire-trampoline handy has got other tricks up their sleeve. It’s no leap (pun intended) from “I told you I’d marry someone of my parents’ choosing” to “You knew I was married.”
At first it’s horrific, the aftermath among the embers. But eventually, you see distinctively what happens to the two survivors. The one who jumped continues to keep jumping, through more and more hoops of their own making. As for the one who was trapped in the inferno, the one who walked through flames? You already know what resurrects from ash.
An edited version appeared in The New Indian Express on July 27th 2017. “The Venus Flytrap” appears on Thursdays in Chennai’s City Express supplement.
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The Venus Flytrap: Forgotten Wives
Posted on July 10, 2017 by Sharanya Manivannan
The sudden thunderstorm that had broken over Srikalahasti the previous afternoon didn’t come back with us. Driving down a highway still bemirrored with mirages, I contemplated it with pleasure: a storm with neither aftermath nor announcement, one too stubborn to be tamed or tempted home. Nothing in the landscape showed how it had come and gone. The heatwave slipped me into a nap, waking to the sound of directions being asked for. At a point just before where the Arani river flows from Andhra Pradesh into Tamil Nadu – but how would you know except if you looked on a map, proving again how borders are arbitrary? – the village of Surutapalli stakes its place. An intoxicated Shiva had fallen asleep here, having tasted some of the halahala arrested in his throat. People come to see him in slumber, but stranger still to me was the alcove in which Dakshinamurthy sat. South-facing and tree-canopied here as elsewhere, except with one unusual element: on his left thigh, his wife.
I asked the priest for her name, and it was Gowri. Supplicants approach the couple from the west, and both their faces tilt toward the same. She without complete mythology, known only as consort. How marvellous sometimes to learn, how much more marvellous at other times to imagine.
As I dive deeper into a book I’m writing about mermaids (specifically, about the lost and little-known) I find that I have unexpected company from another book finished long ago, which had its origins in the Ramayana. Hanuman, that god who has a bit of the trickster in him, which somehow makes his loyalty even deeper. He is usually understood as celibate, but in South East Asian renditions of the epic, his partner is Suvannamaccha, whose name means “golden fish”. Each morning as they attempted to build the bridge to Lanka, the vanara army found their work had been destroyed, the rocks returned to the sea. One night, they discovered the mermaids dismantling it. Their leader was the lovely Suvannamaccha, whose father was Ravana. She and Hanuman must part almost as quickly as they fell in love, but their child is yet another hybrid: fish-tailed, simian-faced.
Then there are Ganesha’s three wives: Riddhi, Siddhi and Buddhi. Here, we like to think of him as the child, Pillaiyar. But even when depicted as a spouse in North India, he’s shown with only two of his own. But which two?
The worlds of both gods and men are full of forgotten wives.
As I put the finishing touches to this column, the almost-full moon is mottled by clouds. There is the odd coruscation of lightning. Rain is coming after all, but in its own time – who knows if it heeded my invitation or only its own whims? And I remember another forgotten consort: the Rig-Vedic agricultural goddess Sita’s husband Parjanya, lord of rain. Before Rama, there was rain. I think of an adorable stone tablet in that temple in Surutapalli, of the footprints of the exiled queen Sita’s children, water collecting mysteriously in the indentations of baby toes.
May all that needs quenching in us – our thirsts, our desires, our curiosities – be quenched.
An edited version appeared in The New Indian Express on May 11th 2017. “The Venus Flytrap” appears on Thursdays in Chennai’s City Express supplement.
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I’m the author of five books: a novel, The Queen of Jasmine Country (HarperCollins India, 2018), a short story collection, The High Priestess Never Marries (HarperCollins India, 2016), two books of poetry, Witchcraft (Bullfighter Books, 2008) and The Altar of the Only World (HarperCollins India, 2017); and a picture book for children, The Ammuchi Puchi (Lantana Publishing, 2016 & Puffin India, 2018).
My column, “The Venus Flytrap”, appears in The New Indian Express. I was specially commissioned to write and perform an original poem at the Commonwealth Day Observance at Westminister Abbey in 2015. I’m currently working on a novel, Constellation of Scars, among other poetry, fiction and illustration projects. I was born in India in 1985, and grew up in Sri Lanka and Malaysia; I have been living in Chennai since 2007.
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Label: FANTASY
Turn Off The News (Build A Garden) [2LP]
Artist: Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real
1. Bad Case
2. Turn Off The News (Build A Garden)
3. Where Does Love Go
4. Save A Little Heartache
5. Lotta Fun
6. Civilized Hell
7. Mystery
8. Simple Life
9. Out In LA
10. Something Real
11. Stars Made Of You
12. Turn Off The News (Build A Garden) [Acoustic]
13. Consider It Heaven
1. Turn Off The News (Build A Garden) (Acoustic)
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Co-produced by John Alagia and Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real and recorded at Shangri-La in Malibu and The Village Studios in West L.A., Turn Off The News features the band’s most mature and absorbing work of their career. Guest turns include background vocal and instrumental support from: Kesha, Margo Price, Sheryl Crow, Shooter Jennings, Lucius, Willie Nelson and Neil Young. On songs like the Wilburys inspired album opener, “Bad Case,” the poignant and relevant title track, “Turn Off The News,” the 60’s infused R&B of “Save A Little Heartache,” and the vulnerable balladry of “Mystery,” Lukas brings his prodigious gifts to bear, as a songwriter, a singer, a guitarist and band leader – an artist at the peak of his powers, ready to seize the tremendous opportunity at hand. Included with this vinyl version is a 7" disc featuring and acoustic version of "Turn Off The News (Build A Garden)" as well as bonus track "Consider It Heaven".
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Can you Apparate to a place that you haven't been to?
For instance, if a wizard has a magical photograph of a place, but has never been there physically, can he Apparate there by just focusing on the picture?
harry-potter apparition magical-transportation
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"Why couldn’t Newt just Apparate to the USA? Why did he go by boat? JKR: Apparition becomes increasingly risky over long distances. As with most magic, much depends on the skill of the spell-caster: Apparition requires knowledge of the terrain to which one is moving, or the ability to visualise it clearly. Cross-continental Apparition would almost certainly result in severe injury or death." – Valorum Jun 5 '18 at 16:45
Highly related: How did Harry and his friends know so many places to disapparate to? – Rand al'Thor♦ Jun 5 '18 at 16:51
No, they have to have been there not only at least once, but also to remember the place clearly. Some of them keep videotapes of the places with a voiceover describing the smell, air and - wait, wrong teleportation reference. – Jenayah Jun 5 '18 at 16:54
@Valorum True, but it's not a strong 'No'...especially for short distance apparition... And theoretically, one could visualize a location by its photo.. – Simpleton Jun 5 '18 at 16:55
@Pryftan as pointed out by the "wait, wrong teleportation reference", I was making a joke referrencing another teleportation work, namely Jumper by Steven Gould :p (the book, not the... debatable... movie) – Jenayah Jun 24 '18 at 1:43
Yes, it seems possible to Apparate to a place you’ve never been.
Narcissa Apparates to Snape’s house, and Bellatrix follows her, trying to stop her sister from betraying the Dark Lord’s confidence. Bellatrix Apparated separately from Narcissa.
“With a second and louder pop, another hooded figure materialised.
‘Wait!”
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 2 (Spinner’s End)
It’s very clear when Bellatrix arrives at Snape’s house, she didn’t know what to expect. She was surprised to see that Snape lived in such a place. In addition, she said she suspected none of her kind had ever set foot there, which she probably wouldn’t say if she herself had been there before.
“He lives here?’ asked Bella in a voice of contempt. ‘Here? In this Muggle dunghill? We must be the first of our kind ever to set foot –”
She seems surprised as well as disdainful, so she probably had never seen Spinner’s End before.
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Surely you'd know if you'd been there before? – TheLethalCarrot Jun 7 '18 at 8:11
This answer is authoritative since you speak from first-hand experience! :P +1! – Harry Weasley Jun 15 '18 at 15:01
@HarryWeasley Not only is Miss Bella here a formidable opponent ('answerer') but so too in the books. But it is amusing to consider that here the example of Bella herself was used; I never thought of that until I read your comment though I haven't a clue if I gave anything any thought at all on her answer, until now. – Pryftan Jun 24 '18 at 1:16
There is clear canonical evidence that it is possible to apparate to a never-visited location.
Goblet of Fire Chapter 6
“Where ’re Bill and Charlie and Per-Per-Percy?” said George, failing to stifle a huge yawn.
“Well, they’re Apparating, aren’t they?” said Mrs. Weasley, heaving the large pot over to the table and starting to ladle porridge into bowls. “So they can have a bit of a lie-in.”
It is apparent that they have never visited the location of the Quidditch World Cup, based on Mr. Weasely's later comments:
So we had to find a nice deserted moor, and set up as many anti-Muggle precautions as possible.
Why would they have previously been to the deserted moor?
I believe there’s a handy wood they’re using as the Apparition point.
Or why would they have ever been to the handy wood?
Furthermore, in that same discussion Charlie's failure is described:
“Charlie had to take the test twice,” said Fred, grinning. “He failed the first time, Apparated five miles south of where he meant to, right on top of some poor old dear doing her shopping, remember?”
Had Charlie ever previously visited the exact spot that he accidentally ended up in?
The Death Eaters were able to apparate to the graveyard when Voldemort regained his body, even though there is no reason why any of them would have been there before. It was clearly not their regular meeting place, as Voldemort states:
“My father’s bone, naturally, meant that we would have to come here, where he was buried.
Ron as well apparated places he had never been to previously. When he rejoins Harry and Hermione in the Forest of Dean (Deathly Hallows Chapter 19) he tells them:
I didn’t do it so well, Splinched myself again” — Ron held up his right hand to show two missing fingernails; Hermione raised her eyebrows coldly — “and I came out miles from where you were. By the time I got back to that bit of riverbank where we’d been ... you’d gone.”
He had obviously never previously been to a place miles away from a riverbank that he had only visited for the first time when they were camping there.
Just a few pages later he describes how he apparated to multiple places he had never been before:
“It sort of floated toward me,” said Ron, illustrating the movement with his free index finger, “right to my chest, and then — it just went straight through. It was here,” he touched a point close to his heart, “I could feel it, it was hot. And once it was inside me I knew what I was supposed to do, I knew it would take me where I needed to go. So I Disapparated and came out on the side of a hill. There was snow everywhere.
“We were there,” said Harry. “We spent two nights there, and the second night I kept thinking I could hear someone moving around in the dark and calling out!”
“Yeah, well, that would’ve been me,” said Ron. “Your protective spells work, anyway, because I couldn’t see you and I couldn’t hear you. I was sure you were around, though, so in the end I got in my sleeping bag and waited for one of you to appear. I thought you’d have to show yourselves when you packed up the tent.”
“No, actually,” said Hermione. “We’ve been Disapparating under the Invisibility Cloak as an extra precaution. And we left really early, because, as Harry says, we’d heard somebody blundering around.”
“Well, I stayed on that hill all day,” said Ron. “I kept hoping you’d appear. But when it started to get dark I knew I must have missed you, so I clicked the Deluminator again, the blue light came out and went inside me, and I Disapparated and arrived here in these woods. I still couldn’t see you, so I just had to hope one of you would show yourselves in the end — and Harry did. Well, I saw the doe first, obviously.”
Of course it is possible that the Deluminator had something to do with it, but the Deluminator is an invention of Dumbledore's which means that the "magical technology" for apparating to unknown places must actually exist in some form.
(Snape also arrived at the Forest of Dean, and while it doesn't say explicitly that he apparated, it seems a pretty safe assumption that he did so.)
Dumbledore apparently apparated to Privet Drive the night he left Harry there.
Philosopher's Stone Chapter 1
A man appeared on the corner the cat had been watching, appeared so suddenly and silently you’d have thought he’d just popped out of the ground.
Is there any reason why he would have previously visited it? Indeed we are immediately told:
Nothing like this man had ever been seen on Privet Drive.
This would not be true if this very man had been there previously (unless "seen" is taken quite literally and on his previous visit no one had seen him).
The Snatchers appeared mere moments after Harry used the tabooed name of Voldemort, which indicates that they apparated, yet they obviously hadn't previously visited whatever random location the trio was using as their current hideout.
Harry apparates to Shell Cottage despite never having been there before.
Deathly Hallows Chapter 23
“Ron, catch — and GO!” he yelled, throwing one of the wands to him; then he bent down to tug Griphook out from under the chandelier. Hoisting the groaning goblin, who still clung to the sword, over one shoulder, Harry seized Dobby’s hand and spun on the spot to Disapparate.
As he turned into darkness he caught one last view of the drawing room: of the pale, frozen figures of Narcissa and Draco, of the streak of red that was Ron’s hair, and a blur of flying silver, as Bellatrix’s knife flew across the room at the place where he was vanishing —
Bill and Fleur’s . . . Shell Cottage . . . Bill and Fleur’s . . .
He had disappeared into the unknown; all he could do was repeat the name of the destination and hope that it would suffice to take him there. The pain in his forehead pierced him, and the weight of the goblin bore down upon him; he could feel the blade of Gryffindor’s sword bumping against his back; Dobby’s hand jerked in his; he wondered whether the elf was trying to take charge, to pull them in the right direction, and tried, by squeezing the fingers, to indicate that that was fine with him. ...
And then they hit solid earth and smelled salty air. Harry fell to his knees, relinquished Dobby’s hand, and attempted to lower Griphook gently to the ground.
When Harry and Dumbledore visit Slughorn's house, Harry asks why they didn't just apparate directly into the house.
Half Blood Prince Chapter 4
“Because it would be quite as rude as kicking down the front door,” said Dumbledore. “Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry. In any case, most Wizarding dwellings are magically protected from unwanted Apparators. At Hogwarts, for instance — ”
“ — you can’t Apparate anywhere inside the buildings or grounds,” said Harry quickly. “Hermione Granger told me.”
The implication here is that if not for special anti-apparition protection and courtesy, they could theoretically apparate directly into the house. Yet Dumbledore has presumably never been there before, as Slughorn says:
I’ve been on the move for a year. Never stay in one place more than a week. Move from Muggle house to Muggle house — the owners of this place are on holiday in the Canary Islands — it’s been very pleasant, I’ll be sorry to leave.
I do think though that the fact he landed somewhere else than intended is more of a consequence of the risks in the magic; that wasn't where he intended to go. It might be argued that it's much like the Floo Network: don't say it carefully enough you land elsewhere. How similar is Diagonally to Diagon Alley relative to Knockturn Alley? Yet where does Harry end up? I also think it's a stretch to say that Dobby transporting him to Shell Cottage is the same thing as Elf magic is different; maybe Harry believed he had to. Still a good answer. – Pryftan Jun 6 '18 at 20:56
As for Dumbledore's device I don't think you can count that either since there's much more to it than that. I'm not saying it's not relevant but there is certainly more to it. Severus of course could have been there but we can presume he hadn't. As for the Taboo I thought it means they can be tracked which might be closer to how the Deluminator works (maybe even using the same magic). – Pryftan Jun 6 '18 at 21:00
@Pryftan I do think though that the fact he landed somewhere else than intended is more of a consequence of the risks in the magic; that wasn't where he intended to go. Of course it wasn't where he intended to go. But he still ended up there despite (presumably) never having been there before. Thus, apparition is possible to unvisited places. I also think it's a stretch to say that Dobby transporting him to Shell Cottage is the same thing as Elf magic is different; It seems from the text that Harry was trying to apparate there himself, and it is unclear if Dobby took over or not. – Alex Jun 6 '18 at 21:53
@Pryftan As for Dumbledore's device I don't think you can count that either since there's much more to it than that. I'm not saying it's not relevant but there is certainly more to it. It seems that the device just showed him where to go. He still apparated without having been there before. As for the Taboo I thought it means they can be tracked which might be closer to how the Deluminator works (maybe even using the same magic). Yes, the taboo is a tracker. But once they find out where the people are they still apparate there despite it being a new place. – Alex Jun 6 '18 at 21:54
The point about the accidental location is my guess that there is more to it than that; I mean to say I'm not sure it counts the same. Observe that I agree with you that it's possible I'm just saying I'm not sure that's the best example. As for Dobby; well then what about the fact he took the others first? Remember this too: Harry couldn't have Apparated out of Malfoy Manor could he? They prevented that but Elf magic bypasses that doesn't it? – Pryftan Jun 7 '18 at 19:01
It appears yes.
I can think of some examples: the rock Harry and Dumbledore Apparate to to get to the cave for the Horcrux. Whilst discussing the Horcrux memory with Harry Dumbledore says this at one point:
'Correct,' said Dumbledore. 'I have been looking for a very long time. I think . . . perhaps . . . I may be close to finding another one. There are hopeful signs.'
'And if you do,' said Harry quickly, 'can I come with you and help get rid of it?'
This strongly implies that Dumbledore has never been to the place; he knows about it because of Ms. Cole but nowhere in canon can I think of that suggests Dumbledore has actually been there; certainly he's never been to the cave and this suggests that he hadn't been by the cave either. And at this point he believed he had found one and he saw hopeful signs but that doesn't mean it is certain - yet (as we find out later it is although the original locket had been stolen). In the chapter The Seer Overheard there is this dialogue between Harry and Dumbledore:
And then Harry remembered why he had been eager to come to Dumbledore's office in the first place. 'You've found one? You've found a Horcrux?'
'I believe so.'
Rage and resentment fought shock and excitement: For several moments, Harry could not speak.
'It is natural to be afraid,' said Dumbledore.
'I'm not scared!' said Harry at once, and it was perfectly true; fear was one emotion he was not feeling at all. 'Which Horcrux is it? Where is it?'
'I am not sure which it is — though I think we can rule out the snake — but I believe it to be hidden in a cave on the coast many miles from here, a cave I have been trying to locate for a very long time: the cave in which Tom Riddle once terrorized two children from his orphanage on their annual trip; you remember?'
It is true that he used the word been as in past tense but as a literal thinker I try remembering that most don't interpret things that way; even so though he hasn't been to the cave and would he have gone to the rock? I don't think that's really the case because if he had he'd already been able to verify the cave is indeed there.
'Yes,' said Harry. 'How is it protected?'
'I do not know; I have suspicions that may be entirely wrong.' Dumbledore hesitated, then said, 'Harry, I promised you that you could come with me, and I stand by that promise, but it would be very wrong of me not to warn you that this will be exceedingly dangerous.'
The above dialogue suggests that Dumbledore is still uncertain on the matter. And how do they get to the area? By Apparating:
'Professor,' said Harry quietly, as the gates at the bottom of the drive came into view, 'will we be Apparating?'
'Yes,' said Dumbledore. 'You can Apparate now, I believe?'
'Yes,' said Harry, 'but I haven’t got a license.'
He felt it best to be honest; what if he spoiled everything by turning up a hundred miles from where he was supposed to go?
'No matter,' said Dumbledore, 'I can assist you again.'
'It will not be necessary for us to enter,' muttered Dumbledore, glancing around. 'As long as nobody sees us go . . . now place your hand upon my arm, Harry. There is no need to grip too hard, I am merely guiding you. On the count of three . . . One . . . two . . . three . . .'
Harry turned. At once, there was that horrible sensation that he was being squeezed through a thick rubber tube; he could not draw breath, every part of him was being compressed almost past en- durance and then, just when he thought he must suffocate, the in- visible bands seemed to burst open, and he was standing in cool darkness, breathing in lungfuls of fresh, salty air.
Harry then questions that the orphanage took the orphans there; Dumbledore explains not precisely: there is a little village by there and they were taken to the sea. Only strong mountaineers would have been able to get to the cave; boats would not work because the waves are too strong. Dumbledore expects that Riddle would have used magic to climb down and so only his two victims and he himself visited it at the time. Certainly Dumbledore had never been to the cave itself and given the obstacles to get to the cave it seems to me he had never been to the rock either. He certainly had been to the orphanage but nothing suggests he had been to exactly where they Apparated to. Is it close enough that it works fine? Possibly but I'll return to this when I discuss the Three D's.
Hermione and Harry Apparate to Godric's Hollow in Deathly Hallows; just like Harry was too young to really understand death when his parents were killed (thus at Godric's Hollow) I'm certain that Hermione had never been there either. Hermione certainly hadn't been around the graveyard as Hermione earlier questions whether his parents would be there:
'I'm sure it is,' said Hermione, her eyes upon the church. 'They . . . they'll be in there, won't they? Your mum and dad? I can see the graveyard behind it.'
There is no canon instance that I can think of where Hermione had been there at all and Harry hadn't been there since his parents were murdered yet they Apparated there.
But what about the Three D's?
'The important things to remember when Apparating are the three D's!' said Twycross. 'Destination, Determination, Deliberation!'
'Step one: Fix your mind firmly upon the desired destination,' said Twycross. 'In this case, the interior of your hoop. Kindly concentrate upon that destination now.
There seems to be some ambiguity but at the same time there are examples where it's suggested someone Apparates to a place they've never been to before. But does concentrating on the destination mean visualising it? That isn't specified here (see below) and one could easily argue that it's the place whether they've been there or not. But then what about determination?
'Step two,' said Twycross, 'focus your determination to occupy the visualised space! Let your yearning to enter it flood from your mind to every particle of your body!'
So let's say it's more than the place name: it's what it looks like. Do you need to have been somewhere to visualise it in your head? I certainly don't if I've seen photos or videos of it - and I remember it well enough. I can also visualise places I've read enough about; and it can be sure that Hermione read about Godric's Hollow, for example.
What this comes down to is it is suggested that some have Apparated to places they've never been to (or if they have it's not been noted prior to it) but it does require visualising the place. But there are different ways to think of visualisation and in the case of what it looks like we don't even need to have been there do we? And as our Miss Bella above reminds us Bellatrix was surprised where Severus lived and they did Apparate there; and since Bella and Narcissa Apparate separately we cannot say she had ever been there. It seems to me then that yes you can Apparate to places you've not personally visited.
Finally it can be sure that Dobby had never been to Shell Cottage before taking everyone from Malfoy Manor there (or around it). But since Elf magic is different that might not count.
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I recently posted this to the Bruins sub-Reddit- and thought it deserved a place on my blog.
Took a swing at the Boston Bruins historical draft choices, analyzing the team’s selections since the NHL implemented a rudimentary draft system 56 years ago. Bear in mind that in the pre-1969 years, the draft was different- starting in 1963 thru 1978 it was called the amateur draft before changing to the NHL Entry Draft in 1979 when the teams were allowed to draft 18-year-olds. With fewer teams in the 60’s, 70’s & 80’s, selections outside of 10-20 were 2nd round or later, but for purpose of exercise, I’m going to look at picks 1-30 and call it like I see it.
I’m bucking convention by starting out with 1st overall and work up to 30- in a lot of cases, the early selections for the B’s have not been kind, but in full context- most of the time the team was picking 3-7, it came in the days before the current draft system. And because the B’s had made the playoffs from 1968-97, unless they owned bad teams’ 1st rounders, they rarely got a chance to pick inside the top-10 during that time frame.
1- Best: Joe Thornton, 1997: 1st ballot HHOFer- nuf ced; Trading him opened the door for Zdeno Chara and Marc Savard to join the B’s in 2006, but he’s been everything Jumbo Joe was projected to be as a teen titan with the Soo Greyhounds in 1997. He just turned 40 in July, which, given the shaggy, golden-locked kid who showed up in Boston 22 years ago at not quite 18, seems impossible to square with the grizzled graybeard who has been with the San Jose Sharks for nearly a decade and a half.
Worst: Barry Gibbs, 1966: Journeyman defenseman. He at least played in the NHL to the tune of 796 career games, most of them not with the Bruins. However, Gibbs leads the No. 1 overall bust hit parade not because of what he did, but because of the player who was selected right behind him at No. 2 in ’66 by the NY Rangers. Wait for it…Brad Park. Can you imagine Bobby Orr and Brad Park together on the Boston blue line? It actually happened for a handful of games right before Orr left for the Windy City, but had they been able to play together in their primes, we’re talking at least 2 more Stanley Cups in that era. Yikes. (H/T to Reddit user Timeless_Watch for pointing this out- I moved Kluzak down to HM)
HM: Gord Kluzak, 1982: Oh what could have been? What if…B’s had drafted Brian Bellows or Scott Stevens there instead of Kluzak? Kluzak had knee injuries in junior hockey days and then got blown up in his 2nd NHL season- without the technology to repair knees that we have today, it doomed him to being day-to-day for the rest of his career and an early retirement. He should have been a long-tenured NHL defenseman, but it didn’t happen for him, and unfortunately, he’s more of a footnote in Bruins lore, which is unfortunate.
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50 Main Street : the face of America /
Piero Ribelli.
Petaluma, CA : Cameron + Co., c2012.
319 p. : col. ill., ports. ; 34 cm.
1937359158 (hbk.), 9781937359157 (hbk.)
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Photojournalism--United States.
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United States--Biography--Pictorial works.
United States--Social life and customs--1971---Pictorial works.
Ribelli, Piero.
50 Main Street : the face of America / Piero Ribelli.
1937359158 (hbk.)
9781937359157 (hbk.)
Portraits and biographical sketches of people representative of American life, one from each state.
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For his ambitious and uplifting book of photos, Ribelli (Jah Pickney: Children of Jamaica), an Italian emigre, embarked on a six-year mission "to fight discord," argues historian Douglas Brinkley in his foreword. Visiting 50 towns in 50 states, and one address-50 Main Street-he tells the stories of 50 Americans and their families. In California, George Sylva escapes a violent childhood in East L.A., joins the Navy as a combat cameraman, then builds a career in Hollywood before opening a boxing gym, where he helps teens troubled by gang violence. In Westfield, Mass., a doctor, Angel Morales, one of nine children sent to orphanages after his mother's illness, becomes the first person in his family to go to college. Pearl Harbor has no such address (it was destroyed in the 1941 attack), so Ribelli meets Robin Tupa at her office at 174 Main St.-the lowest of the remaining addresses. Ribelli's subjects are posed at home, work, and play, and he includes many supplementary photos to capture the essence of a place, usually with success, such as his shot of a nearly empty Jersey Shore. Some photos approach postcard cliche, though, such as a misty shot of the Oregon coastline. Ribelli's experiences and perceptions are interwoven with his written profiles, and while at times distracting, they reveal an enthusiastic storyteller. Agent: Marcella Smith, Marcella Smith Associates. (July) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
"This is a wonderful documentary portrait, a personal cross section of the country in a post-industrial, complicated moment in time." --Ken Burns, documentary filmmaker ( The Civil War, Baseball, Prohibition ) "You want authentic? Look at the guy on the cover. He's the real deal, just like everyone else in 50 Main Street. This book matters. Not because it'll make you smile, and not because it's filled with pretty pictures. It matters because it's authentic. 50 Main Street is a genuine tribute to strangers you've always known, and old friends you've never met. It's a journey back home, no matter where you come from, or what your address might be." --Mike Rowe, Dirty Jobs "As a lover of people, places and pictures, I get a wonderful, warm feeling looking at this book and it was fun seeing my name mentioned in it." --Dolly Parton "This book shows that the success of one man's dream is a reason for us all to dream." --John Mellencamp "This work is not a style manifesto, it is not radical in brand new photographic strategies . . . it does not have to be...as it follow she path of deep experience within all of human history . . . the experience of deep optimism and kindness. Each picture rests in the belly of the soul of generosity . . . in doing so they give one a view of America which has been diminished and needs to be revisited . . . Piero is a visualist of profound moral worth. His pictures allow one to hope and smile . . ." --Larry Fink, photographer " 50 Main Street is an epic achievement. It gives me a real sense of who we are in this country, as individuals and as a whole. Whether we are from the East, the West or the heart of America we are all different yet similar. I really appreciate the sense of commonality and community expressed in this book." --Wayne Wang, film director ( The Joy Luck Club, Smoke, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan ) " 50 Main Street is a big, wide-open window into the heart and soul of America. Insightful, gorgeous, and deeply moving." --Larry Samuel, author of The American Dream: A Cultural History
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Save the Feminist Library! — October 31, 2016
Save the Feminist Library!
October 31, 2016 /Sista Resista
The future of the Feminist Library is under threat as they are facing unsustainable increases in rent. The Feminist Library is a volunteer-led, unfunded, feminist organisation and may be forced to close.
The Feminist Library is the UK’s pre-eminent collection of Women’s Liberation Movement and feminist literature with an incomparable collection of over 7,000 books, 1500 periodical titles from around the world, archives of feminist individuals and organisations, pamphlets, papers, posters, and ephemera. Based in London and run by a collective of volunteers, the Feminist Library has been supporting feminist research, activist and community projects since 1975. For over 40 years, the Feminist Library has provided a space for people to learn, educate and organise around feminist issues.
In response the Feminist Library launched a petition and at the time of writing have over 16,000 signatures, demanding that Southwark Council withdraw the threat of eviction. Show your support for Women’s History and the feminist struggle for full gender equality by:
making a financial donation to the Feminist Library emergency fund http://feministlibrary.co.uk/support/emergencyfund/ • supporting the library as individuals by joining their Friends Scheme (http://feministlibrary.co.uk/support/friends-scheme/)
publicising the Feminist Library to branch members, the work they do and events they run, and asking members to also sign the Save the Feminist Library from
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UK Looks to Deter Health Tourism by Charging Visitors for Medical Emergencies
Caroline Davies, The Guardian
- Dec 30, 2013 4:00 am
Critics say the new charge with deter visitors from seeking help when it’s truly needed while supporters argue that it’s necessary to keep the system working for the British.
— Samantha Shankman
Overseas visitors and migrants are to be charged for using NHS accident and emergency services in England under measures announced by the government to deter so-called health tourism.
No one will be turned away from an A&E department in an emergency, but there will be a bill to pay afterwards for patients from overseas. Other changes include extending charging for prescriptions to people from overseas, and requiring them to pay higher charges for services that are subsidised for patients entitled to NHS care, such as optical and dental services.
GP and nurse consultations will remain free, which the government believes will reduce risks to public health such as HIV, TB and sexually transmitted infections.
Details of the scheme, which has been drawn up after a government consultation, are still being worked out. Ministers have said they will publish a full implementation plan in March.
Further changes could include overseas visitors being charged for minor surgery that is carried out by a GP and physiotherapy that has come through a GP referral.
Health minister Lord Howe said: “Having a universal health service free at the point of use rightly makes us the envy of the world, but we must make sure the system is fair to the hardworking British taxpayers who fund it.
“We know that we need to make changes across the NHS to better identify and charge visitors and migrants. Introducing charging at primary care is the first step to achieving this. We are already looking at taking action, and next year we will set out our detailed plans to clamp down on the abuse of our NHS.”
A Department of Health report this year estimated that up to £500m a year could be recovered through better charging for use of the NHS by visitors. However, it said estimates were based on “incomplete data, sometimes of varying quality, and a large number of assumptions”.
There is already concern among many Tory MPs that the ending of restrictions on migrants from Bulgaria and Romania on 1 January will see an influx of migrants, putting additional strain on the NHS and other public services.
The shadow health minister Lord Hunt said: “Yet again, ministers are putting spin before substance – their own report undermines the attempts to grab more headlines with this re-announcement.
“Labour is in favour of improving the recovery of costs from people with no entitlement to NHS treatment. Rather than more grandstanding, the government needs to deliver practical, thought-through changes to make that happen. Instead this out-of-touch government is left asking doctors and nurses to act as surrogate immigration officials.”
At present treatment in hospital A&E departments is free, but any subsequent treatment as a result of admission is chargeable. The changes are aimed at tightening and standardising what is and is not chargeable for primary healthcare.
The rules already state that while maternity or antenatal services should not be withheld, overseas visitors should be charged. Asked during the consultation whether maternity care should be exempt, the overwhelming response from NHS frontline staff was that it should not be free for everyone, the Department of Health said.
Doctors’ leaders said the proposed changes could cost more to administer than they would raise for the NHS and may deter people in need of treatment from seeking care.
Dr Mark Porter, chair of the British Medical Association (BMA) council, said: “This could mean the system of administering the new charging system will end up actually costing more to run than it collects in revenue. There remains a real risk that some migrants and short-term visitors who desperately need care could be discouraged from approaching the NHS if they cannot pay the proposed charges.
“There is particular confusion over access entitlements to emergency care services, given that the proposals introduce charging for A&E visits, yet say that no patient will be turned away if they need care.”
Dr Chaand Nagpaul, chair of the BMA’s GP committee said: “It is encouraging that the government has listened to the public health concerns expressed by the BMA about the impact of charging migrants and short-term visitors for GP appointments. We cannot have a situation where any patient with a serious health need is deterred from visiting a GP, especially if their condition raises a potential public health risk.”
He added the proposals could introduce “another layer of time-consuming bureaucracy to general practice at a time when GPs and their staff are struggling to cope with rising workload and patient demand”.
Dr Helen Stokes-Lampard, a Birmingham GP and spokesperson for the Royal College of General Practitioners, said: “We are grateful that the government appears to have made some concessions to its original proposals and we are pleased that access to a GP will remain free at the point of need.
“However, we still need reassurances that GPs are not going to be pressed into acting as an arm of the Border Agency and we remain unconvinced that the proposals will work across the NHS.”
This article originally appeared on guardian.co.uk.
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Language teacher; Francophile; lover of cultures. Believer in French as a global language; PhD in French and Francophone Studies.
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The French have long viewed movies as the 7th art. So what about French TV shows? Thanks to the richness of the French language, you can watch everything from French series to France 24 Live and continue to improve your French language learning skills!
Whether you live in the US, Asia, Latin American. or even France, TV is a part of daily life. Your parents may have told you, “Enough screen time!” or that the TV rots your brain, but when it comes to language learning, TV shows and movies alike can boost your proficiency. In fact, one study shows that obsessively watching your favorite shows in French can actually help promote fluency! So, go ahead, for the best tips on how to maximize your French language learning, read -- and watch -- on!
French Classes Online…Through TV?!
Yes, that’s right! Now is the chance to ditch the traditional French classes and instead, grab a snack, a drink, and the remote, because your TV provides one of the best opportunities for French language learning. With Netflix, you can simply change the audio to French, even on your favorite shows!
Leaving English subtitles on and hearing the French language will help you immensely with your listening comprehension, which is truly important. Movies are a fantastic way to do this as well, but the great thing about TV shows is that you get more episodes, which means more exposure to the language. Tend to fall asleep while watching TV? No problem! Leave it on in the background while you snooze so that you can even make your sleep an effective way to learn French.
Best Way to Learn French: Series or Movies?
In addition to watching your favorite TV shows in French, you can also watch original French series. Netflix is one place that really promotes foreign language shows, but other streaming sites do, as well. Specific sites like Decider allows you to search for forieng language shows and movies on various sites. With the vast array of French series out there, check out our list of the 10 best French series to help you on your French language learning journey.
1. The Returned (Les Revenants)
This eerie supernatural French series is so good that they made an English language spinoff. In France, TV shows can be just as captivating as a good movie, and Les Revenants is no different.
In a majestic mountain town, people who have been dead for years start to reappear. Characters range from a teen who was killed in an accident to a serial killer who was also killed years earlier.
Les Revenants is one of those French TV shows that makes you ask yourself questions about life, death and everything in between. With two seasons, it appears that there may not be a third, although the show has not been officially canceled. And like most remakes, the original French series on Netflix is stronger in creativity, dialog and visual appeal.
2. Marseille
If you’ve only focused on Paris while grooming your love of French culture, then you’ve missed out on the amazingly rich metropolis that is Marseille in the south of France. This French series on Netflix turns around a mayor who did not want to easily let go of his throne. Given Marseille’s notorious connection with mafia, it’s no surprise that corruption comes to light in this drama. However this French series also allows you to see the beauty of the southern Paris and what it has to offer visitors.
3. Plus Belle La Vie
Speaking of Marseille and French TV shows, Plus Belle La Vie is a French feuilleton, or soap opera, that takes place in blue-collar neighborhoods of the South. Some people may find that soap operas can be easier to understand than movies, perhaps because there is less slang. If you want to work on understanding love vocab, this is definitely the French TV series for you and provides one of the best ways to learn for French beginners.
4. Fais pas ci, fais pas ça
This comedic French TV show follows the lives of the conservative Lepic family and the more hippy Bouleys. What’s about this series that originally aired on France 2 is that you get a peek at two sides of French culture, which also means two ways of speaking French.
5. Il Etait Une Fois…La Vie! (Once Upon a Time...Life!)
This animated French TV show is geared towards kids, but that's what makes it perfect for adults learning French! Kids shows feature French that is slower, easy to understand, and without all the intricate slang. Plus, it's all about the human body, so you may also learn a thing or two besides language! For those of you interested in the medical field and translation this show is definitely worth checking out. Since it's an older show, you can check it out on Dailymotion.
6: La Mante (The Mantis)
Yet another crime show, but La Mante is truly one that audiences agree is superb. When a serial killer appears to be on the loose, detectives ask an imprisoned serial killer, known as La Mante, or "praying mantis," for help.
7. Dix Pour cent (Call My Agent!)
Think of a Parisian, modern day Mad Men when you watch Dix pour cent. This French series follows agents whose personal lives intermingle with their jobs while they try to keep clients happy.
8. Plan Coeur (The Hook-Up Plan)
Currently on Netflix, this French series follows a girl whose lack of love life has her friends going to extreme measures to make her happy. If you're not a fan of thrillers or dramas like the other shows on this list, this one may just be the one for you.
9. Les Témoins (The Witnesses)
Yet another crime drama, but this one is really one of my favorites. The bodies of victims have been appearing in housing developments' show homes. There have been multiple seasons and the show has garnered success throughout the world.
10. France 24 Live
I saved the tenth show as France 24 Live because it truly deserves its own category. While it's not a series per se, watching France 24 Live is an absolutely effective and fun way to learn French. While not all French news sites are available in the US, France 24 Live is, so take advantage of all the learning potential.
Whether you decide to the best way to learn French is through your television, computer, or streaming device, the important thing is to be consistent. Watch a few episodes of a series that speaks to you before you decide you don't love it. If all else fails, you can always look on YouTube for your favorite Friends or Simpsons episode, en français, bien sûr!
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Lotus closing in on Romain Grosjean’s replacement
F1i 14:23 17/10/2015
Lotus will name their replacement over the next few weeks.
Lotus has “a pretty good idea” of who will replace Romain Grosjean in 2016, according to deputy team principal Federico Gastaldi.
Grosjean announced in September he will be leaving Lotus to join the new Haas F1 Team in 2016, with Gastaldi telling F1i the decision had caught the team by surprise. Now four weeks after Lotus learned of Grosjean’s departure, Gastaldi says it is closing in on his replacement.
“The remorseless passing of time means that you always get closer to something in the future, so yes, we are closer to making an announcement,” Gastaldi said. “I would say something will come sooner rather than later.
This time next week! #TBT – 2013 #USGP, P2 for Romain… and that hat! 😉 pic.twitter.com/xZ0qOgApGo
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“We won’t be disclosing who it is before we announce it, but we certainly have been speaking to drivers with good provenance and we have a pretty good idea who we will have in the car.”
Gastaldi has previously named third driver Jolyon Palmer as a strong candidate for the seat, while F1i understands Kevin Magnussen has also been in discussions over the vacancy.
Palmer will drive for Lotus in all of the remaining FP1 sessions this season following Grosjean’s decision to leave.
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Sion “Brummie” Scone, continues this seasons analysis of Clapham Ultimate and their run up to WUCC 2014 in Lecco, Italy.
Previously, I wrote about how much potential I thought Clapham have in 2013, tempered with the fact that they still have work to do if they want to have an impact at WUCC, to avoid a repeat of their disappointing results in 2006 & 2010. With this in mind, I watched footage of their games vs Ring & Ironside, to find some insights into the question posed by Pichler recently as to how big the gap is, and to work out whether that gap is being closed by the efforts of Clapham, and if not, what they need to do to achieve their aims of a semi final berth at WUCC.
Firstly, let’s look at the stats (note: “Scoring %” differs slightly between O and D lines; it is the number of goals scored / number of points played for O, and the number of goals scored / number of points where the D line forced a turnover for the D line. The number of possessions required to score a goal are therefore irrelevant for this stat… a deeper look could get into this in more detail! I wanted to ensure that this statistic reflected the scoring rate where each line had the disc):
The results are pretty interesting. I posted the scores for Sub Zero’s final-winning game in order to provide some comparison.
The Ring game was very sloppy from both teams’ O lines, and the real star here was Clapham’s D line who rattled off 4 breaks in a row after half to pull into a 3 point lead; still, Ring had the disc to tie the game up at 13-12, but Clapham’s O held and the D line broke again for the 15-13 win. Clapham’s D line scored 7 goals from 8 attempts, which is a phenomenal rate of 87.5% and proves they are a world-class unit. The same cannot be said for the O line, who scored 8 goals from 16 possessions, meaning 1 turn per goal on average, and considering that just 5 of the 12 points played resulted in goals without a turnover, there is a lot of work to be done if they want to compete at WUCC.
The Ironside game stats show where Clapham’s reliance on their D line will cost them when playing elite opposition, as they simply do not turn over with anywhere near the same frequency. Clapham’s D line were only able to get the disc in 5 points, and scored 3 of them. This is probably in line with the scoring rates required of elite level defensive units – Ben Wiggins believed that 3 breaks should be sufficient to win any game, as the strength of his then team Sockeye meant they were confident in their offence’s capabilities, and were therefore not reliant upon their D line to win games – but Clapham’s O line again shows that they racked up 13 turns to score 9 goals (compared to 5 turns from Ironside’s O line who scored 10 goals). In fact, in the first half, Clapham’s O line scored only 1 goal without turning over (from a total of 6 goals), and their D line scored 1 break from 3 points where they had possession. The second half saw 100% offence from the Clapham D line (2 breaks from 2 possessions), and 3 goals without turning from their O line, yet the remaining two points saw multiple turns from Clapham’s O and both led to Ironside breaks, allowing them to to keep their lead and take the game 14-12. Saving just one of these breaks would have been enough to take the game to sudden death.
Comparison of Clapham’s scoring percentages to Sub Zero’s in the final gives an idea of where “the gap” lies; O line turnovers; Clapham need to be aiming to halve the number of turnovers per game if they want to be successful next year. The positive is that Clapham’s D line show a similar, or even better, scoring ability than Sub Zero, and certainly better than Ironside (3 goals from 11 attempts vs Clapham), and were capable of getting enough blocks to keep them in games until late. The quality is evident in Clapham’s O line, what is missing is consistency, and given how close the North American teams are to each other, Clapham need to try to emulate the consistent, high-level play of the Pro Flight teams.
The spread of turnovers indicates early game nerves, turning into second half confidence – and possibly over-confidence. I spoke to Markian Kuzmowycz, who plays for PONY – a team that beat Clapham twice at Chesapeake – for some thoughts. “In my opinion, they played like an “American” team, like club teams I’m accustomed to facing. Physical D without calls to slow down the pace, mostly man-to-man, and an offence that works to set up a deep shot. Where they were a little weaker was in 1:1 defence on the downfield cutters. Also, Clapham missed a lot of hucks“. European readers may be surprised to find that Kuzmowycz believes that Clapham lack the fitness they need to win late in the day: “Clapham imploded in our 3rd place matchup … last game of the weekend, they looked tired”.
And what about their chances at WUCC? “It’s great to see the results Clapham had, especially beating Chain in a must-win game, and giving Ironside such a tough game, as I would like to see more clubs internationally playing at this level of ultimate. Do I think they could make semis? Not at this time, no. Quarters? Maybe.” “I would say the ceiling for them is probably somewhere in the 5-8″.
Jolian Dahl of Chain Lightning had this to say: “I was impressed with the poise of Clapham’s offense; they made it far more difficult for our defense to get turnovers than in years past. The times Chain was able to get turns came from situations where Clapham’s offense was prevented from swinging the disc. My take on the effectiveness of Clapham’s deep game: all of the uncontested hucks were mid-range and were thrown off movement after the offense had moved the disc 1/3 to 1/2 the way down the field.”
From watching the games (all available from UltiWorld), there are a number of things that stood out to me:
Clapham show that they are the athletic equals of the US teams that they are striving to beat, play some tight handler defence and get more than enough blocks to win games against even the best. Clapham also pull off a number of highlight reel plays to rescue poor throws, more so than most of the other teams at Chesapeake; this is a positive, but reaching out for players to make plays is a dangerous strategy. US teams seem to use athleticism as the safety margin, not an offensive tactic.
In the Ring game, and the start of the Ironside game, there are very few picks (unlike their opponents). This means that Clapham are not stifling their own flow. The number of picks increased dramatically as the Ironside game wore on, showing that as Clapham tire, they lose focus & structure.
Clapham struggle to create and maintain flow, resulting in lots of players sat on the disc aiming to create something downfield. There also seemed to be a reluctance to reset early; Sub Zero and Ironside tended to reset after 2-3 seconds of looking downfield.
Clapham play their dumps noticably closer to the disc than any of the other teams there, which means they did not use the width as well as the other teams, and it also makes it more likely that the throwing lanes are clogged by an offensive player. Even if the lanes are open, they are very narrow & therefore throws are more difficult to execute. Clapham players need to trust in their team rather than crowding the disc.
Clapham’s D line offence is vastly improved from 2011, and is probably the reason that they have won games comfortably this year. Now the O line need to catch up.
1-2-1 cutter defence is poor; teams like Ironside that rely on repeated isolations downfield had little trouble getting open for big yards. Clapham defenders have a tendency to turn their attention away from their mark, and smart cutters use this opportunity to get open. It seemed like Clapham were not communicating very well on defence. I saw very few switches, and only occasional useful poaching, despite playing against Ironside who stick all of their players out to one side and play with one guy in isolation. They need to be more adaptable than this if they want to challenge at WUCC. Ironside, in contrast, were able to stall Clapham out on their own goal line with some intelligent switching and poaching. Clapham’s poaching more often looks like lazy defence than intelligence. Clapham need to be able to play better shutdown on the unders and rely on team mates peeling off the back to cover, especially when they play with a force-upfield mark that gives no protection downfield.
Compared to Ring, Ironside and Sub Zero; Clapham don’t move the disc aggressively enough off the pull, nor do they generate any big gains before the defence is set. They could use a pull play that will allow them to utilise the free space that comes with pulls that come in low and hard.
Clapham’s successful deep throws mostly came directly from flow, thrown on stalls 1-2. When they threw deep from static, they had a lower completion rate.
Ironside were without 3 of their starting 7 offensive players and fell to their worst defeat in 3 years at Chesapeake; Chain were missing a World Games player and offensive stalwart Dylan Tunnell. Likewise, Clapham sent only a small number of their players, with some missing out because of U23 Worlds. But where were the others? Clapham will never succeed without total commitment from all of their team, so to see so many players missing in a non-GB year was a little surprising. Perhaps Clapham need to select players who can commit more if they want to make the breakthrough?
Clapham Ultimate at Chesapeake 2013. Photo courtesy of Kevin Leclaire Photography.
So the question is: are Clapham closing the gap? It is hard to answer; after all, this is not the first time that Clapham have made semi finals at a US tournament. The fact that everyone was treating semi finals as an amazing result – and not just an expected one – indicates that people believe the gap has increased since 2007. If this is true, then perhaps Clapham are closing the gap. The strength of their D line firmly suggests that they are. But the disparity between Clapham’s O line performances and that of their opponents shows that any gap is real, and vast.
Brummie
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17 Requested articles
18 Flagicon template has been changed
19 transwiki request
20 Blocked IP Addresses
21 French-Stubs
autoconfirmed users
Currently a user only needs to be here 4 days and he gets autoconfirmed. Does consensus support increasing this to 4 days/10 edits (requires a dev to change)? Griffinofwales (talk) 21:02, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
Yeah, it should be like English's in my opinion. --Bsadowski1(Talk/Changes)' 21:04, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
Agree, should be 4 days/10 edits. -Barras talk 21:08, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
I agree with 4 days and 5 edits. We are a small wiki. But, I will not object to 4/10. Jon@talk:~$ 21:52, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
I have no problem with leaving it as is, but I also have no problem upping it. We are just as at risk by a user with 10 edits as with one that has zero. The 4 days part of autoconfirmed is what protects us for the most part. -DJSasso (talk) 21:56, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
Sure, increase it. As we stand right now, we're very low compared with English and other widely-used Wikipedias Purplebackpack89 22:06, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
I guess it wouldn't hurt to increase it, but the only autoconfirmed vandal that I can remember is Adorno rocks (talk · contribs). πr2 (talk • changes) 22:24, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
Yes please.--Gordonrox24 | Talk 22:56, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
Let's do it. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 23:06, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
Sounds fine to me. Either 5 or 10 would work. PrincessofLlyr talk 02:41, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
I actually disagree some with DJ on the "just as at risk part" We're obviously at risk but we have had quite a few sleeper account issues where people came back to do move vandalism etc. The vast majority of those were 0 edit accounts, it is much less often someone does extra edits to get to that (they obviously do it but I think the change in risk is non neutral). Would prefer at least 10 (wouldn't actually whine about more but wouldn't push hard for it. James (T C) 03:25, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
Ten edits isn't really a hard requirement. 4 days and 10 edits seem reasonable. —Clementina talk 05:54, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
Oh I realize the risk isn't truly non-neutral, but I don't think its very far from neutral. Like I said its not a big deal for me either way. -DJSasso (talk) 14:44, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
I agree to bump it too. Bug filed. —I-20the highway 06:07, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
Bug shouldn't have been filed yet, discussion was only up less than a day. Generally we wait 7 days at least on major decisions since users edit at different times during the week and we want to get a broad consensus. -DJSasso (talk) 14:44, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
Yup, agree bug should not have been filed yet. Consensus looking likely, but not long enough to tell. - tholly --Talk-- 14:51, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
Agree with the change. The current lack of a minimum number of changes means that any SUL account (including vandals) can just visit the wiki and come back in 4 days to see himself autoconfirmed. Chenzw Talk 16:21, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
Sure, why not? -Avicennasis @ 16:27, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
Changed in Bugzilla to "RESOLVED LATER" and Xed it out for now. —I-20the highway 17:27, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
The reason why I filed so early: I was impatient and just a beginner on bugzilla, so don't press me hard. —I-20the highway 17:35, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
Pesonally, I think that "autoconfirmed" should involve both a timespan (currently:4 days), and a numbner of edits (currently: 10, I think). Simply having one without the other should not get an account "autoconfirmed". As to the number of edits, between 5 and 10,. which don't even have to be mainspace, we are probably splitting hairs here. --Eptalon (talk) 22:18, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
Current is zero edits. That is why he proposed this. -DJSasso (talk) 11:42, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
No objection to this change from me. –Juliancolton | Talk 12:44, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
Seems like a good idea; I would say go ahead. Pmlineditor ∞ 11:53, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
I reopened the bug since it has been more than seven days now. —I-20the highway
I know many people will strongly oppose this idea, but I've thought about this for a long time and I'm pretty sure it will be an immense help in the long run to Simple.
Currently, at our manual of style, it specifies that as we are an encyclopedia, we cannot address our readers as "you", or ourselves as "we". No doubt this is all very neat and professional, and very proper, and very dignified: but it is not simple. In truth, it's really hard to read. When I first came here and tried reading through our VGAs, I was a little surprised at how complex these Simple Wikipedia articles were. In almost all the children's books I have looked through, they address people as "you". And while I know this encyclopedia isn't just for children, a foreigner or a person who has difficulty with the English language would indeed probably prefer "you" for reading. It makes it simpler, easier, more entertaining and readable.
Please think this through carefully. :) Though certainly, this may make our encyclopedia a little less traditional, I'm sure it would make it simpler and easier—and isn't that the whole goal of this wiki? Kindly, —Clementina talk 07:50, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
One immediate concern that comes to mind is whether, strictly speaking, this is grammatically correct. This matters because one of our target audiences is non-native English speakers. If somebody was reading this who was used to a language where the second person "you" was not normally used outside of its intended context, they could end up being very confused. I do not know if this is necessarily the case with any specific languages, but it's something to consider.
Having said that, I got reverted on the Simple English Wiktionary once when I tried taking a sentence out of the second person, so my opinion may be in the minority.
Kansan (talk) 07:55, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
Well, it's not necessary to use "you" when it's grammatically incorrect—only in sentences when it could obviously made easier and better to read. For instance: "Swimming is good for humans. It is an exercise that makes people healthy." to "Swimming is good for you. It is an exercise that can make your body healthy." <--This is a pathetically feeble example, but you get the idea. :) Cordially, —Clementina talk 08:03, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
Or, "Swimming is a good exercise. It can make you body healthy." Simple, yet sill using the active voice.--The Three Headed Knight (talk) 14:24, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
To be honest I would think the first example you mentioned is simpler. Speaking to someone as you doesn't seem that simple to me. I can see how it can be considered to be more slang to say it that way, but generally we would want to avoid slang on simple as it can confuse ESL learners. -DJSasso (talk) 14:56, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
I'm against using "you" in our articles. Aside from it not being encyclopedic, is that we don't know who is going to read this. Would it be appropriate to say "George Bush was our 43rd president" or "In the winter, you should wear warm clothes"? We may have to make assumptions about our readers, and I don't think we should. It would be better to state facts and leave "you" out. EhJJTALK 19:29, 11 July 2010 (UTC) Sorry about the terrible examples; I'll post better ones if I think of them. EhJJTALK
By the way, "Swimming can make your body healthy" borders on violating Wikipedia:Medical disclaimer. EhJJTALK 19:30, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
Suppose People who do not smoke tobacco cut their risk of getting lung cancer by two thirds (Fictional example); saying By not smoking tobacco, you cut your risk of getting ling cancer by two thirds is probably wrong, because you can also get lung cancer because of many other things. In that case, as in many others it is probably better not to use you, because you makes assumptions about the reader. --Eptalon (talk) 21:53, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
This. Jon@talk:~$ 23:58, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
Indeed! I once treated a patient with extremely advanced COPD who had never even tried a single cigarette in his life. Yet he was dying from a condition that most people would claim only affects smokers. I don't have a problem with "you" in certain circumstances but it can create comprehension issues. fr33kman 04:29, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
Well, I support Clementina, where the context is appropriate. Since we are 1. on the web (~informal), and 2. mostly aimed at younger people, we should use straightforward sentence construction. Direct address leads to simpler sentences. Her comment about how children's books (and teachers, parents) address children is to the point.
Really, this is about 'encyclopedic' inhibiting language. No-one suggests 'you' should be used inappropriately, just that the guidelines be adjusted to permit its use where it is clearly better practice. Macdonald-ross (talk) 06:36, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
I am fine with the guidelines being altered to allow the use, where it makes sense and does not alter the intended meaning. fr33kman 06:40, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
Thanks, Macdonald-ross, for putting my exact thoughts into words much better than I could have possibly formed. :) I'm not saying we must always use "you", but it would certainly be much better to use them when addressing the reader directly could make the article easier and more entertaining to read. Just because we're using 'you' doesn't mean it can have more assumptions than simply saying 'people' or 'human body'. For instance, saying 'humans use legs for getting around' assumes that the reader has legs when he or she could have broken them and is using a wheelchair (oh, I know, this is a horrible example, I'll try to find a better if I can). :) And EhJJ: I know swimming probably isn't always good for your body, it's just a fictional example. ;) As in all things, 'you' should be used with common sense, and if used with discretion, I can't see any great problems arising from it. Sincerely, —Clementina talk 09:03, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
I'm sorry, but I still have to strongly oppose this idea. We are an encyclopedia. Encyclopedias are written in the third person because they are supposed to give neutral facts. As soon as you start putting in "you", you can start introducing additional bias. Also, we are not a guide or provide instructions. We can't say "we do not give medical advice" or "we are not lawyers", and do the exact opposite on our articles. To be honest, I'm quite afraid of how this would drastically damage our articles and our reputation. I wouldn't even be surprised (if this became common) that we'd have to be shut down. This is, of course, the community's decision, but I am very strongly opposed to us using the second person in articles. EhJJTALK 10:30, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
Also, the original claim is that not using "you" means we can not write simple. So far, I have not found that to be true. Can someone provide a real example (on one of our pages) of where using "you" would have made the article more simple? EhJJTALK 10:34, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
(change conflict) I will agree with EhJJ on this one. Encyclopedias are not written in first or second person, they just state the facts, just like a news report. Although the second person may be easier to engage the reader more, this changes the viewpoint of how we are meant to see an encyclopedia that it becomes more of a dialogue, a recommendation of what to do than a report of something that doesn't aim it directly at the reader. Making it 'you' would make the tone of the article more informal, like a how-to guide instead of a factual text. Some teachers already think Wikipedia is an unreliable source due to it being able to be freely edited; if we made the viewpoint used in the article second person it might lower our reputation more with biased statements. Nifky^ 10:47, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
Upon readin EhJJ's comments. I too have to strongly disagree. An encyclopedia is supposed to be neutral, the moment we start saying you, we are taking a position on something. This isn't how an encyclopedia is supposed to act. Even to take your swimming example above, telling people that swimming is good for you might not be correct for everyone. As such we should not be making such comments. -DJSasso (talk) 11:41, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
edit conflict Agreed with EhJJ and Nifky - oppose any change and the use of "you". Indeed, to give some real life examples, I'm friends with a lot of people IRL who have English as their second language, and I speak with them on an almost-daily basis. Speaking with them about this this morning, and going on experience, I don't believe that this change would be useful, and nor do they. Best to keep things as they already are without a doubt. Secondly, I'm also studying "Child language acquisition" as part of my A2 Level English Language, including independent research. From what I've found so far - and please note this is my own personal interpretation of the data - the use of "you" is really only of any help up until the age of 10ish; an age that the large majority of our audience is over. You also need to consider that our primary audience is not children, but rather "people learning English as a first or second language" - or something to that effect - and therefore we need to remain accessible to all of them, and not make changes for one group specifically. For these reasons, strong oppose the proposal above. Goblin 11:42, 12 July 2010 (UTC) I ♥ Chenzw!
The last contribution makes statements which are not known to be true, since we do not have statistics of our readership. Does not the opposition rest on a rather outdated idea of what an encyclopedia is? The whole of public communication (including the BBC and newspapers like the Times) has undergone a revolution in style and language over the last few decades. And they make great use of interviews and opinion columns, which we can not. The current Encyc Brit is completely transformed from its stuffy predecessors. None of this has to do with objectivity. It's a mistake to think that the passive voice is more objective than the active voice. Objectivity is acquired by the production of evidence and reasoning. My argument is, because we are on an informal medium, and addressing people of limited linguistic capability, the friendlier our style the better. Macdonald-ross (talk) 13:47, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
Let's get back to the facts: Can you provide an example where using you will provide a sentence structure/comprehension level that is better than using the passive, or using something like "people"? --Eptalon (talk) 19:25, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
"Once you own a cat, you are responsible for its welfare" vs "once a person owns a cat, that person is responsible for its welfare". Macdonald-ross (talk) 19:42, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
This sounds like an argument for when we should not use "you". I don't own a cat nor will I ever own one; telling me that I must take care of the cat that I will own doesn't make any sense. Better wording would be "When someone owns a cat, they are responsible for its welfare" (or even more simple: "When someone owns a cat, they must take care of it.") EhJJTALK 22:13, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
I agree with what EhJJ is trying to say here. I, would, however like to draw attention to this statement by Brett (Professor of English for Academic Purposes and TESL at Humber College in Ontario, Canada). In it he states a case for the use of second person. Obviously, there is a difference between a dictionary and an encyclopedia, but I agree with him that language students do tend to find the third person confusing. As I said ealier, they is probably times when second person makes sense here and times when only third person will do. fr33kman 11:15, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
I'm somewhat uncomfortable with being used as an authority, but that aside, the whole opposition to using you is based on willful ignorance or the fallacious view that words should have a single correct meaning. In this case, the argument is that you means the reader. In fact, you also means anyone; people in general. Look it up in your favourite dictionary. See more arguments here.--Brett (talk) 11:40, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
Apologies indeed for your discomfort. It was not with any intention of you being an authority that the link was offered, merely as a pointer to what someone else has said elsewhere. I suppose such is the very nature of projects like these in that our most innocent and offhanded of comments tend to be used elsewhere. However, thank you for your comments. My own view here has always been that "you" would mean the collective rather than the singular. fr33kman 15:07, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
Update to the flag template system
I would link to implement a small change to the Flagicon template, and its supporting template, Country flagicon2. The flag template system has the ability to define and call variants of country flags, such as historical or military versions. The current templates do not handle this function correctly. I have made updated versions of the templates that display the correct flag version. I have tested them out on several articles, and have found no problems.
Because this proposed change affect will several hundred articles, I would like some peer review, and to give advance warning if and when the change is implemented.
I have gone through all the calls to flagicon that I can find, and corrected and potential errors. The only think I cannot check is templates that call flagicon with a pass through a parameter.
The one most likely error that will result with this change will be a Flagicon call that used to work, but now produces a red-link. This will happen when a non-standard format of the country name is used, and a redirect template has not been created for the non-standard name. For example, the country Bahamas is often referred to as the Bahamas.
This is an example.
Flag Country data template error
Nonstandard country name
Old templates
New tamplates
the Czech Republic {{Flagicon|the Czech Republic}} gives {{Flagicon|the Czech Republic}} gives User:The Three Headed Knight/Flagicon
Czech Republic {{Flagicon|Czech Republic}} gives {{Flagicon|Czech Republic}} gives User:The Three Headed Knight/Flagicon
the Bahamas {{Flagicon|the Bahamas}} gives {{Flagicon|the Bahamas}} gives User:The Three Headed Knight/Flagicon
Supported because of frequent usage.
There a two choices to correct the error.
The preferred method is to edit the article, and correct the call to the {{Flagicon}} template.
This might not be obvious when other templates call Flagicon with a pass through parameter. Option 2 could be used in this case.
For common alternate names of countries, create a redirect template. Click the red-link, and create a redirect to the main Country data template. In this example, the redirect would be #REDIRECT [[Template:Country data Czech Republic]].
Note: There is only one known article calling the Czech Republic.
It will be corrected before the Flagicon template update.
In some of cases, special redirects or coding kludges have been used to display historical flag. For example: {{flagicon|the Soviet Union 1955}} creates File:Flag of the Soviet Union 1955.svg by default, because their is no matching template. Commons redirects that request to File:Flag of the Soviet Union (1955-1980).svg, the desired flag.
Test it yourself!
To test an article to see if it might produce an error, open the edit window, and replace all occurrences of Flagicon with :User:The Three Headed Knight/Flagicon. Preview the article, and look for any red-links to Country data ... templates.
The test versions of the templates and test articles are in my user namespace, and the table below will provide easy links to check them out.
Template source
{{Flagicon}} edit User:The Three Headed Knight/Flagicon edit
{{Country flagicon2}} edit User:The Three Headed Knight/Country flagicon2 edit
Template output
Template call with parameters
Proposed output
{{Flagicon | Poland}} User:The Three Headed Knight/Flagicon
{{Flagicon | Poland | naval}} User:The Three Headed Knight/Flagicon
{{Flagicon | Poland | 1815}} User:The Three Headed Knight/Flagicon
{{Flagicon | Poland | size=40px}} User:The Three Headed Knight/Flagicon
{{Flagicon | Poland | 1815 | size=40px}} User:The Three Headed Knight/Flagicon
Template testing
Simple Wikipedia page
Test page calling new flag template
Members of the United Nations edit User:The Three Headed Knight/Flag/Members of the United Nations edit
American Revolutionary War edit User:The Three Headed Knight/Flag/American Revolutionary War edit
The Open Championship edit User:The Three Headed Knight/Flag/The Open Championship edit
Giro d'Italia edit User:The Three Headed Knight/Flag/Giro d'Italia edit
1908 Summer Olympics edit User:The Three Headed Knight/Flag/1908 Summer Olympics edit
List of national rulers edit User:The Three Headed Knight/Flag/List of national rulers edit
List of the main local rulers edit User:The Three Headed Knight/Flag/List of the main local rulers edit
(I will be offline for a couple of hours, and I am staying off IRC until my cloak comes through, which will not be until after Wikimania.) --The Three Headed Knight (talk) 15:29, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
OK with me, knowing how the wiki is, allow 5 days from now for the community to chime in, and then implement it. If someone wishes to shorten it because of an agreement, they may. Griffinofwales (talk) 01:40, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
Hello, Sorry don't mean my first edit here to be a complaint (I promise it won't be a habit ^_^) but can someone tell me the purpose of the Community Portal? The name suggests its a focal point on how to get involved... like a forum (not in the online sense of the word) or a place to know whats going on... but right now its just like a very underused FAQ section. I propose we develop it with:
A mission statement
Useful pages such as simple talk, news pages, featured content etc.
A display of what simple. does best
And so on... I've not been here long so I'm not wanting to jump in and change without a little discussion. Thoughts? Hoots (talk) 12:29, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
Sorry don't think I've explained it very well. I think right now its a sort of "Start here" page which is forgotten about. I think for it to be called the community portal it should be more of a "We're all in here, come join us" sort of thing... Know what I mean? Hoots (talk) 12:34, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for pointing this out to us, Hoots (nice name, by the way). :) I must admit, when I first came to Simple I was rather disappointed with the community forum (it's never been much of a help to me). It really should be improved, as it is highly viewed (but not used) by newcomers... —Clementina talk 12:37, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
(change conflict) Firstly, welcome again. :) The community portal was of limited help to me when I was new- as a repository of useful links. I agree that it has the potential to be much more. I think that a bit of a "tour guide" to simple would be an interesting way to structure it.
"And this here is Simple Talk. It's where the community gathers to talk about lots of things, except things that only apply to admins, which will be at AN, coming up next on your right. Oh, and article talk pages of course, but they're much lower traffic. Hey, here's a tip. Put ST on your watchlist. Yes, you have a watchlist- if you've bought the registered user package you will find it in your top-right corner. If you haven't, you can upgrade absolutely free!"
Not quite like that, naturally, but I think that demonstrates the general concept I'm getting at- that of taking a tour around different parts of simple, bringing the "article building" and "community" aspects together into a whole, while introducing features (like watchlists) that will be useful to learn. sonia♫♪ 12:49, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
The reason its called Community Portal is because thats the default name for that page in the media wiki software and its never been changed. The way I understand the purpose of the page is to point out the important locations in the community. And to explain the things you need to know to edit here. It could probably be expanded a bit, but I think it does serve its purpose. In web lingo a portal is a list of links that are important to a subject. Its a gateway into the subject basically. Which is different from a forum, which is what Simple Talk is. -DJSasso (talk) 13:28, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
I'm glad (so far) we all agree that it doesn't live up to its name, or it should be expanded. I thought I'd have more time recently than I did but I will have a go at adapting it in my personal space, and if we all like it we can implement it or further discussions and changes can be made so that it fits simple's purpose. Regards Hoots (talk) 09:53, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
There are already changes to the page... if you have some ideas, go ahead and edit them in, if someone does not like it they will remove it and discuss. But, I think this is an area where bold (fresh new editing) could have major benefits, and we can make quick work of this! Best, Jon@talk:~$ 12:17, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
Here is a few ip's who are evading a sock block over an en.wiki. And I suspect the person may start editing here. I think I added one by accident. If any passing admin can verify them then.....
Special:Contributions/222.107.34.53
Special:Contributions/173.79.125.141
Special:Contributions/68.55.42.142
Special:Contributions/93.185.109.191
Special:Contributions/113.212.97.156
Special:Contributions/86.111.64.45
Special:Contributions/217.160.221.7
Special:Contributions/79.136.50.205
wiooiw (talk) 02:09, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
I can safely say that User:173.79.125.141 is not a proxy, as none is detected, and it is a dynamic IP, so blocking it would only hurt others as the IP will change hands often.--Gordonrox24 | Talk 02:36, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
All of them are now blocked except the third one. Griffinofwales (talk) 02:47, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
WP:CHILD
WP:CHILD was written yesterday as a guideline, and today was changed to an essay pending discussion here. I would like to take the initiative to propose it to be a formal guideline. I believe it is important, well written, and has been looked over/tweaked by a number of editors, including several administrators. Kansan (talk) 22:17, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
Agree, looks good. Griffinofwales (talk) 22:20, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
Aye. Definitely. sonia♫♪ 22:29, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
Certainly. —Clementina talk 22:40, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
(<-) I think we need to be more general here; forbidding giving info that can be used to identify or find someone. Children are just one special target group which are esp. vulnerable. --Eptalon (talk) 22:44, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
While that is true, a policy specifically aimed at children is especially important given the existence of specific legal statutes regarding minors' sharing of personal information online in some countries, including the United States. Because we may be obliged to hide information in some cases simply because the person sharing it claims to be a minor, we must have a page that explains why this might happen. Kansan (talk) 22:46, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
As as aside, perhaps it needs to be more clear in the policy what exactly defines a child. Are we in agreement that it is the state of being a minor? sonia♫♪ 22:50, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
Anyone below the their local age of majority, certainly. -Avicennasis @ 23:32, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
I live in NZ, so if I were 19 I would be a minor. On the other hand, I could be as young as 15 and not be a child by this definition, if I lived in Iran. Is there no better way to define it? sonia♫♪ 03:13, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
Age of majority in a person's home country is when they legally become an adult in the laws eyes (AFAIK). I can't think of a better definition, but am open to suggestions. :) -Avicennasis @ 09:48, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
People often misunderstand the US's laws regarding that. Children can share any personal information they want online. It is only illegal for a website to ask for that information. -DJSasso (talk) 22:52, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
Actually COPPA doesn't even apply here. It only concerns commercial websites or not-for-profit websites run for the commercial benefit of its users. fr33kman 03:28, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
(<-) For those not aware, please go and search the archives for "Kimberly Ashton". --Eptalon (talk) 22:55, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
While this is true (I believe that the Wikimedia Foundation is presently in full compliance with COPPA), I bring it up not so much to try to bring us into specific compliance so much as to point out that the gravity of children sharing information is different from adults, and to that end, I feel that we should have such a page to point people to who claim to be minors. A few weeks ago, there was a case where somebody came on sharing lots of personal information. They were asked not to (without being pointed to any policy), but persisted, and one oversighter ended up having to spent a long time oversighting loads of pages. With such a page, such incidents will be less a headache. Kansan (talk) 22:59, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
COPPA doesn't apply to WMF. fr33kman 03:28, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
I believe it does, actually, although since WMF doesn't collect personal info anyways the point is moot. :) -Avicennasis @ 09:48, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
Read it "The Act applies to websites and online services operated for commercial purposes that are either directed to children under 13 or have actual knowledge that children under 13 are providing information online. Most recognized non-profit organizations are exempt from most of the requirements of COPPA." fr33kman 16:00, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
Ah. I had thought it applied to all websites with a US base - I stand corrected. Learning something new everyday - that's why I love it here. :) -Avicennasis @ 18:39, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
In any event, I don't think we need a specific legal basis to try to do the right thing, and I firmly believe that having this page as a formal guideline is the right thing. Kansan (talk) 23:00, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
Hmmm... if that's the case, shouldn't we also implement en:WP:PED, just to make sure? :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 01:03, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
Perhaps, but that would lie outside of the scope of this current discussion. This is strictly about whether to move WP:CHILD from an essay to a guideline. Kansan (talk) 03:09, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
It is outside the scope of this current discussion. fr33kman 03:28, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
So are we in agreement that this is now a guideline? fr33kman 03:30, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
5 hours in? No need to rush :) Griffinofwales (talk) 03:30, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
The principle is good, but two items need thought. First, age. Personally, I would say a child is under 12, at primary school. Age of legal majority is 18 in UK, but no-one thinks of a 17-year old as a child. We have admins under that age! (:
Second, if a young person wishes to tell us they are a child, or even how old they are, that can be helpful to us in understanding their edits. Just as knowing which contribs are not English native speakers is helpful. It's the extra personal info which might lead to trouble. Macdonald-ross (talk) 05:39, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
I work with children, and I think 18 is a good definition. People below this age do not make sensible and considered decisions at times. I have no problem with a user saying they are 14 or whatever, but if they include their birth date, then that needs to be removed as soon as possible. The Simple English Wikipedia does not need to help others with identity theft. In fact, personal identifying info has no place at all. --Peterdownunder (talk) 06:00, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
Absolutely agree with no exact birth date. Macdonald-ross (talk) 06:27, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
No exact birth date is definitely wise. I agree with Macdonald-ross that it would be easier to understand a user's edits if we know him/her is a child (though it can be a rather uncomfortable situation when a user claims to be a child and is not one), but that's the user's own choice. I agree with Peterdownunder's definition of 18 (14 or 15 is too low). —Clementina talk 09:24, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
Perhaps, it we don't have a local WP:OUTTING, someone could adapt it from en:WP:OUTING? Seems at least a little relevant to the discussion here. :) -Avicennasis @ 09:48, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
A very good idea, and I might attempt it. About birth date- what about that userbox that I've seen around that says exactly how old a user is? As that is essentially the same thing, should it also be disallowed? It is the sixteen and under age bracket that I feel are most prone to rash decisions, but as there is so much deviation in maturity levels, I think it's really a matter of case-by-case evaluation below that barrier of 18. An older teen who is uploading his birth certificate should trigger the same amount of concern as a preteen who gives their email in plaintext, but a teenage regular contributor who is aware of the risks and chooses to use their full name and birthday should not be blocked for it (even though it is not a smart thing to do). sonia♫♪ 10:07, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
If a kid say "My name is Mark Peters, I go to school in Beaverton, Ontario and I'm 12." they have given enough information to find them: probably their address, but certainly their school. If another kid puts "Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm aged 14." and then puts "Today is my birthday!! Yayz!" a few months later, they have given their exact date of birth. A person can work out that they are now 15, and knows the date so birthdate s complete. A few more innocent pieces of information and she's located. There are even adults on here that I have noticed over time have given out enough information to actually find them. I once illustrated this to a user who no longer is an editor here. Within minutes I was able to piece together enough information to tell him his address, phone number and even what school his mum graduated from. He was stunned! Now in his case, some of the information came from other websites he was on, but with the same name as here. His last name, the online phonebook, another Google search and it was all over. That was just me, imagine what a bad person who trawls the Internet for such information all the time could do. Kids should provide very little information! First name, age, country or state/province/county and not a whole lot more would be acceptable. fr33kman 16:45, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
Agreed. But what do we do if User:Mary creates an article on Lakeside Primary? What if she puts it in an "Articles I created" section on her userpage? And how will this guideline impact existing contributors? sonia♫♪ 17:16, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
Nothing! Mary@Lakeside is not enough. Maybe she doesn't even go there. It takes more information. If a person decides that the child in question has given out enough information for a person to use in finding her, then the information should probably be removed and hidden. fr33kman 11:23, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
Seems fine to me. Since a large portion of our editors are relatively young, this is a necessary guideline to have around. At the same time, we should discourage everyone from posting personal information about themselves. –Juliancolton | Talk 13:52, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
Now a guideline. If any details need to be hashed out, then that can be done. Remember that this is only a guideline, so it doesn't need to be perfect. Griffinofwales (talk) 04:50, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
Update to the flag template system, part 2
Sometimes, trying to be thorough, I go overboard and give too much information.
I would link to implement a small change to the Flagicon template. See above for detail. The change will enable the template to call variants of country flags, such as historical or military versions.
Examples of current and new template output
To test an article to see if it might produce an error, open the edit window, and replace all occurrences of Flagicon with :User:The Three Headed Knight/Flagicon. Preview the article, and look for any red-links to Template:Country data ...
Let me know of any concerns or problems.--The Three Headed Knight (talk) 00:25, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
Is this just en's version? If it is, then I'm fine with it. Griffinofwales (talk) 00:27, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
Well... yes.--The Three Headed Knight (talk) 00:42, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
WP:Disambiguation
It's come to my attention that WP:Disambiguation has yet to be tagged as a guideline or policy. More to the point, it hasn't had any love in years. I propose a thorough study to clean it up, clear it up, and tag it as official. Purplebackpack89 04:57, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
First, let's userfy the enWiki version, and then fix it later. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 05:42, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
That's a terrible approach. You don't userfy a page that already exists. You just expand the existing page. Purplebackpack89 14:32, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
Not really - import the enWiki version of WP:DAB into userspace, simplify it there and then move it in place. Suggest you also have a re-read of WP:CIVIL per this thread and the Lincoln one below. Goblin 14:34, 17 July 2010 (UTC) I ♥ Microchip08!
What do you mean "terrible"? I have userfied this page so that it could be incorporated into this page; that's what userfying is for, so you don't make clumsy edits to article space and restrict yourself to your userspace. Make sure you read en:WP:userfy really, really carefully and then use it to your advantage. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 16:06, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
Lincoln RM
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Resolved. Not done
Lincoln --> Lincoln (disambiguation); Lincoln becomes redirect to Abe. There was discussion of this a few months back; it ended clouded by accusations of POV pushing and trolling. However, it is clear that naming conventions, here or on EN, support Lincoln being a redirect to Abraham. Many other high-profile figures' last names, such as Churchill, redirect to the most famous person with that name (Winston Churchill). Primary topic is supposed to be established by Google Scholar hits or article traffic. Abraham is way ahead in both June article traffic (548 versus 40 and 38 for other common titles containing Lincoln) and Google Scholar hits. In addition, Lincoln is a Meta 1000 article; another indication that it's the PT. The only reason Lincoln isn't a redirect to Abraham Lincoln is a "camel-like compromise" to statisfy several hardcore Lincolnites who used reasons other than naming conventions or statistics in their arguments. So let's make this happen Purplebackpack89 04:57, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
Calm down. Just because en.WP does something, doesn't mean that we have to do it too. I don't know when or where the previous discussion was held (A link is always nice) but if there was one and a consensus was formed then we should form another one before acting further. For this reason I've also reverted Eptalon's changes, as there's no consensus to change a previously formed consensus... if that makes sense... Goblin 11:25, 17 July 2010 (UTC) I ♥ Fr33kman!
I'm in favor of differing from EN-Wiki Purplebackpack89 15:04, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
I hate to bring this up, but about 15 mins ago, before I started my changes, Lincoln was a disambiguation page, as follows:
Four people named Lincoln, the US president, his wife, an US senator, and a Jamaican musician.
28 "places" with Lincoln in their name, one of them an inn; the rest towns or cities; roughly two thirds of these are red-links
A red-link to the automobile producer, which is now part of Ford
I also added a x-ref header at the top of the article on the US president, but this change was reverted.
Talk:Lincoln has some of the history of which I was unaware.
I was unaware of this, but still want to point out the following:
IMO, there should be an x-ref header at the top of the article about the president, as well as about the town in England.
Someone seeing a page which essentially consists of red-links is extremely bad publicity for us.
I would assume, that the three most popular "targets" for Lincoln are the US president, the town in the UK, and the Motor company. With this perspective, "Lincoln" should be a redirect to one of the three (which all have an x-ref at the top, mentioning the disambiguation page). The other would be to fix the disambiguation page so that it does not contain red-links. No matter what, most people should be able to find what they look for, with no more than two clicks.
Open to discussion. --Eptalon (talk) 11:48, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
I agree with Ep that Lincoln should redirect to one of the popular pages, specifically Abe because it has more hits and more Scholarship. The reason I didn't mention the names of the pages is because there have been a few editors who dig in their heels on one page, one that is not the most hit. We shouldn't decide this on stubborn opinion, why decide this on statistics/naming conventions; those clearly say Abe. Purplebackpack89 15:04, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
Just a thought. If a large part of our audience are people learning English, should redirects ever default to the "popular page"? --The Three Headed Knight (talk) 16:01, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
I could turn that on its head and say that the popular page may be the only one a basic English speaker would have heard of Purplebackpack89 17:36, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
So where would you redirect Hoover to? (Evil grin) --Eptalon (talk) 18:02, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
Hoover's like Washington, 'cuz you have multiple options...you've got the President, the dam, the vacuum cleaner, the FBI guy, and more! None of them have more than 50 hits. If you were thinking J. Edgar Hoover, you can see why not Purplebackpack89 19:02, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
(<-) IMO a redirect should go to the most likely term. In other words: If it does not go to where the user wanted, he should get there within two clicks, at most. This means that at the top of pages we list the two most common other meanings, and the redirect page. --Eptalon (talk) 17:23, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
I agree with Eptalon. That's the way I've always found easiest to find a page. Even though I'm not a native English speaker, "Lincoln" would make me immediately think of Abraham Lincoln. —Clementina talk 23:27, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
I really want to leave it as is with Lincoln as the disambiguation page. Our readers are not just from America, nor are they just from the UK. I think it would be in the best interest of our readers to leave it as a disambiguation page where they can read and decide where they want to go. Honestly, the word disambiguation is not simple. If we make this move, somebody who is looking for Lincoln, Lincolnshire gets taken to Abe Lincoln and then gets told to go to Lincoln (disambiguation) for the article they are looking for. Well I'm not looking for Lincoln (disambiguation), I'm looking for Lincoln, Lincolnshire. I think that would be terribly confusing, especially for this topic which has so many uses. This is of course is just one of the reasons I would like this to stay put, and I can add more if people wish. I also just want to point out that Abe Lincoln is always referred to as honest Abe. I've yet to see Honest Lincoln. Honestly, If somebody is going to be looking for Abe Lincoln, the will probably not just use Lincoln, they will type in his full name. Because of this, leaving Lincoln as the DAB would be best for our readers. --Gordonrox24 | Talk 04:08, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
By the same logic, you refer to Winston Churchill as "Sir Winston", not "Sir Churchill", yet Churchill sends you to Sir Winston Purplebackpack89 15:32, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Do we have other pages related to the title Churchill? If so, make Churchill a DAB.--Gordonrox24 | Talk 15:35, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Why? Winston is the primary topic for Churchill, and Abe is the primary topic for Lincoln Purplebackpack89 15:49, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Unfortunately I and others feel that Abe is not the primary topic for Lincoln.--Gordonrox24 | Talk 15:52, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
To me, it's blatently clear that Abe is, just like Churchill and Shakespeare, and even Ronald Reagan Purplebackpack89 16:09, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
But I didn't even know what disambiguation was myself at first...I just clicked the link and figured out what it was. :P Wouldn't our readers do the same? —Clementina talk 06:50, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
They may figure it out eventually, but when I put myself in the shoes of a person just learning English, I think I would take everything very literally and would probably not click on the disambiguation link because that isn't the title I'm looking for.--Gordonrox24 | Talk 14:15, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Note the hatnote proposal including a direct link to Lincolnshire. Purplebackpack89 15:14, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
That's a fine and dandy approach if you are looking for Lincolnshire, but we need to remember that Abe and Lincolnshire aren't the only two topics we are dealing with here. We can't assume that our readers only want info on two of the topics relating to Lincoln.--Gordonrox24 | Talk 15:21, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Well, since almost every other article except Abe, Lincolnshire, and Lincoln, NE is a redlink or a stub... Purplebackpack89 15:32, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
I believe we should leave it as a disambiguation page. If he was only known as Lincoln then I might be in favour of it going directly to him. But he isn't only ever known by his last name. Dab pages are generally preferable in cases where its not clearly obvious that an article is the primary target. Some of these locations for example are major cities, which to a large chunk of people would be what Lincoln means to them before Abe. -DJSasso (talk) 15:00, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Cities, yes. Major cities, eh, not so much. Neither is anywhere near the top of the largest cities in their countries. And if it was a "large chunk", the cities would have more than the 10% of the hits that Abe does. Purplebackpack89 15:11, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Comment: I don't like the use of "not everybody's in the UK...not everybody's in the US", because it makes them seem like they're equal. They're not. 5x as many people live in the US as the UK. Purplebackpack89 15:49, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
And now take the POV of someone from a country where English is not the first language; like Liberia, Pakistan or India. If such a Pakistani searches for "Lincoln" (or "Hoover"), what is it they will most likely be looking for? - If we indeed decide to redirect to the most likely term, that's where we should probably redirect to. Other option, make it a redirect page. Have everyone get to where they want, with a click. --Eptalon (talk) 16:46, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
To say that the perspective of people from one country is more important than another simply because of the population of that country is against everything that Wikipedia's principle of NPOV stands for, and is a very arbitrary method of coming up with what's important. Kansan (talk) 17:46, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Not according to Systemic bias. Systemic bias pretty much states that you should avoid policy being dictated by the smaller party, even if the larger party is underrepresented Purplebackpack89 19:19, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
If you read that page closely, it actually says that there is a disproportionate coverage of subjects from countries such as the United States because more users from these countries have access to the Internet. Kansan (talk) 19:22, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
What is this? That could be misconstrued as POV-pushing. Just because the US is a larger nation, that makes it better than the UK? The British are a lesser race? We're not talking about parties here. We're talking about entire nations of people who may or may not be racially different. May I remind you that the quote you gave out was from the English Wikipedia, and may or may not apply to the Simple English Wikipedia? I think you should have a reread of WP:What Wikipedia is not#What Simple English Wikipedia is not numbers 1 and 2 and a quote from WP:Simple English Wikipedia:
Articles in the Simple English Wikipedia use fewer words and easier grammar than the ordinary English Wikipedia. The Simple English Wikipedia is also for people with different needs, such as students, children, adults with learning difficulties and people who are trying to learn English. Other people use the Simple English Wikipedia because simple language helps them to understand unfamiliar topics or complex ideas. This makes Simple English articles a good way to understand difficult articles from the ordinary English Wikipedia. If someone cannot understand an idea in complex English, they can read the Simple English article. For this reason, people writing Simple English articles should put in "interwiki links" to and from the other Wikipedias. Also, it is good to always look at all versions in all languages, to get new ideas. Anyone can write in the Simple English Wikipedia, including high school students, people with learning disabilities, and people who are learning English. Simple English writers are very mixed, more so than at English Wikipedia, or at other Wikipedias. It is important to respect the different types of people who are writing articles in the Simple English Wikipedia, and to be friendly with people who are different. Remember that Wikipedia is a service which many communities use.
I hope you will forgive my incredulousness, but this appears as if Purplebackpack's comment was entirely non-neutral. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 00:47, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
Wow, Tele, you should get a job working as a smear man in American politics. Because you just took me way out of context, and brought up something that has little to do with this thread. However, if you mention it, if the Brits were so good, why didn't they win the wars without us? Purplebackpack89 06:54, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
That is even more irrelevant, and could be taken as an attack. Please don't. sonia♫♪ 07:13, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
(change conflict) Your recent edit to my talkpage is a violation of en:WP:LEGAL, and furthermore implies that admins have more benefits and privileges and are more exempt from punishment than autoconfirmed users, which again is not entirely true (because some users choose not to go for adminship). I'm not implying anything; I'm simply stating what I think you are implying. But enough complaints from me. Using the quotes above, I would like to remind you that we are not enWiki and thus do not subscribe to a wholly American viewpoint; we also represent those who are learning English as a foreign language. Therefore, they might not understand the importance of Abe Lincoln or (insert historical figure here), and thus are better off having a Lincoln (disambiguation). There is a Lincolnshire, after all. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 07:29, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
That ain't a legal threat, Tele. Full stop Purplebackpack89 15:11, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
(change conflict) Your recent edit to my talkpage: "If you had done that to one of our mops, they might have blocked you" is a threat, however legal it may be, and has violated clauses such as en:WP:Harassment#Threats, WP:AGF, WP:Civility, and WP:NPA. It's not a user warning; it's a threat. If you continue to pursue this course of action against me, I will have to report you to AN. I have a certain level of toleration for "warnings" on my talkpage; these do not include threats. Where did I commit a personal attack against you? I merely noted the POV and non-neutral nature of your comment, and explained it to you from the viewpoint of someone else who could have misconstrued your opinions, as stated in the second sentence in my post above, in order to help you make better comments in the future. And finally, this last comment of yours demonstrates a hypocrisy for your accusation of irrelevancy. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 15:24, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
I advise you to just stop right now, Purple. It's pointless to start a debate. SimonKSK 15:20, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
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Changes Proposed
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Ownership_of_articles#Cleaning_Up_Policy
Here are changes proposed to the policy on wp:own. Please show your support199.126.224.156 (talk) 00:11, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
Citeweb
Recently, I changed one of the bare url links in an article to the {{citeweb}} template, and another administrator undid my change, kindly telling me that citeweb templates are only used in references. This made me a little puzzled: I know the English Wikipedia doesn't citeweb their "other websites", but I've also seen many users advocate citeweb templates for the "other websites" section in WP:PVGA and WP:PGA processes. For example, City of Manchester Stadium and Hurricane Vince (2005), both Very Good Articles, citeweb their "other websites" section. Could someone be so good as to tell me if there's a community consensus for this? :) Thank you, —Clementina talk 09:28, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
Barras has just told me then he does {{citeweb}}ing for (V)GAs. As for myself I don't really follow this procedure and am happy for any comment. Nifky^ 09:31, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
Proposal To Move wp:ownership of articles To wp:page ownership
There is a proposal to move the page.199.126.224.156 (talk) 07:03, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Courtesy link. -- Lauryn Ashby (talk) 08:09, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
What about a redirect? --Eptalon (talk) 11:02, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Could redirect to it, but don't see a point in moving it. Since the page is pretty clearly about articles. -DJSasso (talk) 14:56, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Here's the argument for moving:
"Well it isn't. This is a policy, and people will say that this does not apply to templates, categories, etc. because of its scope. Being a policy, it should state what we practice; and with the limit in-scope, it gives people the argument that templates are not privy to this policy. Policy is about making it clear. And if this page is about ownership, then it is about about ALL pages concerned. Is it true that you can own templates? Well if not, then do we have a policy of when we can own templates? If not, they just make sections on this page that can SPELL out, figuratively speaking, the noright to own". 199.126.224.156 (talk) 21:35, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Seems to me like this is a case of you (in the general sense) having failed to move it on en, so you are trying to push your idea here. We don't really have any problems remotely with this issue to begin with, never mind wiki lawyering over the title. -DJSasso (talk) 10:35, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
What?199.126.224.156 (talk) 00:07, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
Often, it is good to have a review of what led to a situation such as we have had over the Lincoln debacle (or Lincolngate): a remarkably silly thing to get so worked up over. I think that the real tragedy here was that the situation need never have occurred. The wiki basically saw this fiasco happen but with few exceptions little was done to have sessioned editors intervene earlier on and prevent what has occurred. We've got 1 person warned, 2 people blocked and a desysopping that's still ongoing. Steps could have been taken by neutral and respected people (not just admins). A firm set of warnings (not templates), with a zero tolerance attitude to violations of the rules, esp CIVIL and POV. There is a penchant for the odd drama here, and because we all see each others live activities, it tends to take a big project-wide splash than it would on a much larger project: generally. Anyone who has been here a while and is considered in good standing and respected by the community can informally mediate a dispute. Just focus on the facts, the rules (including IAR), and nip violations of NPOV and CIVIL in the bud early. Read this page on enwiki; the spirit of it, is sorely needed here on simplewiki. So, when we see discussion that is going wildly down the wrong path, let's step in sooner from now on please. Thanks for reading, ... fr33kman 10:45, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
Intervention occurred in February and now. You also "banned" them from talking to each other earlier on. Exactly what more could have been done? We don't expect admins to go crazy, so this situation is not usually something that one needs to prepare for. Griffinofwales (talk) 12:45, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
I think he means comment in the conversation that was ongoing on his talk page while it was happening, as opposed to waiting untill it got to the AN board. -DJSasso (talk) 13:00, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
Last comment from me for a while: IIRC, he told the admins to let him handle the situation, and stay out of it. Other admins could have become involved but did not because of this (relying on my memory, I have logs). Not sure what fr33k wanted us to do. Griffinofwales (talk) 13:05, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
I dunno. I wasn't around when this went down. That was just my interpretation of this message. -DJSasso (talk) 13:06, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
I am not aware of ever telling or asking anyone to "leave them to me". So I feel that's unfair, especially since it's only "IIRC" :/ fr33kman 15:39, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
Perhaps he means the other admin? :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 18:07, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
<-Checked my logs: At 1702, fr33k said that he "was working on it" At 1713, fr33k told admins to "leave it to me". Goblin was an uninvolved (at the time) administrator, and since we are supposed to trust admins, I left it to him. When the situation began to escalate (about 1700), fr33k took over. Looking over the events, there was no reason for another admin to intercede prior to 1700 and it never happened. As I've said elsewhere, Goblin shouldn't be an admin, and this is the type of thing that happens when you put users like this in situations like this. Both PBP and Goblin had issues, but in the end, the admin should be de-escalating, not escalating. When Goblin didn't do so, appropriate action by fr33k was taken. I see nothing more that could have been done. It is unfortunate that it would turn out this way, but I never expect this to happen again. Griffinofwales (talk) 22:20, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
"Goblin shouldnt be an admin". "users like this". I have no comment on the rest of your comment or this thread but that comment in these circumstances seems to be callous. Especially as he cannot reply here. Hoots (talk) 08:49, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
Hoots, for a editor with such a low contribution count, you are very intertwined into project space... do/did you edit under another name? Jon@talk:~$ 11:17, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
I enjoy editing behind the scenes more than the actual mainspace. I know how wp works. I do not edit under another name. Could we perhaps take this to my talk page though as this is not the purpose of this thread? Hoots (talk) 11:24, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
I won't engage it again, I just was curious if we knew you or not... incidentally, there is nothing really "behind the scenes" about very public and heat driven events such as this one. Jon@talk:~$ 12:27, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
Hello. Is there a page import (from en.) feature on simple? Or do I have to be given it? Hoots (talk) 19:12, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
Import is given out by 'crats.<ref>Special:ListGroupRights</ref> πr2 (talk • changes) 19:15, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
Ah thanks. I knew it would be somewhere like that. Instead of creating a new thread could I just make this a request. I know I'm a little short of the criteria though. Hoots (talk) 19:26, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
Welcome back. Jon@talk:~$ 19:46, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
Pardon me? Hoots (talk) 19:48, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
Stub wanted
Can someone import the enWP dance stub, please? It's {{dance-stub}}. Macdonald-ross (talk) 19:27, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
See WP:SSP please and get it approved. -Barras talk 19:31, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
How can I change my username? PolymathSJ Talk 20:48, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
Try moving your page to a different name and turning your previous name into a redirect. Also, see WP:Username#How to change your name. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 20:50, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
Oh, and don't forget to tell everyone on your new userpage that you had a previous alt account. That way, it could be considered legit. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 20:51, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
How can I get a bureaucrat to do it with Special:RenameUser? PolymathSJ Talk 20:56, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
Post a request on WP:CHU. πr2 (talk • changes) 20:57, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
Probably Djsasso might do it. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 21:00, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
Thanks.I found it. PolymathSJ Talk 21:05, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
anyone know how i get there? i want to request some stuff... thank you. --Ninny (talk) 22:07, 20 July 2010 (UTC) i think i found it it was right there in my face sorry. --Ninny (talk) 22:08, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
Flagicon template has been changed
The changees to the flag templates Template:Flagicon and Template:Country flagicon2 have been made. You many now specify a flag variant when displaying a flag. For example:
Template call
Output displayed
{{Flagicon|Poland}}
{{Flagicon|Poland|naval}}
{{Flagicon|Canada}}
{{Flagicon|Canada|1957}}
To find what variants are available, check out the file Template:Country data name, where name is the country name. The section Flag variants will list all variants available.
Please let me know of any problems or errors. Thanks--The Three Headed Knight (talk) 16:24, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
Update: The Navy template is now working. To display the naval ensign with a link to the countries navy (if there is one coded in the country data file, enter {{Navy|Poland}} to display Polish Navy. Also, there is a help page for the flag templates, located at Wikipedia:Flag help.--The Three Headed Knight (talk) 20:02, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
transwiki request
Would an admin transwiki en:Bread roll? I can help simplify the article. —I-20the highway 00:39, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Done -- Lauryn Ashby (talk) 01:25, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Thank you. I have simplified the article a good bit. —I-20the highway 01:48, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
This is probably more appropriate on WP:AN. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 04:05, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
Blocked IP Addresses
Hello. I was wondering, are IP addresses ever unblocked? Most sysops set most IP Address blocks at "indefinite". Account creation is also blocked.
Sometimes, one IP spans a wide area, and when is blocked, may affects many users.
Many people sometimes live in a house, and if the IP address is blocked, the other members of the household may suffer as a result.
Sometimes, a block may last generations.
Sometimes, an IP is used for simple edits, like fixing grammar or spelling, and if blocked, the error may remain unnoticed.
Can't IP address be banned for a limited time, and be given a second chance? I'm sure many users who were banned would like the opportunity for a change (if it was their fault) or to edit to Wikipedia (if it hasn't been done before). It may invite vandals, but it may also invite IP users to create accounts and/or make useful edits to Wikipedia. Can something be done? Hazard-SJ Talk 22:16, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Another problem I've noticed is that mops don't sync user blocks and IP blocks properly Purplebackpack89 22:17, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Care to expand on that PBP? fr33kman 23:25, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Users and IPs are different; just because someone on an IP is a user doesn't mean that everyone on that IP is utilizing the same username. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 04:05, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
But if an IP is autoblocked, a user using that IP can't edit, even if the user is unblocked, unless the user has IP block exemptions. A more detailed response on Fr33k's talk page Purplebackpack89 04:30, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
Usually IP vandals are only given a block for a few days. The only time we really block IP's for a long period of time is open proxies. They are usually blocked for 1 year or 3 years, and have been indefinitely blocked. IP's can request unblock the same as normal users.--Gordonrox24 | Talk 22:23, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Sometimes normal users aren't allowed to edit their talk page when blocked. Hazard-SJ Talk 22:28, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
There is still always the option to e-mail the admin mailing list.--Gordonrox24 | Talk 22:37, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
If someone is blocked indef, that means that they are either disruptive or open proxies. But they could have the potential to return if they repented within six months or so, or come clean under a different name. Most of the time, they're not blocked indef though. But if they were, they could make appeals for unblock requests. If they abuse those unblock requests and use them mainly for trolling and attacking other editors, they lose TP (talkpage) access completely, like Bluegoblin7 did. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 04:05, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
Basically, most IP addresses that are banned for a long time or indef, are open proxies. A few are long term static IPs of known vandals. Ranges get blocked on the rare occasion for a long time because long-term evidence shows only vandals editing from there. Many of the blocks that happen occur via evidence that is not available to most users here. Rest assured that the reasons are always good. In fact we do, from time-to-time, manually go through old IP blocks and reassess the need for them and clear them if they should be cleared. Some of these were made by admins who left the project years ago. fr33kman 23:25, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
French-Stubs
Isn't this a Simple English Wikipedia? If so, why are there so many french-stubs lying around? Hazard-SJ Talk 22:31, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
What's your point? Griffinofwales (talk) 22:31, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Because Yotbot created them. πr2 (talk • changes) 22:36, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
I don't really have a point, but I am wondering it the french-stubs outnumber the articles related to English. Is Yotbot french? Hazard-SJ Talk 22:38, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Yottie, Yotbot's operator, is French. πr2 (talk • changes) 22:39, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Not French... Living in France, different thing altogether. And to answer the question: because I'm interested in France. People are free to create any articles they want! Yottie =talk= 23:40, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Articles on the Simple English Wikipedia don't need to be about English. We write about all topics, very similar to the English Wikipedia.--Gordonrox24 | Talk 22:40, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Don't see how this relates to anything. There are plenty of stubs on anything, not just France. If you have the time to improve them from stub-status to, say, start-class, go ahead and do it yourself. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 04:05, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
People, can't we simply use this noticeboard for useful things? Such threads only make more problems than they solve. There is nothing that needs to be discussed here. Such threads do not help our Wikipedia to become a better place! Please don't start such useless threads, do something else instead. Thanks, -Barras talk 10:29, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
Unfortunately, we don't have a WP:Help desk; unlike the en guys, this is the only way anyone can get information on anything. In this case, that's primarily what Hazard-SJ has been doing; all his threads, if you've noticed, are "pointless" questions about simpleWiki (such as the WP:Changing username thread above us) rather than anything productive to maintain the Wiki. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 13:40, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
We also have 437 articles listed under Category:Cities_in_Kentucky. Most of them are one-line stubs. There are similar lists for other US states. We also do have a few articles about tehsils in Pakistan, see Category:Tehsils of Pakistan. So the few French communes are not really a problem. --Eptalon (talk) 11:12, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
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Alaskan City Prepares for Arrival of F-35 Squadrons, New Missile Defense Radar
US Air Force, Airman 1st Class Isaac Johnson
https://sputniknews.com/us/201906031075589418-Alaskan-City-Prepares-Arrival-F35-Squadrons-Radar/
A remote Alaskan air station is preparing to receive two squadrons of the Pentagon’s most advanced jets: Eielson Air Force Base’s 354th Fighter Wing will soon count 54 F-35 Lightning II stealth aircraft among its fleet.
By April 2020, Eielson Air Force Base in central Alaska will be the home of two US Air Force F-35A squadrons, including the pilots and aircraft support personnel, which will bring over 3,300 people to the Fairbanks metro area.
US Air Force photo by Senior Airman James Hensley
F-35 Tops Major US Paper's List of 'Worst Weapons Projects' for American Military
Fairbanks has shelled out half a billion dollars to expand housing in the area to accommodate the incoming squadrons, building some 974 new units — a big undertaking for a metro area of only 100,000.
The advanced aircraft, popularly known as the Joint Strike Fighter, has visited Eielson before, when the Arctic airstrip was used to test the plane's handling in icy conditions prior to a sale to Norway, Sputnik reported.
This time they're there to stay, though. The 54 planes will increase the base's personnel population by nearly 50% — quite a rebound for a base that just a few years ago was only narrowly saved from closure.
Eielson was spared from Base Realignment and Closure in 2005, when its complement of aircraft and mission were reduced to supporting the Red Flag-Alaska training exercises. Eielson is part of the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex (JPARC), a vast network of US military installations scattered across the state that are used for training personnel and testing a variety of equipment.
"We've had the training at Eielson Air Force Base with the 354th Fighter wing, in conjunction with the 168th wing of the Air National Guard," base commander Colonel Ben Bishop told the Alaska Republic last November. "But what's different is we're bringing F-35s, which actually have that combat projection."
© CC BY 2.0 / U.S. Navy photo by John F. Williams/Released / 141117-N-PO203-072
US Navy Ships to Deploy Lasers as Anti-Missile Defense in 2021
Noting they'll continue to house "adversary support squadron and adversary aggressor squadrons" at the base, Bishop noted that with "two squadrons of F-22s down the road at the Anchorage Air Force base," US Forces Alaska now "provides an opportunity to provide for a fifth-generation center of excellence. So I really see tactics and our ability to project combat power is really gonna grow up in the skies of Alaska."
However, the Pentagon will have to upgrade its training systems in JPARC if it hopes to keep the anticipated F-35 squadrons up to date. Sputnik reported in April on a recent Department of Defense Inspector General's report that blasted JPARC's simulations of enemy equipment, which were so antiquated that F-22 and F-35 pilots training there couldn't detect them.
"The aircraft technology is more advanced than the range electronic warfare systems," the report states, and those range systems "do not replicate near-peer threats."
Pilots also lamented the range's unimaginative, stationary targets, which don't provide great training on deploying laser-guided weapons.
© AFP 2019 / JEFF J MITCHELL / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA
Air Force Officials Say F-35 Dogfight Exercise Accidentally Formed Penis in Sky
Nearby Clear Air Force Station will be competing for some of that airspace, though. On Sunday, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported that changes in airspace restrictions would accompany the arrival of a new Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) at the site, part of the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system designed to detect and intercept ballistic missiles.
There's presently a 112-mile prohibition zone around Clear due to the powerful PAVE PAWS phased radar array, but that's expected to expand later this year in order to protect aircraft from the powerful radiation field generated by LRDR, AP reported Monday.
The blog Mostly Missile Defense estimated last month that the maximum range of the LRDR might be around 2,300 miles.
Construction of the LRDR array, another solid-state phased array, began in March as part of a $784.3 million contract the Pentagon awarded to Lockheed Martin — which also made the F-35 and F-22. The new radar should come online in 2020.
US Jets Intercept Russian Bombers During Scheduled Flight Along Alaska - NORAD
US Fighters Escort Russian Strategic Bombers Over Alaska - Russian MoD
At Least 6 Missing After Two Planes Crash in Alaska - Reports
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Secondary Crater Chains
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft of asteroid Vesta shows many secondary crater chains on Vesta's surface. This image is located in Vesta's Domitia quadrangle, in Vesta's northern hemisphere.
NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of a young and old crater at the night and day boundary on asteroid Vesta. The image has a resolution of about 260 meters per pixel.
Young and Old Crater at the Night and Day Boundary on Vesta
The change in Titan's haze layer is illustrated in this figure, derived from data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The picture of Titan in panel a was taken on May 3, 2006, while the picture...
Titan's Haze is Falling
+ Annotated Version This global map of Saturn's moon Mimas was created using images taken during Cassini spacecraft flybys, with Voyager images filling in the gaps in Cassini's coverage. The moon...
Map of Mimas - February 2010 -- Unannotated
Saturn's whirling vortices and feathery cloud bands are the signs of a restless world. Cassini captured this arresting view of the giant planet scored by bold shadows cast by the rings. The rings a...
Saturn at a Tilt
Saturn's icy moon Rhea passes in front of Titan as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2009.
Contrasting Crescents
+ Read Feature NASA's Cassini spacecraft took this raw, unprocessed image of Saturn's moon Rhea on March 10, 2012. The camera was pointing toward Rhea at approximately 26,157 miles (42,096 kilomet...
Rhea Close-up (Raw Image #2)
Voyager 1 looked back at Saturn on November 16, 1980, four days after the spacecraft flew past the planet, to observe the appearance of Saturn and its rings from this unique perspective. A few of t...
Departing Saturn
As the closest-orbiting of Saturn's intermediate-sized moons, Mimas is occasionally captured against the planet's dim and shadowed northern latitudes. The moon is seen here next to the shadows cast...
First Quarter Mimas
Saturn's atmosphere comes alive with a multitude of dark vortices swirling through the southern hemisphere. Vortices are long-lived features that are part of the general circulation of Saturn's at...
Vortices Abound
Jupiter Torus Diagram February 27, 2003 A cut-away schematic of Jupiter¿s space environment shows magnetically trapped radiation ions (in red), the neutral gas torus of the volcanic moon Io...
Jupiter Torus Diagram
This pair of craters is located in the northern hemisphere of Ceres as seen by NASA's Dawn spacecraft. The wall of the older crater (lower of the two) has partially collapsed where it adjoins the r...
Dawn LAMO Image 107
NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) Observatory is mounted on the vibration table prior to the start of testing, and technicians are removing the protective covers from th...
LADEE Vibration Test
This raw, unprocessed image of Saturn's moon Enceladus was taken during Cassini's Nov. 6, 2011, flyby which passed within about 300 miles (500 kilometers) of the moon's surface. This encounter wa...
Enceladus Flyby E-16 (Raw Image #4)
This image of Ceres, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows cratered terrain at high northern latitudes. Ghanan Crater is seen at upper-right. A distinctive flow feature extends into the crater fro...
Dawn HAMO Image 85
Prometheus -- lit partly by direct sunlight and partly by saturnshine -- pulls at material in the inner portion of the F ring. Saturnshine is sunlight reflected by the Ringed Planet, which often br...
Pulling Away
The three bright, finger-like jets of material seen here suggest that a small object has collided with the core of Saturn's F ring. Cassini spacecraft imaging scientists have shown that the F-ring...
Evidence of Collision
Saturn's moon Epimetheus casts a shadow across colorful rings in this image taken before the planet's August 2009 equinox. Epimetheus (113 kilometers, or 70 miles across) is visible as a small dot...
Moon, Shadow and Rings
This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows the surface of dwarf planet Ceres from an altitude of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers). The image was taken on August 21, 2015, and has a resolution o...
As they wheel about the planet, Saturn's sunlit rings often exhibit dark, radial markings called spokes. Spokes are seen only in the broad B ring, and can also appear bright in certain viewing geo...
Spokes on the Wheel
This view shows Saturn's Encke Gap (325 kilometers, or 200 miles wide) whose center is 133,590 kilometers (83,010 miles) from Saturn. This division in the rings is home to the small moon called Pan...
Resonant Effects
NASA's Galileo spacecraft acquired its highest resolution images of Jupiter's moon Io on 3 July 1999 during its closest pass to Io since orbit insertion in late 1995.
Global Image of Io (True Color)
This Solar & Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) image, taken Sept. 18, 2009, shows a view of Saturn as it passes behind the sun, Cassini spacecraft in tow. Saturn Superior Conjunction is underwa...
Saturn and Cassini's Annual Pass Behind the Sun
This image, one of the first obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft in its low altitude mapping orbit, shows many buried craters located within the equatorial trough region of the giant asteroid Vesta.
Buried Craters on Vesta
James Van Allen looking at the cone-shaped Pioneer IV probe, before it was gold plated and painted with stripes.
James Van Allen and Pioneer 4
The Cassini spacecraft captures a crescent of Saturn's moon Enceladus. See Bursting at the Seams and New to Old on Enceladus to learn about this moon and the spectacular water ice plumes emanating...
Sliver of Enceladus
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Andrew Neil and Marie Ashby with the latest political news. With Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna and former Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown.
brightest hopes, Sarah Teather is now heading for the exit. We will
hear from Nick Clegg on what it signifies.
hear from Nick Clegg on what it And freshly showered from the Great
North Run and looking as fresh as daisies, the best and brightest
Janan Ganesh, Helen Lewis and Iain Now, their leader is our Deputy
Prime Minister. They are the junior government. They like the colour
yellow and they have not won a general election since dinosaurs
walked the earth. Now they are behind UKIP in the polls, so as
walked the earth. Now they are party gathers for its annual bash
this year in Glasgow, what is on their mind? Who are the people
gathering at the Clyde this weekend? their mind? Who are the people
Before they started drinking, we councillors in England and Wales,
comrade. The first question we asked was, if the next election results in
a hung parliament, which team would you rather go into coalition with,
the Reds or the blues? Lib Dem councillors said Labour, two to
the Reds or the blues? Lib Dem Tories or Labour? It is not for
the Reds or the blues? Lib Dem to say. It is for the voters to
say. We will decide depending on councillors favoured a coalition
is on the table. Who would you rather play table football against?
because I am winning. So in the winning 's which ones are heading
popular policy was a mansion tax on house is worth more than £2 million,
popular policy was a mansion tax on councillors. The next most popular
policy was scrapping the Trident nuclear deterrent, supported by
policy was scrapping the Trident of councillors. Then there was the
reinstatement of the 50p top rate of income tax. 70% of councillors like
the look of that. When it came to the idea of banning the burka in
public places like schools and airports, 45% of councillors were in
favour. Finally, a ban on topless Page three model is won the support
of 33% of councillors. Why is it so popular, the idea of a mansion tax?
It is a much fairer tax. We know there are people out there with
It is a much fairer tax. We know expensive houses. Which of these is
most important to you? Banning Trident. The cold war ended in
1989. Another one was the idea of banning the burka in public places.
whatever they like. If they want to banning the burka in public places.
wear the birth or a kilt or if they anything. We are the party of jobs.
Thank you. Last night, a fully clothed Nick Clegg rallied his
troops, but if he was not around, who would Lib Dem councillors want
instead? Business Secretary Vince Cable was most popular, with a third
of the votes. In second place, the party's president, Tim Farron, with
27%. 10% went to Danny Alexander, while the business minister Joe
Swinson received 7%. The Energy Secretary Ed Davey scooped 6%, and
in last place, Steve Webb, the pensions minister, who got 5%. If
any of these councillors want to talk to me about it, I would be
delighted to hear from them. Is talk to me about it, I would be
certainly isn't. What do you think contenders. But our survey is not
the only one that has got tongues wagging in Glasgow, because the
the only one that has got tongues Dem leadership have commissioned
their own poll which showed that 75% Dem leadership have commissioned
of the country will never vote Dem leadership have commissioned
the party, no matter what they do. Also meeting here this weekend,
the party, no matter what they do. Democrats like to think they have
got just as much va-va-voom, even if a big chunk of the country doesn't.
Add, back in his hometown. So, a big chunk of the country doesn't.
Much of their party thinks they a big chunk of the country doesn't.
moving in the wrong direction. Earlier, I spoke to former party
moving in the wrong direction. leader Paddy Ashdown. He has been
put in charge of heading up the leader Paddy Ashdown. He has been
election campaign. I asked him if the mood in Glasgow was grim. No. In
many ways, as you know, Tory old commentator that you are just as I
am a hoary old member at the other end of the camera, we have been
midterm of a government, especially when you are in government and the
country is going for in a deep economic crisis, has almost no
relevance to where you might be economic crisis, has almost no
the nipple come to consider how economic crisis, has almost no
will vote in 600 days time -- when the people come to consider how
will vote in 600 days time -- when will vote. We do not dismiss polls,
but they are a snapshot of what will vote. We do not dismiss polls,
indication of where we will be. will vote. We do not dismiss polls,
guess is, for what it is worth, will vote. We do not dismiss polls,
as we come to the election, the public will be in a very serious,
probably frightened mood. Their public will be in a very serious,
thoughts will be, who maintains public will be in a very serious,
job, makes sure I don't have to public will be in a very serious,
to higher mortgage? The coalition has delivered not only the required
policies to make Britain's economy prosperous, but also its society
fair. That is what people will want to see. I think coalition politics
are here to stay and we have a role to play in it. But you are in a
are here to stay and we have a role mood this morning. You tweeted that
you were not happy with how the Observer newspaper handled your
there anything we can do to help? There is probably something they
arguments with the interview. The headline they chose to put on it
late last night was outrageous, misrepresentative and in one case in
Something about Ashdown wants a coalition with the Tories, or at
Something about Ashdown wants a least they gave that in for us
Something about Ashdown wants a inference. Let me make this point.
campaign. Any journalist who in election. I am in charge of the
campaign. Any journalist who in these next two years says that any
Liberal Democrat prefers anything else in terms of the outcome of
Liberal Democrat prefers anything coalition but the result of the
ballot box dictating that outcome, that any prefer one side to another
coalition determined by the electors that any prefer one side to another
in the votes, will get a bloody that any prefer one side to another
time from me, no matter who they are. We take the warning. A survey
of Lib Dem councillors shows that in coalition with the Tories. That
of Lib Dem councillors shows that in clear sign that your activists want
a change of direction. I don't think it is news that as a left-wing
party, we find it more congenial with those on the left wing, but
that is not the issue. You saw it election. We are servants of the
ballot box. We do watch the British people require us to do to provide a
of our country. I am sure you have stable government in the interests
of our country. I am sure you have got the point by now. I have fought
the Tories all my life. But when responsibility to amend the economic
crisis, was this right for the determine who are going to be in any
coalition, should there be one, determine who are going to be in any
voters and nobody else. It is not about what we like. I understand
that. But your own internal polls leadership are not taking the party
with them on that. I don't think that is true. Nick Clegg has done
what no other party leader has done. He took the coalition agreement
what no other party leader has done. the party, and they voted for it. So
it is not true to say that members different direction. I think we
it is not true to say that members extraordinarily united. I did not
expect them to be so under these pressures, but they have surprised
me and made me joyful at the same time. The party has done what it
done in local government for a long time. We may have our private likes
and dislikes, but the thing that time. We may have our private likes
coalition is the ballot box. You have said that three times. I can
say it again if you like. Please don't! What if your party votes
say it again if you like. Please reinstate tuition fees as party
policy afternoon? We will have to listen to that and act accordingly.
You must listen to the voice of listen to that and act accordingly.
party and take it into account in what you do. I am always quite
answering hypothetical questions. I don't think it is likely to happen,
but if it did, we would have to don't think it is likely to happen,
distinguished Lib Dems was that don't think it is likely to happen,
your party conference voted for something, it was in the manifesto.
The manifesto is taken in its final form before the party for decision.
The party will express views at form before the party for decision.
stage in all sorts of ways. It did in my leadership, too. The manifesto
is democratically agreed by the party at the time of the election,
not before. The Tory conference party at the time of the election,
be about how they think they have been vindicated, that austerity
be about how they think they have worked, the economy is turning a
corner. But Nick Clegg's conference announcements will be about plastic
bags. Have you got the hang of this coalition think? Andrew, you can
always be guaranteed to put things in the most discreditable form!
always be guaranteed to put things is part of your charm. That was
about to be a minor announcement in the middle of his speech. But it was
discovered beforehand. It has not the middle of his speech. But it was
discovered beforehand. It has not been very popular in terms of how it
has been received, but that is not the central message. That leads
has been received, but that is not to what I think is the biggest
election. Isn't the biggest danger that the Tories, not you, if there
is an economic recovery, they will get the credit for it? I don't think
think the electorate does gratitude. The only time people cast a thank
Thatcher over the sale of council houses. We could have a different
discussion over whether that was a good idea. But what you have done is
the underpinning for the promise of government, we have stayed firm
the underpinning for the promise of very tough economic policy. But
the underpinning for the promise of you get the credit? What we have
done by ourselves, which the Tories would never have done, is make sure
that when the pain is felt, it is not the poor who feel it. We have
seen the biggest shift of taxation, lifting the poorest in the country
out of taxation, that has ever happened, including in the previous
Labour government. You are presiding over the biggest squeeze on living
standards in modern times. Because it is the biggest recession in
modern times. When you speak to it is the biggest recession in
2.5 million people who have been lifted out of taxation altogether
because of the Liberal Democrats, tax cut. You may be able to make the
because of the Liberal Democrats, connection, Andrew, you are a sharp
economic crisis and difficulty for everybody. But it is clear that
economic crisis and difficulty for the Tories had been by themselves,
none of that would have happened. We have sought to shift the burden
none of that would have happened. We from the poorest in this country. I
am part of that. So when we go into the next election, the message will
am part of that. So when we go into be that if you want to continue
am part of that. So when we go into have a prosperous economy and a
society, only the Liberal Democrats will deliver that. Tim Farron says
want to diss him. Can you confirm he likes Ed Miliband and he does not
want to diss him. Can you confirm that there will be no dissing of Ed
Miliband? It is not much my style. I've never much liked comments about
the other leaders. I do not intend to make it so in the future. Can I'd
finish up on Syria? You said after the Syria vote that Britain was
finish up on Syria? You said after hugely diminished country. Given it
both sides on a course which could now see Syria give up chemical
weapons without records to military action, would you like to withdraw
these remarks and admit that you action, would you like to withdraw
these remarks and admit that you Britain has done? No. You and I
these remarks and admit that you know, because we are old observers,
that that would never have happened underpinning of a threat to use
resigned from that. We have no part to play in the fact that Assad and
Putin have moved towards peace for to play in the fact that Assad and
fear of military action. We decided exactly the opposite. Why would
fear of military action. We decided liked to have seen our country join
in with those who are serious about upholding an international law which
left others to make sure that we talent, but instead we resigned
left others to make sure that we moved towards peace. -- even the
Maxis and Stalin. But if it had moved towards peace. -- even the
would not have had the time to allow this to happen. It has avoided war.
Job done, British Parliament. That would be true if it was accurate but
it is not. The resolution proposed a delay, that we should wait until the
inspectors came back. That time frame was absolutely nothing to
inspectors came back. That time with the parliamentary vote. The
vote was going to incorporate that. I do not think you can claim what
vote was going to incorporate that. remember that diplomacy, which was
not reinforced by the threat of military action, does not work.
not reinforced by the threat of is when diplomacy runs with a grain
of military action that it works. illustration of that, look at what
is happening over the last two weeks. By regret to say that our
country, which has always been in disengagement, had no part to play
And you we would get to the Balkans eventually, and we did. His biggest
challenge is if the economy is get some credit for the Lib Dems,
when the Tories will want to halt it all. But his position is not to
when the Tories will want to halt it the necessary axeman. That is George
Osborne's role. Their role is to be Osborne's role. Their role is to be
the chaser party, taking the edge off. They will because of me going
on about the pupil premium and That is what you will hear from
of the cuts. Will that work? They them, how they have taken the edge
of the cuts. Will that work? They are in a pretty good position. Even
if they have lost two thirds of are in a pretty good position. Even
popular support, according to the polls, I do not know anyone in
Westminster methinks that will be matched in their parliamentary
representation. If they have 56 matched in their parliamentary
now, they might lose a dozen but Strategically, they are in a better
position than the reading of the polls would tell you. I think Nick
Clegg's survival has been one of the stories of this Parliament. He is
looking good at the comfort -- at the conference. When he was at his
lowest after the AV referendum, people were saying he would survive
I thought that was fanciful. Believe and lead us into 2015 and beyond and
I thought that was fanciful. Believe it or not... Paddy Ashdown was
wrong, you were wrong and... I wasn't. I'm underestimated how bad
his rivals are. If you are Lib Dem member, however aggrieved you are
with Nick Clegg, you do not think, wouldn't it be great if Christian
was in charge? Nick Clegg is the best they have. -- Chris Huhne was
in charge. Of course, the people do in charge. Of course, the people do
government and it is a consequence of the way they vote, a different
matter. If Janan Ganesh is right, and they lose 15 seats in the next
pivotal in the next government. It Possibly the most amusing outcome
would be a Labour or Tory overall majority, which would be hilarious
for the look on Paddy Ashdown's face. The danger is they get trapped
constantly in talking about the politics of coalition and of a hung
parliament. And they are very puffed politics of coalition and of a hung
parliament. And they are very puffed up and they enjoy Parliament and
there is a possibility they will not be. While they are talking about the
Polish and themselves, they are be. While they are talking about the
talking about the issues facing be. While they are talking about the
coalition. It was interesting that he said that we are a left-wing
party, not a centre-left party or a centre party, but a left-wing party.
I'm going to put myself in the firing line and say that there is a
big split between the Tim Farron firing line and say that there is a
line who say they like Ed Miliband, and another one, Jeremy Browne in
the Home Office saying that Labour are intellectually lazy. The risk
clearly a clique around Nick Clegg who wants to be a synthetic party,
but that is not where the membership who wants to be a synthetic party,
activists are clearly of the left, not just the centre-left. They are
very pro-immigration and they want strategy has to be to take the party
to the centre. The something not happen at some stage? The poll
suggests it is a left-wing party. happen at some stage? The poll
Very left-wing. Other think the happen at some stage? The poll
would have yielded -- would have yielded the same results before
would have yielded -- would have 2010 election. This is reflected by
the arithmetic. Whichever party 2010 election. This is reflected by
biggest will most likely be the 2010 election. This is reflected by
in coalition with the Lib Dems. 2010 election. This is reflected by
Clegg's on latitude to choose is exaggerated by us. The choice is no
parliamentary arithmetic. But if you remember the structure of the Lib
Dems, they can tie themselves up in infighting. -- the choice is not
stable. And Nick Clegg has had a good conference last year, and will
have another one this year. The economy is better than it was a
have another one this year. The ago. It could still go quite well
for him. Yes, it is one of the ago. It could still go quite well
stories of this Parliament, his survival and the way in which he has
prospered. But there are a lot of campaigners, labour activists who
have not forgotten what he has done in government and are determined to
get him. It will be a tough year and a half. Tougher than he imagined.
Now, not so long ago they were writing George Osborne's political
obituary. Be on the Omni shambles budget of 2012 and a lacklustre
performance of the British economy meant his reputation work -- was in
the dirt. -- the omnishambles. But things have changed. The Chancellor
is saying he has been vindicated. If runway, it looks as though the
British economy has taken off, quarter. Forecasts for the rest
British economy has taken off, the year have been revised up words.
What's more, the office for National recession never actually happened.
Unemployment is down in the three months to July and the number of
spasticity rate since 1997. On Monday, George Osborne said his
policies were bearing fruit. We Monday, George Osborne said his
our nerve when many told us to abandon our plans. As a result,
thanks to the efforts and sacrifices of the British people, Britain is
turning a corner. The message for his Labour critics was clear. The
Chancellor thinks he was right and they were wrong. And Chuka Umunna
Good afternoon. Good afternoon.Do you accept that the economy has
turned a corner? I think it is good that a stalled recovery appears
turned a corner? I think it is good get this in perspective. We have had
three wasted years. We have the worst economic recovery in history.
Debt is up and we have record youth programme if they feel better or
worse off, compared to 2010, the majority will tell you they feel
worse because, on average, wages are down by £1500 compared to May of
2010. That is the situation. The one of the things we have seen
talked about, Vince Cable has been talking about this as well, is what
is happening in the housing market. It seems that much of the solution
to powering the recovery in the It seems that much of the solution
of George Osborne lies in sorting out the housing market but the
problem is, we are at risk of being another housing bubble. Because
problem is, we are at risk of being research that came out this week, we
know that housing in the UK is three times more expensive than in the US.
know that housing in the UK is three We know that house prices are rising
five times faster than wages, but we also know that the government is
five times faster than wages, but we building new housing at a slower
complaining about a housing bubble, rate, the slowest rate that we have
complaining about a housing bubble, isn't that like Satan complaining
about seven? -- seven. We all know that we cannot go back to business
as usual. We need to build a new model of growth. But the housing
bubble you talk about, it is not a bubble. It might turn into one.
bubble you talk about, it is not a said the risk of a bubble. It is
nothing like what happened on the I said, in 2009, we had the crash
and we knew we needed to reconfigure the way that our economy works.
Having an economy based on crisis is rebalance the economy. We saw the
unemployment statistics this week, and it is welcomed overall, that
unemployment has come down. At half up. And it went down in other parts.
We know that we need to rebalance our economy, so that we do not just
rely on consumption, but that we grow our productive sectors. And
also that we grow our exports as well. We know we have a continuing
deficit. We always have a trade deficit. There was never a trade
surplus under Labour. Want to come onto what you have mentioned but
scheme? We have not said that we would you scrap the help to buy
scheme? We have not said that we would do that. Why not if it is
causing the bubble? If you let me finish, on one hand what that scheme
does at the moment, at the moment it is inhalation to a new scheme but
tomorrow -- next year it will be in you do not sort out the supply of
housing, then that is a recipe for the problems we have seen. Our
argument is build more houses. Help more people to buy them by all means
but if you do not have the supply more people to buy them by all means
but if you do not have the supply you will end up with rising prices.
That is obvious. Labour said that government austerity would prevent
the return of growth. Austerity government austerity would prevent
were wrong. We never said that growth would never return. What
were wrong. We never said that said was that if you went for an
were wrong. We never said that overly extreme deficit reduction
recovery and you would choke growth. That is what we saw for three years.
If you say, look at the US economy, it has grown at three times the
If you say, look at the US economy, economy has grown at twice the rate.
But the British economy is growing quicker than the American or German
economy is now. But over time we have not seen that happen. But it is
now. That may be the case. But my point is that those three years
now. That may be the case. But my people undergoing huge stress and
worry. It is good that we have growth back again but the question
is, what kind of growth? What we have said... I'm going to come onto
that but your credibility depends on your previous analysis. And there
are doubts about it. This is what you said not that long ago. In
You and the Labour Party said it had choked off growth. You were wrong.
We were not wrong, because we had three years where the economy was
not moving. Let's remind ourselves. Claude Osborne was predicting that
the economy was going to grow by 6.9% between the start of this
Parliament and now. It has grown by 1.8%. We did not say we would never
have a return to growth. You never said that austerity would only
temporarily delay growth. We have looked through your speeches and Ed
Balls'. We can't find any reference to say this is simply delaying the
recovery. You said austerity would choke off growth. If that is true,
why has it returned now? Did we choke off growth. If that is true,
it would choke off growth for ever? choke off growth. If that is true,
We did not. You have changed your tune. I think your package at the
top of this programme, to frame tune. I think your package at the
around George Osborne, this is not a people's lives, and the people who
deserve huge credit for the growth we are seeing are our country's
businesses, who despite the tough economic times, have succeeded.
businesses, who despite the tough are the ones who have powered this
growth. It is not for us in Westminster to take credit. But you
blame the government for lack of growth. So therefore, when the
growth comes, the government has to take some credit. Look at the
situation Britain is in now. We know the recovery still has to reach many
parts of the country, but this is the OECD annualised growth in the
G-7, the world's guest economies. That is looking pretty healthy. That
is a recovery. I am not denying that That is looking pretty healthy. That
we are seeing a stalled recovery, but who benefits from the growth? On
average, your viewers have sustained a £1500 pay cut. That is the second
biggest fall in the G20 since May 2010. Because we had the biggest
financial services sector and took the biggest crash. Financial
services are still in decline. Financial services are about 10% of
the economy. They are not the only contributor to the economy. The
point is, who benefits? Unemployment is falling, but we don't just want
people to have any job, we want them to have decent jobs that pay a
weight you can live off and that are more secure. Let me show you the
unemployment figures. Your criticism has been that all the new jobs are
part-time. They are not now, they are full-time. Full-time
unemployment, up -- full-time employment, up 94,000. This is a
short time frame. It is since the recovery began. Half the jobs that
have been created since May 2010 have been part-time jobs. Roughly
107,000 people are working part-time who would like to work full-time.
Over the last 20 years, people now feel more insecure at work than
ever. The question is about what feel more insecure at work than
kind of growth and employment you are getting. The other point is the
uneven spread of this across our economy. In places like the
north-east and north-west, the Humber, the east of England, they
have seen unemployment increase. I agree that there was a regional
imbalance, but the service sector is growing, cheering and construction
are growing and financial services are in decline, so the rebalance is
happening. It is not happening to the degree we need to transform our
economy so that we have a long-term, sustainable model of
growth. That is why we need a comprehensive industrial strategy
that all of government works towards. Your party conference is
coming up. I am sure you are looking forward to it. Why do Ed Miliband's
approval ratings get worse the more people see of him? I don't accept
that. I have given you the figures. Polls go up and down. I have said
that on this programme before. But his approval rating has consistently
gone down. What actually matters our votes. Under Ed Miliband's
leadership, the Labour Party have votes. Under Ed Miliband's
put on almost 2000 extra councillors in places like Canada case, even
Whitney. What is wrong with Whitney? We have been putting on votes. Let
me show you this. This is the net satisfaction rating. Your leader is
now more unpopular than Gordon Brown was when he took Labour to the worst
defeat in living memory. Gordon Brown did not put on anything like
this number of councillors. Votes are what matter, Andrew. Few people
think Ed Miliband is a capable leader. Twice as many people think
over Spurs who lives on the moon. These are polls. If you are talking
to me about over Spurs lit, that puts this into context, Europe
session with polls! -- Elvis Presley. Since 2010, we have put on
thousands of members. Compare that to the Conservative Party, which has
not won a general election since 1992. They will not disclose their
membership figures. Why -- why won't you pledge to renationalise Royal
Mail? Because that would be like writing a blank cheque. We don't
know at the moment how much the government would receive for the
sale of Royal Mail? So how can I judge how much it would cost to buy
it back? That would be irresponsible. But the government
does not need to do this right now. The entire country is against it.
Sources in the City and Whitehall tell me that if Labour pledged to
renationalise it, it would kill off the flotation. So if you are against
it, why don't you do it? For me to pledge to renationalise Royal Mail
would be like writing a blank cheque. But if you put it in the
prospectus, people in the City, who know more about these things, say it
would not happen, so why not do it? Because that would be irresponsible.
It would be like writing a cheque for billions to renationalise Royal
Mail. You would not have too right at the check if it did not happen. I
have to deal with the facts. I am not good deal with the plot somebody
might be speculating about in the City. We have to be careful about
this. For me to pledge to renationalise it now would be like
writing a bank cheque . We are going to be a fiscally responsible
government. That is why I am not prepared to do that. Ed Balls will
not be talking to you. You are watching the Sunday Politics. Coming
up in 20 In the East Midlands: County
councils had to cut millions of pounds from their budgets and now
they are turning to you for ideas. If they were in an orchestra, they
would be on fiddles. That is absolutely untrue. Nick Clegg tells
us that he thinks we are warming to the Lib Dems. I get the impression
that people in the East Midlands, much as other parts of the country,
are developing a begrudging respect. My guests this week are Jessica Lee
and Graham Allen. First, thousands of youngsters are heading off to
university, but thousands are into. East Midlands has some of the lowest
figures are people going to university in the country. Graham's
constituency is officially the lowest. Teachers travel to
Westminster to meet the educational secretary to voice their concerns.
How did it go? It went well. We spent over an hour speaking to the
Education Secretary. What they need is small bite—size bits of learning
to build their confidence, motivate them and show them they can achieve.
I'll be bothered about loosening the modules —— are they bothered? My
kids don't like that, there are frightened of it. So why not stick
with what we have gotten the moment. It has provided a tremendous
improvements. 90% are more —— 90% more people from my constituency are
going to university. We have to help young people in the East Midlands to
aspire. Not everybody is good at the exams. If there is continuous
assessment throughout the year, it helps? It changes the way of
helping. It can help them to meet the changes that are suggested. In
my constituency, the system that we have had for many years of building
people up is actually working. There are no tangible improvements. My
worry is that if we change for the sake of it, it will frighten the
life out of the youngsters and my constituency, we will arrest that
development and kids in my patch won't get that chance that we have
all worked so hard to give them. I hope the Secretary of State has
listened to us and hope he will come back with some minor changes to help
children and my constituency to flourish as in others. We have a
good and improving uptake for university and our constituency. It
is right that the Education Secretary met with Graham. I think
that is good news. I find Michael Gove very approachable and amenable
to ideas. We need to follow it up and see what response we get there.
We will follow that with interest. What are you most prepared to see
dashed libraries closed, care for the elderly cut or other council
services? Leicestershire county council says
it needs to find £110 million worth of savings in the next five years.
In Nottinghamshire the figure is £154 million. And Derbyshire county
council says it has took at £157 million. Leaders from Leicestershire
have been in Westminster this week to meet Conservative MPs from the
county. In Nottinghamshire the county council has launched a public
consultation. It wants to hear what services the public are prepared to
seek at. We went out with the leader of the council to meet the voters.
£154 million has to be cut from Nottinghamshire county council. They
are asking you how they can do that. I am here to find out your
views. I have the leader of the county council with me. Shall we
asked people what they think? Yes. More people on the ground doing the
actual work and not too many managers. What do you say to that?
It is interesting to hear these views. There will be further job
losses. There will be job losses in management as well as elsewhere in
the management. You have built a new library building, to me there was
nothing wrong with the old library building. You should look to do
something in the library for the children, you might save money doing
it that way. There is no money for the youth. Where do you think this
man can cut the £154 million from their county council's budget? We
haven't got a bus station for a start. We are waiting for one of
them for quite a long time. It has been delayed again. You will have it
by next winter. You can only cut so much. You need the services. Why not
ask government as they can cut any of their budget, the Houses of
Parliament? They have decided we should be cutting our budgets. You
never see anybody saying, we are going to cut the site of our budget.
The county council and a waste of time. Why are they a waste of time?
If they were in an orchestra, they would be on fiddles. What do you say
to that? It is absolutely untrue. I understand why people might have
that perception. Fair play to Alan Rhodes to take
part in that. You are never going to be sure how people are going to
react to you when you're out in the street. The Conservative Council
light Leicestershire are having to go cap in hand to Westminster to
Conservative MPs to say, do not cut funding any more. We have got to
deal with the reality. Most people in my constituency understand that.
They are understand that the country has overspent and the appreciate
that. They need MPs to make the case to request for funds in a way that
they think will best serve their community. I think most people
understand that. Nottinghamshire county council have announced they
will stop paying their workers are living wage. How can they afford
that? —— are going to start peeing. I think he has been courageous going
out to the public and speaking to them about this. —— I hope this is
opening up a dialogue with people saying, if you want good services
local or a good health service, you will have to pay for it. I would
like to see local people deciding what they are prepared to pay,
politicians of all parties going out to convince them on the arguments
and engage with them. If you fit it to people that if we pay a lot —— a
little more for our police then we have less crime. If you invest in
children, early intervention, that'll pay back in the long term.
People are not stupid, they get these arguments. At the moment, all
parties say that if we cut the fat out, it will be OK. Where can these
cuts come from? I think this is what MPs need to do. To make those
representations. Where can these continuing cuts come from?
Foreigners start, you heard on the film there, the man was pointing out
that there are too many chiefs. —— for a start. There has been a lack
of accountability in the public sector for a long time. For
example, I was horrified to read that under the last Labour
government, they ordered 28 luxury coaches. What about elderly care?
Local industry should be benefiting. There are savings that
can still be made. I absolutely believe that. Where can these cuts
be made? I will give you an example, I think people need to have a longer
sighted view as well. For Derbyshire, the new Labour county
council at the moment are having a consultation idiot. There are no
decisions made. —— consultation period. £157 million they had to
save and Derbyshire. That is a lot more than the —— than they were
having to save. I think that this process is important. People can
find those savings. Focus on keeping the front line services. I think it
will pay off in the long term. You think that front line services will
be protected? I cannot see what Derbyshire county council will do. I
am saying that should be the priority. I would have one, cut
central government out of the loop on raising money and let local
people, local politicians, argue it out. I have faith in my politics
that I can convince people that they should pay an adequate amount of
hassle tax. Other taxes should be allowed to be raised if the local
electorate agreed to it. —— council tax. Is that Labour Party policy?It
is not. I am working hard to win over the Labour Party. Most other
weathering —— Western democracies have councils that are independent
and that listen to local people. That is the sort of system we need
to build in this country, otherwise we will be back here next year
having the same discussion. I hope not. The Lib Dems are holding their
annual conference. They are looking to see how they can
win here in the East Midlands. We have only one MEP N control of one
district Council. Nick Clegg told us that he sees that as an improvement.
It is a lot better than it used to be. For 70 years we were not
represented a Parliamentary level. I am aware that in the last three
years while we have been in coalition, we have suffered in the
polls and there has been a temporary it to our popularity. I get the
impression that people in the East Midlands, much as in other parts of
the country, are developing a begrudging respect that we have
stuck with it. If we had not, we would not begin to see the start of
an economic recovery. Without the unanimity —— unity and resolve of
the Lib Dems, we would not see a change like we have. Better state
pensions, more apprenticeships, the people —— pupil premium in school,
most notably as of next April, no one in the East Midlands will have
to pay a penny in income tax from the first £10,000 the peak. All of
that are good Liberal Democrat achievements. But I think we need to
shout about them more. In two years ago you were here with the Prime
Minister announcing a new enterprise scheme. I am frustrated that some of
these enterprise zones have got stuck on various details. I would
like to see the enterprise zone at the site I did visit myself, move
forward as quickly as possible. It is a great way of attracting
investment and generating jobs locally. Will your rallying cry be
to the Liberal Democrat conference, hang on? Is that the best you can
do? It is more uplifting than that. We have done great things in
government. We are the only party of the liberal central ground. If you
want a party that believes in a stronger economy, doing the
difficult job is to do that, and a fairer society, then the Liberal
Democrats are the only party able to deliver that in British politics. We
will hear from an East Midlands Lib Dem hoping to make a breakthrough.
Vince Cable was here to visit the biggest live them success story in
the East Midlands. The party is in charge here. He was realistic of the
challenges facing the Lib Dem is making more games in the area. We
have got a base in several areas. We have been strong in other parts of
the area, Leicester for many years. We have had a base in Nottingham,
not now, Chesterfield used to be a state we had control of. It has
fallen away now and we recognise that reality. Being an government
has been a mixed blessing politically. We get criticised for
everything that goes wrong, but we are now beginning to get the message
across that we have made a positive contribution in government. You can
always rely on Vince to be a straight talker.
You are part of the largest Lib Dem branch in these midlands. It is the
exception not the rule? You have said we have got a good story to
tell where we run the council, where we have had this load —— big
increase in membership. Things are going really well, we have a lot of
support in other areas, Ashfield we had a close result in the county
council elections. There are a lot of places in the East Midlands where
there is support. Nick Clegg said last year that Lib Dem voters who
went to the Labour Party are our lost cost? No. I do not believe
that. There are lots of people who are inclined towards the Labour
Party whose supporters because they see as campaigning on local issues.
There are a lot of people who say the main problem is the man at the
top for your party. Nick Clegg read a remarkable performance in the 2010
debate. His ratings are very low. You have got to look at the facts,
Nick Clegg's ratings are lower than Margaret Thatcher 's where before
she left. We are still winning in our constituency where Nick Clegg as
leader. We have a huge amount of support in our area. We are
campaigning and doing well. We have the enterprise zone that is bringing
thousands of jobs. We have a company that is bringing lots of jobs into
our area. The Lib Dems are growing in some areas? They are not growing
in Nottingham North. We are recruiting a lot of people there. I
feel sorry for councillors of all political parties. They suffer from
what the people do at the top level. People cannot vote for who the Prime
Minister is directly, so they take it out in the local councillors. I
think you will find that they will take it out on the Liberal
Democrats. Now one trusts the Liberal Democrats because of Nick
Clegg and the promises he broke in those very debates. It goes back to
that, that's what many people think. We have delivered on the main
policies that we have been involved in. I signed a letter to Nick Clegg
when the votes came in on tuition fees. What about your party,
Jessica? I think we have had is accessible marriage of convenience.
I am going for an overall majority, all mean parties will be seeking
that for the general election. In the key areas of the can make and
welfare reform, where there have been significant improvements in
reforms, there has been agreement by the two parties. —— economy. We will
see separate campaigning by the leaders in the run—up to the general
election. You say you would rather not have another coalition
government? If there is another hung parliament, twice as many of them
would rather be in a coalition government with the Labour Party and
with you lot. I think that it has been, for the national interest, no
one got a majority as we know. Two parties came together to form an
coalition. There will be a natural separation. When will that happen?
We will see natural campaigning, we will hear announcements from the
party leaders. We would want to be an government on our own and put our
own views across. We will be going for the maximum number of seats and
we will fight the election on that. We will campaign for what we believe
in. It will all depend on what the public does. The arithmetic last
time was we could only go into the coalition with the Conservatives. We
may be in agreement with the Conservatives but we have different
priorities. We want tax cuts for the millions, we want that. I want to
break up the happy coalition couple here. Every week in the House of
Commons, I say the Liberal Party and the Conservative party marched
through the lobbies to do things on health service, detrimental things
to schools, to actually start to undermine our country. Then they
come out and say, we are not really friends, we do not really work
together. Yes they do. Night after night when they could fate ——
thought certain things down, they are supporting this government
together and they are both going to take the consequences in the next
election. It has been suggested the best way forward as a party is to
dozens yourself from the Conservatives. —— is to distance
yourself. When do you think it is good to happen? We have different
priorities to the Labour Party in Conservative Party. We have common
to government with them to clean up the mess they Labour Party left. We
believe in low earners and middle income earners into... Thank you
very much. Here is a round—up. Millions of pounds worth of
government funding is up for grabs for East Midlands's businesses.
Companies are being invited to bid for the next round of the regional
growth fund. 16% of shops here are empty, 2% above the national
average. Be careful what you treat for. Gloria did they found she had
as a prize Twitter. She treated this morning that she asked for is the
gestures. The first suggestion came back because I follow these things
very clearly. How happy are you that the leader of the Labour Party will
still be in place come the next election? Why reject that advice and
take advice from the Shadow Chancellor, I cannot think.
You have got to be sober full. Does David Cameron follow you, Graham? I
am sure he is one of my most avid followers. From the last programme I
appeared on, and man treated to say I should not wear red Sox. I have
tweeted today. Do you treat for yourself? I do about 90%. We will
have to leave it there. Thank you deserves a programme all to itself.
In a moment, more from our political Good afternoon. Nick Clegg says
victory for either the Conservatives Good afternoon. Nick Clegg says
or labour at the next election would put at risk the economic recovery
is. Speaking in Glasgow at the Liberal Democrat annual conference,
he said a coalition would allow Liberal Democrat annual conference,
party to balance politics and enable the government to finish the job of
repairing the economy fairly. It is my genuine belief that if we go
repairing the economy fairly. It is coalition and Islands politics,
repairing the economy fairly. It is dominating blood on their own, you
will get a recovery which is neither fair nor sustainable. Labour would
wreck the recovery, and under the fair nor sustainable. Labour would
same commitment to fairness as ours, you would get the wrong kind
Two 19-year-old woman arrested after a stabbing on Thursday have been
released without charge. Police a stabbing on Thursday have been
trying to discover if there is a link between the killing and a fire
four hours later in which four Five people are being questioned in
connection with that blaze. A Syrian government minister has described
the agreement drawn up by America country's chemical weapons as a
The minister claims the deals helps the Syrians out of a crisis and
others war. The US Secretary of State John Kerry is in Israel to
brief the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on the proposal. China
and France have also welcomed the deal, which says Syria has until
Friday to submit a competence of list of its chemical stockpile.
Britain's Mo Farah has missed out on winning his first half marathon
Britain's Mo Farah has missed out on He was taking part in the Great
North Run between Newcastle and South Shields. Farrar, who was the
favourite following his two gold Ethiopian's can mean many Serb
favourite following his two gold Kenenisa Bekele in a sprint finish.
A carnival atmosphere for the start was about the challenge. For others,
walking it, so I have no time in simply dressing up for fun. I am
walking it, so I have no time in mind. I just want to enjoy it and
appreciate the crowds and have a fantastic time. For elite athletes,
today's race was about who would be first over the line. Despite the
wind and rain, large crowds turned out for the world's most popular
half marathon, which attracts some of the finest women runners, two,
including the Kenyan. There were high hopes for Britain's double
Olympic champion Mo Farah, but after Shields, he was narrowly beaten
Ethiopian's Kenenisa Bekele. It Shields, he was narrowly beaten
thought I would come back and close the gap slowly. I managed to close
it a little bit, but you can't take away what he has. Wheelchair athlete
David Weir won his race for a fourth time. More than £200 million has
been raised since the Great North That is it for now. There will be
more news on BBC One at 6:35pm. So, did anything happen while we
were away this summer? I thought heading now? Who better to answer
than the best political panel we could cobble together for a tenner?
Putting foreign affairs to one side for a moment, it seems that what
happened mystically was that it became more apparent that some sort
of recovery was underway at last, and that Mr Miliband still has not
yet resonated with the British public. These things are a problem
for Labour. Ed Miliband's mistake over the summer holiday was to take
a summer holiday. And it looked over the summer holiday was to take
the rest of the Labour Party had taken one too. They were not finding
issues they could make their own. The only person who made an impact
was Stella Creasy on online abuse. That is a huge problem, and it is
partly down to the fact that there is this intense message discipline.
They don't want to say anything is this intense message discipline.
of line until they have got all their ducks in a row. It makes the
party do at the moment. The terms of party do at the moment. The terms of
trade have swung in David Cameron's favour, but the political rhetoric
look at this headline from the is still with Mr Miliband. Let's
look at this headline from the Sunday Telegraph. That headline
might not be right, but the story is significant in that Mr Cameron is
still in danger on his right flank significant in that Mr Cameron is
doesn't need an enormous share of the vote to get an overall majority?
Westminster group think. Of course Ed Miliband is in trouble. The
Tories are reserved and. They are better organised, the economy is
recovering. That poses difficulties for Labour, but if you look at what
is happening on the ground, UKIP still pose a danger to Cameron.
is happening on the ground, UKIP don't need to poll 15% in a lot
is happening on the ground, UKIP those marginal seats, they just
is happening on the ground, UKIP to get five or 6% of the vote, and
that could potentially destroy the Tory lead. Lots of commentators
that could potentially destroy the to say, this guy will never be prime
minister, but it is possible that by default or by accident, in a very
Miliband could end up as prime minister. It is still all to play
for on both sides. If UKIP remains a threat to the Tory right flank and
the Tories themselves are not really a national party any more, I am
the Tories themselves are not really they will only target a few seats in
Scotland, they don't get any big seats in the big cities of the north
any more, they don't get the Ulster vote they used to get, so it is
possible that Labour, which is more nationally based and has seats in
the Midlands and the north and in Wales, so they could get in. I
agree. The advantage of having a bad summer is that Ed Miliband can go to
expectations. All he has to do is not dribble on the lectern, and
expectations. All he has to do is will be written up as spectacular.
expectations. All he has to do is He might not even use a lectin.
position. The electoral vagaries of the system work in his favour. He
still has a narrow poll lead, he is not out of the game at all. Of the
three main party leaders, the only one who can be confident about being
three main party leaders, the only in government after 2015 is Nick
electorally. But if it is this bad for Labour at the moment, what will
it be like if this recovery turns out to be real? It depends how much
they succeed. Chuka Umunna was shifting the debate are living
standards. They don't want to keep arguing about who called it right.
Do people feel richer than they arguing about who called it right.
in 2010? The data suggests that people don't feel richer than in
2010. Because they are not.That people don't feel richer than in
the basis on which Labour will fight the next election. It is clear that
Labour are unclear on what to say or do next. They have just got to hope
and pray that the economy is not as soundly based as it appears to be
and that George Osborne is Tony Barber, who thought he fixed the
just before the next crash. There are all sorts of uncertainties
just before the next crash. There China, the bond market, the housing
bubble might be blown up, and Labour just had to hope something goes
wrong for Osborne. Chuka Umunna just had to hope something goes
he would not get rid of help to just had to hope something goes
There are all these criticisms about just had to hope something goes
artificial schemes pumping up house prices, but he would not say that.
It is tortuous. You see this again and again. When asked if Labour
would repeal the bedroom tax, or the same thing with Royal Mail, it
happens again. They will be falling on people who have not had a meal in
coming out of the Labour Party. There is a kind and Gillette in
coming out of the Labour Party. them to a politician's career. When
they are under attack for a long time, the media get bored after
they are under attack for a long while and switch the story. It
happened to Osborne, who had a horrific 2012 and has recovered
bad press as he is getting at the moment, because people find it
tedious. Syria has been the big foreign-policy event this summer. It
has remarkably led to a Soviet- American initiative to get Syria to
give up its chemical weapons. The world will now expect the Assad
regime to live up to its public commitments. As I said at the outset
anything less than full compliance. John Kerry. Is this too good to
anything less than full compliance. true? Even superficially, it is
anything less than full compliance. very good. The only people who
emerge with any sense of triumph are the Russians, who have had their
emerge with any sense of triumph are biggest diplomatic coup. They are
back on the stage again. B if you want to know why Putin even has
back on the stage again. B if you because of moments like this. They
were humiliated after the end of the Cold War, and a Nou Camp is a great
power again. Then you have the Obama situation, because he has ended
power again. Then you have the Obama where he wanted to end up. He has
power again. Then you have the Obama concession from Syria, but the way
he got there was so embarrassing. It concession from Syria, but the way
made him look weak and erratic as a leader. There were contradictions
between himself and his Secretary of State last week, and it has not
between himself and his Secretary of him any good. I was in the States,
and it was open season on him. I have never understood the idea of
chemical weapons as a red line when you can massacre people in their
thousands through other means. But chemical weapons are beyond the
pale. The rebels are miserable. chemical weapons are beyond the
have run out of time. I will have to ask you what you think about Syria
next week, which gives you time ask you what you think about Syria
prepare. Your book on Fred the shred is going well? It is.I am back
tomorrow at noon with the Daily Politics at noon on BBC Two, where
we will have more from the Liberal Democrat conference in Glasgow.
we will have more from the Liberal is the start of our Daily Politics
conference coverage. Next week, is the start of our Daily Politics
will be back here at our normal is the start of our Daily Politics
of 11am, when we will be joined is the start of our Daily Politics
Grant Shapps. Remember, if it is Sunday, it is the Sunday Politics.
Andrew Neil and Marie Ashby with the latest political news, interviews and debate including energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey on whether it is time to think again about global warming.
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So internationalized that we lost our own authenticity?
Are we too internationalized in Eindhoven? Is this happening in other cities too? We arrive at interesting insights when we launched the magazine “150 years Living in Eindhoven” these days. We asked our international community what we could do for them to integrate better into our society and stay longer? Their response was mindboggling and uncovered yet another level of modern city’s vulnerability.
In the reigning political, economic and speculative reality it is lucrative for a town to focus on pleasing those who come from abroad for a couple of years. After all they bring talent and extra productivity. It is good to have them and often these new residents bring in fresh cash. It is therefor a strategic move to make them feel welcome. The longer they stay the better it would be, in theory, for the economy. But analysis reveals that people tend to leave within a few years…Why?
We asked our visiting students and expats about their challenges and interests.
In Eindhoven our local population has important problems to find proper housing. Waiting lists for rental homes are long, up to 8 years. It is therefore surprising that the visitors have everything taken care of. Keeping a housing shortage for locals drives up the costs of housing and living, which is seen as an economy of growth. Shortage for expats and students however would keep them away and this is not lucrative. Is it all again just economics that rules? How does this money based focus on internationalization affect the community as a whole?
*What do you miss then?*, we asked during the presentation of the magazine, which we presented in English too in order to get newcomers to engage with our roots. The surprising answer was “there is no local stuff to enjoy. Where is the local culture in Eindhoven?”.
Indeed, everything seems concentrated on engaging with the foreign people, including presenting a wide choice of things from their original home culture. All the local elements have disappeared. “Even our local architectural herritage”, states editor in chief of the magazine Peter Tholen. The local alderman, Mary-Ann Schreurs, said that this was “due to the economic success of the city, motivating it to modernize its herritage”. Old cities with their historic centres had, according her, suffered poverty and hence did not have a chance to destroy their historic properties in order to replace them with modernism.
So the richer you are as a community the less engaged you are with your roots? That is an interesting viewpoint….and highly disputable….
In Germany, France, the UK, Italy or Spain people can enjoy the local atmosphere in cities. There is the local food, local drinking habits, local language, local architecture, local climate. In Eindhoven we have the international diversity and rain. That’s it. There is nothing else according the people consulted. This is one of the reasons people get bored and leave again after a few years, as stated by themselves. They go to Berlin, Barcelona or London. That is an interesting conclusion. What we are proud of as a city seems to be also our mayor handicap. Our excessive focus on internationalization….
Who makes the difference?
According to the visiting population the nightlife in Eindhoven was boring. It is gradually changing, but not because of the locals. It are the contributions of foreign people who introduce their own initiatives to combat the absence. The local people are too occupied with surviving in an economically adverse climat in which they hardly can rotate their homes, have difficulties to find a job, feel financially blocked by excessive taxes, imposed financial responsibilities, social securities and limited career options. It is a huge contrast with the international community that gets all the facilities, is well paid and has a large potential of time, need, motivation and means to deploy themselves into the city.
“Rather than helping the foreign population we should help the locals”, became the overall suggestion. The lack of opportunity these locals have due to the regulated shortages seems to reduce their engagement to social life. “We are motivated to do things with our lives here because it is all new,” students state, “and share WhatsApp and social media to help each other”. Locals don’t. They are reluctant to engage out of fear to loose social benefits. Or they feel competitive jealousy among each other caused by the shortages and lack of opportunity. Their individual or collective comfort zone and autopilot is limiting them to do things in a different way….
This observation was also relevant for foreign residents someone stated. “I have been living here for five years and had never been in this expat center”. Also foreign people tend to engage with what they like at first sight and then stick to it without creating regular change in their habits.
The vibrant livelyness of introducing a game or challenge has to be focused therefor on the creation of awareness that there is diversity to engage with while getting people, foreign and locals for equal, to step out of their comfort zone once in a while and try something new.
Local government says it does not want to stigmatize people and wants to treat them all as equals. But is this true? There is a distinction between the facilities and motivation of the local population and for those who visit. From an economic point of view these groups are perceived differently and treated accordingly. There is no equality, not in the investment nor development of opportunities for people who are long term residents. All effort seems to be focused on the growth of new people from elsewhere because of the fresh cash they represent.
The international community even offers voluntary work to see if they can make a difference for the locals. It was amazing to come to such insights. How vulnerable is a city when it depends entirely on the influx of money from elsewhere? How vulnerable is a city when it’s herritage is destroyed and its old culture eliminated, and with it its attractiveness for everyone? And: “How vulnerable are people and communities who easily get fixated by their comfort zone?”. How can this be changed? And with what effects on the human beings themselves, the society, economy and local culture?
STIR Foundation is focussing on core human values in which regional resilience is achieved by engaging all citizens into these values. It is referred to as “awareness driven regional cocreation”. Such insights demand further research and most definitely progression in the social inclusion for the wellness development of the entire community. True equality is not just reflected in true equal opportunity but also in the stimulus to make use of it. The opportunities have not been taken away by the arrival of international people but through the speculative governance over its local population. It is the international population that helps the community restore its old values and engage with new ones in a true potential identity crisis.
For STIR and our mission it has been an eye opener and an interesting challenge to connect the two worlds into a culture of interaction and progression, based on true, authentic local value creation, recognition and sharing. This may be the biggest justification for the introduction of a local city currency.
Tags: 150 years living in Eindhoven, expats, internationalization, students
By Jean-Paul Close in multidimensional world, Society, Sustainocracy on September 18, 2017 .
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Talk of the Track / f!llylicious / How to Grow Horse Racing. There’s Only One Way, You Know…
How to Grow Horse Racing. There’s Only One Way, You Know…
May 28, 2014 B. RushNo Commentsf!llylicious
What I know about gaming–other than betting on horse racing–would fill a thimble. Horse Racing is the only sport about which I care. And gaming–well, let’s be honest. Gaming is not a sport. No one who participates in any kind of gaming is an athlete. There are no “gaming athletes,” right?
(It continues to blow my mind that poker has a place on ESPN’s website, alongside Horse Racing. ) And why is Horse Racing an “other sport,” anyway? Ahhh, that’s another blog, for another day.
If we’re going to call poker a sport–when, in reality, it’s a GAME–we must then accord that same title to other games. Like, Uno and Monopoly.
It is–in my humble opinion–ludicrous for anyone to think that gaming will grow the fan base of Horse Racing. It will have no such effect.
Gaming will bring in more money for better purses–and hopefully, better conditions for horses and their caregivers. Gaming, affiliated with racetracks, creates a flow of cash that Horse Racing desperately needs.
For that I am grateful, and I say, Bring it On. When first I saw the racino at Aqueduct, my mouth was left hanging open: it’s gorgeous and downright spectacular. If we can get thousands of people into that building every year, and pour money into horse racing in New York State–sign me up.
I’m all about gaming as a means to an end, that end being to make more money for Horse Racing.
But it’s ludicrous, at best, to think that gaming will bring more fans into the Sport of Kings. Sure, there are people who love horse racing and who love gaming, as well.
But I just don’t see it going in the opposite direction, that gamers will have a mass revelation–that Horse Racing is a great sport, one on which they can get hooked. I’ve not-yet seen it go the other way.
Horse racing authorities should not hang their hopes on the concept of moving gamers out of the parlor and into the grandstand. Embrace gaming for what it is–for what it can do for our sport–and change the thinking, to understand the only sure-fire way to grow the sport:
The only guaranteed way to grow the sport by bringing in new fans is to–wait for it–introduce them to A HORSE.
I know–novel concept, yes?
Equine sports are the only such endeavors that feature guileless athletes. Athletes who give their all, 100% of the time. Athletes who are pure, innocent and who don’t intentionally dope themselves.
Horse Racing will grow only when the scrambling for answers stops, and we go back to Square One: introduce people, one-on-one, to a HORSE. Watch their eyes widen, and their hearts beat faster.
Stripping away all the gimmicks like bikini contests in the infield–and getting to the bone again–will grow Horse Racing and bring it back to health. Gaming will give us the cash to create programs to introduce humans to horses–to take it into the communities, and nurture that new-found love–and bring it back to the track.
Gaming is great, and I’m grateful that it’s helping to fund our sport. But no amount of gaming will bring new race fans to the Sport of Kings. No human or machine on Earth has the power or the impact of one single, solitary, soulful horse, looking a new friend in the eye–then inviting that new friend to the Big Dance.
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe husband says he's not confident Boris Johnson can get justice for her
Demonstrations have been held in support of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in the UK
The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has said he's not confident Boris Johnson can secure his wife's release from prison in Iran.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian citizen, is currently in jail in her country of birth, having been found guilty of spying in a secret trial. She was arrested in April 2016 on a visit to Iran, but maintains she was only there to visit family.
Johnson is expected to travel to Iran this weekend to lobby for Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release, but husband Richard Ratcliffe sounded less than bullish when speaking to Julia Hartley-Brewer this morning.
Asked whether he was confident the Foreign Secretary's intervention would get his wife out of jail, Ratcliffe replied: "I'm not confident of anything."
"I'm confident that he's doing his best and I'm confident that will make a difference.
"Whether that will be enough to get her out...time will tell."
Ratcliffe also talked about his family's ordeal in a passionate interview on our mid-morning show.
Listen above
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
Richard Ratcliffe
Julia Hartley-Brewer
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Chapters Commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr., Day of Service and Improve Disability Inclusion Across America
March 1, 2016 /in Programs and Supports/by The Arc
Many of our chapters spent the past two months executing service projects made possible by a grant from The Corporation for National and Community Service, the federal agency that leads national Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service.
Many perceive people with disabilities as the ones in need of service – but in reality, they are often a part of civic engagement at the state, local, and national level. Chapters executed great projects, including food drives and food delivery events. Check out our new Facebook album or each chapter’s Facebook page below for highlights and pictures from each event. Thank you for participating in this wonderful opportunity with us!
TARC: Our local chapter in Tulsa, Oklahoma, kicked off their MLK Day of Service at a University of Tulsa basketball game. Volunteers with developmental disabilities from TARC worked with university students to accept canned food donation and transport food to the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma. In February, volunteers from the chapter also packaged food at the Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma; served meals at the Kendall Whittier Elementary School; and conducted a month-long food drive at the University of Tulsa and at the True Blue Neighbors office.
The Arc Big Bend: On February 15th, this Madison, Florida, chapter hosted a “free lunch” for 250 people who experience food insecurity at a local park. Volunteers with and without disabilities from the local Kiwanis club, Aktion Club, local health department, and nursing school hosted a variety of activities, including free health screenings, fire rescue demonstrations, and performances from a local boys choir.
The Arc of Greater Twin Cities: Our Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, chapter worked with Second Harvest Heartland Food Bank to deliver emergency food aid to at least 180 people in need. During the weekend before MLK Day, thrift stores operated by The Arc of Greater Twin Cities engaged volunteers to work at their thrift stores to collect canned food and sort clothing to be sold (the proceeds of which supported the work of The Arc of the Greater Twin Cities).
The Arc of the Glades: The Arc of The Glades in Belle Glade, Florida, began a joint adventure with The Church of The Harvest and Lighthouse Food Pantry to help provide food to those in need in our local community. As of February 10th, 40 volunteers with and without disabilities have given 385 hours of their time, served 2,468 meals, and distributed 5,686 bags of food to those in need.
The Arc of Luzerne County: Our chapter in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, partnered with the Wilkes Barre Kiwanis and Pittston Rotary Club to box food for over 150 low-income seniors at the Commission on Economic Opportunity, a local community organization that serves people suffering from poverty on MLK Day. Since this initial event, volunteers with disabilities have been serving in the kitchen at the Commission on Economic Opportunity to help prepare 800-1000 lunches daily for low-income children in the area.
The Arc Nature Coast: Throughout February, volunteers with and without disabilities in Brooksville, Florida, delivered and distributed fresh fruits and veggies to nearly 300 families at four food banks in the community.
The Arc of the Midlands: Working with community partners, this South Carolina chapter fed close to 200 people at an event that included live music, a basketball scrimmage, and special guests including state representative Chip Huggins and Indianapolis Colts football player Kelcy Quarles.
The Arc of Virginia: On February 19th, volunteers and chapter staff assembled 230 meals for distribution to people in Richmond who experience food insecurity. This effort was supported by Virginia Delegate Kaye Kory, members of the Virginia General Assembly, and assembly staff.
The Arc of Walton County: The Arc of Walton County partnered with their local Anchor Club and The Matrix Community Outreach Center to provide food to those in need in northwest Florida.
Genesee Arc: This New York chapter supported volunteers with and without disabilities to conduct food drives throughout the month at twelve different community locations. The food collected was donated to 200 children in need at the United Way of Genesee County’s Backpack Program, which provides food to school-age children who experience food insecurity on the weekends.
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The Arc Awarded Contribution for New Center for Special Education Advocacy
February 25, 2016 /in Press Releases/by The Arc
Washington, DC – The Arc is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a contribution from AT&T to create a new Center for Special Education Advocacy called TheArc@School. The center will support students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) to graduate from high school and pursue post-secondary education and employment by improving the quality and availability of trained lay advocates to support the development and implementation of Individualized Education Programs (IEPs).
All students who qualify for special education services are legally required to have an IEP to ensure they are receiving the support and guidance necessary to successfully pursue their educational goals. The IEP process requires an annual meeting between teachers, administrators, parents and students. In the meeting, attendees discuss everything from students’ present levels of academic achievement to their future goals and any accommodations or modifications they need in the classroom.
“These discussions can be overwhelming and intimidating for parents – many parents in The Arc’s network have shared that they are hesitant to express their opinions, they feel they do not have the expertise to participate, or that they are not encouraged to participate. As a result, plans often set low expectations or lack personalization, making it difficult for students to stay on track to achieve their full potential. TheArc@School aims to improve the process,”
said Peter Berns, CEO of The Arc.
Currently, in order to make the process more manageable, some families choose to work with professional advocates. These advocates can be incredibly knowledgeable and can act as an excellent resource for parents and students, but many receive no formal training; they often become experts through their own personal experience navigating the special education system, usually as parents or teachers.
This contribution will allow The Arc to start by collecting data about current methods and practices, as little information about effective practices exists at this time. After analyzing this data to identify best practices, The Arc will disseminate this information through a comprehensive online resource center, making it easily available to parents, students, advocates, chapters of The Arc, and school administrators. The Arc will use this data on effective practices to inform planning to develop a comprehensive training effort aimed at lay advocates.
“AT&T is thrilled to collaborate with The Arc to provide a more comprehensive support system for students along with the resources they need for success,” said Nicole Anderson, executive director of philanthropy at AT&T. “The Center for Special Education Advocacy will be a key voice in making education accessible to more students.”
The Arc advocates for and serves people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD), including Down syndrome, autism, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, cerebral palsy and other diagnoses. The Arc has a network of more than 665 chapters across the country promoting and protecting the human rights of people with I/DD and actively supporting their full inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetimes and without regard to diagnosis.
Editor’s Note: The Arc is not an acronym; always refer to us as The Arc, not The ARC and never ARC. The Arc should be considered as a title or a phrase.
About Philanthropy and Social Innovation at AT&T
AT&T Inc. is committed to advancing education, strengthening communities and improving lives. Through its community initiatives, AT&T has a long history of investing in projects that create learning opportunities; promote academic and economic achievement; or address community needs. AT&T Aspire is AT&T’s signature philanthropic initiative that drives innovation in education by bringing diverse resources to bear on the issue including funding, technology, employee volunteerism, and mentoring. Through Aspire, we’ve passed the $250 million mark on our plan to invest $350 million in education from 2008-2017.
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Focus on Flossing this February : It’s National Children’s Dental Health Month!
February 12, 2016 /in Programs and Supports/by The Arc
Although February is technically National Children’s Dental Health Month, oral health is important for people of all ages!
Did you know people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) are more likely to have dental and oral health problems than the general population? A study conducted by Tufts University indicates that people with disabilities have a higher prevalence of oral disease such as dental cavities, gum disease, and missing teeth.
Caregivers play a key support role in helping people with I/DD make sure they have good oral hygiene practices like brushing teeth twice a day flossing regularly. However, only 6.4% of family caregivers have received any formal training to help their loved one keep his or her teeth clean
Fortunately, there are several resources out there for caregivers who want to learn how to help their family member improve his or her oral health. Here are a few that you may find interesting:
“Caregivers Role in Maintaining Good Oral Health for Individuals with IDD.” This HealthMeet webinar with Dr. Lisa Buda, DDS, overviews best oral health practices for caregivers.
Another HealthMeet webinar, “Oral Health, Disease, and Prevention”, focuses on preventative techniques to reduce oral health complications such as tooth decay and diseases
Exceptional Smiles – A caregivers guide to oral health. org provides easy tips and videos for better brushing, lists of experienced special needs dentists, and information regarding common oral health problems people with disabilities experience.
Dental Care Every Day: A Caregiver’s Guide – This guide from the National Institute on Dental and Craniofacial Research provide guidance and strategies to caregivers on how to manage various oral health challenges common in people with developmental disabilities.
Special Olympics – A caregivers guide to good oral health for persons with special needs – This guide was created by the dentists and provides caregivers with step-by-step guides on how to help their family member brush teeth and floss. It includes ways to modify brushing/flossing techniques when needed.
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Reflections on the State of the Union Address
January 13, 2016 /in News/by The Arc
By: T.J. Sutcliffe, Director of Income and Housing Policy for The Arc
Last night, Americans across the nation, including people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) and their families, tuned in for President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address.
The Arc live Tweeted, and I had the honor of representing The Arc at the White House for the State of the Union Social live-viewing.
Here are five highlights that people with I/DD and their families will want to know about:
Remembering San Bernardino — One of President Obama’s guests at SOTU was Ryan Reese, partner to Larry “Daniel” Kaufman who was one of the 14 victims of the December 2 attack at Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, CA. Daniel was a job coach for people with disabilities who lost his life after saving four people. As we tuned in to SOTU, our hearts were with Ryan, Daniel, and all of the victims in San Bernardino, their families, loved ones, and community.
Disability affects us all, and we are stronger together — At the White House, Vice President Joe Biden kicked off the SOTU watch party. In his remarks, the Vice President shared an inspiring story about the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) highlighting the need for us all to work together. After now-deceased Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC) rejected a precursor of the ADA, then-Senator Biden was very angry with Senator Helms and thought the worst of him. But then he learned that Senator Helms and his wife had adopted a child with a disability. The Vice President summed up, “It’s always appropriate to question another man or woman’s judgment, but it’s never appropriate to question their motive,” because you just don’t know.
Our lifeline: Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and SSI — We couldn’t agree more with President Obama about this: “That’s why Social Security and Medicare are more important than ever; we shouldn’t weaken them, we should strengthen them.”
Lois Curtis, a disability rights champion — One of the “voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far” highlighted on video as President Obama spoke was Lois Curtis, one of two named plaintiffs in the landmark ADA case Olmstead v. L.C. It was amazing to see Lois, a fierce advocate for people with disabilities, featured along with civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr., Alice Paul, and Cesar Chavez.
A SOTU for everyone — We thank the White House for making this the most accessible SOTU ever for people with disabilities.
What were your thoughts about the State of the Union? Share them with us on social media (Twitter & Facebook).
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Get the Year Started Off Right with National Healthy Weight Awareness Month
Maintaining a healthy weight is hard all year round, but can be especially hard during the winter holiday season. According to the CDC, maintaining healthy weight happens when a person keeps his or her weight at the right amount based upon a person’s height, the amount of food/drink he or she eats, and his or her activity level.
Maintaining a healthy weight can be hard, but people with disabilities tend to have more difficulty maintaining a healthy weight than people without disabilities. This occurs for many reasons, including the use of various prescription drugs that cause weight gain, less opportunity or education about exercising, fewer trainers who know how to work with people with disabilities, and less education about how or why it is important to eat healthily.
Fortunately for all of us who need to be better at watching our weight, January is National Healthy Weight Awareness Month! This month encourages people of all ages, weights, dress/pant sizes, and ability levels to improve their health and well-being by being more active and eating healthier. Here are some things that you and your family can do to improve your health and start your year right:
Check out the CDC’s Physical Activity Guidelines to learn more about how people with disabilities can include physical activity in their everyday lives.
Give Mall Walking a try
Visit the NCHPAD website to find an accessible gym that is right for you and your family
Eat healthy well-balanced meals. The CDC has some great tips on maintaining a healthy weight through healthy eating, which includes creating a healthy eating plan.
Eat more fruits and vegetables – check out the CDC’s video about finding a balance in your diet.
Join NCHPAD’s 14-week individualized fitness and exercise program for people with disabilities to improve your fitness level and eating habits
Reaching your healthy weight goals takes time. While you may not get to your ideal weight overnight, we hope these links will provide you inspiration and opportunities to get active and have a happy and healthier 2016!
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Caffrey-Burke Day Fic: Painted Wings and Giant Strings
Title: Painted Wings and Giant Strings
Fandom: White Collar
Characters/Pairings: Neal/Peter, Dar, Mozzie
Beta Credit: elrhiarhodan
Warnings: Schmoop and lots of it!
Summary: Neal comes home after a rough day at work.
A/N – Written for Caffrey-Burke Day 2015 as part of my Dragon’verse. Title comes from “Puff the Magic Dragon”.
The brass doors of the private elevator whooshed open as soon as Neal pushed the ‘up’ button. He stepped on, slid his card through the reader and selected ‘P’ for the penthouse. The doors closed and he could feel the hydraulics lift the car up towards home.
Neal was so happy to be heading up to the penthouse, and so exhausted that he couldn’t see straight. He leaned against the wall of the elevator and sighed, rolling his shoulders to loosen them. He’d spent much of the day hunched over his drafting table and workbench, with only a short break for lunch and now his back was definitely paying the price. His tattoos were reflecting the pain, twitching and rolling like wrestlers in an ongoing struggle. Neal closed his eyes as the soft dinging of the floor chimes soothed the stress away. He was so glad it was Friday and he had two days of relaxation to look forward to.
He though about his day and grimaced – there were just too many annoyances. Mrs. Hawthorne had brought her amber and citrine necklace in to be fixed for the third time. Both Peter and Neal had told her that she needed to remove it before bed because of the delicate filigree work, but she refused to listen. Neal was at the point where he would have to tell her that there was no way he could solder it back together without ruining the design. He was just glad that Diana had taken her over to the new display of iolite and distracted her.
Then the shipment of diamonds and sapphires had come in for the rush job for the Zelinski wedding and Neal had spent the afternoon creating a waterfall choker in platinum for the bride. Peter had stopped in to bring him coffee and commented that the necklace would last longer than the wedding.
Neal had laughed and shooed him out of his office because Peter was a distraction that he hadn’t needed - but always wanted - that afternoon. Six hours later Diana had knocked on his door, told him that they’d been closed for two hours and insisted he head upstairs because Peter was holding dinner for him.
The doors opened to the foyer and Neal stepped off, heading towards the apartment. The front door was slightly opened, when meant that Mozzie hadn’t left yet.
He closed the door behind him, tossed his keycard into the Waterford bowl on the table in the entry and followed the scent of roasting beef into the kitchen.
Mozzie was seated at the bar, reading that day’s edition of The Cracked Scale, wine glass at his elbow. He muttered a reply as Neal greeted him.
“So what’s up in the land of dragons?” Neal asked, opening up the oven and checked the roast. Another ten minutes wouldn’t hurt it, he thought.
“The usual,” Mozzie grumbled. “The Gold Party is claiming corruption in the last election of the Teach na scálaí, which is ludicrous. Everyone knows that they stuffed the ballot box during the last two elections.” Mozzie shook the paper and went back to cursing the politics of dragonkind.
Neal chuckled. He’d never really followed politics in the human world and was totally clueless in terms of the dragonkind version. He let Peter handle that. Luckily they hadn’t had to interact with any of the dignitaries and politicians yet – Peter had managed to put that off, claiming Neal was still getting settled in with Dar.
“So – are you staying for dinner?” he asked, pulling down a glass and pouring himself some wine.
“No.” Mozzie checked his watch. “Actually, I need to go. I have a date.” He folded the newspaper and stood.
“A date?” Neal raised an eyebrow. “Can I ask their name?”
“Her name is Gina. She works at the local diner where I have breakfast. We share a love of the printed word. She’s a Scultone, like me. It’s – nice.”
Neal grinned as Mozzie blushed and ducked his head. “Good for you, Moz. Where are you going?”
“To a poetry reading by Gustalf von Roterdrache,” he replied, referring to the dragon poet laureate. “She’s never seen him in person.”
Neal had read some of his work and was impressed. “Sounds like fun. Don’t stay out too late.” He winked at Mozzie.
“What are you? My mother?” Mozzie retorted.
“No, but you know that you promised to watch Dar tomorrow afternoon so Peter and I could go out for brunch to that new fusion place.”
Mozzie sighed and stuck the newspaper under his arm. “Fine, I’ll be here at ten.” He headed to the front door. “Call me at nine-thirty.”
“I will.” Neal opened the cupboards and took out plates for himself and Peter. He set the table in the breakfast nook, glad that the setting sun was edging behind the other buildings so there would be no glare. He chose a bottle of 2010 La Fleur-Petrus and uncorked it, letting it breathe before setting Yo Yo Ma’s rendition of Bach’s Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 1 on low. Neal poured the rest of the Barolo that Mozzie had been drinking into his glass to finish it and went in search of Peter.
He found him in Dar’s room. Leaning against the doorjamb, Neal looked at his mate. A wave of love and yes, lust, washed over him. It never ceased to amaze Neal how lucky he was to have Peter in his life. He smiled at the thought and leaned in to listen.
Peter was sitting in the wooden rocking chair that had been a gift from Elizabeth, tie off, his feet bare. The rays of the evening sun were sneaking around the skyline, bathing him in a golden glow that radiated off the slight scales that peeked out from under the collar of his white dress shirt. In his arms was Dar, curled up and nuzzling his chin.
Peter was murmuring, a mix of English and dragon-speak, and Neal could feel the vibrations through the parquet flooring. Dar squeaked and rolled over, its demands for a belly scratch echoing lightly in Neal’s head. Peter’s laugh was a rumble as he began rubbing Dar’s stomach.
Neal watched the two of them, a smile still on his face. They were his family and it was perfect.
Poppa…sing… Dar sounded – giggly – was the only way Neal could describe it. Sing the magic song.
Neal wasn’t sure what Dar was asking for until he heard Peter’s reply. In a quiet voice, Peter began:
Puff the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honali
Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal Puff
And brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff.
Neal chuckled quietly at the song. It was one that his mother had sung to him as a child and for Peter to be singing it to Dar sent a warm feeling through him. He caught Peter’s eye and winked, gesturing for him to continue. Peter started the chorus and Neal joined in.
Oh, Puff the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honali.
Dar turned and stretched out a claw. Come, Da.
Neal walked in the room and sat down at Peter’s feet. He took Dar’s claw and rubbed it, smiling at the pleased sounds his dragonet was making. They kept singing softly as Dar’s breathing settled into the rhythms of sleep.
Together they would travel on a boat with billowed sail
Jackie kept a lookout perched on Puff's gigantic tail
Noble kings and princes would bow whene'er they came
Pirate ships would lower their flags when Puff roared out his name.
Neal rested his head on Peter’s knee and closed his eyes, breathing in the unique scent that was his mate and his offspring and smiled to himself.
Dinner could wait.
Tags: caffrey-burke day, dar, dragonverse, fanfiction, mozzie, peter and neal, white collar
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Bridie Gillman is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, photography, sculpture and video. Drawing from her childhood spent in Indonesia, ideas of place - our experience and memories of a place - underpin her work. Gillman completed her Bachelor of Fine Art with Honours at the Queensland College of Art in 2013. Since graduating she has conducted residencies and exhibited throughout Australia and internationally, and in 2019 won the Moreton Bay Region Art Award. In addition to her practice, Gillman is co-director of STABLE, a contemporary art space in Brisbane as well as a co-director of BEAUT (Brisbane and Elsewhere Art Un-Triennial).
Gillman’s work has been curated into group and solo shows such as ‘Brisbane Art Design’, Museum of Brisbane (2019); ‘Before the Leaves Turn’, SCAPE at Studio 125 Gallery, Christchurch (2019); ‘Breathing Room’, Cement Fondu, Sydney (2019); ‘looking here looking north’, Casula Powerhouse Sydney (2019); ‘After’, Innerspace Contemporary, Brisbane (2017); ‘Woven’, Verge Gallery, Sydney (2017); ‘AusAsia’, MetroArts Brisbane (2016); ‘From Here’, Spiro Grace Artrooms, Brisbane (2016); ‘You and I, we’ve got the same blood running through us’, CutThumb, Brisbane (2016); ‘Round Island Tour’, Run Amok Gallery, Malaysia (2015); ‘The height of a mountain, the width of a valley’, Metro Arts, Brisbane (2015); ‘The moment something is understood it begins to be forgotten’, Blindside, Melbourne (2015); ‘Blue Monaro’, The Walls Artspace, Gold Coast (2015); ‘Moonbird’, Gallery Ten, Hobart (2015); ‘Day-Day! [dédé]’, Galeri Lorong, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2014); ‘Air’, 107 Projects, Sydney; ‘Crossing borders: video art, place and identity’, The Hold Artspace, Brisbane (2013); and ‘Arus Balik’, Sanggar Bangun Budaya, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
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Courtesy of Edwina Corlette Gallery
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45. Humbler TC: 17
It Was the Best of Times, it Was the Bester of Times.
74k later and still smiling (photo courtesy of Dan Emsley)
Northumberland Forest. Coburg, Ontario: The 2017 Substance Projects Northumberland Humbler.
74 kilometres.
That’s the same as driving from the CN Tower to Barrie. Well, 20k south of Barrie. 74,000 metres of singletrack, double track, old trails, new trails, fire road, access road, this side of the road, that side of the road, back to this side of the road again… We even did a few sliart. That’s trails spelled backward. You know, because we rode some of the trails in reverse.
1,400m of climbing.
That’s as tall as, well something really tall.
It was my favourite race EVER.
Let me say it again. The Northumberland Humbler was, by far, my favourite race ever.
WHATTARACE!!!
I actually started, raced, and finished my longest MTB race ever. 74k of BOOM.
It capped a two month spree of epic race awesomeness. 7 big races in 9 weekends, plus 5 weekly series races. BOOM times 7, plus 5, divided by 9.
Northumberland Forest is one of my favourite places to ride–AND we got to try a new trail AND, a whole bunch of it was backwards. MOOB (same joke as above)
I nailed a spot on the podium: 3rd place Clydesdale (and so what if there were only three Clydesdales and I was actually 2nd last place overall). A podium finish is a podium finish. One third of a BOOM.
I got to see my favourite biking sub-community: the folks at Substance Projects. A big Dan Marshall BOOM.
Jeff Shikaze, Team Colin, and Hair (photo courtesy of Jeff Shikaze)
And, after almost five hours of sweating in a helmet, there isn’t a single hair out of place. Thanks to my race photographer and Fatbike God, Jeff Shikaze for the shot, and thanks to great hair product. L’Oreal BOOM.
Honestly, if you peel everything away (the challenge, the exhaustion, the poison ivy all over my legs…) the Humbler was just a big boss, 4 hour and 48 minute long, rip (although it was considerably less time for the rest of the riders…). Bike playing BOOM.
I’m not saying it was easy, because it wasn’t, but honestly, it wasn’t that tough either. I started strong and with a smile on my face, I was still grinning at the halfway point, and I finished strong, with a bigger smile on my face. This race is a very stark contrast to the desolation and hopelessness (yes, actual desolation) I felt for the ENTIRE Long Sock Classic. Very stark indeed. While the LSC was my toughest race ever, the Humbler was the funnestest.
You might think funnestest isn’t a word, but if you raced the Humbler, you would know exactly what I’m talking about.
I still can’t believe we did it. I still can’t believe Team Colin rode a full marathon distance, on a single speed, and it didn’t kill us. Didn’t kill us? Pfft. Actually, I felt almost good at the end of the race.
The Humbler marked the end of a nine weekend racing spree that covered a good chunk of Ontario’s finest bike trails, a bunch of different riding disciplines, and almost 450k of race-pace, white-knuckle, maximum heart rate, riding…
Wait, what’s this about 9 weekend epic racing spree?
Well, from April 9th to June 3rd I raced almost every MTB race within 2 hours of my house. Here’s my Facebook post from the day after the Humbler:
9 weekends
7 big races
5 weekly series races
3 shots on the podium
Over 7,000m of climbing (um, that’s almost Mt. Everest)
Just under 450k of racing (and almost half of it on a single speed)
Steaming Nostril (April 9);
Homage to Ice (April 15);
Paris to Ancaster (April 30);
O Cup #2 in Kingston (May 7);
Long Sock Classic (May 20);
Singletrack Classic (May 27);
Northumberland Humbler (June 3).
Oh, and five King Weekly Series races.
And yes, I know Team Colin really isn’t that good of a rider, and I know there are so many riders who are way more epically awesome than me (they ride longer, faster, harder, and better, and their results are way better than mine–like waaaaaaaaay better), and because of that, there’s usually no shortage of self deprecation on my blog.
But not today.
Nope. Because Team Colin is now sort-of-in-a-periphery-way-kinda-almost-maybe-close-to-being in the same league as the big kid MTBers.
Not really, but almost sort of. Um, why do I keep referring to myself Team Colin?
And even though I’m not the traditional (okay, actual) definition of epic MTB awesomeness, I always place first because I’m not racing THEM, I’m racing ME. Although saying that, I also know that if I’m the “only person in the race”, I also place last, but that’s not the point I’m making right now. Right now, I feel good about my riding, and I want to hold onto it for a while longer. Besides, if you’ve ever seen my results, you know there’s plenty of opportunity for me to feel crappy about my riding.
You know, I feel better than just good. For the first time in my racing career, I feel kinda badass. No, I feel wickedly badass. As I wrote in blog #38, this season, I stopped QUALIFYING each race, and I started OWNING each race: The full P2A, the full Singletrack Classic, and three marathons (on a single speed)! So cool.
By the way, I didn’t start racing the marathon distances because I COULD, I started racing the marathon distances because I wanted to see if I could. The rationale and mindset leading to that decision is for another blog post, because now it’s time for a Race Report.
Race Report. Northumberland Humbler: Northumberland Forest (June 3, 2017)
The race started with the Humbler’s standard quick blast out of the start, and a rip up a moderate double track climb. There was a short rider snag at the first bit of sand, but then we were up the hill, and immediately into the sweet singletrack goodness that makes Northumberland my favourite place to ride: long stretches of fast and flowy singletrack, awesomely railed berms, and sweet MTB awesomeness at every tree, root, rock, and stalk of poison. For anyone familiar with the trails, we took the Hogsback bypass, which winds, in the gruntiest way, around the actual Hogsback. The bypass skirts a giant climb, but that doesn’t mean it’s gentle. It’s almost 2k of continual output, which took us to the 5k mark. Once at the top of that climb, I knew we didn’t have a significant climb for a long time. The next 15k was a blur of more awesomely flowing singletrack, speedy climbs, and long descents (that always seemed to end in a 90 degree turn). At the first aid station, I took a minute to recover with Liz, who was being assisted by Dan Elmsly, and then we we crossed the street for a quick zip alongside a pioneer stone wall (the fun new part).
At approximately 20k (across the road from the parking lot) the race transported us to Ganaraska Forest for a long haul. Yeah, the Northumberland Forest actually becomes the Ganny for a while. No it doesn’t, but it sure feels like it. On that side of the road, the trails morph from the fun Northumberland vibe to the raw Ganaraska vibe. While the trails leading into Stonewall (the fun new part) were awesome, the trails leading away from Stonewall (the fun new part) are a mean, raw and grunty mesh of tight and twisty, rocky and rooty trail that’s better suited for its intended use as motocross track instead of a mountain bike race. It wasn’t a walk in the park, but that’s okay, because I wasn’t walking, and I had my bike. By the time we were back on “this side” of the road, we were spent.
Fortunately, there were a few FAST stretches of trail that led to a faster switchback climb, and down to the START/FINISH line.
I hit the START/FINISH for a quick recovery before heading out onto the trails for a repeat.
Even though I felt strong, the first part of the second lap was the hardest. I knew what lay ahead, and I knew it was still 35k until I could stop pedalling, and I knew the pain had to kick in eventually.
However, surprisingly, the pain didn’t really kick in. On the other side of the road, just after Stonewall (the fun new part) at the 65k mark, the race became a slog, but I knew it was only 10k of lousy-ness, so I counted the metres until it ended.
And it did. I hit the aid station for a get-off-a-bike-stretch-and-drink, before the last 5k, and a few minutes later, I finished my longest MTB race.
Smiling. Grinning. I was even ready to do another lap. I’m kidding. I was sore and tired, and I think I would have had a temper tantrum if I had to get back on my bike, but I’m not kidding about my smile. It was an ear to ear, open mouthed, sweaty and spent, dirt-caked and trail-grimy, poop eating grin. True story: On the drive home, I was smiling so much that I felt like my cheeks were actually going to cramp.
End of Race Report.
So that’s it. I rode hard, I felt strong, and I did it.
These marathon distances are tough, but after three of them in four weeks, I feel like they’re now well within my realm of possibility. I’m not good at them, but I can still finish.
I should rephrase that. I’m not good at them YET.
It was an awesome day from start to finish–and I even won a set of pedals (courtesy of Bateman’s Cycle).
After the race, when the podium was finished, and most racers left, Team Colin relaxed for a post race chat/popsicle with my pal Raf (from Fatboy Nation), and the Emsleys (from Awesometon–totally a real place). Dan Emsley gave me a bear roast to cook when I got home. Yes, an actual bear roast. That night, I roasted it, and Team Colin sampled Haliburton’s best.
Seriously though, what’s with me always referring to myself in the third person?
With all the fresh bear meat in my belly, I felt like I was Nick Emsley, and without even knowing it, I roared “I AM TEAM COLIN”. It was kind of primal. Maybe it was the fresh bear. Maybe not. Either way, I immediately thought “Were the heck did that come from, and what’s with this third person thing?”
And then it dawned on me. I. AM. TEAM. COLIN. Say that like Jean Luc Picard telling Gul Madred “There. Are. Four. Lights.” It sounds way more boss. It’s not the epic bike racing spree, or the bike love, or the positivity, or anything else that makes me Team Colin. It’s not even the hats (although they are pretty sweet). It’s a feeling deep down in my belly–a primal fire in my belly–that makes me who I am, and I am totally digging it.
There are four lights, and I am Team Colin.
Now THAT’S a big podium… (photo courtesy of Jenn Kennedy/Mike Orsan)
Post race update. During the race, one of the lead riders was hurt. Three of the leaders, Nick Emsley, Rick Landry, and Seth Stewart, stopped to help. The three of them are awesome. I can only imagine how tough it was for the three of them to step out of race mode to help a fellow rider–and Nick Emsley is 18 years old. These racers demonstrated a remarkable level of fellowship. I don’t know Jeff and Seth, but Nick sure made me proud to know him and his family. Nice work Nick. You’re an example for the rest of us.
To Jeff, Seth, and Nick, the three of you are the undisputed Humbler winners.
If you have something to say about the race, or anything else, comment on this blog, or send an email to: teamcolinblog@yahoo.com
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Hemorrhoids How Do They Look Like
Jul 11, 2016 · How to Spot the Symptoms of Hemorrhoids. Hemorrhoids are swollen, dilated, and inflamed veins in the rectum or anus that become itchy and painful. Many people, both men and women, can get hemorrhoids. It’s only when they swell and cause.
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Survey: Remote Workers Are Happier
Adam Rowe December 7th 2017 2:30 pm
The amount of workers who report quitting a position because it just isn't flexible enough has practically doubled over the last three years, moving from 17 percent in 2014 to 32 percent in 2017. And, as a LinkedIn study released earlier revealed, many emerging jobs are favoring flexibility as well as high location mobility.
Why is flexibility emerging as a cultural value now, and what's the impact? Happiness, for one thing, a recent survey from Leadership IQ has highlighted.
14 Percent More Love Their Jobs
Over 14,000 online respondents to a test from the company have offered the data that proves this point, as the company explained in an article on Forbes:
“First, we’ve learned that only 24 percent of people who work in an office say they love their jobs. But 38 percent of mobile workers and a whopping 45 percent of telecommuting workers love their jobs! So if you hire the right people to work remotely, you can get employees that are far more engaged than their office-bound peers.”
It's important to note that remote work definitely isn't for everyone: Some people simply prefer the structure of a nine-to-five and the sharp distinction between home life and a work environment that it provides. However, as the percentage points above indicate, those who prefer a remote work option are a lot more excited about the job that comes with it. Employers looking for a committed team will find it about twice as easy to come across if they go for a remote one.
And, the above article continues to explain, employers hoping to hire a smart remote team should opt for two interview questions in particular to highlight values essential to a strong remote worker: “Could you tell me about a time you got tough feedback from a boss?” and “Could you tell me about a time you made an important decision without the help of a supervisor or boss?” The abilities to convert criticism into personal improvement and to make independent decisions are particularly suited to someone working remotely, and point to the sort of person who would fall into that 38 or 45 percent of remote workers who love their jobs.
Read more about remote work on TechCo
Adam Rowe
@AdamRRowe
Adam is a writer at Tech.co and has worked as a tech writer, blogger and copy editor for the last decade. He's also a Forbes Contributor on the publishing industry (and Digital Book World 2018 award finalist) and has appeared in publications including Popular Mechanics and IDG Connect. When not glued to TechMeme, he loves obsessing over 1970s sci-fi art.
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Home » Locations » Odds & Sods » Heads up UK! Tellyspotting has landed for the ‘To the Manor Born’ – A KERA Tour of England!
Heads up UK! Tellyspotting has landed for the ‘To the Manor Born’ – A KERA Tour of England!
On: September 1, 2019, By: Bill Young
Photo: ITV/NBC Universal/PBS
As your head hits the pillow tonight, Tellypotting will have Iceland in our rear-view mirror heading to the UK for the inaugural and, hopefully, annual To the Manor Born – A KERA Tour of England! In partnership with the brilliant folks over at Transcendent Travel, a very enthusiastic group of public television uber-fans will descend on the UK for a trip of a lifetime.
Beginning Monday and continuing over the course of the next week, 30 intrepid British drama and comedy enthusiasts will have the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see first hand the locations used in the filming of such series favorites as Victoria, Poldark, Downton Abbey, Doc Martin and To the Manor Born, in addition to such iconic places as Hampton Court Palace and The Greenway Estate, the home of author Agatha Christie.
Photo: Mathew Prichard, AgathaChristie.com
From a first day tour of Windsor Castle, it’s then on to Highclere Castle for ‘tea’ followed by tours of Bath, Devon, Port Isaac, back to Sidmouth on the coast of Devon and, finally, returning to London before heading back to the States.
What am I looking forward to the most?
Aside from the obvious of being able to spend time with an amazing group of KERA viewers/members/supporters who are known to enjoy good British comedy or drama every now and then, it will be the opportunity to have tea at Highclere Castle and imagining catching a brief glimpse of the Dowager Countess wandering the halls or Mrs. Patmore holding down the fort in the kitchen, having ‘afternoon cream tea’ at Cricket St. Thomas, a.k.a. the stately home of Audrey fforbes-Hamilton in To the Manor Born seeing in person the picturesque town of Port Isaac, or Portwenn as we have come to know it from Doc Martin and, finally, getting the opportunity to witness the beauty that is the Cornish coastline and imagine Captain Ross Poldark (Aidan Turner or Robin Ellis) riding Seamus like the wind when hearing of an accident at the Poldark family mine.
Photo: BBC/PBS
While daily posting may be challenging at times, we at Tellyspotting will do our best to give readers a start to finish account of our travels. We will, however, make every attempt to break the Instagram universe and post pics and comments on a regular basis so head over the Instagram and follow us at uktelly.
In: Locations,Odds & Sods
Starting in Windsor, the KERA Tour of England heads west to Highclere Castle then Bath!
Downtown Abbey – The Exhibition heads to America!
A brief stop for ice cream in Sidmouth, a night with Lady Grey and then it’s on to Hampton Court Palace….
ITV mini-theme park could feature ‘Downton Abbey’ and ‘Victoria’ attractions
‘Downton Abbey: The Exhibition’ is headed to the Sunshine State for the winter
Its all Downton Abbey 3 during PBS day at TCA
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PAGAN ALTAR reissues of Mythical & Magical and The Time Lord – Pre-orders open now!
Pagan Altar’s Mythical & Magical and The Time Lord are set to be released on December 4th on Temple of Mystery Records. Both albums will be reissued on CD format, deluxe vinyl versions, and audiophile cassettes.
Each CD version include a completely new remaster, complete layout redesign, rare photos, and exclusive liner notes by journalist Sarah Kitteringham.
Each vinyl version include completely new remasters, deluxe gatefold covers, and complete layout redesign. Mythical & Magical includes a beautiful etch on side D, and The Time Lord includes a recently unearthed version of “Night Rider” from the same sessions as the other recordings! Vinyl is available on regular black and limited colors (250 each only copies) available exclusively at the label’s website HERE.
Each cassette versions are pressed on Chromium Dioxide audiophile tapes and include remastered audio.
In 1976, from the mysterious English countryside, emerged Pagan Altar – a band whose arcane doom rumblings have changed the face of the genre. Despite their infamous debut album, Judgement of the Dead, taking decades to be officially released, their short-yet-bright star finally took off in the mid 2000s when the band unleashed The Time Lord, Lords of Hypocrisy, and Mythical & Magical, ending decades of setbacks and unintentional silence. Today, each record in their discography is fanatically hoarded by fans and damn near impossible to find — unless you are willing to depart with a large chunk of your wallet.
Following the untimely passing of iconic frontman Terry Jones in 2015, it took several years for the band’s final album, The Room of Shadows, to be released. Acclaimed internationally as a befitting swan-song, the album was lovingly issued by Canadian label Temple of Mystery Records. The release catapulted the band back into the limelight, encouraging the label to undertake the task of reissuing their highly sought-after back catalog on vinyl, CD, and cassette tape formats. It also brought the band back to the stage in tribute to their fallen frontman, with Magic Circle’s Brendan Radigan taking up the vocal role with aplomb.
Second in the series of reissues are Mythical & Magical and The Time Lord, set for international release on December 4th via Temple of Mystery. Mythical & Magical features remastered audio, with the vinyl edition including two discs with an etch on side D, and features an original drawing by Karmazid as the gatefold. A limited edition of 250 copies will be pressed on blood red vinyl. Meanwhile, The Time Lord reissue features a never-heard before version of “Night Rider” from the same recordings, as well as a beautiful gatefold. A limited edition of 150 copies will be available on ocean blue vinyl. The CD editions of both albums will feature exclusive liner notes.
To celebrate the legacy reissues, Pagan Altar will undertake select shows around Europe and North America this summer. These performances will include founding member Alan Jones on lead guitar, Diccon Harper on bass, Andres Arango on rhythm guitar, Andy Green on drums, and Brendan Radigan on vocals. The vinyl, CD, and cassette versions of Judgement of the Dead and Lords of Hypocrisy were released in April 2019 and are still available on the label’s website.
Respective covers, tracklistings, and preorder links for Mythical & Magical and The Time Lord are as follows:
Tracklisting for Pagan Altar’s Mythical and Magical
1. Samhein
2. The Cry of the Banshee
3. The Crowman
4. Daemoni Na Noiche
5. The Sorcerer
6. Flight of the Witch Queen
7. Dance of the Druids
8. The Erl King
9. The Witches Pathway
10. Sharnie
11. The Rising of the Dark Lord
Featuring songs written mostly between 1976 and 1983, Mythical & Magical is Pagan Altar’s third album and is, without a doubt, the pinnacle of their career. This grandiose, ancient-sounding masterpiece owes most of its atmosphere to Terry Jones’ majestic vocals and Alan Jones’ intricate guitar licks—which gracefully weave a web of medieval-tinged solos throughout the songs. The unique mixture of heavy doom rock and mournful English folk found on Mythical & Magical is absolutely impeccable and will forever be celebrated among the knowing as one of the best albums of the genre. Gatefold LP version includes insert, new layout, etch on vinyl, and remastered songs, and jewelcase CD version includes exclusive liner notes and remastered songs.
Order links
Limited blood-red vinyl: https://www.templeofmystery.ca/shop/pagan-altar-mythical-magical-black-dlp/
Black vinyl: https://www.templeofmystery.ca/shop/pagan-altar-mythical-magical-limited-blood-red-dlp/
CD: https://www.templeofmystery.ca/shop/pagan-altar-mythical-magical-cd/
Cassette: https://www.templeofmystery.ca/shop/pagan-altar-mythical-magical-cassette/
*** PRE-ORDER: Each pre-order will include one beautiful dye-cut PAGAN ALTAR logo vinyl sticker! ***
Tracklisting for Pagan Altar’s The Time Lord
1. Highway Cavalier
2. The Time Lord
3. Judgement of the Dead
4. The Black Mass
5. Reincarnation
6. Night Rider
Originally recorded back in 1978-79, The Time Lord features Pagan Altar’s earliest recordings. Two of these flawlessly executed tracks are from a 24-track recording session, and the rest of the album are early, atmospheric versions of songs that were later re-recorded on Judgement of the Dead. This LP includes a long-lost, never-before-heard version of “Night Rider,” from the same era as the other songs! This is pure doom metal sorcery. LP version includes insert, new layout, and remastered songs, and jewelcase CD version includes exclusive liner notes and remastered songs.
Limited ocean-blue vinyl: https://www.templeofmystery.ca/shop/pagan-altar-the-time-lord-limited-ocean-blue-lp/
Limited black vinyl: https://www.templeofmystery.ca/shop/pagan-altar-the-time-lord-black-lp/
CD: https://www.templeofmystery.ca/shop/pagan-altar-the-time-lord-cd/
Cassette: https://www.templeofmystery.ca/shop/pagan-altar-the-time-lord-cassette/
To celebrate the reissues, Pagan Altar will undertake the following shows around Europe and North America this summer:
***NORTH AMERICAN TOUR***
MONTREAL – Friday, August 23rd
Pagan Altar w/Cauchemar and Palmistry
Tickets: https://thepointofsale.com/tickets/czz190823001
RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/2383695098353766
TORONTO – Saturday, August 24th
Pagan Altar w/Blood Ceremony, Cauchemar, and Smoulder
Tickets: https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1848332?utm_medium=bks
BROOKLYN – Friday, August 30th
Pagan Altar w/Cauchemar and Spite
Tickets: https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1852805
CHICAGO – Saturday, August 31st
Pagan Altar w/Cauchemar and High Spirits
RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/579066995836100
LOS ANGELES – Sunday, September 1st
Pagan Altar w/Cauchemar
RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/2398879880132252/
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The Peak Next Gen | How Abhit Sud is changing the beauty business industry
Trailblazers under 40: Despite it being his first foray into the beauty industry, Global Wellness Group's managing director Abhit Sud has achieved an annual turnover of $100 million in three years.
Germaine Cheong
If there’s one sport that mirrors Abhit Sud’s ethos in business and life, it is tennis. From the glint in his eye to the quickening in his speech, you can sense the excitement that it still stirs up in the 36- year-old, who has been playing the sport since he was nine.
Says Sud: “I love the fact that I can serve an ace or hit a shot that my opponent can’t reach. The power in the game, the mental and physical fitness that one needs, the control that one needs to exercise – tennis pushes me to the limit.
“Every time I’m on the court, I feel like a kid in school again, en route to winning a tournament.” Sud used to play for his home state of Delhi, India. “It’s not just about winning; it’s about winning big time.”
He’s applying this same competitiveness on the business front, where he has been serving up aces as managing director of Global Wellness Group (GWG). Never mind that it is his first foray into the beauty business. In three years, Sud says GWG has grown by over 300 per cent with an annual turnover of $100 million. Brands include FIL, Uber-Aesthetic Clinic and Body Contours. The last 10 months has seen GWG open six clinics in Singapore and expand existing ones in a sluggish economy.
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Although his family’s US$1 billion (S$1.3 billion) Mayar Group in India deals mainly in commodities, shipping, and paper manufacturing, Sud has been eyeing opportunities in Singapore’s $2 billion beauty business. After studying the market and acquiring established beauty and wellness brands between 2011 and 2017 – GWG was formed in 2014 to consolidate these acquisitions – he felt it was high time for a luxury medical aesthetics concept to debut in Singapore.
He says: “More general practitioners are turning to the aesthetics practice but people forget that they are not specialists. The market is also being flooded by Chinese, South Korean and Taiwanese skincare technologies, which is driving the quality of treatments down. The real world leaders in medical aesthetics technology are the US, Europe and Israel.”
“IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT WINNING; IT’S ABOUT WINNING BIG TIME.”
Two months ago, GWG opened luxury wellness concept Covette Clinic in Ion Orchard. It is touted to be the first and only group in the world with a global medical panel, including Italy’s Dr Roberto Pizzamiglio who created Silhouette Soft sutures, a popular non-surgical treatment that lifts sagging skin, and Prague’s Dr Ondrej Mestak, highly sought after for breast surgery (aesthetic and reconstruction), as well as facial plastic surgery including rhinoplasty and body contouring. “Every quarter, the panel will meet to discuss new technology/equipment, new protocol for laser treatments, different patient skin types, and improve safety measures,” says Sud.
Covette Clinic has also rolled out by-invitation-only memberships. Besides privileges from fashion and lifestyle brand partners, clients benefit from priority bookings with worldwide medical partners. Members also get to enjoy the use of the clinic’s two penthouses that come with shower and vanity facilities.\
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Global expansion plans are already well under way. GWG has acquired clinics in London, which will be rebranded as Covette over the next 24 months. It is also looking at opening luxury penthouse clinics, and has shortlisted a space opposite Harrods that overlooks Hyde Park. The latter is slated to operate in June.
Covette will also be partnering Essel Group’s news arm Zee Media Corporation to open four medical centres in New York. Called Yo1 Medical Center – Yo1 is Sanskirt for peak of youth – this group of wellness centres will feature Covette clinics and offer plush accommodation options to clients who require longer downtime after health/beauty treatments.
Locally, GWG will be launching a mobile app that enables clients to purchase credits that can be used across its nine brands. It is also franchising FIL to India and Indonesia.
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“I’m still a young entrepreneur with only 12 years of experience. I’m grateful for having tasted success in most of my ventures that I’ve dared to invest in outside of Mayar’s core business. I’m enjoying the ride and the learning process.”
“My biggest inspiration is my father. He inherited a small business and grew it into a global conglomerate. He’s a maverick.”
FATHER KNOWS BEST
“One advice that I hold dear is that one must understand customers very well and treat staff like family. My father told me this.”
I HOPE THAT
“…my seven-year-old daughter will come to love tennis as much as I do. She’s not really getting it right now so I’m taking her to Wimbledon this year to spur her interest.”
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The Ultimate Guide to US Airlines’ Same-Day Change Policies
Jason Steele
You’ve wrapped up your business meetings sooner than you thought, and now you have just enough time to catch an earlier flight. It used to be that the airlines would gladly let you stand by for free, eager to free up a seat on a later flight that they could potentially sell. But today, they’re much more likely to demand payment for the privilege of taking that empty seat.
Today, let’s look at the same-day change policies by airline, and see how you can make that earlier flight without feeling like you’re being extorted.
Why Make a Same-Day Change?
The most common reason for wanting an earlier flight is that you already ended your trip and are ready to head home. Sometimes you might arrive at the airport early, unexpectedly fly through security and find yourself passing a gate for an earlier flight to your destinatiojn. Other times, you might schedule a generous layover only to find that there’s an earlier connecting flight that hasn’t left yet.
One of the more “innovative” ways to use same-day standby is to purchase a later flight that’s much less expensive with the hope of catching the more costly, earlier flight. Finally, taking an earlier flight can be a good strategy to make it to your destination in advance of approaching bad weather.
Standby vs. Same-Day Confirmed
There are actually two types of same-day changes that you can make to your ticket.
The traditional way is called flying standby. This means that you’re placed on a list to receive an available seat. When there are lots of unsold seats, you often receive a ticket at the gate and board with the group that you normally would. But when the flight is sold out, or oversold, you’re left waiting to see if there are any no-shows before being handed a boarding pass.
Although more flights now leave full than every before, you’d be surprised how many people miss their connections or who change their plans without changing their tickets. With today’s high airline change fees, travelers now have little incentive to cancel their reservations.
The more recent type of same-day change is a confirmed change. This takes all the guesswork out of the equation by giving you a confirmed reservation and seat assignment. Some airlines even let you do a same-day confirmed change to a later flight.
Tips for Same-Day Changes
(Photo by chuttersnap via Unsplash)
Act quickly — Some airlines let you make same-day confirmed changes or join a standby list within 24 hours of departure of the new flight, while others look at the original flight’s departure time. So, you’ll want to understand the rules and confirm your same-day change, or request to be put on the standby list, as early as you can.
Use delays to your advantage — You should always try to benefit from airline discretion before paying the fee. For example, if your scheduled flight is delayed for any reason, then the airline may waive its change fees to allow you to be confirmed or standby for the earlier flight. You can also ask for fee waivers by citing predicted bad weather, even if your flight hasn’t been delayed yet. And sometimes, the airline might waive the fee if your original flight is oversold, or if you just ask nicely.
Act strategically with upgrades in mind — Another trick is to consider same-day changes to improve your chance of an upgrade. If the upgrade availability of an earlier or later flight is better than the flight you’re on, you might prefer a first-class seat to sitting in economy with your current reservation.
Keep in mind that refundable fares are typically eligible for same day confirmed and standby travel at no cost. But if you already purchased a full-fare, refundable ticket, you might as well check the price of alternative tickets on the same airline and other carriers. If there’s a flight available that costs less than the one you already have, you can simply purchase the other ticket, have your original one refunded and pocket the difference.
In addition, the information in this post reflects the published policies of the airlines. With any of these carriers you’ll find reports of exceptions made by a flexible and accommodating agent, but if you’re looking to make a same-day flight change, I wouldn’t count on anything outside of the written policy.
Same-Day Change Policies by Airline
Cost: There are two different fees for same-day changes on Alaska. If you’re traveling on shuttle flights between Anchorage and Fairbanks, Seattle and Portland or Seattle and Spokane, and on flights entirely within California, same-day confirmed changes cost $25, but you can standby for free.
Rules: For all other flights, same-day confirmed changes cost $50. You can change to an earlier or later flight, but the change must be made before your originally scheduled departure, and you can only change to flights that depart the same calendar day as your original departure. Flights sold as part of a vacation package aren’t eligible.
Fee Waivers: The fee is waived for MVP Gold Mileage Plan members and their companions, and for those traveling in F and D (first class) and Y and Z (economy class) fares.
The American Airlines International First Class Lounge at JFK.
Cost: Within the US, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, both same-day confirmed changes and standby flights are available for $75. For flights to Canada and the Caribbean, the price is the same, but standby isn’t offered. And if you’re booked on one of American’s numerous daily flights between New York-JFK and London-Heathrow, the charge is $150 for a same-day standby.
Rules: Flights may be confirmed up to 24 hours before the new flight time. The new flights have to be on the same routing as you were originally ticketed on, so you can’t change your connecting city to arrive home earlier. Also, note that basic economy tickets aren’t eligible for same day confirmed or standby travel.
Fee Waivers: Both confirmed changes and standby fees are waived for those with AAdvantage Executive Platinum and Platinum Pro status (and companions on the same reservation), and those flying on unrestricted economy fares in Y class. The fees are also waived if you’re flying on an award ticket. Finally, the fees are also waived for first-class and AirPass flyers.
Standby fees are waived for those with AAdvantage Gold status or higher (and up to 8 companions on the same reservation) and for those with Oneworld Emerald, Sapphire or Ruby status (and up to 8 companions on the same reservation). Standby fees are also waived for active duty US military personnel (on orders or personal travel) and active US military dependents (on orders only). For more information, see our Comprehensive Guide to American Airlines’ Same Day Flight Changes.
Cost: You can use the same-day confirmed option for travel within the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. The fee is $75 for a same-day confirmed reservation, but basic economy fares aren’t eligible.
Rules: You can request same-day standby on Delta within 24 hours of your new requested flight with no route changes. You can only request changes within 24 hours of the original scheduled flight, and standby is not permitted on flights to and from Canada.
Fee Waivers: The same-day confirmed fee is waived for Gold, Platinum and Diamond Medallion members. Gold, Platinum and Diamond Medallion SkyMiles members don’t have to pay a fee for standby, either.
Cost: Although many of its routes are served just once a day, Frontier offers same-day confirmed changes for $99. Surprisingly, same-day standby travel is available for no fee, just like the good old days.
Rules: Frontier allows same-day confirmed and standby flights to switch to alternate airports, and it has a very generous definition of these alternates, including:
Washington Dulles (IAD) and Washington National (DCA)
Chicago-O’Hare Airport (ORD), IL & Milwaukee (MKE), WI
Ft. Lauderdale (FLL) & West Palm Beach (PBI) FL
Los Angeles (LAX) & Orange County/Santa Ana (SNA), CA
Madison (MSN) & Milwaukee (MKE) WI
New York La Guardia (LGA) NY, Trenton (TTN) NJ, & Philadelphia (PHL) PA
Orange County/Santa Ana (SNA) & San Diego (SAN), CA
Orlando (MCO) & Tampa (TPA), FL
Orlando (MCO) & St. Augustine (UST), FL
Cost: It’s free, but there are lots of restrictions.
Rules: This airline offers very frequent service between the islands, but you can only stand by for an earlier flight if you’re a Pualani Gold or Platinum elite, or if you’re a corporate customer who’s booked through the corporate web portal.
Cost: If you book a Blue or Blue Plus fare, the confirmed same-day change fee is $75. When same-day confirmed reservations aren’t available, standby travel is available for the same $75 charge, which is also waived for Flex fares and Mosaic members.
Rules: You must travel to the same airport or to a designated co-located airport, and you must change your flight prior to the departure of your original flight. You can call JetBlue or make the change at the airport.
Fee Waivers: This fee doesn’t apply to Flex fares and is waived for Mosaic elites.
Cost: Southwest famously doesn’t have any change fees.
Rule: You must pay the fare difference when changing your flight, which can be considerable.
Fee Waivers: Free same-day standby is offered to A List and A List Preferred members of the Rapid Rewards frequent flyer program.
This one’s pretty straightfoward: Spirit offers same-day standby options for $99.
Cost: There’s a $75 fee for same-day confirmed or, if it isn’t available, for flying standby.
Rules: The flight must be in the original ticketed fare class, or you’ll need to pay a fare difference. Changes in routing aren’t allowed when standing by. The same rules apply to award tickets. You need to keep the same departure and destination cities but can change your routing for a connection if it’s allowed based on your original ticket’s fare class.
Fee Waivers: This fee is waived for MileagePlus Premier Gold, Premier Platinum and 1K members.
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Fastest rate of capital gain in Gold Coast hinterland
Antonia Mercorella of the Real Estate Institute of Queensland, Paul Arthur of Queensland Sotheby's International Realty, Petra Szydlowski of Belle property Robina, and Tim Lawless of CoreLogic discuss the Gold Coast hinterland property market.
Image supplied by Sophie Carter
A home in Tallebudgera Valley, for sale for $2.19 million by Ed Cherry of Sophie Carter, as featured on Luxury List
The past twelve months has seen the Gold Coast hinterland record the fastest rate of capital gain, out of any hinterland area in Australia, with dwelling values up 8.1 per cent in the last 12 months, according to CoreLogic.
The annual change in values for the last five years was 6.8 per cent.
CoreLogic statistics show the median dwelling value in the Gold Coast Hinterland is $593,954.
Queensland Sotheby's International Realty CEO, Paul Arthur, told WILLIAMS MEDIA “As we know people today are either looking for a sea change or a tree change.”
“The Gold Coast hinterland has been underappreciated and is coming into its own.
“People are starting to realise how beautiful it is and what it offers.”
Mr Arthur said relative to other hinterlands in Australia it offers exceptional value, and many facilities including cafes, restaurants, wellness centres, and beautiful walks and trails.
“It’s the Gold Coast climate coupled with the hinterland experience - large acreages, and a rainforest feel."
High on the list for buyers are Currumbin Valley, Tallebudgera Valley and Tamborine Mountain.
“We have seen a number of buyers coming into those areas from the southern capitals.”
The backyard in a home in Tallebudgera Valley, for sale for $2.19 million by Ed Cherry of Sophie Carter, as seen on Luxury List
CoreLogic said there has been a surge in demand for properties located in coastal and hinterland ‘lifestyle’ regions and towns.
Tim Lawleess, head of research at CoreLogic found a variety of factors have contributed to renewed demand for properties outside the cities.
A large part of it must be attributable to the ‘wealth effect', where homeowners (particularly those in Sydney and Melbourne) have seen a substantial wealth boost via their property holdings.
Couple this with a large cohort of baby boomers seeking out holiday homes or relocation options as they shift into retirement age, and the demand picture becomes more pronounced.
According to Tim Lawless, perhaps another element is the growing acceptance and popularity of ‘telecommuting’ thanks to faster internet speeds, wider employer acceptance of working from home and broader availability of technologies such as VPN, which provides a secure virtual office environment for staff working remotely.
A final piece of the puzzle comes back to housing prices and affordability. It’s often the case that hinterland properties will provide a lower entry point to the market relative to their coastal or big city counterparts, especially when you take into consideration that typical block sizes are much larger.
According to the Real Estate Institute of Queensland (REIQ), the annual median house price in June 2018 in Tallebudgera Valley was $1.08 million with a 30.9 per cent price change in the last year, and a 38 per cent price change in the last five years.
In Tamborine Mountain the annual median house price is $860,000, with a price change of 12.1 per cent in the last year, and 27,8 per cent in the last five years.
Median age for residents in the GC Hinterland is around 45 - 50 years.
268-274 Macdonnell Road, Tamborine Mountain offers over $1.349 million by Petra Szydlowski of Belle Property Robina, as seen on Luxury List
Antonia Mercorella, chief executive officer of the REIQ said the Gold Coast hinterland offers great value for money and buyers have access to good amounts of land, lots of space, and attractive properties.
“It’s a little bit further from the beach but there is good access to it. The GC hinterland has been a hidden secret, but people are now seeing the value of buying there,” Ms Mercorella told WILLIAMS MEDIA.
“It is often popular for empty nesters looking for privacy and seclusion, and it’s equally going to be a great option for people with kids and young families as it gives you lots of land but is still close to beaches and good schools.”
Related reading: Predicted regional growth areas
Mr Mercorella said the Gold Coast market overall has been performing strongly for a few years.
“The recent Commonwealth games have had an impact on rental vacancy rates, and we’ve seen the Gold Coast market bounce back very strongly post GFC, faster than most property markets.”
Petra Szydlowski of Belle property Robina told WILLIAMS MEDIA she has seen growth over the last few months.
“We haven’t had the spring season start yet, there is a little bit of slowness around,” said Ms Szydlowski.
“There is some uncertainty with the banking enquiry, and we’ve seen a few declines in finance applications.”
Mr Szydlowski said Tamborine Mountain is a very niche market, with a capped population of about 10,000.
“With the council very anti development the mountain is holding its value more than anywhere else in region.
“Median prices have definitely gone up. There is very little stock available in the $400,000 - $600,000 value.
“There is an increase in spend from $600,000 - $800,000, and we have sold more $1 million plus properties over the last 12 months than anytime before that.”
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Belle Property Robina
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School Reform: The Education of a Reformer
Posted on March 11, 2013 by schooldog
Summary: In an echo of assertions in recent posts that school district leaders need to listen deeply into the ranks in their effort to reform failing schools, we take a look at the current arrival point of the career of Michelle Rhee, once a bright star of the Washington, D.C., firmament, brought to ground by politics and her apparent inability to understand the full dimensions of her leadership role.
For perspective on the role of superintendent in school reform, we take a brief look at the career of former Washington, D.C., schools head Michelle Rhee. Laurel Rosenhall of the Sacramento Bee, in the February 4 Seattle Times (“Reformer Rhee is eager to shake up California schools”), profiles Rhee and her continuing efforts to shake up the teacher union establishment, this time with a lobbying organization based in California called StudentsFirst.
While I have not followed Rhee’s work closely enough to form a clear opinion, my impression is that she represents both the yin and the yang of school administration. On the one hand, she has been resolute and clear headed in forming her strategies for school change; she seems to have won some battles, but lost others, including in the end her job in DC. On the other, she has incurred the enmity of teacher unions; she has seemed to have a take no prisoner style that may simply reinforce the very resistance she criticizes. In short, she may have without intention become part of the problem. Apparently, a polarizing figure.
Her self reinvention as a lobbying force and political maven with StudentsFirst, at least in Rosenhall’s telling, displays some of the same blend of pugnacity with commitment to the cause of students as she displayed in DC. Her organization has challenged candidates of the California Teachers’ Association at the polls, but has also put forth legitimate proposals to my eye, including the expansion of charter schools, the removal of seniority as the primary factor in teacher layoffs, and the inclusion of student test scores in the evaluation of teachers, though I would probably disagree with her degree of emphasis.
Rhee is an agent provocateur, and so fills a necessary and useful role. She may be wise to remove herself from her line position in a school system; she may in fact be too hard charging for its complexities, perhaps too vested in her own intellectual command, too little willing or able to listen to and incorporate the intensities of others under her authority.
One wonders if she were in Jose Banda’s position in Seattle (see 2/18/13 post) how she would react. Mr. Banda, the relatively new Seattle superintendent, has seemed to proceed cautiously toward teachers who have refused to administer the MAP test to ninth graders. Rhee’s reputation, at least, would have her strongly sanctioning the offending teachers, thereby missing the opportunity to build bridges and breathe life into the energies of the staff involved, now mostly frustrated.
With this preamble, I attended with curiosity an event in Seattle at which Rhee was to be interviewed publicly. The pretext was a tour through which she is publicizing her new book, Radical: Fighting to Put Students First. The very title broadcasts her apparent comfort with confrontation, and is maybe a bit over self-congratulatory, seeming to forget that many others, beginning with tens of thousands of teachers, also “fight to put students first.” Ironic, too, since it has apparently been fights with teachers, albeit in the form of union structure, that have made her reputation and, in the end, have cost her the opportunity to continue her arguably useful work in Washington, D.C.
Unfortunately, the interview event turned out to be a bit of bland, a game of slow pitch lobs from a gentleman she apparently knew. Though there was some turmoil and demonstration on the sidewalk outside from points of view not always pertinent to her appearance, and some derisive voice inside during the event, the affair was pretty tightly controlled. Questions were written out before hand and selected by organizers; there was no direct give and take with the audience, which ultimately reverted to Seattle polite, and so in this case what might have yielded stimulating interchange became more of a showcase, and an opportunity for Rhee to soften some of the edges around her public persona.
But there were substantive questions posed. To my ear, her responses to both the moderator’s and the audience’s questions were well within the contours of rational debate. For example, on the subject of the use of student test results in evaluating teachers, Ms. Rhee correctly pointed out that the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has endorsed the shift, though at a percentage below the 50% Rhee herself advocates. Her point was that her position wasn’t really all that radical from the point of view of at least one major teachers’ union; the conversation about how large a percentage of an evaluation should stem from students’ test score improvement in a teacher’s class is something “we can talk about” in a much less divisive way than if one side advocated such practice and the other side refused to go there at all, which is still the case commonly.
The AFT has seemed to me to be more flexible and willing to think progressively than the National Education Association, a larger and rival entity, as have splinter groups of teachers on local, state, and national levels. Fuel for a future post.
Meanwhile, at the time of her visit, Rhee was interviewed by a Seattle Times staff reporter, and it was there in the paper the next day that to me some of her more telling comments were reported (February 20, Sarah Freishtat, “Rhee has some advice for state schools”).
“’I did not think that my job was to have a communications and PR shop,’ Rhee said,” according to Freishtat. Left at such a dismissive, this statement (assuming accurately reported and not distorted out of context) would speak volumes of flip about the kinds of problems she had in DC. Intellectual arrogance and disrespect for the legitimate points of view of others would be starters. Pair such a stance with that of teachers and principals who already felt embattled before she arrived, and the conditions for full out war are already staged.
After Rhee demonstrated her lack of PR tact, Freishtat reports a more moderate version. “That said, if she could do it all over again, she would manage news sources better, Rhee said, making sure she understood the media and they understood her.” Well that’s better, probably true, and significantly more respectful of the points of view of others than the original petulant note.
However, she fails to include teachers in this particular outreach, and maybe thereby she betrays the source of whatever failure she encountered.
In paraphrase of Rhee, Freishtat reports the former chancellor “wanted to improve the education system, and unions wanted to protect teachers.” This latter is not a particularly nuanced position; it panders to the politics of union as whipping boy; it stereotypes what was a large collection of individual points of view; and it completely sidesteps what would arguably be Rhee’s own responsibility as leader of the school system to reach out both to union and individuals within the union in order to carve out common working ground. Instead, she seems to have chosen combat.
Hers is reminiscent of Joel Klein’s tenure in New York as a story of meeting the beast head on, and finally of an exit leaving a trail of blood, her own and that of others. In counterpoint stand the significantly more successful administrations in Montgomery County, Maryland, and New Haven, Connecticut, where collaborative efforts between district leadership, teachers, and teachers’ unions have reportedly made gains of the type that eluded Rhee, and upon which I have commented previously.
Michelle Rhee’s strategic retreat to head a lobbying organization (StudentsFirst) in California may in fact better suit her combative style. She is not wrong in charging that unions are an interest group that needs counter balance from groups such as hers whose constituency is more clearly students and parents. But she is wrong in assuming that unions cannot be or are not advocates for students, for clearly there are many within unionism whose higher priorities include the welfare of kids.
While clearly hammers such as hers are needed among the tools in a superintendent’s toolbox, before she would return to the line superintendent role one would hope that she has genuinely learned from her DC experience, beyond the need to tend to PR, which is a faux cause, and has become more adept at communicating direction and rationale down the ranks, and to accept and make strategic use of ideas that originate from grass roots teacher ranks — in other words, has refined the art of leading human beings in a common cause; communication is a keystone of the job. Otherwise, as I have noted elsewhere, she becomes part of the problem by her intransigent righteousness, and reinforces the worst parts of her opponents by inducing their retreat to defensive positions. Stalemate ensues, the kids do not come first, but egos do.
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2 Responses to School Reform: The Education of a Reformer
Tony Barclay says:
Hey dog, I enjoyed this post. My understanding is that if Adrian Fenty, the progressive but somewhat edgy DC mayor, had been reelected, Michelle Rhee would have kept her job. He ruffled a lot of feathers, but gave her a lot of cover, and once he lost his job, she was fated to go. I have’nt followed her career in her new Californian incarnation, but your interpretation of her persona and message sounds sounds accurate.
FYI, the daughter of an old friend of mine came down to Washington in 2008 to work as Michelle Rhee’s deputy, and is now working as an independent consultant on issued of educational reform. Would you like to meet her (Margaret Angell Fick) when you are here next month?
schooldog says:
Glad to hear you enjoyed, and that you concur with some of my observations. If I have it right, Fenty’s reelection revolved to some extent around his support for Rhee, and his loss reflected in part dissatisfaction with her. I’m sure there was blame laid by her forces at the feet of the entrenched teachers’ union. My hope would be that she also reflected on her role in creating the barricades. It would have been interesting to see how things might have evolved had Fenty won; Ms. Rhee’s success in her reform efforts or her continued embattlement may in turn have revolved around how much she proved able to reflect on her stay in Washington to that point. There have been questions about how real or of what magnitude have been the outcome of the reforms she instituted, but I haven’t looked closely enough to form a take. B.
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New Paltz Town Supervisor Takes Helm of Anti-Hunger, Poverty Group
March 26, 2015 October 5, 2015 Little Rebellion 1850 Views Andrew Cuomo, Dennis Hanratty, Hunger Action Network, Keith J. Ferrante, Mark Dunlea, New Paltz, Poverty Group, susan zimet, Town Supervisor, Ulster County
By KEITH J. FERRANTE
The Hunger Action Network of New York State has named New Paltz Town Supervisor Susan Zimet as their new executive director. She is replacing Mark Dunlea, who has worked for the organization since 1985.
Zimet served in the Ulster County Legislature from 2004-2011. She is the founder of VoteForWomen2020, a nonprofit organization commemorating 100 years since women were given the right to vote.
Additionally, she has been a prominent leader in the fight to convince Gov. Andrew Cuomo to prevent high-volume hydraulic fracturing in the state.
Hunger Action Network, founded in 1982, is a statewide membership organization comprised of emergency food providers, advocates, faith groups and low-income New Yorkers. Their main objective is to end hunger and its causes throughout the state.
Dennis Hanratty, executive director of Mt. Vernon United Tenants and the chair of Hunger Action Network’s Board of Trustees, said the organization was “excited” to have Zimet serve as its new executive director.
“Her governmental experience, combined with her legislative successes and commitment to low-income residents’ concerns promises to ensure Hunger Action continuing leadership position in advocating for low-income New Yorkers,” Hanratty said.
Zimet, speaking about hunger and poverty, said she is “honored to be given the opportunity to be an advocate on a state and federal level for an issue this important.”
“From Pope Francis to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the issue of poverty is in the forefront of the conversation,” Zimet said. “I am looking forward to working with anyone who has the moral goal of eradicating hunger and understanding that food is a universal human right.”
Hunger Action is also working to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, increase funding for emergency food and child nutrition initiatives, create jobs for low-income residents across the state and create a universal single payer health care.
Story originally published in The Legislative Gazette
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